while i try to come to terms with rigoberto tiglao’s story that the prez rushed the crafting (behind closed doors) and signing of the enhanced defense ek-ek just so obama would drop by while he was in the neighborhood and not snub the philippines again as he did when he visited indonesia not once but twice… yeah yeah because if he had snubbed us yet again, china would have been delirious with joy…
and while i try to understand where the prez is coming from, giving american troops access to practically any place they might desire to occupy/locate themselves, almost any place — i assume the palace is off limits? — in the archipelago, rural and urban, civilian and military, with the americans retaining jurisdiction, criminal and whatever, over everyone and everything they bring in and do wherever… i don’t get it, why do the americans want, need, to be all over the place? what’s the real agenda? why all the secrecy?
and while i wonder if government knows something we citizens don’t know regarding our status as sovereign nation, as in, we’re not pala, sovereign, akala lang natin, and we citizens are the last to know? could this be america’s and the aquino admin’s way of telling us without saying it in so many words?
and while i wonder if senator miriam’s promised senate probe would could make any difference, and if taking the question of constitutionality to the supreme court would only bring on another double negative, as in, not unconstitutional, lol, and whether american soldiers are regularly tested for HIV-AIDS and have unlimited supply of top-of-the-line leak-proof condoms to keep our women and children safe from sexually transmitted diseases…
and finally there’s napoles and the pdaf scam, and talk that enrile, estrada, and revilla will be arrested soon. talaga? meanwhile i’m intrigued by this mother’s day tweet by malou tiquia :
is d cuckoo who i think it is? but isn’t that what sandra cam was warning about, a sanitized list that would not tally with napoles’s?
and what about ping lacson claiming in a radio interview that the napoles list is explosive, it could bring the senate down, and that’s a national security concern, therefore it can only be revealed to the senators themselves in a secret session. big mistake. keeping that list secret from the public would create more of a national security concern. for sure it would infuriate and galvanize million-people-march-ers to storm the streets in protest, demanding that the list be made public, stop coddling the accused, or else!
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What should the Senate do? http://opinion.inquirer.net/74438/what-should-the-senate-do
The normalization of corruption http://opinion.inquirer.net/74408/the-normalization-of-corruption
let’s see all three lists then
PNoy: Napoles gave 3 different lists of pork scam conspirators http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/360630/news/nation/pnoy-napoles-gave-3-different-lists-of-pork-scam-conspirators
Si Lolit Solis meron din list.
lol. i’m sure. for sale to the highest bidder.
Si Cristy ferminute meron din daw list???lol…
Let me do my best to answer a few of your questions. America-the-government should be distinguished from Americans-the-people. The people supply the soldiers and those soldiers are generally good and kind people, not malicious rapists out to conquer the globe. They were the ones down south opening Tacloban so relief goods and Filipinos could get in after the storm. They work first and play later.
America-the-government seeks to defend Americans and the ideals upon which she is based, democracy and freedom being two of the planks, and the opportunity to grow and even get rich a couple of others. America-the-government has soldiers in other lands to protect other lands, generally at the request of the host country, whose leaders know their well-being is fragile if they are not as strong as they can be, and America helps make them strong. This is also to the benefit of America, that other lands – like the Philippines – are strong and independent, and America likes secrecy because it keeps the enemy off-guard.
Sometimes the enemy is where you’d least expect it.
Lists ayon sa balita at…bali-balita
1. Napoles – listahang halos tumutugma sa Luy List
2. Napolist – listahang pakawala ng sangkot sa katiwalian
3. Na-pole – listahang tumuhog sa kung sinu-sino na lang
4. Napolished – listahang self-explanatory
5. Na-fool – listahan ng buong bayan
6. Na-published – listahang secret finally revealed
6.1. Na-please – listahan ng mga nasiyahan matapos ma-publish
6.2. Napoles@$#%& – listahan ng lahat ng mga nagmumura matapos ma-publish
7. Na-abolish – dalawang kapulungan ng Kongreso
(Sound of reminiscence playing in the background: music from the olden days…)
Even Marcos had his list. Thanks to Johnny…most likely.
[Note: It is purely coincidental that, like baycas, Marcos had a penchant to listen to his erudite barber…not only great in hair cutting but likewise a politically astute citizen.]
Mang Gani, who is a colleague of Mang Bernie, my barber, surely wished that those listed in the NAPO-LUY List will have the same fate as those listed in the ENRIL-MACOY List!
Meanwhile, Mang Tony, the third of the three ‘20/20‘ perceptive barbers, wondered out loud in the vernacular during another “kuwentong barbero” session, “Where’s Reynaldo*?” (A la “Where’s Waldo?” in his tone)
Mang Bernie quickly added,
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*Reynaldo Lim aka Jojo Lim, Jenny’s brother
Calculated chaos http://opinion.inquirer.net/74569/calculated-chaos
With consistency in their participation, first four on the list to be arrested:
JLN, Tanda, Sexy, and Pogi.
Next are their agents.
Lists of people to be arrested must be revealed posthaste. That would put order in the chaos.
It’s all about unethical rationalizations and misconceptions…
http://ethicsalarms.com/rule-book/unethical-rationalizations-and-misconceptions/
On twitter by @nimfaravelo, a DZBB reporter…
https://mobile.twitter.com/nimfaravelo/status/466160812030042112
Unethical rationalizations and misconceptions – a national concern!