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		<title>By: Within the Joker&#8217;s grasp &#171; YouthVotePhilippines</title>
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		<title>By: AGBJR7</title>
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		<description>An editorial caught my attention, the hypertext link says “Obama of the Philippines” written by Carlos Quiros. How can you not resists clicking on the link with a caption like that, and not feed your curiousity. Well, anyway it tallks about aspiring presidentiables followig on the footsteps of Obama. He facetiously contemplated that Binay could be our Obama on the basis of comparison by skin color, “the first black man of Malacanang”. When you come to think about it maybe Binay is even darker than him, looks Binay might have just out-blacked Obama. The reason I brought this up, is our country does not need an Obama type President. We need someone darker and stronger that can clean up this widespread corruption just like it cleaned up Gotham City. Yep, a dark knight , “Batman of the Philippines” “the first bat man of Malacanang”. The setting is perfect, we got Joker also known as Jocelyn Bolante. President Arroyo can be Two-Faced, she used to be a promising leader, educated in Economics and could might have turned our economy around. I did had high hopes for her but ended up just like the rest of our leader, eventually succumbing to the dark side. You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villian.

What do meretricious quacks just like Joc Joc “Joker” Bolante, and Pres. Gloria “Two-Faced” Arroyo have in common? If you answered, “They all make antihumanist hermits out to be something they’re not,” then pat yourself on the back. To plunge right into it, I am convinced that there will be a strong effort on Two-Faced part to let 700 million scam in the hands of the most loud hypochondriacs you’ll ever see eventually. This effort will be disguised, of course. It will be cloaked in deceit, as such efforts always are. The Joker and Two-Faced are currently limited to shrieking and spitting when they’re confronted with inconvenient facts. When you least expect it, however, Two-Faced is likely to switch to some sort of “promote the lie of demagogism” approach to draw our attention away from such facts.

At the risk of repeating myself, I must reiterate that we can no longer afford to do nothing about Two-Faced and Joker’s incessant corruptions, instead, we must strike while the iron is hot and advocate social change through dialogue, passive resistance, and nonviolence. We all know they are guilty. Whether or not its true, she alleges that truth is merely a social construct. Naturally, this is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

The Filipino people are suffering while the rich keeps getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, majority of the filipino people are being marginalized. Our country’s dim future does not promise hope for the younger generation. The poor and young Filipinos of this generation dont make plans anymore for the future, they just live life one day at at a time, breathe in and out, just like a dog chasing cars, they wouldn’t know what to do with one if they caught it. An aleatory life, dependent on chance and luck, with no certainty on what lies ahead for them
Our government has plans, the rich have plans, Jocelyn “Joker” Bolante got plans. The fact is, they’re schemers. Schemers trying to control our worlds. The Filipino people are not schemers. The few hopeful, honest and vocal Filipinos try to show these schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are. It’s the corrupt government officials that put our beloved country to where it is now. These are the same schemers, that claims they had plans, and look where our country was led to. Maybe we should take this plan of theirs and turn it around and maybe we can put our country back to the right path.

I have noticed lately the people it seems have given up, tired of reading the same negative news over and over and again and again and again. Can I blame them? The sad thing is the public does not react, panic nor protest for these type of scandalous news, even if the scam is horrifying. If tomorrow the media reports, a robber gets shot, or another government official steals billions of dollars from our treasury, or a drug dealer parttime cop get killed by an honest cop , nobody panics anymore, because it all became part of everyday life. Although, it amazes me if a news, let’s say that of a popular star celebrity actor everyone idolizes dies of unexpected death, everyone loses their minds and goes to mass hysteria, it like you introduce a little anarchy, it upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. ( LOL, exagerrated to much). Although, you will be amazed the thousands of people that shows up in the funeral sharing the same sentiments.
This country just shows that it’s full of people ready to believe in good. Until their spirit breaks completely. Until they get a good look at their popular idol like Erap, then they realize that all the ideal and heroic deeds it potrayed in the movies are not the same in real life. We thought these elected presidents could be decent men/women in an indecent time. But we were wrong. The world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance. It’s Unbiased. Unprejudiced. Fair.
Whyyy Soooo Serious???

I do share your views. I also once advocate political and constitutional reforms. And through our collective efforts of peaceful and non-violent means, we disposed a dictator to achieve these reforms that every Filipino held very dearly. Unfortunately, to only ascertain corruption will persists when greed and selfishness triumphs. Reforms will have to start amongst ourselves, man is a creature of self-interest when presented with incentives to benefit themselves, motivates corruption.

Father of Economics Adam Smith wrote ” How selfish soever man may be supposed there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it” Basically, Smith argued that people are generally good even without enforcement.

I did see a small spark of hope shimmer and in an instant was extinguished. I lost the will. I have given up for any educated and judicious solutions to country’s widespread corruption. Reality sets in, and theories based on facts will not necessarily lead you to the truth. One morning you will wake up to find out reality is different from the world you perceive it to be. The deeper you go in the rabbit’s hole the more you get frustrated to find out how far this rabbit hole goes.

Oops napahaba, sorry i got caried away. Pardon me for the bad grammars and spellings, I got too lazy to check it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An editorial caught my attention, the hypertext link says “Obama of the Philippines” written by Carlos Quiros. How can you not resists clicking on the link with a caption like that, and not feed your curiousity. Well, anyway it tallks about aspiring presidentiables followig on the footsteps of Obama. He facetiously contemplated that Binay could be our Obama on the basis of comparison by skin color, “the first black man of Malacanang”. When you come to think about it maybe Binay is even darker than him, looks Binay might have just out-blacked Obama. The reason I brought this up, is our country does not need an Obama type President. We need someone darker and stronger that can clean up this widespread corruption just like it cleaned up Gotham City. Yep, a dark knight , “Batman of the Philippines” “the first bat man of Malacanang”. The setting is perfect, we got Joker also known as Jocelyn Bolante. President Arroyo can be Two-Faced, she used to be a promising leader, educated in Economics and could might have turned our economy around. I did had high hopes for her but ended up just like the rest of our leader, eventually succumbing to the dark side. You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villian.</p>
<p>What do meretricious quacks just like Joc Joc “Joker” Bolante, and Pres. Gloria “Two-Faced” Arroyo have in common? If you answered, “They all make antihumanist hermits out to be something they’re not,” then pat yourself on the back. To plunge right into it, I am convinced that there will be a strong effort on Two-Faced part to let 700 million scam in the hands of the most loud hypochondriacs you’ll ever see eventually. This effort will be disguised, of course. It will be cloaked in deceit, as such efforts always are. The Joker and Two-Faced are currently limited to shrieking and spitting when they’re confronted with inconvenient facts. When you least expect it, however, Two-Faced is likely to switch to some sort of “promote the lie of demagogism” approach to draw our attention away from such facts.</p>
<p>At the risk of repeating myself, I must reiterate that we can no longer afford to do nothing about Two-Faced and Joker’s incessant corruptions, instead, we must strike while the iron is hot and advocate social change through dialogue, passive resistance, and nonviolence. We all know they are guilty. Whether or not its true, she alleges that truth is merely a social construct. Naturally, this is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.</p>
<p>The Filipino people are suffering while the rich keeps getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, majority of the filipino people are being marginalized. Our country’s dim future does not promise hope for the younger generation. The poor and young Filipinos of this generation dont make plans anymore for the future, they just live life one day at at a time, breathe in and out, just like a dog chasing cars, they wouldn’t know what to do with one if they caught it. An aleatory life, dependent on chance and luck, with no certainty on what lies ahead for them<br />
Our government has plans, the rich have plans, Jocelyn “Joker” Bolante got plans. The fact is, they’re schemers. Schemers trying to control our worlds. The Filipino people are not schemers. The few hopeful, honest and vocal Filipinos try to show these schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are. It’s the corrupt government officials that put our beloved country to where it is now. These are the same schemers, that claims they had plans, and look where our country was led to. Maybe we should take this plan of theirs and turn it around and maybe we can put our country back to the right path.</p>
<p>I have noticed lately the people it seems have given up, tired of reading the same negative news over and over and again and again and again. Can I blame them? The sad thing is the public does not react, panic nor protest for these type of scandalous news, even if the scam is horrifying. If tomorrow the media reports, a robber gets shot, or another government official steals billions of dollars from our treasury, or a drug dealer parttime cop get killed by an honest cop , nobody panics anymore, because it all became part of everyday life. Although, it amazes me if a news, let’s say that of a popular star celebrity actor everyone idolizes dies of unexpected death, everyone loses their minds and goes to mass hysteria, it like you introduce a little anarchy, it upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. ( LOL, exagerrated to much). Although, you will be amazed the thousands of people that shows up in the funeral sharing the same sentiments.<br />
This country just shows that it’s full of people ready to believe in good. Until their spirit breaks completely. Until they get a good look at their popular idol like Erap, then they realize that all the ideal and heroic deeds it potrayed in the movies are not the same in real life. We thought these elected presidents could be decent men/women in an indecent time. But we were wrong. The world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance. It’s Unbiased. Unprejudiced. Fair.<br />
Whyyy Soooo Serious???</p>
<p>I do share your views. I also once advocate political and constitutional reforms. And through our collective efforts of peaceful and non-violent means, we disposed a dictator to achieve these reforms that every Filipino held very dearly. Unfortunately, to only ascertain corruption will persists when greed and selfishness triumphs. Reforms will have to start amongst ourselves, man is a creature of self-interest when presented with incentives to benefit themselves, motivates corruption.</p>
<p>Father of Economics Adam Smith wrote ” How selfish soever man may be supposed there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it” Basically, Smith argued that people are generally good even without enforcement.</p>
<p>I did see a small spark of hope shimmer and in an instant was extinguished. I lost the will. I have given up for any educated and judicious solutions to country’s widespread corruption. Reality sets in, and theories based on facts will not necessarily lead you to the truth. One morning you will wake up to find out reality is different from the world you perceive it to be. The deeper you go in the rabbit’s hole the more you get frustrated to find out how far this rabbit hole goes.</p>
<p>Oops napahaba, sorry i got caried away. Pardon me for the bad grammars and spellings, I got too lazy to check it.</p>
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		<title>By: Vox Populi &#187; Within the Joker’s Grasp</title>
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		<dc:creator>Vox Populi &#187; Within the Joker’s Grasp</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
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