Things that upset me today
I have a headache. I watched four episodes of ‘House’ one after the other, and strained my eyes.
I wish so much that every doctor in the Philippines was like ‘House.’ No, I don’t mean that they be mean, miserable bastards and bitches, but that they become so obsessed with helping their patients get well that they will not stop at anything to find cures and to push for health reforms and demand higher allocations for public health.
I like ‘House’ much better than ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ because the former focuses more on methods and processes in the medical industry than on the personal lives of the characters. You learn about the characters and become familiar with their personalities through the way they do their work, and how they react to each other and to their patients.
‘Grey’s Anatomy’ is more of a soap opera, and the plot revolves more around the personal conflicts within and between the characters, than on their work.
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It drives me nuts that Imelda Marcos has become a fashion icon. It makes me think of a hundred reasons for homicide.
What does it say about the ruling elite in the Philippines that they have fully welcomed and renewed their embrace for the heirs of the former dictaror? What kind of values are they promoting, what kind of…morality… do they now treat Imelda Marcos as an icon, even if only for fashion.
She and the other heirs of Marcos represent all that’s decadent in the culture of 
the ruling elite. They take pride in their personal histories, nevermind that the larger, more objective history of the nation and the Filipino people denounce them as a family of thieves and human violators. They have neither apologized for their crimes nor made amends for them. It’s so unthinkable that they are still allowed to run for office, to flaunt themselves and their wealth (the main source of it stull ill-gotten) in public, and now to promote themselves as standards (even if only for fashion).
Their brains must be programmed a certain way that makes them completely shameless.
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I love Michael V. He spoofs Macapagal-Arroyo so realistically it’s insane, and his jokes are so pointed. His GMA has buck-teeth and stands four-feet tall, and he has GMA’s hand movements (finger pilantik gesticulations) down pat. I wish he’d have an hour-long show spoofing GMA - the ratings would hit the roof.
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Today, the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s editorial cartoon featured Ka Bel and Gringo Honasan being nabbed by Malacanang.
Ka Bel was understandably upset by it because he felt that the PDI lumped him together with Gringo who has, from the beginning, never denied his involvement in military uprisings and coup de etats.
Ka Bel doesn’t have any contacts in the military, and he never met much less made plans with any military groups (or any other group for that matter) for the ouster via coup de etat and forceful military takeover of the Arroyo presidency.
For the Inquirer editorial cartoonist (and the Inquirer itself) to put Ka Bel and Gringo Honasan in the same category of coup plotters and militarists is quite unjust. Ka Bel will never coordinate with the military over anything. He has allergies, so to speak, when it comes to the military. His friends and kasamas in the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) Ka Lando Olalia and Ka Leonor Alay-ay were killed and brutalized by members of the RAM in 1986.
"Hindi ko makakalimutan iyon. Kahit pa may mga miyembro ng militar na may mga mas mataas na adhikain para sa bayan, o hindi sila mga pasista na basta-basta na lang pumapatay ng masa, hinding-hindi ko magagawang makatrabaho sila," he said this morning.
This is why it’s simply ridiculous that the DOJ and the Arroyo administration continues to accuse him of being one of the masterminds of the failed February coup de etat. There’s no logic to the accusation.
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