Celebrated my 39th birthday yesterday in part by taking myself to a cherished haunt for lunch: a well-stocked used bookstore next to a Straw Hat Pizza to which I can retire to read my new acquisitions with a favorite dish: pineapple pizza, light on the sauce.
Found this gem:
The Mayor of Portland, OR gets to the nut of the problem of having “homeless” folks camp out at City Hall in protest of the city’s anti-camping/loitering laws
Both the mayor and protest leaders seem to be feeling the pressure and the tension of a struggle that has now stretched into its third week with no obvious compromise in the making.
Rios came out of the mayor’s conference room to complain that Potter’s staff had written a response to the meeting in advance and forced protesters to turn off tape recorders given to them by reporters at the Portland Mercury, an alternative weekly, after Potter refused to open the meeting to the public. Still, Rios later carved a path through reporters to shake the mayor’s hand and thank him for the time.
Potter didn’t take kindly to a question about how he could have allowed a large group to camp outside City Hall for two weeks without expecting public safety problems.
He stared at the reporter for a moment before responding. “That is a really dumb question,” he said. “Would you like to rephrase it?”
Potter said the city has opened 102 extra shelter beds since the protest began, and that 18 sat empty Monday night. He also noted that the crowd outside City Hall now includes a number of people who aren’t homeless. Perhaps, the mayor suggested, those people could take a few homeless men and women home with them overnight during the protest so they don’t violate the law.
If all the people who claim to care about “the homeless” would actually take care of the problem themselves instead of demanding that my tax money be used to pay for some asshatted scheme which only attracts more of “the homeless”, the problem would be licked in short order.
Which is to say, the “homeless” advocates would stop feeling sorry for the bums and we wouldn’t have any more “homeless advocates” to complain about the existence of “homeless people”, thereby, the only whining about “homeless people” I would have to endure is how there is a shortage of them since we put them to work along the interstates picking up trash for their room and board.
A reporter from The Hill has asked the 97 Senators not currently running for the Executive Office how they’d react if offered the VP spot
I plan to stick with my current job until I get the hang of it.
Ted Kennedy (D-MA)
I do believe that his current job entails pissing me off, attempting to remove my civil rights via legislation and drinking as much single malt scotch as humanly possible.
Being somewhat successful at the first two, I’m taking it that he’s currently stuck on getting that last part perfected. Let’s hope it stays that way.
That you would read a story of this nature in a Seattle newspaper is if the editor wanted to mock the person confused over the cans.
A council refused to collect rubbish from a 95-year-old war veteran who is nearly blind - because he put a ketchup bottle in the wrong bin.
Lenny Woodward, a former Desert Rat who has lived in the same house for 58 years, was confused by a new regime of fortnightly collections and rigid recycling rules.
Residents have a blue wheelie bin for cans and cardboard, a green box for glass and a black bin for other waste.
Mr Woodward made the mistake of putting the ketchup bottle and a coffee jar in the blue bin when they should have gone in the green box.
When binmen inspected the blue bin, they refused to empty it and attached a tag to it warning him not to break the rules again.
And when his daughter rang Norwich City Council to explain that he was baffled by the new regime, she was told that “rules have to be obeyed”.
I’m already waiting for the first round of confusion over the new foodwaste rules. Rules that lead to fines for not putting your chicken bones and apple cores in your yardwaste bin.
Though, even if my employer took those calls, my bosses aren’t dumb enough to have me answering them. I have no time to waste telling people about some ignorant rule a bureaucrat pulled out of his ass.
The city itself takes those calls and I know for a fact that their highly qualified representatives will issue forth with their own version of the “rules have to be obeyed” line.
Apparently, some jackass thrashing an Obama campaign office, leaving slogans such as “Hamas Votes BHO” and “Goddamn Wright” spray painted on the wall equals racism to the MSM.
So I am only able to conclude that the visceral hatred John Aravosis has for Hillary! is sexism
Why is the media even covering her? The only stories that should be written about Hillary Clinton is how much damage she’s causing our party. How she’s hurting fundraising at the DNC - they even admitted it, they’re not raising the money they need to fight John McCain because of this woman. Why don’t you write some stories about how she is hurting our candidates who can’t fundraise because of her? How she has forced EMILY’s List and AFSCME and the AFT to waste their money because of her. How she has caused a civil war in the Netroots. Five months ago we all felt that we had 3 great candidates. Now, far too many of us loathe Hillary Clinton, and she has done her racist best to ensure that her supporters can’t stand Barack Obama either.
The Clintons don’t give a damn about our party. Their party, their church, is themselves. To hell with everyone else. I actually liked Hillary up until a few months ago. Other bloggers used to tell me that Joe and I were too nice to Hillary. People just assumed that we were endorsing her. Now I actually loathe her. She makes me yell at the TV like she’s George Bush, and no one other than George Bush makes me yell at the TV - until now. I actually can’t stand her or her husband any more.
I do like how he seriously believes the MSM should be writing anti-Hillary! stories for the benefit of his chosen political party and candidate.
But the truly comical part of this little Nutrooter’s world view is how he spouts this sexist hatred on a daily basis, while completely ignoring the fact that 62% of Democrats, including 42% of Obama supporters, want Hillary! to stay in the race until the primaries are over.
He is so fixated that HE is the mainstream of America that he can’t see that the trees in the forest are fast approaching his face.
Most of y’all probably remember this unique set up from the post with all the Boomershoot rifle pictures
Well, yesterday the designer of the very odd looking, but apparently very effective device stopped by.
Bruce Da Squirrel Hunter
The Tripod with the polished longitudinal weight runs is correct. I developed a system to control recoil and rise of the barrel of this Rem.700 .25-06 shooting a 115 Grain Berger VLD pill. On testing it seemed that crude weight out in front of rifle worked best so I developed a sliding weight system to be able to dial in the correct weight resistance and not have the barrel rise on ignition. This rifle is shot “Free Recoil” with no hands on, simply look through the scope and squeeze the trigger with two fingers and the rifle has a recoil of a .22 long rifle without movement and without loss of sight picture so you can see the bullet impact and I can self correct without a spotter out to the 650-700 yard line.
My next step of development will be a rear micrometer adjustable windage and elevation control to put the cross hairs exactly where I want them.
This whole system was built to reduce heartbeat impulse generated by human input for exacting accuracy on squirrels out to 600-1000 yards.
It works.
I have no doubt of that, Bruce.
Recent elections both here and afar have left us with some very clear winners, such as the re-elected Mayor of Irvine, TX, Herbert Gears and the newly elected Mayor of Farmer’s Branch, TX, Tim O’Hare, both of whom ran on very pro-enforcement of immigration law platforms.
And thankfully, they have also shown us some very clear losers
Gordon Brown, Ken Livingstone and 300 Labour councillors were not the only casualties of the local and London elections. No one seems to have noticed, but the other big losers were those people who care about the environment.
We might just look back on May Day 2008 as the moment when the power of green politics peaked and went into reverse.
My most humble apologies to Mr. Grice, but I do believe that the facts show that the only big losers were people who over-hyped, over-taxed and over-legislated the Global Warming Myth for their own gain of either money or power.
John McCain in my state today, flapping his ignorant mouth about said Myth to try and gain favor with some fence sitters here, as it is looking like Washignton may actually be a battleground of sorts for the middle of the road voters.
Also known as roadkill.
The Portland Public School District is going to force feed all the bad things whitey has done to the chilluns
Text fills in history of Oregon’s racist acts
Portland Public Schools is poised to adopt a new curriculum today, making the district the first in the state to use a textbook exploring Oregon’s racial history.
“This is not your traditional Oregon history kids may have learned in social studies class in fourth grade,” said Marcia Arganbright, district director of curriculum and instruction.
“Beyond the Oregon Trail: Oregon’s Untold History” is one of four books recommended for eighth-grade social studies classes.
Arganbright said the district did not seek out a curriculum that dealt with racism but found that “Beyond the Oregon Trail” accomplished the district’s major goals: highlighting Oregon history and analyzing various perspectives of historical events and issues.
It took the book’s three authors nearly a year to take a topic that makes most adults uncomfortable and create language and content to suit the 13-year-old intellect and emotional maturity.
Because unlike those in the Seattle School District, repeating “Only white people can be racists!!!1!” over and over just wasn’t acceptable to the more mainstream PTA members.
I would like to see if the topic of taxpayer funded reparations is mentioned anywhere in the book, or in the teacher’s syllabus. My $20 bet is going towards that it is a suggested topic of discussion somewhere in the book.
Found via Some Poor Schmuck
Not a bad idea if I do say so myself
Restraining orders should come bundled with carry permits and firearms training.
Joker402 - In the comments section of this Seattle PI article on three local women who were recently murdered after obtaining restraining orders in the Seattle/Tacoma area.
Apparently, the self-esteem building industry has hit paydirt with a key Dem demographic:
“Until now, the acceptance of mental illness has pretty much stopped at depression,” said Charles Barber, a lecturer in psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. “But a newer generation, fueled by the Internet and other sophisticated delivery systems, is saying, ‘We deserve to be heard, too.’ ”
About 5.7 million Americans over 18 have bipolar disorder, which is classified as a mood disorder, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Another 2.4 million have schizophrenia, which is considered a thought disorder. The small slice of this disparate population who have chosen to share their experiences with the public liken their efforts to those of the gay-rights and similar movements of a generation ago.
Just as gay-rights activists reclaimed the word queer as a badge of honor rather than a slur, these advocates proudly call themselves mad; they say their conditions do not preclude them from productive lives.
Mad pride events, organized by loosely connected groups in at least seven countries including Australia, South Africa and the United States, draw thousands of participants, said David W. Oaks, the director of MindFreedom International, a nonprofit group in Eugene, Ore., that tracks the events and says it has 10,000 members.
Great! Fighting the stigma that crazy people are, well, crazy. Perfect Democrat tactic.
This is worse than putting only the skinny funhouse mirrors along the halls at a weight watchers convention.
