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Noynoy Aquino: From non-platform to gone-platform
Guess what folks! Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino Jr does have a platform! And it looks like this:
Considering that Noynoy’s website had recently been glossed-up, I suppose it is quite safe to assume that the above also represents an “improvement” over what Ben Kritz described as a “non-platform” back in late August of this year.
Not the most [...]
A fair dinkum follow-through
As expected, sifting through the responses to my challenge to identify the possible points I intended to make in my last blog post was a no-brainer. Only a few stood out as noteworthy, and as usual, I had to rely on, well, primarily myself for an injection of true insight into the matter.
Some of what [...]
A bit of Australiana from a fair dinkum Aussie
What the bloody hell. I’ll do the blackshama thing and post a bit of Australiana — a fair dinkum entitlement considering that I do live here. But unlike some people, I do it with reservation. I think the notion of regularly dishing out colloquial Australian (strine is what they call it in short), or [...]
Day ten, post Ondoy
Lately there’s been a lot of backpatting accompanying all the feel-good stories surrounding the heroism and “bayanihan” supposedly exhibited in the aftermath of the destruction wreaked by tropical cyclone Ondoy on Metro Manila. Indeed, there is reason to congratulate ourselves. The motivation to “help out” and “contribute” to the relief effort transcended social class and [...]
Shotgun “bayanihan”
In recent days we’ve been hearing and reading the word “Bayanihan” to the point of its being reduced to but a mere platitude of the sort politicians and most media folk mouth off when their faculties for spin are on auto-pilot. The concept of Bayanihan is now just this much short of being included in [...]
Turning away from ego candy
The devastation wreaked by cyclone Ondoy this weekend hit close to home. It impacted our immediate families and circle of friends, and it disrupted that sense of “normalcy” that the latte-sipping classes of Manila had grown accustomed to. I cited in a previous blog article how the flashfloods and mudslides that killed 5,000 in Ormoc [...]
Pedigree “platform”
By all intents and purposes, people’s choice presidential candidate of the moment Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino Jr has kicked off his campaign to get his bum on that coveted seat in Malacanang in 2010. And he is backed by the most illustrious relics of the 1986 “revolution” upon which his popular appeal is built.
Indeed, Aquino’s biggest [...]
Hey, Mr Jim Paredes…
The child in us [Filipinos] lives in a mythic, magical world where we expect a handsome prince to save us at the last minute, or that things will get better with the wave of a magic wand, without any need for us to change.
These are words Jim Paredes wrote in his 2007 blog What child [...]
Electing someone to public office is like hiring a plumber
Electing someone to public office is like hiring a plumber.
You pick one to call relying mainly on an ad (the campaign, so to speak) they place, say, on the Yellow Pages. But then you agree on some form of Statement of Work (the platform) before you give him the green light to proceed.
The metaphorical question [...]
Retrospective or prospective?
Caffeine Sparks makes an insightful critique on another one of Conrado de Quiros’s lame attempts to prop up his manok. Tragic for Noynoy Aquino’s campaign as I think de Quiros is doing more damage than good as he goes about his ironic crusade.
I echo Nick’s call in a comment he made there:
Framing the debate is [...]
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