Gusto ko pa rin sa PHL

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After touring a shoppers paradise my conclusion is that our country PHL is better than the supposed paradise.

Why?

1.  It is cheaper here.   The hotels, the fare, the grocery items, the food in resto prices are 2 to 3x more expensivve in the PHL.  The wages are hight but so are the living expenses.

2.  There are not much to see.  The tall buildinga dn the malls. We have them at MoA and BGC and even in the provinces.  They are no longer unique.

3.  We have kinder more cheerful, staff at hotels and resto.  It is not so over there.

So sa Pilipionas kong mahaal pa tayo, Kabayan

Some Senators want a stop of quadcomm hearings; what has the hearings achieved?

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Achievement -  nothing.   Waste of time and taxpayers meeting.   

The powers of the Legislature, to investigate in aid of legislation and their rules say the investigation must be relevant to the legislation being proposed.  This was clarified in the reading of rules by Sen. Tolentino and repeated by lawyer of FPRRD.   Allow us to make comments, if allowed by community standards:

Conduct of the hearings:

1.  FPPRD alleged as the accused by a congressman.  FPRRD said he was not an accused.   A resource person.

2.  Questions answerable by yes or no.  How can the committee obtain information if their querries, apparently sprcipted are limited to answer by yes or no.

3.  Inane questions?

    Why were you selected as the Usec of ....   Of course the appontee would not know.   The follow up questions exposes that the question is a bait?

    Why has your office filed cases vs Ang when there were enough gossips saying he is a drug Lord.

     We are doing a better job than PDEA

     A -  We cant file cases your honor on the basis of Gossip

    Irrelevant questions:

    1   T shirts that are similar?  

    2  Beinng visited in a helicopter?

        What good did it bring to the inquiry?   To the nation moving forward...

4.  Leading question.

    Is it becasue of your closeness...?

5.  Preteneding to be a fiscals coffice or a court...

    The case for murder vs Garma and Leonardo are not progressing because there are missing link..

     Who was ordered by Garma for the it.   Who is the hitman?   Unless the link is established -  No keys.   As it is now no case has been filed.

So many judge that the hearings are being conducted not for value in the court, or for legislation but for their grandiose propaganda purposes, even if the data/facts are incomplete

Sometimes the investigators, not probably having been thoroguhly schooled in the questions they were asking (the legal implications and the possible replies) are left bewildered and victim of the resource persons.

6.  Data evidences illegally obtained. 

     As in the case of bank deposits alleged by  formermer military and senator, if they were illegally obtained

 ie. violation of pertinent law (bank secrecy law, then the evidence can not be useful in court

7.  Clean hands

     A congresswoman appear to have hidden her husband from an arrest warrant.

     The chairmnan of the committee was alleged to maintain a drug den in his home province

8.   Contempt for not telling the truth.

    When a resource persons answer is not in agreement with the thesis of committee member, a contempt order is issued.  What if the resource person is telling the truth?  Hage they not heard of polygraph test?   And why would a resource person who "invited"  be subject to a polygraphy test.

We have enough investigative bodies to handle the activities being done there whose workk would be more complete.

The invetitations were not meant to legislate new laws but to shame and degrade the resource person,  and gain political mileage.   Shame on them.   

Did the weather forecasting agencies commit a mistake

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The family and I went on a vacation trip in a city 700 km away.  At the time we left, there was a TS 2 in the North and I thought the flight would be cancelled.  The weather at the airport was fine and there was slight sdistrubance at the middle of WPS;  otherwise the trip was uneventful. 

On the way home another typhoon Peipito was brewing at Bicol.  Again, this post was fearful that there would be a flight cancellation.  They announced at was singal no 5 at Bicol.  Fortunately for us, there wras not flight cancellation.  The flight had little turbulence after take off.   The pilot announced the weather was fine at Manila and no rains.  Which it was.

Meanwhile the typhoon Pepito pummeled Catanduanes and Quezon?

May be the typhoon had limited scope that was why.  We were lucky to come home without incident.