In her SONA last July 27, 2009, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo took a pot shot at Senator-and-presidential-aspirant Mar Roxas, saying:
Pursuant to law, I am placing other drugs under a maximum retail price. To those who want to be President, this advice: If you want something done, do it hard, do it well. Don’t pussyfoot. Just [...]
In case you missed it and the transcript wasn’t enough for you, Inquirer has the full video coverage from NBN.
Violence? What violence? We don’t even know how to play guitar! The Jester-in-Exile is sceptical about a militant group’s claims of non-violence — after they “arrested” seven men for being “spies”
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 [...]
Just in case you missed it, here’s the full-text version of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s 9th and (hopefully) final State of the Nation Address:
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Other download options: SONA 2009 Full-Text Transcript Text File (UTF-8) | SONA 2009 Full-Text Transcript PDF | SONA 2009 Full-Text Transcript Word 2007 | SONA 2009 Full-Text Transcript [...]
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 [...]
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