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They say the number one killer disease in the Philippines is Cardiovascular disease.I disagree. It is Selective amnesia.It kills people's hope, pride and patriotism. It doesn't only kill people, it kills a country. (march 28,'08)

Spratly Islands consist of more than 100 island or reefs are basking on rich fishing grounds and potentially veeery rich gas and oil deposits. These islands are the subject of disputes among asian countries where about forty-five islands are occupied by relatively small numbers of military forces form China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines. Brunei has established a fishing zone that overlaps a southern reef but has not made any formal claim.
Why are these islands disputed?
Spratly Region is one of the busiest shipping lanes with rich oil and gas deposits.
How much is the deal for Spratly?
How about 2 billion dollars a year. this is the said commitment of the Chinese government as a development assistance to GMA government until 2010 where her term ends.
If she steps down.(march 13,'08)

Apologies to the pigs, crocs and serpents squirming and dissenting with rage crying "UNFAIR!!"for comparing them to the crooks sitting comfy in those offices. For the truth is, nothing could be worse than government officials who advertise themselves as savior of the poor,get themselves elected into office, and in the end, rob the people in broad daylight.(march 09,'08)

Enrollment woes greet parents during months of June and October. annual tuition fee increases, expensive school supplies and books eat most, if not all, of the month's budget. It is also during these times the long queues of "loaners'"at t GSIS and pag-ibig offices are observed."loan loan kalipay...human likay-likay"

President GMA was in a molar to molar smile when she announced that the first round of salary increase (after six years of DROUGHT i mean, on terms of salary hikes) will finally take it toll. The people, especially the government employees felt otherwise. The much ballyhooed salary increase is long overdue.. no wonder, the recipients (which i am one of them) remain stoic. To receive is to believe, eh?

This cartoon was never published in the edgeDAVAO. its size does not fit the format of the edgedavao layout. this was the format i used when i was with the Mindanao Daily Mirror. I was the editorial cartoonist of mdm for 18 years. It was my home. It still is. (april 24, '08)

Wasting two to three hours every morning just waiting to buy a kilo or two of NFA rice is sure very unproductive. But this is the usual scene we see every morning when we pass by Milan area in Buhangin market. (april 11, '08)

Ironic. Our state universities used to teach those guys from our asian neighboring countries agricultural technologies. We did not only export rice and other agri produce to their countries, we also export technology and knowledge. After three decades, the scenario backtracked 180 degrees. Once a leader, now a tailender. (april 04, '08)