[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.
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#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.
#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."
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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.
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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.
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If I wanted to be a hotelier, I would have married a Trump.
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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)
[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.
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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'.
[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.
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[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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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.
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[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." 
'You don't own that property, somebody else built that house and owns that property.' 
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...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"...
