By Mortz C. Ortigoza
While sitting with some media men on our chairs in a dinner table at the opposition proclamation rally last Friday's night in Bayambang, Pangasinan, some congressman and congressional bets, mayors and mayoralty candidates dropped by at our table and exchanged pleasantries (we missed each other, by golly, since the pandemic in 2020 saw us scampered away from the public scenes).
My son ZJ was wide eyed and quipped to me: Pa' madami pala magaganda dito akala ko sa Dagupan City lang ang mga classy.
"Siyempre classy rin sila dito kasi mga anak ng pulitiko iyan at nagtatapon sila ng pera pag election dahil ang politics is game of the moneyed," I retorted.
When the debonair young Alaminos City Mayor Bryan Celeste passed by our table sorrounded by five bodyguards, I called him.
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| JAVELIN. The FGM-148 Javelin (AAWS-M) is an American-made portable anti-tank missile system in service since 1996, and continuously upgraded. It replaced the M47 Dragon anti-tank missile in US service.[10] Its fire-and-forget design uses automatic infrared guidance that allows the user to seek cover immediately after launch, as opposed to wire-guided systems, like the system used by the Dragon, which require the user to guide the weapon throughout the engagement. The Javelin's HEAT warhead is capable of defeating modern tanks by hitting them from above where their armor is thinnest, and is also useful against fortifications in a direct attack flight. (Wikipedia) |
"Bryan nabasa mo iyong Northern Watch Newspaper I sent sa office mo?"
My son whispered to me: Pa' iyong nakapulupot na maganda sa tabi niya artista iyan.
"Sinong artista iyan?" I asked him since I only watch foreign news outlets CNN, BBC, Fox, and Al Jazeera.
"Pauline Mendoza," he quipped.
When the young well-built Sual's Vice Mayoralty candidate John Christopher Arcinue saw me, I called him: Chris, kamusta ang laban mananalo na tayo sa Mayo?
We exchanged some brief pleasantries.
Jigger told me: Artista din iyang ex. Gf niya si Nadine Lustre.
"Alam ko sinabi ni Lolo niya si Mayor Bing".
When the tall, slim, and goddess looking multi-millionaire actress and mayoralty bet Nina Jose-Quiambao passed by sorrounded by lady aides and brawny bodyguards, I hollered:
"Mayor Nina!"
"Ay Tito Mortz!"
"Fist touch," I quipped
She reciprocated it by extending her right hand and her pricey diamond ring crowned fist touch mine.
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Damn, how Davids with their U.S and U.K made shoulder fired Javelin and NLAW anti-tank missiles and armed cheap drones' Bayraktar from Turkey routing a deteriorating nuclear power in this war.
I was ecstatic in high school reading broad sheets (Yes Virginia, this probinsiyano read newspapers already at that age) when pajama clad and sandals' wearing Mujaheddin fighters in Afghanistan were armed by the Yanks with their shoulder fired heat seeking Stinger missiles that saw Soviet Russia pilots cowed in horror as they saw their colleagues in their mighty combat jets like MIG -21s and lethally armed helicopters like Mil Mi-24s - yes the one you saw in a Rambo's flick - fell from the skies in fireballs.
Despite being "dehado", technologies like these anti tanks and anti-aircraft can be a game changer.
The hated Russians in Afghanistan withdrew humiliated in the late 1980s because of the Stingers.
After that withdrawal, the once invincible super power Soviet Union crumbled into pieces (where countries like Ukraine was independently created) as the Communist economic system proselytized, er, taught to them by Karl Mark and Vladimir Lenin failed to sustain them.
The American system fed by the ideas of Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, and others burgeoned as profit motivation (the best factor to better up the general welfare) among Capitalists like those arm manufacturers I mentioned only spruced up their superior products drawing more customers around the globe and creating more employment wherever the plants of that product are located.
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