This weeks edition of Retards in the Government is packed chock full of hard hitting tales of stupidity and idiocy and even tomfoolery. If I left anything out please add a link in the comment section here and on the
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The mayor of Sipalay has been suspended for 90 days for "
defying the order of the Office of the Ombudsman to suspend five city officials in 2008."
In an order dated Jan. 3, the anti-graft court suspended Treñas for 90 days for allegedly using government funds for the construction of the office of the Iloilo Press Club (IPC).
The charges against Treñas stemmed from the allegedly anomalous release of P500,000 in public funds to the IPC, a non-government organization, in December 2003 and January 2004.
This article is not clear but it seems as if a complaint concerning something that happened 14 years ago was recently filed resulting in the 90 day suspension of this official.
When all sides of the corrupt Philippine government are calling a judicial ruling suspicious and stinky then you know something fishy is really going on.
The rationale behind raising the salaries of PNP officers is that it will prevent corruption and increase performance (as if corruption is all about money and power plays no role). The lowest ranking officers will be getting a 100% pay raise from 15k to 30k per month. Going with this kind of Fil-logic wouldn't doubling teachers' salaries increase performance and result in smarter students?
It is doubtful anyone will ever be held liable for importing these drugs.
The Duterte administration and its defenders are understandably elated that the Philippines has been labeled as the fastest growing economy in the ASEAN. It's a sign of Duterte's successful economic policies. But a growing GDP does not necessarily translate into jobs.
“I am in the thick of firing people. I intend to fire another maybe 70 or 49 policemen and three generals for corruption,” he was quoted as saying in a news release from his Communications Office.
Does he notice that the more people he fires the more corruption there is? It's like whack-a-mole. Might be best to dismiss all elected and appointed officials and leave the entire government in the hands of one man who is clean and above reproach.
This elected official of Bohol is accused to murdering his wife and dumping her body. As of now her body has not been found.
Drugs on the street are originating in the prison. How? The implications of such a truth are overwhelming. It would mean that every official in the prison system is corrupt. It also raises a lot of questions like how did the prisoners or guards get a hold of these drugs in the first place? Are they manufacturing them? Let's not think about it though. There are bigger fish to fry in the war against drugs.
These included 53 Mercedes Benz sports cars; 30 Hummers; 21 BMWs of various models; seven Porsches consisting of 911, Boxster and Carrera units; a Ferrari F355 Berlinetta; and a Lamborghini Murcielago.
The rest of the vehicles were right-hand drive passenger vans, sedans and miniwagons. These are now parked in a five-hectare yard in Casambalangan, a village about a kilometer from Port Irene.
It seems the problem is that these vehicles were imported at a place where they should not have been imported. These vehicles have been sitting idle since 2013 and no one has yet been charged with a crime. The real crime here would be destroying all these valuable cars rather than auctioning them off and using the proceeds to fund various government programs like free tuition or even the Marawi rehabilitation. Really how likely is it that these cars will be destroyed only on paper?
By all means lets have a plebiscite so all these very intelligent people can make their voices heard by voting on the new Constitution which they won't fully comprehend.
It's not only Duterte who has contempt for the Supreme Court.
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) hopes to keep its preferential trade arrangement with the European Union (EU), expecting the bloc would to look past the “political noise” under the Duterte administration, a top official said.
"Political noise?" Like Duterte saying, "Fuck you, we don't need you!"? They probably will look past it as the EU is notorious for letting the third world walk all over its member states. See Germany and Sweden!
Cayetano, who led the ceremonial launching of the 10-year validity passport, said the DFA already made reforms to curb opportunities for racketeers.
But Cayetano did not dismiss the possibility of having fixers who may have a connection inside the DFA.
Maybe not stupid but definitely willingly ignorant for the right price.
Small time local officials behaving badly all for a little money.
Nothing to see here folks. Move along. Move along. Nothing extravagant about celebrating your birthday all week and ending it with a huge party which included "Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Zhao Jianhua and Russian Ambassador Igor Khovaev" as guests and even featured
President Duterte singing a song to the birthday boy. It was obviously just a "very simple" affair.
What if they did a SWS survey for each controversial provision and then wrote the constitution based on the results? It would be sure to pass a plebiscite then.
THE House of Representatives declared November 8 of every year as a special non-working holiday in Eastern Visayas to remember the victims of Supertyphoon “Yolanda,” which hit the country in 2013.
An annual painful reminder of this horrible natural disaster and the government's incompetent handling of the aftermath is just what the country needs.
Cayetano defends this indefensible act by stating that no laws were broken. None except those of common sense.
The Duterte administration has been attempting to get rid of this lady since August 2016 when all Aquino appointees were asked to resign. She declined to do so and ever since she has been thrown to the sidelines even being barred from attending cabinet meetings. Now after false allegations of grave misconduct and a phone call from higher up she has finally gotten the message and decided to resign. Or Duterte fired her.
Jimenez is the founder of the VACC which is the organisation going around suing and filing impeachment cases against Duterte's political opponents. No conflict of interest here.
"In international law, the decision itself is the implementation of the law because that’s a statement of the rights of the parties which cannot be extinguished... I really do not understand, with all due respect to Justice Carpio, he really is recognized as the intellectual heavyweight in the court, why he insists that any country including China must accept it," Roque said.
I admit I am not a lawyer but all of this sounds like mental gymnastics to me. The decision is the implementation? No country is compelled to accept the decision granting this disputed area to the Philippines? At least the Duterte administration's position on China's activities in the SCS is becoming clearer by the day. As if it wasn't clear enough already. And now they are allowing China to poke around in the Eastern Pacific to see what valuable gas and mineral deposits they can harvest.
Bato forgets that in the case of abusive priests they are usually moved around and the situation hushed up until it all comes out and then the organisation is always to blame for not dealing with the problem properly.
I guess we are just going to have to seek out a peaceful coexistence with all these rogue cops.
"Do it with moderation and do not use words that tend to cast aspersion on the character," said Duterte on Tuesday, January 16, during an event in Pasay City.
The amount of hypocrisy in these words is unbelievable. I have yet to read an article in any newspaper that has used the type of foul language or insinuations which freely fly from Duterte's mouth.
Police officers who drink and drive and use their patrol cars for practice driving and going to bars, be warned.
President Rodrigo Duterte said he was once so enraged over being disobeyed that he slapped and kicked a drunken officer who crashed a police pickup truck newly acquired by Davao City when he was its mayor.
“There was this stupid policeman—drunk … But he drove one of those new Isuzu pickups that I just bought at that time … [and] crashed it,” said Mr. Duterte, who also became known as “The Punisher” for his tough approach to crime.
“I slapped him twice and kicked him in the stomach,” he added.
Perhaps Bato can start employing this technique against rogue cops.
I am tempted to say, "It's about time someone said something about this word" but then I realised he can't even get it right! Con-ass is not a an acronym. It's an abbreviation.
The Ombudsman accused Yap and eight PhilRice officials of approving from 2008 to 2009 a car plan that allowed 10 employees to obtain personal loans from Philippine National Bank, which were secured with PhilRice’s own funds.
Also charged was trustee Gelia Castillo despite her having died. Article 89 of the Revised Penal Code extinguishes the criminal liability of an accused who dies while the case is pending.
In addition to the living defendants the Ombudsman will also be prosecuting a dead woman.
All this over a ticket for parking in a "no parking zone."
The Con-Ass is one of 3 ways to amend or revise the 1987 Constitution. According to Article XVII of the Constitution, a three-fourths vote of Congress is needed to make final proposals. The amendments or revisions are subject to a plebiscite.
The Constitution is vague on whether this requires joint or separate deliberations on voting. Framers of the Constitution explained that it is worded that way because it was written on the presumption that the country would have a unitary legislature. When it was changed to a bicameral set-up, the Constitution’s framers forgot to change the provision.
Colmenares reminded Alvarez of the failed Resolution No. 1109 under Speaker Prospero Nograles in 2009, in which members of the House overwhelmingly approved the same “Senate-less” Con-ass.
“In the end, the move was defeated not by the Senate or the Courts but by the people including the various churches who showed outrage against such a self-serving act. The people must oppose this latest ramming of Cha-cha down our throats,” he said.
The push to change the constitution is a complete circus.
“That’s our deal. When I said that you go and destroy the drug industry, destroying means destroying, including human life,” the President said here during the turnover of 26 Montero SUV patrol cars to the Davao police on Monday.
Nothing new here. It's the same old Duterte.
“Instead of lawyering and immediately dismissing Secretary Bong Go’s involvement, President Duterte could have called for an investigation on the matter, especially given the controversies hounding the FAP,” he said. “This is not what is expected from an administration who boasts of caring for the armed forces.”
The bone of contention lies with Go’s alleged interference backing the choice of contractor Hyundai Heavy Industries for the warships’ combat management system (CMS), overruling the Navy’s own preferences.
This is a developing scandal fuelled by two reports, one from Rappler and one from the Inquirer, alleging the involvement of Bong Go in the purchasing of naval warships. Now Rep. Alejano has jumped into the fray brandishing the same documents as the two reports. How will this end? Being that Bong Go is Duterte's righthand man it will probably not end adversely for him.
