Linda Magno comes home

By Jun Velasco

IT SHOULD not surprise us that US Marine Lance Corporal Smith is being treated with kid gloves by the authorities.

       What’s surprising is our alacrity to pretend that we can obtain justice against the world’s political industrial complex ruled by the United States.

       Those who thought the much commended Judge Pozon who sent the American rapist to jail has made a mark in the Philippine judicial system, were suffering from premature and narrow judgment. 

       Poor Nicole, if you’ve been reading history, is expected to end up in oblivion. This early, we are predicting a one-sided game in favor of the rapist.

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       Speaker Joe de Venecia became the world’s most authentic spokesman of the poor nations when he advocated the debt to equity program, which the United Nations enthusiastically endorsed.

       If implemented, poor nations that cannot paid their loans with the world bank can heave a sigh of relief because of the scheme, so that even the  lender countries like the IMF will be able to beat their chronic  failure to collect from the debtor-countries.

       JDV is more cut out for global affairs?

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       Dagupan’s famous songbird, Miss Linda Magno, is coming home for a sentimental visit-cum-local concert for the agagui (my siblings) organized by the LEAF (Liwawa Ed Asinan Foundation) headed by Lina Tan, executive director, and Annabelle “Baby” Balingit, president.

       The concert will be held at the Warehouse along Perez Boulevard on Jaunary l7.

         Now based in Canada, Linda thru brothers Lito and Danny– combo Pioneers in Dagupan — might hold more concerts in Pangasinan and Manila.

       Lito says when her colleagues Norma Ledesma and Karina Afable in The Hypertensions fame heard of Linda’s homecoming, they, too, itched to join.

              We suggested that the Three Tenors — Joey Lina, Bayani Fernando and Angie Reyes — pick up the challenge of meeting the Hypertensions.

       We hinted the idea to Joey Lina, 56, Manila Hotel president and immediate past supreme commander of the Knights of Rizal, who was thrilled by it.   

        Abangan!

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         Over at Dagupan insurance czar Gaudencio Martinez’s Malued  home last week, eldest son Jess, still the looker that he was in the 60’s, threw out a party to mark his belated  62nd birthday (he was born December 25).

                His brother-in-law, Pangasinan Board Member Angel Baniqued, who is being eyed to team up with gubernatorial hopeful, Dr. Louise Jamie Agbayani,  acted as a political analyst non pareil understandably giving Guv’nor Victor’s wife an edge in the gubernatorial equation in  a vast province as Pangasinan.

        Newsman Orly Guirao tried to refute “the name recall” factor citing an Agbayani defeat in certain local skirmishes, such as in the first district congressional race and in the Sual mayoralty fight in the last elections.

       Baniqued, beloved hubby of Jing’s sister Marlene, showed a keen grasp of political arithmetic and extrapolations that flabbergasted the media veteran murmuring, “watch out for Spines’ surprise moves.”

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        It appears that the 3rd congressional district is the most intriguing political scenario hereabouts, with the wannabes dislodging one another in the surveys week by week. First, Leo de Vera was upfront all the way, to be replaced later by Rachel Arenas and then this week, by Gallant Soriano.

        Jun Tulagan and Rey Velasco, like the proverbial lap by lap win in a Tour of Luzon, have opted to sustain their upward trend, and so, in point of fact, no one for sure is leading the race. 

       Word of advice: careful! 

(For past columns, click http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/category/opinion/think-about-it/)

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