Colombian airline struck by lightning crash-lands; 130 survivors. RP bus falls into Benguet ravine, 41 dead. It’s not Divine Providence, nature, or fate that kills…it’s criminally negligent bus drivers.

Save $L€X from (licensed-to-kill?) drivers of speeding, zig-zagging, overtaking buses, container trucks, and cement mixers.

Maria Venus Raj’s mom granted US visitor’s visa in 48 hours. Miss Universe pageant’s first step in journey of a thousand miles to a borderless world.

P’Noy wants RP on par with Asian neighbors when he steps down in 2016. Abreast with Cambodia and Laos… and catching-up with Vietnam?

Education Secretary Armin Luistro gave green light to 12-year education program. Ateneo president Fr. Ben Nebres, S.J., cautions DepEd to first fix kinks in the 10-year school program.

Like a king-size cigarette ad says, “It’s not how long you make it, but how you make it long.”

In any case, a 12-year school program won’t not matter to 3 out of 10 students who drop out at 5th grade.

If two rival schools can’t see eye-to-eye, why don’t they just settle it with the roll of the dice…or between the Blue Eagles and Green Archers this Sunday at the Araneta Astrodome?

Malacañang thinks Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) is useless and must be abolished. From SK to SKN (Saka Na).

See the photo exhibit at DFA of 76 Filipina Ambassadors... count them, 76. We have the biggest number of female envoys in Asia... and probably in much of the male-liberated world.

They’re all good-looking, unless portraits were photo-shopped.

Filipino ambassadors must ask for ERA (equal rights amendment) in favor of males.

Foreign Secretary Alberto G. Romulo meets with foreign relations Chairmen Senator Loren Legarda and Congressman Al Francis Bichara to brief them on the Visiting Forces Agreement.

To remind them that if we play hardball, Vietnam just had joint exercise with US forces? ...and that Da Nang can be a Subic without labor union?

BEEN THERE, DUNNED THAT. Vietnam now even talks to US about sourcing nuclear fuel. We exorcised our Bataan reactor post-Marcos.

Romulo advised Malacañang that the first foreign trip of the President should be to Vietnam, the presiding president of the ASEAN Standing Committee.

BILLBOARD NOTICES. “This is where your taxes go.” Under DO 37, project site billboards will show only factual data on the undertaking w/o photo or name of the proponent.

So how does my congressman sign on his pork barrel? There goes my community covered basketball court…!

PCGG Chairman Camilo Sabio remains OIC until P-Noy decides on the permanent appointee. Just making sure that a dyslexic commissioner does not start acting.

Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 77 judge was alsa Balutan and inhibited himself due to prosecutor’s perceived partiality on Ivler trial. Feedback: jaz_aide@yahoo.com