Comelec Chairman Jose Melo told ABSCBN News that the poll body is “ready for manual elections if poll automation tests fail” — almost as if he expects that very disappointing outcome. He also revealed the key TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION against which all bidding systems will be tested: a required 99.995 percent accuracy rating in reading and [...]
SCORP on Leo Echegaray: “Accused-Appellant”
March 7, 2009 By 68 Comments
This is thanks to our esteemed GabbyD, who, in lieu of acrimonious debate in a recent thread, asks for authoritative research to answer the question of what to call Daniel Smith now that he has been found guilty of rape beyond a reasonable doubt by Makati Regional Trial Court. If not the legally incorrect and journalistically [...]
Unethical to Call Smith “Convicted Rapist”
March 6, 2009 By 74 Comments
The Supreme Court of the Philippines (SCoRP) recently produced three written Decisions on the custody case of Lance Corporal Daniel Smith: a 9-4 Majority Decision by Justice Rodolfo Azcuna; and two Dissenting Opinions by Chief Justice Reynato Puno and Associate Justice Antonio Carpio. In the Majority Decision, Lance Corporal Daniel Smith is invariably referred to [...]
Don’t Tell Calipjo Go About the Red, White and Yellow Bougainvillas
March 4, 2009 By 8 Comments
Please don’t tell Calipjo Go about the red, white and yellow bougainvillas. He will claim they are errors of fact or expression, accuse you of being a poet of illusion, or worse, a science teacher with no religion, and immediately correct your English. Badly. And madly sic! his newspaper friends on you. But ask him [...]
How To Save The Right Of Reply Bill
March 2, 2009 By 20 Comments
The history of the Fairness Doctrine in the United States is probably what inspires the support of Senator Joker Arroyo for the Right of Reply Bill, as he “slams” President Arroyo for threatening a veto (“buttering up to the media”) even before the Bicam has finalized the proposed measure. I’m having my own second thoughts [...]
Should Commercial Journalists Be Licensed?
February 27, 2009 By 33 Comments
Fear Itself
February 24, 2009 By 9 Comments
23 December 2008 First ebola Reston virus detection in pigs — First Reston ebola virus detection in pigs confirmed by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in at a hog farm in Bulacan, Philippines. 23 January 2009 Hog farm worker has ebola Reston virus in possible first pig-to-human transmission. 23 February 2009 According [...]
Barking Up The Wrong Treaty
February 23, 2009 By 19 Comments
Let it not be said that we at Filipino Voices did not understand the VFA controversy long before the compleat explanation of it had become common knowledge even in the Main Stream Media and the rest of the Blogosphere. Let it be on the record herewith, that we at Filipino Voices understood the answer given [...]
I Wonder What The Devil’s Thinking
February 21, 2009 By 26 Comments
Pedaling on big knobby tires at breakneck speed I love to sail through the dappled crackling ocean Of fallen mango leaves and bougainvilla blossoms Covering the winding roadway’s stony rubble. Now, I know those pink and crimson petals Hide thorns like shark’s teeth, Broad and tapered and needle-sharp And unforgiving. But I can only think [...]
Recent Comments