‘Foulshot’ Archives
Separation
Confusion is one favorite ploy that reproductive health bill advocates resort to in their campaign for what is in truth birth control legislation. Blurring issues had caused many people to take population control propaganda hook, line and sinker akin to unthinking fishes swallowing baits of lures. Without peeling the issues to uncover the real truth about the things being fed, people are pushed into accepting what are being advocated merely on the backdrop of a fallacious population explosion [...]
Conception
Complicating issues regarding what reproductive health advocates deem as alarming indicators vis-à-vis the high incidence of teenage pregnancies and pre-marital sex is confusing people. The statistics reveal that there is a significant increase in the cases of teenage pregnancies and pre-marital sex. The data is analyzed as being the cause of unwanted pregnancies that fall into the cold statistics of abortion. The premise is that abortion is being resorted to by people who bear unwanted [...]
Armistice
Agreeing to keep peace by suspension military operations is a great respite for all Filipinos. It is a timely move by both the government and the communist insurgency to cease firing during the yuletide. There is no better to celebrating Christmas than living in a world of peace. The conflict that had dragged for years must someday end once and for all. People deserve peace in their communities so that they can focus on development efforts that would propel the economy in the countryside. Many [...]
Corruption profits
We saw the olds play the dirty game for the young in the recent youth elections. The dirty tricks attendant in the commercialized elections that are marred with all forms of irregularities had invaded the youth elections. With youth leaders winning by way of vote buying and all forms of cheating, the crop of our youths had been unduly exposed to the corruption and they corrupted their lot to win their post. Privileged to represent the youth organization in the federation elections, the SK [...]
Indoctrinating honorables
Candidates who garnered the highest number of votes in the last barangay elections are taking their oath to the elective office they run for. This crop of village leaders will assume their respective posts and commence serving the people who voted them to office. But these village leaders will be up to the tough challenges owing to the tremendous task appurtenant their office. Many are carrying the good intentions they presented to the electorate during the campaign but are certainly wondering [...]
Chances
People are gazing with awe at the pot that had swollen to less than a quarter of a billion to hit one billion pesos in jackpot prize. The accumulated amount demonstrates the high stakes and the very low degree of probability of hitting the number combination that would come out as the winning number in the lotto draw. The number of combinations is a myriad that the chance of getting the right numbers is purely by a stroke of luck. People bet based on their gut feel or by plucking numbers out of [...]
Crux
Problem solving must deal with the root cause and not merely with derivatives of the main problem. Coming up with the desired solution is significant but such must address the root, otherwise, the problem will persist akin to a perennial malady that has no end. The approach of getting into the root cause is true in practically all aspects of life. It is so in numerical problems that require exact mathematical solutions to social and economic problems that require empirical solutions. Evading [...]
Con doom
Hullabaloo quickly erupted following the papal obiter on the use of condom as tolerable if for human protection from getting afflicted with dreaded sexual diseases like aids. Advocates of contraception and population control took the statement as favoring the campaign for the use of the latex sheath to cover the penile shaft from infection from infected orifices. The applause that came mostly from pushers of the Reproductive Health Bill capitalized on the aspect of it being acceptable as a [...]
Wails for justice, wheels of justice
Exactly one year ago, journalists on the beat of obtaining fresh hand news became innocent defenseless victims of a well-hatched murderous plot by the ruling Ampatuan clan of Maguindanao. The journalists were covering what ought to be a big story, the filing of the certificate of candidacy of a town mayor by the name of Toto Mangudadato who took the challenge and dared to run against the Ampatuans for the governorship of Maquindanao. The powerful and influential clan had been lording over their [...]
Consideration
After the commercial competition in buying votes from willing vote sellers, the winners come out proud of their purchased victory amid an applauding crowd who acceded to the outcome by willingly and wittingly selling their votes. It is unfortunate that the winners are accorded congratulatory greetings not so much for deserving their purchased victory but for coming out on top of a race where practically every contender resorted to the same dirty tactic. Just for getting ahead of the rest in the [...]
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