Think about it
P-noy is for ‘Daang Mar-tuwid’
By Jun Velasco
“Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.”Plutarch
THE Punch’s triumph in the sala of Pasig Judge Rolando Mislang breathes new life to the time-honored principle of truthful reporting in our small democratic space.
It harks back to Thomas Jefferson’s luminous words, “If I were to choose between a press without a government and a government without a press, I would not hesitate to choose the latter.”
By the way, we had that quote plucked from Jefferson’s “Notes on Virginia” we got all the way from at his Monticello house in Virginia.
Ermin, open that bottle of old wine and declare with confidence the Socratic creed.
“No man is to be reverenced more than the truth.”
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Brod Dante’s Class 64 and all alumni of Dagupan City National High School are all eyes on the annual grand frolic on December 28 on Alma Mater’s campus in Barangay Tapuac—and the Big Night at the Jimmy Fernandez’s Stadia.
Yes, several well heeled exclusive and private high schools have appeared on the Dagupan scene, but none can beat DCHS’ now DCNHS’—supremacy in the field.
See you on December 28, classmates and “glass-mates!”
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We met stocky lawyer Ely Amatong in the company of former Gov. Vic Millora in a Quezon City Rotary Club in 2004. He was then facing a complaint for scattering metal spikes in Metro manila’s major and other streets nationwide.
Stocky Ely is back in the papers in the bomb the Ninoy Aquino International Airport scare news.
The guy is a jolly good fellow—but his mischiefs are no good.
He is no different from the drug addict who sees the word in a demented light. He can’t be in a rehab center since his mind-set is not of this world. He should be clamped in jail to protect the innocent.
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Pundits who belittle Mar Roxas’ popularity are in for a little surprise in the coming days.
For like when John Paul Jones hollered even when his boat was sinking, “I have not yet begun to fight,” Mar’s handlers, we were told, have yet to begin working.
Well, Mar has a vast reserve in these parts. He beat Jojo Binay in the last vice presidential elections in Pangasinan.
If P-noy’s Daang Matuwid should make meaningful swings after his term, he should now anoint Mar his successor, so he can start the big job ahead.
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At least two things that militate against Binay’s presidential bid are–the anti-dynasty issue (it should be a law!) and graft and corruption.
Never mind his Obama skin, asset nga yan e.
The parking building overprice is too evident for every Pinoy not to see!
The overprice has hit the billion mark, even shaming the P10-billion Napoles scam. We should be mad at this habit of stealing public funds because the economy is floundering amid opulence and affluence in a country oozing with wealth.
As Ruben Rivera would say, up with the bosses. Push Daang Mar-tuwid without let up!
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Looks like the Helmet ordinance in Dagupan has become a DCNHS or Sanggunian Panlungsod affair with two councilors, one former and the other incumbent who is in fact the author of the controversial ordinance on collision course.
They are DCNHS alumni Jose Netu Tamayo, author of the anti-helmet ordinance, and LTO Director Teofilo “Jojo” Guadiz, Jr.
Another alumnus, former RTC Judge Victor Llamas has joined the fray, blasting the no helmet ordinance idiotic and out of this world.
We wanted to give the ordinance the benefit of the doubt, but it seems running against a national law is at best perilous.
Our friend LTO Dagupan officer Richard Agbayani says it hurts him to go against the ordinance for placing the interest of the nation higher, but “I have no choice.”
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