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.

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.

"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 ???