Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Filipino students bag medals in math tilt in China

Ironically, these Filipinos had typical Chinese names like Yap, Lu Ong, Lau, Dy, Chua, Sy, Ong, Choi, Koa , Cheng, Uy, and Dee.

This reminds me of a quip a friend made about the RP baskeball team. He noticed that the Philippine team's jerseys don't include the players' last names. Why? Because most of them don't sound particularly native like Seigle, Norwood, Williams and Helterbrand.

Trillanes says he’s humbled by poll victory

Really? He actually sounds like the same arrogant louse to me.

Incredible!

The Simpsons Movie is already being shown in Greenbelt 4 while internationally it opens on Friday. How did they do it?

And go visit the movie's site for cool games.

Firearm ballistics

Recipe for disaster

Ingredients:

• 1 part busy national road
• 1 part one-kilometer pipe-laying work of a local water company, reducing the road above from 3 lanes to 2.
• 1 part popular mall
• 1 part popular wet market
• 1 part undisciplined jeepney drivers
• 1 part crowd from a religious gathering
• 1 part busy airport runway

Add all ingredients above while letting them simmer in aviation fuel provided by an aircraft which failed to take-off properly.

Did the Opposition really win?

The events taking place today are making me doubt that. The status quo has largely been preserved with Manny Villar and Jose de Venecia in their old seats as Senate President and House Speaker, respectively. And more importantly, PGMA is still President.

Beautiful. Efficient. Promising

Here's one reason

why I stayed up through out that 9-hour bus ride to Naga


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In addition to the earlier post...

It could happen.

Well, at least something in me says it could.

Great!

More headaches, traffic james and banal street performances from the Masters and Mistresses of Narcissism.


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Mister Speaker!

Heeeeee's baaaaack!

The Digs is back.

Verlaine's uncle is making the start of Congres today in the most unusual fashion.

I had a dream:

I found myself in the streets of a city after it was hit by a natural disaster. It was probably a huge flood since the streets were still wet and muddy. I was wandering around that place while grasping a .45 cal pistol. Peeking from a corner of a fence of a church, I witnessed how Muslim militants were taking over in an apparent attempt to keep order in the city. They were marching around with assorted weapons and it was noticeable that they didn't know the basics of weapons safety. Some didn't have slings with their rifles so they held them between their legs while standing up and fixing some stuff about their person. Bottom line, it was a horrendous display of a lack of weapons training. I also saw some Muslim rescue and emergency personnel. From their uniforms, I inferred that there were two groups. While these guys were having some fun, a riot broke out because of a fight between some members of the two groups. Then I heard gun fire and more violence. I decided to flee but I met along the way a bearded guy in a white shirt, firing his pistol randomly. I recognized this being a crazy, Muslim guy and I instinctively aimed the gun I was carrying at him and fired several shots. Noting that the first two shots I made didn't hit him, I immediately adjusted my sights a little bit to the right and pulled the trigger. I knew that I hit him so I ran towards the church which was fortunately open. I ran to the sanctuary and then to the sacristy door and from the sacristy to a door which led to a flight of stairs going to what seems to be an attic. The next scene was that of a friend's living room in another country. She was there with her mom and they were watching on TV the events taking place in that city. I suddenly found myself there. As the TV showed the aftermath of the shooting in front of the Church, I saw white-shirt guy's body lying in the street, along side that of several severely scorched bodies. I tearfully confessed to my friend that I shot the guy. But when I saw the shock in her face, I added, "so how was your day?"

Another reason why I'm skeptical of Naju Apparition

The Western Confucian posts about how obedience to ecclesiastical authority will verify if the Naju Apparition is authentic.

I've always been skeptical of the Naju Apparition and Julia Kim. The primary reason of this is one Fr. Jerry Orbos, SVD.

Fr. Orbos reportedly witnessed several Eucharistic miracles when giving communion to the Naju visionary Julia Kim. . My skepticism lies in the fruits of such miracles, or the lack thereof, particularly in Fr. Orbos' manner of celebrating Mass. If the visionary and her visions were indeed authentic, then Fr. Orbos should've been duly impressed and influenced. And yet we see the opposite. Although he would utter statements like

"We must pray the Mass. Jesus is really present there. We must feel Him. Don’t rush the Mass, don’t make it automatic"

He seems unable to actually put it in concrete practice by celebrating reverent Masses free of the usual modern crap that usually introduces into the liturgy.

Ooohh...

Another conspiracy theorist of some sort




The guy and his theories sound like some of the stuff I hear from Lefties, journalists and cranky texters whenever PGMA is mentioned. Oh well, at least he likes Cher. Or is she part of the conspiracies? Hhmmm...

Korea suspends visa applications for OFWs

"Our OFWs are about to be punished for a crime committed by officials of this administration," Estrada, who chairs the Senate committee on labor, said.

Actually it reminds me of the childish and knee-jerk reaction of some Lefties. I'm thankful they don't run the government but are content criticizing it from the sidelines.

Fr. Bossi meets PGMA

Hot Shots Part Duex

Courtesy of Qebiko

Now that's Fr. Bossi's safe and out of harm...

It's time for payback. All out war again. Make no distinctions between Abu Sayaff or MILF. They're the same people swapping names and allegiances to avoid prosecution.

Strange...

There's no news in Catholic news agencies of Fr. Bossi's release. Perhaps they're just verifying the news. Oh well, you read it first here!

Fr. Bossi released

Well a Te Deum is in order. He should also be asked to celebrate Mass for the Marines who died looking for him.

And this little detail explains a lot, including the ambush at Tipo-tipo:

Caringal said earlier on Friday that Bossi was released at about 9 p.m. Thursday in Karumatan town in Lanao del Norte after negotiations with his abductors, led by one Commander Khidi, who was identified as a member of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

'White Rabbit' manufacturer denies formalin-laced candies

Hmmm... Would little old Philippines be China's economic Achilles heel?

Why didn't I think of that?

A commenter from Jihad Watch pointed out the most obvious: We can easily determine the location of the MILF/ASG people who decapitated our Marines through their cellphones. Smart Telecoms does it all the time with Smart ZED Finder and their anti-carnapping system.

I'd say this is the best opportunity to use the new Anti-Terror Law to its fullest. Or perhaps better yet, transmit the exact coordinates to the Americans for a little cruise missile surprise. We can always claim that the missile was innocently cruising over the Jihadits' lair when it encountered mechanical problems and crashed and exploded.

I just hope the Marine's wife didn't delete the number yet.

Law experts urge Arroyo to end slays

Also calls for God to end suffering.

An Exhibit on the Shroud of Turin's coming

I hope tickets aren't very expensive.

Youtube to the rescue

Since I couldn't find any copies of this movie, youtube provides:

ROBIN HOOD, MEN IN TIGHTS

Chinese products

I've monitored far too many news items lately containing negative treatment of Chinese products. Last year it was about contaminated hot meats. The issue was revived recently with the filing of charges against the Customs officials who had the nerve to steal the confiscated meats. Then there's the issue lately of the Chinese products tainted with formaldehyde and of siopao made of cardboard. I may have missed others but those are some that I can recall at the moment.

I can't help but suspect that there's a concerted effort to blemish the reputation of Chinese products. If there was, I wouldn't mind. Hehehe...

I personally expect little from Chinese products except the fact that they ought to be cheap. And they are cheap quality-wise. Those damn things either break easily or will work properly only once or that their production methods are questionable or that they contain something that you would never feed your dog.

Right now, I'm wary of Chinese-made buses. I've been on board on several lately, as some local bus companies have been upgrading their fleets. If my experience with such a bus in a trip to Bicol 2 weeks ago would be a fair, representative standard of the quality of these Chinese products, then I'm of the opinion that bus companies should quit buying them. I'd prefer Japanese ones.

On the other hand, if a war erupted between China and, let's say, Taiwan, the latter shouldn't bother reacting. There's a high probability that the Chinese fleet will sink as soon as it leaves the harbor.

MILF asking for international body to probe Basilan massacre

This is what I heard over the radio today. I'm sure that this group will be composed of representatives of fair and impartial countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Jordan.

The case for mistrusting Muslims

In my many adventures, I once met a very Westernized Pakistani woman who told me never to trust Arabs. I never asked her if she still practiced Islam, but she was very adamant in saying that Arabs are the most untrustworthy people on earth and she sounded very convincing. It made me wondered that, if knowing that a certain ideology or religion came from such a breed of devious people, one would still count himself/herself with such.