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In Arroyo’s indecent regime: loyalty over substance

Published by Ellen on August 2, 2009

As we bid goodbye to President Cory Aquino, we reminisce her presidency with affection because that was the time when sincerity, honesty , and decency characterized all her decisions and actions.

Decency is one thing that we cannot say of the hustling among members of Gloria Arroyo’s men and women on who would be included in Arroyo’s official party in the meeting with US President Barack Obama last week.

The White House bilateral meetings was supposed to be five plus one for both sides. That means Arroyo and five cabinet members. Obama and five cabinet members on the others side.

Arroyo would be treated with civility if she comes to Cory’s wake : Noynoy

Published by Ellen on August 1, 2009

Update: Cory will be buried on Wednesday, Aug.5, at the family’s plot at the Manila Memorial park beside her husband, the late senator Benigno Aquino, Jr.

Necrological rites on Tuesday evening.

Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III said personally, he “would not totally welcome Gloria Arroyo and Imelda Marcos” but if they come to the wake of his mother, former President Corazon Aquino,they would be treated with “civility.”

In an interview by David Celdran on ANC, Noynoy said he was expressing personal views and that the matter would have to be discussed by the family. “I would not totally welcome (Arroyo’s visit) but we have been taught civility, he said.

Asked if the same applies to Imelda Marcos, he replied “yes.”

Furor over Arroyo’s debasement of National Artists Award

Published by Ellen on July 31, 2009

Update: F. Sionil Jose, Arturo Luz, Bienvenido Lumbera, Virgilio Almario, Bancab will lead artists and community in a Necrological Service and Funeral march for the National Artists Awards on Friday, Aug. 7, 2 pm at CCP.

Last Wednesday, Malacañang released the names of the latest batch of National Artists, the most prestigious award for Filipino artists. They are:

Cecile Guidote-Alvarez (Theater)
Manuel Urbano aka Manuel Conde (Film and Broadcast Arts)
Magno Jose “Carlo” Caparas (Visual Arts and Film)
Federico Aguilar Alcuaz (Visual Arts, Painting)
Lazaro Francisco (Literature)
Francisco Mañosa (Architecture)
Jose “Pitoy” Moreno (Fashion)

The Concerned Artists of the Philippines (CAP) issued the following statement:

Moribund, decadent politics behind this year’s selection of National Artists

The Concerned Artists of the Philippines joins much of the Filipino arts and cultural community in expressing indignation over the unprecedented brazen use by the Arroyo regime of the National Artists awards for its moribund, decadent politics.

Letter to President Obama

Published by Ellen on July 29, 2009

His Excellency President Barack Obama
Washington District of Columbia
United States of America

Dear Mr. President,

We shared the wonderful jubilation of the American people during your historic election triumph. When you assumed office early this year, we rejoiced at the audacious hope that you inspired, and on your promise of change for the common good.

We joined all freedom loving people of the world who exulted when you declared that “those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent…are on the wrong side of history.”

Dapat manindigan si Chiz

Published by Ellen on July 29, 2009

Dapat ipaliwanag ni Sen. Chiz Escudero itong akusasyon ni Rep. Mikey Arroyo, anak ni Gloria Arroyo, na humihingi siya ng tulong sa kanyang ina at ang mga patutsada niya (Chiz) ay pang-media lang.

Hindi natin malalaman kung nagsasabi ng buong katotohan itong anak ni Arroyo ngunit kailangan maliwanag sa taumbayan kung saan nakatayo si Chiz sa isyu ni Gloria Arroyo.

Sabi ni Chiz sa Inquirer na hindi totoo ang kinakalat ni Mikey at hindi siya hihingi ng endorsment ni Arroyo. “It is obviously not true. I am not asking and will not ask for her endorsement. If I run, I will always run as opposition.”

The gall of Gloria

Published by Ellen on July 28, 2009

Riddle of the day: What’s the difference between a fairytale and a state- of- the- nation address?

Answer, according a text message: A fairytale is fiction with dwarfs as characters.SONA has a dwarf relating fiction.

Gloria Arroyo was not even an engaging storyteller. Bitchy, catty and spiteful, she looked so ugly.

Arroyo did not categorically say she will step down on June 30, 2010

Published by Ellen on July 27, 2009

As expected, Gloria Arroyo enumerated a litany of lies about her so called accomplishments.

She did not say that she will be stepping down at the end of her term. She just said, “At the end of this speech, I will step down from this stage but not from the presidency, My term does not end until next year.”

She did not say that she will not do anything to extend her term. She just said, “Until then, I will fight for the ordinary Filipino to the very last day.”

She said, “I never declared Martial law.” She never denied the revelation of former Defense Secretary Avelino “Nonong” Cruz that she had planned to declare martial law in 2006.

She said “I never expressed my desire to extend myself beyond my term.”

Because she is tuso. She lets her minions do the manipulation to amend the Constitution so she can stay in power forever.

‘Oakwood’ and GMA Sona

Published by Ellen on July 26, 2009

July 27, six years ago was a Sunday, the day before the last Monday of July when the president delivers the State-of-the Nation’s address.

That was the day when some 300 soldiers took a stand against Gloria Arroyo’s misgovernance at the Oakwood Premier Hotel (now Ascott) in Makati.

The group didn’t have a name but a TV producer saw in the image of the sun in their red armbands a resemblance to the symbol of the Emilio Aguinaldo’s Magdalo faction in the revolutionary Katipunan. He called them “Magdalo” and the name stuck.

This year, July 27 is a Monday. As the Magdalo group marks six years of the ‘Oakwood incident’, Gloria Arroyo delivers her SONA, supposedly her last.

Sana huwag na bumalik si Arroyo

Published by Ellen on July 25, 2009

Rally sa tapat ng US Embassy noong Biyernes:

Isang bagay lang ang gusto marinig ng mga tao kay Gloria Arroyo sa Lunes: “Bababa ako sa Malacañang tanghali ng Hunyo 30, 2010 at hindi na babalik.”

Hindi interesado ang publiko sa kung anong listahan ng kanyang mga nagawa. Hindi utang na loob ng taumbayan sa kanya ang mga ginawang kalsada o mga tulay. Pera natin yun. Kumita pa nga ng malaki ang kanyang asawa at mga alagad sa mga proyekto na yun.

Kapag nag-iisa-isa si Arroyo ng mga construction na nagawa ng kanyang administrasyon, ang nasa-isip ng taumbayan ay ang male-maletang pera na hinahatid ng mga contractors doon sa opisina ng kanyang asawa sa Perea st. sa Makati.

Ex-defense chief Nonong Cruz: Defy unlawful orders

Published by Ellen on July 23, 2009

Malacanang’s reactions:: Never did GMA think of declaring martial law

Hallucination

Cruz urges soldiers to stay loyal to Constitution

By Philip Tubeza
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Warning about a “disturbing pattern” showing that the Arroyo administration will try to perpetuate itself in power, former Defense Secretary Avelino Cruz Jr. Wednesday urged soldiers to defy “patently unlawful orders” for partisan political ends and for subverting the Constitution.

Speaking at a forum of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) in Pasig City, Cruz accused President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of masterminding moves in Congress to amend the Constitution without the Senate’s consent.

Cruz, who resigned as defense secretary on Nov. 5, 2006, said he was confident that any attempt to usurp power would fail, but even a failed attempt could result in “bloodshed” and other devastating consequences for the country.

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