Puerto Rico - U.S. Virgin Islands
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When you can adopt rescued dogs and cats brought to NC
from Puerto Rico after hurricanes
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article177750121.html#storylink
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Eighty-seven homeless pets – 70 dogs and 17 cats – arrived in North
Carolina last week, rescued from Puerto Rico following devastating
storms – and many of them are almost ready to meet their new families.
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This may be my Next-to-Last comment in this thread.
My pal has been found & listed at a shelter in Isabella, PR.
However, until a friend actually speaks to him, we won't
know about his kitty.
Also: Having more US businesses open shop over there,
if they paid well, PR might start a real recovery from its
long time poverty.
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I'm glad to hear your friend made it through ok. I hope his kitty is as fortunate, and that they're reunited soon.
Trump is not the problem. He set himself against the Deep State's agenda. And the Deep State's been heading for WWIII for years.
As for you, you're just a Deep State useful idiot, furthering its agenda. So I hope you enjoy cesium in your coffee. You've earned it.
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I'm assuming that when the Red Cross did the head count,
it was only people.
When my pal gets a signal to his cell phone, probably he'll
"call Home" & let someone know the details. His pictures on
Facebook show a kitty that looks more alert than my cats.
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ARRRGGHe!!
Trump threat to abandon Puerto Rico recovery sparks a backlash
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-threat-to-abandon-puerto
-rico-recovery-sparks-a-backlash/2017/10/12/cf0d0abe-af62-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html?utm_term=.ab02cbb2b960
"President Trump served notice Thursday that he may withdraw federal
relief workers from Puerto Rico and blamed the island for its failing in-
frastructure, effectively threatening to abandon the U.S. territory amid
a staggering humanitarian crisis in the aftermath of twin hurricanes."
... "On the island, residents and elected officials responded to Trump’s
Thursday tweets with outrage and disbelief."
It's true that I've not said anything nice about Donald Trump so far.
But until now, I never thought that he might be Truly Evil, rather than
just an Olde Spoiled Brat.
PR was in bad shape before Maria came thru & took out any/all structures
& facilities not built to withstand the Ages. As our Protectorate, PR is
entitled to our aide. It is US neglect that has caused at least some of
PR's poverty.
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Jennifer Lopez Takes Stage at Telethon to Perform
and Promise Puerto Rico 'You Are Not Forgotten'
http://people.com/music/jennifer-lopez-performs-puerto-rico-benefit-co
ncert/
On Saturday night, Jennifer Lopez performed at One Voice: Somos Live!
A Concert for Disaster Relief — the Puerto Rico benefit concert and
telethon she organized with her ex-husband Marc Anthony and boyfriend
Alex Rodriguez.
In addition to singing several of her hit tracks, Lopez also took the
stage to champion the fundraising efforts by a slew of -star-studded
participants.
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JLo also pledged $1 million, the first Puerto Rican/Latina to do so. She started the ball rolling.
SGG
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Originally posted by Oonjerah:
Jennifer Lopez Takes Stage at Telethon to Perform
and Promise Puerto Rico 'You Are Not Forgotten'
http://people.com/music/jennifer-lopez-performs-puerto-rico-benefit-co
ncert/
On Saturday night, Jennifer Lopez performed at One Voice: Somos Live!
A Concert for Disaster Relief — the Puerto Rico benefit concert and
telethon she organized with her ex-husband Marc Anthony and boyfriend
Alex Rodriguez.
In addition to singing several of her hit tracks, Lopez also took the
stage to champion the fundraising efforts by a slew of -star-studded
participants.
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People keep forgetting that Puerto Rico, before Maria hit, took on the survivors from the Virgin Islands. And this with a failing infrastructure, as the Donald keeps reminding everyone.
Puerto Ricans have heart. they will share the little that they have to help a neighbor.
I have to laugh every time I hear that Trump said that he met with the president of the Virgin Islands......that's you, you dumb shit!
He meant to say Governor.
SGG
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Originally posted by Oonjerah:
ARRRGGHe!!
Trump threat to abandon Puerto Rico recovery sparks a backlash
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-threat-to-abandon-puerto
-rico-recovery-sparks-a-backlash/2017/10/12/cf0d0abe-af62-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html?utm_term=.ab02cbb2b960
"President Trump served notice Thursday that he may withdraw federal
relief workers from Puerto Rico and blamed the island for its failing in-
frastructure, effectively threatening to abandon the U.S. territory amid
a staggering humanitarian crisis in the aftermath of twin hurricanes."
... "On the island, residents and elected officials responded to Trump’s
Thursday tweets with outrage and disbelief."
It's true that I've not said anything nice about Donald Trump so far.
But until now, I never thought that he might be Truly Evil, rather than
just an Olde Spoiled Brat.
PR was in bad shape before Maria came thru & took out any/all structures
& facilities not built to withstand the Ages. As our Protectorate, PR is
entitled to our aide. It is US neglect that has caused at least some of
PR's poverty.
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2 - Yes they can. If California were falling into the ocean, or the same thing that happened to Puerto Rico happened instead to Hawaii, we'd be calling them Refugees. The term's orginal use was just for persons seeking refuge. Refuge itself meaning "shelter or protection from danger or distress".
The current use of the word is bullshit and is under discussion currently for redefinition...
I looked up "refugee" online: English Oxford Living Dictionaries:
"A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster."
Like your pals Kiki and Siggy always like to say: Cites please!
Who is discussing the redefinition of the word refugee, I want to check it myself, so please post a link or give me a name, something to go on. Notice too that it says "leave their country" and since Puerto Rico is a territory, and it's people American Citizens; they can't very well leave the country they are already in.
Seeking "refuge" from the storm is the correct way to describe the plight of the people from Houston, Florida, California, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands - Americans all. Refuge comes from the French word meaning "to flee." If you want to get technical.
But "Refugee" usually connotes a person "fleeing" from another country, as stated above, because of religious or political persecution....like those white boys that came from England and crash-landed on Plymouth Rock all those years ago. Like that!
Whenever I hear the term refugee, I think of those poor fucks from Syria seeking asylum from the gassing and bombing by the evil motherfuckers from Assad's group.
Now those are refugees!
But the poor motherfuckers that survived the wildfires out west, and the poor slobs in Houston and Key West, well they are survivors. I have never seen a T-shirt that says..."I'm a refugee from 9/11" No, it's "I'm a survivor of 9/11." Did you ever hear someone say..."I'm a refugee of the plane crash." You get the picture, don't you?
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Add to that the fact that Puerto Ricans are Americans only in the very loosest sense of the word.
This is an incontrovertible truth that Puerto Ricans and Virgin Islanders are American citizens,
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"According to The Citizens Educational Foundation, June 9, 1999: Persons born in Puerto Rico acquire U.S. citizenship under 8 U.S.C. 1402, which is part of the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act. This is statutory citizenship rather than citizenship arising from birth or naturalization in a state of the union under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. U.S. citizenship is protected by the U.S. Constitution from being taken away arbitrarily. Congress cannot take away citizenship previously granted to Puerto Ricans....without any legitimate purpose."
Puerto Ricans became U.S. citizens in March 2, 1917 (just in time for WWI) signed into law by Woodrow Wilson, known as the Jones Act. In other words, U.S. citizens by law. FULL FLEDGED Americans, although somewhat complicated when it comes to voting and other privileges such as tax nd so on. Last year Puerto Ricans paid $3.3 Billion in taxes, fees and tariffs to the U.S. Govt.
You can talk until you're blue in the face but, Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens.
They don't vote for POTUS, but if they move to the "mainland" they can. Because they are U.S. citizens. To say it's complicated is a gross understatement.
SGG
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Here's a video by Splinter/Jack Mirkinson on Puerto Rico
https://splinternews.com/lets-start-talking-about-puerto-rico-honestly
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SGG
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Originally posted by Oonjerah:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/opinion/trump-fails-puerto-rico.htm
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Comments: David Ricardo, Massachusetts - 3 Oct 17 says,
Oh, please. This column is what Trump would call "fake news." There has been only one individual on the entire island who complained about the federal government's response, the mayor of San Juan. This mayor had not met with FEMA officials and had not participated in recovery efforts. The governor of Puerto Rico was initially quite positive on the federal government's actions.
The problems with distribution in PR are due to unionized drivers failing to show up for work. There are tons of supplies in the port ready for distribution, and the local drivers are nowhere to be found. Let's put the criticism where it belongs.
In addition, PR is plagued by poor governance and corruption. I, for one, do not want to dump a bunch of aid on an island without the government infrastructure to manage it. Puerto Rico has a long history of incompetence and corruption, and let's not use Hurricane Maria as an excuse to bail out these crooks.
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OK. I quote Ricardo because he does speak to something I
suspected. Altho from here, I dunno if Mayor Yulin Cruz
is at fault, or is it the Governor Rossello?
When I first began to read about PR after this disaster
struck ... I saw that they appear to have huge debt for
a state of only 3.6 million citizens. And no way to work
out of it 'cause unemployment is also very high? Seems
like business as usual in PR had the citizens in dire
straits beFore the storm.
I've no idea of the age distribution of people there.
What percentage are employable? Are there jobs to be had?
If so, do they get even minimum wage? ... I don't know.
We often call such places "a banana republic." This one's
a banana US protectorate that we're not managing very well
at all. If things don't work down there, isn't it on the USA
to fix ... We like to interfere & we're good at it.
But if it was our 51st state ... that's a different story.
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