Unang-una – kung ang Presidente mo ay sinungaling – dapat tawagin mo syang sinungaling. Kung sinabi nyang pula ang langit, tatango na lang ba tayo?
Naiintindihan ko na ang Filipino Voices ay hindi Philippine Journals Online. Ang mambabasa ng Filipino Voices ay hindi mga akademiko kundi mga ordinaryong tao. (I-click ang mga articles sa PhilJol nang makita ang pagkakaiba sa tono)
Yet, we all know that we should use impartial data in our articles, if we want them to be considered “scholarly”.
Kaya naman pinilit kong gawing hindi ‘scholarly’ ang tono ng sinulat ko. Siguro ang panimulang “Palace poodle Alex Magno” ay sapat nang ebidensya.
Using our good friend Mong Palatino’s learned observation is not impartial enough.
Pangalawa, gaya ng nabanggit ko, ang mga unang links ay ang mga politikal na reaksyon ng mga bloggers na unang nagsulat ng kanilang mga reaksyo tungkol sa SONA. Si Mong Palatino ay isang miyembro ng Kongreso at bahagi ng isang political movement, so NATURAL hindi akademiko ang isusulat nya sa blog nya ano?
And the data over at the NSCB (National Statistical Coordination Board), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and even the World Bank (WB) supported some of the assertions made by Mrs. Arroyo.
Nasaan ang mga datos na ito? Ano’ng assertions? Mag-google kayo ng mga projections ng WB at ng ADB tungkol sa economic projections nila sa Pilipinas. Hindi kasing mala-pantasya ng sinabi ni Gloria. Andyan lahat palutang-lutang lang sa internet.
Ang ikalawang parte ng post ko ay nagbanggit lamang ng ilang bahagi ng ating ekonomiya – Utang, Investments, Exports at ang Mala-mahikang GDP Growth ni Arroyo. Ang mga naka-link na references ay gawa ng mga akademiko at dating opisyal sa gobyerno. Lahat ng ito ay public documents – so bahala na kayong magbasa.
Anyway, ang punto lang naman tungkol sa GDP ni Arroyo – ayon sa mga eksperto (at hindi nag-iisa si Felipe Medalla at ang UPSE), maraming inconsistencies ang pag-taas ng GDP kung ikumpara sa ibang indicators. Hindi bago ang mga ganitong alingasngas.
Panawagan kay GabbyD, na mag-aaral ng LSE (?), you wanna jump in and explain? Thanks.
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Balikan kaya nila ang English o Communication 1? Kung ang thesis sentence mo ay nagsisimula sa “Palace poodle”, alam no na na isang sanaysay na kumikiling ang ito!
Baka rin naman di exactong totoong ang nagbabasa ng FV mga ordinaryong tao kung di ang mga nagsusulat dito ay karamihan, di akademiko.
Siguro po iyon ang puntos niyo sa pagkumpera sa FV sa kung ano man iyong nabanggit. Isang komento lang po.
If Alex Magno is a “Palace poodle”, you caffein sparks is the opposition’s attack dog / paid hack. See, name calling is a two way street.
I wish I got paid for doing my duty as a citizen. I really do. Alas, it is me paying for the privilege of being a Filipino.
there’s no law against idiocy. paid or not, a moronic idea is still, well, moronic. it speaks for itself.
ha ha ha! The egg hit the Palace Poodle’s face two years ago and guess what he did? He went on an academic freedom guaranteed rampage! His fellow target, the AFP Chief of Staff just brushed the yolk and albumin aside as part of “free expression” The General did not enjoy the freedoms of the academe. For that reason alone, Sparks has the satirical right to call this academic as a poodle. That is too nice. If I were to call him, I’d use “terrier”.
Now if only Sparks was appointed to a GOCC board seat with a juicy honorarium!
c’mon. are you saying you’re above the law because you have “academic freedom”? are you teaching 24 hours a day, seven days a week? maybe when the going gets tough, you can hightail behind it as a defense. but if i’m doggedly determined to prosecute, i will go all the way to s.c. to test the limits of that “freedom”.
i’d like 2 get into this doggie name calling… i luv dogs! i’m the chow-chow of coolness… the retro retriever!… hehehe
Alex Magno is a wordsmith par excellence. One can even suspect that he might have ‘constructed’ the 9th Sona according to “specs”. I still doubt it though.
If one can now call him a ‘Palace poodle’, what then could stop another to call him a ‘paid hack’ in the best tradition of a political analyst who can be within the ‘commerce of men’. Just asking though.
“Naiintindihan ko na ang Filipino Voices ay hindi Philippine Journals Online. Ang mambabasa ng Filipino Voices ay hindi mga akademiko kundi mga ordinaryong tao.”
Hmmm. Why the sudden use of the Tagalog vernacular?
Is this patronizing us, ordinary jologs, dudette? :)
bakit patronizing ang tagalog?
or ang mga mambabasa at manunulat ay mga akademiko at professionals who prefer to dispense with the formalities and get straight to the meat of the matter due to time constraints – they have a life, y’all know :)
as to being an “academic” – said journals were part of the FV magababasa’s academic training, they have paid their dues to the academe, received their advanced degrees, and more or less now have their areas of special competency – and sukang suka na sa kakabasa ng technical papers. not only that, they eat technical papers for breakfast, lunch, supper in their deskjob. maiba naman ng konti. :)
we have a couple of thousand unique hits daily. we can’t assume they’re all literate in academic language.
I write in Filipino when my gut takes over my brain.
The Filipino people determines the destiny of their country. Not any other power. We have to get involved in the governance. This is our
government.
Filipino Voices Bloggers are ordinary people like you and me. We have
no training as Journalists. We write what we truly write. Not things that someone has ordered us to write, or paid us to write about. Rest assured, it comes from our hearts.
Writing to EXPRESS… not to IMPRESS…
This goes a long way in explaining why the Philippines is what it is:
All gut and no brain.
ha ha! :-D
no guts no glory manong benigs ;-)
No brains no moolah, sparks. :-D
i’ve plenty of brains, but alas no moolah!
One of the things that need to be done by a post-GMA admin, would be to re-look the NSCB statistics. That will likely result in a restatement of GDP baseline downwards to eliminate the overstatement accumulated over the past decade.
hey where have you been?
I could sense how caffeine really attaches premium to written works that get published in refereed journals such as those that the Philippine Journals Online do contain and carry.
Such that, she tried to present an earlier blog which is a fairly comprehensive presentation of the 9th Sona replete with all the tables of facts & figures, authoritative analyses and all.
FV if compared with PJO does have its own ontological raison d etre as it with PJO. They become just one and the same in so far as these websites are being READ and a reading universe includes as well the academics. What seems clear is that hardly one from the academe writes papers for FV. But FV does not stop anyone from doing so.
Still, FV, being the freely interactive that it is, satisfies the requirements of being able to discuss issues in the context of the “here” and “now”. At PJO precisely, no article on SONA could have been written in that scholarly tradition from a “few hours” distance. And the viewing public just need to know what they need to know along the “here” and “now”. This is where FV has taken a better edge.
I feel it unfair for caffeine to be now criticized for a work she wholeheartedly vested upon herself as a matter of moral duty as a citizen.
It embraces the same theme by those critics and detractors who cannot stand by the sentiments expressed by the 14-signatories to the Letter to President Obama. The same pack of criticisms can simply have that ‘boomerang’ effect.
I wish to praise caffeine for paying the “high” price for the privilege to be a Filipino.
salamat manong primer.
here we go again, gloria bashers had a great at the sona burning her effigies and bloggers had a field preaching her sins.but for majority of our young generation they go about there day watching tease at camfrog or recording their sex act on internet and cp. that the state of the nation
Those are not mutually exclusive.
hahaha palace poodle…pero mas bagay ‘ata sparky ang itawag kay alex magno ay asong gala na may galis sa wetpaks…ngiti pa lang ngising aso na hehehe.
napagusapan din lang naman na pula ang langit…
ANG KATOTOHANAN AY NASASALAMIN SA KIDLAT AT KULOG…KAPAG MAY NAKITANG KIDLAT, MAKAKARINIG KA NG KULOG…di mo maitatanggi na kidlat ang nakita mo at kulog ang narinig mo…pagkat ang distansya ng kidlat at kulog ay tatlong pulgada lamang…sukatin at makikita nga na tatlong pulgada lamang ang distansya nila…kapag napatunayan sa sarili na tatlong pulgada lang silang dalawa…kailanman di magsisinungaling ang katotohanan.
gaya ng sinasabi sa datos ng pamahalaan ni GMA…na ang ekonomiya ay bumuti…ano ba ang definition ni GMA sa ekonomiya?…ayon sa webster dictionary the economy…. is the regulation of household affairs…kung ang Palace ang household ni GMA…aba syempre may alagang aso yan :) ….pag political economy…the science that treats of wealth, its nature, production, distribution, and consumption, and the laws concerning these…saan ba bumuti? sa wealth ba? yung distribution ng wealth? yung production ng goods? yung distribution ng goods?
tila yata nagkamali ka ng blogsite, pare. hindi ito “ellenville”, the bllogsite of the “vacuous” jologs
at least tao ako may pakiramdam. :)
pilit pinaparinig ng gobyrenong ito na bumuti ang ekonomiya ng Pilipinas, pero ang nakikita ng karamihang tao at ng jologs na ito ay hinde.
ang kidlat, masasabing kidlat yun pag nakita ng mata, ang kulog sa pamamagitan ng tenga…yan ang katotohanan…kung ano ang narinig yan ang makikita…sukatin mo honorable Bencard ang mata at tenga mo, 3 inches lang ang distansya niyan…kaya nga sa korte, madalas tinatanong ang distance ng witness sa pinangyarihan ng krimen…at tinatanong din kung ano ang mga narinig at nakita…kung merong palace poodle…meron din dapat palace pussy sa katauhan ni winnie M….panghuli…di tayo magkumpare.
The news is spreading around the globe.
Cory Aquino has passed away.
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By William Branigin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 31, 2009; 5:53 PM
Corazon Aquino, the unassuming widow whose “people power” revolution toppled a dictator, restored Philippine democracy and inspired millions of people around the world, died Saturday morning (Friday afternoon Eastern time) after a battle with colon cancer, her family announced. She was 76.
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May she rest in peace and may her children be at peace with their loss.
It is amazing bO people around the world are reacting with their gut instead of their brain to the news about former President Cory.
I personally who am no fan of hers feel a sense of loss. It is part of what makes us human when we recognize the sense of the person’s true humanity and innate goodness.
We all have to have faith in humanity to guide our reasoning. She was one such icon of Faith.