Four days after Gloria and Mike Arroyo were discharged from St. Luke‘s hospital last Monday, they were back again today. Gloria went there a little…
Making life worth living.
Four days after Gloria and Mike Arroyo were discharged from St. Luke‘s hospital last Monday, they were back again today. Gloria went there a little…
The interview of ANC’s Ricky Carandang with departing Defense Secretary Avelino Cruz wherein he revealed a warning from Defense Secretary Ronald Rumsfeld in Dec.2005 against Gloria Arroyo’s plan to declare martial (click here) made us look back to reports around that time.
Our Dec.16, 2005 post was a document on “Detailed Exit Plan” for GMA believed to have been prepared by a group headed by National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzalez.
The latest version of Malacañang’s charter change via Senateless Con-Ass shows the depth of the desperation of Gloria Arroyo and her cohorts.
When we say cohorts, that includes House Speaker Jose de Venecia and his dishonorable gang.
In a text statement, Rep. Roilo Golez (Parañaque) yesterday said,
“Last night, I witnessed one of the saddest and most saddening episodes in the history of the House (of Representatives.)
Nasisira na yata ang ulo nitong si Gloria Arroyo kung akala niyang makalusot itong ginagawa niyang paglapastangan sa Constitution para lamang siyang manatili sa kapangyarihan.
Kung sabagay matagal nang labag sa batas ang mga ginagawa ni Arroyo. Ngunit ang pinaka garapal na kanyang sinusulong ngayon ay ang sapilitan na pagpapalit ng Constitution sa susunod na linggo.
Napagkasunduan ng mga 60 na congressman at ni Arroyo sa Malacañang noong Lunes ng gabi magkaroon sila ng Constituent Assembly sa pangalawang linggo ng Disyembre at papa-abrubahan raw sa isang plebiscite ang ginawa nilang bagong Constitution bago mag Pebrero 12.
My friend Tita Valderama, congressional reporter of the Times Journal, was seated behind Mike Arroyo, Mikey Arroyo and their lawyer, Jesus Santos during yesterday’s hearing of the Ethics Committee on the motion by Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano to dismiss the expulsion case filed against him by Mike Arroyo in connection with an alleged account in a German bank.
Tita said Cayetano asked for ten days to explain to his constituents how his fighting the First Family has resulted in the withholding of funds for his projects.
This was what Tita witnessed:
Irked, Mike Arroyo muttered, “Putang …(Bitch)”. He immediately stopped himself and signaled to Mikey to say something.
The closer the time of reckoning (May 2007 elections), the more desperate Gloria Arroyo and her minions become.
Rejected twice by the Supreme Court for their fake People’s Initiative and unable to get majority of the senators to agree to a Constitutional Assembly to change the Constitution, Arroyo now wants to just change the Constitution through “congressional action”. What animal is that “congressional action” is, only Arroyo knows.
BY REGINA BENGCO
A CAUCUS in Malacañang chaired by President Arroyo the other night agreed to scrap the May 11 elections and hold instead elections for parliament in November under the proposed shift to the parliamentary system.
Sabi ni AFP spokesman Maj. Gen. Jose Angel Honrado na hindi raw dapat mag-alala ang mga military officials na lilitisin sa court martial dahil iyon raw ay magiging makatarungan.
“Ito and proseso na sasala kung sino ang guilty at ang hindi guilty. Ito ang tamang korte para magpatunay kung sino talaga ang inosente at kung sino ang may kasalanan,” sabi ni Honrado.
Nagpapatawa naman itong si Honrado.
It’s a tribute to Henrik Ibsen that his writings continue to be relevant and provocative today as they were more than a hundred years ago.
In commemoration of one hundred years after the passing of Norway’s most famous playwright, the Norwegian embassy in Manila held a special screening last Wednesday of a modern adaptation of Ibsen’s “Enemy of the People.”
Ambassador Stale Forstein Risa said the 2004 movie adaptation of Ibsen’s 1882 play has been entered in the Norwegian movie festival. It’s actually the fourth rendition in film. The first two were done in the United States (the 1978 movie starred Steve McQueen) and in 1989, in India.
(The first time I saw the Black Eyed Peas singing “Bebot” on MTV, I asked my nephew if it was a special Manila performance and he said it’s part of the BEP’s album. I must say it’s a fun song. Here’s an article in the Los Angeles Times on “Bebot” describing it as a “surprise phenomenon”.)
Filipinos’ hip-hop anthem
By David Pierson, Times Staff Writer
November 22, 2006
Hey, man, all of you listen
to me
Here comes the real Filipino
Came from the barrio – Sapang Bato
Went to L.A. and labored
In order to help my mother
Because life is so hard
But the disposition’s still bright.
—
SO begins the story of Allan Pineda, a member of the hip-hop band the Black Eyed Peas, who two years ago wrote a song about his journey from a poverty-stricken district in the Philippines to Los Angeles’ Atwater Village.
May rason naman para magsaya ang oposisyon sa resulta ng pinakahuling survey ng Pulse Asia sa mga senatoriables sa May 2007 eleksyon.
Ang nasa top 12 ay mga personalidad na masasabing naka-linya sa oposisyon. Ito ang nangunguna sa senatorial race sa ngayon: Loren Legarda; Panfilo M. Lacson; Francis N. Pangilinan; Manuel B. Villar, Jr.; Alan Peter S. Cayetano Vicente C. Sotto III; Ralph G. Recto (28.7%); . Korina Sanchez; Aquilino Pimentel “Koko”III; Gregorio B. Honasan (24.1%); JV Ejercito-Estrada; Edgardo J. Angara;
Sabi ng Pulse Asia, hanggang no. 19, maari pang masabi na malakas ang posibilidad manalo. Ang pito pang sumusunod ay sina Benigno C.”Noynoy” Aquino III; Francis G. Escudero; John Henry Osmeña (17.8%); Rozzano Rufino B. Biazon (17.8%); Imee R. Marcos (17.6%); Joker P. Arroyo (17.0%); at Luisa “Loi” Estrada.