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Butt-Hurt In Portland

As a general rule, the ACLU, like the SPLC, come down squarely on the wrong side of issues. But even a blind hog, in a forest of oaks, will uproot the occasional acorn. And so it is that I find myself in rare agreement with ACLU:

The American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon says that Mayor Ted Wheeler's efforts to keep far-right protesters from holding more rallies in Portland is an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment. Wheeler this morning announced that he has asked the federal government to revoke permits for a June 4 "free speech" rally in downtown Portland, saying the city was raw and angry in the wake of two slayings on a MAX train Friday.

It appears that Wheeler is unclear on the concept: whether or not he likes what they have to say, government and leftist politicians have no ability to shut them down. Mind you, I have no love for the so-called "alt-right", any more than I have for the anarchist crowd. But in this country, all have the right to peaceful assembly, and all have the right to freedom of speech. This seems to be something that Ted has trouble wrapping his head around.

Meanwhile, this guy moved here two years ago from California, and he's scared.

But as a person of color, and especially as a Muslim American, I have never felt so lonely, so unsure of my safety, so eager to flee, as I have in Portland. I never really feared for my life. Oregon is a different story. People have guns here, or at least, bumper stickers indicating that they love guns. From where I am standing, people of color have been attacked at such a frequent rate in Portland that I find myself just about ready to quit this city. 

I'll help him pack. He's also upset by the fact that many people here carry knives. Of course, Kershaw and Gerber and Leatherman are all based in the suburbs of Portland, so it's rather understandable that many of us choose to support local industries. And when it comes to guns, Oregon is a "shall issue" state meaning - that it is fairly easy for a law-abiding citizen to obtain a concealed handgun license.

I'd be happy to help the snowflake return to his safe space in California. In fact, I'll even leave most of my weapons at home, just to ease his tortured mind.

 

Wienie Felon

Eric Clanton, a former East Bay community college philosophy professor linked online to violent assaults with a metal bike lock during a “free speech” rally in Berkeley on April 15, was charged Friday afternoon with four counts of assault with a deadly weapon, a felony, with the special allegation of causing great bodily injury to Sean Stiles. Additionally, the charges include the misdemeanor offense of wearing a mask to evade identification. If convicted, Clanton could be sent to prison.

Sez his mouthpiece: “This is a political attack on an individual who has a clean record in this community,” Siegel said.

Nope, the 28 year-old snowflake has been videographed viciously attacking those with whom he disagrees, then trying to run away in his little hoodie and mask. Baby boy, it doesn't work that way. Meet your new cell-mate, Ben Dover.

 

He Didn't Die Alone

When crowds started running away from the scene during the brutal MAX train stabbings on Friday, Michael Kennedy ran toward it.

Kennedy, a former paramedic, was there on the train, one car away. He sprung into action and started helping Rick Best, one of the two victims who ultimately passed away.

"I realized that he wasn't breathing anymore and we were checking for a pulse and couldn't feel one. I started doing chest compressions on him," Kennedy said.

Kennedy said it was unlike anything he'd seen in his life.

"I've seen people getting killed before, I've seen car wrecks. I've seen all that. I have never seen or been prepared for two men getting knifed down in an attack," he said.

He tried; it just wasn't enough. But when Best died, he didn't die alone. Sometimes that's all you can do for another person.

The face of evil: The two guys he killed:

And one of the two teenaged girls the perp went off on: She's traumatized. Her mother did most of the talking, thanking the families of the guys who intervened: "I want to say thank you so much," she said. "I couldn't imagine what you're going through right now as far as losing someone."

Jeremy Christian, the suspect in the stabbings that killed two people and injured another Friday on a MAX train, was involved in a separate altercation with a woman at a TriMet station the day before the attack.

He should be given a fair trial, following his arraignment later today, and then fairly but thoroughly hanged.

Unfortunately, Oregon's governor from Minnesota opposes the death penalty, and so she refuses to enforce that law because she disagrees with it.

Mad Dog

One of The Donald's better picks:

“What keeps you awake at night?” CBS “Face the Nation” host John Dickerson asked Mattis.

“Nothing,” a stonefaced Mattis responded. “I keep other people awake at night.”

It joins a rather lengthy list of memorable quotes from Mad Dog Mattis:

“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet,” Mattis was known to tell Marines under his command during the Iraq war.

That's definitely not "leading from behind".

This guy's great.

Little Lies

According to a number of accounts, President the Donald ignored the recent murders and serious injury on a Portland light rail "train". The reality is: he did not.

The violent attacks in Portland on Friday are unacceptable. The victims were standing up to hate and intolerance. Our prayers are w/ them.

While I do wish someone would cancel his Twitter account, the fact of the matter is that shortly after arriving back on American soil, he did in fact respond to the attacks. The media just has TDS.

In brief, here's what happened last Friday:

Rick Best, Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche and Micah Fletcher saw two girls being berated on a Portland light rail train. They didn't sit still. A man was confronting the two teens -- including one who was wearing a hijab -- and started spouting "hate speech toward a variety of ethnicities and religions," Portland Police Sgt. Pete Simpson said.

"He told us to go back to Saudi Arabia and he told us we shouldn't be here, to get out of his country," Destinee Mangum, 16, told CNN affiliate KPTV of the experience.

When the trio of men tried to calm the suspect, all three were stabbed. Best and Meche died; Fletcher was stabbed 1 millimeter away from his jugular.

 

Although such bullies generally back off when verbally challenged, this 35 year-old jackass didn't, which is abnormal and leads some to suspect that he's a sociopath. The jackass is presently being held without bail; arraignment is set for tomorrow.

 

Mangum and her friend were riding the MAX light rail Friday afternoon when the suspect allegedly targeted them. He yelled at Mangum, who is not Muslim, and her friend, using what police described as "hate speech toward a variety of ethnicities and religions."

 

"Me and my friend were going to get off the MAX and then we turned around while they were fighting and he just started stabbing people," she said. "It was just blood everywhere and we just started running for our lives." 

 

"It's haunting me," she said.

 

After giving her statement, she and her family have asked to be left alone for the time being, as they try to process what happened.

Water Shortage At Crater Lake

As long, rainy, snowy, and cold as the last winter was, you'd think there'd be no problem with the National Park withdrawing water from its usual source - Annie Creek. You'd be wrong. Surprisingly, the creek is a tributary that eventually ends up feeding North Klamath Lake, and the tribes that manage the lake and Wood River have seniority when it comes to water rights. Likely, the extremely cold winter and spring, though producing abundant snowpacks, delayed the melt. So, there's less water at present. Since Wood River's water comes from snowmelt and subsurface springs, the springs alone aren't providing sufficient water.

Thus, Crater Lake is spending nearly half a million dollars to have water trucked in from northern California. Of course, there's a whole lot of water in the caldera, but the NPS won't tap that because their stated purpose for the national park is to protect the lake. So 12,000 gallons a day are trucked in from California - which, as you doubtless know, is, like Oregon Democratics, busily "fighting global warming" and "reducing greenhouse gases".

Right.

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I ran across this one today: What? You mean Memorial Day isn't about barbecuing and buying mattresses?

Perfect.

Merkel: We Can't Rely On USA Or U.K.

Kinda sounds like a welfare recipient just got news the food stamps are getting canceled.

In the 28-nation NATO alliance, total defense spending topped $900 billion in 2015. The United States paid $650 billion, or 73%, of the total budget. The figures were equally lopsided for 2014, and remain so to this day.

At a campaign rally in Munich Sunday, Merkel said Germany can no longer rely completely on the United States and the UK, saying Germany and Europe must be the captains of their own fates.

Cool! Put up, Angie! I don't know about anybody else, but as an American taxpayer, I'm pretty tired of seeing our money supporting the dictators at the U.N. and an old East German communist who's busy campaigning for another term in orifice. Let her spend some of Germany's money on defense for a change. Whomever decided that we should fund nearly 3/4 of the "alliance" costs should have been jailed.

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Chicago Flight

As people continue to flee the city, mayor Rahm welcomes illegal aliens. There's a cynical reason for that:

Chicago was the only city among the nation's 20 largest to lose population in 2016 — and it lost nearly double the number of residents as the year before, according to newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

It's the city's third consecutive year of population loss. Chicago's population fell by 8,638 residents between 2015 and 2016, to 2,704,958. The year before, it declined by 4,934.

Rahm needs at least 13,000 illegal aliens - and likely more - to preserve Chicago's influence, as representation is determined by census numbers. And for census purposes, citizenship status (or lack thereof) doesn't matter; all that counts is the presence of a warm body.

The fastest-growing cities today are in the South, and four of the top five fastest-growing U.S. cities are in Texas.

It appears that greater job opportunities and affordable housing are more attractive to folks than high-tax, high-cost and high-debt places run by Democratics - like Chicago. And also like Portland, where government types have been saying for years that the population of the city will increase by one million by the year 2030. To accommodate all of those people, we need light rail lines and stack-and-pack lab-rat cages for people to live in.

Just one problem: it's not happening. Inbound migration is now on the decline; the central Oregon city of Bend is growing at a faster rate than Portland - in fact, "business-friendly" Portland is once again shedding jobs, and not only are young people not moving here to retire, they're mostly moving back out. Portland "cool" has a limited shelf-life, which is something that the government and political types completely failed to take into account as they formulated their grand plans. Amusingly, they're still failing.

They think we need a $3 billion light-rail "train" line from downtown Portland to the Bridgeport shopping center near suburban Tualatin. It doesn't seem as though they've ever taken a gander inside the parking areas there; had they bothered, they might have noticed that the spaces are occupied mostly by high-end SUVs. These people aren't going to take a choo-choo to go to the shopping center. On the other hand, there's a dearth of lab-rat cages over there, so perhaps they can subsidize a nice developer to build some.

Portland: the Chicago of the Pacific.

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He was released about 3.5 hours later.

The 41 year-old golfer has had back problems for the past several years and has undergone several surgeries.

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