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2019-10-29 at 9 PM UTC in Would you fuck this girl even though her vagina smells like poop?
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2019-10-29 at 8:58 PM UTC in Trump administration admits they illegally withheld billions in Puerto Rico disaster relief fundshttps://www.dcreport.org/2019/10/24/team-trump-admits-holding-back-billions-for-puerto-rico-disaster-recovery/
Trump administration officials have admitted that last summer they knowingly withheld billions of dollars Congress appropriated to help Puerto Rico recover from Hurricane Maria. House Democrats say withholding the relief money violates the law.
Federal law requires that our government help Americans hit by natural disasters. But two Housing and Urban Development officials acknowledged at a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Oct. 17 that HUD blocked the Puerto Rico relief funds.
The HUD delay meant the island missed a deadline to apply for billions of dollars in disaster relief funds, raising doubts about when, if ever, the money will flow to the island devastated in September 2017 by a Category 5 hurricane.
The federal money is part of a $19 billion supplemental disaster relief bill that Congress passed in June. It came with stipulations requiring HUD to provide funding notices to nine states and two American territories, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The agency published the required guidance in the federal register for 9 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands on Aug. 30, 2019. But HUD intentionally left Puerto Rico out of the notices, the HUD officials admitted.
Without the required guidance, the island territory could not apply for the disaster money appropriated by Congress. The guidance required the nine states and the U.S. Virgin Islands to submit detailed plans on how each jurisdiction would spend HUD Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery Program funds.
Puerto Rico is supposed to be the largest recipient of these funds, with $8.3 billion for large mitigation projects to prepare for future storms and prevent a repeat of the catastrophic devastation from Hurricane Maria.
In a Sept. 5 letter to HUD Secretary Ben Carson, Representative David Price, a North Carolina Democrat, who chairs the House Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Subcommittee, and Representative Nita Lowey, a New York Democrat who chairs the Appropriations Committee, expressed concerns about delaying the funds.
“If anything, Puerto Rico should [receive] a special urgency,” Price said. “The delay is not acceptable and it’s certainly not acceptable to single-out Puerto Rico. The president’s rhetoric on this raises a lot of questions about what’s going on here and where this directive is coming from.”
Even the ranking Republican on the subcommittee, Representative Mario Diaz-Balart, a Miami area Republican, criticized HUD’s holding back funds in “this critically important program.”
Cautiously, Diaz-Balart said, “I’m troubled… and of course, have a special concern” when requirements in Congressional appropriations are not met because it may mean even greater taxpayer costs in the future.
At the hearing, Irv Dennis, HUD’s chief financial officer, and David Woll, deputy assistant secretary for community planning and development, defended the action.
They cited talking points that Carson, Trump and others have used in asserting that funds were withheld because of “concerns about misused of funds,” “alleged corruption, fiscal irregularities and Puerto Rico’s capacity to manage the funds” especially after the governor resigned amid protests and a corruption scandal.
Woll claimed that millions of federal relief dollars had already been wasted and didn’t reach the people of Puerto Rico. He also asserted that officials were concerned after the mass protests that eventually led to the Aug. 2 resignation of Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló.
Woll also noted that HUD is not a first-line disaster relief agency, as if that were relevant.
Chairman Price wasn’t buying it.
“I think you are posing a false choice and … with respect of obeying the law, it shouldn’t be a difficult job, should it,” Price asked during the committee’s hearing Thursday.
Incredulous at the HUD conduct, Price said, “You had the option of ignoring the law because of alleged troubles in Puerto Rico… that justifies you breaking the law?”
Trump has a contentious, even contemptuous, relationship with Puerto Rico, often lashing out at local lawmakers on Twitter. He famously tossed rolls of paper towels to people suffering without electricity and drinkable water after Maria passed.
The slow response from the federal government has been blamed for the death of thousands of people, something Rosselló also denied for months. Trump has refused to accept that 2,975 people died. He also has denied that the federal government relief response was slow.
Instead, Trump has attacked his critics on Twitter noting that he has “taken better care of Puerto Rico than any man ever.”
Trump claims that the island has received $90 billion in Hurricane Maria disaster relief. That’s false. Puerto Rico has only received $14 billion in funds from the $42.8 billion Congress allocated.
Holding back more than $28 billion in relief money isn’t all Team Trump is doing to hurt the islands more than 3 million residents. Trump is trying to divert $155 million from FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to help build his border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, an issue expected to be explored in a future Congressional hearing.
Today a least 30,000 Puerto Rico homes are without roofs two years after the hurricane brought flooding, destroyed the electrical grid and deprived thousands of drinking water and shelter. Many homes now rely on blue tarps stretched overhead to keep rain from falling into their homes. -
2019-10-29 at 8:45 PM UTC in What are you listening to right now, space nigga?Shut the fuck up hikki, all your music is trash.
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2019-10-29 at 8:45 PM UTC in Bigots stage walkout after devout scholar praises God.Terrorists win.
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2019-10-29 at 8:39 PM UTC in I hope you all die
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2019-10-29 at 8:31 PM UTC in Would you fuck this girl even though her vagina smells like poop?"girl"
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2019-10-29 at 8:29 PM UTC in My moldy fruit
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2019-10-29 at 8:26 PM UTC in Your thoughts at the moment
Originally posted by Greenspam Fire extinguisher full blast..clouding everything..I'm told it will absorbed any spray and the creature will just take off before it does so.It will stil! Smell up the neighborhood but not localize your garage.
We get them just outside the building here.. Yet I never know what spooks them to do so. Maybe a cat?
I've heard the best way is to just scare them and leave the room. They'll get freaked out and leave on their own. Otherwise you risk cornering them trying to get em out, and thats how you get the rabies -
2019-10-29 at 7:55 PM UTC in Vicar in a TutuNo. Morality is objective. As long as you don't hurt others, it's moral. And yes, that means shit like buying an iPhone or Nestle products or cocaine is immoral. We just say it isnt because it makes us feel better about ourselves.
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2019-10-29 at 7:53 PM UTC in The CIA created the feminine Asian male archetype
Originally posted by Kuntzschutz Mexicans should stick to making beaner food and beer. I really don't even care for their beer but at least that's hard to fuck up on. Anything I've had from Mexico that was not beer or food was inferior quality.
I once had a blue pot made in Serbia, and someone stole it at some point when I moved. I tried to find a new one, and found one that looked almost exactly the same but made in mexico. The metal warped as soon as I used it and the lid wouldn't fit correctly.
Fucking stupid beaners, even people from a war torn shithole like serbia can produce better quality goods.
Most beer in America is Mexican.
Also we produce only high quality goods. Your anecdotal experience, which is probably a lie, does not discount the everyday stuff from Mexico that Americans and people worldwide use.
My parents bought a set of pots and pans from Mexico when they got married 30+yrs ago and its all in great condition. Still in daily use. -
2019-10-29 at 7:50 PM UTC in The CIA created the feminine Asian male archetypeAlso mexicans are actually likeable.
I have not liked most Chinese people I met. The singaporeans and Taiwanese are cool but Chinese people are a different breed. Completely brainwashed and unable to think for themselves.
Everybody in Asia thought it was awesome i was from Mexico. Their stereotype is that we are friendly and party a lot, which is true. -
2019-10-29 at 7:48 PM UTC in ieither the cops in poland got tipped off by us cops and want to test me right nowSTOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM
Pay the court a fine or serve your sentence, your child porn is now forfeit -
2019-10-29 at 7:46 PM UTC in I hope you all die
Originally posted by Kuntzschutz That's a shame, I hope everyone has a blessed day, even the most annoying people.
I've got some projects to work on, involving flywheels and magnets, and it's possible velocities will be reached that would be like a bomb going off if something goes wrong, potentially cutting people in half and such.
But it's very exciting and I love everyone as a result. Hobbies are good.
I hope you die, fag.
Totse2k ur alright tho -
2019-10-29 at 7:46 PM UTC in The outer worldsPls use spoilers fags
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2019-10-29 at 7:45 PM UTC in Your thoughts at the moment
Originally posted by Technologist Had to chase a skunk out of my garage last night. We have my cat food in there. Got him out, although I was afraid of getting sprayed. Put the cat food up on a shelf. Damn he startled me, glad he didn’t spray my whole garage, that’d be a mess.
Pepe le pew just lookin for some love :( -
2019-10-29 at 7:42 PM UTC in Bye Carl.What a great day to not live in Ohio
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2019-10-29 at 7:40 PM UTC in The CIA created the feminine Asian male archetype
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny well i guess iphones amd ipads and macbooks are cheap shits.
boeing are cheap shits too.
huh, whats that ?
made in china teslas ?
NASA produces most of their their goods in Mexico
Samsung and Vizio
Colgate
2/3 of all beer in America
Cadillac, Volkswagen, and Escalade vehicles are all made in Mexico, among many others
75% of all medical supplies in America
40% of jeans
3rd largest tire producer in the world
Bose speakers
Fender electric guitars
Everything Brach's
The baseballs for MLB
Etc
There's a reason 'made in China' is synonymous with garbage. Lol @ using boeing as an example too.
Mexico actually has standards and only produces high quality products. China has no standards and produces mainly low quality. Even Chinese people don't want to buy Chinese. That's why smuggling basic ass shit like baby formula is such a huge business there.
Mexicans buy Mexican because they know its quality. Americans do the same. -
2019-10-29 at 7:30 PM UTC in I have renounced my degenerate, western, tranny ways.
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2019-10-29 at 5:59 PM UTC in The CIA created the feminine Asian male archetype
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny because they have to, and not as productive.
theres a reason why america had to send millions of jobs thousands of miles abroad to china instead of just across the border into mexhico.
because spics, like niggers, arent productive.
Except a huge amount of American products are made in Mexico. People go to Mexico for quality. They go to 中国 for cheap shit. -
2019-10-29 at 5 PM UTC in The R'tarded thread: The Shitfucking Edidtion 💩🖕
Originally posted by DietPiano So yesterday I ended up smoking a good amount of meff and then I went trembling cold, hands super shaky and kind of off balance, then I checked my temp a few times, it got down to 95 at one point and I was concerned, but then it went back up to normal, then eventually on the crash I felt super fevery and neurotoxic during the crash like I usually do at those doses then went to bed.
Woke up and had a rhabdo orange/brown piss and not very much of it, then noticed my eyes look yellow especially under the bottom eyelids.
What concerns me now is all the 15+ pills a day I take, I kinda want to see how my organs are doing.
I was going to buy a bottle today but this post legitimately just changed my mind. Thanks
