Weekend Fun 52: Nixon had Watergate, Binay has Dasma Gate

Two jokes from Jim Paredes, a famous Filipino singer, posted in his facebook wall:

(1) Nixon had Watergate. Binay has Dasma gate

(2) Attention Napocor, Meralco: Habang kulang ng power sa buong Pilipinas, may excessive power surge sa Makati! :-) 

The Binay family is the longest-reigning, most politically influential in Makati City, the financial capital of the Philippines. Currently in power are Vice President Jojo Binay, daughter Sen. Nancy Binay, another daughter Congresswoman Abby Binay, and son Makati Mayor Junjun Binay. The wife of the VP was also a former Mayor of Makati.

Last November 30 this year, an incident happened inside Dasmarinas Village, Makati City. Before 12 midnight, Mayor Junjun and his backup vehicles wanted to get out of the Banyan gate, fronting Mckinley Road. Dasma village security guards that night did not allow him to exit. The policy is by 10pm, minor gates like Banyan, Lumbang and Mantrade gates, entry only for cars with Dasma village resident sticker, but even residents cannot exit there. They must use the two main gates at Palm Ave. and Pasay Road.

The Mayor and his security insisted that they should get out of that gate, a stand off occurred. The guards at the gate called more guards while the Mayor called the Makati police. Pinoy humor kicks in, as usual, with these photos, all posted in facebook. The "real reason" why the Mayor could not get out of the gate -- Gandalf stopped them. :-)

During the brief stand off, a guard of the Mayor was caught on CCTV loading bullets in his gun and went to the village security guards. Scenes like this attracted public anger, as expected. Mayabang, arogante.

When the Makati police came, they forced open the bar, then dragged the three village security to the police station. Earlier report from the Inquirer said the 3 guards were dragged then detained for four hours before being allowed to go back to the village.

One beauty of CCTVs. They allow the photos and videos to speak for themselves.

Meanwhile, two more jokes from Jim Paredes:

(3) 'There are people bent on putting my family's name in bad light.' – Nancy Binay

Ay naku Mam, Totoo yan. Kilala ko sila. Si Jojo, JunJun, Nancy, Elenita, Abigail daw ang mga pangalan..

(4) Let’s not make a big deal about it. It was only a Christmas get-together between the guards & bodyguards. Mayor was even invited. Notice the Christmas lights? The giveaway were umbrelas. The PNP upon hearing about the occasion joined in..

Case closed!

Ang pamilya. Bow.
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See also: 

Weekend Fun 41: Nancy Binay, Grace Poe, Other Politicians, May 25, 2013
Weekend Fun 48: On Being Old and Crazy, September 14, 2013
Weekend Fun 49: Lefties Songs, October 12, 2013 

Weekend Fun 50: Pacquiao, Rios and Pacman U., November 30, 2013 

Weekend Fun 51: Martilyo Gang Jokes, December 20, 2013 

Anti-Smoke Belching Racket, Part 5, April 02, 2013 

Pol. Ideology 38: Branding Via Clans, Not Philosophy, April 05, 2013

Climate Tricks 13: Block Skeptics and Keep Fooling the Public

One common practice of the man-made warming leaders and campaigners is to block off people who often question their religion. I have confirmed that once more two days ago when I checked my twitter account. I have observed earlier that after questioning several tweets by Greenpeace Philippines, they blocked me from following them, I posted it here, Greenpeace is Blocking You, November 19, 2011.

When I checked again last Monday, this is the result.

Cowards, as usual. They only need people who will pat them in the back as "planet saviors". Well, at least I sent them this tweet, "cowards in debates..."

Another cousin or sibling in cowardice but sibling in climate alarmism and noise is the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), their WWF-Philippine office also blocked me. No tears guys, sorry.

Oh, the perennial Philippine "climate negotiator" for two decades or more, Dean of the Ateneo School of Government (ASoG), Atty. Tony La Vina, also do not like me questioning his "save the planet" mantra. But at least I sent this tweet to him, "Warming fanatics blocking me..."

Population Control 7: I am Supporting the RH bill

Yes, I am supporting the government-sponsored population control measure aka the Reproductive Health (RH) bill. PROVIDED that government will also cut or discontinue some of its existing but ineffective social programs.

As of July 2011, there were an estimated 37.11 million employed Filipinos. We assume that all of them are taxpayers, directly or indirectly. This year, interest payment alone (principal amortization not included) of the national government will be P357 billion. This means that each employed person in this country would fork out something like P9,622 of taxes for interest payment alone this year. Then they have to fork out more taxes to sustain the millions of bureaucracies from the local to national government agencies, up to the multilateral and foreign aid bodies like the UN, WB and ADB who all live off on tax money.

I read that with or without the RH bill, the DOH has already alloted some P7 billion for reproductive health-related spending. People are liabilities, the government and the RH bill supporters say, so their number should be reduced by giving couples various "options and choices" to plan their household size. Never mind the taxpayers including those who have no kids, they have no choice whether to support or opt out of these new spending.

Meanwhile, a friend in facebook posted something like this after Pacquiao's split decision victory over Marquez two weeks ago:

Manny Pacquiao, you now believe in "MAJORITY DECISION." Perhaps you know now the statement from the Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey this year, "that 73% of Filipinos want to get information on all legal methods of family planning (FP) from the government and that 68% wants the government to fund all means of family planning." That's majority decision.

And I replied to him, :And if you ask also the people, 'Do you want subsidized or free healthcare and housing, subsidized or free train ride and jeepney fare, subsidized or free cell phones and electricity, subsidized or free farm tractor and fishing boats, etc., government will fully fund those subsidies?', I think 90-100% of them will say Yes. Majority decision too."

Below are some data from Dr. Jop Yap of PIDS. This is part of his paper delivered during the Philippine Economic Society (PES) conference a few weeks ago. I thanked Jop for sharing with me his data.

See the low working age / dependents ratio in Singapore, Thailand, China and Korea? This should be directly or indirectly related to their past population control policies. Soon, their oldies will be needing robots and migrant workers to take care of them as the number of their young population is small in relation to the oldies.

Twitter notes, July 2011 (a)

Lately, I've been tweeting more than facebooking :-). My tweets from July 1 to 7 this year.
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Inspire_Us Inspirational Quotes by Noysky
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

We'll be fighting in the streets, With our children at our feet, And the morals that they worship will be gone... - The Who

Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday, And I'll get on my knees and pray, We don't get fooled again. - The Who

@taxreformer Congrats Grover, Kelsey, Chris, Jane, other ATR guys. 26 yrs of defending taxpayers from the onslaught of statism. Way to go.

WomenOfHistory Inspirational Quotes by Noysky
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. -Dr. Maya Angelou

The law is reason, free from passion... We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle

Old economists never die, they just become more Pareto efficient... or they create more monopolistic competition :-)

There is only one pretty child in the world & every mother has it... A man grows most tired while standing still. - Chinese Proverbs

What cant be cured must be endured... Half a loaf is better than no bread... Better to light 1 candle than curse darkness - English proverbs

philoquotes PhiloQuotes by Noysky
If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. ~ Socrates http://bit.ly/philq

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past... All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. - Spinoza

Old Marxists never die. They just become dialectical and materialist... Or they become classless leaders.

Old economists never die. They just become heteroskedastic and multicollinear.

The use of "Asian war" over the Spratlys getting more noisy. I sense large-scale robbery of taxpayers money here, bit.ly/mhjdtC

If you fall and break your legs don't come running to me… I'm not lazy, I'm just highly motivated not to do anything. - Montberte

Montberte Steve Cushing by Noysky
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. George Lois

Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police… These two words will open you many doors in life: pull & push. - Steve C.

To think logically d logically thinkable, a mathematician's aim... Even d most pure & abstract math is in danger to be applied - Mymathcloud

Montberte Steve Cushing by Noysky
A consultant is someone who takes a subject you understand and makes it sound complex. #stevec

philoquotes PhiloQuotes by Noysky
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. ~ Nietzsche http://bit.ly/philq

A gift consists not in what is done or given but in the intention of the giver or doer... One crime has to be concealed by another. - Seneca

Etiquette is the art of knowing the right way to do the wrong thing... If you wish to be good, first believe that you were bad. - MikeGordon

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds…. We come together in the spirit of unity to heal wounds that separate us.- wiserworld

You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream. I love deadlines... the whooshing sound they make as they fly by- wiserworld

philo_quotes Philosophers quotes by Noysky
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! ~ Nietzsche http://bit.ly/philq

philoquotes PhiloQuotes by Noysky
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows;it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts ~ Virgilhttp://bit.ly/philq

Derive, something to avoid when you derink… When I was young I was told anyone could be president. Now I'm beginning to believe it - SteveC

IPNLondon IPN by Noysky
2011 Bastiat Prize - Win $50,000 - http://eepurl.com/eBv46

Freedom from debt is hollow and meaningless if there is no Freedom from borrowing, bit.ly/lFdTeL

What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost...There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers. - MikeGordon

Many people buy on time but only few pay that way... A decision delayed until it's too late is not a decision, it's an evasion. - MikeGordon

WhoIsMikeGordon Mike Gordon by Noysky
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression. Thomas Paine

WhoIsMikeGordon Mike Gordon by Noysky
"God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. Garrison Keillor AMEN"

@Karen_DaviLa Hda Luisita is a corp., not single prop. If PNoy is a stockholder of Luisita, he shd have divested fr it avoid conflict of int

@Karen_DaviLa Agrarian reform w/o deadline is wrong. Japan, Korea, Taiwan AR done in just 1-3 yrs and they moved on. Phil AR since '72.

@Karen_DaviLa If you develop an idle land into a productive farm, soon DAR people will come & force you to redistribute your land to workers

philo_quotes Philosophers quotes by Noysky
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. ~ Rousseau

@GoYoLarrazabal Actually most govt agencies can profile us citizens anytime they want to. They centralize info abt us -- SSS, LTO, BIR, etc.

@GoYoLarrazabal Yes, that's the danger when govt bureaucrats will use their power of prohibition. Prohibit us from travelling, etc.

@GoYoLarrazabal Govt bureaucracies' profiling of citizens is idiotic if they themselves arent transparent. BI website no names of personnel.

@bandila Corrupt PCSO, looking for others corruptible to keep silent of its corruption. Some bishops who got PCSO money were corrupted.

Sports_Greats Motivational Quotes by Noysky
When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn. -Tom Landry

NowYouBeYou NowYouBeYou by Noysky
"When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself." Sir Alexander Paterson http://bit.ly/bXeQE6 The Productive Me

WhoIsMikeGordon Mike Gordon by Noysky
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard. Edgar R. Fiedler

@piacayetano Employment is a priv contract bet the employer & the employee. Phil govt shd stop setting min wage even for foreign employers.

Montberte Steve Cushing by Noysky
A true pessimist will look at a glass filled to the top and say the glass is too small. #stevec

AncientProverbs Motivational Quotes by Noysky
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. –Socrates

philoquotes PhiloQuotes by Noysky
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law. ~ Cicero

GreatestQuotes Great Minds Quotes by Noysky
"There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose." - William M. Bulger

Phil. govt setting min wage law here, then also set min wage for Filipinos working as domestic helpers in HK, Saudi, etc. Is this right?

@lawrencewr US debt default will be a monster violation of the rule of law in that country. One option, US shd cut its foreign aid budget.

@PeterPitts Mandatory rebates in the US, mandatory discount 20% off drug purchase by senior citizens (SC) in the Phils. including rich SC.

@GoYoLarrazabal Even if your job is not that "important" to others so long as you love your job, you still work 50 or more hours a week.

@NewAsianist Privatization of govt enterprises is one good policy. New revenues without additional taxation, while reducing govt cronyism.

Georginegvwzm Georgine Moment by Noysky
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

taxreformer ATR by Noysky
The President has to choose whether the US defaults on its debts or not. How can you accuse lawmakers of issuing “ultimatums?” #AskObama

@karadavid @gmanews AFP, PNP, PCSO, etc corruption feeds politicians' corruption, who give them more budget to perpetuate govt corruption.

Not really "global financial collapse" soon, more of fiscal collapse by really huge governments like the US, Spain, UK, etc.

Am now enjoying twitter than facebook. People and their messages here are more frank and straightforward. Thanks twitter.

@Jimparedes Corrupt PCSO wanted some influential individuals and groups to be corrupted to reduce noise, Some bishops bite the bait.
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See also Twitter Notes
1st half June 2011, and 2nd half June 2011