How do you get a bill bringing down the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 12 passed in the Senate?
By proposing another bill to have it lowered to age 9, and making those who hold the line at 12 feel like they won a great victory for human rights and and allowing guys like Senator Gordon, who probably thought up the strategy in the first place, to pose as advocates of children’s rights.
Heard through the grapevine
The Philippine Star 4 Jan 2019
Victor C. AgustinA former US ambassador to the Philippines has interceded in behalf of former Comelec chairman Andres Bautista in his application with the US Department of Homeland Security to prolong his now year-long stay in the land of the brave and the home of the free.
Bautista’s application with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services is being handled by anti-Duterte lawyer and political activist, Rodel Rodis, who declined to answer emailed inquiries.
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dirty linen, dirty elections? 8 aug 2017
in defense of tish 10 aug 17
no documents no proof 15 aug 17
on andy’s SALN 13 aug 17
andy agonizes, to resign or not to resign 30 aug 17
who’s got andy’s (and smartmatic’s back, perhaps in aid of federalism? 8 sept 17
andy bautista wins? who loses? 9 sept 17
andy’s endgame 13 oct 17
PCGG audit reveals disturbing details from Andres Bautista’s closet by victor c. agustin 19 jan 2018
Ex-Comelec chair Bautista might never return to PH — Kapunan by lorna patajo-kapunan 12 feb 18
Where is Andy Bautista? by antonio contreras 11 aug 18
Andy Bautista: Out of sight, out of mind! by lorna patajo-kapunan 12 nov 18
Again, where is Andy Bautista? by antonio contreras 19 jan 19
. . . we are being forced to confront the dementor ways of dynasty.
duterte is a stand-up comic-tragic figure whose mission as president in midterm is to distract us from his failure to deliver on the BIG CHANGES he promised — hindi pala niya kaya, ang hirap pala, akala ay madadaan sa kamachohan, takutan, but how do you make takot the entrenched oligarchy (heavily represented in the cabinet) into changing their ways and moderating their greed for the sake of nation, what do they care about nation — and so deliberately he distracts us from the higher prices, harder times, under his watch, and of course he can blame the price of oil only so much, and so he resorts to his favorite pasttime, talking dirty, talking sex, best seller forever, the dirtier the more shocking the better, and boy has he amped it up, nasa bedtime pornography na, for general patronage even. i hate to imagine what next. such a low way to go. meanwhile, the country continues to go to the dogs. soon there will be nothing left.
kris aquino is only a little less disturbing. in her latest, current war, this time vs former business manager nicko falcis who has denied her charges of “qualified theft” — woman scorned nga ba? — falcis has accused kris of seriously threatening his life, “PAPAPATAY KA NG PAMILYA KO … DARE TO STEP IN THIS COUNTRY, AND YOU WILL BE DEAD.” totoo ba ito? bakit hindi dine-deny ni kris? dahil walang nagtatanong? bayarán ba ng reyna ang lahat ng media? totoo bang the queen is “guarded & sacrificed for above & beyond all costs. No Kris Aquino, no contracts, and no millions. Do not think I won’t go in all directions.” — did she really say this in one of her final messages to falcis?
“PAPAPATAY KA NG PAMILYA KO … DARE TO STEP IN THIS COUNTRY, AND YOU WILL BE DEAD.” sounds like duterte. and sounds like alice in wonderland’s queen of hearts: OFF WITH HIS HEAD! if true, she threatened falcis, and if she spoke sincerely, what does it say of the family culture of the aquino-cojuango clan, the political dynasty she proudly belongs to? which could be why she’s distracting us with her health woes, invoking ninoy and cory to boot, tugging at heartstrings grown brittle, bored stiff by her paawa dramatics. what a waste of ninoy’s DNA.
kris fancies herself a queen — megalomania much? digong is himself a kingpin, the patriarch who dares break all the rules of civilized society. kumusta naman kaya ang ibang dynasties diyan? nakakabaliw ba, nakaka-adik ba, ang sobrang yaman at kapangyarihan?
we should do them all, and nation, a favor by not voting for any of them, or their ilk.