The Struggling Blogger

Some authorities are abused, and some are abused. What rights has President Arroyo to pardon a criminal when she was not the one who was wronged? This executive clemency thing is really a ridicule to our already inutile justice system.

Color me unforgiving, but the 21 years spent by Claudio Teehankee Jr. inside jail isn’t enough to pay for his killing of the late Maureen Hultman. Sure, release all the criminals out in the street, why don’t you. And just leave those poor innocent people inside because they do not know any high profile government official.

I’d like to write to some more, but I fear that if I continue I may curse and write unprintables here. I’m sure, this isn’t the lone blog that will talk about this. Right now, this much I can say… “nothing beats being friend to the president”

Thinking of a new topic to post on my blog, I remembered the e-mail I received sometime last week. The e-mail delivers a message of warning and horror, so to speak, as it tells of an earthquake of big magnitude to happen in the Philippines soon. I searched for the e-mail copy in my inbox, unfortunately I can’t find. I may have deleted it already since I always believe that such messages were a waste of time.

But yesterday, when my daughter arrived from school she told they had an earthquake drill. They were told that there was a prediction about the earthquake that would happen in the Philippines. I was surprised because, somebody is taking the prediction seriously. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the fact that they are preparing for such an event, but to instil fear in the minds of children is a different. My daughter told me that one of their classmates even cried in fear during the exercise.
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