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Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago has suffered another hypertension attack after talking about Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile in a TV interview Wednesday.

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Quoting the senator’s ophthalmologist Dr. Rodolfo Chuanico, Santiago’s staff confirmed Santiago suffered hypertension, which led to blood clots around her pupil.
They claimed Santiago’s blood pressure shot up to 190/115 after discussing in a TV interview Enrile’s “unconstitutional and unethical” Christmas gifts, worth P2-million in public funds, to every senator.

“After the TV show, Santiago stayed for photos with the TV staff, her right eye noticeably red, and with red blood clots around the pupil,” the statement added.
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After missing the first four days of the impeachment trial due to hypertension, Santiago saw to it that she arrived …
“Apparently, Santiago developed hypertension… At this writing the nurse is contacting Dr. Esperanza Cabral, a cardiologist, who is Santiago’s personal physician,” it added.

During the interview, Santiago became agitated as she accused Enrile of personally attacking her about her frequent illness, which she said is “not allowed in decent society.”

During the impeachment trial last year, Santiago skipped several sessions due to hypothyroidism and hypertension.

She has been advised to rest her eye and continue with her hypertensive medication, the staff said.



yahoo news:
source: http://ph.news.yahoo.com/miriam-suffers-hypertension-after-talking-about-enrile-105709840.html

Santiago on Enrile: He should never have been Senate president

http://youtu.be/ErjkXfgVL7g

at least dito nabulgar yung pinagggawa ni mister seyneyt prisidint

Hmm, dapat magpastimsil gid upod si Miryam...

Isuga kaayo oy. Ilongga Gid...

mudslinging galore aka word war among members of our august chamberpot

miriam said (alleged) of enrile:

enrile plundered; he should explain his role in the disappearances of opponents of the marcos regime; he funded coup attempts against president corazon aquino although he was cory’s defense secretary in her administration; he had a personal agenda when he played a role in the overthrow of marcos because he hoped that he would replace him; his admission that the ambush staged on him on the eve of martial law declaration in september 1972, took place but was not faked in memoir which contradicted a statement he made when he defected from the marcos dictatorship in february 1986

enrile said (alleged) of miriam: 

whatever wealth he had was the result of his private law practice before he joined the government, which could not be true of santiago, whose income was derived from government service; santiago had some explaining to do as she had worked for ambassador kokoy romualdez, brother of imelda marcos; santiago had hated him ever since he refused her confirmation as agrarian reform secretary because when she was a judge she was caught driving a car seized by her husband who was then working at customs

miriam said (alleged) of lacson:

one of enrile’s attack dogs is not a lawyer, but is pretending to be one, and that is why that senator keeps on calling on santiago to shut up; just because they are senators, they think of their immediate knowledge of the entire universe, of the legal system; he does not even have a clue about the principle of exhaustion of administrative remedies; he was involved in a court case, and he turned tail and became a fugitive from justice, which is a criminal behavior; that is what you get when a layman filled with hubris pretends to be a lawyer

lacson said (alleged) of miriam: 

she is a ‘crusading crook’; she pretends to be clean when she is not; she is a “hypocrite par excellence” who “doesn’t have a single shred of integrity in her veins and moral ascendancy over any mortal on earth; she should stop tirade against enrile because she still got her additional MOOE in november but did not raise a howl; he wants the commission on audit to look into the senators disbursement of funds so the commission will know who has a husband and housemaids under their senate budget's pay and rent for a satellite office in one's own building; he added that he would take on santiago’s challenge for all senators to bare their income, other perks and actual expenses if santiago herself would take the lead in doing so; anyone can ask people who have fallen victim to her verbal threats and assaults and they will tell you how much they shelled out (for her to stop); advised Santiago to “do some soul-searching and self-reflection and to stop blaming god for all her hurt feelings



-info and images from various internet news releases

THE SENATE.  It's more fun in the Philippines.

but there are actually parliaments that still beat us to it.


Sunday, January 20, 2013

Fisticuffs In The Ukrainian Parliament

Fistfights broke out in Ukraine's new parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, in successive sessions on December 12 and 13, as opposition lawmakers tried to block access to the podium following disputed elections and rumors of defections poisoning the air.

http://www.rferl.org/

October 2011:


Stress getting to Italian politicians

Italian parliamentarians literally went at each others’ throats as tense negotiations over severe new austerity reforms boiled over into a governmental brawl Wednesday.

Deputies from the Northern League, part of the ruling coalition, fought with members from the opposition FLI party of speaker Gianfranco Fini, grabbing each other by the throat as other party members rushed to break up the fight, Reuters reported from Rome. (Photo: Ansa/Giuseppe Lami/Reuters)

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/

November, 2011:


Rep. Kim Seon-dong, bottom, of the opposition Democratic Labor Party, explodes tear gas in front of the speaker's chair to block National Assembly Vice Speaker Chung Eui-hwa, center, from pushing for the procedure to handle a pending bill on ratification of a South Korea-U.S. free trade agreement at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011. South Korea's parliament ratified a long-stalled free trade deal with the United States on Tuesday after ruling party lawmakers forced a vote amid shouts and shoves from opposition rivals. / AP Photo/Yonhap

http://www.cbsnews.com/

November, 2011:


Sri Lankan opposition and government legislators exchange blows during a parliament session when President Mahinda Rajapaksa delivered the government's 2012 budget proposals in Colombo on November 21, 2011. Sri Lanka announced a surprise three percent depreciation of the country's rupee against a basket of currencies in a move to boost the country's export competitiveness. / AFP/Getty Images

http://www.cbsnews.com/

May, 2011:


An unprecedented fight broke out between fellow Kuwaiti MPs on the floor of parliament on in early May, 2011. Gulf News reports that "the fight broke out after a heated exchange of accusations between lawmakers over remarks made about the Kuwaitis detained at Guantanamo Bay. The session was debating the status of the detainees when MP Husain Al Gallaf said that they were 'terrorists.'" / Twitter, via user @Sh3aaiB

http://www.cbsnews.com/

August, 2010:


Parliamentary brawl, Somalia

http://forum.xcitefun.net/

Quote from: islander on January 20, 2013, 05:10:17 PM

Ah, democracy is alive and kicking...

the most notorious brawling parliament: taiwan, with 5 brawls from 2004-2007 alone.  this excludes brawls before and after this 3-year period. 

The Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China (Taiwan) is probably the most notable example of legislative violence today. In the history of the Legislative Yuan, numerous violent acts have occurred during parliamentary sessions. It is popularly referred locally as "Legislative Brawling". In 1995, the Legislative Yuan was presented with the Ig Nobel Prize Peace Award, for "demonstrating that politicians gain more by punching, kicking and gouging each other than by waging war against other nations." (wikipedia)

Pan-blue legislators try to retrieve their direct links proposal after Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Wang Shu-hui, center, stuffed it in her mouth.

-from various internet sources

he he he, its amazing to observe the heights of human desperation.