Ms. Ric
18 July 2007

 

 

Mr. Velasco,

Thank goodness your friend Bobby Enciso didn’t sing on the campaign trail, because if he did win by 3,000,000,000,000 it would have been the mother of all questionable ballot accounting. They’d have to go back all the way to nineteen kupong-kupong to find that many voters!

Ed Fernandez
18 July 2007

 

 

Mr. Jess Delfin,

If you ‘read’ my comment, and not speed through it, you’ll see the hypocrisy alluded to the governor for not using a word of the dialect in his speech. I thought it was a mistake on his part, since he made it a point that Pangasinan is the official language in the capitol, but I am not about to condemn him.

You call his omission as BS and a mockery. That’s fine with me. It’s your call. Hopefully, he’ll come to realize that such a plan is easier said than done.

My use of the ‘subjects’ word is just an expression. Come on! You don’t really think it is meant literally, do you? A connoisseur of words that you are can deduce what is being conveyed, can’t you?

There is no need to lecture on the meaning of a word. But thanks anyway for your ‘genius.’ Now I know, there is no King in Pangasinan. Duh!

Relax, amigo. Take a deep breath and don’t be too serious. You might need your energy later.

Eduardo Pontaoe
18 July 2007

Ms. Ric:

Getting exciting? Damn right! This verbal swordplay is the best I have seen for awhile. D’Artagnan should be turning in his grave. Et tu, Ms. Ric. Been a time since I saw you at the colosseum. Thought at first you turned cold feet.

Sounds like the schools are closed and warm breezes from the Pacific shaken you awake from deep slumber. Hibernation? Or, just a few drags from a roll of Beverly Blue grown inside the mansions at the Hill.

The best there is in the market. Your take on Espin-off that he make mistakes and learn from it, likens to a moron who couldn’t differentiate a cow from carabao. You know why? He can’t afford it. If he couldn’t avoid avoidable mistakes where he gonna be a year from now?

Give him 100 days? Are you in joking mood, Ms. Ric? Agbayani was given 3825 days . . . that’s 9 years and he absconded on it.

What was given to Espin-off as inheritance is like what Agbayani took from his predecessor. It’s a vicious cycle and you know it. Closing your eyes and the unbelievable belief that Espin-off is the man, is the most since Anderson pulled the switcheroo at Sin City.

I am in utter disbelief in your claim the Pangasinan language is becoming extinct. Dinosaur like? What way, Ms. Ric? You didn’t give reasons why such a preposterous idea came to your mind?

Remember the Philippines have 77 languages to express its views and concerns. As convoluted as the communication may look like, any language spoken by a given minority group will prosper and not disappear. That’s a fact.

How can you maintain discipline when you enforce such ludicrous notion of having to speak the dialect when you come to the capitol to do business? The ethnicity of different languages of Pangasinan will come into play and your Espin-off should realize he stirred the hornets nest. Politics and policy be damned.

Don’t even try, Ms. Ric. You’re going nowhere.

Eduardo Pontaoe
18 July 2007

 

 

MG:

If you know where you live and enjoy the freedoms that democracy provides, you wouldn’t even dare to ask me such contemptuous and despicable question - if I am angry or related to the other party. Such discourtesy is not only disdainful but childish.

Let me give you food for thought on the intricacies of unrestricted criticism. Critiques are for check and balance, make these politicians stand on their toes, make them aware that the voting public - pro or con - is watching.

Maybe, unbeknownst to you Nixon and Marcos were done with because of the openness of democratic free press. You should be grateful for that. Well, I am cutting short this rigmarole of yours.

By the way, KNOTS is supposed to be NUTS. I am giving you background where this word came from to enhance your historical perception and Websterian knowhow. This word was given in response to a German demand of surrender to the American commander at Bastogne in the waning hours of World War II. The unit surrounded by a Panzer division, was the 101st Airborne Division of the American 3rd Army commanded by Gen. McAulliffe. He wrote one word on a paper and gave it back . . . . NUTS!

If you read carefully what I wrote on the 16th about Espin-off’s birthplace, on the 8th paragraph I said, “If I am not mistaken” meaning I was not sure. I am sure like the first rain in May, that Bautista is an Ilocano speaking town and Espin-off is not a pure blooded Pangasinense.

MG . . . Monosodium Glutamate?