This just in: Bears shit in the zoo, too

Question:  “Do you want another beer?”

Answer, with another question:  “Does a bear shit in the woods?”

It’s a very old American idiomatic expression, used mostly by silly old farts who don’t know any better and could care even less.

In a nutshell, it means:  “Of course.  Obviously.”

And surprise, surprise, surprise, it turns out that bears and other animals also shit in the Manila Zoo.  And that the zoo lacks even basic sewage infrastructure, so the shit is unceremoniously dumped into a nearby estero, which empties into the foul waters of Manila Bay.

But now disgraced-and-ousted former president and inexplicably-later-elected Manila Mayor Joseph “Erap” Estrada is shocked, shocked, to learn of his zoo’s environmental transgressions, and has ordered the zoo closed until the sewage system is properly upgraded.

Nobody is exactly sure when that will be.

It’s all part of Dturd’s sudden interest in “cleaning up” Manila Bay, similar to the way he “cleaned up” Boracay by illegally closing that entire island.

Well, Boracay sure needed some cleaning up, and Manila Bay does too.  But there were some pretty clear winners and losers on Boracay, and an awful lot of bullshit.

And this sure seems to be part of the same old pattern of ignoring blatant problems for years, then suddenly “discovering” them for one reason or another, at which point they are treated as a dire emergency and draconian action is announced.

And pretty soon, all is forgotten and things go back to “normal,” after some secret underlying agenda is accomplished and studiously ignored by the media, or the need for a distraction or appearance of action has waned.

It’s like a game played by silly old farts who don’t know any better and could care even less.

Will the Manila Zoo later be reopened so that families can continue to enjoy it?  Or will the sewage problems become a pretext to shut the zoo down and sell off this valuable municipal real estate to yet another politically connected Chinese crook and some well-placed local partners?

Will the media even go through the motions of following up on any of this, or will things just kind of happen, the way so many other things do, while everyone is distracted by the next big outrage or disaster?

 

Fake news and dumbfuckery cloud Boracay Scam

On April 9, The Thug admitted to GMA that there’s no master plan for addressing Boracay’s environmental woes.  That’s the problem.

But that didn’t stop GMA from reporting just two weeks later about what’s not included in the master plan, as if there were any master plan.  This is ridiculous.

GMA News has firmly established itself in the Department of Unclear on the Concept.

To wit:  There is no fucking master plan for addressing Boracay Island’s environmental problems.  That’s the problem.  They’re making this shit up as they go along.  And that’s no way to manage anything, especially an economic engine like Boracay, or to seriously improve infrastructure to protect the environment.

So reporting that some half-assed idea for a bridge is not included in the master plan is ridiculous, because there is no master plan in which the half-assed idea could be included.

But that didn’t stop GMA from “reporting” the garbled fake news that “Under the masterplan, the massive the road network is envisioned to have two lanes, drainage, gutters, sidewalks and a bike lane.”

If there is a master plan hiding out there somewhere, we’d all like to see it.

Gets mo?

Rappler busts The Thug on the Boracay Scam

“Okay, you caught me selling out to China and lying about it.  But I don’t give a shit.”

Using environmental concerns as a pretext, The Thug Regime is seizing control of the Boracay tourism cash cow so Chinese investors can milk it for themselves and share a little cream with the “right people.”

The Thug claimed he knew nothing about a new Chinese-bankrolled resort-casino that’s planned for the island.  Nobody with any sense believed him, but Rappler went the extra step and proved he was flat-out lying.

Yes, some political opportunists will use this controversy for their own purposes.  And yes, there’s already lots of illegal development, and over-development, on Boracay and it’s harming the environment.

But no, the Thug Regime has no real plan to rehabilitate the island to protect the environment, and there’s no new and imminent crisis that didn’t exist last year or ten years ago.

But there is a big new resort-casino that’s coming in, and there’s lots of money to be made and spread around.

And there’s a very pliable president in power, and he lies his ass off.