Well I blew it again

 So we still have Kuya's mom in our meeting room because so many are dying that the funeral company can't bury her until today.

Family is all here.

I go on and off to the room: no one there during off hours so I say a prayer then leave...and if someone is there I talk to these local friends and relatives.

So anyway, last night I left early, took a nap and went over at 9 pm and voila Joy's pastor, a small independent Pentecostal church pastor (who is a good guy by the way) was asked to give a talk/sermon or some prayers.

Instead he gave the long boring "You need to accept Jesus and then you can go to heaven" talk that is given at every birthday celebration, wedding etc. sort of evangelizing the captured audience who is there for a different reason and the tall has nothing to do with why they are there

Telling the local Catholics, who often have a personal relationship with God and Jesus and Mary as part of their extended Filipino family, that if they don't do it the right way they are going to hell.

So in the talk there was no mention of the faith of the dead lady. No discussion on how God wipes our tears away and death does not conquer. And of course, no mention of who Jesus is (they don't have to of course because the lax Filipino Catholics already know who he is).

So I told pastor off.

Why do I end up telling off pastors?

My F..... pride of course. And frustration that people are dying of hunger for God but the clergy are busy with meaningless rhetoric or pushing woke stuff that has nothing to do with what ordinary folk face.

Sigh.

Three Hail Marys for me in repentence (St Peter holds the keys and keeps out sinnders, but Catholics know Mary will let them in the side door if they love God and do their best).

Family news

 Kuya's mother died Sunday night. When he moved her here instead of putting her into a nursing home in the USA it was to care for her with family: stage 4 cancer and renal failure. 

But actually the terminal event was the virus going around:(Influenza?)

It put me into bed for four days, and everyone had it. so despite using gloves and masks, she started with the fever and flu symptoms and just got weaker and weaker. We kept her hydrated but she would only take fluids (ensure and clear liquids) so we didn't hospitalize her. But the last two days she just became weaker and she slipped away Sunday evening while I was watching her so her son, who was sitting with her could get a meal.

it is usually cool this time of the year, but with El Nino it has been as hot as the hot season that usually starts in January. And so  there have been a lot of deaths of the elderly in the area, maybe from the heat making their diabetes and high blood pressure worse, or maybe from this virus going around Asia (Our granddaughter had it in Thailand where many are also sick).

well, anyway, it means setting up the viewing in our meeting room where the Baptist church meets. 

The pastor moved his stuff out for the casket and seats and tables so visitors can eat. We also have to clean up the guest rooms upstairs for family that is visiting. 

Usually people visit and eat and talk until the formal service and burial.

Since she was Baptist, the usual outside tent where the men play cards and drink beer so they can stay awake all night keeping watch is not being done. So last night I was alone on the night shift from midnight to 4 pm to keep watch.

 some of the family arrived today and will arrive tomorrow. Burial is Saturday if the funeral association can arrange her internment.

So anyway, blogging will remain slow for the next few days.

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this video is from a Yank who blogged about the customs here:

Family news

 I had influenza last week and am new better. The others here have mild cases also, and although this means I have been avoiding checking Chano's mom (using a mask and hand washing), it now seems that she has a sore throat and cough and has trouble eating.

She was brought here for essentially hospice care, since she was getting too weak to stay in a self care home, and there were plans to transfer her to a full nursing home. 

(She is 90 years old and has cancer that has come back and kidney failure,)

So her son decided to go pick her up and bring her to the Philippines where family could hire full time caregivers and she would be with those who love her instead of with strangers and family visiting only on weekends.

 Alas, a week after she arrived, her cancer started bleeding again, and she essentially became bedridden, not even able to go around to eat at the table in her wheel chair.

She is now semi comatose and  only taking fluids. To make things more complicated, she is in chronic renal failure but she and the family turned down dialysis last year, so she also has this problem (i.e. has to take a dozen pills a day, low protein low salt diet). 

Essentially she is dying, and her son is very upset about this, since he thought she would improve with better care and staying with family. Her granddauhter warned him that elders have a high death rate if you transfer them to a nursing home or another care situation, and I have seen this happen a lot and also warned him..

so anyway, the plan is now to just keep her comfortable and keep her at home. 

This is what we did with my husband, who also was 90 years old and had cancer.

But anyway, blogging will be limited for awhile.

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update: Chano's mom died in the evening so they have to clean up the meeting room for the wake and arrange to pick up relatives at the airport later this week.

Blogging will be light for that reason.

what happens in the philippines

When you eat In a restaurant on your birthday they sing happy birthday to you.

Time goes on

alternative hisory for later watching

 posting to watch later on my tablet:

learning how Pope Gregory the Great faced hoards of Goths invading the former Roman empire comes to mine.

Here is another summary.

that site is Lyndon Larouche offspring of course. But the Anglo conspiracy theories go back to before WWI.

Professor Quigley call your office. They are at it again.

Paging Senator Church: The CIA is doing it again

 

The past few days, I got my hands on thousands of new transcripts and hundreds of recordings, thanks to leads from @SKDoubleDub33 and @iamlisalogan . You've heard that the DSA is proposing structural reforms to America, including abolishing the Senate and imposing term limits. What you not have heard is - there is an operational plan to put it all into action. If the Democratic Party sweeps 2026, then DSA will become "foot soldiers" in constant clashes with the administration to cross a "red line" or invoke a "doomsday scenario" - meaning, President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, probably sometime in 2027. Then, a lot of coordinated responses kick off, including delegitimizing the federal government itself and handing that legitimacy to Democratic governors. 2028 then becomes a vote on whether to keep America governance as-is or to burn it all down to appease a "young and brown" demographic. The mysterious group who's been coordinating 50501, Indivisible, and coordinating the NoKings protests is called "United Democracy Alliance" and their intellectual leader is Erica Chenoweth who came up with the 3.5% rule of nonviolent regime change. Patience. I know I've hyped this more than anything else. It's genuinely the biggest discovery I've had. This is an enormous archive. This is only the beginning.

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) October 18, 2026

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the Church committee summary at Wikipedia

I am so old that it was the liberals in the Democratic party who looked into the CIA shennanigans.

Family news

My grand daughter is visiting family so lots of food for us to eat.

Kuya's mom is now here and quite weak and having some complications from her cancer, but now the pain and bleeding have stopped so hopefully she is okay. I suggested taking her to the hospital, and got our cousin Dr Angi to examine her and she agreed, but at 89 with end stage renal disease and cancer, the family prefers hospice mode, so she is here and now the crisis has passed and she is better.

I had sterp throat and now have bronchitis, so have been staying in my room most of the day instead of going out to restaurants which is what we had planned to do.