Before the clock strikes at 4PM, on July 27, 2009 where classes in all level is suspended in Metro Manila because of the 2 events happening on that day, 95th Anniversary of Iglesia Ni Cristo and the last or the 9th State of the Nation of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. In her 9th year in her term as the president of the Philippines from replacing the ousted president Joseph Ejercito Estrada and her re-election on 2004 let’s recall and run down details of her 8 State of the Nation Address as we prepare to listen on her last on the 27th of July.
2001 State of the Nation Address – July 23, 2001
Sino hindi makakalimot sa tatlong batang nagpaanod ng bangkang papel papuntang Malacanang? Sina Jayson, Jomar at Erwin ang tatlong kabataang isinulat sa bangkang papel ang kanilang mga kahilingan at pangarap sa bagong upong presidente na si Gloria Macapagal Arroyo sa kanyang unang State of The Nation. Hiniling niya ang pagkakaisa at hilumin ang sugat na natamo mula sa EDSA Dos, labanan ang terorismo sa bansa, at ang labanan ang kahirapan sa pamamagitan ng free enterprise, social equity, social bias toward the disadvantaged, raise moral standards.
Ayon kay PGMA:
“Pinaalala ninyo sa aming lahat kung bakit kami ay narito ngayon sa bulwagang ito.
Mga senador at kongresista: Ipangako natin sa kanila, sa harap at sa tulong ng poong maykapal, na sa mga susunod na araw, buwan at taon, tayong mga hinalal, tayong may pananagutan sa kanilang kinabukasan ay handang magsakripisyo at magkaisa para sa kabutihan, kaunlaran, katatagan ng bayan at sa kinabukasan ng kabataan.
Jason, Jomar, at Erwin, hindi namin kayo bibiguin.”
Pero tulad ng bangkang papel na pinaanod sa Pasig River papuntang Malacanang, lumubog ba ito bago makarating sa tatlong kabataang sina Sina Jayson, Jomar at Erwin?
2002 State of the Nation Address – July 22, 2009
Matatag na Republika, ito ang gustong buuin ni President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo noong 2002 SONA niya. Para mabuo ang Republikang gawa sa bato ayon kay PGMA kailangan gawin ang mga sumusunod, maging independent sa pagkilos at walang kinikilingan sa iisang sector o samahan lamang, matatag at makalas na pamamahala sa ekonomiya at ang pagpapatatag ng estado ng microeconomics sa bansa.
Ayon kay PGMA:
“I know that it is to me that those many Filipinos are looking for the vindication of their decision to go to Edsa. I shall not disappoint them.
It is for them that I am working hard on that stone that will fit just above my father’s, adding security to social justice, and prosperity to the promise of social equality in which he believed so much.
Ang malakas na republika ay para sa mahihina, para sa mahihirap, para sa walang trabaho, para sa nagugutom, para sa nanganganib ; Para sa agrabyado, para sa mga api.
Toward the achievement of this strong republic, i shall bring to bear the full weight of the Executive, and call upon local government officials, to add their own. This is our common struggle, it shall be our shared victory. “
Pero sa pagtatayo ng matatag na republika, tulad ng pagtatayo ng isang bahay o gusali ang mga kasangkapan ba at mga gamit sa pagpapatayo nito ay matatag at maaasahan tulad ng mga nakaupo sa pamahalaan, maaasahan ba sila ng baying humalal sa kanila, o maganda lang sila sa panlabas habang sa loob ay marupok din kagaya ng hollow blocks na gawa lang sa burak.
2003 State of the Nation Address – July 28, 2003
Nasa giyera ang bansa ayon kay PGMA, ito ang giyera kontra droga, kontra terorismo, kontra at kontra katiwalian at kurapsyon. Sa SONA niya ay buong tapang niyang hinamon ang mga kumakalaban sa kanyang rehimen at ayon sa kanya ay patuloy niyang lalabanan ang katiwalian droga at terosimo. Pagtutuunan din niya ng pansin ang edukasyon, pagkain, trabaho at kalusugan.
Ayon kay PGMA:
“Nasa giyera tayo. Giyera laban sa terorismo. Giyera laban sa katiwalian. Giyera laban sa kasakitan. Giyera laban sa droga. Giyera laban sa distabilisasyon. Sa ating sama-samang pakikipaglaban at pagtutulungan, tayo ay mangingibabaw at magwawagi.”
Sa labanan at giyerang ito, hindi natin inaasahan ang mga taong traydor at tumatalikod sa adhikain o layunin ng laban. Ito ang suliranin ng bayan ang mga katiwalian sa gobyernong minsan ay hindi namamalayan ng pamahalaan na dapat ay kastiguhin din dahil ang kalaban ay hindi lamang nasa labas, minsan nasa loob din sila ng isang grupong sinasamahan nila at handang bumaril sa iyo habang nakatalikod ka at kampante.
2004 State of the Nation Address – July 26, 2004
Mamamayan muna ang tema ng 2004 SONA kasabay ang pag uwi ni Angelo dela Cruz ang nabihag na OFW sa Iraq. Para kay PGMA tagumpay ito para sa kanya, ipinanukala rin niya ang konsepto ng lifestyle check sa gobyerno, ang pagsupil sa corporate corruption at ang pagmonitor niya sa presyo ng pangunahing pangangailangan ng Filipino, bukod dito ipinanukala rin niya ang ideya ng Charter Change.
Ayon kay PGMA:
“I ask Congress to pass a law on government re-engineering, with silver parachutes for redundant offices. Once we have proved to our people that we have done what we can within the present structure of government, we can move on to changing the system to one that enhances our freedom and flexibility to do more. I expect that next year, Congress will start considering the resolutions for charter change.”
2004, ito ang taong na kung saan nagsimula ang tinututulan nating Constitutional Assembly o mas kilala sa tawag na Charter Change. At sa pagpapanukala niya ng lifestyle check at pagbabantay sa presyo ng bilihin, babalik tayo sa isang katanungan mula noong 2004… napatupad ba ito ng maayos o ningas kugon lang kahat ito?
2005 State of the Nation Address – July 25, 2005
Para kay PGMA mayroong dalawang Pilipinas, ang isa ay may isang maayos at matatag na ekonomiyang handing manguna sa darating na panahon, at ang pangalawa ay may sistemang pampulitika na pabagsak na at hadlang sa pag-unlad. Patuloy ang pag-lolobby ni PGMA ng Cha Cha sa kongreso noong 2005.
Ayon kay PGMA:
“The system clearly needs fundamental change and the sooner the better. It’s time to start the great debate on charter change. We must address such questions as how much more government is needed for the greater safety and economic security of our people, and how much less government is more conducive to free enterprise and economic progress. The mode of Charter change is the exclusive prerogative of Congress. But a constituent assembly may well give our people the quickest reforms. I shall work with Congress, civil society groups and local government executives who are convinced that Charter changes are needed to enable the country to surmount the unprecedented challenges of the 21st century.”
Para kay PGMA may pagbabagong magaganap kung mangyari ang pinapanukala niyang CHA CHA pero ang isang katanungan lamang ay sa CHA CHA lang ba tayo aasa para maayos ang kalagayan ng bansa?
2006 State of the Nation Address – July 24, 2006
Super Regions, ito ang ipinagmalaki ni PGMA na kung saan ay sa pamamagitang ng mga pagpasok ng turismo sa iba’t ibang parte ng bansa at ang pag ayos ng ekonimya sa pamamagitan ng RORO, mga napatayong infrastructure na mag uugnay sa iba’t ibang probinsya para mapadali ang takbo ng ikonomiya at pagpasok ng turismo lalo na sa Central Luzon. Ipinagmalaki rin niya ang pagbaba ng unemployment dahil sa pagpasok ng call center sa bansa. Mula sa mga bagay na ito ay mas mapapatatag niya ang ekonomiya ng bansa.
Ayon kay PGMA:
“For those who want to pick up old fights, we’re game but what a waste of time. Why not join hands instead? Join hands in the biggest challenge of all, where we all win or we all lose: the battle for the survival and progress of our one and only country. After three years, eleven months, and six days, I shall relinquish the Presidency, with much if not all that I have outlined completed. I do not want it said then that, in the end, I defeated my enemies. I would rather have it said that all of us, you and I, friends and foes today, achieved together a country progressive, prosperous and united.”
Marahil nasabi nga niyang nabawasan ang unemployment sa panahong iyon, pero hindi sapat ang call center industry para mapunan ang suliranin ng bansa pagdating sa kawalan ng trabaho, lalo na ngayon na humaharap tayo sa recession, call center pa rin ba ang takbuhan ng lahat? Paano kung hindi ka qualified? Sorry na lang ba ang sagot sa mga taong iyon?
2007 State of the Address – July 23, 2007
Mamuhunan sa tao, ito ang ideya ng Facing Forward Not Facing Off theme ng 2007 SONA ni PGMA, ang magpapatatag ng edukasyon ng bansa at ang safety net na kung saan sa tulong ng TESDA ay mas mapapalawak ang kakayahan ng Filipino pagdating sa paghahanap niya ng trabaho. Pangarap din ni PGMA na mapasama sa pinakamayaman na bansa ang Pilipinas pagdating ng 20 years sa pamamagitan ng pagdevelop sa Mindanao as food basket ng bansa, pagdevelop sa Central Philippines as tourism regions, pagdevelop ng North Luzon Argribusiness Quadrangle at pagdevelop ng Luzon Urban Beltway.
Para kay PGMA:
“Hangarin kong mapabilang ang Pilipinas sa mayayamang bansa sa loob ng dalawampung taon. By then poverty shall have been marginalized; and the marginalized raised to a robust middle class. We will have achieved the hallmarks of a modern society, where institutions are strong. By 2010, the Philippines should be well on its way to achieving that vision.”
Pero sa kabila ng mga panukalang ito, ay babalik tayo sa issue ng terorismo sa bansa at kurapsyon hindi ba ito ang mga pangunahing problemang dapat ayusin ng gobyerno para mas mapaunlad ang bansa?
2008 State of the Nation Address – July 28, 2008
Humarap si PGMA sa kanyang 2008 SONA para ibalita ang dalawang bagay ang magandang ekonomiya ng bansa noong 2007, at ang bagyong padating o ang global crisis. Hinimok niya ang lahat na makipagtulungan lalo na ang sangay ng gobyerno na i-extend ang kanilang tulong sa mga taong nangangailangan. At nakiusap din siya na makipagtulungan ang iba’t ibang sector ng lipunan para harapin ang bagyong ito.
Ayong kay PGMA:
“Sama-sama tayo sa tungkuling ito. May papel na gagampanan ang bawat mamamayan, negosyante, pinunong bayan at simbahan, sampu ng mga nasa lalawigan.
We are three branches but one government. We have our disagreements; we each have hopes, and ambitions that drive and divide us, be they personal, ethnic, religious and cultural. But we are one nation with one fate.”
Sa kabila ng paghimok ng PGMA sa mga sangay ng gobyerno na tumulong sa mga nangangailangan, nariyan pa rin ang issue ng Red Tape at Corruption at nariyan rin ang samu’t saring eskandalong kinasasangkutan ng mga miyembro sa pamahalaan pati ang pamilya ng pangulo.
Ngayong ika-siyam at huling State of the Nation Address ano ang iikutan ng kanyang pagbabalita sa estado ng bansa? Ito ba ba talaga ang huling SONA niya? Mayroon tayong hindi inaasahang balitang sasabihin niya? Magbantay at makialam ngayong SONA ni PGMA!
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as i said many times before, a SONA is a president’s annual general overview of what has been achieved since the last address, and his/her vision and guiding principles for governance in the coming year. it’s by no means a “promise”, the non-fulfillment of which is a breach. in our system, a president’s power is not unlimited. she is like a “king canute” who can who, for all the human powers he/she has, could not stop the tidal waves slamming against the shore. the same rule of law that gives him/her powers disables him/her from doing what he/she wants without observing due process. thus, for example, a president could not just put someone to jail on suspicion of corruption; indict somebody without probable cause; spend large sums of money without legislative appropriation; dismiss a civil servant arbitrarily. a vision cannot always be attained for the simple reason that a president is just a human being subject to the vagaries of the unknown, e.g., world economy, weather patterns, man-caused disasters such as terrorist bombings; paradigm shifts in man’s concepts of “morality” and values.
erratum: “king canute” who, with all the human powers he had, could not stop…
Bencard,
You are one of those few highly talented people who can talk out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, whilst simultaneously blowing smoke out his ass . . .
Joe
you mean like obama, joe? you sure are a “good” judge of people except that he doesn’t blow smoke but something else not fragrant.
Mere motherhood statements as if were not known to one Joe et al.
Hardly a room for newer and brighter ‘rays’ of ideas all of us can profit from.
No debate is necessary.
like we can profit much from your brand of comments like this?
Somebody at the National Security Council dropped the ball. On Thursday, President Obama is welcoming Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to the White House for his presidency’s first visit by a Southeast Asian leader. The choice of Mrs. Arroyo for this honor was a mistake because Mr. Obama is being used to give political cover for the Philippine president’s troubles back home.
Mrs. Arroyo’s domestic political position is precarious. A poll released June 8 by the Pulse Asia polling firm pegged Mrs. Arroyo’s public approval at only 26 percent. Street demonstrations against her are routine and growing in size. These protests are in response to a dubious mandate following a dirty 2004 election and numerous allegations of corruption against her family and administration. Her husband, Mike Arroyo, has left the country and used doctors’ notes to say he is too ill to obey court summons related to corruption charges.
The Philippines has become less free during Mrs. Arroyo’s 10-year presidency. According to Freedom House, “Corruption is extensive throughout the Philippine state apparatus, from the lowest to the highest levels. Bribes and extortion seem to be a regular element of the complex connections among bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen, the press and the public.” In Transparency International’s 2008 Corruption Perceptions Index, the Philippines ranked 141st out of 180 nations on a list in which No. 1 is the least corrupt. The level of Philippine corruption is tied with Iran and Yemen and worse than in dodgy places such as Libya and Nigeria.
The corruption problem is affecting Manila’s relationship with other allies. A senior Philippine official told The Washington Times that German Chancellor Angela Merkel sent Mrs. Arroyo an ultimatum last month that Berlin-Manila ties are at risk if the Philippines doesn’t pay $60 million owed to the German government for Manila’s new international airport. The Philippine government seized the airport and refused to pay a German company — which is partly owned by the German state — for its construction after revelations that the contract allegedly was laden with millions in bribes and kickbacks.
There are also serious human-rights abuses in the archipelago. According to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, “The Philippines ranks sixth worldwide among countries that fail to prosecute cases of journalists killed for their work.” Between 1992 and 2008, at least 34 journalists were murdered in the Philippines; there were convictions in only three of these cases. Four more members of the press were killed this June alone. Opposition voices regularly disappear as well.
On top of all this are machinations by Mrs. Arroyo to cling to power by setting aside next May’s presidential election. The president and her allies are pushing to amend the Philippine constitution to change the current U.S.-style presidential system into a parliamentary system whereby Mrs. Arroyo could serve as prime minister. This would allow her to circumvent the presidential term limit which prevents her from staying in office. This move, incidentally, is similar to the strategy strongman Ferdinand Marcos used to stay in power after declaring martial law in 1972.
The relationship between Washington and Manila is an old and important one. After the U.S. victory in the Spanish-American war in 1898, the Philippine islands were a U.S. colony for half a century and have remained a close ally in the six decades since independence was granted in 1946. The current Visiting Forces Agreement between the two countries allows U.S. troops on Philippine soil to help in the war on terrorism and to assist the Philippines with its fight against Islamic insurrection in the southern islands.
But the nation should be differentiated from its lame-duck leader. Welcoming Mrs. Arroyo to the White House only validates her troubled rule.
Washington Times Editorial
Sunday, July 26, 2009
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/26/obama-the-sanitizer/print/
After you completed reading the WashingtonTimes editorial, tranquil, did you mutter words of gratitude as the editorial asked you to? You know…. for the US forces on Philippine soil?
I am grateful that Washington Times has a concise observation vis-a-vis Gloria Arroyo’s reign.
VFA is NOT the point of the piece.
It is very possible, UPn, that the recent spate of bombings in Mindanao and Manila attributed to Muslim partisans was actually stage-managed to get the attention of the White House to grant Arroyo the audience that she craved.
Watch out, tranquil, I am about to pull you into a different direction.
BUT the spate of bombings in Mindanao really go back, both DJB and benign0 and maybe two other Pinoy-borns may agree… really go back to when GMA capitulated and paid ransom for Angelo delos Reyes, then capitulate to terrorism.
http://filipinovoices.com/our-place-in-the-hierarchy-of-human-excellence
UP n,
What is your stance with regard to the need for US forces on Philippine soil? I wobble, as I want the Philippines to stand tall and independent, but I don’t have confidence in the military (which seems to have run low on bullets) or the Palace’s toughness (re. your remarks about capitulation). I don’t believe in a separate piece of territory (just as I don’t believe in a separate holiday for any particular church). The laws of the state are the laws of the state, and history is history . . .
Joe
to JoeAmerica: If there are to be Chinese, Frenchie or British military forces on Pinas soil, then lease them a military base and only inside that military base can these foren-dyer soldiers carry firearms loaded with live-ammo. Okay, I suppose there will be occasions inside a Philippine military base (e.g. during live-fire demonstrations / practice sessions) where the Chinese or Brit soldiers will need to carry firearms with live-ammo. But all other Pinas-geography places will be off-limits.
Same rules for our friends the Russians, the neutral Malaysians, and the blue-helmet United Nations forces — “NO! Your soldiers can’t operate on Pinas territory!”; same rules for USA forces.
If much more Pinoy blood has to spill …. then so be it. Pinas should draft college-boys from UP-Diliman, La Salle, FEU, UST, Ateneo (and raise VAT to pay for these Pinoy soldiers, their training, their rifles and ammo) Pinoys-in-Pinas should have shown willingness to pay a heavier price against thuggery on Pinas soil before allowing foreign troops to operate in combat-mode on its territory.
UP:
It’s the Philippines:
* where rules are made to be broken.
* where lawmakers are lawbreakers or consider themselves above the law
* where law enforcers are lawbreakers or consider themselves above the law
* where the constitution is a piece of paper used to wipe ones arse with.
might as well declare open skies and become a door mat in the open, instead of proclaiming non-aligned policy and operating like a door mat – get it done and over with.
if the philippines does not want foreign forces on its soil – then it should mean ALL. it should also desist from buying foreign weapons. foreign ammo. it should make its own ammo its own weapons. then join North Korea as the 2nd hermit state of the ASEAN :)
tranquil:
I am inclined to agree with you.
the residents of the bombed areas themselves (NOT the pundits or observers in Cyberspace) – assert it is the military (under the directions of top honchos) wanting to create more chaos given that events are unfolding uncannily similar to Trillanes’ Oplan August Moon
must have been written by de quiros or jarius bondoc (lol).
or written by Trillanes. [Oooops, Senator Trillanes....]
To bencard (… also for Abe Margallo):
Check this one out…..
http://filipinovoices.com/arroyo-empowered-the-poor-filipino
http://www.mindanews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6715&Itemid=190
Bakwits to Gov’t, MILF: “We want to go home now!”
by Carolyn O. Arguillas / MindaNews
Thursday, 23 July 2009
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/23 July) – “Please do not allow us to spend another Ramadan in the evacuation center. We want to go home now.”
This sums up the appeal of internally displaced persons (IDPs, also known as evacuees or bakwits) in their collective State of the Bakwits Address (SOBA) read in Maguindanao by Ustadz Norodin Sain and in Pilipino by Oblate priest Eduardo Vasquez.
“This war has left wounds so deep and wide and has made our lives so miserable. Some of our houses have been burned; our meager belongings and farmlands destroyed. Even as many are helping us, many are still awaiting help,” the IDPs said in their 17-paragraph SOBA, read at the Notre Dame University gymnasium.
“Today this will be our classroom,” said Fr. Eduardo Tanud-tanud, OMI, president of the Notre Dame University, as he welcomed the crowd of about 2,000, most of them students from NDU, Notre Dame of Midsayap and Southern Christian College in Midsayap, North Cotabato.
“What is happening in Central Mindanao has an effect on all of us. For you students, you are the future. You are the future of Central Mindanao. You are the future leaders,” said Tanud-tanud, who said he was himself a “bakwit” in the 1970-1971 war.
“Hindi ko akalaing sa mga kaibigan kong Moro ay tuloy-tuloy pa ring nanghihirap,” (I didn’t expect my Moro friends would continue to suffer evacuations), Tanud-tanud said.
“Tama na. Alagaan natin at ibalik na ang mga bakwit sa kanilang lugar,” (Enough.Let us take care and return the evacuees to their homes),” he added.
Kagi Sittie Sandag gave a brief testimony of life as a bakwit as 25 evacuees gathered on stage. “Help us so we can go home. Enough of war,” she said in Maguindanao.
But the young boy, Alimuddin Musa, silenced the crowd as he began his testimony. He tried to avoid crying but broke down.
“I am crying because I want to go home. Please have mercy on us. We have no more money…. We want to go home because we want to return to school. We left our village because day and night we were afraid of getting hit by gunfire or mortar fire….We left our place and went to Datu Piang. We found it more difficult there, as bakwits. Enough already,” Musa said in Maguindanao.
Toh Midpantao, representing fathers in the evacuation centers, said “itigil ang putukan sa Mindanao para makauwi mga bakwit” (stop the firing in Mindanao so the evacuees can go home).
The SOBA also cited the case of Baby Boy Kureg who died at 2 months old because his mother, unable to eat three meals a day, could not breastfeed him. Instead, the boy subsisted for two months on “simbug,” a mixture of water and sugar.
“Baby Boy Kureg is just one of many children who died from illness, lack of nourishment and difficulties brought by war,” it said.
It also cited the case of the Mandi family who fled Barangay Tee in Datu Piang on September 8, 2008, on two bancas. Only one survived from the other boat. Six family members – the father, eldest daughter who was pregnant and four other children, were killed by shrapnel wounds.
The Mandi family, it said, “is just one of many who lost their lives. Many bakwits have been orphaned or widowed. Several pregnant women have suffered miscarriages. Children and the elderly have died of shock from mortar explosion.”
The SOBA also expressed fears about “sudden enforced disappearances” like the case of IDPs Lao, Kaharudin and Harudin, who had not been heard from since May 7, 2009, and getting bombed in the evacuation centers like what happened on June 15, 2009 “when the evacuation center in Libutan, Mamasapano, Maguindanao was hit by three mortars.”
“Even evacuation centers are not safe anymore,” the SOBA said.
The SOBA also expressed fears “for our children,” who constitute the majority in the evacuation centers, many of them no longer in school.
“We fear the children will learn nothing but evacuation, war and hopelessness. We pray to God/Allah, to help us resume our interrupted lives,” it said.
The SOBA asked government and the MILF
- “to immediately declare a ceasefire and to return to the negotiating table to talk peace so that we can return home. We want to go home now!
_”to ensure our safe, organized and permanent return to our respective homes before Ramadan (Ramadan begins on August 21 or 22);
- that the ceasefire mechanisms be reactivated immediately.
The SOBA appealed to the Malaysian government to “redeploy the International Mionitoring Team to help us once again in enforcing the ceasefire agreement.”
It asked “all armed groups to keep away from the evacuation centers and civilian-inhabited areas.”
The SOBA also asked government to
- “provide food and other support and livelihood assistance to the returning IDPs and those still in the evacuation centers;
- “ensure that houses that were destroyed totally or partially, be repaired or reconstructed immediately;
- “ indemnify relatives of the slain or injured IDPs;
- recommend for the Commission on Human Rights to operate in Maguindanao and Cotabato and mobilize its fullest power, mandate and resources in order to protect the human rights of the IDPs.
The SOBA also asked “service providers and international humanitarian agencies” to “step up and coordinate humanitarian efforts and work together to fulfill the rights of the IDPs under the UN Guiding Princeiples on Internal Displacement.”
“Please do not allow us to spend another Ramadan in the evacuation center. We want to go home now,” the SOBA said.
Cotabato Archbishop Orlando Quevedo, in his message urged the government and MILF to “end your war” because “enough is enough”
The message was read for Quevedo by Sister Rose Susan Montejo, superior general of the Oblates of Notre Dame.
The SOBA is still going on as of 11:20 a.m. (Carolyn O. Arguillas/MindaNews)
or this – http://www.mindanews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6715&Itemid=190
You think a conservative, right of center, anti-communist daily like the Wash Times and is the paper of choice of Ronald Reagan would hire de Quiros or Bondoc to do the editorial for them Bencard?
UP n,
That is good, makes sense, if you can get both aspects, government determination and independence. I think the whole government peace plan should start with intense development and jobs on Sulu, at the government’s initative, with negotiations being unnecessary. THEN lay down the law. And enforce it professionally.
But now, as is often the case, the government seems reactive rather than committed.
Joe
The True State of the Nation is what you see in REALITY as the
State of the Nation. We dont need to be told. We have EYES to
see.
to HydenToro: aren’t you in USA-Northeast like benCard?
We are here, there and everywhere. We are citizens of the world as
mostly OFWs.
Gloria Arroyo’s SONA was an Illusion of Prosperity. People like
us are confused. If a leader projects and features in her SONA,
her huge and bountiful accomlishments. As huge and as roboust as
her Breast Implants. We see the present realities do not match what we hear in the SONA. The only truth that we know is that she had told us the same tales in previous SONAs. It is like a sports fisher’s tale. My catch is as big as this one !
toro, you and primer pagunuran should get together. you will learn a lot from each other on how to heckle more annoyingly.
Truth hurts, but it is the truth…
GMA sais she accepted the invitation of President Obama as if it were something she can reject. Anyway, against the backdrop of what tranquil here has posted, I guess, the curious public should be interested what transpired in that meeting if Malacanang cares enough to tell it all like it is.
What’s the point beancurd? Did I provoke you? Your viewpoints travel on a railroad track, without the track, how could there be a train?
You think a conservative, right of center, anti-communist daily like the Wash Times and is the paper of choice of Ronald Reagan would hire de Quiros or Bondoc to do the editorial for them Bencard?
why not? it really is not the conservative that you think it is. it is a cesspool of elitist liberals, like bernstein and woodward, who support big government, abortion, entitlements, more government spending, among other things.
in any event, if a paper wants to impugn a philippine president, who would be best to do it than a pinoy muckraker who can dish it out to his own kind, president or no president, better than anyone?
Since you are already in the East Coast Manoy Benny, why not verify the authorship of that editorial which tarnished the immaculate image of your soon-to-be client and stop speculating. So unlawyerly of you.
look, for the umpteenth time, my being a lawyer has nothing to do with my opinion expressed in this blog. of course, what i said was a rhetorical “speculation”, given tongue-in-cheek, in response to your own pointed comment. if i lost a “potential client” because of it, so be it.
hahaha…contrast that with the lawyerly posturing whenever the subject of, say, official bribery is brought up.
anyways, your message is clear atty. benny.
goodnight and sweet dreams on the eastern shore…
Jabba the Hut should differentiate the two papers. The Washington Post and the Washington Times. The Post is the right of center paper while the Times is the extreme right.
Jabba the Hut to mean amoebic in thinking since the graphic of Jabba in Star Wars clearly make him out to be down low in the evolutionary scheme of things. The original one celled creature. Original and unchanged.
Speaking of Jabba… havenn’t you noticed how bulldogish GMA’s looks become with every year passing? Age really gets to you. hehehe