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Quote from: hubag bohol on May 09, 2011, 10:06:49 AM
He he, kang kinsa man kuno ning iroa bi?
Quote from: hubag bohol on May 09, 2011, 10:04:44 AM
Oops, watch your bark!
Quote from: islander on May 09, 2011, 09:56:54 AM
oh, no... di ba kaha ni possessed piktyora mao nga di mopakita ug pari?![]()
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Quote from: chicogon on May 09, 2011, 09:52:17 AM
Mao ni kang Bay Bugs
Quote from: chicogon on May 09, 2011, 09:46:36 AM
Tagulilong gehapon man
Quote from: hubag bohol on May 09, 2011, 09:35:55 AM
Di bitaw makita...

Quote from: islander on May 09, 2011, 09:36:55 AM
kun mapareha ang iro ug ang tag-iya, mag-unsa na lang ko kun ing-ani akong iro...
Quote from: chicogon on May 09, 2011, 09:26:55 AM
Di ko kakita aning picture sa ibabaw, ni tagulilong ang katabang sa mga miming kay naulaw
Quote from: bugsay on May 09, 2011, 09:20:30 AM
mao ni ang tag-iya sa mga Miming?....
Quote from: hubag bohol on May 09, 2011, 06:41:04 AM
I can't wait for the cat name TB member family name combination. Samples please, Ms. Isle!
Quote from: hofelina on May 09, 2011, 04:25:48 AM
pastilan si Padre, natakdan ni hubag bohol!
Quote from: vrglguapo on May 09, 2011, 04:36:55 AM
Takdan jud ka ug hubag hubag ana dre..


Quote from: chriswise on May 09, 2011, 01:29:35 AM
daghan among cat 6 kabook,,poro yellow color,,
Quote from: ms da binsi on May 05, 2011, 12:17:17 AM
Ako gi bookmark ni kay di nako mahuman ug basa. Thanks for all these Miss Isles! (Vow....)
Quote from: hubag bohol on May 07, 2011, 02:51:41 PM
Cruelty to cat...




Quote from: hubag bohol on May 08, 2011, 05:51:59 PM
Tsk, tsk, tsk. Cruelty to animals man ning gibuhat ni Ms. Isle...
Quote from: chicogon on May 08, 2011, 01:51:36 PM
Si Ms. Isle tuas likod maoy tig paghot
Quote from: Hans de Ruijter on May 08, 2011, 03:56:07 AM
Maayo diay na kay daghan ug ambongan ug mga waffa diri.... pero klarohon nato ni ug unsa man ning mga ambongan ug mga waffa diri --- sa wa pay uso ang TAWO? or uso na ang mga TAWO? nindot ang klaro di ba? :-)

Quote from: Hans de Ruijter on May 07, 2011, 01:44:27 PM
@Chicogon - sakto ka ingon siya "when I retire" - mao na iyang sulti ana man ta tanan padulong wa man ta magkabata, aw depende pod na usahay kay dunay nagkatigulang ang edad nagkaway boot man pod... :-)
Quote from: Hans de Ruijter on May 07, 2011, 05:56:13 AM
Una sa tanan si Hans di na kamao mobinisaya kay tungod lagi KUNOHAY sa atong impression para niya nga kitang mga bol-anon HOSPITABLE kuno,kamao mo-respeto sa ubang tawo KUNO miapil-apil siya diri without expecting nga mahimo ra siyang COMEDY tungod sa iyang name...
Lahi ang komedya ug bugalbugal, dili siya kasakay sa komedya or bugalbugal kay gibinisaya man pagsulat. Salamat....
Quote from: Hans de Ruijter on May 07, 2011, 05:45:25 AM
@ Islander
@ Hosefina
@ Chicogon
@ Bambi
Thanks for the warm welcome...

Quote from: Way Nada on May 06, 2011, 04:41:00 PM
I'm not insisting on my logic. It's you who is persistent. I am siding with Enrile, Maceda, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Gen, Jonathan Wainwright, the US and the Philippine governments that the Marcos medals are genuine. That is simple logic.***
WN
Quote from: Way Nada on May 06, 2011, 02:15:35 PM
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"Naturally politics is playing as usual." That is your quote not mine. But Marcos is not playing politics... he is a dead man. His enemies are playing politics with a dead body. A sort of desecration of the dead.
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If you have unimpeachable evidence then you must go to the proper venue and complain that Marcos medals are fake. Anyway Gen. Restituto Aguilar I believe will entertain your evidence thus saying; "Those who contest the authenticity of his [Marcos] medals should substantiate their allegations. It shall undergo investigations and should follow a processâ€. So that once and for all the Marcos medals' issue will come to a stop.
WN
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Quote from: Way Nada on May 06, 2011, 01:48:33 PM
So if you are agreeable... therefore the issue against the Marcos medals is politically motivated. It is true that denigrating and mudslinging are often used by vested interest group to take issue to further a political end. By asserting an idea under the protection of freedom of the press can you smear, defame or sully the reputation of a person? This is often predicated on lies and falsehood and I think this is wrong especially if the person concerned is a dead man.
Marcos since he first ran for election in 1948 he capitalized on his medals to attract voters to vote for him. He campaigned in the 1965 presidential election comparing him a war hero to the Liberal Party candidate Sergio Osmena Jr. who was selling scrap iron to the Japanese army during the war.
There was never an issue that his medals are fake until in 1982 a certain Bonifacio Gillego came out with his allegation that the Marcos medals are not genuine who relies his information from people supposedly Marcos comrades in arms during WW-II. Therefore it's a sort of info coming from gossip and political innuendoes... which is why they are really false. And more... not a single information from him that says; he sourced it from the archives of the US and Philippine military.
WN
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Quote from: bol-anon quo nyur! on May 06, 2011, 01:16:03 PM
I was in DAVAO CITY during the SNAP ELECTION, & what i saw & experienced during those times is the TOTAL OPPOSITE sa gi ingon ni WAY NADA....what a JOKE!
)Quote from: Way Nada on May 05, 2011, 02:12:18 PM
islander wrote:
"heroes are deemed worthy of the name, so why should the article's writer still ask if he were worthy of the name when he can settle for simply asking whether he was a hero or not?"
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You are right! "Heroes are deemed worthy of the name." Other people think he is not worth the name of a hero. But honorable men like Gen. Jonathan Wainwright and Gen. Douglas MacArthur think otherwise. They believed Marcos is a hero by honoring him [Marcos] with war medals. These war medals were awarded to Marcos at the time when the war in the Philippines was raging in 1942. The US and Philippine governments never reported that those medals awarded to Marcos were fake medals.
I for one agree with the 2 generals.
WN
Quote from: Way Nada on May 05, 2011, 01:25:19 PM
islander wrote:
the bogeyman of communism was his most convenient reason then, from the plaza miranda bombing (as yet unsolved) to the supposed ambush of enrile (solved, with enrile admitting that it was plain drama). even the assassination of benign aquino jr was at once blamed on the communists.
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Bogeyman? hehehe... I think this is the usual terminology of the Marcos critics to discredit Martial Law.
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And one thing I can say about Enrile is that; when his life was already in danger during his defiance against Marcos and to attract sympathy from the people he invented a story that his "ambush" was staged by Marcos. His story is unbelievable because it was done at the time when he rebelled against his boss Marcos. If it is for the sake of the people... he should have divulged it long time ago.
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islander wrote:
"was the communists’ npa ever a threat to national security in the real sense of the word? on hindsight, but for the usual government yarn then, the more threatening at the time was our own military that had more political power and better weapons than the ragtag npa, which didn’t have the support of the greater part of the population. but the communists provided the marcos government with the best excuse to wield power sans check and balance."
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Yes. The CPP-NPA currently poses the greatest armed threat to the Philippine government and has the widest grass-roots support among the various Philippine leftist insurgent groups. The conflict between the CPP-NPA and the Philippine government has taken thousands of lives since the NPA’s inception. The peace talks between the NDF and the government is going nowhere.
WN
Quote from: Way Nada on May 05, 2011, 05:16:34 PM
islander wrote:
"your belief that marcos deserved all his 27 war medals must have some basis, such as your readings and your choice of what to believe in your readings. that’s your right."
Reply:
Of course! It's not only a belief but it's a fact of history that Marcos was awarded these medals during WW-II.
islander wrote:
"this is mine: what are the bases for the doubts cast over marcos’s medals? in general, some of the medals were earned or bestowed on him in accordance with his own reports and claims. thus, the medals may be authentic but the reasons for their awarding could be fake. (please note the qualifications of “may be†and “could beâ€.)"
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Actually the doubts come from baseless accusation. Devoid of any iota of evidence. The bases for the doubters comes from; "naturally, it was politics as usual." This is straight from the horse's mouth.
WN
Quote from: Way Nada on May 05, 2011, 05:16:34 PM
"Naturally politics is playing as usual."
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islander wrote:
"meantime, when something is questioned, there must be some weakness in that thing."
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Not necessarily. The things that is questioned by the media are the Marcos medals... and some people just swallow it hook, line and sinker. This not strange because there are lots of gullible people around. To show strenght of their claims they should show proof. According to the Philippine government through Gen. Restituto Aguilar; "Those who contest the authenticity of his [Marcos] medals should substantiate their allegations. It shall undergo investigations and should follow a processâ€. Until now nobody shows up to contest the Marcos medals.
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islander wrote:
"your belief that marcos deserved all his 27 war medals must have some basis, such as your readings and your choice of what to believe in your readings. that’s your right."
Reply:
Of course! It's not only a belief but it's a fact of history that Marcos was awarded these medals during WW-II.
Quote from: Way Nada on May 05, 2011, 03:01:41 PM
islander wrote:
"isn't it that the pff only reported what was going on? naturally, it was politics as usual. it’s not as if we don’t know that political campaigns in our political culture will not always bear the mark of mutual mudslinging. it wasn’t as if marcos and his minions didn’t undertake their own negative tirades against their political enemies. remember the “walang alam†slogan against cory aquino? there was, and there will always be, mutual denigration."
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Thanks for your opinion. After all the exchanges of views you admitted that; "naturally, it was politics as usual." I agree! Hehehe...
It's not only the smears and mudslinging but the hate against Marcos and I will also include Erap lingers on... because this is drawn in our political culture of putting down a political adversary. The denigration as you say is very clear and the case of Cory Aquino dubbed as "walang alam" is like the issue attributed to Erap as only an actor. Cory Aquino is no push over when it comes to her education but the "walang alam" is a derision of her in-experience in politics.
WN
Quote from: Lorenzo on May 06, 2011, 08:10:29 AM
Way Nada, I would like to share a quote from from Shakespeare with you, "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."
Tho it may be argued and discussed that Marcos was corrupt etc etc, in the end, the man authored over 90 Republic Acts, all of which are still in effect to this day.
I would like to share a rhetorical question to the rest in here: If he was so bad and if his presence in the Philippines was negative, then why didn't the presidential administrations after Marcos repudiate the some 92 Republic Acts that Marcos authored?
Quote from: Lorenzo on May 06, 2011, 08:21:55 AM
The Malaysians (with the help of the British Forces and Australian Forces) was able to defeat the Indonesian-Malaysian Konfrontasi. The result of which led to Sukarno's loss of legitimacy and an administration change in Indonesia.
I would deign to add that Marcos, who was a law bar top-knotcher, was not as stupid as Sukarno in engaging the Malaysians (with their Commonwealth clout). Tho the state of Malaysia is a British invention and despite North Borneo's historical relations with the Philippines, Marcos knew there really was nothing he could do after Malaysia proved itself that it could defend her right to national sovereignty.
Quote from: Way Nada on May 05, 2011, 01:25:19 PM
islander wrote:
"first with the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, then by martial law, and later by instituting constitutional change (through a rubber stamp constitutional convention) to continue to hold the reins of power."
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The writ of habeas corpus was suspended because Marcos knew about the Plaza Miranda bombing through intelligence reports that it was a prelude of things worse to come. The landing of arms shipment from China aboard M/V Karagatan off the coast of Degoyo Pt. in Luzon was one factor in the declaration of Martial Law. Here is an excerpt of a book narated by a crew member of M/V Karagatan named Ka Terry reported by Jo Clemente of the Inquirer;
"WE STAYED for 10 days at the Chinese naval base playing basketball while they took care of our fishing vessel and loaded boxes of M-14 rifles and ammunitions. In between, we were taught how to use the AK-47 and the anti-aircraft launcher. That could have been the next shipment."
That was Ka Terry speaking in flawless Kapampangan as he described their brief stay in China in 1972. He was part of the crew of the MV Karagatan, the vessel that was tasked with delivering arms for the underground New People's Army in the Philippines.
Ka Terry is now 51 years old.
Quote from: Way Nada on May 05, 2011, 01:25:19 PM
By the way... Romulo Kintanar was executed by the Ka Rosal liquidation squad being a traitor to the communist cause.
Quote from: Way Nada on May 05, 2011, 01:25:19 PM
islander wrote:
"when the philippine free press points out that he “contrived to suppress [that] freedomâ€, it meant that marcos took away the democratic freedom that was known by the filipino people, that freedom for which those soldiers both dead and living fought for during world war 2,..."
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I think you are wrong. He did not contrive to suppress our freedom but the communists did. The bombing of Plaza Miranda created the situation as attested to by Cor. Victor Corpuz... after the fall of Marcos when he returned to his unit in the AFP. Ex senator Jovito Salonga a political opponent of Marcos accused him as the mastermind in the Plaza Miranda bombing; but after listening to accounts of the bombing by former communists Romulo Kintanar who returned to the fold of the law saying that; Plaza Miranda bombing was the brainchild of the communists... he [Salonga] stops his accusation.
Quote from: Way Nada on May 05, 2011, 11:13:20 AM
Marcos allegedly signed an approval to recruit Muslims to be trained clandestinely by the military to sabotage Sabah. In an act of treachery in the person of Ninoy; he divulged to the world of a massacre of muslim in Corregidor. The story of a massacre was a myth creating a crisis for the Philippines when the Australian and the New Zealand navies were deployed right in front of Palawan in defense of Malaysia... an ally in the British commonwealth. The British deployed also the Gurkha Fighters in Sabah to help Malaysia in case the Philippines invade Sabah or North Borneo.
The Philippine government apologized to the Malaysian and the British Commonwealth saying that it was only part of the free rolling Philippine press. But the PFP and other anti Marcos newspapers never rectify their story.
WN
Quote from: Way Nada on May 05, 2011, 11:13:20 AM
Before Martial Law when Ninoy Aquino's popularity as a critic of Marcos got hold of dossiers pertaining to Muslims massacred [This was known as the Jabidah Massacre.] by the military in Corregidor the PFP and other anti Marcos newspapers bannered the story without even bothering to investigate whether there is truth to their story. Ninoy in a privilege speech spoke of a massacre in congress and that a certain recruit named Arula who survived the massacre was picked up by fishermen in Manila Bay. This was not true and Ninoy believing his own lies went to Sulo to inquire about the person Arula after his speech in congress and he cannot find such a person.

Quote from: Way Nada on May 05, 2011, 11:13:20 AM
islander wrote:
"the philippine free press magazine has always been a critic of any wrongdoings of any administration, marcos’s or not, long before anyone of us here at tb was probably born. it is not as if its opinion makers (the columnists) focused only on marcos’s time. it did have more of marcos, because there was more to write about him considering the number of years he had stayed at malacañang."
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The PFP should understand that publishing the "truth is always an overmatch" for lies and falsehood. But like the Philippine Free Press whether the disputed issue is a lie doesn't matter as long as contending parties pay the PFP well. The ethical point here is to rectify what had been published as lies and falsehood. But not for the PFP!
Quote from: Lorenzo on May 06, 2011, 04:35:16 AM
This is a very interesting discourse. Thanks Way Nada, Islander, Manong Hubs and all the rest.
Quote from: hubag bohol on May 05, 2011, 03:58:02 PM
If Ka Terry is 51 now, he was 12 in 1972. Hmm, precocious kid...
Quote from: Way Nada on May 05, 2011, 09:28:39 AM
islander wrote:
"the irony in the life of marcos is that he made his own life ironic. there's no doubt about his sincerity when he ran for the top office of the land in the beginning. along the way, he fell victim, or he allowed himself to be victimized, by the heady addiction of power, and ended up refusing to go down by whatever means. he was a despot, no matter how we look at it, and like most other despots in the world, he wanted to keep power within his family."
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This is also the irony if we believe too much of the newpapers who cast aspersion and bias opinion against Marcos. If you have no doubt in his sincerity of running for the highest office of the land then it's not addiction. His declaration of Martial Law was to save the Philippines from communist despotism. In 1972 it's either Marcos dictatorship or communist despotism.
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islander wrote:
"the fact that he had a memo prepared for his wife to take over his presidency of the land is not a media invention, as we may know."
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It's a media invention and there is no memo of that kind. I think the government introduced by Marcos is new to us and most do not understand how it works. We are being misled by the media that if Marcos dies Imelda will take over. No... it is not that way a parliamentary system works. Cesar Virata who was the prime minister will call for an election.
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islander wrote:
"whatever wrong values were brought along by our colonizers have nothing to do with his decision to stay on and on and on."
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It was not his decision to stay on forever. He was elected by the people.
WN
Quote from: chicogon on May 06, 2011, 02:01:40 AM
Uy! Dia ra si Incredible BT = Bo Toy!!! a.k.a. Benny Tibbets (BT) kuno, bisag BT as in Bo Toy jud na!!!![]()

Quote from: chicogon on May 06, 2011, 01:49:28 AM
Bwahahahaha!!! Orig...
How 'bout green hubag, duna? Dare!!!![]()

Quote from: chicogon on May 06, 2011, 01:36:01 AM
Daan ko pa lagi


