Another Stone For The Orifice

6.      Another Stone for the Orifice

Demagoguery was a very new word for me, but what struck me more about it is that it was one of the first highfalutin word Arroyo used during her interview with GMA 7’s Arnold Clavio. It was also the first time we saw Arroyo without her neck brace, which revealed her scar from the previous operation.

A demagogue is a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power and admiration.

Arroyo claims that Aquino is using demagoguery to “linlangin” or deceive people and turn them away from his failures in alleviating the country out of the more important issues of poverty, unemployment, among others.

What a fancy word. It makes me wonder this time what would be a suitable word to describe what Arroyo’s camp is doing just to avoid being confined in an ordinary jail cell just like all the other detainees out there….and keeps on injecting their “house arrest” proposal instead. Who are they to make demands, and complain vigorously if they are denied?

Going Mental

4.   Going Mental

Elena Bautista Horn shouts "It's mental torture!", as former president and now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's grandchildren were not allowed to use an ipod inside the Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC) Presidential Suite. The children were there to visit Arroyo a few days after her transfer from the St. Luke’s Medical Center (SLMC).

After not being allowed to use mobile phones, laptops, TVs, radios, and other electronic media and communication devices, Horn is now again furious about the strict observance of the same restrictions to the visiting families, relatives and guests of Arroyo.

Horn is really out of her mind! I think Horn needs to be reminded that Arroyo is in detention in a government hospital, and not on vacation.

Len and Dato Inspects VMMC

Ocular Inspection

Congressman Diosdao “Dato” Arroyo, son of former President and now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal Arroyo,  and Elena Bautista-Horn, Arroyo's spokesperson, conducted an ocular inspection of the Presidential Suite at the Veterans’ Memorial Medical Center. They were also accompanied by the former leader’s doctors from the St. Luke's Medical Center.

Arroyo and Horn arrived at the VMMC past 10:00 a.m. and entered the 150 square meter hospital suite. The two agreed that the room was quite alright but they pointed out a problem with the reclining hospital bed. "It was manual, former President Gloria would have a hard time readjusting the position of the bed. "We would require it to be replaced by an automatic model instead.  Arroyo is very sick already. Do you want her to acquire another illness because of that damn bed?.....W-wait, .....erase that thought,..... the manual bed would be appropriate already".

Put The Little Girl To Sleep

Operation “Put The Little Girl To Sleep”

From neck brace and Minerva vest support, to loss of appetite and diarrhea, to inflammation of the large intestine,..... I wondered a few days ago what will they think of next just to fish for sympathy and avoid being taken into a detention cell? I thought the next possible scenario when they ran out of illnesses, rare diseases and legal remedies, was going to be “possession by a foreign evil spirit” and their excuse to leave the country would be “To consult an exorcist abroad who could speak and understand the foreign evil's language”.

I was definitely wrong.