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September 2008

Senseless re-districting

By | Punch Forum

Facundo Yu 16 Sept 2008 Another obvious attempt by TRAPOs to line their pockets of hard earned provincial funds. Reconfiguration, rezoning, or however you want to call it, is sometimes beneficial. But the proposed alignment is insensitive and senseless. This is stupidity at its best. Whoever proposed to group cities…

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Senseless re-districting

By September 17, 2008Punch Forum

No algorithm in politics

By | Punch Forum

Eduardo Pontaoe 16 Sept 2008 Parallelism in political divide and conquer and divide and conquer algorithm . . . there’s no conceivable paradigm where these two is congruent. What’s happening is, the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer, a distorted…

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No algorithm in politics

By September 17, 2008Punch Forum

Be afraid, PAGCOR is reality

By | Punch Forum

Eduardo Pontaoe 16 Sept 2008 What me worry?, whined Bishop Oscar Cruz, a nervous wreck sucked in a whirlpool of deceit. A case of libel evolving into 80 segments more than the snakes in the head of Hydra herself. His lawyer, Estelito Mendoza, bloviated there’s nothing to be scared about….

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Be afraid, PAGCOR is reality

By September 17, 2008Punch Forum

Punchline

By | Opinion, Punchline

A ‘horror’ shotgun story By Ermin Garcia Jr. Board Members Alfie Bince, Amadeo Espino Jr. and PNP provincial director P/Sr. Supt Isagani Nerez spoke too soon in their staunch defense of their shotgun project. They said that the illegal and violent use of the shotguns by the barangay kapitans for…

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Punchline

By September 17, 2008Opinion, Punchline

Here and There

By | Archives, Opinion

MILF under Kato-Bravo — terrorist group By Gerry Garcia THE government has released P2 billion and additional millions more for selected congressmen and senators, allegedly for their farm-to-market roads projects. These farm-to-market roads money, intended for countryside development, derisively touted by administration critics as “farm-to-pocket” projects, have reportedly been released…

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Here and There

By September 17, 2008Archives, Opinion

Think about it

By | Archives, Opinion

Mayor Amadito Perez, ageless By Jun Velasco WHILE legal luminaries and practically the whole nation are in a hubbub over the Court of Appeals and the GSIS rift, we seem to have sidelined a bigger bomb that is about to blow up the archipelago to smithereens – the Mindanao crisis….

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Think about it

By September 17, 2008Archives, Opinion