THERE are now calls to end the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona.

Its getting pretty quite  obvious that the case is a hoax. It was filed  by a bunch of professional liars from the House of Representatives.

The prosecution panel composed of lawyers and lawmakers have become lawbreakers.

They did not only break the law. They also made fun of the Senate, which is acting as the impeachment court, and the people by presenting fake evidences and twisting the truth.

We wasted our time watching members of the prosecution panel demonize the chief justice with a bogus complaint. 

The government spent precious funds to facilitate a trial arising from a fictitious  case.

Delikadeza requires the prosecutors-lawmakers to resign as members of the House of Representatives.

The people are tired of deceit. Nobody believes in them anymore.

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The public should be warned against  ‘goons’ roaming around the Edzen Money Changer in Mabini, Manila.

As a money changer, the management of Edzen should be conscious of security and get rid of said goons who  are scaring away  prospective customers.    

But instead of doing so, Edzen inexplicably  appears to be cuddling them. One of the goons even talks with the money changer’s security personnel as if the latter is taking orders from the former.

Why there is an alliance between Edzen security and the goons in Mabini is a big question to this corner. Its also a huge worry if  this scheme of things are happening  in other branches of Edzen Money Changer.

Edzen boasts of its fast service and better exchange rates in its on-line advertisements.  But it never mentioned of hiring security men that connive with goons.

Maybe the management  of  Edzen should probe what transpired in its branch in Manila on the night of Feb. 16, 2012.

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Now that the impeachment case has weakened and at the brink of ending with an acquittal due to the incompetence of the lawmakers-prosecutors, President Benigno Aquino III is doing the Corona-bashing himself.

The other night, Aquino appeared on TV and demolished Corona anew and even appealed to the public to help his administration oust the chief justice.

Isn’t that pathetic?

By doing so, Aquino has reduced himself from a president down to the likes of Looney Tune characters Reps. Neil Tupas and Miro Quimbo who are likely never going to be re-elected for bungling the impeachment due to their poor and silly performance during the trial

Even ordinary people are now asking why Aquino is beginning to sound like asking for another Edsa uprising when there is no need for them to do so.

Why should the Filipinos do another Edsa? To protect Hacienda Luisita?

That’s very unpresidential

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Quezon City Councilor Roderick Paulate should explain why there are reports that he’s facing charges before the Office of the Ombudsman for allegedly duping ghost employees.

The report is a double whammy for Paulate because first, it insinuates that he’s involved in ghost employees, and second, he made an injustice to them.

As I was told by a reliable source, the case stemmed from the hiring of some 30 ghost employees by the office of Paulate.

They were allegedly asked to submit requirements as part of pre-hiring policy. Nevertheless, they all complied and got hired.

As ghost employees, they were reportedly paid by the councilor P1,000  each per month.

The problem started to crop up when the ghost employees discovered that each one of them was budgeted for P10,000 monthly.

Now, any ghost would  howl  to ‘death’  upon knowing that discrepancy.

This corner doesn’ know how the Ombudsman would deal with the said complaint because the case was filed by ghost employees.

Are they supposed to be recognized as legitimate complainants being ghost employees which is , obviously, prohibited under the law?

What’s bothering is that if the complaint is true, then  Paulate could be pocketing P90,000 per month or P1.08 million a year.

Isn’t this a big disgrace to public service especially at a time when  the city government is reportedly fast  losing its title as the richest city in the country?                                                     

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Last Saturday, I wrote why big-bellied cops should not be in the roster of the Philippine National Police.

The higher-ups must not be doing something about them and so another tragedy happened last Feb. 10, killing one person.

That Friday night, an alleged hostage-taking incident led to the death of the boyfriend of a former lawmaker in Quezon City.

But a source said the tragedy could have been avoided if the responding policemen were quick and fit to react to the incident.

He said a mobile car arrived at the house of the former lawmaker where the reported hostage-taking was in progress before shots were fired inside the crime scene.

In a very interesting observation, the source said one cop could not get out of the mobile car to respond. This was   because his belly was so big that he  got stuck inside the vehicle.

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