Category: karma

Last minute #Halalan2022

Pains me to say this but am bracing for a [God forbid] Marcos edge [at the very least, and at my most optimistic].  Hindi kilala si VP Leni ng masa.  The monster rallies are representative of just a small sector of the electorate.  There are no Leni posters, only MarcosDuterte stuff, in many poor communities where the majority of voters are.  It looks like the Marcoses have got this sewn up.  Twill take massive efforts and funds for radical comms strategies — on the ground and in social media — in this final month of the campaign to move that needle.  VP Leni could make the rounds of palengkes and komunidads, too, with flyers and stickers atbp. to give out, and for people to take home and read and share with family and neighbors.  Tight fists with deep pockets should start pitching in.  Now’s a good time.  Win or lose, it’s good for the soul.  Good for the karma.  Hope springs eternal.  #Laban  #HopeImWrong

sereno and the supremes, pNoy and dengvaxia

whew, what a week, and it’s only wednesday.

on tuesday came the oral arguments sa supreme court on the quo warranto case vs cj sereno (tuesday) that certainly had the makings of a drawn-out catfight between associate justice teresita de castro and the embattled CJ, but cooler heads prevailed, shucks.  seriously though, i pray that similar cool prevails when the time comes to rule on the quo warranto.

no matter what the solgen-who-has-never-lost-a-case says, it is not for the supremes to kick out the chief: it would be so unethical, it would be disgraceful, it would be unjust, and it would be undignified, to be so obviously pandering to self- and vested interests: there would be nowhere (for the justice system) to go but down.  the only way the supremes can come out of this smelling like roses would be if if they were gracious enough to give sereno her day in court, the senate impeachment court.

the very next day, wednesday, nambulaga naman si senator dick gordon with the blue ribbon committee’s final report on the dengvaxia mess that finds pNoy,  ex-dbm sec butch abad, and ex-doh sec janet garin guilty of malfeasance, misfeasance, and nonfeasance  …

Malfeasance is an affirmative act that is illegal or wrongful. In tort law it is distinct from misfeasance, which is an act that is not illegal but is improperly performed. It is also distinct from Nonfeasance, which is a failure to act that results in injury.

nakakaloka.  in other words

The Senate Blue Ribbon committee, in its report, found that the Dengvaxia program was implemented with “undue haste” by Aquino, former Health Secretary Janette Garin, and former Budget Secretary Florencio Abad.

“Aquino, Garin, Abad and other officials are primary conspirators and must be held criminally liable… and must be prosecuted for all the tragedy, damage and possible deaths resulting from the Dengvaxia mass vaccination program,” Gordon said in a press conference.

parang kinakarma nang todo si pNoy.  malinaw by now that it was a very bad idea appointing such a young chief justice.  malinaw din na it was a very bad idea rushing the dengvaxia purchase and mass vaccination.

hard not to wonder why such mistakes were made in the first place, mistakes that could have been avoided.  one theory is that they were so sure mar roxas would be pNoy’s successor, as in, six more years, and sereno and the supremes would have had their backs?  well, karma’s a bitch, someone tell the duterte admin.

gma’s alleged sins

someone’s been doing her research.  got this email via blackberry from smart:

KAWAWA NAMAN SI MAM

kawawa naman si madam…
payat-payat nya na, nakawheelchair pa
hindi man lng sya… nirespeto sa airport
e dating presidente ng pilipinas
ung tao. dami nya kya nagawa sa bayan

1. NBN ZTE Scandal
2. Millions of bribe money to Congressmen and Governors (October 2007)
3. Cheating in 2004 Elections (Hello Garci)
4. Joc Joc Bolante Case (Fertilizer Scam, P728 Million)
5. Jose Pidal Bank Account (Unexplained Wealth, P200 Million)
6. Nani Perez Power Plant Deal ($2 Million)
7. Use of Road User’s Tax for Campaigning
8. Billion Peso Macapagal Boulevard (Overprice of P532 Million)
9. Juetengate? (Illegal Numbers game kickbacks)
10. Extra Judicial Killings
11. Arroyo Moneys in Germany (Exposed by Senator Cayetano)
12. General Garcia and Other Military Men
13. Billion Peso Poll Automation contract to(Mega Pacific) (P1.3 Billion)
14. Northrail Project($503 Million)
15. Maguindanao Results of 2007 Elections (Zubiri, Bedol)
16. NAIA-3
17. Venable Contract (Norberto Gonzales)
18. Swine Scam (Exposed by? Atty. Harry Roque
19. GLORIA Arroyo son hidden assets in united states
20. EURO GENERALS
21. CALAMITY FUND SCANDAL.
22. the C-5 road controversy — Senator Manuel Villar
23. P550-million worth of funds from the Overseas Workers’ Welfare
Administration (OWWA).
24. P780-million LWUA funds-Prospero Pichay
25. Bishop’s SUV-Gloria Birthday gift
26. Arroyo linked in P325M lotto intelligence fund
27. Arroyo got P200M in kickbacks from govt projects-Zaldy Ampatuan
28.P200.41 billion or $4.6 billion in Malampaya royalties from 2002 to May this year.
29. LACSON ACCUSED FG MIKE ARROYO OF SELLING 3 REFURBISHED HELICOPTERS TO PNP AT P105 MILLION EACH
30. 600, 000 metric tons of Rotten rice imported from India.Kishore
Hemlani, an Indian trader allegedly close to Arroyo, reportedly bagged the P9.5 billion contract for the rice importation.
31.Dato Arroyo wife bought the condo unit for $570, 000,
70-square-meter one-bedroom, one-bathroom unit (Unit No. 533) at the luxury high-rise, full-service Gramercy Towers located at 1177
California St. in upscale downtown San Francisco.
31. P50-million bribe to FG for the president’s veto of two franchise bills
32. The additional funding led to a 41-percent spike in advertising
expenses, from P76.129 million in 2008 to P107.420 million in 2009,
which went mostly to ads for Arroyo’s achievements.
33. The report said the PIA received from the Department of Budget and Management a notice of cash allocations amounting to P344.789 million, even though only P222.488 million was appropriated for it under the national budget.
34. Denial of pork barrel funds to Malacanang’s political enemies
35. Praises for Jovito Palparan, alleged mastermind of extra judicial
killings of militants
36. Removal of govt bodyguards for former pres and Arroyo critic, Cory Aquino
37. Appointment of manicurist as a member of the board of Pag-Ibig
38. Appointment of gardener as deputy of the Luneta Park Administration.
39. Midnight appointment of an Arroyo ally, RENATO CORONA, as SC Chief Justice
40. 200+ other illegal midnight appointments

karma daw

nakarma daw ang japan for past war atrocities, say some chinese bloggers (and some pinoy commenters in pinoyexchange.com), to the dismay of the chinese government.   read China’s official sympathy for Japan’s woes undermined by blogger’s glee.

read too The State Hornet’s Editorial: Disaster in Japan is not ‘karma’ with which i tend to agree.   kung tutuusin pinagbayaran na ng japan lahat ng iyon when the u.s. dropped atomic bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki in 1945 killing 150,000 to 240,000 people  (which is not to condone that heinous act of revenge, it was totally uncalled for, tokyo was negotiating na for surrender).

if i’m thinking karma at all, it’s in the sense of, umm, knowing this area of the world to be earthquake prone, why are we all still here?   why did our ancestors not have the sense to move away to safer places?   i suppose because earthquakes didn’t happen that often, and never killed off entire populations?

in japan’s case, they got very smart about building earthquake proof buildings, but were not smart enough to stay out of coastlines, never imagining that tsunamis could come so instantly?   and they just weren’t careful enough pala about upgrading safety features of old model nuclear plants, read Glenn E. Sjoden’s Why nuclear power is a necessity

dito sa pinas, if a big one hits metro manila, and estimates of widespread devastation prove true, because many of our buildings are poorly weakly constructed, and many of them are built on top of a major fault line, yan, yan ang karma.