Malilong: The gospel according to PRRD: God is stupid

GOD is stupid.

That was what President Duterte said, according to news reports. His exact words:

“Who is this stupid God? Estupido talaga itong p......i... kung ganoon.” And here’s more:

“And God was lonely, who is... And there was nobody to please him. Ngayon ko lang nalaman na ang God, ma-lonely pala. Buti na lang, walang babae sa tabi seguro.”

At some point in his tirade, Duterte drew laughter from his audience. That, I think, is what makes him so bold and so daring. He knows he has the support of an overwhelming majority of the Filipinos, many of whom go to mass and receive communion. If an election were held today, Duterte will handily beat Jesus Christ.

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Shouldn’t airline companies adopt a policy that would insure that a minor, especially if she has a medical condition, would be seated next to her parents or at least her traveling companions during long flights? A mother wants to know.

Marionne Fernan Borres, her husband and their 13-year-old daughter Krystiana were booked on the June 18 Korean Air Lines flight from Cebu to Chicago, U.S.A., via Incheon, South Korea.

When they checked in, they were told that they could not be seated together, Marionne narrated in a letter to the airline company. She said she replied that being seated separately was not possible since Krystiana had medical issues and at one time even passed out during a Korean Air flight in July 2016.

An airline employee, a certain Faith Puzon, told Marionne she would make some inquiries and after a while came back to say that the family can be accommodated in the plane’s rear section but only in the Mactan-Incheon leg. The mother protested, again invoking her daughter’s health concerns.

“At this point, my daughter started crying because she was terrified about sitting alone on a long flight,” Marionne recalled. She asked to see the manager but the latter told them the same thing: they could not guarantee their seating together from Incheon to Chicago because they had no control over that part of the flight.

Asked about what options were open to them, the manager replied that there was a flight the following day where they could be seated together. Marionne said they re-booked, following the manager’s suggestion but had to shell out an additional US $1,270 each for their tickets.

My own question: if the local Korean Air office has no control on seating arrangements beyond the Cebu-Incheon leg, why did the manager tell Marionne that actually they could be seated together provided that they travel the following day on tickets that they have to pay for again. Strange, no?