Chip Tsao apologizes for ‘maid-country’ remark by S. DEDACE and J. SISANTE from GMANews.TV Excerpt of Chip Tsao’s ‘The War At Home’ column Manila has just claimed sovereignty over the scattered rocks in the South China Sea called the Spratly Islands, complete with a blatant threat from its congress to send gunboats to the South [...]
COMMENTARY BY PERRY DIAZ If there’s anything that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo would pay for $1 billion, it would be a photo opportunity with President Barack Obama. Just imagine a picture of the two presidents side by side with the flags of their respective countries in the background. That would be awesome! It would be [...]
Is Obama a sex symbol? Read this interesting article by Judith Warner of the New York Times –Perry Diaz Sometimes a President Is Just a President By Judith Warner New York Times The other night I dreamt of Barack Obama. He was taking a shower right when I needed to get into the bathroom to [...]
COMMENTARY BY PERRY DIAZ Ever since Gloria Arroyo became president in 2001, I don’t remember her going on a junket abroad without her husband, Mike. Why not? After all, it’s free — paid for by Juan de la Cruz. However, ever since Joc-joc Bolante was deported by the US, Mike had been avoiding going to the US. He even [...]
COMMENTARY BY PERRY DIAZ As expected, President Gloria Arroyo failed to meet with President Barack Obama during the National Breakfast Prayer in Washington, DC. Arroyo should know by now that Obama had been avoiding her for obvious reasons — she’s ‘bad news.’ Once again, Arroyo’s unscheduled ‘spur of the moment’ junket to the US manifests her [...]
COMMENTARY BY PERRY DIAZ A few days ago, the Republican Party elected Michael Steele as their first African-American national chairman. That the good news. The bad news is: at about the same time, Carol Carter, a county Republican official, distributed an email mocking African-American victims of Hurricane Katrina. It seems to me that every time [...]
COMMENTARY BY PERRY DIAZ In a spur of the moment change in her itinerary, the junketing Philippine President, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, is heading to the U.S. again for another chance to meet President Barack Obama. Obama will be the guest speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 5, 2009, in Washington, DC. Gloria had [...]
PACQUIAO’S DOCTORATE (HONORIS CAUSA) By Maloney L. Samaco PhilBoxing.com Sat, 31 Jan 2009 It was officially announced by the administration of the Southwestern University that the world’s number one pound-for–pound boxer Manny Pacquiao will be awarded the degree Doctor in Human Kinetics, “Honoris Causa.” The conferment will be done on February 18, 2009.“Honoris causa” is [...]
House body clears banned contractors – “Lutong Macao!” This is one of the most blatant display of arrogance and abuse of power. The World Bank did its own investigation of collusion among these three contractors before they wer banned. For the House Committee on Public Works and Highways to ignore the evidence presented by the [...]
Amador Bernabe fired for ‘un-Australian toilet habits’ January 24, 2009 Townsville Bulletin A MAN who uses water instead of toilet paper says he was sacked for his “un-Australian” toilet habits. Amador Bernabe, 43, is a machine operator in Townsville on a working visa from the Philippines, the Townsville Bulletin reports. On Thursday, he claims [...]
