Yes, but why are they obese? Genes? Or something else?
so who do they blame? TV and fast foods, of course...or is it something else? Rant moved to my xanga blog...
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ATF loses track of 1400 guns...the right wing blogosphere is all over this one...
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What is Google+? Wired article explains it to you...or for the rest of us: Father Z's readers explain it to him.
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Forbes asks: Has the gov't spent all of the social security trust fund?
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After a week of headlines saying the gov't illegally gave 7 SUV's (actually seven vehicles, including pickups and ambulances) to certain Catholic bishops to use in charity work (but might have been used for religious reasons), the bishops apologized and gave them back.
This resulted in the Senate and Charity offiicials backtracking and saying no, it's okay to use them for charity...
Senate President Pro Tempore Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada, Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III, and Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson asked the bishops to reconsider their decision to return the controversial vehicles to the PCSO.
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile later joined the call of Estrada, Sotto, and Lacson that the bishops should keep the vehicles which are being used for their charity and community work in rugged, mountainous areas in Luzon and Mindanao.
It's propaganda, of course: to punish them for opposing the RH bill, of course, and it diverts the public from the real scandals of diverted charity money
Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago suspects that a media spin doctor has used the controversy involving some Church leaders and their government-donated vehicles to draw public attention away from an “unauthorized” P1.5-billion bank deposit made by officials of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) in 2009...
“Why concentrate on the P7 million given to the bishops when there are billions that were apparently abused or wasted? Why are we being led down this path? Who is manipulating the scenarios?” she stressed.
and then there is this testimony related to the Amputuan massacre trial:is
This is, of course, one project in one area...
In the draft affidavits, Zaldy alleged that former Agrarian Reform Secretary Nasser Pangandaman collected the P200 million in kickbacks in three farm-to-market road projects in Central Mindanao for remittance to then President Arroyo.
In the meanwhile, we saw two soldiers guarding the parking lot in the mall (some shoplifters were caught a few weeks ago), and the cops are inspecting the various tricycles on the main road.
And finding loot:
Police and environment officials intercepted last June 30 a shipment of 19 geckos, locally called "tuko" at a checkpoint in Aliaga.
The geckos are used in Chinese and Korean herbal medicine to treat HIV and cancer.
but the real economic problem here is that smuggled onions from China are underpricing our local faremrs, and some of the mayors want to please the rich environmental lobby in Manila by banning plastic bags.
This is not a "grass roots" initiative...and carrying tote bags would work, but since these will allow folks to shoplift, one wonders how much money will be lost to petty theft from these laws.
And I wonder what the bribe will be to the cops to look the other way for using plastic bags?
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