Kudos (II) to Sec. Gilberto Teodoro

 

 

DBM money for faxes, electric fans, and Disaster Assistance etc.

 

First,  even if the Pag-Asa is under the Department of Science and Technology, it is Sec. Gilberto Cojuangco Teodoro, Jr. who is the chief whip of the inter-agency task group that coordinates disaster assistance. . . I was extremely surprised when I was told that suddenly Pag-Asa faxed an unsolicited message from a Quezon City number to selected government offices.  Even if the fax contained near-microscopic letters and minute drawings of clouds, rains, suns, it provided a good view of the coming weather conditions and what kind of preparations one should make… It makes Teodoro a good leader, a very good secretary and cabinet man.  There aren’t many good Queen’s and King’s Ministers all round us.  But Teodoro is a candidate for an Olympic gold medal for being fast on the job.  So kudos Mr. Secretary!

 

May your tribe increase!!!

 

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On the other hand, Sec. Rolando Andaya of the Department of Budget and Management -  DBM,  should now look for ways to fund the purchase of more fast, heavy duty fax machines for Pag-Asa or else, more computers with fax modems.

 

Of course, Sec. Andaya should investigate ground floor, DOST and consider buying the laboratories thereat new electric fans, feather duster, Pledge and wiping cloth (they always seem untidy, exceedingly mummific dusty), among other kakulangan at that department.  Even the brain of the DOST secretaries, always seem to lack turnilyos.  Tsk, tsk, kawawa naman.  Mr. Andaya, please give them some pity and buy them the necessary turnilyos.  The  worst is still to come;  if the other turnilyos from the DOST secretary’s head will also fall, that will be damnation for our national science and technology, that awa ng panginoon ay masayang nasa putikan na ngayon.  OMG!

 

Sec. Andaya and the President should also look for ways to support Teodoro build a state-of-the-art disaster monitoring and assistance coordination system with a complete war room and the latest GIS software.

 

The same GIS is expandable later to becoming a monitoring system for hotspots during crisis situations, flashpoint areas, logistics movement and management, as proposed as early as 1990-1992 — but the significance of which Cory, Ramos, Erap were not able to fathom.

 

Andaya and the President should also be able to do the same for Sec. Jose Atienza in the Department of Environment and Natural Resources — DENR so that the agency can build GIS based mapping of the country’s water, forest, soil, mountains, underground formations like caves, etc. and be able to create environmental hazard maps accordingly.

 

The SONA is about to be delivered by Madam Gloria but these things need not be mentioned if they cannot be done anyway.

 

But the most critical assistance that DBM can render the concerned agencies, is providing support for forecasting.

 

So far back in the past, Pag-Asa and Phivolcs for instance have always been crying for newer and better forecasting equipment, that are truly very expensive.

 

The United Nations, for instance can help provide funding for NDCC member departments or agencies (not through the DND since fund sponsors, such as, but not limited to World Bank are prohibited from giving money to military and other armed institutions).

 

If not the UN, at least that organization can help point the NDCC to potential sponsors that could help fund the projects.

 

Organizations based in Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands are prospective sponsors and if the aid will have strings attached, at least the supply market in those countries are all attuned to the newest developments in the trade.

 

The Germans have always for instance been up-to-date in Disaster Public Warning Systems (PWS).  Simple public announcement speakers for instance, during disaster, are able to utilize radio waves and reach households through radios and even television sets (at least these must be turned on, idiot).  Nothing of the sort was appreciated by the higher ups in 1992 when this kind of German technology was offered.  To think that Germany has huge clout in the Asian Development Bank — ADB that  bank could have approved a grant for the country.

 

Even if the gestation period for approving a funding request is long, the time frame between 1992 up to the present would have been too long for ADB not to have considered providing financial and technical assistance to the country in disaster assistance.

 

The problem was with nincompoops and fools in the Cory government who squandered time, resources and efforts in the highly critical emergency assessment, assistance and coordination front.  Of course Cory herself is stupid, so what more can we say?  She would never have understood the import and real worth in terms of human lives, properties, opportunities of what we are discussing here today.  She always had her mahjong sessions and her ka-chikas then and she will always have them now anyway, so what the heck!  Fucking presidenteng sugarol!  Sounds like it’s nice to eat no?  But some people are fucking loads of shit and crap that their behinds get cancer just because.

 

And Ramos?  Ask the Pangasinenses and they will ask you back, sino yan?  Wala naman kami naramdaman na may naging presidente na taga Pangasinan!!!  That says a lot of his accomplishments, doesn’t it?  Imagine the East Pangasinan ash that trampled huge areas of that province, destroyed riverine systems, ricelands and Ramos the President forgot about it all and up to now, lives, rice and other cash crops go down the drain with flash floods that heretofore were not known in Pangasinan before the Pinatubo eruption.  Jesus f_g Christ!!!  And the old boy keeps shitting Gloria about his genius ideas about how to solve our national crises, OMG!!!

 

And his asungot, Mr. de Venecia nee Perez, will be his stariray during the coming movie of Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola (Julia Roberts and Joe Perez in the billing), The Great Flasher while he, Ramos, the demonyong puppet master will stay unseen behind, pulling the strings as the Flasher and the throng mount and stage their next big attack against city hall.  Well, helloooo!!!  Excuse us, sirs and madams, aren’t you out of your fucking minds?  Aba, patahimikin niyo naman kami, marami pa kaming kalamidad na sasagupain!

 

The Arroyo government should not follow the Cory, Ramos and Erap models.  All play, money making and no work.  All because Juan was a dull boy!

 

At least La Gloria is a real, working president and people like Teodoro are truly worth their mettle.  Unlike Cory who always managed to slip to the late Joe Quirino’s house in Pasig to play her favorite sugal with her rich (kuno) and notoriously stupid (not famous) confreres.  You can ask the wife of Sen. Rodolfo Biazon, if she is still alive.  She is one of them mad mahjongeras and Mrs. Biazon’s mahjong sessions with Cory is the reason why Pong became chief of staff and later a  senador.  Imagine!!!  The fate of our country over a few games of that unspeakable game of plastic chips!  Caramba!!!  Dios mio!!!  (At least Biazon owes his mahjongera wife the chief-of-staffship and the suggestion from her to hire an English tutor so that de poor Pong weel no longger spik karabaw ingglis.  Susmaryosep!!!)

 

So there, it is hoped that more action will come from NDCC in the days to come.  That DBM’s Andaya will not repeat the example of Erap of buying huge teevee screens to make it look like that DND has finally built the state-of-the-art command, control, communications, computers and intelligence system to confront real disasters, specially in these times of global warming.

 

Godspeed to these people, and to hell with Cory and the rest of the demonyos who nearly buried us all in the pits by being heartless and unfeeling about the subject of national catastrophes and cataclysms.  As if the greatest countrywide calamities that both threatened and actually hit us, were just like having a boiling stomach and making a simple trip to the toilet for them!  Aaaaand,

 

Shit!!!

 

Voila!!!

 

Look Virginia, the disaster’s oooohhveeeeeeer!!!!!

 

No Mississippi Flooding in RP only Kalibo mudshit!

 

No China earthquakes, only Baguio killer tremor and Pangasinan liquefaction and earth cracking!

 

No maritime natural disaster!  Only murder by Sulpicio.  (Pag ang intsik nagipit, bato bato sa langit, ang malunod at masunog wag magalit hhaaaa…)

 

Hay naku, tanqhna niyo talaga!!!   Animál!!!