In effect he said that, since there is already lotto, horse racing and cockfighting, why not legalize jueteng? He even cockily asked, is it because jueteng is a game of the poor? Obviously he was insinuating that the other presidential candidates were against it because they were anti-poor.

Gambling is evil, period! Gambling addiction is the worst form of addiction. I have personally seen the devastation that gambling addiction has wrought on families. Now Estrada wants to legalize another form of gambling just because there are other legalized gambling games already?

Is Estrada serious? Perhaps the alcohol has completely muddled his brain. It has obviously already affected his speech!

Do we really want this man back in Malacañang? The reason why he was ousted in People Power 2 was because he was immoral and precisely because he was perceived as raking in millions from jueteng.

The only difference between him and Gloria Arroyo is that he has a mustache. In everything else, they’re both blood-suckers.

Such is the case with the news about the eating splurges of GMA and her band of sycophants when they were in the U.S. When the news broke, Malacañang didn’t know how to answer. They hemmed and the hawed. When they couldn’t stand the heat, they sent in their attack dog, Atty. Romulo Makalintal.

So what does Makalintal do? He attacks media and blames them for the whole brouhaha. He calls them immoral, pointing out that they accept ads from politicians and earn vast amounts of money.

Makalintal embodies the worst in lawyers. He is the best argument on why lawyers are the butt of bar jokes. If it’s true lawyers don’t go to heaven, Makalintal leads the pack in forging a way to hell.

Other than that, he’s an example of the stupid choices GMA makes in hiring all the President’s men.

I’m not going to use my blog to challenge the inane arguments of Makalintal. Other media outlets are already doing a fine job at that, not because they have good writers, but because Malacañang’s attack dog is simply barking and baring fangs without any semblance of intelligence.

If GMA wanted to prove again that she should step down next year, there was no better way to do it than by unleashing Makalintal.

Oh, and what about the Chesire cat? While Makalintal was haranguing media about morality, beside him was Press Sec. Cerge Remonde grinning from ear to ear. Like the Chesire cat of Alice in Wonderland.

Come to think of it, we are in Wonderland. We’re wondering why GMA is still president.

Thus, it was good judgment on the part of her siblings to have her wake at accessible venues like the de la Salle Greenhills campus and later in the week, the Manila Cathedral.

However, we wish that they would agree on a state funeral. This would certainly bring pride to the nation.

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As usual, in her brief message of condolence, Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo looked insincere. Perhaps her trumpet blowers will attribute this to jet lag or that she was "in transit," or a host of other reasons. The fact is the death of Pres. Aquino removed much of the luster of her hyped-up trip to the U.S. to meet Pres. Barack Obama. But she can’t blame Cory for this. This is God’s way of letting the nation know that the real dead person is Arroyo.

For Cory Aquino lives on in the hearts of the Filipino people.

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GMA didn’t so much as give a hint of an offer to have Pres. Aquino lie in state in Malacañang Palace. According to Sen. Noynoy Aquino, no offer was given and the family didn’t ask for an offer.

Perhaps GMA wants the Filipinos to remember the last president who lay in state in Malacañang Palace.

Who cares? Whatever good Diosdado Macapagal did for the nation, it has been tarnished by the person who now resides in the Palace: his own daughter.

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The two big TV networks are always replaying the speeches of Pres. Aquino, especially her last State of the Nation address (SONA). In that message, Pres. Aquino said goodbye and thank you for the support of the Filipinos. Love for the nation radiated from that speech.

Fast forward to GMA’s last SONA. In that speech there were no goodbyes and it left a bad taste in the mouth because it exuded arrogance.

Is it any wonder then that "Tita Cory" was so loved and "Ate Glo" so despised?