http://www.uniffors.com Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:29:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sighted at the Batasan making the rounds shepherding defenders of Ombudsgirl Merceditas Gutierrez were Jake Lagonera, Peter Favila, and Medy Poblador. Lagonera was the deputy of Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita, Favila was GMA's trade secretary, and Poblador was GMA's Secretary for Special Concerns. Poblador is THE most trusted aide ... http://www.uniffors.com/?p=4734 You can’t stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.—Mike Tyson Two female legislators filed a bill to add divorce to the current menu of remedies for failed marriages. They said existing remedies do not meet the ... http://www.uniffors.com/?p=4729 “I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.” Winston Churchill Newsbreak reported that Executive Secretary Ochoa was "drunk as a skunk just days after the Luneta bloodbath" MANILA, Philippines--We’d probably let this pass if it ... http://www.uniffors.com/?p=4707 Let's start with Minority Leader Jabba da Hutt, Edcel Lagman to his friends. He complained that the budget submitted by President Aquino demeaned Congress. How? From the Philippine Daily Inquirer MANILA, Philippines – The missing P711 billion in automatic and continuing appropriations from the proposed P1.645 trillion budget for 2011 had ... http://www.uniffors.com/?p=4688 UPDATE: From the blog Remembrance of things awry comes news that Beijing did not like Donald Tsang calling Aquino. “A curious, but probably correct, thing was that there was a negative reaction in Beijing to the news that Hong Kong’s Donald Tsang had called President Aquino of the Philippines about the ... http://www.uniffors.com/?p=4682 Heroism in our time FROM A DISTANCE By Carmen N. Pedrosa (The Philippine Star) Apropos my column on “More than a tragedy” some Charter change advocates called to say I should have spelled out the reforms needed so that Monday’s disastrous fiasco might not have happened. There are other ... http://www.uniffors.com/?p=4676 Everybody is now an expert in hostage situations. They're all over blogs, social networking sites, and mainstream media. Woulda, coulda, shoulda sums up what those morning-after quarterbacks are saying about Monday's tragedy. And it's the same refrain I heard after the attack on WTC, the hostage-taking in Russia, the assault ... http://www.uniffors.com/?p=4668 Changing the topic Written by Manuel Buencamino / Business Mirror / Dispatches from the Enchanted Kingdom "Where there’s smoke, there are mirrors." On July 30 President Aquino signed Executive Order 1 creating the Truth Commission. Maj. Gen. Juancho Sabban, Marines commandant, immediately declared that his men would testify about cheating in ... http://www.uniffors.com/?p=4664 Depicting Luisita By Rina Jimenez-David Philippine Daily Inquirer “PLEASE DON’T ask me to defend Hacienda Luisita,” was the late President Cory Aquino’s tart retort in an interview with her shortly after she assumed office. At that time, the “Stock Distribution Option” or SDO had just become the most controversial provision of ... http://www.uniffors.com/?p=4659 The Wrong Suit “I have an agreement with the houseflies. The flies don't practice law and I don't walk on the ceiling.” – Groucho Marx “Gloria Arroyo’s House allies asked the Supreme Court to nullify Pres. Aquino’s executive order creating the Truth Commission.” “Why, don’t they want to know the truth?” “That’s not the ... http://www.uniffors.com/?p=4402