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By: Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose » Today's Dose » Tidying up before the big push

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:42:27 +0000

[...] calculated to reassure its loyalists, and those hoping against hope the current regime has an expiration date, and not unduly arouse the citizenry. Victory is so close, the Palace functionaries can almost [...]

By: Current » Tidying up before the big push

Current » Tidying up before the big push — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:19:31 +0000

By: Current » Tidying up before the big push

Current » Tidying up before the big push — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:19:31 +0000

By: BrianB

BrianB — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:12:35 +0000

Jeq,

Government uses people’s money against the people themselves.

By: Jeg

Jeg — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:46:24 +0000

…the Govt has become a Giant Stealing Machine.

I dont remember who said the State ‘is a gang of thieves writ large’. Murray Rothbard, I think. All government is a gang of thieves writ large but this one does so with audacity and impunity, unlike the previous ones (save Erap, which did it with swaggering incompetence) which did it with subtlety. This is the government that learned the most from previous administrations.

By: arthur

arthur — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:03:25 +0000

any sufferance of the nation and the people in a period of less than two years under GMA would pale in comparison with the further assault on our political institutions…

hahaha, jcc, you really think Gloria Arroyo hasn’t assaulted our political institutions well enough already?

By: When do you know if someone is lying? « smoke

When do you know if someone is lying? « smoke — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:39:24 +0000

[...] evidence? Or maybe they should have just outsourced the formulation of their lists of questions to bloggers who, for a pittance, are able to come up with more [...]

By: TWC

TWC — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:33:24 +0000

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

“Administration preachers” would want the people of our nation to just enjoy our everyday lives in the midst of glaring corruption. Instead of constructively criticizing the age-old culture of dishonesty, they point out the people’s “rebellious” attitude as a major cause of the nation’s misery. They wrongly compared the people’s “uprising” against dishonesty to the Israelite’s rebellious and murmuring attitude towards their leader Moses in the Bible.

There are right and wrong ways of doing things. In our earnest desire to reform our nation, may we not veer and resort to extreme means where they usually lead to the wrong ways laden with traps.

Hope, the only thing that can keep a dead national spirit alive must be kept lit. For when the light of hope is gone, nothing will ever stop the nation from falling in the old same trap again as what happened before.

By: Ding G. Gagelonia

Ding G. Gagelonia — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:28:30 +0000

Handing over our worries to a prospective caudillo will probably worsen things. But those like Marck, all of 23 summers, are expressing their frustration, nay desperation over how the government is run as if we have cigar-chomping mafiosi with an Omerta as their collective shield against public accountability while they raid the national coffers and sell oit the national patrimony… What to do?

By: The EQualizer

The EQualizer — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:23:38 +0000

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)