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Posted on June 16, 2008 - Filed Under Opinion, Think about It | Leave a Comment
A taste of unfreedom
By Jun Velasco
We received yesterday an e-mailed prayer by Archbishop Desmond Tutu with its head, “Disturb us Lord.”
It came from a friend from long way back whose compassion for mankind is beyond question.
We thought that in this period of gathering hopelessness, the high priest’s reminder is very relevant. Here goes:
“Disturb [...]
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Posted on June 10, 2008 - Filed Under Opinion, Think about It | Leave a Comment
Obama or McCain? It's 50-50!
By Jun Velasco
FILIPINOS are impressed with the U.S.’ smooth-sailing electoral system.
The exciting - even grueling to some — campaign for the party’s (Democrat or Republican) presidential nomination could be easily brought to a climax, with the winner and loser known, and left to bloodshed. Let’s salute the Americans.
The Democrats [...]
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Posted on June 2, 2008 - Filed Under Opinion, Think about It | Leave a Comment
Joey is popular among Dagupeños
By Jun Velasco
IT was a different Joey de Venecia persona the Dagupan folk saw the other Saturday, a few days after super Typhoon Cosme lashed the city and province.
The matinee idol-looking namesake and junior of former Speaker Joe created a mini storm as he went around the city with [...]
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Posted on May 27, 2008 - Filed Under Opinion, Think about It | Leave a Comment
Why God sends us earthquakes, cyclones and tsunamis?
By Jun Velasco
AS we go to press, many parts of the world are in a state of shock, confusion and angst.
The international wires and our television footages stab our hearts with graphic portraits of death, suffering and devastation brought about by Nature's fury.
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Posted on May 20, 2008 - Filed Under Opinion, Think about It | Leave a Comment
Why not lick politics for good?
By Jun Velasco
DAGUPEÑOS are lucky.
They had a fair weather last Friday, grand (?) opening of the much anticipated, much delayed, much debated, and finally smoothly enacted Dawel-Pantal-Lucao Diversion Road and Bridge across Pantal River.
Fair weather? Oh, yes, only in the morning when Jun Ebdane breesed through the [...]
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Posted on May 13, 2008 - Filed Under Opinion, Think about It | Leave a Comment
Is GMA giving Benjie a Cabinet post?
By Jun Velasco
THAT was a brotherly act by Dr. Salvador “Ado” Duque proposing reconciliation between President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and former Speaker Joe de Venecia.
He thinks the rift was childish because it began with their kids, Luli, Mikey, and Dato Arroyo and Joey de V.
How we wish it [...]
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Posted on May 6, 2008 - Filed Under Opinion, Think about It | Leave a Comment
All these festivals are good for nothing if . . .
By Jun Velasco
WE were locked in a lively exchange over how and why a modernizing city could be so crazy over a fleshy aquatic animal called bangus.
Can’t you, Dagupan people, come up with something better, say, larger than life, or something more meaningful?
A [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 - Filed Under Opinion, Think about It | Leave a Comment
Dagupan is Disneyland
By Jun Velasco
MAYOR Al Fernandez is under siege.
For crafting Dagupan City into a veritable Disneyland — what with the fiesta galore, colorful buntings on every street , the boom-boom sound, the lilting music — from the poblacion to the outskirts, the non-stop activities with the very popular Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez [...]
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Posted on April 21, 2008 - Filed Under Opinion, Think about It | Leave a Comment
Ancient poems sparkle
By Jun Velasco
ASIDE from the food shortage, which economists say is a global phenomenon, the US presidential race is the favorite topic in conversation circles pushing aside the self-punishing corruption tales that have brought shame to the country.
Last week, an uncle, Erning Martinez, lent us a book, "Unlimited Access," written by a [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2008 - Filed Under Opinion, Think about It | Leave a Comment
Bless them who save poor people's vision
By Jun Velasco
YOU’d mistake him for a retired movie actor ala Edmund Purdom or Gary Grant, this tall and handsome ophthalmologist who has under his care thousands of patients suffering from eye diseases in San Fabian, Pangasinan.
Dr. Guillermo de Venecia, 76, has, for more than 30 years, been [...]
