Ed Pontaoe
14 May 2008

 

The Manila Regional Trial Court just handed down marching orders for the Sheriff to pounce on Bishop Oscar Cruz, a defanged saber-toothed tiger of the Catholic Church.

With handcuffs hanging over his head, the old and gullible Bishop, is quaking in his shoes . . . pissing on his pants . . . throwing up his meal, the reality at last the misfortune of crossing sword with Archangel Miguel is coming home to roost.

Will he survive? Highly questionable. He’s banking what he believes the greatest defense lawyer in the Philippine Bar Estelito Mendoza, can mount a credible counterattack on accusations arrayed against him by PAGCOR.

Can his defense disprove what Bishop Cruz claimed that usherettes in Archangel Miguel’s birthday bash were not plain servers but GROs, which PAGCOR strongly believed were libelous?

It comes down to the dictum; “It’s not what you know it’s what you can prove”.

The way things are looking up, it’s a done deal. They will make him the whipping boy, a retribution on the cardinal sins he did the Arroyo government. Joe de Venecia found out the hard way, that colliding against the Arroyo locomotive is dangerous to your political health likewise on the Bishop’s religious beliefs.

Payback time, Mr. Bishop. Pray like Hell!

romi mananqui
13 May 2008

Pinablic ya kabaleyan, Sir Joe,

Thank God, the show is over. The formal opening was quite memorable & momentous. 3 National Artists were there, Napoleon Abueva, Bencab & Virgilio Almario. Canadian Ambassador Robert Desjardins, UP Diliman Chancellor Sergio Cao, Fine Arts Prof. Emeritus Virginia Agbayani, UPCFA Dean Tina Colayco, UPAA Toronto President Noel Cruz & former Bangko Sentral Governor Jaime Laya were also there. UP President Emerlinda Roman came the following day as she was at the UP Davao commencement that day.

And of course, families, friends, artists & art lovers plus the UPCFA students were in attendance, too. Dean Colayco said it was one of the best attended art openings, if not the best, in the college. And finally, I met Santiago Villafania with another kabaleyan, Dr. Carlos Pizarro. Sonny gave me a book of his Pangasinan poetry. (pls. see: http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:T9mHI9ciG8oJ:www.dalityapi.com
/%3F1151003209000+romi+mananquil&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5 for more).

As for show’s paintings, publicity & write-ups pls. see: http://www.mananquil.com/, http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/04302008/life05.html, http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/lifestyle/lifestyle/view_article.php?article_id=128767, http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2008/04/06/
pangasinan-canadian-artist-holds-show-for-up-centennial/#more-8854.

Pls. give me Sonny V’s email address again & forward this to him.

Maliket ya agew,

Romi