Sandbagging the opposition

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1. To all the Marketing Gurus and
   Pseudo-Intellectuals of this Blog:

   I dedicate this Cebuano song:

   Where is the moment we needed the most
   You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost
   You tell me your blue skies fade to grey
   You tell me your passion’s gone away
   And I don’t need no carryin’ on

   You stand in the line just to hit a new low
   You’re faking a smile with the coffee to go
   You tell me your life’s been way off line
   You’re falling to pieces everytime
   And I don’t need no carryin’ on

   Cause you had a bad day
   You’re taking one down
   You sing a sad song just to turn it around
   You say you don’t know
   You tell me don’t lie
   You work at a smile and you go for a ride
   You had a bad day
   The camera don’t lie
   You’re coming back down and you really don’t mind
   You had a bad day
   You had a bad day

   Well you need a blue sky holiday
   The point is they laugh at what you say
   And I don’t need no carryin’ on

   You had a bad day
   You’re taking one down
   You sing a sad song just to turn it around
   You say you don’t know
   You tell me don’t lie
   You work at a smile and you go for a ride
   You had a bad day
   The camera don’t lie
   You’re coming back down and you really don’t mind
   You had a bad day

   (Oh.. Holiday..)

   Sometimes the system goes on the blink
   And the whole thing turns out wrong
   You might not make it back and you know
   That you could be well oh that strong
   And I’m not wrong (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeeeah)

   So where is the passion when you need it the most
   Oh you and I
   You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost

   Cause you had a bad day
   You’re taking one down
   You sing a sad song just to turn it around
   You say you don’t know
   You tell me don’t lie
   You work at a smile and you go for a ride
   You had a bad day
   You’ve seen what you like
   And how does it feel for one more time
   You had a bad day
   You had a bad day

   (Oh, yeah, yeaaah, yeah)
   Had a bad day
   (Oh, had a bad day)
   Had a bad day
   (Oh, yeah, yeah, yeeeeah)
   Had a bad day
   (Oh, had a bad day)
   Had a bad day…
   Had a bad day…

2. Amen,to all of you!

   We are here to learn,and I have learned a lot from this blog entry and comments.

   Enjoy,what’s left of your weekend!
   To those in the states it’s just starting,so enjoy!

3. tagakotta, law of supply and demand is not a written law. it cannot be repealed. unless you can repeal intangibles. it is a theory which became a law after having been empirically proven as true.

4. laws like that, like murphy’s law, law of gravity… are laws of ideas and not laws of men. go figure how you can repeal the interactions of supply and demand. the best that you can do is interfere with the markets, and even that won’t solve everything.

5. Mr Devil ADV
   Galing ninyo mga sir!akala narepeal na ang law of supply and demand!

   sir iyung”law and order”,ok pa ho?di pa narerepeal?
   and typhoons ho bannned na ba sa Filipnas?akala ko pinagbawal na rin!

   hapi weekend po galing pa po sa cebuuuuuuuu

6. thanks. at yung law and order imposible ma repeal, baka ma recall pwede pa. kaso na renew pa ata eh. yung mga bagyo naman, di pa napagbabawal eh. baka pag nakakuha na ng emergency powers si Madam baka pagbawalan na nya silang makapasok dito satin. pero as of now, stay put ka lang, wait for further announcement na lang tayo. at enjoy ka rin dyan sa weekend mo sa cebu. wag mong intindihin dito ang mga gurus at “pseudo-intellectuals.” inggit lang sila sayo. at nga pala, music lover din ako. ganda ng mga kantang pino-post mo. balik ka pagkatapos ng weekwend mo, ha? tsup, mwah!

7. de pa lovey lovey pa kayo dyan. hayan ang kagandahan nating manga pinoy, kahit na nagsuntokan na may pa loving loving pa. happy weekend din sa lahat, habang yong manga sundalo at manga kapatid natin manga muslim sa mindanao ay nagpapatayan.. hay kailan pa???

8. Lahat tayo PILIPINO!

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rLIGXIajnY

9. abe margallo, if i may ask, applying the rizal quote to what we are discussing here, who is the disingenuous gardener?
   is it the foreign ruler? if so, why should a people need an outside entity to develop itself? did the britons, the germans, the japanese, the israelites, the americans, etc., etc., need a ‘gardener” to make themselves into what they are in terms of ‘greatness’?

10. “It is only when we look deep inside ourselves and realize that the TRUE excellent Filipino lies underneath, and has been there all the time, do we realize that neither are we an inferior race nor one who has small minds, but rather just one imprisoned in our blinded belief that we are.”

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    I completely agree,Devils, Reminds me so much of a required Filipino Values class for newly hired employees of Intel Phil. The class is really great with no Less than UP anthroplogist professor Felipe Landa Jocano as instructor. I tried to google and found this article

    “http://www.geocities.com/kabatuhan/Features/pinoycentral.htm”

    I believe it is not wrong for Benigno to come up with his latest rants. For one, it genegrated this kind of discussion. And the character defects in his assertions is really exist.

    Yes, I believe this character defects is really just a product of conditioning and is not really inborn traits of Filipinos. And as far as I am concern, Benigno’s challenge is for us to come out of these conditioning. And there is nothing wrong with that. And I believe it can be overcame if we just work hard on it.

11. OMG! back-reading Manolo’s columns proved more beneficial than what I initially thought. here Benigno, you may wanna choke on this:

    http://archive.inquirer.net/view.php?db=0&story_id=5373

    the all impt excerpt:

    “When, as a child, I first asked what nationalism meant, I was simply told, “It means love of country.” There are many kinds of love, as we all discover as we grow up, but fundamental to understanding love is that it requires a sense of self-worth and dignity. You cannot love and be loved, first of all, if you do not love yourself. And you cannot love properly if your love is the kind that is dependent merely on the approval of others, or measured by what you might believe to be the superior love of others. To love one’s country is to love one’s land and people with all their flaws, despite all their wrongs; and to maintain, at the same time, a conviction that one’s love for nation and nationhood will result in a better, stronger country.”

    there. we stand on opposite fences.

12. shaman, roger dangerfield was a known comedian who popularized the double negative “i don’t get no respect”.
    i just used his phraseology, but he never said filipinos are not respected (he probably never heard of them…lol). i honestly believe he was by no means a racist.

    yeah, you’re right. my enumeration applies to over a hundred other nations. but much closer to home, we are at the tail end of the spectrum in comparison to our neighbors japan, china, korea, india, singapore/malaysia, indonesia and thailand (not to mention australia and new zealand) in the area of international prestige and recognition.

    i don’t hate being a filipino, shaman. it’s more like an alcoholic coming to terms with the fact that he is a drunk and hoping to take the first step towards rehabilitation.

13. oops, i meant to include vietnam in my enumeration above.

14. bencard, hinde mo maipagkakaila ang totoo mong damdamin – you hate being a pinoy. gusto mong maging kano which you will never be. why don’t you face it. maybe it will do you good. Kaysa ito, you always have to deny and defend your true feelings. tamo, halos lahat na lang dito inaaway mo! don’t lie to yourself, bro!

15. Sory Tagakotta,

    Ths is my one way to enjoy my wekend..read comments…
    dati numg matagal ako jobless wala ako ginawa kundi ganito.

    Yung pong exchanges namin ni Cat ay for my learning purposes din..naalala ko kasi na academician sya at ako one time graduate student..I believe in continuous learning nangangalawang na din ako eh,kaya pumupunta ako dito kahit na tawag mo pseudo intellectual,I still would want to hear what they want to say,konti lang yung mga di ko pinapansin na comment,dapat yun na lang ginawa mo sa palitan namin ni CAT,yung subject sa skwela na tinatawag na DEADMATOLOGY…

    mahilig ka na din sa kanta

    so eto title “WE LIVE,WE LEARN” sa lyrics mahina ako,ikaw na bahala.

16. between reading a passionate, biased cultural idea of a race and a self-congratulatory resume, there is more brilliance in the former.

    that said, let me get back to you benigs:

    “The trouble with this pride is this:

    What exactly SUBSTANTIATES this pride?

    What COLLECTIVE ACHIEVEMENT can we actually cite to make this pride SUSTAINABLE?”

    good treatises you have here to pursue. now let us hear you substantiate these hypotheses of yours. but take caution: in a highly dynamic social science study–like the one you so proudly sell in your website–you can only do as much as propound on your social theories, but never ever make definitive generalizations as if these are period markers. where are the caveats, dude?

17. Abe margallo, if i may ask, applying the rizal quote to what we are discussing here, who is the disingenuous gardener?

    is it the foreign ruler? if so, why should a people need an outside entity to develop itself? did the britons, the germans, the japanese, the israelites, the americans, etc., etc., need a ‘gardener” to make themselves into what they are in terms of ‘greatness’? – Bencard

    What Dr. Jose Rizal painstakingly had tried to deconstruct in “The Indolence of the Filipino” Nick Joaquin – in the unfortunate tradition of anthropologist Allan R. Holmberg in his study of the Bolivian natives – swimmingly reconstructed in “A Heritage of Smallness”.

    The current efforts of Dr. Amy H. Sturgis to dismantle The Myth of the Passive Indian, by which “generations of scholars took as gospel and applied to other indigenous groups” who “had no real history prior to European contact, when Western influences at last put them on a path to genuine social evolution,” are no less Rizalian.

    In defense of the “degenerate species,” Rizal made the case that Filipinos, before their “discovery and conquest” were, among others, shipbuilders, artillery manufacturers, international traders and warriors of great consequence.

    “All the histories of those first years [of the discovery of the Islands], in short,” Rizal argued, “abound in long accounts about the industry and agriculture of the natives: mines, gold-washings, looms, farms, barter, naval construction, raising of poultry and stock, weaving of silk and cotton, distilleries, manufactures of arms, pearl fisheries, the civet industry, the horn and hide industry, etc., are things encountered at every step, and, considering the time and the conditions in the islands, prove that there was life, there was activity, there was movement.”

    In similar fashion, Dr. Sturgis wrote that during the Columbian conquest, the Aztecs were “more sophisticated in terms of construction and cleanliness than their counterparts across the Atlantic” and had made “extensive use of ceramics to build up the soil, elaborate road systems, and artificial ponds and canals—‘a highly elaborate built environment, rivaling that of many contemporary complex societies of the Americas and elsewhere.’”

    According to Sturgis: “For example, despite many clues in post-conquest sources (often written by Spanish colonial leaders or clergy) scholars only realized in the late 1990s that the bunches of intricately knotted strings produced by the Inka actually represent a writing system yielding three-dimensional written texts.”

    Sturgis further pointed out:

    The first systematic analysis of the grammar of the khipu code did not appear until 2003. As the Western Michigan University historian Catherine Julien explains, the chance now exists that we “may be able to hear the Inkas for the first time in their own voice.” Likewise, surprises found in new excavations of Maya sites—some of which have been made public in the months since the publication of [Charles C. Mann in “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus”] —illustrate how much there is to learn about the basic chronology and structure of one of America’s dominant civilizations. Each new revelation underscores Holmberg’s error. Native Americans prior to and after 1492, like other peoples across the globe, interacted in innovative, deliberate, and fascinating ways with each other and their environment. If we can transcend petty current politics long enough to investigate these discoveries with all the tools at our disposal, we may learn not only about them but also from them.

    Rizal’s conclusion was not surprising:

    The evil is not that indolence exists more or less latently but that it is fostered and magnified. Among men, as well as among nations, there exist not only aptitudes but also tendencies toward good and evil. To foster the good ones and aid them, as well as correct the evil and repress them, would be the duty of society and governments, if less noble thoughts did not occupy their attention. The evil is that the indolence in the Philippines is a magnified indolence, an indolence of the snowball type, if we may be permitted the expression, an evil that increases in direct proportion to the square of the periods of time, an effect of misgovernment and of backwardness, as we said, and not a cause thereof. Others will hold the contrary opinion, especially those who have a hand in the misgovernment, but we do not care . . . .

    My question now is: By magnifying the so-called “smallness” of the masang Pilipino, did Nick Joaquin have a hand, witting or unwitting, in the misgovernment?

18. If only benigno, bencard and rego would return to our shores to save us…

    Larry, Curly, and Moe to the rescue!

19. Bencard, as far as international prestige goes, i think the American in you has more to worry about courtesy of your President (the American one). BTW, aren’t you referring to Rodney Dangerfield (not Roger)?

20. Sorry, Bencard, I mistook Dangerfield for that racist DJ whatchamacallhim. Dangerfield was the self-deprecating comedian. If I’m not mistaken, he has died.

    But still, I think it’s not right to say that Filipinos don’t deserve respect just because we are not a major player on the international stage. I don’t remember the Austrian stock exchange being mentioned in the business section of the major papers. And the Austrian Olympic contingent is not exactly gigantic. When was the last time Austria was mentioned in the major news networks? Does is mean that Austrians “don’t get no respect”? There is something amiss in being an Austrian?

    Now, please tell me frankly, how did you feel when the Filipinos played big on the world stage in 1986? I know, you had fled the country before that. But how did you feel?

21. “If I remember his story, he never get promoted in his job here in the Philippines. So he moved to the Oz.”

    Really, Cat? Then that explains his extreme hatred for the Philippines and the Filipinos.

    BenignO is just a clinical case. I won’t bother with him anymore. But he needs professional help.

22. cvj, bush is a different subject altogether. please don’t change the thrust of the discussion by changing the subject. whatever bush, or his administration does, has no bearing on the american people’s place in the world in terms of “respect” and “recognition. one president doesn’t a nation make.

    btw, referring to your previous post, i did not make the idiotic proposition that cosmetic surgery is “a measure of nationalism”. you’re the one who brought up that idea on your own and then negated it as if it came from me. i only cited belo’s clientele, among others, to rebut your claim that your “generation” doesn’t have the same “inferiority complex” that mine has. classic cvj dirty trick to reformulate a debate to suit his flawed argument.

    shaman, that is why i agreed with you that there must be some hundred other nations who, like the philippines, “don’t get no respect”. austria, however, doesn’t need constant attention. it has already earned its place in the world stage with its world-renowned composers, musicians, men of letters, inventors, scientists, etc., etc.

    i was proud of what we did in edsa 1 and 2. that pride was, however, offset by the facts that we had to do it to kick out a home-grown tyrant, and an alleged plunderer , respectively. but the bigger shame was our inability to build on what good we have done, and our miserable failure to learn the lessons of our history by committing the same, as well as other forms of, stupidities again and again.

    btw, cvj was right. the name was rodney, not “roger”. and yes, he had passed away.

23. and, shaman, i did not say “filipinos don’t deserve respect”. what i said was they “don’t get no respect”. there’s a difference, if you think about it.

24. bencard, how can you claim that it’s “a different subject altogether” when we are talking about the international prestige of various countries? Anyway, Americans are accountable for Bush since you guys reelected him. Since you’re an American, that’s a cross you have to carry. Of course, you can always claim to be Filipino to save yourself the aggravation.

    As for the reference to vicky belo, you were the one who brought it up in the context of our discussion of something being ‘amiss’ in being Filipino. You bring up your red herrings at your own peril.

25. cvj, your way of arguing is typical of what we are talking about – the “smallnes of the filipino mind”. find yourself another nitwit.

26. just state your points guys and let the readers decide who have some sense in their arguments.

    As for President Bush, one President’s decision can change the course of history. May not make a nation, but can ruin a nation, sometime his own as we can see Pres. Arroyo and the Presidents before her (now many Presidents compound the destruction of a nation) as our good example. It is ok to hit on the Presidents. ang daga..

27. ratatouille, are we now going to debate bush’s decisions or those of other presidents, including pgma, and how they affect their country’s international prestige? have we yet resolved the issue on the “culture of mediocrity” that benigno has raised, by means of relevant arguments and without interjecting new matters that have no bearing on the issue in question?

28. cvj, again, don’t flatter yourself. being subjected to your topic manipulation is the last thing i would consider a “peril”.

29. Bencard,

    Since you want to stay in the same topic…..

    If I may ask,sorry if I don’t find it apparent.

    Why do you consider yourself a drunkard who found rehab,in terms of the issue of being proud to be a Filipino? Are you Paris,Brittney or Lindsay fan?

    I always have to agree,with something some one says,no one is one hundred percent wrong…

    The two edsas did not solve our woes,they made matters even worse..

    Like Cory created(for lack of a better term) the kamag anak inc. and let’s throw her out of office brigade,and kung si Marcos ay pala(shovel) si cory ay bulldozer etc,etc,(all that happened under her nose btw)
    (That is a classic example of you can’t separate presidents from nations)

    We all know what unsolution Edsa2 did,although you may beg to differ,karapatan mo yan.

    Guys call me a KJ if that’s what I thought about the two Edsas,I am proud of the event itself ,but what happened next was what is bothersing me.

    And as to what Devils essay said..ano ba yang mga pinoy (praphrasing) parang di pinoy…pag nakakita ng road rage sabihing walang disiplina pinoy eh,try riding with a driver in Singapore(although that was a Singaporean friend I was talking about)They drive the same.

    Sa states although mas madami ang me displina kesa wala ganyan din,just look at those gals in and out of rehab.

    Speaking of law and order and safety.

    Have you heard of the Filipina mother not wanting her son to go home to their hometown in Mindanao only to die in a terror blast in London.

    Ganyan talga pag puroo flaws nag hanhanapin natin,you can easily smell stink and be bitter about it,without finding a solution like taking a bath.

30. karl, the reference to “drunk” is only an analogy. the first step to a cure is to stop denying the disease, to accept the existence of the problem. btw, except a light beer irregularly once or twice a month, or a shot of scotch on the rock at socials, i am not a drinking man. i do share your sentiments about the authentic edsas.

    nothing that bush does would add to or detract from the greatness of america. afterall, there probably is more opposition to his policies (i’m a democrat) than support them. if there really is filipino “smallness of mind” no amount of inferiority complex on my part, or benigno’s, would make any difference.

31. benign0 is right. Filipinos have a dysfunctional culture. That is why we the noble Moro people want to disassociate ourselves from you Filipinos! From the beginning you were all cowards and are unimaginative. You can take all your ocho ocho garbage and sex bomb dancers out of the land of promise. If more Filipinos realize what benign0 is saying and change for the better instead of trying to justify your weak and stupid ways, WAR IN MINDANAO shall never end INSHALLAH.

32. To our Muslim Brothers

    The road is long
    With many a winding turn
    That leads us to who knows where
    Who knows when
    But I’m strong
    Strong enough to carry him
    He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother.

    So on we go
    His welfare is of my concern
    No burden is he to bear
    We’ll get there
    For I know
    He would not encumber me

    If I’m laden at all
    I’m laden with sadness
    That everyone’s heart
    Isn’t filled with the gladness
    Of love for one another.

    It’s a long, long road
    From which there is no return
    While we’re on the way to there
    Why not share
    And the load
    Doesn’t weigh me down at all
    He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother.

    He’s my brother
    He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother.

33. Bencard,

    I find it interesting that the discussion has gone the way of parallelisms with alcoholism.

    I’ve used this analogy many times (the metaphorically-challenged responses have been the same in most cases). But i think you put the whole point behind the parallelism very succinctly. Note that in Alcoholics Anonymous, the first step (and the BIGGEST one) that a participant takes is to first acknowledge that he/she is an alcoholic.

    Also you are spot on in your second paragraph. I may be sane or insane, a product of racial discriminatin or not, never got promoted in Manila ergo moved to Oz or not. But whether or not these (i.e. conjectures about my personal circumstances) are true or false, do they, in any way change the trueness or falseness of the assertions I make when examined purely for their logical merit? Many people can’t seem to fathom this simple tenet.

    People like cvj, for example latch on to a single powerful individual representative of the population (in this case Bush) and make it the core underpinning of their argument. That behaviour actually reflects the whole problem with the type of hollow-headed politics we see in Pinoy society today — Pinoys are comfry with the notion that the President (or an elite chunk of the population) maketh or breaketh the society. But then in truly prosperous societies like the U.S., their prosperity is STABLE enough to weather the comings and goings of good and bad leaders alike.

    Take South Korea. They’ve had a far worse track record of corruption at the highest places than the Philippines. Yet their economy is amongst the strongest in the world. Japan for its part changes prime ministers every couple or so years (at best).

    If there was anything that exemplifies the REALITY of the small-mindedness of Pinoys, it is, ironically, the arguments of the very people who beg to differ to the assertion that Pinoys COLLECTIVELY are small-minded. 😉

34. bencard, my answer to your question of Aug 12 @ 12:33 am which i posted more than 35 hrs ago is still awaiting moderation (nasa shore yata si mlq3). it’s fine though because i had the chance to refine it. you can click on my name should you still care reading it (i know what ms. The Ca t will think, well, ang lagay si binignO lang ba ang marunong ng marketing? ha!)

35. “(the metaphorically-challenged responses have been the same in most cases)”

    Some of the bloggers here are also grammatically challenged!What a pain to read their comments!

    Let’s be proud to be Filipinos!

36. “That behaviour actually reflects the whole problem with the type of hollow-headed politics we see in Pinoy society today — Pinoys are comfry with the notion that the President (or an elite chunk of the population) maketh or breaketh the society.”

    benigs, and you have to point this out to bencard who took his leave from pinas because somebody maketh the NEW SOCIETY?

    south korea and japan have greater sense of delicadeza. at the slight of corruption charges, they resign. in pinas, pakapalan ng bulsa at mukha. and you can’t even bring in the issue of moral governance into your arguments? getreal, benigs.

37. i meant the leaders in korea and japan.

38. “For Caesar to be the wolf the Romans must be sheep.

    One of the principal reasons why the U.S. dropped the bomb on Japan was the battles for Saipan, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. I used to kid my Japanese supplier that if he were late for his deliveries he would have to go to suicide hill and jump off for lose of face. Surrender was forbidden.

    As the U.S. forces got closer to the Japanese mainland the people were prepared for what Churchill had described years earlier- we will fight you on the beaches, we will fight you in the fields, every town, every city, every street, every doorway. We will never surrender.

    Apart from that Truman did not want the Russians from gaining a foothold in mainland Japan. Stalin was relishing the idea of payback and regain territory and more.

    The Japanese were brain washed into collective sacrifice after years of very strong feudal warrior tradition isolated from the outside world. This culture was exported to Korea and Taiwan their colonies. Park Chung Hee the first president of S. Korea was a veteran of the Japanese military. That brutal feudal tradition was transplanted to S. Korea. Hence the Koreans evolved along that severe command structure. They are a very inclusive group. Everyone outside their group is a barbarian. No individual initiative allowed as this is frowned on. The state is a major player in the developmental process. Japan, S. Korea and Taiwan had already gotten rid of their landlord classes so to speak. They turned their peasants into farmers with full state support generations ago. They practice a form of state capitalism. (developmental state)

    A peasant culture is naturally small minded and backward for one looking at it from a perspective of modernity.
    However if modernity fails and we have to go back to survive from the land they become the smarter group.

    That culture of dependency became an offshoot of the economic/political system. “Keep them pregnant and barefoot on the farms.” The natives of the islands are still natives of their own “Bayan’s.” That is not small mindedness that is historical. The people who should know better keep it that way. That is precisely the colonial model still in play in this country. How many still have maids, drivers, cooks in their homes?

    The Communists who run the PRC when they decided to impose the one country two systems policy for HK understand dialectics more than any other country. The societal development of HK and the rest of China were in varying degrees different. They had to integrate the people of both sides of the fence over a certain period.

    The white men led by the Brits had scared the people of HK that the PLA would come marching in and take over HK and impose command rule. Even today in the PRC labor mobility or movement between the provinces is highly regulated.

    Managing societal development is a tricky thing. In Australia, like in the U.S. the indigenous people whose natural evolutionary development were distorted have a hard time integrating into white man’s society. Are the aborigines in Australia small minded or ignorant as some Australians think them to be?

    That is exactly how the white men viewed the black man during the times of slavery and even after. Even Lincoln thought that way.

    “Now, gentlemen, I don’t want to read at any great length, but this is the true complexion of all I have ever said in regard to the institution of slavery and the black race. This is the whole of it, and anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro is but a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse.”

    “I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose, either directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality; and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position. I have never said anything to the contrary, but I hold that, notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in”
    [p. 230]
    ”the Declaration of Independence-the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects-certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.” Abraham Lincoln in his debates with Stephen Douglas when he was running for the Senate.

39. Inaamin ko tagakotta isa ako sa mga challenged na yun…

    wala kasi akong time mag cut and paste from lyrics.com
    Yung songhits ko naman di ko ma scan kasi sira scanner ko.

    kaya nga instead of going to mp3.com sa tabi tabi na lang kahit me bayad para mas mabilis.

    Deadmatology,remember.

    We have many many flaws,but as in marriage (some will answer a quick yes)will you instantly leave your wife whom you love so much after discovering such flaws.

    Don’t look far away many past entries of MLQ3 have entries of love of country as Devils pointed out.

    The South Korea example of Benigno,is correct pero huwag naman nila SANA tayo isahan sa pagtayo ng business dito na sila lang ang makikinabang.

    Pero as I pointed out they do love their country aside from not having a small mind.

    I also recommend to read Abe’s blog.

    Remember the coin never has one side,unless that coin sudenly becomes a card.

    To whom it may concern.

    If you honestly would not want to be called small minded Filipino everyday in your new home ,and give the reply of that’s why I left.

    I have a question,is that contributing to the solution,or the problem?.

    No right or wrong answer kasi parehong tama.

    What ever latin word is for agrumentum uboth r correct is..

    There is no point in discussing the smallness of mind, because one,If you are Con..you would negate it by proving it wrong by , by giving big ideas.

    Likewise if you are pro,the more you justify it… you prove yourself wrong by also giving big ideas.

    So who has the small mind now?

    The Filipinos in general?

40. hvrds,

    well explicated there. i wish benigs can sound more academic than this, i.e., to pursue his arguments by removing the racial cataracts that blur his sweeping arguments.

    pity how he again makes this fallacious conclusion that those who counterargue with him are small minds. on the contrary, those who only think that the opposite of yes should still be yes are pea brains. even a sound scientific theory will always welcome strong evidence of its falsifiability to strengthen its claim.

41. The Ca t will think

    okay lang saco yan, sir. sadiri mong opinyon ang sinurat mo.
    saka bag-o. saiya luma na. mwehehe

    And I agree with what you wrote. Little srops make the ocean.

    Dr. Yunus, a Nobel Peace awardee for his Grameen Bank is considered one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time along side with Bill Gates, Henry Ford and other business visionaries.

    Small Business here in America is encouraged with the availability of small loans from banks for start-up.

42. Sus ginoo, do we really have to through all these nasty conversion.

    Simple lang naman yan. If you think you are not “small minded” then Benigno’s assertion doesn’t apply to you. And just show and act big then.

    If believe you are “big minded” how about helping those small minded people around you? Motivate them to think big. You can never deny that there are alot of people around who talk like ” Magsasaka LANG ang po ako, instead just of saying it with pride “magsasaka po ako”. Driver LANG po ang tatay ko, karpentero LANG po ako, mahirap lang po kami. You just can not deny that there are people who talk like these around you. Sila na mismo ang nag mamaliit sa mga sarili nila. …

43. People like cvj, for example latch on to a single powerful individual representative of the population (in this case Bush) and make it the core underpinning of their argument. – Benign0

    Just to clarify, if you re-read what i wrote above (at 2:12am), you will see that i’m not latching on to GWB as an individual but pointing out that GWB was reelected by the American people because he was seen to best express their values (conservative, God fearing etc.). As an electorate, they are accountable to the world for making such a choice. In your writings, you blame the Filipino for electing corrupt and incompetent leaders. Why are you not holding the Americans to the same standards?

    Let’s not get into the false dichotomy between the ‘single powerful individual’ and the group which creates him/her. Gloria Arroyo is an individual but she is also a member of the Philippine elite and draws her strength from the elitist mindset. Same with Erap who is a member of the elite who panders to the masa mindset. In any case, to deny that an individual can be the catalyst for the making or unmaking of society hasn’t studied enough history.

    As for South Korea, as inidoro has pointed out, what differentiates them is their sense of delicadeza (at least when caught). Deadma is still an alien concept to them. And what made them prosperous (if you read the book i recommended before or at least read hvrds above) is their industrial policy.

44. hay naku. mlq is still such an arrogant but stupid columnist.

    sayang lang ang pangalan mo. sinayang mo sa ka-baklaan!

45. filipinos are dumb, stupid, and imaginative because mlq3’s stupid grandfather wanted hell on earth.

    and he wanted hell on earth to be represented by the philippines.

    right, mlq3?

    your shit-brained lolo is to blame, right? shit-brained ka rin, tama ba?

46. but the way you write, freind, is just showing so much about about you than mlq3….

47. “filipinos are dumb, stupid, and imaginative because mlq3’s stupid grandfather wanted hell on earth.

    and he wanted hell on earth to be represented by the philippines.

    right, mlq3?

    your shit-brained lolo is to blame, right? shit-brained ka rin, tama ba?”

    friend: such stupid comments.go have a life!

48. Ayan na nagsimula na ang mga troll.
    Don’t feed the troll. Let it go hungry.

    We are already in Stage 4.

49. We may not be equal in stature, in looks, and the colour of skins. Some may even be descendants of Royalties and Sultans and the Oligarhs and the Warlords from the distant part of the world, but in this part, we never consider anyone above anyone and One has to leave his peerage home if he wants to be among his equals…

    for imbedded in the Constitution is the Equality Rights which states:

    Equality Rights: Canada Charter of Rights and Freedoms –
    Constitutional Act of l982

    Equality before and under law and equal protection and benefit of law:

    Section 15. (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.

    Affirmative action programs:

    (2) Subsection (1) does not preclude any law, program or activity that has as its object the amelioration of conditions of disadvantaged individuals or groups including those that are disadvantaged because of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability. (83)

50. Great minds discuss ideas;
    Average minds discuss events;
    Small minds discuss people.

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