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We Have To Pay over $70 A Month - And the Rate Just Went Up

And now we know why:

The city of Hillsboro is partnering with Metro, the regional government, on a pilot project aimed at cleaning up the city's streets. Hillsboro and Metro have joined forces on a new trash-collection program that provides free garbage pickup for homeless people in the Hillsboro area.

No responsibilities; more "free stuff". And some people wonder why the bums keep gravitating to the areas around here....

They don't mention whether or not used needles can be included with the "free" garbage pickups.

 

Quebec Gets It

Our southern border continues to be inundated by hordes of foreign nationals crossing illegally.

Quebec, on the other hand, just passed a law canceling out all pending applications for foreigners hoping to immigrate there. The Agence France-Presse reported Sunday that the Canadian province approved a bill “that will replace a first-come, first-served standard for accepting migrants with one tied to applicants' skills.”

The law, according to the report, aims to select potential immigrants based on skills needed by the local labor market.

Congress should do the same.

 

McMenamins Is All Over The Pacific Northwest

According to court documents, on April 20, 2018, Aldinger admitted to intentionally striking pedestrians with his Toyota Camry at two different intersections — one of which he said he intentionally sped up to hit as the victim crossed the street. In the case of the second victim, he said he swerved to hit her. The assaults were a way for Aldinger to “get out of going to work,” he told officers. He vocalized he was unhappy with his life of food service work at McMenamins Anderson School and the direction his life had taken.

Well, Eli Aldinger's approach succeeded; he won't have to go to work for the next 14 years.

McMenamin's is sort of a craft-brew empire in Oregon and Washington. They started off with a small brew-pub in Hillsdale - now part of the city of Portland - and took off from there. They specialize in converting historic schools, theaters - even the old Multnomah County poor-farm - into brew-pubs, restaurants,and small hotels. They're huge, up here.

Hard to figure what Eli's beef was.

The Kennedy School in east Portland is very nice; I've no doubt that the Anderson School in Bothell, Washington is equally nice.

Details Of California Costco Shooting Emerge

(CNN)The cousin of a man shot and killed by an off-duty police officer in a California Costco says his relative was nonverbal and couldn't have started the argument that allegedly led to the shooting, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.

Police said the victim, identified by the Corona Police Department as 32-year-old Kenneth French of Riverside, assaulted an off-duty Los Angeles Police Department officer in an unprovoked attack before the shooting.

 

Well, this is awkward. The cop killed a disabled guy and critically wounded the guy's parents, according to the latest account.

 

Free Compost In Washington State

About 30 gray whales have stranded in Washington so far this year – the most in about two decades. 

Sinking the whale in the water requires a permit from the EPA and the process is costly, according to NOAA, requiring towing and concrete blocks.

So, NOAA is looking for private landowners with beachfront property willing to let the whales decompose in their backyards.

Evidently they learned from Oregon's experience: blowing them up doesn't work so well.

 

Quick-Thinking Kid

An 11-year-old boy in North Carolina struck an intruder in the back of the head with a machete to foil a home invasion on Friday, according to reports.

The boy, who was home alone, answered a knock on the front door and saw a woman standing there. Simultaneously, a man broke into the home through a window and used the homeowner's pellet gun to force the child into a bedroom closet.

The boy escaped the closet and grabbed a machete, using it to strike the man in the head. Police responded to a 911 call after 11 a.m. when the break-in occurred, and alerted local hospitals to be on the lookout for someone with a head wound.

Sure enough...

Jataveon Dashawn Hall checked into a large area hospital. He's due in court Monday to face a variety of charges.

 

Wholesome Entertainment

A former Disney executive was sentenced Friday to more than six years in prison for sexually abusing a girl in Portland a decade ago, when the girl was 7 years old.

Michael Laney, 73, will serve 75 months for four counts of first-degree sexual abuse.

Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho, to the slammer he will go....

Disgusting old creep.

 

Feds To Immigrants: No Welfare

Officers handling legal immigration cases will now warn people that they are under an obligation to support themselves rather than end up on the public dole, under a new policy implemented Friday by acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli. The warning will be issued both to the immigrant and his or her sponsor, who under the law has signed an agreement not to let the immigrant become a public charge.

In the new warning, UCSIS officers will “remind” sponsors that they can — and now will — be asked to pay back “every dollar” of welfare that the immigrants take.

Long overdue.

Under Clinton-era rules, the government only looks at a narrow set of welfare programs when determining if an immigrant has become a public charge. The Trump plan, still a work in progress, would add food stamps, public housing and long-term institutionalized care to the list.

I hope they include prison under the definition of "institutionalized care"!

 

Concerned Families Say They'll Leave California If Vaccine Bill Passes

Well, bye. Just don't move up here; we don't need you and we certainly don't want you. Move to Haiti or the Dominican Republic or someplace like those countries.

A speech pathologist, Sabino now says she’s ready to quit her job and leave California to protect her daughter from a proposed law she fears would force her child to receive vaccines.

Fortunately, Sabino isn't planning to move to the Pacific Northwest. Yet.

 

Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article231128953.html?#storylink=cpy

Speaking Of Climate Change, The Latest Target Is Cruise Ships

Climate activists using small boats and climbing equipment blockaded a cruise ship for six hours in a German harbour to protest against its carbon emissions, police said Monday. About 50 protesters with banners reading "Cruises kill climate" Sunday delayed the departure of the Zuiderdam, operated by Holland America Line, from the North Sea port of Kiel.

If an ordinary human is involved, it's bad for the environment. Unless those humans are protesters; then it's all fine.

Police detained 46 protesters, after which time the ship departed.