/ No storm in next 5 days – Pagasa

x It must be bad news that 5 days without storm is already news.

/ Congressmen Danilo Suarez and Pedro Romualdo said President Arroyo is more than qualified to be the next Speaker of the House of Representatives, given her extensive political experience.

x That should worry the next President, whoever he may be.

/ Press Secretary Cerge Remonde welcomes the Bishops-Ulama call for government and MILF for sincere talk to effect the release of Father Michael Sinnott.

x But Puno says, No sabes tu? it’s the MILF moro-moro that’s the problem.

/ Noynoy dares Manny Villar to answer allegations against him. Manny “What-you-see-is-what-you-get.” Noynoy: “What is behind what you see?”

x CA Justice Martin Villarama Jr. elevated to Supreme Court… leaving one more vacancy for either Teodoro Locsin Jr. or former BIR Commissioner José Mario Buñag. The first for extensive experience on legislation, and other for real-life experience with corporate issues that bedevil our Highest Court. International þ US President Barack Obama coming to Copenhagen meet.

x With the Copenhagen meeting on global warming just four weeks away, the prognosis is mixed that the US, which has not signed the Kyoto protocol on climate change, would come around in time to changing its mind.

/ State Secretary Hillary Clinton coming to show support for RP post Ondoy and Pepeng.

x No assurance that US will release $2-billion military assistance unless AFP improves its human right record.

/ Pop Queen Madonna building a girls’ academy in Malawi as a gift to the country where she has adopted two children. “Like a Virgin!”

x Guru Sri Ravi Shankar, international humanitarian leader, assures there will be no Apocalypse in December 2012 and that “We are going to see 2013, as good as 2012.”

/ Gore’s Inconvenient Truth will just take a little longer.

x The snow on Western Europe's tallest peak, Mont Blanc, shrank only 18 inches in two years, experts said.

/ If its snow continues to melt, it will be renamed Mont Blank.

x Across the Atlantic, Peruvian scientist Eduardo Gold, president of the NGO Glaciers of Peru, suggests daubing white paint on the rock and earth left by receding ice on the Andean glaciers to absorb less heat.

/ But he’s not fooling skiers with the whitewash! More local x NP and LP gain quality members who defect from Lakas.

/ At the rate of defections, Lakas may become “Kalas”

x At the rate it hemorrhages, Joe de Venecia may inherit a skeletal Lakas party… good for halloween.

/ Metro Manila Film Festival may ban “Panday” and “Wapakman” because of ancillary political campaign mileage for Revilla and Pacman, respectively. Actors want to be politicians, and politicians want to be actors. But politicians are better at acting. Feedback: jaz@mb.com.ph