Pet Melliza

Duterte sycophants in the Lower House are hard selling the dismantling of protectionist provisions in the Constitution via cha-cha (to hide Duterte's agenda of term extension). They want to convince us these provisions are the culprit for our economic woes nowadays as parodied by the photo below, thus cha-cha and Pedro and Maria will live happily ever after. These honorable nitwits and dimwits (Iloilo solons included) refuse to see the connection between corruption, mismanagement, abuses, ineptitude and what-not of the Duterte ruling cabal, with the dwindling buying power of the mamamayan.

 Aside from invoking "academic freedom" as ground to oppose defense secretary Delfin Lorenzana who unilaterally abrogated the Soto-Enrile accord, University of the Philippines--Visayas chancellor Clement C. Camposano, also asked him to revisit his (Lorenzana's) alma matter, the Philippine Military Academy (PMA). Lorenzana unilaterally abrogated January 19 the agreement signed by student leader Sonia Soto and then defense secretary Juan Ponce Enrile in 1982 to protect students from police and military presence in schools intended to clamp down on dissent and protests. The accorded was firmed up June 30, 1989 by UP president Jose Abueva and DND secretary Fidel V. Ramos that set the guidelines for the police and Armed Forces to follow in their operations in the UP system throughout the country.  Paraphrasing Camposano interviewed on Aksyon Radyo: UP has no monopoly in having students who took to the hills to join the rebel New People's Army (NPA). Practically all schools...

Wakanda Hall requires payers of real property taxes to pass through the proverbial eye of the needle at its treasury. Many eyes of the needle, actually. I've been through that recently but won't narrate that entertaining episode in the first person. Actually, the apparatchiks of Wakanda are the ones deserving of the needle, not the eye of it but its very tip that needs to be thrust to their butts repeatedly. But that's another story. First eye of needle: falling in line.It takes at least an hour for seniors. The city is magnanimous enough to offer seats to them rather than put them in a tourously long line that defies Covid19. Second eye of needle: assessment. You submit the Tax declaration and location of property. It's about 20-30 minutes for your name to be called; you're handed the assessment of your tax obligation with the instruction to go to a window to pay garbage fee that doesn't assure you diligent waste collection anyway. Caveat: you'll be g...