Please don’t think I’m the Anti-Cupid, but I usually don’t go out to eat on Feb. 14. Valentine’s Day is the second-busiest day of the year for restaurants, which makes it the dining-out equivalent of shopping at the mall on the Saturday before Christmas. And while that can be fun, it can also be unpleasantly busy and crowded.
A Valentine’s Day bonus? A week into the new year, many public school teachers are still waiting to get their full P10,000 Christmas bonus for 2009, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) said Tuesday.
President Obama laid blame Saturday on an al-Qaeda affiliate for a Christmas Day terrorist attack that has prompted a top-to-bottom review of how the nation’s intelligence agencies failed to prevent the botched bombing aboard a Detroit-bound airliner.
President Obama pledged Saturday that the United States will hold accountable all of the individuals involved in the failed Christmas Day terrorist attack aboard a U.S.-bound jetliner.
It was not a traditional Christmas Eve gathering, according to a Montgomery County police account filed this week.