Fasten your seat belts. Rice and noodles will be served.

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Almost three million families have nothing to eat.

The leaders must get together or suffer from the explosion.

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GMA releases half a billion pesos to feed rice and noodles to the poor.

Okay lang, but don’t forget the sardines.

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GMA has invited FVR, Cory, and Erap to Council of State meeting.

They all want her to step down. Is this the occasion to talk about it?

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It is doubtful if Erap will attend the council meeting.

His attendance will be viewed as a surrender of his claim that he is still the legitimate president.

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Imee and Butz A were out of line in berating FVR for espousing government reforms.

FVR is a genuine patriot and I don’t doubt his motives in calling for improvement of governance.

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Opposition is hatching another plot to unseat the President and installing a revolutionary government to replace her.

Gabby Claudio says FVR himself told him about the plot, peks man and cross my heart.

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The opposition and military officers are trying to recruit FVR to join them but he isn’t biting.

They should offer it to Erap because he claims he is still the legitimate president.

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Malacañang is dropping plans to create a government of national unity because the opposition remains intransigent and will continue attempts to topple the President.

It was a crazy idea in the first place.

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Meeting of FVR with Senate Prez Drilon and former senator Vic Sotto was an exploratory talk for formation of all-out alliance of the opposition.

Watch for the fireworks in February or March.

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Erap is interested in forging an alliance with FVR and Cory in a transition government that will be created once GMA is toppled.

A troika of ex-presidents to take over. How can we lose?

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MMDA mayors are going on an invitational study tour of Canada and will segue to Las Vegas to watch the Pacquiao-Morales fight.

It’s okay as long as somebody is paying for the side trip.

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Sen. Manny Villar, chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Order, has condemned in the strongest terms the killing of judges, lawyers, and other legal professionals.

Says the senator: "A society where there is no rule of law and no one skilled in applying the law is a chaotic society where the weakest have no chance and the strongest have no restraint."

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Foreign companies doing business in the Philippines are worried about the harsh business climate gradually enveloping the country. Politics ride roughshod over government programs and projects funded by foreign investors’ money.

This is bad for the government and the country as a whole. Even the President’s Bridge Program, which has survived three administrations as a continuing undertaking of government, is not spared.

Politics must end where public interest begins. Or we will wake up one day with no foreign investors left.

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Partisan politics in this sense is not helping the country grow. Our leaders, especially from the opposition, must think it over before we turn belly up.