Senator Tatad and the surveys ENQUIRY Demaree J. B. Raval 03/14/2010

Senator Tatad and the surveys ENQUIRY Demaree J. B. Raval 03/14/2010 Sen. Francisco “Kit” Tatad is trying to make a comeback to the Philippine Senate. He is running under the Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino ticket of the hugely resurgent Joseph Ejercito Estrada. Despite his exemplary performance for two terms as senator of the Republic, four years of which as majority leader, and his being in the constant consciousness of the Filipino electorate for the 41 years that he has been in public service, Tatad has yet to land in the top 12 of today’s surveys on senatorial candidates. Tatad is optimistic he will win, and takes comfort in the classic “defeat” of Harry Truman at the hands of the pollsters who had the surveys proclaiming Thomas Dewey as the choice of the electorate in the 1948 US presidential polls. The pollsters were proven wrong, and Truman went on to become president of the United States. Why do the survey results continue to exclude Tatad, who stands head and shoulders above many of those who now revel in their top slots, as churned out by mercenary survey outfits masquerading as crystal ball operators? Tatad — in behalf of the millions who voted for him in 1992 and again in 1995, and those whom he has converted to his side with his scholarly dissection of constitutional issues that would put many lawyers pretending to be constitutional experts to shame — has every reason to wonder why, and he has taken the survey outfits to task, head-on. Tatad says the Social Weather Stations (SWS) should first explain its fatally flawed exit polls in the 2004 elections in Metro Manila before it conducts yet another opinion poll related to the 2010 elections, and that Pulse Asia should disclose to the public how many candidates have paid how much in order to participate in and benefit from the surveys..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100314com3.html

COMMENTARY EDITORIAL Worn out money-making ploys FRONTLINE No credibility ENQUIRY Senator Tatad and the surveys BLURBAL THRUSTS Malacañang stays PASG abolition TABLETS OF STONE Nothing but creepy VIEWPOINTS May 10 poll watchers FEATURE Nazi naval relic pits salvage operator against Berlin FEATURE Pope OK’d housing pedophile priest — diocese

Malacañang stays PASG abolition BLURBAL THRUSTS Louie Logarta 03/14/2010

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Malacañang stays PASG abolition BLURBAL THRUSTS Louie Logarta 03/14/2010 The controversy-wracked Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group (PASG) was granted a new lease on life after Malacañang said it was unconditionally backing it up until a Manila judge’s decision saying its creation was “unconstitutional” became final. A Palace spokesman clarified that the PASG, headed by Undersecretary Antonio Villar Jr. who is concurrently the chairman of the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB), may continue with its assigned task of seizing suspected smuggled shipments at the Bureau of Customs (BoC), pending resolution of a motion for reconsideration filed by government lawyers. Previous to this, Manila Regional Trial Court Judge Silvino Pampilo Jr. ruled that Malacañang’s creation of the PASG per Executive Order (EO) 624 was illegal as it usurped the power of Congress, thus violating the principle of separation of powers, aside from the fact it duplicated the functions of the BoC..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100314com4.html COMMENTARY EDITORIAL Worn out money-making ploys FRONTLINE No credibility ENQUIRY Senator Tatad and the surveys BLURBAL THRUSTS Malacañang stays PASG abolition TABLETS OF STONE Nothing but creepy VIEWPOINTS May 10 poll watchers FEATURE Nazi naval relic pits salvage operator against Berlin FEATURE Pope OK’d housing pedophile priest — diocese

Nothing but creepy TABLETS OF STONE Larry Faraon, OP 03/14/2010

Nothing but creepy TABLETS OF STONE Larry Faraon, OP 03/14/2010 It’s nothing but creepy. With the military brass in a rigodon de honor of positions as salient as the Chief of Staff and the National Capital Region Command mostly from the PMA Class 1978, which prides Madame Gloria Arroyo as its jewel, with the “holiday” or wellness break of Chief Justice Reynato Puno leaving the highest judicial aribiter of the country in the hands of “acting” or “person in-charge,” a declaration of a “state of calamity” in vote-rich, vote-swayed Mindanao, and rotating brownouts in Metro Manila, notably in highly-contested voting populations, with realistic suspicions of another windfall in fund-raising, with a Defense secretary threatening rebels with a full military confrontation, with the unpreparedness of teachers for the first automated elections in the country, the prelude failure of the Comelec about the most basic in election exercise, namely the purgation of the voter’s registration, the concerns on election returns reading machines, the limitation of clustering, the smuggled signal jammers of phones to be used to transmit results and the threat from creative Pinoy breed of hackers — all of these point to one creepy nightmare of a failure of elections in May 10, 2010! As the presidential candidates and their respective parties are busy crawling their way up or down in the surveys ladders and grandstanding in debates and forums, nobody, it seems, is minding the kitchen where concoctions are being brewed by witches and bitches under the pale moonlight. It may be hot in the kitchen, but surely somebody should be there.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100314com5.html

COMMENTARY EDITORIAL Worn out money-making ploys FRONTLINE No credibility ENQUIRY Senator Tatad and the surveys BLURBAL THRUSTS Malacañang stays PASG abolition TABLETS OF STONE Nothing but creepy VIEWPOINTS May 10 poll watchers FEATURE Nazi naval relic pits salvage operator against Berlin FEATURE Pope OK’d housing pedophile priest — diocese