Rough Groove

Some interesting news items lately

Been reading the Philippine Daily Inquirer (19 and 20 November issues) and some interesting news items I’ve stumbled upon:

+ Senate to probe peso’s rise - Sen. Loren Legarda, the chair of the Committee on Economic Affairs would want to look at the peso’s steep rise and assess the impact on Filipinos.

Comment: The following day, it was followed by…

+ Senate may probe Glorieta blast, Escudero urges colleagues to act on Trillanes resolution - while the authorities are still giving 2 - 3 weeks to wrap up the investigation and Israeli, US and Australian experts say that a gas explosion may be the culprit, Senator Trillanes, 3 hours after the blast happened, shouted that it was the work of the government.

Comment: wow, at the rate the Senate is investigating almost all events that are happening in the country, will they still have time to legislate? I wonder, will this be another case of OPEN and CLOSE but-without-concluding-anything type of investigation?

+ Party-list lawmaker denies hand in Batasan blast. Rep. Mujiv Hataman: My conscience is clear.

Comment: His name as well as Gerry Salapudin’s, the previous congressman, kept on cropping up in the investigation. Hmm… convicted plunderer Erap also said those words to deny that he ever committed corruption shortly arriving triumphantly in his San Juan fiefdom after getting an unconditional pardon.

+ Maternal mortality declined in Quezon City, from 10 per 100,000 in 1996, shooting up to 14 per 100,000 in 1997… - Rina Jimenez-David’s article entitled Tales of two cities where she’s comparing the divergent family planning policies of Quezon City which encouraged it and Manila where the former mayor Lito Atienza discouraged most modern methods.

Comment: shooting up? I would have understood if she was talking about a more sizable number or unless she was confusing the numbers with percentage (40%)?

+ Mariannet’s death is Arroyo’s fault - David Michael M. San Juan (dmsanjuanMM3@yahoo.com) in the Letters section writing that Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is to be blamed since this government is duping us - lying through its teeth - into believing the country’s much ballyhooed yet generally unfelt economic miracles. He continues: Mourn if we must for Mariannet, but we can do her and other Filipino children a greater service if we will help remove the biggest impediment to genuine economic progress: illegitimate, insensitive, and corrupt-to-the-bones Arroyo. Our battle cry should be: Justice for Mariannet! Justice to the people! Oust Gloria!

Comment: yeah, unless we keep on blaming all things negative to this government the more we will not move forward. Its always the blaming game. Now, what are you doing for your country? Sitting comfortably reading the papers and bitching about the current state of the nation?