Tuesday, September 21, 2021

House ratifies report on postponement of first regular elections in BARMM

The House of Representatives ratified Tuesday the bicameral conference report on the bills postponing the first regular elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) to 2025. 


During its session, the lower chamber ratified the bicameral conference committee report on the disagreeing provisions of House Bill 10121 and Senate Bill 2214, which pushed for the postponement of the polls. 


Once ratified by the Senate, the substitute bill, which combines the Senate and the House versions of the measure, will be transmitted to the office of President Rodrigo Duterte. 


Under the measure, the first regular election for the Bangsamoro Government shall be held synchronized with the 2025 national elections. The Bangsamoro elections were originally scheduled for 2022.


According to the House version of the bill, the postponement seeks to give BARMM time to “strengthen its foundations for a stronger regional government and economy.”


The postponement, the bill states, will also allow the national government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to “lay better and sturdier foundations and successfully translate the efforts on the gains from the peace agreement into lasting and sustainable peace not only in Mindanao but for the whole Philippines.”


https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1491005/house-ratifies-report-on-postponement-of-first-regular-elections-in-barmm

How To Stand Firm In Your Beliefs

For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.  Psalm 1:6


When the other person does it, you call it “lying,” but when you tell the cop, “I know I wasn’t speeding,” you’re just bending the truth a bit—good business, you know.  When you falsified your resume when you applied for a job, inflating your salary for previous jobs and expanding your educational background (who is going to call the school and check on the years you were there?), you cloaked it in a term which has become widely used—misinformation.  Besides, stretching the truth serves your purpose and you get away with it, so what?


Bill Gates is filthy rich, right?  He’s got more money than he could ever count in a lifetime, and you don’t, that’s for sure; so, if you can duplicate the software your buddy has and save some money and get away with it, wouldn’t it be smart to do that?


Today we are confronted with far more than software piracy, or bending the truth a bit here or there. We are in the midst of a culture war, and the deception of pragmatism—that means, if it works, do it; if you can get away with it, why not? —has engulfed our generation much as the fog that gradually drifts in, obscuring our vision, and blighting our lives.


Years ago, I sold a house before we moved to the Philippines, and the first person to look at our home offered the full asking price. Then a second person took me aside and said, “Hey, if you take my offer, I’ll give you a $1,000 more than this guy!”  “There’s no way my integrity could be bought for $1,000,” I told him, adding, “I gave him my word.”  My brother, hearing the story said, “Hey, he should have tried $5,000.”


Fascinating was a research project when an interviewer asked women if they would ever betray their husband’s trust.  Then when they said, “No,” the question followed, “Would you do it for $1,000,000?”  And suddenly the whole equation of fidelity changed. “Yes,” replied more than a few, “that’s different.”


Our culture today is one based on pragmatism, a philosophy founded by psychologist William James who, in the year 1907, posed this situation: “Granting an idea or belief to be true,” it says, “what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth’s cash-value in experiential terms?” (Pragmatism, 1907, www.pragmatism.org/ Aug. 3, 2005).


Pragmatism means truth is not absolute but is subject to changing situations and circumstances, and the real test of something is your feelings about yourself and the issue. What’s good for you? And how does this make you feel?” No wonder the Russian writer Igor Dostoevsky in The Brothers Karamazov wrote, “If there is no God, then anything is permissible.”


What’s the bottom line?  You’ve got to decide whether you will allow yourself to be swept away by a moral relativism today, a pragmatism that allows you to do anything that feels good, anything that you can get away with (outside of prison or getting shot by an offended husband), or whether you will choose the path that is narrow, where many choose not to walk, but which is blessed by God. Remember, Jesus said, “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it” (Matthew 7:13).


With every choice there are consequences, and when you are carried on the tide of pragmatism, you have no anchor for your soul. Instead of walking towards the light, you become engulfed in a darkness that destroys you. Remember, it’s your choice.


Resource reading: Acts 5:1-11


https://www.guidelines.org/devotional/how-to-stand-firm-in-your-beliefs/

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Does Raffy Tulfo support ABS-CBN Network’s return after the Duterte Administration?

Tulfo observed that his recent guesting on the Kapamilya Network was a bit sad compared to his previous guesting before the media and entertainment company lost its franchise.


Raffy Tulfo announced his support to airing again of the giant broadcasting network, ABS-CBN on TV.


On Wanted sa Radyo, on Monday, September 20, he has shared that he noticed signs of gloominess on the ABS-CBN building when he attended as a surprise guest for the ASAP Natin ‘To episode on September 19.


He performed a song number with Zsazsa Padilla and Nina.


“Syempre, walang nagsasalita sa kanila dun. Tahimik lang. nakikita ko ang lungkot. Dati-rati, nag-ge-guest na ko sa ABS-CBN noon–maraming taong masaya, pero dun, malungkot sila,”


Tulfo observed that his recent guesting on the Kapamilya Network was a bit sad compared to his previous guesting before the media company lost its franchise.


“Huwag kayong malungkot dahil… 9-10 months,” Tulfo somewhat counted the remaining days before the rise of a new administration.


“Ten thousand kasi ang nawalan ng trabaho. Kung pwedeng baka sabihin ni Lord, sige ten months, okay na ulit. ‘Di ba? Kumbaga, magbabanggaan yong 16 million versus 42 million subscribers,” he seemed to have challenged the 16 million people who voted for President Duterte last 2016 national elections.


“Forty-two million yata ‘yong subscribers. Kung i-combine mo pa baka 50 million, so 60 million, so alin mas marami dun?” he stated, not clarifying to what the numbers he mentioned pertain to.


As of writing, the Raffy Tulfo in Action YouTube channel only has 22 million subscribers, far from the 42 million subscribers Tulfo indicated.


According to speculations, Tulfo will run for the Vice Presidential post with Sen. Manny Pacquiao as his running mate-President.


https://www.lionheartv.net/2021/09/look-does-raffy-tulfo-supports-abs-cbn-networks-return-after-the-duterte-administration/

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