When it rains, it pours

As this is written Tuesday evening, many parts of Luzon are experiencing the wrath of another typhoon. Flooding, dams threatening to break, lives lost, property and possessions lost. A painful replay for many typhoon victims.

Same victims, once again, found themselves moving to safer grounds or evacuating. One victim said she had survived Typhoon Ondoy but she thought she and her family who tried to cross to the other side using a banca would not live through this recent one which brought stronger and more amount of rain.

Metro Manila was paralyzed, other provinces still had to report the damage caused by Typhoon Maring. Picking up the pieces after a typhoon is becoming a painful repetition for many. So much loss, so much to restore, so much funds wasted, so much more needed again. When it rains, it pours. Here in Cebu, tragedy struck too. A cargo ship collided with a passenger ship about to dock and unload passengers at the Cebu Port. More than 60 were dead and more than 50 are still missing. Lives saved, others taken, still others more to be found and recovered.

Oil spill continues to be our biggest challenge now. We all need to share our time and resources to contain the oil spill so that water resources, people, their livelihood, food supply, tourism, among others, protected not only in Cebu but in neighboring islands and provinces as well.

CALLING ONALLFILIPINOS in the PHILIPPINESANDABROAD, especially THOSE IN CEBU - can you help, offer advice, do whatever you can wherever you are, to help contain the oil spill from Talisay which is now spreading to other areas? Let us move soonest and urgently TOGETHER to reverse the adverse impact of this oil spill to people, communities and nature!

Let us all unite to solve this urgent oil spill problem soonest!

Calls for coconut husks, cogon grass, hair, chicken feather, saw dust, used clothing, masks have been made. Please bring what you can share at the dropping center in Fuente Osmeña or please bring directly to the Cordova Municipal Hall.

There's free haircut at Plaza Sugbo in front of Cebu City Hall for those who wish to donate their hair to help contain the oil spill. Calling DepEd and CHED to encourage all students in Cebu and nearby provinces to share their hair and their care for our people and our environment! When it rains, it pours. The whole nation is still enraged about the pork scam expose. More reports are showing more cases of public funds abused by those in Tongress, in the (walay) Batasang Pambansa. So much plunder of our funds all throughout, for so many years!

Sobra na, tama na! NO TO MORE PORK BARREL! NO TO MORE PORK FOR TONGRESS!

Even if there are a few honorable left in Congress, the millions of continuing poor constituents throughout this country negate all the so-called benefits of channeling pork through the tongressmen. Who are they kidding? TAMA NA, SOBRA NA!

Let us all do what we can, wherever we are to express our disgust and rage vs the abuse of public funds.

We can form prayer groups, we can join the indignation rally at Fuente Osmeña in Cebu or in Luneta or wherever you are at 9 a.m. Philippine Standard Time, this Monday, August 26th! When it rains, it pours. So many abusive, so many go unpunished. Let us not allow anyone else to steal any single centavo from our public funds from now on! This scam should wake us all up to demand a more transparent and accountable system of our funds!

Let us unite and wake up and be vigilant! We have allowed evil to reign for so long – tama na, sobra na! Time for truth and goodness to take over.

At 9 a.m. Monday, August 26th, join the indignation rally in Luneta, in Fuente Osmeña or wherever you are. Let us go as Filipinos, that will be our battlecry! Filipinos, unite!!!

Let us demand the return of public funds to Filipinos! NO TO MORE PORK FOR CONGRESS EVER! Tama na, sobra na, ibalik na ang nakaw na pondo sa bayan!

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‘Calls for coconut husks, cogon grass, hair, chicken

feather, saw dust, used clothing, masks have been made. Please bring what

you can share at the dropping center in Fuente Osmeña or please bring directly to the Cordova

Municipal Hall.’