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Portland Considers 'Mandatory Rest Spaces' For The Homeless On Private Property
[Hot Air] Portland, Oregon, like many cities on the left coast, is struggling with a growing homelessness crisis. But what can they do about it? One idea that’s now being floated is to change the building codes so that all new structures (including private property, not just government buildings) include spaces for people to "rest" and "feel welcome and safe."

This understandably has prospective property owners concerned, since the wording is all quite vague and suggests that they will be forced to allow the homeless to camp in and around their buildings. (KATU News)

The obvious questions are already being raised. What specifically does "rest" mean in this context? Does that mean that new buildings will have to include spaces for the "unhoused" (their word) where they will be "protected from the weather?" That’s basically just an invitation for people to come trespass and stay there.

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/08/2019 01:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Shitshow has a new act: The Mandatory Shithole.
Posted by: Lex || 12/08/2019 1:23 Comments || Top||

#2  'You don't own that property, somebody else built that house and owns that property.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/08/2019 1:26 Comments || Top||

#3  "You didn't beshat build that Shithole..."
Posted by: Lex || 12/08/2019 1:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Why not? We are already required to support illegal aliens thru benefits. Being forced to host them in our homes isn’t much of a leap.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/08/2019 1:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Third Amendment. If you can't make me house soldiers, you can't make me house drug addicts.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/08/2019 2:14 Comments || Top||

#6  I had a libertarian friend in the 90es - when I lived in USA*, who claimed that US Gov broke every amendment except the third. I guess it's time.

*Well, not actually USA, New Mexico.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/08/2019 2:57 Comments || Top||

#7  Mandatory Communism.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 12/08/2019 5:19 Comments || Top||

#8  #6 Correct. It was only a matter of time. Our idiot political class shows, daily, their ignorance of and outright contempt for the Bill of Rights.

Case in point: we now routinely hear that the 1st Amendmant protects slander and other forms of malicious, reckless, harmful defamatory speech.

This line of reasoning is being parroted by even those with degrees from our best law schools - cf the president of Oberlin College and its multi-year war against a neighboring family bakery.
Posted by: Lex || 12/08/2019 7:47 Comments || Top||

#9  #4 Good catch.

It will be a very small step from the current Sanctuary Cities to future municipal policies of "Mandatory Home Sanctuary."
Posted by: Lex || 12/08/2019 7:51 Comments || Top||

#10  My dad used to say "Eventually they will tell you who is coming into your house when, how long they will stay and what you will have to do for them while they are there."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/08/2019 9:04 Comments || Top||

#11  We seem to be living through a saucy melange of 1765 and 1854.

With a skosh of the Great Terror and the Cultural Revolution thrown in for good measure.
Posted by: charger || 12/08/2019 11:36 Comments || Top||

#12  this will not end well. And i fear the property owner will be on the short end.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 12/08/2019 11:46 Comments || Top||

#13  When I first saw this post I thought it was about grave sites. Restful, welcoming, and safe.
Posted by: BrujoTejano || 12/08/2019 14:18 Comments || Top||

#14  Comrade, the Housing Commissar has determined that you have excess capacity in your house. Therefore, you will make adequate space available for a homeless individual who will arrive this evening. We fully expect that you will welcome this individual with open arms in the spirit of socialist brotherhood.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/08/2019 14:39 Comments || Top||

#15  If I wanted to be a hotelier, I would have married a Trump.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/08/2019 14:59 Comments || Top||

#16  if i wanted to be a hotelier, i would have left the light on for ya (sorry TW, it sort of writ itself, bur you are the inspiration behind the crayon)
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 12/08/2019 18:37 Comments || Top||

#17  <3 You know I adore you, USN, Ret.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/08/2019 19:03 Comments || Top||

#18  No point owning property in Portland. I expect the housing prices will plunge as a result as people move or just decide to rent.
Posted by: ruprecht || 12/08/2019 19:15 Comments || Top||

#19  Start this communist eminent domain, it will get to be spicy times.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 12/08/2019 20:30 Comments || Top||


Britain
UK daily revises op-ed that said settlements are ‘the trouble with Jews today’
[IsraelTimes] The Independent changes phrasing in opinion piece by philosopher Slavoj Zizek after allegations he used anti-Semitic language.

The Independent daily in the UK revised an op-ed that called West Bank settlements "the trouble with Jews today."

The change was made Thursday to an op-ed by the influential philosopher Slavoj Zizek published two days earlier titled "There is no conflict between the struggle against anti-Semitism and the struggle against Israeli occupation."

It contained an apparent defense of Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britannia’s Labour Party, from allegations of anti-Semitism.

The original language said that "the trouble with Jews today is that they are now trying to get roots in a place which was for thousands of years inhabited by other people."

After amending the article, the paper wrote at the top of the piece: "We acknowledge that an earlier version of this piece did not meet our own editorial standards."

Following an outcry and allegations that the language used was anti-Semitic, The Independent replaced the phrase "the trouble with Jews today" with "the trouble with the settlement project today."

In the op-ed, Zizek, whom the German Der Spiegel newspaper in 2015 described as "one of Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
’s boldest intellectuals and also a self-avowed leftist," also condemned British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis’s warning last month about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party ahead of the December 12 election as "ethically disgusting."

Zizek also wrote: "I, of course, indisputably reject anti-Semitism in all its forms."
“I don’t hate the Jooooos, I just see them as they really are,” he added.
The Independent was established in 1986 and its digital editions are accessed more than 20 million times a month, according to the Newsworks website.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/08/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Trouble with Jews", you ain't seen nothing yet, c*cksuckers!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/08/2019 3:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Zizek ! I've heard the asshole who wrote that piece. An academic meet in China. A slovenly Slovenian pothead marxist. He thinks he's an 'intellectual'. Even refers pompously to himself and his group as 'we intellectuals'.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/08/2019 5:54 Comments || Top||

#3  GOD determines land rights.
Posted by: newc || 12/08/2019 11:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Post-structural Marxist nirvana:
A slovenly Slav of Ljubljana
Dispensing his As
Through Lacanian haze...
Intellectualised marijuana?
Posted by: Glomp Trotsky1337 || 12/08/2019 22:28 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Pelosi Reportedly Wants To Strip Online Free Speech Protections From Trade Deal
[Reason.com] The new trade pact between the United States, Canada, and Mexico is a mixed bag, but one of its undeniably excellent components is a provision that effectively exports American protections for online free speech to other countries.

But Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D‐Calif.) is reportedly pushing to cut that language from the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) before Congress votes on the new trade deal. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier today that Pelosi is considering removing the liability protections for online platforms from the trade deal because including that language might make it more difficult for lawmakers to hack away at those same protections domestically.

"There are concerns in the House about enshrining the increasingly controversial...liability shield in our trade agreements, particularly at a time when Congress is considering whether changes need to be made in U.S. law," a spokesman for Pelosi told the Journal.

As I've written before, the USMCA‐as well as a new trade deal between the U.S. and Japan‐will include provisions shielding tech companies from liability for content, similar to the protections offered by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Though it's not a simple copy/paste, the trade deals effectively duplicate Section 230's promise that platforms will not be held liable for user-created content‐like videos posted to YouTube or comments made at the bottom of this article.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/08/2019 02:27 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, you can't accuse her of lack of consistency.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/08/2019 3:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Crikey...I.m glad I read the second half of that heading.
Posted by: Classer || 12/08/2019 6:52 Comments || Top||

#3  She'll change her mind as soon as those big checks from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Etc... clear.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/08/2019 9:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Politicians should wear sponsor jackets so we know who owns them. Robin Williams.

Posted by: Ebbineck Unemble4466 || 12/08/2019 16:43 Comments || Top||

#5  From OpenSecrets.org:
Data for the current election cycle was released by the Federal Election Commission on November 21, 2019.

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Campaign Cycle: 2020
Total: $2,157,749
To Democrats: $1,751,836 .......82%
To Republicans: $379,496.......18%

Cycle: 2016
Total: $9,188,140
To Democrats: $5,715,444.......62%
To Republicans: $2,068,073......23%


Contributions to 527s are not included in the Individuals, PACs, Soft (Indivs), or Soft (Orgs) columns, so the sum of these columns may not equal the Total column.

The numbers on this page are based on contributions of $200 or more from PACs and individuals to federal candidates and from PAC, individual and soft money donors to political parties, as reported to the Federal Election Commission. While election cycles are shown in charts as 1996, 1998, 2000 etc. they actually represent two-year periods. For example, the 2002 election cycle runs from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2002.

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Posted by: Lex || 12/08/2019 17:02 Comments || Top||


Adam Schiff’s Secret Subpoena Adventure Could End with Legal Buckshot in His Face
[TOWNHALL] Rep. Adam Schiff
...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"...
(D-CA), high Chancellor of the Trump impeachment effort, might be getting away with murder. The impeachment circus that has engulfed D.C. has overshadowed the House Intelligence Committee chair’s egregious abuse of power. He executed a secret subpoenas adventure of phone records of prominent Republicans. He got their phone records and published them in the committee’s 300-page impeachment report. Now, the report is a work of fiction. Schiff is a liar, and nothing from House Democrats on this whole fiasco should be believed. This isn’t about the Constitution, or the framers, or the rule of law. It’s not about upholding the integrity of our institutions; Democrats have already perverted those with their deep state antics against this administration. It’s about the Democratic Party’s inability to grasp that it lost the 2016 election. Democrats wanted to boot Trump since day one of his presidency. The ironic twist is that their impeachment fetish could very well be what secures him a second term. This is not popular in swing states. No one cares. And the liberal media has been so wrong, so stupid, and so corrupt in their coverage of this White House, even Democrats in these states cannot believe what they hear. But let’s get back to that pencil head, Schiff.

He may have opened himself up to oodles of lawsuits by those he decided to go after with these secret subpoenas. Rudy Giuliani, the president’s attorney, was included in this hit list, and we now have to factor in attorney-client privilege into this whole mess. Seldom is this cast aside concerning an investigation unless the evidence of wrongdoing is overwhelming. Schiff decided to ignore those protocols because he wants to boot Trump before the 2020 election, or at least severely damage his re-election chances. It’s funny. The man who says he’s doing this for the country and the rule of law thinks he can break the rules...because he feels he’s right.
Posted by: Fred || 12/08/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This was thought out carefully by the Dims. In an ongoing investigation no warrants are required, just subpoenas. The only thing this proves is how cunning and disrespectful Dims have to anyone who gets in their way of totalitarian rule.

Posted by: Goober Tingle7365 || 12/08/2019 1:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Could End with Legal Buckshot in His Face

Believe it when I see it.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/08/2019 2:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Until he is held accountable with money coming out of his pocket in lawsuits, expelled from congress or even jail time...

It is all kabuki theater.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/08/2019 8:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Should this be the first shot that turns the cold civil war hot?
Posted by: AlanC || 12/08/2019 8:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Shitshow risks Shit->Fan
Posted by: Lex || 12/08/2019 8:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Question: Why do Democrats like Schiff, Nadler and Pelosi look like freaks?

Answer: Because they are freaks.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/08/2019 14:46 Comments || Top||

#7  Question: Why do you assume they like him?

Freaks tolerate other freaks, they don't necessarily like each other. They have a hive mind, the work together for "The Cause".
Posted by: Ebberong Hitler1767 || 12/08/2019 17:55 Comments || Top||

#8  Kabucki theatre for sure.
Lindsey and the do nothing Republicans getting their paychecks, so meh..... let him play in the sandbox. They will do nothing as always with the criminal Dems.
Posted by: Wizski || 12/08/2019 20:12 Comments || Top||

#9  Trump shut down the Dem's boodle banks and political criminal empire and they hate him for it.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/08/2019 22:02 Comments || Top||

#10  Buckshot in the face? I wondered what happened to him.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/08/2019 22:03 Comments || Top||


Kerry Touts Biden as Messianic Figure Who Can ‘Save the World’
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT]
Posted by: Fred || 12/08/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The dims demand that all bow to them.
Posted by: Goober Tingle7365 || 12/08/2019 1:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Delusional. The last stage before a total rout.

No wonder Bloomberg's jumping in at the 11th hour.
Posted by: Lex || 12/08/2019 1:39 Comments || Top||

#3  It's their World he's talking about - not ours.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/08/2019 2:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Never thought I'd see one piece of driftwood compliment another piece of driftwood.
Posted by: Raj || 12/08/2019 8:45 Comments || Top||

#5  You have to wonder who the Hell wants an endorsement from the perennially dim bulb Kerry. On the other hand, if things are going so well that the free range imbecile Biden is our salvation then I guess Scott Adams is correct about the dawn of a golden age.
Posted by: Cesare || 12/08/2019 11:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Kerry Touts Biden as Messianic Figure Who Can ‘Save Rape the World’

FIFY
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 12/08/2019 11:51 Comments || Top||

#7  It's an obvious redirect from the blatant corruption of these two families, these two men and their idiot spawn
Posted by: Lex || 12/08/2019 11:55 Comments || Top||

#8  They coordinated through their kids who are coincidentally employed by gas producers in Ukraine.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/08/2019 14:01 Comments || Top||

#9  Well, if Kerry says so, I guess that settles it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/08/2019 14:47 Comments || Top||

#10  From the mouth of babes comes ...






SPITTLE!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 12/08/2019 15:57 Comments || Top||

#11  Politicians should wear sponsor jackets so we know who owns them. Robin Williams.
Posted by: Ebbineck Unemble4466 || 12/08/2019 16:46 Comments || Top||

#12  If not the world then at least Kerry and Biden's crooked kids out of prison.
Posted by: Snusotle the Lesser4227 || 12/08/2019 17:05 Comments || Top||

#13  Kerry: please tell us about your insider trades right after hearing Hank Paulson's closed-door testimony at the height of the financial crisis in Sept 2008
Posted by: Lex || 12/08/2019 17:08 Comments || Top||

#14  Kerry thought John Edwards was a stand-up guy, too.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/08/2019 19:13 Comments || Top||

#15  A politician is a sociopath or a psychopath until proven that their not.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 12/08/2019 20:32 Comments || Top||

#16  they're
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 12/08/2019 20:33 Comments || Top||

#17  Alternate headline: "JFnK feels sorry for Biden because he's gone dingbat."
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/08/2019 22:06 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
DOE launches investigation into Georgetown for alleged anti-male discrimination
h/t Instapundit
The United States Department of Education has opened an investigation into Georgetown University for allegations of unlawful discrimination against men and preference toward women in their employment and hiring processes.

The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has launched a Title IX investigation to determine whether an illegal preference for women in hiring practices exists at Georgetown University.

The Title IX Inquiry was filed against Georgetown University on Oct. 4, 2018 by President of the National Coalition For Men Harry Crouch. The Inquiry listed 19 clubs that were alleged to be in violation of Title IX. Among the clubs alleged to be in violation is the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security started by Hillary Clinton in 2011.

"The complaint seeks to eliminate gender discrimination against men without jeopardizing the civil rights of women," Crouch wrote.

On October 11, the DOE responded, with a Partial Dismissal Letter. Portions of Allegations 3 and 4, and Allegation 1 will be investigated.

The complaint filed by Crouch strongly condemned Georgetown Professor Christine Fair noting that she "openly called for violence and terrorism against men as a class (and several specific men)." The complaint had requested her termination of position as associate professor of security studies. The DOE’s official response did not mention Fair.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/08/2019 16:51 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:



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  Naval Air Station Pensacola shooter who killed 3 was Saudi aviation student
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  Pelosi Asks House Judiciary Committee to Proceed with Articles of Impeachment
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