Everyone's a little bist racist

"Mag-ingat ka!" - Journalist Ellen Tordesillas receives another death threat. Means that she's really good at doing her job.
Was it funny or not - the supposedly racial slur made by Terri Hatcher's character in 'Desperate Housewives' on not wanting a doctor who graduated from a Philippine med school?  Eto ang sagot ko dyan, mula sa Avenue Q:

 

"Everyone's a little bit racist
Today.
So, everyone's a little bit racist

Okay!
Ethnic jokes might be uncouth,
But you laugh because
They're based on truth.
Don't take them as
Personal attacks.
Everyone enjoys them -
So relax!

Everyone's a little bit racist
It's true.
But everyone is just about
As racist as you!
If we all could just admit
That we are racist a little bit,
And everyone stopped being
So PC
Maybe we could live in -
Harmony!"

Actually, I think its  outrageous and hypocritical that the government should make such a huge stink about this samantalang its been so inutile when it comes to helping the nurses who fell  victim to the Sentosa recruitment agency.  Ordinary Filipinos -- especially our nursing professionals and their families, they have all the right to complain because they work hard, but the government? Utang na loob. What has it done to genuinely help the Pinoy nurses and doctors? Dito nga lang sa Pilipinas, the pay in the public hospitals is so low the staff have no second thoughts about leaving; can't really blame them this however much I want to appeal to their sense of patriotism and love of fellow Filipinos.

Also, the scandal that surrounded the rigged nursing exams hasn't been given a just and satisfying resolution (mauulit na naman ya-an). Predictable na ba, but really it's the Philippine government who's largely to blame for the negative reputation of Filipinos in other countries, the scandals and controversies, the extrajudicial killings, etc.

At ang walanghiyang Department of Labor and Employment, talagang binubugaw ang mga OFW. The export-labor policy of the government never included fighting for the rights of Filipino migrants and workers abroad. case in point: former DOLE secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas signed an agreement with the Saudi Arabian government that says the Philippine government allows the latter to adjust (a euphemism for cutting) wages of OFWs in the kingdom.

On the upcoming Pacquiao bout: does it make an awful excuse for a Filipino the way I don't feel like cheering him on? Like, well, it wouldn't be such a big deal if he lost? Okay, I even think it would serve him right to lose. Paano naman, sobrang yabang na niya, at isa pa, he lets the Arroyos ride on his victories and his over-all popularity (as a boxer, obviously -- kasi knocked out siya kay Darlene Custodio nung May polls).

I suppose this is what really gets my goat, how he lets Macapagal-Arroyo use him for her own purposes. As a distraction from all the problems and the controversies that hound her corrupt and illegitimate presidency.

Wouldn't it be cool if he won but says he will no longer be used as a mascot for Malacanang? E di naging Pacquiao fan ako ng di-oras! Kasi sa ngayon, gad, I think he's been hit on the head far too many times.
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Great news (or at least, pwede na rin kasi tuloy pa rin ang charges, hmph)! Dutch appellate court upholds JMS  freedom

Taken from the ABS-CBN news site: The Dutch Court of Appeals has upheld a decision to release Filipino communist leader Jose Maria Sison while he undergoes pretrial investigation, ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau reported Wednesday.

The appellate court in the Hague favored the September 13 decision of a district court to free Sison, rejecting the appeal by the public prosecutor to detain the founding chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) pending investigation.

The appellate court said, "The prosecution file lacks enough concrete evidence to directly link Sison to the assassinations which is needed to prosecute him as a perpetrator."

 The ruling, however, does not preclude Sison from being prosecuted on murder charges. It only denied the prosecutor's request to keep someone in custody. It added that the public prosecutor's office will be the one to decide on whether or not to press charges.

 The report said the appellate court’s decision was expected since prosecutors did not ask Sison to appear Wednesday before a panel of three judges at the Palace of Justice.