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It's Pretty Certain That The Faults Are Not "New"

Geologists have discovered new faults on Mount Hood that could trigger a highly destructive earthquake in the Portland area. According to a release from Portland State University and the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) there is an "extensive network of geologic faults extending north and south of Mt. Hood," that could "generate large earthquakes and may pose a significant hazard to surrounding communities, critical infrastructure, and even the city of Portland."

WARNING. WARNING. WARNING: Danger, Will Robinson!

May happen. That, or The Big One, which May happen. It grows tiresome, after a few years.

 

It's Pretty Certain That The Faults Are Not "New"

Geologists have discovered new faults on Mount Hood that could trigger a highly destructive earthquake in the Portland area. According to a release from Portland State University and the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) there is an "extensive network of geologic faults extending north and south of Mt. Hood," that could "generate large earthquakes and may pose a significant hazard to surrounding communities, critical infrastructure, and even the city of Portland."

WARNING. WARNING. WARNING: Danger, Will Robinson!

May happen. That, or The Big One, which May happen. It grows tiresome, after a few years.

 

As Expected, IRS Puts The Brakes On Democrat Subterfuge

By The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has laid down rules aimed at preventing residents of Oregon and other states from avoiding a new cap on widely popular state and local tax deductions.

In Oregon, the Legislature set aside $14 million a year in Oregon Opportunity Grant tax credits available for purchase.

Taxpayers who purchased those tax credits could, in theory, deduct the amount of their purchase from their federal taxes as if it were a charitable deduction. They could then take a credit on their state taxes to offset their opportunity grant purchase.

Measures designed to work around the $10,000 cap have been adopted in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Oregon, and introduced or explored publicly by officials in California, Illinois, Maryland, Nebraska, Rhode Island, Virginia, Washington and the District of Columbia.

Basically, the Democrat-controlled states have been setting up fake "charities" so that they can still take your money, but you still get a write-off on your taxes for the "contribution". It's not a whole lot different than the "contribution" you make when an armed robber points a gun at you and demands your wallet. I believe that it's also illegal under federal law.

Oregon won't let you deduct more than $5000 in Fed Taxes, so you can already pay taxes on taxes here. But the state really needs more money; they want to build a 12-mile light rail line from downtown Portland to a shopping mall just north of the suburban city of Tualatin. That'll only cost, according to the latest liars' budget, about $3 billion, assuming they can use eminent domain to bulldoze a few hundred homes and businesses. And they need another half-billion dollars to provide for the drug addicts and bums homeless. These are critical endeavors. Critical to making Dermocrat politicians feel good about themselves, that is.

 

 

The Public Pension Hole

Democrat-run cities and states have promised public employee unions generous pensions for years, and now the proverbial chickens are coming home to roost. The unfunded liabilities in places from New Jersey and New York to Illinois and the three west coast states, the pension hole is approximately $5 trillion - about the size of the economy of Japan.

This is not a recoverable situation, and it's hard to see how so many people could have failed to see this day coming.

 

Fun While It Lasted

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has been charged for allegedly knowingly defrauding her investors with fake blood tests and lies about the product's ability.

Holmes and Theranos president Ramesh 'Sunny' Balwani allegedly told investors, doctors and patients their technology could deliver blood testing with less blood and faster results with their new technology while knowing that was not true. If convicted, Holmes and Balwani face a maximum of 20 years behind bars and a fine of up to $250,000, plus restitution, for each charge.

They didn't invent anything, they just repackaged equipment that was in widespread use already. They just came up with a new sales pitch. And some spiffy names like the "thermocycler". Toss enough jargon around, and somebody's going to think you know what you're doing.

Glad these two are looking at hard time and a lot of lost cash.

 

 

12 Stories. $200 Million That Illinois Taxpayers Don't Have. Built On Park Land.

Yep, it's the Obummers again. Classic.

Shouldn't the monument to Barry be half-black?

When the Obama Foundation first sought to lease parts of Jackson Park three years ago for its project, it convinced the city of Chicago that it planned to construct an official library to be managed by federal officials. But after receiving the lease, Obama suddenly decided to not include his official presidential library within the center.

Local parks activists filed a lawsuit last month to block the construction of Obama’s presidential center on the basis that it’s a fraud. But then, it's Chicago; fraud's been part of the culture there for at least the past half-century.

The lawsuit argued that while the purpose of transferring the land was to house the official Obama presidential library, the center will not include his presidential papers, only a digital copy.

Whatever, since it's going to go up on the South Side, they'd better make sure the place is bullet-proof.

 

Getting Bent In Oregon

In a bizarre twist, it seems that these lesbians were lying:

Deschutes County prosecutors on Monday dropped all charges against a man accused of  brutally attacking two women in a road rage incident that generated international headlines, the district attorney's office said.

Police arrested Jay Barbeau after Megan Stackhouse, 34, and fiancee Lucinda Mann, 26, told officers he had smashed their car's rear window, snapped Stackhouse's arm with his bare hands and knocked Mann unconscious during a June 1 altercation in Bend.

District Attorney John Hummel said in statement he decided to drop the charges, which included felony assault, after a review of medical records, witness accounts and prior incidents involving the two women.

"I have no confidence in the credibility of Mann and Stackhouse," Hummel said.

During its investigation, Hummel's office said it found Mann had feigned being unconscious in a 2016 traffic incident and, last week, had intentionally thrown herself onto the hood of a car in the road after drinking with Stackhouse at Bend's 10 Barrel brewery.

Maybe those two should reassess their drinking issues. Among other problems.

As well, former First Squeeze Cylvia, also a Bend resident, is back in the news:

Filing for bankruptcy wouldn't protect former first lady Cylvia Hayes from paying a $125,000 judgment to The Oregonian/OregonLive or up to $110,000 in fines for ethics violations,according to an expert in bankruptcy law. 

The Oregonian filed a lien on her Bend home a few months ago due to her refusal to pay up. She sued them to keep her emails out of the organization's hands, she lost in court, and has to cover the legal fees incurred by The Oregonian, which she has refused to do; proudly proclaiming that they'll "never see a dime" of her money.

Hayes wrote in a Facebook post Thursday, June 8, that she planned to file bankruptcy to "protect my home from the Oregonian." "And so, I am hoping to close the door on a long and draining ordeal," she wrote. "I am ready to have all of my energy moving forward focused on positive work, rather than mired down in a legal quagmire." 

Her cunning plan wasn't well thought-out, it seems. She does love to play the victim card, though this time it's unlikely to work.

 

Cylvia And Her John

Former Oregon first lady  squeeze Cylvia Hayes announced today in a Facebook post that she will seek protection in bankruptcy court rather than pay The Oregonian court-ordered legal fees that resulted from her refusal to turn over emails the newspaper had requested.

"This is a very difficult decision," Hayes wrote. "I have struggled with it, sought counsel, soul-searched, meditated and prayed about it. Prior to all of this my only debt was my mortgage—no credit card balances, school loans were paid off and my car was paid in full (the same car I am driving today). I have never failed to pay off a debt and never imagined I would be in bankruptcy."

She owes the news organization about $128,000 - and declaring bankruptcy may result in a discharge of that obligation, although The Oregonian placed a lien on her home in Bend, Oregon a couple of months ago. In addition, she faces fines and penalties of some $110,000 related to 22 counts of ethics violations, which cannot be obliterated through bankruptcy proceedings.

Hayes suggested that other public officials should be worried should they find themselves in a similar situation.

"The precedent this sets should cause serious concern for anyone in Oregon in an appointed or volunteer public service position," Hayes wrote. "You too could find yourself in the crosshairs of dishonest, for-profit media institutions coming after you and your personal property."

It's always somebody else's fault. In her case, it's the "dishonest, for-profit media". It had nothing to do with the grifter's choices. She got into trouble some years back for taking $5,000 to engage in a sham marriage to an immigrant so he could become a U.S. citizen. Among other things in her shady past.

 

It's Worked So Well In Portland

SEATTLE - Seattle lawmakers are discussing the idea of requiring home and landowners to get a permit and pay a fee to cut down a tree six inches in diameter or larger.

Nope, you don't own that land, the city does. I'll pay attention to the clowns when they start paying my property taxes.

Hasn't happened yet, so I continue to ignore them. Here in Portland, they expect "owners" to buy a permit just to trim a tree - and after you pay, some bureaucrat tells you whether or not you can do it. The fee is, of course, nonrefundable.

When they start paying the taxes, I'll start paying attention.

 

Mighty Oregon!

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Public schools in Oregon have one of the lowest graduation rates in the country. The state also requires students be in class for fewer days than students in most other states. Year after year, the state’s high school graduation rate is among the worst in the country. Currently, one out of every four students does not graduate high school in four years.

Around the country, students in other states average 180 days of instructional time in a school year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Those are defined as days when kids are at their desk, learning from a teacher.

In Oregon, the average is about 165 instructional days. That’s among the lowest in the country.

It's all part of the plan: keep people stupid and they'll vote straight Democrat every time.

Seems to work!