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Maybe They Should Have Gone For An Actual Job

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – In response to communication from the Oregon Cultural Trust, its Statewide Partners and arts and cultural organizations across the state, Gov. Kate Brown directed the agency to explore opportunities to identify relief funding to address the devastating impact the COVID-19 health crisis is having on Oregon’s arts and cultural community.

As of March 24, 423 Oregon cultural organizations had already reported financial losses to-date of $8,611,881, with data still being collected from more than 1,000 organizations (Source: Americans for the Arts). Organizations in in the Portland area alone are estimating losses of $45.8 million by the end of May (Source: Regional Arts and Cultural Council).

The loss of projected earned income, lifeblood for most cultural organizations, has already resulted in significant layoffs and furloughs, with many more to come if relief doesn’t arrive soon. Many organizations are already facing bankruptcy and permanent closure.

I don't have a lot of sympathy for them. My brother-in-law is an "actor" - and a deadbeat. His wife is a realtor. Guess who brings home the bacon.

 

COVID-19 Insanity

BALTIMORE, MD—A new study by Johns Hopkins University found that the novel coronavirus is impacting men and women more than all the other genders combined. According to the study, 100% of coronavirus cases have affected men and women and not a single other gender.

And in an interesting twist, some Mexican nationals seem to want a border wall between the USA and Mexico:

In a seemingly paradoxical turn of events, Mexican protesters on Wednesday blocked incoming traffic at the U.S. southern border, demanding their government do more to restrict American travel into their country. The protesters said their stunt was meant to highlight the dangers posed by incoming U.S. residents who might carry the coronavirus. The protesters, who identified themselves as “Sonorans for Health and Life,” blocked traffic for several hours and made clear their concern of incoming Americans. Some of their signs explicitly told U.S. residents to “stay at home.”

Thus far, our usually vocal contingent of Leftists have been remarkably quiet in regard to this development; they've not referred to the Mexicans as racist or xenophobic as yet.

Meanwhile, in California and elsewhere in the USA:

Starting last week in California, paranoid citizens began calling their local police departments via 911 to report their neighbors — for coughing. Seriously. Fast forward to this week, however, and we now have a hotline set up in Kentucky designed to take calls from people just like the ones in California who call the cops to report their neighbors for coughing. In the metro Louisville area, citizens are urged to call 311 to report their neighbors who may not be complying with social distancing policies.

To learn what you should do to protect yourself during this pandemic, you can look at the CDC website here. Take note that “snitching on your neighbor for coughing” is not a CDC recommendation on how to protect yourself from COVID-19.

Kind of imparts a whole different angle to "Neighborhood Watch" programs.

 

 

Pandering Pelosi Delays COVID Bill Vote Yet Again

Here’s what Nancy Pelosi’s House of Representatives did today:

10:00:42 AM—Convened in the House

10:02:37 AM—Adjourned

One minute and 55 seconds of work

It's all set and ready to go, but she wants more pork inserted into it, like more funding for abortion providers, stricter airline emission standards, and more. None of which have anything to do with COVID-19 relief efforts.

Meanwhile, the military's setting up makeshift morgues in NYC to address the shortage of morgue space around the city due to COVID-19 deaths.

Two refrigerated trailers were trucked to the site at 30th Street and the FDR Drive, along with a customized RV labeled “MOBILE COMMAND CENTER — MEDICAL EXAMINER.”

She hasn't missed a Congressional paycheck in 37 years, and she sits as an indisputable argument in favor of term limits.

She has different priorities than most normal people.

 

 

Just Send her To China And Get It Over With

Just when we thought socialist Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez couldn't stoop any lower, she finds a way to outdo herself. Ocasio-Cortez declared on Tuesday night that people are avoiding Chinese and other Asian restaurants because of "racist" fears of contracting the spreading coronavirus. Ocasio-Cortez declared on Tuesday night that people are avoiding Chinese and other Asian restaurants because of "racist" fears of contracting the spreading coronavirus.

“Where people are literally not patroning Chinese restaurants, uh, they’re not patroning Asian restaurants because of just straight up racism around the coronavirus,” she frantically added.

By “patroning,” Ocasio-Cortez apparently meant “patronizing.” The headline states that the loudmouth went "nuts" over the fact that normal people are taking normal precautions. So she didn't go nuts, she's always been that way.

She just can't keep that big mouth of hers shut. I look forward to her loss in the next election cycle.

 

Poor Harvey

Gosh, don't you feel sorry for him? Me neither.

Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein has two cellmates on Rikers Island, where he took a bad fall this weekend and is “miserable,” his spokesman said.

At least he can still hire a "spokesman".

The “Shakespeare in Love” producer faces up to 29 years in prison when he’s sentenced March 11.

Anybody notice that the a**hole didn't need to use a walker until the law caught up with him?

 

Welcome To Portland, Oregon!

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon has the fifth-highest rate of bums homelessness in the United States, according to a new study from PsyDPrograms.org.

Cool! This bum stole a shopping cart from Safeway! Probably the one over by PSU, as bums don't like to travel far and they prefer flat spaces. That's why you never see one up here. Pushing a stolen shopping cart up a mountain? You kidding? That's too much like work!

 

Too Bad, Democrats

Oregon House Democrats are condemning recent actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Washington County, following the arrest of a father at a school bus stop in Washington County last month. Citing the bus stop arrest, coupled with subpoenas sent to law enforcement agencies by ICE, Oregon Democrats say the federal agency's actions are politically motivated attempts to subvert Oregon's sanctuary laws.

ICE indicated Galvan-Rodriguez is a Mexican citizen who is in the country illegally. Court records show the man has two prior misdemeanor convictions in Oregon from 2004 and 2008 for non-injury hit-and-run and theft.

Just here to do the jobs that Americans won't do.

As far as I know, federal law supersedes state law. Democratics can't seem to wrap their heads around that inconvenient fact.

 

Japanese Idiocy

Japan is in the grip of an elderly crime wave - the proportion of crimes committed by people over the age of 65 has been steadily increasing for 20 years.

69-year-old Toshio Takata tells me he broke the law because he was poor. He wanted somewhere to live free of charge, even if it was behind bars. "I reached pension age and then I ran out of money. So it occurred to me - perhaps I could live for free if I lived in jail," he says. 

 Toshio represents a striking trend in Japanese crime. In a remarkably law-abiding society, a rapidly growing proportion of crimes is carried about by over-65s. Theft, principally shoplifting, is overwhelmingly the biggest crime committed by elderly offenders.

"The pensioners don't want to be a burden to their children, and feel that if they can't survive on the state pension then pretty much the only way not to be a burden is to shuffle themselves away into prison."

Toshio's story about being driven to crime as a result of poverty is just an "excuse", Kanichi Yamada suggests. The core of the problem is his loneliness. And one factor that may have prompted him to reoffend, he speculates, was the promise of company in jail.

It's true that Toshio is alone in the world. His parents are dead, and he has lost contact with two older brothers, who don't answer his calls. He has also lost contact with his two ex-wives, both of whom he divorced, and his three children.

I ask him if he thinks things would have turned out differently if he'd had a wife and family. He says they would.

"If they had been around to support me I wouldn't have done this," he says.

Okay...this guy divorced two wives, and so that's why he commits crimes today? Right, got it.

Maybe, just maybe, the guy's a screwball. His own brothers don't speak to him, nor do his three kids. Add it all up, and a reasonable guess is that he belongs in an asylum.

What the heck is up with that If they had been around to support me I wouldn't have done this baloney? Boo-hoo! Cry me a river.

It is, however, nice to know that idiocy exists somewhere outside of the U.S. Congress.

 

The Photo Behind The Fiasco

A Bay Area photographer is facing legal trouble for posting a composited picture of the Golden Gate Bridge with the blood moon, which was taken from an “illegal angle.”

An "illegal angle"? When did they start making angles illegal? And what effect might such laws have on, say, triangles?

Imagine the trouble he'd be in if he'd defecated under the bridge, like bums do all the time in Portland!

Bruce Getty says he is “just a guy who likes to go on the rocks and get a unique angle of the bridge.” After snapping his photo of the bridge, he later Photoshopped another of his images into it: that of the blood moon from 2014. He then uploaded the composited image onto his website, where it eventually caught the attention of the Bridge District, who issued a cease and desist letter.

Yeah, well, bureaucrats live to restrict.

 

Bloomie Baloney

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s food police have struck again!

Outlawed are food donations to homeless shelters because the city can’t assess their salt, fat and fiber content, reports CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer. Glenn Richter arrived at a West Side synagogue on Monday to collect surplus bagels — fresh nutritious bagels — to donate to the poor. However, under a new edict from Bloomberg’s food police he can no longer donate the food to city homeless shelters.

And this midget thinks he's Presidential material?

There may be someone out there who is, but it ain't Bloomie.