The 'sincere' Congressman

Bill Clinton, speaking here recently on “the challenge of globalization” makes a comment on the Philippine population, practically saying that more babies are a boon to the Filipinos:

“you [Filipinos] have a huge population, which is [something] positive, and you have massive natural resources.”

This raised the hackles of main RH-bill sponsor/advocate Congressman Edcel Lagman.

Lagman chides Clinton for comment on Phl population

Clinton’s population growth idea nonsense, says Lagman

Lagman said that Clinton's stament should not be taken “hook, line and sinker as it is a careless commentary, not a sincere compliment.”

He adds: “Clinton’s passing statement may be typical of patronizing platitudes heaped by Americans on Third World countries,”

To counter former US President Bill Clinton's statement, Lagman pointed out that Clinton’s wife, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is an ardent advocate of family planning and reproductive health.

He quoted Secretary [Hillary] Clinton as telling a US congressional hearing in April 2009:

“I have been in Asian countries where the denial of family planning consigns women to lives of oppression and hardship. We happen to think that family planning is an important part of women’s health.“.

While Lagman is correct in saying that State Secretary Clinton advocates family planning, he conveniently omits that Secretary Clinton also advocates abortion in equal measure.

At the G8 summit in Canada this year, Hillary Clinton famously said:

“I’m not going to speak for what Canada decides, but I will say that I’ve worked in this area for many years. And if we’re talking about maternal health, you cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.”

We know of course that Lagman has repeatedly and emphatically said that he is against abortion,
so it is quite crafty for him to cherry-pick US State Secretary Clinton's quotes when it suits him, ignore her other famous quotes on the same subject when it disfavors him, while hysterically denigrating her husband Bill Clinton's recent statements as "careless, patronizing, nonsense, and insincere".

Insincere. Take that.
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Everything is because of God - Manny Pacquiao

Judges score: 120-108, 119-109 and 118-110

Pacquiao cements his place among pantheon of all-time boxing greats

Flyweight. Junior featherweight. Featherweight. Junior lightweight. Lightweight. Junior welterweight. Welterweight. And now, super welterweight.

A.J. Liebling wrote, "The span between the top limit of one weight class and the next represents the margin that history has proved is almost impossible to overcome." Eight times Pacquiao has cheated this conventional wisdom, racing up the scales like nobody else in boxing history. Eight titles, eight divisions. And yet, fistic shorthand has never felt so hollow. The myth of the Pambansang Kamao -- or National Fist -- means so much more.

“Without the people, I’m not here,” he stated, matter-of-factly.

“Everything is because of God for giving me the strength and the support of the people.”

"Mary’s Ultrasound"

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RH bill: 'Name-calling' repartee

Cardinal Rosales: "If you (parents) fail (in guiding your children properly in the formation of conscience), you will reap the kind of people that you have now in most of our institutions, including Congress"

Speaker Feliciano Belmonte: “Let’s not stoop to name-calling”

Iloilo Representative Janette Garin: "Hypocrisy in your institution is pulling you down..we object to the imposition brought about by stone-age beliefs not intended for the good of the many...”

Gabriela party-list Representative Luz Ilagan: "Think of the scandals or morality the church has been accused of. Let he who is not without sin cast the first stone."

Me: "Yes, pro-RH solons do not have well-formed consciences, at least those that still claim to be Catholics. I guess that makes me a name-calling, hypocritical, stone-age Pharisee."

Obama cherry-picks Gandhi

Obama credits Gandhi with helping him to presidency

NEW DELHI—US President Barack Obama paid fulsome tribute Monday to Mahatma Gandhi and said studying the legacy of India's independence icon had helped propel him to the White House.

In an address to the Indian parliament as he wrapped up a three-day visit, Obama described the personal impact of Gandhi's teachings of non-violence and equality on his political career.

"Throughout my life, including my work as a young man on behalf of the urban poor, I have always found inspiration in the life of Gandhi and in his simple and profound lesson to be the change we seek in the world," he said...

Change, right. Too bad President Obama ignored the pro-life stand of Mahatma Gandhi.

"..It is an insult to the fair sex to put up her case in support of birth-control by artificial methods. As it is, man has sufficiently degraded her for his lust, and artificial methods, no matter how well meaning the advocates may be, will still further degrade her. I urge the advocates of artificial methods to consider the consequences. Any large use of the methods is likely to result in the dissolution of the marriage bond and in free love…Birth control to me is a dismal abyss..."

"No word seems to be more abused to-day than the word ‘Natural”… Indeed, if we were to put man in the same category as the brute, many things could be proved to come under the description ‘natural’. But if they belong to two different species, not everything that is natural to the brute is natural to man…Man does not live by bread alone, as the brute does. He uses his reason to worship God and to know Him, and regards the attainment of that knowledge as summum bonum of life. The brute, if he can be said to worship God, does so involuntarily. The desire to worship God is inconceivable in the brute, while man can voluntarily worship even Satan. It must, therefore, be, and is, man’s nature to know and find God. When he worships Satan, he acts contrary to his nature..."

"..The earth has not suffered from the weight of over-population through its age of countless millions. How can it be that the truth has suddenly dawned upon some people that it is in danger of perishing of shortage of food unless the birthrate is checked through the use of contraceptives?"
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The greatest price, evah

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls.
When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it." (Mt. 13:45-46)

Grand Lotto jackpot reaches P311.9M with no winner yet

I wonder what I can do with the P 311.9 Million Grand Lotto prize, assuming I win the grand lottery. Maybe I will give one million each to my close friends and relatives, donate a few million to charity, buy some grand vacation mansions, flashy cars, then go jet-setting around the world and buy anything I fancy. Imagine...P 311.9 million! The thing is, I don't buy lotto tickets, so how on earth can I win without buying a ticket.

Maybe I will buy one ticket for Saturday's draw just for the fun of imagining things. Maybe 'imagining' is a proper word, for the probability of winning the Grand Lotto is quite daunting. The odds of winning is one in 28,989,675. That is equivalent to being hit by a lightning eight times in a lifetime, assuming the first lightning hit does not end your life. The odds are even greater than the possibility of being canonized into sainthood, which stands at 1 in 20 million!

Still, many bettors are hopeful, prayerful even. It is reported that many lotto bettors wipe their tickets to images of saints inside churches as they pray for good fortune. This prompted Caloocan Bishop Deogracias Iñiguez to say that invoking God to win lotto is a ‘defective’ practice of religiosity, and that gambling is incompatible with Christianity. Certainly in any form of gambling, when one wins, another person loses. So those who are praying of winning are also praying that other people lose.

I wish those who wish on winning the lotto has an even greater wish to win the "pearl of great price" that St Matthew speaks of in Mt. 13:45-46. After all, everyone sincerely seeking it gets to win a priceless and eternal jackpot. The best thing is that everyone who sincerely seeks, wins. God desires no losers.
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Blame it on the stupid economy

Obama blames election rout on economy

WASHINGTON—US President Barack Obama would not concede Wednesday that a Republican election rout marked a massive repudiation of his agenda, but did shoulder the blame for deep voter frustration over the economy.

Hours after Republicans captured the House of Representatives and slashed the Democratic majority in the Senate, a subdued Obama said in a White House news conference that voters were mostly preoccupied with the slow recovery.

"I think that there is no doubt that people's number one concern is the economy," Obama said. "And what they were expressing great frustration about is the fact that we haven't made enough progress on the economy."

After two years of "hope" and "change", the US economic recovery remained sluggish and unemployment is pegged at a stubborn 9.6 percent. The voter's discontent just materialized with stunning clarity.

Yes, the economy is to blame. And then of course -- someone's got to be blamed for the economy.

Don't blame it on the sunshine
Don't blame it on the moonlight
Don't blame it on the good times...

I doubt if the Obama camp is in any mood to dance.
The pro-life camp however, appears poised to rock and roll.
CatholicVote says virtually every so-called “pro-life” legislator that voted for Obamacare went down to defeat last night.

Blame it on the boogie