I think Gloria Arroyo’s latest flip-flop on cha-cha was driven by her fear of being abandoned by her opportunistic allies now that she is seen as a lameduck.
Yesterday morning, in her speech at the Asian Development Bank, Arroyo said she will pursue cha-cha with “urgency and vigor.”
With the prospect of her staying in power beyond 2010 courtesy of cha-cha, she can still command the support of congressmen, especially when impeachment time comes again next year.
In ANC’s “Strictly Politics” last night, host Pia Hontiveros asked Jun Salipsip of the Institute of Strategis Studies, for his reaction to Gloria Arroyo’s latest statement on charter- change.
(Five days ago,two days before the Sunday rally led by Catholic bishops and after she stopped Joe de Venecia’s Con-Ass train, she gave the impression that she was setting aside her Cha-Cha advocacy in the meantime. She said that Cha-Cha will be taken up “ when the people deem it ripe and needful, and in the manner they deem proper.”)
Unsurprised, Salipsip said, “That’s Gloria Arroyo.”
Salipsip reminded everybody that before Jose Rizal’s tomb on Dec. 31, 2002, she declared, “I have decided not to run for president during the elections of 2004.”
Ten months after, Arroyo announced that she would be running for president in the 2004 elections.
Manolo Quezon shared his conversation with Mon Casiple of the Institute of Political and Economic Reforms before last Sunday’s rally. Mon gave three possibilities:
1. If attendance was disappointing, the administration would suddenly rediscover its courage and renew the push for constitutional amendments.
2. If attendance met expectations, then everyone could look forward to the May elections and take it from there.
3. If attendance exceeded expectations, the President would begin negotiations leading to her retirement.
Possibility number one became a reality.
Jun Salipsip believes that Arroyo was never sincere in her statements withdrawing Cha-Cha. It was just a ploy to dampen interest on the Sunday rally, chimed in Monsignor Juanito Figura, secretary-general of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines , who was also in the show.
She has mastered the art of survival, the two said.
Click here for Inquirer’s story on GMA’s cha-cha flip-flop.
Click here for Malaya’s story.
Gloria is a charlattan, someone who pretends to be what she is not… a bogus of the most fake or fakest order.
No morality whatsoever.
Just incredible how she can flip flop without the slightest remorse.
Her gall is really amazing, Anna.
Forget the spin that GLORIA is a economic genius, or what have you. GLORIA is nothing but a POLITICAL ANIMAL ! Maybe POLITICAL PROSTITUTE would be more apt to describe this UGLY person !
Not only amazing but also incredible.
TRIVIA:
Do you know that Gloria has a twin sister? Her name is SINUNGALING.
Would a PEOPLE POWER be possible through the blog ? If in EDSA 2, people were using their handheld phones by texting to oust Erap, maybe we can do something ? TIME magazine didn’t award the bloggers as their People of the Year for nothing..just a thought.
Ellen, Chabeli,
Absolutely! She’s typical spoiled brat who’s become a prostitute to assuage her brattiness.
Even her former staunch ally, Billy Esposo, describes her as a political harlot!
Re: “a twin sister? Her name is SINUNGALING”
Hehehe, Twins Galing and Gloring parehong Sinungaling! Heh!
Ay ang corny ko!
Never mind being corny but not MA KAPAL pareho ni Gloria!
Gosh, just so unbelievably KAPAL!
subukan pa mo para mabalo..hindi na prayer rally ang katapat mo.
dearly beloved bloggers
not only you don’t get it
ang dali ninyong marambutsing
ng mga obispo.
hindi titigil yan hanggang
ang ulo ni gloria nasa leeg niya.
naalis na niya ang death penalty
sa awa at tulong ng mga obispo
at mga gunggong na relihiyoso.
ayun ngayon unicameral assembly
daw. anong batas ang ipasusunod?
meron na yung mga decree ni Marcos
na pamatay karapatan ng tao. salamat
sa inutil ng kongreso hindi na amiendahan
o napawalang saysay. pansarili at
kwarta kasi ang inasikaso.
IPUWERA NINYO ANG MGA OBISPO, ANG
EL SHADDAI AT IGLESIA PARA SA
KALAYAAN NG BANSA. DAPAT KUMAYOD
NG SARILI. YUNG NPA DIN
HINDI MAAASAHAN. IPUWERA ANG
ANG NAGHAHARING URI PATI NA YUNG
MGA KASALI SA BLOG. KUND HINDI
MANGYAYARI YAN. LAHAT NA HUMAYUPAK
SA BANSA.
KAWAWANG PILIPINAS. ANG PINOY
NA LUMAKI SA IBANG BANSA, HINDI
NA PINOY KAHIT SILA’Y ANAK NG
MGA MAGNANAKAW NA NAG IMMIGRATE.
A very slim chance for People Power to succeed at this time. Not because no one wants it. In fact, survey says more than 50% of Filipinos wants GMA out. But you see, GMA is a very scheming lady. She has mastered the art of deception and has gained the knowledge of Psywar from her adviser, Ramos.
Take for example the Sunday rally, why it did not generate the expected 500k warm bodies. Because:
1. GMA & JDV preempted it by announcing that they are backing out of their plan to push for cha-cha
2. Red scare tactic by GMA’s generals.
3. Setting up of check points along routes leading to the rally site. Blocking rallyist from proceeding to Luneta.
4. Threatening participants with arrest for expressing their views and sentiments. ie… no banners, no political speeches, etc.
For People Power to succed, I guess, is to outwit smartass Gloria. It has to be planned carefully and discreetly and it has to have an element of surprise so as to catch them with their pants down, so to speak.
Ibalik natin noong panahon
ng kastila, ano ba ang ginawa
ng mga pinoy na tulad ni Bonifacio.
anong nangyari sa pinaglabanan,
sa may monumento, sa biyak-na-
bato. Mga naka kansor cillo lang
ang mga yan.
walang rebolusyon nagsimula sa
masa, kailangan tulungan ng mga
middle class. tell that to
andres bonifacio and his poor
Pinoys. sino ba ang sumira sa
rebolusyon ng mahihirap, kundi
liderato ng ilustrado na nagbenta
sa Pilipinas, ngayon daming
ngawngaw sa Amerikano. sinong
nagbenta?
sinong nagbenta sa rally sa
Luneta. sinong nagtitinda ngayon
para sa ikasusulong ng mga
mga mabait at civilisadong Pilipino?
ayun ang mga gutom na mayo uno,
ang bayan samahan ng mga badoy, ayun
ang gabriela, samahan laban sa
gahasa, ayun kunting estudyanteng
hindi makabili ng leakage dahil walang
pera. hindi nagsisimula at hindi
kaya ng mga mahirap ang rebolusyon,
wala silang pang kolerete at pang
beauty parlor. KAWAWANG BANSA.
I’ve ran out of ammunition para ibato, ipukol, isaksak at kung anu ano pa, para sa dwendeng itim na may asawang baboy sa Malakanyang sampu ng kaniyang mga demonyong alagad. Kawawa ang bayan ko. Ganunpaman, di pa rin ako mawawalan ng pag asa na soon, magbabayad din ang mga ganid na yan. Kasama na din ang mga bayarang heneral tulad nila esperon at walang tapang na mayuga, ganon din sa mga tongressman tulad nila jdv, villafuerte, no(brain)grales, susano, atbp. May araw din kayo.
so what do we do now?!!! pagkatapos nang lahat ng yan, ano na ang gagawin natin?!? sama nyo ako kung may maitutulong ako.
Ellen,
Know what? I’m so suspicious of this backtracking moral dwarf in Malacanang… I wouldn’t be surprised if this moral dwarf resorted to abrogating the VFA all on her own if ever she’s faced with another massive show of indignation by the public sometime in the future (by media, politicians, leftists, rightists, center, etc.)
Gloria is perfectly capable of using the VFA for fiendish personal purpose, you know, invent an issue, create an “enemy” from the exterior to take the heat away from her person.
By creating a perceived “foreign” enemy, she could “unify” a nation. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if she is already preparing for that eventuality with the VFA as a tool; she knows that a “foreign enemy” would drown any personal issue against her.
By the gods of Tutankhamen, that moral dwarf is sumpthin!
Mike Uliling
balita buhat sa Malaya:
Still no grand parade at AFP anniversary
FOR the third straight year, the Armed Forces will celebrate its 71st founding anniversary on Dec. 21 without the traditional grand parade.
AFP spokesman Maj. Gen. Jose Angel Honrado said they are foregoing the lavish grand parade, whose budget runs into hundreds of thousands of pesos, to save something for the soldiers.
TATLONG TAON NG TAKOT BAKA MA GENERAL
ANWAR SADAT SILA. DI BA KATAWA-TAWA
NA MAGPARADA ANG SUNDALO PARA SA KANILANG
CHIEF OF STAFF, KUNG TATANGALAN NG BALA
ANG MGA BARIL NILA. WALA NA LANG PARADA
KUNYARI MAGASTOS.
Gloria Arroyo is an accomplished liar. She survives politically due to her patented lies. SSSSSINUNGALING!
LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR. Why she is very insistent to unicameral system of government? Lambino’s Singaw ng Bayan is planning another People’s Initiative hocus focus. Raul Lambino is closely identified with Jose De Venecia. Both are Pangalatok. Gloria Arroyo represents Satan. She is a special kind of snake: a two-headed and has the ability to change its color. Devil Gloria is doing all dirty tricks to diversify public attention on her cheating, lying and stealing regime.
tanong ni macshock:
so what do we do now?!!! pagkatapos nang lahat ng yan, ano na ang gagawin natin?!? sama nyo ako kung may maitutulong ako
Robert V. Maich Says:
December 19th, 2006 at 9:16 pm
dearly beloved bloggers
you just don’t get it.
IT IS NOT CHA CHA
IT IS NOT CHA CHA
IT IS NOT CHA CHA
IT IS IMPRISONMENT
IT IS POSSIBLE DEATH SENTENCE
IT IS POSSIBLE DEATH BY HANGING
IT IS THE CHIDLRENS’ FUTURE
IT IS LOSS OF PNP AND AFP AS
PRESIDENTIAL GUARDS
THAT WILL BE THE LIKELY OUTCOMES
WITHOUT CHA CHA.
CHA CHA IS THE CRIMINAL MEANS
TO JUSTIFY AVOIDANCE OF
HORRIBLE ENDS.
THE MEANS JUSTIFIES ESCAPING
THE TRAGIC ENDS.
BLOGGERS MUST FORGET THE MEANS
AND DO SOMETHING TO ACHIEVE
THE HORRIBLE ENDS.
sa maiksing salita Macshock wala
nang paligoy-ligoy – IBASURA ANG
ATTENTION SA CHA-CHA BIGYAN NATIN NG
ATTENTION ANG TARGET OBJECTIVE
NI GLORIA: MAIWASAN ANG
IMPRISONMENT
POSSIBLE DEATH SENTENCE
POSSIBLE DEATH BY HANGING
THE CHIDLRENS’ FUTURE
LOSS OF PNP AND AFP AS
PRESIDENTIAL GUARDS
if you still don’t get it,
i will say it using the words
of bonifacio not aguinaldo
or the macapagals.
mr. maich,
thats fairly obvious. our filipino people have nothing to “get.” we’ve “got”ten it all this time, if only people would give us credit. and instead of pounding our heads with what we supposedly do not get, show us a way where each filipino na makakatulong can actually lend a hand.
tulad ng maraming pilipino na walang koneksyon at ka-kilala, pano ba maging parte ng solusyon ang mamamayang pilipino. kung kayo may solusyon, bat di nyo isama o gawan ng paraan para makasama ang lahat. yung hinahanap mo na salita ni bonifacio, di makakatulong yan kung kayo kayo lang. give the filipino a stake in these state-making actions and you will have a following that will see the solution through, hindi lang yung hanggang sa sunod na people power, at pagkatapos problema na ulit.
either way, thank you for keeping it clear that these cha-cha issues are just palabok to a main goal of perpetuating power.
Sabi ng mga kaibigan ko sa Pinas, niluko daw sila ni Gloria. Aba’y ang tagal na, ah! Ang lagay, sila pala’y tulog o nagtulug-tulugan laang! Kasi daw matalino talaga si Gloria! Aba’y di lang matalino..tuso pa! O, ngayon, sino ang kawawa..di ang pobreng Pinoy na naman!
Kaya, bilang pamasko sa mga kaibigan ko ngayong dininggoy ng mga pangako ni Gloria, “Walang pamaskong Lechon sa kanilang dining table…hangga’t patuloy silang padedenggoy kay Gloria!”
Robert, pano di sila magtitipid para sa mga sundalo, eh yung tunay na para sa mga sundalo, sinuwapang na ng mga buwayang heneral. Hayun, pa golf golf lang. Samantala ang mga kawawa nating mga magigiting na sundalo kahit opisyal na tapat, nasa iskwater nakatira. Tama ka rin tungkol sa no grand celebration sa AFP. Diyan mo lang makikita na alam nilang wala silang kumpiyansa sa mga sundalo. Karamihan diyan nag aantay na lang kung sinong unang kikilos. Pero kahit di sa kanya magaya yung nangyari kay Anwar Sadat, sana yung nangyari kay Indira Gandhi na mismong security personnel nya ang tumodas sa kanya…. BWAAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!! Sleep well pandakekok sa Malakanyang na may asawang baboy na ganid, anak na lukaret at anak na tongressman na manyak.
Elvira Sahara Says:
December 20th, 2006 at 4:23 am
Sabi ng mga kaibigan ko sa Pinas, niluko daw sila ni Gloria.
…Huwag ka sanang magagalit Ate Elvira, Cebuana ka ba o Bisaya? Kasi matigas ang dila mo…sulat mo “niluko” imbes na “niloko”.
Ay mali…hindi pala “matigas ang dila”. Ang ibig kong sabihin “matigas ang kamay o daliri” dahil sumulat ka pala dito, Ate Elvira.
anna de brux Says:
Ellen,
Know what? I’m so suspicious of this backtracking moral dwarf in Malacanang… I wouldn’t be surprised if this moral dwarf resorted to … (any subterfuge)
Ana, now you are beginning to enter the mind of glueria. She is no dummy … far from it. She is always ten steps ahead. Why do you think she chose Noli de Castro for running mate? Now you see the picture. Why did she give bananas to AFP and PNP monkeys early on? Now you see the workings of the mind of a titan in the guise of lady lilliput. Her flipflops are intended to keep the people talking and thus forget the real thing: she is the mother of all thieves.
Ang “niluko” yan ay galit na at matapang ang dating na handang makipag suntukan. Ang “niloko” pagbibiro lang yan parang paglalabing pa ng mga bakla o babae.
Renato Constantino’s shame is in the right place – upon the heads of all the congressmen who rammed down con-con and shamelessly backtracked when they saw the ire of the people. Truly a lot of people, me included, were appalled at the temerity and shamelessness of these mis-representatives of the people.
The CBCP said that it is a MATTER OF TRUST, referring to Gloria. Well, that was hypochritical to say the least. They were part of the conspiracy against Erap that placed Gloria in Malacanang and therefore do not have the TRUST of the people. They called for a Prayer Rally and yet catered to the whim of Gloria how it should be done. Well, the people did not come. The people sees through them.
Oddly enough, the people trust ERAP more than Gloria and even the CBCP.
If you are looking for change, do not rely on the CBCP. They will always have their best interest in mind. The trust of the people will be placed on people who are selfless. Definitely not Gloria whose priority is Gloria and not CBCP who dances to the tune of Gloria labandera.
Alitaptap,
You think so?
Pandawan’s views are similar to mine especially on the CBCP’s (Catholic Church) role in Erap’s ouster. May I add that they did it to Marcos too. But in those two events, Cardinal Sin was alive and he was very instrument in both ouster campaign. When GMA assumed his illegal post, Sin suddenly became mute…until his death we didn’t hear from him any serious criticism against Gloria. Yet, Gloria was ten times worse that the two ousted legitimate leaders. The problem with some people; and I’m referring to devoted Catholics is that whenever we criticize these Catholic leaders’ wrong doings and expose their hypocrisy, many like some bloggers are offended.
Para ko nang nakita ang kinalabasan bago pa man isagawa ang “thanksgiving prayer rally” na pinagdudahan ko na bago pa man isagawa!
INC already nuetralized the events at Luneta when its members personally went to Glueria to warn her. Ano yan, eh di saklolo sa tiyanak!
Tapos ay ang lambot ng CBCP sa pakikitungo kay Glueria. Pinagbigyan nila lahat ang gusto ng Unano! Ang dali nilang paloko, may bago ba?
Bakit nga naman pupunta ang nakararami sa Luneta eh ayaw nilang ipagdasal ang pamahalaan ni Glueria na siyang temang ipinahayag ng CBCP. Ang gusto nila ay matanggal ang pekeng pangulo na magagawa lamang kung matapang ang approach ng mga nag-organisa. Pinaiikot lang sila ni Glueria hanggang maisatuparan ang charter change na pamumunuan niya ng habambuhay. Susmaryosep!
Ako, ipinagdarasal ko na lang na mamatay ang pekeng pangulo na ito. Baka sakali pa!
npongco;
I like you,but,I am confused about your ID.You elaborated that you’re weak in Tagalog.However you are well intellect about histories.Those Things you mention about Late Magsaysay.I was not borne yet that time.I think you’ve been living long enough in our country.You remind me of my late mentors,Most Damian Soto when I was a little boy growing up.My old man were having interest listening to him the whole hour program.the part I like the most on his program when Ngo-Ngo render his intermission”Mataan Manamis”.Do you still remember?In this blog the most I am having fun reading is you,although the smoke coming from your pipe iritates me.
I wish you were at that rally instead of those solons who has a million dollars in there porks.They have a cold feet.
Keep on writting.Don’t mind Ellen If she gloated you once.
Cocoy, I think you’re talking about Johnny de Leon. Sidekick niya si Ngongo. Damian Soto starts his program with an exploding bomb followed by his words: “Walang mang-aalipin, kung walang pa-aalipin! – Mangatwiran Ka!”
Hay naku, mga manoy at mga manay, wa epek mga blogging natin vs GMA. Kahit we cry a river at puro dakdak lang, wa epek. Even the beautiful englishing, no epek yan mga kafatid. GMA is only laughening at us. Action dafat. di ba Ms. Ellen?
Go home na ang beauty ko sa Pinas. Join ako sa mga sanpit ko. Konti kung datung sa pagma-manicure, use namin vs.GMA. Gusto namin tularan mga human bomber. Nag-say dyan kung ano ang pwede gawin, kung talagang may yagbols kayo, mga kuya, human bomber, suicide bomber, hara-kiri. Kung may yagbols kayo. Ako nga alaws nun, pero parang like kong gawin.
Sakay na ako sa plane mamaya punta Pinas. Gumbay a todos.
Pandawan,
Amen to everything you said.
I share your views about CBCP and its relationship with Glue and pipol!
Cocoy, I’m not too old or too young. Sure, I remember Damian Sotto. Like the late Rod Navarro, Damian cursed on the air. Do you also remember Paeng Yabut? Because of his big mouth, he was shot in the mouth. Luckily, he survived. Do you really like me? But you said you were irritated by my language. You’re not alone in that impression. But at least, I appreciate your decent style. I’m not here to be a star. I’m not here to claim credit. I’m not here to assert my opinion like what others do. I’m not here to fight any of you. I’m here because I like it here until my name is delisted. I don’t need to be popular to be accepted. Deep in my heart, I have only one wish…to see that this evil woman is gone. Then, you hear me no more…you read me no more.
npongco;
I was more than a year old that time when I started hearing that Intermission “mataan matanis” I didn’t forget that prashe.B2win-marikit said it’s Johnny De leon.But,I think it was Damian Soto who cursed.I’m not sure.Maybe,we need Ellen opinion which both has a side kick on Ngo-Ngo.Yeah,I remember Paeng Yabut,Ive’d heard that his a womanizer.I guessed He was shot on his radio station in Makati.I am a person that not trust easily.I test the person first.To me,your GPA excelled.Sure,I want you to keep writting my day is not complete if I don’t read your Blog.Same as WOWOWIE.I want that all the tigasin and bigatin go home not empty handed.Also,I jump to the roof if the contestant hit the jackpot on Pera o Bayong.If you run for Senator i’ll support you Although,I could not vote because of my citizenship restriction I still has an electoral mandate in my hometown.Every body knows me from young and old.
B2win-marikit;If I’m not mistaken you’re the one calling those radical leader on 70 decade.I am having a bad nightmare of that,I thought I won’t get out alive.I alreday buried my hatchet and having a prosperous and happy life where I am right now.I am looking forward to come home home If I retire and fight a different battle.I want to educate our youth because they are our hope.Educational schooarships.
(Ellen, Off topic but I think it’s relevant… with your permission, am posting Sen Pimentel’s message:)
This afternoon, we continue our debate with Sen Enrile over the anti-terror legislation.
I know we need to combat terrorism, interdict the flow of its funds and stop it on its tracks.
That said, I find the terror bill as arguably the most terrifying piece of legislation that Congress since its creation has tackled or is tackling.
It gives the extraordinary powers to police and other law enforcers to trump the constitutional guarantees against unreasonable searches and seizures (inviolate under the Constitution), warrantless arrests, seizure, sequestration and freezing of all kinds of properties and assets even of
those who are merely tagged as SUSPECTS of the crime of terrorism.
Having studied the bill, I now understand why in the US the FISA (FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT) allows bugging and recording of messages only of FOREIGNERS not of US persons. That is due to provisions in the US constitution from which our bill of rights had been lifted.
I’m having a tough time convincing others – and some senators – that we are literally tying a loop around our collective necks to hang us with as a people by enacting this bill.
In my view, we are giving evil men with evil intentions an evil instrument to oppress those who might not agree with them and cause them irreparable harm.
I’ll try to refine it as best I can. Still …
Anyway, its Christmas season again. Merry Christmas and God bless.
Nene
Office of Senator Aquilino Q. Pimentel Jr.
Senate of the Philippines
Pasay City
website: http://www.nenepimentel.org
email: nenepimentel@pldtdsl.net
Anna, we should be watching out dangerous provisions in that anti-terror bill but we have been very busy placating gloria arroyo’s evil designs through cha-cha.
Chabeli, you said in another thread, you saw me at last Sunday’s rally. Sayang, you should have approached me. We should have met personally.
Tongue, sana nagkita rin tayo doon.
It looks like we still have a lot of marching to do.
It’s a few days before Christmas and I have not done my christmas shopping. It has escaped my consciousness and i was only reminded with your Merry Christmas greetings.
Ellen.
Is there still time to push cha-cha between now and May?
Kung wala then why is she still talking about it? And why are we still talking about it?
Kung wala, then let’s focus on winning in May. And to do that we have to frame the issue this election – It’s Gloria not cha-cha. The public should be reminded of “Hello Garci.”
Cha-cha talk is meant to distract the opposition from its most potent weapon against her – lying, cheating and stealing
Re: IBASURA ANG ATTENTION SA CHA-CHA BIGYAN NATIN NG
ATTENTION ANG TARGET OBJECTIVE NI GLORIA: MAIWASAN ANG
IMPRISONMENT
The goal of the so-called united opposition is to garner more opposition lawmakers (80) and a shut-out in the senatorial race (12-0). If this goal is achieved, then, possible impeachment and conviction at the senate. Power to the people at the polls. The defeat of Gloria Arroyo candidates in May 2007 midterm elections is NOT a done deal since the Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Benjamin Abalos has done no significant changes in electoral system reform. Hello Garci clones are still manning local and provincial outposts. Political dynasties and clans will dominate campaigns. They form alliances of convenience with the sole purpose of winning votes. Many are identified with Gloria Arroyo. It’s a tall order how to neutralize dynasties. How to defeat the Villafuerte of Camarines Sur and others?
Merry Christmas to all cyberwarriors!
cocoy:
you may want to know that your friend, N. Prudente, have long ago unsheathed back his hatchet to fight evil forces.
paki-Google na lang po siya, makita ninyong meron mga walang sawang nakikibaka na ang tanging hangad ay para manaig ang hustisya, kapayapaan at kaunlaran para sa mayoryang naghihikahos.
Manuel, I don’t think there’s really time for cha-cha between now and may if you are talking of legal, normal process. But with Gloria Arroyo, no one can tell what she has in mind.
She has more magic tricks than David Copperfield and Houdini combined.
You are right about focusing on the May election. (For all you know this cha-cha is also her trick to divert the opposition from the preparatins for the May election .) and Cha-Cha could be used as the issue because her method of Cha-Cha is Gloria personified- deceptive, dishonest, insincere, etc. etc.
In the campaign for the May elections, it should be emphasized that Cha-Cha is her way of covering up her lying, cheating, stealing since the May 2004 (actually long before) elections.
Do you know why GMA tries so hard not to continue with the election and is pushing Cha-Cha before election? The answer is plain and simple. Gloria wants to remain in power beyond 2010. If the election pushes through next May, the opposition candidates will outnumber those of the administration; that is, of course if there’s no rampant cheating. If there are more opposition solons who get elected to the House, the impeachment against GMA would most likely succeed this third time. It’s numbers game. That’s what GMA is scared about. She would find herself in much worse fate and situation than Erap.
Napakahusay ni Gloria. Nagoyo na naman niya ang mga Obispo ng CBCP. Pinagmintis niya ang Prayer rally ng mga ito sa pamamagitan sa pagbawi ng con-con, subali’t, datapwa’t, nguni’t pagkatapos ng isang “walang pulitikang” rally nuong linggo na siyang gusto ni Gloria at sinunod naman ng mga “MATATALINONG” obispo, ay heto at inilulunsad niyang muli ng cha-cha! “Mga TONGO!,” sigaw ni Gloria.
The bishops over-estimate themselves. They do not have it in themselves to fight Gloria. And the INC always know which side of the bread has butter and so does Mike Velarde.
But before everyone else forget, it’s Christmas. Lumaki ako sa henerasyon na pagsapit ng Disyembre ay bumabati na ng MALIGAYANG PASKO AT MANIGONG BAGONG TAON! Ang pagsilang ng sanggol sa Bethlehem ay nagdala ng KAPAYAPAAN sa buong mundo.
anna de brux Says:
Alitaptap,
You think so?
…
Ana, you know very well that when Patton squared with Rommel in Africa, Patton did not just face him. He went into the mind of Rommel by reading everything about him. What we got here is Rommel in da glue.
Ah alitaptap, you can’t be wrong when you mention my favorite american general… Atta spirit, man!
One word can best describe illegitimate Gloria Macapagal Arroyo – shameless.
MB:
valid yung tanong ninyo kung may panahon ba o wala para gawin ang Cha-cha. on the surface level, wala nga.
pero, hilig ng mga ganid na gunggong na ito to scrape bottom. nagagawan ng paraan. hindi ako magtataka kung sasabihin ng Comelec na hindi nila kayang mag-conduct ng eleksyon sa Mayo dahil…etc, etc., and they need at least 6 months para mag-handa (bale November).
bakit November? maganda paliwanag ni Tongue Twisted sa kabilang thread- bottom line, P E R A.
if elections were to be held this coming May, ang perang huhugutin ng mga magnanakaw, manggagaling sa pondo ng taong 2006- ‘konti’ na lang natira.
pero kung November, by then aprubado na ang 2007 budget. fresh money, and in TRILLIONS peso. alam ng lahat, money talks pagdating sa local elections, halimbawa, Conggressional.
ang cha-chang sinusulong, simula lang ito. sunod nito, pag-urong ng eleksyon…
zenzennia;
I am sorry to tell you that to go to battle at this time is a harikiri.The reason is,The new generation right now is not as such as hardcore at it was before.That time our testicle fortitude were unmeasurable.The leader of yesterday are aging,some went underground,some change principles,some become general of the grand master of deceptor.Gloria has already read our books.We need to come up with a new strategy.Those General hiding at Gloria”s skirt can recognize the leader of yesterday.Yhey even know where they live and who are their families.Those people went underground are operating without a leader,He’s in Netherland.The followers were not highly educated,they become bandits extoting money in the remote areas.Now,Tell me,Can we win?
anna & alitaptap:
Joseph T. Dawson (1914 – November 28, 1998) was an officer in the U.S. 1st Infantry Division during World War II.
He is famous as one of the first officers (a captain at the time and company commander for G Company, 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry) to make it up to the top of bloody Omaha Beach and move inland. His unit landed in the second wave at the Easy Red sector on D-Day. Instead of attacking up the beach exits, as was planned, he instead helped find and clear a path up the mined bluffs. Once at the top, he led his men to his objective at Colleville-sur-Mer, where he was wounded. For his actions that day he earned the Distinguished Service Cross.
Before D-Day Dawson served as a staff officer in the First Division and the 16th Regiment during the campaigns in North Africa and Sicily.
After his service at Normandy, Dawson continued to serve commander of G Company through the campaign in France, Belgium and, finally, Aachen Germany. Dawson’s G Company (along with I Company) held off German counterattacks for thirty-nine days during the battle for Aachen on, what was called in contemporary papers and is still called in U.S. Army history, as “Dawson’s Ridge.” For this action, Dawson’s command was honored with the Presidential Unit Citation.
After his detachment from the 16th Infantry, Dawson served in the O.S.S. He retired from the Army as a lieutenant colonel.
He enlisted in 1941 as a private, and fought earlier campaigns in Africa and Sicily. He retired at the rank of major at the end of the war.
Dawson married Melba Bruno in 1946; they raised two children Roslyn and Diane. The Dawson family lived in Corpus Cristi, Texas and Denver, Colorado. In civilian life he was a geologist in the oil industry. An elementary school in Corpus Christi, Texas is named in his honor.
In June 1994, Dawson revisited Normandy to introduce President Bill Clinton during ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the invasion.
Dawson was the third child of the much respected Baptist clergyman Joseph Martin Dawson and Willie Turner Dawson.
Its now official! The word “LIAR” is already the trademark of GLORIA M. ARROYO. No one is allowed to be associated with the word other than her. Using or associating “LIAR” without prior consent from Ms. Arroyo will be dealt with accordingly.
Exemptions from the new advisory above:
Anyone can use the word “LIAR” if:
1. You know how to kiss and lick Ms. Arroyo’s ass.
2. You now how to dance the CHA-CHA
To engage into a battle with illegitimate Gloria, expect the unexpected. And you must be smarter than bogus Gloria itself and willing to lie, cheat and steal at her level, I suppose. Bogus Gloria has mastered the art of lying, cheating, and stealing, she’s the best of the best, and none can even come close. It’s quite amazing how this illegitimate dwarf of a woman can lie with a straight face in front of the 86 million people, and survived for over six years, really astonishing. Incredible, perhaps is not even the proper word for it. She’s starting to make a believer of me, that crimes does pay, especially when you have the proper tools to execute them. Surely, it’s un-argueable that bogus Gloria got the arsenal to keep the oppositions at their respective places, and she has managed to do just that. Just imagine of how many times that this bogus dwarf woman was caught lying to the people she supposedly serving, yet still holding the empire the Pilipinos has built. Of course, bogus Gloria doesn’t deserve it, but how can you make such an argument when the her dogs ready to snap you to pieces. I believe, this is bogus Gloria most kept secret of success, to put fear on people’s mind, including the motor bike drive-by shooting, and lets not forget her henerales with much to lose if bogus Gloria all a sudden out of Malacanang. As you can see, much at stake.
Bogus Gloria a dwarf woman of inveracity, another word this woman can be classified as. Shocking!
Cocoy, sorry kung pinipilit kong ibalik ang mga madilim na kabanata noong dekada 70. Tulad mo muntik na rin akong matigok noon sa España. Siguro out of frustration lang kaya nasasabi ko iyon. Saan ka ba naman nakakita ng rally na maraming kundisyon? Pupuwede ba ito noon? (Heto na naman ako) Iyong mga humahara-harang metrotong noon pinagbababato ng pillbox at molotov cocktails. Iyong iba tititirador. Magagaling sa hit and run tactics ang kabataan noon. Patay kung patay. Marami rin akong nakikitang kapulisan na tumatakbo. Pero mas maraming estudyanteng nagbuwis ng buhay. Tama ka iba na ang henerasyon ngayon. Ang nakakalungkot lang ang dugong dumanak noon ay napunta lang sa wala dahil ang pumalit sa kapangyarihan ay mas ganid, mas tuso at mas malupit – walang iba kundi si Super Glue. Zenzennai, umabot na si Prudente sa kanyang use by date.
Flip-flop just a word, lying, cheating and stealing are just words, it really doesn’t meant a thing, it’s unrecognizable in the land of enchanted kingdom of make belief, bogus Gloria’s empire. Does it really matter, of course not, not to a shameless brain dead illegal occupants of Malacanang. Flip-flop is one of the amunition that bogus Gloria has in her arsenal of weapons when things get little shaky. Bogus Gloria is like an open book, quite predictable and nothing about bogus Gloria that surprises me anymore, especially with 801 activists and journalists dead, my last my count. Shocking, not really!
sa sampung sasabihin ng isang taong talamak sa kasinungalingan, dalawampu ang hindi dapat paniwalaan.
gaya nang sinabi ko doon sa kabilang thread, ang sinumang maniniwala sa mga sinasabi ng baliw na babae sa malakanyang, baliktad ding katulad niya ang sikmura at nabibilang sa hanay ng mga taong walang paninidigan!
meron ba tayong aasahang pagbabago sa isang pusakal na magnanakaw at halang ang kaluluwa?
HEADLINES December 20,2006 – Wednesday
PGMA talks Cha-cha anew —-PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER
CA : Smith to stay in jail —-MANILA STANDARD TODAY
No budget approved again —-PHILIPPINE STAR
No agreement on budget —-MANILA BULLETIN
Gloria breaks vow, will pursue Cha-cha with ‘urgency, fervor’ —-THE DAILY TRIBUNE
CA junks Smith plea for TRO —-THE MANILA TIMES
Liberal forex policy stays —-BUSINESS WORLD
Gloria eyes $450M Piatco settlement —-MALAYA
‘No curbs on forex flows’ —-BUSINESS MIRROR
Arroyo brings back Charter change to life —-SUN STAR
Arroyo revives Cha-cha —-THE PHILIPPINE CHRONICLE
cut from tribune:
Sans proof, Justice chief claims Reds killing solons
By Benjamin B. Pulta
12/20/2006
With himself saying there is nothing to back up his claim, Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez yesterday still insisted that communist rebels are behind the recent rash of killings in retaliation to the series of murders involving militant leaders and in their supposed attempt to “destabilize” the government.
Gonzalez then immediately backtracked, saying “it (killing spree victimizing President Arroyo’s closest political allies) could be coincidence.”
Before admitting that government probers have nothing in their hands to pin down the Maoist New People’s Army (NPA) guerrillas, he had spoken of a “communist plot because they are targeting high-profile political figures and allies of GMA (Mrs. Arroyo’s initials).”
“No concrete evidence yet (against the NPA rebels). But this is one angle that we are looking into,” Gonzalez said, adding the investigation showed that “no pattern yet” has emerged that would lead to the guerrillas, “except the fact that all those killed or threatened are high-profile political personalities.”
The Justice secretary also insisted that “obviously there is a political angle (to the murders).”
The assassination last Saturday of Abra Rep. Luis Bersamin Jr., according to Gonzalez, is “really political, but we cannot discount other angles.”
He stressed that he is not ruling out the possibility that the assassinations of political leaders allied with the Arroyo administration were a handiwork of the communists in their bid to topple the government.(….)
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dapat sa siraulong ito ay ikulong sa kulungan ng mga baliw kasama ng baliw na babae sa malakanyang.
All of Ellen’s bloggers predicted what would happen after the Sunday rally. For sure the church leaders knew what was coming too- that CHA_CHA will be revived after the low turn out of the Sunday rally. All I can say is, this tiyanak is not only thick skinned, halang pa ang bituka and pinaglihi siguro ito kay Hitler. I said it earlier in one of the blogs and I am saying it again, we should not be praying for her change of heart and attitude because that will never happen. GOD HAS HIS WAY OF PUNISHING THE EVIL ONE. Let us just pray that our country’s agony and cry for help will be answered and SOON!
WOW $450M Piatco settlement! Buhay na buhay ang mga buwaya. MAY ELECTIONS ARE IN THE BAG NA NAMAN!
Tiyanak is also happy that dollar remittances are at the highest level so far. Does’nt she think how many children grow up without thei parents to take care of them? How many marriages are broken because while the spouse is working abroad, the other spouse fools around. This tiyanak’s priority show be , to employ the citizens locally. BUT NO HER PRIORITIES FROM THE VERY FIRST DAY OF HER MANDATE ARE: TO CHEAT, STEAL, MURDER,CORRUPT AND FOOL THE FILIPINOS WHENEVER SHE HAS A CHANCE TO DO SO! THIS IS VERY GLUE!
Over 800 people were killed and there were no efforts from her goons to look for the killers. But look, when one of her men(the representative of Abra) got killed, all her soldiers are alerted and in less than a day there are leads. Double standards, I would say. This is again very Glue.
b2win-marikit;
Nanghihinayang ako sa mga dugong dumanak sa Espana,Morayta at mendiola.Ang adhikain nating pakikibaka noon,kapalit ng rumaragasang mapait na bagwis.
Sa atin,wala na tayong pag-asa pang aasamin,kundi ang mga kabataang susunod sa yapak natin.Papano na ang bukang liwayway na naghihinday sa kanila,sukdulang paaalipin sa pasistang mamumuno sa kanila.
Wala na tayong migagabay sa kanila aalipin sila ng berdugong ganid sa pilak at kapangyarihan.Gugustuhin man natin bumangon at makibaka mayroon na tayong mga munting na iiyak kapag tayo di pinalad at magbuwis ng buhay.
Makikibaka na lang tayo sa ibang paraan,ang gabayan ang ating mga supling na umani ng karanungan.Sapagkat ang karunungan ay higit pa sa katapangan.Kabayanihan na nating maituturing kung ang ating mga anak at ang mga kabataan sa ngayon makamit nila ang pangarap na mamuno sa nabigo nating simulain.Ang kamangmangan ay katumbas din ng kaduwagan.Huwag nating yahaan mapariwara ang kanilang kapakanan at hakbangin tungo sa pag-akyat sa entablo para tangapin ang kanilang diploma.Mabuhay ka kaka.Kay ka Mezio sana gabayan siya ng panginoon na magkaroon ng kaliwanagan sa isipan ng di siya matulad kay Ka Bel na hangang ngayon naghihinagpis sa piitan ng gawa-gawang paratang.
To ellen, anna de brux, ystakei, mrivera, artsee, spartan, josephs, npongco, nelbar, hawaiianguy, elvira sahara, toney cuevas, diego k. guerrero, chabeli, florry, tongue_in_anew, norpil, cvj, jr-lad, jon mariano, and the rest:
a heartfelt Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you
20 December 2006
NYAK, NYAK, NYAK…… we really never learn from the leprecachaun. TUSO talaga, hehehehehehehe…….
Wala na talgang pag-asa sa leprecchaun na ito, remember the 2002 rizal day speech of the leprechaun in Baguio??? we should put an end to these/to her regime, we stand now and tell it to her face, its time for you to go, or a mary antoinette scenarion will be dealth to her and or a czar nicholas of russia will be dealth to her and her family.
Schumey……
thanks a lot, it not yet over the fight is still on…..
just a clue the politicians name start with “N” and he doesn’t know a thing how to govern, that’s the clue for now, hehehehehehe….. everybody knows the politician.
prans
20 December 2006
A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU!!!!!
prans
Gloria has the cunning of an alpha male wild dog and the persistence of an hyena. Never let our guards down. These small but very prudent predators can bring down preys much bigger than they are. They will trick and deceive until they get what they want. Their subjects are their minions, equally ferocious and ready to devour unexpected meals. This is how i describe gloria and her money faced tongressmen. She’s not dumb, on the contrary she is very wily. Pity to those who oppose her, and the opposition. They got their work cut out for them.
parasabayan;
Gloria must be taking a lot of Zoloft to be proud that remittance of dollar is skyrocketing from OFW.She has chemical imbalance in her brain because even she knows how much agonies and pain the OFW endure to the hands of there employer she still has a guts to taunt them.The OFW money she’s talking about are those she forcely sent to Lebanon and other Arab countries.Those people don’t believe in humanitarians and Mercy.How could she be proud of that they are making undecent wage.I will dare to kiss her ass if she can find a way to give this OFW job in our own country.
Para siyang inang proud pa kahit nagkakatulong ang kanyang anak.Mahiya ka naman.
cocoy and b2win;
Exactly what i said in the other thread;
“It hurts sometimes to contemplate that perhaps somewhere along the line, we might have done worse than helping the Philippines to her knees. Looking at where we are heading and the complacency…” Can’t help to look back and ponder. What a waste of precious warm bodies.
I remember several months ago, during an interview that she prefers OFW to stay where they are and not to come home yet. I suddenly remember Lee Kwan Yu, how contrasting their views of the situation are when Korea been exporting professionals then. This lady by the stinking river should be hanged for betraying her countrymen.
cocoy, b2win-marikit: I would categorize your thinking as both sides of the same coin known as the 1st Quarter Storm. One is asking where the young is while all of this is going on, and the other feels that all the blood shed during that glorious period was all for nothing. I put these questions to my son and his answers tell me that the majority of the young will never be in this present fight until our generation apologizes to them for leaving them this shit hole as our legacy to them. It is our generation’s duty to the young to at least TRY to rectify matters. If only to regain their trust again. Not a drop of blood shed fighting for what you believe is right is ever for nothing. Equally, not a drop of blood shed maintaining the right that is won is ever for nothing. This is where we have failed them.
Artsee : Iho, do you really want to know if I am a Bisaya or Cebuana? Figure this out: I was born in Cotabato, spent childhood in Davao, nag-aral ng elementaria sa Iloilo at college sa Cebu. Nag-master ako sa Maynila at nagtrabaho sa ilang probinsiya ng Mindanao. Tatanungin mo pa ba ako kung ako’y Bisaya o Cebuano? It’s implied but not stated, iho!
Tikbalang: Thanks so much for rescuing me! I just hope Artsee would eventually grasp the difference between “niluko” and “niloko.” Let me offer you a good picture: It’s 9 A.M. right now in Germany. I’m writing you while sipping a properly brewed German coffee. If I would write the word “niluko”, it would then be, “niloko.” Say mo?
P.S. : Merry Christmas Artsee
BTW, Ms. Anna, thanks for the nice comments. Merry Christmas…
Hindi pa ba nadala ang mga pilipino sa sinungaling na Great Switik? Noon pang unang pumunta iyan sa Japan, alam ko nang switik at boba sa totoo lang. E kundi ba naman sinungaling hindi na nahiyang pinaglalantakan pang boyfriend niya noon si Clinton is hanggang tampakan lang yata siya! Besides, sino ba si Clinton noon? Wala pang pangalan! Kundi mo pa alam na ubod ng yabang at matapobre ang ungas kaya mismong secretary ng tatay niya galit na galit sa kaniya. ‘Tada talaga!
E kundi ba naman, isang linggo lang ang lumipas na sinabi niyang “No more ChaCha” ayan na naman siya na pinagdidikdikan ang ChaCha na siyang magiging daan para maging reyna siya. Nangkupo! Ang tindi ng ambisyon ng magnanakaw na sinungaling pa!
PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA!
Related Topic:
From Senator Pimentel-
—–Original Message—–
From: Aquilino Pimentel Jr. [mailto:nenepimentel@pldtdsl.net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 8:51 AM
To: Aquilino Pimentel Jr.
Subject:
This afternoon, we continue our debate with Sen Enrile over the anti-terror
legislation.
I know we need to combat terrorism, interdict the flow of its funds and stop
it on its tracks.
That said, I find the terror bill as arguably the most terrifying piece of
legislation that Congress since its creation has tackled or is tackling.
It gives the extraordinary powers to police and other law enforcers to trump
the constitutional guarantees against unreasonable searches and seizures
(inviolate under the Constitution), warrantless arrests, seizure,
sequestration and freezing of all kinds of properties and assets even of
those who are merely tagged as SUSPECTS of the crime of terrorism.
Having studied the bill, I now understand why in the US the FISA (FOREIGN
INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT) allows bugging and recording of messages only
of FOREIGNERS not of US persons. That is due to provisions in the US
constitution from which our bill of rights had been lifted from.
I’m having a tough time convincing others – and some senators – that we are
literally tying a loop around our collective necks to hang us with as a
people by enacting this bill.
In my view, we are giving evil men with evil intentions an evil instrument
to oppress those who might not agree with them and cause them irreparable
harm.
I’ll try to refine it as best I can. Still …
Anyway, its Christmas season again. Merry Christmas and God bless.
Nene
Office of Senator Aquilino Q. Pimentel Jr.
Senate of the Philippines
Pasay City
website: http://www.nenepimentel.org
email: nenepimentel@pldtdsl.net
It’s Christmas time yet that Evil One from Malakanyang doesn’t even seem to feel it! All she has is her Cha-cha in mind. But if only for the festive season, let us set this Evil One aside and celebrate the “Lord’s Coming!”
To ELLEN. hAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A MORE ABUNDANT NEW YEAR!
To All the Bloggers: May you have a loveful Christmas and a more fruitful New Year!
May the New Year Change the Character of the Evil One !!!(believing that the Good triumphs over the Evil,before it’s too late)
cocoy:
you ask, “… can we win?”
i say, the people always win in the end.
lahat ng kasaysayan, ganito ang mensahe.
wala itong eksepsyon…
maraming paraan ang pagtulong,
maraming people’s organizations,
nangangailangan ng tulong… noon at ngayon.
bright star:
patuloy pa rin si Prudente at marami pang ibang
FQS beterano ang nagpapatuloy ng pagbabantay
sa lampara’t ilaw.
acpiccio:
ganuon din ang naramdaman ko nuong college,
(martial law baby, kasi), katulad ng anak ninyo.
pero, nanaig ang pag-aaral at rason laban sa
paninisi sa mga naunang henerasyon.
————–
sa mga beterano’t beterana ng FQS at Second Quarter Storm
isang pagpupugay para sa inyo!
tandaan lamang, hindi pa tapos ang laban!
The prayer rally is not a flop. It is apparently a wake up call!
Wait till God answers the prayers of the 150,000 Filipinos who dared the threats, hassles and intimidations, for God surely cannot be mocked as what the Great Switik is presently attempting to do now, for this time, she cannot try to double deal the Lord as when she said that she would not pursue the ChaCha prior to the prayer meeting in an apparent attempt to stop the CBCP to condemn her outrightly during the prayer meeting resulting in fact in some mellowing of the priests.
But here she goes again quacking about the ChaCha because there is no denying that it is what she actually wants as it will insure her becoming an instant queen (La Reina Encantada y Delusionaria y Ambiciosa Locaret y Sira de Tuktok)!
In her vanity and silly ambition, the Great Switik is committing blasphemy and tempting the 150,000 Filipinos not to have faith in God by ordering her brigaders to spread around the fallacious claim that their prayer rally is a flop, even insinuate that God will not answer their prayers, and we all know what happens to blasphemers.
To the great 150,000 Filipinos, this is the message: “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” (Gal. 6: 7) Ang reap you shall I know.
PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA!
Oops, sorry for the double posting of Senator Pimentel’s message. I missed Anna’s earlier post that’s why. I’ve been busy shopping with my mother, who is 88 but still going strong, for the Christmas gifts to be distributed to her children and grandchildren, and other relatives on Christmas.
The Great Switik apparently has been busy ordering them to round the Filipino fora, and spread the propaganda that the prayer meeting was in fact carried out in her favor, and that the without the most powerful religious groups in the Philippines like INC and El Shaddai, any such movement would not succeed!!!
I actually don’t buy such allegation, and I know that all these silly flip-flopping claims are attempts to dampen the spirits of the 150,000 Filipinos, who joined the prayer meeting, to prevent them from regrouping. But as Tongue T has stated, the die has been cast. It is just a matter of time, and soon, I guess, that the Great Switik will be toppled down with or without US help.
I would prefer in fact that Filipinos do it their own way especially with America too busy elsewhere and would not like to be bothered too much with the problem of the Great Switik, who has been trying hard to give the impression that all that she does has US consent and go-signal even when Americans themselves say that what she did for instance in 2001 was “now a bad Philippine habit.” In fact, it is to gain US patronage that she and her justice secretary are willing to undermine Philippine justice by accommodating a horny US soldier who has been duly convicted by a Philippine court/judge. Unbelievable talaga ang utak tuta at kamote!
One thing sure is that God will not allow the Great Switik to belittle the faith of the 150,000 Filipinos in God, and His Power and Might to remove a crook like her. In His Own Due Time, God will!
Even now, I pray that God will see it fit to answer the prayers of these brave men and women who prayed for deliverance of ALL Filipinos from the Great Switik and her fellow crooks!!! As my mother says, “Ang Diyos ay di natutulog!”
PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA!
PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA!
grand marauder gloria arroyo is back in her usual ways. so many times she had done this, yet, she is still in her comfortable cocoon. and, the main reason is people especially the prelates, tend to soften up when she steps back from her arrogant stance without realizing she would take three steps forward when the heat cools down.
Just sharing:
Press Release
December 20, 2006
Partido ng Manggagawa
Workers declare “paskong tuyo” as “Santa” gives hog feeds to solons
With a recent SWS survey confirming the deepening poverty of Filipinos and widening incidence of hunger, workers led by the Partido ng Manggagawa (PM) trooped to the House of Representatives to call attention to the long-delayed P125 wage increase bill even as the cost of living escalates especially with the pending water rate hike.
“If we go by the myth of Christmas carols, workers should now be busy buying gifts for their loved ones. But with hardly any money in our pockets, we are busy instead demanding the passage of a legislated wage hike. Joe de Venecia and his majority are fast and furious on charter change but slow as snails to act on workers demands,” denounced Judy Miranda of PM.
Around a hundred members of PM and Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino, some of whom came from as far as Laguna and Quezon picketed the gates of Batasan just before it goes into recess this week. Accompanying the rallyists was a worker Santa who cried “Ho! Ho! Ho! Solons better watch out!” and gave hog feeds to “JdV and his troop of trapos” for being “naught not nice to labor and the nation.”
The protesters ate “kanin at tuyo” to highlight the “paskong tuyo” of the workers this season. Miranda stated that “We make do with kanin at tuyo today for that is all the noche buena workers can afford with their measly pay and temporary employment. Even the coming year will be dry with water rates rising by January 1. The P25 alms given to workers last July which the government calls a COLA adjustment will all be lost on the expected monthly P25.20 hike in water bills (84 centavos per cubic meter for 30 cubic meters) in the east zone of Metro Manila, if it has not already been gone because of the price increases of other necessities.”
PM Rep. Renato Magtubo is co-sponsor of the P125 wage bill and the group is arguing that a wage increase will enhance instead of dampen the economy because of its positive multiplier effect. “An additional P125 daily in the hands of workers will be spent on basic goods that will redound to increased sales by factories and intensified retailing in the informal sector. A wage hike will have a direct and indirect effect on decreasing the poverty and hunger stalking the people and the workers. Meanwhile with real wages falling every year and contractualization spreading like a plague, the incidence of hunger increases quarterly,” Miranda deplored.
She continued, “In comparison, big capitalists like Maynilad and Manila Water have the privilege of the price of their commodities automatically increased with inflation. Whenever workers demand a wage hike, government raises the bogey of the capitalists’ capacity to pay but when capitalists hike their prices, they are silent on the workers’ capacity to buy. Such is the double standard in a capitalist society under globalization.” ###
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Mrivera:
Kaya nga tanong ko, hind na ba nadala ang mga pilipino? Sa totoo lang nakakasawa na kundi nga lang sa kasabihan na “Daig ng matiyaga ang masipag!”
PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA! KONTING DASAL PA! KUNG MAY NATITIRA PANG KONSENSIYA SI GREAT SWITIK, WALANG DUDANG TAKOT NA TAKOT NA IYAN! TIGNAN MO NGA ANG MUKHA NANG SUMALUBONG SA MGA OFW SA NAIA! ANG KAPAL TALAGA NG MUKHA!
from one of my three favorites:
10 ways to “give” Christmas
SHE SAYS
Dinah S. Ventura
12/20/2006
To say Filipinos have been battered and torn this year is putting it mildly. As the Christian world awaits the most joyous celebration of Jesus’ birth, Filipino Catholics must, more than ever, rely on their faith to feel the spirit of the season.
Otherwise, nothing and no one can muster the courage for them to face what lies ahead, given the goings-on in local politics and natural disasters that shook the nation this year.
People from many parts of our country are not only struggling to rebuild their lives from the wreckage left by some of the strongest typhoons in our history, they are also dealing with daily discomforts such as the lack of electricity and clean water, food to eat and medicines for the sick.
The luxuries they used to enjoy, even if only during the holidays, cannot even bear thinking about. Precious life — the presence of family, relatives and friends who survived “Milenyo” or “Reming” or “Seniang” — is the best gift they could ever have this Christmas.
In the spirit of this season, therefore, Shesays has come up with 10 ways we can all try to be a blessing or gift to our fellow Filipinos.
1.Donate food, water, medicines, clothing, mats or blankets, candles, or money to the victims of Typhoon Reming in the Bicol region. Drop off points are at McDonald’s and Body Shop outlets, which you will undoubtedly pass by as you do your shopping for Christmas gifts.
2.Donate the same to the victims of Typhoon Seniang in Mindoro and nearby parts.
3.Sponsor a child’s education through the World Vision. You only really spend about P15 a day when you do, which you can pay either monthly, quarterly or yearly. What is P15 a day to those who can spend P95 for a coffee frappuccino everyday?
4.Skip that expensive restaurant dinner for one night and give the money you would have spent to the sick children through the various foundations in the country.
5.Visit the lonely old folks at Golden Acres in Quezon City.
6.Visit the patients at the cancer ward at the Philippine General Hospital.
7.Make the extra effort to conserve water! Do not let faucets run when you’re brushing or soaping, but only turn them on when you are ready to rinse. Fix those leaky faucets, too, while you’re at it. The typhoons may have helped increase the water levels at the depleted Angat Dam to a sufficient degree, but water conservation is a good habit to develop anytime. Let’s not wait for another threat of El Niño to get us moving in the right direction.
8.Segregate your trash and dispose of them properly. We, Pinoys, pride ourselves for our cleanliness as people, but shouldn’t we make the extra effort to make sure our surroundings are just as clean?
9.Cultivate your awareness of and participate in the environmental conservation efforts in your community and around the country. The Philippines is blessed with natural beauty — it is one of our sources of pride as a nation and, in the tourist areas, a major source of income, so we should all contribute toward the preservation of nature’s bounty. The recent oil spill at Guimaras opened our eyes to the wide-ranging negative effects of one’s negligence or greed. Let us not allow such thing to happen again. Every single Pinoy should always remember how he or she can affect the environment. A single wrapper thrown carelessly from the window of a bus can one day be part of a major flood that rises in Manila because trash had clogged the drainage systems anew.
10. Read the news daily to get updated about the goings-on in politics, in the country and our communities. Find out more about the issues affecting our nation. We should not leave the present and future of our country in the hands of a powerful few. Knowledge gives power to the people.
artsee,
ang ganda talaga ng pelikulang fearless , may matututunan ka.
ang galing ng pagtatagpo ni Huo at Tanaka. isports lang ang dating!
sana panoorin mo naman ang pelikula ni jeff bridges.
alam mo na ibig kong sabihin 😉
You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library. —–Will(Good Will Hunting)
ystakei, maliwanag din naman ang punto ko, BAKIT IAASA NATIN SA SIMBAHAN ANG PAGSUGPO SA SALOT?
Sa totoo lang ang kailangan lang naman ay patigasan! OK, matigas si Great Switik, e di magmatigas din ang mga ayaw sa kaniya! Tignan lang natin kung sino ang tutumba!
Sabi nga, it is a simple case of having enough patience and tenacity. Saan ba’t matatapos din iyan. Hindi naman puedeng maging kingdom ang Pilipinas gawa namang hari at reyna sa bansang iyan. Sabi pa nga nila, walang talagang lider.
Iyong Great Switik, hindi naman lider iyan. Sira lang ang ulo niyan. Nangangarap ng gising na reyna siya! Kundi ba sira ang ulo niyan pati na iyong asawang halimaw e bakit nagpipilit at pabago-bago pa ang isip!
PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA! TAMA NA, SOBRA NA! TULOY ANG LABAN! NO TO CHACHA! NOT NOW LALO NA NOT UNDER THE INITIATIVE OF A GROUP IDENTIFYING THEMSELVES AS SATAN’S LEGION AS THEY HAVE QUOTED FROM THE BIBLE!!! ANG TINDI TALAGA!
Mrivera:
Hindi sa simbahan aasa kundi sa Diyos lalo na kung ang simbahan ay hindi mo malaman kung nasasaniban ng impakto!!! 😛
Basta tuloy ang laban, kaibigan! Alam kong ngitngit na ngitngit ka na! Sino bang hindi! May araw din iyan!
PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA!
Just sharing:
My Favorite La Sallite
By Antonio C. Abaya
Written Dec. 17, 2006
For the Standard Today,
December 19 issue.
The expanded e-version of my article Shame on You, Joe (Dec. 12), with its reference to my batch mate Jose de Venecia’s academic background in La Salle and Ateneo, drew angry protests from La Sallites. In fairness, I am reproducing excerpts from the angriest ones – but not from the one or two who used insulting language.
These all appear or will soon appear in full in www. tapatt.org, together with the other reactions to that article, most of which did not comment on the Ateneo-La Salle thing.
Cristine C. Remollo (AB, Batch ’84 – DLSU, LLB Batch ’88 –AdeMU) wrote: “Re your article below, I totally agree with you. However, you spoiled the whole point when you generalized at the end with ‘Perhaps he learned it in La Salle.’ You should have stopped at your main discourse. Worse, with just one sentence, you lost your credibility, as well as that of your arguments. Shame on you, Tony!”
(The whole article is available in http://www.tapatt.org.)
Mike Defensor? Naw. I don’t think he is a guy with principles. I also don’t liked balimbings, whether it be people, views, or even the fruit. You’ll be better off saying he’s saving his political ass, period. Then again, its only me.
Mrivera,
That’s a great post. Thanks very much, great reminder for all of us who have a little more than others
In our own very, very little almost insignifant way, hubby, children and I have decided not to buy presents for each other, instead we have put the little shopping money in a little piggy bank to donate the collection to PREDA.
Am quite happy that my daughter who along with a bunch of her classmates did a car boot sale to sell some of their belongings and to donate the proceeds to a charity through OXFAM in the spirit of Christmas (the idea was their own which actually is quite heartwarming.)
My oldest son, along with some of his closest friends, is a volunteer for a couple of hours a night 3 days a week in a soup house for the poor, cleaning the kitchen, serving soup and dinner to poor folks.
Adults too have much to learn from young people…
Michael Defensor? pang Bozo award pwede pa!
isa sa mga nangupal na kapwa nya mga tibak
natatandaan ko pa noong 1984 Batasan election merong Quiambao na tumakbo dyan sa Quezon City…
Re Tony Abaya’s “when I was the only member in Joma’s Kabataang Makabayan ”
Didn’t know that he and Joma were such good friends.
Wonder wh they’ve become bitter enemies now…
sige lang, gloria! magpakasawa ka! habang lumalalim ang paghuhukay mo ng iyong sariling libingan ay lalo mong pinaiikli ang pagtitimpi ng mamamayang anim na taon mo nang niloloko! ikaw, sampu ng iyong pamilya at mga kaalyadong walang pakundangan sa pagyurak sa aming karapatan at walang habas sa pagnanakaw ng dapat ay para sa taong bayan, ay hindi magtatagal sa pamamayagpag sa kasakiman!
magpakabundat ka sa dugo ng mga maralitang hindi alintana ang hirap upang mamuhay nang marangal huwag lamang magkaroon ng batik ang pangalang tanging yamang iniingatan. magpakaligaya ka sa nalalabi mo pang mga araw sa iyong inagaw na kapangyarihan! tandaan mo na ang tayog ng iyong lipad ang siyang magiging batayan ng lakas ng lagapak sa iyong pagbagsak! malapit nang matuyo ang daloy ng pagtitimpi ng taong bayang isinusuka ang lahat mong kawalanghiyaan. at sa sandali ng paniningil ay dugo mo ang makapagpapanumbalik sa bukal ng panibagong pag-asa!
nabibilang na ang mga sandali ng paghahasik mo ng lagim! matatapos na ang karumal dumal mong kasamaan! bilang pagsalubong sa aming paglaya mula sa iyong kasakiman, ipagdiriwang namin ang iyong wakas!
Re: Tony Abaya: Well, I honed my activism at DLSU.
Anna, I suppose Mr. Abaya realized that money is more important than principles just like those who I rallied with back in the ’80s and who are now helping the pandak rape this nation.
acpiccio, why should our generation apologize to the youth of today? The reason I joined the 1stQS is because of them. We fought the dictatorship because we want our children to have a better future free from supression of dictators. What is there to rectify? They should be the one to apologize dahil they should have continued the fight from where we left. Tingnan mo kung sino ang mga lumalaban ngayon, si Renato Constantino, Randy David, Ka Bel, Satur. Mga remnants pa iyan ng martial law, but for them the fight still continue. Noon we were branded as commies, radicals, leftist, but I’m neither one of them dahil isa lang akong ordinaryong pinoy na nagmamahal sa kanyang bayan. Kaya kayong mga kabataan, mahiya kayo sa sarili ninyo, lumabas naman kayo para maarawan man lang kayo. Mahiya kayo kay Jose Rizal na nagsabi na kayo ang pag-asa ng bayan. And I repeat, the blood that were shed then were all in vain. Nasayang lang, because we are not enjoying the fruits of what we fought for then. Walang silver lining after the dark clouds ika nga. No acpiccio, we did not fail them, they failed us. In comparison, tingnan natin ang Vietnam, milyun-milyon ang namatay dahil sa kagaguhan ng kano pero economically nasaan sila ngayon? Milya-milya na ang abante sa atin. Bakit? Dahil handa silang magsakripisyo dahil sa pagmamahal nila sa bayan.
anna, siguro, mas merong prinsipyo si tony abaya kaysa kay joma na alam ng lahat na isang duwag at walang tunay na malasakit sa mga taong nahikayat upang sumapi sa kilusan at makipaglaban nang pikit mata sa pagsusulong ng hindi nila batid na simulaing siya (joma) lamang ang mas nakikinabang.
nasaan ba si joma ilang taon na ang nakalilipas habang nagpapakamatay sa pakikibaka ang mga naiwan sa pilipinas?
Dear Ellen, friends, fellow commenters all,
This is my last post here for 2006 but will be back, hopefully, in full gear on the early days of January.
Very best wishes for the holiday season to all of you and your loved ones – Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!
Sincere hopes for peace and good tidings for the nation, the people – same wishes and season’s greeting for those who are less privileged, and not least, for our OFW compatriots wherever they may be…
Mrivera and Yuko,
Most ideal situation is for the civilian/citizenry not to depend on the churches for ousting a fake leader like Glueria.
Tama ka Mrivera, dapat ay nasa atin ang lakas!
But majority of pinoys hasn’t trancended yet the dictates of their respective religious leaders, which to me spoke of the very weakness of pinoys spiritual culture.
More than three hundred years and still the mentality of subservience impacted on us by the Spanish conquestadores is very much alive. Konti pa lang sa ating mga pinoy ang may liberal na pananaw sa kanilang relasyon sa relihiyon na kanilang kinaaaniban. Kaya palagay ko ay simbahan pa rin ang inaasahan ng nakararami na magsisimula ng pagbabago ng pamahalaan. Pero ang iba ay napasukan ni Glueria kaya lalo tayong napupurnada!
Para sa akin mas tama na nasa nasa tagiliran natin ang military at kapulisan dahil sila naman ang protektor ng mga tao ayon sa batas, pero ang mga nagkukunwaring lider naman ay nakabulsa kay Glueria.
This Pidal woman deserves the most painful punishment that we could inflict upon her for making our individual lives miserable and for corrupting the very institutions that we consider our “rocks” in times of trouble.
Enjoy your holidays with your family, Anna.
Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas to everybody!
Isang Mapayapang Pagbati para araw ng Pasko. Di ko masikmurang sabihing Merry dahil alam kong mabigat pa rin ang kalooban ng karamihan sa atin. Tulad na lang na may kasama ka sa bahay na malas at mabigat sa buhay. Ganiyan ang nararamdaman ngayon ng karamihan sa atin sa Pinas dahil may kasama silang malas sa gobyerno. Anyway, nawa’y maging mapayapa ang Pasko ninyo at nawa’y biyayaan ang ating bansang Pilipinas ng bagong gobyernong tunay na nagmamahal sa Pilipino (soon).
Anthony Scalia,
Have a MEANINGFUL Christmas!
Merry X’mas and Aloha to all!
Para sa mga OFW
Matagal nang inutil ang militar natin. Ang bayag nila nasa leeg hawak pa ng matataas na opisyal sa gobyerno. PERA PERA PERA ang mahalaga sa kanila. MANGURAKOT sa KABAN ng BAYAN lalo na ang PEKENG PANGULO, kaya walang nangyayari sa bansa natin halos lahat ng PILIPINO ay gustong MANGIBANG BANSA dahil sa hirap ng buhay sa PILIPINAS. PATALSIKIN NA! SIPAIN NA! NGAYON NA! Huwag MATAKOT sa mga taong NANGUNGURAKOT ng KABAN NG BAYAN! Pls. pass this message!
Food for thought lang for the holidays.
We all seem to agree that The Woman is a lying, thieving cheat of the highest order. We all agree that The Woman has no compunction at all to use and abuse people for her personal gain and survival. We all agree she is smart and politically adept and can wiggle out of practically any tight situation and that she has mastered the art of manipulating every sector of the nation.
But all warriors have an Achilles heel. And The Woman has one. What is that?
Phil Cruz,
Gloria’s Achilles heel? Luli.
Merry Christmas and a Gloria-less New Year To All!
Chabeli, yes, maybe. Actually, if we brainstormed on this, there could be quite a few more.
Now, here’s my kind of bishop. (from Malaya news item).
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Bishop calls for all-out protest rally
BY GERARD ANTHONY NAVAL
AMID efforts by the administration to revive moves to amend the Constitution, Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz yesterday called for an all-out protest rally instead of a prayer rally by anti-Charter change forces.
Cruz, former president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, said the mass action should be unrestrained in allowing expressions of outrage against the administration, unlike the CBCP-initiated gathering last Sunday which was purely a prayer gathering,
“If you ask me, let’s hold another rally but this time let’s drop the tag of a ‘prayer rally’ and call it an all-out protest rally,” Cruz said in a radio interview.
“Everyone against Cha-cha would be free to come, free to bring their banners, and free to air their grievances. No more restrictions. There were too many of those in last Sunday’s rally,” he added.
Joyeux noël!! From the True North Strong and Free, I wish Everyone a Wonderful and a Very Merry Christmas…
Phil Cruz,
My guess is Nani Perez for Glueria’s Achilles heel.
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Archbishop Cruz is my kind of bishop too. He is an embodiment of a true spiritual warrior!
vic,
Joyeux Noel? Ate Glo will jump joyfully!!!
What you just said is their agenda for joyous no- election.
MAY GOODNESS, PEACE, UNDERSTANDING, AND LOVE CONQUER OUR LAND. MAY THE JOY OF THE ANGELS WHEN THEY SANG GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO THAT FIRST CHRISTMAS NIGHT REIGN IN OUR HEARTS. MERRY CHRISTMAS.
b2win-marikit: Don’t get me wrong. I see your point. There is a lot of blame to spread around. But my point is that activism is a continuing affair. Where are the rest of us, aside from the names you mentioned? Where are the hundreds of thousands (no 1 million warm bodies for us then) behind the FQS? We can’t be all six feet under. It’s time to rescue the tie-dyed shirts from the camphor balls and continue where we left off. This is the rectification that the young is looking for. Cheers and Merry Christmas!
appicio;
You posses me a querries that even myself find it hard to comprimise.Why should I apologized to the genearation of today?I don’t.I cite you the reason;We fought until the dictator defeated.Democracy was restored.What did the next generation contribute? zero.They don’t value there precious freedom that we invested with blood,tears,losing limbs and even death.The masses has different classes.Person makes there own distiny.Help those who help themselves.They become to much dependent.Majority didn’t take the oppurtunity to educate themselves.Some were lured to prostituition,drugs,crimes and vice.If they became desperate in life there’s no one to blame but,themselves.
Passing on the traditions is the older generation’s obligations to the next generation. Passing on the baton in fighting a corrupt government is not yet warranted if we have not yet oriented our children in the “art of fighting”.
A student could not be charged with skipping his classes, if he is not enrolled, in the first place.
Go to the front of the class, Para sa Kanto Mama. (smile)
Chabeli and Chi,
My guess is her Achilles Heel is the US of A government and the international community. Can she manipulate them, too?
Zenzenai:
Even I am several thousand miles away from my country.I continue my sruggle to fight for the future of the next generation.But,in a different ways.I want to remain silent.I don’t want publicity.I help in medical missions.I help raise funds for indigeous student who are brilliant.Mind is the most terrible things to waste.I didn’t turn my back to those persons who are in need.I have a fund set-aside for that.This is my second chapter of my life and I want enjoy every momment of it.Life is short and good.Anything I can do to help? My door is open.
Chi,
I’m not a Catholic and our church does not meddle in politics even when majority of our members in the USA for example are Republicans. Thus, I don’t go by the Catholic standard of meddling in politics. We call it in fact as priestcraft!!!
I don’t know who our members in the Philippines support politically, but as far as the church is concerned, it is staying out of politics, which is not discussed within the walls and premises of the church. We abide by the standard rule of separation of church and state.
I have never heard of leaders of our church everywhere of endorsing any candidate during elections. We are just told to pray for guidance when we vote, and never to cheat!
Thus, I feel sorry for members of other churches who are dependent on their church leaders in choosing their candidates for positions in the government the way the CBCP or the INC dictate on their members as to who to vote during elections.
The truth is we believe in free agency that not even God will try to deprive us of.
Phil Cruz,
Yeah right! The international community.
Let’s keep on blogging so they will get more interested in our plight. I hope some of them are reading us here.
What is the difference between a DEMON and a MINION?
From one of my very few and trusted columnists.
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A nation betrayed by its Church’s prince
MUSINGS
Ronald Roy
12/22/2006, Tribune
Last Sunday, my cellphone received a message that a religious group had in its possession information that martial law would be declared to quell the general breakdown of peace and order conditions brought about by bad governance, along with fake assassination attempts! I was not at all surprised because I had anticipated this scenario. But this will require an elaborate discussion which I am therefore reserving for my next column. As previously written in this column, this scenario had been plotted by two administration officials acting for the European Socdems.
(Article can be accessed at http://www.tribune.net.ph)
Phil Cruz,
Hmmmm, that slipped my mind that the U.S. is her Archilles heel, as well as the international community. That sounds pretty right. Now what can we do to make the international community condemn her? For starters the human rights issues have been noticed, and AI, as well as other human rights organizations have condemned her. BUT, we should find an international group or org who would condemn Gloria’s governance, as well as the Philippines’ laws of democracy..Perhaps we can tap a U.S. Senator, like Senator Lugar or somebody of the same stature and caliber. For this “real people power” to materialize, we need a push.
Tulad ni simoun sa El Fili medio
asiwa ako sa takbo ng isip ng
tulad ni Dinah S. Ventura na
binandera pa ni Mrivera:
1.Donate food, water, medicines, clothing, etc.
2.Donate the same to the victims of Typhoon Seniang, etc.
3.Sponsor a child’s education through the World Vision
4.Skip that expensive restaurant dinner for one night
5.Visit the lonely old folks at Golden Acres
6.Visit the patients at the cancer ward
7.Make the extra effort to conserve water!
8.Segregate your trash and dispose of them properly.
9.Cultivate your awareness of and participate in the
environmental conservation
10. Read the news daily to get updated about the goings-on in politics, in the country and our communities.
Puedeng eh-chain letter ito, maganda ang dating. Sino ba ang dapat gumawa nito yung mga halos wala nang makain, mga nakatira sa kareton, mga puta sa bar, mga sidewalk vendor,
mga hulidapper, mga carnapper, mga starter ng jeep mga payat at tisikong driver ng bus sa EDSA, mga basurero at scavenger sa Payatas o mga hirap na miembro ng SSS at GSIS,????
Bagay at Akma lang pamasko ang mga payong ito sa mga may KULIMBAT SA gobierno. sA Animnapung milyon 60 million sa English na Pilipino, ito ba ang pamaskong payo ninyo? Anong klaseng Ray Ban ang suot nitong si Dinah S. Ventura
tila ibang klaseng tao ang nakikita niya?
EH ANO ANG PAYO KO NGAYONG PASKO? ABER? WALA AKONG PAYO PERO GUSTO KONG MAGBIGAY. DAHIL WALA AKONG PERA PARA SA DALAWAPUNG MILYON ITAK NA IPAMIMIGAY SA GUTOM NA FILIPINO TAHIMIK NA LANG AKO. TIKLOP NA LANG AKO. AYAW KONG KUMITA SA PAGSULAT NG PURO BOLA.
Chabeli,
I know some nationalists will frown on getting help from outside forces, from the international community. But the reality is that this is now a world without borders.
Countries and its citizens are now so socially and politically interlocked that what happens in one country quickly affects the lives and businesses of people in other countries. This is why the international community is so concerned with the rogue behavior of some leaders of other countries.
And this is why I believe we have to have strong influential allies out there who cannot be manipulated or twiddled around the stubby fingers of This Woman.
But for us to gain their attention, we of course have to continue to do our part by continuing to do battle with this malevolent force in our midst. And to do this, that one week episode of outrage last week must be repeated.
Sayang nawala ang momentum when the rally organizers turned it into a Prayer Rally and Thanksgiving Mass led by a very malamyang obfuscating religious leader.
But with this administration’s desperation and arrogance, there will still be other opportunities that will cause public indignation. I’m sure of that. In fact, the Desperate and Arrogant One is already revving up her motors again. Good, let her and let them continue with their attempted rapes again and let’s see what happens…
The international community may pay closer attention this time. Remember, she is deathly scared of being embarrassed internationally. The reason why she postponed the ASEAN Summit. Well, she has rescheduled it for January next year.
Phil Cruz and Chi,
re: Gloria’s Achilles heel discussion
2 ang nakita ko rin na posibilidad: a) foreign affairs or int’l community b) restive military
Pinaka-epektibo at pinakamasakit ang una, kaya nga saludo ako dito sa dalawang magigiting nating bloggers: Anna de Brux at YsTakei, na dinadala ang laban sa kani-kanilang bansang tinitirhan sa porma ng demontrasyon, petition signing, pakipagusap sa opisyales, NGO’s ng host gov’ts., atbp.
Ang Migrante, isang NGO nakabase sa ibat’ibang bansa kahit saan, hindi rin matatawaran ang ginagawa for popularizing issues at pagrekomenda ng mga solusyon.
Nai-intindihan ko na konti pa rin sa mga nag-migrate o OFW’s natin ang sanay sa mga ganitong porma ng pagpapakita ng DISGUSTO sa kanilang gobyerno. Dahil na rin siguro sa maling pag-aakala na ang mga nag-rarali para sa kabutihan ng kani-kanilang pamilya at komunidad ay awtomatikong pinaparatangan na Kaliwa, Commie, Extremist of this and that, katulad ng ginagawa ngayon ng gobyerno ng Pekeng Presidente noong anduon pa sila sa sariling bayan. Ngayon nasa labas ka ng bansa, duon natin nakikita na ang kanilang taumbayan ay ASSERTIVE sa kanilang karapatan at palaban.
Sana mabilis nilang ma-realize na ang aktibong pagsali ng mga mamamayan sa usaping bayan ang siyang ugat ng isang matibay na lipunan at pamayanan, kahit saan at kahit na anong bansang maunlad.
Kung napatunayan na ng mga Filipino na kaya nilang makipagsabayan sa kahit na anong lahi, pagdating sa trabaho, eh di kaya din natin para sa pagbabago ng ating Inang Bayan, di ba?
Yun tungkol sa b) restive military, kutob kong maganda ang posibilidad. Pero, ibibigay ko ang daan sa mga insiders nating mga blogfriends/warriors, tulad ng makatang si MRivera, Apoy, atbp.
ang mga obispo naging instrumento lang ni glueria engkantada para ma divert ang damdamin ng tao.. nakornihan sa prayer rally kuno. na turn-off!
zenzenai, malayo man ako sa pilipinas sa kasalukuyan, ramdam ko na nagngingitngit din ang kalooban ng karamihan sa karaniwan nating mga kawal, ‘yun nga lang wala pa silang magawa dahil siguro, iniisip din nila na may natitira pang hinahon sa mga sibilyan. mahirap din namang magdesisyon nang padalusdalos. kumbaga, meron din silang plano at hinihintay lamang marahil kung kailan ang tamang sandali upang ito ay isakatuparan.
Phil Cruz,
I agree with you that “…some nationalists will frown on getting help from outside forces, from the international community. But the reality is that this is now a world without borders.” Which is why I wasn’t focused really on “outside help” until you mentioned that U.S.
Take for example the recent U.S. brouhaha, I hope I am not using the wrong word, but I look at the recent move of cancelling the Balikatan as some sort of sanctions on the Philippines. There will be ramifications for this move. They know damn well that she pretty much controls the court here. I cannot accept that a mere Judge Pozon from a mere Regional Trial Court has wrecked havoc on the U.S.-Philippines relations ! And Gloria is not aware ? Tell that to the Marines ! This Woman has this persistent character of taking all sides on an issue. For instance, her War on Terror. On one hand, she says she fully supports the Coalition of the Willing, and in a blink of an eye, for a fellow-province mate, the TNT (TAGO-Ng-Tago) Angelo dela Cruz is the cause of her back-peddaling. Even more recent her stand regarding Cha-Cha. This is so Gloria ! GLORIA is NOT AN ECONOMIST, but a POLITICAL PROSTITUTE, WHO SLEEPS WITH ANYONE WHO CAN SATISFY HER NEEDS.
The U.S. is one of the “strong influential allies out there who cannot be manipulated or twiddled around the stubby fingers of This Woman.” And if I may add to this, THE U.S. IS NOT A PUSH OVER AND WHEN THEY BUSINESS THEY MEAN IT.
Let’s watch events unfold.
robert mais, may masama ba sa post ko tungkol sa column ni dinah ventura? huwag mong sabihing doble talas ka rin?
i find it interesting kaya ko isiningit. if you cannot appreciate it, that’s your problem, not mine!
It is a must that we respect each other’s comments. If you disagree, you may raise your points but let’s not denigrade other’s contribution.
Robert, you have made you point, M Rivera has replied. That’s all for that topic. More comments on that and I’ll delete because it does not contribute to a healthy discussion for everybody.
very gloria arroyo. tunay ka! sinungaling.
walang isang salita, talo pa ang kumakain ng sariling suka.
mahilig manggamit ng kapwa upang makaiwas sa pananagutan.
ipinagpipilitan ang sariling kagustuhan
sa likod ng pakunwaring kabaitan.
isang magnanakaw, amasonang tulisan!
walang nasa utak kundi limasin ang kaban
kahit sa harapan niya’y laganap ang kagutuman,
kapag kailangang merong mga dapat tulungan
ipananawagan lang, takot ang kinulimbat niya’y mabawasan!!
salot! salot! salot! salot!
Isa kang tunay na makata, Mang Rivera. Siguro noon sundalo ka pa imbes na ang hawak mo baril at bumaril ay nagtatalumpati ka na lang. Iyan ang dahilan kung bakit siguro hindi tumaas ang ranggo mo tulad ni Apoy.
artsee, tsimoso ka rin pala, ano? di ba usapan natin, hindi mo ipagkakalat? nakakahiya tuloy sa madlang pipol. sige ka, babawiin ko ang pisong ibinayad ko sa iyo.
Church and religion have often been being mentioned in this forum. What is religion? It is defined as worship and service to God. It is man’s relationship to his Creator. Unfortunately, some have perverted the definition. Instead of worshiping God Who created them, they worship gods that they created. Man has created its own gods and religions. Kaya nga medyo hindi na ako sang-ayon sa organized religions. Speaking of the Catholic Church, the Catholics don’t want to bring back the church’s dark history. I’m talking about the 13th Century extermination of the Cathars. Called as heretics, they were wiped off the map. Wala na tayo nabalitaan sa kanila maliban sa records ng “Inquisition”. Marami sa mga Cathars and tinatawag na Gnostics pero hindi lang sila ang naging victims ng genocide. Pati na ang mga Jews at non-Catholics. Kung minsan tuloy naiisip ko, paano kung walang religion at iba’t ibang simbahan sa mundo. May away at giyera kaya?