WAR OR PEACE - senate must impeach TRUMP

There can be no World War 3 in the present conflict. The USA will not go to another expensive war in the Middle East, even if it has to abandon Baghdad the way it abandoned Saigon.

If the USA’s war dogs (ISIS and other terror groups) failed to unseat Assad of Syria, how does it expect to win a war against Iran?

The endless war in Iraq and Syria is a proxy war between the USA and Iran, and it looks like…The USA is losing the proxy war on all fronts. If Trump expects to win reelection by going to war, he is stupendously wrong unless the American People are stupendously stupid. One way to appease the mullahs in Iran is for the Senate to impeach Trump. Pelosi should now go to the Senate for the impeachment trial. It will determine WAR or PEACE.

Removing Trump from office can extinguish the flame of anger that is raging in Iran, Iraq, and Syria, and the world can have a sigh of relief.

SUBWAY TALK “yes, we can”

If Makati can build its own subway system (beneath JP Rizal and Ayala Ave), QC can likewise build its own subway beneath EDSA and Quezon Avenue. However, changing the present Metro Manila Mega subway system is too careless and too late. The representative of the 2nd district of Quezon City is out of touch with reality. She wants the Manila mega-subway to be built beneath EDSA instead of C5. She probably didn’t know that the main underground tunnel construction was about to begin.

In the future, Yoreme (Isko Moreno) can build a subway beneath Taft Avenue/Roxas Boulevard, and Mandaluyong-Pasig can develop its own subway beneath Shaw Boulevard.

Sane people can lose their sanity over the EDSA traffic. Ramon Ang of San Mig Corp. has submitted the detailed plan for an elevated EDSA expressway to DOTr. We can expect to hear from the government soon regarding the project.

Some people in the media are now calling Manila MANILA MEGA CITY, no longer Metro Manila. The population will continue to grow, and transportation will deteriorate before it improves, unless the construction of a mass transportation system is accelerated faster than population growth. The future, though, is bright in the sense that all of these big dreams are money-making monsters, meaning the government will not spend a single cent. The private sectors seem to have an endless supply of money where money is to be made—MONEY BEGETS MONEY.

The old man, the mayor of the Philippines, has stirred people's imaginations, where in the past, the government used to tell us that we were too poor to afford a single subway—the Build-Build-Build program has assured us that "yes, we can." The only limit is how high we can reach the sky.

HOW FAR CAN A PRESIDENT BE SO STUPID AND INCOMPETENT? Some portion of the Bicol Express railway was damaged by a typhoon, and instead of putting it back on track – he abandoned it to rot and rust (…so bus companies could make money out of people’s misery?)

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Grandparents BABYSIT

It is when you retire that you find joy not only in driving for the family but babysitting for your grandchildren meaning – YOU ARE A BABYSITTER AND A FAMILY DRIVER.

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The greatest threat to safe driving is the exponential rise of riders (motorcycle) that is not going to get better, never because their numbers will continue to rise. With the new law to curtail the sale of cars to non-garage owners, more people will turn to motorcycles not to mention the rising numbers of online store couriers on two wheels and of course - "Angkas."

August is a "GHOST MONTH"

From time to time, I would check my new toy – a CCTV camera that deceptively resembles an ordinary light bulb (a niece had given it to me a week earlier). In the evening of August 2, I saw a white light or something that resembled a skull. It was 1 minute past midnight. I unlocked the door and checked the terrace. I was hoping, I’ll find a ghost sitting on my car and yeah, I didn’t know until a day earlier that August is a ‘ghost month.’ I was certain, it was a light reflection from somewhere but I didn’t find where it was coming from. The last time I checked was 5 o'clock at dawn and it was still there. I assured myself, I will find it again in the evening. If it is a permanent fixture, it will always be there but the next evening, it wasn’t there.

B4 I 4get: 50 years ago, today - THE MOONWALK

It was the most significant event in the history of humankind…up to that moment in time.

The boarding house was on the 4^th floor of Laperal apartments.

In Marawi City, there was no electricity…sorry, there was, but only for those who could afford it. The light in Marawi, then and now, is an animal that is more often dead than it is alive. When I was young, television was a distant fiction that I saw only in the movies.

I arrived in Manila in 1968.

Our landlady rented two apartments that faced each other. In one apartment, student boarders lived, and in the other, the family lived, which also served as a dining and receiving room, complete with a television.

At 8:00 p.m. on July 19, 1969 (if I remember correctly), all the student boarders huddled together in front of the TV. It was also the first time a global live broadcast of any event took place. It was the dawn of satellite global broadcasting.

By midnight, only half of the original group of about 10 were left. The time of the landing kept changing, and by 6 AM, I was the only one left. When Armstrong finally delivered, “one small step…one giant leap for mankind,” it was past 7 in the morning of July 20, 1969, and I was all alone – a moment I cherish to this day. If it was a hoax, then I was a witness to the greatest hoax in human history.

Fifty years from now…the moon will be a common tourist destination. Human settlers will thrive on Mars, and with my 14-year-old daughter, who is obsessed with astronomy, she will probably make it to the moon and maybe Mars – why not? Technology is no longer a creeper…it is a jumper zooming at the speed of light. Fifty years from now, robots will be exploring the seas of Europa and Enceladus, and maybe they will have found life in those water worlds virtually a stone's throw away from Earth.

If I live long enough to witness the first man walk on Mars, I will sail towards the sunset with a smile on my face.

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MIGHT MAKES RIGHT: Philippine vs China

Persian Gulf or Arabian Gulf...West Philippine Sea or South China Sea?

Since the first man walked on these archipelagos, those clusters of rocks and sand sticking out of the sea have been there. Because we have more than 7,100 Islands - those useless rocks and sands so far, far away were not even registered in our consciousness, and for eons of time, it mattered not to us.

...then came China. They started building beautiful structures. They expanded the Islands by reclamation. They bought lands from the Philippines, where they flattened the hills and mountains, bringing the earth to reclaim the Islands.

When we learned what was going on, it was too late to shout foul. It was too late to say, "Stop! These Islands are ours, but who gave us the right to claim them?" Not a single Filipino living there was arrested or deported by China, meaning those tiny Islands were there for the taking.

What proof do we have that those Islands are ours - nothing. Is it because it is closer to us than China? Why does England claim the Falkland Islands when it is laughably closer to Argentina than England? "Might" makes it right.

Why did Spain claim the Philippines as theirs in the not-so-distant past, and call every Filipino an Indio (slave) - "Might" makes right! 

When the United Nations partitioned Palestine and gave half of it to the Jews (the Philippines voted for it), was it right or was it wrong? When the U.N. arbitration in the Hague declared the West Philippine Sea part of the Philippines' exclusive economic zone, was it right or was it wrong? China says...wrong! Is there anything we can do about it? "Might" makes it right. When Trump said I could not punish the King of Saudi Arabia for the murder of Khashoggi because the king was buying from us billions worth of armaments, the world fell silent - again, "Might" makes right.

DU30 is the world's most competent foul-mouthed leader of our time. He knows how to play the game. It is better to be a friend of China than a war dog of the USA.