Mike is mayor now

If some government spokesmen issue garbled and contradictory statements, never mind. Let them be. And let Samuel Goldwyn, the famous Hollywood guy console you.

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Samuel Goldwyn, whose real name was Goldfish or so I read somewhere, is known for garbled and contradictory statements.

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Among Goldwyn’s classics are: “If Roosevelt were alive today, he’d turn over in his grave.” Another: “They are always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.”

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One of the most quoted Goldwyn statements is one of my favorites: “Why did you name your baby John? Every Tom, Dick and Harry is named John.”

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It says here that a million jobless Pinoys have stopped hunting for jobs. They should press on. Unless they’re P.Noy’s Ateneo classmates, the jobs won’t huntfor them.

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My friend Paolo Rigodon predicts that P.Noy won’t be able to solve the corruption problem in the bureaucracy. “Mark my word,” he said. Who does this friend of mine think he is? Paul, the octopus?

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Noynoy and Imelda made “beso-beso” during the birthday party of VP Jojo Binay’s son. A “chismissy” showbiz columnist I thought would say: “Hala ... sila na ngayon?”

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Seriously now, Rep. Tom O said he did not agree with Mayor Mike Rama’s reported “gag order.” Mike has stood pat on his order. And that’s the way it should be.

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Mike Rama is now the mayor, not just an acting mayor. Let’s give him the chance to prove hismettle and to prove further that he has ceased to be a rubber stamp of you know who.

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Item: A quack doctor has been indicted for raping a patient. They’re still around, these duck-tors?

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