Comments on: Cebu and a toothbrush

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test — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:30:35 +0000

By: joselu

joselu — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:36:57 +0000

yes Ed Bunye was the first. ironicaly if it was not for him the tapes would have not circulated so oepenly.It seems that those who had it did not really know waht to do w/ it. It seems that Bunye’s bringing it out opened the flood gates. Although it seems Bunye wante to bit the other to the punch but it backfired. honestly it was the most stupid thing. been woundering why PGMA did not fire Bunye?
Sleeping, yes Ong had it also nga.But who was the first to have it?Was it Tatad that then he gave Francisco?
what ever happened to Ong?

By: sleeping with who

sleeping with who — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:32:09 +0000

Samuel Ong had it first… He gave it to others..

Bunye was just trying to beat them to the punch, cutting the wind from their sails, by first releasing it, and from the overall out come that worked, by having a dis-jointed opposition, and all of them clammering to be president and comming up with new ideas each day, they fell on their own sword.

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:42:50 +0000

joselu, bunye was the first released the cd. He was the first to quack about it. read the chronological event about that garci cd.

By: joselu

joselu — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:19:06 +0000

Manolo, Bunye did not release the tapes, from what i understand, he was trying to bit the others to releaseing it.I don’t think there was malice in what he did.
althought, i must admit that the palace was really stupid in the way it was handeled.I think there was no coordination.
The tapes where really super damaging.
For me Manolo I think that things are not as simple as black & white.If there is a cover-up, it seems to be that the damage can be so big that PGMA is the list of our problems.It’s a do or die power strugle & I’m almost sure those of us who really want real change will just get caught in the middle.
believe me, I too have so many questions and from day one have been weighing things.I admit it’s a shity situations.obviously there is the military involved.They are mega presuring PGMA,they are also manipulating our sentiments.they are exploiting our every weakness .If we get through this strom we will certainly be stronger but if we don’t elements for a revolution are getting ripe.
That is why I alsways push for education,taking time to explain the bigger picture.PGMA is just incidental.It’s just that we are comming to a head of all our social faults.
I know the Filipinos are a great people and nice & hardworking but we have a serious flow in our weakness of character.Through the decades we have grown acostomed to doing the wrong things & not even knowing it is wrong.
Anyway, these are just my thoughts.I even may be wrong or maybe not even answered your question.

By: arkangel1a

arkangel1a — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 06:48:47 +0000

i read your monday column over at inq7.net, “Moving On”. it is exactly what many people feel and largely why the rallies of the past couple of months has failed to gain any sort of ground!

people are looking for reform, you can almost taste it in the air (even in the poluted air of our cities). what will its shape be, what form it will take and who can we get to lead that charge— is a big wide question.

i hope the people who run things (leaders of the campaign to oust pgma) can gain insight from all these things and just may be… will have the will and the courage to lead the charge to reform our cultural, economic and political system. our people are poised to listen to someone who can.

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 06:47:01 +0000

bt, I could in turn accuse you of being an opposition propagandist. But there’s no need to go into that.

The fact is, whatever happened in last year’s election isn’t important to me. I don’t even think that it’s important to most people. Maybe it’s important to you and some people who have political designs. But to most of us, we only want to go on making a living, oblivious to all the political noise. After all, we managed to get by without the help of politics or politicians. Why should we allow politics to interrupt or bother us with our daily lives?

By: djuara

djuara — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 05:56:50 +0000

at last i made it, i wonder why when all of a sudden your blog is gone missing from txtpower, and it was really frustrating not being able to post a comment yesterday after having to suffer a internet shut down due to the fake nbi raid on pirated software.

i do agree with you on the real feelings in most cebuanos not much really when compared to ilonggos when it comes to GMA but then where does it leave these “silent one’s” who do not want GMA and at the same time do not trust the opposition.

while our esteemed political analysts ponders, contemplates on this issue GMA and her “creeping martial law” is about to come to form and all we have are the usual cries of protest from the usual traditional politicians,
even the catholic hierarchy is questionably silent yet within the cbcp the pro-GMA have been airing their consent to GMA’s pending state of emergency and much more so to the governments crackdown on the continuing street protests.

we have regressed, with an opposition divided, with the leftists looked on with mistrust, a search for a leader must begin in earnest, time is imminent otherwise the people suffer towards 2010 and that is a long, long way to go…

By: sleeping with who

sleeping with who — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 05:54:23 +0000

If she touches the Comelec and does not put Randy David in charge of it you will all complain that it is biased to her side..

Remember if she goes to her aids and asks who should be in it she will never get a unbiased as during our lives we decide who is good from meeting with them and having some relationship with them, and we all hear degority statements about others so in the end they would say it is all her friends or power brokers. What you want her to go to the opposition and ask for them to give her a list of people they would want.

Probably the best way is to walk out on to the streets and pick the first 10 people you see, and select from them.

Everyone has biases, You Do I Do. We all do. And we all have our price, Mine i hope is final integrity, I may not be good allways but i hope the total taken in a balance would be good…

But then again all my friends will be in hell and i will be lonely in heaven, so what do i do….

By: F.

F. — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 05:38:17 +0000

That martial law talk was a canard that PDI gave credence to. Martial law under the present Constitution isn’t as draconian nor as fearsome nor as easily done during the time of Marcos. Obviously people will react to anything PDi places inthe front page so today it’s running the disclaimers of the false story it lent credence to by giving it prominence.

I don’t mind if they nationalize Globe Telecom because it’s run pretty much like a government enterprise: callous, greedy and misleading. (I’m a Globe subscriber so I should know. I don’t know about Smart or Sun.)

As for the Comelec, totally overhauling it would be Gloria’s challenge. I don’t think she has the heart to do it, as she seems to be averse to doing something for good governance that doesn’t benefit her at all. So my fearless guess is she’ll flunk this test and, unsurprisigly, very few will mind. I will be happy to be proven wrong.