Category: Commentaries
Pag-Ibig Membership ID Card, A Testament to Cost-Cutting Measures?
Pag-Ibig Membership ID Card, A Testament to Cost-Cutting Measures?

I have received at last my Pag-Ibig (Home Mutual Development Fund) Membership Card or ID a few days ago.  And I was so surprised to almost asking if it was indeed my Pag-Ibig ID or was it just a bogus photocopied or printed material given to us by scammers?
Take a look at my scanned ID on top.  See?  It is [...]

By elmot with 18 comments
The Indestructible Angelo Reyes in the Midst of the Power Crisis
The Indestructible Angelo Reyes in the Midst of the Power Crisis

If there is one government official in the Philippines who should be sitting not only as a secretary of Department of Energy and Department of Environment and Natural Resources that should be no less than Mr. Angelo Reyes.  Yes, Sec. Angie.
Despite all his incompetence since he was thrust into the public office as a cabinet secretary, he was always being [...]

By elmot with 11 comments
Religious Endorsements Holding Public Policies Hostage
Religious Endorsements Holding Public Policies Hostage

Politicians are flocking to different religious leaders like hungry migratory birds looking for more abundant warmer fields, courting them and indirectly asking to be chosen as the anointed one; and in effect may win the presidency with the tsunami of votes that these religious congregations may give the lucky guy.
Gibo Teodoro, Erap Estrada, Manny Villar, Eddie Villanueva and Noynoy Aquino [...]

By elmot with 17 comments
May 2010 Elections Is All About Trust, Leap of Faith
May 2010 Elections Is All About Trust, Leap of Faith

One of the greatest gifts maybe of democracy to citizens aside from having the right burn down effigies, throw eggplants and clash with policemen on riotous rallies is the priceless right to vote.  Suffrage alone can tell of its long reflective history for struggle for recognition.  People can and have the “power” to choose their leaders that will reflect their [...]

By elmot with 10 comments
10 Reasons Why Manny Villar Has Eaten Up Noynoy Aquino’s Comfortable Lead
10 Reasons Why Manny Villar Has Eaten Up Noynoy Aquino’s Comfortable Lead

A quick post.
People all over are buzzing as to how and why scandal-ridden Sen. Manny Villar has easily eaten up a big chunk of Sen. Noynoy Aquino’s lead on the latest surveys with the Pulse Asia survey putting the contest between the two leading contenders for the highest post in the land on a tight race.  Pulse Asia puts Villar [...]

By elmot with 22 comments
A Damocles Sword on Bloggers; The Case of Ella Ganda Sued for Libel
A Damocles Sword on Bloggers; The Case of Ella Ganda Sued for Libel

The fight is heating up.  Sec. Esperanza Cabral is just starting her vengeance.  Yet blogger Ella Ganda is not bucking down.
It all started when Ella shared her grave concern over her blog on October 2009 about so many relief goods stagnated or the words she preferred to use was “rotting” on a DSWD warehouse, the lack of volunteers and the [...]

By elmot with 20 comments
Marlene Aguilar Pollard, Genius and Blinded
Marlene Aguilar Pollard, Genius and Blinded

She is blinded.
Marlene Aguilar Pollard, mother of Jason Ivler, is living a divided life trying to save her son from the grasp of lady justice by vocally professing her motherhood as if this alone could already wash away the blood from Jason’s hands and escape the fangs of retribution.
From the initial silent admiration of a few for her standing up [...]

By elmot with 21 comments
Most Notorious Chronic Absentee In Congress, My Kababayan!???
Most Notorious Chronic Absentee In Congress, My Kababayan!???

“Ay te,” a very common Ilonggo expression venting off exasperation and a bit of ridicule. And that is what most of us will feel about this.
Most of us when absent from work will not receive any pay on the particular days we were absent. No work, no pay for most average Pinoy toiling each day in order to [...]

By elmot with 6 comments
“Ang Ladlad will not Redound any Good of This Nation,” Look Who is Talking.
“Ang Ladlad will not Redound any Good of This Nation,” Look Who is Talking.

So it is not only the COMELEC and its Commissioners that “Ang Ladlad” and all homosexuals should be watching their backs against with.
Despite the most recent decision of the Supreme Court to reinstate the provisional accreditation of “Ang Ladlad’s” status and be included on the list of party-list groups on official ballots for the May 2010 elections, different sectors are [...]

By elmot with 16 comments
Pacquiao vs. Clottey Fight and Chicken Floyd’s Separate Ways
Pacquiao vs. Clottey Fight and Chicken Floyd’s Separate Ways

Arum says Mayweather never really wanted the fight from the very beginning and is a psychological coward.
Big-mouthed Mayweather on the other hand replied saying, Pacquiao is ill-advised, and his boxing nemesis ruined the talks for what could be the biggest boxing fight of the century.
Come on Floydie, think you can fool boxing fans the way you fool yourself?
The random drug-testing [...]

By elmot with 9 comments