Archive for the 'Local Issues' Category

News Reporting?

I hate it when reporters for the sake of submitting something, don’t dig deeper. It may be that they are pressed for time, the editor wants their piece ASAP without consideration of completion, or that the reporter just wants a simple story without diving into real investigative reporting.
I’m only mentioning this, because I found [...]

Wish We Had His Brand of Patriotism.

This essay was reportedly written by a Korean (English) student who was more grieved for our country than we are.
Please read with a grain of salt, ponder on his/her words, and maybe, just maybe we can collectively repent and decide to start working to uplift our country.
As you know, we have plenty of Koreans currently [...]

From Ass To Youtube

This hasn’t been an easy past two weeks for the person at the center of Cebu’s most recent video scandal. In which a video of a medical operation, an extraction of a foreign object (body spray can) from the rectum of a patient, was circulated all over the internet. A video which shows [...]

In Support Of Ed Panlilio

The priest who became a governor, Ed Panlilio is now battling the forces of status quo. Change is hard to exact in a culture so ingrained in putting self before country.
If Governor Ed Panlilio of Pampanga thought that the campaign was grueling, no doubt he is finding out that governing is the actual fight [...]

Vidal Tells President Arroyo To Stay Out of Erap Trial Decision

CEBU Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal has confirmed meeting with the President but denied that they talked about the impending verdict on former president Joseph Estrada’s plunder trial. He, however, admitted to advising President Arroyo to “allow the court to do its work and give us the right decision.”
Vidal said that he does not know [...]

Could We Live in Peace, Please?

Edit:
I took down the video because it was inaccurate. The Islamic god Allah is not similar to the Judeo-Christian God. The differences between Jehovah Jireh/Jesus’ Abba and Allah are stark. You need not look further that the texts themselves to know.
While I certainly do not approve of the religion itself, I have compassion for [...]

Update On The Maguindanao Votes

Today, Comelec, including Chairman Abalos will be going on their field trip to Maguindanao. Trying to make it look to us as if they are doing something about the Maguindanao Election that has been wrought with anomalies, reports of poll fraud, and a result that is almost as believable as a justified jihad.
As I’ve [...]

Congratulations To Bogo City!

A big congratulations to Bogo City, as residents celebrated the proclamation of their conversion into a city. The newest city of Cebu. I’ve been there many times, and as a Cebuano, I proudly raise my glass and toast to a bright future ahead of the people of Bogo City.
The proclamation came at around [...]

Game Over: Mayor Osmeña Was Just Playing?

The tormentor of my nightmares, and there have been quite a few as of late, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña has finally yielded his stubborn and arrogant move with regards to the junking of Lahug projects including the construction of a 20 classroom building. As you may know, I have not yielded nor saved [...]

Group Writing Project: Write For Musa Dimasidsing

I don’t do writing projects, but this is going to be an exception. The fact that the truth is being kept from the Filipino public once again, is too much to bear. And the fact that someone trying to do the right thing was shot dead is something not to take lightly.
Musa Dimasidsing, [...]

Gunned Down: Maguindanao Whistleblower Dead!

Comelec district supervisor, Musa Dimasidsing, the whistleblower who came out and exposed the wholesale cheating in Maguindanao, as well as confirmed the numerous allegations by other teachers who witnessed the cheating, was gunned down last Saturday night at an Islamic School by unidentified men.
The Facts
[Dimasidsing] exposed alleged electoral fraud in Pagalungan, Maguindanao. Chief Supt. [...]

The Cowards of Cebu City

In what can only be called as a city filled with “Yes Men”, it seems that the Ass Kissing has extended to the Barangay Captains as well as Congressmen Raul del Mar and Antonio Cuenco. They have all expressed their support for the decision of Mayor Tomas Osmeña to junk the construction of a [...]

The Cebu City Dictator, Council Ass Kissers, and Politics As Usual

As you may know, if you have been following, my writing, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña has been the target of my anger as of late. Being a Cebu City native myself, to see it being controlled by a partisan, politically-motivated, and arrogant Mayor in Tomas, is almost too much for me to handle.
You [...]

More Arrogance From Mayor Tomas Osmeña

Yet another slap in the face to residents as well as schoolchildren of Lahug. Mayor Tomas Osmeña now wants De los Santos and the rest of the citizens to beg for the school building. In a recent press conference he told the media that he will give back the funding for the construction [...]

Another Call To Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña

I am continuing my call to Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña to stop playing politics and start serving the people of Cebu City. In my previous post, Tomas Osmeña On A Rampage in Cebu, I informed the readers of how Mayor Tomas Osmeña has let his anger dictate his actions of stopping the construction [...]

Killing Rampage In Calbayog Samar

Calbayog, I’ve been there many times. It’s a lovely city to go around in, but the latest news coming out of the city is that of shock, horror, and death.
According to the Inquirer,
A 39-year-old jobless man, believed to be mentally imbalanced, went into a rampage in an interior village in Calbayog City in [...]