December 2009
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Angry at Noynoy, by Bong O. Wenceslao, Sun-Star...
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“Angry at Noynoy” Candid Thoughts, by Bong O. Wenceslao I WAS thinking of what to do next after getting out of an ATM booth when the blue guard said he wanted to talk to me. “Pwede ba nang pari maghisgot og pulitika sa iyang sermon, Boss? (Is it ok for a priest to talk about politics during his sermon, boss?)” he asked me after I tarried to listen. I know this guard to always brush up on...
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The legislative record of Sen. Benigno S. Aquino...
On my Scribd account:
Summary of bills and resolutions filed by Sen. Benigno S. Aquino III (via @mlq3)
SBN-1370 Workers Productivity Incentives Act of 2007
SBN-1710 Judiciary Independence Enhancing Act of 2007
SBN-1719 Appointee Ineligibility Act of 2007
SBN-2035 Public Works Reform Act of 2008
SBN-2036 Wage Rationalization Act
SBN-2159 Superior Responsibility Act of 2008
SBN-2160...
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Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Formspring →
Sample:
You once said that you get plenty of sex. Is that still true, and did you mean sex with FG?
PLENTY! Ahihihihihi! Ay, wait. That was then. Eh now? That’s for me to enjoy and you to find out! Ahihihihi!
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Limbo →
By Manuel Buencamino, published in Business Mirror:
It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.—Robert Zimmerman
I tried to sell Gilbert Teodoro to my daughter.
“I am impressed by Gibo Teodoro’s quick and decisive reaction to the Maguindanao massacre. He displayed courageous leadership,” I said.
“Why, what did he do?”
“Plenty. He visited Vice Mayor Ismael Mangudadatu right after the massacre,...
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An open letter to Senator Dick Gordon →
Dear Senator Gordon,
May this letter find you in good health. Forgive my presumptuousness in communicating with you in this manner, but the Internet is one of the few ways that an ordinary citizen and voter such as myself can attempt to reach you.
Upon learning that you had entered the presidential race, I took it upon myself to study the contents of your campaign web site, and what I have found...
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Matins - Louise Glück
What is my heart to you that you must break it over and over like a plantsman testing his new species? Practice on something else: how can I live in colonies, as you prefer, if you impose a quarantine of affliction, dividing me from healthy members of my own tribe: you do not do this in the garden, segregate the sick rose; you let it wave its sociable infested leaves in the faces of...
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Aquino-Roxas statement on the lifting of Martial...
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Neutering Congress and the Supreme Court: Statement of Senators Noynoy Aquino and Mar Roxas on the Lifting of Martial Law in Maguindanao This afternoon Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita announced that the President will lift martial law and the suspension of the writ in Maguindanao effective 9 PM tonight. The Filipino people deserve praise for the vigilance and scrutiny they have...
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To vanquish a hydra →
On December 1, when President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo formalized her 2010 bid to represent the second district of Pampanga in the Lower House, Fr. Roland Moraleja, who delivered the homily at a special concelebrated mass, made the now-(in)famous comment likening Macapagal-Arroyo to Jesus. Although Pampanga Auxiliary Bishop Pablo Virgilio David called the comparison blasphemous, it was again...
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Atty. Edwin Lacierda's Open Letter to Atenean...
To all fellow Atenean lawyers, I am bothered by the latest opinion of Fr. Bernas. To put it mildly, his opinion is very reckless. In his last column, Fr. Bernas thinks that the rebellion to justify Martial Law need not be the same Rebellion as defined in the Revised Penal Code. I quote: “But is rebellion as a criminal act defined in the Penal Code the same as rebellion for constitutional...
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PGMA Report on Proclamation No. 1959 →
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“I am confident that with you, working with me now under one political name and...”
– President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, 28 May 2009 speech at Lakas Kampi CMD merger
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“A Supreme Court justice has described the new Constitution as in a “state...”
– Jose Abueva, 1976 Mexico City speech (Quoted in President Marcos and the Philippine Political Culture by Lewis E. Gleeck, Jr.)
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Analysis of the Ampatuan massacre by Bertini...
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Analysis of the Ampatuan massacre by Bertini “Toto” Causing
An analysis, in the wake of the Ampatuan murders, by Bertini “Toto” Causing, a member of the board of the National Press Club of the Philippines and also legal consultant for the National Press Club. Mr Causing is columnist both of Hataw and Police Files Tonight. With the kind permission of Paul Brinkley-Rogers.
ANALYSIS
You...
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Martial Law is Not a Substitute for Competent...
Statement on the Reported Proclamation of Martial Law in Maguindanao Marvic M.V.F. Leonen Dean and Professor of Law University of the Philippines The heinous massacre of civilians in Ampatuan, Maguindanao deserves competence of the highest order in the gathering, preserving and evaluation of evidence as well as in the subsequent arrest and prosecution of its perpetrators. It should also be the...
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Senator Noynoy Aquino’s Official Statement on the...
For weeks now, the country has shared the shock, horror and agony of the people of Maguindanao over the slaughter of innocents. This national outrage has increased as securing justice faces hurdle after hurdle, both in Maguindanao and in Manila. Our people want justice, and they want results; the government wants us to believe that it must impose Martial Law for justice to be accomplished, and for...
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