Name: Tony Divina Vallejo
City/State/Country: San Jose City, Phils
IP Address: 120.28.8.19

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Efren Penaflorida is another kind hero in his own right, more especially for the out-of-school youth. He should serve as a model to all in the teaching profession. Education is still the best thing one could ever had in a lifetime. The Philippines is a small country but many people, like Efren, makes us proud to be Filipinos. Mabuhay ang lahing Pilipino! More power to Efren!

Name: Florence
City/State/Country: Brisbane, Australia
IP Address: 203.35.216.113

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Indeed, Philippines will need someone like Efren. I greatly admire and congratulate Efren and his colleagues for taking this challenging. leap. This very worthwhile humanitarian voluntary action should be mirrored by others specially the "politicians". The nation can only prosper and change if there are more EFRENS. Honesty, humility, caring attitude, respect and patience are values that Filipinos should revisit, relearn and internalize... KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK EFREN..

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

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Efren Penaflorida deserves all the accolades, praises, given him by the participants in the PNL Forum. He truly is a unique person with a unique way of helping the needy. I pray that CNN gives him the Hero award. The people here in the Forum deserve some kind of recognition, as well, from us. Their concern about the country and our needy kababayans is a big help. Gintong Lahi (Rufinol), Duenas Worldwide (Rey Laua), HOPE (Gloria Earl), IMSFI, to name a few groups that have been trying to help our poor kababayans. There are many other groups, PNL posters, that are trying to help. They don't wait for a "calamity" to occur. They just help as best they could. I just want to recognize these PNL posters. You are all great!

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

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The oodles of accolades bestowed on Efren, by PNL forum contributors, would surely overwhelm Club 8586 Center, as it does me. Xmas is almost here. From US or Canada, please text or call Efren at 011 6346 431 8586 or email him at LINK and send this simple message. "Hi Efren, I want to help. I would like to send a one time gift of $100 dollars thru Western union, direct deposit to your club's Acct. Pls instruct."

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

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Why not just vote for Efren, instead of like copycat posting sa topic na ito, parang agos ng tubig, iisa ang ibig sabihin. Someone who became a hero, he/she didn't plan for that, it just happened, it is just a quick decision, Efren didn't intend to be like that, from the start, marahil it's just for fun, hanggang maramdaman nyang ang simpling gawaing yon at sa papuri, lalong umusbong sa puso ni Efren, na ipagpatuloy ang nasimulang katuwaan.

Name: pinaskongmahal
City/State/Country: usa
IP Address: 70.233.231.109

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I salute Efren for his herculean efforts of educating the unwanted children in the streets. I hope he can include those very young kids with thin bodies, emaciated faces, glassy eyes, dirty, smelling empty paint containers to deaden their nerves of hunger and deprivations. Also those abandoned kids sleeping in empty tombs of Makati Cemetery. But can he teach them the 3Rs when their empty stomachs are groaning for many days?

Name: ONE UP
City/State/Country: JACKSON
IP Address: 74.66.132.163

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I guess many are making a BIG DEAL about the nomination of Efren praising him to high heavens as if his nomination with CNN heroes in 2009 is the penultimate measure of success that dwarfs other individual and unheralded achievements. One blogger even wanted to see Efren become the promised "messiah" in Philippine politics. This nomination of Efren will probably get much attention until PNL editorial comes to an end; then like anything thing else, public attention fades away. Overtime some may remember his name; many others may have no more recollection of either Efren or Penaflorida - the pushcart teacher nominee!

Name: Edward
City/State/Country: Las Vegas
IP Address: 68.108.22.93

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Some of you Filipinos said (maybe joking) that this Efren fellow should run for President of the Philippines. Some of you questioned is abilities. Because of the many, many years of having dishonest leaders, it would be nice to see a leader who is honest. Now that would be something!

Name: Sam
City/State/Country: CA
IP Address: 68.6.100.14

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One Up: As many have pointed out already, Efren is hardly a messiah but he is doing more than many of us are doing. And "doing" is the operative word here. In terms of millions, Bill Gates gives more but he hasn't spent an hour in Tondo. Someone questioned his ability to teach, now you ask why bother if he can hardly make a dent in the problem? Perhaps you should ask what motivated this guy also: LINK Mother Teresa didn't make a dent on world poverty either.

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

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Many are painting a picture of Efren larger than life. Poor Efren, he is not even aware of what many are doing in this website! Over magnification (overplaying Efren's work) is a dangerous thing. These people are forcing the printer to print beyond the paper size! THIS IS A METAPHOR MOCKINGBIRD SHOULD NOT TAKE LIGHTLY.

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

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[PINASKONGMAHAL] Efren can't quench the hunger for food. He could provide however only a morsel of knowledge. Because the educational encounter does not last long enough, could this brief outcome be sustained? I have my doubts.

Name: ONE UP
City/State/Country: JACKSON
IP Address: 74.66.132.163

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[JRH] What do you hope to achieve by emailing Bill Gates? Microsoft is a software maker and technology provider (including Internet, computing and other services) Bill Gates' company provides the software component, like the operating system (Windows 7 or Vista) while the others (DELL, HP, Sony, Toshiba, etc) make the hardware so that consumers could own a "computer." If you are so concerned about about cost, haven't you noticed that computer prices have gone down tremendously over the years? You could even buy a Netbook (solely for Internet use) for $299.

Name: ONE UP
City/State/Country: JACKSON
IP Address: 74.66.132.163

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[MOCKINGMAYA] This is where we differ in opinion when you wrote "before legal proceedings are taken, or during their pendency, or after conviction & judgment and that it makes the offender retroactively innocent in the eyes of law." The convicted man is still a FELON, but through the act of a presidential pardon it restores to that man his lost freedom. The stigma of having sinned against society is still embedded in that man. This is not the same as the ORIGINAL SIN that is washed away by the Catholic ritual of baptism. There is no such thing as "retroactively innocent." in legal parlance. Contrast this to WRONGFULLY CONVICTED"

Name: ONE UP
City/State/Country: JACKSON
IP Address: 74.66.132.163

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Someone commented "Senator Escudero has a chance to prove that there's no danger in being an idealist or a progressive leader, but there's a greater danger in blind conservatism. Corrupt politicians should remember that power is always in the hands of the voters. I think Senator Escudero is the man to beat." I don't follow the logic. If Escudero is neither a progressive or a conservative candidate, he must be a moderate? I don't know how this writer tags Escudero as a candidate to beat!

Name: ONE UP
City/State/Country: JACKSON
IP Address: 74.66.132.163

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[SAM] The distinction of being labeled as a peasant is quite obvious in the context of the Philippine society. Those who attend private schools (mostly Catholic colleges and universities) are the ELITES; those who can't afford to pay the tuition on those schools go elsewhere to get their academic diplomas. They are the PEASANTS. In short it is an economic class argument. Mockingman hates the élites. His disdain for them reverberates in this website. This is so because Mockingman considers himself as the aggrieved peasant. I stand squarely on that opinion!

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

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Re: Presidentiables.. Typical of Filipino culture is this prejudice against the rich and or successful. It is pathetic that a Presidentiable has to do some acting to be 'with the poor'.. hoping to get the votes. Erap is not poor. But his movies showed him as amongst the poor. So he got the votes. So the logic implied amongst many PNL posters is 'rich = bad' poor = good. The funny thing is most of the posters are in the USofA where individual financial success is everybody's dream. Land of opportunity ikanga. I think evil does not differentiate between the poor or the rich. You can have a poor candidate with the devil hiding inside waiting to be unleashed when the time comes. We had a poor and ambitious first lady remember?

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

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Why not just vote for Efren, instead of like copycat, ang posting sa topic na ito, parang agos ng tubig mula sa vulcan mayon,mainit, iisa ang ibig sabihin. Someone who became a hero, he/she did'nt plan for that, it just happened, it is just a quick decision, Efren didn't intend to be like that, from the start, marahil it's just for fun, hanggang maramdaman nyang ang simpling gawaing yon at sa papuri, lalong umusbong sa puso ni Efren, na ipagpatuloy ang nasimulang katuwaan, subalit may pakinabang.

Name: MARNY VILLANUEVA
City/State/Country: Jersey City, NJ
IP Address: 24.0.96.118

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Ultimately, El Vibora writes "Who did you help(ed) lately? If you haven't helped anybody SHUT THE HELL UP". I don't want to promote myself and I feel very uncomfortable talking about the people I've been helping, but he gave me no choice. There's a charitable inst. (CFCA) for children & seniors in Kansas, USA, that my family has supported by sponsoring 4 people: Roselyn (Albay), Tito (Africa), Arnold (Antipolo) & Pinky (Tondo) beginning in the early 90's up to the present; not to mention helping relatives & friends too. EFREN opened people's minds to the unlimited possibilities in extending our hands to those in need. Now is the time to be recognized & be heard as well. It's a great challenge but it can be done. Mas liligaya ang PASKO para sa lahat! POSTERS, HAVE A NICE LIFE.

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

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Sam: I think it's a common knowledge that "pardon power" is vested in the President by Article II, section 2, which extends to offenses against the U.S., except in cases of impeachment. In a Republic, crimes are offenses against the people (not against President's prerogative power, constitutional power, inherent power, etc.)). In a Monarchial form of government, "pardon power" was vested in the Crown. Moreover, Hamilton, in Federalist #74 rejected the criticism that the pardoning power should not extend to cases of treason. I think the Republic of Philippines is a Constitutional or Representative Democracy, and not ruled by a Queen or a King.

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

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ONE UP: Mrs Arroyo is not a Monarch, and all her power "is a trust,...she's accountable for its exercise (that---"from the people, and for the people all springs, and must exist." Therefore, her "pardon power" is a trust". And what are the instruments of trust? I thought you've taken an academic course at your Alma Mater ("The Constitution & The Supreme Court or "Capitalism & The Supreme Court). A scholar once observed that there's hardly a political question which does not sooner or later turn into judicial one. I do understand that your literal or narrow notion of "Separation of Powers" . Furthermore, according to legal scholars, whether a controversy is political, economic, and social eventually the battle will be taken to the SC.

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

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ONE UP: According to legal scholars, Constitutional interpretation (or the socio-political entities that Aristotle called "Constitutions") remain problematic. The answers to What, Who, and How of constitutional interpretations are controversial & difficult. There are many approaches or theories to Constitutional interpretation such as structuralism, textualism & reinforcing representative democracy. There's also what they call "doctrinal approach" that judges often adhere to. How can you rectify or cure the imperfections of the Constitution & the principle of "Separation of Powers?"

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

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ONE UP: I've never claimed & attempted to know all the answers to your questions. I do believe that you don't need to be a lawyer to acquaint yourself with the history & development of the Constitution, & the historical role of the Supreme Court. As an ordinary critic, I do believe that administrative & executive actions, legislations, and even Political Theory are also the stuff of Constitutional history.

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

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Gintong Lahi: I do apologize for being presumptuous. I do believe that the force of ideas & even the power of the ballot box are not enough to save the poor or the less-fortunate from ignorance, hunger, disease, malnutrition, toxic environment, slaughter on the streets and so on. I do hope that those children in the slum areas will not turn to "City Of Men" (movie), where violence is the norm. I think Mr. Penaflorida is just trying to tell us to elect good men or trustees whom we can trust. Sorry.

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

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I think Philippine Congress was created to liberate the poor & less-fortunate children from the House (Senate & House of Representatives) of bondage, injustice, & misery. As Moses did when he liberated the children of Israel from the Court of Pharaoh. I think some farmers are struggling to death against the land-grabbing systems of the previous & present regimes. History will educate the Filipinos that Rome was destroyed by this system. If it would take a young & progressive leader like Senator Escudero to free his countrymen from any forms of corruption. So be it.

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

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ONE UP: Why did you cite Justice Holmes phrase "reflective equilibrium or "coherency" without giving him a credit. You didn't even explain the significance of such phrase. I think Justice Holmes phrase ("reflective equilibrium) was a reaction to twentieth-century legal pragmatism and so on. According to him, epistemology should focus, not on the utility of beliefs in shaping future action, but on "reflective equilibrium," & the discovery of patterns in present & past experience.

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

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I think it's obvious who Sen Loren Legarda's presidentiable is going to be. He on the other hand is mum, and looks like he will let her have the honor of naming her lead tandem. It is noble and gentlemanly, and he will oblige her. How efficiently apt. The age of chivalry is nostalgic. Bravo senior!

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

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Sam: I am not a legal scholar. I think Rawls, J. will best explain or answer your question. According to him the law of people has different features from those of states or nation-states, since the idea of states was traditionally understood with sovereign powers. I think every critic has a right to question the wishful thinking of politicians, judges, & intellectuals.

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

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I think Mr. Penaflorida does not consider the less-fortunate children in slum areas as garbage & surplus (for example, according to scholar, "the garbage & surplus Irish men, women, & children were shoveled out their country because the landlords of Ireland have no use for them") to be ignored by Mrs. Arroyo's corrupt administration. It's a fact that Mrs. Arroyo's administration will continue to send educated & skilled Filipinos, not the uneducated, unskilled, & less-fortunate people, to perform menial tasks around the world. What a paradox. This may be considered as a modern slavery in action.

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

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ONE UP: I think your 1.0 GPA (Ateneo University) is not a guarantee that your follies will make me laugh. You keep on bragging about your 1.0 GPA (equivalent to 5.0 GPA Western standard) just to feel smart. Some scholars argue that the conferring of university degrees onto upper-class or filthy-rich people isn't only about GPAs, courses passed, and so on. It's also about symbols. It's like a marker announcing that stupid children of the rich are smart.

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

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ONE UP: I think Edward Said is a Palestinian brilliant thinker who has written influential & powerful texts, including Orientalism, Culture & Imperialism. I am sure your priests & mentors at your Alma Mater will not let you read his books to conceal the injustices, lies, & deception committed by the missionaries & colonizers. You don't need to brag about your 1.0 GPA & the marker (badge of honor) of your Alma Mater if you can't even engage in self-exploration & doubt.

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

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ONE UP: I do prefer my fellow critics to disagree with me. I don't consider myself as a pathfinder in social, political, & economic criticism. PNL forum is like sharing the individuality of others. I think comments are like "a loose sally of the mind," or not a regular & orderly composition. The phrase that you pirated from great American Jurist is a violation of your self-imposed standard on other critics. Moreover, I find it interesting to fish in a murky waters or what you call "dangerous legal minefields." It shows my ignorance. And I've to go on searching.

Name: WDC
City/State/Country: California
IP Address: 75.38.78.173

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I have an excellent request to Efren Penaflorida. He needs to go to the Philippine Congress and educated those movie stars like Estrada, Lapid, and other brainless lawmakers. These elected officials are clueless of their jobs as lawmakers. I noticed some of these WALANG UTAK na senadors their responses during the debates in Congress are either OO or Hindi.

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

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Sam: It's true that "the Filipino people empowered Mrs. Arroyo to do things by electing her." But the president is bound, without distinction, to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." Moreover, the government & all its officers derive their authority from the Constitution, whose term contains all the powers that the people intended to grant. "The president's power, if any,...must stem from an act of Congress of from the Constitution itself." History will educate you that "pardon power" of the president can be challenged by the Supreme Court (for example, one of Pres. Johnson's pardon or Act of 1865). Please see "The President's Power to Pardon: A Constitutional History."

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

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ONE UP: It's a common knowledge that a bad law can be repealed. But I didn't use the words literally to show the abyss of your 1.0 GPA. As I've underscored terms have ins & outs. Other critics have a tendency to view interpretation in terms of urgencies, historical desires, struggling oppositions, deviations, and so on. Reaction from other critics is inevitable. What is the use of argument that leaves other critics unmoved?

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

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7GTG: The concept of "peasant" was coined by Alexis de Tocqueville (Democracy In America, 1835). He's one of the great intellectuals who believed that public education or "common schooling" is important in advancing the "common good." According to him, the individual child would gain skills leading to economic opportunity & acquire the collective responsibility of citizenship. You've every right to construe it literally & struggle with de Tocqueville paradox.

Name: WDC
City/State/Country: California
IP Address: 75.38.73.14

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Now we see that money can't buy anything, only talents and love are the keys to survival for a nation. It is a shame for Filipinos as a whole that an individual like Efren who grew-up in a squatter area show us these qualities. Filipinos are busy doing the “pataasan ng ihi”and government officials are busy stealing money. If we have hundreds more like him, maybe Philippines won't have this dilemma that she is having right now.

Name: ONE UP
City/State/Country: JACKSON
IP Address: 74.66.132.163

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From an objective perspective, it would be very hard to really measure the impact of Efren's work in the community. Was Efren able to really break the chain of gang influence among the youth? How much education did Efren and his volunteers give to children? Education and learning as we all know, is essentially a block building effort. If Efren met the youth in a community just twice or thrice, there is not much impact. He has to stay there for months and months or virtually "live" with them..

Name: ONE UP
City/State/Country: JACKSON
IP Address: 74.66.132.163

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MOCKINGMAYA: This is where we differ in opinion when you wrote "before legal proceedings are taken, or during their pendency, or after conviction & judgment and that it makes the offender retroactively innocent in the eyes of law." The convicted man is still a FELON, but through the act of a presidential pardon it restores to that man his lost freedom. The stigma of having sinned against society is still embedded in that man. This is not the same as the ORIGINAL SIN that is washed away by the Catholic ritual of baptism. There is no such thing as "retroactively innocent." in legal parlance. Contrast this with WRONGFULLY CONVICTED"

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

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ONE UP: Your 1.0 GPA (Ateneo University) is not enough to comprehend the logic in Ex parte Graland case (1867): the Court rule in Garland's favor, holding that a pardon "extends to every offense known to the law,...& (take note) it makes the offender retroactively "innocent" in the eyes of the law." Therefore, former Pres. Estrada's is not only free (according to your crackpot rationalization), but he's like a new born baby boy in the eyes of the law. He never committed a crime. Your manikin & her legal advisers are like singkolars in the eyes of the Filipino people.

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

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ONE UP: It appears that your 1.0 GPA (Ateneo University) is an insult to your parents who spent a lot of money just to let you bre sedated & exposed to indoctrinated legal vodooism. You writes, "separation of powers" man. Holy cow! Your legal singkolars (mentors) didn't tell you the essence of "Presidential emergency powers, prerogative power, & inherent powers." "Prerogative power (noted by legal scholars & Locke) is the power to act according to discretion, for the public good, without prescription to law, & sometimes even against it (for example, Constitutional dictators in the past, suspension of habeas corpus, Pres. Truman seized the steel mills, etc.)

Name: jb111
City/State/Country: cebu city, phils.
IP Address: 203.215.94.54

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lets vote the next president who has a poetical to lead the country and not based on the popularity & surrounded with a lot of actors & actresses. in fairness of noynoy, if he wins the country will be involved in the showbiz (Game ka na Ba, Ruffa & AI, SNN & the BUSZ). I prefer to vote GIBO... he has the political will to lead the country

Name: H O P E (P-A-G-A-S-A)
City/State/Country: Hilagang Camarines
IP Address: 121.1.18.237

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TO ALL MY PNL FRIENDS: I'll stay here for good (God's willing) where my monthly SS checks can help hundreds & still live a queenly life, whereas in USA, just 1 or 2 homeless parkers. An Executive Check up at PHC cost only total $300 while in USA, it can't even pay for X-ray! Here, it doesn't cost a centavo for a good laugh. In US, a good laugh costs at least $50. What's more, everybody loves me here, even the cops. I served dinner to more than 50 of them during 24-hr-All Souls Day duty with pansit & adobo & it cost me only $50 total. Wow! Hey guys, come home. Spend your $s here! God bless you! Halina kayo! Masarap buhay dito!

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

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ONE UP: I think you're trying to "put the manikin or rabbit in the hat." It's a common knowledge that "separation of powers" (for example, the guiding principle of judicial restraint: it's the exclusive province of the legislatures to enact laws & the roles of the courts to interpret them) has been recognized under the Constitution. You don't need to be a law student, man, to comprehend this guiding principle. But remember that the Constitution is also about power (according to legal scholars), for example, political struggle over the selection of judges. Recently, in your land of birth, as I recall, manikin (Arroyo) & her apologists advocated Cha-Cha to re-create your mannequin as an absolute Prime Minister.

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

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ONE UP: " The objective in posting is quite simple: bring up a point and see how people look at it. If others became critical, you must have touched their frayed nerves and poked their bloated egos.." WRONG. You bring up a point and hope or even pray that others will notice it or critic it. That is the only way for you to confirm that others cared to read your post. duh! You can write perfect composition all you can but until someone takes the bait.. it is assumed no one read your post.

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

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I have steadfastly admired president Arroyo for being the most workingest RP president as per the late former president Cory Aquino, and will continue to do so. Now that her term is imminent, low poll results, career political allies are begging off the president's party, Kampi. PGMA understands. "Do look after yourself," she might admonish.

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

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As you all might recall, although PGMA went along with her political party's choice of secretary Teodoro as its standard bearer, Teodoro never got PGMA's endorsement. PGMA was keen on Sen Villar and VP de Castro. Villar wants to stay with the opposition, and de Castro wants to go back to broadcasting. Senator Loren Legarda, like Villar, wants to stay with the opposition. The duo have more in common, than Teodoro and Legarda. Abedee abedee abedee that's the writing on the wall.

Name: tonyO
City/State/Country: Pilipinas
IP Address: 114.108.192.47

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Dear GFJBHEDF, the 5% expanded withholding tax under Revenue Regulations No. 8-2009, implementing Section 57 of the Tax Code, is applicable only to income tax on income payments to suppliers of goods and services using funds coming from political contributions. IT IS NOT A GIFT TAX ON POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS. It does not violate Section 13 of the Election Code which exempts political contribution from GIFT TAX. Please read again Section 57 of the Tax Code and Revenue Regulations No. 8-2009.

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

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Sarca-SAM: I agree, without a bit of hesitation, that one can change IP address and nome de plume but not his style. The fact that all YOU can interject in in this semi-decent encounter are retorts in trash-and-garbage style is cut-and-dried evidence. A sensible need not look any further.

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

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One UP aka pp2guagua7: Perhaps you've read Sarca-SAM's theory with regard to our evolution in this PNL environment. One starts by testing the ocean of ideas. First, the depth which is not hard to judge for its shallowness. Temperature-wise, all I can say is too many typhoons of contention on the triviality and lunacy have been born and bred here only to shrink and die down like old-age erectile dysfunction. Sarca-SAM's style is the embodiment of this this sickly phenomenon. Either addicted or under the influence of some kind they keep coming back.

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

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Mr. Editor: If overused phrases such as "high time", "about time", and "time of reckoning" are being introduced often to serve as warning or inspiration for Filipinos to march to the same gong beat, you must be dreaming. No clue? Read on and pay attention to Sarca-SAM who is at his best only when shooting down good ideas from others but cannot come up with such on his own. Listen to the One Step Up/Two Steps Down PP2gwapito who assumes he's smarter than Sarca-SAM and mockinmaya by way of academics (and medicine?) Possible but he has not proven it yet. Not to mention 7gtg and deo, mah men, who frequently dabbles on ancient customs and traditions (and golf, of course). I suggest we might as well declare martial law to put a stop at these nonsense.

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

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Like a spoiled brat, throws a fit, immature temper tantrum, and bites the hand that fed him, years in the lower house and on to the senate, and just like that, on account he didn't get his toy, harrumphed, stumped his feet, and bolted the NPC, Sen Escudero did, leaving his benefactor, NPC chairman emeritus, Eduardo Cojuangco III aghast, with a lame excuse of "A presidential candidate must not be beholding to a political party." Really? "No man is an island." A lone wolf eventually starves. The pack lives on. You don't burn your bridges. That's just plain immature, and lack of character.

Name: galit sa land reform
City/State/Country: alaska
IP Address: 141.161.75.240

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Please someone explain why to this day Hacienda Luisita has not been appropriated to the farmers? When the land reform was initiated by then Pres. Marcos, my grandparents who owned less than 50 hectares lost their lands their 10 farmers due to land reform compared to Hacienda Luisita' 5000 farmers or kasama. law in the Phils only apply to middle and lower class people. Life is fair only to the rich and politicians.

Name: tonyO
City/State/Country: Pilipinas
IP Address: 114.108.192.47

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Dear GFJBHEDF, you, as well as the politicians and Comelec Chief who were quoted in the article in Business Mirror dated 24 October 2009 did not state the legal basis for their contentions against the legality of Revenue Regulations No. 8-2009 imposing the 5% creditable expanded withholding on income payments to suppliers of goods and services funded from political contributions received by candidates in local or national elections. The statutory basis of this Revenue Regulations is Section 57 of the Tax Code. THIS IS INCOME TAX LAW. These suppliers of goods and services are definitely subject to income tax on their income, even if funded from political contributions.

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

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To WDC why limit the re-education to Estrada and Lapid, Efren Should go to Congress and teach those elected officials 99% of these elected officials are "highly educated idiots".

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

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Entries irrelevant to the subject will be accepted and printed if sounding high brow. You are being blind-sided and attracted to presentation adorned with too glitter than substance. Dog and phony shows, that. Even disgusting garbage which most of your readers consider in bad taste and have no relevance to any practical living but fits your selfish needs, anyway, is just plain honky dory in your poor judgment. Apparently that's the new wrinkle around here. You are too naive to recognize the on-going Hatfield & McCoy feud based on hot-dogging and chasing rabbit trails. Well, if these guys have brains, they'll be a real menace and danger to society.

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

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RE: If Noynoy wins, will Kris act as first lady: I think Philippines has an emerging young generation of intellectuals. They believe that the late Senator Ninoy (Benigno) Aquino was a man alone, not only on his fearless application of his ideas, but also he was active in the political & ideological debates of his age. I think the late Ninoy can't be duplicated by his son (Noynoy). And Kris is just a mannequin celebrity in Arroyo's authoritarian blind alley. If Noynoy wins, he must do something to change the Philippines society radically. He should not be fated to stand at the crossroads of conflicting ideologies.

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

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ONE UP: I am not against the elites. I do consider envy as self-destructive. You've to read a book on "The Elites" before you brag about your elitist upbringing. F. S. Fitzgerard has also something to say about the rich: "They possess & enjoy early..., makes soft where we are hard, & cynical where we are trustful...Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think they are better than we are." Do you think he was referring to you? Figure it out & don't forget to re-activate you CPU or 1.0 GPA.

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

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I disagree on the statement of "unwanted children" in the Philippines. I see them as offspring of poor parents (unemployed dad) or outcomes of poverty. Parents no matter how poor they are do not give up or put up their children for adoption; unwed or teenage mothers do the same thing. Malnourished children who live in shanties and who stay in the streets than in the classroom are the visible faces of poverty. I look at "unwanted children" as potential infanticide victims or candidates for early or late abortions. I do not see the above observations being a part of the Filipino culture.

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

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Someone wrote about the matter of pardon exercised by a monarch (king or queen) and that of the president. The power of pardon rests in the head of the state. A prince or a princess can't pardon a subject of the kingdom. Congress can't pardon an erring official whose position was confirmed by them. Congress may not even reverse the judgment of a court if it involves a member of Congress. This is the separation of powers principle that Mockingmaya has cerebral difficulty understanding. He will just restate the obvious and cite some dead philosophers.

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

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Now Mockingmaya has to apologize for his reckless comments on an organization (Gintong Lahi) he barely knows. This is the problem with some who are too presumptuous and less thoughtful when making comments. I think Mockingmaya is a card carrying member of MASAMANG LAHI.

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

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Congress does not liberate people. The people liberate themselves by destroying the Congress they have created. That is why there is such a thing as an election. There is wisdom in the saying" to save a place it is better to have it destroyed." FYI Mockingmaya: The fall of Rome did not begin in 476 AD; it ran the full two centuries. Perhaps Christianity played a key role in the split of the Roman empire.

Name: Padre Damaso
City/State/Country: City of Saint Rose
IP Address: 138.163.0.41

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Joseph Ejercito was out of step with our Laguna values when he hinted his intentions to run for the highest office and this reflected terribly on our beloved Philippines. We are better off without him in public service.

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

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El Vibora's "who have you helped lately. If you haven't, then SHUT UP." This is so arrogant and insensitive of you, El Vibora. People NEED NOT advertise their good deeds. Many, if not all, of the participants in this Forum have, at one time or another, helped some needy person/s. Many even have attempted to organize a non-profit organization to help needy people, be it technological, agricultural, college scholarship, etc. Many have and have been helping their poor relatives. To you, maybe this does not count. Now let me ask you, El Vibora. You are so quick at judging people. "Who have you helped lately?" If not, then you do not judge others here. Nakakainsulto ka!

Name: pinaskongmahal
City/State/Country: usa
IP Address: 70.250.73.167

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I'm calling the attention of PGMA to step in and make an impact on the prompt distribution of tons of donated relief goods from the Unicef, Japan, Korea, Canada, and other countries. The DSWD warehouses are full of donated goods but are not moving the way it should be to reach the real victims. DSWD Secretary Esperanza Cabral when asked why the delay and her answer is quite evasive. Is there anything PNL can do to move these UN relief goods to the victims of Ondoy and Pepeng in a prompt and orderly manner? AFP personnel, TV stations, churches, civic org, etc. are willing to help if PGMA would like to mobilize them. Cloud of suspicions linger on that the goods might be switched to local products just like in the past.

Name: pinaskongmahal
City/State/Country: usa
IP Address: 70.250.73.167

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There were cash donations also that were coursed through the Phil gov't. One country (Australia) was complaining already where the money went. Is there a way to check on the status of donated cash how they were spent as intended to be by donor nations? The gov't can not be trusted anymore. It's nice If PGMA has a heart of caring concern to victims of the recent killer flood.

Name: El Vibora
City/State/Country: Toronto, Canada
IP Address: 206.130.173.55

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To: Marny Villanueva of Jersey City USA. Bravo to you so many here at PNL, all they do is to criticize and tell everybody how much educations they have and never mentioned who they helped. You're success in helping out of your free will are the ones I want to read, not some mayayabang, hambog na ating mga kababayan. If we can help at least one person, this one person will do the same, it might eliminate some of the problems. Thank you again.....

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

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Pinasko: " But can he teach them the 3Rs when their empty stomachs are groaning for many days?.." sinabi na ngang he is teaching them the 3Rs... Baka naman imagined mo lang iyong empty stomach.

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

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mocking: " 7GTG: The concept of "peasant" was coined by Alexis de Tocqueville (Democracy In America, 1835). He's one of the great intellectuals who believed that public education or "common schooling" is important in advancing the "common good." Thank you for the info. Now I learn something. But still to the Filipino, 'peasant' means 'saop'.. as in 'landlord and peasant'.. lolz.

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

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[WDC] The phrase "pataasan nang ihi" is in fact inherent in men. It is the ability to compete (mano a mano) Some men wanted to practice it with but too little urine volume and not enough pressure. When others do that , it is no more than a defensive response in masking the inherent deficiency or weakness inherent in that person. Who wants to be outdone, out spend, and out run? AND OUT THINK?

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