"Goliaths"
"Magnet for prostitutes." That's what they call the American sailors arriving in Olongapo. Some transgenders are said to be raking in dollars from the US servicemen who don't care about genders after having one drink too many.
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It says here that the "Sin City" has lost its luster after the transgender killing. The "sinners" are gone or are they just lying low or playing possum?
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VP Jojo Binay says he's fighting "Goliaths." Right. Literally and figuratively. But at the rate he's fighting, at least in the PRs I've been reading, he's sackin' it to them like a true David.
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Sir Ernie Maceda the columnist says VP Binay had a 3-and-a-half hours talk with President PNoy. It was a jovial maating. And the talk was not mainly about politics but also about old age. Now this old age talk could have some relation to 2016.
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In one of the anti-PNoy protest rallies in Manila, tomatoes and bad eggs flew thick and fast. That's better than the pepper spray used by Hong Kong police against the pro-democracy rallyists. Many a tear was shed. And a number of activists said it was a government weapon they really sneezed at.
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My friend Dindo, a CEO of a business firm in Mandaue City, said his high school sophomore son asked him: "Dad, why is it that in the news this Jennifer Laude is sometimes referred to as 'he' and sometimes as 'she'?" Dindo's answer: "Keep reading the newspaper you will know why."
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Dindo, a journalism graduate from a known Manila university, says he has observed that students in the lower grades (high school) seldom read newspapers today preferring to watch tv and then ask the elders for details of the news the elders gathered from newspapers. "I'm trying to correct that kind of news gathering style among my children," he said.
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OVERHEARD. I read somewhere that the Abu Sayyaf bandits released their German hostages after allegedly receiving a multi-million-peso ransom. If so, the government's "no ransom" policy has been ignored. Comment: "Bitaw. Unya ila rang gihagohago atong military sa pagpangita ug pagluwas kanila." Comment: "Nganong haguan man gyud nato nang pagluwas sa mga langyaw'ng dili patuo sa atong 'wa mi labot' policy?"
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