Starting today: Be very afraid

Starting today, until May 8, two days before the 2010 election date, the campaign period will start all over the country.

Starting today, expect sweet talks and sometimes hollow talks, from candidates and spin doctors . Some of them will promise to bring heaven amongst us.

Starting today they will become the humblest servants of the earth. Even proclaiming to the huge masses that they will serve us to the best they could, some even promising to move mountains.

Starting today, the crooks, the robbers, the so-called leaders of our nation will come to the lowest of the societal strata, to be one amongst us. They will bring with them cameras and huge group of supporters to affirm that they are one of the poor in this country, hence they are with the poor.

Starting today, the lions will become as meek as sheeps, as pure as The Virgin and with branded smiles and fake handshakes, they will try and insist to win our hearts back.

Be very afraid. Starting today. One of them, if not all, will become another Gloria Arroyo.

Photo grabbed from scrapetv.com; aklanforum.blogspot.com

All for the boys: The Presidentiables

Manny Villar: Tondo Boy
(Photo: pcij.org)

Gibo Teodoro: Lover Boy
(Photo: sarangganiphotonews.blogspot.com)

Noynoy Aquino: Mama's Boy
(Photo: beed2ahalalan2010.files.wordpress.com)

Erap Estrada: Kanto Boy
(Photo:manilacityph.com)

Dick Gordon: Am(erican)Boy
(Photo: senate.gov.ph)

Eddie Villanueva: Altar Boy
(Photo: presidentialelection2010.wordpress.com)

Jamby Madrigal: If I Were A Boy
(Photo: arkibongbayan.org)

Horrible! Terribly horrible!

The pictures offer confirmation; that is why it was important to publish them, in their gory detail. They shock us into realization: The men who did the killing, and the men who ordered it, could only have been either beasts or gods. The utter mercilessness of the mass murder, the gross shamelessness of it, is the mark of an unreasoning animal or a conscienceless being—an untouchable, a warlord or his son or his supporter perhaps, who can break human laws because he is a law unto himself. - Horror, Inquirer Editorial

Pictures from english.cri.cn, thepinoy.net, airamerica.com

Bloody, bloody, bloody!

It is our blood being spilled, our people who are dying. (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977)

I was planning to write about some nice pizza a relative made us to taste. But every time I saw the hot sauce, it reminded me of blood and what was happening in Maguindanao. No, what already happened in Maguindanao.

I was asking myself what is there, in Maguindanao, that they have to kill?

Maguindanao. Ahhh that place where President Arroyo's opponent in the previous election got ZERO, NADA, NONE, WALA votes. Imagine that? I can't.

Maguindanao. A place obviously out of touch from the outside world because certain people wanted its citizens there not to know what is law and freedom. A land of savages. Or a place ruled by savages? Ruled by a greedy clan who wanted all of the wealth and power for themselves. They have to kill or else their wealth would be exposed. Kill! Kill! Kill!

Animals! And people were killed just like animals. The killers were a shame even to animals of the lowest level. But still they were animals who can only think of money, greed, politics and killing people so they could rule a place called Maguindanao.

Is this what the Muslims wanted? A separate state so they could kill everyone they do not like? What would be the future of an independent Mindanao? Bangsamoro my ass.

Evidence pointed to SOMEBODY in the government but even the national government was asking the suspects to surrender. Is this a show of desperation? A pathetic plea? O my.

What is happening to this country?

Dikit na kung dikit!

And when Pacquiao wins, surely everyone wanted to be seen up close and feeling very close. Photo op for future election matters, what else!

Photo courtesy of The Professional Heckler

There you go again The Professional Heckler!

On Gilbert Teodoro's choice of Edu Manzano as his running mate:

Former Game KNB? host, Edu Manzano admitted that he was hesitant to accept the ruling party’s offer to become its vice presidential bet. But when he saw Gibô for the first time in person last Wednesday, “all my qualms went out of the window.” It was love at first sight. (Awrrr!)

The Professional Heckler, The Search is Over

(Photo from The Professional Heckler's blog)