OF BOMBINGS AND POLITICAL PLATFORMS.

The recent bombings in Mindanao are quite alarming. Five killed in Cotabato City, and six killed and forty injured at two separate blasts in Jolo and Iligan City.

Are these bombings, in any way, related? Officials will easily shake their heads and deny any possibility that these incidents were related.

The chaos in Mindanao has been a longstanding headache for our government. Sometimes, it feels good to just sit back without having to think about such issues to solve on your own.

How about the government officials? How many times a day do they wince over such matters?

The gravity of this issue should push presidentiables and vice-presidentiables to include this at the top of their political platforms. But of course, it shouldn’t only be included and paraded around to get the candidates voted into office.

PACQUIAO’S FORCE

Boxing champ Manny Pacquiao is dead set on running for a congressional seat in the upcoming elections. His decision already caused controversy and a lot of raised eyebrows. Some say this will easily make a travesty of the 2010 Elections.

Yes, he is the hero of his boxing matches, but what can he really contribute to the dog-eat-dog world of politics? He doesn’t have any political background so to speak. He only has his boxing skills, popularity (a lot of this) and money (a lot of this too) under his belt. I suddenly have this picture of the Taiwanese Political Racket in my mind. Should that happen when Honorable Pacquiao is seated in congress, would he have given his opponent the right hook?

But, whatever Pacquiao’s intention for running is, I still think it should be treated with respect. After all, he is a generous, patriotic and a God-fearing man. Just as long as he can back up his words with a good platform that he will actually act on. May the force be with you, Manny.

BF: THE BUTT OF JOKES.

Don’t you dare touch my posters.

“They shouldn’t do that,” Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chair Bayani Fernando said of the DPWH’s threat to remove the posters. “Unlike other billboards, they don’t pose danger to lives and property.”

But apparently, Mr. Bayani, these posters pose danger to you. The posters, along with the pink urinals with matching fences along EDSA, ill-colored waiting sheds and footbridges have been the butt of jokes by incriminating citizens.

Being the object of ridicule, BF is told to solve a number of issues first before catapulting into presidency. From significant issues such as the traffic in EDSA, to comedic ones such as bad grammar on his signage – WALANG TAWIRAN NAKAMAMATAY, sounds like WALANG TAWIRANG NAKAMAMATAY.

And then, what’s up with this one?

Humorous Filipinos with nothing better to do. I shake my head in dismay. Bayani, how about rescuing yourself first?