5 QUAKES IN 2 DAYS

In no particular order, here are five significant earthquakes that went off the last two days.

Tokyo, Japan - Magnitude 7.0
Tuva (in Siberia) - Magnitude 9.0

Christchurch, New Zealand - Magnitude 5.5
Youngstown, Ohio (USA) - Magnitude 4.0
Sumatra, Indonesia - Magnitude 5.3

Geologists say strong quakes has been at a record high since 2004 but attribute such to random chance more than anything else. Yes, random chance.

What's wrong with saying, "we don't know what's happening.." instead they have to invent a mathematically cute excuse and say, "its random chance at work!"

RIZAL TWICE MURDERED

The worst violation you can do to a murdered man is to murder his memory in the minds of those he died for.

And that's just what they did to Jose Rizal beginning right after his martyrdom on December 30, 1896, by announcing the supposed retraction of his anti-Catholic ideas. The announcement was published in Madrid the following day without proof, only saying that the "document" of his retraction was given to Archbishop Bernardino Nozaleda of Manila for his keeping. That "document' only surfaced for public viewing on May 13, 1935. A veritable forgery, says Peter Jaynul Uckung of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines.

It's been 115 years and the bigger tragedy is that some Filipinos still choose to believe the people whose very hands are stained with Rizal's blood.

For more on the supposed retraction, read this.   
For a blow by blow tweet of his martyrdom follow tweetnirizal 

For your delectation, here's one of Rizal's telling lines in Mi Ultimo Adios..    

"I go where... faith does not kill." 

-Dr. Jose P. Rizal

A VULTURE CALLED DEMOCRACY

Karen Heagle Vulture with Carcass 2008

We have all been brainwashed to blindly accept "democracy" as the best of all possible human governments, ever. I for one have recently decided to jump boat and become a full-time contrarian. This is upon understanding  how sickly nations become, in direct proportion to the democratic "reforms" they institute.

I'm speaking strictly in terms of geo-politics here, so let's not drag morality into the issue by citing the Hitlers of this world. If every nation were ruled by a perfectly benevolent dictator or monarch, I would prefer that to a world where every nation is naively hostage to the trappings of democracy and global capitalism, where the end result is global POWER getting more and more concentrated in the hands of THE FEW.

Democracy, you may say, is akin to a pack of wolves in sheep's clothing tricking the flock into murdering the shepherd. When the shepherd is dead and gone, the sheep are slaughtered one at a time. But the flock, by then is too busy indulging in procreation and recreation that they don't realize this soon enough...    

TRADITIONS: A HARMLESS BIT OF FUN?

Evil Grin Santa Claus

The last time I heard Santa Claus is possibly real was in kindergarten, upon seeing  my Christmas eve stockings filled with shiny coins, with gifts to boot just a foot beneath.

I must have been quite pragmatic even then but this physical "evidence" was all I needed to restore my swiveling faith to steadfast stillness. At least for another year.

Reality have a way of catching up, thank goodness, and soon enough you slowly grow apart  from every white lie people told you in the name of fun and games...

VACATION, OVER

Today actually marks the beginning of a rather snappy real-world vacation for me but very very recent events in my life inspired me to resume this rather poor excuse for a blog. I know i'm posting this simply as a marker as whatever little traffic i may have gained has by now evaporated into thin cyber space air.

Oh, well. Time to start again.