You have probably seen it on CNN by now.  A group of around 30 marines stormed into the beautiful Manila Pen Hotel, one of our most frequent spots for quiet meetings, and called for a press conference to demand the resignation of President Arroyo for corruption.   Her government responded with tear gas, 1,500 police and soldiers and by ramming an armored personnel carrier right through the front doors and into the grand lobby.  Gunfire, smoke–craziness.  This was a minor event that should have been talked out.  Press and guests were everywhere.  Tensions are just so high now.   Many in the military want her out and she is determined to stay.  (remember the Clinton years?) Jessica and Brooke had a rugby game nearby which was cancelled.  We’ve been having a tropical storm for a week anyway.The city is under a curfew after the mutineers intimated that events like theirs will now start to occur all over the city in the following days.  I guess it’s the frog in the kettle syndrome, but people here just roll with things like this.  Nobody is rattled or nervous.  It’s such a huge city with as many people as two states of Georgia combined and there are over a dozen little worlds with a million people in each pocket so most of us don’t go too far from our zones anyway.  We live 12 miles from the event which was a mile from the radio station again.  (We are very centrally located and when we get our Manila voice we will have so much influence from that positioning.)  Just keep praying, ok?