ISKANDALO!

SAMU'T-SARI ang mga iskandalong nakita, narinig at nalaman natin
sa mga nagdaang panahon. Kung baga, iba-ibang klase:
may malaki at may maliit lamang. Meron din namang kung tutuusin,
eh walang kinalaman sa kaninuman.

KAHIT saang sulok sa mundo, lasa ko, merong iskandalong nagaganap,
lalo na at artista ka..... mga "celeb" kung tawagin.

KAPUNA-PUNA kamakailan ang iskandalo ng mga nasa politika at
sa industriya ng pinilakang tabing. Mga artista kung tawagin.
Minsan nakakainis, nakakaloka at nakakasuya na rin.
Yung iba naman, ayaw manahimik at kapag napuna,
labasang lalamunan sa katitili at maghahamong idedemanda
kung hindi tumigil.

KAMAKAILAN, umugong ang balitang Ruffa-Ylmaz scandal.
Iyak nang iyak si Ruffa, kasama na ang inang si Annabelle
na nagbitiw ng sangkaterbang salita. Natural, laman sila
sa lahat ng klase ng Showbiz Balita.

NANDOONG sumagot si Ylmaz at nasangkot pa ang kolumnistang si DollyAnn
tungkol sa lumabas na scoop sa kolum nito na nagsasaad na may asawa na
si Ruffa bago pa man dumating si Ylmaz. IKINAGALIT yun ni Ruffa.
Huwag na raw "makisawsaw" si DollyAnn, sabi naman ng ina.

AYAW mo mang pansinin, tiyak na mababasa mo ang balita,
lalo na at sa iNet ka lang umaasa. Halos lahat na yata
ng iNet News, mukha at salita nila ang nakabalandra.
Naglabasan ang kanilang mga baho at naglaba ng kanilang mga
sinukahang damit sa harap ng publiko. Ang telebisyon ay
punung-puno ng kanilang balita.
Minsan isip ko, hindi ba sila napapagod?
Nakakasuya nang makita at mabasa.


IDAGDAG mo pa ang ugong na ginawa ng kisscandal naman nina Gretchen B. at ni John Estrada, ang dating asawa ni Janice de Belen.
Nakita ko ang litrato na nakakalat sa iNet. At sa malas ko,
mukha namang hindi pinilit si Gretchen na magpahalik!
Ibig sabihin, willing accomplice siya sa halikan blues na yun.
Ngayon, marami ang nagagalit dahil sa pagkalat ng nasabing litrato.

LUMABAS ang mga kakampi at nagsabi na "wala namang masama" ..."walang malisya" atbp.


GAANO katotoo ang kanilang mga binitawang salita?
Nadoon ba tayo para masabing ito ang tama, at siya ang mali?
Nakakarindi na talaga. Hindi mo malaman kung agaw-eksena lang
ang mga yan para mapag-usapan! Hot item nga naman kapag may "news,
good or bad.

ANG sa akin lang, kung ayaw ninyong maurirat ang buhay ninyo,
manahimik kayo.　Type ninyong maging celebrity/public figure....
humanda kayo na mabuklat ang buhay ninyo. Ganun ka-simple lang yun.

KALABAS-labasan niyan, baka magsampa pa ang mga yan ng "Libel"
eh gayung sila naman ang naghuhugas ng sariling baho sa
labas ng kanilang tahanan.　

NAALALA ko tuloy ang kilala kong mga public figures.
Mahilig mag-pose sa anumang photo-opportunity:
kahit PA mga magnanakaw ang nasa likuran.
O Abu-Sayaf man...kesehodang JI member yun.
O carnap gang!
Basta nakapose sila ni madam!
Tapos, kapag naisulat at naurirat ng mamamahayag,
sisigaw at aalma dahil "private citizen" siya!

ANO ba yan!?

PEOPLE'S VICTORY

THAT is how Senator-elect Antonio Trillanes IV described his winning the election as the 11th senator in the last midterm elections. He said he came at the right time when the Nation is seeing the truth behind the facade that the Malacanang illegal occupant is trying to portray.

HIS victory is widely seen as a protest vote against Arroyo who has been dogged by allegations of massive cheating to win the May 2004 elections.

TRILLANES previously said if he was elected, he would seek to have Mrs. Arroyo impeached for corruption and massive cheating in order to stay in power. He also vowed to investigate the rash of extra-judicial killings.

BUT Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr., who has shown displeasure at the victory of senator-elect detained Antonio Trillanes IV, former Navy junior officer, pursued his goal of humiliating Trillanes further and showing utter disrespect for the new senator of the republic’s office by having him brought to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) building in handcuffs.

TRILLANES arrived for the ceremony in Manila in handcuffs, flanked by armed guards after being given temporary leave from a military camp where he is in detention. The handcuffs were removed just before the start of the ceremony.

FUNNY but I see his guards smiling in various pictures in the broadsheets. They must be enjoying their trip, walking alongside the popular Trillanes who was met by COMELEC staff who left their desks to get a glimpse of the newl Senator.

HOW I wish I was there to witness History in the making!

SABI NILA:

:"Sugod mga Kababayan!"- Andres Bonifacio in the Cry of Balintawak.

:"Ang Kabataan ang Pag-asa ng Bayan" -Gat Jose Rizal

:"Isulong ang Bagong Lipunan!" - sabi ni Ferdiand Marcos nang idineklara ang MartialLaw sa Pilipinas noong 1972.

:"Sa ikauunlad ng Bayan, Disiplina ang Kailangan." - motto na inilunsad ni Marcos. OK sana, lalo na noong una. Nasira lang nang naipakita na ang kawalang-disiplina ng mga tao at pamilya mismo ni FM. Sila pala ang walang disiplina!

:"I won't run in the 2004 elections." -gloria arroyo on Rizal Day rites in Baguio.

:"God told me that I am the best leader to run this nation!" - gma on her "vision", as the 'chosen one' for the country.

:"Hello, hello, garci!?" -Huli siya! Narinig ang boses ni gloria! "Trying to ensure lang" naman daw....yung kanyang mga boto! Why is that, madam? Di po ba, bawal yun? Sa inyo lang ba puwede? Sa iba, bawal? Boo-hoo!

:"Unite!" -gloria arroyo, in her speech in Congress in June, 2007.Tapos, nakipagbulungan kay JdeV. tungkol sa Cha-cha! Ayayay!

:"So far, the election was a clean and peaceful." - Benjamin abalos,Comelec Chairman, despite the more than 120 election-related killings and death during the campaign period.


:"What political killings?" - gloria arroyo when asked by International Media Groups.

:"Push Cha-Cha!" - Joe deV...all year-round; He just stopped during the campaign.

:"It must be the NPAs, the Communists!" - hurled by arroyo's henchmen when asked by activists groups on numerous killings in the country.

:".. hanggang may naglalapastangan ng sagradong boto... hindi pa rin tayo malaya (... until there are people who disrespect our sacred votes... we are not free)," Puno, in his speech during the rites celebrating the 109th year of Philippine Independence in Monumento in Caloocan City June 12,2007.

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There are more, I know....and I can't recall all of them right now.
But all these are stored in the recesses of my mind.
I am quite sure they are, also, in our Kababayan's store of remembrance.

I am just writing them down for posterity sake, lest I forget.

These would also serve as a reminder how close we got to having a disaster
like this Liar-Liar problem called gloria.

Wanna share some?

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BALIMBINGAN BLUES

SABI ng COMELEC, sa loob ng sampung araw, magagawa nilang iproklama ang lahat ng mga nagwaging kandidato, pero hanggang ngayon, halos mag-iisang buwan na......
nakabitin pa rin ang 2 kandidato ng GO.
Humahabol nga ba si Pichay, eh halata namang sadyang nalanta na ito?

AT any rate, eto na at naiproklama na nga ang 6 na GO candidates.
Pero ano itong mga bali-balitang may taga-GO slate na
"nakipag-usap" sa Malacanang? Ano ito, Pact^with-the^Devil?

UNA, hula-hula lamang, pero itong nakalipas na Linggo, maugong na ang
balitang merong nanalong kandidato ng GO na nakikipag-ugnayan kuno
at " singing sweet music" with the devil...

Ahahay!

ETO pa ang matindi: isa sa mga TOP THREE ang kandidatong ito.

Uh-hummmm...

HINDI kaya si Ping Lacson? Pero, mortal na kaaway ito ni fg.
Eh sa dalawang naiwan: Loren Legarda at Chiz Escudero.
Sino ba sa inyo?

MUKHANG hindi pa man nagsisimula ang Sesyon, meron nang niluluto
sa ating likuran ang magagaling nating mga Mambabatas.
Meron nang naga-AHAS at meron nang BALIMBING!

Anak ng Pating!

HINDI pa man nakakaupo sa Senado, mukhang may niluluto na sila para sa 2010!

SANA lang, huwag naman nilang ipagkanulo ang TIWALA ng Taumbayan.
Ibinoto namin kayo para panindigan ang aming kapakanan.

ANG pagboto ko, gaya ng milyon-milyong Filipino ay para ipamukha
sa nasa may Pasig na ayaw namin sa kanilang pamamahala.
Makikita ang sentimyento ng Taumbayan sa pagboto kina
Alan Peter Cayetano at Antonio Trillanes.

ALAM ng Bayan na kalabang mortal nina gloria at kanyang bubuwit ang 2 ito,
kaya naman bilang pagsuway sa samo ng administrasyon,
pinili ng mga Tao ang mga alam nilang may lakas ng loob at
kayang sumagupa sa pekeng nakaluklok sa Malacanang.

KUNG kayo eh magba-BALIMBINGan lang diyan, alalahanin ninyo na
marunong na ring magtanda ang mga tao. Sawang-sawa na kami
sa mga palabas ninyo, kaya puwede ba,.....
ayusin naman ninyo ang pamumuno?

SANA nama'y matauhan na kayo sa mga Balimbing na kumandidato.
Nakita na ninyo kung paano itinuring ng mga tao sina
sotto at si oreta dahil sa Balimbingan na yan.
Matuto nawa kayo.


ISANTABI muna ang pansariling agenda.
Tunghayan at ayusin muna ang agenda para sa Taumbayan.
Yun ang kailangan at dapat tutukan.

AGAIN?

Interesting people litter the COMELEC.

We have Abalos who is likened to a puppet of the very people who appointed him there.
He mouths words fed on him by his benefactor. Pity him who has the capacity to clean up the mess, yet keeps on pounding on the wrong and giving leeway to the corrupt. One thinks he is that corrupt himself!

IN 2004, garci was the main attraction; NOW we have bedol, whose full name LINTANG bedol annoyingly fits him to the max.

The Daily Tribune says it all:Interesting people litter the COMELEC.

We have Abalos who is likened to a puppet of the very people who appointed him there.
He mouths words fed on him by his benefactor. Pity him who has the capacity to clean up the mess, yet keeps on pounding on the wrong and giving leeway to the corrupt. One thinks he is that corrupt himself!

IN 2004, garci was the main attraction; NOW we have bedol, whose full name LINTANG bedol fits him to well.

The Daily Tribune says it all: Bedol does a garci, goes missing

And, to add salt to injury, here is what COMELEC's abalos has done:

Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr., who also then claimed he was clueless over Garcillano’s whereabouts, yesterday also said he has absolutely no clue as to Bedol’s whereabouts but pointed out that Bedol cannot be restrained, since there is no order for his arrest. Neither has he been cited for contempt by the Comelec acting as the National Board of Canvassers (NBC).

Funny, abalos seems to say that he is unaware of the happenings in his turf!
My goodness! What kind of Chief is that?

One may think, and rightly so, that nowadays, cheating is a COMELEC tradition.

It's trustworhiness used to be unadulterated during Christian Monsod and Haydee Yorac's terms.

Alas! but those days are gone now.

These days, it is abalos, the COMELEC Cheat
while gloria cheats-by-the Pasig.

Sanabawitz!

RAINS & SCHOOL

THE RAINY season has begun, and so with the opening of schools.
As usual, Pinoys are haunted with numerous problems enough to make those super migraines stay for good.

There are those school fees, uniform, school things and so on. I still wonder how Nanay reacted when we asked for new school bags or to buy-me-this and -that. Tatay was always spared of those school opening preparations because of his travels, but Nanay? She must have found the task unreal.

The problem is doubled if a family do not earn much. Imagine the horrors of those jobless family men! And even if people send their kids to public schools, the "other" expenses are enormous. Uniforms and pencils and paste and so on....

IT is no doubt, chaos out there especially when rains start pouring in. Honestly, rain in any tropical country like ours is a welcome respite from the dirt and grimes, aside from the irritating heat of Pinas summer, but typhoons? Mama Mia!

TROOPING to the school grounds on the first day of school is practically chaos, but at least, a notch lower than those who voted in the last Mid-term elections. Sa eleksyon, tatanggihan ka kapag wala sa listahan::::samantalang sa paaralan, hindi sila puwedeng tumanggi.

THERE will be wailing and crying, and clinging and shouting, especially when kids wouldn't want to be left alone in a new environment.

SCHOOL authorities would be on hand to accept all enrollees even if the DepEd says
[based on madam's instruction, no doubt!] that there are enough classrooms and teachers on hand. We all know that that is another big lie!


HOW I wish the money she spends in all those junkets abroad be spent to create the necessary classrooms and books, or even some extra free meal for undernourished kids.

IMAGINE the cost of her trips abroad. In Japan alone, here's some firsthand view on that:

It was not a chartered flight to Japan. It was an ordinary PAL flight because it was not an official visit. It was more a private visit and private activity that has nothing to do with the Japanese government even when PM Abe agreed to meet with her on request of the Philippine Embassy. Kaya lang 100 ang kasama at napuno ang first class at business class, pati yata ang economy class for the lower ranking PSG escorts. Still, ang laki ng gastos because they were all billeted at the Imperial Hotel, which is one of the most expensive hotels in Tokyo and the sponsor, Nikkei Shimbun was shouldering only her hotel bills. You're right then to assume that the cost for the others were shouldered by Filipino taxpayers via the Philippine Embassy. Kaya ubos na naman ang budget ng Philippine Embassy and the Filipino community here is again being asked to do some activities to be able to replenish the funds used for this expensive trip of this criminal.

For all you know they have formed a group here called "Philippine Assistance Group" which pays for the airfare, medication, etc. of stranded Filipinos, and they also raise funds for the criminal's so-called "Classroom ni Gloria!"

The reception for the Filipinos amounted to about 10,000 yen per person, and according to my friend at the embassy, the number of attendees reached over 200. 1US$ is 110 yen more or less. Aside from this reception, the criminal also entertained Japanese government officials and private people separately. The least, she had spent for this Japan trip is about 50M yen. Point is this woman has no right to spend Filipino money for her selfish ambition.

GET the picture?

I agree that the money used on those trips along with numerous alalays must be enormous. Sayang naman! Sana ginamit na lang sa Edukasyon ng Kabataang Pinoy para sa Kinabukasan!

NOW I know why we start school every June....when rains begin and typhoons come-a-visiting.... It must be to hide the tears that people shed. Sa hirap ng buhay, maiiyak ka talaga sa inis sa pinaggagawang paglustay sa salapi ng Bayan.

AND to think, she claims that the economy is up and the Peso is strong!

THE reality is in-your-face: the economy is as short as the woman who runs off with the money in her pocket.

EVERYBODY KNOWS!

MIDWEEK had the first TU candidate to concede. Mike Defensor said:

he was dropping his Senate bid “to enjoin my allies and friends who may want, in their desire to have me win, commit acts inimical to the essence of democracy and fair play in an electoral battle.”

ANYONE who has the common sense to read between the lines knows little Mike's message is clear. Goodness, he knows and admits it, albeit indirectly, but the message is there: loud and clear!



HE knows that there are 'magical moments' in there as long as the price is right!
HE is suggesting that there are backdoor anomalies his allies are capable of, just what the Opposition have been saying that there is something anomalous in the Maguindanao elections.

ALL these, the entire nation now knows!

YET nothing is being done to rid the election body of all these manipulators.

WHY can't we do anything about it?!

BETTER STILL, why can't the COMELEC do its own clean up?

THE ANSWER is clear: the COMELEC cannot do anything.

Either it is beholden to the 'fake' one or it is littered with 'brilliant manipulators' whose numbers are up for sale to the highest bidder.....just like Garci.

The discovery of those calls made waves, but after three years, the shenanigans are still working inside the COMELEC. And the manipulators still do what they do best.

THE whole thing stinks!

LIKE it or not, these people will continue to bring down trust and take the COMELEC with them.

UNLESS something/someone good puts a break on all these.

SUICIDES

SUICIDE seems to be the last resort for most Japanese, be they public official or not. The rate of suicides among them is high. It is said that high-ranking public officials who have resorted to suicide has reached seven since the last war.

It is common knowledge that the Samurais of old go through SEPPUKU. This is a ritual to disembowel oneself in a ritual act of HARAKIRI. Harakiri, literally, means to cut [KIRI] the stomach [HARA]. It is done by thrusting a sword thru the stomach area and slashing sideways to ensure they hit the major organs of the body. That way, they can no longer be revived. This was done to save their honor and their family's. I guess the ritual has faded with the advent of the 20th century.

The new generation of Japanese has come up with different kind of killing themselves. Since gun is a total no-no in this country, some have resorted to CO poisoning, that is, staying inside a closed vehicle and starting the engine. Some have used knives, others poison. Still others, like Matsuoka use ropes, or any alternative to hang themselves.

But the recent suicides...there are two, btw, have brought to mind the way Japanese face society. They do not want to be shamed and as such go through the easy way out.

Analysts said Matsuoka's suicide would be a severe blow to Abe, who partly due to the scandal has suffered a sharp decline in public support ahead of key elections for the upper house of parliament on July 22.

Japanese dailies said Abe's insistence on sticking by a scandal-tainted minister was partly responsible for his suicide, and would cost him a political price.

"There is no doubt that this is the most serious crisis since the Abe administration began," the Mainichi Shimbun said in an editorial.

Late Monday, a sullen Abe admitted responsibility, telling reporters: "As the one who appointed minister Matsuoka to the post, I feel responsible for the action taken by a cabinet member."

Japan has one of the world's highest suicide rates, which experts attribute in part to the lack of a religious stigma against killing oneself.

However, the GOOD thing about the Japanese is that they take responsibilities like it is their very own lives. Hence, the suicides.

Can anyone by the Pasig beat that?

IBA-IBA

WHATEVER it is, people in government are supposed to serve.
Here, there, and everywhere.
The only difference is the way these politicians face problems when they are found out.

TAKE a look at this news:

Agriculture minister Matsuoka dies after committing suicide

Japan's agriculture minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka has died after apparently committing suicide by hanging. Government sources say wills were found in his room.
Shortly after noon on Monday, Mr Matsuoka's secretary and a security guard found that Mr Matsuoka had hanged himself in his room at a residence for lawmakers in central Tokyo.

Mr Matsuoka was unconscious and in critical condition. He was rushed to a hospital but pronounced dead at 2 p.m.

Tokyo police say Mr Matsuoka was in the room alone after meeting with his secretary at around 10 a.m. The secretary went into the room to look for Mr Matsuoka because he had failed to appear outside.

Police say Mr Matsuoka hanged himself by hooking a rope on the metal part of a door in his living room. They say he was in his sleepwear.

The agriculture ministry says Mr Matsuoka was supposed to attend an Upper House committee meeting on Monday afternoon to answer questions regarding alleged bid-rigging by a government-related agency.

Mr Matsuoka was first elected to Japan's Lower House in 1990 and is in his 6th term.

Mr Matsuoka was appointed to a Cabinet post for the first time as agricultural minister when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office last September.

But in recent months Mr Matsuoka has been under fire for huge amounts of water and electricity costs claimed by his fund management group although such costs are free at the office, which is housed in a government building.

Mr Matsuoka has refused to disclose the details of the expenses and has repeatedly told Parliament that he has been reporting the expenses appropriately.

Mr Matsuoka was also recently found to have accepted donations from contractors implicated in bid-rigging over projects commissioned by an agency affiliated with the farm ministry.

THIS came after some investigations regarding the bloating bills, and some bid-rigging. He chose the easiest way out. He wasn't able to attend the next hearing at the Diet, investigating him for padding expenses.

THIS is the same the world over. The investigation, I mean.
People in government who continue to make money out of government projects and/or expenditures do so because they feel it is part and parcel of being in government.
Nikita Krushev even said:

Politicians are the same all over. Some promise to build bridges even where there are no rivers.

...Which is contrary to the very label they have: PUBLIC SERVANTs!


THE news reminds me of the usual happening in Inang Bayan.
But then again, politicians in our country are made of a sturdier stuff:
makapal ang mukz.

HERE, when one is faced with his wrongdoings, they 'feel' it and thus, make every necessary move to make amends. A great number take the final trip: commit suicide to avoid the stigma attached to their names. Yun nga lang, the family are bereaved twice over: they will forever be shamed of the father's "legacy". Marami pa ring manipis dito.

PINOY TRAPOs are made of sturdier stuff: makapal....
They wouldn't do that, would they? Kung baga, pakapalan talaga. Palakasan ng apog, sabi nga!

SOME go away for a while: Look at JocJoc...the friend of gloria's husband. He left the country and transferred from one country to another only to land in mainland USA
and was apprehended.... Ewan ko, kung ano na ang nangyari!

AND.....don't forget GARCI. He was nowhere to be found when he was being investigated and surfaced only when he knew he'd be safe. SANABAWITZ!

A great number of TRAPOs even flaunt their riches: Look at Imelda. She acts as if she is God's gift to Pilipinas! ...and Gloria who dared mouth that she received Divine Blessings.

Simply unbelibabol!

IBA-IBA TALAGA ANG DATING SA BAWA'T BANSA:
NGUMINGISING MAKAPAL, MAY MANIPIS, KUNG BAGA.
MAYROONG MAY KONSIYENSIYA, MERON DING WALA!
DEPENDE NGA, KAIBIGAN, SA KUNG SINO ANG MAY DALA.

LIAR! LIAR!

The election is almost over, with Lanao and Maguindanao about to be counted....

and here we are, fed with more lies!

Who would dare do that, except the master liar herself,

the one they call President....

the one who cheated her way to Malacanang.

The signs are there:
*The snail-paced counting, the manipulation of numbers, thanks to the Comelec Chair and Malacanang lapdog;
*the use of the military to intimidate, manipulate the masses and articulate their presence as mere 'helping the poor' .....as well as
*the machinery that spent billions of pesos from....you guessed it right!...from the coffers of the People of this Nation.

Who in his/her right mind wouldn't notice?

The signs are clear. It tells us the people, who lied and who is lying, still.

While the Nation awaits the proclamation of the winners in the Upper House, the Lower House assured the power-grabber of their strength in numbers.

And the people will have to endure the next three years [or is it more?] of gloria's lies!

Masaka!

KANDIDATONG NATALO!

Popular Text-message sa Pinas.
It made my day, and I wanna share the chance to laugh
in the midst of all these news that there is a replay of
cheating in Inang bayan.

Enjoy!

Si Chavit.... sumaVIT.

Si Pichay, pinulot sa Kangkungan.

Si Sotto, naBULAGA!

Si Pacquiao, na-Knock Out!

Si Oreta, Na-boom tarat tarat!

Si Montano, na-outSHINE!

Si Defensor, napuTOL!

Si Lito Lapid, BINAYout!

Si Goma, na-FLAT!

BAGONG UMAGA?

TILA NAGBABAGO ang ihip ng hangin sa Bayan sa Silangan.

NAGKAROON NG "milagro ng Bayan" sa Pampanga mismo, ang lalawigang sinasabing `Bailiwick' daw ni gloria. Si Fr. Ed Panlilio, na kilala sa tawag na 'Among Ed'sa kanyang parokya, ay nanalo bilang Gobernador. Ang kanyang panalo, laban sa mga bigwigs sa Pamapanga ay laban sa tinatawag nilang "Quarry King" at 'Jueteng Queen'. Maliban doon, ang kalaban ay may makinarya, ...ibig sabihin, pera at nakasandal sa bato. Alam ng lahat na ang mga natalong kandidato at kinikilalang "malapit" sa nakaupo sa may Pasig. Bilang isang `neophyte' sa politika, nakatulong nang malaki ang mamamayang nagbantay sa bilangan. Naisip ko tuloy, marahil, nagsawa na sa kurakot sa paligid nila ang mga taga Pamapanga.



NATALO RIN si pacman. Alam ng lahat na medyo lumaki ang ulo nitong si manny at pati pagsagot sa mgha tanong sa interviews eh, nakakasuyang pakinggan. Nag-endorso pa siya, ha? Halos lahat naman ng inindorso ni manny, talo rin. Natatawa akong mabasa ang isang text na ipinadala ng aking kamag-anak galing sa Maynila.



NATALO HALOS ang mga artistang kandidato, maliban sa iilan. Natpos na rin ang "maningning" na presensiya ng mga artista lalo na sa Senado. Halos wala nman kasing ginagawa ang mga ito...kaya nawalan na rin ng pasensiya ang mga tao.

KASAMA SA mga natalo ay sina Lito Lapid, bilang alkalde ng Makati. Ang lakas kasi ng loob kalabanin si Mayor Jejomar Binay. Talo sa lahat ng puwesto ang inilagay ng grupo ni gloria! OK!

MARAMI RIN ang nanghihinayang sa mga nawalang boto para kay ALAN PETER CAYETANO. Talagang halatang may nagmamanipula sa mga numero. May nasagasaang malaking isda ang Mambabatas kaya ganun. Halos sa lahat ng anggulo, may gulong hinahain para mapigilan ang pag-upo ni Alan sa Senado.

SA MINDANAO naman....marami pa ring milagro. Isipin na lang na si Chavit na taga Ilocos eh NUMBER 0NE sa Mindanao? Nasapawan pa niya sina Kiram, Pichay at Zubiri? Unbeliabol! Isang maling taktika na ginawa ng kung sinuman ang gumawa noon.

OO AT tila nagbago na ang isipan ng ating mga Kababayan sa pagboto. SALUDO po ako sa ating mga Filipino. Mapagtiis, nguni' kapag nagalit, tapos na ang maliligayang araw ng mga diktador.

NGUNI'T ANG SISTEMA ng pagboto sa ating Bansa ay dapat nang mapalitan. Gayundin ang mga nasa COMELEC na pinangungunahan ng isang taong wala ni katiting na kredibilidad. Gaya ng nag-appoint sa kanya, dapat na ring umalis si abalos bilang Chairman ng COMELEC. Halata ka na, Tatang, kaya 'ALIS D'YAN!'

MARUMI ANG politika. Kasabay nito ay panloloko sa Taumbayan. Harinawang mapalitan na ang mga bulok na politico at bulok na sistema.

TAPOS NA BA ANG BOKSING?

Eleksyon-2007 will be remembered,
in so many ways, as "special" in the history of Inang Bayan.

WHY is that?...one may ask.

It made people who have lost hope in our electoral process
to choose leaders in our country to trust again,
as long as VIGILANCE is there.


I, for one, felt hopeless when people in my area
prepared their ballots and sent them
via express mails to the Embassy.
I thought, 'malaking dayaan na naman ang mangyayari.
Baka may humarang lang sa mga balotang ito,
sayang naman! ....I thought.

Thanks to people who never stopped being there*
looking after the concerns of Pinoys in this part of the world....
until all ballots were counted, canvassed and totalled
in the Land of the Rising Sun. Special mention to Ms.YukoTakei
who, despite her being a Japanese citizen has her heart cry for
Pilipinas, still!

Although the result ended up with Pangil-inan leading,
I must say that GO got the most numbers here. I had the impression that results tell us that
most electorates have matured in their choices.
They, too need to express their sentiments against
a regime that has been abusive since Day-1.

Another thing: the initial result from Metro-Manila have set the trend.
The opposition garnered most positions at stake in the area.
This is clear indication that our Kababayans have had enough
of mrs. pidal et al.

The same trend is reverberated in almost all areas in the country.
Even pakyaw is silent, a far cry from his smiling presence on
radio, TV and the papers.

And this is no joke:
manny was KO'd by a 90-pounder Darlene in Cotabato!
OK ito!

Same is true in Muntinlupa, where the young Biazon edged 'Dong' Puno
and put a 'Ding' on the latter's try for the lone district. Tapos ang laban!

So far, so good. Huwag lang magmilagro si hambalos, ayos!

Kudos to all who made watch the canvassing and the local counting of ballots.
Not only here, but in areas where their presence are needed:
especially those who risked lives and limbs to set the record straight:

Salamat Po!

THIS IS THE DAY!

YUP!....
THIS is the day when we can show the world

.that we are peaceful loving people;
..that we have the mind and the guts to eradicate rampant corruption in our Nation.
...that we will never allow dictators and regimes to flourish.
....that we shall guard our votes so that no one can ever steal those from us.
.....that we will not allow those creeps to steal our democratic way of life again!


GO and VOTE....

PARA SA INANG BAYAN!

PEKE

BABAHA AT UULAN
sa buong Bansa.

Ito ay hindi dahil sa tag-ulan na,
kundi bahagi at pakana ng mga desperado
sa rehimeng pidal.

BABAHA at UULAN ng PERA!
....yung nga lang, PEKE,
gaya ng pekeng presidente sa pekeng gobyerno
ng mag-asawang pidal at alipores.

00, peke ang pera!
Tig-limangdaang piso raw na pambayad sa mga botante!
Karamihan daw ay kahon-kahon ang dinala sa Kabisayaan
at sa Bandang Mindanao. Alam nila na hindi sila makakalusot
sa Kamaynilaan.

Bakit kailangang bumili ng boto?

Kasi alam nila na kung walang padulas,
tiyak na nag pagkatalo ng kanilang mga kandidato.

Umulan na rin daw ng pera noong 2004 Presidential Elections sa Cebu.
Di maikakaila na napakalaki {daw!} ng lamang ng boto ni gloria kay FPJ
sa lugar na ito. Ito ay ayon kay Osmena na siyang Campaign Manager ng
Genuine Opposition.

Isang tanong: SINO ang may kayang gumawa ng ganitong kabalbalan?
Isang Sagot: May duda pa ba diyan? Eh di yung CHEAT of ALL CHEATS!

sanabacheat!

POLITIK : PUTEK!

IBA TALAGA ang politika sa Inang Bayan.
Sandamakmak ang tumatakbo sa iba't ibang puwesto.

May pilay, may bungi, at meron ding duling.
Merong may kaya, meron ding waldas.
May mga pala, merong barko ang ka-sangga.
May matinik, may mashin-gan, at may maayos din naman.


MERONG HARI:
Hari ng boksing, Hari ng magnanakaw;
Hari ng jueteng, Hari ng Kidnap-for-Ransom;
Hari ng mga Disparecidos,Hari ng Carnapping!
Hari ng Goons, Hari ng Maton...
Hari ng Shabu, Hari ng Kotong!
En dont porget, meron ding Hari ng Bank Robbery!

Hey! Hey! Hey!


KUNG MAY Hari,
syempre, mawawala ba naman ang REYNA?

REYNA ng sinungaling, Reyna ng daya;
Reyna ng pangako, Reyna ng daldal;
Reyna ng ispreketek, Reyna ng Tsismis.
At huwag kalimutan, meron ding Reyna ng Jueteng!

Anak ng Pating!

Sari-sari, iba-iba
Diskarte dito, pangako doon.
May kumikindat, merong umiindak.
May umaawit, merong nagno-noted!

Whachamakulet!


BASTA ANG alam ko, kailangang bumoto,
Pumili nang tama, gamitin ang noo.
Hwag hayaang madaya, maloko na naman
Bantayan mabuti Yaring ating Bayan!

DAVID and GOLIATH

LIKE DAVID who dared fight the bold Goliath, the Genuine Opposition and other Kapatiran Candidates must be vigilant as far as the counting of the election returns is concerned. This is to ensure that all numbers are reported without fail, unchanged and untarnished on into the canvassing of votes.

THE LOWER level, that is, the first stage of counting in the Precinct Level isn't much the problem. I have had the chance to witness first-hand the counting/canvassing of votes there so many times in the past. These teachers, especially in Manila are really doing their jobs. These teachers are always at risk to finish their duties as members of the election precinct they are assigned to, although no one seems to care.

THE BIGGEST cheat could be in the transmission of digits from the Provincial, Municipal Level on to the National Level. This can very well be manipulated by the hands of the devil as was done in previous elections.

TAKE THE canvassing of the February election in the last days of the marcos regime. Remember the walkout of those brave souls who can no longer stomach the rampant and aggressive cheating done by the dictator's henchmen? We need honest men and women like them who can stand on their own and call white white, and define black black! We do not need crocodiles in our midst. No need for a 'Hello garci' repeat!

PEOPLE MUST never lose their faith in the Filipinos. Never say die! There are still millions out there who want change now. Let us all change the deteriorating Pinoy image with something we can be proud of. There are Pinays all over the world who feel they must work elsewhere because of the current situation in the country.

MY LOLO often wonder why we can't change arroyo. He and others like him are aware of the situation in Inang Bayan. Apparently, Pilipinas is being monitored by the international community. One would wonder why there are always international `observers' every time we conduct elections. Can you guess why?

BE A DAVID against the daunting GOLIATH of this regime. They can have the machinery: the guns, the goons and the gold. The military men are ordered to cheat for the CHEATs! They use the people's money to run the election. Even the unconfirmed Secretary of Justice, that Gunggungzales has been saying he'd give each Barangay Captain in Iloilo PP10,000. each if they can deliver a TUTA sweep there.

BUT AGAINST all odds, we can have the votes and the numbers we need to oust a well-entrenched corrupt TRAPOs here and now.

VOTE for conscience.

VOTE with your heart.

VOTE for the future.

VOTE clean!

GO and VOTE, Kababayans.....

Our country needs all of the Davids in us......

Don't let Inang Bayan down!

INTERVIEWS

Interviews bring out the best and the worse among people.

The same can be said with the interviews of candidates running for positions,
be it local or national level.

Some grab these opportunities gratis-et-amore. These may be the candidates whom journalists believe to be good choices for the position.

Some well-oiled ones dole out ' payolas ' to please the journalists who are potential backers in broadsheets and tabloids.

Remember, media still plays a major factor for all candidates, big or small.

Common answers are basically similar, in tone and content.
Take this one: "I have big dreams for this province."-so says Christopher de Leon, a neophyte who is running for Vice-Governor of Batangas.


Yes, it's true.... I have always admired de Leon for his roles in the movies. He can deliver his lines well and "pang-Famas talaga!" But I don't buy all the crap that he says.

Same goes with other candidates. There's manny pacquiao saying that he was promised by no less than gloria to get everything he wants for the people of GenSan! Knowing gloria as a "USER" of people in every way she can, who'd believe her? Only manny and his simple mind. What does he know about legislation? Does he know filing a Bill from listening to that bell so he can rest in-between rounds?

Everything they say and do are practiced prodded by their image-makers. Most are rehearsed....or there are idiot boards so they won't get get lost on answers whose Qs have been earlier distributed among the attendees.

Some come out 'orocan' or kung classy, Tupperwares'...if you know what I mean. Remember that woman who lied and lied then one day came out with the 'I....am....sorry' stuff? Did anyone believe her? I doubt it. That one turned out to be a comedy, pramis! It was spoofed by almost everyone I know......


TRA-POs are like that: they have BIG "DREAMS" for this and that, and all boils to the personal 'dreams' of these politicos.

It's good if they fulfill those 'dreams' for the sake of their countrymen. But a hundred percent of them fulfill their own...only! A couple of years into their tenure and one can see "the difference" in their lifestyle. New houses, numerous cars, private helis, planes, even! And acquisition of multiple-digit bank accounts in the Bahamas and somewhere near the Lake in the Alps, not to mention a string of queridas waiting at plush mansions here and abroad.

To think that what they are stealing are the taxes we pay makes me real angry!

Madapaka-sana!

ISANG LINGGO NA LANG!

OO nga, isang Linggo na lang,
Tapos na ang Boksing!

Sabi namn ng iba,
tapos na talaga!

Alin nga ba?

Tapos na ang makinarya ng rehimeng mapaniil?

O tapos na dahil desidido na sa isipan ng Bayan
na burahin ang mga mapang-api?

Paalala ay mahalaga:

ISIPING MABUTI:
SINO ba ang aking iboboto?

Matino ba ito?

O may sukbit na baril para mamaril?

Holdaper ba ng Pera ng Bayan?

Matino ang Pinoy.

Yan ang alam ko.

Hindi ipagbibili yaring kanyang boto.

GO and VOTE from your heart!

PULSO NG BAYAN

Naglibot ako sa mga Botante rito.
Sumilip din ako sa mga blog sa internet.
Kung baga, nakikibalita, nakikipagtalakayan
tungkol sa nais ng ating Kababayan.

Napagtanto ko, sukang-suka na sila.
Ganun din naman ang aking abang isipan.
Ayaw ko sa masama, ayoko ng kurakot!
Dapat alisin na, kalakarang TRA-PO!

Sari-sari ang bumubuo, iba-ibang kulay:
May sinungaling, may bugot,mayroong nangangako.
Maraming asawa, may kabit ang iba!
Kawawang pamilya, Bayan din nagmumura!

Sa gitna ng lahat mayroon ding matino:
Makabayang tunay, pagkatao'y sinasanto.
Ito ang piliin nang maahon na tayo
Sa kahirapang buhat sa korapsyong arroyo.

Pulso ko, Pulso Mo, alin nga ba rito?
Piliin na natin Kandidatong hindi loko.
Isiping mabuti bago isulat:
Pangalang may tatak iwasang ilapat.

May sabit, may sukbit, may starlet na bitbit!
Alisin, iwasan, pagka't ito'y kurakot lamang.
Tingnan ang malaya, matino at masinop
Sapagka't kasabay nito'y Takot sa May Lalang.


Mga Kababayan, eto na ang pangalan
Baka sakaling maisama sa inyong listahan:
Bagama't wala ako sa Bayang Sinilangan,
Puso ko'y nasa Pilipinas, Bayan Kong Mahal.


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LISTAHAN KO*

1. AQUINO, Benigno III
2. BAUTISTA, Martin
3. CAYETANO, Peter Alan
4. ESCUDERO, Francis
5. LACSON, Panfilo
6. LEGARDA, Loren
7. PAREDES, Zosimo II
8. PIMENTEL, Aquilino III
9. ROCO, Sonia
10.SISON, Adrian
11.TRILLANES, Antonio IV
12.VILLAR, Manuel


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PartyLIST:

Napakarami kasi, kaya iisipin ko pa.
Pero narito po ang aking mga nasa listahan:

Akbayan
Gabriela
PEP Coalition
Akapin
A Teacher

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GO and VOTE!
PARA SA BAYAN!

TURN AROUND

ANO BA talaga?

UNA, sinuspinde [for the second time!] si Mayor Jejomar Binay ng DILG dahil daw sa napakaraming kaso na isinampa ng kalaban niya sa pulitika sa Makati.

Ngayon lumabas naman ang utos na ipagpaliban muna ang suspension makalipas ang election period!

Nagbago ng desisyon.

Atras-abante!

Baka natauhan ang mga galamay.O yung may pakana ng lahat ng nangyayari sa rehimeng srroyo?

Sa pagkakaalam ko, bawal ang suspension sa panahon ng eleksyon. Bawal ding maglipatng puwesto, o kaya'y mag-hire ng bagong kawani sa gobyerno.

Dapat alam ng mga taga-DILG yan.

Nguni't tila walang kaalam-alam sa Batas ang mga Gunggung na nasa Gabinete ni glue. Yung unconfirmed 'Justice' Sec na lang, eh....palaging ginagawang circus ang Batas, eh...yun pa kayang nasa DILG?

Baka naman itong si Puno eh, "iba" ang pinagkakaabalahan kaya ganun at huli na ang kanyang desisyon sa bagay na dapat ay una pa lamang napagtuunan na ng kanyang opisina.

O baka nagbago na naman ang takbo ng utak ng manipulador ng gobyerno? Hindi maikakaila na ilang ulit nang atras-abante ang kalakaran sa rehimeng ito!

Ehem! Pakiayos naman ang mga kilos, nang walang mabuking, mga Ginoo!

AYAW ng Pinoy ng ganyang walang isang salita.

Kayo rin!

BALITANG PINAS

Samu't sari ang balita sa internet at sa major dailies sa Inang Bayan.
Nakakatawa ang iba, nakakalunos naman ang karamihan at ang iba ay naghahatid ng desperasyon ng alagad ni gloria tungkol sa nalalapit na halalan.


NAKAKATAWA: Ito yung reklamo ni Manuel Pacquiao. Sabi ng kampo ni pacman 20Milyong piso daw ang halaga sa pagpatay sa kanya na iniutos diumano ng kalaban niya na si incumbent Rep. Darlene Custodio. HU=DAS he think he is, anyway? Akala yata niya malakas na siya sa GenSan. Kapalan lang yan, di ba, manny?

Hindi ko alam kung anong klase nga itong takbo ng utak ng boksingero. Kaya raw siya tatakbo sa GenSan, eh nangako itong si glue na ibibigay sa kanya ang bawa't hilingin niya para sa kanyang bayan. Hindi ba alam ni manny kung ano ang salitang pangako para kay glue? Alam ng lahat na walang isang salita itong si glue. Pangako'y laging napapako! Isa pa, hindi ba alam ni manny na ang lehislatura eh iba at hiwalay sa ehekutibo? Anak ng pating na nagkaduling-duling! Puwede ba, manny, mag-aral ka muna!
O kaya naman, mag-boksing ka na lang! Tutal, doon ka magaling. Sabi nga: Enhance your asset, cover your liabilities. Kung bibe ka, lumangoy ka na lang! Kung ibon ka, lumipad ka!


NAKAKATAKOT: Mga patayan, barilan at kidnapan naman.Walang alam ang mga kamag-anak sa pagkawala ni JayJay Burgos.Taga-Bulacan daw itong batang Burgos. Ganundin ang barilan sa kampo ni Villanueva sa Bulacan.

Ganun na pala kagulo sa Bulacan? Akala ko pa naman, dahil sa malapit ito sa Kamynilaan, eh walang ganyang mangyayari.

OO at alam ng lahat na magulo sa Masbate, dahil sa mga hired goons ng mga politico doon. Ranchero style baga. Halos lahat, may dalang baril. Kaya marami raw NPA doon!
Ganundin naman sa bandang Norte. Kadaming mga hustlers...lalo na yung may mga sabit!

DESPERADO

1. DESPERADO na nga ba si hoNASAN ? Aba'y nakipagkita ang balitang fugitive ng mga coup d`etat sa panahon ni dating President Cory kay glue sa Malacanang. Anong dahilan ng isang hinuli ng kapulisan na makipagkita sa pretender? Para ano? My goodness naman, oo. Ginagawa pang tanga ang lahat ng taumbayan!

ISA PA, wala namng nagawa sa Senado itong si hoNASAN nung nasa mataas na kapulungan siya, db? Tagamasid...taga-tanggap ng pork barrel, taga-plano ng kalokohan! I will never vote for any man/woman who do not do his work well! Sayang ang boto kapag ito ang pinili ninyo!

2. DESPERADO na nga ba ang rehimeng arroyo at sinuspinde ang Alkalde ng Makati na si JEJOMAR BINAY? "Wrong timing!" sabi ni joker....ta[N]ga administraston TUTA yan, ha? Ganun din ang sinabi ni pitchay [kahit na ayokong itanim siya sa senado]. TUTA rin yan! Sabagay, OK naman kay Mayor Binay kasi nga, Pinoys Love the Underdog...NOT the DOG!

I always think that Binay has the upperhand in everything as far as Makati and its constituents are concerned. No comparison kay lito lapid, isang capampangan at isang tagamasid sa Senado. Tagamasid, [buti nga, hindi tangamasid...nakatanga lang, na nakatingin!] kasi wala namang nagawa ang "senador" na ito sa kanyang 3 taon sa senado. Chairman nga siya ng Silent Committee sa Senado eh.

I hope and pray that MAYOR JEJOMAR BINAY WIN and win big...para ma-supla naman ang kahangalan ng nasa maling upuan sa may Pasig.

3. DESPERADO na nga ang rehimeng ito ni arroyo. Kahit anong paraan gagawin, mapanatili lamang ang kanilang clout o lakas sa Kongreso. Aba'y biglang nagkaroon ng mga kabuti sa PartyList Groups! Nandun ang grupo ni palparan....at iba pang kahina-hinala ang mga pinanggalingan! Mabuting i-check muna sa B & W Movement List sa http://blacknwhite-movement.com/alpha/index.php para sa kumpletong listahan. Mahirap nang magoyo na naman ng mga peke. Naglipana ang mga peke sa buong Bansa!

Mga Kababayan:

BUMOTO nang TAMA.

BUMOTO nanag MAAYOS!

GO and VOTE!

PARA SA INANG BAYAN!

Open Letter of Sen. JOVITO SALONGA to gma

May 1, 2007



President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Malacañang Palace, Manila



Your Excellency:



Election Day, May 14, 2007, is less than two weeks from today. On behalf of the Trustees and Officers of Kilosbayan and Bantay Katarungan, we are humbly and respectfully sending this Open Letter to you in the hope it will serve all Filipinos for the common good.



Our Trustees are non-partisan and independent. Almost all are senior citizens. Some were in the Government years ago, but while they have retired from serving the Government, they have not retired from serving our people. All of us receive no compensation or allowance – we serve gratis et amore.



We believe we cannot keep quiet in the midst of the many problems that confront our people, as a result of massive poverty, endemic corruption, and worsening violence and criminality. The coming elections should be an occasion for national renewal, as in other democratic countries, but in our view, the way the May 14 elections are actually being conducted could make our problems worse than ever and lead to undesirable consequences.



The Administration has repeatedly assured our people that the coming elections will be honest, orderly, peaceful, and credible. Since majority of our people believe otherwise, immediate steps should now be taken by your Administration to regain the people's trust and confidence at this crucial hour. These steps include the following:



1. The Commission on Elections is supposed to be an independent, impartial, and competent Commission, worthy of the people's trust. But the Chairman of the COMELEC and at least two of his fellow Commissioners are seriously tainted because of their track record and their palpable bias in your favor. In fairness to others, Commissioners Romeo A. Brawner and Rene V. Sarmiento have earned public trust due to their meritorious performance. Commissioner Nicodemo T. Ferrer's trust rating is still undertain.



Madam President: You have the rare opportunity to do something positive by appointing a person of moral integrity, competence, and impartiality to the 7th and only vacancy in the COMELEC. But you have not done so. We respectfully and humbly urge you to do so even at this late hour, since it is certain many problems will confront the COMELEC immediately before, during, and long after the May 14, 2007 elections.



2. Many of our people, including the Trustees and Officers of Kilosbayan and Bantay Katarungan, cannot see any merit in deploying the military in the poor areas of Metro Manila up to and after the elections. Peace and order is the main responsibility of the National Police. The role of the military is to protect and defend our people in case of foreign invasion. But why the lack of regard for this basic distinction, unless – as keen observers believe – your Administration has a wrong, horrible agenda in mind?
3. We bear no personal grudge against Chief of Staff Hermogenes Esperon, who has been linked with the dishonest elections in Southern Mindanao. Whether correct or not, the poll surveys show that he has the lowest trust rating among your distrusted allies and subordinates. We recall a similar figure during the last days of Marcos before EDSA I – Chief of Staff General Fabian Ver. As Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, there is a lot you can do to avert a similar social upheaval. We respectfully urge you to do so as soon as possible.
4. The broadcast and print media have just reported that you have asked the AFP and PNP to stop the election-related violence, which has already claimed 31 lives and many serious injuries of an undetermined number. The banner headline today is that the military, in line with your order, is setting up "more checkpoints nationwide." We recall that this was what Marcos also ordered in the 1969 elections, described by Newsweek and Time (November 24, 1969 and February 16, 1970) as the "dirtiest, most violent" and "most corrupt" in modern Filipino history. But even more violent and more corrupt was the February 7, 1986 election which culminated in the EDSA I People Power Revolution. We hope this kind of an election – violent and fraudulent – does not happen again, for your sake and for the sake of our suffering people.



Sincerely yours,

JOVITO R. SALONGA


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I hope gma listens...
but looking at her actions in the past 6 years....
well, well, well!

gma has turned to be more brutal than dictator marcos himself.
She has earned the distrust of Pinoys here and abroad by her actions
and pretentious stand on anything legal.

Stong Republic, she says....
I say Strong Military!

VOTE WISELY, will ya?

GO!

3 held over forging Fukui absentee ballots

From The Yomiuri Shimbun


A former senior Fukui city official and two others have been arrested on suspicion of violating the Public Offices Election Law by placing the name of a particular Fukui City Assembly election candidate on the absentee ballots of elderly nursing care facility residents, police said.

According to the police, the three are Shonen Biyama, 63, the former head of the Fukui city government's health and welfare division and former adviser to the facility; nurse Hiroko Sakai, 59; and dietitian Reiko Maeda, 38.

The three allegedly fabricated the ballots of elderly residents of the Silver Villa Iwai nursing care facility in the city and sent them on April 17.

About 100 people are registered as residents of the facility, with 74 of them found to have voted by absentee ballot.

After retiring from the city government in March 2004, Biyama had served as an adviser to the facility until late April.
(May. 1, 2007)

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Note:
FUKUI-ken is a prefecture in Honshu, the main and biggest island in Japan, northwest of Tokyo. It faces Japan Sea.

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READING this news made me think:

Mabuti pa sa Japan, nakikita ng awtoridad ang mga mandaraya.
Arestado pa yan, ha!?

Sa Bayang Sinilangan, ganun din kaya?

Sana, ano?

Sana!

WHY VOTE

It is the last day of April...
and two weeks from now, we will be choosing the next generation leaders of our beloved Inang Bayan.

This makes us stop and think: Who is the right choice? Who is not? Will my vote be counted? Will they cheat? What is going to happen?

Questions, questions! So many we cannot stop asking...

One intriguing question that hounds my consciousness is whether there will be a repeat of the last national election.

This has been triggered by the very fact that people by nature, want to win.
I do...Who wouldn't want to win, anyway?

But what makes us different from each other is the way we win.
Most, if not all cheat to get what they want. They want some things so much they'd do anything to get them. Same is true with the elections in Inang Bayan. This has been proven time and again, some discreet, and others blatant if we are to gauge the 2004 Presidential elections. Garci et al are still free...even running for position in his hometown, thanks to the clout the 'caller' has.

Still others, a small minority, e.g., win despite all odds they encounter.
Thanks to the people who support them and the vigilance they manifest from start to finish.

Barely two weeks from now, voters will troop to the polls and let their voices be heard. This is one glorious moment for our Kababayans to do our duty as citizens of this country. We have the privilege of choosing our leaders...those who will lead us to a better Pilipinas....NOT that corrupt, self-serving TRAditional POliticians
who run to gain clout on anything his hands can handle. These unsatiable lot must be fed to the crocs which they resemble.

The time is come to use that privilege.


"WHY WE MUST VOTE
"Enshrined in the constitution is my right to vote. Come election day, I will exercise that right. It is my duty to my country and obligation to my people that I keep the sanctity of the process. I will never relinquish this right as it is the great equalizer. I will vote lest I waste the right given to me. I implore everyone to use this right"
-from The Philippine ExperienceBlog


GO out and VOTE!

GO, man....

GO!

GO for INANG BAYAN!

I have reservations about some members of the GO Team....

But I have listed the following as my bets:


1.* ALAN PETER CAYETANO- OKs ito.Walang takot sumugod sa bato!
2.* Sonny TRILLANES- His Ideals I share
3.* Noynoy AQUINO- But of course!
4.* Manny VILLAR- OK naman ito. Taga-LasPinas pa!
5.* Sonia ROCO- dahil kay Raul, I will include her.
6.* Koko PIMENTEL- I hope he does the right path as he moves up the ladder.
7.* Loren LEGARDA- Hmm...medyo alanganin, pero, sige na nga!
8.* Chiz ESCUDERO- May koneksyon sa marcos regime ang pangalan, pero baka iba naman ito.
9.* Panfilo LACSON- actually, I have my reservations as far as his Metrocom days are
concerned, but due to his unwavering fight against corruption and his stand on
the Pork Barrel issue, I will vote for him.
10.*Nikki COSETENG- she is th last I want in the Senate, but since she is with GO..I'll GO!


I need two more: and joker isn't part of it!
This isn't a joke, you see!

Will update later......
cuz I am considering the three from KAPATIRAN, too!
Dr. Martin Bautista, Atty. Jess Sison and Atty. Zosimo Paredes.

ALAN PETER CAYETANO

I listened to some of the podcasts and was impressed with that interview on ALAN PETER CAYETANO. He sure knows his work. He reminds me of Ninoy Aquino's know-how and capacity to deliver. He is one man who says he is afraid of God. I believe in Cayetano and I hope he wins a seat in the Senate. The people need him there.

So many things have been said and done to Alan Peter Cayetano, but he is one person who knows what to do. He has earned the wrath of the husband of the one sitting in Malacanang for exposing some bank accounts owned by pidal et al in Germany.

But APC continues the fight, no matter what.

GO!

GO for ALAN PETER CAYETANO!

GO! my friends.....

GO! GO! GO!

GUNGGUNG

What's wrong with this unconfirmed Justice secretary, huh?
Seems to me, everything he does is wrong...right from the start.
Everytime he opens his sore mouth, rotten frogs begin to leap out!

Take this:

Imagine saying he'd give PP 10,000.oo to each Barangay Captain who can deliver a TUta senatorial sweep in their respective Barangays? And that the funds will come from his wife's pocket. Really, now?

And what does Comelec do?

OK lang daw, sabi ni hambalos! Tutal, sariling pera naman ang gagamitin!
Come on, guys!

You can fool some people some of the time....
But no way can you fool ALL Pinoys ALL the time, man!

Malacanang confirmed albeit hesitantly that million in funds were released...but denies that they are being used to push the election bid of dato in Bicol....or any other Malacanang cohort.

Naman, naman!
Para kayong nakakaloko niyan, ha?

Wala na talagang pag-asa na magkakaroon tayo ng malinis na eleksyon kapag si Hambalos ang nakaupo sa Comelec. Nagiging COME-COLLECT na lang ito. Gone were the days when Christian Monsod manned clean elections as COMELEC head.

This makes me lose respect and trust in the voting system in Inang bayan.
Some OVs said they expect a repeat of the 2004 Presidential Elections. Hence there is a low turnout of voters, especially in vote-rich places abroad. A neighbor says she doesn't feel like posting her Election Kit...."baka ma-"garcified" lang, 100 %."

What now, Inang Bayan? [*sigh*]

MIGRANTE EXPOSE`

MIGRANTE International exposed a smoking gun about that confidential Malacanang Memorandum to Mrs. gloria macapagal arroyo asking for money from her confidential funds to finance pro-administration party-list groups. The memo was supposedly signed by Ass-Sec Marcelo FarinasII...who, as expected, has denied that the said signature was his.

May aamin ba? May umamin na ba sa kanila? Even in the midst of clear evidence presented, gloria and her cohorts never admitted anything, did they now? DENY is the word. Everything gloria wants, gloria gets and when discovered, all they do is deny. She has earned not only the nick Mrs. pidal and now Denial Queen is more likely to be added to her numerous 'glories.'

Besides,
THE COMELEC should not hesitate about the party-list groups thing. They must act and act ASAP. The people are waiting. It seems that the people in COMELEC are taking their time to do their act. Why? Waiting for some calls to "garcify" something?

The Comelec should not hide behind technicalities and show its true colors. In view of the general public distrust of the poll body, it should try to recover its credibility by immediately disqualifying the four party-list groups identified in the memorandum. They are

=Agbiag! Timpuyog Ilocano (Agbiag),
=Babae Para sa Kaunlaran (Babae Ka),
=League of Youth for Peace and Development (Lypad), and
=Kalahi Advocates for Overseas Filipinos (Kalahi).

The Comelec doesn`t need any more evidence. The sudden surge of party-list organizations seeking accreditation and the motive of the administration to have more congressmen on its side and prevent GMA's impeachment are convincing evidence.

NOTICE, NOTICES, NOTICING......

After wrapping up its own probe, a Japanese non-government organization (NGO) joined calls to the Arroyo administration to end extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances.

Tokyo-based Human Rights Now (HRN) also called on the Japanese government to rethink its policy of granting Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) to the Philippines.

"To date, the Japanese government has moral obligation to promote the protection of basic human rights in the recipient country, as stated in the existing principles in Japan’s ODA Charter. As stipulated in the four principles of ODA implementation, ‘full attention should be paid to efforts for promoting democratization ... and the situation regarding the protection of basic human rights and freedoms to the recipient country," it said in a statement posted on the Stop the Killings in the Philippines website (www.stopthekillings.org) Sunday.

HRN also said it will meet with UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston on this matter in Tokyo this May and “raise awareness of this grave human rights violation both Japanese and International society."

It noted the Japanese prime minister formally expressed "the great concern among the Japanese on the human rights situation in the Philippines" to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on Dec. 9 last year.

Yet, it said the two governments may sign the Exchange of Notes of the 27th Yen loan Package on the occasion of President Arroyo’s coming visit to Japan this May.

"We overstate that unconditional provision of its ODA loan to the Philippines under this situation may send misleading message to the Philippine government that Japanese government endorse or condone the human rights policy of the government. ODA must not have any impact against human security, peace, stability and human rights. We call upon the Japanese government to suspend the Yen loan agreement up until it recognizes the human rights situation and accountability mechanism has clearly improved," it said.

HRN, which conducted its fact-finding mission on killings and enforced disappearances in the Philippines last April 14 to 21, also sought a "thorough criminal investigation on the all cases of alleged extra-judicial killing and enforced disappearance."

"We call upon the Philippine government to immediately stop the policy targeting civilian organization and individual activists," it said.

The HRN also urged the Japanese government to keep monitoring the human rights situation and accountability mechanism in the Philippines, and conduct constructive dialogue on human rights with the Philippine government.

It sought as well efforts to raise the awareness on the situation within international community through stating the issue before the UN Human Rights Council.

"As Asian friend, Japanese civil society is very concerned the fact that substantial numbers of Filipino people have targeted of extra-judicial killing and enforced disappearance," HRN said.

HRN said it got cooperation from the government and from militant human rights group Karapatan during its fact-finding mission.

OTHER nations and groups worldwide have likewise started to notice. A great number have delivered their protests and specified that action be taken to stop these political persecutions.

BUT the power-grabber in Malacanang continue to ignore these calls. She and her husband remain deaf to the people's pleas for humane and just treatment.
Libel cases have been hurled here-and-there by the husband. Disparecidos are mounting.....while Jueteng and other games continue to flourish not only in the cities but mostly in the countryside.

NO CONCRETE PLAN. NO CONCRETE ACTION.
Just plain and simple enjoying their stay while in power.

WHEN WILL this regime stop?
.When all Pinoys have been maimed for life?
..When all have lost their hopes?
...When everyone else leaves the country to slave themselves to a foreign land?
....When everyone exists like robots in a land that treats them as second-class citizens?

KAILAN, BAYAN?

KAILAN?

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FOR SONNY-and-a BETTER PILIPINAS

HOW LONG has gloria been in office as "president" of this '[s]T[r]ong-Republic'? Five?...Six? Oh what the heck! Just leave us alone, glue!

ALL these years, we have been promised a "strong republic"...Strong, ei?
Strong my foot! If this is strong, then tell me what strong means....I do not have any inkling as to what dictionary she may be using.

The past years have seen witness to the numerous killings of journalists who dared write the truth. Slapped with numerous libel cases, the 'bitter-half of gloria...the supposed-to-be first "gentleman" hurled them all especially those who magnified his gallivanting nature to media. Added to that, anyone who dared go aginst gloria-policies are called communists! Then there's this lapdog gonggongzales mumbling inanities, oftentimes on the brink of insanity, mking a mockery of himself and the Justice Department. JUSTICE? JUST TIIS is more appropriate.


The Filipinos have been ruined. Pilipinas have been in the dark for so many years, it is even worse than what we had during the Conjugal dictatorship. At least then, we knew we were under Martial Law. With gloria, she professes we have a "strong" republic!

WHEN are we going to get out of this rut?

OUR CHANCE...in fact, OUR ONLY CHANCE
is to vote for people we know who have clean slates on everything.

THIS is for SONNY TRILLANES....

Vote for him....

KAY TRILLANES,
BAYAN AY MALINIS!

I, for one, will GO for TRILLANES

along with the entire GO candidates.

WE need change, man!

OVERSEAS ABSENTEE VOTING

FOR THE PAST FEW WEEKS after Easter,
I guess I haven't really been writing my thoughts. A lot of things remained muddled in my mind. One of them is the Election Kit received by an acquaintance here in this place I now call `home.'

You see, she got a mail from the Comelec with this address:Palacio del Gobernador, Intramuros, Manila. Inside the Kit [which she showed me, she who had always relied on my opinion having no knowledge of these things, she professes]

I found the following:

*Official Ballot

*Inner Envelope [Red Print]

*OAVF No.45-Outer Envelope [Black Print]-the Voter had to provide the stamp.

*Certified List of Candidates For Senators - 37 names were listed in all.

Note: Peter AlanS.Cayetano had 2 asterisks on it, and Joselito's had 3 asterisks

*Certified List of Sectortal Parties/Organizations/Political Parties/Coalitions participating in the party-list system for the May 14,2007 elections: 93 groups were listed...

*Instructions To Voters [Voting By Mail] which was written in both English and Pilipino.


What caught my attention was that the instruction said that no mark must be left on the ballot lest it be rendered invalid.

YET.....I found the Official Ballot itself marked with luminous pink and glaring yellow droplets we often use to highlight reading materials. And there were 5 yellow ones, and one pink-reddish one. What struck me was it penetrates through the other side of the paper!

IS THIS MARK "OFFICIAL" or not?

Because if it isn't, then the Voter here is afraid her Ballot may be rendered invalid...following the instruction from the Comelec I mentioned above.

OR is this the way to make things "nice-and-easy" for the Machinery to do what it wills?

Questions remain whether Overseas Voters' Ballots were even counted in the 2004 Presidential Elections. And now, this!

Isn't it any wonder why there seems to be a "low" Overseas voters' turnout as reported in the media?

I am just wondering......

"The time is ripe for Filipinos to make a decision."

The Armed Forces will support the people whichever side they will take. The military is bound to uphold its constitutional mandate as protector of the people and the state. That's the only principle that should be embraced by the military. That's the essence of the military…It's not to defend a particular person or a particular institution but to protect the people."



LtSG . Antonio Trillanes IV


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"Reason tells us that we must not waste our time waiting in vain for promises of felicity that ill never come, that will never materialize. Reason tells us that we must rely upon ourselves alone and never entrust our rights and our life to anyone else. Reason teaches us top be united in sentiment, thought and purpose, so that we may acquire the strength necessary to crush the evil that is affecting our people...



Therefore, o my countrymen! Let us scatter the mist that befogs our intellect, and let us consecrate all our strength to the good cause, with unshakable and absolute faith in its success, and in the ultimate prosperity, so anxiously desired by us, of the land of our birth."



Gat Andres Bonifacio


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"A revolution may be conducted against a national government, if such a government has abused the power placed at its disposal by the people, with the purpose of having injustice administered, by using this power to drown out the public voice and at the same time to administer to its own convenience or caprice...



Apolinario Mabini


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"Laws can embody standards; governments can enforce laws--but the final task is not a task for government. It is a task for each and every one of us. Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted--when we tolerate what we know to be wrong--when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy, or too frightened--when we fail to speak up and speak out--we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice."


Bobby Kennedy

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Thoughts Via Email From CyberFriend: "HAEL" of Makati

GUNS

When Nagasaki's mayor was gunned down, it was not much of a surprise that a gangster was arrested. In a country where regular citizens face strict gun laws, the mob does most of the shooting.

Itcho Ito, 61, died early Wednesday after being shot twice in the back Tuesday evening. Tetsuya Shiroo, a senior member of the top underworld syndicate, Yamaguchi-gumi, was captured at the scene and owned up to the assassination, police said.

"This murder, which took place in the middle of an election campaign, is a threat to democracy," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday. "Though Japanese law enforcement is already severe by international standards, we must clamp down on gun crime even further."

The killing -- reportedly linked to Shiroo's demands for city compensation for car damage caused by a pothole -- focused attention on the role of the yakuza in the country's rare shootings.

Of the 53 gun attacks reported in 2006, 36 were blamed on organized crime groups, the National Police Agency said.

Handguns are strictly banned. Only police and some others with job-related reasons can own them. Hunting rifles are strictly regulated.

But the mob has the money, numbers and international connections to run guns.

Even fellow gangsters seemed to think Shiroo had gone too far.

Motohisa Mizuta, leader of Suishin-kai -- Shiroo's Yamaguchi-gumi branch -- notified police Wednesday that the branch was disbanding, according to Nagasaki police official Koji Minami.

Minami gave no reason, but said Suishin-kai most likely "wanted to take responsibility" for the slaying.

Tuesday's attack came despite a sharp drop in shootings in recent years.

The number of reported gun attacks have plunged from 158 in 2002 -- with 70 percent blamed on yakuza -- to 53 last year.

The number of illegal guns seized by police dropped by nearly 40 percent from 2002 to 2006, when 458 firearms were seized.

Even gangsters prefer knives for mob hits, because gun murders typically carry heavier sentences. Instead, mobsters sometimes use guns for intimidation, for example shooting the outside of an office to warn those inside.

Still, public concern remains high amid a widely publicized turf war between Japan's two largest underworld gangs earlier this year. The feud ended a yearlong lull in gang violence.

The boss of a gang affiliated with Tokyo-based Sumiyoshi-kai was shot dead in February, in a killing believed to have prompted at least three more shootings at gangland headquarters in Tokyo.

"I want the law to protect the general public," said Shinichi Tada, a 44-year-old manufacturing company worker in Tokyo.

"I do not want Japan to be like the U.S.," he added, referring to Monday's massacre in Virginia Tech University, where a lone gunman killed 32 people and then himself.

Yakuza are typically involved in real estate and construction kickback schemes, extortion, gambling, the sex industry, drug-trafficking and gunrunning.

Noriyoshi Takemura, criminologist at Toin University in Yokohama, said tight weapons laws make Japan an attractive market for gunrunners.

"There are not many guns made in Japan. The tighter the control is, the higher the price goes up," he said.

Tuesday's attack appeared linked to a dispute between Shiroo and the city. Shiroo reportedly clashed with city officials in 2003 after his car was damaged when he drove into a hole at a public works site.

In a typical mob extortion attempt, he tried unsuccessfully to get compensation from the city after his insurer refused to pay, NHK said, adding that Shiroo intended to kill himself after shooting Ito.

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ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD, however.....
GUNS and possession of these items continue to rise at an alarming rate. It is said that even kids can own one. The lax in procurement of such deadly weapon makes America one of the world's most dangerous place, next to Iraq and Afgahnistan.
It is ironic, moreoever that the US remains one of the 5 world's heaviest suppliers of arms to Africa and other places where wars continue to kill millions....


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BWM blacklists Arroyos, 21 other admin bets in House

Twelve candidates and 12 party-list groups identified with the Arroyo adminis-tration were placed on the Congress blacklist by the Black and White Movement (BWM) on Tuesday.

The group during the launching of its “black list-white list” campaign at the Club Filipino in San Juan also named 12 individuals and 11 party-list organizations seeking congressional seats to support in the May 14 elections.

It, however, failed to include senatorial aspirants from either the opposition or the administration.

The Black and White Movement said the objective of the campaign would be to elect at least 79 individuals of “moral courage” in the House of Representatives who would exact accountability from the President for the unabated corruption, extra-judicial killings and the alleged cheating in 2004 through impeachment.

“It’s simple, we’ll vote and campaign for candidates in the white list and we’ll campaign against those in the black list,” it added.

Those who have been thumbed down by Black and White include Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo of Pampanga and Diosdado “Dato” Arroyo, sons of

President Arroyo; and Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo, the Chief Executive’s brother-in-law.

Also placed on the blacklist are world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao,

Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., former Commission on Elections Commissioner Virgilio “Garci” Garcillano, Representatives Luis Villafuerte Camarines Sur) , Matias Defensor (Quezon City), Renato Unico Camarines Norte), Raul Gonzalez Jr. (Iloilo City), incumbent Cagayan de Oro Vice Mayor Michelle Tagarda-Spiers; and Erwin Genuino, son of Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. Chairman Efraim Genuino.

The party-list groups banned by the group were Agbiag! Timpuyog Ilocano Inc., Akbay Pinoy, Aksa, Alagad, ALIF, APEC, AVE, Babae Ka, Bantay Bayan, Butil, COOP NATCCO and Kakusa.

The young Genuino is running for congressman against Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay’s daughter, Abigail, in the second district of the city while Spiers is running against former Cagayan de Oro Vice Mayor Tony Soriano.

The young Binay, Soriano, incumbent South Cotabato Rep. Darlene Antonino-Custodio, former Rep. Apolinario Lozada, former Dagupan Mayor Benjamin Lim, Danton Remoto, Liwayway Vinzons-Chato, Dr. Joey Montemayor, incumbent San Fernando Mayor Sabas Mabulo, Cholo Roco, Benjie Gengcos and Malou Acosta have been placed on the white list.

The 11 party-list organizations that the group is supporting include Akbayan, Anakpawis, AMIN, A Teacher, Bayan Muna, CIBAC, Gabriela, Kabataan, Partidong Manggagawa, Minero and Sanlakas.

The group said it would actively campaign for and against those on the lists through the Internet and its network of grassroots organizations.

Source: The Daily Tribune

MakatiDistrict2 Voters, consider this:

BLACK LIST
(Huwag Iboto)
Erwin Genuino
PARTY: Kampi
Bakit hindi dapat iboto:
PAGCOR Chairman. Kilalang malapit na kaibigan ni FG Mike Arroyo. Tiyak na hahadlang sa impeachment at isusulong ang charter change ni GMA.

WHITE LIST
(Dapat Iboto at i-Kampanya)
Abigail Binay
PARTY: GO
Bakit dapat iboto:
Anak ni Mayor Jojo Binay. Isang abugado at kilalang aktibista. Tiyak na maninindigan at susuporta sa impeachment.

Muntinlupa Voters, Consider this:

BLACK LIST
(Huwag Iboto)
Dong Puno
PARTY: Kampi
Bakit hindi dapat iboto:
TV host and journalist. Kapatid ni Ronnie Puno. Malamang na hahadlang sa impeachment.


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WHITE LIST
(Dapat Iboto at i-Kampanya)
Ruffy Biazon
PARTY: LP-Drilon /GO
Bakit dapat iboto:
Incumbent Congressman. Bumoto pabor sa impeachment ng 2005, abstain ng 2006. Malamang na maninindigan sa susunod na impeachment.

CONSIDER THIS:

The Black-n-White Movement has come up with a Black and White List.
The WHITE List is a list of candidates who the group recommend to voters,
while the Black one is a big N0-N0!

I have decided to post here the White List only.
I don't see the rationale behind printing the names of
those who I do not believe in, anyway.



WHITE LIST (Dapat Iboto at i-Kampanya)


Akbayan
Bayan Muna
Anak Pawis
Gabriela
Partidong Manggagawa
Kabataan
A Teacher
AMIN
Sanlakas
CIBAC
Minero

Please choose one from any of the listed Group above.

Thank You.

GLOOM BEFORE EASTER

TongueTwisted did it again!
Hee-Haw!

T2 posted this in Ellen's blog.
I find it true and ....
no doubt, exactly fits the present situation.
Read on....

Tignan ninyo ang pagkakapareho ng nakasulat sa Bibliya sa tunay na kaganapan ngayon,
mahigit dalawanglibong taon ang nakaraan ngunit tila kailan lang naitala.

Ang huling linggo ng Lent at nagsimula ng Domingo de Ramos at nagtatapos ng Sabado de Gloria.

Mula sa makapasok ni Kristo sa Jerusalem sakay ng humenta (mule)
at salubungin siya ng mga taong may dalang Ramos (palm leaves)
hanggang sa araw ng Sabado de Gloria, ang araw ng kawalan ng pag-asa,
paghihintay, pagkatakot, at pagdadalamhati,
lahat ng mga araw na iyon ay puno ng pighati, pagtataksil, kaguluhan at kasamaan.

May pagkaka-pareho pa ng mga pangalan ng ating mga pinuno.
Ang pitong araw ng Lent ba ay katulad ng pitong taong paghihirap ng ating bansa?

Sa Bibliya ay palaspas ang iwinagayway, sa EDSA, mga banner.
Bida ang mga taumbayan, naipagwagi raw nung araw na iyon ang pagpasok ng kabutihan.
Hossana, sigaw pa. Nagbunyi ang lahat. Pero hindi pa nagtatagal,
nagsimula nang sirain ng mga Escribas at Fariseos ang diwa nito,
natakot sila na ang kapangyarihan nila ay mawala dahil nakita na ang tunay na pinagmulan ng kapangyarihan,
baka mawala sa kamay ng iilang nakikinabang. Ang mga sumunod na araw ay nauwi sa panggigipit,
pang-aabuso, pagkulong, pagpapahirap hanggang sa tuluyang pagpatay.
Nandito na nga tayo ngayon sa Sabado de Gloria.

Magandang pangitain iyan dahil pagkatapos ng Sabado de Gloria, sigurado ang muling pagkabuhay.
Muling babangon sa pinagkasadlakan upang tuparin ang misyon sa lupa.
Ang pagbabalik sa kaayusan, kalayaan at tunay na kasaganaan.

Sa Pasko ng Pagkabuhay ay bagong pag-asa ang naghihintay para sa lahat.
Lalo na sa ating mga Pilipino. Isang aral din ang iniwan sa atin ng pasyon at buhay ng Tagapagligtas:
Hindi kayang pahirapan, saktan, patayin at pagkatapos ay ilibing ninuman ang katotohanan,
ang kabutihan, ang diwa tunay na makapangyarihan.
Ito’y babangong magmuli upang wakasan ang kasamaang pilit naghahari-harian
at ibalik ang tamang daan para sa matagumpay na paglalakbay.

Happy Easter to all.

Need I say more?

As for me,

I LOOK FORWARD TO THE EASTERs OF OUR LIVES!

Happy Easter, one and all!

MEMO

To: MamaPanDoc



PLEASE RELEASE THE FILIPINO PEOPLE

from oppression and killings,
from plundering the Nation's coffer,
from lying and cheating in the elections....
and from military takeover!

The Supreme Court ordered the release of Satur Ocampo
even if he is charged with a capital offense.
Your Certified Tuta, gunggunggonzALIS manipulated
every nook and cranny so that anyone who
go against the tide are branded a commie and
thus be arrested and "interrogated".
Some never came back home....
Some were never seen anymore.
A lot came back, lifeless...
forever maimed and shut out.
It was good and great that the Supreme Court,
the last vestige of Justice,
saw the Light and made things right.

There are many more languishing in jail,
for crimes, they themselves do not know of.
Imagine the families affected by your actions
....by your folly. They, too, have hearts that cry, just like you.
That is, IF indeed, you have a heart.

I hope that there remains...
even a faint glimpse of humanity in you.....

..........a heart that aches and cries everytime
something happens to a member of your family.
Most families do, you know...
more so now since you have been in Malacanang.

How long will this last?

How long will the People suffer?

Can you sleep at night?
Can you really, really say
that you can have a peaceful, undisturbed sleep?
Every single night?

Lastly, ARE YOU HAPPY?....Knowing that there are those
who hate and curse you to high heavens?
Are you?

Give this a thought this week, will ya?
Anyway, it's Maundy Thursday in Inang Bayan,
a time for reflection and repentance.
A time to correct what we have done wrong to anyone,
or in your case, to everyone!


From:
A Pinoy who has a heart that cries and
feels for those oppressed by your regime.

HOSTAGED

ALAM ng lahat na si ducat ay nang-HOSTAGE nung isang Linggo
ng isang bus na may lamang 32 kabataan......
[yung ibang news account 26 lang daw! Ano ngaba?!Pati
sinabing numero, mali-mali na!]
at 2 guro sa isang Day Care Center na si ducat mismo ang
may-ari.

Palabas man yun 0 pampa-PO-GI points ng mga buwaya,
naisip ko lang...

Ang TAUMBAYAN eh matagal nang naka-hostage sa kamay ng
mapanlinlang na MGA mandurugas.

Kasangga niya ang militar sa kayang maitim na balak.
Hayun at naka-deploy na naman sa Kamynilaan ang mga
troops na may dalang baril. Lisensiya nila ang pumatay,
laban sa mga rebelde at komunista raw

Kapag ang isang tao/mamamayan eh nagsalita nang salungat sa sinasabi
at dinedeklara ng Malacanang, siya ay babansagang Komunista!

Nakakatawa!

Nakakatawa ang mga kilos at salita nitong mandarayang sinungaling na ito.
Tuloy, hindi pa man nagsasalita, eh ayoko na siyang pakinggan!
Nakakasuyang pagmasdan ang kanyang mga appearances sa TV.
Para bang halos lahat na lang eh...put-up at arte na lang
para sa mata ng publiko.

Hanggang kailan tayo iho-hostage ng mag-asawang escandaloso
ay nasa sa Smabayanang Pilipino nakasalalay.
TAYO ang hawak ng ating kapalaran.
Tayo rin ang maghuhusga sa kasalanan ng
mga ibinoto ng Sambayanan.

Dasal ko na lang, sana, eh magwakas na ang lagim
na ihinasik ni gloria at ng kanyang kampon.
Harinawang magsisi na at ibalik sa Kaban
ang mga nakaw na Salapi ng Bayan!

Malapit na.

Sa Eleksyon:
Boto ay bantayan.
Iboto ang may malinis na pangalan.
Iboto ang matino at may pagmamahal sa Bayan.
Bantayan ang ating karapatan.
Huwag hayaang ma-garci na naman!

HUWAG NANG MAGPA-HOSTAGE!!!!
LABANAN ang kasamaan!


GO!

GO out and VOTE!

GO!

Devil with a toothy grin

"Hell is here.
ALL the devils are here."
-William Shakespeare


SEEMS true these days, huh?!
In Inang Bayan, I mean!


So, then....

WHO works for the devil?

Care to answer?

I think you know what I know.

These are the fat, cheating leeches
who care not for the people.
They just sit there and gallivant
in some European town and deposit our money!
All for the world to see!

Now look at those men in uniform
who makes people queasy:
How come the dark angels
keep "watching for the ...."
what was that again?
Rebels? Ahh.. Oh!
Well, OK!
Anyway........
Rebels in the slums of MetroManila?
How come?
Oh, I see, government agents are
saying that the rebels have invaded
the slums, huh?

Some say the devil is a wacko.
She doodles, and diddles
and say strange words
most of the time...

I won't be surprised.
She has done that so many times.
One day she promises this...
then make a turn-around the next day!

Liar? Yes!
Wacko? Yes!
Schizo? Yes!
Crazy? Yes!
Devil? Most say so!

I just hope that a double whammy
happen to stop the devil and da esposo
from doing more harm to Inang Bayan
and squeeze more blood from its burdened people.


A----S----A----P!

JUST DO IT!

VOTERS MUST!

"All that is necessary for
the forces of evil to win in this world
is for enough good men to do nothing!".
=W.Burke


Like it or not, the evil forces are here....
right under our very noses. And the only way to
stop them from further looting our country is
for the Pinoy voters, in and out of the country
to UNITE and choose from the heart.

OUR voice can be heard worldwide.
Use our pen and make a difference!

First, choose your candidate:
:We know that those candidates who dance, sing,
and bring sexy dancers with them are big N0-NOs!
They just want the audience to feast their eyes
on the flesh parading onstage, and when elected...
they'll gobble the money and stash them on their
European bank accounts.

Never choose those who are known goons,
or gamblers...even womanizers!
You may tolerate tham now, but there will
come a time when all these things will become
intolerable.

Choose candidates with character: those who
are their own man and can stand the test of time.
Not that BAD character, Kaibigan....not that one.
One who is not easily corruptible, and whose heart lies
with the people...the MASA.....
the Common Tao!
Even when no one is looking, these people must have done
something sans the kleig lights and the write-ups done
by "envelopmental journalists" who receive regular payolas
from their candidates.

Choose one who knows what he is doing:
one who has the training, the know-how
on Legislation: for those who are running for Senators,
or those in the lower Chamber of the House....
and those in the Local Council;
Management when running for Mayors, or Governors.

I know, I know....
Things can easily be learned,
but without proper training, a surgeon cannot
operate, can he? Nor can anyone just make a building
without an architect to guide the carpenters to make
that building safe.

Choose a candidate who has VISION: a vision he has
for the COUNTRY he is serving.
Otherwise, that candidate is just up for grabs for the
highest bidder and for the highest grease money.

Finally, GUARD your Vote.
Never again must the Nation be robbed of its
free-will similar to that "Hello-Garci" incident
when glue a.k.a. Mama PanDok said sorry on nationwide
television! Remember?
My take is: why say sorry if you really, really have
not done anything wrong, ei?

Geez....the truth is written all over,
and yet, the officials she appointed looked the other way!

And....

don't forget:

Go OUT and VOTE!

Let's all do it!

...."For that time has come
to fulfill each vow.....
for I may never pass this way again!"



Mabuhay ang Sambayanang Pilipino!!