iraqi provinces handed back to iraqi government

in 2002 i thought the us military adminsitration of Iraq will be similar to us military administration of japan and germany.......
lets wait and see

mommy;s veggie breakfast.. green peas white chicken white meat

this pic was over the shoulder shot of mommy.
she just finish eating pancit canton, which i buy every morning at a chinese restaurant, she can finish 3 to 4 pandesal. she doesnt like coffee , she prefer lipton tea with splenda at 6am.......
at around 8am just satisfy her hunger fangs, i cook tofu for her.
and during lunch she likes pesang lapu lapu with lots of ginger and onions

my mother's best friend,

my mommy an ate Linda at the old Manila International airport, the three of us prior to boarding our Ar France flight for my first round the world tour via 707 jet. there was no manila to Frankfurt direct flight before it took us manila-Phnom phen_- Bangkok-Bombay-Islamabad-Rome vis Lufthansa 707 jet


joey is my classmate at don bosco kinder at makati, every time there is an occasion we always play together, we both like plastic scale models since grade school. he migrated to USA and joined the US army,

the next president of the United States

all opinion polls says barak obama is leading, but conventional wisdom says american voters will vote for a white american comes election day

world economy sinks deeper

here is the tru economic power horse of the world,
north america
western europe
japan and south korea

taste test

cheese test , just for the fun of it.......
winner is Queso
least liked cheese is magnolia cheezee

ten days before US elections.... obama is ahead in polls 6 points

electoral votes obama is 277 pledeged
Mccain 189
with 270 needed to win
as of today all indications points to obama victory

This is the North west frontier of Pakistan- Afghanistan area, it is a no mans land, in the British India this is never ruled by the british Raj

this is never ruled by the British raj , but was ruled by princes loyal to the British crown, called princely state, until now the status of the provinces are very autonomous, they can have sharia system on their own,

many believe that Bin Ladin, and mlaah omar are hiding in this area.
only recently that Pakistan forces are active in operation in this area

Swat (Pakhto: سوات) is a valley and an administrative district in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan located 160 km/100 miles from Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. It is the upper valley of the Swat River, which rises in the Hindu Kush range. The capital of Swat is Saidu Sharif, but the main town in the Swat valley is Mingora.[1] It was a princely state (see Swat (princely state)) in the NWFP until it was dissolved in 1969. With high mountains, green meadows, and clear lakes, it is a place of great natural beauty that used to be popular with tourists as "the Switzerland of Pakistan".[2].

In December 2008 most of the area was captured by the Taliban insurgency and it is now considered dangerous for tourism. The Islamist militant leader Maulana Fazlullah and his group Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi have banned education for girls and have bombed or torched "more than 170 schools ... along with other government-owned buildings."[3] The Pakistani government in late May 2009 began a military offensive to regain control of the region

nicole kidman on a vespa in "the Interpreter"

a typical day at LTO office

catacombs at aquinas

burning of Igesia ni cristo church a Palanan Makati

this photo was taken april 20, 2009 repair undergoing at the inc chapel

October 21 burning of iglesia ni christo church at makati

EDSA Pasay MRT only area in the entire MRT system that has no intersection!

noong 1999. simulang gawin ng mrt line construction and pasay sector ng mrt, and magalless to edsa roronda sector and pinaka controbersial.
mga bandang March 1999 naka tangagap kami ng info na sisimulan na ang pag latag ng riles ng mrt edsa pasay, noong una ay ang intersection ng c jose at imelda ay di pa magagalaw...... binigyan ko ng instruction si weng estella na makipag usap sa mag clearing ng mrt para salvahin ang mga puno sa nasabing area at paa i lipat sa iba, bilang secretary to the mayor noong panahon iyon, yun lang ang personal na order ko, at participasyon sa mrt.

pakalipas ng isang buwan ay na istroke na ang daddy ko at simula noon ay hindi ko na masyado natutukang ang day to day affairs ng lungsod, at ang aking kababata at city administator noon na si atty Bimbo Ramos ay syang nakipag ugnayan in detail sa mga representative ng MRT, Chairman ng public works then Councilor Allan Panaligan ay syang overseer ng lahat ng public works project sa pasay at, Acting mayor Greg Alcera na syang nag utos na lahat ng official papers ay dadaan sa opisina nya.

hindi ko ma single out kung sino at saan nag karoon ng fault by ommision or in action to make protest bordering aproval sa pag sara ng c jose at tramo intersection
pero sure ako, isa sa mga eto:
1. Alcera
2. Panaligan
3.Ramos

si myaor claudio ay nasa ICU noon at hindi kinikilalang mayor for 8 months, at ako bilang secretary to the mayor ay abalang abala sa mga medical, legal questions sa cityhall at san juan de dios. halos PR campaign, supreme court, Court of appeals at comelec vs recall ang pinal abalahan ko sa mga dates na yun

oct 20, 2008 update on mommy's edematous foot

buying crabs and shell fush at 5am at Baclaran sea side

vespa blessing

with gerry san juan, harry,jsc, chito and bunso

my scooter being bless by the parish prist of san juan de babtist church

my weekly radio program in the am band 1993- 1998

mga 'baklang ateneo "basketball player

my memories of Antonio "yeba" Villegas of Manila

In the late 1960's Atnio Villegas was an arch enemy of Ferdinand Marcos, sometimes he is blamed for the deterioration of manila because during those time most big business was based in Manila, the banks, finacial institution, forein offices and etc, but what is being singled out by Gatpuno Villegas is the 17 japanesecorporations all having its office in Manila, which are all supporters of Marcos from Marubeni, Yamoto, fuso, kendai soem are local office of zubatsu, Mayor villegas in finding fault in thier offices use all means in thier power to close them down, from non filing of taxes, no permit to cockroach in thier offfice, later all of the transfered to maximiano Estrellas Makati with low taxes, good phne line and no traffic, this political move was the start of exodus of business to makati.

Villegas becomes mayor at 40 years old, when Arsenio Lacson died in Shelborne Hotel,he has 200 patrol cars for police and has for himself a black patrol car which hw use to patrol the city every night. after he stay at a corner table of Filipinas hotel or Bayview hotel, which favor seekers go at night. he really wanted to run for president under liberal in 1969, but sergio osmena jr clinched the nomination, in 1971 in his re election at mayor of manila he run as independent vs Ramon Bagatsing as NP, he has defeated by the former congressman of manila, ironically nov 1, 1971 just a week before election there was a sensational hostage taking at Forbes park makati, it was highlighted in the news that the hostage incident is just a fence fro mayor Villgegas resindence, it reverbirated through out manila that the mayor of manila lives in makati... also contributed to his electoral defeat



i only met Mayor Villegas once in the Lobby of manila Hotel , its a sunday afternoon in 1969, i was in grade two, i was with my father and his group, we were suppose to have merienda at the coffee shop, in the lobby a 6'3" mayor villegas emerges with many security men surrounds him, when he approached us, he has a very big smile and my father jokingly said "pasyal muna kami sa territorio mo" the manila mayor said ur always welome here, "alis muna ako, ikaw muna mayor dito and with a victory sign he teased m and shouted Yeba!!!!!! and he carried me up .....

arsenio lacson

Arsenio H. Lacson (December 26, 1911 — April 15, 1962) was a Filipino journalist and politician who gained widespread attention as Mayor of Manila from 1952 to 1962. An active executive likened by Time and The New York Times to New York's Fiorello La Guardia,[1][2] he was the first Manila mayor to be reelected to three terms.[1] Nicknamed "Arsenic" and described as "a good man with a bad mouth"[3], Lacson's fiery temperament became a trademark of his political and broadcasting career. He died suddenly from a stroke amidst talk that he was planning to run in the 1965 presidential elections

Lacson was born in Talisay, Negros Occidental. He was related to Aniceto Lacson, the President of the short-lived Republic of Negros.[3] His niece, Rose, would later gain prominence as a controversial socialite in Australia.

A sickly lad, Lacson turned to athletics while a student at the Ateneo de Manila University, where he would obtain his Bachelor of Arts degree. He became an amateur boxer while a student, accounting for his broken nose that later became a prominent feature of his profile.[5]

Lacson studied law at the University of Santo Tomas. After graduating and passing the bar examinations in 1937, he joined the law office of future Senator Vicente Francisco, and later, the Department of Justice as an assistant attorney.[3] Lacson also worked as a sportswriter before the outbreak of World War II.


[edit] World War II guerilla
Lacson joined the armed resistance against the Japanese military which had invaded the Philippines in late 1941. He joined the Free Philippines underground movement, and acted as a lead scout during the Battle of Manila.[6] Lacson also fought in the battle for the liberation of Baguio City in 1945.

For his service during the war, Lacson received citations from the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Sixth United States Army.[6] Years later, when asked by Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi if he had learned Japanese during the war, Lacson responded, "I was too busy shooting at Japanese to learn any."[1]


[edit] Election to Congress
Lacson resumed his career in journalism after the war. He also had his own radio program called In This Corner, where he delivered social and political commentary. Lacson became popular as a result of his radio show, but also earned the ire of President Manuel Roxas, whom he nicknamed "Manny the Weep". In 1947, President Roxas ordered Lacson's suspension from the airwaves.[7] The incident drew international attention after former United States Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes defended Roxas's action and in turn drew rebuke for such defense from the popular radio commentator Walter Winchell.[7][8]

In the 1949 general elections, Lacson ran for and won a seat in the House of Representatives, representing the 2nd District of Manila. He was elected under the banner of the Nacionalista Party. During the two years he served in the House, Lacson was cited by the media assigned to cover Congress as among the "10 Most Useful Congressmen" for "his excellent display as a fiscalizer and a lawmaker.[9][10]


[edit] Mayor of Manila
It was only in 1951 that the office of Manila mayor became an elective position, following the amendment of its city charter. Representative Lacson successfully unseated incumbent Manila mayor Manuel de la Fuente in the first ever mayoralty election in the city. He assumed the office of mayor on January 1, 1952. He was re-elected in 1955 and 1959. He immediately became known as a tough-minded reformist mayor, and in the 1950s, he and Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco were touted as exemplars of good local governance. Climaco, in fact, was praised as "The Arsenio Lacson of the South".

At the time Lacson assumed office, Manila had around 23.5 million pesos in debt, some of which had been contracted thirty years earlier, and had no money to pay its employees.[3] Within three years, the debt had been reduced in half,[8] and by 1959, the city had a budget surplus of 4.3 million pesos and paid its employees twice the amount earned by other local government employees.[11] By that time, Lacson claimed that the income earned by Manila for the Philippines supported 70% of the salaries of the national government officials and members of Congress, as well as 70% of the expenses of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.[11]

Lacson embarked on crusades to maintain peace and order and good government in Manila. He fired 600 city employees for incompetence,[1] and dismissed corrupt policemen.[7] He personally led raids on brothels masquerading as massage parlors and on unauthorized market vendors.[7] Lacson ordered bulldozers to clear a squatter colony in Malate that had stood since shortly after the war.[6] Lacson established a mobile 60-car patrol unit that patrolled the city at all hours,[10] and he himself would patrol the city at nights in a black police car,[1] still clad in his trademark Ray-Bans.[5][10] Lacson also established the Manila Zoo and the first city underpass, located in Quiapo, posthumously named after him.[10]

Throughout his ten years as mayor, Lacson maintained his radio program, which now aired over DZBB and would also later be broadcast on television. The broadcasts were pre-recorded in order to edit out his occasional foul language.[1] He spoke out on air on national and international issues, and responded to critics who suggested that he confine himself to local Manila issues that he did not lose his right as a citizen to speak out on public affairs upon his election as mayor.[7] He was a fervent critic of President Elpidio Quirino of the Liberal Party.[8] In 1952, upon the filing of a criminal libel complaint against Lacson by a judge whom he criticized on his radio show, Quirino suspended Lacson from office.[12] Lacson remained suspended for 73 days until the Supreme Court voided the suspension order.[13]

Though the hard-drinking, gun-toting Lacson projected an image of machismo, the author Nick Joaquin observed:

Lacson has sedulously cultivated the Yahoo manner, the siga-siga style, but one suspects that the bristles on the surface do not go all the way down; for this guy with a pug’s battered nose comes from a “good” family and went to the right schools; this character who talks like a stevedore is a literate, even a literary, man; and this toughie who has often been accused of being too chummy with the underworld belonged to the most “idealistic” of the wartime underground groups: the Free Philippines.[8]


[edit] Presidential ambitions
In 1953, Lacson actively campaigned for Nacionalista presidential candidate Ramon Magsaysay, who would go on to defeat the incumbent Quirino. After President Magsaysay's death in a plane crash months before the 1957 presidential elections, Lacson claimed that Magsaysay had offered to name him as the Nacionalista candidate for Vice President, in lieu of incumbent Vice-President Carlos P. Garcia.[8] According to Lacson, he declined the offer, telling Magsaysay "the time has not yet come".[9]

Nonetheless, after Magsaysay's death, Lacson turned against the newly-installed President Garcia, and considered running against Garcia in the 1957 elections. In April 1957, Lacson went on a national tour in order to gauge his nationwide strength as a presidential candidate.[8] While the tour indicated considerable popularity of Lacson in the provinces, his potential run was hampered by a lack of funding and a party machinery.[8] It was believed that Lacson would have easily won the presidency in 1957 had he obtained the nomination of either his Nacionalista Party, then committed to Garcia, or the rival Liberal Party,[14] which would select Jose Yulo as its candidate. The American expatriate and industrialist Harry Stonehill later claimed that Lacson had asked him to finance his campaign against Garcia.[15] When Stonehill refused, Lacson decided not to run, and thereafter, staged a rally at Plaza Miranda where he denounced the United States and what he perceived as the subservience of the Philippine government to the Americans.[16] In his career, Lacson was frequently tagged as anti-American,[8] and he had criticized the United States for having no foreign policy "but just a pathological fear of communism".[10]

Garcia won in the 1957 elections, and Lacson became a persistent critic of the President throughout his four-year term. In 1961, Lacson turned against the Nacionalista Party and supported the presidential candidacy of Vice-President Diosdado Macapagal of the Liberal Party. He was named Macapagal's national campaign manager and was attributed as "the moving spirit behind a nationwide drive that led to Macapagal's victory at the polls".[10] Not long after Macapagal's election, Lacson returned to the Nacionalista Party and became increasingly critical of the President, explaining "I only promised to make Macapagal President, not agree with him forever."[10] Lacson was considered as the likely presidential candidate of the Nacionalistas for the 1965 elections,[4] and when that prospect was mooted by his death, the party would select Senator Ferdinand Marcos, who would defeat Macapagal.


[edit] Death
As mayor, Lacson had faced several attempts on his life. He twice disarmed gunmen who had attacked him, and survived an ambush as he was driving home one night.[1] Yet it would be a stroke that ended Lacson's life at the age of 50. He was fatally stricken at a hotel suite while preparing to leave to do his weekly radio and television broadcast.[5][10] Lacson was buried at the Manila North Cemetery.

A high school and a street in Sampaloc, Manila have been named after Lacson. A statue in his honor was likewise erected in Sta. Cruz (replacing the former Plaza Goiti behind the Sta. Cruz church at the foot of MacArthur Bridge).

here are french gendarmere, military units with police power, in the USA thier constituton doesnt allow them for such due to doctrine of p.comodatum

pose comodatum, the military of the united states should not be use to police its citizens, it should be borne by the local police or by the national guards, in the Fracophore sphere, france, some parts of latin europe, they have gendamere, military who police thier citizens, sometimes I wonder why the USA did aply the gendarmere system here when they introdeuce the Philippne coA gendarmerie or gendarmery (pronounced /dʒɛnˈdɑrməri/ or /ˌʒɑːndɑrməˈriː/) is a military body charged with police duties among civilian populations. The members of such a body are called gendarmesnstabulary

Some forces which are no longer considered military retain the title "gendarmerie" for reasons of tradition. For instance, the French language title of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC) (i.e., Royal Gendarmerie of Canada) because it was traditionally a military force (although not part of the army) and because it retains the honorific status of a military force. The Argentine Gendarmerie is a military force (in terms of training, identity and public perception, and it was involved in combat in the Falklands War), but for legal purposes is a "security force", not an "armed force", because this is necessary under Argentine law in order to allow jurisdiction over the civilian population.

Since every country uses institutional terms such as "gendarmerie" as it wishes, there are cases in which the term may become confusing. For instance, the Swiss cantonal "gendarmeries" are not military, and are in fact the uniformed police of French-speaking cantons. In Chile, confusingly, the word "gendarmerie" can for historic reasons be used to refer to the prison service, while as previously mentioned the actual gendarmerie force is called the "carabineros".

As a result of their duties within the civilian population, gendarmeries are sometimes described as "para-military" rather than "military" forces (essentially in the English-speaking world where policing is rarely associated with military forces) although this description rarely corresponds to their official status and capabilities. Gendarmes are often deployed in military situations, sometimes in their own country, and often in humanitarian deployments abroad.

A gendarmerie may come under the authority of a ministry of defence (e.g., Italy) or a ministry of the interior (e.g., Argentina and Romania), or even both at once (e.g., India, Chile, France and Italy). Generally there is some coordination between a ministry of defence and a ministry of the interior over the use of gendarmes.

Gendarmeries are police services, but in many countries (e.g., France) the word "police" normally implies civilian police. Gendarmeries are military police, however the term "military police" can be misleading, since in English it carries strong implications of policing within the military ("provost" policing), which is not the basic purpose of a gendarmerie (although in many countries it is a task which gendarmes carry out). In countries where the gendarmerie and civilian police co-exist there may exist rivalries and tensions between the forces. There may also be different reputations, gendarmeries are often more appreciated by the population than civilian polices[citation needed].

In some cases, a police service's military links are ambiguous and it can be unclear whether a force should be defined as a gendarmerie or not, (e.g., Mexico's Policia Federal, Brazilian Polícia Militar, or the former South African Police until 1994). Services such as the Italian Guardia di Finanza would not normally be defined as a gendarmerie (but at times might be) since the service is both of ambiguous military status and does not have general policing duties in the civilian population. In Russia, the Interior Troops are military units with quasi-police duties.


A vedette of the French Maritime Gendarmerie in La Rochelle harbourIn comparison to civilian police forces, gendarmeries may provide a more disciplined force whose military capabilities (e.g., armored group in France with armored personnel carriers) make them more capable of dealing with armed groups and with all types of violence (e.g., India's Rapid Action Force specializes in riot control and counter-terrorism). On the other hand, the necessity of a more stringent selection process for military service, especially in terms of physical prowess and health, restricts the pool of potential recruits in comparison to those a civilian police force could select from.


U.S. Coast Guard cutter on a law-enforcement patrolGendarmeries may also provide various military or police services. For instance in France, the gendarmerie is in charge of crowd and riot control (Gendarmerie Mobile, along with some corresponding units in the civilian police), counter-terrorism and hostage rescue (GIGN, again along with some corresponding units in the civilian police), maritime surveillance, police at sea and coast guard (Gendarmerie maritime), control and security at airports and air traffic police (Gendarmerie des transports aériens), official buildings guard, honorary services and protection of the President (Garde Républicaine), mountain rescue (Peloton de Gendarmerie de Haute Montagne) and security of nuclear weapons sites.


French Gendarmerie on parade: French Republican Guard cavalryThe use of military organisations to police civilian populations is common to many time periods and cultures. Although it cannot be considered a French concept, the French gendarmerie has been the most influential model of such an organisation.

Many countries that were once under French influence have a gendarmerie. For instance, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria had gendarmeries through Napoleonic influence, but all these gendarmeries, have merged with the civil police, in 2001, 2002 and 2005 respectively. Many former French colonies, especially in Africa, also have gendarmeries.

A common gendarmerie symbol is a flaming grenade, which was first used as a gendarmerie symbol by the French.

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ex president carter on his bike in Plains Georgia

The United States best Ex president
it is nice and fun to see life after the presidency

Is he reponsible for the united States retreat after Vietnam War?
Is he the grbachev of the United States, rallying under human rights while Americas allies are toppled one by one from ,The shah o Iran, Anastacio Somoza , Bby Doc Duvalier, the canal zone to Omar Trojillos, Cuba export of arms and troops to Angola ,doing nothing to stop the soviet invasion of Afghanistan, neutralizatin of Finland.

Both my parents are old and sick... i just hope thier sunset years will be longer.

at thier age ,a simple flu a fever or a cold could quickly deterirate into a full blown body weakening situation .......in a matter of hours.

there are several instances my father was brought to the hospital for loosing consciousness in side the churc, sometimes loosing pulse and weak heart beat, upon reachin hospital he regains consciousness, as if nothing happens, it happens almost four times, and everytime it happens, im here at wack wack, knwing the news thru 2 way radio, cell phone and sms.

maybe i spend a lot of time with them now because i just cant tell and how they will say goodbye to me....sometimes in the morning my father is strong and happy, in the afternoon, he is lying at the emergency room..... thier present condition is just like a sword of democles....

mommy's cretinine droped from 210.87 umol/l to 165.68 umol/ l that means her kidney is improving...but lower extremities ultrasound yields 75% stenos

this is mommy's cretinine result, it is 45 umol/l lower thna last week,

however furher research says that mere creatinine is not enough to say when hemodidlsis is eminent, BUN and water retention is the indicator

vespa culture

Come what may.... I will not run in 2010, I am contented in spending more time with my parents in thier sunset years......

many people, who is asking me, reading my actions..... here it is.... now
enough for me.

mahirap din ang kandidato o pag ikaw nasa pwesto, i cant be myself, last year nag patawag ako meeting and i announced na di na ako takbo, it was aug 20, 2007, a month later i ate my word kasi na appoint ako, kaya forced to run ako. I feel sad pag palapit na election, kasi i will be deciding again to run, pero as of now, wala na ako talagang balak to run. nakaka sama ng loob lang minsan, lalo na ang mga comment ng dati kong mga kasama, mga vomment ng mga nakinabang sa administration namin.
mayroon ilan mga tao na gusto ako kumanditato pa, alam ko , when they read my blog, magugulat sila, na deep in side my heart this is what i feel. i tired of politics, simula ng pina nganak ako, nasa buhay politika na ako.

i just like this picture , with headlights and badge... it is my wall paper

my gas guzzler

In march 14,2009 is volvo S 70 has ben damaged violentlly along anrews ave and imlda ave

was driven by nardo who was very drunk at that time...... it was really a loss to me....... a week after this accident i heard nardo is again smelling with alcohol and his inhibiton gone

coconatura "coconut derived " sweetener better than splenda?

mommy's venous and arterial ultrasound to check edema of lower extremities oct 7,2008 5pm to 830 pm