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 [...]
The 9th or nth of Sona?
July 29, 2009 By 2 Comments
“Kung meron man tayong malaking kaaway na tinalo, walang iba kundi conjured the demon of the foreign debt. We exorcised it.” – President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo In her 9th Sona One can indeed tabulate or put in a matrix the more empirical data presented in PGMA’s 9th or nth Sona. Or, let us run them [...]
Too much rain for the next Premier (or President!)
July 29, 2009 By 11 Comments
Dr Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is probably the first President of the Philippines to seriously recognize that the effects of global climate change will have an impact on Philippine society. Dr Arroyo has to be commended for not glossing over this issue. Why this sudden epiphany? Was it the forthcoming visit to Mr Obama Esq? I reckon [...]
The Hat of Common Sense
July 29, 2009 By 6 Comments
Hey, here’s something for the credentialists out there: Who would you rather believe: (a) a drunken wash-out actor convicted of plunder, (b) a bunch of celibate men-in-robes who rely on a non-peer-reviewed 5,000-year-old textbook for their wisdom, or (c) a be-credentialled Economist? I’m sitting here wondering how many of the following hats one can wear [...]
Arroyo lied? Go figure
July 29, 2009 By 41 Comments
Okey, so some or many people think Arroyo lied, that what she presented during her State of the Nation address were all “half-truths” and “imaginings”. Caffeine Sparks took the effort of writing a long piece detailing every single item that Arroyo presented and debunked it with figures. Yet, we all know that we should use [...]
Okun’s Law
July 28, 2009 By 35 Comments
As slick as an hour-long TV commercial and about as credible Gloria Arroyo’s state of the nation address (SONA) seemed out of sync with the real economy. Few economists use anecdotes to measure performance. But for her choir, slick is par for the course. For zombie applauders, it is not uncommon to be peppered with [...]
Number-crunching, Lying and Arroyo’s SONA
July 28, 2009 By 15 Comments
Palace poodle Alex Magno, minutes before yesterday’s SONA predicted the President will make a “very detailed, specific, technical report.” Indeed, the President is counting on most Filipinos not being able to make heads or tails of her laundry list of statistics. After all, these are the numbers she collated from the various departments. Who can [...]
The State of the Filipino Nation
July 28, 2009 By 60 Comments
Before you characterize this post as yet another dissenting opinion, I enjoin you to read because the Filipino nation requires us to look at ourselves with fresh, honest and open eyes.
Any moron can dismiss the SONA
July 28, 2009 By 34 Comments
President Arroyo’s got up to the podium, delivered her State of the Nation Address (SONA), and then stepped down from the podium. That backgrounder out of the way, I can then say that it is quite heartening that within FilipinoVoices.com, at least, some of the usual suspects had the decency to see beyond their almost [...]
The Arroyo Valedictory
July 28, 2009 By 7 Comments
(SONA 2001 -2008 frames courtesy of Flowell Galindez) It was a State Of the Nation Address unlike all the 8 annual speeches that came before it. I have to confess that the valedictory of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has given this often jaded observer three very clear indications: 1. Mrs. Arroyo will step down from office [...]
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