Life in PNoy’s Enchanted Kingdom

GOOD RIDDANCE FOR NOW

Solgen Agnes Devenadera has been designated OIC. READ HERE.

Meanwhile, Palace in-house lawyer Sergio Apostol has been trying out shoe sizes for his mouth, just in case Gloria taps him to take over DOJ permanently.

It’s such a big pie they shouldn’t have to fight over slices.

However….

Comelec chair Ben Abalos is under the gun again. This time it’s for sexcapades connected to the ZTE broadband network deal.

Here’s my prayer for the troubled commissioner:

May you always have good health, may you will always have juicy deals to make, and may you always have beautiful women who will whisper in your ear. “ANG GALING MO LOLO !”

Manuel L. Quezon III makes a hilarious prediction about calling Brenda’s inane bluff to TRO the playing of the Garci tapes in any Senate investigation. (READ “THE LONG VIEW” HERE.)

Bluffing

By Manuel L. Quezon III

Miriam Defensor-Santiago and Richard Gordon are prepared to go to the Supreme Court to ask for a temporary restraining order, or TRO. That is, if the Garci tapes end up being played in the Senate. The unsinkable Santiago warned her colleagues that they’d be liable for violating RA 4200, the Anti-Wiretapping Law, if they did such a thing.

But why just a TRO? If it authorized the playing of the tapes, she said, “the Senate would be an unwitting accessory to a crime.” Unwitting? It seems the battle of wits, with Santiago, Enrile, Arroyo and Gordon being against, and the rest of the Senate, for, the investigation of the latest “Hello, Garci”-related revelations, runs the risk of the tapes being played.

Sen. Panfilo Lacson should promptly play the tapes in open session, and provoke Santiago and Gordon into storming to the Supreme Court demanding not a TRO only but the arrest of every senator who refused to leave the session hall at that point. Or Santiago, with the able-bodied Gordon’s assistance, could wrestle Lacson to the ground, perform a citizen’s arrest, thump anyone who objected on the head with the Senate’s mace, and then go to the Supreme Court.
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The PNP presents three witnesses who claim Jonas Burgos was kidnapped by the NPA. READ IT HERE
AFP chief Esperon rejoices and claims vindication. READ IT HERE
But the celebration is short-lived. Witness fraud is exposed.READ IT HERE

Manuel Buencamino says letting sleeping dogs lie will allow lying dogs to sleep. READ ORIGINAL HERE

Let lying dogs sleep?

Husband: You committed adultery with your boyfriend!
Wife: What’s your proof?
Husband: This picture, taken by my driver.
Wife: Idiot! It doesn’t prove that I committed adultery. It proves that your driver is a peeping tom! —Shaman of Malilipot
 
A senator delivers a privilege speech alleging the Intelligence Services of the Armed Forces of the Philippines was involved in an illegal phone-tapping operation called Project Lighthouse, and Gloria Arroyo’s personal Justice secretary responds with threats to go after the senator instead of investigating whether or not there was indeed such an illegal operation.
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““You can always trust the information given to you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through regular channels” - Sheila Ballantyne

There are no captions in the picture because the printed word can never do justice to the true flavor of Brenda’s pompous Ilonglish.

How can the printed word ever capture Brenda doing an impression of a lousy high school orator complete with cliched hand gestures and inflections on the wrong syLLable?

And this afternoon, she was in top form.

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Raul Unresigned Gonzalez (R.U.G.) on the Garci tapes (from his column in Business Mirror) READ IT HERE

“The problem with these people is they never accepted my challenge to them several years ago that we submit all these tapes, from the “grandmother tape” to the “grandchildren tapes,” for verification by experts from abroad to ensure partiality.
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Manuel L. Quezon III blows the lid off a a bunch of junketeers

THE LONG VIEW
Impotent reassurances
By Manuel L. Quezon III

A US congressman, Silvestre Reyes, says there would be no cut in US military assistance to the Philippines. The AFP turned cartwheels in delight. The blog Uniffors (www.uniffors.com) says that the celebration is mistaken.
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Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile told dzBB radionhe would go along with the reopening of the wiretapping probe on one condition: The Senate listens to Doble but not the tapes. READ IT HERE