tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16958083.post262882887618992077..comments2023-10-16T19:20:24.549+08:00Comments on Out of my mind: What are we waiting for?Bong C. Austerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07798514780319855742noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16958083.post-37439065391671663582008-03-02T10:40:00.000+08:002008-03-02T10:40:00.000+08:00Bong,Please see the 'Youngblood' column of Leondro...Bong,<BR/>Please see the 'Youngblood' column of Leondro R. Lojo titled "A dangerous alliance", PDInquirer March 1/08, p. A13. A friend of mine texted me yesterday to read this and we plan to email everyone in our address book a copy, shake some of them to reality.I must say it's very well written, articulate, exposes what two types of people really are in this sorry spectacle. He speaks for me. Can I make a request to you to call the attention of more people to this column? Thanks in advance!<BR/>--MommyJoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16958083.post-89566821881083295242008-03-01T18:31:00.000+08:002008-03-01T18:31:00.000+08:00Hi Bong and anonymous,It's like the both of you ar...Hi Bong and anonymous,<BR/>It's like the both of you are in the same wavelength as myself and many of my colleagues, not to brag about it but we're basically academics, professionals, with PhD's and MSc's, working for THAT state univ, and were at EDSA 2. But this time we are not going to be herded like cattle by emotional, hysterical, chismis(so far)-based calls to take to the streets. I mean, come on, out with your credible evidences, bring it to the courts and we're behind you. But doing it like this? The spectacle is so pathetic that the foreign media is not taking it seriously! Yeah look at where Erap is now, rallying with you for chrissakes! I was telling my colleagues I couldn't bring myself to join them knowing the people behind these include the very same ones that brought me to the streets in EDSA2. It doesn't take much to realize what these people want. Who or what is their alternative? I want to know first. If GMA goes it should be no one but Noli de Castro, or we are again the laughing stock of all. Unless they want a military coup. Ever wonder why Legarda, Escudero, Roxas, Villar are not too hot about GMA stepping down? Because Noli will finish her term, and will win if he runs after 2010 and will set their ambitions back another 6 years. Doing it for the truth and for the country? Sinong lolokohin nyo? And another thing, who's paying for the food that these people eat in these endless brainless hearings? (I briefly tuned in one time while Madriaga was on and I was aghast at what I saw.) Cayetano and Madrigal paying for it? But of course they are using our taxes. Gardemmit!!! And unless we all can claim that we do not do nor tolerate corruption,petty or not, we have no right to scream the word in accusatory tones.<BR/>---MommyJoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16958083.post-14492431525141398222008-03-01T11:14:00.000+08:002008-03-01T11:14:00.000+08:00Genuine righteousness and moral rage is difficult ...Genuine righteousness and moral rage is difficult to divine these days just as it is maddening to determine what is the plain truth amid everyone's insistent versions of it. Everything that's happening around us is reduced to an endless stream of cacophony which the rest of the population has given up on comprehending. Nobody wants to wait around -- for what? As much as we hate to admit it, we are all just on a holding pattern like before.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16958083.post-35823982358015829222008-02-29T11:19:00.000+08:002008-02-29T11:19:00.000+08:00The main problem is that we have a very illegitima...The main problem is that we have a very illegitimate democratic system. Our voters elect only those people who are popular and not if they are capable. The big dilemma if GMA is ousted, the VP will take over who was elected PURELY because he’s popular with the masses, and not because he’s capable to lead the nation. Our economy has never grown this much, I don’t want to take the chance by entrusting it to someone solely popular with the masses.<BR/>To prevent this transfer, no matter how believable Lozada initially is, his credibility is now being questioned. He admitted that a certain level of corruption is acceptable to him. Questions have arisen whether he was kidnapped, because his celphone was not confiscated, he dined in Outback restaurant, and he was able to go to the place he wanted to go all along, that is, La Salle Greenhills. I even read he committed a sin of omission regarding his consultation with the wife of Sen. Joker Arroyo. He didn’t correct the impression in which it appeared the wife invited him to her house to urge him not to testify, when the fact of the matter is (based on what I read) Lozada was the one who contacted the wife around September before Joey de Venecia testified, and he was crying and that he doesn’t want to testify. So the wife invited him to her house, and told him she couldn’t lawyer for him due to conflict of interest since her husband is a Senator, while he was then president of Philforest. She advised him then, since he was so distressed, that he doesn’t have to testify if he didn’t want to. Since this was one of those ordinary free consultations, she didn’t bother to tell Joker about it. So Joker was surprised when his wife was mentioned.pianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03004880837317593197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16958083.post-59449362900426565732008-02-28T15:39:00.000+08:002008-02-28T15:39:00.000+08:00Between idealism and redundancy, Pinoys seem to be...Between idealism and redundancy, Pinoys seem to be having a really hard time choosing. :>Paoperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04595731030864957335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16958083.post-48916311102889354472008-02-27T17:21:00.000+08:002008-02-27T17:21:00.000+08:00Hi, Wanna know something? Those wannabes don't rea...Hi, <BR/>Wanna know something? <BR/>Those wannabes don't really want GMA to resign or they lose platform on which to raise their respective ambitions. They hope that she will be there till the campaign in 2010 so they will have continuing carcass to beat. They would not want her out at this time because Kabayan will take over as per our Constitition. Who would want to run against an incumben President? <BR/>So we are getting now are just the usual rhetorics and grandstanding.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com