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The Truth About Sex Addiction

Is it a real condition or a convenient excuse for serial cheaters? When sex becomes an addiction Still, plenty of questions surround sexual obsession: Does it mean you're addicted to sex if you're doing it three times a day? How do you separate the addicts from otherwise healthy people who just happen to really, really love having sex? Relationship expert Amanda Kane explains the difference: "Generally, a person with a sex addiction gains little satisfaction from the sexual acting-out and forms no emotional bond with his or her sex partners." So if you find yourself using men just for sex, you might have an addiction problem. For some addicts, it is the only way they know to relieve anxiety and cope with stress. This is very different from super-passionate couples who link sex with love and emotional connection. Another key point is compulsion: "Sex addiction has the hallmarks of other addictions (i.e. alcohol or drug addiction) because it involves a recurrent f...

Party-List System

What is the Party-List System? With loads of help from the primer of Commission on Elections (Comelec) on the party-list system and select excerpts from my daughter’s law books, I gathered that the party-list system of election was intended by the Constitution to ensure that the voice of the marginalized sectors in society is heard in Congress. In theory, this is ensured by allotting 20 percent of the total number of Congressmen ( the members of both the Senate and the House of Representatives) to representatives coming from marginalized sectoral, regional and national parties, coalitions or organizations. Representatives elected via the party-list system are different from the members of the Lower House. The latter represent their constituents in their respective districts—their representation is thus based on geography. Party-list representatives represent the constituents of the marginalized sectors of society. These marginalized sectors are those belonging to the labor, peasant,...

Pamana ni Gloria sa bayan – The Negative side

Ipinapakita sa mga nagdaang mga patalastas sa TV ni Gloria ay “legacy” daw- and ipamana niyang pangmatagalan sa sambayanang Pilipino. Ang mga proposal ng kanyang mga alagad na dagdag raw sa sahod, ibaba raw ang kuryente, libreng text at kung ano-ano pang pakulo na sa isip niya ay makamasa. Akala naman niya naloloko niya ang taumbayan. Pamana ni Gloria sa bayan – The Negative side Pamana ni Gloria sa bayan – English Version Pamana ni Gloria sa bayan – The Positive side Ang nais talaga niyang palabasin ay bababa na siya sa 2010 at hindi na niya ipagpipilit ang charter change. Gusto raw nila maala-ala siya ng taumbayan sa mga magandang bagay. Madaming beses na siyang nagsinungaling, walang naniniwala kahit ilang beses pa niyang sabihin na bababa siya sa Malacañang sa 2010. Paano naman kasi makalimutan ang sinabi niya sa harap ng munomento ni Jose Rizal noong December 2002 na hindi siya tatakbo sa pagkapresidente sa 2004. Siyempre maraming pumuri sa deisyon niya at hindi na siya basta bina...

Scottish lawmaker resigns over Filipino comments

A Scottish lawmaker was forced to quit his role on a parliamentary committee after being caught on microphone saying a woman in the audience was "very attractive" with "that Filipino look." Frank McAveety, a Labour politician, stepped down as chairman of the public petitions committee Wednesday after his inappropriate comments were picked up as he convened a meeting of the body. The former Scottish government minister also quit as sport spokesman for the Labour party in Scotland. The 47-year-old member of the Scottish parliament's remarks were caught on microphone as witnesses changed places at the committee meeting Tuesday. He was heard saying to a committee clerk: "There's a very attractive girl in the second row. Dark and dusky. I'll maybe have to put a wee word out for her. "She's very attractive-looking. Nice, very nice. "The heat's getting to me. True, true, true. "She's got that Filipino look, you know ...

Senator Charles Schume wants disclosure on outsourced calls

In a bid to reduce outsourcing of U.S. jobs, a Democratic senator said on Sunday he will push legislation to make companies inform customers when their calls were being transferred outside the United States and charge companies for those transferred calls. "This bill will not only serve to maintain call center jobs currently in the United States, but also provide a reason for companies that have already outsourced jobs to bring them back," Senator Charles Schumer said in statement. Customers calling 800 numbers are often transferred overseas, and in such cases the bill would mandate that callers be told where their calls were rerouted. Companies would also be required to certify to the Federal Trade Commission annually that they were complying with the requirement, and face penalties if they did not certify. Schumer's bill would also impose a $0.25 excise tax on any customer service call placed inside the United States which is transferred to an agent in a foreign locatio...

National Election Results Tally

PRESIDENT 1 AQUINO, Benigno Simeon III C. 13,842,049 2 ESTRADA EJERCITO, Joseph M. 8,758,675 3 VILLAR, Manuel Jr B. 5,014,237 4 TEODORO, Gilberto Jr. C. 3,674,832 5 VILLANUEVA, Eduardo C. 1,026,270 6 GORDON, Richard J. 467,658 7 ACOSTA, Vetellano S. 163,764 8 PERLAS, Jesus Nicanor P. 48,956 9 MADRIGAL, Jamby A. 42,192 10 DE LOS REYES, John Carlos G. 40,070 VICE PRESIDENT 1 BINAY, Jejomar ...

Our Platform

The Bloggers Party-list has the following specific objectives: 1. To provide an institutional vehicle for its members to promote causes of concern to bloggers, such as blogger's benefits and the state of the environment; 2. To develop and institute national programs that seek, maintain, and improve the physical, mental, spiritual being of its members; 3.To promote, encourage, and undertake civic, cultural, social, and economic activities for its members; 4.To sustain the devotion and loyalty of its members to the noble traditions of the service professions; 5. To help its members organize the expertise acquired by them in various professional disciplines and propagate the best practices in these disciplines to the interested public; 6. To develop and implement programs to allow its members to apply their knowledge and experience in helping educate the nation’s future generations; 7.To assist government and non-government agencies in developing, advocating, and im...

PARTY-LIST SYSTEM ACT, Republic Act No. 7941

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ELECTION OF PARTY-LIST REPRESENTATIVES THROUGH THE PARTY-LIST SYSTEM, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled: Section 1. Title. – This Act shall be known as the “Party-List System Act”. Sec. 2. Declaration of Policy. – The State shall promote proportional representation in the election of representatives to the House of Representatives through a party-list system of registered national, regional and sectoral parties or organizations or coalitions thereof, which will enable Filipino citizens belonging to the marginalized and underrepresented sectors, organizations and parties, and who lack well-defined political constituencies but who could contribute to the formulation and enactment of appropriate legislation that will benefit the nation as a whole, to become members of the House of Representatives. Towards this end, the State shall develop and guarantee a full, free...

The Partylist System

A party-list system, a form of proportional representation in which voters choose among parties rather than among candidates, was introduced by the 1987 Constitution ostensibly to create a healthy democracy by increasing representation of so-called “marginalized and under-represented” sectors. Twenty percent of the total number of seats in the House of Representatives are reserved for party-list groups. Every 2 percent of total party-list votes cast gets a seat in the House, with each party allowed a maximum of three seats. Votes are awarded to the party-list groups in proportion to the votes they receive. Filipino voters were first introduced to the party-list system in 1998. Voters have two votes for their congressional representatives. The first elects a district representative. The second elects a party-list representative.

Mission and Vision

Our Mission: To represent the Filipino bloggers in the pursuit of a life worthy of all hard-working Filipino citizens. To help every Filipino who expresses their thoughts and ideas and the development of its future stars by giving them a voice in the political landscape as well as to spread awareness of the rights of our bloggers . To help create opportunities for the Filipino youth to be a better citizen of our country since youth is the hope of our country. Our Vision: To help our country develop more in its communication process. To be acknowledged as a progressive country by being an excellent communicator

Vote Wisely

First, I don't think we can guarantee that we are voting wisely . Sure, we think we're making the right decisions for the right reasons, but let's be honest. We all made some lousy choices, and we've all been fooled. Maybe not in politics, at least not yet, but somewhere. Haven't we all been friends with a jerk, or bought a really bad car, or tried a really ineffective diet, or something? Second, let's assume we do make the right choice . There's still no guarantee that our candidates will be successful when facing the challenges of the office. A great mayoral candidate may still have a nervous breakdown, a governor may still yield to temptation when confronted with temptations while in office. Third, even if the best candidate becomes the best office holder, unless the will of the people support him, then it won't matter. If the public isn't behind him, then others can take advantage, and exploit his unpopularity their own agendas.So, just vote the...