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Quote from: hubag bohol on October 19, 2012, 11:41:21 AM
Na hala, mounda na ta kay hapit na ko malipo...

Quote from: Lorenzo on October 19, 2012, 11:43:12 AM
dali ra diay ka malipo, dali pod ka ma tulu?

hahaha!  nahimo na lagi mong ilonggo nga hilaw.

Quote from: Lorenzo on October 19, 2012, 11:33:00 AM
hahahaha. maajo bitaw, at least wa gi divide.

kun gi-divide, wa na magkinahanglan ani:

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 19, 2012, 11:15:51 AM

kay kini na ang gamiton:

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 19, 2012, 11:29:30 AM
Wa ko tabot. Timba sa timbahan?

Quote from: Lorenzo on October 19, 2012, 11:31:20 AM
timba ba kana bitaw i measure ang weight ba.

da, klaro na ang gidak-on sa balde?

Quote from: bugsay on October 19, 2012, 11:27:42 AM
so, 1+3=4...

brayt ug math kay gi-add, wa i-multiply.

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 19, 2012, 11:20:31 AM
Itlog nga atabay? Now pa ko...

aw, gapasabot lang god ni tingali nga ang itlog pareha kadak-ag balde.

Quote from: Lorenzo on October 19, 2012, 11:20:24 AM
usa ra lagi sa scrotum, pero undescended ang usa. mao ni gitawag namo: Cryptoorchidism.

might as well ba a name for a new orchid variety.

eeekkk.  they may as well claim quiapo in manila too, because there's a big muslim community there.  and the badjaos in tagbilaran are increasing, at least from the looks of it because there were none before...

i believe di na uso ang dili pa-eksaminon kay wa kabayad?  more than 10 years ago, when i taught college part time, wa gyod koy singil-singil sa permit.  my attention was called.  wa gihapon ko patuo.  catholic school man kaha ta?  ingon ko.  hehe, i prevailed.  sayonan ba uroy sila ug hatag ug special exam gawas pa nga di ko gustong ma-embarrassed ang student.  she's a learner, not a financier. 

Quote from: taga tigbao on October 19, 2012, 11:12:04 AM
Maunsa man diay?

ang resulting design mora tingalig compass nga mo-point sa south kanunay.

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 19, 2012, 11:11:10 AM
Yor toking abawt mi? Di na ko ka-afford sa bayad. Seguradong mahal ang singil kay gunting sa sin nay gamiton...

kaya na kun ikaw ang makadaog sa contest.

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 19, 2012, 11:00:50 AM
Hmm, lawom og tingkoy unya mubo og kigol? Katingalahang linalang...

ibig sabihin, immune sa almoranas.

Quote from: taga tigbao on October 19, 2012, 11:06:48 AM
Ako ra man puy moagi dihaang dapita. Hallway na padung sa ahong kuwarto.

Naa bitaw usahay nga makadungog ko ug naa masuko sa ahong iring kay nalibang kono. Aw, diga jud. Hehehehe.

suko?  how dare.  kamaayong hungitan sa kinalibang ni budinggit ug caterina...

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 19, 2012, 11:04:13 AM
Hmm, malagmit parehas kalami sa lampaso nga giunlan...

hahaha!  arang gyod ni si hubag... anad galing ug lampaso kanang imong hubon.

Quote from: taga tigbao on October 19, 2012, 10:45:04 AM
Basta ang ahong mga pambato dia ra:



Bisan tuod ug dila tambok kaajo, dako nag kabag-ohan sa lawas ni Budinggit (the big white cat). Kay karon arang dakua na intawon. Lupig pas Katarina (Nagpasuso).

wowie!  supercalli...  what a happy feline family, bai tigs.  congratulations!

Quote from: Lorenzo on October 19, 2012, 10:59:41 AM
haha! after my residency lang bai bugs so i can charge you all full price.

by then, there would be nothing to hold on to.

Quote from: Lorenzo on October 19, 2012, 10:58:48 AM
I know a priest who prays every morning for the souls in purgatory , for those who recently departed, and for those who are dying. Every day ni sija mo ampo para nila.

He is an old priest now, and I know him because his name is Fr. Daniel , a resident priest at my local parish. He celebrates mass in the morning with us. At 8 am every day.

It is inspiring and humbling !!

very reassuring.  souls in purgatory can be saved through the living's prayers; something that's very appreciable with the catholic faith. 

Quote from: bugsay on October 19, 2012, 10:57:20 AM
magpatuli lang ko inig ma doktor na gyud si bai lorenz...

retirable age diay imong target...

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 19, 2012, 10:51:12 AM
Wa lagi nimo iapil ang tigpasiugda og contest, Bay Vist...

bitaw, flying segs, nakamatikod man tingali ka ni pikoy no nga nagpasiugda ug contest?

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 19, 2012, 10:53:45 AM
Hmm, humanity? How about felinity and caninity?

those are carried with humanity.  can we call ourselves humans without comparing our difference with the rest of creation?

Quote from: bugsay on October 19, 2012, 10:52:56 AM
nan ob da abab man...

otrong pizut.

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 19, 2012, 10:51:12 AM
Wa lagi nimo iapil ang tigpasiugda og contest, Bay Vist...

sugsugan ay.  bogolbogolon pa gyod.  undanga una kay naa unyay moulbo, delikado pa.  latuzon ta ka ron.

Quote from: Lorenzo on October 19, 2012, 09:52:31 AM
Not all politicians are liars, and not all religious leaders are bad. Let us not categorize and place a blanket stereotype on these two groups.

and thus should this hold true with the rest of humanity. 

hahaha!  nagsunod man diay ani nga thread ang tulo ka valencianhon... mga kumakaon ug bunga sa corn trees paris ginamos.  time to change your diet, sir balong?

Wendell Lope, a look-alike of radio broadcaster Gerry Baja, wants to review the 1935 constitution.

There were nine no-shows in the morning session.  By not appearing, Brillantes said they have already waived their rights.

Brillantes said was a bit disappointed that there were no-shows because he said he was expecting to be entertained.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/

Edwardo Fernandez, meanwhile, claims to be communicating online with US President Barack Obama.  He said he wants the Philippines to be an American state.  He also had a funny exchange with the poll body chief when he called attention to Brillantes’ white hair.

Bryan Gorostiza, on the other hand, said he wants smokers hospitalized, and that the age at which an individual can be arrested should be lowered to 16 from 18.  He also believes that the start of classes should be “staggered.”

Manuel Insigne, on one hand, introduced himself as a member of the Church of Jesus and the Latter Day Saints.  He then took a swipe at senators with broken marriages.

The mood during the entire session today was generally one of amusement as some of those who were being heard also drew laughter from the audience.

Aeric Bernardino, for example, advocates lotto winnings for all.

Arsenio Dimaya, on the other hand, said he wants to give vegetables to all.  The 62-year-old Dimaya also thinks the 88-year-old Juan Ponce Enrile is already overstaying at the Senate.

Anicio Escosura introduced himself as a runner, prompting Brillantes to say, "Kaya ka pala tumatakbo."

‘I am a Kapamilya, Kapuso’

Magtira also showed his red shirt give-aways, which introduce him as a senator who is a "kapamilya at kapuso ng lahat ng Pilipino."

Pressed for his other skills besides singing, Magtira said he is a "vocational course."

Brillantes called for a lunchbreak after Magtira's turn, saying they are already dizzy from the hunger and not from Magtira's statements.

Magtira insisted he is the husband of President Aquino's youngest sister, but the chief executive did not give his consent to the marriage. He said he loves Kris.


Daniel Magtira with his certificate of candidacy. File photo

Besides his famous “spouse," Magtira also claimed to be backed by other popular personalities.  He said he was also endorsed by former First Lady Imelda Marcos and he is represented by lawyer, Oliver Lozano.

In seeking an elective post, Magtira said there has to be new faces at the Senate, to which Brillantes quipped dermatologist to the stars, Vicki Belo, is needed for new faces.

Magtira also said he is a good singer, and that Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim is already old so he should be replaced.

Kris' 'husband' didn't get PNoy's consent

By RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
10/19/2012

Says he's a 'kapamilya' and a 'kapuso'

MANILA, Philippines - Kris Aquino's "husband" Daniel Magtira led others senatorial wannabes--whose candidacies have not been given due course--before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) en banc.

Magtira was the last to be called before the session went on lunch break on Thursday.  Magtira was sporting a blazer and a name tag with the words, “Senator Magtira”.

Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes jokingly asked him when he got married.

truly an alumnus of iskul bukol.

in this regard, i wish to point out that lorenz is one h_ll of a sport.  i remember a couple of years back, bisag kinsa na lang ang mokulinit niya, bun-og diri, bun-og didto.  apil na ko.  but wow, nothing brings this guy down.  he stood taller and went stronger.  (i realized too that he's no street fighter.  di tawon anad ug burokinto.)  and, like fr chic, he's just as forgiving.  way to go.  mao nay true-blue nga tblander!

kana ba.  ayaw pangluod.  sport man tang tanan dinhi, with different opinions.  be your own man.  ayaw paapektar unsay comments sa uban.  all in a day...

just arrived from canada.
been to the nightmares fear factory there.

here's entertainment, for starters...

naa pa niy epilogue.  mor pa. 

better still, naa pa niy part 2, part 3, etc. kay franchise man ni, morag batman franchise nga naay 'batman returns'.

may he rest in peace.

http://nightmaresfearfactory.tumblr.com/
in white mask, nangayog pasaylo ug nibiya na sa iyang prizewinners

The most notable part of the tour is when the visitors, walking in complete darkness (often holding on to each other) suddenly see a sign that reminds them that they are going to die.  At this point their pictures are taken and sometimes posted on the Fear Factory's Flickr account. (wikipedia)


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pikoy, the bravest

Highlights of the tour include a shaky drawbridge, a claustrophobic tunnel that visitors must crawl through, and a place where it appears that the walls are closing in on the visitors. (wikipedia)


http://nightmaresfearfactory.tumblr.com/

Unlike conventional haunted houses, the Nightmares Fear Factory doesn't rely primarily on blood and gore in order to induce fear.  Rather, there are live actors in scary costumes that come at the patrons out of the darkness and taunt them, scream at them, speak in creepy voices, etc.  They have been known to grab, push and pull patrons in order to get a reaction. There are also scary sounds like growls, eerie music, spooky voices, yelling, and so forth. (wikipedia)


http://nightmaresfearfactory.tumblr.com/
georgi with unknown friend

The tour takes about 15 minutes and is in total darkness, except for small red lights on the floors, walls and ceiling that patrons must follow in order to get through the haunted house.  Patrons' frightened reactions are recorded and broadcast in the lobby for all to see. (wikipedia)


http://nightmaresfearfactory.tumblr.com/

Quote from: Pikoy on October 17, 2012, 07:41:20 PM
baklita nga nahadlok unsa iyang purma ms isle??

morag si mr bean.  bitaw, unsa man diay ang porma ug macho nga mahadlok, labi nag bunalan sa asawa?

Patrons are told that if they get too scared they can say the safety-word "nightmares" and they will escort you out.  In the last 30 years, about a half-million people have gone through, and many have opted out part-way and had their names added to a public "chicken list".  Over 150,000 people have had to leave through the chicken line. (wikipedia)


http://nightmaresfearfactory.tumblr.com/

The attraction is allegedly built in an old coffin factory.  The owner of the factory before it was turned into a haunted house, Abraham Mortimer, was killed when a stack of coffins collapsed upon him. (wikipedia)


http://nightmaresfearfactory.tumblr.com/

The Nightmares Fear Factory is a haunted house attraction in Niagara Falls, Canada. It is the oldest haunted house in North America in continuous operation.  They are known for posting images of their visitors just as they have been shocked to a Flickr account. (wikipedia)


http://nightmaresfearfactory.tumblr.com/

sige, suwayan ba lang...

Kabang (right) jumped in front of a motorcycle
that was about to hit two girls in the Philippines.
Photo: Anton Mari H. Lim, Courtesy Anton Lim / SF

Veterinarians say the dog will need at least two surgeries, one focusing on dental work and the other to close the gaping wound on her face. The battery of tests she went through after her arrival also revealed a vaginal tumor, called progressive venereal tumor, and heartworm, both of which will require extensive treatment.

"Worms were actually seen in her pulmonary arteries," Sykes said about the heartworm, a parasitic roundworm spread by mosquitoes that can cause congestive heart failure and is typically treated using an arsenic-based compound. "It could take up to six months to go through this treatment."

The tumor is a sexually transmitted canine disease that can spread aggressively, Sykes said, but more than 90 percent of cases are cured with chemotherapy. Sykes said both ailments are common in tropical and subtropical regions where dogs often run loose, a situation that certainly applies in the Philippines.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Snoutless-dog-Kabang-needs-chemo-3954047.php#ixzz29bxLZppd

Surgery delayed for Filipino dog that lost snout

(philstar.com)
October 17, 2012

DAVIS, California (AP) â€" A dog from the Philippines who became an international hero after she sacrificed her snout to save two young girls will have to wait a little longer for surgery to replace her missing muzzle.

The Sacramento Bee reports that veterinarians at the University of California, Davis said Tuesday that Kabang needs treatment for heartworm and chemotherapy for a vaginal tumor before she can undergo facial reconstruction.

The mixed-breed dog ended up in Davis last week after a nurse from Buffalo, New York, spearheaded a fundraising campaign to bring her to the U.S.  Veterinarians in the Philippines had been unable to treat her injuries.

Newspapers in the Philippines reported Kabang had her snout and upper jaw sheared off when she jumped in front of a speeding motorcycle while she was walking with her owner's daughter and niece.

http://www.philstar.com/

mounsa kaha si inday kris kun mao diay ni siya ang daogan sa danish smallest man contest.  cry-cry na pod on tv?

Quote from: bugsay on October 17, 2012, 04:06:54 PM
blema kon si georgi ni lolla....goodbye 2014

Quote from: Pikoy on October 17, 2012, 04:24:19 PM
wahah delikades kung mauhon..

di na problema.  andam man mong mosawo.  ni georgi, i mean.

daghan gyod hinoon dinhi sa atong tbland ang korokoto, tives.  makalingaw gyod, mao nga... padayon and help yourself to the fun!  way biyaay!  abi pa lang, mubow ug pabilow ang kigow.  

and even take over the front act.

they can be serious backup singers

Quote from: bugsay on October 17, 2012, 03:31:13 PM
dalidalion ug tungab kay diay naghuwat...

Quote from: Pikoy on October 17, 2012, 03:44:40 PM
wheee. d pa man istoyraha ang imong paborits Lolla..heheh

pasagdan lang nato na sila, loll, kay naigo na sa bahal.  gay man nang naa sa hulagway nga naghuwat nila.

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on October 17, 2012, 01:39:58 PM
ang ulitawo nga moapil ani nga contest mawad-an ug market value.

di lang gyod siya magpaila.  mogamit lang ug forum name, sama pananglit... pikotitoy.

wa sad hinoon ko kadungog ug baye nga ningsugot ug laki tungod sa gidak-on.

kun masakpan iya lang god ingnon nga ayaw kabalaka, naa pa koy daghang reserba ani sa amo.

truly an insensitive joke.  wa taronga ug analyze ang epekto.  well, makatoliyok gyod hinoon ning pildi ug football.

Daniel Magtira with his certificate of candidacy. File photo ABS-CBN

mao nay true lover...

Quote from: Vistabel on October 17, 2012, 02:07:06 AM
boss Bal, pwede akong paninglon ang akong daug didto sa Payag waman  lagi nako madawat 2008 pa'to ?

Quote from: vrglguapo on October 17, 2012, 02:21:13 AM
Hahaha may interest na to Kay dugay na.x1000 na to sa original nga premyo. kaya ni Boss Balong yan mily onaryo naman yun...

hehe, this is getting better.  daghan na tang maningil.

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 16, 2012, 04:56:53 PM
Nagpa sabot2x ka ba nga usa ray akong itlog?

una, di ko tig-ihap.  ikaduha, wa koy kun diin nimo gibilin ang usa o duha o tulo.

hahaha!  what a typo; it must be hytophetical.

P.S. In case you are wondering, cases can progressâ€"but you can’t just sit and wring your hands, or expect overloaded animal welfare groups to handle everything themselves.

In October 2011, after almost two years, Marian Yutuc of Montalban got justice for her dog Kevin, who was beaten to death by brothers Christopher and Gilbert Babe when she wouldn’t hand the dog over to them for pulutan.  The Babe brothers were convicted by the Rizal court to serve time in jail.


Kevin, the dog beaten to death by brothers Christopher and Gilbert Babe

Jerzon Senador of Calamba, Laguna, who brazenly posted the picture of the puppy he hung on a clothesline on Facebook, is now at large, after a warrant was issued for his arrest last April. Offenses are bailableâ€"but it’s some consolation to know that these scumbags are marked for life by a criminal record.


Jerzon Senador of Calamba, Laguna hung his puppy on a clothesline and told
the world about it through Facebook


http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/
pictures from various online sources

If your barangay officials refuse to act during the time that you reported the crime to them, please execute an affidavit re: their names, what happened, etc. so that we can file administrative charges against them.

PAWS needs and encourages everyone to take action: report cases and/or file charges against cruelty.  Verbally complaining (even through e-mail or Facebook posting) is not enough. (From the PAWS website, paws.org.ph)

For cases where neglect is ongoing, you could e-mail full names and complete address to philpaws@yahoo.com, and PAWS can send an official letter to them through the barangay.  (Please provide the contact info of the barangay captain/officers.)

To file charges, you need an affidavit (go to paws.org.ph for a sample) detailing the circumstances behind the case.  There are no expenses involved other than a filing fee of about P100 when you go to the Prosecutor’s Office.  PAWS volunteer lawyers can help you review your affidavit.

Report them to the barangay so that the barangay will likewise be watching over them.  Furnish barangay officials with a copy of RA 8485 (The Animal Welfare Act).

What to do when you see animal abuse

IF YOU see animal cruelty in progress (such as persons slaughtering or selling and buying dogs for the dog meat trade, or inflicting harm on animals), please report the incident immediately to your barangay officials and/or to tel. 117.  PAWS needs citizens as witnesses to help file charges so that we can prevent this cruelty from happening again.  (Call PAWS at tel.  4751688; e-mail philpaws@yahoo.com.)

In order to prosecute criminals for the violation of the AWA, PAWS needs complete details (date, time, exact location, people involved).  If you are not willing to execute an affidavit, please recommend another eyewitness who will.

If the persons committing the crime are not known, the best we can do is alert police officers to the exact location in the hope that they will be catching the criminals in the act.  Kindly call 117 immediately, and take down the name of the one receiving your call.  From experience at PAWS, all “117 officers” treat these reports seriously and send a mobile patrol right away (but it would still be good to take down the name).

In the meantime, animal lovers in the Philippines would do well to help lobby, create awareness, be vigilant, and let their lawmakers know that this is indeed an important matter.

“We’re just up against time limits,” Cabrera says.  “Often, animals are relegated to the bottom of priorities because, as they say, animals don’t vote… But when we protect the animals, we also protect our society against violence.  People who have been known to hurt animals move on to hurt human beings.  Widening our circle of compassion to include the animals is not just for sentimental reasons.  It makes perfect sense.  Animals are connected to people. What happens to them happens to us.”

“We are inclined to strengthening the Animal Welfare Act, but we need to ensure that penalties for animal cruelty are not higher than penalties for inflicting injuries upon persons,” concluded Sen. Pangilinan.  “This matter would have to be studied more closely… Still, if we are to move away from impunity and a culture of violence, then we must include the animals.”

“Legislators have taken the initiative to amend the law,” Kayaban says, “and we, as the people in the field who have tested the existing law and have firsthand knowledge on its defects, are helping re-craft it into a more perfect and workable piece of legislation.”

Now, with the government concerned with other seemingly more “pressing” issues like disaster management, it’s a waiting game for this law that urgently needs to be updated.

Proposed amendments to the AWA have been filed before the hearing.  Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago, who was represented at the hearing by her staff, has filed three bills: SB 1691, making it unlawful to allow pets to run unattended on the streets, batting for more animal shelters, and making abandonment unlawful, as well; SB 1942, which increases the imprisonment period to two to five years, and the fines to P20,000-P50,000; and 3154, which reiterates SB 1942’s proposals in the light of the dog-in-a-sack incident.

Also present at the hearing was Sen. Gregorio Honasan, whose proposed bill, SB 3222, pushes for longer prison time of four to six years, and an increase in penalty of P30,000.

The hearing ended with the legislators asking for additional information from the representatives, including PAWS, and encouraging private and government sector to work together.  PAWS spokespersons, such as actress Heart Evangelista and model Joey Mead, were also asked to say a few words.

Heftier penalties

Most significantly, PAWS is pushing for heftier penalties: imprisonment of 10-12 years and a fine of P300,000 if the animal dies; imprisonment of eight to 10 years and a fine of P200,000 if the animal survives but is severely injured and needs human intervention to sustain its life; and imprisonment of six to eight years and a fine of P100,000 for subjecting any animal to cruelty, maltreatment or neglect, but without causing its death or incapacitating it to survive on its own.

Sen. Pangilinan himself expressed openness to the increased fines, based on the gravity of the offense.  “Baka pagtawanan lang ng mga Koreano yung P50,000 fine, if they make millions a day,” he said during the hearing.

Cabrera and Kayaban both spoke at the hearing in front of the Senate Committee.  Among the amendments the groups was pushing for were, in summary, to make the Act cover “all animals of land, sea and air”; to make it unlawful to use animals for entertainment and to perform circus acts and tricks; and to make rescuers of animals in distress immune to liability, provided the act is not seen as an offense.

This last item came about after volunteers of a Cavite animal welfare group were actually charged with theft for rescuing a maltreated dog.

Some of these defects, and the limited jurisdiction, have already resulted in some problems.  “It is the private organizations which are taking the lead, because all these years the BAI has not filed a single court case for violation of the AWA,” says Cabrera.  Meanwhile, PAWS has filed over a dozen cases.  In 2001, PAWS and another animal welfare NGO, Earth Island Institute, filed a case against Ocean Adventure for failure to secure a permit for the dolphin show.

In a nutshell, the case didn’t progress because whales and dolphins, the ruling read, were not covered by the AWA, but were considered “fish/fishery/aquatic products,” covered only by the Fisheries Code of 1998.  Read: it’s okay to be cruel to “food”â€"or better yet, dolphins aren’t, uh, animals.

“A society that treats its animal with love and respect is always orderly and peaceful,” notes director on legal affairs and legal counsel of PAWS, lawyer Roy Kayaban.

“However, as in every beginning, hitches or defects appear, and the Animal Welfare Act has its own imperfections; hence, the need to amend the law.  This law has also been tested in the various cases litigated by PAWS, and these defects have appeared.”

In short, strictly speaking, if your neighbor beats his dog, or fails to feed it, he or she is violating a national law.  Then again, who’s afraid of the consequences?  Certainly not the Korean dog-fighters, for example, who probably never even blinked at the fine.

That’s because Section 8 of the current Act specifies: “Any person who violates any of the provisions of this Act shall, upon conviction by final judgment, be punished by imprisonment of not less than six (6) months nor more than two (2) years or a fine of not less than one thousand pesos (P1,000.00) nor more than five thousand pesos (P5,000.00), or both at the discretion of the Court.”

Torture and neglect

In terms of animal cruelty, however, what the average Filipino should be at least vaguely aware of is Section 6:

“It shall be unlawful for any person to torture any animal, to neglect to provide adequate care, sustenance or shelter, or maltreat any animal or to subject any dog or horse to dogfights or horse-fights, kill or cause or procure to be tortured or deprived of adequate care, sustenance or shelter, or maltreat or use the same in research or experiments not expressly authorized by the Committee on Animal Welfare.”

On the agenda were proposed amendments to the AWA, Republic Act 8485, “An Act to Promote Animal Welfare in the Philippines,” which became law on Feb. 11, 1998.

The original act basically put the responsibility of policing any “pet shop, kennel, veterinary clinic, veterinary hospital, stockyard, corral, stud farm or stock farm, or zoo for the breeding, treatment, sale or trading, or training of animals” in the hands of the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI), and creates a Committee on Animal Welfare attached to the Department of Agriculture.


HEART FOR ANIMALS. Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) spokesperson
Heart Evangelista believes there’s a need to amend the Animal Welfare Act.
Here she speaks her mind at the recent Senate hearing on the AWA. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

“We see cruelty everywhere,” says Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) executive director Anna Cabrera.  “On social networking sites, people are bragging about being cruel to animals.  As much as awareness about these issues has increased, the avenues by which demented people can  ‘advertise’ their acts of cruelty have also increased.”

Earlier this year, in what was probably the most brazen and shameless case yet, several Korean nationals were held last March 30 after they were caught running an Internet dog-fighting operation in Laguna.  The infuriating fact was, they had already been busted just three months earlier, Dec. 2, operating a similar ring in Cavite.







After some months in captivity, the Koreans were recently found guilty, and fined a laughable P5,000 for violation of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) and P6,000 for violating the anti-gambling law.  The incredible part is, they are now suing the National Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Immigration.

Most recently, there was the video of the guard at the Technological University of the Philippines (TUP) in Cavite who, despite the grainy quality of the video, was obviously beating a whimpering puppy; school authorities claimed the guard was just shooing (!) the dog away.

a relevant feature story:

It will take a stronger law to prevent animal cruelty

By Alya B. Honasan
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Sunday, October 7th, 2012

The stories are enough to reduce animal lovers to tears.  There was Popeye, the dog whose owner poured kerosene all over him last month and set him on fire to allegedly manage a flea infestation. (Popeye eventually died.)

There was the picture that went viral on Facebook (God bless social networking) in March this year, of a dog in a sack tied to the back of an SUV; the establishment under whose name the vehicle was allegedly registered, Apollo International Cagayan Trading Corporation, was located, but caretakers at the house refused to comment, and the fate of the dog remains unknown.


THE DOG behind the SUV, a picture
that went viral on Facebook. Sadly,
the animal’s fate remains unknown.

inspired by lollapalooza's thread on National Feral Cat Day (this same General Topic board), i realized that OCTOBER is celebrated as

World Animal Month. 

also being observed are
Adopt-a-Shelter Dog Month (ASPCA) and the
National Animal Safety and Protection Month (Emergency Animal Rescue Service) in the u.s.

within the month are the following special days as well:

October 4:        World Pets' Day

October 6 - 12: Animal Welfare Week (AVMA)

October 9 - 15: National Veterinary Technician Week

October 16:      National Feral Cat Day

Quote from: Lollapalooza on October 16, 2012, 04:45:48 PM

sige lang kun nagtakoban nga iring ang avatar.  at least this cat went to college...

thank you very much, lolla.  i'm now about to go to feed those feral cats at the third floor.  this inspires me no end.  my day is made.  so is my night.  muchisimas gracias, mi amiga!

nevah.  mamiya na lang mong tanan, i be tossed by storms of tigbao and all the creatures on land, sea, and air, i shall return.

aherm.  morag si pikoy ang giigo nimo ani da.  unsa man ni?  gigamayan ka sa itlog ug pikoy?

muy bien.  gapasabot nga ikaw nang naghandos.

maka-suggest na kog ngan, this early...

anakpusakal, anakaskal, anakhubag, anakbugsay, anakchocohills, anakiring, anakpikoy, anakpizut, take your pick.

morag hunit na pod ang papa burrito.

tua na.  samot tag gubot tungod sa politiko.  kandaiyag pakulo. 

and i thought they were all representing marginalized groups.  now they want to marginalize each other.

Anakbayan members storm Akbayan press conference

By Fat Reyes
INQUIRER.net
October 16th, 2012

MANILA, Philippinesâ€"Five youth members of the Anakbayan organization staged a rally at the Akbayan press conference held in Manila Tuesday morning.

In the middle of the press conference where members of the Akbayan party-list were explaining why the group should not be disqualified from the 2013 polls, youth members of the Anakbayan organization shouted “disqualify Akbayan, fake party-list.”

The youth members of the Anakbayan, led by Andrew Zarate, Anakbayan NCR spokesperson and Dianne Solmayor, Secretary General of Anakbayan, questioned why Akbayan party-list representative Walden Bello, back in 2007, was protesting that pro-administration party-lists should be disqualified when they were now “tuta ng administrasyon ni Noynoy (lapdogs of the Aquino administration).”

The protesters carried photos of Bello back in 2007.

As tensions rose, members of the Akbayan in turn shouted “KSP,” “utak pulbura (loosely translated as hot-tempered),” and branded what they described as the extreme leftist groups as “drifting into irrelevance” who did not like the reformist stance of Akbayan.

more at http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/290154/anakbayan-members-storm-akbayan-press-conference

klarong peke.  kinsa goy mobitad ug ingon ana?  one pushes and not pulls a rock that size, the way sisyphus did it.


Heavy Ball   

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 16, 2012, 11:27:11 AM
Kon mao, pag-open og thread unya ilista ang moapil. Hatagig deadline...

mo-back ride ra ko sa thread ni pikoy.  no deadline is necessary.

meantime, kay 2012 pa man ta, mantiniri usa ni siya, loll...




i really love the pet pig of george clooney even if he's now in hog heaven.

truth to tell, we are fools for allowing this trend to happen as we were fools for allowing martial law.  we continue to be fools for allowing the marcos dynasty and all these other current dynasties.  and because we are fools, we can only deserve what we've got.

mao nga wa man tingali tay entertainer nga no-read, no-write, so now we have these senators and congressmen from the entertainment world.  apil pa ang sports world kay di baya no-read, no-write si pacquiao, iyang asawa ug iyang igsoon. 

makita nga very basic ang qualification.  wa man ganiy minimum educational requirement.  basta dili lang no-read, no-write, okay na.  these are the people who will make laws and enforce those laws.  ang mo-interpret, the judicial branch, maoy mas klaro ang educational qualification kay wa man tingali tay huwes nga kutob ra sa major in anthropology.

ang nakaparat kay these are also the very same people (including local elective officials) who will appoint clerks whose educational qualification requirement is a college degree.  that's how strange our world is.

too bad it is enshrined in our constitution thus:

FOR SENATOR:  Article VI Section 3. No person shall be a Senator unless he is a natural-born citizen of the Philippines and, on the day of the election, is at least thirty-five years of age, able to read and write, a registered voter,and a resident of the Philippines for not less than two years immediately preceding the day of the election.

FOR CONGRESSMAN:  Section 6. No person shall be a Member of the House of Representatives unless he is a natural-born citizen of the Philippines and, on the day of the election, is at least twenty-five years of age, able to read and write, and, except the party-list representatives, a registered voter in the district in which he shall be elected, and a resident thereof for a period of not less than one year immediately preceding the day of the election.

FOR PRESIDENT:  ARTICLE VII. Section 2. No person may be elected President unless he is a natural-born citizen of the Philippines, a registered voter, able to read and write, at least forty years of age on the day of the election, and a resident of the Philippines for at least ten years immediately preceding such election.

sa ako lang banabana... at the risk of being called batbater by his excellency hubag...

sa una man god, mga ngilngig tag kapilian, and we felt let down.  in fact, the most brilliant one, the one who held the most promise, gave us martial law.

our problem is we lack choices.  "new" democracy came our way after edsa 1, na-free-for-all; tungod sa kadaghan nauso na ang name recall.  dugangan pa nga modagsa ug political rallies ang mga tawo kun naay artista o singer nga sikat.  nakahunahuna tingali ni silang mga entertainers nga uy, bayran na man lang gyod ta ug gamiton aning mga politicians, kita na lang kahay manglansar kay mas sayon man ta hinumdoman.  inspired pa gyod sila ni ronald reagan.   

there was a rare exception before nga nahimong senador ug diplomat, si rogelio de la rosa nga brother-in-law ni diosdado macapagal (by his first wife).  but he was of a different breed.  unya nasundan siya ni joseph estrada after decades.  the rest is history.  entertainers in politics are now a dime a dozen.

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 16, 2012, 11:48:29 AM
He he, some sort of a Mutual Admiration Club? Hmm, daghang moapil ani... 

aw, it takes all kinds... naay moapil, naa poy di kaantos.  puol baya pod ning puro ra alsa ug bangko.  kini ra bang bangko nga alsahon usahay maoy ibunal.

matod pa sa una sa among papa (gikapoyan na tingali tog gamit sa bangko nga simbolo), "stop blowing your own horn!"  tubag tawon among brother nga labaw nga korokoto, "but it is unsanitary to blow other people's horn!"

mao na ni ron; gikan sa bangko niabot nag torotot.

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 16, 2012, 11:50:45 AM
I take it that you're the smarter relative...

now you're getting personal... aren't you going to say i'm the prettier cousin too?