Trash talking

Our vigilant useless media were more than delighted to jump on an unknown comic for comments he made about Puerto Rico and trash. Then Biden got in the game and called Trump supporters garbage, then had to walk that back. But the fact remains, Puerto Rico has a terrible trash problem and that's what the comic was referring to. It's a bi-partisan problem, but who has been in office the last 4 years? Kamala Harris.

 
"The Puerto Rico trash problem has been growing for decades. With a population of around 3.2 million, the island generates about 3.7 million tons of waste yearly. Despite being small, the island’s landfills are full and there’s no proper recycling infrastructure. This trash crisis affects everything from health to the economy so solutions are crucial for Puerto Rico’s future."

 
Someone should have investigated before they pointed fingers. At least this year, it's her problem, and the comic did the island a favor by bringing it to the public's attention, like nothing else would (i.e., blaming Trump)

https://www.theenvironmentalblog.org/2024/10/puerto-rico-trash-problem/?

How Puerto Rico managed the medical crisis of the hurricanes

Only 22% of us can meet the 2008 physical activity guidelines and only 12% meet the guidelines for fruit and vegetable intake. But if you had a heart attack, stroke or diabetes diagnosis in 2017 or 2018, is it President Trump's fault? That's what the Puerto Rico hurricane blame reminds me of. Dr. Myriam Allende-Vigo wrote an article for the August 21 JAMA about her practice and patients in Humacao. Here's what she reveals:

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• 1) Most of the people are poor--they live in rural barrios even though there are big, high-end resorts in the area.
• 2) Because of their poverty, they didn't have generators, or the money to pay for diesel.
• 3) After the storm, there was no power, no electricity, no refrigeration, no ice.
• 4) Most of her patients have diabetes--they fhrew their insulin away unaware that it lasts a few days.
• 5) Relief organizations and other pharmacies in other cities supplied insulin. Four distribution centers set up free insulin stations.
• 6) Volunteer endocrinologists went to shelters and community centers to provide care.
• 7) Within one week there were 10,000 federal relief workers in Puerto Rico.
• 8) Within a few days, she had cell phone service (after hurricane Ike in 2008, some residents of Columbus, Ohio were without cell phones and electricity for 8 days). She with volunteers was attempting to contact her patients to educate them about eating, insulin and taking care of their feet. For reasons she didn't explain she couldn't get ahold of her staff for several weeks. By word of mouth, the patients began coming to the office.
• 9) No EMR, so they went back to paper records and prescriptions.
• 10) She never believed the death "official total" of 64.

Now what else did she say about the P.R. preparedness and local response?

• 1) "We get hurricane warnings every year. But we never thought that we would be hit so hard and that it would take us so long to get back to normal."
  2) The U.S. government response was too slow. . . she admitted it takes a few days to get there by ship with supplies.
  3) Supplies stayed in the ports too long; "they" couldn't figure out how to distribute them. Whoa Nellie! That means the governors and mayors didn't know how to distribute the supplies the U.S. sent.
  4) While people were suffering "they" took a lot of time to get organized.
  5) P.R. needs infrastructure, a better power and communication system (this was a problem before the hurricane).
  6) Hospitals and her practice are now back to normal (mid-2018); most of her patients (whom she said were poor and rural) fared well and had ample medications and were able to buy generators.7
• 7) Many physicians worked outside to take advantage of light--she is very proud at how the medical community responded.
• 8) She thanked all the volunteers who came to the island to help and she would appreciate calls of encouragement.
  9) She did not thank FEMA, the President or the people of the U.S.A. for billions appropriated which the government of P.R. has been unable to organize and use

Why is Puerto Rico a mess and why is it Trump’s fault?

I decided to research why Puerto Rico was such a financial mess before Hurricane Maria in 2017. I didn't do my usual careful 15 minutes, but spent about 3 minutes in Wikipedia, which would be a no-no if I were a student. Now I know. There are several roots to this problem--all white men, of course. 1) Christopher Columbus (1493), William McKinley (1900), Woodrow Wilson (1917), Richard Nixon (1973), and most recently Bill Clinton (1996), phasing out important parts of the favorable federal tax code over a ten-year period ending in 2006 (G.W. Bush). The U.S. did help make Puerto Rico weak, helpless and poorly run by making it a playground for the rich and providing billions to its corrupt officials, but Donald Trump was not part of that.

Millions of water bottles found undelivered in Puerto Rico

Michael Smith says:

“Puerto Rico is an island in the Caribbean. Islands in the Caribbean are statistically more likely to be hit by a hurricane each year than any other single location in the Western Hemisphere.

Puerto Rico is a self-governing island, a protectorate of the United States and receives $21 billion in aid each year and received $16 billion in disaster aid to cope with the damage done by Hurricane Maria.

There are 3.7 million people in Puerto Rico.

And yet, it is Donald Trump's fault that the Puerto Rican government was not 1) ready for the disaster, 2) had no infrastructure in place to deal with the aftermath and 3) failed at distributing donations and materials sent by aid agencies and the federal government.

This isn't a failure of Trump or FEMA, this is the legacy of a corrupt government made up of people wanting to be a big fish in a small pond at the expense of the people.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/406206-fema-confirms-millions-of-water-bottles-for-hurricane-relief

The federal government is NOT a first responder.  Democrats pretend it is when a Republican like Bush or Trump are in office, when in fact, it is the responsibility of the governor and the mayors. When a Democrat is in the White House, the media just looks the other way and finds something else to write about like racism, or homophobia.

Glenn Beck is the new Woodward and Bernstein

"Between 1972 and 1976, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein emerged as two of the most famous journalists in America and became forever identified as the reporters who broke the biggest story in American politics." [from their archives--and they probably wrote that description]

Until now. Now Glenn Beck reveals two or three scandals, payoffs, and scams a week--he's leaving "famous journalists" in the dust. This week he's connecting the dots again--Franklin Raines' tenure at Fannie Mae (which helped create our current housing bubble and crisis), where he bought up the tools for a carbon exchange, then fell into disgrace, then hooked up with other Chicago green poverty pimps, labor unions, community organizers, financiers, CEOs, a future president, the wildly rich Joyce Foundation (funds the Tides Foundation's projects), a former vice-president, a variety of communist organizations and comes out squeaky clean to be an Obama advisor. Wow. What a roller coaster from power to disgrace to an even more powerful position all in one decade.

Where are the journalists when you need them, and why are they letting a "radio clown" do all the dirty work? Something like a tenth of American voters listen to or watch Glenn Beck--and they know how to investigate their little niche of the economy in their state or specialty and they send him tips, which his staff then investigates and verifies. This used to be what our "free press" did before it became a subservient lackey of the government. This week he has also covered the Democrats trying to sneak *Puerto Rico in as the 51st state using the Tennessee Plan, and the "black robe brigade," a period in our American history when pastors actually led instead of followed.

*Puerto Ricans have voted this down 3 times--they are U.S. citizens but the 3.8 million living here cannot vote in presidential elections and have no voting representatives in Congress. They don't pay federal taxes, but receive reduced welfare and other federal benefits. The two million Puerto Ricans living on the mainland have the same rights as all other U.S. citizens.

Update: Tonight Beck revealed the Wizard behind the curtain (I thought it would be Soros) is Joel Rogers of the University of Wisconsin, of the New Party, The Workers' Party, The Apollo Alliance or whatever name our "new" communists are going by. I don't think Beck mentioned this, but the Real Barack Obama blog noted him in 2008 as the husband of one of Obama's law partners. Lots of stuff on him on the web. Just Google.

Waterboarding Sotomayor

"The Caribbean before the landing of Columbus served almost as a bridge between the north coast of South America and Florida for the Amazonian tribes in the south and the north american inhabitants. When Christopher Columbus on his second trip in 1493 landed in Puerto Rico and claimed it for Spain, he found the island populated by as many as 60,000 Arawak or Taino indians, which for the most part, were friendly compared to the Carib indians in some of the more southerly islands which were warlike and to some degree cannibalistic.

The conquest of the island didn't take long, and the peaceful Tainos were put to the task as slaves for the purpose of mining the gold that was found on the island. The gold didn't last long and in 1511 there was an uprising of the Tainos, who up to this point had believed that the Spaniards were Gods, and took a soldier by the name of Sotomayor and dunked him head first in a river for several hours to see if he would die. Just in case, they had prepared a feast for the Spaniard if he came out alive. However, it wasn't the Spanish sword that took most of the lives of the Arawaks, but the diseases that were brought from Europe and for which the indians had no defenses."

I haven't checked the authenticity of this story--just thought it had a familiar ring.

Puerto Rico was ceded to the U.S. after the war of 1898 with Spain. It became a commonwealth of the U.S. in 1952, and hoped to become the 51st state. In any case, Sonia Sotomayor isn't the daughter of immigrants, but citizens.