Name: larni balisi
City/State/Country: Melbourne Australia
IP Address: 115.130.65.133

Comments

Well done Mr. President!!! I sincerely hope that you won't become like the previous governments, e.g. Estrada & Arroyo. As a Filipino, I have longed to see our country prosper. I've been living here since '95 & every time we come back home, it hurts so much to see such poverty. I always wished that Philippines will prosper some day... May you be true to your words Mr. President!

Name: expat
City/State/Country: Belgium
IP Address: 84.193.195.108

Comments

A new president that the Filipinos are waiting for. We can feel that the new president is very eager to cure the country's illness. But all these things will not be successful without the effort of all Filipinos. The changes will not be only and depend on the president effort but by the citizens as well. Corruption will be stopped if the Filipinos will start applying it by themselves. Walang corrupt kung walang mag papa-corrupt....

Name: jan michael sean..
City/State/Country: lucena city,phil.
IP Address: 112.203.187.116

Comments

First of all, Congratulations to P-Noy for his first ever SONA. It is just a very disappointing reaction from me and my family for a Negative feedback from those people who are allies of GMA. Well, you cannot blame them...they are still trying to cover up the "BAHO" that was discovered by the new administration. Enough for that. We'll just hope for Noy@ and his group to build the country once again. God Bless Noy2

Name: Judy
City/State/Country: Las Vegas
IP Address: 70.180.180.37

Comments

In his inaugural address, P-Noy said "umpisa na ito ng aking kalbaryo". So I suppose he had no clue about the state the Country is in? So why did he run for President? Ay naku, alam ko na. Puro excuse ang gagawin ng Prez na ito. BUT this president must own up, sooner or later. He cannot blame the previous Administration for every little thing. P-Noy is doing an Obama, and look what the polls are saying about the latter. But I sincerely hope P-Noy gets to really help the RP and the Filipino people. I just want him to stop whining like a kid. I wish he would talk less. Be man enough to tackle the problems in the country.

Name: Manuel C. Diaz
City/State/Country: Montclair CA USA
IP Address: 76.174.219.92

Comments

To "Father" Edward of Ls Big Ass I am not bashing the Roman Catholic Church in the land of milk and honey but the Roman Catholic Church in Islas de ladrones. The Roman Catholic Church in Islas de ladornes practices liberation theology which is detrimental to the progress of the Islas de ladrones in the quest to become perlas del mar de oriente. The Roman catholic Church opposes anything that will make the Islas de ladrones progressive from population control economic development exploitation of natural resources and most of all separation of church and state. The Roman Catholic Church in Islas de ladrones is still in the time warp of Jose Rizal.

Name: Edward
City/State/Country: Las Vegas
IP Address: 98.160.174.84

Comments

My second posting, someone from PNL added the last sentence, I DID NOT WRITE THAT. I sorry that this happened.

Name: latepoca
City/State/Country: SOMEWHERE IN TIME
IP Address: 210.5.212.115

Comments

PNOY - We had been dreaming since birth that government officials have hearts to uplift the lives of every PINOY so that migration to other countries for works will STOP - what happened still the Filipinos has not change for it chose a President that keeps on DREAMING. Will PNOY's dream can feed millions of hunger stomach? What we need is a MAN OF ACTION NOT A MAN OF HALLUCINATIONS.

Name: tonyo
City/State/Country: pinas
IP Address: 114.108.192.11

Comments

Rolaz: Hitler, Stalin and Polpot of the Khmer Rouge were war criminals who committed genocide not because they were atheists but simply because they were criminals. Can you show that they invoked their religion when they committed their crimes? The Muslim terrorists praise God after murdering the innocents by shouting ALLAH AKBAR which means God is the greatest. Imagine murdering innocent people in the name of GOD? Anokabanaman Rolaz????

Name: JUAN DELA CRUZ
City/State/Country: SAN BDO. CA
IP Address: 76.94.63.12

Comments

Judy of Las Vegas - what do you do in Vegas??? Are you an escort, pole dancer, show impersonator of GMA/Marcoses/Jacko/Danny Gans/frank Sinatra/u name it, cocktail server, card dealer.......the way you criticize the phil. Pres. Speech is out of hand...tell us your credentials: illegal a., married to a U.S. citizen, TNT......better go browse in Arizona and join the coyotes.. Now accept these critiques also....I know this is a free country...freedom of speech...

Name: Manuel C. Diaz
City/State/Country: Montclair CA USA
IP Address: 76.174.219.92

Comments

God is Great my posting has now made Edward of Las Big Ass a Catholic preacher a Allah Akbar.

Name: GFJBHEDF
City/State/Country: Hercules
IP Address: 76.103.7.246

Comments

Dear Marie, a billion Catholics repeating "Hail Mary full of.." 24 Hrs a day irritates me? No. It irritates Lord Jesus Christ. That is why He said "When you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathens do.." Matthew 6:7.

Name: GFJBHEDF
City/State/Country: Hercules
IP Address: 76.103.7.246

Comments

Dear Marie, King David's Psalm 136 is exactly the kind of prayer, repeating "For his mercy endureth forever," that Christ Jesus discourages us from doing. King David who raped Batsheba the wife of Uriah the Hetite, then had Uriah placed in front of the battle so he will get killed. Here then is King David's repetitive prayer> LINK , & here is what David did to Batsheba and her husband Uriah.> LINK

Name: GFJBHEDF
City/State/Country: Hercules
IP Address: 76.103.7.246

Comments

Dear Marie, You also want me to read Daniel 3:52-66. There is no 3:52-66 in the OT book of Daniel. Daniel chapter 3 has only 30 verses. Try again. Don't give up.

Name: JRH
City/State/Country: mtl can
IP Address: 173.178.222.111

Comments

Filipinos voted for what they hope for, not against what they fear. Faced with big problems Pres Aquino is extraordinarily busy dealing with each of them. It's more than meets the eye in size & scope. Pineapples don't grow in a pine tree & don't taste like apples after all. Some people (politicians) focus on what's wrong than on what's right. They constantly find things to grumble about. True, it's human nature to complain but for Pete's sake..it's just barely a month for Pres. Aquino to be criticized right away. What the heck do they mean by bitin or kulang, etc? Please give him a chance.

Name: JRH
City/State/Country: mtl can
IP Address: 173.178.222.111

Comments

The Truth Commission's main task is thorough housecleaning. We have serious accusations from the last administration & the investigation is on-going. Gloria's dysfunctional & corrupt system was exposed in Pres Aquino"s SONA. Gov't officials & civil servants whose mandate is to do the proper jobs for our people instead helped themselves & stole the money. But I have doubts though that Gloria, the FG, et al (Arroyos) will be prosecuted. Her subordinates perhaps. Hard-core crooks have air-tight alibis & solid excuses. The best crime ever committed are those crooks or criminals who don't get caught or not go to jail. They call it a perfect crime. We'll soon see.

Name: deo
City/State/Country: flour city
IP Address: 67.240.217.75

Comments

This "We can dream again" theme of Aquino's SONA was ill-advised. As I posted, poor Pinoys have been dreaming of three square meals, kids going to schools well-dressed etc. They are awakened by the election of a new president, then are told to go back to sleep and dream again?!. What a crap! It reminds of a "joke" when Russia was a "commie". When their big chief comrade made a speech, when he mentioned a certain word everybody applaud and went crazy. One Ruskie, missed it so he ask the Ruskie next to him. "I missed it. What did the big chief comrade said?" The other Ruskie answered "our big chief comrade said our dreams and aspirations are now in the HORIZON". ONE UP will never understand this joke.

Name: deo
City/State/Country: flour city
IP Address: 67.240.217.75

Comments

7gtng: You told Shane do not Knowell "...I don't bother learning French...unless of course this do not Knowell will join JRH province". How will this bakla terrorist (Shane do not Knowell) be able to come to JRH or even your province (in Canada) when, hindi pa man, he is already listed in the "no fly" list and "terror watch" list of your country. hehehehe.

Name: Gene
City/State/Country: Ontario, Canada
IP Address: 174.88.12.125

Comments

Hindi masagot ni Plaridel Joaquin kung talagang siya ay pinapalamun ng kanyang mga anak. Tahimik at hindi makapagsalita ng mahusay. Talagang may katigasan ng ulo. Imagine calling himself a good Homo-sapien when one can infer that he is deficient in morals. Mag-bakasyon ka sa Pilipinas at umuwi ka agad dito sa Canada sa loob ng 6 na buwan para hindi matigil yong nilalabi mong old age. O kaya mag-babysit ka na lang. Sira na talaga ang ulo mo. Pag-pasensiyahan na lang kita sa makitig mong nuo.

Name: Carmina Burana
City/State/Country: Pittsburgh, PA
IP Address: 66.146.237.65

Comments

MCD, what's preventing you from admitting that you have similar weltanschauung as PJ. At least PJ admits to his whimsical belief system with equanimity and is proud of it. That's why he commands respect. Ladrones guy, why are you hiding under your mother's saya? (u)LOL!! Come out from your closet like a gay person and define yourself and your so-called "god"(phram PJ).

Name: Gene
City/State/Country: Ontario, Canada
IP Address: 174.88.12.125

Comments

Restless itong Plaridel Joaquin masyadong pakialamero. Seguro may Trichiuris trichuria.

Name: deo
City/State/Country: flour city
IP Address: 67.240.217.75

Comments

7gtng: OK, puwede ka nang tumawad. I will make it $20 or even $25 not just $5 (or less that ONE UP from Gotham City greases customs or immigration people) as your gift to the airport people who greet you "Merry Christmas, 7gtng". But corruption in any language or amount is still corruption, 7, no matter how noble the intention.

Name: Carmina Burana
City/State/Country: Burkina Faso
IP Address: 66.146.237.65

Comments

Gene, have you found out if MCD has paid his buwis yet? Maybe P'Noy's Truth Commission can unearth some of this Kenkoy's misconducts. Don't you think???? BTW, MCD claims that Carmina is from Satanaze. What???? Satanaze@#$%^&*#@! Only a wackadoodle tax-dodger can think of such Kenkoy ideas. Weird.

Name: Dragonslayer
City/State/Country: Briarcity
IP Address: 74.254.86.66

Comments

One Up or Tito Jess or pp2guapito, et al: After serving in the most powerful armed forces in the world, an honorably discharged American veteran, now a regular pensioner, currently over 20-year state employee, and being an American citizen for over half a century (not a TNT/illegal), being pulled over by any US authority is the very least of my concern. I'm as American as any other and I don't feel any inferior or lower in citizenship status as any one else with a different color, race or creed. As a foreigner, you can learn a lesson from me.

Name: Dragonslayer
City/State/Country: Briarcity
IP Address: 74.254.86.66

Comments

This president must get to the bottom of his immediate concerns, namely, the lagging economy, availability of domestic jobs, improved rice, corn and other food staples production, etc. People, in general, must be inspired and compensated to brainstorm and experiment on a state-of-the-art green technology. How about launching some kind of "victory gardens" project to reduce the number of fence-sitters and 120-proof liquid imbibers in barangays all over? Even dirt pays. Elevating the Filipino standard of living must be at the forefront of his priorities; fault-finding on prior corrupt power-wielders must be at the bottom of the list. Let's work the present so we can be ready to face the future.

Name: Manuel C. Diaz
City/State/Country: Montclair CA USA
IP Address: 76.174.219.92

Comments

The House of Reperesentatheives of Islas de ladrones is not only a house of thieves but one member from Ilocos Congressman Singson--the son of another notorious Singson--was arrested in Hong Kong for drug trafficking. Now it is house of drug pushers.

Name: deo
City/State/Country: flour city
IP Address: 67.240.217.75

Comments

In the news: "Sen. Joker Arroyo: This Truth Commission Is Doomed". This Joker is really a joke. He said "this Commission will have no legal legs to stand on". He is jumping the gun on this body. He does not seem to understand that the Truth Commission will not be out there to prosecute. They will be out there to ascertain whether the facts and figures that every Pinoys heard and read are true and correct, then make a report. At least that's the gist of the Truth Commission's purpose.

Name: GFJBHEDF
City/State/Country: Hercules
IP Address: 76.103.7.246

Comments

Dear Edward (LVN), U said, "Hitler was educated a catholic but was never a catholic." Correction. In 1941 Hitler told general Gerhard Engel, "I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so." "Mein Kampt" is still not placed on the catholic church's index of forbidden books.> LINK

Name: Scholarslayer
City/State/Country: Briarcity
IP Address: 74.254.86.66

Comments

ONE UP: No need to apologize; it only shows you're as vulnerable to making mistakes as others. In other words, I'm telling you, you're not as scholastic as you think you are. CREASED or GREASED, when it comes to drawing corrupt palms both means the same. Only the former describes 3 or 4 termers who still crave for more blood money, , the latter, greedy banana monkeys.

Name: Plaridel Joaquin
City/State/Country: Toronto
IP Address: 64.40.183.70

Comments

Hot Off the press: Associated Press reported July 29/10 "LONDON — Pilgrims will have to pay as much as 25 pounds ($39) to attend one of the two public events in England to be led by Pope Benedict XVI during his visit in September, church officials said Wednesday. The charges — believed to be a first for a papal event — are for a prayer vigil in London's Hyde Park on Sept. 18 and the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman in Birmingham on Sept. 19." Apparently the $39 guarantees the payee to reach the door of the Pearly Gate. $1 general admission will entitle the faithful to the first step of the ladder towards the pearly gate. Additional $1 increment increase will equate to another step up of the 40-step ladder. $1 discount is applied if one pays the $39 outright.

Name: Dragonslayer
City/State/Country: Briarcity
IP Address: 74.254.86.66

Comments

ONE UP: Bear in mind that there are millions, not only thousands, of illegal migrants on the loose here; of these are numerous Filipinos or TNTs who live in dead-end recesses and dark alleys as you know yourself. The AZ enacted I-L is a Damocles sword hanging over their heads ready to fall anytime to reveal their true identities. My heart goes out to all of you who are in the endangered species list. Who knows but, maybe ONE UP's true name is JUAN SIRIT NA.

Name: Plaridel Joaquin
City/State/Country: Toronto
IP Address: 64.40.183.70

Comments

To Uber your " did my research long time ago and learned - democides (killings) by Atheists were way more than the sectarian/religious deaths/casualties (combined) since BC. - and you can check if I'm just BS ing! " I'll grant you that you are not bs-ing- so now is this a case of who killed the most? My thesis is that religion caused so much blood spilt and not about who killed the most. Are you now justifying religious killing because atheist kill more? Isn't it suppose to be true that believers have their commandment of "thou shall not kill" and yet they do under the aegis of their religion ? At least atheists are not that hypocritical.

Name: Plaridel Joaquin
City/State/Country: Toronto
IP Address: 64.40.183.70

Comments

Pakanang pana ni Gene: "Talagang may pagka-torpe ka. Hindi ba kagagohan yan? Bakit hindi mo masabi dito sa forum na ikaw ay nakatira at kinukopkop ng iyong mga anak at pinapalamun pa?" LOL! Wala ng maibalik kaya kung ano ano na lamang ang pinagsasabi kasama ng pagmumura. Gene para kang bata kung makipagdebate-- Grow up Peter Pan!

Name: Dragonslayer
City/State/Country: Briarcity
IP Address: 74.254.86.66

Comments

Backless? That's nothing compared to Filipinos I meet here at the local chapter of our Elks Lodge whose idea of regular attire is come dress-to-murder neck-to-heel, adorned and shiningly be-jeweled head-to-toe ready to slay the dragon. One may think that Maria Clara is really Cleopatra and owns 99% of the goldmines in Rhodesia.

Name: Plaridel Joaquin
City/State/Country: Toronto
IP Address: 64.40.183.70

Comments

Uber: UR " I wasn't alluding about hell or Satan for you, rather alluding that your ancestors telling you that "you are a child of God" and that God exists." Sorry Uber- I don't think so. First I am the son of my mortal parents not the "child" of some deity- and I don't propose to claim that being a "child of God"- I am also a god by virtue of DNA heredity. and 2) if there is a god- why wait for me to reach the end before they tell me there is?

Name: deo
City/State/Country: flour city
IP Address: 67.240.217.75

Comments

In the news: "Sen. Joker Arroyo: This Truth Commission Is Doomed". This Joker is really a joke. He said "this Commission will have no legal legs to stand on". He is jumping the gun on this body. He does not seem to understand that the Truth Commission will not be out there to prosecute. They will be out there to ascertain whether the facts and figures that every Pinoys heard and read are true and correct, then make a report. At least that's the gist of the Truth Commission's purpose.

Name: Plaridel Joaquin
City/State/Country: Toronto
IP Address: 64.40.183.70

Comments

Deo: UR post to TonyO "TonyO: How will you be able to resolve your argument with Marie; you are probably using a Protestant bible, whereas she is using a Catholic bible" LOL! Galing! Very clever one-liner!

Name: GFJBHEDF
City/State/Country: Hercules
IP Address: 76.103.7.246

Comments

Dear Edward (LVN), Talking about Hitler, did you know the current pope, Benedict XVI, was a Hitler Youth?

Name: E. U Tan
City/State/Country: Ongpin. Manila
IP Address: 198.253.86.13

Comments

JGF "on P766 budget deficit Pnoy has to do is to plug the "butts" of GMA AND Big mike". P'noy is incapable to do that, I volunteer to do the former and you do Big mike, is that a deal? And to Ray Sison "Face the fact that corruption will continue in P'noys administration, communism with free market and capital punishment is the only solution" Sir, you took that words out of my bunganga. Welcome JOMA!

Name: deo
City/State/Country: flour city
IP Address: 67.240.217.75

Comments

IN the news: "Will The Magdalo Soldiers' Saga Finally End?". There should have been a fact finding commission created to find the truth behind the "rebellion". Was it a coup d'état to take over the democratic government of the Philippines and establish a military regime? Then they deserved to be prosecuted to the full force of the law. Or was it a semblance of protest to remove the president who was so undeserving to be in the position? Then the application of the law should be tempered with understanding and compassion.

Name: deo
City/State/Country: flour city
IP Address: 67.240.217.75

Comments

Talaga naman itong si ONE UP ay gustong itulad sa kanyang pagka-GAGO ang mga tao by giving another meaning to the term used by Enrile to the highways "as arterial roads" or close to that. ONE UP, a road is a road, arterial or otherwise, whether it is an expressway, as SLEX ad NLEX are, or EDSA or C5, the Macapagal highway, the Dewey Blvd, etc. Why would Enrile balked and used the term "arterial" and that "VAT would be a double taxation" if it will be impose on SLEX? Think before you engage your pusali in your bao!

Name: GFJBHEDF
City/State/Country: Hercules
IP Address: 76.103.7.246

Comments

Dear Deo, As per your analogy, praying to the mother to get to the son for you, is not the way Christ taught us how to pray. Here Jesus' exact words how we should pray> LINK Here is who Jesus told us to pray to> LINK In fact, if possible Jesus doesn't want us to be seen praying, don't want us praying to Mary, saints or Jesus. Jesus wants us to pray direct to God secretly, not to be seen praying.

Name: Manuel C. Diaz
City/State/Country: Montclair CA USA
IP Address: 76.174.219.92

Comments

To Edward shall I call you "father Edward" of Las Big Ass? So Hitler was never a Catholic but was educated by Catholics and what happened? Hitler turned into a monster--bad education. Second, better specify which Pope John because there was a Pope John during the church schism who was sponsored by the Medici family of Florence he was a pirate by the name of Baldassare Cossa who became Pope John XXIII. Also there were two General MacArthurs specify which one so I can answer your query.

Name: Manuel C. Diaz
City/State/Country: Montclair CA USA
IP Address: 76.174.219.92

Comments

To father Edward of Las big Ass FYI the divinity and existence of JC was the subject of the Nicea Council. The sponsor of those Bishops who believed in the divinity of JC was Emperor Constantine of course he who has the sword will always prevail. Those who did not believe in the divinity of JC were all persecuted their writings banned and burned. These writings only surfaced in 1945 when the Hamadi manuscript was discovered. Emperor Constantine edited the Gospels and banned the other gospels that did not conform to his idea of one universal Catholic Church, one Empire and one Emperor. BTW after the Council of Nicea Constantine returned to Rome murdered his wife and son another Hitler-like monster and Constantine sponsored and promoted the Roman Catholic Church as the State religion.

Name: deo
City/State/Country: flour city
IP Address: 67.240.217.75

Comments

In the news: "Just Wait, Palace Says, of the Truth Commission". Yes, why are some people critical (this joke Arroyo) and jumpy about the Truth Commission? As what the cliché says, there's nothing to worry about if you are not hiding something. Hindi pa man ipinanganak iyong bata, sinabi na kaagad niya (Joke Arroyo) na masamang bata ito.

Name: Manuel C. Diaz
City/State/Country: Montclair CA USA
IP Address: 76.174.219.92

Comments

To Uber of USA do you mean to say that the snake that climbed the "apple" tree and tempted eve had legs? I will reserve my judgment until we find a fossil records of snakes having multiple legs or four legs as you assumed. So far paleontological records have not unearthed yet fossils of snakes with four legs or multiple legs.

Name: Plaridel Joaquin
City/State/Country: Toronto
IP Address: 64.40.183.70

Comments

Lee posted: "!!! If he can put Gloria Arroyo in jail then I will salute him (his SONA singled out Arroyo as the prime suspect of corruption), .." If I were you I will not hold my breathe. They can't even put Imelda in Jail nor recover/settle the supposed "plundered" loot of FM. Okay- although GMA got Erap convicted of plunder (and then pardoned) to the everlasting chagrin of Gene!

Name: Plaridel Joaquin
City/State/Country: Toronto
IP Address: 64.40.183.70

Comments

Carminas (?) posted: " You see when things are going well for someone, they forget about God." Nothing farther from the truth! When something good happens they attribute it to God! Recent eksampol is Marie saying her brother got employed thanks to continuous prayers to God. Or how about Pacquiao saying that he bested that Mexican slugger because he (Paquiao) has God with him in the ring. Many Filipino believers have such poor esteem of their own ability and capability! It seems that without a God- they won't be able to achieve anything.

Name: Plaridel Joaquin
City/State/Country: Toronto
IP Address: 64.40.183.70

Comments

Uber posted for me pointing out my earlier post -"may I remind you that religion has caused many wars in history- Catholics vs. Protestants; Christians vs. Islam;.... In short-so much blood was spilt and lives spoiled under the sign of the cross/ crescent moon/star of David et...." Uber how about the rest of the statement- "each side claiming god is on their side!" Do you have any take on this? I surely will appreciate to hear it. Thanks.

Name: Plaridel Joaquin
City/State/Country: Toronto
IP Address: 64.40.183.70

Comments

Edward your post to MCD : "You atheist denying the existence of God, after reading your posts the only thing it tells everyone is that your trying to convince yourself that there is no God." MCD is not an atheist. He said he believes there is a God. What he does not believe in is organized and institutionalized religion. I for one am an atheist and I need no convincing that there is no God. As far as I am concern Voltaire is right--paraphrasing him " if there is no God, Man will make one" (“If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him)- so they did and are still doing!

Name: Manuel C. Diaz
City/State/Country: Montclair CA USA
IP Address: 76.174.219.92

Comments

To LEE of KSA you are expecting too much PNOY can never put the Arroyos in jail just look at the majority of the Supreme Court all lap dogs of GMA look at the Ombudsman a bar flunker classmate of Big Mike also a bar flunker. Imelda with all the money stashed in Swiss banks was never jailed. El Tabaco who could not locate the proceeds from the Boni sale was never charged because he prepared for it and put another stooge Desierto as the Ombudsman. The only Presidente that was jailed was ERAP. ERAP was an idiot, his brain was located in his pants.

Name: Manuel C. Diaz
City/State/Country: Montclair CA USA
IP Address: 76.174.219.92

Comments

To Deo, Pia Cayatano had that backless on purpose she was testing if she could arouse PNOY into an erect position but it was Binay the VP who took the bait just look at their picture.

Name: Manuel C. Diaz
City/State/Country: Montclair CA USA
IP Address: 76.174.219.92

Comments

To "Father Edward" of Las Big Ass from one bastard to the other bastard I will drink San Miguel to that.

Name: Manuel C. Diaz
City/State/Country: Montclair CA USA
IP Address: 76.174.219.92

Comments

News Item Mariam Defensor Santiago is on leave for health reasons. Rumor has it that she is confined in some institution for megalomania.

Name: Plaridel Joaquin
City/State/Country: Toronto
IP Address: 64.40.183.70

Comments

Gene- for a person who sez "Hindi mo ako maa-asar sumasagot lang ako sa mga kabolastogan mo. Bilogin mo na lang yong ulo mo." doth protest too much, methinks. ha ha ha ha...

Name: Manuel C. Diaz
City/State/Country: Montclair CA USA
IP Address: 76.174.219.92

Comments

To Deo historically speaking the cedula was a tax imposed by the Kastila on the Indios. As I said before it was only one peso now it has metamorphosed into an income tax. Get a cedula from you Barangay Capitan or the municipio and they will compute the fee based on your projected income. That is income tax double taxation pure and simple..

Name: Plaridel Joaquin
City/State/Country: Toronto
IP Address: 64.40.183.70

Comments

News Item: Enquirer.net July 29- "Minority Leader Edcel Lagman said Mr. Aquino was given a “bum steer” by his Cabinet officials who gave him the wrong data, false statistics and flawed analysis" Sign of things to come? Oh well it can be excused as "birthing pain" for a new administration. NOW they are beginning to know it is not a "picnic" to run a country.

Name: mockingmaya
City/State/Country: taft avenue, manila
IP Address: 67.181.17.25

Comments

JuanUp you don't need to ape Father Bernas or be a scholar of theology par excellence to convince others that theology is a very complex discipline. Baloney. Even scholars argue that Theology is a normative discipline...concerned with the analysis, interpretation, & exposition of one particular faith. As I've underscored---read Durkheim's religious, social, & cultural theory & the writings of other great social scientists on religion. Intolerance & progress are incompatible. You don't need to ba a scientist to understand that man is the most ingenious creature on earth. Again, your ignorance of 'meme' (coined by R. Dawkins) or 'mimeme' [Greek] is may be a key to your confusion on creation. A gene is a replicator of molecular information---copied from generation to generation.

Name: Carmina Burana
City/State/Country: Pittsburgh, PA
IP Address: 66.146.237.65

Comments

ONE UP raised some points to ponder 1) If a man is created in the likeness of God, why is there Deo..etc? This abstruse question tortured Carmina's mnd and soul. But Stephen Jay Gould's theory of punctuated equilibrium might provide an insight. There was a period millions of years ago in earth's history called the Cambrian Period, when a radically new species somehow managed to develop as an isolated population and develop humanoid features...(ONE UP, now, let your unbounded imagination play. He-he-he) cont..

Name: Manuel C. Diaz
City/State/Country: Monrtnclair CA USA
IP Address: 76.174.219.92

Comments

To Mokingmaya you are asking "Father" Edward of las big ass to read "Strangers from a different shore" by R. Takaki. Yes "Father" Edward will read the book as soon as the ILLUSTRATED edition is released

Name: Manuel C. Diaz
City/State/Country: Montclair CA USA
IP Address: 76.174.219.92

Comments

tO 7gtg islasde ladrones overtaking the Land of milk and honey! are you awake or are you now part of Pnoy Dream brigade. Let us see Land of Milk and Honey has more than 7,000 metric tons of gold in Fort Knox. FYI this was removed from the monetary system so even if the US dollar goes zilch, Uncle Sam has still more than 7,000 mton. OIL langis in Colorado alone oil shale has more reserves than KSA, US Arsenal of nuclear bombs more than 7000 war heads. The Navy and the Air Force thousands of modern military equipment. In the Islas de ladornes, the Navy is a rust bucket, the Air Force is all air no force, and the foot soldiers have to buy their own boots. Yeah, Islas de ladrones can overtake US of A when the crows turn white.

Name: Manuel C. Diaz
City/State/Country: Montclair CA USA
IP Address: 76.174.219.92

Comments

To "Father" Edward of Las Big Ass if there is no need to bad mouth the Roman Catholic Church then there is also no need to bad mouth the Filipinos. "Father" Edward seems to me you are showing your "slip." Are you wearing one? You are a huge hypocrite.

Name: Carmina Burana
City/State/Country: Pittsburgh
IP Address: 66.146.237.65

Comments

ONE UP, your point no. 2) Did God really create everything in 7 days, so why is the world evolving and changing? Carmina is not a Bible scholar nor did she go to a Divinity school. There's a slew of books i.e. Apologetics, that could do better exegesis than a mere housewife, who can't even quote Scripture verses correctly, but Carmina qoutes T.S. Eliot..."We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time...(Four Quarters)..Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood teach us to care and not to care teach us to sit still Even among these rocks our peace in His will..

Name: Carmina Burana
City/State/Country: Pittsburgh
IP Address: 66.146.237.65

Comments

ONE UP's point no. 3)Why do people believe that religious duties have prevented solution to man's problems like stem-cell research, use of condom for HIV, sex education, capital punishment, homosexuality, same-sex marriage? Again, Carmina is not a behavioral scientist who has enough knowledge to expound on these conundrums. Other forum visitors might be able to more extensively lucubrate these recondite polemics (naks naman, big words, eh? Let's let Deo read between lines..PJ BE QUIET!! I won't get girl scout cookie points, but that's fine by me. Ole!!..cont.

Name: Carmina Burana
City/State/Country: Pittsburgh
IP Address: 66.146.237.65

Comments

ONE UP: If however some syokuy, boguy, or Kenkoy makes ex-cathedra pronouncements that the followers of my Faith are "idiots and morons" (which includes Mother Theresa), or blasphemes the tenets of my religion as "fairy tales", or claims that I'm descended from a daffodil because human genome is 35% similar to the flower, or from a chimpanzee because homo sapiens has 98.7% similar genome, then Carmina will come out swinging like a baseball Hall of Famer!! Okey, dokey!!

Name: Carmina
City/State/Country: Pittsburgh
IP Address: 66.146.237.65

Comments

Dragonslayer: To the question "Who created God?" or "When was God created?"---God was there on that day WITHOUT yesterday.

Name: Carmina Burana
City/State/Country: Burkina Faso
IP Address: 66.146.237.65

Comments

PJ to Ladron "MCD your post: 'To Carmina Burana, sure Scientists are not theologians. Theologians are fairytale writers.' Well said!"---PJ, stop being a toady to your heartthrob MCD. Be a man!

Name: Rufinol
City/State/Country: Biak-na-Bato
IP Address: 69.234.203.131

Comments

Ahemm, sedula as an identification? He, he, he, how can you identify someone with a plain paper alone - without picture? Only thumb mark! C'mmon Deo, paano mo makikilala si MCD with just mere thumb mark? This is not only taxation! This is robbery in broad daylight! Walang "mandarambong" kung walang magpapa-alipin? Tama ba yon?

Name: Rufinol
City/State/Country: Biak-na-Bato
IP Address: 69.234.203.131

Comments

I've said it before and I'll say it again. This guy "Edwards" from Las Vegas is a frustrated Pinoy! If you, guys, are Filipinos by heart and culture, you could easily detect the ethnic origin of Mr. Edwards. He can't hide his real identity even in the backdrop of an internet. I've studied his writings and messages. All these have indications of a Pinoy culture - NOT one from a brain-dead American. So, Mr. PNL, you had won and those many sobbing PNL posters are still guessing - who the real "Mr. Edwards" is?

Name: Marie
City/State/Country: Batangas
IP Address: 80.109.30.155

Comments

I think it is better if the officials of the MWSS caught in anomalies, and others involved, be punished by having them return all the money they stole from the government. If they can't, put them in jail for 5 years and get back half of the amount they got. So, the government of the Phils. can collect more money. Yeah! if this thing happen, Phils. will not be called a poor country anymore.

Name: ONE UP
City/State/Country: GOTHAM CITY
IP Address: 74.66.135.64

Comments

7gtg: You are better off not getting embroiled in the discussion of freeways, turnpikes, expressways, highways, parkways, etc. You are not familiar with the road system here in the US. You are better off staying where you are comfortable: in SK, Canada where the roads are less complicated. Fair enough? HAVE A NICE DAY.

Name: ONE UP
City/State/Country: GOTHAM CITY
IP Address: 74.66.135.64

Comments

7GTG: In case you don't know that freeway is called free because no tolls are paid by motorist for the access to the road and the federal government and not the state shouldered the cost. Moreover, the term is more commonly used in the west as expressways are in the east. You will never learn this from a decadent old man from Rochester, NY who does not even have a driver's license. HAVE A PLEASANT DAY.

Name: ONE UP
City/State/Country: GOTHAM CITY
IP Address: 74.66.135.64

Comments

Deo-dorant: The only reason you got away with many falsehoods is that other people did not bother to check your "facts" (feel free to substitute "u" for "a" in the word). You said people were receiving CAVIAR ( an expensive delicacy that is quintessentially Russian and not American) during the Jap occupation dahil padala from friends. There was no commerce and people movement were restricted until liberation day.

Name: ONE UP
City/State/Country: GOTHAM CITY
IP Address: 74.66.135.64

Comments

1/2 CONTINUE..Deo: You even claimed that PI is not populated yet and ignoring the fact that NCR has 11.5 million people in 638.55 sq km of land with 1.55M registered motor vehicles. So, in effect you have 18,000 people living in one square km of land and 2,435 vehicle in one km of road. Pagdating sa kasinungalingan wala nang tatalo sa iyo. So I say: vas te faire foutre monsieur. HAVE A NICE DAY!

More - Click here to view previous entries