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Punchline
 Yesterday,
KBL;
today Lakas-Kampi
By Ermin Garcia Jr.
The ugly
head of contemptible traditional politics made itself more evident
over the past few months, thanks to President Arroyo and her allies
in Congress, in particular.
While farmers stood wearily and
anxiously by the gates of the Batasan to press our congressmen to
finally pass the pending bill extending the Comprehensive Agrarian
Reform Law, GMA's allies in Congress would rather debate and discuss
the possibility of amending the Constitution for a crack at
extending her and their terms of office. And as if that was not
enough display of insensitivity, the farmers were recently hosed
down to force their evacuation from the Batasan complex so pangs of
guilt would not hit the congressmen as they drive through the gates
in their luxury vehicles.
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Think about It
 Bishop
Cruz's political savvy
By Jun Velasco
PANGASINAN newsmen who attended the recent
kapihan
of the newly baptized Engkwentro of the newly
renamed Pangasinan Press Club (formerly Pangasinan Press
and Radio Club) couldn’t shake off their admiration for
Bishop Oscar Cruz.
The “encounter” took place at
Lenox Hotel last Wednesday, but the smitten newsmen
hadn’t shaken off their enjoyable show with the activist
church leader in spite of dousing cold water
nationwide anti-jueteng
drive, is “losing the battle, in Luzon, Visayas and
Mindanao.”
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 Pangasinan
'history committee' at work
By Gonzalo Duque
FRIDAY morning, we had an engaging
exchange with Pangasinan historians and
scholars who have been busy locating
exactly the historic founding day, month
and year of our beloved province of
Pangasinan.
We thank Gov. Amado Espino Jr., alyas
Spines, for all this bother so that we
are able to tell exactly the year and if
possible the month and date when the
province was founded.
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 Lakers
will be NBA champ in 6 games
By Al S. Mendoza
AS I WRITE this, Game 1 (Friday, June 5) of the 2009 NBA
Finals has yet to begin.
The Los Angeles Lakers, the
Western Conference champions, and Orlando Magic, the
Eastern Conference titlists, are supposed to be playing
Game 2 today, Sunday.
Who will it be this year?
There are seven games in the NBA Finals,
with the team winning four games clinching the
championship.
Did the Lakers win Game 1, as
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 Zero
moral authority
By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D.
If there is one very distinct socio-political liability
now firmly appended to the present lead Malacanang
resident, it is zero moral authority. And this is not in
any way meant to offend the character concerned but
merely to state the truth that respects no person nor
status. While certainly in command of huge public funds,
of well armed personnel plus much paid cohorts, all
these however in no way can really defend much less
truly promote the moral authority of chief-boss
concerned.
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Sports Eye
 Gracias
to my Mexican relatives and friends
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.
KAPOLEI,
HAWAII--After my stressful trips to Houston , Fort Worth-Dallas, McAllen in
Texas, Los Angeles, and Santa Maria in California, I'm finally in Kapolei, the
newest city of Hawaii for a one-week vacation. This is my fourth time to this
beautiful land mass of Uncle Sam, which many describe as a "paradise island"
because of its coral reefs and beautiful blue beaches.
I'm making this piece on June 4
(RP time) at the house of Mr. Michael Drake, married to nee Milagros Lomibao
Ylan, my distant relative and the first cousin of former PNP chief, now the LTO
chief, Arturo C. Lomibao.
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 No,
not the books, please!
By
Marifi Jara
BACK
in 2004-2005, several children from our community in
Nibaliw Narvarte, San Fabian, some of them my distant
relatives, used to come around the house on Saturday
afternoons for reading sessions. It was a motley bunch,
ranging from kids not yet going to school to as old as
grade 6. But everyone enjoyed the activity, spiced by
the usual childish bantering and boastings. It did
sadden me a bit to see how some of the older ones had
quite low reading skills, but at the same time, it
delighted me no end to watch how eager everyone was to
encounter new places, plots and characters in the
stories that we read. It shows that children, when given
the opportunity, are inclined to easily develop a love
for the written word. (Cheers to the Feed and Read to
Lead program in Sta. Barbara!)
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There must be a
reason!
By
Emmanuelle
Whenever
she
travels from home to somewhere near or far, as in
minutes or hours or days or weeks away, she always makes
it a point to reserve a place for herself by the window
- be it car, van, bus, boat or balloon.
Disaster has no other name for it if
this situation were not so situated.
And we are not speaking here of
ordinary tantrums. If and when reservations for window
seats happened to have all gone out, you sit still and
watch. Better still, you watch out. For yourself.
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A
Kabaleyan's thoughts...
What's
in a name? Teofilo
By
Erwin dela Rosa
Teofilo is such a loving name. Teo is a contraction from
“theo”, which means God. Filo is from “philos” meaning
love of God.
A couple of weeks ago, sis Melba, a
blessed single from Bantog, Asingan, Pangasinan, who
owns a prayer hut in a spacious backyard filled with
fruit bearing trees beside her mansion, exhorted us on
the changes a person undergoes during constant personal
and group or corporate prayer, praise and worship.
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