Hey mad, I'm really dad
So rad I'm datachew.
Just numb or numbered
Aspoonafood
Unremembered
Yer boon of fools
Harpy holydaze
Lest Sedition be a manjob
Ginni robodialed Arizona
Wishing for trumperbonna
Sedition slut dudes, gaetz
Graham cawthorne and Cruz
Jordan McCarthy McConnell and all GOP ....eat. my.
Lost climate of thought.
Se PDX
7-15-22
Reconnoiter yer sole phil, gumshoe fascist, waffle face sweatboss
It's the last lap for humanity dance
Grinding the middle class into shoegoo
To fix the billionaire fix it's alltrix no kids
Them were made forbidden, heavy metal in their soup
2Mr Knight, you benzene
Bin zine
Beensawed and people for Portland yer pet project....get a scoop pooper for yer looper
7-8-22
Pdx
Fireworks celebrate the fourth of july sky over the gulf of Persia
And you’re in italy sleeping off a siesta,
The planes passengers crossing the channel to their homes
Smelling of Lebanese meats and spices, the sound of silly
Children happy to see daddy, spouse’s complaint of the local
Vicious dog that terrorizes the innocent meter reader doing daily duties
I’m pitching horseshoes in Oklahoma, taking aim
And firing with my lower lip silently chewed in contemplation
Pitching my shoe and hoping for a ringer the macho
Burst of fireworks resounds in my mind
And all I felt was disgust, and all I felt was this remorseful code
Dashdashdash dotdotdot dashdashdashing thru all the
Miles and differing wartime zones, and all I felt
From this celebration of isolation was nausea
My mind churning with the bloated floating dead
O spangled banner of america who’d guess you’re not an island
Though surrounded by mental waters you only
Lower your drawbridge to send out armed salesmen, what
Carrion you produce along the skyways of commerce!
What blisters swelling on the triggerfingers of ignorance,
What vain nationalism with your civil plights
And comdom-nation of others! And what say I of myself?
I’m america too, an isolatoe, but I think that think my nation
Hates thinking, knockout those with something to give
Wrap nature in disposable diapers and talcum the
Consciences by proclaiming I am
Not me! Swear it doesn’t hurt though the drought burns
Our pink skins like sonic insults! Independence day
Fade away like a pipe bomb, like a tummy ache, like
A cramp in the side, and shatter our illusory caskets!
Midland Review, Oklahoma State Univ., 1989
"Iran Air Flight 655 was a scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas, that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by an SM-2MR surface-to-air missile fired from USS Vincennes, a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy. The aircraft, an Airbus A300, was destroyed and all 290 people on board, including 66 children, were killed"
"I just told the New York Times that our beautiful City of Roses was turning into the ‘city of roaches’.
“Now, unbelievably, the forces of ‘Tent City Tina’ and some woke professor from Portland State are attempting to manufacture false outrage.
My comment was about trash — not people "
https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiZmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmtvaW4uY29tL25ld3Mvb3JlZ29uL2pvaG5zb24tY2FsbHMta290ZWstdGVudC1jaXR5LXRpbmEtd2hpbGUtZGVmZW5kaW5nLXBvcnRsYW5kLWNvbW1lbnRzL9IBamh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmtvaW4uY29tL25ld3Mvb3JlZ29uL2pvaG5zb24tY2FsbHMta290ZWstdGVudC1jaXR5LXRpbmEtd2hpbGUtZGVmZW5kaW5nLXBvcnRsYW5kLWNvbW1lbnRzL2FtcC8?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aenhttps://news.google.com/articles/CBMiZmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmtvaW4uY29tL25ld3Mvb3JlZ29uL2pvaG5zb24tY2FsbHMta290ZWstdGVudC1jaXR5LXRpbmEtd2hpbGUtZGVmZW5kaW5nLXBvcnRsYW5kLWNvbW1lbnRzL9IBamh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmtvaW4uY29tL25ld3Mvb3JlZ29uL2pvaG5zb24tY2FsbHMta290ZWstdGVudC1jaXR5LXRpbmEtd2hpbGUtZGVmZW5kaW5nLXBvcnRsYW5kLWNvbW1lbnRzL2FtcC8?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen
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Trashy Betsy tries Trump speak.
How dare you insinuate that I'm a born-wealthy NRA plop of Phil Knight excrement hiding behind wall sized glasses to hold my jowls from needing a bra made of steel meshing.
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"Portland does not actually have a cockroach problem."
Go vote yourself a life jacket, drowned children.
Ya get an E fer effort, that fort atop the twig
A for atoned, a tone notto
B for being besides a C
D cider halfwit blended what the F for.
Sleep is a mixed bag, what with headlightless dirt bikes doing wheelies at 4am upn down the neighborhood
Breaking the monotony of gunfire, gunfire, more funtire
After stepping in dogshit, I awaken 12 hours later to a dog shitting near my bed under the redwood, with me in bed
Some semblances of silence assuredly assimilate my unsanctimonious nest
Screeching hawk runs from the crowboys harried in the fearless canopy, thud drops the rat a mere ten feet from my bed unpeopled
It all happened just like that, first& forestmostly unimportant
"Gonzalez has said his number one priority
is getting rich.
He has called for city and county leaders to
rapidly build more shelters
and said, if people
refuse to go, he believes
they should face
jail time or a citation."
https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEEptSHP4uLgW5gbj22qQ5zsqMwgEKioIACIQ8JOk3mr40NIj2qaTzWaopSoUCAoiEPCTpN5q-NDSI9qmk81mqKUwot_ABw?uo=CAUiANIBAA&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aenhttps://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEEptSHP4uLgW5gbj22qQ5zsqMwgEKioIACIQ8JOk3mr40NIj2qaTzWaopSoUCAoiEPCTpN5q-NDSI9qmk81mqKUwot_ABw?uo=CAUiANIBAA&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen
When you're houseless, everywhere is home. When you're heartless, every touch revives. I'm neither less nor more than a sum of my losses, without you. Gold sinks, water dances still. There are no strangers in our open morning, no friends bearing a true compass other than the baby sun and harbor moon. Silence can't be broken like a horse. Rope and saddle and wishes stay selfish in the pecking orders of mountains. My glacier thirsts for the ocean floor, shaggy with salt. When we're helpless, we help ourselves to suffer. When the polis eats us, we're political. A routine checkup checks all the Pandora boxes, unpostmarked by design. Everything done comes undun, washing the tomorrow clean of whence. Worn out thread becomes a nest, with effort feathers. I bark another tree, spin a yarn, and tumble in my bagworm skin. When rebooted, our toes map the cavernous naps and spatial tuck. When pulling oneself out of the tarpit, the tar comes along to the dino museum. It's free.
SE Pdx 5-17-22
I click "less stories like this" day after day, yet Google won't screen this Nothing soap opera slime.
It amounts to nothing newsworthy. It's a petty grotesque Intentional Distraction.
Figure it out Google or I'll switch browsers.
FLB
5-10-23
https://youtu.be/z3TSlR3r4cY
Fiddle at the Montavilla Farmers Market 2021
East Portland News, David Ashton.
"Portland broke its record for the rainiest April in city history, getting drenched with at least 5.60 inches of rainfall by 5 p.m. Saturday, according to the National Weather Service."
Perfect time for Park Rangers to harass the homeless; the moment it stops a monumental downpour.
It has happened to me 3 times.
***
"Oregon State Legislature
Provides that local law regulating sitting, lying, sleeping or keeping warm and dry outdoors on public property that is open to public must be objectively reasonable as to time, place and manner with regards to persons experiencing homelessness.
Catchline/Summary: Provides that local law re...
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of public pr...
HB3115 2021 Regular Session
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"Carmen Rubio's chief of staff, Jillian Schoene, is the wife of Kevin Looper of People for Portland."
And Rubio runs the Park Rangers.
google it.
Harassed AGAIN, 10am, "Jacob" after it rains on my canopy ALL night.
Canopy, "The forest canopy is a structurally complex and ecologically important subsystem of the forest.
It is defined as
“the aggregate of all crowns
in a stand of vegetation,
which is the combination of all foliage, twigs, fine branches, epiphytes as well as the interstices (air) in a forest” (Parker, 1995)."
Definition of canopy
"(Entry 1 of 2) 1a : a cloth covering suspended over a bed. b : a cover (as of cloth) fixed or carried above a person of high rank or a sacred object : baldachin A canopy hung over the altar. c : a protective covering: such as. (1) : the uppermost spreading branchy layer of a forest."
"The definition of a canopy is a roof like covering or anything that seems to cover. "
A CANOPY is a roof.
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Is Political Power a canopy or a tent?
Who orders me harassed? Those already sheltered.
You can see me under my roof. You hide behind walls and send Dogs, like Jacob.
It happens over and over in a Loop, Looper calls his Dog, who sends a Pup, who I have to potty train.
Looper unelected has his Wife in the office of Dogs, she's unelected too. She's a bureauCat rightpaw. Pull the string, yarn, play Consequential!
The harassment leaves no paper trail. Off goes the white Publicity owned truck, mudless. Soil and soul-lacking.
Law is my Canopy, my second roof of protection.
Write me up for not catching pneumonia, office worms.
Do your math and figure out how much the City will spend to keep a single Houseless man from sleeping under a tree, on Public Land, as allowed by Oregon State Law.
Staying dry and warm is my big crime, you say.
Decent Oregon and the 9th Circuit Court disagree.
Happy May Day, public tools.
An Injury to One is an Injury to All.
Forest🌲
Of course I did not rush the hawk,
stoic gloat atop a squirrelpup
They flew upwherehow (else view matters, above
The coastal redwood furspective
Statuesque dripping red on
Redress, dropping
Thud at my turned back
an accident or offering
To we lowly bean eating quackers
SE pdx
Cars curious creep peer discernedly their peers less enabled
Out in the rain
Staying dry, immobile as humans managed the other 6 million years
Not in a snoozemobile on auto-jerk
Or in a halfmillbungalobotunseen
Rubberneckin Friday drizzle, enraged by sciatic tedium and hohummery.
"Richmond was one of a few Democrats who voted to authorize the Keystone XL pipeline.[18]
"He is the fifth-biggest recipient of money from fossil fuel donors among House Democrats.
Richmond's campaign received almost $113,000 from the oil and gas sector, which donated more than any other sector to his campaign. 2020"
Cedric sides with OIL in BP Disaster territory.
'in 2008, the Louisiana Supreme Court suspended Richmond's law license for six months in a 5–2 decision.
It found that he had falsified a sworn statement
claiming more than two years of residency in New Orleans's "D" district in order to be eligible for the district's city council seat.[23]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric_Richmond
"Provenance Hotels, the chain founded by Portland hotelier Gordon Sondland, former U.S. ambassador to the European Union. Provenance qualified for a loan of $9 million.'.
TRAITOR and money launderer Sondland, worth Hundreds of Millions$$$.
"Benchmark Pyramid, based in
The Woodlands,
said it would acquire Provenance Hotels, adding Sondland’s 12 hotels to its 240 properties in the U.S., Europe and the Caribbean."
" According to advocates and government representatives who developed the bill, HB 3155 is meant to ensure that cities and counties comply with a series of recent federal court rulings that governments cannot criminalize camping or issue fines if people have no other place to go.
“If a city wants to arrest you for being somewhere, they have to provide somewhere else reasonable for you to be,”
https://www.opb.org/article/2021/04/15/oregon-house-bill-homeless-camping/?outputType=amp
"The House passed the bill on a near party-line vote, with two Democrats voting against, and two Republicans voting in favor."
Do endorsements matter when it comes to pick predecessors for Oregon Governor?
John Kitzhaber, always the bridegroom never the, whatever. 10 counts of influence peddling and a happy ending too soon.
Neil Goldschmidt, who do you prefer? No tweens.
Barbara Roberts, a true trailblazer in Oregon, why is Terry Bean the only photo on your Wikipedia page? Hoo cares, you're in Ukrainian colors!
Made it thru a wet night ok again, guy passed by at 9 am asked if I wanted a sandwich
Packed away my home what fits on my back trekked over the sogged field leaving a choir of naked worms where my body just sprawled
Took my little pop up canopy to my buddies van to stow, up pulls a car woman with her seats full of bagged recycling cans
Is this your van you can't park here the Lecture starts
No. Bluntly.
I walk off as she informs me that America Needs Pride. She ain't done, follows me pulling over again to speechify, so out comes my camera and I take a fond shot of the silver honda plate
If you put that on FB or tweeter, I'll Find You and Get You, she states. Pride.
That sounds like a threat sezame. She's had enuff. Redemption of Pride Can
Twait.
3-22-22
Stumptown
I got the stolen bike snooze,
Chained to hues blue
Now I hoof it, chartered
Sidewalk cruise
You have a borrowed riff raff,
Falstaff in the bath
Wanna be muddy water
Not a melody squatter
A con etiquette yank
FU Chet Hanks, ringaround yer collar, proud boy waller
Con Ye even weaker than
Most whiteteash tweakers
Sumfin soup, maybe shark or snail
If snails had trails o wait they prevail
It smears to datwitter with witless insouisance
Being dumbass yer only insurance, expired
As tracks yuhdrase
If they didn't nap yo face
Equiknocks
SE pdx
I figure it must be in our durum,
in the iron of the grain
resonated with the rails it rode on
to the rebar in the cement silos
extending for miles,
metal irrigated prarie spines,
seedheads of enid bigger than their boots
covered in oil, red dirt, and alfalfa
boots up to the chin cut strange figures
desperado dna& wildcatter mrrroww
out now in deep oceans with lotus stalks
sipping rudely a wine not theirs to take
sucker sooners, good at sucking off the cream
promenading among young fresh minds and bodies,
it is fer sure in our wheat, then in our chow,
and darn dagnabbit in the worridoors of power
shucking loan by graft by script
watching land family blow away called the dust bowl
banks assume, amass.
the city
rises from the plain
buyonant sic of oil, water held apart in silica primordials
resistance flowers in fractal petro units,
shoots up her weed, enid
fingerstyled hedge fund a bowl of starry gritz
more grain than the milky way of a billion cereal mornings,
&grandma dorothy in camelot
if the refinery smell cut loose
from the masonry
3-13-15 Portland Oregon, living in the divorce Van
"In his July 2021 essay “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians,” Mr. Putin refers to
Prince Volodymyr, a Viking warlord who belonged to the Rus tribe in Kyiv and who converted to Christianity in the year 988.
St. Vladimir of Kyiv, as the Russians came to call him, became credited with Christianizing Russia.
Mr. Putin has argued that this ancient link between Ukraine and Russia “largely determines our affinity today,” justifying the invasion.
"Madison is wrong, if there's any thug in this world it's Putin,"
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said at his weekly news conference on Friday, though he said
he's still supporting Cawthorn's reelection bid. "
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/03/18/politics/madison-cawthorn-republican-reaction/index.html
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/03/18/politics/madison-cawthorn-republican-reaction/index.html
"There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said,
according to a recording of the June 15, 2016, exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia."
Oily Gwawk ya Nembrain.
Getmerikn. Whaddya dunk
Snot fraudulent? Tirescreech
205, my backyard, tho tree nestled my haven
Gracias amigas. Amigas. Amigas.
SE pdx, toda pdx
Our outdoor mansions a canopy of limbs grown in hard won harmony, where gusts barber the ancients
Water filtered a thousand ways tethering now-n-then
Forgotten acorn fossil, pillow of glacial sand barfed into geological symmetry next to montanergeodes
Amber earrings full of ant army MREs, bluej sorties, squirrelenski taunts
Mordoors of Crows is correct, no?
Helped a worm and vice versa said a soily sky borrowed from underseas
SE pdx
"Adams wrote. “Our work so far, mine included, has … failed to produce the sought-after results.”
Rich Chatman, a spokesman for Wheeler, said Friday he was not familiar with document and declined to comment on it."
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"Espinoza described the proposal as an attempt to criminalize homelessness, reverting to prior anti-camping policies in Portland and elsewhere that courts ruled were unconstitutional and harmful."
"An approach to homelessness led by law enforcement and a sector of our military flies grotesquely in the face of our city’s stated goal to advance racial justice and will disproportionately harm our BIPOC houseless neighbors,” said Miller, whose non-profit develops affordable housing and provides emergency shelter and assistance to homeless families."
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"This is not a proposal, this isn’t even a plan,” Adams says, and added that Wheeler had not seen or approved of the notes.
“This is Sam Adams"
https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2022/02/11/portland-mayoral-aide-outlined-ideas-to-eliminate-unsanctioned-camping-across-city/
"Officials would site the shelter locations on city-owned land or use eminent domain to use private property, according to the memo.
Adams suggested staffing them with unarmed National Guard members as well as graduate students in social work programs at Portland State University."
And maybe Mayor Adams can use Girl Scouts and duct tape, too. Or, the usual Proud Boys, the Business Alliance GOP gazpacho teams.
____
"City Commissioner Dan Ryan has spent the better part of a year trying to construct six large outdoor shelters.
His office initially planned for the shelters to be finished at the end of 2021.
None have been built and only three locations finalized."
____
"Adams nor Kafoury has responded to KOIN 6 News’ requests for comment as of Monday afternoon."
"This proposal contravenes social work values and is not being considered by the SSW,” Coll said.
The school was not consulted about this plan, and we with PSU Government relations are handling this matter.”
Wheeler says "I directed my team to leave no stone unturned in finding a solution that will address this problem in an urgent and meaningful way"
Cockroach Consultants scurry scurry when Portland flips over the Mayor's office.
Winning Mark Weiner put both Adams and Deb Kafoury in power. Scurry, scurry. Oh, and Kurt Shrader, one of the worst Democrats in Congress.
Lop, lop, the trump lugs in a flox, smitten in shitten, punked by smeary cretin
Lop lop, trump dingledoozies trot
Lop lop, a GOP crop with all husk no grain
Lop lop
My lil corner, mauve tea sky
Tease antipathy
Yer big dormer, brats inna belfry
Holdinstank as per perfidy, personified
Our lil bower, one wee noon not encumbered,
Succor the air
It were, once.
"His wife, Patricia McCaig, said Walsh developed Alzheimer’s disease few years ago and suffered a fall a few days before he died."
"Blumenauer said. “But he was the first one to roll up his sleeves and the first one to write a check.”
Such a warm remembrance.
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"McCaig's billings show she has worked more than 800 hours since mid-2011 trying to convince Oregon lawmakers to approve the CRC.
But records show she has never registered as a lobbyist with the Oregon Government Ethics Commission, which could be
a violation of state ethics laws (see below)."
https://www.wweek.com/portland/article-20317-the-woman-behind-the-bridge.html
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"Every time we meet with them, we know Patricia's got 15 lobbyists meeting with them."
Political consultant Mark Wiener says that's McCaig doing what she calls "running the traps."
"McCaig has also shown skill in deflecting the CRC's accountability with one big misstep: The bridge had been designed too low.
After all the planning (costs have now hit $165 million), the bridge was designed at 95 feet—not high enough "
"The police said last year that Houston knew information relating to the sexual abuse of a young male in the 1970s and failed to bring it to the attention of police."
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/01/30/australia/hillsong-church-australia-charges-intl-hnk/index.html
"Brian Houston, charged in Sydney in August of last year with concealing a serious indictable offense, said he had already been told to step aside from all Hillsong boards."
"A government inquiry found that Houston became aware of allegations against his preacher father, Frank Houston, in 1999 and
allowed him to retire quietly rather than report him to police.
His father confessed to the abuse before he died in 2004 at age 82, The Associated Press reported. "
They bought an auctioned Storage Unit and dumped the crap they didn't want 2 blocks from the Storage facility.
Crapitalism. Don't blame the homeless.
HERE's an AGRESSIVE (sic) STRATEGY: Why can t (sic) the states of GA NC PENN and other R controlled state houses declare this is BS (where conflicts and election not called that night) and just send their own electors to vote and have it go to the SCOTUS."
Rick Mr 3 Amigo Perry
let's be productive, let's produce new crap
here is your fresh did i say new product
does it reinforce yer world vision of supreme harmony
or fill the spiritual void with its krumpled donut
all the old crap has been lost
to the grinders of time or it is now unfashionable shit
even free can't sell wrapped in gold foils
the newest bestest stuff is lining the arctic shelf
we have armies guarding their barcodes
we have predator drones thanking the tracks of shipments
we have inflatable santas by the crate
the best product we export is poverty!
when deadpoor, all the crap looks great!
can we eat the new crap
or will edibles germinate in its shadow?
we can sure wait to see
the promise of a did i say new trojan pegasus
its paint is still wet
does a leafblower dry wet crap?
lets order a dozen and see!
"Nov. 9, 2011: One of the earliest known references to the meme was posted on a now-archived forum on the website officer.com.
The original poster, a Connecticut lawyer, wrote in the forum that it was intended
“for those dealing with occupy movements and so forth.”
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Willamette Week Jan. 19
____
"In a letter delivered to Commissioner Carmen Rubio on Sept. 28, the business and arts leaders said they agreed with an op-ed by Portland lawyer Aubrey Russell that decried the statue decision as rushed and secretive.
The letter’s signatories include two significant downtown property owners—Greg Goodman and Jordan Schnitzer—as well as Columbia Sportswear CEO Tim Boyle and Pink Martini bandleader Thomas Lauderdale."
https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2021/10/08/thomas-lauderdale-and-tim-boyle-rise-to-the-defense-of-teddy-roosevelt/
"A statue of US President Theodore Roosevelt that sat in front of a New York museum for nearly 80 years was removed this week after criticism over its "racial" image.
The sculpture, which was located at the American Museum of Natural History, featured the 26th president on horseback with a Native American man and an African man on either side of him."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnn.com/style/amp/theodore-roosevelt-statue-removed-nyc-arts-trnd/index.html
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Attenuated nocturnal antannae
I see the coyotes prior to their awareness of me
They sniff, lurk unstealthily where by day squirrel circuses drive doggies bonkers
Maybe some chicken bones under the fir tossed from a car
Or dogshit full of yuppie salmon too luscious to refrain just one paw full
Banjo plinky absurdity at 40 degrees, dropping tonalturds
It's good company to chase the wretched news
They can all keep distance close, count your crumbs if aloud to leave sezame
Roll in the mindwash hogwallow, do an eggroll with yesterday's ladle that's how one gets to Carnegie Hall besides beanborn a taxi
Roam unbuilt the day
Don't go wasting the blankets shed to pine floor, mon fleur
Your skin lit by light dim all the more
A decade ago we blond atime
Now your name now me remind
I'll do those dishes of bridges we'll soon neverburn
Lickoff Long gone say teleport to namaste
It's fyeyasdaypasta
Get yer uncivil pun loaded, goaded in goatmire four wexpyre
Get that blanket oaf a floor
Meamour
SE PDX
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/26/oregon-republican-false-flag-capitol/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/26/oregon-republican-false-flag-capitol/
" The Oregon state GOP also compared the Capitol riot to the burning of the German Reichstag in February 1933 — a flash point that allowed Adolf Hitler to seize on the fears of German citizens to consolidate power"
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" I’m not asking anybody to change their party,” she says.
“I’m appealing to what I think is an Oregon populism that says we want to get back to being proud of our state.”
WW: When did Oregon lose its way?
"Portland is an accelerating death spiral disaster.
The schools are a mess.
Crime is rampant.
I don’t think that there was that one moment that somebody could say, “This is when the wheels came off the rails,"
Other than allowing the Malheur Wildlife Refuge to be hijacked by anti Democracy right wing Militias....
STANDARD OIL (1940)
"When the drill bored down toward the stony fissures
and plunged its implacable intestine
into the subterranean estates,
and dead years, eyes of the ages,
imprisoned plants’ roots
and scaly systems
became strata of water,
fire shot up through the tubes
transformed into cold liquid,
in the customs house of the heights,
issuing from its world of sinister depth,
it encountered a pale engineer
and a title deed.
However entangled the petroleum’s arteries may be,
however the layers may change their silent site
and move their sovereignty amid the earth’s bowels,
when the fountain gushes its paraffin foliage,
Standard Oil arrived beforehand
with its checks and it guns,
with its governments and its prisoners.
Their obese emperors from New York
are suave smiling assassins
who buy silk, nylon, cigars
petty tyrants and dictators.
They buy countries, people, seas, police, county councils,
distant regions where the poor hoard their corn
like misers their gold:
Standard Oil awakens them,
clothes them in uniforms, designates
which brother is the enemy.
the Paraguayan fights its war,
and the Bolivian wastes away
in the jungle with its machine gun.
A President assassinated for a drop of petroleum,
a million-acre mortgage,
a swift execution on a morning mortal with light, petrified,
a new prison camp for subversives,
in Patagonia, a betrayal, scattered shots
beneath a petroliferous moon,
a subtle change of ministers
in the capital, a whisper
like an oil tide,
and zap, you’ll see
how Standard Oil’s letters shine above the clouds,
above the seas, in your home,
illuminating their dominions."
Pablo Neruda
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"Banks face intense competition for new generations of wealthy clients set to inherit huge sums from the world’s richest people — estimates range from $15 trillion to $68 trillion — and the future is clear:
For the generations that will experience the worst impacts of climate change, it will be a simple decision to put their money in banks that profit from reducing warming and leave behind banks that continue to finance carbon-intensive energy."
" As part of their push to curb the rise in shootings and homicides, city leaders embraced a novel approach last spring that would not require additional armed police officers: Spend $1.4 million for around-the-clock foot patrols by two dozen new park rangers.
Critics, including some longtime city park rangers, quickly panned the plan as misguided.
Police bureau figures show extremely few shootings occur in Portland parks — about 3%.
And while rangers wear uniforms and have the authority to enforce rules in and near public spaces, they are armed only with pepper spray and receive minimal public safety training.
Almost none of these park rangers hit the streets last summer, during the season that sees the most gun violence in Portland each year.
By the end of August, the city had hired just two of the 24 new positions.
That number increased to 17 by the end of December, according to parks bureau officials, meaning 30% of the positions remain unfilled."
"
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"Carmen Rubio's chief of staff, Jillian Schoene, is the wife of Kevin Looper of People for Portland."
And Rubio runs the Park Rangers.
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"Two bills curbing camping regulation clear Oregon Legislature"
By Dirk VanderHart (OPB)
June 9, 2021 4 p.m.
"The bills require local governments to give more notice before clearing encampments and set limits on anti-camping policies."
" Local governments throughout Oregon will be required to give at least three days’ notice before clearing homeless camps, under a bill headed to Gov. Kate Brown."
" The House of Representatives passed House Bill 3124 by a 40-18 vote on Wednesday morning, adopting tweaks passed by the Senate and putting the final legislative stamp on the bill.
Not long after, the state Senate approved the final passage of another bill dealing with unsheltered homelessness:
House Bill 3115, which sets state restrictions for how cities can enforce anti-camping laws."
" Together the bills add more uniformity to how camping is regulated in a state that has one of the highest rates of unsheltered homelessness in the nation.
HB 3124 extends by two days the notice local governments must give before clearing out homeless campers and their belongings.
State law currently mandates notice be posted at least 24 hours in advance of a sweep. If Brown signs the bill, that would increase to 72 hours."
" The effort in this bill is only to add a little bit more dignity and respect to individuals who find themselves homeless when it becomes necessary to remove or move the camp,” Rep. John Lively, the bill’s chief sponsor, said of the proposal last month.
HB 3124 has been supported by homeless advocates, who say it would give people more time to gather their belongings and talk to social service providers before their camp is cleared."
" This is a small step forward that will really mitigate the struggles of our clients who have no other option,” Sybil Hebb, executive director of the Oregon Law Center, testified in May. Hebb added that the law center, which advocates on behalf of homeless Oregonians, had “grave concerns” about camp sweeps in general.
Besides requiring more notice, HB 3124 requires that governments collect valuables left at a campsite, and store them for at least 30 days at a site within the “same community” from which they were collected. In Multnomah County, such facilities must be located within six blocks of a public transit station.
" The bill saw little pushback, but did spur concerns from the City of Portland, which said in March that the 72-hour requirement “would create challenges by preventing us from intervening in severe circumstances.”
The city also bristled at a proposal, later scrapped, that would have required cities to store collected belongings for at least 90 days.
Portland officials face a class-action lawsuit accusing the city of flouting current laws around storing belongings collected when camps are dispersed.
After HB 3124 passed on Wednesday, a spokesman for the City of Portland suggested the city’s concerns over the bill had been allayed. The city already provides 48-hour notice before clearing camps.
Portland “will adjust operations to provide a minimum of 72 hours notice before removing high-impact campsites,” spokesman Mark Alejos said
" This additional day of notice will not affect our work to protect community health and safety. Our focus remains on reducing the impacts of homelessness by providing services such as resource referral, garbage clean-up and hygiene access.”
Last month, the city announced it was adopting “a more assertive approach” to dispersing problem campsites, after slackening enforcement at the outset of the pandemic."
" HB 3115, introduced by House Speaker Tina Kotek, requires local governments around the state to adopt policies that are “objectively reasonable” in regulating when, where and how people can live outdoors, as the state’s housing crisis grows direr. If cities enforced more restrictive measures, impacted homeless people could sue.
HB 3115 provides far less protection than an outright ban on anti-camping policies, which some lawmakers and advocates for the homeless have sought in recent years."
" It would instead require that local laws addressing “sitting, lying, sleeping or keeping warm and dry outdoors on public property must be objectively reasonable … with regards to persons experiencing homelessness.” The bill does not offer guidance about what “objectively reasonable” means.
According to advocates and government representatives who developed the bill, HB 3115 is meant to ensure that cities and counties comply with a series of recent federal court rulings that governments cannot criminalize camping or issue fines if people have no other place to go.
cannot criminalize camping or issue fines if people have no other place to go.
“This bill is one piece of a much bigger effort to address Oregon’s housing crisis by increasing the state’s supply of affordable housing, supporting Oregonians who are experiencing homelessness, preventing evictions and foreclosures, and reducing housing disparities for communities of color,” Kotek said in April when the bill passed the House.
" This bill is one piece of a much bigger effort to address Oregon’s housing crisis by increasing the state’s supply of affordable housing, supporting Oregonians who are experiencing homelessness, preventing evictions and foreclosures, and reducing housing disparities for communities of color,” Kotek said in April when the bill passed the House.
HB 3115 passed the Senate on an 18-10 vote, largely along party lines."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.opb.org/article/2021/06/09/oregon-legislature-bills-camping-regulations-encampment-policies/%3foutputType=amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.opb.org/article/2021/06/09/oregon-legislature-bills-camping-regulations-encampment-policies/%3foutputType=amp
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Once they are up and running, only about 180 people, all of them referred by park rangers, social services providers, and other case workers, will be able to move into the three sites, which will feature individual “sleeping pods,” plus on-site toilets, showers, laundry rooms, and kitchenettes, in addition to access to on-site social service caseworkers.
"City Commissioner Dan Ryan, who has spearheaded the effort, did not give an exact date for when the three sites will be up and running, nor did he specify when three more promised sites will be announced.
The goal is to have them open by January 1, 2022"
https://www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-city-life/2021/09/what-are-safe-rest-villages-homeless-portland
" If the city is going to make a huge investment into organized camping, does this become a justification or ability to then criminalize homelessness?”
asked Marisa Zapata, an associate professor of land use planning at Portland State University, who directs the school’s Homelessness Research and Action Collaborative...
"A federal court ruling, Boise v. Martin, makes it illegal
in nine Western states for cities to enforce anti-camping rules
unless they have enough shelter beds for all campers.
Now, Zapata and others say they are concerned that opening the sanctioned camping spots is just a ruse to make it easier for the city to sweep campers out of areas like Laurelhurst Park,"
Or Forest. Park. For. Example.
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"I know elected officials are lost and confused. But I also know most of them want to comfort themselves with discussions about how hard it is, and have a cup of tea with the cat on their lap. We don’t have time for that.
If you approach this from the right, you hear a lot about how people don’t have the right to sleep in public spaces and parks, and they should be swept out.
And if you approach it from the from the left —and we saw this in our polling—there’s an appreciable number of people in Portland who think we don’t have the right to tell people where or how to live."
https://www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-city-life/2021/09/dan-lavey-kevin-looper-interview
" we have more resources than they literally know what to do with at the state and city level,” Looper says.
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" Republican consultant Dan Lavey of Portland worked with Looper on two projects, an unsuccessful 2012 initiative to allow
a private casino in east Multnomah County
and a study of the tax system financed by business and labor. "
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.opb.org/news/article/kevin-looper-democrat-oregon-politics/%3foutputType=amp
A cog mental unpatient
Zen the brand of sin, without Wipeout wifepout
Run on a credmill
See your abacus tattered, finger fidget bartered
Like troy for a kiss homer recanted decanters trot
Toward a barn fire whiskey unleased
As per reputation, burnished unfurnished the root a pillownation
As insurable sacklersofshit
Skate lobbyist taints
The fragile state of strength goey gross and purile
Like Portlands bridges
Our civicky sic pride a welcome hazmat
Foot wiping billionheirs sweatshop sharkhearts
Our summer home of tediums Alberta lets down her hair
Per gentry fuckAshun
Jimmy Joyce in a bomber rollroyce all horse and no throttle,
Woody kickedem off his couch
A louse is what allows such suchlessnest
A red lined blackhole caint ford nohow,
Greshams law on our halo like cogshit on yerrobot
Wilderness diatribes coldass ad vice, yernuts inna grimIce
Granite grapeknot ice on the vine, frozeOrange tedium auto drive
Holiday meltdown chezproduct science project, family dipLoMutts
Unmansioned halfBoughts
Mildricemice crucibles
My genus sic rudimentary, okie dust neither thar nor tarred
Alwaysfar Thor dont Lookee grunt, two-bit double pulled
Nature as you buy it
That's my gig
12-31-21
Isthatpossumble
pompous wepeefernotto
unvexxed amongst hegemony
unfurled his blessoily duds
western conch shade dweeb
earned, two blood drops
in the gas station loo,
don't step near the dripdrip
my favorite busdriver to seal the day, 34 positive hours
friend rises up so many thousand friends
frond lemond, fir foxless,
it's been ain't it , awhile
SE PDX
Solstice 2021
"Human annual world energy consumption is approximately 0.5 ZJ.
The energy to raise the temperature of Earth's atmosphere 1 °C is approximately 2.2 ZJ.
Yottajoule
The yottajoule (YJ) is equal to one septillion (1024) joules.
This is approximately the amount of energy required to heat all the water on Earth by 1 °C.
The thermal output of the Sun is approximately 400 YJ per second."
The new Ritz in Portland. And across the street, all Your internet and Fusion needs for Intel gathering. Yep, that Sentinel Hotel recently owned by Ambassador Gordon Sondland.
The reason for the outage was not immediately clear. However, multiple security experts quickly pointed to a Domain Name System (DNS) problem as a possible culprit. Around 1 pm ET, Cisco's internet analysis division ThousandEyes said on Twitter that its tests indicate the outage is due to an ongoing DNS failure. The DNS translates website names into IP addresses that can be read by a computer. It's often called the "phonebook of the internet."
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Remarkably this happens hours after I post about Hungarian Nazis living in the USA, making mention of their "employers and FBI" having knowledge of their identify, and history.
BTW, EXXON.
The fine line of wakefulness melts into the fog of clarity, with squirrel scratching noises as they roam the redwood above me
And I scan with crusty eyes the lawn stretching with morning motions, tandem cycle cog
I do my part, the world its own. A loose dog at 5 am with a master who screams no as it acts like an offleashdog
Whodathunkit, upside up, branches root for me to rise,
Sleeping on a sprinkler head that pops up prairie dog at 1:25 am, and I wetnurse my hosting tree with a pool around their hairy trunk
Coons hiss and tangle, I follow one with my flashlight as they glare down from halfup a big fir
That occurred a few back, as I dwell prolongedly on the same spot for nearayear
Gladly kept company by the crow herds and endless dogshow and pleasant humans lackadaisical for the moment
This poem isn't to disagree, parched for 4 months the first rain fell at falls onset my fiddle the fine line resolves
"He had no face mask on and got within a foot or two of my face while he was videoing me,” Wheeler said, according to the police report. “I became imminently concerned for my personal safety.”
The mayor continued: “I clearly informed him that he needed to back off. He did not do so I informed him that I was carrying pepper spray and that I would use it if he did not back off. He remained at close distance, I pulled out my pepper spray and I...."
Screaming woman, dog, shady cars by the park at 3 am
Same old same old
Go to storage, grab the new viola, throw night bedding into the stink pile clutter
Hit the gas station for coffee if one can call it that
Jump on the bus and all the tedious motions of juggling my shit
Deal with the fellow riders in the least misanthropic way possible, the scum and normies
Did the bus driver say hello? Or acknowledge your existence? Kudos
Then of course as I slowly ride my crapbike toward the co-op along the sidewalk, a car not looking both ways runs into my bike. There is no driver, just a perplexed woman, dumbfounded.
I say Tut Tut and wag my finger, another 30 feet to a major crosswalk by the fucking dry cleaners, a right turn for moi
There's another clueless driver blocking the crosswalk, and she gets a piece of my mind. She's sorry!
So avoiding her planet killing steel exoskeleton, crossing Thurman, lo and behold: the dumbass from 30 seconds earlier is again infringing on my super Legal path to work
I note their license plate and carry on, finally at my destination, greet my chums taking their 3rd break of the shifty
I set up my new viola by the parking lot full of rankles, there's ten scrappy can people with garbage everything. Garbage clothes, trash filled shitcarts, dangling cigs, scabs and half smiles, as per typical
The red-faced manager is in full swing, this is precious stuff, the stuff of Operations and power.
I look to the store's lone entrance/exit and there's a giant fro with a card board sign with their back to me, he's working the handle of this greasy yuppie spoon
The Bob is soon there, asking hey do your thing there feet back, off the property. No go, the guy points at the BLM poster in the window. I can't hear details, but I read body language ok
Fro stands his ground, kinda trespassing, the Bob retreats, as per feckless status quo
I just want to play and try out my new new, so I do do
A five, a few ones, but I watch sucker dupes hand shakedown clown probably the same as he perches 6 foot 2 inches no mask in the ...
(Coda) Rick in the wheelchair from a few nights ago arrives
... Covid breezeway of commerce, and I just carry on, making music until the bladder says go potty
And then upon exit I set my belongings on the table to busk, my business and trade, about 6 feet from the panhandling please poor stranger come to harvest the guilt ridden betteroffs
I ask " how long ya been homeless," as his pitch goes. Silence and the turned back, still unaware of what his cardboard sign reads
He goes forth and back to the table along Thurman, this time for good. No eye contact or nuthin
I play.
He stares into the store by the Dignity at some imagined hostile for grocery clerks, a lesbian a pregnant woman and the other working class front line clucks
I've been "here" a year. This is my invoice.
Out the entry/exity comes Bob and the new meatgirl, her hand wrapped hastily, into his big truck in rockstar parking. The panhandler goes to close the passenger door for the finger bleeding worker with a punkrock hairdoo. "She's got it" I opine
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Rick shows up here by Our redwood tree as I recount (very non-rudylike) the way it happens
He's got his wheelchair and foot in boot, and earbuds, ya been drinking today Rick?
People don't understand me, he offers? Complains?
Remember the two police visits 3 nights hence, nope. And away he sails, Capt. Of non fortune.
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Messaged w/ a daughter today.
It's a good day.
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Forgot to shout-out the all grey ninja interloper at samesaid picnic table, steel pole in backpack, who is undone when two Asian teens saunter up and sit next to his anonymous obvious.
Pdx style guide of conformist anarchistry fully agrees, one hand clappy.
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"Enjoy your privilege" was the last straw for this "homieless." Balding hippie knownada me.
Soft War <Portland%
NW and SE environs,
9-today-2021
Pee on the tree, wannabefree yer kinda exemplary,
Footloose paw dank cellar that's not stillwater
Fucktoad Hollywood: paired blights.
A big boquet is better than me,
Apparently foresee right now in frontame
Yo high hydrangeas and sundry fragile dahlias
How few hours until the mop?
Peony, please a primrose math subtracts feetmints, pre-n-proscribed
Doth thou tee shirt signify retardation in that it don't get it, bonked like a century?
FLB
Se pdx
