veep, veep!

an official residence for the vp? helloooo!!!

but then again, why not?

if the veep has the temerity to demand for such? or the capriciousness to even think of such?

if the veep has this overwhelming desire to go down in history as the first in his position to ever have the gall to live in one?

if the veep is more than willing to draw the cost of maintenance not from the national coffers but from his own vice-presidential budget which i bet is way smaller than his oversized ego?

yeah, why the hell not?

images manipulated from photos grabbed from here and here.

the president and the pretenders

on his inauguration as the 15th president of the republic, president noynoy was surrounded by more than half a million supporters and more than a handful of pretenders...

#1. gma, on her last march as prez, pretended it was halloween. that should explain why the crowd kept boo-ing.

#2. gma pretended not to see p-noy's extended hand to assist her while going up and down the platform. she was, after all, a little girl no more. huh?

#3. binay pretended to be the president that he secretly wanted to be by accidentally being the last person to come up the stage. what protocol?

#4. ogie alcasid pretended to dance to his self-made noy jingle. the song is not danceable, fyi. it's not even singable.

#5. chief justice corona pretended not to hear the president when he railed about midnight appointees. why not, it could just be his alibi not to resign.

#6. erap pretended to be deaf when p-noy lambasted corruption in government. or maybe he was simply blind.

#7. the megastar pretended to like the queen-of-all-media-turned-presidential-sister in a big way. she must want her hubby to bag the senate presidency so badly.

ironically, it was kris, the showbiz aquino, who had no energy for charades that fateful day. no more james and their sham of a marriage. just a glum look on her face that even her brother's moment of glory could not erase.

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scot on the rocks

a scottish lawmaker found himself in water so hot he had to resign from his post as head of a parliamentary committee when his sexist and crude remarks about a woman in the audience were caught by, well, a microphone.

so there. finally, an explanation to the white man's undying attraction to the filipina and the filipina's undeniable popularity as a mail order bride. i wonder though if any of these foreigners, with the exception of our not-so-honorable scotsman here, are familiar with paul gauguin or any of his works. tsk. tsk.

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lest we forget

unbeknownst to many of us, the arroyos have left malacañang. and among the first things the first gentleman did was to go to confession. now, big mike must have stunned the poor priest with his honest admission of the one and only transgression he committed with his wife.

forgetfulness.

what the?!? but remember the soon-to-be-former first couple did forget about two things while in power. one, the 8th of the ten commandments which is thou shall not steal. and two, the 10th which is thou shall not covet thy neighbor's votes, er, goods.

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debt comes for the archbishop

noynoy aquino has been getting a lot of unsolicited advice lately. today he got one from archbishop oscar cruz who oppines that it would be wrong for the new president to heed the recommendation, also unsolicited i bet, of his sister who happens to be the queen of all media to assign government posts to boy abunda, dingdong dantes and ogie alcasid to whom the aquino family, well, as you and me know, owes a debt of gratitude.

i think the key word here is separation: one, separation of church and state, which the devout philippine populace has made a mockery of ever since its inception; and two, that of showbiz and politics, which is a mockery in itself.

just my, uh, unsolicited two cents, mr. president.

image manipulated from photos grabbed from here and here.

boynoy

without her having to admit it, any not-so-stupid head would know that it was her. who else will have the gall to tell noy to make boy tourism secretary? mar roxas and the liberals? conrado de quiros? come on.

with due respect to mr. abunda—i bet he's got a pair of clean hands that most public officials cannot claim to have—baby sister krissy should just shut up. her brother just landed the hottest seat in the land. there is absolutely no need for her to make it hotter than hottest.

image manipulated from photos grabbed from boy here, here and here.

japanese lesson for pinoys

upon growing calls from his own party to quit in the face of his plunging popularity due to a broken promise to move a u.s. marine base, japanese prime minister yukio hatoyama resigned.

yes, resigned. i know, i know, it's totally unheard of in our local political scene where highly unpopular leaders, despite public clamor for them to leave office, hold on to their positions like drowning men to lifesavers. isn't it any wonder this country is sinking?

*story from here.

image grabbed from here.