Halloween (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Edwin Sumcad)
  

Halloween Part III (0 articles.) (# of views) (Created by Edwin Sumcad)
Edwin A. Sumcad                    It is time for nuisance   candidates to come home to roast for contributing their Halloween pranks in the   most irritating and disgusting manner this coming 2016 presidential election.   Point of reference is the 2008 U.S. presidential election when Barack Obama was   elected president. I documented those annoying front liners diligently, hoping   to roast them during the 2016 presidential election campaign in the most   rib-tickling way possible that will make NBC's Last Comic Standing contestants   delivering their funniest materials sound like a very depressed eulogy for the   dead in the funeral parlor.            The point of their relevance to   this satirical expose is the fact that as a bothering distraction during the election   campaign period, the annoyed public listening to their speeches that are so   boring and forgettable nobody listens to, is an insult to the average American's   intelligence. Their audience only consists of viewers and listeners addicted to   television programs and radio broadcast 24-hours a day who trapped by their   viewing and listening habit are at the same time catching a terrible headache.            From the geopolitical sector, record   shows that Ralph Nader is consistently on top of the list. A never-win   scarecrow candidate [he scares the light of me], he keeps on trying to become   president until the crow turns white, or until he stops to breathe, whichever   comes first.           Nader's Evangelical rivals are   tough competitors too. I'll just pick Chuck Baldwin at random, a political   pastor moonlighting as a radio host of Florida who is an everlasting   presidential candidate for the handful members of the Constitution Party.            Chuck always sends e-mails to   his election campaign audience including me, trying to convince us that he was   the hope of the fatherland once elected president. Then he asks for campaign money   to make that happen.             Claiming as a champion of   morality, the thought of an evangelical candidate begging for money to secure   himself in politics drops my jaw to the floor.                I was in a state of shock, to say the least! I   feared that in the eyes of the Lord what Chuck was doing was biblically objectionable,   perhaps a sin worse than that moral debacle which offended God resulting in the   destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by a rain of fire and brimstones.            But the most eccentric of them   all that mainstream Americans worry about and fear the most in the lineup of   never-win everlasting presidential candidates was Republican Congressman Ron   Paul of Texas. He is a doctor of medicine turned politician-cum moralist, cum-economist,   cum-self-proclaimed monetary expert, internationalist and constitutionalist who   threatened to abolish the Federal Reserves, United Nations, taxation, and   security check in the airport when he is elected president. He was always a   presidential candidate since the first Pilgrim boat -- the Mayflower -- landed   in Virginia, possibly at Cape Cod, not really literally but just to give you an   idea how long ago that was when he started running for president.            For the first time, I do not   see Ron Paul in the current Republican nominee line-up for president but his   son Rand Paul, a Senator from Kentucky had taken over. Judging from his stand   in the Republican debate [in the polls, he hardly made it to the Podium] Sen.   Paul is his son's father who will do exactly what Congressman Paul will do when   elected president. Foremost among those Paulian programs of action are to defund   the nation's national security program, abolish TSA and FDA, and declare into   law the right to drink unpasteurized raw milk and eat uninspected milk products   and farm produce as an absolute freedom of the individual.             Can anybody show me a   perennial non-electable presidential candidate more extremely exciting than the   Congressman from Texas? Of course many viewers of the televised Republican   debates to select the party's standard-bearer, including me believe that the possibility   of any of the father and son getting elected president of the United States is   less than that of a Chinaman's chance. The survival of their presidential   ambition is nil if not zero.  Anybody who   swims naked the icy waters of the English channel during winter has a better   chance of surviving.            We can live in a ghost house   and survive the haunting, but I doubt if any of us can survive  Paul's America in a world without   international order [no United Nations] in this Armageddon-threatening nuclear   age; a new America without a central bank, without fiscal revenue, no national   security, but with a lot of freedom to drink raw milk and die of Salmonella,   E-Coli and Listeria, and also a lot of liberty and freedom to die in the hands   of terrorists, local murderers, serial killers and bombers. Terrorists are free   to terrorize. Ron Paul repeatedly argued in front of the television camera that   911 was the fault of America, not of Jihad terrorists that killed more than   6,000 innocent civilians in New York.               But in the Philippines, every day is a   Halloween Day of Corruption. My study shows that the Dark shadows of evil   gather together and celebrate Halloween not just on October 31st but every day   except on November 1st which is All Saints Day. The Undead rest on All Saints   Day. Unlike in the United States, Filipinos don't have to wait from 4 to 5 days   following October 31st before the final 10-second- bell of Election Day rings   to get the shock of their life.              The horror of corruption has been legalized.   The multi-billion-dollar DAP-PDAF heist of public funds [Assistance Development   Programs and Priority Development Assistance Fund] is a recently discovered scandal   of yet unimaginable proportion and incomparable magnitude. The modus operandi   was part of the General Appropriation Act [GAA] Congress passed into law. It   attracted international attention only when the Philippine Supreme Court declared   DAP-PDAF unconstitutional. Several Senators and Congressmen and their civilian   accomplices are now facing charges of corruption.              It is reported that the   discovery of this new strain of corruption is just the tip of the iceberg. The   trail of the continuing investigation is said to be leading directly to   President Benigno Aquino III whose term of office expires in 2016.            Records show that for obvious   reasons presidents are charged of plunder only when they leave Malacanang   Palace, the Philippines' equivalent of White House in the United States.     As president, President Aquino   himself has under the GAA a 'P1.3 trillion' pork barrel. [2] In comparison, the   staggering amount makes the pork barrels of politicians in Congress combined --   some of them are now charged in court of plunder -- only look like peanuts.  But what is more horrifying than this little drop   in the bucket is that majority of Filipinos is not aware or if they are, does   not accept the fact they have elected to office a pork-barrel-president!            And what might be described as   a gigantic tsunami of corruption is yet to come. The eyes and ears of   international observers are on the P399 billion infrastructure projects that   the Aquino administration had proposed for the year 2014. Published reports   indicated this will rise to P820 billion [approximately 5% of the GDP] by the   year 2016. [3] That's when the guillotine drops right on the neck and separates   the head from the body -- actually, the separation of a dead brain from a rotten   heart. Indeed, this metaphor sounds so bloody, but in my roast menu, it is so   Halloween!            In the Philippines, EDSA I and II people   power revolutions erstwhile described as the 'power of the mob' is power that changed   power. With this 'power of the mob' President Marcos and President Estrada were   kicked out of office in a trail of blood.             In comparison, U.S. political   Halloween is David to the Philippines' Goliath. It is so nerve-wracking to   think about it. That's because the bloody Hail Mary [EDSA III] is just around   the corner. #                 

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