Indolent Indio has received reports from an unimpeachable source (which is to say, he cannot be impeached even by 2/3 vote of the House of Representatives) that money is flooding into the media in anticipation of the impeachment trial of Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez in May. Our source says payoffs go up to as much as [...]
Much has been said about President Benigno Aquino’s speechwriter and the wine reviews and anthropological studies on Vietnamese men she posted on Twitter. Not much has been said of this tweet by Senator Francis Pangilinan, however:
The daring dawn raid we hinted at in the last post was not as daring as advertised. The Bureau of Customs raided Tondo Friday morning and seized 60 bags of onions smuggled in from China. At 10 pounds per bag, that comes to 600 pounds and a market value of around P17,680. Admittedly, [deputy Customs [...]
According to our baby mouse, a senator sent a media advisory today telling Senate media that a certain government agency will be conducting a raid on some people somewhere in just a few hours. The actual advisory was, of course, not that vague. The senator who sent it was actually pretty helpful with the details, [...]
Twenty some days into the new administration, this ‘new’ politics they all promised sounds more and more like the old politics. More accurately, it’s beginning to look a lot like the old old politics of cacique days.