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Portland Mayor & Kool-Aide

Portland's mayor, Ted Wheeler, has already made his city a punchline internationally, vacuously mouthing the platitudes of Black Lives Matter, and watching mobs riot and burn his city for 92 days straight, with no effort to contain it. Nobody can argue about the incompetence there.

Proving once again that pandering to the mob won’t save you, Portland Black Lives Matter militants have now chained themselves together in far-left Mayor Ted Wheeler’s apartment building lobby.

Earlier in the day, Wheeler declined President Donald Trump’s offer to provide federal assistance to stop the riots.

Hmm...I wonder what happens when one of those girls needs to take a pee break....

At least when they're chained together, they can't break stuff!

 

George Floyd Died Of A Drug Overdose

The medical cause of George Floyd’s death was cardiopulmonary arrest due to pulmonary edema resulting from acute Fentanyl toxicity. Dr. Andrew Baker is the Chief Medical Examiner for Hennepin County in Minnesota.

So he wasn't killed by cops in Minnesota, after all. It's easy to jump to the wrong conclusions before the facts are known.

This was not a case of "police brutality"; Floyd did it to himself. He also had meth in his system at the time.

 

How's It Going?

"I'm bearing up," said the Dutchman.

A polar bear attacked a camping site Friday in Norway's remote Svalbard Islands, killing a 38-year-old Dutch man before being shot and killed by onlookers, authorities on the Arctic island said. Johan Jacobus Kootte was in his tent when it was attacked by the bear that killed him, deputy governor Soelvi Elvedah said. He was an employee of the Longyearbyen Camping site, where the attack occurred, the newspaper Svalbardposten said.

Must've mistaken the guy for a seal....

 

Oddly, It Seems That Mass Exodus Is Underway

it appears that those who can afford it are moving away from Democrat cities like New York, Chicago, and elsewhere.

One can only hope that those people don't repeat the mistakes that turned their cities into crap-holes (but I wouldn't bet on it).

 

Been Warning About This For Years

Solar panels are an increasingly important source of renewable power that will play an essential role in fighting climate change. They are also complex pieces of technology that become big, bulky sheets of electronic waste at the end of their lives—and right now, most of the world doesn’t have a plan for dealing with that. By 2050, the International Renewable Energy Agency projects that up to 78 million metric tons of solar panels will have reached the end of their life, and that the world will be generating about 6 million metric tons of new solar e-waste annually.

As noted before, the life-span of PV panels is 25 years or less, and recycling them is generally cost-prohibitive at present. So what happens to dead or dying PV units is that they usually end up in a landfill. How "green" can you get? Yeah, it may make you feel all warm and fuzzy and "green" as you admire the dozen or so PV units on your roof - until they reach the end of their useful lives. At that point, they become someone else's problem.

So in the zeal to live a "clean and green" life, PV panels are really anything but "green". Toxic materials like lead and cadmium are embedded in them, and your grand plan is to pay someone to haul them to - a landfill?

 

 

"Trans"

What do we know about the effects of hormone and surgical treatments for gender-dysphoric patients? Many people might assume they are highly effective because they are widely presented as the obvious proper medical and compassionate course for such patients. The prevailing narrative is that parents and patient advocates who disapprove of surgeries or hormone treatments are both evil and dangerous. The best research, however, indicates just the opposite.

In other words,

They're messed up, and no amount of hormone treatments or surgery's going to un-mess them.

On Aug. 1, however, the journal printed a correction saying this was wrong. After multiple letters to the editor from medical and research professionals critical of the authors’ conclusion on the efficacy of surgery based on the data presented, the journal conducted an independent analysis. The correction, agreed upon by the authors, stated, “[T]he results demonstrated no advantage for surgery in relation to” alleviating the mental struggles of trans patients.

The authors explained that a vast collection of literature documents that gender-dysphoric people have significantly increased health problems compared to the general population. These people are:

1. 1. Six times as likely to have had mood and anxiety disorders serious enough to require a doctor’s care.
   2. More than three times as likely to have received prescriptions for antidepressants and anxiolytics.

   3.   More than six times as likely to have been hospitalized after a suicide attempt.

When your gut tells you that putting a five-year-old kid on puberty blockers, or slicing off the penis off a teenager and reconstructing a fake vagina, or cutting off the perfectly healthy breasts of a 30-something female is not the right way to treat a problem that exists in the mind, be assured the latest and best science backs your conviction.

Yes, the Bruce Jenners of the world are certifiably nuts. Genetics don't lie, and if you have a Y chromosome, you're a guy.

Surgery and hormones don't change that.

 

Well Blow Me Down!

"Those choosing to stay and face this very dangerous storm must understand that rescue efforts cannot and will not begin until after storm and surge has passed and it is safe to do so," the Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office said in a statement Thursday.

 

Hurricane Laura makes landfall in the US

"Please evacuate, and if you choose to stay and we can't get to you, write your name, address, social security number and next of kin and put it a Ziploc bag in your pocket. Praying that it does not come to this."

 

Well, it did - and staying in an RV wasn't a good choice, either.

 

Who'da Thunk It?

National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) President Michael McHale lambasted Democratic leaders nationwide at the Republican National Convention Wednesday blaming them for the “chaos” that has occurred in American cities recently. “Chaos results when elected officials in cities like Portland, Minneapolis, Chicago, and New York make the conscious and very public decision not to support law enforcement,” said McHale, who is also the president of the Southwest Florida chapter of the Police Benevolent Association. “Shootings, murders, looting and rioting occur unabated.”

In Portland, the alleged mayor is also the police commissioner. And he doesn't support the cops. Imagine that!

 

Voting?

KENOSHA, WI—The aftermath of the riots are grim: dozens of fires were started, hundreds of buildings were burned down, and thousands of Trump voters were created over the past several days alone. From out-of-control riots in Seattle and Wisconsin to violence on the streets in Portland (or, as they call it, Wednesday), tons of property is being damaged, many are being harmed or killed, and, worst of all, new Trump voters are being created every minute.

Biden doesn't stand a chance.

And that's a good thing.

 

I Don't Doubt It

SACRAMENTO, CA—While many Californians are growing increasingly worried about the wildfires spreading throughout the state, Governor Gavin Newsom assured everyone that the fires are actually "mostly peaceful."

"The fires are mostly peaceful, mostly calm -- nothing to worry about," Newsom said as the fires burned through thousands of acres of forest behind him. "They are peaceful infernos and will definitely not burn your house down or anything. We're fine here, everything's fine here. How are you?"

Newsom also pointed out that fires were here before humans, and so in a way, we stole the land from fires, and the indigenous infernos are just taking the reparations they are due.

Yes, it's from Babylon Bee, but completely believable.