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BY JUN VELASCO
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January 27, 2018
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WE WERE dismayed no end when President Duterte angrily junked the ongoing talks with the local Communists due to…well, due to hubris. Pangulo is well known for an unusual humor.
But we can’t blame him. At the rate Jo-ma’s rural-based followers are killing people like nobody’s business, we’d do something worse if we were him.
But we have a suspicion the bizarre acting by both – Pangulo and chairman – is an agenda for something dramatic. We thought it won’t hold for long; the fruition would be good for the nation or else wala nang pag-asa ang tunay na reconciliation, which would be unthinkable, which the two guys won’t allow. Our five cents’ take on the matter.
We are emotional about it because we had tasted prison life based on the fratricidal (brother against brother) conflict brought about by, yes, you said it, plain politics, the Philippines’ karma.
It’s nonsense for brothers to be in fight mode all the time, this is our fighting faith.
We were about to add our two cents’ worth in a meeting with Labor secretary Bebot Bello, main man in the talks, last Tuesday at his office.
We consider non-reconciliation absurd since the supposed villains were simply mired in disagreement on how best to show their love of country.
Banditry, being the ugly tag charged against the Communists is, to us, a sweeping card because they (the ideologues), too, are bedeviled by the elements (bandits).
It is with this frame that we consider whoever was behind the initiative to revive the peace talks even after the President dumped it, a hero or heroes who don’t give up on the nobility of brotherhood.
We believe both Pangulo and the leftist chairman have the best interest of the nation, and will not allow what is proper to go down the drain just like that.
It will speak well of our leaders to act now with finality, pronto, and inspire our once fractious nation to move forward.
There’s no other choice, we believe.
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High school classmate Leo Palaganas, the Dagupen-turned Texas cowboy who just planed in from the US, gifted us with a bunch of nutrition books with instruction that we pass on the tips to our readers.
Leo was our tour guide when we visited him in Dallas in 1980. We were en route to heart bypass patient Ninoy Aquino’s suite at Baylor Hospital when Marcos intelligence agents blocked our path.
Yes, PH intelligence was already that sophisticated!
Leo’s Dagupan visit was dampened by the recent deaths of our classmates Brenda Mendoza-Manese and Marlen Espino-Ocampo one after the other last December.
A couple of months earlier, former education supervisor Vic Patamaran, also a classmate, died. About 38 batch-mates at the Dagupan City High School have already left for the Great Beyond.
Let’s pray for the Lord’s blessings.
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Good news to astrology enthusiasts!
Our friend, future reader Pandit Sati of India, will be a guest in Metro Manila from Jan. 26 to Feb. 7, reports educator nonpareil Tita Ventinella Hamada.
We have seen Pandit’s batting average – near perfect. There are the antis who link their gift of foreseeing events as ungodly. But on the other hand, they do it to warn humans against harm. Is that bad?
He will be around for two weeks, says Tita. Get in touch with her at CP 09209503095.
Tita, by the way, has introduced a teaching modality that dumps the grading system to allow learners the widest latitude for growth and development. Her writer-father Atty. Juan Ventinella was an erudite member of the first Philippine constitutional convention. Her late hubby, Billy Hamada, who was a scion of the famous Baguio publishers of Midland Courier chain, was our roommate at the Tarlac military barracks during martial rule./PN
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