Merry-Go-Round: Floro L. Mercene
Santa Claus is coming with a gun.
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FVR says you can ignore those rumors as long as the military tells media about their plans.
When nobody talks, that’s the time to watch out.
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VAT to be increased in January. Happy New Year!
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Commissioner Garcillano passes House gauntlet with flying colors. They can’t pin a thing on him because he knows nothing from nothing about election cheating.
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He does not know anyone named Garci, does not know if there was cheating (don’t ask me, ask the provincial canvassers), and he won’t talk until they produce the original tapes.
Senator Biazon says he has the mother of all tapes, to be revealed when Garci testifies at the Senate.
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Garci admits the President called him just once to check on her votes but not to conspire in cheating.
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Garci named several senators and congressmen who talked to him during the elections.
He was an important man, a famous vote manipulator, according to Johnny Ponce Enrile.
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The Department of Foreign Affairs insists that Garci went to Singapore in July but the commissioner says he never left Mindanao.
One of them is lying.
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The growing confidence of foreign investors in our economy and the strengthening of the peso against the US dollar have been attributed to the implementation of the EVAT which took effect last November 1.
If only the oppositors of EVAT had kept their mouths shut instead of grandstanding for the cameras when the scheme was being debated, we could have enjoyed the benefits of EVAT much earlier.
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The strong demand for government bonds and the robust and active trading at the local stock market can be considered as bonuses for the economy and the Arroyo administration this Christmas.
Our Yuletide wish is for the administration to ensure that the benefits to be derived from these developments are shared with the people through meaningful projects that will uplift the condition of the masses.
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The remarkable 113-gold medal harvest of the Philippine contingent in the SEAG will be a great challenge for the next Team Philippines to perform better when it competes in the 2007 SEA Games in Thailand whose prime minister, by the way, deserves a golden
kalabasa award for his unfounded accusation that the games were being rigged in favor of the Philippines.
Now the government need not worry anymore since at $500 per gram, we can make the medals as part of our gold reserves and sell them to cover our budget deficit next year.
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Bevil Mabey Study Foundation has a new load for its scholarship program for kids of slain Filipino newsmen. It must accommodate the kids of the 2005 victims of killings from the media.
There are 10 Filipino newsmen killed from January 10, 2005 to date. The children of these unfortunate victims face problems in their schooling. They have lost their support and breadwinners. 73 newsmen have been killed since 1986.
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Our friend Joe Tumbokon, who is the adviser of the BMSF-NUJP magnanimous undertaking said come January, the dislocated kids need to be extended scholarships.
Some 34 kids of slain Filipino newsmen enrolled in college, high school and elementary levels are actively enjoying free matriculation fee and allowances from the program.
