Roach ill-equipped defense plan blames on Pacquiao's Loss

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

Manny Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach was to be blamed why Manny Pacquiao was knocked down in the 3rd Round and Knocked out cold faced down on the canvas by Juan Manuel Marquez when they fought for their quadrilogy at MGM Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada in December 9,  2012.

Consummate boxing trainer Floyd Mayweather, Sr has been right all the way when he kept mocking Roach how he  trained Pacquiao. He said Freddie did not teach Manny some defenses.
Because of it Manny has paid for its consequences when he bumped on  a solid "God knows how powerful it was" right straight punch of Marquez whose impacted was aided by the forced of his torso and left leg.

I said here: "Roach has lost on his five recent marquee bouts where all of his defense ill-equipped wards have been defeated. Lamont Peterson defeated Roach’s ward Amir Khan, Danny Garcia knocked-out Khan, Tim Bradley defeated Pacquiao, Sergio Martinez defeated Roach's ward Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr., and Marquez “hit with a sledge hammer “ Pacquiao." In Manny's multi-million of U.S dollars outing with Marquez late next year, Roach should not only spruce up the defense of his ward but conditioned him to the helm that he can absorbed power punches everytime he is being hit. Remember Oscar dela Hoya biting by pushing up and down a rope that carries iron weights to buttress his chin and jaw?

Taga-M'lang sings "Just Once"

U.S Election 101

By Gabriel Ortigoza, Ph.D

 United States' presidential election happens every four years. Americans vote by mail or by personally going to the precints. This year's election is scheduled on Tuesday, November 6, 2012.
There are six candidates vying for presidency. The most famous candidates are the incumbent president Barrack Obama of the Democratic Party and Mitt Romney of the Republican Party. Please go with me as I navigate you through the process of electing a U. S. president. It starts with registerered voters casting their votes.
Any candidate who gets majority of votes wins the election in that state. However, U.S. election is not as simple as popularity contest where a candidate who get majority of the votes is the sure winner. U.S. presidential election is a little bit more complicated than popularity contest.
 There are 50 states in the U.S. and each state is assigned electoral votes. There are a total of 538 electoral votes. These electoral votes are combination of the total number of congressional representatives of each state plus two U.S. senators coming from that state plus three electoral votes from Washington D.C. There are a total of 100 U.S. senators.
The magic number to win the election is 270. U.S. territories like Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam and Mariana Islands are not included in the presidential election.
However, U. S. citizen around the world and those servicemen deployed overseas and in the space can send their votes via mail or e-mail. Let me give you an example. California, my home state, has 53 congressional districts represented by a congressman per district and has two U.S. senators. Based on that number we have to add the total numbers of congressmen and the U.S. senators from that state to get the number of electors.
California therefore has 55 electoral votes which is the highest number of votes among all states in the U.S. California has 38 million population. One million of which are Filipino-Americans. Texas, the largest state in terms of land area, has 39 electoral votes.
 Winning 26 out of 50 states is not a guarrantee to win the election. A candidate must have at least 270 electoral votes to get the most envied post on earth. Whoever wins the presidential election shall be sworn in on January 20th the following year. Good luck to all and God bless America. (gabbyortig@yahoo.com)

EPIDEMYA SA M’LANG

BY MARIO MA-AYA

Father Rene (Red Shirt)

PANU BANDIOLA

MARIO MA-AYA

PANG-GO MANAOIS

A Doctor in M'lang talking with Panu Bandiola, Mario Ma-aya, and Kurt (Pang-go) Manaois - all talented sons of M'lang: 

DOCTOR: Nga -a naga hubag ang imo ti-il, Panu ? 

PANU: Nasipa ko ang bungtod , doc.

 DOCTOR : Ikaw imo Mario nga-a nag dako ang imo bibig?

 MARIO: Nag dupla lang ako Doc sa bungtod, amo na ini ang natabo.

 DOCTOR: Ikaw Pang-go alias Kurt Manaois, nga-a naga dali ka malakat, diin ka makadto? 

PANG-GO’: Sa bungtod, doc. Mangi-hi lang ako! 

PRUSISYON SA M’LANG

 PARI SA M’LANG: Ang mga lalaki sunod kamo sa Santo ni San Jose, ang mga bayi sa karo ni Mama Mary! 

MGA BAKLA: Kami Father di-in kami masunod sa parade?

 PARI: Mga biga-on upod kamo sa akon, sa tung-nga kita sang parade para bong-ga ! 

  SINO INA SIYA?

CRIMINAL : Father gapa-ngayo ako sa imo sang kapatawaran sang mga gin himo ko nga sala.
PARI: Ano ang mga nahimo mo toto, ihamba!
CRIMINAL: Father, gina patay ko tanan nga naga tu-o sa Dios, kamo naga-tu-o ba kamo sa Dios, Father?
PARI: Dios, sino ina siya?

BADING at CANNIBAL

Q: Ano ang difference ng BADING at CANNIBAL?
A: Ang CANNIBAL kuma-kain ng KA-URI, ang BADING kuma-kain ng KA-ARI !

BADING NASA MEATSHOP

BADING: Pabili nga ng 1 whole German sausage
TINDERA: Chop-chopin ko na?
BADING: Wag!! Anong kala mo sa puwet ko alkansiya? !

Taga-Mlang Analyzes Senatorial Bets

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Senatorial race survey's top notch Sen.Chiz Escudero with the author

The author with Liberal Party's senatorial bet Bam Aquino (2nd from Right)

Cynthia Villar flanked by Mayor Nap Sales of Manaoag and the author.

By MARIO MA-AYA and MARCELO ORTIGOZA

Senatorial bet Cynthia Villar was within ranks 15 to 22 of the Pulse Asia’s July 27-30, 2012 survey. But on its latest August 31 to September 7, 2012 poll, Villar was in No. 11, a winner in the senate's Magic 12 in case election was held during that period. Why she was able boost her stock to No. 11, eight months before the May 13, 2013 Election? Was it because of her aggressive multi-million of peso a week TV ads "Mrs. HanepBuhay" of the Villar Foundation she played with regularity at two major stations ABS-CBN and GMA-7? Or was it about her connection with political leaders in the provinces that she barnstormed a year or more before the start of the campaign period in February 12, 2013 for senatorial candidates? In the 44 towns and four cities strong Pangasinan alone, one of the rich vote’s province in the Philippines, she built ties with most mayors through political kingmaker Rosendo So, the powerful chair of Abono Partly-list and the patrons of many of these mayors, where the latter “herded” to her consultation – meetings up to thousands of their leaders and supporters.
 ***
In the last outing of Villar in Pangasinan less than a month before the latest Pulse Asia's poll, she was seen exhorting the crowd at a gym in the pilgrim town Manaoag to understand her being late as she just arrived at an on airport in Manila that morning from consultations with people in North Cotabato and General Santos a day before and after she helicopter-hopped to Mangaldan and Malasiqui just to meet her engagements. After she told her projects and advocacy in “Manpower on Wheels,” a mobile livelihood program providing training in employable skills. She explained to them how she utilizes the once-irksome water lilies that clogged the river, her planting of bamboo on the river banks, and the collection and processing of kitchen and household wastes that produced fertilizer, handicrafts (from bags to slippers, table napkins, blankets, the famous Las Piñas Christmas lanterns, coconets and coconut soy, among other. She told them too that the 1,500 sacks of organic fertilizer produced out of kitchen wastes in Las Piñas households find their way to other provinces? The residents of Malasiqui became excited after she invited them (same invitations to the folks of other towns) to visit her residence through a free bus rides back and forth,free meals "kahit ilang beses kayo kuma-in doon sa bahay namin", and a chance to watch for free the nighttime show Will Time Big Time at TV-5 hosted by famous actor Willy Revillami and her daughter Camille.
***
If Villar, the wife of outgoing Senator Manny Villar, rubbed elbows with So and former Congressman Conrad Estrella, the scion of the illustrious Estrella clan in Pangasinan, Bam Aquino, the cousin of President Aquino, was seen in Dagupan City as a guest in a press conference. This, after he graced a retailer convention in Region 1 which thousands of people attended through the request of Liberal Party mayoralty bet Belen Fernandez, a chain of malls czarina in the humongous Pangasinan. Bam, sporting his eye glasses, is a dead ringer of his uncle Ninoy. He also shrieked and spoke in his speech mostly in Pilipino and infectiously laughed like Pangasinan Liberal Party’s gubernatorial bet Hernani Braganza, the incumbent mayor of Alaminos City. If he looks like Ninoy and oozes with a lovable demeanor, how does he fares with policy making question thrown at him by some members of the Fourth Estate? One of them was my poser: “Boss Bam, your advocacy on micro-entrepreneur enhancement program you promoted to the hoi-polloi is laudable, but I am skeptical of its success because many Filipinos are unemployed they do not have money to spend. My first question: What is your take to the observation that there are not much jobs here in the country because foreign investors preferred Vietnam, Indonesia, and China where they can own 100 percent ownership of lands and business there? My second question: What is your thought on the prohibitive power rate in the Philippine, one of the most expensive in the world, which deters foreign investors to come in because it undermines the cost of their products?” Bam, chairperson of the National Youth Commission, and currently the President of MicroVentures, Inc., told me that my question goes to the amendment of the 60-40 percent equity (that favors Filipino entrepreneur) in the Constitution. “In the next three years, amendment in the Constitution is not yet feasible,” the son of Paul Aquino, the youngest brother of the late Senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr., declared. He explained that despite the imbalance of equity, foreign investors still flock to the country, “our country now is the number one destination of foreign investments,” he said. His answer on how to solve the prohibitive price of power was for the government to check it out.
***
 Since I was the last among the 12 individuals given the chance to ask, I did not rebut what Aquino answered. I just told him to read my blog so he knows how the media sized him up. His answer that amendment or ratification of the Constitution is not feasible yet was politically smart and safe. Majority of the Filipinos saw with suspicion any public official espousing for the tinkering of the Constitution. His stance is the same with his cousin President Aquino. But for me, amendment of the economic provisions of the Constitution is long overdue if we want to salvage ourselves from the morass of poverty in the East Asian Region. Without 100 percent come-on and competitive perks given to investors here and abroad, we have to contend with the present 2.814 million and growing unemployed Filipinos
***
. On his statement that the country is a No. 1 destination of foreign direct investment, he and his handlers should take a look what the World Bank rates our country in terms of the monies in US dollar poured by foreign investors in years 2010 and 2011: Philippines Year 2010: $ 1.29 Billion Year 2011:$ 1. 262 Billion
 Malaysia Year 2010: 9.1Billion Year 2011: 10.77  Billion
 Indonesia Year 2010:13.7 Billion Year 2011: 18.1 Billion
Vietnam Year 2010: 8 Year Billion 2011: (Data Unavailable) Thailand Year 2010: 9.678 Billion Year 2011: (Data Unavailable)
 ***
 On the power rates, Aquino could not give a detailed and persuasive answer to it because the answer to the atrocious prices of power in the country is to put more players (especially foreigners because we have less cash-a- washed local investors) in the power industries. But since a coal plant or nuclear plant (the latter runs around P80 billion a piece) runs to billions of pesos, there are not enough investors who can offer competitive prices unless the government change the present 60-40 percent ownership equity that discriminate foreigners on the power industries. Oh by the way, in the latest August 24-27 Business World-SWS survey Bam was in No. 17 with 20 percent of the respondents who favored to vote for him in case election would be held on that period. But his down-to-earth and charismatic demeanor could help jack-up his electoral stocks eight months before the "D-Day". (Note: Next issue would be Cynthia Villar’s stance on 100 percent foreign ownership of business in the Philippines after I interviewed her in Pangasinan) ***
 Mayor Arman Domantay of Malasiqui, Pangasinan hailed Senator Francis ”Chiz” Escudero and Abono Party-List chairman Rosendo So for the half-a-million pesos allocation each ( yes Virginia, “each”) to the 44 towns in Pangasinan. Susmariosep, this is a staggering sum of P235 million that would have been taken from the P1.2 billion Pork Barrel or Priority Development Assistance Fund of Chiz in his six years stint as solon. Complemented by dashing looks, good, er, excellent performances in the August Chamber, and millions of wherewithal's at his disposal, now I know why the Marlboro white ciggie-smoking Chiz is the perennial top notch every time there is a scientific survey commissioned in the country.) (You can read my selected intriguing but thought-provoking columns at http://mortzortigoza.blogspot.com. You can send comments too at totomortz@yahoo.com).

Ng-a mi Naga -Da-ug kag Nagaka-Pierdi sa Eleksiyon?

BY MARCELO C. ORTIGOZA, JR.

According to a political operator I bumped into recently, running in public office is not for the faint hearted. After the filing of candidacy in October 1 to 5, he said, financial matters come to the bets.
 He said a congressional or mayoralty candidate who challenges an incumbent mayor would deal with the following: Every week, the candidate would have an average of five invitations for him to stand as godfather in a wedding.
He has to shell-out an average donation of P3, 000 to each pair of the couple, or P15, 000 a week if there are five pairs of them, or P60,000 a month or P420,000 up to the May 13, 2013 poll. He said the bet has to deal too with solicitations from fiesta and basketball leagues where the latter mercilessly fleece all the candidates they caught to bankroll their uniform, shoes, and even their socks.
 “Wala na silang paki-alam kahit magdoble-doble na ang sapatos o medyas nila,” he said.
“If a candidate is a newbie who wanted to impress the community, he will ask the solicitor how much the incumbent congressman or mayor shell-out in every fiesta. If they retort that the incumbent gives P5,000, the new candidate will showboat by giving P10, 000 to double the amount.
***
Another all seasoned mayor told me that it is tough call colliding with an incumbent mayor.
 The incumbent, he said, uses the town or city’s social fund and his payola of an average of P20,000 (for a town) and P40,000 (for a city) daily from illegal game jueteng , and his cut from whatever government contract’s his hand can lay on. “Iyong kalaban iyong hinuhugot niya ay sariling pera niya.”
 The mayor said it’s a blow and a shame if an incumbent, with all the trappings his position gives him, loses to the challenger. He said that those bets that lose and did not circulate in the community in the three hiatus years before they file their candidacy would surely lose again.
 “When I lost, I did not stop giving dole-outs to solicitors (hospital and funeral bills, rice, bail, games), I did not cease going to wake, I did not stop standing as godfather in weddings”.
 He said he could do all of these because he has a booming business.
When he challenged again his opponent who defeated him in the last poll he won. “My opponent lost because he was an elitist”.
 ***
The supporter of a mayor told me that wherever his boss is, either he was drinking, gambling, or meeting with somebody, any of his needy constituents can still go to him and beg for help. “I gave eagerly what they wanted without chiding them unlike my opponent who immediately rebuffs the solicitor that they are barred coming to his place because he bought their votes when he ran for office,” the mayor said. Another mayor in his neighboring town agreed what the hizzoner told me.
 “That’s the human touch, added by tapping at the back of the Unwashed of the Society who are in dire need, that wins election,” he whispered to me.
 ***

 Are Dagupan City re-electionist Mayor Benjamin S. Lim and vice-mayoralty tandem Alex Siapno up for a tough fight in the May 13, 2013 polls? According to Dagupan City councilor Karlos Reyna, for the first time the three big families of Dagupan -- Reynas, Manaois, and Fernandezes with the support of the de Venecias have locked arms together behind the mayoralty and vice mayoralty bids of Belen Fernandez and Michael Fernandez.
Would these big guns enough to snare the votes at the expense of Benjie? Or would these big families’ cooperation be tested by the mettle, genius, and shrewdness of Lim in a Battle Royale that many political spectators likened to the Normandy Landing.
 ***
A town mayor in Pangasinan said Governor Amado T. Espino could no longer use the spruced up swanky Capitol in Lingayen town and the renovated provincial hospitals spread all over Pangasinan as his vote getting come-on. “Gasgas na iyon (They are worn-out),” he quipped.
He said voters would no longer buy it since Espino has used it emphatically when he sought re-election in 2010.
 “The issue (against the governor) now is there are no significant investors from outside of the province putting shops in Pangasinan,” he stressed. You can read my selected intriguing but thought-provoking columns at http://mortzortigoza.blogspot.com. You can send comments too at totomortz@yahoo.com)

Air Asia "de-Virginized" Taga-Mlang

Pano inside the Air Asia in Davao. He was bound to Clark Pampanga

The Gerald Anderson-Max Alvarado look-a-like famous son of Mlang Pano Bandiola poses for posterity. Kasi the following morning he would be FLYING (through Air Asia in Clark, you naughty mind !) to Mlang. "Abo rugma balik ra naman taton rugto sa Basak sa Mlang !" he quipped

PANU JOINS PMA. PERO GIN PAPA-ULI SA MLANG KAY KULANG KATRI

 "He is no longer an airline-ride virgin," quipped by a foreigner who hailed from the Republic of Timbukto. A prominent member of the Bandiola Clan of Mlang , Lito "Pano" Bandiola has been "de -Virginized" as an airline-ride virgin after Air Asia gave him the first taste of how to fly. He said it was his dream to fly since tot amid the prodding of his relatives but he was not given a chance to do it. But thanks to the generosity of Gabriel Ortigoza, Pano has not only been given a one way free ticket to hell, er, to Clark Pampangga but a round trip tickets from Clark to Davao. But Mr. Bandiola ,who is now cooling his heels at PMA, Baguio City, has a problem. "Linti, kulba-an gid ako sa kantiyaw pag balik ko sa Mlang karon nga dominggo. Ano na lang isabat ko sa mga pamangkot didto "Naka adto man ako tuod sa Luzon, pero wara man takon ka kadto rugto sa Manila". But Ortigoza, a self-styled philanthropist, will try to sneak Pano in Manila. He has a dilemma however which is time-constraint since he will be going back to the U.S on Sunday. "I'll try to sneak Mr. Bandiola to the Manila Zoo so he can meet with his long lost cousin, Lolong the Crocodile, er, Mario Ma-aya (another pride of Mlang's cockpit arena), who was just promoted as Janitor 1 to Janitor 2 of the Elephant Dung Section," he stressed.

Poverty did not stop M'lang kickers to Excel

The poorly equipped Region 12 soccer team where some of its players' game shoes were wrapped with packaging tape to stop them from disintegrating.

The vaunted soccer team from Region 12 that is billeted at San Carlos City, Pangasinan. They are all system goes for the Palarong Pambansa. Extreme left, third row,  is Coach Rommel Madis

SAN CARLOS CITY, Pangasinan - Despite their penury the soccer team from Central Mindanao who are billeted here did not stop to excel as they represent Region 12 for the 2012 Palarong Pambansa (national game) in Pangasinan.

Taga-Mlang in Sauna, er, Sona

Mlang resident Mario Ma-aya asked the Taxi driver to bring him and  Mortz in a SAUNA. Instead, the idiotic driver  brought them to the SONA of Pres. Noynoy Aquino.

Professor of Intoxication Ma-aya treated his former students

Dr. Rene Pacolor  (2nd fm Left) proselytize Mlang drinkers

Mario brought his classmates to Mortz's house in M'lang

This writer who dreams to go to “sauna” has at last attended the real Sona (State of the Nation Address) last July 23 at the Batasan Complex . Thanks to the invitation of Rep. Gina de Venecia (4th District, Pangasinan). What I observed inside the plenary hall, to my amazement, was no different to what looks inside the cockpit arena in my city. Only the plenary hall of the House of Representatives, 20 times bigger than the fowl arena, has sea of men and women outclassing each other in their in different style of dress and whose first name has been appended with an adjective “Honorable.” That not all congresswomen beautifully carried themselves in Filipino gowns designed by Patis Tesoro and Pitoy Moreno, there were those in the party list sectors who lousily carried themselves in frock designed by Kukor, short for Kukortinahin (curtain), they probably bought in a bargain sale in Divisoria and Baclaran.
 That the lower box facing the rostrum where the Philippine president, senate president, and the speaker of the House of Representatives sat were rows of benches where present and former high government officials like former President Fidel V. Ramos, former 5-time Speaker Jose de Venecia, Vice President Jojo Binay, former President Joseph Estrada, and foreign ambassadors and their wives occupy.

China Cannot be an Aggressor Forever - FVR

 Mortz C. Ortigoza (Left) after his interview with former Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos

Northern Watch political columnist Mortz C . Ortigoza sat again with former President Fidel V. Ramos, a West Pointer, recently in Dagupan City to discuss the growing belligerence of Mainland China in the West Philippines Sea and the state of the Philippine’s armed forces vis-à-vis the incessant Chinese's intrusions in the territorial waters of the Philippines, Excerpts:
 MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA (MCO): Mr. President, some quarters said armed conflict between the United States and Mainland China is inevitable. But the U.S has $1.164 trillion of debt with China, notwithstanding the latter as the U.S’s biggest trade partner. Do you think war is indeed inevitable?

Q & A: JDV’s solutions on the Spratlys problem

M'lang's son Alex Casipli (extreme Left)  meets former Speaker de Venecia

Former five-time House Speaker Joe de Venecia, Jr., an eminent global expert, speaks his thoughts on the brewing issues on the Spratlys Islands in the West Philippines Sea. Political columnist Mortz Ortigoza sat with him to talk about the issue. Excerpts:
 MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA (MCO): How strategic is the Spratlys for the Philippines, Mr. Speaker?
JOSE DE VENECIA, JR (JDV): Why should we sail to China (Sea to the Arab Gulf) all the way to that when we have oil and gas in our own front yard and our backyard? If we could only use (chuckled) our “coconut” (common sense).
MCO: Political and military spectators say that to discourage the incessant intrusions of China in the West Philippine Seas we have to invite our ally the Americans for a joint exploration of oil there.
 JDV: The Americans will not drill for oil in the China Sea because who will invite them to drill there?
 MCO: The Philippine government.
 JDV: The Philippines? We are courting war with China, courting war with Vietnam.
 MCO: Adm. Mike Mullen, the chair of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said recently at the start of his four-day visit to China that the U.S vowed to maintain her presence in the resource-rich waters. What is really the interest of the Americans in Spratlys?
JDV: The interest of the Americans is economics. So they could have a free and untrammeled navigation for being a Pacific power. Secondly, because that is one way of telling China na dahan-dahan naman kayo kasi nandito kami (you should be careful because of our presence here in the West Philippines Sea). Thirdly, they have to show some semblance of support to the Philippines. Although as the Americans have pointed out while (other countries) threatening their allies they will go to war. (But it is different in the China Sea unless there is authorization by the U.S Congress. Because unlike the NATO agreement, an attack in England is considered as an automatic attack against the U.S, an attack on France is the same. An attack on the Philippines is an attack on the U.S. But it does not mean an immediate attack- response by the U.S. They have to consult their constitutional process first – it means to say their hall of congress.
 MCO:Can’t we not use the Libyan Model when President Barrack Obama declared war against Muammar Gaddafi and support the Libyan rebels even without the imprimatur of the U.S,congress?
 JDV: Well, you know in the case of Libya, there was an authorization from the Security Council of the United Nations but even the Security Council of the UN was abused and being abused by the European Power like France and Britain. Because the decision of the Security Council was really to prevent Gaddafi on harming the Libyans who want to bring down their government.
MCO: Some political kibitzers question your formula of consortium among claimant countries in the Spratly because it does not resolve first the issue of sovereignty.
JDV: Well, (former paramount leader of Mainland China) Deng Xiaoping proposed that we shall not (discuss) sovereignty for the meantime. Because if the Philippine insists on sovereignty, China insists on sovereignty, Vietnam insists on sovereignty, well there will be war. So the practical step is to shelve the issue of sovereignty, and agree on one common development on the Spratly so that Vietnam, China and the Philippines that claims for oil and gas and hydrocarbons under an equity of 1/3, 1/3,1/3 profit sharing formula that eventually would have to bring in Malaysia, Brunei, whose acreage or whose claim, in the Spratlys are smaller than that of the three. We should also invite them as part of this drilling coalition.
MCO: Does this consortium thing have something to do with our armed forces?
JDV: The weakest of these line states is the Philippines. We have no air force, we have no navy. China has a large armed forces, Vietnam now has large armed forces, a large air force, a large navy.
MCO: Were major claimants China and Vietnam telegraphed already their intention that they were amenable to your proposal? JDV: No, no. Yes, because I’m talking to them directly.
MCO: Were they amenable? JDV: Yes! MCO: Is there a precedent model of your consortium’s formula? JDV: Just like that in the North Sea after World War II, England is here (as he lifted the empty coffee cup and the sandwich of the interviewee to put on the other parts of the table to emphasize his point). This is England; the oil field is here in Ecofisk in the North Sea. They took a median line partition so the oil flows to Stavanger in Norway. The oil is in Teesside in England. And the natural gas goes to Crimea, German. I landed here in the Ecofisk which is above 20 stories high. The platforms from the sea, very stormy seas but (they were composed of) hundreds of oil wells! And siguro mga (Just like) several stories high buildings and platforms from the sea.
 MCO: So nobody own these areas? The consortium owns them?
JDV: They have agreed. This part belongs to Norway! (Lifting again the sandwich and coffee cup of the interviewer by putting them to another part of the table to emphasize his point)This part belongs to England! This part belongs to Germany! In the meantime we jointly developed.
 MCO: Is the North Sea’s model the only model the claimants in the Spratly’s can replicate?
JDV: Puwedi nating gawin ito( We can copy it). This is one model. The other model is that we will drill together and the profit we split. You see? So we shelve the issue of sovereignty. This is the formula that will solve the problems of China, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Therefore that will solve the problem between China and Vietnam in the Paracel. This (in) the Spratly claim, Vietnam went to war over there a dozen years ago. This is the same formula that should be used because (by) Japan in Diaoyu Strait, what the Chinese call the Senkaku Strait. This is the third formula that could be used on the Sea of Japan and the East Sea, between Japan and South Korea.
MCO: Taiwan has a claim there, too. Is it because of her being Mainland China once upon a time?

How Local Officials Steal Gov't Funds

BY MARCELO MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA 

 Mayor pockets up to 30% loans from bank 

 My politician friend told me that a corrupt mayor can get 20 percent to 30 percent of the loan his town or city obtained from government- run Land Bank of the Philippines and Development Bank of the Philippines. “If he wants the money immediately, he can get P20 million or 20% of the P100 million loans in advance from the (private) contractor,” he whispered to me not to divulge his name but to expose this perennial anomaly in public. But if the mayor wants a 30% or P30 million from the loan, then he should be the one to own the construction firm (of course though a dummy) if he wants the bigger chunks of the anomaly alias S.O.P (Standard Operation Procedure) after the project (construction of either the municipal hall, public market, or other public building) is completed and approved by the concerned government agencies. A hizzoner of another town, who asked for anonymity, told me that a hypothetical loan of P55 million entails an 8 percent S.O.P (psst spell as LOOT) for a scheming vice mayor and the conspiring nine members of the SB. “Ang 3 percent kay Vice Mayor, ang 5 percent pag-hati-hati-an ng mga konsehales,” he whispered to me. Susmariosep, that’s a mind blowing P1, 650,000 for the vice mayor and a staggering P305,555 for each of the dads. He told me this formula can buy the silence of everybody. He said in case there are grumblings and noises from the Vice Mayor, it means he either:1) Holds the proverbial empty bag; 2) Was given a pittance; or 3) Was an honest man that now gives a problem to the power-that-be there.

Taga-M'lang attended B-day of JDV

With Cavite Congresswoman Lani Mercado

The author poses with nonpareil humorous and witty columnist Larry Henares

Birthday "boy" former Speaker de Venecia poses with lady solons of the House of Representatives

BY MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA

 This "calumnist", er, columnist who used to patronize “turo-turo” (small eatery) has found himself sporting the coat and tie he inherited from his grandpa in the Katipunan while partaking a more than a thousand of pesos a plate dinner hosted by “birthday boy” former five-time speaker Jose de Venecia at the swanky Golden Bay Sea Food Restaurant in Pasay City.
The almost 1000 visitors composed of present and former political high rollers of the country, foreign leaders and ambassadors spent the chilly night of December 26 feasting with Chinese cuisine with the de Venecias and (Speaker Joe’s wife Congresswoman Gina’s) Vera-Perez clans for the visionary and rabble rouser natal day.

Romero to Investors: “Mangaldan is Flood-Free”

MANGALDAN – The mayor of this burgeoning first class town invites investors to put shops here instead of doing business in nearby Dagupan City. Mayor Herminio Romero said that his municipality is “tsunami-free, flood-proof, and earthquake free”. He cited that Dagupan City is flood prone. “There is no recurring floods here,” he chuckled. This happened because he saw to it that infrastructure projects like dikes are being followed up in Manila for their immediate implementation here. Romero explained that because of the economic spillover in nearby urbanized Dagupan City,this town will inevitably become a host to the influx of investors. “Nandiyan na iyan. Ang sinabi ko ngayon ay palapit ng palapit ang spill-over kaya isagad at paluwagin na ang kalsada. Pati drainage, isagad na rin para maluwag ang flow ng transportation and traffic,” he stressed in the vernacular. He explained that if the highway is wide, businessmen follow suit. With the ongoing multi-million of pesos road shoulder-expansion from the Poblacion Area to Brgy. Anolid that border’s Dagupan, this town will not only become conducive to businesses from the nearby towns and city but bode well for those prudent businessmen who want to avoid the wrath of nature that gobbled the main thoroughfare of Dagupan every time there is a strong downpour and high tide. Eng. Rodolfo Dion, chief of the 2nd Engineering District of the Department of Public Works & Highway in Lingayen, who supervised the expansion explained that his men are preoccupied these days monitoring the private contractor who are doing re-blocking and concreting there He said he gives the contractor a deadline to finish the project until November this year. This Central Pangasinan municipality is millions of pesos richer in terms of appropriation for the fiscal year budget of 2012 not only compared on her neighboring towns like San Fabian, San Jacinto, and Santa Barbara but even to other major towns in Pangasinan. According to Dr. Rose Ramirez R. Hulipas, executive officer of Mayor Romero, this town will have a P145 million appropriation for next year. Based on data acquired by this paper, this 4thcongressional district municipality appropriates P145 million for her next year’s budget, followed by the P138 million of Santa Barbara, P132 Calasiao, and P130 of capital town Lingayen. Dr. Hulipas said that one of the major sources of revenues here are the laboratories of renowned pharmaceutical companies that buttressed her coffer. “The other sources of revenue (here) is the teeming businesses here that shame the lethargic market of the nearby towns,” a source, who asked for anonymity, said. Meanwhile, Romero exhorted Pangasinan congresswomen Ma. Georgina de Venecia, Kimi Cojuangco, Ma. Rachel Arenas, and Marlyn Primicias-Agabas to intercede for a fund in Malacanang to rebuild the earth dikes in Sison, Pangasinan to be converted into a concrete dike. He explained that present dikes made of soil needs regular maintenance that endangers persons and properties in the four congressional districts of the province. Mr. Nelson Sotto, a private contractor, said that concreting of the dikes in Sison would cost the national government billions of pesos (Mortz C. Ortigoza).

VASELINE

Isang araw may isang most dangerous KRIMINAL na nakatakas sa kulungan, hindi sya nakalabas ng kulungan for 20 years! kaya't walang inisip ito kung hindi gumawa ng masama. nag tungo ang kriminal sa isang village upang makapag nakaw at swerte nyang nakatagpo sya ng apartment na mukang wlang tao. Dali dali pumasok ang kriminal sa loob ng apartment upang mag nakaw at sa hindi inaasahan may nakita itong mag boyfriend na macho at sexy na nag tatalik sa kama. Agad agad nya itong itinali sa mag kabilang pwesto at sinumulang halik halikan ang babae sa leeg at tenga, habang nanunuod ang boyfriend neto! at biglang umalis ang KRIMINAL papuntang banyo na mukang may hinahanap. LALAKE: Babes, mukang masamang kriminal ang taong nag tali sa atin baka patayin nya tayo! Babes kahit anong mangyare tibayan mo ang loob mo ibigay mo lahat ng gusto nya para di nya tayo patayin kasi mukang gusto ka nya kasi sa nakita ko hinalik halikan ka nya sa leeg! okay lang sa akin basta lagi mong tandaan na mahal na mahal kita! BABAE: Honey anung sinasabi mo? hindi nya ako hinahalikan sa leeg, binulungan niya lang ako sabi nya ang GUWAPO mo daw at ang MACHO mo kung puwide daw hiramin ka nya ngayung gabi! at nag tanong kung san daw sya makaka kuha ng VASELINE or LOTION sabi ko sa banyo. Type ka ata hon, kaya honey mag pakatatag ka ha mukang titirahin ka sa PUWET noong kriminal, okay lang sa akin basta lagi mo tatandaan mahal na mahal kita!

Mortz's Kinda Songs

Consummate Singer/Composer John Lennon and wife Yoko Ono
Hi folks, just copy and paste the link of your selected song hereunder:

Donald Fagen - I.g.y. (what A Beautiful World


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sogYgHlNnqo

Geez, found this old CD at our stock room. Look man what I found there, my favorite Tom Scott's

 " Keep This Love Alive " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0tfd0JjZIE&feature=related

How Do You Heal A Broken Heart Lyrics - Chris Walker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZC-0SXRwQI

Apo Hiking Society│Bakit Ang Babae

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaE1G7F0eYA

Beautiful In My Eyes Joshua Kadison Lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrqkqdErHxc

 I Just Can't Let Go - David Pack
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5dHJrzw-TA  
LOVE ALWAYS FIND A WAY w lyrics

By Peabo Bryson

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN4F9RXtsqc

 Before you break my hear

 By Gene Dunlap featuring the Ridgeways

 Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Q0En_0E5I

 Smile Again

By Manhattan Transfer Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HOM4LFM1Fc

Oh, Lori By Allessi Brothers

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-R8ru1TAAo&

Worst-Dressed Candidates Ever

It wasn't quite as bad as that last debate, this latest edition in The Style Blog's mild obsession with four men and their not-at-all-put-together clothes. But we figured they would've at least dressed up for Super Tuesday. I mean, didn't Mitt Romney learn to tie a tie as the lonely Mormon at his all-boys school? That's a nice blue piece of silk he's got there, our presumed frontrunner — Ferragamo, maybe — and yet his knots are always askew just so, to the left and too small. He's in a rush, and they all are, but when you're soaking up a half-hour of America's night in high-definition, at least ask your wife to tie it for you. (Ann was doing all the other dirty work up there, anyway.) Which is what Newt looked like he had Callista do in a whatever polka-dot tie that was good enough for him. As for Ron Paul, well, ornery grandpas can get away with that kind of repp tie in North Dakota, and that's what he is, and that's where he was, so fine. Rick Santorum at least attempted to look like the principal, if not quite presidential, while accepting victory in a high-school gym in Ohio before losing there. The sweater vest needs to stay away, by the way — spring is coming in Alabama and Mississippi — although these guys can wear whatever they damn please at this point. It's just not helping them any (Matt Sullivan).

MGA BUAYA SA CONGRESS NI RESCUE NA!

Chinese Submarine Spotted at SM-Bacoor during the height of the South Moonsoon Rain in August 2012

HAYOP ANG BAHA, PATI MGA BUAYA SA BATASAN COMPLEX (CONGRESS) NI RESCUE NA!

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

The flood brought by torrential South West Monsoon rain was a bitter-sweet experienced with this writer. Bitter, because he was bedridden for three days after he was struck by cold which he nursed through dosages of paracetamol and lots of water intake. Sweet, because he pre-occupied himself watching the Olympic on TV and browsed his laptop and saved from there shockingly rare photos he saw on Face Book. They were the following: A mermaid, who looks like Allan K of Eat Bulaga, was washed out at the sea walls of the Manila through giant waves brought by the weather disturbance; A dramatic picture of three men wading on a breast level flood water at the Batasan Complex (congress) carrying on their shoulder a teary-eyed crocodile. The photo screamed with a caption headline: “Hayop na Baha: Mga Buaya sa Batasan Complex ni-Rescue!”; and a wayward Chinese Submarine spotted near SM-Bacoor either looking for an escape route or watching, on behalf of SM owner’s Henry Sy, any looters from the besieged mall