It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world
Credit to Author: RAMON T. TULFO| Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 20:36:19 +0000
BRUNEI has passed a law penalizing adultery and homosexuality with death by stoning.
The Muslim country in Southeast Asia has taken a leaf from very conservative Middle East Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia.
But one thing stands out like a sore thumb in the passage of that severe law: The Sultan of Brunei, who approved it, is himself adulterous and sexually hedonistic.
Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah is notorious for engaging in sex with beauties from countries all over the world.
A Filipino actress told me that she, along with 100 other drop-dead beauties from the Philippines, US, Europe and other countries in Asia were billeted at the Sultan’s palace.
Every night, the actress said, two or three women would be asked to join the Sultan for merrymaking that ended up in a sex orgy.
If memory serves, that actress told me that Miss USA, Miss Belgium and other contestants of the Miss Universe pageant at the time were among the coterie of beauties in the harem.
Now, let’s touch on Saudi Arabia, which outlaws homosexuality.
It’s public knowledge the world over that Saudi men are attracted to other men who don’t wear moustaches or beards and would want to have anal sex with them.
Filipino men I’ve interviewed said that they sported moustaches or beards while in Saudi Arabia and other Middle East countries to escape rape from Arab men.
A Filipino gay man came to my office at “Isumbong Mo Kay Tulfo” and complained that he was sodomized by 20 policemen while he was held in detention in a Saudi jail.
Bedouin men, those who live in the Arabian desert, are said to inflict themselves on chickens, camels and goats.
That’s worse than homosexuality, don’t you think?
Which reminds one of a joke about a son who told his father that he had lost his virginity. When the proud dad told his son to sit beside him to celebrate his manhood, the boy said, “Dad, I can’t sit down, it kinda hurts.”
As the title of the 1960 movie says, “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.”
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The Binay family’s greed for power and the Makati voters’ stupidity in choosing their leaders are clearly shown when siblings Abby and Junjun are vying for the town’s No. 1 post.
The idiocy of voters seems to be true in other areas in the country as candidates who should not have been allowed to run in the first place are frontrunners in the electoral race on May 13.
It’s already a given that one of the Binays will win over all the other candidates for mayor: Carmelle Ainne Alanzalon, Renato Bondal, Wilfredo Talag and Ricardo Yabut.
Aside from lacking funds to underwrite their campaigns, the other candidates also lack name-recall even if most of them have no record of corruption.
The Binay patriarch, former Vice President Jejomar, seems to have no control over his offspring.
When he could have asked one of the siblings to give way to the other, Jojo Binay is even supporting Abby’s reelection thereby rejecting Junjun’s candidacy.
Junjun was Jojo’s immediate successor before the former was removed by the Office of the Ombudsman for corruption and replaced by Romulo “Kid” Peña.
Peña was running Makati very well—the city had less reports of corruption during his term—but was defeated by Abby in the 2016 election.
The Makati voters, most of whom are either illiterate or don’t read the news or don’t care at all, resoundingly rejected Peña in favor of Abby whose family’s record of corruption is well-known.
The people of Makati, as well as those of the entire country, deserve to be poor all their miserable lives for choosing leaders who rob them blind.
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My job as special envoy to China has allowed me to see many great opportunities for the Philippines.
I am a great believer in education, so it is with Filipino pride that I talk about the Soledad College of Fujian University.
Founded by the Fujian Normal University and Friends of the Philippines Foundation, it is named after Mrs. Soledad Roa-Duterte, President Digong’s mother.
The Soledad College aims to train batches of highly professional economic management talents for the Philippines. Once they learn about China’s economic development experience, they will be able to contribute to economic development in the Philippines.
It will also enhance our national friendship with China.
Soledad College has now opened its doors and will accept 60 graduate students from economics and management courses– 30 to come from the National Capital Region, and the remaining 30 from Davao.
Students from the University of the Philippines, Ateneo de Manila University, De La Salle University, University of Mindanao, San Pedro College, and Angeles University are eligible.
Their major subjects should be in business administration, international business, tourism management, and public affairs management.
All students accepted to Soledad College will receive full scholarships from the Friends of the Philippines Foundation.
While the first batch to be chosen has begun their studies in China, the next one will be going in September 2019.
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