When you’re strange faces come out in the rain, when you’re strange no one remembers your name…
CALL IT a script for the theater of the absurd, perhaps riffs straight from the avant- garde music of the New York Jazz Ensemble. Definitely the improvisation will come together in the end as always, or not. But it does not really matter. Anyway, here we go again…
Cong. Lord Allan Velasco is a poor imitation of Maria Ressa. His fight is in the session hall of Congress and not in social media. He needs to prove himself among his peers and not with the netizens.
What’s all the fuss about “gentlemen’s agreement” and “word of honor”? For God’s sake, Velasco and Cayetano are politicians and not members of the “Kingsman” secret service where “manners maketh the man.”
But really, Velasco is an amateur and no match for the veteran and wily Cayetano. I seriously doubt he will become Speaker of the House of Representatives. At least not while Cayetano is still alive.
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President Rodrigo Duterte just got a 91 percent trust and approval rating, according to the latest Pulse Asia survey. So does this mean “democracy is dead” again for nth time? Maybe this is another “assault on press freedom”?
I pity the wokes, Frappuccino-infused so-called millennials, trendy social climbers, “devotees to the cult of the yellow ribbon” and the rest of the three percent. Every morning they wake up and Duterte is still President.
And to rub salt to their bleeding hearts, the latest Pulse Asia survey results show the “hated” Duterte got an impressive 91 percent approval and trust rating despite all the demolition jobs.
It must be really difficult, I mean painful to accep. I do find this quite hilarious though watching them squirm in their Marks and Spencer knickers.
Too bad all that analysis and self-gratification won’t erase the fact that Duterte is still President and has 91 percent approval and trust rating.
As I said before, all that analysis is just nonsense. The purpose is really to somehow ease the pain of waking up every morning that Duterte is still President.
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Leni Robredo’s handlers should just fire her. Despite all the makeovers, props and costume changes, all she managed to get was the lowest trust and approval rating among the country’s top government officials. Why, even Speaker Alan Cayetano fared much better than her. She got something like 50 percent – a poor score compared to Cayetano’s 70-plus percent.
But at least, Leni Robredo get to take home the purple and the pink outfits, the supposedly intelligent-looking eyeglasses, and the brand new books, including the table and chair.
The crushed dolomites have largely been forgotten. Now it’s all about analyzing the results of the latest Pulse Asia survey. First, they were volcanologists ,then epidemiologists and virologists, environmentalists, and now social scientists and statisticians. Somewhere in between they were also experts on crushed dolomites.
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Meanwhile I’ll just park this: “Since MORE Power was given a franchise as a distribution system under Republic Act No. 11212, thus, it can expropriate properties which are needed in the efficient establishment, improvement, upgrading, rehabilitation, maintenance, and operation of the distribution system…” – Judge Nestle Go, Branch 24, Iloilo Regional Trial Court
It is what it is. Whether we like it or not, we just have to accept it and move on.
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And we segue to: “People Are Strange”. It is a single released by the American rock band the Doors in September 1967 from their second album “Strange Days” which was also released in September 1967.
In an article on AllMusic review, the song reflects the group’s fascination with the theatrical music of European cabaret. The song is about alienation and being an outsider, and Jim Morrison may have addressed the song both to the hippie culture, to outsiders in general or to users of drugs such as LSD, or both.
The Doors, of course, are probably the best band that represents the music of the counterculture era of the 1960s.
Counterculture is a subculture whose values and norms of behaviour differ substantially from those of mainstream society, often in opposition to mainstream cultural mores.
The Doors were inspired by Aldous Huxley‘s book “The Doors of Perception” which itself was a reference to a quote made by William Blake, “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.”
It does seem like strange days indeed./PN
