By Mortz C. Ortigoza
SANDERS ECLIPSES TRUMP. Despite the majority grips of
the Republicans in the U.S Senate (that’s 53. 45, 2 Senators for the GOP,
Democrats, Independent, respectively), public opinions on Abuse of Power and
Obstruction of Congress of President Donald Trump in the impeachment bid by the
Democrats in the House and now in the Senate have afflicted voters as seen on
this latest poll.
Here’s the January 22,2020 Newsweek written by Shane
Croucher:
"Senator Bernie Sanders leads President Donald Trump by the widest margin of all the candidates in the Democratic Party's 2020 race when Americans are asked to choose in a face-off against the Republican incumbent, according to a poll”.
"Senator Bernie Sanders leads President Donald Trump by the widest margin of all the candidates in the Democratic Party's 2020 race when Americans are asked to choose in a face-off against the Republican incumbent, according to a poll”.
"SurveyUSA
asked 4,069 registered voters nationwide how they would vote in an election
today if Trump was pitted against each of the 2020 candidates in the Democratic
race. The progressive Vermont independent came out on top”.
The poll found that 52 percent of voters would choose
Sanders and 43 percent Trump, giving the veteran senator a nine-point lead.
Next was former vice president Joe Biden at 50 percent to Trump's 43 percent, a
seven-point lead"
The online survey was conducted between January 14-16
straight after the Democratic debate in Iowa and on the eve of Trump's Senate
impeachment trial. It has a credibility interval of 1.7 percentage points.
***
Majority of the congressmen in my burgeoning province
want to have additional congressional districts.
The plan is to apportion two to four more congressional
districts from its original six making it ten at the maximum.
Pangasinan has a population of almost three million or to
be specific 2,956, 726 according to the 2015 Census.
The demography of the province is bigger
now after the 2018 census will be published by the Philippines Statistics
Authority.
Pangasinan, I
guess, will hit 3.5 million in demography if the new survey goes public.
With 250, 000 inhabitants needed to create a new
congressional district as mandated by the Constitution, Pangasinan can have 14 congressmen who will add to the excitement
and fire of the public hearings and the acrimony of the grandstanding at the
House of Representatives in Quezon City.
Of course there will be spiked too of the numbers of
solons who will become members of the infamous Committee on Silence where most
of our jaded or boring congressmen belong ha ha ha!
Just to show the population of the province's swelled
significantly, she has 1,946,682 or almost two million voters as based on the
records of the Commission on Election compared to the 1, 705,260 in 2016.
I argued before with commentators on my blog the advantages
to the people of more districts.
Here’s one of them:
“With additional districts can they solve poverty? Corruption? Crime rate? High prices of commodities? High prices of petroleum? Taxation? Free education? Hospitalization, malnutrition and health programs, land reforms for farmers and agricultural problems? If the answer is "yes" then I am in favor for it. But if it will only benefit corrupt public officials and their families, what for?”
My retort: He he he. Iyong P1 to P2 billion doc na infras a year given by the
national government. It could help perk up the multiplier effects in Pangasinan
for more jobs. Of course may effect din iyan sa bulsa ng 20% S.O.P sa mga
bagong tongressmen, este, congressmen.“With additional districts can they solve poverty? Corruption? Crime rate? High prices of commodities? High prices of petroleum? Taxation? Free education? Hospitalization, malnutrition and health programs, land reforms for farmers and agricultural problems? If the answer is "yes" then I am in favor for it. But if it will only benefit corrupt public officials and their families, what for?”
***
A solon, who asked for anonymity, told me that he
had talks with some lawmakers and friends of his former opponent to legislate
for more congressional districts so they don’t clash every election time.
Congressional and governorship derbies entail tens if not
hundreds of millions of pesos of campaign chest just to win a post that gives
more or less a hundred thousand pesos monthly for a three years term.
Crazy but it’s a reality in Philippine politics. “Aken ey
(Why on earth)?” a Pangasinense will blurt on his thick accented vernacular on
the incredibility of the wherewithal needed.
My answer: Prestige man prestige!
My answer: Prestige man prestige!
What price glory for the effing prestige.
The congressman
told me one of the six solons (make it seven to include the province’s based
Abono Party List) doesn’t want to co-author the passing of law on congressional
apportionment in the Land of Warrior Princess Urduja.
“Why the solon did not
like it?” I asked.
“Alam mo na iyan
Mortz”.
“Ah, kasi gusto
niyang solohin ang more or less One Billion Pesos na pork barrel kada taon para
may S.O.P siya na Two Hundred Million Pesos kada taon din?”
The member of the House of Representatives just smile.
Son of a gun, another selfish member of the House of Thieves
because of avarice or greed at the expense of the general welfare?
***
ANTI TANK MISSILE AND TRUMP’S IMPEACHMENT. I was glued at
my cable TV since the wee hours of January 22 for the opening of the
impeachment trial at the Senate of U.S President Donald Trump. There I saw presentations
and rebuttals of evidences and witnesses between the Democrats led House
Managers and Trump’s counsels.
These hullabaloos, presided by the U.S Supreme Court’s Chief Justice John Roberts, started from the withholding of Trump of the congressional mandated $400 million military aid package like the state-of-art lethal anti-tank missiles to Ukraine.
These hullabaloos, presided by the U.S Supreme Court’s Chief Justice John Roberts, started from the withholding of Trump of the congressional mandated $400 million military aid package like the state-of-art lethal anti-tank missiles to Ukraine.
The approval of the Article of Impeachment against Trump
by the dominant Democrat congressmen at the House of Representatives ensued
because of the aid package and the Javelin FGM 140, sus more than a billion of pesos apiece in our
currency, Trump withheld to the Ukrainian government unless President Volodymyr
Zelensky succumbed to his blackmail, we called quid pro quo, to incriminate the
son of his presidential rival that could benefit him politically on the
November 2020 election.
He wanted that former vice president Joe Biden's son Robert
Hunter be incriminated by the Ukrainian government to have enmeshed himself in
a corruption issue at the Ukrainian gas producer’s Burisma Holdings where the
latter served on its
board.
Democrats called that as Abuse of Power as provided by
the Constitution since he goaded the president of a foreign country to
interfere in the U.S election.
According to House Manager and Democrat Representative Adam Bennet Schiff, a former fiscal or federal prosecutor, with the Javelin in the military inventory of Ukraine, the Russian government and their tank operators will have cold chills on their back whenever they intrude and carve again on the territory of the besiege weak country.
Gezz, déjà vu for me on that heat seeking U.S made man-portable missile’s Stingers the Yanks supplied the Talibans that became nightmares for Soviet’s pilots in the 1980s war in Afghanistan.
“The Ukrainian president can negotiate with (Russian President) Vladmir Putin from the position of strength if we send those Javelins,” Schiff told the members of the Senate dominated by the Republicans.
Javelin, according to Wikipidea, is a fire-and-forget missile with lock-on before launch and automatic self-guidance. The system takes a top-attack flight profile against armored vehicles (attacking the top armor, which is generally thinner), but can also take a direct-attack mode for use against buildings, targets inside the minimum top-attack engagement range, and targets under obstructions. The missile also has the ability to engage helicopters in the direct attack mode. It can reach a peak altitude of 150 m (500 ft) in top-attack mode and 60 m (190 ft) in direct-fire mode. It is equipped with an imaging infrared seeker. The tandem warhead is fitted with two shaped charges: a precursor warhead to detonate any explosive reactive armor and a primary warhead to penetrate base armor.
The missile is ejected from the launcher so that it reaches a safe distance from the operator before the main rocket motors ignite – a "soft launch arrangement". This makes it harder to identify the launcher; however, back-blast from the launch tube still poses a hazard to nearby personnel. Thanks to this "fire-and-forget" system, the firing team may change their position as soon as the missile has been launched, or prepare to fire on their next target while the first missile is still in the air.
The missile system is most often carried by a two-person team consisting of a gunner and an ammunition bearer, although it can be fired with just one person if necessary. While the gunner aims and fires the missile, the ammo bearer scans for prospective targets, watches for threats, such as enemy vehicles and troops, and ensures that personnel and obstacles are clear of the missile's back blast.
According to House Manager and Democrat Representative Adam Bennet Schiff, a former fiscal or federal prosecutor, with the Javelin in the military inventory of Ukraine, the Russian government and their tank operators will have cold chills on their back whenever they intrude and carve again on the territory of the besiege weak country.
Gezz, déjà vu for me on that heat seeking U.S made man-portable missile’s Stingers the Yanks supplied the Talibans that became nightmares for Soviet’s pilots in the 1980s war in Afghanistan.
“The Ukrainian president can negotiate with (Russian President) Vladmir Putin from the position of strength if we send those Javelins,” Schiff told the members of the Senate dominated by the Republicans.
Javelin, according to Wikipidea, is a fire-and-forget missile with lock-on before launch and automatic self-guidance. The system takes a top-attack flight profile against armored vehicles (attacking the top armor, which is generally thinner), but can also take a direct-attack mode for use against buildings, targets inside the minimum top-attack engagement range, and targets under obstructions. The missile also has the ability to engage helicopters in the direct attack mode. It can reach a peak altitude of 150 m (500 ft) in top-attack mode and 60 m (190 ft) in direct-fire mode. It is equipped with an imaging infrared seeker. The tandem warhead is fitted with two shaped charges: a precursor warhead to detonate any explosive reactive armor and a primary warhead to penetrate base armor.
The missile is ejected from the launcher so that it reaches a safe distance from the operator before the main rocket motors ignite – a "soft launch arrangement". This makes it harder to identify the launcher; however, back-blast from the launch tube still poses a hazard to nearby personnel. Thanks to this "fire-and-forget" system, the firing team may change their position as soon as the missile has been launched, or prepare to fire on their next target while the first missile is still in the air.
The missile system is most often carried by a two-person team consisting of a gunner and an ammunition bearer, although it can be fired with just one person if necessary. While the gunner aims and fires the missile, the ammo bearer scans for prospective targets, watches for threats, such as enemy vehicles and troops, and ensures that personnel and obstacles are clear of the missile's back blast.
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