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2021-09-04 Fifth Column
Portland city council to consider ban on goods, services from Texas
[KATU] The Portland City Council will consider an emergency resolution next week to consider a ban on goods and services from Texas, amid controversy over abortion rights.
In other news, I intend to beat up the meanest linebacker in the NFL if he doesn't start playing better.
They’re giving up gasoline? Toyotas? Texas Instruments calculators? That’ll be interesting.
In a statement released on Friday, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said the council will take up the emergency resolution on September 8 with the intent "to ban the city's future procurement of goods and services from, and city employee business travel to, the state of Texas." If the ban is approved, the mayor said it would remain in effect until the state "withdraws it unconstitutional ban on abortion or until it is overturned in court."
One problem I see here, Ted, is that Texas could buy Portland as an impulse item. Texas: "I'll take two beef jerkys, a Snickers Bar, and the City of Portland." Cashier: "Sir, are you sure you want to do that? We've had a lot of complaints."
The controversial Texas law, that is now in effect, bans abortions as early as six weeks. It was signed into law back in May by Gov. Greg Abbott, but has received its fair share of criticism from women's rights advocates, abortion activists and abortion providers. One exemption to the law would be a medical emergency where the woman's life or fetus life is at risk, or the heartbeat is undetected.

"Portland City Council stands with the people who may one day face difficult decisions about pregnancy, and we respect their right to make the best decision for themselves," the council's statement read.
One council, one Ranger.
Posted by Matt 2021-09-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Texas is the only state that prints US paper currency. DC does also but DC not a state.
Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-09-04 00:29||   2021-09-04 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Oooooo! That'll teach us. We'll be losing about a dollar two ninety-eight.
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2021-09-04 01:51||   2021-09-04 01:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Shares of Texas Toast set to plummet on Monday.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-04 01:53||   2021-09-04 01:53|| Front Page Top

#4 And grandparent visits?
Posted by Glenmore 2021-09-04 02:19||   2021-09-04 02:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Does Portland pruduce anything we can boycot?
Posted by BrerRabbit 2021-09-04 02:31||   2021-09-04 02:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Cement ?
Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-04 02:39||   2021-09-04 02:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Texas should declare the city of Portland a terrorist organization.
Posted by Silentbrick 2021-09-04 03:37||   2021-09-04 03:37|| Front Page Top

#8 Texas should ban Portland emigrants.
Posted by Vortigern McCoy4032 2021-09-04 03:50||   2021-09-04 03:50|| Front Page Top

#9 
To the Portland City Council
Welcome to Federal Prison in 2023 after the Election.
18 U.S. Code § 1951 - Interference with commerce by threats or violence

(a) Whoever in any way or degree obstructs, delays, or affects commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce, ... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.



Posted by NN2N1 2021-09-04 07:53||   2021-09-04 07:53|| Front Page Top

#10 Fresh Hops in Portland
Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-04 08:16||   2021-09-04 08:16|| Front Page Top

#11 [JP]US companies lash out at Texas law changes, including abortion ban
Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-04 09:40||   2021-09-04 09:40|| Front Page Top

#12 So Texas is not the first with the heartbeat law. This law is in a number of states. So Portland can ban good from all these states, so what, who care what the welfare city full of Antifa rats own.
Posted by 49 Pan 2021-09-04 11:49||   2021-09-04 11:49|| Front Page Top

#13 When I was in Portland back in 1990 there was a legal battle between 2 California organic farming invaders and a family of farmers whose forebears went to Oregon in the late 1800's. The invaders were planting "organic" chard and selling the seeds as non-gmo. They planted right next to a field where the old family had planted chard for consumption that was gmo. The invaders claimed that the gmo chard was pollinating their chard thus making it impossible to sell their seeds as non-gma. They sued to have the old family quit planting chard. The court sided with the invaders. That's when I knew Oregon was on the downward slide.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2021-09-04 12:59||   2021-09-04 12:59|| Front Page Top

#14 But it's OK to do business with China.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-09-04 13:20||   2021-09-04 13:20|| Front Page Top

#15 ^ Makes sense. China is not the Main Enemy.
Posted by Matt 2021-09-04 16:58||   2021-09-04 16:58|| Front Page Top

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