Idiot Wheeler, Gonzalez, Ryan, Mapps

  

"Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt said Portland Police Bureau officers will have to contact a person three times to offer services before anyone is given a citation. If someone doesn’t comply, they could face a $100 fine or 30 days in jail. 

A fine seems a little bit pointless to somebody who’s indigent and can’t pay for anything as well,” Schmidt said.

Schmidt also said he doesn’t see people facing any jail time for violating the ban.

“I’ve said this over and over again, you know, a jail bed is our most expensive housing option in our community I think it’s $314 a day or something like that and it’s the least effective at long term stabilization so it’s not a cure, it should not be a housing substitute,” he said.

Plus, he said it would be a challenging process to build a case for a misdemeanor.

You’re talking about three different officers that, theoretically, if this somehow couldn’t be resolved, and we didn’t connect the person to services and we went to trial, now all three of those officers have to come in and talk about their interaction, have their police report and remember what they offered and what that looked like and that those services were actually available. So, I think it’s a work-intensive process for enforcing a city ordinance and I know that’s a concern PPB has,” Schmidt said. 

https://www.kptv.com/2023/06/28/multnomah-county-district-attorney-weighs-camping-ban-days-before-it-goes-into-effect/?outputType=amp 

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A person was faint headed on the bus.  There, in the photo, the woman in a white blouse and head covering. The bus driver calls 911. 

They walked to the ambulance, two paramedics, watched by a Cavalry of 7-8 Firemen who arrived in an articulated bus 50 feet long.  

The Hospital on NW 23rd is 6 blocks away. 

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$700/hour of  labor going thru the motions in a $2million dollar Firetruck, with the $750,000 ambulance .

Wonder why Portland Street Response is targeted by Portland Firefighter Union? 

Gravy.

Treetop

" GW170817, was first detected on Aug. 17 at 8:41 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time"  

"Our background analysis showed an event of this strength happens less than once in 80,000 years  

by random coincidence, so we recognized this right away as a very confident detection and a remarkably nearby source,” 

 adds Laura Cadonati, professor of physics at Georgia Tech and deputy spokesperson for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration.  

“This detection has genuinely opened the doors to a new way of doing astrophysics. I expect it will be remembered as one of the most studied astrophysical events in history.”

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"The gravitational waves tell us that the merging objects had masses consistent with neutron stars, and the flash of gamma rays tells us that the objects are unlikely to be black holes, since a collision of black holes is not expected to give off light."  

"Approximately 130 million years ago, the two neutron stars were in their final moments of orbiting each other, separated only by about 300 kilometers, or 200 miles, 

 and gathering speed while closing the distance between them.  

As the stars spiraled faster and closer together, they stretched and distorted the surrounding space-time, 

 giving off energy 

in the form of powerful gravitational waves, before smashing into each other."

Kilonova. 

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/press-release-gw170817

Usual Suspects

  Multnomah County sues big oil, coal companies for $51 billion over deadly heat dome

"The suit names Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, ConocoPhillips, Motiva, Occidental Petroleum, Anadarko Petroleum,  

Space Age Fuel, Valero Energy, Total Specialties USA, Marathon Petroleum, Peabody Energy, Koch Industries, 

 American Petroleum Institute, Western States Petroleum Association and McKinsey & Company, a New York City-based global management consulting giant."

Ivan Petrovych Kotliarevsky

   Ivan Petrovych Kotliarevsky 

 (Ukrainian: Іван Петрович Котляревський) (9 September [O.S. 29 August] 1769 in Poltava – 10 November [O.S. 29 October] 1838 

" in Poltava, Russian Empire, now Ukraine) was a Ukrainian writer, poet and playwright, social activist, regarded as the pioneer of modern Ukrainian literature. " 

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

"Although Ukrainian was an everyday language to millions of people in Ukraine, it was officially discouraged from literary use in the area controlled by Imperial Russia. 

 Eneida is a parody of Virgil's Aeneid, where Kotliarevsky transformed the Trojan heroes into Zaporozhian Cossacks. 

 Critics believe that it was written in the light of the destruction of Zaporizhian Host by the order of Catherine the Great." 

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This morning: 

"Subsequent examinations by Latin experts determined that the fragment bore a quote from Virgil, best known as the author of the epic Latin poem the Aeneid." 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/21/virgil-quote-found-on-fragment-of-roman-jar-unearthed-in-spain

 

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"The translation of the Georgics into Ancient Greek by Eugenios Voulgaris was published from St Petersburg in 1786 and had as one aim the support of Russia’s assimilation of the newly annexed Crimea by encouraging Greek settlement there.  

Virgil’s theme of taming the wilderness was further underlined in an introductory poem praising Grigory Potemkin  

as a philhellene Maecenas and the Empress Catherine the Great as the wise ruler 

 directing the new territory's welfare. The inference is also there that Voulgaris himself (now archbishop of Novorossiya and Azov) has become thus the imperial Virgil.[35]" 

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

Annuit coeptis commination

 Alias/Ali baba castellated 

Dopamine joint syllogism 

Stepfather scotoma fop 

Lynch medulla smarty-pants 

Static videocassette gable 

Commination booth buccaneer 

Calcaneal absenteeism king 

Tailfin temperate run a temperature  

Devote puma rayless 

Reparation rock annuit 

Coeptis 

 

Stupid things Portland Leaders say

  

"The $2.5 million investment will allow the program to employ  

an additional 25 people 

 experiencing homelessness in the upcoming fiscal year, McIntyre said." 

That's $100,000 per worker. 

Trucks, rakes, trash bags, a Boss earning 3 times the workers, dump fees, truck.  

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"This expansion of Central City Concern’s Clean Start program will put Multnomah County’s unspent dollars 

 into the pockets of people who need them most 

 — those currently living without housing — 

 to help them develop the skills to stabilize and stay that way,”  

Vega Pederson said in a statement. 

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"Develop skills 

In trash clean up. " 

Who's the stupid? The homeless?  

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"The Washington County District Attorney’s Office asked the court to order the public defense system to boost the hourly rate for criminal defense lawyers to as much as $500 if the agency fails to quickly find lawyers for three men facing felony sex crime charges, according to new legal filings.". 

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2023/06/washington-county-da-asks-court-to-assign-public-defenders-to-cases-or-bump-hourly-rate-as-high-as-500.html

I agree.  

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'Legal experts say the ordinance is not in line with the intent of a federal 9th Circuit Court decision known as Martin v. Boise, 

 that determined is was cruel and unusual punishment to fine or arrest homeless peopl 

e for sleeping on public property 

 when a city doesn’t have enough shelter beds  

to accommodate them all." 

https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2023/06/portlander-homeless-nonprofits-say-they-need-help-to-meet-expected-increase-in-demand-following-daytime-camping-ban.html&subscribed=facebook%7C1288640567

 

 

Herman Melville, Francis Bloodgood, Albany 1830

  

Anna Shoemaker, daughter of Benjamin Shoemaker (1745-1808) and Elizabeth Warner, born March 27, 1777;  

married, first, May 5, 1796, Robert Morris, son of Robert Morris the "Financier of the Revolution;" 

 married, secondly, Nov. 3, 1823, Francis Bloodgood, 

 clerk of the Supreme Court of New York and  

Mayor of Albany. 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60757960/anna-bloodgood 

Francis Bloodgood (June 12, 1775[a] - March 5, 1840) was an American lawyer who was mayor of Albany, New York in 1831 and 1833. 

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

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"Emotionally unstable and behind on paying the rent for the house on Broadway, Herman's father tried to recover by moving his family to Albany, New York, in 1830 and going into the fur business.

Herman attended the Albany Academy from October 1830 to October 1831, 

 where he took the standard preparatory course, studying reading and spelling; penmanship; arithmetic; English grammar; geography; natural history; universal, Greek, Roman and English history; classical biography; and Jewish antiquities.

 In early August 1831, Herman marched in the Albany city government procession of the year's "finest scholars" and was presented with a copy of The London Carcanet, a collection of poems and prose, inscribed to him as "first best in ciphering books". 

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

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Francis Bloodgood entered office in 1831 and paid all the debts of those in debtors' prison on the occasion of his swearing in. 

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Melville's time at the Academy was soon interrupted. Parker speculates he left it in October 1831 because "even the tiny tuition fee seemed too much to pay".

In December, Allan Melville returned from New York City by steamboat, but he had to travel the last seventy miles in an open carriage for two days and two nights in subfreezing temperatures.

 In early January, he began to show "signs of delirium",[27] and he grew worse until his wife felt that his suffering deprived him of his intellect.

 He died on January 28, 1832, two months before reaching fifty.  

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Moby Dick: Chapter 23, the Advocate 

"who composed the first narrative of a whaling-voyage?  

Who, but no less a prince than Alfred the Great, who, with his own royal pen, took down the words from Other, the Norwegian whale-hunter of those times!  

And who pronounced our glowing eulogy in Parliament? Who, but Edmund Burke!

True enough, but then whalemen themselves are poor devils; they have no good blood in their veins.

No good blood in their veins? 

 They have something better than royal blood there." 

Tatterdemalion tantra

 "Clothes: Their Origin and Influence" 

Diogenes Teufelsdröckh 

 I'll give you the shirt off the back of my closet of my closest houseboat floating in my lake in my private idaho in my geneva on my continental drift toward my dinosaur egg unfeathered under my microscope on my insistence persistence lists 

Sleeves without collars without stitching without seamstress witching without thimbles without blood pricks the lack of conscience trumplestiltskin potemkin 

Dungarees all guano all guapo all batbelt all panting all pockets all tailored all hole all shredded all khaki malarkey inside gout

Shoes too booted too mother Hubbard for ray Wylie coyote too laced too runner too long distance party lined with ermines to high hell heeled in moccasins too loafered 

Tatterdemalion vagabond icon scaramoosh scarecrow hayseed reflection ropebelt unravelling burlap overlaps patching rainbow diffusion

I'll sell you your skin of your husk of your material lust of your eyelids you're hoarding 

We'll ball cap our beanies our fedora non sequitur our berets turrets our cattlehat carpetbag visors 

Belt out the scarfing they'll be fasionate barfing till we fit in the fluffing and watch the wrist with ticks molting 

Better than nekkid our necks turtle armored in windbreaker farting a parka departing repartee toupee 

Just let be bee honey  

(Sartor Resartus" is usually translated as "The Tailor Re-tailored"; it has also been rendered as "The Tailor Repatched", "The Tailor Patched", "The Clothes Volume Edited", and as "The Tailor Made Whole Again"

There is a song called "The Taylor Done Over"

Never Forget

  

"there is nothing bleak about an encounter with Perl. He is 91, but looks 10 years younger.  

His handshake is strong, his humour warm, his engagement total. And, on this bright morning, in a room at the Jewish Care campus in north London, where he has a “retirement living apartment” close to the Holocaust Survivors’ Centre, he has come ready about the year or more he spent, from the age of 12, as a prisoner in Auschwitz and in the network of Dachau subcamps known as Kaufering nearly eight decades ago. " 

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jun/06/at-12-i-was-in-auschwitz-my-parents-and-seven-siblings-were-murdered-here-is-how-i-built-a-life  

"He would talk about it when he met up with his older brother, Alec; they would reminisce about life in the old country, in the Hungarian town of Makó, where they played in the snow in winter and swam in the Maros river in summer, and remember the family that was taken from them – their mother, their father, their four sisters and three brothers, all murdered by the Nazis" 

  

Music without lyrics, a violin, streets bustle cars cramming lunch at 30 mph, our store shuttered plywood, cyclone fence, spring tree flesh piling up with no one left to care but me. No signs, no soliciting, no eye games, no trickery, no bullshit, no opera, no requests taken, no hamburger today for a nickel tomorrow, only a cracked cake of rosin, a glued up fiddle, combat boots, sunscreen, home made coffee, a hungry bus pass, a finally spring, an insomnia 3am, a dogless doggedness, awol children, an A string issue, that's my alpha bet, always. Music in case, out of case, bouncing off window casements, bird magnet flights, look there's a crumb. Effort unlacking, tendon tested, stamina silo, gotta go.