Gibo is intelligent. But intelligence alone is never sufficient to lead this country. Marcos was intelligent. And so was GMA. But if they are bereft of moral considerations, then they don’t deserve to lead this country.

Gibo has questionable loyalties. Sobrang sinungaling ang magdeny nyan dahil sya nga mismo proud of his loyalty to GMA. and that alone makes me wonder about the other things he is willing to tolerate.

Bago kayo bumoto, check nyo muna ang records nila.

He is good. He is even a Lasallian. But this Lasallian has questionable loyalties and disgusting voting record when he was still a member of the House (blocked the impeachment of Erap while on the other hand, voted for the impeachment of Davide. Weirdo.)

When he was defense secretary, he tolerated the existence of private armies that led to the recent Maguindanao Massacre. This was because the Ampatuans were allies of GMA. So he is willing to tolerate GMA and the Ampatuans because of his ambitions and other political considerations. His performance as head of the NDCC was also terrible. There were a lot of undistributed government relief goods that were just rotting in government warehouses. Even donations to the Red Cross and DSWD coursed through the government were not distributed properly.

Magaling si Gibo. Magaling syang magsalita. Pero ayaw ko nang maulit ang Hello Garci, ZTE Scandal, Fertilizer Scam, Jose Pidal Accounts, Distribution of Brown Envelopes in Malacañang to LGU officials, North and South Rail, Extra Judicial Killings, Mikee Arroyo questionable wealth, pure lies in front of the tomb of our national hero, and the list goes on. I’ve had enough of cabinet members like Merceditas Gutierrez and Raul Gonzales.

I've had enough. Ayaw ko na ng pangulong hindi mapapagkatiwalaan.

I'm not ashamed to say that I am considering only 2 candidates now: Noynoy Aquino and Dick Gordon.

LiveJournal: The First Decade

Just in time for holiday shopping, we're thrilled to announce the release of our ten-year anniversary anthology. Published by Blurb.com, the book showcases a decade of extraordinary talent drawn from LiveJournal users around the world. This must-read compilation features stories, memes, photos, comics, editorials, graphic content, and more, including:

1. Excerpts from Oh No They Didn't (a/k/a ohnotheydidnt), the largest community on LiveJournal, covering celebrity gossip, entertainment news, and pop culture
2. A look at post-Katrina New Orleans from the journal of Poppy Z. Brite
3. Gripping narratives, including a poignant reverie on a blind date
4. Photography that spans the globe, ranging from old-fashioned Polaroids to underwater photography
5. Mouthwatering dishes from food_porn

What began as a late-night inspiration back in Brad Fitzpatrick's college dorm in 1999 has grown to encompass nearly 25 million users worldwide, with journals and communities covering every conceivable hobby, passion, and topic. To get your copy, please visit the Blurb Bookstore. For updates and entries from book contributors, please join lj_turns10.

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Give a little to help a lot!

In honor of National AIDS Awareness month, we've added a new charitable vgift. For each red ribbon you purchase for $2.99, we'll donate 100 percent of gross proceeds to IAVI.org (the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative) to support the development and global distribution of an affordable HIV vaccine (we'll cover credit card fees). You can read more about IAVI at lj_cares. While we're on the subject, we raised $740 from our November fundraiser for Love Without Boundaries, which supports emergency healthcare and adoption of Chinese orphans. We thank you for helping us help others.

Photos of the week

We're back with more incredible pictures from our super-talented LiveJournal photographers. Congratulations to ilya_gorokhov, who is the winner of our very first lj_photophile poll.

We hope you'll continue to post, vote, and comment! A gentle request: Please post only one photo at a time and limit size to 350x350 (so images display properly on friends pages). And now, without further ado, get ready to cast your ballot and view more awesome user content after the jump!

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Curtains

Thanks, again, for joining us. Stay safe and snug out there!

Tags: aids vgift red ribbon fundraiser, blurb, livejournal: the first decade, lj_photophile poll

( Below is a link of Sonia (left) and Janice (right) singing Tamia's 'Officially Missing You.' )

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtXr0pIRSg4

Tags: cross-rifles, musique
Current Location: Self-Imprisonment
Current Music: Janice + Sonia - Officially Missing You (cover of Tamia's song)

**EDIT Thu Dec 3 23:24:15 UTC 2009 **

Hey Everyone, we are about to run the last alter job that we need to on our database servers. This will effect userpics / scrapbook / vgift images for the next few hours. Have no fear, your images aren't lost, there is just a really intensive process running on the servers which store the information for mogilefs. Thank you for your understanding and all the LJ love...

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,

Tags: mogilefs, upgrade, userpics
Current Location: Jumping out of a perfectly good plane
Current Mood: dirty
Current Music: Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction

(And the title of this entry isn't even gibberish.)

Let JP be a schoolmate.
Let Miguel be another schoolmate.

Around 20% of my mind was on writing the introduction of one of the research papers. JP messaged me in IM at 2326H to ask for help regarding their paper (it's a different subject although I've already gone through what they've been doing.)

At 0132H, Miguel also asked me through IM for some help regarding their paper. Note that I am not yet done with helping JP. I finish helping them almost at the same time, at around 0215H.

Both of them were extremely thankful for my assistance. They offered to treat me to lunch, which I profusely declined but they insisted. I'm sure they'll forget about that. (It happened before.) The fact that they're not seeing me at school would increase that probability. I suppose it's because it's already late at night, and both of them are chasing deadlines.

I did gain something from helping JP. He sent me a copy-paste of their regressions results, and I saw the "test" command. I've already been taught of this command, and I've already seen this in the log file of the Goddess of Beauty and wisdom, but I only realized what that test meant after they were asking me for something else. And that something else is, apparently, what the results of that test is.

Tags: cross-rifles, mirror, mu, universal
Current Location: Self-Imprisonment
Current Music: Jonne Valtonen, George Fan (Insaniquarium!) - Tank 1

( I am here to discuss my thoughts, opinions, and experiences (indirect or likewise) regarding smoking. )

Tags: cross-rifles, mirror, occupation, phi, ro
Current Location: Self-Imprisonment
Current Music: Jonne Valtonen, George Fan (Insaniquarium!) - Tank 1

Brutal, barbaric, and heinous. These were words used to describe the Maguindanao massacre that has claimed the lives of more than 50 people—the majority of them being political supporters, lawyers and media practitioners in the company of scions of a political clan.



Eyewitness reports from survivors have pointed to the perpetrators responsible for this gruesome mass execution, and while verification of these accounts has yet to be done, there is little doubt that at the core of this barbarism is a politics bereft of principle, a politics that has lost touch with the very foundations of human decency. What happened in Maguindanao was an animal act. The savage atrocities wreaked upon the victims and horrifyingly evident on their mutilated corpses beggars the imagination. This incident is a warning about the depths to which human beings can descend when they allow the lust for power, possessions and prestige to take over their lives.



“God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man sows, so shall he reap”(Gal 6:7). Let us not fool ourselves. The Maguindanao Massacre is not a mere election-related feud. It is a symptom of the moral bankruptcy, lack of accountability, and wanton disregard for human rights that has characterized the culture of the Arroyo administration since consolidating its power in the contested elections of 2004. Such trends, well-documented by various local and international human rights agencies and by no less than the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Commission in 2007, have been tolerated for too long.



The Arroyo administration took a double tack, on the one hand, expressing indignation at “a most heinous crime” that constitutes a “supreme act of inhumanity that is a blight on our nation,’ while on the other hand, dragging its heels in pursuing the capture and detention of a political ally whose fortunes flourished under this administration’s patronage. We note that the administration’s invocation of the rule of law and call for the respect of due process, while appropriate in normal circumstances, sounds mightily suspect coming from an administration that is beholden to the political clan said to be behind this atrocity, an administration that has failed to successfully prosecute any of its allies and supporters for corruption, human rights violations, and other high crimes. Actions speak louder than words.. Why treat with kid gloves those who use their influence to silence their political opponents and disenfranchise citizens in elections? Why weren't the alleged murderers at least immediately called in for questioning, if only to answer the charges of survivors or clarify the presence of the local government’s backhoe in the area of the mass grave?

Why was the chief suspect treated



An additional source of discomfort is the clear dereliction of duty of the police and military in the province and region who were informed earlier about the prospect of a violent incident and decided to steer clear of deploying forces to prevent the lawless armed thugs of the political warlord from carrying out their sinister plan. While the military was quickly mobilized to avoid any possible retaliation of the aggrieved clan, the leadership of the Armed Forces at present (with a Defense Secretary that headed an Inter-agency Legal Action Group that prioritized cases of extra-judicial killings perpetrated by “enemies of the state,”) leaves much doubt as to its capacity to effectively defang armed political warlords.



We condemn the Maguindanao Massacre not only because of the brutal and barbaric murder of those who sought only to exercise their political rights, but more importantly because it unravels in a most telling way, the age-old problem of a feeble state that has allowed private armed groups to lord it over territories in exchange for propping up the national leadership and its cohorts at the local and national levels. Whatever blight we now face does not fall simply on the hands of the alleged perpetrators of the Maguindanao Massacre. The blood that flowed in Maguindanao stains the hands of the President who ultimately commands the forces of political control and coercion in this country. We demand that justice be done with all transparency and in the quickest possible time.



We call on Lasallians and all Filipinos to express our indignation at the moral bankruptcy that has led to this paroxysm of violence. If we are not to be complicit in this abomination against humanity, we must act now and demand that this administration be held accountable for the quality of its stewardship and for its continuing debasement of the political system.



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backpacking
Want to embrace your wanderlust on the cheap? If you're high on adventurous spirit, but low on funds, this community can help you plan a trip to anywhere. Offering plentiful tips on how to travel light, you can post about inexpensive hotels and youth hostels if you're into urban exploration or discuss camping gear and mosquito netting for the great outdoors. Hitch your backpack, pitch your tent, and carpe diem!

"Paano ba manligaw?" ("How do you court someone?")

Which was troublesome because I also don't know how to. I told him that we should consult with our friend, the MOL. (Master of Ligaw) It wasn't urgent, but he wanted to know "just in case."

Tags: cross-rifles, four
Current Location: Self-Imprisonment
Current Music: Yukinori Kikuchi, Akira Jinbo (Macross VF-X2) - Mission 1 and 12 theme

bookfails
Planning to do your part to help boost the declining publishing industry this holiday? Better check here first. Sure, there are plenty of folks who post glowing reviews of their favorite books. But what about the epic fails? Compose and/or discuss snarky, incisive critiques on the books you despise most.

Tags: bad books, book reviews, bookfails, epic fail

foundphotos
Ever stumble across a frayed photo in your grandmother's attic? How about a faded picture tucked in the sleeve of an old novel at a used book sale? This is the place to post them. An amazing, eclectic collection of photographs sure to delight anyone with a penchant for history or nostalgic memorabilia.

Tags: foundphotos, vintage photography

note_to_cat
Having trouble conveying the concept of accountability to your cat? Now you can share letters to your significant felines and give public witness to your declarations of love and domestic negotiations. Whether you want to publish an apology for falling short on your cat-nip obligations or you need to raise a delicate hygiene issue.

Tags: cats, note to cat, pets

I have to point the music of Command and Conquer: Red Alert, and have Bigfoot in mind. I don't listen to it regularly, but it's one of the things I am particular to when I retrace my playlist. I've probably heard of it first around 10-11 years ago. I can't justify why it sounds so good to me, but it adds more beauty because it was a very good soundtrack for its time. Frank Klepacki is probably a living legend but his music usually circles in a genre different from that of other popular video game composers (Nobuo Uematsu, Yasunori Mitsuda.)

Tags: musique
Current Location: Self-Imprisonment
Current Music: David Carney (The Company of Myself) - Kathryn

( This is the story of our family grocery-ing. )

Tags: occupation, phi, ro
Current Location: Self-Imprisonment
Current Music: Yukinori Kikuchi, Akira Jinbo (Macross VF-X2) - Mission 2 and 8 theme

Carl was right - this probably is the most depressing game ever. At first it was adorable, but if you put a little thought...

It's entitled The Company of Myself. It's a 2D (flash) puzzle game with a little story of love and loneliness that makes for the concept of the game. The game is short, and took me... less than 30 minutes to finish.

It may not be for the weak-hearted because the background music got me. David Carney named the songs after the characters - Jack and Kathryn. Jack's theme is more gloomy and speaks of despair, while that of Kathryn is more mellow and soft. Both songs are only a minute long, but were designed to loop endlessly.

Tags: assault, gamer, musique
Current Location: Self-Imprisonment
Current Music: David Carney (The Company of Myself) - Kathryn

Trying to help someone choose a course...

A girl who wants to take over her family's medium-sized restaurant...should she take HRIM, or Business Ad? It looks like HRIM is more applicable, while Business Ad is for big corporation type stuff, is this right?

Meet Chim, my favorite singer. Well, you won't see her, but I am here to discuss her levels of energy and her possible energy function.

I met her last Thursday, and seems to be up and running; however, she is really stressed; she is drowning in schoolwork and barely has time to relax. She is going beyond her physical limits. Or is she? She severely lacks food (I think) and sleep, but she still exhumes of so much energy. ( How could she do that? )

Tags: cross-rifles
Current Location: Self-Imprisonment
Current Music: Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule The World

Problem statement: How can Rico earn/gain money which he can use to go out with friends and buy things that he wants?

Background of the study: Rico has lost the privilege(?) of having an allowance ever since he has stopped going to school. While he is being given money to go out, he normally does not accept this from his parents. However, upon observations on current events, it has been witnessed that Rico has been accepting money from his parents more often that before. There is nothing innately wrong with this because it is his parents that offer him the money, but he has always felt uneasy when it comes to this issue.

Moreover, he has had plans for buying some things as birthday gifts. Although the gift by itself is not really expensive, Rico is actually at the brink of being broke - he is down to his last coins (think of a piggy bank). The coins amounted to more than Php180, but this can be easily gone by tonight.

Conclusion: Rico has to look for a job. Now. Or... after he finishes his research paper and final report for his OJT. He is more-or-less considered a college graduate; all that is left is for him to finish his research paper. Once that is done, he can declare himself unemployed (no, I have to wait for six months before I am counted as such.) a graduate.

Tags: cross-rifles, ro
Current Location: Self-Imprisonment
Current Music: Heroes of Newerth - (Track 01)

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Photos of the week

We're so delighted with the immense talent of our growing, global lj_photophile community that we've decided to introduce a poll. Each week, we'll choose a half-dozen photos (based on user comments and staff feedback) and ask you to select a photo of the week. The winning photo will be announced in the next newsletter. If possible, please limit photo size to 350x350 to ensure that images display properly on friends pages. We want to thank you again (and again!) for sharing your passion.

Check out this week's photo poll and more fantastic user content after the jump!

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Curtains

Thanks for joining us. To our American friends, have a fantastic Thanksgiving. To all of our international neighbors, we'll eat a little extra for you!

Tags: facebook connect, lj_photophile, m.livejournal, mobile, notes, security patch, writer's block

I mean, I didn't consciously listen to this music *points at current music* but how come when I heard *Mojo-Jojo*'s version, I knew what the song was? It has probably been eons before I heard of it again, but here I am, with the desire to listen to it again.

Tags: musique, occupation
Current Location: Self-Imprisonment
Current Music: Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule The World