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Until the fat lady sings NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 03/09/2012

Friday, March 9, 2012

Until the fat lady sings

NO HOLDS BARRED
Armida Siguion-Reyna
03/09/2012
The phrase derives from various origins, the most popular having to do with opera, from the days when sopranos were hefty, or, in politically incorrect language, fat. The show does not end until after the soprano’s aria of all arias and it looks like it’ll be some time before we hear it, in what’s turned into the Wagnerian impeachment trial of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona.

Wagnerian, I leave you to google. If you can’t, then trust me, it’s the high drama now coming out of the woodwork.

Act I was all that pretty much happened in 2010, from when the newly-elected P-Noy refused to be inducted into office by the CJ he saw as his predecessor’s “midnight” and therefore, illegal, appointee, to all the way when 188 congressmen in December of 2011 agreed to impeach the man..... MORE

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