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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.

 

Another Toothless Bill

The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that aims to combat the illegal robocalls torturing Americans .

Though the measure wouldn’t eliminate all unwanted calls, it would give regulators more tools to go after scammers. It would also push phone companies to adopt new technology to combat fake phone numbers popping up on caller ID.

Nothing changes.

There may be a brief hiccup or two, but your phone will be ringing constantly, just like always.

 

PetSmart V. PETA

Pet superstore PetSmart has filed a lawsuit against PETA, claiming a former employee who illegally filmed internal operations was being paid by and acting with orders from the animal-rights group that aims to fully eradicate pet ownership. PetSmart had already filed a lawsuit against the employee, Jenna Jordan, for lying on her job application and proceeding to transmit secretly recorded audio and video to PETA. The newly filed lawsuit, however, names both Jordan and PETA as the defendants.

The lawsuit alleges that Jordan was on the receiving end of both "funding and logistical support" from PETA while she was employed by PetSmart. It says Jordan lied on her job application by omitting her employment with PETA, as well as the fact that she had previously been fired by a zoo for secretly collecting information on its operations for PETA.

PeTA hates zoos, wildlife parks, dog owners, cat owners, dairy farmers, and many more.

It must be awful to have no life.

 

Drugs, Dude

BOSTON (AP) — Attorneys general from more than 40 states are alleging the nation’s largest generic drug manufacturers conspired to artificially inflate and manipulate prices for more than 100 different generic drugs, including treatments for diabetes, cancer, arthritis and other medical conditions.

Say it isn't so! If you've been wondering why your prescription prices have gone up so much, wonder no more.

 

Scam Alert

(Washington, D.C.) - The Federal Communications Commission is alerting consumers to reported waves of “One Ring” or “Wangiri” scam robocalls targeting specific area codes in bursts, often calling multiple times in the middle of the night. These calls are likely trying to prompt consumers to call the number back, often resulting in per minute toll charges similar to a 900 number. Consumers should not call these numbers back.

Recent reports indicate these calls are using the “222” country code of the West African nation of Mauritania. News reports have indicated widespread overnight calling in New York State and Arizona.

We've had them here in the 503 area code recently. They're annoying, but if you don't answer the phone, they never leave a message. They're also spoofing the prefix, so it appears that someone in the neighborhood is calling. They just want you to pick up, so they know they have a live number.

Don't.

 

Mind The Potholes, Holder

“[Mitch McConnell] has done a whole bunch of unpatriotic things, has really been a force of polarization in this nation. History will not be kind to him,” Holder declared Monday on MSNBC.

Mitch didn't run "Operation Fast and Furious", Eric.

During the Obama-era Fast and Furious scandal, he became the only sitting Cabinet official in American history to ever be held in contempt of Congress. Why? Because of the efforts he made to obstruct justice by purposefully hiding information from congressional investigators.

In a fair and just world, Eric would be doing his interviews from behind bars.

 

Woodburn, Oregon - Long A Hotbed For Illegal Aliens

Miguel Merecias-Lopez, 24, of Woodburn, Oregon, pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to produce false identification documents and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

According to court documents, from a time unknown until September 21, 2017, Merecias-Lopez and other co-conspirators were part of a Oaxaca, Mexico-based criminal conspiracy to produce and sell fraudulent U.S. government documents.

A review of electronic devices found in Merecias-Lopez’s apartment produced evidence that the conspiracy had operated in Woodburn for more than a decade and produced and sold more than 10,000 different fraudulent documents including driver’s licenses for more than 25 states, U.S. social security cards, immigration-related documents including non-immigrant visas and legal permanent resident cards, marriage licenses, vehicle bills of sale and titles, and birth certificates.

No Borders!

Just here doing the work that Americans won't do....

 

 

Backlash

There’s no disputing SEIU 503 has been squarely in the Freedom Foundation’s crosshairs since the organization expanded into Oregon in 2015. The two combatants offered starkly different accounts, however, about how much damage had been inflicted.

The question was answered definitively this week when a “for sale” sign went up out front of the headquarters building in Salem the union has called home for more than 20 years.

After spending millions during the 2018 election cycle while simultaneously losing millions in membership dues, SEIU 503 have been forced to vacate the almost $3 million building.

It appears that a lot of folks are availing themselves of recent court decisions that free them to opt out of union membership.

 

Skimming

Card skimming, in which an illegal reader is attached to a payment terminal, is a pervasive financial scam, particularly at the gas pump. According to the National Association for Convenience Stores, a single compromised pump at a gas station can compromise 30 to 100 cards every day in the U.S.

Precautions:

One way, as Krebs on Security notes, is to go inside to the cashier to pay with a debit or credit card, but particularly a debit card. In fact, it’s best not to use a debit card at all, if you can help it. That’s one reason, generally, why security and fraud experts recommend paying with a credit card over a debit card: If you use a credit card, you’re not actually spending your money, and you’re protected by your issuer’s zero-liability policy.

Or, you could go all old-school, and just use cash - which I favor.

 

Dirty Bob - A Democratic, Of Course

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson tried to cover up his office's collusion with labor unions after a think tank asked for public records about their communications, according to a lawsuit.

Ferguson is one of several Democrats seeking to resist the Trump administration's directive that would prohibit states from siphoning Medicaid payments away from at-home caregivers and putting them in the pockets of labor unions, such as Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).

Ferguson's office has been one of the most ambitious in filing lawsuits against the Trump administration, leading the high-profile lawsuit against the executive order restricting travel from seven majority-Muslim nations. "The whole situation is exhibit A of the collusion taking place between Left Coast state governments and the unions they rely on for political support. The losers in this relationship are taxpayers and, in this case, home caregivers."

Pour money into public employee unions, and they'll give you some back, come election time. The campaigns are all that count. You sure don't.

It's all about the Benjamins, baby.