From hinting at retiring into the academe a few months ago, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is now keeping us in suspense on whether she’ll go for a congressional seat in Pampanga, or turn into sea foam at the end of her term.
What is up with VP Noli De Castro?
It’s hard to tell where Vice President, and radio commentator, Noli de Castro stands nowadays.
Manila Vice Isko Moreno wants reporters to pack heat
With the entire staff of a local Mindanao paper wiped out (along with many other reporters) in the Ampatuan massacre, Manila vice mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso wants journalists armed during the 2010 elections.
Campaign of Compromise
With magic man, and senator, Francis “Chiz†Escudero’s decision not to run for president (or at all) in 2010, our hopes of a perfect tandem have forever been shattered. Indolent Indio had been waiting to throw our support behind a superhero team up of Senator Richard Gordon with Escudero as his VP if for nothing else but to be able to say Dick-Chiz with a straight face.
Too soon?
Life imitating art?
Powerful families operating above the law, and using violence to get what they want sounds like something out of an HBO TV-movie. Unless you’re in the Philippines, where the Sopranos have nothing on your friendly neighborhood political warlord.
Fierce
You Ask, Yahoo! Answers
Yahoo! Answers isn’t really known for being a source of reliable information (that’s what Wikipedia is for.)
It’s the same basic concept, really. Except instead of reading enyclopedia entries, you get to ask the Internet anything you want.
Sometimes it works,
What fuel shortage?
Motorists who have been turned away from gas stations with no gas, and those who have been left with no choice but to stock whatever was available (suspiciously, the more expensive Shell V-Power) will be glad to know that the past few days were all just a bad dream.
Villar’s NP has no sense of irony
The Nacionalista Party, led by Senator Manuel Villar, Jr., wants Senator Benigno Aquino III investigated for allegedly lobbying for the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway. Said project allegedly benefited his properties, you see.
Posting On Epic Thread
Irresistible force, immovable object: A Baptist tries to convert Pinoychan’s /b/ to his faith, /b/ outs him as a closet gay, or at least tells his friends that he is.
Whoever wins, we lose.
I Win!
(Thanks for the tip, FreeSince09! )