'Sardinas'

Sen. Jinggoy Estrada has appealed to PNoy not to jail JPE (Sen. Enrile) because of old age. It's only in this instance where to be called old is OK.

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The PNP says the police jail has room for all 54 accused in the pork barrel scam. No standing room only. Everyone will be accommodated. You know like sardines-- each one has its own space.

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The coup leaders in Thailand are trying to picture their kind of coup as harmless. So they let everyone dance and sing, or else.

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Doesn't this remind you of the Martial Law in the Phl? Back then, the ML kingpins also tried to show the whole world that Pinoys were happy despite the rope around their neck.

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It says here that 26 containers of foreign aid (for Yolanda and Bohol quake victims) are 'overstaying' at the Cebu International Port. I don't like to believe that the victims this foreign aid was intended for have departed.

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A schoolteacher from Daan Bantayan said to my informant that she cried, stomping her feet, on her arrival home from the States to see that her town has remained battered up to this day.

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"I am disgusted that everyone's attention and plea for help have been focused mainly on Leyte and Samar," she said adding: "The news media in San Francisco, Calif. were reporting mainly on the destruction of Leyte and Samar but never about my hometown."

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The schoolteacher said the organization she belonged to sent relief goods donated by members but "I don't know if they reached the victims."

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Renato Rendan of Mandaue City said:  "The Philippines gained a soul in NBA star Andray Blatche turning Pinoy but in the same breath we lost a soul in chess Grandmaster Wesley So's turning American citizen. It's a case of winning one, losing one."

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OVERHEARD. The news says that another broadcaster had been killed in Mindoro. The killers were gunmen riding in tandem in a motorcycle. A mother whose son was killed by motorcycle-riding gunmen in Mindanao said: "Maayo unta'g dunay balaud nga moban og motorsiklo nga may angkasanan." A wife from Mandaue said: "Ok kaayo ko anang sugyuta. Aron mister ko dili na makapaangkas og mga burikat nga amoang silingan."