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Welcome To Portland!

Proudly hosting Leftist thugs who'll cause over a million dollars in property damage in a single night if they get upset.

A Homeland Security report described the leftist thuggery as domestic terrorist violence.

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler had declared that Portland would continue to be a sanctuary city and “a welcoming, safe place for all people.” 

Unless they’re Republicans.

The email that shut down the 82nd Avenue of the Roses parade made that point much more succinctly. "You have seen how much power we have downtown and that the police cannot stop us from shutting down roads so please consider your decision wisely," it warned.

That is fascism - nothing less. I can hardly wait to see what the little fascists come up with tomorrow in Portland, because...May Day! Doubtless, there will be a few posters demanding "Justice For Quanice Hayes" - a punk who committed armed robbery, multiple break-ins (all in one night) and got ventilated when he refused to comply with police commands to keep his hands where they could be seen. Instead, he kept reaching for his waistband, where thugs usually keep their weapons. It turned out that the gun he was carrying was a replica - as if that makes any difference at 2 A.M.

But, oh, the yowling and the howling! "He didn't deserve to die! What can we do about police brutality?"

Well, shutting one's trap is a good start. Quanice wasn't some kid who just made a mistake; he terrorized his armed robbery victim, did multiple other crimes, and couldn't manage to bring himself to do what police told him to do. None of those are "mistakes". Did he deserve to die? Maybe not - but he had plenty of opportunities to prevent it.

Yet many of the same idiots who'll likely be out vandalizing streets and businesses tomorrow night are big supporters of the thug. And in Portland, we've been seeing this idiocy blossom over the past three decades or so under the rule of Democratics. It appears that they share the values - or lack thereof.

 

Pocahontas

Bill Maher actually called Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas" during an interview with her. That was amusing. She also rants about "rich people" while ignoring the fact that she's one of them.

More Howling

Last Wednesday, Trump signed another executive order, this one looking into whether or not the 1906 Antiquities Act has been followed in accordance with the law:

Most importantly, as Secretary Zinke pointed out at the signing ceremony, there is reason to question whether the law has been followed at all in recent designations of national monuments. That’s because the 1906 act restricted the president’s power to designate a monument by noting that reservations of land were not to exceed “the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects to be protected.”

That was applied in the case of Pompeys Pillar in Montana, a rock formation that was a landmark both to native tribes and to white settlers and explorers such as Lewis and Clark. It is worthy of preservation, and President Clinton, faithful to the intent of the Antiquities Act, set aside only 51 acres of land to preserve the landmark in the Pompeys Pillar National Monument. 

By contrast, the Bear Ears National Monument encompasses 1.35 million acres of land in Utah, purportedly to protect two mesas considered sacred by area Indian tribes. That seems a bit like overkill, and these are the sorts of things that Zinke has been tasked with examining. Such large swaths are ripe for closer inspection, even though preservationist  groups are outraged; they get outraged over just about everything, and howl like banshees.

In Oregon alone, only 2% of the land is developed; the feds own 52% of lands in the state, while much of the rest is owned by various other government entities. It may be time to look into governmental overreach in this regard.

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Don't Mess With Iceland

Under Icelandic law, pets entering the country can only pass through Keflavík International Airport, must have the proper paperwork, and must be quarantined for a month, reports the Iceland Review.

A Swiss woman, reportedly in her 60s, tried to bypass those restrictions by entering the country via ferry in her camper - and she brought her pet cat along. Very bad move; she was caught within two hours, the cat promptly removed and taken to a vet, where it was euthanized. They've also billed her for the costs of disinfecting her camper.

One need only look at Florida to see why bringing in alien species is not tolerated in Iceland.

Continuing The Slide In Oregon

In her proposed 2017-2018 budget, Kafoury calls for $57.8 million in state, city and county funds to the city-county Joint Office of Homeless Services, an agency created last year in response to the homelessness and housing crisis.

In a state with $1.5 billion more revenue than it had last year, the Democratics have nonetheless managed to come up with a $1.6 billion "budget gap" that they're currently "wrestling with". And the head of Multnomah County wants to spend another $58 million "for the homeless". We don't have it.

Difficult though it may be to come to terms with, it's also a fact.

Along the Sandy River, at what locals call the Thousand Acres Park, the amount of trash left behind has become so bad that the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office is stepping in to get it cleaned up.

For 6 hours on Friday, members of the Homeless Outreach and Programs Engagement team and inmate work crews cleared trash from the area where several homeless people have been camping.

They recovered enough to fill a 40-yard dumpster at the site, which is located near the confluence of the Sandy and Columbia Rivers. Yet Kafoury contends that Wapato, which was constructed as a jail but never used, is too far from "services" for the homeless, despite the fact that it has medical facilities and an industrial-grade kitchen, among other things. And it's hard to see how one can get much further from the services than by camping at the mouth of the Columbia River Gorge.

Aptly-Named: Odd Fellows Fraternal Organization

They sponsored an essay contest, offering as the winning prize a trip to the United Nations in New York City. A Portland kid wrote a 500-word essay that was declared the winner. Then things turned odd: after finding out that the kid has autism, they rescinded the award.

Disability Rights Oregon is asking the Odd Fellows national board to reverse their decision or provide an explanation.

Odd Fellows, indeed.

Screamin' Howard Dean

After UC-Berkeley nixed that speech by conservative firebrand Ann Coulter, the one-time Democratic Party boss, presidential wannabe and Vermont governor tweeted: “Hate speech is not protected by the first amendment.”

He was dead wrong, of course, and his tweet got pretty much everyone — legal scholars, fact-checkers, pundits, pols, on both the left and right — to correct the record: Not only does the First Amendment make no exceptions for “hate speech,” its whole purpose is to make sure Americans can say hateful, unpopular things.

Heck, why would anyone need a Constitutional right to say only things no one objects to?

It appears to have been to our good fortune that Howard didn't make the presidential cut; even Senator Bernie recognized the error in Dean's view. Maybe Dean should move to Canada, which doesn't have that pesky First Amendment.

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Cars & Fans

A Manitoba "Star Trek" fan has had his license plate revoked because its message: ASIMIL8 is offensive to indigenous people. People find strange things to get offended over.

And those keyless entry fobs might need to be stored in a steel box, as it appears that thieves have developed a way to receive, amplify, and retransmit the signals emitted by the fobs, tricking your car into thinking you're about to get in. Once access is gained, the car and be started by pushing a button. The miracles of modern technology....

Non-Violent Activism, Portland Style

Portland Police announced three arrests via Twitter, including Luis-Enrique Martinez, 44, a local activist.

After police arrested Marquez, who showed up to the protest dressed in a pumpkin costume, officers said they found a collapsible baton in his possession.

I wonder if Louie's here legally. Obviously, he wasn't there to cause any trouble....

Cat With Assault Rifle?

Um, no. Police in Newport, Oregon investigated and found that the cat was holding a tree branch. They issued a warning to him for using crummy camo gear and appearing to carry a weapon.