Quick Lines

Certain respected lawyers said that in the interest of check and balance in the government, there is no absolute supremacy of one branch of government. And they seem to say--  except for the Supreme Court.

The Impeachment Court subpoenas only the year-end balance of the Corona accounts in the banks. The defense acted as if all the transactions in these accounts will be scrutinized in public. Are the defense counsels voluntering to blow things out of proportion?

Chief Justice Renato Corona said in one of his speeches before his subordinates in the high court that he is not the Supreme Court; that's because the high court decides cases as a group (en banc). Then lately he said that he is a stumbling block to those who do not want the Hacienda Luisita distributed to the farmers. He is saying now that he is the Supreme Court. [Only the Supreme Court deciding banc can be that stumbling block.]

Head of the CJ Corona defense team, Serafin Cuevas, admitted in Philippine Daily Inquirer that “If only they (senator-judges) let the prosecution ask questions, those documents (SALNs) would not have been disclosed." This is tantamount to an admission that the Corona defense refused to hand to the Impeachment Court that SALNs, and had to be forced by the Court to make that happen. So much the truthful in lawyering.

Bishop Juan de Dios Pueblos of Butuan admitted on 6 July 2011 that he received an SUV worth P1.7 million as a birthday gift by former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo through the PCSO. He blamed current president Simeon S. Aquino III for the "unnecessary trouble he is now in." Happy birthday, Bishop!!! From the PCSO.

American rapper 50 Cents continued to attack Pambansang Kamao Manny Pacquiao in Twitter on recycled and outdated charges on steroids while praising his friend and now legally in trouble Floyd Mayweather. 50 Cents is just being his nature and perhaps sole talent--a rapper--and is just rapping with envy at Pacman.

In an obvious bid to hang on to an appointed position without the blessings of the President, Commission on Audit Chairman Reynaldo Villar said in an interview that his term will expire 2015. And Malacañang clarified that his appointment paper stated it clearly that it ends on 2 February 2011. One nature of sticky lizards is: They want to stick into a position to the death. You will know the family when you see one. [A person who recognizes and respects the appointing office of the president will not think twice to step down for delicadeza . The position is appointive in the first place, with or without papers from the previous president.] (Photo courtesy of Malaya )