Puerto Rico still in the dark 100 days later

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Re: Puerto Rico still in the dark 100 days later

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Republican states don't give a cr@p about Puerto Rico, and that is obvious because in some of those states Trump is still popular.
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It’s a busy time for President Henry B. Eyring.

The First Counselor in the First Presidency will play a key role in the faith’s upcoming general conference. And on September 19 he was in Rexburg, Idaho, for the inauguration ceremony of his son, Henry J. Eyring, the new president of BYU–Idaho (see related article).

No matter. After speaking to a standing-room-only audience at the San Juan Puerto Rico Stake Center, President Eyring told the Church News that making time to visit the Hurricane Irma-weary Caribbean was an easy decision.

“I felt the Lord wanted me here,” he said as night fell on a busy, steamy day that included visits to damaged areas in San Juan and the Caribbean island of St. Thomas.

Being among people who endured the storm’s historic wrath “sends a message that the Lord cares about them,” he said.

President Eyring’s counsel remains especially relevant. At press time, another major and potentially catastrophic storm, Hurricane Maria, was encroaching upon Puerto Rico.

If President Eyring could meet individually with everyone impacted by Irma and other disasters in the Caribbean and across Florida, he said he would share a common counsel: “The Lord watches over His people. … Everything will work out well if they will trust the Lord and be faithful.”

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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Hrm. If I have to choose between EA and KG or this:

Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart—you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you're a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.


I'm gonna have to go with the guy who is very, very smart.
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:question: :question: By that you mean Trump? How can you read the disjointed rambling you just quoted and seriously consider that evidence that Trump is smart? Surely you must be trying to be deliberately facetious or satirical! Right?
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Re: Puerto Rico still in the dark 100 days later

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This is a fun site when I googled Fat+Loser+Stable+Genius+Golf+Nazi:

http://trumpgolfcount.com/

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Kevin Graham wrote:From Newsweek
Trump'S EXORBITANT TRAVEL COSTS COULD PAY TO SEND PUERTO RICO 128 CARGO SHIPS WITH AID



[img]https://i.imgur.com/nvAh8IJ.jpg[img]

Don't pretend you care about the brown people of PR, we all know that you only care about your petty intra-white-society political bickering. For example, how much of your fantasy football winnings went to PR?....yep - zero.
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Re: Puerto Rico still in the dark 100 days later

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subgenius wrote:
Kevin Graham wrote:From Newsweek
Trump'S EXORBITANT TRAVEL COSTS COULD PAY TO SEND PUERTO RICO 128 CARGO SHIPS WITH AID

[img]https://i.imgur.com/nvAh8IJ.jpg[img]

Don't pretend you care about the brown people of PR, we all know that you only care about your petty intra-white-society political bickering. For example, how much of your fantasy football winnings went to PR?....yep - zero.


I donated more than $4,000 for 2016 and $6,000 to charitable causes abroad last year. This doesn't include the three kids (two brown, one black)we're sponsoring for $100/month. Unlike you, I'll continue to help people in need because I feel like it is the humane thing to do, not because I think some mysterious man in the sky is going to reward me for it.
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Re: Puerto Rico still in the dark 100 days later

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Kevin Graham wrote:two brown, one black


Jesus, dude. What, no 'yellow' or 'red' ones? Children aren't colors, Kevin. Totally inappropriate.

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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:
Kevin Graham wrote:two brown, one black


Jesus, dude. What, no 'yellow' or 'red' ones? Children aren't colors, Kevin. Totally inappropriate.

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Yeah, I guess I need Jesus in my life.
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Re: Puerto Rico still in the dark 100 days later

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Kevin Graham wrote:Yeah, I guess I need Jesus in my life.


That is certainly not all you need but yeah, that would be a great first step.

Peace,
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