Wednesday, February 13, 2008 Malilong: Kidnapped or protected? By Frank Malilong The Other Side
BENJAMIN Abalos Sr. has slapped Rodolfo Lozada Jr. with a multi-million libel suit for claiming that the then Comelec chair asked for a $130 million commission in the national broadband network project.
Commission chairman or chief commissioner? That is the question.
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Sun.Star’s front page last Sunday showed pictures of Lozada and President Arroyo in prayerful poses. One of them was reciting the act of contrition; the other, a prayer for protection.
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I was kidnapped, Lozada claimed. No, we protected you, the police replied. If Jose Rizal had died today instead of on December 30, 1896, what would have the authorities told us: that he was executed or that he committed suicide?
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What’s so bad about being a probinsyanong Intsik that makes him deserving of deportation? He’s a trouble-maker, says Sergio Apostol Jr., eminent member of the Palace geriatric society.
Spell trouble, will you please, Junior?
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Apostol also said Lozada was a “crying boy.” That’s definitely better than a “fogy boy” or a “boy fogy” or however you call someone whose sun is about to set but who continues to behave like a boy.
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Reminds me of a little boy who proudly told my kids many summers ago at a beach club in Mactan that his friend was the grandson of a retarded general. I happened to know the old soldier and until now I am not sure if the boy really meant “retired.”
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Indeed, some people grow old gracefully. Many others simply refuse to grow.
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A fisherman lost his life when the dynamite he was about to toss to the sea exploded in his hand. The anduhaw fights back.
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Some people would call the accident gaba but that’s being unchristian. If I know him enough, my environmentalist friend, the irrepressible Tony Oposa, would probably refer to the explosion as a case of powder prematurely ejaculating.
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That was quite a figure Gov. Gwen Garcia and Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes cut in their picture promoting the Kabayo festival (okay, the Governor’s Cup).
Reminded me of the cowboy movies that I watched when I was younger. “Lone Ranger” immediately came to mind but I perished the thought, knowing who the Mandaue City councilors would without doubt identify as Tonto.
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Where have all the lampposts gone? Deputy Ombudsman for the Visayas Pelagio Apostol has ordered an investigation to determine who got those overpriced dome-shaped structures without his permission. Ngano, uso pa diay nang mananghid ron, sir?
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The investigation will likely be an exercise in futility. Those posts must have been cannibalized by now and sold as scrap. After the big people earned big money from the posts, it was the small people’s turn to earn their small share. So what else is new?
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Twice, Z “The Dream” Gorres fought in Cebu and twice, the fight turned into a nightmare. The first one, against Fernando Montiel, ended in a controversial draw. The second, against Vic Darchinyan, ended up with even more controversy.
Plastic bottles were thrown towards the direction of the ring by idiots masquerading as boxing fans, many of whom were such poor shots that those holding ringside tickets had to duck the wayward missiles.
