Dots

My common life, uncommonly interesting
Ran into a Kansas City BBQ dynasty
Then my favorite hillbilly band
Materializes along with a dozen
Friends from Kansas Oklahoma I've known
For decades, and chip
Who works for Metallica
Then I manage to get to
Play with the illustrious Nashville hillbillies
At the place my last painting foreman
Managed for years
And today the news says
Metallica's tour is cancelled
It's a slow train to Arkansas these
Crazy arms paddling to new
Zeal
Land

Chuck Mead Kennedy School

Chuck Mead McMinnville

Chuck Mead Oregon

I'll be on fiddle for a song 

Or two tomorrow

With Mead, in the hinterlands

KC BBQ, but Vegan

Gate's Bar-B-Q is featured prominently in the lyrics and video of rapper Tech N9ne's song "O.G." The title and cover of the 2010 album the song is featured on, The Gates Mixed Plate, make further references to the restaurant. Tech N9ne has also referred to Ollie Gates in numerous songs over his career.

Gates and Sons is referenced in lyrics for Sir Mix-a-Lot's song "A Rapper's Reputation" from the 1992 album Mack Daddy.
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Lillard told OregonLive Sports on Sept. 25 that he had been vegan for a month and it allowed him to eat cleaner, create better habits, take more weight off his feet and feel much better. 

Portland-based newspaper/website Willamette Week also tweeted on Sept. 25 that Lillard loved vegan sloppy Joes 

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Vtopia 2018 forest's vegan burger dressed in sloppy jo

"Other NBA players who have professed being vegan include Kyrie Irving, Enes Kanter, JaVale McGee, Wilson Chandler and Jahlil Okafor."


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"John Thomas Salley (born May 16, 1964) is an American retired professional basketball player, and talk show host.

He was the first player in NBA history to win championships with three franchises, as well as the first player (and only one of two, the other being Tim Duncan) in the NBA to win a championship in three decades.

He is a vegan activist, chef, and wellness entrepreneur."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Salley


In December 2015, Salley encouraged US First Lady Michelle Obama to go vegan "for the planet" - setting a lifestyle example of reducing environmental impacts from greenhouse gas release.

"Vegan eating is not just a slam dunk for human health; it's also the most effective way to combat climate change." ~ John Salley

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"Abernethy is the rare U.S. public school with meals made from scratch, but the school's 5-year-old comprehensive food curriculum goes much further. The cafeteria -- dubbed Abernethy Cafe -- uses ingredients from the school's gardens, where students grow everything from apples to zucchini. The kitchen also develops and tests recipes for use in other Portland schools."
Hoffmann will also take an invitation asking the first lady to visit Abernethy to find ways to pay for comprehensive kitchen garden programs across the country.

"It's a moon shot," said Leslie Carlson, a parent who's helping Sullivan write a letter to the first lady, of drawing Obama to Oregon. 

"But her brother lives here."
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Kurt Schrader, Oregon 5th Congressional District Representative: Pro NRA, Pro Trump

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon%27s_5th_congressional_district


Oregon's 5th congressional district represents Oregon's central coast through Salem, north to the southern Portland suburbs, and east to the summit of Mount Hood. It includes Lincoln, Marion and Polk Counties, most of Clackamas and Tillamook Counties, plus parts of Benton and Multnomah Counties.

The district is currently represented by Democrat Kurt Schrader, who was elected in 2008 to replace the retiring Darlene Hooley. This marked the first time in the district's history that a new representative had the same party affiliation as the outgoing representative.

Every single representative from this district since its creation after the 1980 census has gotten divorced while in office.

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Gun control

In December 2017, Schrader was one of only six House Democrats to support legislation allowing concealed handgun licensees to carry their weapons in all 50 states. He is one of the few Democrats to receive funding from the NRA. Schrader has received 2,500 dollars in donations.

Minimum wage bill


In July 2019 Schrader was one of Six Democrats in the House of Representatives to oppose a bill which would incrementally increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15.00 an hour by 2025.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/politics/impeachment-support-house-democrats/

These lawmakers don't want to open an impeachment inquiry right now:



Kurt Schrader
Tulsi Gabbard
Colin Allred
Anthony Brindisi (hey i've been there!)
Joe Cunningham
Jared Goldenb
Kendra Horn
Eddie Bernice Johnson
Ron Kind
Conor Lamb
Ben McAdams
Lucy McBath
Tom O'Halleran
Max Rose
Jeff Van Drew
Frederica S Wilson

Trump the Witch who Wasn't

 "This is nothing more 
than a continuation 
of the Greatest
 and most Destructive
 Witch Hunt of all time!”

Impeachment Begins

I've been a tireless critic of Trump and the GOP on this blog.

Crossing the rubicon, on the Equinox.

And 100,000 bloggod "views."


Sunshine!!!

Lewandowski, PDVSA, Citgo Trump

"A firm co-founded by Donald Trump’s initial campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, quietly agreed to lobby for the oil company Citgo as the company, which is owned by the leftist government of Venezuela, was becoming increasingly embroiled in tensions involving the United States, Venezuela and Russia.



Officials with Lewandowski’s firm, Avenue Strategies, confirmed that last month it formalized a $25,000-a-month lobbying contract with Citgo.



 "...the Russian government-owned oil company Rosneft could be on the verge of taking control of Citgo. That’s because Venezuela’s national oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, or PDVSA, took out a loan from Rosneft in December, offering as collateral 49.9 percent of Citgo’s shares



. International energy market analysts have predicted that the economic crisis in Venezuela could lead PDVSA to default on its debt, which would put Rosneft on the cusp of controlling three of the largest and most sophisticated refineries in the U.S., plus three major pipelines and dozens of fuel terminals."



https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/03/corey-lewandowski-citgo-deal-237960



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"The White House on Friday announced a new round of sanctions against Venezuela that explicitly exempt the U.S. arm of the country’s state-owned oil company.



That company, Citgo, donated six-figure sums to Trump’s inauguration and recently hired former Trump officials to lobby for that exemption."



" Citgo has paid Avenue Strategies $160,000 to lobby the White House, the Treasury Department, the Justice Department, and the Energy Department on the “potential impact of U.S. energy and foreign policy restrictions on CITGO Petroleum Corporation's operations and valuation of assets,” according to disclosure filings."



https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-just-gave-a-big-carve-out-to-citgo-an-oil-giant-repped-by-his-ex-aides

close but no cigar

the finish
the finish carpenter
one nail short

Shaman Gump

A shaman on a 5,000-mile journey to "exorcise" President Vladimir Putin has been arrested by Russian armed police, a human rights organization has said.

Amnesty International said Thursday that Aleksandr Gabyshev is a "Siberian shaman walking across Russia to Moscow and promising to use his magic powers to 'purge' President Vladimir Putin in 2021."

Speaking in a video on his Instagram account, Gabyshev called Putin "a beast, a fiend of hell, the son of Satan," and said the purpose of his trip to Moscow was to "exorcise" the Russian leader.


https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/20/europe/siberian-shaman-arrested-intl-scli/index.html
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Forrest soon meets President Richard Nixon and is put up in the Watergate complex, where he accidentally exposes the Watergate scandal, forcing Nixon to resign.

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Heartbroken, Forrest goes running, and spends the next three years in a relentless cross-country marathon.....

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Gump

"Winston Groom was paid $350,000 for the screenplay rights to his novel Forrest Gump and was contracted for a 3 percent share of the film's net profits.

However, Paramount and the film's producers did not pay him, using Hollywood accounting to posit that the blockbuster film lost money. 

Tom Hanks, by contrast, contracted for a percent share of the film's gross receipts instead of a salary, and he and director Zemeckis each received $40 million.

Additionally, Groom was not mentioned once in any of the film's six Oscar-winner speeches."


 "The film was an enormous success at the box office; it became the top-grossing film in America released that year and earned over US$677 million worldwide during its theatrical run, making it the second highest-grossing film of 1994. "


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Vito capice

An injury to one
Is an injury
To all

Vegans shouldn't
Cook meat

Vita cafe on Alberta st in deep shit

My daughter, injured a month ago at the Vita Cafe, is getting no help from her employer, manager, or co-workers.

The 801 form, not filed. The finger tip, not put on ice or re-attached.

Get your lawyers ready, Vita Cafe. 

ASSHOLES.

Shapes

Eating my el cheapo burrito
Not many diners in the place
Two young women
College age women
Stand near me, viewing the menu grande
So many options they all look good
They stand and stand and
The tall blonde
Starts to take off her running jacket
But stops partway
So that only her nape and shoulders
Show ( that she's in fine shape
Her friend smiles at me
They glide away to order
At the bean counter I'm still
Engaged to my
El cheapo, demolishing it and those pickled
Carrots the fellow patrons
Take their trays over yonder
The jacket comes all the way off
Time to skedaddle I've had my fill

Isis 2019

Beauty

Sisters

210 W 4th fort anomaly

3 games off #800 when I was 17

It's Sunday it's a titty bar
The DJ won't put
The US open men's finals
On any of three screens
It's NFL time
No fucking luck
My ancestor Bloodgood
Was sheriff of flushing
And personally handed new Amsterdam
Over to the Brits in 1672
With gov Colve

 Me, I won 3 games
Off a guy named Lon
At the tennis courts by the
Oklahoma state football stadium

He was ranked 800
In the world

Eat shit Doug.

Take a look at the sharpie hurricane

Vlads hypersonic nod

Please Vlad, fire
Don or replace him with
A traffic cone
Stuffed with dunces in kkk gowns
Let's get real

Give don marching odors
He can understand
Follow my map past the frackricide
Past yerapeons
Past NFS Greenland
Past the dangling chad of Florida
Past the CIA site in unknown region


Give him a wee push
Toward the door painted like money

My kids, the Dalles

Sedgwick Oregon worker's comp

12 months
Give them rope

Oregon workers comp
Sedgwick
Scamming workers