FINALLY on Monday, April 12, President Duterte talked to the nation via his regular televised “Talk to the People Address”, and the usual suspects were terribly disappointed. They were so hopeful that maybe he was indeed sick.
To add to the discomfort of the “devotees to the cult of the yellow ribbon” squirming in their Marks and Spencer knickers, President Duterte – alive and as obnoxious as ever – added salt to their already bleeding hearts by saying on national television something like this: “You have to pray harder if you want me to die.”
I suppose the god of these “wokes”, social climbers, pseudo communists and the rest of the three percent was not listening. Or perhaps they do need to pray harder; perhaps offer a virgin as a sacrifice. Leni Robredo would certainly not qualify as the “virgin sacrifice”, but it looks like Noynoy Aquino just might still qualify.
All the hours spent analysing the pictures from all angles of President Duterte sitting in a room with Sen. Bong Go, playing night golf, jogging at night and riding a motorcycle simply went to waste as he is still very much alive to taunt them, and they’ll still wake up the morning after to a Duterte presidency.
As expected, they fell for it. President Duterte has been baiting the usual suspects and again they made fools of themselves.
Come to think of it, the people most concerned and affected by President Duterte’s “little hide and seek game” were the usual suspects, you know, the three percent. It seems they could not make it through the day without seeing him.
The coincidence is uncanny. The very same people blaming MORE Power for the power interruption caused by the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines’ scheduled preventive maintenance are also blaming President Duterte for the surge in COVID-19 cases in the country. Stupidity is really contagious.
While we’re on the subject of the pandemic, former Department of Health secretary now Iloilo 1st District representative Janette Garin has this to say on the “compassionate” grant on Ivermectin: “Political, not medical.” And I agree with her.
And speaking of Leni Robredo, according to the Constitution, the Vice President of the Philippines, unless appointed by the President to a cabinet post, has really no official function except to wait for the President to die or be incapacitated. Meaning. whoever holds that office is basically non-essential, a glorified and expensive spare tire so to speak.
Meanwhile, those idiots that want to go to war with China over an obvious publicly stunt by franchise-less ABS-CBN…by all means please go ahead but exclude us sensible ones and the rest of the country.
These people, or idiots if you may, are also the ones glorifying “Lapu-Lapu” (no not the fish) as the first Filipino to resist foreign invaders. Take note that before 1543 there was no Philippines so Magellan was not killed by Filipinos but by inhabitants of the island of Mactan.
So what’s “Groovin on a Friday afternoon”? Aside from the fact that today is a Friday, it’s just my spinoff of the 1960s’ “blue-eyed soul” and R&B hit “Groovin”.
“Groovin” is a single released in 1967 by “blue-eyed soul” and R&B group the Young Rascals that became a No. 1 hit and one of the group’s signature songs. Written by group members Felix Cavaliere and Eddie Brigati and with a lead vocal from Cavaliere, it is a slow, relaxed groove, based on Cavaliere’s newfound interest in Afro-Cuban music.
The instrumentation of the song includes a conga, a Cuban-influenced bass guitar line from session musician Chuck Rainey, and a harmonica part, performed first for the single version by New York session musician Michael Weinstein, and later for the album version by Gene Cornish.
And just to get the feel of the song here are some lines from “Groovin”:
There’s always lots of things that we can see
We can be anyone we like to be
And all those happy people we could meet just
Groovin’ on a Sunday afternoon
Really couldn’t get away too soon…(brotherlouie16@gmail.com)/PN
