Hit by a missile, DAP is dead

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The highest official of the executive branch in the Philippines threatened the Supreme Court (SC).

This arose out of the SC decision to declare the Aquino regime Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) illegal, unconstitutional.

Members of the Philippine Congress reacted sharply to the executive's war vs. the Supreme Court.  Following the verdict, Philippine media reported courts to be in a black mood.  It will be recalled that during the farcical impeachment of Chief Justice Renato Corona, members of the judicial sector staged numerous protests where they donned protest shirts colored black during Mondays.

Over the past few days, a substantial number of media reports tried to detail the kind of expenditures Mr. Aquino made on the more than One Hundred Fifty Billion Philippine Pesos (Php150,000,000,000) releases under DAP.  In most of these spendings, very little went to providing jobs or helping victims of calamities such as the Thirty Billion Philippine Pesos (Php30,000,000,000) given to the Central Bank as fund infusions, among so many others.

Black dress protests have already started in the provinces, particularly in Iloilo, the very hometown of Mr. Aquino's biggest ally, Senate President Franklin Drilon. In other places around the country, court workers also donned black dress to protest the recent acts of Mr. Aquino and his government following the declaration of the DAP to be illegal -- including the so-called fake resignation of the Philippine budget secretary, Florencio Abad, Jr. also known as Boots.

Judiciary workers are also up in arms over the threat of Mr. Aquino to abolish funds for their sector in the public service.

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If the war started by Mr. Aquino vs. the judiciary will become prolonged, it will result in a national crisis. There is a possibility that courts will boycott the Aquino regime and all legal - judicial activity will come to a standstill and cause paralysis in many areas of the nation's affairs. Aquino must be well advised to stop fighting with the SC and accept the fate of his DAP; the country is reeling from the effects of the recent Tropical Storm #Rammasun / #Glenda and more typhoons, storms are coming. If a crisis like this will compound the country's problems, there is a possibility that a major upheaval will not be far in the offing.

The last play station

A local official stated they received many text messages during the pre-Yolanda period (November 2-7) and until minutes before the huge 3-storey waters overwhelmed the people of Tacloban City, Palo Leyte, several other places in the Visayas, killing as many as 7,000 people (by NDRRMC estimates) or so much, much more.

In selected cases, there were some phone calls, but mostly directed at relatives and high officials; the lowly government functionaries did not get more than these text messages warning them about supposedly 7, 8, even 9 foot-high waters called storm surge.

In many countries in Africa, in Malaysia (Open University System) and India the use of the text message service or short messaging service (SMS), in college education is a real key factor. Malaysia Open University, that promotes the "University for all" mission, states that text is the lowest common denominator of the all the technologies available today. Meaning that it is the easiest to acquire and cheap to maintain. 

When used as extensively as it is being done in China's health workers sector, the text message is no longer as effective, they say, than a phone call reminder. Meaning, that for rural doctors and other medical and health practitioners, using the text is highly limited and cannot satisfy the requirements for health work.

The Canada-based International Development Research Center (IDRC) undertook a study on the use of text messaging for learning. IDRC and other open university advocates have invented a term for text messaging as an adjunct in education: MLearning - from mobile learning.

Clearly, as the above situations point out, text messaging can be effective, only as an adjunct to other tools of education (Open University and Mobile Learning - Africa, Malaysia, India) and information or instructions dissemination (Health Workers Sector - China).

Text / SMS therefore is ineffective, just on its own. Furthermore, in the experience cited above, its usefulness applies to college education and therefore, it is being extensively used in that level of learning. Moreover, if engaged as an educational tool, the use will be frequent, with great level of regularity and distinct clarity of delivery.

What happened in Leyte, such as as Tacloban and Palo, Leyte, as well as in Cebu (the hardest hit was Bantayan Island), among other places, was that the text or SMS could not properly inform, educate much less portray the full extent of the threat of what was handed down by PAGASA Weather Bureau and NDRRMC Manila as storm surge.

No matter how the government keeps telling people that they gave warning, sent out messages, used TEXT BLAST (damn them all!), it could not have been sufficient enough to lead the people away from the tremendous hazard that will confront them and take their lives away.

If they had used the text to students studying geospheric science, atmospheric and hydrologic events, the use of the jargon of powerful winds above 250 kph and 7,8 9-foot high storm surge, will be appreciated.

But then they were texting the poor laymen and ordinary folk serving as local government functionaries, who then still had to explain these text / SMS content to their constituencies. What if the local government functionary was barely literate? And had to explain the content of the text or SMS to a doctor, nurse, engineer, policeman, soldier, teacher, vendor, student, etcetera?

Many people are saying that these cheap means of preserving and saving the lives of people is the last play station that Noynoy Aquino the 3rd will be playing with. Senator Tatad openly called for the 3rd to go away now. Over the Philippine Daily Inquirer comments page, some commenters state: "dapat umalis na sila", "yung pamilya niya, mga kapatid niya ubod ng yayaman na", while others say "mula ng umupo sila, naghirap na ang bansa, kinukuha ba nila lahat ang pera? bakit kami lagi na lang walang pera?"

The last gaming at the play station indeed...

From the dead to the dead, until death doth us part

The zarzuela continues. This supposedly "good-intentioned" Senate Hearing, in aid of Demolition, succeeds as a major public relations campaign of world wide magnitude. As a play, the entire production does not rate even a low D grade. It was too transparent to be stage managed, with Madam Janet Lim Napoles talking to her friend-senators as if they were long-lost friends. She does not even use the respectful address of Your Honor and never leads her statements with Mr. Chairman of the Committee.

Madam Napoles was in the Senate at her best element. She even complained that she must be given her free lunch time.

Led by Senators TG Guingona, a known substance abuser and Peter Alan Cayetano, a man insanely driven by the ambition to rise above the person who fed his young models-loving father from the palm of his hand (called Tanda by Sen. Miriam Santiago, ex Judge and former Cory appointee as well as collector of about a half-million pesos bribe per head now ensconced in Switzerland from the lion's share of undocumented 4 million chinese in the Philippines during the 1986 installed revolutionary regime), the drama goes on attempting to be the best Pitong Komikera-Komikerong Itlog show in this part of the globe.

The lady from Lima was also present, hubnubbing with Sen. Santiago during recess with Sens. Cayetano and Trillanes trading ideas from time to time during the interregnum when the Great Madam money giver to presidents, politicians and bureaucrats and money grubber, in the league of Mr. Zaldy Co and Mr. Edwin Gardiola said Time Out, I Have To Eat Lunch. Missing the action was the real lawyer of Madam, Atty. Fred Villamor, for whom the lady of Lima lawyered for Madam Napoles, being an obedient , willing partner with or without her underwear.

The useless debates centered on the scripted silence of Ms. Napoles and the supposedly honest, "credibility of the truth" statements of Benhur Luy, as well as other Napoles underlings. Even President Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino the 3rd did not bother to listen to any of the burdensome, inane and previously scripted talk flying freely at Senate. The turd had prepared speeches to media about the bagyo - super typhoon Yolanda. The Madam continuously denied everything while Brain dead Miriam Santiago became her tutor in how to deny everything in the most decent, legalistic manner: "I refuse to answer, I invoke my right against self-incrimination."

On occasion, at least once or twice, it was mentioned that the famous NGO (non-government organization) and PO (people's organization) community organizer, Madam Napoles, even used the dead to populate her NGOs and POs. From her probably great gratitude to the dead, she possibly bought beautiful Heritage Park lots for her benefactors - Senators, Presidents, Congresspersons, the President's top men and women, local officials and national budget bigwigs.

A multi-million several days' partying and catering marks the visit of Ms. Janet Lim Napoles to the Heritage Park in Global City aka The Fort. The Inquirer reports that the Heritage Park mausoleum dedicated to Ms. Napoles' mother even became a tourist spot recently after this same newspaper broke the news on the Napoles fund scam:

Napoles Mausoleum in upscale Taguig now a tourist spot 

The luxurious two-story Lim-Napoles mausoleum at Heritage Park in Taguig City has become a “tourist spot” after the Inquirer broke the exclusive stories on Janet Lim-Napoles as the alleged mastermind behind the P10-billion pork barrel scam.

Those laid to rest in the upscale memorial park must be turning in their graves.

Janet Lim-Napoles, alleged pork barrel scam mastermind, owns around 280 square meters of “lawn and estate lots” at Heritage Park in progressive Taguig City, according to an insider privy to the sale of the lots.

It was at Heritage Park that Napoles made her voluntary surrender to presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda on Aug. 28.

“The lots were under different names, but it was Ms. Napoles who paid for 200 lawn lots and eight family estate lots,” where the mausoleum now stands, said the source who spoke to the Inquirer on condition of anonymity.

“She bought all the adjacent lots of her mother’s mausoleum because she said she wants space for catering and tents when they celebrate All Souls’ Day as well as the death anniversary and birthday of her mother,” the source said.

The source said the Lim mausoleum is the burial site of Magdalena Luy Lim, the mother of Napoles, who is now detained at Fort Sto. Domingo in Sta. Rosa City, Laguna province.

“It is complete with amenities and furnishings of a high-end condominium unit,” she said.

‘Tourist spot’

The two-story dark grey mausoleum adorned with Halloween trimmings on the ground became a “tourist spot” after the Inquirer broke the exclusive series on Napoles’ illegal transactions using public funds, according to the source.

“Madami nagpapicture (A lot of people are having their pictures taken at the grave site), especially now,” the source said.

The lowest value for a lawn lot based on Heritage Park’s latest price list is P95,000 at 1.2 sq m and a family estate lawn cost around P4.6 million at 4.9 sq m.

“The worth of Napoles’ lots alone could reach around P30 million, but the cost of the construction of the mausoleum we do not know,” she said.

She added that government people who claimed they were with the Commission on Audit had also visited the mausoleum.

Said the source: “For the past four years, at least three times a year, they held a party complete with 24-hour catering and air-conditioned tents.

“Usually, the party preparation began on Oct. 30 and the party lasted three days, until Nov. 1. It was a festive costume party and the kids were given chocolates and candies.

“There were nuns and lots of people arriving and going during the celebration. Plenty of cars.”

Party’s over

Emy, a dirty ice cream vendor who claimed she supplies the ice cream for Napoles every Nov. 1, showed up yesterday at the mausoleum, but was turned away by a man named Marco, because “there was no party today (walang party ngayon)”.

Emy said she saw the developments of Napoles’ case unfold on TV but she took the chance and brought ice cream to the mausoleum but was told that no party guests were coming over.

“Madame Jenny (as Napoles preferred to be called), who was good to us, paid us P6,000 for the ice cream and gave a P1,000 tip,” Emy told the Inquirer.

Another family who had relatives buried near the mausoleum told the Inquirer that they “kind of missed the fanfare, because they even had a stage there once and some concert, plus free food.”

“We did not know who she was. We were told when we asked that the owner was a Chinese businesswoman very close to Erap,” the neighbor said, referring to former President and now Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada. Read More >>

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The administration is making the people of the Philippines look stupid and tickling the entire nation to emotional highs using a badly written script played by a drug addict, a highly ambitious imbalanced person, a mental retard called the turd, a brain damaged collector of undocumented chinese bribe money, a fat frog looking principal actor, among a coterie of what Madam Senator Brenda calls cockroaches and assholes (public relations experts and specialists).

At the same time, a super typhoon waits to ravage the entire country with storm surges and possible numerous deaths, damage to crops, property and countless losses and sorrows for millions of people in the land. Still the people are being occupied with the stupid spin of media doctors and drug addicts, brain damaged solons and a turd also using drugs to pacify his reported Asperger's Syndrome. God bless the Philippines that is growing stupider everyday while the fatted cows in government and in their plush business offices keep laughing at all of us.

If the awful drama continues, a crippled duck might soon get kicked out of the duck pen.

Lameduck Pres. Aquino the 3rd credibility very low

His Excellency Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino the 3rd has become a lameduck president. Some say he was a lameduck from the beginning.

Advice as well as his very own actions to His Excellency the 3rd's frenzied determination to  succeed in kicking out the sitting Chief Justice of The Honorable, The Supreme Court,  Renato C. Corona, did not do well for the 3rd. Looming in the horizon is the inevitability that the 3rd will completely loose his convincing power to all the sectors of this country because of a declining credibility.

The 3rd's believability plunged down when a Senator, Honorable Sergio Rama Osmena III declared that the impeachment of The Honorable, The Chief Justice is null and void due to the admission of bribery of the Senators.

Previously, one of the icons of the Philippine Judiciary, a well-revered man of few words, superb intellect and sharp mind, the former The Honorable Chief Justice Reynato Puno stated in no uncertain terms that the impeachment by the 3rd and his bribed, paid-for allies in the disHonorable, The Senate of the Philippines, of the chief magistrate, was void.  

Atty. Jose Roy dared the disHonorable Senate to confess its error and withdraw the contempt charges against him after the Department of Budget and Management implicitly admitted the bribe money given to the disHonorable Senators. Atty. Roy feels very vindicated.

If former chief of the judiciary Reynato Puno - now participating in debates over a people's initiative campaign to abolish pork barrel and Sen. Osmena will turn out to be correct, there will definitely be a Constitutional Crisis.

Such crisis is enough justification to remove an incumbent President, especially one who has entirely lost all of his integrity and credence, both as a public official and as a human being.

A man who presides over his rubber-stamp Cabinet and caucuses with his rubber-stamp disHonorable Congress and Senate, and keeps rushing them to file cases vs. the perceived enemies of the 3rd's administration, circle of friends, relatives and political party, with intense vengeance and the inherited vendetta from a late mother in his heart, is bound to lose his trustworthiness to his own consituents.

Instead of working hard as the former chief executive, His Excellency Fidel V. Ramos admonished all those in the public service, the 3rd never considered coming to Malacanang to work.

His only job was to relive the family's memories of living in Malacanang where the tributes in suitcases, crates, boxes coming from  foolish and greedy subjects out for big, fast money flowed to the Palace nearly everyday and the food and wine and other substances menu, among all other perks and benefits of being the First Family was excellent.

Now the man who wanted to come back to Malacanang has lost all of his justification for staying further in that place by the Pasig River. Small wonder that some political analysts say the signs, and the writings in the wall are very clear: the 3rd's star appears to be waning on the horizon. There is little time left, such that the frantic money making, budget padding, highly secret transfer of gold to foreign treasure chests is visible. The going of the 3rd cannot be stopped. But the departure of money that belongs to the people must not ever be allowed by the nation.

Let us all stop the implausible man from raiding the country's treasures now. Let us close the faucets of the pork barrel funds, most especially the gargantuan discretionary funds under the unscrupulous the 3rd and his incorrigible trusted circles with the KKK tattoo on their foreheads.

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The zarzuela continues

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This other turd of the mongoloidal species (the first and primary turd is of course the one with the numeric in his name, the 3rd), is all smiles as he presents his boss, disHonorable Frank Drilon-signed subpoena of Napoles. The zarzuela of blaming their big sins on small sinners continue.

Its a useless charade by people who don't deserve a dint of respect from the Filipino people. A close friend of this second turd, a member of the Congress during the presidency of Joseph Estrada and a former runner boy, water boy of past Pres. Fidel V. Ramos and Sen. Leticia Ramos Shahani, confessed he and the second turd were heavily into drugs in the past.

They were desperately addicted to the prohibited, dangerous substances that sometimes they don't even know themselves. A very good question comes to mind: does this turd actually know where he is and what he is doing? Is there hope for a country run by drug addicts and where drug lords finance on a large scale the operations of political parties like the one ruling this country right now?

Philippine Star: Wasted DAP money could have saved Zamboanga

The stolen DAP (Disbursement Acceleration Program) money could have been enough or more than what will be required to rehabilitate Zamboanga City.

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Philippine Star says as a solution, congressmen and the Department of Budget and Management will no longer be taking out DAP money and instead redirect the funds to Zamboanga City. So what Mr. Abad? The original lost DAP money can no longer be recovered.

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How very conscientious this move by those wonderful people indeed. However, even if the originally misplaced DAP funds can no longer be returned by thieving politicians and the master thief of them all, the occupant of the house by the Pasig River, there ought to be sanctions and these sanctions must not be light, like we're treating special mongoloid children with kid gloves. Poverty haunts this country, even more so during this administration. The occurrence of death, illness, starvation, because of the lack of money among the poorest of the poor, is very frequent. You will be shocked at how long the waiting lines of the impoverished are that seek free medical assistance at the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office at the Lung Center Annex Building in Quezon City.

It is, as COA Chairman Grace Pulido Tan describes as, kahindik hindik. And yet, too many of the patients being sought assistance for just die because of red tape, charity fund quotas, priority assistance for the children, relatives and friends of Congressmen, Senators, Presidents, Vice Presidents, and high ranking officials with the relatives of the beneficiaries of such behest guarantee payments giving large amounts of cash gifts, delicious food gifts, jewelries, among other bribes to the government Charity organization just to speed the processing of their huge medical benefits.

Despite the DAP, the PDAF and other stolen money, these animal, merciless politicians and bureaucrats still have to compete with the poor in taking out charity medical assistance from PCSO. When ever will their greed and corrupt ways ever stop? Too ruthless, too cruel, too cold. For their own welfare, but possibly for their own coming demise as well.

In Chinatown - Ang Matuwid Na Daan

When talking among themselves, my lolos (grandpas) in Chinatown (Binondo, Manila, Philippines) say that the matuwid na daan (straight path) is a really scary road. They say that at one end of the very smooth and straight road, is rock bottomed sea water at the foot of a matarik na bangin (deep cliff). 

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Lolo Mio says, if you fall from the bangin (cliff), you're dead anyway when your head hits the rocks at the bottom of the sea. It doesn't go deep unless you are at least a kilometer away from the island. On the other hand, at the other end, if you fall, at least a passing car or truck driver can pick you up if he cares for your corpse.

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Otherwise, you might attract recovery teams and emergency and rescue people like this:

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So much for being safe when you're traveling in the matuwid na daan.

Spending money, blood money

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If you stole too much from the vaults owned by someone else, e.g. safety vault of taxes from the blood sweat and tears of the people, you are obliged to hire killers to silence your enemies. There are different hirings you will make: physical contract killers, contract psychological killers, others.

One by one, your enemies are dead, thanks to your murderers. But whatever. If your hired killers cannot do the job, you will kill those enemies anyway, by hook or by crook - whatever it takes, just so you will save your face you dumb shit.

Accomplishment record:

Roster of 'killed' targets/victims

Renato Coronado Corona

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Merceditas Gutierrez

Juan Ponce Enrile

Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada

Ramon Revilla Jr.

Presbitero Velasco

Countless other dumb victims