Driving home, I was listening on the radio to some parts of the recently concluded State of the Nation Address (SONA) by PGMA, when she said this little tidbit:
The state of our nation is a strong economy.
Now this one of those times I’m glad I never go above 40 km/h, because I almost lost control [...]
The IBON Foundation paints a different picture than what you’ll hear in the President’s SONA for 2009. Here’s an account of what’s really happened since GMA’s 2001 SONA → “The last eight years of the Arroyo administration have resulted in record joblessness, deteriorating quality of jobs, falling household incomes, increasing poverty, fiscal crisis, unprecedented debt [...]
SWS’ latest survey has Senator Manuel M. Villar topping the list of leaders who should succeed President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in 2010
Jun Bautista of Political Commentary on the disposition of electoral cases (hint: it’s really slow) → “[…]election cases in general do nothing except line the pockets of election lawyers, for in most cases the winners [...]
MLQ3 doesn’t think much of Among Ed’s bid for either the Presidency or Congress, and outlines a plan that puts the presidential son, Mikey Arroyo, in the Gubernatorial seat, and GMA in Congress. → “If the President ran for the House, it would displace her son; he would have to seek another post; that post, [...]
If [the] elections [are] filthy, let’s make it less filthy. If [the] elections [are] dominated by the elite, let’s make the elite listen to our problems. If [the] elections [are] a popularity contest, let’s demand a concrete platform from all candidates.
Mong Palatino
Allow me the luxury of reprinting one of my older posts, to introduce this [...]
If you haven’t read UN rapporteur Phillip Alston’s report yet, head on over to MLQ3’s blog, he’s posted a PDF copy. Of particular interest is paragraph 12, page 5:
The Secretary of Justice, and his colleagues, were perplexed at the proposition that prosecutors, whose role is absolutely central in the Philippines justice system, had some [...]
Ok, here’s the deal: the last pair of shoes I own are old school Adidas campus sneakers that have long since given up the ghost, their soles (get it?) rotting in shoe hell. Ever since my ingrown nails flared up some ten odd years ago, I’ve been a tsinelas-or-bust guy. And because of mom’s ingenius [...]
Halfway through “Akap”, I hear a click, and a whirr. My first roll of film just ran out — I only had 24 exposures on that one. Biting on my cigarette and trying not to fall, I reloaded as fast as I could — not easy considering the sheer number of people jostling me — [...]
I know a thing or two about losing it — and I’ve seen my share of people who are bat-shit insane — but things like these always leave me in shock: Armando Ducat Jr held almost 30 children in his day-care center hostage for close to ten hours, in protest to the current political [...]
That’s how I’d describe the state of the nation under GMA.
Congress has just doubled it’s Pork Barrel allocation — with some 3+ billion pesos being diverted from the retirement funds of government employees.
Hundred thousand peso desktop machines that my old Sempron can run circles around.
Fifty thousand peso lampposts.
An apathetic middle class.
An opportunistic upper class.
A [...]
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