This is my fourth post on the encounter Mar Roxas, the senator and presumptive presidential standard bearer of the Liberal Party had with Filipino bloggers, this writer among them. But no, I am not yet ready to endorse him as the Pinoy Barack Obama. But this much I am sure of: With the next presidential [...]
SONA 2008: What Was The Applause For?
July 29, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Outside of the now predictable sing-song SONAs, the two previous occasions when Filipinos, I think, really intently intently listened to and focused on the presidential address were when GMA said she would not run for president after she completed the balance of ousted president Estrada’s term, and when she said “I am sorry” at the [...]
President Arroyo Not A Factor For The 2010 Presidential Elections?
July 23, 2008 By 8 Comments
Some people just don’t get it. The fact that they want to sweep everything under the rug, and tell us that President Gloria Arroyo will not be factor in the 2010 elections, is almost delusional a statement as saying that President George W. Bush is not a factor in the 2008 elections. They are incumbents, [...]
Imagine a world without oil…
July 3, 2008 By 5 Comments
I may not be the brightest bulb in the room, but I’m not really sure if the irony behind Abe’s article “Imagine a world without Filipinos” escaped anyone else here. At least 10,000 Filipinos have been lost in shipping disasters over the last 20 years and the owners and key executives of certain shipping lines [...]
The Right to Rule
June 26, 2008 By 2 Comments
Who has the right to rule? I found an interesting bit of blog that said, “Leadership is never given, it’s taken“. True enough. I recently asked a question, about what kind of leader would you like. Rather unscientific, but I got mixed answers: visionary w/balls, a few posts messaged to me via plurk, saying, it [...]
And then there was silence…
June 24, 2008 By 1 Comment
Interesting. After a blogging frenzy over the abduction of a journalist who many (who dared) opined may have “asked for it”, we are left with disturbing silence in the wake of a sea disaster that may have already killed 800 relatively innocent people. At the risk of flogging a dead horse, I did make the [...]
Of Political Poison Texts and Criminal Aliases
June 21, 2008 By 5 Comments
The news media in Metro Manila has been in a celebratory mood, albeit subdued, after the release from captivity several days ago of respected broadcast journalist Ces Drilon who, to her credit, has profusely thanked all who helped in ending her ordeal at the hands of that kidnap-for-ransom gang in Sulu. Now on going is [...]
2010: The Cyberspace Strategy
May 16, 2008 By 2 Comments
Via Aileen’s work blog, I downloaded the Social Media Tracker Wave.3 study by Universal McCann, and after digesting its results, I thought of how this would impact the political landscape come the 2010 elections. Of course, I did have to take the numbers provided in the study with a grain of salt (especially since I [...]
Are We Really A Pathethic And Apathetic People?
May 11, 2008 By 13 Comments
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