“No less than the best PNP director general ever bar none, Panfilo Lacson who is agonizing on whether to run for senator or retire in his farm in Silang, Cavite, is advising PNP officials to stop talking too much”
ALL that brouhaha over a children’s book that would have cost the public till 10 million pesos, paltry when compared to the huge commissions our legislators get from the billions in pork barrel insertions they receive, will have achieved a strange readership for VP Inday Sara’s magnum opus.
For the masa, it arouses both curiosity and sympathy, properly spun, to create the desired perception of a lady who helped her male partner win the jackpot but is now jettisoned and left hanging dry.
For the better off, it aroused curiosity and the desire to see how “flawed” it may be, as UP professor Jayson Petras of the Sentro ng Wikang Pilipino noted.
Now if Congress deletes that 10 million peso approved budget in the NEP, some sympathetic billionaire may wish to pick up the tab for the beleaguered Inday Sara and have someone, Petras perhaps, to edit the children’s book to conform to linguistic and factual standards.
Meanwhile, just because she is “not plastic,” as the VP described herself before an unusually well attended Senate finance committee hearing on the usually non contendido and presidentially approved measly appropriation for the office that merely waits, a hornet’s nest has been stirred.
For better or for worse, the lady vice president is in the eye of a storm.
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The 2,000 police troops who stormed the KOJC to look for the “appointed son of God” just proved that Apollo Carreon Quiboloy may indeed be so “mighty” that 2,000 came and yet could not arrest him.
Whether hiding in an underground bunker as the PNP chief surmised because his regional director detected heartbeats from beneath the ground, or having dug a tunnel all the way to the Davao Gulf and from there taken a boat to Manado and thence to wherever, we should know in the following days, weeks or months.
Meanwhile, no less than the best PNP director general ever bar none, Panfilo Lacson who is agonizing on whether to run for senator or retire in his farm in Silang, Cavite, is advising PNP officials to stop talking too much.
Still, the picture of KOJC members confronting 2,000 troops and closing part of the Maharlika Highway leading to the Davao International Airport is not a pretty sight for investors that our president has mightily traveled all over the world to attract.
Two dozen trips to entice the world may have now gone to pot.
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Neither the “great escape” of Alice Guo, which makes the whole wide world wonder how the entire force of government, its immigration officials particularly, could be hoodwinked or bribed despite daily national fascination over how easy it has been for citizenship in this country to be bought.
Oh well, not for us to wonder.
We have also been electing officials who have chosen to give up their birthright to migrate to the proverbial land of milk and honey, then return when the opportunity in this benighted land brightens up for them and them alone.
Then they “renounce” their acquired foreign citizenship after having previously renounced their Philippine birthright when they took on the citizenship of their adopted country, as easily as changing overcoats.
And now they are among the most “honorable,” the question of their lack of nationalism glossed over by an adoring and easily fooled electorate.
What a country indeed!
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I am being facetious over current national events because otherwise, as in the 1963 Stanley Kramer comedy film “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,” a grown-up man living in the land benighted by its elected officials is won’t to say, “I wanna get out!” – the sub-title of the Kramer epic.
Meanwhile, those who observed the “matumal” exodus of Metro Manila residents to provinces and nearby destinations to rest and relax over a four-day long weekend, with our airports, seaports and overland transportation terminals less busy than in the past, must realize this is the new normal as inflation continues to eat up meager earnings and depleting the savings of income classes B, C and D.
“Ubos na ang kaban,” as our old folks would say.
But not to worry, assure our officials who are going around the country distributing AICS, AKAP, Tupad and whatever else manna by the hundreds of millions from the taxpayers’ till in support of Bagong Pilipinas, a.k.a. The Ayuda Republic.
