August 31, 2007

Viewpoints

One too many

By + Oscar V. Cruz D. D.

On one hand, there is the national leadership who long since has been proudly and loudly pronouncing its resolve to clean the government it leads from the infamous graft and corruption that have become its expertise. Sometime last year or so, the same holder of the national executive office committed no less than 2 billion pesos precisely to fund its avowed crusade against graft and corruption in government. And there is even the public entity specifically identified as the Presidential Anti-Graft Commission (PAGC) and categorically established to uproot grafters from the present administration.

On the other hand, PAGC said the following rather revealing facts: First, it has in fact submitted no less than some 90 graft cases to the Office of the President for pursuant action. Second, it said the same highest office in the land had done nothing on the said cases except in conjunction with 2 or 3 of them. Third, it pointed out that some PAGC lawyers are in fact contemplating of leaving the Commission precisely on account of their perceived waste of time and effort in working on the cases which after all are but nonchalantly treated by the Presidential Office. One thing is certain: Even but a single graft case in government is already one too many, one could just wonder what some 90 graft cases really mean and actually imply.
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Jose Ceralde
30 Aug 2007

 

 

Posters surely had calculated their exposure in the internet. Being honest is good advice but it does not mean giving the long haired guy an easy work of your health, financial, and driving records. Federal laws in privacy were enacted for a reason.

Encryption is big business concerning privacy and in certain parts of the world. Those who collect personal information are responsible for their legal use and safeguard.

The former Veterans Administration director found out that quickly when he had to resign under fire. Valerie’s case had a lot of political fog but at least someone got convicted of something.

Surely the outlaws are always lurking ready to take on the opportunities presented by some of you posters who do not shred your trash, engage in publishing, readily give up your SSS number, and your medical profile, and do not respect self protection.

So if you already gave up and concede that you do not need protection then remove your anti-spy ware and anti-virus and see how fast they could really work.

So if you are the guardians of personal profiles be responsible because the big guy or God is watching to ensure you at least did what a common person would do in your positions.

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Edener Benitez Fabella
29 Aug 2007

 

 

I’ve often wondered how it would be like facing St. Peter on judgment day. I thought of the variables but no matter how I try squeezing time to soften the inevitable, it isn’t a pretty sight wheelin’ and dealin’.

What to do? I demanded equal opportunity reminding St. Peter he need not act like some cabinet secretary I know? St. Peter allowed some slack asked what it is I wish before deciding letting me fly upwards or sent packing to the barbeque pits below.

I said I would like to speak to 2 people responsible in turning Filipinos into OFW’s (Of Filipinos Wretchedness).

Mr. Marcos, what were you thinking creating agencies such as Sandiganbayan, Sangguniang Bayan, Barangay, DILG, MMDA, Ombudsman, SolGen, PNP and many other craps? Can’t you see instead of improving the lives of Filipinos with the additional layers of freeloading bureaucrats, it screwed their lives even more? Do you know some of these officials care for nothing but costly projects for even more fat commissions leaving the poor taxpayers living under bridges eating packaged noodles? Where else in the world can you find a general in cushy offices in metro Manila overseeing a celebrated case in Mindanao? You and your PNP creation.

What more can be so offensive than hearing another general in the military saying ‘Soldier’s lives will not go to waste!’ Was he referring to a soldier’s life being mere garbage material? What I am saying is you and Imelda should have left things alone.

Tita Cory, My question for you is, what were you really trying to tell Filipinos when you started wearing your signature yellow color? Was it meant to be some kind of a fashion statement, or were you telling the Filipinos to feel like one? Their rights are being trampled on a daily basis and feeling outraged isn’t a priority? Look like you succeeded in your goal and you must be happy.

Finally, I saw my passport stamped ‘undesirable’ No entry to heaven!

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August 2007

August 26 - September 1, 2007

MetroState sues city gov’t
De Venecia dared to run for President again
Police chief hailed for arresting 16 pushers
Councilor Sison is PCL head
‘Pawil Dagupan’ returns this year
Anti-jueteng priests beat San Carlos City officials
Canto calls for TB-free Dagupan
Red Cross laments few blood donors
Cattle rustling incidents down 50%, says Nerez
New bridge up in Bayambang soon
Go kayaking around the 100 Islands
Shellfish from W P’sinan remains red tide-free–DA
Gov’t strenghtens Luzon’s FMD-free status
Dagupan named pilot area for JICA-BFAR fish project
Rice supply, retail price stable–NFA
Its Alex de V on radio!
PhilHealth supports TOFP search
Ravanzo elected 2008 JCI prexy
Dukes bow to Webczars
VM Belen Fernandez Cup draws 17 team
Nerez cycling kicks off today

August 19 - 25, 2007

Transport summit proposed in Dagupan
Judges discard raffle judicial notices
Call centers coming to city
Gov’t starts probe of missing steel bars
Cattle rustling leaders nabbed
City hall cuts costs due to thinning budget
New jail warden fights drug dealing
Dagupan to set up center for children in trouble
Resuello cracks whip on delinquent employees
Dagupan named pilot area for sustainable sanitation
Espino will negotiate for seaport and airport rehab
Dagupan issues advisory for flood-prone barangays
Vendors call for ban on “alien” bangus
Sari-sari Store Exhibit set in Dagupan City
Yap pushes for development of mango industry
Agri office to take bangus census
Pangasinan remains FMD-free
Primicias back from Int’l Exchange Program
CdD employs 2nd CPA alumnus in Illinois
Galvan hurdles dental board exams
St. John’s and Mother Goose Dagupan lead Milo tourney

August 12 - 18, 2007

Mayor Al stops pay parking
Cops to probe drug, jueteng money in PCL polls
Urdaneta eyes class status
MetroState contract not ratified
Napocor owes Pangasinan P180M in taxes
Gov’t holds declaration of state of calamity
Dengue claims 6 lives; 242 others affected
Velasco sets strategic planning in Sta. Barbara
Slaying of LU bursar deplored
Transport group seeks single coding system for all PUJs
Police recruits dies in training
Dagupan City has new police chief
Cruz asks Espino to state his position on jueteng
Alarmed hog raisers call for stricter inspection
Imported rice expected to stabilize supply in province
The country prayed and the rains poured
Pangasinan riders rule Guam cycling race
Milo SBP-Passerelle tournament opens
Inter-schools PRISAA games set on Aug. 22
Nerez bikefest set Aug. 26

August 5 - 11, 2007

Tayug Mayor slammed
Yap: ‘It’s an extended dry spell, not drought’
PGMA hikes reward for Resuello killer
Three guns-for-hire in Apilado slay charged
Urdaneta maintains 2 city halls
Police nabs marijuana dealers
Model police station in Alcala opens
Program for PWDs to get more funding
Red Cross donates equipment to city
GMA, JdV inaugurate new Rosales terminal
Dry spell leaves 50% of farmlands idle
Agbayani cites past irrigation project
Filipinos dominate Math tilt
Dagupan City cited for disaster preparedness
SJCS sets grand alumni homecoming
YMCA-Dagupan City bags 5 golds

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Eduardo Pontaoe
29 Aug 2007

 

 

Ms. Heidi: Whoever drafted the - Psychologically Incapacitated Law - is not what you assumed he is, but brilliant bordering on genius. It’s not against women. It cut both ways.

This law gives the leeway for individuals not to get married. Why get married when this contract is written to be broken?

Anyway, it encourages the idea why swim when you can walk. It could be economically detrimental to the clergy. It could put the church out of business.

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Eduardo Pontaoe
29 Aug 2007

 

 

M-L-Q . . . Most Laughable Quote?

I won’t say that, but the implications are prophetic. Quezon’s, ” A Filipino MIGHT be improved”, was his anxiety . . . his worry on what he envisioned couldn’t be achieved. What a foresight! How he got into MIGHT, an auxiliary verb to express the possibility of getting rained out after independence, was cunning.

He knew his countrymen pretty well. The political inner workings of the Pinoy brain. . . it’s up to no good. Quezon got his dream on a platter. He wouldn’t be turning in his grave.

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Eduardo Pontaoe
29 Aug 2007

 

 

Jazzy Fernandez or Garcia – take your pick - in the Olympics does not get any jazzier than that. He lied thru his teeth, lied thru the Road Race . . . got caught . . . and anyone who’ll try to give respect and resurrect him from the garbage dump of the Olympics, is naiveté at its most debased.

It’s unfortunate to say the least, that this individual is totally blind. His idea of anything short of a gold medal is an achievement you can flaunt and mesmerize people is utterly preposterous.

Like what was said before, “In any athletic competition there’s no second best, number one or nothing”. Anything deficient of that is an agony of defeat.

Jazzy Fernandez’s Olympic charade came to the surface . . . as everybody now knew . . . when he tried to wiggle his way on the records. That his participation in the Olympics could be construed as a success and it turned out was one of the most cockamamie assertions.

Now, this colorful person parallel Jazzy Garcia’s with his beloved Philippines which there’s no future past and present, mired in malfeasance . . . injustice . . . and thievery. What a comparison!

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August 28, 2007

Anti-women law

Heidi
28 Aug 2007

 

 

Whoever drafted this “Psychologically incapacitated law” is the one who is as such. Whoever approved/voted for this to become a law is sick in the head. They are the ones who should be locked up in a mental facility.

This is unacceptable as the only reason for a man or a woman to get out of a failed union. Something is really wrong here.

May mga utak ba ang mga “lawmakers” sa Pilipinas? O baka naman sa sobrang talino ay hindi na makapag-isip ng matino?

Which is which??

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Jeremias Andrade Carrera
28 Aug 2007

 

 

Surfing the net and privacy:

You are absolutely right Mr. Pontaoe. Even Valerie Plame and those deep cover spies are not assured of privacy, so let us not make a joke of ourselves about preserving our privacy.

For a few dollars, one can search most of the personal information about a person. Most public information is free-just google it.

For example, one prolific poster is the son of an attorney who pass the bar in 1952 and graduated from Mapua Institute of Technology as a mechanical engineer and a member of a Filipino Technical Professional Association and Binalonan Association abroad, lost money in an investment fund, among many other detailed information available free and can be verified easily.

Remember how Ruffa Gutierrez Bektas marriage in USA was discovered? As “M” said: We do function in your absence 007 and “Tanaka” said: We have our sources Bond-san just like you.

Google Earth can show where you live, what car you drive, your house, among other things. If you are using webcam, someone might be lucky to see you in your underwear if you are not careful.

Does anyone still want that false sense of privacy? You must be joking.

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Edener Benitez Fabella
28 Aug 2007

 

 

What more can anyone add to an issue distinguished forum contributors already articulated on with preciosity except to recommend joining Tibetan monks if preservation of privacy is an overriding concern?

You make a mistake of sharing your SSS data these days and in seconds, the whole world knows the many times you’d been to Bogart’s, Morton’s, Ghirardelli Square, what you owed on your R350, Countrywide, Macy’s and Aling Guring’s Ihaw-Ijaw. General Custer on his to Big Horn probably was happy he didn’t have to deal with AMEX he decided to leave home without it.

My personal opinion on the matter over one’s preference using first name basis or in full have nothing to do how you want to keep the rest of you private. Rather, it falls on the adage ‘different strokes for different folks’ as simple as that.

Few may still argue it isn’t so and insist on beating the dead horse to pulps. For the rest of us who willingly gave up few inches in exchange for 10 minutes of fame, it’s damn the torpedoes onward to the Alamo and blitzkrieg march to VietQuoc tet. Dig and be dug.

Better yet, for those still learning the ropes, why not just join Gloria Arrovo Pidal’s exercise club? It’s known in the country as DDD’s (deny, deceive, deflect) and your privacy is guaranteed like a secret account in Germany and Switzerland.

Holly Cow! Watch out for those Lipo Suction gangs they are not to be trusted with your privates. They are known experts in hitting below the belt!

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