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no ceasefire

mother earth cares nothing for christmas.   mayon volcano continues in the throes of imminent eruption.   no ceasefire there.

in which spirit i was planning to post a piece taking off from the celdran–paredes online catfight smack into the migration issue that celdran raised, which truly deeply resonates with pinoys who stay, but on second thought it can wait til after christmas.   puwede ring pag-isipan pa.

so i was looking around for a christmas piece worth re-posting.   in the end i settled on toto gonzalez’s in remembranceofthingsawry.

Comedy Relief: New threat to kiddies, 16 December 2009

I had a great big laugh yesterday late afternoon as I was at a department store shopping for Christmas presents…

A six year old boy was having a tantrum because his mother refused to buy him the toy he wanted. Some new thing that cost Php thousands. He was making a mess of himself right there, embarrassing his young and pretty mother no end…

“Tama na iyan! Pag hindi ka tumigil, pupugutan ka ng ulo ni AM*ATUAN!!! Papatayin ka ni AM*ATUAN!!!” snapped the mother.

The little boy immediately stood up and behaved.

I’ve heard of various threats to kiddies. But I’ve never heard of AM*ATUAN to be one of them!!!

How’s that for the Grinch who stole Christmas???

Harharhar!!!

luz valdez!

… si rafa!   pakshet!   ang saya nifederer!   ‘yun lang ;)

sedition, blackmail, whatever

“In response to the global economic crisis that we are facing today which everybody knows about, and in response to the pitiful state of our country, the time to rebuild our country economically, socially, politically, minus corruption is now. . . .

The time to start radical reforms is now. The time for moral regeneration is now. The time to conquer complacency, cynicism and apathy and to prove that we matured from our political disappointments is now. The time to prepare a new government is now. ”

strong words from cbcp president archbishop angel lagdameo.  strong words too from jaime cardinal sin’s annointed, bishop socrates villegas:

“We are not here to bring you peace. We are here to disturb you. I’m praying to God that after this meeting, may the Lord trouble you because the trouble that comes from the Lord is going to make you a better person and it’s going to make the country a better country.”

lagdameo even went so far as to foretell of reformist “liberators”:

“In spite of the seemingly hopeless and negative prognosis, our liberation may yet serendipitously happen. We are dreaming, praying and hoping that our county may yet have the needed liberators… (who)….will in a courageous peaceful way effectively and uncompromisingly reform our country.”

it’s hard to believe that it’s just the bishops’ way of blackmailing gloria into vetoing the reproductive health bill should it pass congress. gma is said to be all set to wield her veto power precisely to please the church, so why bother antagonizing her at this point?

can it be that the five bishops are really being seditious?  was that a coup alert — precursor of an edsa moment?  are they alerting the public to, priming the public for, some reformist (military, i presume) movements behind-the-scenes that they’ve become privy to, and which meet with their approval, shades of cardinal sin?

if yes, how capable would a divided cbcp be of doing a cardinal sin, with 7 out of 10 filipinos differing and disgusted with the church’s stand on the population, reproductive health, and sex education.  or is this their way na nga of winning back some pogi points kahit papaano.

who knows.  it could be that the cbcp bishops are pretendinglang to be split, hedging their bets as usual, telling white lies, hanggang venial sin lang kaya.

palanca’s 58th

last night was my first palanca awards night. not as winner — i’ve never joined — but as guest of my daughter katrina who won the 2nd prize for her essay “Mirrors.” galing, if i may say  so myself who shouldn’t.  the sosyal dinner and program weren’t bad either, lalo na the open bar and the smoking area ;) mabuhay the palancas!