Miraculous Magnetic Longrich Pantyliners

Sometimes the craziest stories appear in the news.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/958861/fda-warns-vs-panty-liners-with-false-health-claims

Panty liners with health claims? You read that and think, "This can't be real."  But it is.  I have never seen miracle panty liners for sale but a quick search pulls them right up.

UNISEX PANTY LINERS!  UNISEX!!!!!! 

https://www.facebook.com/longrichphilippineproducts/posts/899625783394296

LONGRICH PANTYLINER AND ITS FUNCTIONS:
* Helps to lower the risk of tumor
* Prevent your from toilet infection.
* Use to treat waist pain, neck , wound, swollen, boils, rheumatism and arthritis.
* For treating menstrual discomfort fuel to infection.
* Ability to kill 99.9% of bacteria.
* Its unisex, for men from 40 years and above, it prevent them form prostate cancer.
* It has an anion strip which helps eliminate odour and itching.
* Guys can wear it on their shoes for these benefits.
* Reduce stress and alleviate depression.
* Boost energy and enhance metabolism.
* Reduce odour and strengthen immunity.
* Enhance hormonal balance.
* Support the respiratory, cardiovascular and nervous system.
* Contribute to eliminating or preventing bacterial infection.
* It neutralise free radical ( positive ion )
* Revitalise cell metabolism and enhance immune function.
* Purifies the blood and balance the autonomic nervous system, promoting deep sleep and healthy digestion.
* It also helps protect the blood and mind from the harmful effect of environmental stressors such as electromagnetic field.
* It effectively inhibits the survival and duplication of bacteria and viruses which cause virginities.
* Release large amount of oxygen.
* It has a balanced PH level and enhances hormonal balance that effectively improves incretion, strengthening immunity, reducing stress, eliminating bacteria, treating inflammation, eradicating odours and removing fatigue.
* Negative ions ( anion) will move up to the womb through the vagina, improving blood circulation thus the silt and blood cloth stored long in the vagina can be discharged smoothly, the womb can be repaired and improvement can be expected within few days, then inflammation disappears and no smell is left.
* It can effectively restrict the growth and survival of bacteria and viruses, activate metabolism , and improves secretion and immunity.
Seen is believing.Use it to see !

All those benefits just from a piece of cotton designed to stop a woman's monthly flow. Are there miracle tampons too? It seems not. Here is a list of products this company sells: http://www.longrichbioscience.com/products.html. Most of these products are your ordinary everyday soaps and shampoos and lotions boasting of extreme effectiveness and health results.

The Whois lists a Malaysian address but other info points to Longrich being a Chinese business organisation (read MLM scam) which sells its goods in Africa and Asia.  Here is a warning against using these magical magnetic sanitary pads from Uganda from 2012: https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1306462/nda-warns-magnetic-sanitary-pads. That article says the pads are manufactured in China.

How can anyone be so stupid as to believe the totally outlandish claims of this product? I will definitely be on the lookout for these pantyliners when I am out and about. Maybe I will buy it and dissect it to test out its magnetic properties or put it in my shoe for all the health benefits.  Oh wait I don't wear shoes. Might be awkward to place these in my slippers.

Don't forget the same people who believe in this product and who are scamming it to others will be voting on the new Constitution if the ConAss writes one.  

The Dangling Light

This post is almost 6 months in the making.

14 August 2017

03 October 2017

08 January 2017

Philippians 2:10: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 

Philippians 2:11: And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

It's a powerful image.

The fake electric light of man is dangling in the wind, bowing before "the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world," Jesus Christ.  It's an image of our future of which the verses from Philippians solemnly warn us.

Or it's just another instance of lax standards regarding the electrical system. Who would believe no one has noticed this dangling street light head for the past 6 months? Leaning rotten wood poles, dangling lights, tangled wires held together by tape...how does the whole system not go up in flames?

Investigating the Marawi Attack is a Waste of Time

It's official.  They all agree.  Investigating the Marawi attack to figure out just what happened and how to prevent it from happening again is a waste of time. It already happened.  What's done can't be done. We must focus on the future and forget about the past.

Martial Law: Cultural Dynamics

Without a war or a large scale offensive from the AFP martial law in 2018 is going to be a bit boring. Under martial law the writ of habeas corpus is suspended which means anyone can be arrested at anytime for any cause.  Mass arrests of suspected terrorists may result in some action and might even hamper the efforts of various groups to wage rebellion against the government but arrest is not as effective as death.  

Right now it's the same old same old in Mindanao. What is happening post-Marawi is what happened pre-Marawi.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/957351/zamboanga-del-norte-blast-mortar-shell

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/957700/2-persons-beheaded-by-suspected-abu-sayyaf-in-basilan

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de-oro/local-news/2018/01/07/4-hurt-lanao-surs-clan-war-582748

Bombs, shootings, beheadings, clan wars, rido killings, revenge killings.  Nothing has changed.  The ARMM is a violent hotbed of hotheads.  With martial law, however, these clan wars will NOT be tolerated.

https://www.rappler.com/nation/193030-afp-warning-warring-clans-mindanao-martial-law

“The AFP will not tolerate incidents of rido and will continue to conduct law enforcement operarions in cooperation with the Philippine National Police, while martial law is in effect," said Major General Rosseler Murillo, chief of the 1st Infantry Division. 

According to Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Assemblyman Zia Alonto Adiong, clan disputes must be resolved to maintain peace and stability as martial law continues to be implemented over the entire Mindanao.  

“We would advise our security sector to strengthen its partnership with the civilian authority by working closely on any peace resolution initiaves with the community leaders and LGUs (local government units) to appreciate the cultural dynamics involve in resolving ridos,” said Adiong.  

He said authorities must ensure loose firearms will not fall into the wrong hands and must stop the selling of unregistered firearms in the market.  

“The objective really is ending family disputes permanently, not simply to impose temporary ceasefire,” said Adiong.

The cultural dynamics of rido killings?  That is a fancy way of saying, "We are all Muslims and our religion permits us to be violent and carry out honour killings so please be sensitive to this fact as you try to stop us."

Is the objective of martial law to end family disputes? Does the AFP need to step in to quell the violence of the Filipino Hatfields and McCoys? Perhaps but why would martial law be needed to send a few troops to end the violence? These incidents of rido have been occurring for a long time. Why was the AFP tolerating them then? Why is the ARMM wanting to resolve these disputes now? Why have these bloody feuds been allowed to continue for years? Why does this Assemblyman not appeal to his violent fellow Muslims for peace but instead warns the AFP to appreciate the cultural dynamics of these killings?

It's because the governors of the ARMM are not interested in peace as we know it, which means a total cessation of violence, and these appeals for peace are all for show. For them peace means the death of their enemies. It's a Muslim world down there and as soon as the BBL is passed they will have even more autonomy to rule as an independent Muslim state.

http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/03/18/marawi-siege-was-really-a-prolonged-war

Adiong said it was only later on in the crisis when local officials began to realize how radical ideologies have been quietly spreading across Mindanao, and lamented how little has been done to counter such narratives. 

"They (terrorists) have been using experiences of inequality as a common experience among different Muslim countries across the world [in recruiting]," he said, noting that the Maute group had been searching for members as early as 2011. 

Asked on his views on what went wrong in terms of security, Adiong said it is better to focus instead on rebuilding Marawi City rather than point fingers. 

"We cannot dwell on the past. Let's move forward. This is a big lesson for our country," he said. 

"Our focus right now is moving forward. It has already happened, the destruction is already there. We really have to channel our energy towards the rehabilitation of Marawi," he added.

These comments are from the same ARMM Assemblyman who said the AFP should appreciate the cultural dynamics of rido killings. He says that radical ideologies have quietly spread across Mindanao and officials lamented how little had been done to counter these ideologies. This is contradicted by his next statement where he acknowledges that Maute had been recruiting since 2011. We also know that ISIS had been in Mindanao since at least 2014. This is 6 years to counter Maute and 3 years to combat ISIS from spreading. So why was nothing done? What happened that radical ideologies were allowed to spread and recruitment was allowed to happen? And more importantly what happened that a large scale attack like Marawi was able to occur?

Adiong, much like SolGen Lorenzana, does not care what happened. Let's not dwell on the past. Let's move forward. Let's not learn from our mistakes. Or rather let's learn from our mistakes without actually learning what those mistakes were! Take note that he says, "This is a big lesson for our country." Well what's the lesson?  If we do not look to the past and investigate what went wrong then the country will never learn any lesson. Does this guy know how history works?  Does he even believe in history or only an eternal now which is unfettered to the past?

I began this article by stating that a large scale offensive is going to be needed to make the most of martial law. It might be coming.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/957052/afp-urges-npa-rebels-to-surrender-or-face-full-scale-offensive

The military on Tuesday urged communist rebels to surrender or face a full-scale offensive after the two sides terminated their separate unilateral ceasefires for the Christmas and New Year holidays. 

Toribio said government forces in the Southern Tagalog and Bicol regions would launch all-out counterinsurgency operations to crush the NPA after the end of the truce at midnight on Tuesday.

Either these all-out counter insurgency operations have not been launched or the media has been very lax in their reporting. It could be that such an operation cannot yet be launched because despite Duterte's order declaring the CPP-NPA as terrorists the DOJ must still approve this label.

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Red tape is delaying the war against the Reds. It's like poetry.

An official declaration of the CPP-NPA as terrorists will allow the government to wiretap them and freeze their assets. Because the communists have been at war with the government since the 60's I would assume such a declaration would not give the AFP any powers it does not have currently.  Like launching a full-scale offensive against these rebel scum.

Single-Serving Culture

Remember that scene from Fight Club where Edward Norton talks about his single-serving life?

"Everywhere I travel -- tiny life.

Single-serving sugar, single-serving

cream, single pat of butter."

Well, the culture in the Philippines embodies this single-serving principle.

Everything at the market and the ubiquitous sari-sari stores all comes in single-serving packets.

Oil, sugar, flour, lentils, shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste, vinegar, soy sauce, spices, coffee, cookies, they all come in one size serves all tiny packets.

Even the cell phone business is single-serving. No one here is on a monthly plan. Instead they buy 20 pesos of talk and text time.  This lasts for a day or two and they load up the phone again.

Is all this single-serving lifestyle convenient?  Sure.  But deadly.  Here is the result of all those single-serving packets:

Garbage ends up everywhere.

Heres how the cycle works.  Someone buys some cookies.  They toss the wrapper onto the street. The wind and rain propel it into the waterways. There it pollutes and clogs the flow of the water which causes mass flooding during the rainy season and typhoons. 

There are no public garbage cans. And there is no national or personal conscience that instills shame for being a litter bug.

Give a hoot, don't pollute? Not in the Philippines.

Everyone here is dropping their trash into the street. Why? Because someone will literally come along and sweep it up.  

So who cares?  You don't want to take someone's job do you?

Ain't She A Beautiful Sight?

'Cause we got a little conass

Rockin' through the night.

Yeah, we got a little conass,

Ain't she a beautiful sight?

Come on and join our conass

Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.

We gonna roll this truckin' conass

'Cross the P-H-L.
Conass!

It's the Thought That Counts

An older lady, a friend, came over to the house and brought along her Christmas gift from the organisation for which she works.

It came in a nice enough case. Whatever's inside must have been be fairly expensive to warrant this protective housing.

Wow! It's a watch. And what a watch! A bejeweled Spiderman face with a fat pink wrist band. Who is this for? The pink says girl but Spiderman and the width of the band say boy. It's like My Little Pony and Marvel had a baby no one wanted.

My Spidey sense is tingling and it is telling me this watch is a devious device which only a villain like Hobgoblin would dream of designing. Spiderman is stuck forever on that face surrounded by those tiny blue jewels. No more will he ever see Mary Jane or Aunt May. He is trapped by time. He is frozen IN time because there is no battery to make the clock tick and time move forward. 

That's right!  This watch came with no battery.  How convenient.

Why would someone think this is the perfect gift for a 50 year old woman?  Why would someone think this is the perfect gift for anyone of either sex or any age? Where was this even bought? I can't imagine the rationale behind buying this piece of junk. Who would ever look at this and think, "Ah-ha! This is it! She's really going to love this."? Maybe it was just a cast-off lying around that needed getting rid of and this old lady just happened to be the perfect opportunity. Now it's stuck at my house because she so conveniently left it behind. 

Whatever the case it's not a pretty thought since this lady works for a religious organisation which one would think would be more thoughtful about a Christmas gift. They gave her a worthless gift instead of giving her an end-of-year Christmas bonus! She would have been better off with one of those SM Christmas baskets with cookies and olive oil and canned meat.