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Napikon kay Margie Holmes...



Sotto warns he can filibuster on RH bill as regular senator | Inquirer News

Sotto?

Remember Pepsi Paloma?....

Recalling Senator Tito Sotto's Pepsi Paloma connection | Get Real Post

Recalling Senator Tito Sotto’s Pepsi Paloma connection
September 5, 2011
by benign0

Pepsi Paloma was best known as one of the “softdrink” beauties along with starlets Coca Nicolas and Sarsi Emmanuel in Philippine Cinema of the early eighties. Her career and life were tragically cut short after an unfortunate alleged crossing of paths with comedy stars and noontime variety show personalities Joey de Leon, Richie d’Horsey, and Vic Sotto. Vic Sotto is the brother of now Senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto who himself was a famous showbiz celebrity. The man who was to become Senator of the Republic starred alongside his brother Vic and Joey de Leon in various productions. The trio are well-known for their billing as “Tito Vic and Joey” with d’Horsey often joining them in supporting roles…

Although Tito, Vic and Joey started their trio via Discorama and Student Canteen, it was the sitcom Iskul Bukol that gave them nationwide fame as comedians. Soon after, other TV and movie producers came knocking on the trio’s door. In 1979, Tito, Vic and Joey started hosting for the noontime show Eat Bulaga! which was pitted against the more established Student Canteen hosted by their former colleague (and now competitor) Bobby Ledesma. Not long after, Eat Bulaga! toppled Student Canteen from the ratings.

In 1982, Paloma who was aged fifteen at the time reportedly approached then Philippine Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile for help, claiming she was raped by de Leon, d’Horsey, and Sotto. Enrile referred Paloma to the law firm Angara Abello Concepcion Regala & Cruz Law Offices (ACCRA) where the late former Senator Rene Cayetano was at the time a senior partner. Cayetano took the job of legal counsel to Paloma in a move that would catapult him into the media sportlight of the time…

[...] Rene Cayetano first gained prominence in 1982 when he served as pro bono counsel of the late sexy starlet Pepsi Paloma, then 15 years old, who said she was molested by television hosts Vic Sotto, Joey de Leon and Richie d’ Horsey.

Apparently Cayetano did not have much of a chance to show off his attack-litigation skills in this case after some sort of deal was brokered behind the scenes…

The case was amicably settled after Vic’s brother, Vicente Sotto III — now a senator — intervened, prompting the three celebrities to issue a public apology in open.

There was speculation at the time that the fallout from the episode severely impacted Paloma’s career after producers would no longer touch the starlet with a ten-foot pole following the incident. Amazingly, the careers in the entertainment industry of the accused continued to flourish despite the scandal (and, of course, Tito Sotto went on to become a powerful Philippine Senator) — a testament to the deeply ingrained culture of impunity in the Philippines. Paloma reportedly went on to hang herself under circumstances which, like most of her life, were presumably “shrouded in mystery”.

Could Paloma’s descent into showbiz persona non grata status after the close of the case have precipitated a slide into suicidal depression? More to the point: Did the famous comedy trio of Tito Vic and Joey along with D’Horsey have anything to do with a possible blacklisting of Paloma in the industry?

Whatever it was, and if the hands of the Sotto brothers somehow had a place within the “mysterious” circumstances of Paloma’s demise, the ultimate outcome — the case simply going away, in every sense of the phrase — certainly favoured the boys in this instance

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Napikon kay Margie Holmes...



Sotto warns he can filibuster on RH bill as regular senator | Inquirer News

Weh... Call! Mag filibuster nga siya ala Sen. Roseller Lim. Walang script at walang pahinga ha.

Let's get this bill on the road.

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UN data show no correlation between contraceptive prevalence and corruption perception

Statistics show no direct link between contraceptive prevalence and corruption perception in different countries around the world.

China and the United Kingdom registered the highest prevalence of modern contraceptives last year, based on data from the United Nations.

The two countries, however, had very different corruption perception indices, according to Transparency International. China was considered relatively corrupt with a corruption index of 3.6, while UK was the 15th most transparent country.

Three countries with very high modern contraceptive prevalence also landed in Transparency International’s top 10 most transparent countries. These are Finland, Norway and Switzerland.

The Philippines, on the other hand, only had a 33.6-percent prevalence of modern contraceptives last year. It meanwhile received the 12th lowest ranking in terms of transparency in government, tied with Syria, Dominican Republic, Honduras and Armenia.

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so ibig sabihin ba ng CBCP i-endorse rin nila si pandak sa 2013 election kasi anti-RH bill din sya?

CBCP to endorse anti-RH Bill candidates in 2013

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^^ syempre same bishops who received SUV from GMA

[dfopiso]

Malapit na yatang mag-vote, sabi sa news kagabi. Kaya pati pangalan ni Kris, sama sa news ... kung nag-contraceptive daw si Cory walang Kris ngayon

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^^ syempre same bishops who received SUV from GMA

totoo yan ... maraming "sympathizers" si GMA

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Malapit na yatang mag-vote, sabi sa news kagabi. Kaya pati pangalan ni Kris, sama sa news ... kung nag-contraceptive daw si Cory walang Kris ngayon

Too bad Cory probably knew nothing of contraception then.

Sana nga walang Kris ngayon.

On another note, I wonder what kind of deviant paramecium spawned these SUV-soliciting, know-more-than-couples-in-the-bedroom spewing, self-righteous bishops so we can exterminate it and ensure they never again propagate and inflict themselves upon us.

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MARGIE HOLMES | An Open Letter to Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile - On Love And Lust And Leaps of Logic - InterAksyon.com

MARGIE HOLMES | An Open Letter to Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile - On Love And Lust And Leaps of Logic
By: Margarita Holmes
August 6, 2012 7:20 AM


Dear Senator Enrile:

I apologize in advance to you, and to anyone with the perceived notion that you did a great job at the Corona Impeachment trial and thus think me churlish for criticizing your statements concerning the Reproductive Health Bill. But this bill will be voted on on August 7 (unless you, Senator Sotto, former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and her cronies manage once more to derail things) so time is of the essence.

Since the electorate chose you to represent our best interests, it is important to examine your statements to see if you are fulfilling our expectations.

1. In some recent interview, the media quotes you as saying: "Hinog na para botohan sa kanila, pero sa amin, hindi pa hinog. Hindi naman saging iyan na nahihinog o mangga na nahihinog na umaalingasaw (It may be ripe for them, but not for us. The bill is not like a banana or a mango, which emits a fragrance when it's undeniably ripe)."

Good, intelligent people live in squalor, partly because they have more children than they want. Is this not maaalingasaw enough for you, Mr. Senate President?

2. During the RH Debates on Sept 21, 2011, you said: "(The RH Bill), in promoting sex without fear of pregnancy, opens the country to sexual promiscuity… and it would remove the fear of pregnancy for married and unmarried women, which could lead to the prevalence of infidelity on the part of some married women…"

Question:

Are you seriously suggesting that it is fear of pregnancy that keeps married Filipinas, Mrs. Christina Enrile included, from a life of infidelity? Do the virtues of a Catholic education, the lessons of self-restraint and the endlessly mentioned "Filipino family values" count for nothing when such women gain access to a condom?

Should this truly be your fear, I hope you won't think me presumptuous if I recommend you to counselors who can, hopefully, show you how trust, fidelity and respect are rather more important for a meaningful relationship.

3. You also said, and I quote: "It (RH Bill) would remove the fear of pregnancy… which could lead to sexual unruliness of adolescent and teenage female children."

Question:

Do you seriously believe that it is only fear of pregnancy that keeps female Filipino adolescents, a group which included your daughter Katrina until a few years ago, from "sexual unruliness"? Did you not encourage the disciplining of her sexual desires or the necessity of (sometimes) delaying (sexual) gratification? Since your wife and you consider yourselves staunch Catholics, I presume teaching your daughter to respect her body as a "temple of the Holy Spirit" was a must. How could you think the mere availability of condoms would be enough for her to forget all you taught her - or for everybody else's children to forget what their parents taught them?

Some may accuse me to be sobra na, delving into your personal life. But what is your own refusal to allow us to have sex freely and, yes, joyfully, if not a disgraceful intrusion into our personal lives?

What about forbidding Filipinos to do all they can, not only to save the lives of their wives and daughters, but also to give themselves a life that is truly worth living with clean water, reasonable housing, good education etc?

How can we not take it personally when all it would take for you to help better our lives is to not obstruct the passage of a bill that can help us do so?

I take it personally because you said you wanted me to be happy. Gusto niyo po happy ako? With all due respect, Senator Enrile, hindi ako happy pag nakikita ko na maraming gustong maghanapbuhay walang mapasukan at pag nababasa ko ang paghihirap ng mga OFW na sumusulat sa akin. It would be simplistic of me to blame all this on not having passed the RH Bill earlier, but giving people the right to choose how, and indeed if, they want to space and/or limit their families will surely help alleviate these conditions. I take it personally because, in the end, the political is personal and the personal political.

If you feel it is your right to keep people from practicing what they believe, then surely it is their right to question your arrogance and to query why they should vote for you or anybody you endorse come the next election. What is sauce for senators surely is also sauce for the rest of us.

[vinj]

Malapit na yatang mag-vote, sabi sa news kagabi. Kaya pati pangalan ni Kris, sama sa news ... kung nag-contraceptive daw si Cory walang Kris ngayon

So kung nag contraceptives din si Nardong Putik at si Erap...