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Halloween Part III (0 articles)
Edwin A. Sumcad
It is time for nuisance
candidates to come home to roast for contributing their Halloween pranks in the
most irritating and disgusting manner this coming 2016 presidential election.
Point of reference is the 2008 U.S. presidential election when Barack Obama was
elected president. I documented those annoying front liners diligently, hoping
to roast them during the 2016 presidential election campaign in the most
rib-tickling way possible that will make NBC's Last Comic Standing contestants
delivering their funniest materials sound like a very depressed eulogy for the
dead in the funeral parlor.
The point of their relevance to
this satirical expose is the fact that as a bothering distraction during the election
campaign period, the annoyed public listening to their speeches that are so
boring and forgettable nobody listens to, is an insult to the average American's
intelligence. Their audience only consists of viewers and listeners addicted to
television programs and radio broadcast 24-hours a day who trapped by their
viewing and listening habit are at the same time catching a terrible headache.
From the geopolitical sector, record
shows that Ralph Nader is consistently on top of the list. A never-win
scarecrow candidate [he scares the light of me], he keeps on trying to become
president until the crow turns white, or until he stops to breathe, whichever
comes first.
Nader's Evangelical rivals are
tough competitors too. I'll just pick Chuck Baldwin at random, a political
pastor moonlighting as a radio host of Florida who is an everlasting
presidential candidate for the handful members of the Constitution Party.
Chuck always sends e-mails to
his election campaign audience including me, trying to convince us that he was
the hope of the fatherland once elected president. Then he asks for campaign money
to make that happen.
Claiming as a champion of
morality, the thought of an evangelical candidate begging for money to secure
himself in politics drops my jaw to the floor.
I was in a state of shock, to say the least! I
feared that in the eyes of the Lord what Chuck was doing was biblically objectionable,
perhaps a sin worse than that moral debacle which offended God resulting in the
destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by a rain of fire and brimstones.
But the most eccentric of them
all that mainstream Americans worry about and fear the most in the lineup of
never-win everlasting presidential candidates was Republican Congressman Ron
Paul of Texas. He is a doctor of medicine turned politician-cum moralist, cum-economist,
cum-self-proclaimed monetary expert, internationalist and constitutionalist who
threatened to abolish the Federal Reserves, United Nations, taxation, and
security check in the airport when he is elected president. He was always a
presidential candidate since the first Pilgrim boat -- the Mayflower -- landed
in Virginia, possibly at Cape Cod, not really literally but just to give you an
idea how long ago that was when he started running for president.
For the first time, I do not
see Ron Paul in the current Republican nominee line-up for president but his
son Rand Paul, a Senator from Kentucky had taken over. Judging from his stand
in the Republican debate [in the polls, he hardly made it to the Podium] Sen.
Paul is his son's father who will do exactly what Congressman Paul will do when
elected president. Foremost among those Paulian programs of action are to defund
the nation's national security program, abolish TSA and FDA, and declare into
law the right to drink unpasteurized raw milk and eat uninspected milk products
and farm produce as an absolute freedom of the individual.
Can anybody show me a
perennial non-electable presidential candidate more extremely exciting than the
Congressman from Texas? Of course many viewers of the televised Republican
debates to select the party's standard-bearer, including me believe that the possibility
of any of the father and son getting elected president of the United States is
less than that of a Chinaman's chance. The survival of their presidential
ambition is nil if not zero. Anybody who
swims naked the icy waters of the English channel during winter has a better
chance of surviving.
We can live in a ghost house
and survive the haunting, but I doubt if any of us can survive Paul's America in a world without
international order [no United Nations] in this Armageddon-threatening nuclear
age; a new America without a central bank, without fiscal revenue, no national
security, but with a lot of freedom to drink raw milk and die of Salmonella,
E-Coli and Listeria, and also a lot of liberty and freedom to die in the hands
of terrorists, local murderers, serial killers and bombers. Terrorists are free
to terrorize. Ron Paul repeatedly argued in front of the television camera that
911 was the fault of America, not of Jihad terrorists that killed more than
6,000 innocent civilians in New York.
But in the Philippines, every day is a
Halloween Day of Corruption. My study shows that the Dark shadows of evil
gather together and celebrate Halloween not just on October 31st but every day
except on November 1st which is All Saints Day. The Undead rest on All Saints
Day. Unlike in the United States, Filipinos don't have to wait from 4 to 5 days
following October 31st before the final 10-second- bell of Election Day rings
to get the shock of their life.
The horror of corruption has been legalized.
The multi-billion-dollar DAP-PDAF heist of public funds [Assistance Development
Programs and Priority Development Assistance Fund] is a recently discovered scandal
of yet unimaginable proportion and incomparable magnitude. The modus operandi
was part of the General Appropriation Act [GAA] Congress passed into law. It
attracted international attention only when the Philippine Supreme Court declared
DAP-PDAF unconstitutional. Several Senators and Congressmen and their civilian
accomplices are now facing charges of corruption.
It is reported that the
discovery of this new strain of corruption is just the tip of the iceberg. The
trail of the continuing investigation is said to be leading directly to
President Benigno Aquino III whose term of office expires in 2016.
Records show that for obvious
reasons presidents are charged of plunder only when they leave Malacanang
Palace, the Philippines' equivalent of White House in the United States. As president, President Aquino
himself has under the GAA a 'P1.3 trillion' pork barrel. [2] In comparison, the
staggering amount makes the pork barrels of politicians in Congress combined --
some of them are now charged in court of plunder -- only look like peanuts. But what is more horrifying than this little drop
in the bucket is that majority of Filipinos is not aware or if they are, does
not accept the fact they have elected to office a pork-barrel-president!
And what might be described as
a gigantic tsunami of corruption is yet to come. The eyes and ears of
international observers are on the P399 billion infrastructure projects that
the Aquino administration had proposed for the year 2014. Published reports
indicated this will rise to P820 billion [approximately 5% of the GDP] by the
year 2016. [3] That's when the guillotine drops right on the neck and separates
the head from the body -- actually, the separation of a dead brain from a rotten
heart. Indeed, this metaphor sounds so bloody, but in my roast menu, it is so
Halloween!
In the Philippines, EDSA I and II people
power revolutions erstwhile described as the 'power of the mob' is power that changed
power. With this 'power of the mob' President Marcos and President Estrada were
kicked out of office in a trail of blood.
In comparison, U.S. political
Halloween is David to the Philippines' Goliath. It is so nerve-wracking to
think about it. That's because the bloody Hail Mary [EDSA III] is just around
the corner. #
Edwin A. Sumcad
It is time for nuisance
candidates to come home to roast for contributing their Halloween pranks in the
most irritating and disgusting manner this coming 2016 presidential election.
Point of reference is the 2008 U.S. presidential election when Barack Obama was
elected president. I documented those annoying front liners diligently, hoping
to roast them during the 2016 presidential election campaign in the most
rib-tickling way possible that will make NBC's Last Comic Standing contestants
delivering their funniest materials sound like a very depressed eulogy for the
dead in the funeral parlor.
The point of their relevance to
this satirical expose is the fact that as a bothering distraction during the election
campaign period, the annoyed public listening to their speeches that are so
boring and forgettable nobody listens to, is an insult to the average American's
intelligence. Their audience only consists of viewers and listeners addicted to
television programs and radio broadcast 24-hours a day who trapped by their
viewing and listening habit are at the same time catching a terrible headache.
From the geopolitical sector, record
shows that Ralph Nader is consistently on top of the list. A never-win
scarecrow candidate [he scares the light of me], he keeps on trying to become
president until the crow turns white, or until he stops to breathe, whichever
comes first.
Nader's Evangelical rivals are
tough competitors too. I'll just pick Chuck Baldwin at random, a political
pastor moonlighting as a radio host of Florida who is an everlasting
presidential candidate for the handful members of the Constitution Party.
Chuck always sends e-mails to
his election campaign audience including me, trying to convince us that he was
the hope of the fatherland once elected president. Then he asks for campaign money
to make that happen.
Claiming as a champion of
morality, the thought of an evangelical candidate begging for money to secure
himself in politics drops my jaw to the floor.
I was in a state of shock, to say the least! I
feared that in the eyes of the Lord what Chuck was doing was biblically objectionable,
perhaps a sin worse than that moral debacle which offended God resulting in the
destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by a rain of fire and brimstones.
But the most eccentric of them
all that mainstream Americans worry about and fear the most in the lineup of
never-win everlasting presidential candidates was Republican Congressman Ron
Paul of Texas. He is a doctor of medicine turned politician-cum moralist, cum-economist,
cum-self-proclaimed monetary expert, internationalist and constitutionalist who
threatened to abolish the Federal Reserves, United Nations, taxation, and
security check in the airport when he is elected president. He was always a
presidential candidate since the first Pilgrim boat -- the Mayflower -- landed
in Virginia, possibly at Cape Cod, not really literally but just to give you an
idea how long ago that was when he started running for president.
For the first time, I do not
see Ron Paul in the current Republican nominee line-up for president but his
son Rand Paul, a Senator from Kentucky had taken over. Judging from his stand
in the Republican debate [in the polls, he hardly made it to the Podium] Sen.
Paul is his son's father who will do exactly what Congressman Paul will do when
elected president. Foremost among those Paulian programs of action are to defund
the nation's national security program, abolish TSA and FDA, and declare into
law the right to drink unpasteurized raw milk and eat uninspected milk products
and farm produce as an absolute freedom of the individual.
Can anybody show me a
perennial non-electable presidential candidate more extremely exciting than the
Congressman from Texas? Of course many viewers of the televised Republican
debates to select the party's standard-bearer, including me believe that the possibility
of any of the father and son getting elected president of the United States is
less than that of a Chinaman's chance. The survival of their presidential
ambition is nil if not zero. Anybody who
swims naked the icy waters of the English channel during winter has a better
chance of surviving.
We can live in a ghost house
and survive the haunting, but I doubt if any of us can survive Paul's America in a world without
international order [no United Nations] in this Armageddon-threatening nuclear
age; a new America without a central bank, without fiscal revenue, no national
security, but with a lot of freedom to drink raw milk and die of Salmonella,
E-Coli and Listeria, and also a lot of liberty and freedom to die in the hands
of terrorists, local murderers, serial killers and bombers. Terrorists are free
to terrorize. Ron Paul repeatedly argued in front of the television camera that
911 was the fault of America, not of Jihad terrorists that killed more than
6,000 innocent civilians in New York.
But in the Philippines, every day is a
Halloween Day of Corruption. My study shows that the Dark shadows of evil
gather together and celebrate Halloween not just on October 31st but every day
except on November 1st which is All Saints Day. The Undead rest on All Saints
Day. Unlike in the United States, Filipinos don't have to wait from 4 to 5 days
following October 31st before the final 10-second- bell of Election Day rings
to get the shock of their life.
The horror of corruption has been legalized.
The multi-billion-dollar DAP-PDAF heist of public funds [Assistance Development
Programs and Priority Development Assistance Fund] is a recently discovered scandal
of yet unimaginable proportion and incomparable magnitude. The modus operandi
was part of the General Appropriation Act [GAA] Congress passed into law. It
attracted international attention only when the Philippine Supreme Court declared
DAP-PDAF unconstitutional. Several Senators and Congressmen and their civilian
accomplices are now facing charges of corruption.
It is reported that the
discovery of this new strain of corruption is just the tip of the iceberg. The
trail of the continuing investigation is said to be leading directly to
President Benigno Aquino III whose term of office expires in 2016.
Records show that for obvious
reasons presidents are charged of plunder only when they leave Malacanang
Palace, the Philippines' equivalent of White House in the United States. As president, President Aquino
himself has under the GAA a 'P1.3 trillion' pork barrel. [2] In comparison, the
staggering amount makes the pork barrels of politicians in Congress combined --
some of them are now charged in court of plunder -- only look like peanuts. But what is more horrifying than this little drop
in the bucket is that majority of Filipinos is not aware or if they are, does
not accept the fact they have elected to office a pork-barrel-president!
And what might be described as
a gigantic tsunami of corruption is yet to come. The eyes and ears of
international observers are on the P399 billion infrastructure projects that
the Aquino administration had proposed for the year 2014. Published reports
indicated this will rise to P820 billion [approximately 5% of the GDP] by the
year 2016. [3] That's when the guillotine drops right on the neck and separates
the head from the body -- actually, the separation of a dead brain from a rotten
heart. Indeed, this metaphor sounds so bloody, but in my roast menu, it is so
Halloween!
In the Philippines, EDSA I and II people
power revolutions erstwhile described as the 'power of the mob' is power that changed
power. With this 'power of the mob' President Marcos and President Estrada were
kicked out of office in a trail of blood.
In comparison, U.S. political
Halloween is David to the Philippines' Goliath. It is so nerve-wracking to
think about it. That's because the bloody Hail Mary [EDSA III] is just around
the corner. #
