Think about it
No to PCOS machines!
By Jun Velasco
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall,” –Confucius
NEW rules on gun permit renewal requiring applicants to show up in person and go through the motions are making it difficult for the seniors especially those in their 70’s and up.
We’ve called Director Rollie Saltat if there’s any way the oldies could be helped, just like before, and his reply was terse, “no, sir, everyone should follow the law, the new law.”
Calasiao-based news correspondent Sid Gellido, 74, is one such applicant. Feeling rejected, he had to “bite the bullet” and follow the regulations. He was fuming the law, or the new regulation, should be more lenient on them, oldies, but Saltat says the new manual is also meant for their (oldies’) protection.
Saltat advises applicants to go to the region’s firearms division every Tuesday and Thursday at 9.am for a neuro test.
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Two persons – former City Fiscal Johnny Siapno, 81, and tri-bike driver Pong de Venecia, 45, were mauling victims by drug addicts in Dagupan lately.
This should again sound the alarm bells against our deteriorating peace. These events happened two weeks apart.
What’s the similarity between the mis-rule in the Iglesia ni Cristo-instigated anarchy on Edsa and the mauling incidents by drug addicts hereabouts?
They were both products of deranged minds. We all know what happens to a drugged brain.
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Over lunch at Alex III along East Avenue, Q.C., former Gov. Vic Millora spilled volumes on Senator Bongbong Marcos as a possible candidate for president.
Already in his early 80’s, Kuya Vic rebuked speculations Bongbong would settle for any position lower than president.
We checked with party-list congressman Jonathan dela Cruz, Bishop Nilo Tayag and BMM adviser Tony Guray who all echoed Vic’s prognosis.
BTW, Dr. Jose Soriano, president of the Mangaldan Federation of Civil Society Organizations, told us Bongbong had accepted his invitation to be guest of his group’s induction on Sept. 27 at the Mangaldan town plaza, to be preceded by a press conference at the De Guzmans’ posh Trish Hotel.
Other groups will have Bongbong as their induction guest, too, namely, Foofadci, Federation of housing subdivisions associations of Pangasinan and others.
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It took Vic Millora to inform this corner that former Speaker Jose De Venecia would be the guest of honor and speaker of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines- Pangasinan Chapter on Sept. 5, but former national IBP president Atos Bautista feigned any knowledge of it.
How come, asks a wag, a non-lawyer (JDV) is the speaker of a lawyers assn?
Someone said JDV was the guru of lawmakers in the House of Representatives, and under his baton, the House was able to craft many earth-moving legislations the likes of the Dollar remittance law, the conversion of U.S. bases into economic zones, debt-to-equity, etcetera….. a hall mark of genius.
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Concerned citizens from all over are biting their nails why the Comelec has okayed the use of PCOS machines in the 2016 elections in spite of their flawed operations in the last two national elections!
Aside from their massive failure here, the PCOS did their worst too in other countries where they were used.
They are, to quote a careful observer, our insurance to a most undemocratic electoral process. One wonders why a government that’s committed to a straight path democracy is about to crown itself as a show window of rigged elections (Again!)
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