Comments on: Bishops’ belated move?

By: He took a great, great amount of iranian money and threw it into accounts whch he then forgot about due to senility.

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:42:51 +0000

Dotdk: lol, what did you do?…

What idiot keeps ferrets in his comp room(geeks,powercord nibbling pets dont mix). Sensible, no….

By: Pompeyo A. Claveria

Pompeyo A. Claveria — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:26:03 +0000

How convenient is Lambino’s lapse or propaganda, but I am a bit more worried about your columnist friend, which made me wonder whether she is also part of the scheme. Thank you for being intellectually curios for seaching the truth.

By: RUMMEL PINERA

RUMMEL PINERA — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 03:28:46 +0000

The 2-party system is not a valid option for Philippine politics. The Philippines still has some semi-feudal institutions that hinder the growth of real and moral democracy. I believe that the 2-party system is only applicable to highly-stable democracies in the world. Also, the British parliamentary system would not work here. The remaining semi-feudal structures in the rural areas of our country would only make parliamentary democracy here become a truly-oligarchic democracy.

I also would like to invite the readers of this topic to sign this on -line petition for the complete democratization of the U.N. Organization. Such on-line petition can be signed by clicking this page now: http://www.petitiononline.com/gelly55/petition.html . Please sign such petition now. Thanks.

By: Palabok

Palabok — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 02:03:38 +0000

Good.

By: Doubting_Thomas

Doubting_Thomas — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:21:42 +0000

Re #27: I am an ordinary citizen and I am not in a position to expect people to do more than what they would normally do. Who am I to expect more (and judge them as pathetic)?

By: Palabok

Palabok — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:36:53 +0000

Doubting:

I said that that is what Simon’s post points out. One of many things. And I agree: People who complain, but don’t do squat about what they complain about are pathetic. If that is a puzzle to you, you just have to figure it out for yourself.

Now, you seem to be good in asking questions. Are your as good is answering questions as well? So, what do you expect people to do?

By: Doubting_Thomas

Doubting_Thomas — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:35:18 +0000

Re #24: That puzzles me. If you “donÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t expect anybody to do anything”, how did you come to view the people as pathetic? As for me, I don’t share the view that the people are pathetic.

By: pinoy_gising

pinoy_gising — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 11:56:09 +0000

Maybe the middle class seem largely apathetic because they’ve already come to accept that Gloria’s sheer “kakapalan ng mukha” and kawalanghiyaan trump their moral outrage, and thus they’ve just decided to adopt a “if you can’t beat them, join them” attitude, even making rationalizations so that they won’t feel too bad about their lack of moral fibre and balls. After all, the middle class is nothing if not pragmatic.

By: Palabok

Palabok — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 06:45:57 +0000

Doubting, I don’t expect anybody to do anything. I just do what I have to do and hope for the best. Ikaw, ano sa iyo?

By: Doubting_Thomas

Doubting_Thomas — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 06:30:54 +0000

Re #22: If I may clarify, my question in #21 was addressed to you. Assuming you are correct that the objective was to “point out how pathethic we all are” and since you ostensibly agree that the people are pathetic, what do you expect them (the people) to do?