With the shameless Supreme Court decision to allow Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to appoint the next Chief Justice despite the constitutional prohibition on presidential appointments two months prior to the election up to the end of her term, Arroyo has virtually covered all her bases for an extended stay in Malacanang. The controversial ruling all but ensured… Read More »
Sen. Manny Villar, being a true Nacionalista Party stalwart, obviously believes in the political philosophy popularized by the late Mr. Nacionalista, Eulogio “Amang” Rodriguez who said: “Politics is addition.” Having set his sight on the presidency for years, Villar picked people from various persuasions and political beliefs to form his ticket for the May presidential elections,… Read More »
Scenario: Failure of elections On May 10, an historic political exercise will pick the next Philippine president via the first computerized automated election. Hopefully, this will do away with the primitive manual counting of ballots that take days. Weeks or even months before any results are known, a tortuous process that has led to widespread cheating, violence like… Read More »
Wow! What a game! If you’ve been watching the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics on TV for the past two weeks, you should be thrilled by the players’ display of talent, skills, and sportsmanship. Also, you should be inspired by many awesome Canadian Athletes, especially those who have bounced back from defeat. I’m proud of all the… Read More »
There’s more than meets the eye in the two-page advertisements that the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) has been running in three major newspapers in the Philippines heralding the alleged accomplishments of the Arroyo administration in the economy, social development, public works, law and order, job generation, agriculture, energy, environmental protection and digital infrastructure in its nine years in… Read More »
Hi, dear readers! Pasakit to leave the comfort of home to do errands outside these days. Summer has officially started in the Philippines and that equates to more intense humidity. I also never imagined that Pinoys can die of heatstroke because, diba nga, sanay tayo sa init at araw? Hindi na po ngayon- newspapers have reported a few… Read More »
Taller and heavier than most of his friends of his age in the quiet barrio, Turing grew up with his younger brother Atoy under the care of their grandparents. No one in the barrio seemed to know the parents of these two boys and their grandparents refused to talk about them. Some said that the parents of the… Read More »
Death is a certainty, all living creatures will come to this end in time, but there is a mysterious and more powerful reason why we come back from the dead. AVV310 Many stories have been told regarding Near-Death-Experience (NDE). Medically, if one’s heart stops beating and the breathing ceases, you are ‘clinically dead’. After… Read More »
Dalawang araw nang nakapagpapahinga sina Francis at Junichi. Medyo nakapag-adjust na ang kanilang katawan sa bagong time zone. Komportable na si Junichi sa bagong kapaligiran. Sa dahilang mahirap ipaliwanag ay parang hindi siya namamahay sa kanyang bagong tirahan na para bang siya ay bahagi nito, na parang ito ay kanyang tunay na tirahan gayong ngayon lamang siya napunta… Read More »
CHICAGO, Illinois (JGLi) – Philippine Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson’s reason for escaping from the claws of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo maybe on target. He does not like to give her “the pleasure of seeing my life miserable and in danger.” That is, if he can outlast her everlasting grip on power even if she is desperately grasping on straws… Read More »