Never now we know

The body huge and weak can hardly speak it's had coffee sugar and fat it's had sleep it came from somewhere lithe it's gone without sleep and food for weeks it was stronger the hands to play the violin barely manage to operate in unison the marionette doesn't respond more sawdust syrup don't help the body slumbers in a maze of gorilla glue and balsa dreams 

Muscles stretch the shirt and rip the pants the shoes lose their stitches and skin between toes grown together makes a pungent jelly that's breeding 

Hair still comes in thick just not atop brain ready to create about three hours per day go ahead and kick me I'm tired of caring other than misplacing my immortality

Eat away the isolation get a few pounds fat the soul hoists a surrender hankie greed prevails get in line the minerals go back to market cheaper than never now we know says the hat that has fits.

Didactic

   

"Daddy took me out at the best restaurant and got me a creme puff, I thought he was the most handsome man in the world. " 

Mom said, the day after her brother died. I'm sorry you lost your brother. I'm sorry you lost your uncle. 

Daddy chased the mule around and around. Was he angry or playing? Yes. 

He was never mad at me. You were his little girl. 

Did he ever fight with your brother? Daddy took his money from bucking hay at the farm. He was saving to buy a car. He never spoke to him again.  

Who? 

 

 

 

Tillis, Wyden, Sondland

  

"$15,600 went to Ron Wyden, Oregon’s Democratic senior senator.

U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., got $21,600. Sondland and Tillis have long been friends and political allies.  

When Sondland was nominated to become President Donald Trump’s ambassador to the European Union, it was Tillis and Wyden who formally introduced him to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. " 

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2023/07/gordon-sondlands-hotel-company-former-executive-fined-for-political-donations.html

Diarmuid O’Scannlain Sadist

 

'Senior 9th Circuit Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain called the panel’s initial ruling 

an “egregiously flawed and deeply damaging” mistake 

 that is “at war with constitutional text, history, and tradition, and Supreme Court precedent.” 

 https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2023/07/9th-circuit-court-declines-to-rehear-ruling-that-upheld-homeless-right-to-sleep-outside-when-no-shelter-space-available.html

 

"...the city of Boise, which he wrote “invented” a federal constitutional right to sleep on public property" 

"He also argued that the U.S. Supreme Court hasn’t found that the Eighth Amendment applies to  

conduct not of one’s free choice,  

and that local officials should have the right to prohibit a 

 “species of antisocial conduct.”

"O’Scannlain and judges who signed onto his statement 

 urged the court to come out

 from behind its “marble walls and sealed doors”  

"needles flooding parks, 

and rubbish (and worse) 

 marring public squares" 

"the city couldn’t  prosecute homeless people  

for sleeping in public “if there is a greater number of homeless individuals  

in a jurisdiction than the number of available shelter spaces.” 

"When there is no shelter space, jurisdictions may still enforce limitations on sleeping at certain locations,” they wrote in their amendment" 

"They accused O’Scannlain and Smith of mischaracterizing their ruling with  exaggerations." 

Their decision, they wrote, holds only that governments can’t criminalize the act of sleeping  

“with the use of rudimentary protections,

 such as bedding, from the elements in some public places 

when a person has nowhere else to sleep.”  

Senior Circuit Judge Susan P. Graber sought to offer a middle ground. She said she agreed with the legal premise 

 that the Eighth Amendment protects against criminal prosecution 

 of the “involuntary act of sleeping,” 

The panel found that “as long as there is no option of sleeping indoors, the government cannot criminalize indigent, homeless people for sleeping outdoors, on public property, on the false premise they had a choice in the matter.”  

"When Boise sought a full court review of the ruling, the 9th Circuit rejected such a review. 

 The U.S. Supreme Court in 2019 then denied a Boise petition to review the case." 

Sinkhole

Interdepend, dunce 

Day away, shoot hoops at Mount Tabor, at noon it's

90, ball bounces down the volcano, fugue. 

Ball all net, regardless down

The mountain.

Knees near 6 decade gristle 

Swoosh, free throws plunder at about 66 percent, all net.

Several from 3 range

More than paltry from be baseline at 16 feet 

Off with hat, sweat better on dusty hands, grip 

Miss and fetch, tank and trot,

Slow roll nope, air on air Icarus ball, finger roll there's no ball just poetry 

Hustle now or hoof more gopher, go fer it or go further fer it 

Ligament tax cartilage boycott lung garnishment hand thumbscrew yoga 

Swish, swish, I'm back to bike shirt drenched coasting all brakes, past the sinkhole 

Cordoned off for weeks, it's OK Corral five cop cars ten cops one handcuffed brown woman not happy 

The church by the sinkhole, unfixed, unfixed. 

Oregon Country Fair 2000, FMR :Boyer, Reisch, Richey, Bloodgood, Vandemar, North

 

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 

_____ 

 

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. 

____ 

$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.”

___ 

"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." 

___ 

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

 

___ 

"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.  

____ 

"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. 

___ 

"Develop skills 

In trash clean up. " 

Who's the stupid? The homeless?  

____ 

"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.  

___ 

'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 

___________ 

"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 

____ 

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

_____ 

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.  

___ 

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.

: Store Close sic

 

 

 You must be kidding. Some clowns post a flier on the store asking for $375,000 by June 3rd, 4 days away. Today is Tuesday May 30. I was here on Saturday and there were no store updates, no fliers. 

This was approved by a board? Gallows humor ponzi? The idea that 7,500 people are going to throw $50 each in less than a week is the kind of intelligence that ran the 50 year business into the ground. 

Save the store? There's no $ to restock the shelves, to buy inventory, to hire and pay employees, to pay utilities, to pay property taxes. 

Some handful of loyal dupes will wire money in good faith. Or bequeath their 3rd car. 

 

Put a bird on it.

Put some paper hearts on it. 

Liquidate your assets.

There's no Food. Just a Front.

Prove us wrong! 

  

  https://katu.com/amp/news/local/arrest-made-suspect-garrett-repp-in-four-alarm-may-apartments-fire-in-southwest-portland 

"On May 16, 2023, the May Apartments at 1410 Southwest Taylor Street caught fire and the building was destroyed" 

"The four-alarm fire displaced the residents living in 42 units, and several pets were killed."

Ted Wheeler, Contemptuous Corporate Cruel and Costly

  https://westlinnoregon.gov/citycouncil/required-camping-code-changes

BACKGROUND:

In 2021, to comply with federal rulings (Martin v. Boise and Blake v. Grants Pass), the State of Oregon enacted House Bills 3115 and 3124, which change how cities may regulate camping and homelessness. 

 Aimed at providing increased compassionate protections for those experiencing homelessness, these rulings and laws require any Camping on Public Property Ordinances in City code to be modified to comply with new standards. 

 To help explain why this change is needed, we have included summaries of the two federal court decisions and the House Bills below our FAQ. Please be sure to take note of the timeline along with additional resources, including our brief Fact Sheet.

 

FAQ:

Q: What are camping ordinances?

A: Camping ordinances are local rules about camping. They are part of municipal code in many cities, including West Linn. “Camping” can refer to persons experiencing homelessness who may sleep outside on public property. West Linn’s City code currently prohibits camping on public property without a permit in Chapter 5.565, and must be modified in accordance with new state law.

 

Q: How many people camp in West Linn?

A: Not many. Clackamas County’s 2019 count estimates five individuals, but City staff report their experiences in recent years suggest even fewer.

 

Q: How has the City handled camping in the past?

A: The West Linn Police Department has partnered with local faith-based volunteers, our Community Services director, and our community behavioral health specialist to offer voluntary relocation services and accommodation of resources whenever possible. There are no shelters available within City limits (the nearest being in Oregon City).

 

Q: Why do we need to change City code regarding camping?

A: In 2021, to comply with federal rulings (Martin v. Boise and Blake v. Grants Pass), the State of Oregon enacted House Bills 3115 and 3124, which change how cities may regulate camping and homelessness. 

 Aimed at providing compassionate protections for those experiencing homelessness, these new laws require any camping ordinances in City code to be modified to comply with new standards. West Linn’s code currently prohibits camping on public property, so it must be brought into legal compliance with the new standards before July 1, 2023.

 

Q: What changes must be made exactly?

A: Some language needs to be removed. No cities in Oregon can prohibit camping on public property unless there is somewhere else within city limits for houseless individuals to go that is a reasonable option for them to obtain shelter.  

The courts have ruled it unconstitutional to punish people experiencing homelessness for basic human needs—such as sleeping, sitting, or trying to keep warm and dry in public—if they have no reasonable alternatives within City limits.

For example, some shelters do not allow pets; such shelters may not be considered reasonable options for homeless persons with pets. Some may require sobriety, or have restrictions related to religion or gender that may make houseless individuals ineligible for services.  

West Linn does not have any shelters within City limits, so camping cannot be prohibited outright. Our code must change to reflect that.

 

Q: Is there any way to regulate camping other than prohibiting it?

A: Potentially. Cities can place “reasonable time, place, and manner” restrictions on camping. Some possible examples might be restricting camping at a specific location to a certain time of day, or to designated “safe sleep/camp zones.”  

What restrictions may be considered “reasonable” have not yet been tested in court, so many questions remain.

 

Q: What if there are unforeseen problems? Can the code be changed later?

A: City Council can always opt to make code changes in response to public input or new issues. For example, if the need arises, City code can be modified at any time to impose reasonable restrictions (described above) on camping.

 

Q: What about private property? Can anyone come camp in my yard?

A: Only public property owned by the City, such as parks or right-of-way spaces, will be affected by the new laws. Private property will not be affected. Owners of private property will have control over the use of their own property.

 

Q: What about houseless individuals who are breaking the law in other ways, like using illegal drugs?

A: The new law only indicates that people cannot be punished for sleeping, sitting, laying, or protecting themselves from weather in public spaces.  

Illegal behaviors remain punishable by law, as they are for anyone who commits a crime.

 

Q: How can I get involved in shaping new City code?

A: Council will hold a directed work session on May 8, 2023, with attorney Bill Monahan at 6:00 PM. Public opinion will be solicited and legal options discussed. The City will invite the public, civic, school, faith, and community leaders to attend, as well as area social service providers. Following public input, City Council is expected to consider and adopt new language at their May 15 meeting.

 

Q: How is the City notifying the public of the upcoming changes?

A: The City has launched a comprehensive hub page on our website that includes case law history, information on both bills, code change needs, detailed FAQ, Council meeting dates, next steps, and additional resources. This information will be publicized in our weekly newsletter, social media platforms, and local newspaper through coordinated campaigns, as well as shared with civic, school, faith, and community leaders for wider distribution.

 

Q: How can I support agencies working to address homelessness?

A: The West Linn Food Pantry and Clackamas County Coordinated Housing Access serve West Linn and its unincorporated land. They can also connect interested volunteers and donors to partner organizations throughout Clackamas and neighboring counties. You can sign up for news from Supportive Housing Services and the county’s other housing and homelessness work as well.

 

Q: Where can I find more information about case law and the House bills?

A: Read about Ninth Circuit Court decisions Martin v. Boise and Blake v. Grants Pass.

House Bill 3115 establishes that by July 1, 2023, local laws regulating the acts of sitting, lying,

sleeping, or keeping warm and dry in outdoor public spaces must be reasonable with respect to persons experiencing homelessness.

House Bill 3124 lengthens the amount of time that notice must be posted prior to removing houseless individuals from established camping sites from 24 to 72 hours. Unclaimed personal property must be given to a law enforcement official, a local social services agency, an outreach worker, or a person authorized to issue a citation. For all communities outside Multnomah County, unclaimed property must be stored within the community from which it was removed.

 

Q: I have more questions or want to provide feedback. Who can I contact?

A: City Manager John Williams and staff welcome public queries at webmaster@westlinnoregon.gov. Community Relations Coordinator Danielle Choi can be reached at dchoi@westlinnoregon.gov or 503-742-8609, and City Council at citycouncil@westlinnoregon.gov. We encourage community members to join the May 8 Council Work Session online or in person to learn more.

 

CASE LAW AND LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

From the League of Oregon Cities:

Following recent federal court decisions, cities and counties must reconsider local ordinances regulating public space and homelessness. In 2021, the Oregon Legislature enacted HB 3115, which created a state statutory standard based on federal court decisions in Martin v. Boise and Blake v. Grants Pass and directs cities to consider their local ordinances within the context of available local shelter services and public space. 

 

Martin v. Boise

In the April 2019 Martin v. Boise decision, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court ruled that homeless persons cannot be punished for sleeping outside on public property in the absence of adequate alternatives, unless the law imposes “reasonable time, place and manner” restrictions on the regulated activities in public space. For now, this is the law in Oregon, and as a result, Oregon cities have updated their ordinances following the 2019 Martin decision and the August 2020 federal district court in Oregon’s opinion in Blake v. Grants Pass.

 

Blake v. Grants Pass

In September 2022, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Blake v. Grants Pass, a class action matter addressing public camping.  The court upheld the U.S. District Court’s prior ruling that persons experiencing homelessness are entitled to take necessary minimal measures to keep themselves warm and dry while sleeping outside.  The Ninth Circuit opined that cities violate the Eighth Amendment if they punish a person for the mere act of sleeping outside, or for sleeping in their vehicles at night when there is no other place in the city for them to go.   

As a result of this ruling, this decision expands the application of Martin v. Boise—the pivotal case impacting cities’ ability to regulate public camping.  The court noted that the decision in this case is narrow and that “it is ‘unconstitutional to [punish] simply sleeping somewhere in public if one has nowhere else to do so.’” It goes on to note that class actions in these types of cases are permissible. This opinion, in most respects, affirmed what was already known from both the previous Martin and Blake cases. However, it failed to provide much anticipated clarification on several issues, such as what constitutes “necessary minimal measures” to keep warm and dry.  It is unknown at this time whether the ruling will be appealed.

 

HB 3115 (2021): Local Camping Ordinances

HB 3115 is the product of a workgroup involving the League of Oregon Cities (LOC) and the Oregon Law Center (OLC) as well as individual cities and counties. The workgroup spent many hours crafting a concept that recognizes a key principle from the recent Martin v. Boise Ninth Circuit Court decision and Blake v. Grants Pass federal district court decision.

HB 3115 requires that any city or county law regulating the acts of sitting, lying, sleeping or keeping warm and dry outside on public property must be “objectively reasonable” based on the totality of the circumstances as applied to all stakeholders, including persons experiencing homelessness. What is objectively reasonable may look different in different communities. The bill retains cities’ ability to enact reasonable time, place and manner regulations, aiming to preserve the ability of cities to manage public spaces effectively for the benefit of an entire community.

HB 3115 includes a delayed implementation date of July 1, 2023, to allow local governments time to review and update ordinances and support intentional community conversations. The bill is the product of a workgroup effort between the LOC, the Oregon Law Center (OLC), the Association of Oregon Counties (AOC), as well as individual cities and counties. The workgroup spent many hours last fall crafting a concept to recognize key principles from the Martin decision in state law.

 

HB 3124 (2021): Relating to Homelessness

HB 3124 increases the time that local governments must post notice before removing campsites from 24 to 72 hours. The bill also requires jurisdictions to store unclaimed personal property in a facility located in the same community as the campsite from which it was removed. HB 3124 preserves existing exceptions to the notice requirement when: There are grounds for law enforcement officials to believe that illegal activities other than camping are occurring at an established camping site; and in the event of an exceptional emergency at an established camping site, including, but not limited to, possible site contamination by hazardous materials, a public health emergency or other immediate danger to human life or safety.

 

TIMELINE:

April 2023: Inform our community of the required upcoming changes through social media and newsletter campaigns. Campaigns will link back to a comprehensive webpage using dynamic QR code. Webpage will outline case history, legislative changes, code change needs, resources, and detailed FAQ.

 

May 8, 2023: Schedule directed Council work session with Bill Monahan from Jordan Ramis, offering ample time for public comment. Extend invitations to civic, school, and faith leaders in our community as well as area social service providers, such as Clackamas County’s Coordinated Housing Access team and Amber Hambrick, the Behavioral Health Specialist for WLPD and LOPD.

 

May 15, 2023: Have proposed Code read at City Council meeting and tentatively adopted before deadline of July 1, 2023.

 

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

For a comprehensive guide regarding the history, trends, and policy impacts of homelessness in Oregon, see ECONorthwest’s 2019 report, Homelessness In Oregon: A Review of Trends, Causes, and Policy Options.

Video of League of Oregon Cities' presentation to North Bend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T05CjzKwM4A&t=566s

 

 

 

 

Portland City Stable

  

"What we noticed was there was 

 a missing link,   

people didn’t have an onramp 

 where you could go  

 clearly get some rest 

 and get some resilience built  

 so when you get into stable housing  

you’d actually be stable enough   

to stay in that housing,” Ryan said. 

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"early drafts suggest enforcing no camping on city-owned property from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m." 

When Stabilized Resoliants can pack up all their crap, hide it somewhere for 12 hours, and start again. Oh, it's snowing and 20 degrees out. Oh, it's raining and inch a day with 30 mph winds. Oh, it's 115 degrees for 5 straight days too bad. Die.  

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we noticed was there was a missing link, people didn’t have an onramp where you could go and clearly get some rest....." 

rests at "onramps? " 

 What's"clear" is that Ryan is spouting shit out of his face.  

.... and get some resilience built ....

What is "building" resilience? 

 Air-conditioning? Heating?  Plywood?

 .....so when you get into stable housing  

you’d actually be stable enough 

 to stay 

 in that housing,” Ryan said. 

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Repeat, stable, housing. Horses! Horses! Stay! Stay!  

Criminally clueless Yakkety Yak City Council, who were to deliver 6 villages 18 months ago.    

People require SLEEP.

No shit.  That fixes nothing.  

Portland Stealing From the Homeless

  

The Joint Office’s new report shows that in percentage terms  

the three greatest areas of under-spending are 

 long-term rent assistance (just 15% of the annual budget of $9.5 million has been spent); 

 short-term housing assistance (23% of $32.7 million budgeted);  

and, permanent supportive housing services (29% of $15.5 million has been spent.)

Sun lack

  

Forgetting what the body requires to unremember, losing facets innumerable that keep life strident 

Not balance but a recipe, self stirring, childhood the essential ingredient, ubiquitous 

Fortunate to have a positive upbringing, taken for granted not by me  

No broke bones no beltings good grades all sports great food decent clothes a nice home on acres close to town 

Insomnia or simple patterns of late bring wakeful hours pre dawn, mind traffic open to dredgings random 

Following mom's imminent death, months, weeks, a year away, toss and turn there's a pinecone under my thoracic

Dad, some museum peace all mum in his enclave, self curating his lack of sons

Mother's day

 

It's mother's day, I spend four hours playing violin at a farmer's market for tips. It's 90 degrees and mid may. There are hundreds of parents, grandparents, soon to be parents, and children of all ages. Fresh bouquets abound, and strollers and round bellies, and slings with wide eyed caterpillars peeping out. Time passes, I'm glad I put on my heavy sunscreen, exposed to direct sun. I have the iconic tank top sunburn, but am glad my hand isn't hurting. Later, I shop at a big store, and buy cookies on sale dirtcheap. I eat a few, the rest are for the crows and squirrels at the park. It's not original, just sweet.

Cousins, Grandpa

 

 

 

 

Links

  

"Mom's true passion was serving the under-served, where she often delivered water and other necessities to families she met while feeding stray cats and dogs downtown. " 

"The first known publication of a form of the term dates back to a Renaissance proverb collection written by John Heywood in 1546. Published in London, it states  

“from him who sees no wood for trees/ And yet is busie as the bees/ From him that's settled on his lees/ And speaketh not without his fees” 

"the Lees moved to a small house in Alexandria where they were reduced to living on family charity. " 

"He also developed an abiding shame over the actions of his father's later years. " 

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Through gross injustice unfathomed as the sea

Only known in infamy 

Proud as a kin of vulture repartee 

No shame is enuff .

It opens doors, to morgue and grave 

Leading men they say, they bray 

Winning nought but rhymes with brave, 

The other color scalped gruff. 

Honor, where's that but a finer lining to hat 

Beavers most snuffed too hot use a cat 

It's more vogue than a kneebent chat, 

Bowing to justice tough. 

Proud boys, we've seen 

They're all has beans 

Toting delusions obscene, 

Fumigation, railroads, like stuff 

Can't change your stripes  

Regardless the wipes, 

Theres new woke hyped, 

It's on your cuffs.

Fragile on porpoise

  

My ears are little jewels, they cannot be unverned 

Set in my fragile band of golden skull, 

I work from home much like you there above my shoes 

Juggling mama Hubbard's sophist brood of China plate bull, 

A narrative with loosey form, manipulation the norm

Rockwell wall around my castle,  

O dragon bestomping his fiddle in my omnipresent auricles 

Not just 24-7 but in extra dimensions 

Can't you now do whatever I wish upon a star, 

Cricket decinstructing his Appalachian sitar, 

Blonde or not I'll cry to the swat, batting my young lids, welling  

Pity at past noon for the nautilus typhoon

It's not stormy just soggy with octopi flailings, 

Thorman brings down that hammer, laced in horsehair whip 

The cinder blocks liquify, perhaps too autistic to emerge from pillow bunker 

Fragile on purpose it's not just hearing, 

She'll shell away anything that pecks apart clouds nearing.

Halo stasis

  Not as strong as I drink 

Nor as good smelling 

Flat on my fiddle feet while sharp notes take shape curliqued about my halosstasis

Which hornlike grow incandescent

Plural we beg to differ 

All once of us famished in the memory trough 

Not as tough as the trash bag stuffed 

Belongings 

Rear Admiral Champlin

 

'She was sold 8 May 1972 and scrapped."

"Born in Enid, Oklahoma, on December 28, 1904, Jackson Selover Champlin was appointed Midshipman from the Eighth Congressional District and entering the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, on June 28, 1921. He was graduated and commissioned Ensign on June 3, 1925, and through subsequent promotions attained the rank of Captain on August 30, 1944, to date from July 20, 1943.

Following graduation from the Naval Academy in June 1925, he was assigned to USS Colorado for two years, and to USS Rochester for two years. He received a Letter of Commendation from the Secretary of the Navy for his performance of duty as Secondary Battery Control Officer aboard the Rochester during the 1928-1929 Gunnery Year Competition. Remaining at sea, he served aboard USS Detroit from May 29 to October 5, 1929. 

 Ordered next to the New York Shipbuilding Company, at Camden, New Jersey, he assisted in fitting out USS Salt Lake City, and served aboard that cruiser from her commissioning, December 11, 1929 until June 25, 1932. During that period, the Salt Lake City operated as a unit of Cruiser Division 5, Scouting Force.

After a year’s instruction in General Line at the Postgraduate School, Annapolis, Maryland, he was placed in charge of the Fire-Control Instrument School at the Ford Instrument Company, Long Island, New York, from June 1933 until July 1934.  

He next had duty afloat aboard USS Pennsylvania, flagship of Commander in Chief, US Fleet. He was detached on May 31, 1937, and a month later returned to the Navy Academy for duty as an instructor in the Department of Ordnance and Gunnery.

On December 11, 1939 he recommissioned and assumed command of USS Haraden.  

He remained in command of that destroyer until February 3, 1940, shortly before her transfer to Great Britain under “lend-lease.” On March 1 he joined USS Colorado as Gunnery Officer. 

 He remained aboard the battleship until August 1943, when he was designated Aide and Flag Secretary on the staff of Commander Cruiser Division during action against enemy Japanese forces in operations ranging from the Solomon Islands through the Gilberts, the Marshalls, the Marianas and culminating in the First Battle of the Philippines, during the period September 5, 1943 to August 18, 1944…”

“Tireless and skilled in discharging the responsibilities of this important duty, (he) participated in the capture and occupation of many heavily fortified Japanese-held islands during the steady advance of our forces westward toward the enemy’s home waters… Captain Champlin contributed materially to the effective surface support of vital invasions and to the damage inflicted on the Japanese by our naval forces…”

He reported to headquarters, Twelfth Naval District, in August 1944, and on October 7, 1944 was ordered to a shore assignment in the Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Department, Washington, DC, where he was placed in charge of research and development of naval guns, mounts and missile launchers.  

Detached in October 1948, he assumed command of USS Mt. Olympus, and continued in command of that Amphibious Force, Flagship, in the Atlantic, until December 1949. 

 He next had thirty-three months’ duty in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Navy Department, attained to the Division of International Affairs as Chief of Foreign Military Aid Matters.

From September 1951 to July 1953 he served as Sub Chief, Naval Mission to Brazil.  

The Brazilian Government awarded him the Order of Naval Merit, degree of Commander, which was presented personally by the Brazilian Chief of Naval Operations on October 9, 1953.

Since his return to the United States, he has been assigned to the staff of the Commander, Ninth Naval District.

In addition to the Bronze Star Medal with Combat “V,” and the Brazilian decoration, Captain Champlin has the Secord Nicaraguan Campaign Medal; the American Defense Service Medal, Fleet Clasp; the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal; the American Campaign Medal; the World War II Victory Medal; and the National Defense Service Medal.

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Sources

Adapted from "Captain Jackson Selover Champlin, United States Navy, Deceased" 

 [biography, dated 10 March 1954] in Modern Biographical Files collection, Navy Department Library.

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USS Mount Olympus (AGC-8) was a Mount McKinley-class amphibious force command ship, named for the highest peak in the Olympic Mountains of the State of Washington. She was designed to be an amphibious forces flagship—a floating command post with advanced communications equipment and extensive combat information spaces to be used by the amphibious forces commander and landing force commander during large-scale operations. 

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"USS Champlin (DD-601) was a Benson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the second ship named for Stephen Champlin." 

After escorting a convoy to NS Argentia, Newfoundland, and another to the Panama Canal Zone, Champlin sailed from New York 11 December 1942 on her first convoy crossing to Casablanca, returning to New York 7 February 1943. She sailed again on 4 March guarding a convoy which was constantly shadowed by German submarines for 6 days after it passed the Azores on 12 March. On that day, a radar contact was made ahead of the convoy, and Champlin charged ahead to investigate, finding a submarine on the surface. She opened fire, and attempted to ram the enemy, which made a crash dive. Champlin hurled a pattern of depth charges into the swirl, and sank U-130 at position 37°10′N 20°21′W. As the convoy plodded east, Champlin and the other escorts fought a constant battle to protect it, but the convoy lost three merchantmen before reaching Casablanca. Champlin rescued every member of Wyoming's 127-man crew, as well as taking aboard two survivors from Molly Pitcher. The return convoy which arrived at Boston, Massachusetts 15 April was without incident.

Champlin sailed from New York 1 May 1943 with a slow convoy of small craft and support ships which called at Bermuda before arriving at Oran 26 May. She put to sea again to bring a convoy in from Gibraltar, then took part in training as well as conducting patrols in the western Mediterranean Sea. On 5 July, she cleared Oran for the invasion of Sicily, escorting a convoy to the transport area south of Scoglitti arriving 9 July. Leaving her charges, she sped ahead to join in the pre-assault bombardment the next day, during which she aided in driving off an air attack. While covering the landing and initial advances the same day, she answered the request from shore for a bombardment of the village of Camerina, so successfully that the enemy there surrendered.

Champlin left Sicily guarding a convoy for Oran and New York, arriving 4 August 1943. She made four more Atlantic crossings on convoy escort duty from New York to North Africa and the British Isles between 21 August 1943 and 11 March 1944. While undergoing refresher training in Casco Bay, Maine, in March 1944, Champlin was ordered out on a submarine hunt, joining an all-day operation 7 April. At 1632, she made contact and dropped deep-set depth charges, driving the submarine to the surface. Immediately, her guns opened fire and started a fire. Champlin rammed the stern of the submarine, and U-856 sank at position 40°18′N 62°18′W. Champlin's commanding officer, Commander John J. Shaffer III, was wounded by shrapnel during the attack and died the next morning despite emergency surgery.[1]

After repairs to her bow, damaged in the ramming, Champlin left New York 21 April 1944 with a convoy for Oran. On 15 May, she reported at Naples for duty supporting the operations striving to break loose from the Anzio beachhead. She conducted patrols, escorted convoys, and provided fire support for minesweepers, and the Army ashore. Returning to Palermo, she sailed from that port 13 August for the invasion of southern France, in which she was assigned to patrol southwest of the transport area as a reserve fire support unit. On 18 August, she rescued a downed Army pilot from his raft, and on 19 August, she was fired upon by shore batteries as she steamed off Cannes. Next day she returned to the area to locate those batteries and destroy them, and the 21st, blocked the Gulf of Napoule while German E-boats thus trapped were destroyed. Continuing her fire support, she knocked out a bridge across the Var River near Nice upon Army request on 24 August, and a week later left the area to guard merchantmen bound for Oran. She continued to New York, escorting a division of battleships, and began a program of training and plane guard operations which lasted through the remainder of 1944.

Atlantic convoy escort

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On 6 January 1945, Champlin returned to Atlantic convoy escort, sailing for Oran. On 30 January, she cleared Oran to rendezvous with the group bringing President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Malta, where he was to enplane for the Yalta Conference. She later escorted this same group back into the Atlantic, and on 20 February returned to Gibraltar for patrol and convoy escort duty in the western Mediterranean. On 22 April, she departed Oran for New York and preparations for deployment to the Pacific Ocean.

Champlin passed through the Panama Canal 4 June 1945, arrived at Pearl Harbor 10 July, and after training, sailed 24 July for the attack on Wake Island 1 August. Continuing to Okinawa, she arrived 12 August for local escort and patrol duty until 4 September, when she cleared on the first of two voyages to Japan in connection with occupation arrangements. On 31 October, she sailed from Okinawa with homeward-bound servicemen, calling to embark more at Saipan and Pearl Harbor. She disembarked her passengers at San Diego, California 21 to 24 November, then sailed for the east coast 

Moon to none

 Moon to none, nor island 

Nor mine nor dream 

Visiting silently only wakeful eyes and tree and mammal hearts and worm 

The efforts of loss profit the story the climb the tower the panorama

Lost timelessness poses if still if undressed if subject if stuffed 

Crater filled lack of dearth onwords by rivers by puzzles by fire 

Unchosen unsunned underground sounds in hollow thrall nocturnal antennae roots sponge minerals loosened 

Where value reside hidden slivered education sample trophy moral arcade  

Hunab ku

   

"The earliest known publicly available written reference to the term "Hunab Ku" (which translates as "Sole God" or "Only God") appears in the 16th century Diccionario de Motul, where "Hunab-ku" is identified as "the only living and true god, also the greatest of the gods of the people of Yucatan. 

 He had no form because they said that he could not be represented as he was incorporeal".[2][3] The term also appears in the Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel,[4] written after the Spanish Conquest, but is unknown in any pre-Conquest inscriptions in Maya writing.  

Hunab Ku was closely associated with an indigenous creator god, Itzamna, in an effort to make use of religious syncretism."

 the pull of the tide, moons strength on earth 

minute organisms and bonding glue

that dissolves in death  

 spray of grey ocean 

as i wandered sickly into the dark 

the ferry ship bridging peoples twixt drought& rain 

after train ride from dublin to rosslare 

trench coats with collars stiffly angled, 

wandering beach driftwood smooth from battering slams 

soft thru relentless beating  

 

 waters fist

pearly white baby ears, macaroni shells

whatever i wrote in natures chalkboard

&how long did it stand? 

 

 was the cauliflower growing

over the gloomy grey swirl merely another ferry 

chugging steamy or was it offspring of yet more 

driving dismal edge depleting

water pounding loves? 

(age 18, 1985)

Hyaloid gobo sleeken

 

Rehabilitate jewish hyaloid 

Gobo displode manpower 

Memorial noticeable sleeken 

Spectral flier fabric 

Fatuity stoicism

  

Coen commentator corporeity 

Fatuity fraught macrobiotic 

Stoicism symmetry hack 

Rear-guard quinone fake 

Centralize loft rotary 

Forehand Pyrrhus expatiate 

Round despicable little 

Adultery apogee hour

Syndesmosis sforanzo

  

Blackfoot depersonalization glorify 

Installment item keep 

Lather level pintail 

Primitive pub retaliate

Ringband royal scarf 

Sea otter sforzando 

Shogun slot special effects 

Staff syndesmosis tend 

Think tractable tune out 

Unload vertical waft 

Water hammer wind up worldling 

Yield liberal rise/RIP 

Neely

   " Violence towards others in the community has been identified as a significant problem for a subset of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.

Aims:

To investigate the extent to which post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other risk factors predict future violent behaviour in military veterans."

 

"Veterans with both PTSD and alcohol misuse had a substantially higher rate of subsequent severe violence (35.9%)  

compared with veterans with alcohol misuse without PTSD (10.6%), 

 PTSD without alcohol misuse (10.0%)  

or neither PTSD nor alcohol misuse (5.3%). "

"Current theory and science of self-dysregulation conceptualises violence and physical aggression as occurring when the strength of impelling forces (those pushing towards action) exceed the strength of the inhibiting forces (those preventing a move towards action)  

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"preliminary report released Tuesday by the Council on Criminal Justice think tank found that about one-third of veterans say they have been arrested at least once, compared to fewer than one-fifth of all nonveterans, citing Justice Department data from 2015. " 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna44326

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4006087/

Scottish Roots

  mahala

noun ma·​hal·​a məˈhalə

West

: an American Indian woman 

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55194800/millard-fillmore-may 

My great great grandfather, married : 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55194770/sina-isabell-may_-_kennedy

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https://kibbyfamily.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/some-mccaleb-history/

"The McKillips were a sept of the McDonnell of Keppoch Clan. They were

probably Roman Catholic, and opposed to the Henry VIII line of rulers.

Both the McKillip and McDonnell warriors fought in the “45” to return

Bonney Prince Charles to the thorne. This is from the McCaleb family, Vol.

1, part 1, page 9, item, 5, by Katie McCaleb Headley. William also fought

at the Battle of Preston Moor.

>From Dr. James McCaleb of Carlisle, Mississippi wrote to Miss Ella MCaCaleb

of the Pennsyvlania McCalebs: “Four brothers came together from Scotland

by way of Dublin, Ireland. They landed on the Carolina Coast. One of

these brothers was married to Sarah McAlpin, daughter of the Highland Chief

McAlpin, and they settled in South Carolina. One of these brothers went

West and married an Indian woman, and one remained in North Carolina. One

brother settled in the Connellsville Basin (Fayette County), Pennsylvania.”

Most McCaleb families claim kinship with Robert Bruce and the Stuarts of

England."

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"He was in the Indian wars of the years 1831 and 1832. The result of this marital union is fourteen children" 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44616527/archibald-mccaleb-lee 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34586956/lucinda-mahala-miller 

She married: 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12831128/lemuel-green-miller 

Their daughter: 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47849282/mary-miller 

Mary Finley Miller

BIRTH

1784

Botetourt County, Virginia, USA 

Her father: 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133487105/john-finley 

 https://www.geni.com/people/John-Finley/4890514668740083847.    

His father:

https://www.geni.com/people/Thomas-Finley/6000000008630921154.  

His father: 

https://www.geni.com/people/John-Finley-I/6000000011221035727 

December 18, 1706

Birthplace: Dublin, County of Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

Blotgodi

  

'Blót (Old Norse) and blōt or geblōt (Old English) are terms for "blood sacrifice" in Norse paganism and Anglo-Saxon paganism respectively.  

A comparanda can also be reconstructed for wider Germanic paganism." 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bl%C3%B3t

 "goðorð could be bought, shared, traded or inherited. 

The office was in many respects treated as private property but was not counted as taxable, and is defined in the Gray Goose Laws as 

 "power and not wealth"  

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Old Icelandic Dictionary Letter B

Blótgoði 

Old Icelandic Dictionary - blótgoði

Meaning of Old Icelandic word "blótgoði" in English.

As defined by A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (Geir Zoëga):

blótgoði

m. heathen sacrificing priest.

 https://old-icelandic.vercel.app/word/blotgodi

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

 

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"The Dutch from New Amsterdam (New York) defeated the Swedes in 1655, 

 and the English seized the colony from the Dutch in 1664 

 Thereafter, except for a brief Dutch reconquest in 1673, Delaware was administered as part of New York until 1682" 

https://www.britannica.com/place/Delaware-state/The-colony

 

"Bloodgood was made secretary to the Colonies on the Delaware River in 1659." 

'On 24 May 1674 he was made chief officer of the Dutch militia of the settlements of Flushing, Hempstead, Jamaica and Newtown. " 

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