They are safe CJ bets because...

Dahil wala silang mga leeg.


They're probably the most independent candidates for the CJ post...if we were to believe that idiom about grabbing people by their necks.

Jimmy Kimmel's Filipino KFC cheese top burger spoof

Yes, even this Filipino blogger is unable to resolve why the burger is called "Streetwise." It's the price? Nah...I'm not convinced.

Jimmy Kimmel spoofs PH KFC's cheese-topped burger

Half-half

If half of the Senate IS CORRUPT.

Does that mean that half of it IS NOT?

"Ito namang si Isko, kung umasta parang hindi mamamatay"

(paraphrased) 

Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim   

   ...  responding to Vice Mayor Isko Moreno's rants, criticisms, and political attacks.

That certainly sounds like a death threat.

“Happy Father’s Day! This is the one day of the year when we fathers get to pretend we’re the head of the family.”

Rep. Dato Arroyo

The Florentino Floro Jr.

The person in the photo above used to be a Regional Trial Court judge. He was the infamous officer of the court who openly admitted that he consulted dwarfs and other supernatural beings in deciding on his court cases. To emphasize, that's Regional Trial Court or RTC—the very institution feisty Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago regularly invokes in mentioning one of her top qualifications (being  a former RTC judge). Floro was only sacked by the Supreme Court in 2006 upon his own admission of doing "super-unconventional" ways in performing his work as a judge.

According to (apparently) his blog, Floro graduated with second honors from the Ateneo de Manila University law school. He was in the top 20 of the 1983 bar examinations (12th at that) having obtained a grade of 87.55%. See the unauthenticated newspaper scan above.

Here, the bizarre former judge poses with his 1953 Winchester collection .22 rifle

The former judge had also concocted his own coconut healing oil.

Photos posted above are from florentinofloro2.blogspot.com 

Search for new PH CJ attracts cronies and looneys

In a not-so-unexpected turn of events, the vacancy left by former Chief Justice Renato Corona has been making news not just on account of its significance in Philippine government operation. The names nominated to succeed the impeached Chief Justice are also by themselves deemed newsworthy.

Many of the personalities floated to take the place of Corona are being associated with President BS Aquino.

One of them is UE College of Law Dean Amado Valdez who has been very obviously partial with his comments against the impeached SC chief. Amado Valdez had been on several TV and radio interviews to criticize Corona though he himself is also being the subject of unfavorable insinuations owing to an unflattering stint at one GOCC. He is a known sycophant of President BS Aquino.

Two other notable nominees for the CJ post are Justices Antonio Carpio and Lourdes Sereno. Both SC justices are considered to be shoo-ins for the position as they are perceived to "cooperative" with the BS Aquino administration. Sereno is an Aquino appointee while Carpio is a known GMA and Corona antagonist.

BS Aquino top officials Justice Secretary Leila de Lima and BIR Commissioner Kim Henares are also nominated for the position. Their "bedazzling" performances at the Corona impeachment trial prove to be brownie points too difficult to ignore.

Also in the serious running for the Chief Justice post are government peace panel chair Marvic Leonen, ex-congressman for Makati Teodoro "Teddy Boy" Locsin Jr, and former Solicitor-General Francisco "Frank" Chavez. Locsin is a known Cory Aquino ally but is a rabid critic of the BS Aquino administration.

By the bye, the "jokers" are also making some news.

Eyebrow-raising names that reached the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) include an unqualified applicant in the name of Jocelyn Esquivel, a non-lawyer. Esquivel is a nurse and teacher. A terminated regional trial court judge, Florentino Floro Jr., is also applying for the post. He was sacked by the Supreme Court in 2006 for his admission that he had been (and apparently would have continued doing so) consulting with dwarfs in making his court decisions. Floro, in his application, referred to himself as the "Chief Justice of the Universe."


Wanna know how Floro looks like? Click this link.

"In the language of the kanto boys, that means winning elections at all cost."

Ex Senator Nene Pimentel

...which makes everyone wonder where this octogenarian is living. Apparently, kanto boys in their neighborhood speak good and cultured English. Sounds like a Melanie Marquez gaffe. Or maybe it's the age?

They are safe CJ bets because...

because....










They're probably the most independent candidates for the CJ post...if we were to believe that idiom about controlling people by their necks.

Daang Baluktot, Daang Matuwid

A wee rundown on the "new" Philippine government...

Daang Baluktot: GMA
Daang Matuwid: PNoy (sabi nya eh)

Daang Baluktot: The Congress makes tax laws, the Executive Branch implements

Daang Matuwid: What the law does not exclude, it includes so tolls should be taxed and the BIR can make laws

The new BIR Commissioner Kim Henares introduces a new concept in Phil Tax Law in her interview with the DWIZ morning show Karambola. "What the law does not exclude, it includes," she claims. With former congressman Teodoro Locsin Jr. debating this line of thinking, the Dinky Soliman dead ringer  Henares, who is by the way a lawyer, replies in an I-don't-really-give-a-damn-what-you-think tone: "I don't want to argue with you, Sir"

Daang Baluktot: EVAT, privatization

Daang Matuwid: "Creative Financing," Tax on Tax Tolls, Small Vendors should issue ORs

If the previous administration was able to pull off decent GDP figures despite high levels of corruption, why does this new administration need new means of raising inflows to the government coffers. Addressing corruption alone should be solution enough if we really believe in claims that corruption is eating up a significant portion of the country's budget.

Daang Baluktot: Transactional Politics

Daang Matuwid: Probational Politics

As the GMA reached the end of her term becoming notorious for using government powers to reward allies and illegally and immorally obtain wealth, the Aquino administration commences his regime with a hyped up "leadership by example" theme. The nation welcomed the "no wangwang, no tong" policy. PNoy (as how the President wants to be called) started his administration with an outstanding 80%+ trust rating. But many objective minds are beginning to feel it. The public official who is a neophyte to the executive post can be generally, as of late, described as an OJT president. Even his cabinet members behave the same way. The new administration is in a total trial period mode (flawed EOs, the controversial Communications Group). Experience and competence really do mean much these days. And just recently, the nation learned how most of PNoy's government hold their posts in an, as the President puts it, acting capacity.

Daang Baluktot: Administration, Opposition

Daang Matuwid: Balay, Samar, Mga tuta ni Gloria

Factions: too obvious for the PNoy government to deny. 

 Talaga lang ha ???

Philippines's IS RICHER than the United States's

Just learned today that the current President of the developing country, the Republic of the Philippines, is richer than the present head of the United States of America. More than twice richer at that.