Filed under: news, opinion | Tags: Bishops, Impeacment, Iniguez, November 30, Tobias
They say they’re open to extra-legal means. I say so what?
Two Catholic Church leaders are open to “extra-legal” means to oust President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and are hoping that a mass protest at the end of the month would lead to a “bigger action.”
Bishops Antonio Tobias and Deogracias Iniguez, Arroyo’s staunch critics, asked the people to show their disgust over recent events and hoped that the November 30 protest at the Balintawak Monument could lead to a people power.
I mean, why should we care what these two publicity hungry prelates think is acceptable?
News flash for these losers: they’re no Cardinal Sin.
This story is just awesome. A teen in Cebu, working as a scavenger, found USD60,000. That’s about three million pesos. Whoever said that there was money in trash ought to claim royalties from this kid.
But what makes this story really cool is that the kid kept the money. None of that do-gooder bullshit about waiting around for someone to claim the cash. The money was in the dump and yeah, finders keepers and losers, well, LOSERS!
I should quit my job and start poking around garbage.
Filed under: fact, opinion, persons | Tags: colonial mentality, multinationals
Whoever said that we’ve shed our colonial mentality is stupid. We haven’t. Too many of us still run around trying our best to be good little Americans. Some of us try to distinguish themselves from the mass of American wannabes and try their darndest to be … Spaniards. Hah!
But really, wanting to be like these foreign types is not a problem. What burns me up is when Filipinos totally ignore ideas coming from a Filipino only to ooh and ahh at the same idea when a white guy says it. No one wants race to be an issue but the correlation is so blindingly obvious that I’d be a chump not to call it out.
What’s even worse than that is when the bosses start talking about the foreigners as though they were godsent. Motherfuckers haven’t even brought a single idea to the table that isn’t already on file as a proposal from one of us Filipinos.
So fuck you.
Fuck you very very much.
Filed under: persons | Tags: ABS-CBN, Anne Curtis, bikini, Dyosa, lust, sex
She could inspire an entire cottage industry of porn lit without even trying.
Filed under: demotivationals | Tags: terrorism, moros, improvised explosive device, nokia
Filed under: news, opinion | Tags: EDSA dos, facebook, impeachment, walk-out
Reconnected with some old acquaintances recently, thanks to Facebook. That’s been happening alot, but the weirdest re-connect by far has to be the one with my sister’s old boyfriend. That was a trip.
And speaking of weird trips, the Palace calling the opposition’s walk-out an immature tantrum has got to be one of the most delicious ironies I’ve come across thus far. The Palace and its verbal gerbils ought to remember that they are in power precisely because a walk-out took the Estrada impeachment trial into the streets from where they were able to eventually grab power.
Stupid idiots ignoring history are bound to repeat it.
Hard to shop for, she said.
Who, me? I asked.
Yep, she said.
What the heck are you talking about, I asked. I’m the most appreciative person you know. You’ve never given me anything I didn’t love to bits. I don’t go “wow, thanks. i really wanted something else, but this is good.” or “gee. did they have this in black?”
You don’t know how many times I’ve wanted to buy you something but didn’t because I didn’t know if you would like it, she said.
Were you not listening? I asked. I like everything you’ve ever given me.
I think it’s because you’re so … picky, she said.
Picky? Me? I shook my head. The problem is all in your head. You think I’m like this, but I’m not. I practically wept for joy when you got me a bogus copy of that t.v. series I liked.
She chuckled. Ang babaw mo pala.
My palm renewed its acquaintance with my face.
Filed under: news, opinion, religions | Tags: fatwa, Islam, Malaysia, yoga
At least, that’s what this fatwa implies.
The National Fatwa Council’s chairman, Abdul Shukor Husin, said on Saturday many Muslims fail to understand that yoga’s ultimate aim is to be one with a god of a different religion — an explanation disputed by many practitioners who say yoga need not have a religious element.
There must be something in the water over there in Malaysia. First, it was “Non-muslims can’t use the word ‘Allah’ as a synonym for ‘God’ because Muslims might get confused.” Then it was “girls shouldn’t act like boys because it violates Islamic tenets; the sub-text probably being that Muslims might get confused. And now, yoga. Maybe next they’ll ban environmentalism because Muslims might confuse their priorities and not be able to discern whether the environment is more important than Allah.
For the record (and because I don’t want to get my head chopped off), I don’t think that Muslims are stupid. I think that some Muslims might be tho. And it worries me that it’s the stupid ones who seem to get to make the rules.
This has been brewing in my brain for the past few weeks. If the quick and absolute removal of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is the goal, why not just kill her?
As MLQ3 writes:
The only checkmate on the President is impeachment, not the official end of her term; for her term expiring is at best, a moveable goal-post (create a new job, and the expiration of your term isn’t consequential; retiring isn’t a problem if besides an obliging Ombudsman and a friendly Supreme Court, you have a new President you swung the election to). Only impeachment means sudden death, politically. And things can happen very fast, when people see a check mate unfolding, for capitalizing on it requires only a committed and nimble minority with its eye on the prize.
On the contrary, the only real checkmate on the President (on any head of state for that matter) is assassination. Kill the damned bitch and get it over with. I’m pretty sure that’s what’s on a lot of people’s minds anyway since there no longer seems to be any interest in strengthening democratic institutions. People like Doronila speak of the Presidency as a prize to be “captured;” and the great Manuel L. Quezon’s grandson’s view on the matter seemingly (and ironically) trivializes the expiration of the president’s term, ergo, trivializing also the necessity for an orderly transfer of power through democratic means. The presidency, therefore, is no longer for the people to bestow on a pretender, but a crown whose resting place of the moment is determined by the new nobility. Monarchists would be proud.
Is this really the kind of impatience with the long ways of democracy and republicanism that we want to teach future generations? Do we want to teach future generations that democratic institutions can be dispensed with because they can’t be trusted anyway? Well, how can they ever become trusted when we tear them down whenever we feel we’re not getting the results we want? Is this the way to build up our democracy?
MLQ3, with his children’s crusade, seems to think so. I’ve no reason to doubt his patriotism, but his methods leave me cold. Down the road he has chosen you can foresee only more of the same. I think he does too. I think they all do. Which is probably why no one has yet advocated regicide. Kill a king and you have to be ready, when you’re in power, to live under the same sword and at the mercy of the same strand of horsehair.
Filed under: brumdingle, news, sports | Tags: boxing, Manny Pacquiao, Nike
This Nike ad begs the question: if God is for Pacquiao, is He therefore against dela Hoya? Or if dela Hoya should win, is God then against Pacquiao?
The quick and suitably pious answer is that whoever wins is the boxer God wanted to win. But that’s just a lame excuse for determinism, isn’t it? What that statement really means is that whoever wins is the one who was supposed to win. In other words, the part where God is roped into the excuse for losing is nothing but bullshit.
The theological and philosophical baggage aside, this is a good advert. It keys into the Filipino’s superstitious spirituality. We like to think of ourselves as good catholics in the Roman tradition, don’t we? The truth is that we have more in common with Haitian-type christianity than we might care to admit. And this advert takes advantage of that.
Unfortunately, I think Pacquiao (and by extension for the legions of Pacquiao faithful, God as well) will disappoint. My guess is that Pacquiao will either lose or the match will end in a draw. After all, a loss would not serve either fighter.
So take it easy on God, eh fight fans?
