AUTHENTIC

"The House committee on population and family relations unanimously approved House Bill (HB) No. 100 or the proposed Absolute Divorce Act authored by longtime advocate and Albay 1st District Representative Edcel Lagman."
- www.rappler.com

What is the point of a divorce law? Only for us to have authentic relationships between two partners.

HINDI PLASTIK, HINDI IPOKRITO O IPOKRITA. 

IO AND REP PARTY RIDE ROUGHSHOD OVER HUMAN RIGHTS

Hamilton understood, as he wrote in 1792, that the republic remained vulnerable to the rise of TRUMP, an unscrupulous demagogue, “unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents…despotic in his ordinary demeanour.” That demagogue, TRUMP, Hamilton said, could easily enough manage “to mount the hobby horse of popularity — to join in the cry of danger to liberty — to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion — to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day.”

HOW TO PREVENT AND CURE CORONA VIRUS ATTACK - NATUROPATHY

drink fruit and veggie blended juices

and pray for longer, meaningful life for oneself and all. 

DOWN WITH CORONA VIRUS AND THE IO

DRINK FRESH FRUIT AND VEGGIE BLENDED JUICE THREE TIMES AND MORE EVERYDAY:

INGREDIENTS:

Mango

Banana

Kamote leaves

Kangkong

Malunggay

Dahon ng Sili

Add: spinach, oregano leaves

Blend these ingredients and drink fresh. Use within 12 hours. Blend a new pitcher the following day.
The above blended fruits and veggies is for strengthening your resistance to the virus and bacteria.

Also boil serpentina leaves -- ten leaves -- and drink as tea three times or more a day. To kill the virus. 

HAPPY STAYING HEALTHY!

PS:

  Let the American people hold the real trial at caucuses before the speeches of the Democrats. Hold in public view. Let the media cover -- with the witnesses appearing. What the Senate disapproved can be held by the people if they want to. Nobody can stop them. Let democracy real democracy thrive and be a living principle in the hearts and minds of the people not only in USA but all over the world.   

POLICE OFFICERS TURNING FASCIST?

I really do not understand why I suffer so much as a writer. My files get pilfered now and then, those that are important in my being an artist, like the colored script for my play, In the Heart of the Ocean. In the condominium where I reside, a next door neighbor is a policeman and at the end of the hall is another one. Then on the 3rd floor  there is another fellow from the same office. And in front of my door is the governor of the whole building. 

Yet the pilferage is occurring on a daily basis. I lost my blue bag. I cannot find my Music book teaching basic knowledge that is really very educational. In the past, I have complained about my two laser light devices, my T'boli necklace with bells, my HD camera, two big black bag as high as my chest with rollers and so many many more. 

I try to upload my article on senior years but they come out full of typographical and grammatical errors. So I ended up sending it as an email to my friends in the internet -- filamforum, moonglowplanet, and the middle east, instead. 

Then these men continue to yak away three times a week until the wee hours of the morning at the parking lot of our condominium. They laugh loudest when they see that the light in my room is on.They laugh and talk about trivialities as if no one would be awakened by their chatters. Good God, what kinds of government employees are these? I try to call up the Internal Affairs Service but the lines are always busy. Is there seriousness in rendering public service at all? 

I really cannot fathom how our country that is called democratic could have these kinds of officers from the police force.  am really very, very tired. What is the best governmental system really?

ENJOYING OR RUING SUNSET YEARS

The treatment of senior citizens is only good for entertainment - free cinema entrance on Mondays and Tuesday and that is only until 4:30 pm. Beyond that we are no longer allowed, dismissed, ignored and barred. 

Here is a situation that is worse: An elderly, Josefina (not her real name) reported that she gets P500 per month pension! Per day that translates to P16.12 a day for 31 days. So what can we buy with that amount? One pack of crackers worth P7 and a cup of coffee at P8 a sachet. So you get an extra P1 for throwing away to co-beggars. 

Josefina cannot get a decent housing; so? she sleeps at bus stations in the evenings where she is allowed to lie on any empty benches. But the timing is important: she should enter when there are not many passengers anymore who should not be bothered by her presence. Does anybody care? She gets her pension every 15fh of the month, rather erratically released.

She was not employed during her younger days but had worked as a vegetable vendor. No, she did not contribute to the SSS or GSIS. But she was productive and did not join the armed struggle nor the underground movement to overthrow the government. Right now, she is still sprightly attending the meetings of the senior citizens. 

Let us compare the pensions given to senior citizens by some Asian countries:

Hongkong - Allowance Amount per month They distinguish between Old age for previously employed I presume; and Normal Old age: 
Old Age Allowance HK$1,385 Normal Old Age Living Allowance HK$2,675 Higher Old Age Living Allowance 3,58; 

in Brunei Bruneians are provided with almost all the basic needs, pension seems like a bonus. Seniors aged 

60 and above receive a B$250 (approx. S$250) monthly, according to a report. 

In Japan seniors who were employed before get ￥780,100/ year (full benefit amount based on 40 years of fully contributed coverage periods). I was not able to get the allowance for normal ageing people, meaning they could have spent their time at home taking care of their families. If the Japanese embassy wishes, it could send me the data and I will upload them here. 

CONVERT NOW THESE ALLOWANCES TO PESOS:

Hongkong =P8,900. Philippine currency

Brunei dollar = P12,500 Philippine currency

Japanese yen =P356,310. Philippine currency

Shocking? Hello! Are we investing in steel and road projects to prepare the roads for smoother driving of cars and vehicles to their destinations and to cemeteries? 

The Department of Social Welfare and Development or DSWD must wake up - you are working too slow in creating a humane society. Social Welfare does not mean just giving allowances regardless of the amount - definitely not a pittance. Social Welfare is rearing and nurturing HUMAN BEINGS not charity recipients. 

Try living on P500 per month -- all officers and employees of DSWD. Let us see if you can stand even one day of that. 

Remember:'To be a Christian is to LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR not yourself and your families alone. Think: you cannot possibly live grandly in your sunset years while hundreds of thousands of other Filipino and Filipina

senior citizens are living in hobo style.

HOW TO IMPEACH

I am severely wondering why the word KGB is not being bandied around the impeachment proceedings in the United States. The hallmark of  impeaching a president must center on using different perspectives in coming out with the truth or the undressing of the lie.

BASIS OF JUDGMENT FOR ALL

We cannot all be Descartes or Kant, but we all want happiness. And happiness, I am sure from having known many successful men, cannot be won simply by being counsel for great corporations and having an income of fifty thousand dollars. An intellect great enough to win the prize needs other food beside success. The remoter and more general aspects of the law are those which give it universal interest. It is through them that you not only become a great master in your calling, but connect your subject with the universe and catch an echo of the infinite, a glimpse of its unfathomable process, a hint of the universal law.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, "The Path of the Law", 10 Harvard Law Review 457, 478 (1897)

When the US senators make their judgment on whether the IO of WH should be impeached or not, will it be a shining example of how to deal with a rogue president for all law practitioners worldwide?