Rotting rice
Two Abu Sayyaf bandits involved in beheadings of their captives have been captured. Don’t they deserve the Biblical injunction that says: “An eye for an eye...?”
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It says here that an ex-wife of an oil tycoon rejected a $975 million divorce check. Mickey Rooney was right when he once said: “It takes some diligent studies for one to be able to understand women.”
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Some 100 sacks of rice have been found rotting in the Customs compound in Tacloban. Customs people said the rice was not donation for Yolanda victims. Donation or not it was still rice that could have filled the empty stomachs of poverty-stricken Taclobanons.
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The Sr. Sto. Niño processions, including the dawn “walks” with Jesus and Mama Mary, have been gathering more and more devotees every year. Which goes to show the Cebuanos’ never-decreasing faith in God through the Holy Child.
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Cordova Mayor Adi Sitoy has been reported as running for Congress in the lone district of Lapu-Lapu City. Adi is a good friend since way, way back. But it’s not this that I’m wishing him luck, but because I know he can hack it as lawmaker.
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Even satirical cartoonists are now the object of hate by Islamist terrorists. The terrorist attack on the editorial office of Charlie Hebdo, a Satirical weekly in France, was triggered, according to experts, by the cartoons of the magazine’s cartoonists.
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The three cartoonists were among the 12 people killed in that terrorist attack. Many observers call that brazen attack an assault against press freedom, particularly freedom of expression.
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A 75-year-old retired Negrense priest while watching on TV the Black Nazarene procession in Manila kept shaking his head. He said: “Mahimo man mohawok sila sa Nazareno sud sa Quiapo church nganong huwaton man gyud ang procession aron maglamok-lamok?” He added: “Unya proud kaayo ang mga pari sa Quiapo magtan-aw sa lamok-lamok sa mga kuno debotos sa Black Nazarene. Pastilan!”
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