ABSNEWS 12/19 9:30 AM The Sandiganbayan allowed the family of former President Gloria Arroyo to spend Christmas eve and New Year's eve with the latter at the hospital. The court said Arroyo's relatives will be allowed to stay at the former President's room at the Veterans' Hospital past visiting hours on Dec. 24 and 31.

ANC: House Speaker Sonny Belmonte backs more visiting hours for detained former President now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo during Christmas and New Year.

MLA STANDARD: Gloria ?home alone? this Christmas? Her lawyer thinks so Former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo might be spending the holidays alone after the National Police imposed stricter rules on visiting hours on her. The rules prevent her immediate family members from staying overnight at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City. Lawyer Raul Lambino, the former president?s counsel and chief of staff, cried foul over the new policy which ran contrary to the PNP?s previous rules where her immediate family members were allowed to spend Christmas and New Year?s eve. Under the new PNP protocol, Lambino said all visitors of Mrs. Arroyo, detained for plunder case before Sandiganbayan, cannot stay beyond 9:30 p.m. in her hospital suite.

pag AYAW ng palasyo, "hindi kami makikialam, bahala ang korte".... pag GUSTO, in 5 hours or less, impeached ang chief justice, bale-wala ang TRO ng korte suprema, arestado at KULONG ang kalaban kahit walang ebidensya!!! HINDI RAW SILA NAKIKIALAM?

ON MAR ROXAS-MAYOR ROMUALDEZ ISSUE: SHORT or FULL version: the main issue is DID MAR SAY THESE? ?You are a Romualdez and the President is an Aquino.? ?If we cannot legalize [the turnover of authority to the national government], you?ll be in charge, we?ll help you, and that?s it, pero bahala na kayo sa buhay niyo.? SHORT CLIP OR FULL CLIP - YES HE DID! do you really "HAVE TO LEGALIZE HELPING PEOPLE? during calamities and disasters? or IS HELPING PEOPLE ILLEGAL? was it really necessary for him to act like A DEMIGOD who just descended from mt olympus hurling lightning bolts given by ZEUS SIMEON and SAY THIS IS NOT POLITICAL? sad to say that the whole world NOTICED that THERE WAS NO LIGHTNING SPEED involved in government's response after yolanda. IS THE WORLD LYING? ON NAME TAGGING, we SAY that an AQUINO will always be an AQUINO and ROXAS will always be a ROXAS versus the people of the philippines!

brilliantes on soce: another cheap ploy to divert negative palace stories and deteriorating pnoy approval ratings: record-high electricity and and gas prices; UN investigation on relief goods; UK on relief goods resale on malls; misuari escape; roxas-romualdez video; SC's decision on PDAF; plunging govt sws survey; and NSCB's report on increasing poverty. not to mention napoles/billion-pork issue.

ON POWER RATE HIKES AND OIL PUMP INCREASES:
DOE: with an annual budget of P4.3 BILLION (2013) and all they have to say is "OUR HANDS ARE TIED". why spend BILLIONS to keep saying this ONE-LINER all the time? samplers on what they do:

DOE to launch Net Metering guide book Dec 06, 2013
DOE to hold talk on safety and health in energy sector Dec 06, 2013
DOE to award top performers of energy efficiency in PH Dec 05, 2013
DOE to hold forum to boost energy investments in Dec 04, 2013
THIS IS INSANE!!

HEADLINE MLA BULLETIN: Palace defends power hike.

WOW! shouldn't the headline be PALACE QUESTIONS POWER HIKE? wala talaga tayong pag-asang TUMINO ang gobyernong ito!!!

MANILA TIMES - RICK RAMOS Issue on and lessons for Pnoy on super typhoon
I would say mahilig si pnoy sa turo turo. I haven't heard him at all take responsibility for anything, if at all, he would compare the old administration to his, to elevate his status, thinking that by pointing out the errors of the past, that would make him look better. tsk tsk tsk, we have a president who has never learned to grow up. I could imagine him as a boy saying "no, didn't' and the other sibling would say, "yes you did" and pnoy again, "no I didn't'. If you are the president of a country, finger pointing is so despicable.

PING LACSON AS REHAB CZAR RAISED MORE QUESTIONS: who's in-charge of rebuilding houses? ping, mar, or binay? will NDRRMC be placed under ping or gazmin? who will supervise PNP in the area? mar or ping who will be in-charged of rebuilding infrastructure? singson or ping? reconstruction of classrooms? ping or luistro? will the new agency be placed under the office of the president? where will his budget come from? from the supplemental budget shared with other line agencies or a separate one as created by an executive order? rehab of airport? ping or abaya? to whom will samar and leyte LGUs report? mar or ping? ...CLEAR AS MUD! akala namin mas matipid ang gobyernong ito? LUMOBO ang budget sa 3 taon, ANO ang NAIPAGAWA?

EXCELLENT READ Today Mon. Dec 2- In Mla Standard: F Tatad's "REBUILDING TACLOBAN, TRANSFORMING THE NATION"..."Even if no natural calamity had intervened, we would have to rebuild and relaunch the Phil. all the same after having Aquino in office for the last 3 years. He is  arguably the most divisive force the nation has seen in years. Thanks to him, the constitutional order is a wreck - the separation of powers and principle of checks and balances have gone out the window.  All political institutions are in disarray - Congress has been totally discredited, the Pres exposed as the primary corruptor of Congress... as the pork barrel and bribery had shown, the gov't has long failed in its basic duties." ... "Nat'l transformation will require changing not only the economic and political, but first and above all the moral structures." Pls pass.