Puerto Rican Cop Says Local Gov Preventing Aid From Getting to People

Puerto Rican Cop Says Local Gov Preventing Aid From Getting to People
"A Puerto Rican police officer says that the United States military needs to take over disaster relief on the hurricane-ravaged island because the local government is not doing what needs to be done.

The distraught female officer, who was able to get a call in to a Hispanic radio station in New York (La Mega) last week, described the gross incompetence and inaction she has been witnessing in the wake of the hurricane. 

She said she couldn't give her name because she works for Puerto Rico's police department.

FEMA reported in a news release on September 21 that commodities such as meals, water, cots, and blankets were already pre-positioned and ready for distribution at its Distribution Center and Warehouse in San Juan. 
More supplies have been shipped in since then.

As of September 30, at least 10,000 shipping containers of food, water, medicine and other critical supplies were sitting on the docks at the port in San Juan, but were not moving because of a lack of truck drivers, some of whom appear to be on strike..."
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The Psychology of Overrated Art - Foundation for Economic Education - Working for a free and prosperous world

The Psychology of Overrated Art - Foundation for Economic Education - Working for a free and prosperous world:
"For as long as I can remember, the "My child could do that" critique of modern painting and sculpture has resonated with me. 
Broadly defined, I hasten to add, modernity creates great new visual art all the time; just look at graphic novels over the last forty years. 
But to my eyes, high-status painting and sculpture - the kind displayed in the "modern" section of museums - almost always looks like junk. 
When my little boy loudly declared, "That's not art!" at the modern section of the National Art Gallery, I thought of the Emperor's New Clothes and proudly smiled.

I know that most art aficionados will attribute my philistine position to ignorance. 
But what's my theory about where they go wrong? 
I can hardly call them ignorant; they plainly know vastly more about the art they prize than I do.
Instead, I blame their aesthetic errors on some well-known psychological biases. Leading the list:

1. Confirmation bias. Human beings have a serious case of "believing is seeing." If they expect some artworks to be good - say, because they're in a museum - they'll look around for the faintest sign of aesthetic merit. They'll rationalize. And before long, many viewers will convince themselves that almost anything they expected to be good is good.
2. Hindsight bias. Once people know what actually happened, they find it hard to believe that anything else was ever possible. Even when "luck" and "coincidence" clearly drive the results, we prefer stories about "deep causes" and "inevitability." Thus, when an artist achieves worldwide fame, our natural inclination is to attribute his success to aesthetic skill - and dismiss the possibility that he merely won a lottery.
3. Conformity. Psychologist Solomon Asch famously designed an experiment with one subject and seven confederates. He gave them a simple task - comparing the lengths of lines–then repeatedly ordered all the confederates to give the false answer. Result: When everyone else says something wrong, people do more than say the wrong thing. When debriefed, many subjects seem to sincerely believe the wrong thing. So if you're in a museum where everyone around you claims soup cans are great art, mere consensus can plausibly change your mind for no good reason.
4. Social Desirability Bias. People prefer to say and believe whatever sounds good. "The stuff in the museum is great" sounds a lot better than "My child could do that."

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NFL Brand Favorability PLUMMETS. Viewership Drops. League Execs Hit Panic Button. | Daily Wire

NFL Brand Favorability PLUMMETS. Viewership Drops. League Execs Hit Panic Button. | Daily Wire:

"Following the National Football League's full embrace of the #TakeAKnee national anthem protests this weekend, a new Morning Consult poll provides yet more evidence that the league's handling of the issue has done real damage to the brand. The survey found the NFL's brand favorability nearly sliced in half in a week and at its lowest point since they began tracking it back in May. The news follows dramatic drops in viewership on Sunday, down around 10% over last year, and Thursday, down 13%."

Articles: How to Destroy a Nation

Articles: How to Destroy a Nation
How to Destroy a Nation

By Randolph Parrish

"In The Possessed, Dostoyevsky has his character Shatov exclaim:

If a great people does not believe that the truth is only to be found in itself alone (in itself alone and exclusively); if it does not believe that it alone is fit and destined to raise up and save all the rest by its truth, it would at once sink into being ethnographical material, and not a great people…

Put another way, if a nation has confidence in itself, it continues as a viable political entity. Once it loses that, it lacks cohesion and becomes only a collection of random people living together.

In the 19th century, the British people believed in themselves. 
This confidence fueled their impetus for Empire; they embraced the need, the duty, even, to bring democracy, Christianity, and the British way of life to the entire world. 
No one doubted their heaven-sent mandate to do so. 
So much so, that Britain almost singlehandedly assumed the mission of ending the slave trade. 
As much as one-sixth of the Royal Navy was eventually assigned to this task, patrolling the Atlantic, and eventually freeing in the process 150,000 African captives. 

In Zanzibar, the ancient Muslim slave market was closed and an Anglican church erected on the spot, with the slave whipping post being exchanged for an altar. 
Truth, justice, and righteousness had prevailed, thanks to British arms.

In another part of Africa, David Livingston, after observing an Arab slave raid on an African village, devoted himself to the crusade -- there is no better term for it -- against the traffic, becoming an English hero for so doing.

And if my disclosures regarding the terrible Ujijian slavery should lead to the suppression of the East Coast slave trade, I shall regard that as a greater matter by far than the discovery of all the Nile sources together. -- (Livingstone in a letter to the editor of the New York Herald)

In India, the thug cult of stranglers was suppressed. As was Sati, by General Charles Napier:

This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs."  

Fast forward now to the America of the 21st century. 
A U.S. Army soldier hears the screaming of young boys as they are being sexually abused by Afghan police. 
"At night we can hear them screaming, but we're not allowed to do anything about it." 
His superior officers, according to the account, "told him to look the other way because it's their culture." 

It is not an American custom. 
But America no longer believes that it has any right to intervene. 
All cultures are alike, we have been told; no one is better than any other, not even our own. 
We have lost our moral confidence.

If you want to destroy a nation, you find a way to denigrate its belief in itself.

• Smear its founders. 
• Belittle its accomplishments. 
• Pillory it for failing to live up to its ideals. 
• Mock its most sacred traditions. 
• Deride its heroes.

In the end, you will no longer have a nation, but only a collection of tribes, who occupy the same space but share no common concepts. 
There is nothing to unify them. 
In other words, you will be able to pinpoint that country with geographical data, but you will not find a national people.

One can argue that Britain ceased to be a nation when "to be British" no longer referred to a shared set of cultural beliefs. 
Today we may speak only of the "British Isles". 
America too now has headed down that long path to cultural oblivion. 
Being "American" once meant mom, apple pie, Sunday School, fair play, democracy, equality, and decency. 
But who is there going to be left who retains the moral confidence necessary to be an American in that old sense, once our political and academic leaders have finished their job of wrecking our past?"

AM Fruitcake

History for October 2

History for October 2 - On-This-Day.com
Mahatma Gandhi 1869, Groucho (Julius) Marx 1890 - "Marx Brothers" movies and his quiz show "You Bet Your Life", Bud Abbott 1895 


Graham Greene(liberal) 1904, Rex Reed 1938, Don McLean 1945 


1780 - British army major John Andre was hanged as a spy. He was carrying information about the actions of Benedict Arnold.


1919 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed.


1924 - The Geneva Protocol adopted the League of Nations.


1937 - Warner Bros. released "Love Is on the Air." Ronald Reagan made his acting debut in the motion picture. He was 26 years old.


1950 - "Peanuts," the comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz, was published for the first time in seven newspapers.


1955 - "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" debuted on CBS-TV.


1959 - "The Twilight Zone" debuted on CBS-TV. The show ran for 5 years for a total of 154 episodes.


2001 - NATO, for the first time, invoked a treaty clause that stated that an attack on one member is an attack on all members. The act was in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States.

NFL's Week 4 sees dozens of players kneel, raise fists during national anthem | Fox News

NFL's Week 4 sees dozens of players kneel, raise fists during national anthem | Fox News:

"“Very important that NFL players STAND tomorrow, and always, for the playing of our National Anthem. Respect our Flag and our Country!” Trump wrote.

During a fiery speech at a political rally in Alabama on Sept. 22, Trump called for NFL owners to fire players who engaged in such a protest. In the days that followed, the president issued a series of tweets reiterating his views and calling for a boycott of games by fans."

Protest This, Colin: The U.S. Now Ranks 11th In Economic Freedom, Thanks To Obama | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

Protest This, Colin: The U.S. Now Ranks 11th In Economic Freedom, Thanks To Obama | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:

"Here's something worthy of public protest: The U.S. isn't even in the top 10 in the world when it comes to economic freedom. That's bad for anyone in this country struggling to make ends meet.

Each year, the Cato Institute puts out a comprehensive ranking of more than 150 countries based on five measures of economic freedom: the size of government, the legal system and property rights, sound money, trade policies, and regulation.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the U.S. ranked in the top 5. By 2008, the country had slipped into sixth place.

But then came the Obama years. His big-spending, tax-hiking, regulating policies were, by his own estimation, supposed to quickly end the recession and drive annual economic growth up to 4%."

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WATCH: Berkeley Protesters Try To Explain What They're Protesting. It's Hilarious. | Daily Wire

WATCH: Berkeley Protesters Try To Explain What They're Protesting. It's Hilarious. | Daily Wire:
"Despite the cancellation of the "Free Speech Week," which was allegedly going to star Milo Yiannopoulos, Ann Coulter, and Steve Bannon, a bunch of social justice activists converged on Berkeley to protest anyhow. 
So YouTube personality Fleccas, real name Austen Fletcher, arrived on the scene to learn firsthand what all those outraged activists were specifically protesting. 
By the end of the day, Fletcher came to the conclusion that a vast majority of them don't really know and even fewer are able to defend their incoherent political positions.

Fletcher posted a simultaneously hilarious and depressing video (below) of his time at Berkeley on YouTube to give everyone a chance to look into the minds of the social justice left. 
The video opens with one hysterical female protester shouting, "You're f***ing insulting my identity! How could you look me in the eye!? How could you do that!? How could you let that happen?! ... I know you feel your racism! I know you feel your privilege!"
"Stop laughing at her!" yells another protester to someone who apparently couldn't hold in a few laughs at the over-the-top accusations..."
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Grit - What Conservatives Need - TheCollegeConservative.com

Grit - What Conservatives Need - TheCollegeConservative.com:
"Grit, as defined by Webster’s Dictionary, is “firmness of mind or spirit :unyielding courage in the face of hardship or danger.”
Essentially, grit is a will to continue on against all odds.
And grit is something that conservatism desperately needs right now.
A PROUD HISTORY UNDER SIEGE
Conservatives are America’s backbone. 

Through the decades, our ideology has stood the test of time. 

We’ve brought hundreds of thousands out of poverty, and preserved the moral truth enshrined in our nation’s identity.
...The left will chip away at the ethical motivation of a conservative. 

It will devalue our ethical roots, and the fundamental values of freedom.
...Fortunately for us, we know the truth. 

That truth is that our beliefs have helped shape America into what it is today. 

We must not give them up for anyone’s outlandish politics.
SO WHAT ARE WE TO DO?

While President Truman may not be a conservative icon, his words hold true to our position today.
“Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.” -Harry S. Truman

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Carr: Left cries 1st Amendment only when convenient | Boston Herald

Carr: Left cries 1st Amendment only when convenient | Boston Herald:

"Suddenly the alt-left is very concerned about the First Amendment rights of people — some people, anyway.

Specifically, George Soros et al. care about those useful idiots in shoulder pads whom they want to use in their unending attempts to overturn the results of the 2016 presidential election"

Menendez has set a new low for blatant corruption in the US | New York Post

Menendez has set a new low for blatant corruption in the US | New York Post
"The bribery trial of senior New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez has it all.
Menendez is facing charges that he sold his US Senate office to a Palm Beach, Fla., eye doctor, his co-defendant Salomon Melgen, for bribes in the form of private jets stocked with Menendez’s favorite beverages, a private villa at one of the lushest resorts in the Caribbean, and a Paris hotel suite for which Melgen spent 650,000 American Express points.
...That relationship allowed Menendez to enjoy a lifestyle far beyond his legitimate income of $174,000.
It was a life of luxury funded by one of the largest Medicare frauds in history, a $105 million scheme for which Melgen has already been convicted on 67 counts of fraud in a separate federal trial in Florida.
In return, Menendez allegedly got Melgen visas for his girlfriends, pressured the State Department to deliver a Dominican port-security contract and pressed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to approve the massive Medicare overbilling scheme that kept the good times rolling.

• ...Sometimes a friend gives a senator access to the private jet. 
• And a friend lets a senator use a luxury resort villa and gives the senator hundreds of thousands of American Express points. 
• And what senator wouldn’t try to get his friend’s many supermodel girlfriends into the country? 
• Or steer his friend — an eye doctor with no security background — a massive port-security contract? 
• Or try to get him off the hook for the Medicare fraud that keeps both of them in the style to which they’ve grown accustomed?

‘The case against Menendez as a legal matter doesn’t look close, it looks overwhelming.’ - Ari Melber..."

8 Really Bad Laws That Went Into Effect Today - Hit & Run : Reason.com

8 Really Bad Laws That Went Into Effect Today - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"Every year, thousands of new laws go into effect across the country on October 1.
States use the start of the fiscal year to begin enforcing these laws.
A sobering number of these laws will turn out to be bad.
...Here are eight of the worst going into effect today around the country and around the world!

• Touching your phone in Oregon---From this day forward, Oregon drivers are prohibited from touching their cellphones while operating their vehicles, except to make a single swipe intended to turn a phone off. While lawmakers passed the prohibition to make it easier for cops to enforce cellphone while driving laws, the "single swipe" exception is sure to muddy that...
• Gummy bear-ijuana ban in Colorado---As of today, gummy bears, chocolate bunnies, and other playfully-shaped marijuana edibles are banned in Colorado, where recreational marijuana has been legal since 2014..."

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WATCH: Crowder Infiltrates Antifa At Shapiro Event, Antifa Offers Weapons | Daily Wire

WATCH: Crowder Infiltrates Antifa At Shapiro Event, Antifa Offers Weapons | Daily Wire:

""Are they really an inconsequential group of rabble rousers?" asks Crowder of the group that has been championed by so many on the Left. As the video shows, and as so many around the country have learned over the last year, the answer is a resounding no.

One of the reasons they are so influential, Crowder explains, is their broad support base on the Left. "Antifa is in a PR battle, so what they claim and what they do is very different," says Crowder. But behind the scenes, they are organizing and planning — as his undercover operatives found out firsthand — to enact violence."

Why Didn't They Shoot the German?

Articles: Why Didn't They Shoot the German?
"I was watching a World War II movie in a theater, with an Asian immigrant friend, when I learned a lesson in culture that no university could have taught better. 
In one battle scene, there is a cease-fire order, and a German soldier approaches the British position, under a white flag of truce.
The British commander steps forward, completely vulnerable, but the Germans do not shoot.
There is a brief exchange of words, as the Germans demand surrender, and the British commander declines.
Both men then return to their positions, and the deadly fighting resumes.
My friend in the theater leaned toward me, and quietly asked, why didn’t they shoot the German?
I was both amused and horrified at the question.
It was unthinkable that one would shoot a man under a white flag, so unthinkable that it was literally laughable. I actually did laugh.
My answer was, they can’t shoot him; he’s under a white flag.
My Asian friend was perplexed for a moment, and then got it. 
So, this is how Western people fight wars.
This incident sticks in my memory all these years later, because it enlightened me to a profound truth.
Not all cultures are equal. 
In that same war, the Japanese, for example, had utterly no regard for our white flags, unless it suited their purposes.
Their concept of honor was utterly unlike ours. 
To them, it was the white flag of surrender that was dishonorable, and anyone who surrendered, friend or enemy, was a pariah.
...When Middle-Easterners take up residence in the West, they have no intention of adopting our values and morals. 
Quite the opposite, they seek to impose their will upon us, by force if necessary, by mass murder if it comes to that.
...I have long wondered why it is that the American left supports unfettered Muslim immigration to America. 
I am beginning to understand.
The American left shares many of the cultural values of the Middle East, including the practice of brutalizing anyone who openly disagrees with them.
Antifa is the glaring example of that."

‘Inept’ Puerto Rican government ‘riddled with corruption’: CEO | New York Post

‘Inept’ Puerto Rican government ‘riddled with corruption’: CEO | New York Post
"Jorge Rodriguez, 49, is the Harvard-educated CEO of PACIV, an international engineering firm based in Puerto Rico that works with the medical and pharmaceutical sectors.
The Puerto Rican-born engineer says he has dispatched 50 engineers to help FEMA rehabilitate the devastated island — a commonwealth of the United States — after Hurricane Maria.
He refuses to work with the local government, which he called inept and riddled with corruption.
For the last 30 years, the Puerto Rican government has been completely inept at handling regular societal needs, so I just don’t see it functioning in a crisis like this one. 
Even before the hurricane hit, water and power systems were already broken. 
And our $118 billion debt crisis is a result of government corruption and mismanagement.
The governor Ricardo Rossello has little experience. He’s 36 and never really held a job and never dealt with a budget. 
His entire administration is totally inexperienced and they have no clue how to handle a crisis of this magnitude.
For instance, shortly after the hurricane hit, the government imposed a curfew from 6 pm to 6 am and then changed it. 
Now, it’s 7 pm to 5 am, and makes no sense. 
The curfew has prevented fuel trucks from transporting their loads. 
These trucks should have been allowed to run for 24 hours to address our needs, but they have been stalled, and so we have massive lines at gas stations and severe shortages of diesel at our hospitals and supermarkets.

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Report: Puerto Rico Teamsters Union, “Frente Amplio”, Refuse to Deliver Supplies – Use Hurricane Maria as Contract Leverage… | The Last Refuge

Report: Puerto Rico Teamsters Union, “Frente Amplio”, Refuse to Deliver Supplies – Use Hurricane Maria as Contract Leverage… | The Last Refuge:
"Puerto Rican born and raised, Colonel Michael A. Valle (”Torch”), Commander, 101st Air and Space Operations Group, and Director of the Joint Air Component Coordination Element, 1st Air Force, responsible for Hurricane Maria relief efforts, has the following comment:

…They have the generators, water, food, medicine, and fuel on the ground, yet the supplies are not moving across the island as quickly as they’re needed.

“It’s a lack of drivers for the transport trucks, the 18 wheelers. Supplies we have. Trucks we have. There are ships full of supplies, backed up in the ports, waiting to have a vehicle to unload into. However, only 20% of the truck drivers show up to work. These are private citizens in Puerto Rico, paid by companies that are contracted by the government”.. (link)

The ports are so full of relief supplies they can’t fit any more on the available space....
The reason for truck drivers not showing up?
The Puerto Rican Teamsters Union, Frente Amplio, is refusing to move the product.

"The toothless guy is complaining about a law that the governor passed three weeks ago.
The reporter CONFIRMS that the truck drivers are refusing to work in order to get revenge on the governor.
The toothless guy says that the governor’s policies have impacted truckers, so now truckers will show the country THEIR OWN suffering.
The reporters says, “But all this stuff is in the past. In the present, it’s an emergency.”
The toothless guy says that the country can now experience what the truckers experienced due to the governor’s policies.
The toothless guy says the truckers are not responsible for helping the country. That’s the governor’s job.
Three weeks earlier, nobody cared about the plight of the truckers, so now the truckers don’t care about the country.
This is all the governor’s fault, the toothless guy says. He passed a law, and now he has to live with it.
The governor didn’t understand the suffering of the working man, so now the truckers will show the country what suffering is.
Since the country doesn’t care about truckers, the truckers won’t help..."

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Black Professor Says It’s Welfare, Not Slavery, That Decimated US Black Families | www.independentsentinel.com

Black Professor Says It’s Welfare, Not Slavery, That Decimated US Black Families | www.independentsentinel.com:

"There is little evidence to support the idea that slavery, racial discrimination and poverty caused the problems of today’s black Americans, the economics professor wrote.

The number one problem is the weak family structure:"

Fake weather reporting? - Ice Age Now

Fake weather reporting? - Ice Age Now:
"Look at these two contrasting reports and see what you think.

“I wonder which side of the “Climate Wars” Intellicast weather service is on?” asks reader. 
“Here is the forecast map for high temperatures today from Intellicast:”

“Notice the temperatures are quite seasonal, but the color scale chosen is quite inappropriate for North America in September. We are not likely to need to depict temperatures in the -30 F range any time soon, but the range chosen makes 60s F orange and 70s F Red.”“We’re burning up!”

“Contrast this to the U.S. National Weather Service map for the same date:”

“I believe these colors more accurately convey the “feel” of a fall day.”

“Kudos to the NWS.”

Fake weather reporting? You decide. But even if the words are true, I think the Intellicast graphic is at the very least very misleading.

AM Fruitcake