The Dutertes and their political allies are in for a cruel karmic force that will decimate all they have ever built, in the hope of perpetuating their firm grasp on political power.
From all that pretentious stance of loving our country, together with a photo-op of hugging our flag, to silly utterances against the Marcoses like those accusers were any better.
We foresee an end for the Dutertes by 2028, when party alliances and realignments would not endorse any of them or their candidates to run for public office, but instead, they would be running from the law.
As I have said before, you cannot demand respect and act disrespectful. It doesn’t work that way, even among the lowlifes of the underworld where a sense of respect is still intact.
But even their most rabid supporters know this, but have nowhere to go. It simply dulls one’s rational thinking and behavior.
The hell with tradition!
We are asking how public money will be spent and how it was spent which needs a very satisfactory response and not some rude, ill-mannered behavior to smokescreen a violation. For how could one go wrong with that? Unless of course the one being asked is obviously hiding something.
And, as true as I was hoping for a worthy opposition, and instead of coming out with valid issues deserving sensible debates and arguments, they make fantastic stories about the most trifling things just to make the President look incompetent, forgetting the arrogance and idiocies of a recent past regime they so idolize to the rotten core.
So their senatorial line-up is a gathering of has-beens and wannabes, and lacks the moral compass to steer our nation to greatness, with the same political flavor which has been stale for some time now.
The Duterte ship of state was the only ship in the world that leaked from the top – and is fast sinking.
Fly him out to the United States soon
Apollo Quiboloy needs to be given to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) soon, lest he makes demands again, being the entitled charlatan that he is.
Quiboloy enriched himself from the tithes and offerings of his flock, and most of them the poor and disenfranchised, looking for a “Savior,” Instead of feeding his sheep, he dined not with them but on them.
He was a wolf in sheep’s clothing hiding under the mantle of Scriptures, and behind all that fakery, he pretended to be the “appointed son of God” here on earth. Problem is, he never got
Any validation for such a claim except from his own lies. That is why he ruled over them while inflicting fear and expulsion from the ”greener pastures” to anyone who would go against his wishes.
I hope the straitjacket fits him well.
Octogenarian oak
Last September 16 was my parent’s 80th wedding anniversary. The late great Carmen ‘Chitang’ Guerrero Nakpil wrote about their controversial wedding in her 2006 book “Myself, Elsewhere.”
The date was September 16, 1944. My father was 21 while my mother was 19. Both were so in love with each other, but death was near at that time as life was uncertain.
Excerpts: “The Americans kept to themselves in reverse ghettoes. Those who attended the Episcopalian Cathedral of St. Mary and St. John on Isaac Peral or the small Methodist church on San Luis and went swimming at the YMCA faced a social barrier. Ecumenism was yet to be thought of. There were some exceptions: Nenita Caballero, daughter of Don Felipe Tuason Caballero married Ariel Bocobo, Protestant and Mason, son of Dean Jorge Bocobo of the U.P. Their wedding, solemnized at a side altar of the Ermita church, as decreed for mixed-marriages, is still recalled half a century later by the groom, now a retired journalist, with tears in his eyes.”
Finding Harry
He says he isn’t hiding, but from the looks of it, former presidential (big) mouthpiece Harry Roque may soon do a Quiboloy and dig deep down the ground to evade arrest.
He can say all he wants to say, but that still does not excuse him from appearing before the congressional quad comm to answer questions from the members of the committee.
Although he says that he earned P67 million from the sale of their family’s property in Paranaque, and thus how could he declare a net worth of P60 million when he invested P90 million at the First Mariveles Holdings Corporation? it just doesn’t add up.
Bottomline: where did the P30 million come from? And since he has now been branded as another ”fugitive,” he has evaded arrest by going into hiding. Perhaps his paramour may shed some light on his whereabouts?
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Random Memorandum: Filipinos are known for being polite, addressing each other with “maám”or “”sir.” Respect for elders is deeply ingrained, reflected in terms like “ate” or “kuya,” and the use of ”po” and “opo” and the now-famous “madam cher.”
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Factoid: Most hit-and-run victims in PH are usually individuals crossing the street while inside a pedestrian lane (crosswalk)
(Leslie Bocobo is a former Special Assistant to the Secretary at the Office of the Press Secretary, Malacañang, and a former Public Affairs Director of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources)
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