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It’s that time of the year again, when the idiots come out of the woodwork not only to fire their guns into the air, but also to set off firecrackers at the risk of their and other people’s lives and limbs. By tomorrow, the hospitals will be full of the victims of both, despite the usual appeals to good sense, social responsibility, plain decency and their own undeserved welfare.

About people, mostly policemen, firing their guns we’ve seen some progress over the years, though as early as the official onset of the Christmas season there were already two victims of stray bullets.
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It was Douglas MacArthur’s trademark phrase. But in using it before flying to the United States, Independent Rep. Mark Jimenez of Manila sounded more like The Terminator than The American Caesar.

“This is just the beginning. I shall return,” Jimenez said about an hour before his flight to the United States in the company of US federal agents. Referring to the Arroyo administration, he also said, “They cannot silence me…they will hear more from me.”
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Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo shall have been President for two years by January 20, 2003. It is unlikely that her approval ratings, currently at six percent, will see any dramatic improvement by then.

From that date to the election of 2004 is a scant 14 months. Mrs. Arroyo will have only that much time to arrest the downward slide of her approval ratings, and to reverse it enough for her to win a mandate in May 2004.
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She said “media,” but apparently meant the newspapers.

“I have been victimized by black propaganda so much that recent media trends and therefore [the] survey results have not been favorable to my administration,” President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo told guests during the 50th anniversary of the National Press Club on Wednesday.
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