Random thoughts

As we debate planned military use of Pagan, Japanese Prime Minister Abe has decided to proceed with construction of Camp Schwab Marine base in northern Okinawa. He’s decided to scrap the rule of law or the 80 percent people support of Okinawa’s governor who shut down the project in recent past. The decision is likely to become a long legal battle.

It seems most Okinawans prefer the pacifist posture it has had since after WWII. This alone could open it up to terrorist attacks similar to the recent Paris carnage. It makes sense that central government leadership has opted that the country get proactively involved in her defense per a U.S.-Japan alliance. Question: Would this lessen the need for use of Pagan?

Corruption bewing

CUC’s board of directors is normally clueless in its disposition of issues, mixing policy matters and constantly delusional and itching to engage in the micro-management of the utility agency.

But this happens when people appointed to do fiduciary duty on policy reviews are basically incompetent to use inference to buckle down to the task at hand. It turns into parochialism when matters of state are reduced to personal aggrandizement.

Recently, the utility’s board of directors approved a policy removing the authority to approve customer promissory notes from the accounting division and granted it solely to CUC deputy managers on Tinian and Rota. This was allowed by CUC chair Adelina Roberto, because Tinian board member Eric San Nicolas has serious problems paying his past due accounts and faces disconnection.

Roberto conveniently overlooks the fact that policy matters must be made equally applicable to all ratepayers. This is how you achieve fairness and equilibrium. To remove it, catering to the whims of a board member, germinates corruption. It is no wonder people here have serious distrust of government. Why abolish “checks and balance”?

The anomalous action of the CUC board raises the query: Is there anybody in the administration who reviews the academic and professional qualifications of appointments to ensure the appointee is mature and factually capable of dealing with policy formulation? This is very humiliating!

No room for airheads on the CUC board. I mean I’m complaining as a ratepayer, in fact, clamoring that certain standards set for all clientele be made equally applicable to board members too. It’s time to rid the board of corrupt people starting with Adelina Roberto and Eric San Nicolas! The rest should bow ASAP too.

Presidential exit

U.S. presidential history shows the number one man in the WH using the lightning rod to destroy the enemy so to ensure the safety of countrymen.

Furthermore, I can’t fathom his mindset to bring in 10,000 Syrian refugees to the country in the wake of the Paris bombing by terrorists tied to ISIS. Obviously, 31 state governors whose jurisdiction would be adversely affected have soundly protested against sending refugees to their states. Obama’s demonstrated nothing but passivity and still wants to “lead from behind.” And he’s at it again! Cowardice must be his Achilles heel, ignoring glaring facts of destruction of lives!

It’s good the see the end of the Obama presidency fading quickly into the horizon basically a lame duck. His use of hound dog syndrome has done nothing but elicit loss of confidence in our country’s disposition on ISIS and other foreign affairs concerns.

President Obama does something else unique: he seeks for the exit and he isn’t sending flowers to Paris either. Though he’s got his own perception of the quickly unfolding violence from ISIS it seems only too clear that his viewpoint is bred with ignorance.

Plenty in 1993

Recalled before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Insular Affairs a declaration made by the late former governor Lorenzo Guerrero that all future appropriations for grant funds for the NMI should cease.

The NMI was in its bubble years, loaded with tons of money from its combined apparel and tourism industries and other healthy sectors. But it was a fragile wealth poked and eventually sizzled and wished we had never derailed grant fund assistance.

Here we are today, fully bankrupt but holding steadfastly to unhealthy spending habits. In less than a year or two we should see our shadows doing the mea culpa before the break of dawn every morning.

Scourge in our community

It is very disturbing to know that more of our young people are into drugs like methamphetamine (“ice” or shabu). The highly addictive and fatal drug could simply destroy their lives. Entry leaves wide open a shift into higher level of heinous criminal activities.

Not sure that this is the path they should take. I’ve seen how this addictive drug has brought young people destined for better days sink into oblivion. I’ve seen how they have specialized in theft and know which parts of a car sell quicker than the other. They know exactly which one to dismantle quickly too.

As their newfound choice hardens, it opens up the pathway for larger theft and robbery in our community. This is bad for kids whose future is wrapped in criminal activities that lead all roads to DOC in Susupe. At some point even murder may factor into their scheme. Dangerous!

Hope the parents of these young minds find time to remap the course of their activities into something constructive. Don’t be afraid to seek for help. Better now than never. I still have hope in their reverting to cleansing themselves so they regroup and pursue brighter undertakings. Shabu and other hard drugs would get you into trouble over the long haul!

I’ve seen death among young students who did well academically and were star athletes. Their only problem was the inability to know when to say, “Enough is enough.” Sadly, their parents or relative are asked to visit the morgue to ID them for final disposition. It’s a difficult experience for mom and dad, leaving them in a whirlwind if they should have done something more drastic.