Mercury boiling
I am shocked: Ruffa Gutierrez-Bektas is getting an annulment.
I am not shocked: retired generals reveal government-AFP Oplan Mercury Rising, a plot to manipulate the May 14 polls in favor of Malacanang bets.
Such dinks, the members and leaders of Malacanang’s dirty tricks department. Mercury Rising, hah! Ang bobo. The phrase is often used as a metaphor for a burgeoning emergency, a serious state of calamity - and that can never be good. Or maybe they’re being honest — it is an emergency situation for the Macapagal-Arroyo administration because it’s set to get a vicious whipping at the polls, at least when it comes to the senatorial elections.
I would’ve chosen a different name: Oplan Trickling Sweat or Oplan Ubos Pera because gad, despite the millions the TU candidates like Pichay and Singson are shelling out, they’re still at the tail-end of the surveys. Their desperation must be nearing its peak right now
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More political activists are being killed. Usman Ali, husband of a leader of Suara Bangsamoro was shot dead yesterday by his morning by three unidentified men in Pikit, North Cotabato.
In related developments ,Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casino is now in Ormoc making sure that National Federation of Labor Unions-Kilusang Mayo Uno regional official and Anakpawis Eastern Visayas coordinator Vincent ‘Bebot’ Borja will not become yet another statistic and add to the list of the victims of extrajudicial killings.
When will this insanity stop?!
There is no doubt that the only way that all this will come to a temporary halt (am not naive enough to think that the repression will completely end) with the removal of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo from Malacanang. Something has got to give, and it will not be those who fight against her corrupt, illegal, immoral and inhumane presidency.
I’m crossing my fingers and toes that the next time the public’s anger and outrage reaches another zenith, the leaders of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) will not bring out their hoses and douse the fire by calling on everyone to be calm, pack their rosaries and join a prayer rally in Luneta. Aaaaargh!
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How outrageous is it that Commission on Elections’ chair Benjamin Abalos can say that the 219 foreign observers scheduled to arrive in the country to monitor Monday’s polls will ‘witness how democracy works in the Philippines’ without being struck by lightning?
Holy check, 95 people have been killed in election-related violence since January and you call this a working democracy?! Progressive party-lists are being persecuted, our members and officials being labeled terrorists, NPA members or worse, executed in cold blood yet Mr. Abalos says that this is a working democracy? I shiver to think what he would consider to be a state of mere lawlessness: babies being thrown from the third floor and then impaled on bayonets.
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I gave my dog Poofy a bath this morning and now she looks gorgeous (most of the time she’s just pretty. She gets a bath every two days). She’s seven years old and it was only last night that I was able to teach her the command ‘lie down.’ When she was a puppy she learned the commands ‘up,’ ‘down,’ ‘kiss,’ love’ and ’sleep.’
If you give her the commands for kiss and love, she would pad up to you for a cuddle. ‘Kiss’ meant nuzzle, while ‘love’ meant being scratched behind the hears.
It was always a tricky thing to mention the words ‘bath’ or ‘ligo’ anywhere near her because it would send her hiding under the table or the stairs (we had to spell it out - ‘Kailangan na ni Poofy ng b-a-t-h,’ or Kelan ba mali-L-I-G-O si Poofy?’)
Anyways, she now knows what ‘lie down’ means, and she learned it after only seven cookies!
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Watched Spiderman 3. Tangled plotlines. Peter Parker loses his best friend Harry because he chose to stay and chat with the Sandman instead of rushing to Harry’s aid as the latter dies of massive internal injuries caused by vicious stab wounds. Mary Jane cried all the time, and got on my nerves.
When I was a kid there was a Spiderman cartoon series on tv (channel 2, I think), and there Spidey had wit and a dry sense of humor. The movie Spidey is, well, Tobey Maguire.
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Post script - National Security Adviser wants Teddy investigated because of the latter’s presence during the raid in Ka Bebot’s house. Ano ba yan!
