Our ferns burn by directive order as milk rots by rote
In the other store tote bag, silence leaks. Nada local
Niente fresca other than halfsmiles, wispy smoke.
You're untrue. I call you untrue.
Our ferns die, your cars
Lavished.
SE PDX 8-16-22
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Tuesday, August 09, 2022
Thursday, August 04, 2022
empty ballcap
Cody kicked his bucket
But I know nonothow, heard the idle chatter on the last bus home
A gas station guy on the counters other side
He was ringing up beers just yesterday
*
Bussing from the pool over in cheery blossom
Feeling not too bad for Thursday
There at the mall got on the grimnews, out of the mouth of Rene
*
He just die
Just like that
Another hard fact
Just like that
____
Probably the Covid I'd think, he was heavy, 40 in a wide orange vest
Smiling Colorado, a blond ole hick, said he knew
Nostradamus from his history class
Lived at the corn, the unicorn inn, said his nayburr near burnt it up,
He smiled and moved his big ballcap, rubbed his belly
tweren't a flu, twas MTN spew
*
He just die
Just a fact
No more alive
That's where he at
___
Sweating in the field there pump #9
Idaho family gotta make good time,
school starts up and dad's three jobs
Cody wipes his brow, sounds lots like mine
That's why I'm here on the worst damn road,
filling tanks
with petroleum
*
Back inside turn the slushy machine, 20 little cameras record the scene
A maskless montage of death on the go,
poor Cody poor Colorado, we all know
Life in a motel
so far from home, friends to all but close to none
Standing and breathing just hours close passed,
Cody lie still and none soon asked
____
Why we go
Just like that
Leaving no mark
Just an empty ball cap.
Period.
SE PDX
8-4-2022
Montavilla
Saturday, July 16, 2022
Datachew
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
Friday, July 08, 2022
Knight Pooplooper
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
Sunday, July 03, 2022
Fourth of July (1988)
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"
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Boise Betsy Johnson
"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
_____
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.
____
"Portland does not actually have a cockroach problem."
Monday, June 27, 2022
Gavoted Democrat
Go vote yourself a life jacket, drowned children.
Go vote yourself a bandaid, splotch by the drinking fountain.
Go vote yourself a bite of food, homeless guy.
November is nigh.
"The term gavotte for a lively dance originated in the 1690s from Old Provençal gavoto (mountaineer's dance) from gavot, a local name for an Alpine resident, said to mean literally
"boor", "glutton", from gaver (to stuff, force-feed poultry)
from Old Provençal gava (crop). The word is cognate to French gavache
(coward, dastard"
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
E Fer
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.
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Forestmostly
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
Sunday, May 29, 2022
Friday, May 27, 2022
Thursday, May 19, 2022
Rene Gonzalez Internment Bureau
"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
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
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
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Google Slop
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
Saturday, May 07, 2022
Monday, May 02, 2022
Montavilla Farmers Market, Forest on Fiddle
https://youtu.be/z3TSlR3r4cY
Fiddle at the Montavilla Farmers Market 2021
East Portland News, David Ashton.
Sunday, May 01, 2022
Park Rangers Malicious Harassment for Political Purposes
"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.
Saturday, April 30, 2022
Harassed on Orders from Worms in Loafers
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🌲
Friday, April 29, 2022
Lowly bean eating quacker
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
Hohummery
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.
Idiot Cedric Richmond
"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
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Sondland Fraud
"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."
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Popular Oregon Law HB 3115 ignored by Wheeler, People For Putin PBA
" 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."
Tina Kotek don't need the Luglugluggage
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!
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Vigilant Twait
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
Sunday, March 20, 2022
Equiknocks
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
Saturday, March 19, 2022
Enid (2015)
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.
Friday, March 18, 2022
Putin Pays Trump
"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."
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Amigas
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
Friday, March 11, 2022
Tuesday, March 08, 2022
Squirrelenski
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
Thursday, February 24, 2022
Saturday, February 12, 2022
Mayor Sam Wheeler
"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."
____
"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.
Monday, February 07, 2022
Lop lop
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
It were, once
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.
Saturday, February 05, 2022
Hamletette Ach Du Macbeth
"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.
______
"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
____
"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 "
Thursday, February 03, 2022
Monday, January 31, 2022
Cover Ups Come Back to Haunt
"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. "
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Illegal Dumping
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.
Sunday, January 23, 2022
Traitor Deluxe Rick Perry
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
Wet Piles of Pet Wiles (2012)
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!
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Police State 2011-2022
"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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Tuesday, January 18, 2022
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
Monday, January 17, 2022
Twerld
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
Monday, January 10, 2022
Wednesday, January 05, 2022
Betsy Johnson Rampant Fascist Spiral
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 Change
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."
Monday, January 03, 2022
Portland Park Rangers, Political Pawns
" 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
" One oft-told charge is that Looper abandoned Kitzhaber to boost another client, then-Secretary of State Kate Brown, second-in-line to the governorship."
"What I hate,” he said, “is people looking through the rear-view mirror saying,
‘Look at that, Kevin Looper orchestrated John Kitzhaber’s demise in order to get Kate Brown, his previous client, into the governorship.’ "
(Whereas now, Looper works for GOP lite Betsy Johnson and
runs ads blaming Gov. Brown .... duplicitous absurd hypocrisy.
" Ever the strategist, Looper also said in a follow-up interview that he didn’t want to be portrayed as someone pulling strings in the backroom, even as he jacks off Gordon Sondland in the City Club atrium.
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Two of Oregon’s top political consultants have officially signed on to help former state Sen. Betsy Johnson launch an independent bid for governor.
"The pair, Dan Lavey and Kevin Looper, more recently worked together on People for Portland, an anonymous, well-funded advocacy campaign pushing local elected leaders "
" Lavey told The Oregonian/OregonLive on Monday that he and Looper will provide messaging, strategy and advice to Johnson, a moderate Democrat( as much Moderate as Joe Manchin,) who has garnered substantial financial support from an array of taxdodger business, civic and political backers." Filings show she has amassed more than $3.4 million to date
The dark money group disclosed it spent more than $500,000 in the three months ending Sept. 30, city lobbying reports show.
"Lavey has previously worked for Independents and Republicans including Chris Dudley and former Sen. Gordon Smith. Looper has worked for progressive causes and Democratic candidates including Gov. Kate Brown."
" neither consultant nor their companies appear in campaign finance filings for Johnson prior to this month, Lavey said the pair received
$200,000 through seven large donations to Johnson listed as “in-kind” contributions in October.
" State records show those donors were: Alexia dePottere-Smith, general counsel for the San Francisco-based Center for Resource Solutions, a nonprofit that claims to promote renewable energy ($100,000); Pacific Seafood, whose president and CEO, Frank Dulcich, is a longtime Republican donor ($40,000); Tim Boyle, CEO of Columbia Sportswear ($25,000); Greg Goodman, one of Portland’s largest real estate developers ($10,000); Jordan Schnitzer, the Portland philanthropist and businessman ($10,000); Global Companies LLC, a Massachusetts-based energy company ($10,000); and Columbia Investments Ltd, a Portland real estate firm ($5,000).
Two of those contributors, Boyle and Schnitzer, are also People for Portland backers, the only individuals thus far to have publicly disclosed their affiliation with the group.
Lavey, however, said his and Looper’s work for Johnson is completely related and in tandem with their People for Portland effort.
“The work we do for our clients is always independent, 1% of the time,” he said. After all, who understands Math.
__& " He also argues that any connection between People for Portland and the Johnson campaign is spurious." Does 'spurious' mean CERTAIN?
" Reps. Andrea Valderrama (D-East Portland) and Khanh Pham (D-Portland) are among more than 300 signatories to the Nov. 17 letter, which asks Mayor Ted Wheeler and City Commissioners Mingus Mapps and Dan Ryan to denounce the campaign, whose funders remain a secret but include business executives Tim Boyle and Jordan Schnitzer."
"The People for Portland campaign, orchestrated by political consultants Kevin Looper and Dan Lavey, spent more than $500,000 on lobbying City Hall in the last quarter, city records show.
That’s the most ever spent in three months on lobbying"
"Valderrama tells WW. “They’re not calling for an end to all homelessness, just the homelessness you can ‘see.’
"He also argues that any connection between People for Portland and the Johnson campaign is spurious."
"People trying to fix Portland and people trying to fix Oregon are two different sets of people dealing with two different sets of problems,” he says.
“The only thing they have in common is the abject failure of entrenched leadership.”
NO Liar Loop On Loopy Looper, YOU are the Thing Gov Brown and City Council have in common. You fuckin put them in office, as did Winning Mark Weiner. Toadie Con Men.
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" The sing-along with Pink Martini is part of a Downtown Portland’s weekend reopening and is made possible through a collaboration between
Pioneer Courthouse Square,
the City of Portland,
and the Portland Action Tables
with support from Downtown Development Group,
Melvin Mark Companies
and TMT Development."
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"People will be required to leave unsanctioned encampments when space in a village is offered"
Hey Jackasses Lavey Looper and Boyle and Schnitzer, HB 3115.
You dimwit Fascists CAN'T "require" squat. You mean ARREST. You mean, Mean, liars mean to ignore State Law.
Take your Betsy back to Boise, and secede, Trumper trojan hoze.
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