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What’s a-cookin’ in your noggin, P-Noy? COMMENT 01/20/2011

Friday, January 21, 2011

What’s a-cookin’ in your noggin, P-Noy?

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01/20/2011
It was a different kind of setting this time for members of the Concerned Citizens Movement (CCM). Unlike the small dinner meetings with politicos and journalists that were regularly held at the late Josie Lichauco’s posh Essensa penthouse residence at the Fort, the recent Jan. 9 reunion was a luncheon on the 35th floor of a high-rise condominium overlooking San Juan City — tendered by CCM chairman Bettina Legarda in honor of the Magdalo soldiers who had applied for amnesty.

Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV and his fellow Magdalo patriots were accompanied by Medal of Valor recipient retired Lt. Col. Ariel Querubin, who would now be a two-star general had his service not been rudely interrupted by the politics of the high command then headed by Gloria Arroyo. Attired in civvies, the amnesty grantees arrived in the company of their loved ones — their telltale physical traits of soldiery still there: bearing, erect posture, dusky complexion and cropped hair..... MORE

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