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(The following article by JP Lopez appears in today’s Malaya. What could be Bolante’s strategy?)

Talk about chutzpah.

Former agriculture undersec-retary Jocelyn “Joc Joc” Bolante has asked Sen. Ramon Magsaysay Jr. to testify in his immigration hearing in the United States.

This is the same Bolante who the Senate ordered arrested for repeatedly failing to attend the hearing of Magsaysay’s committee on agriculture into the alleged diversion of the P728 million fertilizer fund into President Arroyo’s campaign chest in 2004.

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Thanks for all the messages of support.

I posted bail (P10,500.00) in the sala of Judge Silvino T. Pampilo, Jr. of Branch 26 of the Manila Regional Trial Court. Arraignment is set on Oct. 25, 2006 at 8:30 a.m.

I was with former Sen. Francisco Tatad, who was also issued an arrest warrant on the same case filed by Mike Arroyo.

I have just been informed by Malaya that I have to go to court to post bail because there’s a warrant of arrest issued for…

I welcome the news that Pope Benedict XVI will soon be allowing Catholic churches to hold Tridentine masses.

A Washington Post report last Friday said:

“Pope Benedict XVI has drafted a document allowing wider use of the Tridentine Mass, the Latin rite that was largely replaced in the 1960s by Masses in English and other modern languages, a church official said yesterday.

This is one musical event not to be missed.

Otoniel Gonzaga, the country’s foremost tenor, teams up with Asian diva Dulce and the Manila Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) in a yearend concert called “Christmas Spectacular & Immortal Arias” at the Philamlife Theater on December 9, 2006.

In the same concert, the MPO under the baton of Rodel Colmenar, will also accompany guest soprano Camille Lopez Molina and flutist Christopher Oracion, two-time first prize winner of the National Music Competition for Young Artists.

Fresh from his triumphant team-up with Lea Salonga early this year, Gonzaga, a winner of the Marian Anderson Voice Competition and the ARD International Voice Competition in Munich, will do a duet with Dulce, a grand prize winner of the Asian Singing Competition in Hong Kong.

Almost a week after North Korea announced that they had successfully tested a nuclear weapon, analyses by Wesyern scientists indicate that Kim Il Jong, North Korea’s leader was not exactly telling the truth.

They have have conducted a nuclear tests but apparently, it failed. “”The betting is that this was an attempt at a nuclear test that failed,” Associated Press quoted a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the information. ”

“We don’t think they were trying to fake a nuclear test, but it may have been a nuclear fizzle an effort that failed,” the official added.

According to Benjamin Abalos, the next election will be clean with him and Esperon overseeing it.Ha!Ha!Ha!

COMELEC Chairman Benjamin Abalos yesterday said there would be no-repeat of the “Hello Garci” scandal in 2004 with the signing of a memorandum of agreement that would limit the role of the military in during elections.

“With the role of the military now well-defined…there’s going to be no Garci (controversy),” he said.

Sa “Strictly Politics” noong Martes ng gabi sa ANC (8 p.m.), sinabi ni Prof. Felipe Miranda ng Pulse Asia na humihingi si Gloria Arroyo ng kapahamakan (She is courting disaster) kung kakanselahin ang elections sa May 2007 para ipagpilitan ang Charter Change.

Sabi ni Prof. Miranda malaking bagay ang eleksyon sa mamamayan dahil yun lamang ang kanilang ideya ng partisipasyon sa pamahalaan. Maliban sa barangay kung saan magkakilala ang lahat at madali silang lumapit, ang pakiramdam nila napakataas at napakalayo ng national government. Tuwing eleksyon lamang sila pinapansin.

Paniwala nila sa tuwing eleksyon lamang sila binibigyan ng halaga at ayaw nilang alisin ang maliit na pagkakataon na yan.