(i got this from a forwarded email. this seems to speak out aloud so might as well post it here. no offense to Noynoy fans)
NOY
In every election, the easiest choice to make is, who you would not vote for. This year, it is profoundly difficult because for me the easiest identifiable candidate whom I would not vote for, (aside from Erap of course, for who would vote for a convicted plunderer) is a leading candidate, with the widest of margin in the survey, Noynoy. He probably will be the next president and so, in my heart, I tried my best to consider and reconsider my decision, yet I became more convinced that he is my best choice on whom not to vote for. These are in my thoughts:
He is clean and honest
He really is unblemished, squeaky clean and immaculate.. . His record for nine years speaks for himself. I am reminded of a friend of mine, a cocky but very articulate and bright Solicitor General. At a certain time before he started winning his cases, his critics had a heyday criticizing the way he handled his job. They said, he had a perfect record of losing all cases. Thus, his record was clean and unblemished of victory. Like this solicitor general, Noynoy has also no record of dishonesty simply because he has no record of accomplishment at all. He was one of the prominent members of the committee of silence. I goggled his name to find out if, except for his name, there was anything he did that he should be proud of. I am sorry that I found nothing. It is time he reveals what he had done in congress for nine years, plus two years in the senate, to deserve the presidency. When he ran for Senate, he simply relied on his family name and the endorsement of his mother. Being in the Senate with no accomplishment will not hurt the nation except the wasted money paid to him as a public servant. But to be president and not knowing what to do is probably as disastrous as a corrupt president.
He comes from a good stock
A prominent columnist of the Inquirer believes that since hero’s blood runs in his veins, he is a natural hero and would do nothing to shame the good name. The prominent columnist also said that what we need is a good heart and correct values and Noynoy fits to the T. Of course heritage is a plus factor but unfortunately, this is no assurance that he too will be as upright as his parents... We do not have to look far. Look at his sister. She even gloated and flaunted her sexual indiscretions and gave press interviews of her indecent acts, in spite of the fact that at that time, her dear mother was very much alive. She fueled salacious gossip about her sexual escapades that she grabbed the headlines for days of the local papers. Not only that. She proudly proclaimed that she will have to do a wash over of sorts, on the personality of Noynoy. To be fair, since Noynoy is not the sister’s keeper, he should publicly open how he spent his several hundred million, probably billions of pesos, if cumulatively taken together, of pork barrel.. Joker and Lacson did not spend a single centavo on their pork barrel allocations. Moreover, Noynoy has not been battle tested; we do not know how he will react to temptation, simply because he has not been where the action is. He can not honestly and truthfully say that he is goodness personified and all others are evil just because he is the son of Cory. It is sheer arrogance and hypocrisy to make such claim.
He comes unprepared
Before the death of former Pres Cory, nobody considered him of presidential caliber, not even for vice president. His party mates knew of his capabilities and did not even look at his direction when they then considered their standard bearer. Noynoy himself, conscious of his own limitations, did not even dream of being one.. When his mother died and there was public mourning, all of a sudden, his party mates in spite of knowing his limited capabilities, and taking advantage of public sentiments, pushed him to be a candidate to the noble office of the presidency. This factual milieu clearly shows that his popularity is solely and purely for sentimental reasons, the death of Pres Cory. His supporters are praying to high heavens that the public sentiments on his parents would not wane and that the public would not see through the real Noynoy. Stripped of all sentimentality, there is nothing in his bio data that shows he is capable of the challenges of the highest office of the land. His biodata is uninspiring, to say the least. Aside from his public office due to his lineage, he was a sales person of Mondragon Industries, and a member of the board of directors of a security agency which the family owns. How in heavens name will he run the country?
Pres Cory’s landmark of achievement in her administration was her Land Reform program. Our own 24 hectares of irrigated rice land in Kinamayan, Davao del Norte was subjected to land reform and my Dad wanted to fight it out but I counseled him to surrender the land as I explained to him that ultimately the entire country will benefit from this pestering problem of unjust distribution of wealth. He understood the situation that each of us had to make sacrifices for the common good. This is not a unique scenario in Mindanao, then known as the Land of Promise . Little did we know that Pres Cory distributed all other people’s landholdings except her own Hacienda Luisita. She asked all of us to make sacrifices, except her own family. Her tenants protested and in the ensuing protest several tenants were mowed down. The tenants were unarmed and no casualties were suffered on the side of the soldiers trying to disperse the tenants. Of course, Noynoy is not her mother’s keeper, nor do I intend to diminish her mother’s role as our leader who toppled the dictatorship.
But when Noynoy declared his candidacy, he was asked point blank, what he planned to do with Hacienda Luisita. He had no ready answer but promised to give a stand soon. Three months passed and still no answer. Is he really prepared?
Trust
The argument goes, that since the people lost trust in the present leadership, Noynoy comes as a white knight, enjoying the trust and confidence of the people. But why should we trust Noynoy? Has he done something to deserve our trust?” Trust is earned, deserved and not bestowed nor inherited. We are now bombarded with propaganda about the goodness of Pres Cory, to the extent that Noynoy propagandists even go to the limit of declaring her a saint, in the hope that people will also view Noynoy as saint- like. The Liberal Party had even formulated its battle cry: “this (the election) is a fight between good and evil”. My goodness, don’t you agree that a man who pontificates that he represents goodness is really suspect of some loose screws somewhere.
Noynoy's handlers forgot the basic need of a responsible candidate-the need to have an advocacy. It should be pointed out that Noynoy has no advocacy at all in his public life. He won his senate seat solely upon his family name, like Loi Ejercito, Pia Cayetano, Bong Revilla and the like. This is very important to those who are very discerning. We do not know to what directions we will be going, with him as a leader. It is fearsome to have a president who is not only unprepared and unqualified, but also to be under the control of unknown advisers and heaven forbid, under the tutelage of his movie star sister. It becomes more dreadful because his popularity is seemingly sustained, thanks to the biased and twisted reporting of our media and most especially of a very large TV network who all have their interests to protect.
The above mentioned points are correct.
I am simply saying that Noynoy is “Not Worth to Vote for Him” because:
1. He has no capability to govern
2. He relies solely on the name of his parents
3. He has no advocacy
4. He has no achievement on his own
5. He is pure creation of media
Sadly, only Noynoy has all these attributes among all presidential candidates.
Dont know how much this is true, but who knows?
well anyways, heres what GMAnews.tv says:
AMITA O. LEGASPI, GMANews.TV
01/25/2010 | 06:16 PM
Senator Manuel Villar Jr. exerted his influence on the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) so that his properties would benefit from the alleged realignment of the controversial C-5 Road Extension in Parañaque and Las Piñas cities.
This is according to the report of the Senate committee of the whole seeking Villar’s censure for allegedly earning billions in the government’s C-5 road extension project.
The report, which was read by Senator Juan Ponce Enrile on Monday, said that Villar violated Section 14, Article VI of the Constitution for intervening in the project of the DPWH for his own pecuniary benefit.
“Senator Villar also became directly or indirectly interested financially in such contracts between his corporations and the DPWH, hence violating Section 14, Article VI of the Constitution," a portion of the report read.
The constitutional provision states that a senator or congressman should not be “directly or indirectly, be interested financially in any contract with, or in any franchise or special privilege granted by the Government, or any subdivision, agency, or instrumentality thereof, including any government-owned or controlled corporation, or its subsidiary, during his term of office."
“He shall not intervene in any matter before any office of the Government for his pecuniary benefit or where he may be called upon to act on account of his office," it added.
The committee report was finally tackled by the Senate on Monday afternoon after days of delay.
Pimentel’s contention
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. questioned Enrile on why the report was the first item on Monday's agenda.
"I would like to specifically object to the taking up of this committee report as the first item on the agenda. We have a rule that those first filed will be discussed first. This committee report cannot supervene the resolutions and bills filed ahead of it," Pimentel said.
Enrile, head of the committee of the whole that probed Villar, said that under existing rules, a committee report is always in the order of business. "A committee report submitted takes precedence over other things."
Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri sided with Enrile, saying they agreed Wednesday last week that the committee report would be the first item on the agenda after the chamber ran out of time to discuss it.
Enrile said the committee of the whole conducted 12 adjudicatory hearings and the complainant, Senator Ma Ana Consuelo Madrigal, presented 900 pieces of documentary evidence and testimonies of witnesses. He said that despite the opportunities accorded to Villar to participate in the hearings, the latter refused to do so.
The committee’s findings
The Senate chief said the committee found Villar, a presidential candidate, guilty of violating Section 12 of the 1987 Constitution and Section 3 (i) in relation to Section 9 of Repbulic Act 6713 or The Code of Conduct of Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees and engaging himself in improper and unethical conduct "that adversely reflects upon the Senate."
Aside from censuring Villar, the committee wanted the senator to return to the government the P6.22 billion his company allegedly “gained" through illegal means from the construction of the C-5 road extension.
Enrile said there is substantial, credible evidence that Villar is a major stockholder of Adelfa Properties Inc, which owns Golden Haven Memorial Park and Azalea Real Estate Corporation (now Britanny Corporation), and was the proponent of Las Piñas-Parañaque Link Road project and the government's C-5 road extension project.
He said the road projects were made to pass through the properties of the corporations of Villar following a curved, instead of a straight, alignment.
Enrile said the alignment of the C-5 road extension segment of the Manila-Cavite Toll Expressway Project had to be changed just to accommodate the alignments of the Las Piñas-Parañaque and C-5 extension projects.
Villar's corporations allegedly received road right-of-way compensation and still have unpaid claims. It said the properties of Villar that were acquired were given zonal valuation for different areas, thus increasing the compensation due them.
Enrile said Villar failed to avoid a conflict-of-interest situation by not divesting himself of his shareholdings or interest in the mentioned corporations. It added that Villar used his power to satisfy the interest of his corporations.
The Senate is still tackling the issue as of posting time. - with reports from Sophia Dedace/ KBK, GMANews.TV
Dec 01 – Jan 31, 2010
Sinulog Street Fair, Osmeña Blvd.
January 3-31, 2010
Sinulog Photo Exhibits featuring 2008 Sinulog Photo
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January 3-31, 2010
Sto. Niño Exhibits, SM City Cebu Art Center
January 9-19, 2010
Dancing Pilgrims: Sinanduloy of Tangub City
Exhibit of Tangub City dancers from past to present
SM City Cebu
January 07, 2010 (Thursday)
Opening Salvo: Walk with Jesus
4:00 AM
Assembly Time (Area) Fuente Osmeña
4:30 AM
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5:30 AM
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2:00PM
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3:00 PM
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7:00 PM
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7:30 PM
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January 9, 2010 (Saturday)
Sinulog sa Kabataan – Lalawigan
1:00 PM
Parade of Participants, Capitol Site to Cebu City Sports Center
2:00 PM
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4:30 PM
Awarding of Winners
7:30 PM
Cultural Show (Fuente Osmeña) DepEd, Cebu Province
9:30 PM
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Sinulog sa Kabataan- Dakbayan
1:00 PM
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2:00 PM
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7:00 PM
Cultural Show (Fuente Osmeña)
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9:00 PM
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7:30 PM
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Concert @ the Fuente O , Street Party Bands
January 12, 3009 (Tuesday)
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7:30 PM
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7:30 PM
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7:30 P.M
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8:00 PM
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4:00 AM
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1st Red Cross Youth-Cebu Humanity Race
Run For A Cause
When: Dec. 06, 2009 (sunday) @ 6:00 AM
Starting Line: PNRC Building Osmena Blvd.(Beside the Public Library)
Categories:
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Register Now @ PNRC-Cebu Building, Osmena Blvd., Cebu City (beside CC public library / fronting Coco Mall)
Registrations sites will be put up in strategic areas like Cebu City Sports Complex soon.
For more infos and inquiries, you may call:
PNRC-Cebu 253-9793
Look for Alvin Adolfo (Race Organizer)
*All proceeds will go to the organization. The Philippine National Red Cross is the premiere humanitarian organization. Serving humanity and alleviating human suffering.
The proceeds will be used to fund our humanitarian services most especially in disaster relief operations. The organization depends solely on donations but PNRC can't just rely on donations. PNRC must have an initiative to get funds in order to serve the most and great number of humanity.
THIS IS FOR A CAUSE.
I doubt if Manny fits for the position, a VP? come'on. I doubt have any problem with Manny running for a position in the Government, but being next to the President is a big NO for me. If he'll run for a mayor in his hometown, that would work.
from PhilStar news:
In a radio interview, Dante Jimenez, chairman of the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC), said the Filipino ring icon is most fit to hold the second highest public office in the country.
Jimenez said that with his high charisma and good values, Pacquiao is best suited to be vice president.
"He will be a very good vice president. Why would he still engage in corruption if he already has lots of money?" the VACC chief added.
With his enormous popularity among the Filipinos, Jimenez said Pacquiao does not need to spend too much money to fund his candidacy as the people themselves will volunteer to organize sorties for him.
if ever he'll go for this seat and wins, well -- only God knows.
Pambansang Kamao
Peoples Champ
world's number 1 pound for pound fighter
one of the 100 most influencial people by time magazine - indeed. no wonder why politicians flocks at Manny
ambassador of peace and understanding as President Gloria said -- what does this mean?
appointed as special assistant of the justice secretary on intelligence matters -- whats wrong with the "Department of Justice"?
