Bong, let me tell you a story. I was snorkeling around Key Largo when a hurricane swept me out to sea. I clung to a coconut for two days until I saw an Eagle Ray and rode it until we reached Islamorada. There, I collapsed on the beach and was approached by an endangered deer. I was not supposed to touch it but, unable to walk, I decided to ride on its back. It took me all the way up to Miami where it died. But I was able to join a group of gypsies. They had good drugs. I woke up the next day in a hotel bathtub full of ice with a phone taped to my hand. There was a note in the wall. “Don’t panic,” it read. “We have taken your kidneys. Relax and call 911.” Right. But the phone battery had died. Luckily, there was laptop nearby. I logged into my Gmail account and read an email sent from a friend telling me to forward this email to all my friends so that Bill Gates will give me $5,000. I did what was instructed but only got angry emails in return. And so the rest is history.

The moral of story, Bong, is not to trust an Eagle Ray to drop you off on some stupid island.

What that reminds me of is Top Gun – though the analogy could be slightly off.. whatever…

Perlas is Michael Ironside aka “Jester” – the instructor, the paradigm creator.

Gordon is Tom Cruise aka Maverick – the hot shot student of Jester.Theory-wise – Jester tops Maverick – after all he’s the instructor.

But Maverick with fresh hands-on battle skills who actually engaged the enemy BEFORE getting into Top gun school, has field-developed tactics of his own – that’s not in the book.

When school is over – the graduates get deployed in the front lines.

The instructor stays behind.

The dog fight ensues – and Maverick kicks butt.

Maverick returns to become an instructor in Top Gun.

Your airplane analogy is a good one. There’s a reason they’re called NON-governmental organizations — it’s not at all the same kind of business, and a guy not having much, if any, experience in actual government no matter what his other achievements does not give me a lot of confidence.

Dave:

To say he led the anti-nuke stuff is misinformation – before there was Nick – there was NAJFD, BAYAN – Wigberto Tañada – for Nick to claim sole ownership of the antinuke is dishonest.

Second – threefolding was actually a concept formulated by Steiner –

Social Threefolding is a sociological theory that suggests increasing the independence of society’s three primary realms (economy, polity and culture) in such a way that those three realms can mutually correct each other in an ongoing process. The movement aims for democracy in political life, freedom in cultural life, and uncoerced cooperation/community in economic life. It is based on the philosophy of Anthroposophy founded by Rudolf Steiner.[1][2] Steiner held that polity, culture and economy had been slowly growing independent of one another for thousands of years, and would continue to do so for thousands more. Thus a “threefold social order” is not a finite blueprint or something that might be “implemented” in the course of a day or even a century. Steiner and others since have made many concrete reform proposals to advance social threefolding, but Steiner’s idea of a threefold social order aims at an open-ended process of restructuring society; Steiner emphasized that the specifics of how this could best be done at any given time and in any given place change.

Give credit, where credit is due – in this case Steiner.

As I’ve said – it’s easy to be a backseat driver.

Try being the driver for change. But before Nick sits on a 747, he could have considered the Cessna.

As to his platform, that would the low hanging fruit – the obvious inefficiencies that need addressing.

Moreover, while he talks jobs – I haven’t seen his position on Charter Change – removal of protectionist policies.

Para bang pinoy na narinig yung topic ng main players – and then says “kasali ako dyan”. Later on down the line he say, “I spearheaded it”. Really?

Si Nick Perlas marami na nagawa for 40 years in service. He led the stopping of the Bataan Nuclear Plant during the Marcos regime, he led the contingent to stop APEC from ransacking poor countries because of globalization, he is the co-author of the Philippine Agenda 21 which is hailed as the most comprehensive and best sustainable development footprint in the world, he had won the Alternative Noble Peace Prize and was awarded an Earth Warrior.

His societal three-folding concept was adopted by Harvard and is now being taught around the world as an innovative approach to administration.

He co-founded LifeBank Foundation which provided miicrofinance to more than 250,000 poor farmers, he caused the banning of 32 toxic and harmful pesticide formulation in the country…. See More

When he was disqualified he made history because for the first time more than 2,300 people from 50+ countries protested his disqualification. Those than sent a letter to the COMELEC include Sen. Bob Brown of Australian and even David Suzuki who was a world known environmentalist.

Perlas had been talking to parliaments even he is not yet a president. He was respected locally and even worldwide.

He is the only candidate which includes cultural upliftment and inner change in his platform.

He is the only one that does not preach more OFWs but instead would help to create more jobs in the country, help entrepreneurs, help scientific innovation and advance multiple-level intelligence education.

Sensya na mga bigan at kapatid kung mahaba… kasi through him am sure na mababago natin ang ating bansa. Tulad lang natin siya na may lakas ng loob at kakayahang maglingkod at mamuno.

Mananalo siya kung iboboboto natin siya at ikakampanya sa abot ng ating makakaya.

Maliwanag ang direksyon na gustong tahakin ni Perlas… check out his platform http://www.nicanor-perlas.com/Nicanor/complete-platform2.html

I AM CHOOSING PERLAS BECAUSE I WANT TO BE FREE AND I WANT MY CHILDREN TO LIVE IN A REAL FREE COUNTRY!

Mananalo si Perlas kung iboboto at tutulungan natin.

His “us vs. them” assumption shows quality of his character and mind.

Life is filled with infinite choices. You are bound to disagree on something sooner or later. Just because I choose to disagree with you now does not make me your enemy.

Read, Very Important: But if Cocoy treats anyone who disagrees with him as his enemy in this “holy war” of his, then that decision will taint the name Cocoy Dayao for the rest of his life.

Some say Cocoy is still young. Bullcrap. I am only 2 years older than he.

Jet,

You should see some of the posts over there at FV. They are comparing Noynoy to Obama. I have read all of Obama’s books—the comparison is not valid and utterly ignorant.

If there is a book that Noynoy wrote out there, please tell me. I would like to read it.

The intellectual firepower is simply greater here at Antipinoy.

The Riders of Rohan have arrived!

That’s a good point Chino.

Charlie Munger once said that, “sometimes you can get more insight if you reverse the question.”

U.S. Politics has the advantage of being viewed as a long struggle of political ideas over decades. Thus a person cannot despair if the election does not turn out to his favor as he knows that this is just one round in a 150 year boxing match.

Philippine Politics is more interesting for it is really more like a one shot power ball lottery vs. the 150 year boxing match analogy.

Choose your candidates well my friends. Don’t let Cocoy’s emotional tactics fool you.

Better late than never?

I thought he was actually asking, “choose between the yellowists and anti-incumbents or the anti-pinoys.”