In his 10/11/14 Philippine Star column (p. 10), Alexander the Great branded Mercado as a weaver of lies when Mercado’s claim that “the cakes the city gives out to its senior citizens was overpriced 300%” (p.s. if the star with its pool of proofreaders could overlook a dis-agreement between subject and predicate, similar lapses on the part of another writer should be remissible), was “confronted with documentation showing the cakes to be priced lower than similar products commercially available." This refutation is another example of a negative pregnant: it does not deny something even as it denies one thing. Reports have also been that the cake-providers is actually a Binay, the registration of the business in the name of another notwithstanding. So. While Mercado was guessing on the price, as Magno writes, this would not rule out the claim that a Binay is the baker. Also, the other similar products may be highly priced, but this would not rule out overprice on the Binay bread if the ingredients in the other similar products were more expensive, their bakers better paid, and their business more snooty and French sounding like, le cake le cours, hence, more expensive.
PROPER FORUM FOR WHOM? (Or why a lawyer should or should not attend investigations) Part Two10/15/2014
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