My daugther doesn’t want to sing and dance at WOWOWEE

I was tempted not to write about the miseries of Filipinos why we are poor, but my second daughter want an answer why WOWOWEE enticed a no talent contestant to sing and dance look like a clown. Much I don’t want to give her my embarrassing answer but,my daughter is striving to be a “professional” [...]

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They Blame the Flood

China depends on exports, and the Philippines is China’s chief export customer. Exports are key to China’s entire modernization strategy. Its lethal products are killing our kababayan.It puzzle me why the BFAD chief is now quick to react and advised the public not to buy and consume the banned Chinese food products. She also called [...]

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No Exemption in Paying Taxes

Most people don’t give much thought to how they’ll spend their money. A substantial portion of many budgets pays for beer,cigarettes, parties, entertainments, gambling, hookers,kabit, sabit,pastor,ministers,pader and televangelists. If this describes your spending pattern, then the government probably wouldn’t do worse than that with your money. Taxes are the government’s gentle way of trying to [...]

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Philippines: Umbrella Capital of the World

Mike Villarde said that he is running for president and he urged those presidential aspirant to participate in a lottery to be his VP.
Who is  Mike Villarde anyway?
He is the leader of El Shaddai. Apparently, some services can last 24 hours and start at Noon on Saturday. They often attract over one hundred thousand participants [...]

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Pompous Stuffed Clowns to Jester

Bayani Fernando must be jealous! In Naga City, for the Penafrancia celebration, the streamer of Gen.Danilo Lim is hanging in a big tree. Mass media outlets, who already seem eager  — or at least their perpetual coverage of such — have taken to endlessly speculating on the potential of undeclared candidates. The Esperon “Sutil” [...]

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Martial Law and Me in Charge!

Tongress is pushing again to start the engine of the Cha-Cha Train. And there was a very interesting thread about why people don’t like to dance very much right now. It got me to thinking. Do these include gun tooting just to push the hidden agenda?
There is fast approaching a time in the not too [...]

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Pinoy Arrogance

Ingit Lang Kayo !
I wonder, often laugh,sa yabang ni Buratoy, but I am always baffled by the consequences brought about by the only trait that is truly shared by all societies in our country. Like most human idiosyncrasies, arrogance may be voluntary or involuntary, it can have many appearances; it can take the shape of [...]

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Is your Job Secured?

My topic is Job and education – you got a problem with that Renato? Unfortunately, the lack of Education in our society and in our country is not a laughing matter.
We are suffused with embarrassment in our country about the decline of Education and look for reasons in our government, our churches, our economists, our [...]

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Coming to America

Over our dinner,my children questioned me,”So,daddy, why then did you come to America?”
My children are growing and developing physically, intellectually, socially,emotionally,politically and I guess they are searching for owns identities of being Americans or Filipino.I need to be very careful with my answers and I come to think that the issues are especially thorny because [...]

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We Must Engage Mrs.Pidal Backpedaling

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has directed a new paradigm in the peace process by mandating that peace negotiations be refocused from one centered on dialogue with rebels to one of authentic dialogues.
Last week at the final hearing of the Supreme Court on the MOA-AD, Soliciator General Agnes Devanadera dela Vativa said “The panel conveyed to me [...]

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