I Scream

The flavor of the month has lost our favor. Ingredients are not original nor organic, but mostly rehashed, copied and even stolen!

Oh for the good ole days of real serving of journalism.

Going Ballistic

North Korea sure is! And Little Lord Flaunturtoy is enjoying every launch.

The madman in the White House calls him the same name. Heaven help us!

Pain

Some people are a pain. CNN however featured "The Boy Who Wants His Leg Cut Off." A tumor in one leg made it grow larger than the other. Aside from the physical pain, Dylan suffered emotionally, as when he was shunned at the swimming pool.

Doctors in UK and the US differed in diagnosis. In the end, Dylan decided.

Dates

Could have been a tabloid headline- 50 of them given to PH from KSA. Except that they were tons of the fruit for the Muslims in Mindanao.

Makes you want to convert!

Freeing Martillano gang member

Yet another convict is fancied by the DOJ for what we dread is another charge against De Lima. Gimme five!

By their company, they shall be judged. Or by their allegations as scripted.

Choosy Beggar

And ungrateful leper, too. DU30 shows off his narcissistic fangs once again in rejecting EU grants without interests.

Thank God, EU shows sincerity by going directly to the Filipinos whom they would help directly. That's self-mediation.

Fake Noose

This one we wish were real and around the necks of fakers. Roger Stone established his "Rules for War, Politics, Food, Fashion, and Living"!

1. "The past is a f-----g prologue.
2. It is better to be infamous than to never be famous at all.
3. The only thing worse in politics than being wrong is being boring.
4. One man's dirty tricks is another man's civil political action.
5. Hate is a more powerful motivator than love.
6. To win, you must do everything.
7. Attack, attack, attack. Never defend.
8. Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack.
9. A man isn't finished when he's defeated, he's finished when he quits.
10. Nothing is on the level."

With a heart of Stone, he could be a disputant from hell!
  

Calamity

They classify it greater than disaster. Perhaps they can tell us how they rate the Marawi siege and the declaration of martial law in Mindanao.

In mediation, we see all the levels of degradation.

Unconditional Cash Transfer

It seems so because some recipients have lost it to others carrying their identification cards with photos changed. Now DU30 rejects supposedly conditional foreign aid.

But as Prof. Randy David says, we are instead reaching out for a rope with which to hang ouselves.

Confirming Doubts

The Senate Old Boys' Club is still being wielded at single moms or any other person not their kind. But to their ilk, they are quick to grant confirmation, as proven by their latest beneficiary Alan-is, teased a netizen.

Bias may look good on a dress but it has no place in mediation.  

Me-daya Ranking

Abs-Cbn and GMA always announce they are winning audience over the other. Finally, there is a move to settle this improbable case before a third party aside from Kantar and Nielsen serving the stations respectively.

Media mediation.

Mighty No More

This cigarette company that was the way out of sin tax, seems to be on the way out, too. That is what happens to inconvenient lies in the name of shortcuts.

DU30 joined the fray by imposing his own, as usual financial impositions. Presidential fixer, no less!

Greed resurfaces

Again the National Grid Corporation is up in oil against DOE and Transco. Dios ko!!

Mean time, China shows off natural gas exploration nearby. Naturally.

Comey all ye faithful

Doing your job is hazardous to your job security. This was experienced by Comey who is now gone, after investigating Trump's Russian roulette last elections.

Better off, though than De Lima. Low five!

Campaign A la Mode

Hillary is not laughing; in fact, forming Resistance Groups reminiscent of war movements. Understandable, but in our own backyard, we met fellow jury advocates from Mindanao with uniform Duterte shirts still. And unfaded, mind you, so do they get replacement shirts  like Nazi Youth? Are they now pushing for federalism, we asked. In the meantime, they are touring Malacanang, Arroyo province and Dino kingdom by the (Subic) Bay.

While we thanked them at McDonald's for helping in our signature campaign, we told them of our coming primer. (There, it says a sitting (duck) president can be brought to jury trial.)

Trouble with Arbitration

Sounds arbitrary? It's because the decision is handed down by an arbiter or judge. In the PH case, what makes matters worse is its ex parte (one-sided) status due to China's refusal to participate in the process.

Mediation ensures enforcement as the two disputants agree on their own settlement.

Independent Policy

Sure was foreign to DU30. For all the bravado, he was proud to claim Trump instructed him to call China regarding North Korea.

Independent call center agent perhaps?

I didn't want to do it

Remember that classic song? It seems it has some medical basis. According to recent neurological studies featured in CNN's "My brain made me do it," some violent criminals had a brain tumor. Now, aside from crime of passion, an alibi could be brain compression.

Mediation undoes these things.

Such a shame

For not paying their school canteen lunch, students in the US were shabbily treated. Their lunch tray was taken away and thrown to the garbage bin, and they were given a cheese sandwich instead, if they were lucky. Or a kind canteen staff paid for their lunch. Instead of a star, "lunch unpaid" was stamped on their wrist.

All for a $2.05  lunch! These lunch-shamers were most probably trained by horrible credit collectors from hell. School guidance counselors could then double as mediators.

Doctor of Scripts

GMA Creative Consultant Ms. Doctolero called one of their shows a "flop." Three fingers are actually pointing at herself.

Mediation is a lesson in self-awareness.

Thawed

That happens to Frozen things after a while. The heart of ice melts after the winter of discontent.

Mediation speeds up the process.

Very Good

Thus Trump self-rated his presidency. In what?

Nepotism, antagonizing groups of people and nations, and other negative aspects. Not the clear and unbiased communication needed in mediation.

Peace-loving

When DU30 described himself as such in a recent "ambush" interview, his first word sounded like its four-letter homonym.

And he seems to be doing it over corpses left by his drug war.

Revisiting Covey

Summer cleaning, saw my notes on the 7 Habits.  There it was on the 4th slot- Think WinWin.

That's the double victory of mediation.

Lemon Square

The Lemon Law is a lemon too. This seems to be the consensus among consumers who tangle with DTI on car defects. The same one has to be detected four times on vehicles brand new up to a year.

What if at the first instance, the Monterror had become a total wreck on day 366 or 7?

Filipino Time

Notice how ABS-CBN tells time of shows as either before or after some other program, whenever that would be.

Can't do that in a Compromise Agreement; like saying "will pay when able."

Culinary Arts

CNN featured a female French chef whose name I didn't catch nor could possibly spell! Her approach is exemplary. Instead of shouting in the kitchen, she has classical  music playing to promote harmony. Poetry is thus manifested in what they present to guests. And farmers are her rock stars.

This chef could mediate when she retires.

So Thoughtless

Sotto did it again. The last of the Senate clowns, less Pacman trainee, showed his true misogynist color.

Miso soup anyone? He can wash his mouth with it.

Booking

In Tondo, Manila, a precinct took this procedure literally, behind the bookshelves!

Buking by the CHR!

Vexation to the Station

ABS-CBN's Umagang Kay Ganda has been my breakfast gang for awhile. Lately, GMA NewsTV put before the camera ala DZRH their morning radio anchors. As all apers, they tend to overdo things.

They drove my bp up. Could they be the reason Pinoy drivers bring rage to the streets?

Maraming Riles Tanggal

What MRT means now. Added trivia, it is maintained by a company called Busan! Get the drift?

Real zombies, however, ordered 40 some coaches that are not compatible with the rails.

Mediating Mendicancy

Pastor Willy Chua's book "Treasures Within Reach" touched on the Dignity of Faith. He said we should not use OPM (Other People's Money) as it insults God's generosity. If only DU30 had more faith in Him than in China and Russia!