Gun ban violations left and right

Talks about the divorce bill are back in the coffee shops. A man was heard saying: "Walk the talk ... Kanus-a pa nila himoa nga balaud ni? Kun patay na ming mga kabayo?"

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A news item said PNoy is not yet interested in pushing for the passage of the divorce bill. A husband with a bandaid on the forehead was quoted as saying: "Maylang siya kay way asawa."

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The Comelec gun ban is in effect. I heard someone say that the notorious gun holders are at an advantage because the law-abiding gun owners who are obeying the law are leaving the bad guys all alone packing guns.

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In last Sunday's (Jan. 27/13) issue of the PhilStar, there were four news stories about gun ban violations, all in Metro Manila. Some robbers who robbed a mall caused panic among the shoppers when they fired their guns in the air as they escaped with their loot.

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Another gun ban violation involved a Quezon City cop. Also in QC two taxi robbers died when they engaged policemen in a shootout. A fourth gun-related incident involved a businessman who was shot dead while resting in his front yard in Ermita, Manila.

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Austrian Consul General in Cebu Arcadio Alegrado has retired after serving Austria so well for so many years. If Austria is well-known today to Cebuanos, many of whom used to mistake Austria for Australia, it's because of my friend Consul Alegrado.

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Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez, in his recent TF column "The Labor Front," suggested to the government to stop sending maids abroad. Atty. Jimenez said: "Maid deployment is a business that makes multi-millionaires of recruiters while our poor women are being jailed, raped and killed abroad."

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Let's give Atty. Jimenez's call a serious thought. He knows whereof he speaks being close to the labor front.

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Pablito "Pabling" Hipolito of Lapu-Lapu City says in a phonecall: "Let's make this distinction: When we refer to the festival, let's call it SINULOG, but when we talk of the dance-prayer it should be SINUG." He said he never heard his 91-year-old grandmother talk about Sinulog but always Sinug.

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OVERHEARD. Two members of the women's civic club were reading the news about the bickerings of some members of the Senate. 1st WOMAN: "Unsa may sinugdanan aning ilang away-away?" 2nd WOMAN: "Ay sus, strictly speaking, kuwarta. Di maayong pagkabahin." 1st WOMAN: "Da, lagi, daan pa ko. Maynalang among club way nahut, busa way awayan. Hehe."