Angat Buhay - Boracay

21/10/2024

"EVERYBODY Happy" (🤣🤣🤣)!

28/08/2024

20/08/2024

Then and now..

08/08/2024

poster boy numero uno ng ka-EPALAN ang langhiya na ito...

13/07/2024

Linti kumain ang tao, grabe..

What are the unique dishes that you can try in Iloilo? Erwan Heussaff is out to taste authentic Ilonggo fare for our first stop in Western Visayas! Iloilo is...

12/07/2024

aaaaayyyy... mgamababangbuhay...

08/07/2024

Respondents to a German survey ranked Trump 1st (41%) among world leaders posing the greatest threat to world peace today. Trump’s kindred spirit, North Korean despot Kim Jong Un scored a far second (17%), followed by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khameni and Russia’s Vladimir Putin who both scored 8%, while your favorite pangsot President Dogong Dodirty’s best friend, Communist China’s Xi Jinping came it last at 7%.

04/07/2024

WOW

"Hi everyone, pls share with your networks. This overpriced Senate building is not getting enough attention."

🚨 ₱23 BILYON PARA SA BAGONG SENATE BUILDING?! Kalokohan!

23 bilyon pesos para sa isang building imbes na ospital at eskwelahan? Sa "No Joke kay Chel Diokno," binulgar ni Atty. Chel ang sobrang taas ng budget.

Panoorin at i-share: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oAyaM9S3SY

Sa episode na ito ng 'No Joke kay Chel Diokno', ilalantad natin ang kontrobersyal na pagtatayo ng bagong gusali ng Senado na nagkakahalaga ng 23 bilyong piso...

25/06/2024

https://www.sealight.live/posts/this-was-no-accident

This Was No "Accident"

President Marcos laid out the principled high ground upon which the Philippines stands at Second Thomas Shoal. His spokespeople should avoid yielding it back by excusing Beijing's mendacity.
| JUNE 23, 2024
This Was No "Accident"

Psychologically traumatized victims trapped in abusive relationships will often blame themselves for their abusers' violence. This was hauntingly expressed in the 1987 Suzanne Vega hit single, "Luka"--sung in the voice of one such domestic violence victim:

If you hear something late at night
Some kind of trouble, some kind of fight
Just don't ask me what it was
Just don't ask me what it was
Just don't ask me what it was

Being a child of the '80s, I couldn't stop thinking about this after hearing Philippine Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin's strangely antiseptic characterization of the China Coast Guard's ugly brutality against Philippine troops during Monday's humanitarian resupply mission to their outpost at Second Thomas (Ayungin) Shoal, provided during a press conference on Friday: "No, well this was probably a misunderstanding or accident--we are not yet ready to classify this as an armed attack."

I think it's because I'm clumsy
I try not to talk too loud
Maybe it's because I'm crazy
I try not to act too proud

Reasonable people can disagree on whether the flagrant blockading of a nation's sovereign vessel and military outpost; brandishing and use of bladed weapons; ramming, boarding, puncturing and capture of sovereign vessels; and wounding military personnel while confiscating their weapons and disrupting their medical evacuation may be classified as an "armed attack".

I can understand deciding not to use this language in official statements. I'm just an outside observer--it's not my responsibility to guide a nation through a crisis. Government officials don't always get to say what they really think. I certainly couldn't when I was in government.

Still, whatever else this was, it was clearly no simple "misunderstanding".

This was self-evidently a malicious, dangerous and deliberate act of extreme aggression--one might even say barbarism. In fact, some Philippine officials did ... before this language was bizarrely walked back to mere "accident" status on Friday afternoon.

https://www.sealight.live/posts/this-was-no-accident

President Marcos laid out the principled high ground upon which the Philippines stands at Second Thomas Shoal. His spokespeople should avoid yielding it back by excusing Beijing's mendacity.