Let’s see:

Bataan Nuclear Power Plant

Pros-– possibly cheaper electric bills, fairly reliable energy source, the illusion of Philippine industrialization bypassing the fact that we have no steel mills of our own and can not even produce a safety pin or a nail that we can proudly say is ‘made in the Philippines.’

Cons– the power plant itself is smack right on top of a fault line –no, wait. As the distinguished gentleman from… Fuck it, it was Cojuangco of Hacienda Luisita infamy who said the fault line was to the north of the power plant.

Yeah, like fault lines stop midway. Or that a fault line shift won’t affect the power plant. Plus the power plant lies at the foot of a dormant volcano. The same way Pinatubo was said to be dormant. Simple mathematics time.

Power plant + technological glitch (likely?) + human error (very likely) = catastrophe or Chernobyl proportions

Dormant volcano in the Philippines = Philippines in the Pacific ring of fire = possible Pinatubo

Pinatubo explosion = Chernobyl x10

So … Bataan Nuclear Power Plant + technological glitch + human error + a shift in the fault line + volcano in the pacific ring of fire = aglihaghagkaghil;agiajiaghagiawe

CARPER (Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms)

Pros– a 5-year extension of the 22-year old CARP which promised to give lands to the tillers, or at least to alleviate abject poverty of the farm workers of the country (70% of which make up our population)

Cons– 22 years, man. 22 years under CARP and we still get traffic in the Quezon City Circle because of the farmers picketing at the Department of Agrarian Reform almost every week.

22 years of that means CARP isn’t working for them. A country of 80% farm lands that imports rice from abroad? That’s fucking crazy. By what leap of logic do we think five more years of that is going to do anything?

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Elementary english taught us about antonyms. If ‘pro’ is the opposite of ‘con,’ progress must be the opposite of…

–PreMadonna

According to an SMS going around:

Pls switch OFF all ur handphone 2NITE.According to Metro TV,an international news, there will be a BIG RADIATION WAVE circulating thru the handphone towers at 11PM 2nite which is very DANGEROUS to humans. Pls inform ur friends NOT 2 keep their phones with them. Pls FORWARD.

I guess the telecommunications companies have had enough of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile badgering them about their fishy prepaid load accounting systems and their non-stop SMS ads.

No, seriously. How is it?

Will your pork barrel funds, and the remote possibility of getting to wear a wig as a member of parliament, somehow transform you guys into a better class of lawmaker?

Or will we have the same kind of representational democracy as we do now, where the objections of 66% of the country against charter change are ignored in favor of an ass-raping of the constitution?

Where matters more pressing to a larger sector of society–like agrarian reform for example–are set aside for a constitutionally-inform resolution that did not go through the proper channels and has been abandoned by its original author?

Bukidnon Rep. Teofisto Guingona III, deputy minority leader, had it right when he said that the people do not trust this Congress not to royally fuck up the constitution despite an agreement signed by administration congressmen that they won’t touch term extensions or cancel the 2010 elections.

That would be like trusting a whore not to steal your wallet while you take a shower, or not to give you some terrible venereal disease.  Only one thing can be counted on in situations like this: you’re going to get fucked.

An acting assistant secretary in the Department of Transportation and Communication was ambushed on Ortigas Extension today.

In broad daylight, and with no actual bushes or woods to spring the ambush from, one has to wonder what this country is coming to when it’s open season even in the business district.

The shooting was apparently done by men on a motorcycle, far removed from the killer hashish-eaters of old-school assassination, and with no real effort to be subtle about it.

Also,how low have we fallen if even acting assistant secretaries, basically mid-level managers, are valid targets of an assassination attempt? Whatever happened to just spitting on your boss’s food and slashing his tires?