Adobo’s photo of the day: Kathleen Marie Espina says goodbye

Adobo wonders what these “obvious” reasons are….

A challenge to our favorite Bipolar, Mr. Rommel Ynion

It all started when our favorite bipolar posted this.

But of course, the KSP bipolar needs his Mr. Sipsip. And lo, what’s this? Why is Rommel talking as if he is already paying child support and being nagged by women. This does not sound like a hypothetical scenario, don’t you think, adobo readers?

But the drama is not over. Mr. KSP’s bride to be joins the picture.

The Challenge: Mr. Rommel Ynion has claimed he has proofs that he is the one owed. But the person in question is ready to show proofs of the contrary. So, who is lying and who is telling the truth?

A very interesting development, don’t you think? This spicy old geezer is excited to see what will happen next.

Adobo’s interesting reads: Sen. Santiago is flattered

 

While our favorite bipolar is still pathetically lurking around adobo ilonggo’s posts being the ksp he is, this old geezer will share this interesting article:

Sen. Santiago: I’m flattered, but no, thanks

Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago is “flattered” at having been nominated for the position of Chief Justice.

But the 68-year-old former trial court judge is under no illusion that she would be chosen, mainly because she voted to acquit ousted Chief Justice Renato Corona at the Senate impeachment trial.

“President Aquino will not appoint me because I am in the doghouse,” she said in a phone interview.

“I voted for acquittal. I have zero prospect for appointment even if I am included in the JBC (Judicial and Bar Council) Top 3 (list),” she said.

Santiago and Senators Joker Arroyo and Ferdinand Marcos Jr. were the only three to vote for Corona’s acquittal, a position opposed to the desires of Malacañang.

The President had openly campaigned for Corona’s removal and got his wish when 20 senators voted to remove Corona for failing to disclose all his dollar and peso deposits in his statements of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN).

But more than her impeachment vote, Santiago said she could not accept the nomination because she has been elected to sit as a justice in the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

No-brainer

“That’s a no-brainer. I have no choice. I have to comply with my obligation because I was elected after a formal campaign led by the Philippine mission in New York. Naturally, the person who consents to be nominated for the ICC, in effect, makes a promise that she will serve if elected,” she said.

“I cannot possibly accept the Supreme Court nomination, although I am flattered,” she said.

Santiago also cited the unimpressive compensation of a chief justice and the “passive” nature of the judiciary as precluding her accepting the post if offered.

“Basically, the role of the justices is passive. You wait for a case. We are silenced in effect by becoming justices, so it’s not a role that I would relish,” she said.

“The good part, as far as my political enemies are concerned, is if I become Chief Justice or even just justice of the Supreme Court, that would effectively render me deaf and dumb,” she said.

Santiago said joining the judiciary would also mean that she would have to “take a vow of poverty.” She said the income of a chief justice paled in comparison with that of a senator.

Santiago was nominated to the highest judicial post by lawyer Victor del Rosario.

Santiago’s Senate colleague and law school classmate, Senator Franklin Drilon, was also nominated, but Drilon could not be reached for comment as of Wednesday. Drilon earlier said he was not interested in replacing Corona.

Santiago said she would prefer that Mr. Aquino appoint a female Chief Justice, a first in the country’s history, but not from among the incumbent female justices.

Mr. Aquino’s first appointee to the high tribunal is Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. Last December, some two weeks after Corona was impeached, the Palace said the President preferred a new Chief Justice in the mold of Sereno.

“I’m afraid that they have been lobbying already, that’s why I’m suspicious about them. They might have been pulling political strings and so on, so I would go for an outsider,” she said.

Santiago also expressed reservations over the large number of lawyers nominated. The number of nominees has ballooned to more than 60 as of Tuesday.

“Overweening ambition has become the prevailing discipline in the minds of lawyers,” said Santiago of the seeming mad rush for the top judicial post.

“You don’t consider anymore whether you have sufficient experience, background, or performance, much less achievement. They all just want to be Chief Justice,” she said.

Santiago also questioned the relevance of the Judicial and Bar Council, the constitutional body tasked to screen applications for judicial posts.

“I think that in the next Constitution, we should abolish the Judicial and Bar Council,” she said, adding that should there be a revision of the Constitution, the JBC’s job could be delegated to the Senate.

She said the creation of the JBC was meant to abolish politics in the selection process.

“As it turns out now, it has become a political body. There’s also politics being played out there. So it defeats the purpose for which it was created,” she said.

 

Photo of the day: And pathetic Ynion grows more pathetic

Adobo Ilonggo has no words to describe this. What about you, Adobo readers?

On how Rommel Ynion found true love

Ynion finds true love
After making broad hints about his plans to get married on his Facebook account, The News Today (TNT) Publisher Rommel S. Ynion yesterday confirmed that his marriage proposal was finally accepted by his bride-to-be’s father, Lito Espina.

“I’m happy to announce that I am tying the knot with my fiancee, Kathleen Espina, in December,” Ynion said.

Ynion said he and Kathleen have known each other for several years, and it was only earlier this year that he decided to pursue her hand in marriage. Both have travelled together abroad, including Hongkong and London, for a “period of deeper discovery,” he said.

“Kathleen knows me very well, and I, too, have come to know her,” Ynion said. The “magic moment” when he proposed to her a few months ago was almost spontaneous, he added.

Ynion said that at the age of 43, it is time for him to settle down and find a partner for life.

Ynion met with his fiancee and future father-in-law over dinner Thursday night to formally ask for her hand in the traditional “pamanhikan”. He admitted he was “nervous” and almost had to rely on a script to convey his desire to marry Kathleen, he said.

“I realized that all the financial success in life I achieved did not prepare me for this moment,” he said. “I was almost tongue-tied,” he added.

Ynion declined to answer questions about politics. “My mind is singularly focused on getting married,” he said.

Espina’s engagement ring

Getting married has never entered his mind during the last two decades as he struggled to overcome poverty in his late teens, worked as a journalist and then as a businessman, he said.

“I realized that no amount of success in business or profession can make you complete unless you have a wife to constantly give you love and comfort, and then raise a family,” he said.

Ynion turned Iloilo politics upside-down since last year after severing his brief friendship with City Mayor Jed Patrick E. Mabilog and waging a crusade against corruption in the Iloilo City Hall.

There are speculations that Ynion might team up with former Justice Secretary Raul M. Gonzalez and former LWUA administrator Lorenzo “Larry” Jamora in mounting a serious challenge to the incumbents, Mabilog and Rep. Jerry P. Trenas.

Ynion said the issue about politics “will resolve itself at the right moment” shortly before the period for the filing of certificates of candidacy on Oct. 1-5, 2012 with the Commission on Elections.*

Adobo Ilonggo Thoughts: His fiancee’s ring looks suspiciously like Princess Diana and Duchess Kate’s engagement ring. My teenage granddaughter and I wonder if it is a knock off or not. See a link of the original engagement ring here. 

Any thoughts, Adobo readers?

“Sammy, lie for me please,” says Rommel Ynion

So, how many times does one have to repeat a lie? When Rommel Ynion went to the States about three weeks ago, he told people that he was going to enroll at Stanford University Graduate Program to pursue his Masters Degree in Economics. Well, Adobo Ilonggo’s fans exposed that as a lie because there is no way Mafioso Rommel Ynion, pathetic, trying hard intellectual could make it because one has to have an undergrad degree in Stanford itself to qualify for its master’s program in Economics.

But no, no, no, ladies and gentlemen, he has to repeat a lie through one Sammy Julian, a Panay News correspondent in Malacanang. So, Sammy, upon the orders of his boss, Danny “Estafador” Fajardo, writes about Rommel enrolling for his Master’s Degree. And then, faster than you can say, “smuggler!” Rommel Ynion is back in Iloilo City when he was supposed to be enrolling. What kind of lying expertise do you guys have? Here is Sammy’s liar of a column and right below it, is a link to Stanford’s requirements for a Master’s Degree in Economics.

Master's in Lying at Stanford University or was it the Nelson Ramirez School of Hard Knocks?

 

http://economics.stanford.edu/graduate/graduate-degree-program/masters-degree

Requirements—A master’s program must satisfy these criteria:

1. Completing, at Stanford, at least 45 units of credit beyond those required for the bachelor’s degree, of which at least 40 units must be in the Department of Economics. Students must complete ECON 202 and at least three other 200-level courses. They must receive a grade of ‘B-’ or better in ECON 202. Undergraduate courses must be numbered 105 or higher. No seminar courses numbered 300 or above can be counted.
2. Demonstrating competence in empirical methodology by receiving a grade of ‘B-’ or better in both ECON 270 and 271, or by receiving a grade of ‘B-’ or above in each of ECON 102A, B, and C.
3. Submitting two term papers (or a thesis of sufficient quality). At least one of these papers must be deemed to represent graduate-level work. Normally, this means that it is written in connection with a 200-level course. A maximum of ten units of credit can be earned for a thesis toward the 45-unit degree requirement.
4. A grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 must be maintained for all master’s level work. All courses must be taken for a letter grade.

Any exceptions to the above requirements must be approved in advance by the Director of Graduate Study.