The Horror that is America is Disgusting

US soldier Bowe Bergdahl 'was disgusted with Afghan war and ashamed to be American' Sgt Bowe Bergdahl, a US soldier being held prisoner by the Taliban after disappearing from his base had told his parents he was disgusted with the Afghan war and ashamed to be American. A United States soldier being held prisoner by the Taliban after disappearing from his base had told his parents he was disgusted with the Afghan war and ashamed to be American. Sgt Bergdahl criticised his superiors, calling his battalion commander a "conceited old fool", By Ben Farmer, Kabul Sgt Bowe Bergdahl, now 26, has been held for almost three years and is the only American soldier held by the insurgents, after going missing in a south eastern province of Afghanistan. The American military has never detailed the events of his disappearance, but there were reports at the time that he had just walked off his base in Paktika province after completing a guard shift. His family, from Hailey in Idaho, have now released an email he sent days before his disappearance in which he spoke of his disillusion with the American military. "The future is too good to waste on lies," he wrote in the email obtained by Rolling Stone magazine. "And life is way too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong. I have seen their ideas and I am ashamed to even be American. The horror of the self-righteous arrogance that they thrive in. It is all revolting." Sgt Bergdahl criticised his superiors, calling his battalion commander a "conceited old fool", and said the American army was composed of "liars, back-stabbers, fools, and bullies". He concluded by saying: "I am sorry for everything. The horror that is America is disgusting." His disappearance triggered an intense manhunt as troops were pulled off planned operations to search for him. At the time, Afghan officers taking part in the search said they had been told Sgt Bergdahl had suffered some form of breakdown. A Taliban statement said he had been captured after falling behind on a patrol. He is not classified as a deserter and is listed as "missing-captured." Since his capture, he has appeared in a number of hostage videos released by the Taliban, in which he has pleaded for his release. He is believed to be held in northwestern Pakistan. His parents have recently begun giving interviews about their son's imprisonment after becoming frustrated with the failure of official efforts to free him. American officials had tried to broker his freedom in a swap for five Taliban leaders currently held in Guantánamo Bay US military prison in Cuba. The transfer had been conceived as a "confidence building measure" to kick start wider talks between the enemies to find a political settlement to the conflict. The initiative appears to have stalled in the face of opposition in Congress to concessions to the Taliban. Meanwhile the number of American troops who have died in the decade-long conflict on Thursday passed 2,000 according to the icasualties website, which compiles casualty figures. Oh my dear US soldier Bowe Bergdahl, thank you for being honest, truthful, and courageous in the real sense of the word. You are, indeed, a rare and a great American. I salute you. If only there were more of you as American citizens - there will be peace, sanity, and tranquility in this world of ours! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Jaime T. Licauco

How to Heal Yourself Through Visualization. Seminar by Jaime T. Licauco June 7, 2014... Oh my dear Jaime T. Licauco, there is no such thing as healing through visualization or vituperation or visitation or even by revelation or circumlocution or deception or even by prostitution... Even in and then out of the hospital cured of a disease, we are still dying whether we like it or not... Sir, the day we are born is the day we begin to live in a dying body. All the healing in the world cannot stop that reality, not even by the power and grace and beauty of a silly divinity... In the meantime, the trouble with Jesus is that can only save you not before death, but only after death! Hijos de tootie-frootie y patooties, Conio! What a super Son of a God Jerk... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

A God not of Mercy, but a God of Mediocrity

"God's judgment is certain, but so is His mercy." Philippine Star, June 3, 2014... Oh God, my dear God, thus far, what has always been certain is that you are only always omni-absent. Never omnipresent. Come on God, where in hell are you? why are you always hiding? In the bible you used to speak with Moses face to face. How come you never bother to speak to me face to face; specially as you know that I no longer believe in you as a God of mercy but only as God of mediocrity? ... In the meantime, you are really happy and proud of yourself that you had created a mad and an insane world for us poor humans to live in? ... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

War of Ideas

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity... Dwight D. Eisenhower... For my part, I love war; but only the kind of war where we fight not with bullets and guns; but with ideas against other ideas as one can see its sensibility, intellectuality, its sanity, its benefits for humanity. Poch Suzara

J.K. Rowling, Author of Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling is no longer a billionaire. . . The billionaires club has hit J.K. Rowling with a banishing spell. According to the newly updated Forbes Rich List, the Harry Potter author has gone from billionaire to millionaire (several hundred times over, of course). She apparently broke a few rules of how to stay rich by giving away a lot of her fortune — reportedly $160 million of it — to charity and by paying her top-rung British taxes. There’s no way that the socially minded Rowling, who once lived on welfare, gives two Quaffles about her standing on the list, and no one should shed a tear over a stratospherically rich woman becoming slightly less so. But I always liked knowing that an author of imaginative, timeless, honest-to-goodness books became a billionaire. On the contrary, J.K. rowling is far far richer than ever. After all, the worst kind of poverty is the poverty of the mind and heart... while the greatest of wealth is the health of the mind and heart. Poch Suzara

Overpopulation Good for the Philippines Says Catholic Bishop

Bishop Gilbert Garcera of the Diocese of Daet, the capital of Camarines Norte, believes overpopulation has been advantageous to the Philippines and to the world because it has increased the number of overseas workers and migrants who could send remittances back home while taking care of ageing people abroad and spreading the Christian faith... Contrary to the aims of the reproductive health (RH) bill, Garcera said the huge Philippine population could be part of “God’s plan for Filipinos to be caregivers to ageing nations whose populations had become stagnant.” Oh my dear Bishop Gilbert Garcera, you are such a cheap liar and as corrupt as any of our corrupt politicians in the government. What is good for all of us Filipinos is to know first what exactly is God's plan of which you yourself haven't the foggiest. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Poor Soldiers

"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in... George McGovern . . . This is a minor evil... The major evil, however, is when soldiers are trained to just do or die and never, but never question what it is exactly that they are ordered to die for. For freedom and democracy? what a lot of hogwash! Since war has always been big business, the job of soldiers is to make the filthy rich minority get richer; and to keep the filthy poor majority get poorer! That's all! . . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Is that What You Are a Great God About?

If you are tempted to lose patience with another, stop and think how patient God has been with you." - Philippine Star, June 2, 2014. . . The Lord's Prayer. . . "Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into TEMPTATION, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.". . . Oh God, my dear God, don't you have better things to do with your time and energy other than just to lead us not into TEMPTATION? So that you can endlessly continue to deliver us from evil? Is that what you are a great God about? HUH? NO KIDDING? Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Poverty of the Worst Kind

If I give you a penny, you will be one penny richer and I'll be one penny poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it, too. Albert Einstein... Indeed, the worst kind of poverty is the poverty of the mind and heart... Such Catholic horrors have been and still are what our schools, colleges, and universities have been mostly about: a sick Catholic system of education that makes us happy and proud of our sick existence in this world as the Sick Man of Asia, specially for the greater glory of Jesus on earth as he is in heaven. Poch Suzara

Senator Ping Lacson

President Aquino appointed Senator Ping Lacson to be the CZAR to fix the heavy damages in Tacloban as caused by typhoon "Yolanda." That was almost a year ago but nothing has yet been fixed in Tacloban; it is still in a mess, except that Senator Ping Lacson has turned out to be more famous not as a CZAR but a SAP in fixing anything anywhere in our country. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Insanity of our Ancestors

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". . . Albert Einstein ... Look at the insanity of our parents, grandparents, great grandparents then praying and praying and expecting not only different results; but that we, as their children, grandchildren, great grandchildren should also be praying over and over even if, thus far, there are still no good results in any way whatsoever! Obviously, we are not passing a bright torch to the future generations of Filipinos - we are passing on to them only more of the same old farce, fraud, and ceremony! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Why I love and Respect Atheism

Atheism is wholesome, honest, and trustworthy because it faces the facts of life devoid of fear. As an atheist, I thank God that I am an atheist. After all, God himself was an atheist who created me in His own image and likeness... Please read carefully God's first commandment: THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.". . . This simply means that God does not believe nor does He tolerate the existence of other Gods - and that makes God a SUPER ATHEIST... So my dear friends, what is the problem? If God, in his own image and likeness, created me to be an atheist - why should that bother any of you religious saps and jerks over why I am a proud and a happy atheist? Cheers! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

HAPPY MEMORIAL VETERANS DAY

(CNN) -- U.S. veterans are dying because of delays in diagnosis and treatment at VA hospitals. . . . At least 19 veterans have died because of delays in simple medical screenings like colonoscopies or endoscopies, at various VA hospitals or clinics, CNN has learned. . . That's according to an internal document from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, obtained exclusively by CNN, that deals with patients diagnosed with cancer in 2010 and 2011. . . .Hospital delays are killing war vets. . . The veterans were part of 82 vets who have died or are dying or have suffered serious injuries as a result of delayed diagnosis or treatment for colonoscopies or endoscopies. . . Barry Coates is one of the veterans who has suffered from a delay in care. Coates was having excruciating pain and rectal bleeding in 2011. For a year the Army veteran went to several VA clinics and hospitals in South Carolina, trying to get help. But the VA's diagnosis was hemorrhoids, and aside from simple pain medication he was told he might need a colonoscopy." Indeed, HAPPY VETERANS MEMORIAL DAY. American soldiers come home from war maimed or injured but are unable to find hospital care; many also are unable to find jobs in the Land of the Free and the Home of the brave. After the Second World War, tens of thousands of Filipino soldiers fought on the sides with American soldiers against the Japanese soldiers. After the war, hundreds of thousands of Filipinos had to fall in line to acquire a visa, if at all granted, to go to America. But The Japanese, and indeed the Germans, former enemies of freedom and democracy, could go readily visit the USA without a visa! I said it before, I say it again: war between nations has never been about good versus evil. It has always been about evil versus evil and evil always won. Too bad the soldiers on either side fighting evil have as yet to fully understand that war between nations has never, but never ended the evils of war as an instrument to settle international disputes. What war has only accomplished is the preparation for future wars. In this already 21st century, I'd like to share with all of you the thoughts of Bertrand Russell on the subject of war: "You can, if you think fit, prepare children for a military life by teaching them all to do the same thing at the same moment when they hear the word of command. If you do, they will grow up thwarted and stunted and full of deep-seated anger against the world - no doubt useful emotions if they are to become soldiers employed in killing, but not if they are to be happy citizens of a world at peace." Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Malcolm X

"Without education, you are not going anywhere in the world." Malcolm X... Oh, my dear Malcolm X, millions upon millions of us Filipinos are the highly educated products of schools, colleges, and universities own and operated (tax-free) by the Catholic Church in the Philippines? So how come we Filipinos are not going anywhere in the world? We continue to remain thoughtless as a people and rudderless as a nation! Is it because we are all born ignorant, not sick; but we are made sick by a sick system of education? Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Oh God, My Dear God, You are such a Lousy God

"With God behind you and His arms beneath you, you can face whatever lies ahead of you." Philippine Star, May 30, 2014. . . Oh God, my dear God, where are you behind the Filipinos as a poor people, and where are you beneath or on top of the poor and backward Philippines - the only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century?. . . Oh God, my dear God, you obviously do not exists; and if, however, you do exists, You are such a LOUSY GOD! Oh God, my dear God, I am already 77 years old. My silly doctors tell me that I can go anytime now. Oh well, after I am dead, and when I do meet with you, please rest assured that I will tell it to your face that you have always been a LOUSY God to us Filipinos as a people and to us Filipinos as a nation. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Love, Goodness, and Money in the Philippines

"There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings."... Friedrich Nietzsche . . . Oh my dear Friedrich Nietzsche, in the Philippines - the only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century, thanks to our Catholic system of education, we filipinos always have enough love, enough goodness, indeed, enough time, energy, and money to give away to the imaginary Beings existing in heaven as frightened by more Imaginary Beings existing in Hell. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Respect without Honor is not Respect - it is The Sick Man of Asia

"God desires that we show respect to all people, because everyone bears His image." Philippine Star, May 29, 2014. . . But respect should be shown only if it is earned with honor. Why should we respect our corrupt congressmen or corrupt senators just because they bear the image of the Lord while office; or, because they identify themselves as "maka-Dios" or "Mala-Jesus while they steal billions away from the millions of filthy poor Filipinos getting filthy poorer? ... I said it before, I say it again with all due respect: Pork ina ninyo sa Congresso; baboy tatay ninyo sa senado... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

There is No Such Thing as Life After Death

"I said it before, I say it again: We must face and appreciate the truth that life has only to do with birth which is the existence of something, and should have nothing to do with death which is the existence of nothing.

That there is a better life to come after death is all but a ecclesiastical hogwash. There is no such thing as life after death. There is only life after birth. Consider for millions of years before birth, we were existing as a nothing. It will be the same merry-go-round after death. We shall again be existing as a nothing.

After death, even if one were still alive in spirit, I ask: with what eyes shall we see; with what ears shall we hear; with what nose shall we smell; with what palate shall we taste; with what skin shall we feel; with what sexual organ shall we have sex; and indeed, with what brain shall we be able to think?... In the final analysis, We do not die partially or temporarily. We die entirely and, indeed, permanently. Nothing is more evident to him who is not delirious. The human body, after death, is but a mass of meat, incapable of producing any movement the union of which constitute life. We no longer see circulation, respiration, digestion, reflection, or the freedom of expression. Nothing is more natural and more simple than to believe that the dead man is no more. There is nothing more absurd than to believe that the dead man is still living.

H. L. Mencken summarized neatly for all of us to clearly see: "Immortality is the condition of a dead man who does not believe that he is already dead."

For my part, as an atheist, I said it before, I say it again: If we must die, let us die sober, and not drunk with lies or delusions... I do not regret nor do I feel sorrow at the death of a love-one, a relative, a friend, or an associate. I am happy with the thought that the dead are already resting in peace forever and can no more be bothered with lies, illusions, confusions, or deceptions! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Veterans Memorial Day

137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy. . . Doc Hastings. . . I ask: where was the honor of those who died taking land away from the Native Indians - land that eventually got to be known as the United States of America - the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave! By the way, the area of the United States is 3,603,884 square miles... In the meantime, we are told that we Americans did not invent "human rights;" in fact "human rights" invented America. No kidding? What ever happened to the "human rights" of the Native Indians - the original owners of what is known as America - the greatest defender and protector of freedom and democracy around the world today; especially in the poor and backward Philippines - her greatest ally since 1898? . . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Wealth of the 10 Most Richest Filipinos

MANILA, Philippines - If the combined wealth of 10 of the richest Filipinos represents the income of more than 20 million wage earners, then what inclusive growth is President Benigno Aquino III talking about? "A workers' group on Friday assailed the chief executive's assertation before the World Economic Forum (WEF) on East Asia that the Philippines, through the Filipino people, had made inclusive and remarkable growth doable. The group said that while there might have been progress, this failed to trickle down to the poor. Partido ng Manggagawa (PM) chairman Renato Magtubo said that based on his group's study, the estimated US$45.3 billion combined wealth of the country's 10 richest people is equal to the annual income of 21 million miniumum wage earners - a proof that economic growth does not translate to substantial poverty reduction as its benefits remain concentrated in the hands of a few. "The Philippines is not a fantastic story of economic miracle but an old testament to this kind of regional growth pattern where a handful of business elites control more than half the economy," said Magtubo. “The Philippine government cannot claim ‘inclusive growth’ until this ratio of inequality is effectively reversed,” he added. Basking in the international acclaim of one of the region’s most astounding “economic miracles,” Aquino on Thursday attributed the country's remarkable growth to the collective effort of the Filipino people. "When many of you have praised the achievements of the Philippines, we always point out that the pursuit of large-scale reforms in every aspect of governance is the achievement of the Filipino people," Aquino said in his speech at the opening of the WEF in Manila. "They made the goal of achieving inclusive growth doable, and it is also they who will make it irreversible," the President added. But Magtubo countered Aquino's statement, saying that any mention of the word "people" at the WEF, "won’t go beyond the context of market – open markets for corporate products and cut-price and flexible labor markets for their efficient operations." “Thus the WEF cannot brag about wonders and miracles when Asia remains the biggest home to the world’s poorest people epitomized by workers in vulnerable employment,” said Magtubo. The Asian region has the highest rate of informalization in the world, according to PM. "As defined, informal workers are the own-account (self-employed) and unpaid family workers combined. They also include workers in irregular (contractuals) or seasonal employment," Magtubo explained. He said that recently, informal workers had been labelled as precariats or workers living in precarious working conditions. The group said the International Labor Organization (ILO) had estimated the Asia-wide “vulnerable employment” in 2007 at 1.1 billion people or 62.2 percent of all workers in the region, while informalization in the Philippines is estimated to be between 41 and 77 percent." In the meantime, I asked it before, I ask it again: Have any of you ever met a Filipino who got to be FILTHY RICH for believing that God is BAD? So how come millions of Filipinos are FILTHY POOR and yet they all believe that God is GOOD! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#