CORTEZ: Mayor So

UGAT NG IMPEACHMENT! Kung nakinig kayo nang inauguration speech ni PNoy noong June 2010, nabangit niya ang kanyang kagustuhang mapabuti ang ekonomiya at labanan ang kahirapan.

Pero meron siya nabangit na katangi-tangi na hindi masyadong pinasin ng mga nakarinig… at gusto kong basahin niyo ito ngayon para malaman niyo kung bakit na-impeach si Chief Justice Renato Corona sa Korte Suprema.

“Sa mga itinalaga sa paraang labag sa batas, ito ang aking babala: Sisimulan natin ang pagbabalik ng tiwala sa pamamagitan ng pag-usisa sa mga “midnight appointments.” Sana ay magsilbi itong babala sa mga nag-iisip na ipagpatuloy ang baluktot na kalakarang nakasanayan na ng marami.”

In English: “To those who have been put in positions by unlawful means, this is my warning: We will begin earning back the trust of our people by reviewing midnight appointments,” he said. “Let this serve as a warning to those who intend to continue the crooked ways that have become the norm for too long.”

MAYOR SO! Ano ba ito? Last week ang title nito ay Governor Marlyn, ngayon Mayor So naman. Hehehe.

May nakapagsabi sa akin na isang Mr. So daw ang nagbiro na siya na ang tatakbong mayor ng isang bayan dito sa Pangasinan kasi interesting ang political situation duon.

As of now ay sa katabing bayan siya nakarehistro bilang botante, pero kung magkakatotoo ang biro by next month ay lilipat na siya ng rehistro para mafulfill niya ang residency requirement para maging candidate for mayor.

BOK NANI BRAGANZA ng Alaminos City Pangasinan, Happy Chinese New Year!

Alam mo ba na daig pa ng Abono Party-list Chairman Rosendo So sa pagiging makabayan ang iba nating kasama sa dating partido?

Ang major advocacy ng Abono at ni Chairman So ay mapaunlad ang agrikultura kasabay ng pagpapaganda ng buhay ng mga magsasakang Pilipino.

Tinutulan ni Chairman So, (Bos Sendong ang tawag ng iba sa kanya)ang sobrang importasyon ng bigas dahil ito ay nakakasama sa mga Pilipinong magsasaka at ang nakikinabang ay mga dayuhang magsasaka.

Tinutulan din ni Bos Sendong ang malawakang importasyon ng karne dahil ito ay nakakasama sa mga Pilipino na nag-aalaga ng baboy at Pilipino na nagtatanim ng mais at ang nakikinabang ay dayuhang magbababoy.

TRABAHO LANG! Speaking of Mayor, meron palang isang mayor na ipinagtulakan ang isang taga GMA 7 nang ikinokober niya ang festival ng bayan ni mayor.

Former Villasis Mayor Monching Morden kumusta na po ba kayo? Alam niyo po ba na sa halip na itulak at ipagtabuyang ang taga media sana kinausap na lang niya ng mabuti.

Sana hindi na lang niya physically na itinaboy ang taga GMA 7 dahil trabahao lang naman ang knailang ginagawa.

Hindi naman mataas ang suweldo ng mga nagtatrabahao sa TV. Glamorous lang ang trabaho nila pero maliit ang kita.

Si mayor malaki ang kita…kaya kayang kaya niya itulak at itaboy ang taga media.

Si mayor makapangyarihan sa kanyang bayan kaya kayang kaya niya itulak at itaboy ang taga media.

Pack-up ang grupo ng taga GMA 7.

Dapat iboykot ng media ang mayor ng bayang ito.

BOK NANI, alam ko na alam mo na ang tinamaan sa pagbawas ng importasyon ng bigas at baboy ay ang United States of Amerika dahil sila ang bansang nagtatapon sa Pilipinas ng sobrang produksiyon.

Vice Gov Ferdie Calimlim, alam niyo po ba na dati ay 10-years multiple entry ang visa sa Amerika ng ating makabayang Bos Sendong?

Pero…alam niyo po ba na dahil sa kanyang makabayang panawagan para ihinto ang importasyon ng bigas at baboy ay na-deny ang application for visa renewal niya?

Opo…ang kanyang laban para sa agrikultura ay napansin ng Amerika at hindi na na-renew ang kanyang visa.

Ang gusto po niya ay isang matiwasay na buhay para sa mga magsasaka at magbababoy kahit wala siya visa sa amerika.

Ang importante sa kanya ay kumita ang mga nasa agrikultura.

Kapag may kita ang mga magsasaka, makapag-paaral ng mga anak, makakabili ng pang-araw-araw na pangangailangan at may malusog na pangangatawan.

Ang lokal na mga negosyo ay kikita at magdadagdag ng produkto.

Ang mga lokal na negosyo ay makakapagbigay ng trabaho at lalago ang ekonomiya.

CABINET RESHUFFLE. Natatandaan niyo ba na sa Panahon ni Presidente Gloria Arroyo na si Mar Roxas ay dating Secretary ng Department of Trade and Industry pero concurrent na Secretary din siya ng Department of Energy?

Urdaneta City Councilor Rio Esteves kumusta na po kayo? Ngayon, Secretary na siya ng DOTC sa PNoy administration at may ugong na lilipat siya sa DOE dahil si DOE Secretary Jose Rene Almendras ay mapupunta sa Presidential Management Staff.

Ang dating head ng PMS na anak ni DBM Sec. Butch Abad na si Julia Andrea Abad ay babalik kay PNoy dahil dati naman niyang Chief of Staff ito noong senador pa si PNoy.

Last year nagtangaka ang mga pumapasada na mag-ingay laban sa oil price hike kaya naman nagkaroon ng tripartite group para i-review ang oil deregulation law.

Ang group ay kinabibilangan ng DOE, DOTC at DOJ.

Matagal nang interesado si Sec. Mar sa Energy kahit na noong nasa DTI pa siya kaya ang sabi nila ay dapat siya na ang maging secretary ng DOE.

WHO WILL BE THE SUCCESOR? Para sa mga nakaupo ngayon sa mga matataas na position at sa mga nag-aambisyon na umakyat ng position, narito po ang isang kuwento.

A successful business man was growing old and knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business.

Instead of choosing one of his directors or his children, he decided to do something different. He called all the young executives in his company together.

He said, “It is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO. I have decided to choose one of you.” The young executives were shocked, but the boss continued. “I am going to give each one of you a SEED today – one very special SEED. I want you to plant the seed, water it, and come back here one year from today with what you have grown from the seed I have given you. I will then judge the plants that you bring, and the one I choose will be the next CEO.”

One man, named Jim, was there that day and he, like the others, received a seed. He went home and excitedly, told his wife the story.

She helped him get a pot, soil and compost and he planted the seed.

Everyday, he would water it and watch to see if it had grown. After about three weeks, some of the other executives began to talk about their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow. Jim kept checking his seed, but nothing ever grew. Three weeks, four weeks, five weeks went by, still nothing. By now, others were talking about their plants, but Jim didn’t have a plant and he felt like a failure.

Six months went by – still nothing in Jim’s pot. He just knew he had killed his seed. Everyone else had trees and tall plants, but he had nothing. Jim didn’t say anything to his colleagues, however. He just kept watering and fertilizing the soil – He so wanted the seed to grow.

A year finally went by and all the young executives of the company brought their plants to the CEO for inspection. Jim told his wife that he wasn’t going to take an empty pot. But she asked him to be honest about what happened. Jim felt sick at his stomach, it was going to be the most embarrassing moment of his life, but he knew his wife was right. He took his empty pot to the board room. When Jim arrived, he was amazed at the variety of plants grown by the other executives. They were beautiful — in all shapes and sizes. Jim put his empty pot on the floor and many of his colleagues laughed, a few felt sorry for him!

When the CEO arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted his young executives. Jim just tried to hide in the back. “My, what great plants, trees, and flowers you have grown,” said the CEO. “Today one of you will be appointed the next CEO!” All of a sudden, the CEO spotted Jim at the back of the room with his empty pot. He ordered the financial director to bring him to the front. Jim was terrified. He thought, “The CEO knows I’m a failure! Maybe he will have me fired!”

When Jim got to the front, the CEO asked him what had happened to his Seed – Jim told him the story.

The CEO asked everyone to sit down except Jim. He looked at Jim, and then announced to the young executives, “Behold your next Chief Executive! His name is Jim!”

Jim couldn’t believe it. Jim couldn’t even grow his seed. How could he be the new CEO the others said?

Then the CEO said, “One year ago today, I gave everyone in this room a seed. I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it, and bring it back to me today.”

“But, I gave you all boiled seeds; they were dead – it was not possible for them to grow. All of you, except Jim, have brought me trees and plants and flowers.”

When you found that the seed would not grow, you substituted another seed for the one I gave you. Jim was the only one with the courage and honesty to bring me a pot with my seed in it. Therefore, he is the one who will be the new Chief Executive!”