Cleaning up PCSO not Sandra Cam’s job

No matter how advanced and sophisticated some countries may be in terms of their thinking, let’s not emulate them when it comes to same-sex marriage.

Same-sex unions are just against nature. Even animals with their lower form of thinking follow nature’s way.

Retired Marine Gen. Alexander Balutan, Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) general manager, stopped newcomer Sandra Cam dead in her tracks over her statement that she would clean up the agency.

Cam’s work as a PCSO board member, according to Balutan, is limited to policymaking.

Cleaning up the agency is his job, Balutan said.

Supalpal is a Tagalog word that appropriately describes Cam who was stopped right where she stood.

In basketball, supalpal can also refer to a basketball player who was prevented from making a shot.

Balutan is as clean as most of his fellow Marines, the reason President Digong appointed him to the PCSO.

I once talked to a Marine colonel who was in Marawi City during the intense fighting.

During a lull in the shooting, the Marines caught some policemen looting abandoned houses and turned them over to their commanders, the colonel said.

The cop-looters were never punished or even reprimanded, he added.

Marines are capable of many acts of mischief in the battlefield but never of looting the bodies of slain enemies or abandoned houses, he said.

“Stealing is not in our nature, sir,” he told this columnist.

The colonel’s statement is backed by the much-publicized return of P50 million in cold cash by a Marine platoon which found the money in an abandoned house in Marawi City during the months-long siege.

Vice Adm. Ronald Joseph Mercado, Navy Flag Officer in Command, was sacked because he took out huge amounts of money from his bank account, according to a very reliable source.

The money had something to do with the Navy’s weapons system procurement plan, the source claimed.

In sacking Mercado, El Presidente shows he’s serious in fighting corruption.

If he looks closely within his circle of close advisers, his firing mood may be set off yet again.

People in 80 cities and towns in Central and Northern Luzon will have a stinking Christmas and New Year because of mountains of uncollected garbage.

All because the municipal council of Bamban, Tarlac has passed a resolution disallowing the use of its road by garbage trucks on their way to and from the landfill located within the 9,450-hectare Clark Economic Zone.

The council was reportedly influenced by a barangay captain who owns a small construction company which is interested in acquiring a contract to build a 5.5-kilometer road from the main highway to Clark.