Eight Years Strong: If She’s Here, Who’s Running Hell?

This resolution filed last November 2008 by Congressman Luis Villafuerte of Camarines Sure, who happens to be a kababayan (both of my parents hail from Camarines Sur, Bicol) which was not intended for any other purpose but to ask the Supreme Court on voting procedures by the Senate and the House (how to vote — separately or collectively?) is now being fashioned in a way that may serve the purpose of a select few and  not the benefit of the whole Filipino nation. As of this time, he has declared withdrawal of support to the resolution he himself authored and consequently withdrew from the party as well so he’s now independent, so to speak. Are we seeing moro-moro style tactics here?  Read more..

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“Don’t You Know Me?”: The Question To Fear Or The Question To Loathe?

As if the CARP issue and the alleged continued corruption are not enough to contend with, DAR is now faced with another issue of headline material — this time, a story that if only for the news sources that covered it and the blogged story of the family member who was there with the victims, you’d seriously think this story is merely lifted from a movie scene or a usual mauling news printed in the inside of tabloids. And although the DAR chief didn’t have direct participation, he stood there watching the events unfold as if a bemused spectator. Read more..

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Not The Children

It couldn’t be any worse than this. It couldn’t be any desperate than this. And it couldn’t be any unforgivable than this.

Tuesday, the second of December was a “big” day for most Filipinos (that is regardless if they care or even know about it in the first place). The fourth impeachment attempt aimed at Gloria Arroyo which was initially junked at the Justice Committee level, amidst a foreseen unfavorable result, tries very hard, with its last breath, to reverse the first decision. In a jam-packed hall full of administration allies, it would be outright foolish to hope for the best. But of course, knowing how achingly religious and optimistic Filipinos naturally are, opposition representatives rally to fight for what many Filipinos want but are afraid to do — question authority in search for truth and justice. Wow. Sounds like a line from an epic film, huh? I think so too. Only that in the movies, the protagonist always win and the antagonist gets a taste of hell (whatever that is). In real life, though, it’s dreadfully and hopelessly different — the exact opposite, I must say. Here in this country, to tell a lie is to live extravagantly. To tell the truth is to endlessly fear for your life, if not die through an inexplicable circumstance (if you know what I mean).

But, you know. Politics is politics, whichever way you look at it, whichever side of the fence you’re on. It shouldn’t be personal, right? Wrong. Read more..

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