the game name, err, game the name, err, the name game...

now, channelnews-asia just reported that world rice prices has just gone down as exporters had an oversupply of the grain. vietnam, one of the chief exporters of the staple has reduced its rice prices together with some other exporters while indonesia; an archipelago which has never exported its rice produce eversince, now self-sufficient with its rice outputs; is now ready to sell its excess rice overseas.

its funny how the cost of local rice has started to climb up quietly when global price of rice has gone down. and the government vowed just a few months ago to to deliver cheaper grains. aren't we starting to realize that its a totally different world out here?

there's a big, big show programmed this thursday at the senate. a guy who has something, err no, a huge thing to do with agriculture will appear before the senate blue ribbon and agriculture committees to explain how and where did an ENOOOORMOUUUUS amount of public funds appropriated for fertilizers went missing. funds believed to be redirected to the administration's campaign pool in the 2004 elections.

now wait, didn't we see this before? didn't we see garciliano and neri negate all allegations by saying: "it's not me, garci is not me" or "i didn't say that, i didn't say the president was evil". isn't this the same movie we saw twice already? isn't this the farcical scene where a bunch of second-rate comics gang up on a funnier clown who is simply a dummy of an even greater clown where the story ends with... the beat up clown goes off the hook, goes away scott-free, runs in elections or gets to be designated as head of CHED or any other comic-stage of a government agency. i got a feeling, this time around, the scene will end with the clown at the center of the story delivers his punchline by yelling "JOC-JOC-JOKE!".

truly, there is no business like showbizness.

there's another clown in the news today who has made public his intention to run for the presidency in 2010 and you bet, he's quite a goof. he's a good clown, in fact, he doesn't need clown make up or anything. he's like what maybelline models say "born with it".

the 60-something makati mayor associates himself with the newly elected US president by using the pet name "Jojobama". i thought it was just jobama as one jo is repulsive already, but like one wasn't repugnantly contemptible enough they had to extend it to Jojobama. good thing they didn't think of mojo-jojo-banana-rama-bama. or Jojo-jojo-fojojo-banana-fana-bojojo-fee-fay-momojo-jojo. 'cause that would have been a problem 'cause there won't be enought space in the ballot for those names. and voters would likely vote for the other candidates if you require them to spell those.

has he ever thought how would the real Obama feel when he learns about this? he might say: "ok, first my father gave me this dull name, now this guy is gonna use it for his gain. why don't he use Barrack instead. doesn't Bina(y)-Barrack sound better? that's swahili for loser, by the way". "why am i always the target of correlation of these publicity-hungry filipinos? first it was gloriah macapalgal-arrowyow, now it's Jeyjowmarr Beenay"

Macapalgal, err...Macapagal-arrowyow's congratulatory calls were reportedly disregarded by Obama twice that she is forced to go to chicago at a time Obama is in town to get him to acknowledge and recognize her. though, arrowyow doesn't wanna show the world that she is trying to get his attention by saying she's there to attend some sort of a gathering. but she intends to get Obama to meet her and shake hands with her and get harassed by her and get enlightened that she has a special kinship with Obama until she feels she and Obama are ready to forget their spouses already and you decide what's next.

and she's not gonna stop unless he has openly included her in his list of network friends in his friendster profile.

there was a news report about Obama not noticing macapagal-arrowyow even when she actually smashed into Obama after her hand waving didn't work while Obama's car was driving by. Obama reacted by whining to his security details about a crazy 50- something female stalker who ran into him.

all in a day's work?!

it was over before i got to enjoy it. before i could watch it in the news, it was over and done. McCain conceded before voters in the state of hawaii, who, due to the difference in the time zone, are the last to vote, could even pick up their pens and cast their ballots. spectators who were following the elections looked like perverts whose sexual enthusiasm went from a hard 10 inch dagger on the opening of the voting and then shrunk to a pruned sausage by the afternoon. some people just can't stop wanting to see more action. it was like a first round knock-out when everybody expected the contest to go the distance just like the two previous US presidential elections. the Bush-Gore rivalry went down-the-wire in 2000. Gore even ask for a recount in states where he thought his supporters' loyalty went all the way to the casting of ballots.

truly, what a difference a day make. Obama was an unknown black man selling lemonade on the streets of chicago one day and then the US president the next. imagine had Hillary won the Democratic nomination, she would have been the former wife of a cheating president then became the chief executive herself who's out to take revenge against her fatfaced man and do a ... monico... lewinsko. gross!?

and bill will be sleeping on the couch from the first night on.

you got to listen to some politicians in Manila who were said to be inspired by Obama's win that they too wanna run for the presidency in 2010. they kind of sound like low-level employees daydreaming of becoming the boss one day. good luck! see you when you get there.

you got the MMDA chairman insisting for the presidency or nothing. he has placed his posters everywhere including places where he has even no jurisdiction as MMDA chief. his name plastered over buses which plies even beyond metro manila routes. getting too excited are we? since he's at it already why don't he campaign in asg, milf infested areas. perhaps terrorists might be interested with his overly premature presidential campaign. that will give them something to discern about.

if he ever pursues the presidency, the MMDA chair's case would have been: "the one running after street vendors one day, the one who run a pointless campaign the next"

you have the makati mayor saying his friends have started calling him "joe-bama" for the unobscure reason of having the same skin tone with Obama and not for their reformist personality. it was said if he ever runs for president, just like Obama, he would pick somebody who has just the thing he lacks as a candidate for president to be his runningmate. so since he has dark features, he would have joker arroyo as his VP. since both advocate transparency in government, they would use the slogan "everything will be in black and white!"

the mayor's case could have been: "the dark one on the first day, the one who bought tons of whitening treatments on the next"

one youthful senator said Obama's win only proves that people want youth in a candidate. hence, he thinks he has a fighting chance.

he could become the: "the young turk one day, the other, err..., he finished a turkey"

ate vi is in a class of her own, when everybody wants to run for president, she has her eyes set on the vice-presidency and is going after the examples of gov. palin.

but since joe biden won, what's she gonna do now?

she could have become the: star for all seasons one day, and then the next day, since joe biden won, she was scared for a good reason"

2010 is still 1 and a half year away and they're all set for the royal rumble. in fact, just like Obama who has now put up his economic team, some presidentiables, too confident of their win in 2010 and not to be outdone by Obama, are now meeting with their respective economic advisers as well. this early! wooohooo!

feeling!?

of elections and presidentiables and tina-fay

the US presidential election is on in just a little over two days. and some say it's nothing short of an epic. John "the maverick" McCain against Barrack "that one" Obama. both are now hard pressed on their last minute campaigns on major and swing states.

you got to admire both men. they worked hard in their campaigns. i thought Obama ran a smart campaign and McCain was unwearied in his age. McCain is very patient, you got to admire his loyalty to his party. after eight years of waiting at the sidelines for bush to finish his terms after both battled it out in 2000 republican primaries. he was invited to switch sides by sen. kennedy, but his loyalty to the republican ideals prevailed over him. now he's, what? 72 years old. and finally getting his luck working.

same thing happened when he was a POW in vietnam, he was offered freedom but he decided to stay with his fellow POWs. it's either his vietnamese watcher must have made quite an impression on him or you simply cannot question his loyalty.

and you got to admire also how he defended his choice for a runningmate in sarah palin, who was quite a sport despite all the satirical sketches about her. oh yeah! russian president medvedev, premier putin and everybody in kremlin are now fortifying their buildings, covering all the holes where palin could peer in from her windows in alaska. they're really alarmed by what she said and they're calling a national security meeting because of that. whoooh!

joe biden, on the other hand, not to be outdone by palin, immediately showcased his expertise in foreign diplomacy and visited gov. palin in alaska which he now sees as either a separate state or a part of canada more than ever.

biden's presidential runningmate is just as commendable as mccain. he rised up the US political ladder with tremendous speed. you can't imagine how displeased and irritated is mrs. clinton at how he sideswiped her along the way.

in the philippines, the political scene is heating up as well two years ahead of the 2010 elections. yup! this early every "presidentiable" is popping out with their ads and road banners to jockey up for their party's nomination. how often do you hear this phrase these days: "kasama nyo ako"? and some are suggesting that gov. Vi of batangas will do a gov. sarah palin. wohooow!

it is said that since gov. Vi doesn't have a daughter, her son is now trying to look for a girl to impregnate just to get that complete sarah palin resemblance, or just to get close at least, what with the glasses and the librarian hairdo and all. (eugene domingo-Vi's double- is now called "tina-fay"- after Tina Fey)

the son was said to be reluctant at first as he vowed, for an undetermined reason, to be celibate for life, but agreed eventually. he was last seen wandering around willie revilame's noontime show. ssshkimberlu! shkimpertush! eklaBuh! willie! aleeert!
WHO COULD HE BE AFTER?

to borrow from sarah palin, gov. Vi, so they say, is going to use this catchphrase to drum up her vice-pres'l campaign: "i could see who is visiting us from the terrace!"