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Punchline
 Napocor
is having the last laugh
By Ermin Garcia Jr.
JUST as I suspected (and
expected!), the Napocor, as operator of the San Roque Dam, is not
even getting a slap on the wrist from both the provincial board and
the Dagupan City Council for its responsibility in the October
flood.
All that the Napocor spokesmen did was to
insist that it was nature not human error that submerged the
province, and voila - they danced away from the session rooms to the
comfort of their well-appointed offices. Adding salt to injury, the
Napocor officials even refused to admit that its decision to release
the unprecedented high volume of water from the dam aggravated the
situation for the province. They even had the gall to state that
Napocor was standing by the acts of its operators that aggravated
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Think about It
Filipinos love boxing
By Jun Velasco
EXCEPT
for 2 or so doubting Thomases, the packed audience who
attended Jimmy Licauco’s lecture at the 100 Tower
Penthouse in Kamias were his admirers.
Jimmy, a world lecturer on paranormal
phenomena, succeeded in opening a clear vista of the
universe and, in the particular Rotary meeting, the
solar system.
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Jun Ebdane for president? This guy
is good!
By Gonzalo Duque
OUR brilliant friend Bishop Oscar Cruz,
76, has been replaced by a younger
prelate, the equally brilliant and
affable Rev. Socrates Villegas, who is
only 49.
A close friend of the Aquinos —
no wonder Senator Noynoy and his sisters
were present at his installation last
Wednesday — Archbishop Villegas will try
to fill in the large shoes of Bishop
Cruz, who is known throughout the
country as the nemesis of jueteng,
hence, not in the good graces of our
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 Pacquiao's
speed will send Cotto to dreamland
By Al S. Mendoza
IT'S prediction time again.
It's a difficult job. But I need to
do it.
Most expect us, so-called sports
analysts, to predict the outcome of fights. Goes with
the territory.
And so, here we go again: Will Manny
Pacquiao defeat Miguel Cotto today?
Yes, he will.
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 Philippine
Abu Sayyaf Group
By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D.
Certain personalities holding relatively high positions
in the local public and private sectors with legitimate
concerns and business ventures in the Country, appear to
have been long since nauseated and even exasperated with
a particularly well known presidential creation known as
the “Philippine Anti-Smuggling Group” (PASG). Hereto
previous, this “Group” received nothing but a good
amount of impressive media exposures for its apparently
unconditional dedication and impressive activism in
continuously and tirelessly working against smuggling in
the Philippines. No wonder then that it received not
only the gratitude of the general public but also the
adulation of law-abiding citizens.
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Sports Eye
 Pacquiao
will win
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.
ASIDE from politics, the
talk of the town now is the fight between our very own Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao
and Puerto Rican slugger Miguel Cotto for the World Boxing Organization
welterweight belt. They will clash in a catch weight of 145 pounds, not 147
pounds, which is the limit for the division. Barbers, jeepney and tricycle
drivers, taho and other different ambulant vendors, office employees,
executives, well practically everyone is talking about this mega fight slated
November 15 (RP time) at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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 Dam
some more
By
Marifi Jara
QUELIMANE, Mozambique—One of the best legacies of the
Portuguese colonization here is the Cahora (or sometimes
Cabora) Bassa Dam on the long Zambezi River (we are here
at the eastern end of that river). Like our San Roque
Dam there, it is a hydro-electric facility that supplies
stable power to this country. And stable electricity
supply is something that most countries here in Africa
do not have. In our recent trip to neighboring Malawi, I
read in one of the local newspapers that they are
suffering from the worst power supply problem in the
continent (or is it the world?). I don’t know how it is
now but back in 2006, power supply was on only every
other day in Kampala, Uganda’s capital. And those were
already the better times.
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Zilch between the ears
By
Emmanuelle
This writer begs your
pardon.
It had been so long, weeks too long, more
than a month even that this space had idled. It had lain
uninhabited. Up to now, anggad natan, inggana tattan.
No one breathes here. No letter stirs the vacant air.
The apostrophes had grown stale.
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A
Kabaleyan's Thoughts...
Jueteng in Western Pangasinan
To
PNP
Chief Jesus Verzosa,
Dear Sir:
Ano na po ba ang ang nangyari sa ANTI
JUETENG CAMPAIGN ng PNP sa bansa natin? Namamayagpag po
ang jueteng sa buong lalawigan ng Pangasinan. Mula 3
hanggang 4 na beses na sila magsagawa ng bola sa loob ng
isang araw. Sa bayan po namin (sa western Pangasinan
kasama na po ang bayan ninyo ng Dasol) na talamak na
talamak ang tayaan ng jueteng ay lantaran lamang ang mga
kubrador sa bayan, sa palengke at sa mismong paligid ng
munisipyo.
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