P300 Billion Budget Deficit, A Big Bang for Welcoming 2010!
Happy New Year folks!
Sorry, if I am to welcome your New Year with this kind of post. Expect I am going to post a more lighter one about the New Year in the coming days.
It is like a toy balloon swelling up as more air is being pumped into it with sooner or later, it will explode as it cannot hold...
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Philippine Standard Time Bill to Synchronize all Clocks in RP
Soon all clocks will register the same time all around the country.
House Bill 6905, or the Philippine Standard Time (PST) Bill was filed by 19 lawmakers and was passed and approved on third and final reading at the House of Representatives, reading for transmission to the Senate.
This bill aims to address...
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Anything that We are Still Proud of as Filipinos?
Philippines is the most dangerous place for journalist in the whole universe; 57 people murdered in broad daylight; NBN-ZTE Scandal; Fertilizer Scam; activists still missing; this nation being on the top list of the most corrupt nation in the world; 8 out of 10 young Filipinos cannot have a college...
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Habilin At Tagubilin, A Poem for the Filipinos of Today
I was listening to the radio a day ago while its commentator was hitting the occupant of the Palace for the many ills of the nation.
And the program ended with the Armida Siguion-Reyna’s Habilin at Tagubilin being played from her CD Pop Lola.
I first thought that it was a commercial for some bath soap...
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Political Observations, MSG and Rotten Underwear
A few days away unplugged from the rest of the online world is already a long blogging vacation for me, highlighted by a long weekend giving me more time than usual to procrastinate and end up becoming a lazy dog on the couch feeding on MSG-coated chips and lots of sugary carbonated drinks enough to...
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Official Statement of the Philippine Lasallian Family on the Maguindanao Massacre
Philippine Lasallian Family Statement on the
Maguindanao Massacre
Brutal, barbaric, and heinous. These were words used to describe the Maguindanao massacre that has claimed the lives of more than 50 people—the majority of them being political supporters, lawyers and media practitioners in the company...
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Maguindanao Massacre: The Apex of Evil Governance
WTF is happening to this country?!
I have been personally mourning since Monday. The Maguindanao massacre is for me so unimaginable; a barbaric and demonic act of violence that one sunny day happened to our nation, that unlike Iraq or Afghanistan, is not plunged into a daily bloodbath because of war.
Has...
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Ang Ladlad and Danton Remoto, A Bunch of Liars
marginalized = : to relegate to an unimportant or powerless position within a society or group
Ang Ladlad, a gay group representing Lesbians, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) led by Prof. Danton Remoto is once again rebuffed – like little school boys being sent to the discipline office by...
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Most Notorious Chronic Absentee In Congress, My Kababayan!???
Posted by nethan on January 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment
“Ay te,” a very common Ilonggo expression venting off exasperation and a bit of ridicule. And that is what most of us will feel about this. Most of us when absent from work will not receive any pay on the particular days we were absent. No work, no pay for most average Pinoy toiling each day in...
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