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Ten reasons why Filipinos blame Gloria Arroyo for everything

December 1, 2011November 6, 2013 Ilda 915 Comments

I can’t help but think that Filipinos who blame former Philippine President and Congresswoman, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (GMA) for everything bad that has happened in the country have a squatter mentality. By my own definition, people who have a squatter mentality have this strong sense of entitlement. They believe that the government owes them benefits or…

Culture, Development, Featured, Government, Media

The Latest Jaw-Dropping Stupidity from the Dept. of Tourism

November 30, 2011 BenK 23 Comments

Yesterday as I was browsing my Facebook wall, I followed a link posted by BlogWatch to a Philstar article about a plan by the Department of Tourism to launch a new â€˜country brandâ€™ next month. Since the last outcome of a DOT branding project was the catastrophically hilarious Pilipinas Kay Ganda, I found reason for…

Development, Economy, Government

KC Concepcion is not Piolo Pascual’s sunshine

November 29, 2011November 30, 2011 Ilda 24 Comments

Most women who are recovering from a bad break-up have to settle for a crying session with their close friends while drinking themselves silly a la Bridgett Jones. This can be followed by getting a new radical haircut a la Gwyneth Paltrow in the film Sliding Doors as if to symbolize a â€œnew lookâ€ to…

Glitz and Glamour

Aquino-Cojuangco feudal clan: Too wealthy to fail?!

November 28, 2011June 24, 2013 benign0 27 Comments

Irony of ironies is how a mad rush to scratch a vindictive itch from the bite of the previous administration of former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has backfired badly against the the government of current President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III. A bomb dropped by the Supreme Court on the long-festering row between the Aquino-Cojuangco feudal…

Development, Economy, Politics

Conrado de Quiros makes like Nazi monster Amon Goeth

November 28, 2011November 28, 2011 benign0 1 Comment

Of course Inquirer.net ‘columnist’ Conrado “Noynoy-is-Aragon” de Quiros would first have to cite (yet again!) how the Philippines’ Supreme Court (SC) is (1) made up of appointees of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and, as such, (2) the “timing” of the SC order to parcel out the Aquino feudal feif Hacienda Luisita to its tenant farmers….

Development, Glitz and Glamour, Media, Politics

The Filipino Rage to Punish: A Convenient Escape

November 28, 2011December 13, 2015 ChinoF 82 Comments

While watching Immigration officials stopping former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo from leaving the country on TV, I marveled at the people who would scream at the top of their lungs at the TV screens, saying something like, “catch that thief! jail her! Hahaha!” I thought, that was such immature or trivial behavior. As if they…

Culture, Politics

Is Manny Pacquiao implying that Filipino-Americans are ‘not real’ Americans?

November 27, 2011 benign0 7 Comments

Apparently, Filipino boxing champ Manny Pacquiao does not think too highly of immigrants. In an interview he implied that naturalised citizens cannot claim to be considered to be a true national of their adopted country… In a press conference after his return to General Santos City, Pacquiao fired back when the press asked him about…

Glitz and Glamour

Focus on retribution by the Aquino Government had undermined both the economy and institutional governance

November 26, 2011 benign0 15 Comments

Why the focus and circus around retribution while more pressing and forward-looking initiatives like growing the economy, for one, languish at the bottom of media hyping priorities? It could be because Filipinos are culturally predisposed to being retrospective rather than prospective in the way we think. Back in 2009 just as the campaign of then…

Crime, Culture, Economy, Government