Name: JRH
City/State/Country: mtl can
IP Address: 66.131.95.130

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Before Filipinos abroad can push for change in the Phils, they themselves must change first. The internet is the most influential technology of the last decade. Yet, Filipinos, most of them own computers, are not taking advantage of the many information it provides. I meet Filipinos here in Montreal but at times I wonder why they don't have a clue of the current news I'm talking about. Most of them do not know how to text. Pinoys here use the computer to play games on facebook, download music, & watch videos. Welcome to the future.

Name: richard sy
City/State/Country: cal.
IP Address: 71.139.22.252

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I think the best chance the Philippines to progress change the ways the electorates stop voting candidates on popularity but intellectuals living in real world not fairly tales.

Name: A. Poli
City/State/Country: Anywhere
IP Address: 64.229.221.91

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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!! Relax.... Take it easy.... It's not worth it to worry.... We are all gonna be ok. :)

Name: 7gtg
City/State/Country: regnsk
IP Address: 24.72.90.88

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Someone is not happy with the survey result: PNL's : " ..And yes, we realize that Charice may change, fame and fortune has a way of reshaping even the purest of spirits... etc". Nanalo na nga iyong bata pe present kaagad kayo ng doubt. Ngayon pa man. Typical Filipino crab mentality. HInihila pababa sinumang nanakakaangat. The writer tried to be very careful.. pero lumabas rin ang personal na hinanakit.

Name: 7gtg
City/State/Country: regnsk
IP Address: 24.72.90.88

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Alaphabet guy: " Dear 7gtg, Coming from you, it's hard to believe, you belittling the pride of Philippine sports, unmatched the world over, since times immemorial. When you and I are in ICU, the sport of boxing, like other contact sports, will be kicking strong and doing well into the future.." Fact is boxing is at its 'low point' at these times. Imagine if there was no Pacman? Martial arts is in a comeback thanks to UFC.. But you are right. Let us have the Pacman Mayweather fight. And that will boost boxing again.

Name: JRH PM
City/State/Country: mtl can
IP Address: 66.131.95.130

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Bro. William, most lodges in the Phils are doing their part in assisting our people. Thank you for making this appeal to our brethren in the Phils. For us, it's brotherly love, relief, & truth that must prevail. Happy to meet, sorry to part, & happy to meet again.

Name: JRH, PM
City/State/Country: mtl can
IP Address: 66.131.95.130

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WB William, the Shriners' credo is taken from the Koran (IX) & it says..."And if any..shall demand protection of thee, grant him protection, that he may hear the word of the Prophet, & afterward give him a safe conduct, that he may return home again securely." So mote it be.

Name: JRH
City/State/Country: mtl can
IP Address: 66.131.95.130

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The Pinoys' annual tradition of welcoming the New Year with fireworks, firecrackers, firearms, & noise barrage, etc. is a new years madness that will never be eliminated in the Phils. As to why noise & explosion is equated to gun is something to think about. Actually, it's a health hazard, not good for the fingers & not good for the lungs. Yet, nobody can stop Pinoys from doing it. It's just like the explosive political scandals & blatant corruption in the Phils. That's a piccolo for you.

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

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May we all have MANIGONG BAGONG TAON (Happy New Year) 2010... > LINK

Name: 7gtg
City/State/Country: regnsk
IP Address: 24.72.90.88

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Alphabet guy: " While 50,000 evacuees are stuck in camps .., some 75,000 tourists had filtered into Albay to watch the glowing lava flow at night, filling up the hotels, even the cheapest ones, and the cafes and eateries, bringing in brisk business." The PNL whiners would have gone home too if they had the chance. Not to watch the lava flow but to convince the evacuees that their suffering is caused by some politicians.

Name: 7gtg
City/State/Country: regnsk
IP Address: 24.72.90.88

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Mockingmaya: " 7GTG argues that "teachers don't need to be persons' of the year..." This kind of argument is like a donkey that has been trapped in a mirror with its SUV." Ikaw ang hindi marunong magbasa ng posting. Ang sabi ko teachers are already above such titles.. they are up there in the 'hall of fame'. There would be no Charices or Pacmans if there were no teachers.. 'Persons of the year' titles are nothing but pakonswelo de bobo. The fame of Charices, Pacmans, they come and go.. But my teachers and professors have permanent space in my treasured memories. Hindi mo lang na 'gets' ang ibig kong sabihin. You left the Philippines too early in life. Simple case of generation gap.

Name: william
City/State/Country: Fallon, NV
IP Address: 24.205.208.186

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Palace Need a Cha-Cha for Ro-Ro: WHY and WHAT For? Strict implementation and compliance of laws and regulations is what's needed not politics. Perhaps, the government need to put in place a National Safety Agency/Program that overlook all safety regulations (public/private).

Name: ONE UP
City/State/Country: GOTHAM CITY
IP Address: 74.66.132.163

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When one has to respond to Mockingmaya's blog, one has to do a fact check. I just don't trust what this guy is putting up. For instance, any historical account will show that corruption was not the sole factor that brought the Roman Empire down. Like most Pinoys, they equate corruption to monetary issues. The Roman Empire had also military issues, moral issues, Christianity, imperial incompetence, and even threats from barbarians. There were systemic problems with the empire and the disintegration took a century before the curtain finally fell on the proud Romans.

Name: ONE UP
City/State/Country: GOTHAM CITY
IP Address: 74.66.132.163

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If one applies the criterion in selecting PNL's Man of the Year Charice impact would be limited to TV shows of Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres in the US. Charice's impact was no greater than Arnel Pineda or CNN's selecting Penaflorida global impact (news vs. entertainment). I always doubted how much Filipinos have really moved past emotion over reason, objectivity over subjectivity, anonymity over name recognition and the easy way out over the more challenging path.

Name: ONE UP
City/State/Country: GOTHAM CITY
IP Address: 74.66.132.163

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|MOCKINGMAYA| You were quick to say I was stupid without telling anyone that you know the difference between stupidity and ignorance and between intelligence and knowledge. As Norman Juster, once said, “You could swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry.” ”You could go to school for years without learning much at all other than repetitive and conventional notions.” If you believe you don’t fall in any of the two categories and consider yourself as an exception; then, Socrates was dead wrong when he said, “the more I know, the more I know that I don’t know.” Now Socrates is turning on his grave with your claim of being an intellectual! I compare you to a man who "grew up in the depth of a cave" who gets confused and irate at the sight of sunlight.

Name: ONE UP
City/State/Country: GOTHAM CITY
IP Address: 74.66.132.163

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With every disaster that comes to the country, the kindness of other people were immediately felt. I feel sad when others denigrate or speak ill of their own race. I begin to think that those who criticize their own species must have changed the tone and color of their skin by ingesting a lot of glutathione. And who are living in glass houses!

Name: Ford
City/State/Country: Canada
IP Address: 64.247.137.30

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Gloria is Zaldy Ampatuan's airtight murder alibi. Only morons will believe this alibi. Why? One does not need to be in the murder scene in order for him to be part of the plot to massacre! OBL was in the bundoks of Tora Bora and yet he was accused as the mastermind of the 911 incident! You dig?

Name: mockingmaya
City/State/Country: taft avenue, manila
IP Address: 98.248.158.31

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Some elite institutions disdain honest intellectual inquiry, criticism, & search for truth. This is one of the reasons why journalism is a dangerous calling in Arroyo's corrupt regime. Those intellectuals who caricature the system itself will be shut out of the mainstream discourse. A scholar once argued that the moral corruption that made the violations of human rights possible remained unchanged & the mechanisms that render people capable of such deeds must be uncovered, examined, & critiqued through education. The evil doctrine of Mindanao massacre will undermine the moral force of democratic institutions.

Name: Gene
City/State/Country: Ontario, Canada
IP Address: 206.130.179.100

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Sen. Benigno Aquino III lacks leadership. He is a follower by choice. He went to Davao & visit the religious possibly for advice that he is now in. But he will never be like his father, the late Sen. Benigno Aquino Jr, a career journalist, a fighter, & a man of principle. Noynoy has nothing to present to Filipinos achievements while he was a Congressman of Tarlac. He could be a no talk, no mistake guy. He is a nice person but compassion to Filipinos, I cannot see. Had you hear him deliver before Congress a privilege speech? The 1% moron can vote for him. BTW, you can bang your skull against the wall & Senator Jinggoy P. Ejercito will surely get re-elected. The lonely spirit's choice cannot be a good Pres.

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

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It's 2010 already, & the RP has shifted gear to election mode. 1st up, ahead of the pack is LP's presidentiable Noynoy Aquino, nearing 50, always lived in mom's house, never married, mediocre, & unproductive as solon & as a senator, is already campaigning his advocacy that this election is about good against evil. That's easy to see. Noynoy Aquino is candidate good, and presidentiables Villar, Estrada and Teodoro are candidates evil. Thanks Mr "candidate good" Noynoy Aquino for warning us against these "evil candidates," We won't go near them, much less vote for them. We'll vote for Noynoy because Noynoy is good, and all those running against him are evil.

Name: ONE UP
City/State/Country: GOTHAM CITY
IP Address: 74.66.132.163

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Whoever is the president-elect for 2010 in the Philippines will inherit a huge budget deficit and gigantic heap of debt. Thanks GMA. As the country's people keep populating the country, more people will be joining the ranks of the poor and underemployed. A projected GDP growth of 4% in 2010 is not enough to bring hope to a country whose population is growing about half the size of its projected gross national product. While I am fearful, most local Filipinos are hopeful. Local Pinoys would generally look at a glass half full rather than half empty! HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Name: R I P
City/State/Country: MISSISSAUGA
IP Address: 122.148.34.58

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Sabi ni Manuel,can you feel Gene,with your two b*lls that the Islas de Ladrones ay pinamamahayan ng 99% mga morons at idiots, (of course, R I P is not included) ang ibig mong sabihin Manuel isa ka sa mga samahang nabanggit mo?...hehehe, Happy New Years sa Inyo Lahat.

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

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Like many other RP talents, who were not included in the brief list of PNL persons of 2009, Arnel Pineda is still kicking strong, pulling full houses outside of RP, making hay while the sun shines on his cities by the internationally, where his talents bring down houses gleefully, happy to hear him belt out old journey tunes, as well as new ones. > LINK

Name: Judy
City/State/Country: Las Vegas
IP Address: 68.96.217.3

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Warm wishes for a happy, peaceful, prosperous New Year to all! Good health and God bless. Have a great 2010!

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

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Those that watched it on TV, saw Manny Pacquiao taking the urine test prescribed by the Nevada Athletics Commission very much within its 48 hour time frame. So far there is no word, info, news of Floyd Mayweather complying.

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

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Although a Manny Pacquiao vs Yuri Foreman fight is more lucrative than a Pacquiao vs Mayweather glorified showboat, me think it is better & best if the fight is held later than March 13, '09, to give both fighters ample time to properly prepare, specially for Manny who just fought Cotto for almost 12 hard rounds last month, and he is much smaller and shorter than Yuri who is 5'11" at 154Lbs against Manny 5'7" at 144Lbs.

Name: Rolaz
City/State/Country: Philippines
IP Address: 124.106.55.54

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GFJBHEDF: thanks for the link. I read the the Lyrics of her song "Note to God" in this link LINK but, I find no sentence "Praising God" or "Thanking Him" for the talent given to her. The Lyrics seems to be list of request. Sample of Song Thanking God LINK

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

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The "Defamation" lawsuit Manny Pacquiao filed against Mayweather Jr. et al is no fluke. It is not "Frivolous" as allotted to by New York Atty. Judd Burstein. The blatant defaming allegations are all recorded on live TV footage after footage by the accused. Not only is it like a picture worth a thousand words, it's all caught on live TV, verifying, authenticating to a T their defamation allegations that is not lost, but indelibly imprinted in the minds, hearts and souls of the millions of boxing fans around the globe, who now look at Manny Pacquiao with doubts and question marks. That defamation is beyond silver and gold, that even after the verdict is pronounced in favor of Pacquiao, will never be restored completely.

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

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The 7 division championship belts Manny Pacquiao won, no other boxer in history ever attained, continue to be honored around the world as the best in his chosen sport of boxing. Adding to the ones I have already mentioned, ESPN also names Manny Pacquiao its best fighter of 2009. > LINK

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

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The magnitude of Manny Pacquiao's lawsuit against Mayweather et al is not off the cuff, comprehensible. It's larger than most folks taking it for granted. It's going to cost plenty, for both sides, but it need to be righted to restore lots of the lost credence Manny lost due to the defaming allegations & other supportive statements media broadbanded by GBP personnel(s). It cannot be settled behind closed doors. It can only be righted publicly, to restore in the hearts, minds and souls of millions of fans and others most of the honor and credence Pacquiao lost due to these defamation allegations and related supportive statements.

Name: mockingmaya
City/State/Country: taft avenue, manila
IP Address: 98.248.158.31

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One Up/Mr. Pogi/Rottensense are pseudo-singkolars who are willing to cling to their fantasies & brag about their 1.0 GPA=4.0 Western standard but belong to a culture that can't distinguish between reality & illusion. They claim to engineer the elimination of poverty while Philippines is being ruled by charlatans. They will create fictional wealth while their government has been taken hostage by corruption, extremism, spectacles, & celebrities.

Name: mockingmaya
City/State/Country: taft avenue, manila
IP Address: 98.248.158.31

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Filipino voters will continue to elect the children of corrupt politicians to extend human misery & political corruption. According to Jules Kroll, about 300 million dollars worth of illegal Marcos investments & assets were returned to Philippine government. Singkolars & homo homini lupus, like One Up, alphabeth guru, 7GTG, rottensense, Pogi, & their apologist will continue to blame poverty, but not corruption as the root of human miseries. Political corruption is an institutional obstacle that can't be destroyed by singkolars from Ateneo University, La Salle, & other elitist institutions.

Name: Gene
City/State/Country: Ontario, Canada
IP Address: 70.24.97.223

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Who is Mr. Jesse Ventura? A wrestler & the former Gov. of Minnesota. Would you say that those who elected him would be a 1% Moron? Would you say that American corporations who are greedy to earn billions of dollars shifting to countries bec. they would rather pay less be 99% morons since the land of milk & honey is now suffering economically? Now, Uncle Sam owes the Peoples Republic of China. It is 1% moronic. Greed does not make you a good person but a bitter 1% moron.

Name: mockingmaya
City/State/Country: taft avenue, manila
IP Address: 98.248.158.31

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One Up: John Rawls', Aquinas' & other thinkers are waiting for your crackpot rationalization that "natural law" wasn't derived from Divine Law. As I've underscored, you're donkey & stupid (see Avatar's term for stupid) graduate from Ateneo University. You're PNL's & CNN's stupid of the year 2009. Congratulations!

Name: mockingmaya
City/State/Country: taft avenue, manila
IP Address: 98.248.158.31

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Corrupt Voters: With regrets & tears are soaked, we're sorry to hear that your daddy finally croaked in a cold & lonely foreign land. Children of corrupt politician: Our dad lived a full life & an icon of democracy, according to our mom. Corrupt Voters: He'll be buried & eaten by worms. But if I could have children as stupid as you, I'd wish for big time corruption & enjoy life to the fullest so I could die filthy-rich too. Waaaa! waaaah!

Name: mockingmaya
City/State/Country: taft avenue, manila
IP Address: 98.248.158.31

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One Up Ateneo singkolar with 1.0 GPA=4.0 Western standard: Machiavelli (Discourses on Livy) is a true scholar, not singkolar like you. Machiavelli (The Prince) talks a lot about rival powers: the Church or Rome, the Medici an so on. I would rather agree with the writings of great minds than a donkey singkolar like you. Waaa! waaa!

Name: WDC
City/State/Country: California
IP Address: 76.83.116.59

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Independent panel to dismantle the private armies? We have Philippine constitution and laws. Is this another bu$$#t from the Arroyo Administration to save her face from the Maguindanao massacre? Just send the armies to those politicians first to Arroyo herself, Marcos, Aquinos, Cojuangcos, Enriles, Estradas. etc., then region to region and execute the laws. Don't BS you way out Madame Arroyo, just use your position as the Commander In Chief. Enough is enough, if you are sincere, we need action now, not tomorrow.

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

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The Commission to dismantle private armies is on. The Commission members are Bishop Juan de Dios Pueblos, PLBA Pres. Herman Basbano, AGFO Pres. Jaime Echevaria, retired Gen. Virtus Gil Dante Jeminez of VACC, & Mahmod Adilao of Ulma League. 5 altogether, to remove 2 million loose firearms in the hands of private armies. .20% or 200,000 Est. of it is in the hands of the rebels (NPA. MILF Etc.). This is stupidity unprecedented. How are these 5 suppose to dismantle these private armies? The AFP (113,500) and the PNP (113,928), in over 700 islands are already way outnumbered, overburdened as it is with their daily duties, tasks and assignments. Again another exercise in futility, but it works to deflects public outrage and sentiments. "Dodging the bullets." "Dodging Manny's lethal punches."

Name: Gene
City/State/Country: Ontario, Canada
IP Address: 70.24.97.223

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Spreading lies on the internet especially when there is nobody to refute is sickening. And so readers take the face value & the object of lies becomes helpless & defenseless unless someone will stand up to correct the bad publicity. Rumor mongerer or "tsismis" most Filipinos are noted for. Imagine reading an article in the Manila Times accusing Erap of condescending & patronizing the rape charges against Jalosjos. It has something to do with Mark Jimenez aka "crespo". But anyways, I received an email correcting their initial statement that they sent & at the same time asking me additional info. but I turned them down. The chronology was not there & their pants went down. Truthfulness shd. be one's New Year's resolution.

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

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No question about it, Pacquiao is named fighter of the decade. When all is said and done, the Pambansang Kamao will be at the head, at the forefront, of the world's Boxing Hall of Fame. No Filipino to date, in any, and all category of endeavor has ever topped, to be the best in the world in their profession except Manny Pacquiao, even though this amazing feat is lost on a nation of self serving crabs, bar none. Unfortunately for these crabs, world history will so note for posterity. Manny Pacquiao will live in world history, and all his crabby countrymen will be as if they never were.

Name: mockingmaya
City/State/Country: taft avenue, manila
IP Address: 98.248.158.31

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Dragonslayer: I do agree with you completely on the three scourges of mankind because human suffering & misery throughout recorded history can be reduced to simple forms in which social institutions play a major part: small "C" or big "C" corruption, injustice, oppression, persecution for dissident beliefs, and so on. But the question is, whether there can be a conflict between the pursuit of truth & the effort to eliminate corruption or reduce human suffering. I do believe that an awareness of this fact is the strongest point in the notion of the rule of law in participatory democracy.

Name: mockingmaya
City/State/Country: taft avenue, manila
IP Address: 98.248.158.31

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One Up: You don't need to explain the collapsed of the Roman Empire if you can't even reconcile your own contradictions & your inability to comprehend protean phrases. Your 1.0 GPA=Western standard is not enough to save your own sanity. According to scholar, "the savagery of the Catholic Church towards medieval & later heresies arose from the fact the heretics asserted that it was possible for ordinary human beings to achieve a direct contact with God." It challenged the priestly hierarchy or its raison d' etre.

Name: mockingmaya
City/State/Country: taft avenue, manila
IP Address: 98.248.158.31

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One Up: Let me expose your donkey's mentality as a gift for 2010. You argued that "a host of factors caused the fall of Rome..." Powerful civilizations had collapsed & decayed: Rome, Persia, Byzantium, Ottoman, Chinese kingdoms, Egypt, the Munghal, & the Mayan empire. They didn't die for the same reasons. Rome, for instance, never faced a depletion of natural resources or environmental catastrophe. But they all, at a certain point, were taken over by a corrupt & bankrupt elite. This elite squandered the resources & pillaged the state. They could no longer muster internal allegiance & cohesiveness: these empires died morally. In contrast, Philippines is a poor nation being ruled by charlatans for many years. The Maguindanao massacre is one of its manifestations: a slow internal decay.

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

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To ABACADA Man Pacman lost to Custodio in Pacman's first congressional run due to the corruption of his local political managers. His campaign manager could not account for more than150 million pesos campaign funds unleashed by Pacman. For 150 million I could have bought the whole voting population of General Santos. This second time around Pacman will have become much wiser to entrust his money to hijackers. BTW GMA and the first thieves assured Pacman that what ever amount he spent in his congressional run will be reimbursed, never happened reason why Pacman joined Villar's NP

Name: ONE UP
City/State/Country: GOTHAM CITY
IP Address: 74.66.132.163

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Dragonslayer wrote about Filipinos way of voting and nominating candidate for PNL's Person of the Year: "Come on now, people. It was just a poll; why take it so seriously. It was not meant to denigrate nor hurt anyone's reputation, much less your own. " This is the problem: Pinoys have double standards. They voted blindly. The criterion was nominee's deed(s) that impacted on the lives of Filipinos. Andal's deeds had wider reach and claimed worldwide condemnation. It dominated the news cycle for weeks. COME ON. Think!

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