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I just love how much of a sh*t hole this island is. How does a non third world country lose power to their only international airport during normal operating hours? I mean this wasn’t even the middle of the night or anything it was at 2 pm. Now the question at hand is, why didn’t they just bring a wheeled disembarking stairway to at least let them out of the airplane? They have been sitting in that plane for about 3 hours and you are going to make them sit for another 3 to 4 hours. I fee really sorry for the tourist who just wasted there whole day sitting on the plane.

Yes, I am sure this incident would have a negative impact, no sh*t ….

It was reported today in Saipan Tribune that the skate park and Saipan gondola lift project would be sharing the same space. I predict both projects will be sharing space in the trash can since a) there is no money to fund both projects b) it’s a waste of money c) they will not be able to afford the insurance once build.

An article in the Marianas Variety is stating that since the government can’t afford to keep wasting its money and resources to hire the local population the local companies has to hire them. Labor is saying it will no longer provide a waiver on the 20% local hiring requirement. The problem is this rule is retarded. Business should be able to hire anyone they choose in the bases that he/she the employee can perform the job that the employer wants. Not because the government told him that he has to make sure 20% of his/her work force is local population. You know what the people who get hurts the most is the small mom and pop business. Thinking about it, if you have 5 employees you need one local, if you have 3 employees you need one local, if you have 1 employee you still need 1 local. Oh I love this one, if an employers is found in violation of the 20% resident workforce requirements, they will be given a 10days to correct the violation. Ten days to find a new capable local worker… do they know how hard and impossible task that is. To find a worker in 10 days, the amount of paper work, the news adds, etc etc one has to do to hire anyone in this island.

So Monday, I found out that my life was worth about 10USD, it was really a sad conclusion really. That afternoon I had volunteered, actually more like recruited. To take a friend’s friend out on a sight seeing tour of all the typical tourist spots on the island, I didn’t mind so much, she was attractive after all. And who doesn’t mind having a member of the opposite sex sitting next to you while driving your sports car around island. We started from middle road, stop by the lighthouse, which I have to admit someone did a decent job of cleaning and repainting the premises. Then we stop by Mount Toppacho*, then the old radar station, and then Bonsai cliff, last command post, and then it was Grotto. Grotto is one of these places that you just have to see for yourself, pictures and words just can’t do justice to describe the natural beauty of the place. The sunlight coming threw the vegetation, the drops of water that fall from the caves high ceiling, the sound the waves makes as it breaths in and out of the Grotto’s lagoon. Its … almost magical, plus it’s the first place I had .. um intimate contact with a girl back in high school, back then there was a rope that was ran across the 1st cave area on the back left side of the Grotto. One could swim over sit on the rope and be in some privacy. Okay back to the story at had, I told her the view was much better on the small rocky island in the middle but we had to cross the small channel when the waves resided. She hesitated at first but wanted to give it a shot. So during our dash across, she had gotten her shoe stuck in a rock, at the same time the waves had come in. In an instance the waves had taken her left shoe out to the sea. Me being the macho man I was, took my time to take my shirt and shoe off and proceeded to jumped in to get her shoe. During the whole time she was saying it was okay, and that it was only a shoe. I figured because she always had that Gucci bag the shoe was worth some considerable monetary value. After I heroically saved the shoe from its watery grave. I found out a) it wasn’t her shoe and b) it was only worth about 9.95 from payless shoe store.

… yea risked my life for 9.95, and I don’t think she was impressed at all.. oh well

Its interesting how the break down of the 397 positions that will cut from the budget.

Tinian : 129
Rota: 111
Saipan : 47
Governor’s office: 67

Does that mean Tinian and Rota has more redundant positions then Saipan, or people in Saipan has better connections to not get fired. Also … the math doesn’t work out, 129+111+47+67 = 354, so 43 other positions that are getting cut from where?

Must be more ghost employee .. I guess even they are not immune to the budget slashes.

Jesus .. I am really getting sick of the rain, and the none-existence of draining systems on this island. I mean we are on a fraken island, why can’t we channel the rainwater efficiently?

What a week this has been, rain = not really want to do much of anything. I have half a mind to call it quits for the day and go level my hunter in Wow.. I need more gold dam it !! gold I tell you…

Mm times are really bad now days..
Gas prices have skyrocketed..
Most people can’t afford to pay there power bills..
Government spending is … actually the government is broke..
We have no money for our schools and teachers..
Our hospital can’t treat a simple cut because its understaffed and … actually we don’t have any real doctors..
We have packs of wild dogs that roams Garapan hotel street our prime tourist areas. (God I can’t wait till a tourist gets bitten!! Oh what fun we’ll have then)..

Do you know what we need to solve all this problem !! 2 MORE FRANKEN LAWMAKERS.. because you know more heads are better then none .. actually I think we are better off with none.

This is funny, it says “ the courts also said the increase, which is part of the redistricting plan, is needed to compensate for population changes since the last apportionment in 1990.” Are people just openly smoking crack in capital hill… have they not notice the ever-decreasing population in the CNMI…

So one has to wonder how much this is going to cost the community. But I guess all will be forgiven in the next family BBQ.

BYOB!!!

I say again and again.. STOP allowing these bogus schools from being set up in the CNMI. Everyone knows its scam, everyone knows it’s a loop hole that allows unsavory immigrants who normally wouldn’t have been allowed into the CNMI legally. Most immigrants aged 20+ who come to the CNMI using the educational visa are not here to study but to work. Case in hand I would like to point out a certain male Chinese work that was a student in the now closed down Saipan University. This person was an air conditioner engineer in China that was allowed to come into CNMI under the guise that he was going to get an education in Saipan. Threw out the whole ordeal of the Saipan University scandal he was in the front light of the media frenzy because unlike the others he spoke some English. He clearly stated many times over he had no intention of wanting to study but to work in Saipan. He came into CNMI under the false pretense of being a student, he clearly knew he was breaking the law. Now about 1year later, I see him in our local post office picking up mail and living here in Saipan. This person broke the rules, he got threw a very easy loop hole and now he is working.. legally or illegally in the CNMI. How many others are here like him.

Now I am not saying he is not a hard working citizen, nor am I saying he is a criminal. But it is clear he broke the law knowingly, and yet we don’t punish this type of behavior. I think that is the basic problem on the current government on the island. Everyone turns a blinds eye to anything that doesn’t directly affect him/her. But o Nelly if that person/company/topic/event somehow makes him/her lose money or affects him/her furthering his/her career, they are going to come down on it like a rat in a cheese factor .. a dog in a chicken cope, a cat in a bird cage.. etc etc

Prime example would be the son of Gov. Beigno R. Fital, Jason Fitial who I like to point out is a rat, a whistle blower. He worked for the AMU (American Mediscience University) as a consultant, he help them get the inside government connection to speed up the process for the school in Saipan, since 2006. He knew back then what the school was doing but back then we was paid well. Heck even up to April of this year the current Governor Fitial was show casein AMU as a positive force on the island. In the end the School no longer wants to pay him for his serves and he no longer sees AMU as a cash cow. Jason rats them out to now further his career, and makes it seems that he cares one bit for the local community. Do I have any proof of this …… nope nada.. nothing but see that’s the best part about owning my own blogg. But please people… one can make the connection easily.

A friend of mind commented this morning while getting some breakfast that the comments made by our lustrous governor Benigno R. Fitial to be similar to Baghdad Bobs comments during the desert storm conflict.

Comments like “ They are illegals”, “ We’re processing them and they will soon be deported”, “ they deliberately destroyed their passports”, and you would think this is the type of comment made by our favorite clown from Taotao Tano. I must say I hope this was a wake up call to congress and everyone up on the hill, to the caliber of personality that is running the show in the CNMI.

I have to give props to press secretary Charles P. Reyes Jr. for doing his job, but I really have to re-quote him from the same article, “ We respect their freedom of speech but don’t misrepresent the truth.” Sorry Charles trying to do damage control after about half a month from the event is one thing, but everyone heard the Governor say what he said and not what he meant to say.

On another story from Variety, it is reported that the Philippine authorities are now keeping an eye on new Filipino nightclub dancers in the CNMI. Apparently under Philippine law, Filipinos are not allowed to work abroad as nude dancers but only as “cultural dancers”… I have to admit there are some real ignorant people out there in the world. But did these people just figure out these girls were stripping in these so-called adult club establishments. It seems with the recent public light on the labor case problem with Kings and Moonlight, people are coming out of the wood works to protest against it. When for years everyone knew how these establishment works and what happened in them. There was no mystery to what went on there, and what the girls do.

You know what still, if the Mama-san from Moonlight and Kings is smart, she should start naming off names of all the local politicians, lawyers, prominent members of this fine government who frequent these establishments, and enjoy the company of the “cultural dancers” in the private rooms.