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More "Religion".

A man on Tuesday afternoon drove a pickup truck down a lengthy stretch of bike path next to the Hudson River in Lower Manhattan, striking numerous people. The vehicle collided with a school bus from Stuyvesant High School…

Officials said as many as six people had been killed and 11 injured.

Oh yeah, he yelled “Allahu Akbar.” He apparently rented the truck, clearly indicating that we need more truck controls. The driver was evidently shot by NYPD but is unfortunately still alive. In custody, though.

So we pay his bills. Next time, shoot to kill.

 

Hush, Child.

Can't have the truth getting out, now can we?

Port Townsend, Washington

Happy Halloween! “Port Townsend is listed as one of the top 20 most haunted locations in the country,” claims a local spirit buff. That may be so, given the tales from the town.

In any event, the place seems to pride itself on its overall creepiness.

 

Stewards Of Natural Resources

The Indian encampments at Lone Pine fishing site, near The Dalles, Oregon.

SALEM, Ore.

The Trump administration is neglecting the U.S. government's obligation to build new homes for Indians whose original abodes were submerged by dams along the Columbia River, members of Congressional delegations from Oregon and Washington state said.

We're supposed to build new homes for them, presumably so that they can trash them as well.

On the one hand, we do have an obligation to keep the promises made by the government when they built the dams. On the other, seeing places like this, I get pretty tired of the portrayal of Indians as stewards of natural resources, living in harmony with Nature, and all that.

 

Nobody Wants To Go To Mexico

I guess it was too crowded. But from Cabo to Cancun, some 35,000 hotel reservations have been cancelled so far this year, and insurance companies aren't willing to sell policies to tourists planning to visit the former tourism mecca. Mexico's rather concerned:

Mexico gets about $20 billion a year from tourism. With murders quadrupling in Los Cabos and doubling in Cancun this year, a chunk of that revenue may be at stake. Quintana Roo, the state where Cancun is located, is the destination of a third of all the nation's international tourists.

You know, people today are such pansies. Okay, a little while ago, a cooler containing two human heads was found on the main hotel strip in Cabo. So what? After all, why do you go there if not to sample the local culture?

 

Unsafe At Any Height

A construction worker is four times more likely to die by suicide according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Presumably, that means they're significantly more likely to kill themselves than is the average U.S. citizen or resident. Yep, just the sort of persons you want working on a project.

I'll take stability for $35 an hour, Alex.

 

Well, It's Canada, Eh.

We had some reasonably strong winds here yesterday; 40+ mph on our mountaintop, and I heard it hit 75 in parts of the nearby Columbia River Gorge. Bits of tree are still strung all over the place, and chainsaws are singing. It seems that the high winds hit not merely the Pacific Northwest, but Saskatchewan as well, and in a particularly Canadian twist, power was knocked out to much of the northern part of the province because beavers had been gnawing on a power pole, causing it to topple in the winds. Maybe they ought to consider steel poles in some locations.

And I don't know what it is about British Columbia, hookers and farmers - you may recall the case a few years ago in which a guy was found to have picked up a number of hookers in Vancouver and subsequently fed them to his pigs...now some other guy's at it, as police are searching his 25-acre family farm and are running familial DNA tests on body parts they've found.

In early October, the Vernon North Okanagan RCMP issued a public warning to women and sex workers in the area, saying they were investigating an Aug. 28 incident involving a woman who reported she had been threatened by a man with a gun.

Investigators believe the woman had arranged a meeting with a man in the area of Salmon River Road using a website popular with sex workers and escorts.

Yes, once again, it's hookers and farmers. At least five hookers have gone missing, and now they're finding body parts at a nearby farm.

I'm not sure what the deal is with the farmers, but it's undeniable that southern B.C. is swarming with hookers; seems to be okay up there.

Everyone Knows It's Windy

Couldn't resist referencing that old song. But yes, we had some really high winds up here again, darned near blew one of my fences over; gusts here went over 50 mph. At least it wasn't raining. On the east coast, this would be big news. Here, it's just weather. I went out with a piece of rebar to temporarily support a weakened fence-post. Going to have to take that out and install a new 4 x 4. It's always something.

 

Great. More Oregon Idiocy.

The Port of Astoria is back in the news as its commission considers whether to appeal a $4 million verdict against it related to the Riverwalk hotel on its property.

The Riverwalk Inn at the time was being operated by Brad Smithart, who was heavily indebted, and Param was negotiating to take over the lease. Testimony showed the Port Commission approved contracting with Param, but the lease wasn’t executed. The Port eventually terminated Smithart’s lease and awarded it on a short-term basis to a local firm, Astoria Hospitality Ventures, which had been formed by Chester Trabucco and Astoria native William Orr, a brother-in-law of then Port Commissioner Stephen Fulton.

Although Port Executive Director Jim Knight was dismissed as an individual defendant, the jury’s verdict found Knight knowingly made fraudulent misrepresentations to Param’s owner, Ganesh Sonpatki. At its only public meeting since the verdict, Port commissioners did not discuss the verdict but gave Knight a vote of confidence by inking him to a three-year contract extension with a 4 percent pay increase.

So in Astoria, they reward a guy determined by a jury to have engaged in fraud. That's just how they roll. Nepotism, anyone?

Moving further east up the Columbia River, our governess from Minnesota has decided, as Democratics almost always do, that the people of Cascade Locks who want Nestle Corp to build a $50 million plant there to bottle water from Oxbow Spring don't actually know what's best for them. So after a long and involved process to transfer rights to the water from Oxbow, which is currently used in a salmon hatchery to some extent, in exchange for rights to some of the water from the wells at Cascade Locks, the governess has decided that the transfers should not take place.

It's trendy to hate on Nestle, among the Left.

 

 

 

Scream At The Sky?

Reportedly, "thousands" of Snowflakes plan to "scream helplessly at the sky" on November 8th in "protest" of Trump's election. I am by no means the first to hope that it rains, resulting in mass drownings, as sometimes happens when other young turkeys experience rain.