But regardless of whether or not surveys do or do not influence how people vote, what is clear to me is that electing a leader means choosing the person with the best qualifications for a position and that involves examining a candidate's worthiness based on a criteria. Of course, the criteria by itself will not do you any good unless you get to know as much as you can about the other candidates. Read more »
Good advice from Gordon: 10 Principles of Success
You can always tell good advice from bad advice just by looking at the life of the one who is giving it. Recently, MONEYSENSE MAGAZINE came out with an issue featuring Presidential candidate Richard “Dick” Gordon and in that edition, Lynda C. Corpuz wrote a sidebar piece on Gordon’s 10 principles of success. I am [...] Read more »
Who is leading in Philippine Presidential online polls?
Right now on the web, there are a lot of online polls where you can cast your vote for one Philippine Presidential candidate or another. Each online poll has a claim of being more better than the other but there is no way of really knowing what criteria to apply to figure out which is [...] Read more »
Pinoy Buzz: Now Buzzing at Better Philippines
Better Philippines offered to share his blog with me after learning that my own blog over at Asian Correspondent would be taken off the website’s roster. It will take a couple of days before my original blog www.pinoybiz.blogspot.com becomes visible again and I am now wondering if it will be worth fixing up after having [...] Read more »
Debate! Debate! Debate!
Here’s a little something from the brilliant minds over at Idiotic Filipinos. If you would like to see real change in this country you can help. Read on. A Debater’s Wet Dream Imagine this all the candidates running for the office of the President of the Republic, on air over free TV and major AM radio [...] Read more »
An Educated Approach To Screening Out Crap
There’s a mini-revolution taking place over at the group blog FilipinoVoices. A number of bloggers and commenters there are engaged in an effort to change the way Filipinos evaluate political candidates. Much credit goes to the blogger known as BenignO who came up with the catchphrase “Platform, plez!” which will serve as a reminder to [...] Read more »
Maraming Salamat Po Comelec
Today’s Filipino youth will have to thank the Commission on Elections for ensuring that they too will have the chance to experience the joys of manual elections. If not for the Comelec’s incompetence, the younger generation of Filipinos will have been denied the opportunity to see firsthand how votes are rendered useless. The older generations [...] Read more »
Good Luck Mr. David
Sociologist and TV personality Randy David has taken a strong stand against the alleged plan of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to run for a seat in Congress in 2010. From GMANews.TV “Nakakahiya naman yata ang mga Kapampangan kung walang ni isang hahamon, tatayo at hahadlang sa kanyang mga balakin [It would be a shame for [...] Read more »
Election Subsidy, Bigger LGU Budgets… “Pwede Na Yan”
The 2nd ANC Leadership Forum was not without its share of motherhood statements thanks to Senator Loren Legarda, MMDA Chairman Bayani Fernando, Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay and Former President Joseph Estrada. Thankfully, the participants, with the exception of Estrada, managed to slip in a few ideas worth exploring. These are: 1. government subsidy for election [...] Read more »
Introducing: “Hindi Ako Uto-Uto” Movement
Recent events have inspired me to think of what else can be done for the country aside from blogging for change. Well, since movements for change seem to be in vogue these days I thought I might as well join the bandwagon. So here’s my humble attempt. “Hindi Ako Uto-Uto” Movement “Hindi Ako Uto-Uto” Movement [...] Read more »
