Kapal Muks Congressmen Who Voted for HB 1109

What is keeping us from storming the House of Representatives and setting it on fire? With the majority block in it of course. How long can we stand around and wait for things to happen?

From the way I see it, GMA and her cohorts in Congress are not only trying their luck. Neither they are testing the relatively calm political waters. With their latest political stunt, they are insulting our political and intellectual sensibility. Do we not feel insulted? Ashmed of our continued inaction? Or of our inability to get angry?

What is keeping us from hurling stones (and other things that can injure, maim, or kill) at these congressmen and women who voted for House Bill 1109?

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The Best June Gift for the Filipino Student

And just like that. Summer has ended, June is here. Schools are abuzz again with students as they open their doors to those wanting and willing to learn.

In the midst of this school year’s opening, what has pre-occupied the many revolves on the issue on whether the government and other stakeholders in the education sector have laid down proper procedures for dealing with the possibility of a swine flu virus outbreak in our schools like what just happened in Japan and Mexico. While questions about this are valid and important, I believe things are being handled quite successfully by the Department of Health and the Department of Education.

Having said this, parents, teachers, students, and other Filipinos who all have a stake in how the young are educated should focus their energy on other pressing issues affecting our schools and our youngs. And what are these issues?

Books and cigarettes.

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