tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88229943192207958862024-02-08T16:05:01.026+10:00Saipan WriterSaipan Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10030098267460841286noreply@blogger.comBlogger590125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822994319220795886.post-43391564441463888542020-12-03T18:43:00.003+10:002020-12-03T18:43:15.822+10:00<p>Today was overcast, gray sky from the north to the south, from the east to the west, with rain all day, sometimes just mist, sometimes pouring down. It's evening, and the rain has stopped.</p><p>This is a day off in the life of writer. I'm working my job. And too tired to think of writing, too tired to read, too tired to watch inspirational or educational videos. Too tired to make lists. Too tired to clean up my desk from the NaNoWriMo typhoon that left detritus everywhere. </p><p>Just too tired.</p><p>#tootired #WritingLife #WritingCommunity #NaNoWriMo2020</p>Saipan Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10030098267460841286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822994319220795886.post-58135068448692507402020-12-01T18:28:00.002+10:002020-12-01T18:28:56.165+10:00<p> Overcast with sun all day; warm and breezy evening.</p><p>I finished the month of NaNoWriMo 2020 with a blur of blah. I completed the MG novel draft, adding more scenes, an index, historical notes afterward, at 43,000 words. Still needed 7K for an official win, so I started writing down thoughts about the next novel, a YA also on the 1856 smallpox epidemic. Those thoughts are a stream of consciousness mess. I will have to do some more serious thinking when my brain is coherent and not dead tired.</p><p>Although this counted as a "win" for #NaNoWriMo2020 and therefore I am #NaNoWinner2020 it didn't feel like a win. I have a lot to learn about writing MG novels. I'll sort some of that out in the editing process.</p><p>Congratulations to everyone participating in NaNoWriMo. Thank you to the event sponsors.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_wcHW1dIGZP3U7ZQuM_9HycS8dnaeCPppUObetZopArbXcrbN2T6k6JnVTjc9wUH18tPERd6sO7ZjlmJhuq3t6JIcB8MIAOjIfk2JN1Z_TpaP1Fg3oXgUzaePCq9bCC7RPvlSAjpDGKvr/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="295" data-original-width="260" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_wcHW1dIGZP3U7ZQuM_9HycS8dnaeCPppUObetZopArbXcrbN2T6k6JnVTjc9wUH18tPERd6sO7ZjlmJhuq3t6JIcB8MIAOjIfk2JN1Z_TpaP1Fg3oXgUzaePCq9bCC7RPvlSAjpDGKvr/" width="212" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Saipan Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10030098267460841286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822994319220795886.post-22308871665723930142020-11-19T19:34:00.002+10:002020-11-19T19:34:39.406+10:00<p> Thursday, November 19, 2020</p><p>Yesterday, there was a large crescent moon setting in the western sky in the evening. Yellow and bruised, and beautiful. Today, tropical heat. Cumulous clouds.</p><p>I've crossed the 30,000 word threshold for my 2020 NaNoWriMo novel. It's bad. But it's been a bad year, so that's not a surprise. I love my MC, but he's just not cooperating with showing his awesomeness on the page. My setting is flat. The devastation of the smallpox epidemic of 1856 isn't even pushing through. It's disheartening. </p><p>And I don't have buddy writers. Well, I have one (love her), but I need more!</p><p>Will press on. Hoping to have a draft middle-grade novel (knock-on-wood; fingers crossed) at the end of the month.</p><p>#NaNoWriMo2020 #WritingLife #WritingCommunity</p>Saipan Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10030098267460841286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822994319220795886.post-49554630939639526952020-11-17T18:01:00.008+10:002020-11-17T18:01:56.439+10:00<p> Tuesday, November 17, 2020</p><p>Tropical heat. Scattered clouds. Intermittent drizzle.</p><p>I've written more than 28,000 words on my middle grade historical fiction. My current thinking on the project: 1) I don't know enough culture and history. 2) My main character needs to have more fun. 3) I don't have enough story to make it to 50K. </p><p>On culture and history, I don't think I'll ever know enough. Part of the fun of writing is learning new things. But it's also frustrating to realize how small the drop in the bucket is. </p><p>On fun, I'm writing a story in a dark time--smallpox epidemic, people dying in droves, decimation of a people/culture. So fun isn't exactly what I was looking for. But tweens need something humorous, even dark humor. Not my strength. Need to look for opportunities for the macabre, I think.</p><p>On length, it isn't a middle-grade genre problem to be shorter than 50k, but it makes it hard to meet the NaNoWriMo challenge. Maybe I'll add some true history notes at the end.</p><p>I'm really grateful for the NaNoWriMo challenge that focuses my writing energy. Now, I have to get to my dinner, and my novel writing.</p><p>#NaNoWriMo2020 #WritingCommunity </p><p><br /></p>Saipan Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10030098267460841286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822994319220795886.post-24099018487514714272020-11-09T19:08:00.005+10:002020-11-09T19:08:53.214+10:00<p> 2020-11-09 Monday, 7pm. Mars rising in the eastern sky. Tropical warm evening.</p><p>I've been inside all day, so checking the weather to write that opening line gives me a little connection with the outside world, and is regenerating!</p><p>NaNoWriMo. I have been making promises to myself, and breaking them daily. I wanted to write 10,000 words this weekend to get ahead. I barely made 4K to just catch up.</p><p>The horror of my writing this 2020 NaNoWriMo story is that it is revealing a lot of flaws in the adult historical fiction I wrote and submitted for publication. The adult novel timeline is a mess. I really, really worked on it. I went over and over it. I have charts. I have graphs. I have different characters with specific arcs. I spent months editing. And now, by doing a middle-grade story of just one boy who shows up in the adult novel as frequent background and echo, I've found that I have him in three places on the same day--not three places close by where he might have been. No. Three places hours apart in a historical setting where walking is the only option for him and he's 12! Doing all these things on the same day. And it has been like that from the start, in other places. Character actions not lining up with the timeline that would be realistic. Gah!</p><p>Facing these problems takes the edge off the fun of writing freely for NaNoWriMo. I've never felt so uninspired and sluggish. </p><p>It helps that we have election returns. Whether they will hold up to the onslaught of narcissism and political feuding remains to be seen. That uncertainty also erodes the forward march of creativity.</p><p>Here's to everyone writing.</p><p>#NaNoWriMo #NaNoWriMo2020 #WritingCommunity </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Saipan Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10030098267460841286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822994319220795886.post-62887519135312289632020-11-05T18:44:00.002+10:002020-11-05T18:46:24.584+10:00<p> 2020-11-05 #NaNoWriMo #NaNoWriMo2020 #WritingCommunity</p><p>It's evening. Hot, humid, and too overcast to see the waning moon. (I am sitting in air-conditioning.)</p><p>I live in a lovely, tropical island paradise. November 3 was a legal holiday for elections. November 4 was a legal holiday for honoring citizenship. Two blissful days that I intended to dedicate to writing. In the past, I have proven I can write 5,000 words easily on a free day. So I was hoping to push ahead.</p><p>Instead I have been saturated with the blahs. Stressed about the election (and determined to keep my head in the sand until the air clears--I did vote!). And on top of that, I have workers doing construction at my house--blasting and drilling to remove the old concrete porch/deck to clear it away in order to build a new one. </p><p>So I had two days of headache. And little writing. I'm barely at the NaNoWriMo daily goal.</p><p>Each year, the writing experience is different. Each year, I manage to pull through somehow, although it is rarely a sure thing.</p><p>I'm writing a middle-grade historical set in Spanish colonial Guam. 1856 smallpox epidemic. (I already wrote an entire novel about this, with adult characters, but one boy popped up in that novel, and I decided he deserved his own version of the story.)</p><p>Encouragement to all (and to myself)--let's keep writing. Stories matter.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Saipan Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10030098267460841286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822994319220795886.post-15141644396055177532020-11-01T15:14:00.000+10:002020-11-01T15:14:44.958+10:00<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <b>2020-11-01 All Saints' Day and the start of NaNoWriMo.</b></span></p><p>Weather: full sun. Beautiful day in the tropics.</p><p>Mood: A little trepidation. I'm tackling a new genre for me--middle grade. With only one POV character. Nothing like a challenge.</p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I am a pantser. So my preparation for this month was </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span>1) read middle grade novels. That was fun. Read two by Pam Munoz Ryan (Esperanza Rising, The Dreamer) and one by Alan Graetz (Ban This Book!) Started reading another Graetz (Refugee) but November arrived. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span>2) make a middle-grade novel genre bingo card.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6XQuq7sb2mlX-o3FPG1NqtdHcU-Rl2CNmxTpoyJvevxwVCykGj0N8IRAxfMw-lwDheZpbMA-spPvu6if7ThMWrd_L6ei-2PZ_uLZFOQ4NCrw5y3TSObM8Yprw0IddRgTZsmy89BZxXmHv/s1972/NaNoWriMo+2020-middle+grade+bingo-cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1972" data-original-width="1688" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6XQuq7sb2mlX-o3FPG1NqtdHcU-Rl2CNmxTpoyJvevxwVCykGj0N8IRAxfMw-lwDheZpbMA-spPvu6if7ThMWrd_L6ei-2PZ_uLZFOQ4NCrw5y3TSObM8Yprw0IddRgTZsmy89BZxXmHv/s320/NaNoWriMo+2020-middle+grade+bingo-cropped.jpg" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: large;">There's nothing like procrastination.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Here's hoping everyone writes their novels this NaNoWriMo 2020.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">#NaNoWriMo #NaNoWriMo2020 #WritingCommunity</span></p><p><br /></p>Saipan Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10030098267460841286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822994319220795886.post-57754759037625953092015-06-24T01:04:00.000+10:002015-06-24T01:04:26.782+10:00Marianas Milk 2015-06-23<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Saipan Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10030098267460841286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822994319220795886.post-70894981009392627422015-06-09T10:12:00.001+10:002015-06-09T10:12:59.821+10:00Marianas Milk 2015-06-09<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Saipan Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10030098267460841286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822994319220795886.post-60047702623003391622015-06-03T14:32:00.005+10:002015-06-03T14:32:49.235+10:00Marianas Milk 2015-06-03<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm missing one from 5/22--will get it up eventually.Saipan Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10030098267460841286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822994319220795886.post-19784095765088256542015-06-02T20:48:00.000+10:002015-06-02T20:48:38.365+10:00Milk 2015-05-21<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Saipan Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10030098267460841286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822994319220795886.post-86633764446490982082015-06-02T20:23:00.000+10:002015-06-02T20:23:11.663+10:00Reviving Marianas MilkI have revived my cartooning Marianas Milk. Now focusing on the problem of meth abuse in our community. So posting them as published by Marianas Variety. published 5/13/2015<br />
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<br />Saipan Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10030098267460841286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822994319220795886.post-12612118367077928412013-09-01T16:01:00.001+10:002013-09-01T16:01:52.861+10:00<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="ja" tabindex="-1"><span class="">私は</span><span class="">PIC</span><span class="">で</span><span class="">今日の午後</span><span>じゃない</span><span>なぜここ</span><span>です</span><span>...私は</span><span>ウォーターパーク</span><span>に行く</span><span>に</span><span class="">計画した。</span><span class="">片付け</span><span class="">、</span><span>そこに着いた</span><span>ライン</span><span>で待っ</span><span>た後、</span><span>20</span><span>$</span><span>を支払う</span><span>以外に</span><span>、</span><span>私は</span><span>リリース</span><span>に署名</span><span class="">しなければならない</span><span>と言われました</span><span>。</span><br /><br /><span>私は、</span><span>リリース</span><span>を読んで</span><span> - </span> <span class="hps">PIC</span><span>は明らかに</span><span>その</span><span>過失</span><span>は</span><span>あまりにも高価</span><span>であることを</span><span>決定しました</span><span class="">し、</span><span>その利益</span><span>に切断</span><span>されています。</span><span>今では</span><span>PIC</span><span>の過失</span><span>のコスト</span><span>を想定</span><span class="">するために、その</span><span>顧客が</span><span>望んでいる。</span><span>我々は、彼らが</span><span>(現在は</span><span>PIC</span><span>財産</span><span>上の</span><span>観光客</span><span>を強姦</span><span>で告発</span><span class="">立っ</span><span>Demapan</span><span>クラブ</span><span>メイト</span><span>含む</span><span>)</span><span>雇う</span><span>を制御することはできません</span><span>、</span><span class="">我々は、彼らが</span><span>彼らの</span><span>施設や</span><span>どんな</span><span>化学物質や</span><span class="">、彼らが</span><span>使用する製品</span><span>を維持する方法</span><span>を制御することはできません</span><span>。</span><span>彼らは</span><span>怠慢</span><span>であることが</span><span>自由になりたい</span><span>ので、しかし、</span><span>我々</span><span>はもはや</span><span>、</span><span>その通常</span><span>のケア</span><span>に頼る</span><span>許可されません。</span><span>リリースには、</span><span class="">あなたの死</span><span>で</span><span>あれば</span><span>、その</span><span>過失</span><span>の</span><span>結果</span><span>、</span><span>あなたの</span><span>相続人</span><span>は、</span><span>過失</span><span>のために</span><span>PICを</span><span>訴える</span><span class="">ことができない</span><span>ことになっ</span><span class="">ていることを</span><span>、</span><span>とても</span><span>極端</span><span>です</span><span>。</span><br /><br /><span>普通に</span><span>注意する</span><span>一切の責任を</span><span>否認</span><span>しようとしていない</span><span> - </span><span>一つは、</span><span>過失</span><span>の主張</span><span>への</span><span>最高のビジネス</span><span>応答が</span><span>ケアの</span><span class="">普通の</span><span>基準を維持</span><span>するために</span><span>高められた</span><span>努力</span><span>だろうと</span><span>思うだろう</span><span>。</span><span class="">だから私は、</span><span>リリース</span><span>します(</span><span>私はそれが</span><span>法廷で</span><span>耐えられない</span><span>であろう</span><span>疑い</span><span>も)</span><span>署名しない</span><span>だろう。</span><span>ので、私</span><span>は</span><span>自宅に戻って</span><span>よ。</span><span>私は少し</span><span>のビーチ</span><span>に向かう</span><span>でしょう。</span><span>彼らは</span><span>ゲストが</span><span>リスクと</span><span>PIC</span><span>の過失</span><span>のコストを</span><span>想定する</span><span>必要</span><span class="">停止するまで</span><span>、私は</span><span>他の人が</span><span>PIC</span><span>をボイコット</span><span>することを勧めます</span><span>。</span></span></span></span>Saipan Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10030098267460841286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822994319220795886.post-17819533968916281712013-09-01T15:56:00.002+10:002013-09-01T16:01:36.544+10:00<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">Here's
why I'm not at PIC this afternoon...I planned on going to the
water park. Packed up, got there, waited in line, and then was told that
besides paying $20, I would have to sign a release. </span><br />
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release--PIC has apparently decided that its negligence is too expensive
and is cutting into its profits. Now it wants its customers to assume
the cost of PIC's negligence. We have no control o<span class="text_exposed_show">ver
who they hire (including the Demapan club mate who now stands accused
of raping a tourist on PIC property); we have no control over how they
maintain their facilities or what chemicals and products they use. But
we are no longer allowed to rely on their ordinary care, because they
want to be free to be negligent. The release is so extreme, that if
their negligence results in your DEATH, your heirs are supposed to be
unable to sue PIC for negligence. </span></span><br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="text_exposed_show">One would think that the best business
response to claims of negligence would be heightened effort to maintain
ordinary standards of care--not trying to disclaim any responsibility
to be ordinarily careful. So I wouldn't sign the release (even though I
suspect it wouldn't stand up in court); and so I'm back at home. I'll
head to the beach in a bit. I would encourage others to boycott PIC
until they stop requiring guests to assume the risk and the cost of
PIC's negligence.</span></span><br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="" id="result_box" lang="ja" tabindex="-1"><span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="ru" tabindex="-1"><span class="hps">И вот почему</span> <span class="hps">я не на</span> <span class="hps">PIC</span> <span class="hps">во второй половине дня</span> <span class="hps">...</span> <span class="hps">Я планировал</span> <span class="hps">идти в</span> <span class="hps">аквапарк.</span> <span class="hps">Упакованный</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">получил там,</span> <span class="hps">ждал своей очереди</span><span>, а затем</span> <span class="hps">сказали, что</span> <span class="hps">кроме</span> <span class="hps">платят $</span> <span class="hps">20</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">я должен был бы</span> <span class="hps">подписать документ</span><span>.</span><br /><br /><span class="hps">Я прочитал</span> <span class="hps">релиз -</span> <span class="hps">ПИК</span><span class="">, видимо, решил</span><span>, что его</span> <span class="hps">халатность</span> <span class="hps">является слишком дорогим</span> <span class="hps">и</span> <span class="hps">резки в</span> <span class="hps">своих</span> <span class="hps">прибылей.</span> <span class="hps">Теперь она</span> <span class="hps">хочет, чтобы ее</span> <span class="hps">клиентам</span> <span class="hps">взять на себя расходы</span> <span class="hps">по неосторожности</span> <span class="hps">ПИК</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Мы</span> <span class="hps">не имеем никакого контроля</span> <span class="hps">над тем, кто</span> <span class="hps">они нанимают</span> <span class="hps">(в том числе</span> <span class="hps">помощник</span> <span class="hps">Демапан</span> <span class="hps">клуба, который</span> <span class="hps">сейчас</span> <span class="hps">обвиняется</span> <span class="hps">в изнасиловании</span> <span class="hps">туриста на</span> <span class="hps">PIC</span> <span class="hps">собственности)</span><span>, мы</span> <span class="hps">не имеем никакого контроля</span> <span class="hps">над тем, как</span> <span class="hps">они поддерживают</span> <span class="hps">свои мощности или</span> <span class="hps">какие химические вещества</span> <span class="hps">и продукты</span> <span class="hps">они используют.</span> <span class="hps">Но мы никогда</span> <span class="hps">больше не разрешается</span> <span class="hps">полагаться на свои</span> <span class="hps">обычные</span> <span class="hps">заботы</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">потому что они хотят</span> <span class="hps">быть свободными, чтобы</span> <span class="hps">быть небрежным</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Выпуск</span> <span class="hps">такой</span> <span class="hps">крайности,</span> <span class="hps">что если их</span> <span class="hps">халатность</span> <span class="hps">приводит к</span> <span class="hps">вашей смерти</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">ваши наследники</span><span>, как предполагается,</span> <span class="hps">не сможет</span> <span class="hps">подать в суд</span> <span class="hps">за халатность</span> <span class="hps">PIC</span><span>.</span><br /><br /><span class="hps">Можно было бы думать</span><span>, что лучший</span> <span class="hps">бизнес</span> <span class="hps">ответ на заявления о</span> <span class="hps">халатности</span> <span class="hps">будет</span> <span class="hps">повышенный</span> <span class="hps">усилий для поддержания</span> <span class="hps">обычных</span> <span class="hps">стандартов медицинской помощи</span> <span class="hps">-</span> <span class="hps">не пытаюсь</span> <span class="hps">не несут никакой ответственности</span><span>, чтобы быть</span> <span class="hps">обычно</span> <span class="hps">осторожны.</span> <span class="hps">Поэтому я бы не</span> <span class="hps">подписать</span> <span class="hps atn">релиз (</span><span>хотя я</span> <span class="hps">подозреваю, что это</span> <span class="hps">не будет стоять</span> <span class="hps">в суде</span><span>), и</span> <span class="hps">поэтому я</span> <span class="hps">вернулся домой</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Я буду</span> <span class="hps">отправиться на пляж</span> <span class="hps">в немного.</span> <span class="hps">Я хотел бы призвать</span> <span class="hps">других</span> <span class="hps">к бойкоту</span> <span class="hps">ПОС</span><span>, пока они не</span> <span class="hps">отказаться от требования</span> <span class="hps">гостей</span> <span class="hps">взять на себя риск</span> <span class="hps">и стоимость</span> <span class="hps">халатности</span> <span class="hps">ПИК</span><span>.</span></span> </span></span> </span></span>Saipan Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10030098267460841286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822994319220795886.post-81664965461406335122013-02-23T21:40:00.006+10:002013-02-23T21:40:50.545+10:00Milk-the last of an era<span style="font-size: 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When I drew this cartoon, I had no idea that Governor Fitial would resign. I was inspired to create this because of the tradition during Lent to "give up" some pleasure or activity as a means of self-sacrifice. I thought it would be funny to think of Governor Fitial "giving up" reading the Variety. It has, after all, called for his impeachment or his resignation for years now.</div>
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I also submitted several other cartoons, now untimely--the Governor sending Valentines to the Senators (as a means of wooing them to vote against impeachment), the Governor on-stage in an opera scene handing a bouquet with extra dollar bills stuffed into it to the Gotterdamerung maiden representing the 18th Senate, and a comparison of the new year of the snake with our new year to impeach--lots of fireworks and a chance for a new beginning.</div>
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With the resignation, Benigno Repeki Fitial is no longer Governor. I am hopeful that the need for the stress relief of political cartooning will abate.</div>
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Things already seem better with Governor Eloy Inos--he has at least renewed the contract of Alan Fletcher at CUC. Fitial was so intent on monkeying around at CUC that we lost an able director (Abe Utu Malae) and were on the verge of losing Fletcher, also educated and experienced in utilities management. Fitial was obviously upset with Fletcher who refused to back the very-hinky contract with Saipan Development LLC. Inos understands that CUC must have SOMEONE in charge who knows something, and if Fletcher leaves, the vacancy will be horrible.</div>
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There there is the arrest finally of Joseph Crisostimo for the murder of Emy Romero is reassuring. Although the DPS and AG assure us that the long delay (more than a year since her murder) had nothing to do with Governor Fitial or his political pressure, you still have to wonder why it took so long when we were told last October or November by Joey San Nicolas that the lab reports were back and there would be an announcement imminently--and yet it took 3+ months to make that arrest! And coincidentally it happened only after Fitial left office. </div>
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I am so relieved that Fitial is no longer our Governor. Fitial at least got it right in his letter of resignation-his stepping down is good for our community.</div>
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Governor Benigno R. Fitial resigned this morning. Starting at 1:30 PM, our new Governor Eloy Inos and new Lieutenant Governor Jude Hofschneider were sworn in. <br />
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Eloy Inos prepares for his oath of office with Chief Justice Alexandro Castro.</div>
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Jude Hofschneider is sworn in by Presiding Judge Robert Naraja.</div>
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The news is rocking the CNMI. Few among us expected Fitial to quit without a fight in the Senate, and some of us thought he might actually "win" in the Senate and hold on to his governorship. For Fitial to resign after his impeachment brings a "new tomorrow."<br />
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Inos, from Rota, and Hofschneider, from Tinian, also make history. For the first time in CNMI history (and possibly a feat not to be repeated), we have an executive team which does not include a person from Saipan. Given that the vast majority of the Commonwealth's population resides on Saipan, having our two top executives come from very small minority communities significantly changes the dynamics in the political arena.<br />
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Each man, in his brief remarks after the swearing in, spoke of the need to work together. They both sounded sincere. <br />
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There is no question that the feeling in the jam-packed Multi-Purpose Center was hopeful.<br />
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I sinceerly wish them both good luck. Saipan Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10030098267460841286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822994319220795886.post-73067619040829040992013-02-19T20:03:00.004+10:002013-02-23T21:42:57.189+10:002013-02-11 More MilkAnother editorial cartoon from last week.<br />
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This was another flight of fancy considering what would happen if the NMIRF actually foreclosed the Guma Hustitia. Court in session with judge sitting under a young coconut tree at the beach.</div>
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<br />Saipan Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10030098267460841286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822994319220795886.post-36588941186615828442013-02-19T19:49:00.005+10:002013-02-19T19:49:34.590+10:002013-02-08 MilkThese were published by the Variety on the dates mentioned, but not in the order in which I prepared them. And of course, there is always a lag of time between an event, my art, and then submission and publication.<br />
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In a surprise move, the Fitial supporters (now the House minority) resigned from the impeachment committee. This was principally Teresita Santos and Felicidad Ogumoro. This cartoon was inspired by wondering why they would do that. Well, really, it had to be because they are loyal guard for the governor and he told them to. So I show them as junkyard dogs and Governor Fitial reining them in. In my original, I had labeled their names on the dog collars, but MV eliminated those. They did leave the dog tags showing both 17th and 18th House membership.</div>
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The little people simply state the obvious--why would they resign? No wonder, though, really. They resigned because they were told to. </div>
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This is possibly bad news. Instead of trying to obfuscate or gain time or drag things out or any other tactic to fight in the House, the Governor now seems in a hurry to get to the senate. That can only mean he thinks he's got the senators in his pocket already. </div>
<br />Saipan Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10030098267460841286noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8822994319220795886.post-33861873994843408162013-02-19T19:33:00.001+10:002013-02-19T19:33:09.213+10:002013-02-07 Marianas MilkI'm a little behind on my blogging--a week without my laptop, and then just a lot to do. But now I have a chance to catch up.<br />
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The newspapers reported that the CNMI government owes a huge amount to the NMI Retirement Fund on the loan for the Guma Hustitia (the house of justice, namely our court house). NMIRF issued a notice of default and warning that they would foreclose on their mortgage.</div>
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This cartoon is a quick sketch of that possible future, with the little guys wondering just who exactly would buy a foreclosed court house!</div>
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My original had some color on it, which I think made it nicer, but the Variety published in b&w, even online, so this is the e-version I have. </div>
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