The Mayor of Portland, Oregon on Friday announced plans to ban unsanctioned homeless camps as he called the situation 'a vortex of misery'
Mayor Ted Wheeler ...Poindextrous lefty Dem mayor of Portland, Oregon. Allowed a year and a half of Antifa/BLM riots to destroy downtown sections of his city while playing catch and release with the perpetrators and hamstringing his police. He got reelected in the course of all that because the alternative was worse. He has yet to accomplish anything of substance, unless destroying a fairly pleasant city counts... described Portland's homeless crisis 'nothing short of a humanitarian catastrophe'
The city currently has more than 700 homeless encampments across the city within less than 150 square miles
Wheeler says he hopes to build 20,000 new affordable housing units in the next 10 years
More than 3,000 individuals experiencing homelessness reside in the Oregon city, a stark rise from less than three years ago when the number was around 2,000
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Housing is not the problem. You think that druggies, alchies, and the mentally ill can handle maintaining housing? Were they mentally ill before or after abusing substances? When you can't face the truth, you can not solve the problem.
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The normies are antifa. This is Portland. There is no effective right-wing opposition. There are two kinds of politics: far left and far, far, far left.
LONDON (AP) — Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak is strong favorite to become Britain’s next prime minister within days — or even hours — after former leader Boris Johnson dropped out of the Conservative Party leadership contest.
After the resignation of Liz Truss last week, the governing party is choosing Britain’s third prime minister this year at a time of political turmoil and severe economic challenges.
Sunak, 42, is the only candidate with confirmed support from more than 100 lawmakers, the number needed to run in the election. House of Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt has far fewer expressions of support, but is aiming to reach the threshold by the time nominations close at 2 p.m.
If Mordaunt does not reach 100 nominations, Sunak will win by acclamation and could move into 10 Downing St. by Monday evening.
If both make the ballot, the 357 Conservative lawmakers will hold an indicative vote on Monday to show their preference. If neither subsequently drops out, the choice will go to the 172,000 party members around the country, with a result announced Friday.
Mordaunt will come under intense pressure to step aside and not force a membership vote if Sunak is the strong favorite among lawmakers.
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Maybe the Brits should go back to that thing where you pull the sword from the stone and then you get to be in charge. I kinda hate to be critical of another country's experiments in self-governance, but whatever they are doing now does not seem to working real well.
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The cereal box varies to fool you into buying the WEF puffs that will taste lousy weather the Crazy Rabbit or Pebbles and Bam Bam are making the sales pitch. Great Reset Ukrainian War puffs for all my friends.
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[PJMEDIA] It looks like President Joe Biden might get his winter of death after all, and it’s not because of the unvaccinated.
If you live in the Northeast, you know that even in normal times, heating oil bills constitute a significant expense because winters are usually brutal. Unfortunately, this year could be the worst year ever for residents of the region hoping to adequately heat their homes. Not only are heating oil prices through the roof on anti-fossil fuel President Joe Biden’s watch, but even for those who have the funds to stock up, it doesn’t really matter: heating oil rationing is already taking place.
Rationing. Like toilet paper and baby formula rationing. Why is all this rationing happening on Biden’s watch? For the record, we never once worried about rationing under former President Donald Trump.
But the worst part about this unfolding crisis is that it’s not even winter.
According to a bombshell Bloomberg report:
The US Northeast is so short on heating oil that the fuel used to power home furnaces is being rationed even before the start of winter.
Some wholesalers in Connecticut are putting retailers on allocation, meaning they can only get a limited amount of fuel based on availability, according to Chris Herb, president of the Connecticut Energy Marketers Association, which represents around 600 family-owned retailers in the state. These retailers must in turn ration their customers.
Bloomberg’s data matches what former Maine Gov. Paul LePage, a Republican gubernatorial candidate, told radio talk show host Howie Carr this week, in that the heating oil shortage situation in the Northeast is beyond frightening and a genuine cause for concern. LePage essentially begged current Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills to do something, anything, to bring attention to the situation before it’s too late and people start dying, while also blaming Biden for not properly addressing the issue.
“Today, just about an hour ago, we got information from a local oil dealer… oil right now, tonight at five o’clock, is $5.69. Kerosene is $6.69 a gallon. This is what we’re facing right now,” LePage said during the interview Friday.
He added, “Earlier this week, the president of the United States released 15 million barrels of crude oil, you know from the reserves, but he did not, he did not release any Northeast home heating oil reserve … we have a shortage, and prices going through the roof, and the governor of the state of Maine has yet to say a word about it.”
LePage urged “every listener” to call Gov. Mills’ office to leave their thoughts about the developing crisis, saying Mills needs to “get on the ball, and call President Biden, and tell him to release heating oil reserves for the Northeast because we are gonna have a tough winter, we have shortages, they’re predicting brownouts and blackouts, we are in desperate need for help.”
LePage and Carr discussed the reports of heating oil rationing taking place in Connecticut. LePage added that the same practice is already happening in Maine, and it’s still nowhere near his state’s coldest and most energy-demanding time of year.
“It’s already started in Maine,” LePage said of heating oil rationing. “If you order 100 gallons, they’ll deliver you 50 gallons; if you order 200 gallons, they’ll deliver 100 gallons. I’ve had some dealers tell me they’re forced to right now, because they don’t know, and they’re putting people on budgets because they know we’re gonna have another crisis in a month or so.”
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), residential heating oil in the New England area, in March 2020, was about $2.87 per gallon. It held in that range or lower for the bulk of Trump’s presidency. Not long after Biden entered office, the price began to climb. As of October 17, the latest figure, it’s $5.70 per gallon.
The math of what it’s going to cost for residents of the region to heat their homes truly blew me away.
At current prices — and keep in mind, these prices are guaranteed to rise in the coming months as demand increases and supply decreases, probably significantly — the cost to fill the typical 275-gallon residential heating oil tank is about $1,567.
That amount of heating oil, according to Shipley Energy, lasts the average home about 56 days — less than two months, but let’s call it two months. Folks, that’s $783 per month for heating oil alone, and that’s at the current rate, which will probably soon seem cheap. And that’s if you can find it.
Oh, and what happens in three months, in the dead of winter, when inflation is even higher, unemployment is up, and nobody can afford expensive heating oil bills? Some will inevitably have to decide whether to heat their home or buy groceries. Either sacrifice will undoubtedly cause this winter to be one of sickness and death, just how Biden likes it.
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Whale blubber is an alternative. Maybe that is what Fetterman’s growth is all about.
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Just set your thermostat down to 50. It's good for climate change! /sarc
I had a day of 40 degrees inside my house in the big freeze in mid-February, 2021. Of course, my natural gas fireplace was working.
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During a three day power outage in PeeAye dead of winter, I kept my house at 55 degrees with a fireplace with heat-o-lator.
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All those NIMBYs in the Northeast have done everything possible to prevent available domestic natural gas from being available in their region. This goes back many years. They now richly deserve any resulting fuel shortfall.
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So the NorthEast should consider that when they go to vote for the AOC's of their party. We are the land of plenty, we have more oil and gas than most of the World. Yet the Dems are driving us to third world options with their attacks on the middle class and the poor. Next we will hear to use electricity, another unaffordable and low quantity resource. This nation is digging its own grave.
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About 5.3 million households in the United States or 5% of the homes in the U.S. used heating oil (distillate fuel oil) as their main space heating fuel, and about 82% of those households were in the U.S. Northeast Census Region.Feb 23, 2022.
[Federalist] The DOJ is hiding records about Biden’s order telling federal agencies to develop plans to interfere in state election administration.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is slow-walking its response to a federal court order mandating that the agency forfeit records pertaining to President Joe Biden’s March 2021 executive order that directed federal agencies to develop plans for federal interference in state election administration.
On Thursday evening, the agency filed a motion for summary judgment with the Fort Myers Division of the U.S. Middle District Court of Florida in an attempt to conceal communication records related to Executive Order 14019, which required all federal departments to “consider ways to expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process.” In law, “summary judgment” is a decision issued by a court based on statements and evidence for one party against another without going to a full trial.
The move to shield the records in question from the public comes after a federal judge mandated in July that the agency must turn over documents related to Biden’s order to the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA), which sued the DOJ back in April after its officials failed to respond to FGA’s July 2021 open records requests. While the DOJ ultimately turned over a few of the records to FGA last month, the documents were heavily redacted and did not include the DOJ’s 15-page “strategic plan” on how the agency intends to comply with Biden’s executive order.
In their Thursday legal filing arguing for a summary judgment, the DOJ claimed that its Civil Rights Division (CRT) “has submitted a reasonably specific declaration” describing the search that CRT “conducted for records responsive to FGA’s [Freedom of Information Act] request” and that documents withheld or redacted by the DOJ are protected under the “presidential communications privilege.”
“The presidential communications privilege applies to the Strategic Plan because it was ‘solicited and received by the President[’s] . . . immediate White House advisers with broad and significant responsibility for investigating and formulating the advice to be given the President’ regarding voting rights issues,” the DOJ filing reads. “The Strategic Plan therefore falls squarely within the scope of the presidential communications privilege.”
Most notable in the agency’s arguments, however, is the contention that the release of the information requested by FGA would cause “public confusion” and that “such public confusion would result from disclosure of the Strategic Plan because it contains many proposed actions that the public might construe as ‘future commitments, past actions, or provisions already in place.'”
“DOJ therefore properly withheld the Strategic Plan in its entirety,” the agency claimed.
In response to the DOJ’s continued coverup, FGA President and CEO Tarren Bragdon issued a statement blasting the agency’s behavior, saying that it’s “clear” that Biden’s administration “has weaponized DOJ to hide records and is using the legal process to run out the clock before the midterm elections.”
“DOJ offered flimsy excuses to justify concealing key information regarding their participation in government-funded ‘get out the vote’ efforts,” Bragdon said. “FGA will not stop fighting to uncover these records and expose the full scope of the Biden administration’s mass voter registration scheme. The law and the American people are on our side.”
As reported by Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway, Biden’s executive order isn’t just unethical and unconstitutional, but “a recipe for chaos, confusion, and fraud at a time when election security concerns are particularly fraught.”
“Executive Order 14019 ignores that the Constitution does not give the executive branch authority over elections. That power is reserved for the states, with a smaller role for Congress,” Hemingway explained. Considering that “H.R. 1 and other Democrat Party efforts to grab more control over elections have thus far failed,” she added, “Congress hasn’t authorized such an expansion.”
With the 2022 midterms rapidly approaching, the Biden DOJ has since been ramping up its efforts to intervene in elections under the guise of targeting voter “intimidation” in various states across the country. Most recently, the DOJ’s district attorney in New Hampshire, Jane Young, appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney Seth R. Aframe to “lead the efforts of her office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program” for the November elections.
“The Department of Justice has an important role in deterring and combatting discrimination and intimidation at the polls, threats of violence directed at election officials and poll workers, and election fraud,” an agency press release read. “The Department will address these violations wherever they occur.”
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Well, yeah, Dron. Trump's first go at it was a learning experience. I'm pretty sure now that even he had no idea just how deep that swamp really is. I think a good place to start would be a ruthless and extensive purge at DOJ and the FBI accompanied by some serious defunding. After that, the State Department and the CIA, then a purge at the Pentagon...ruthless, extensive purge.
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That... that would be a series of ruthless purges. Can a republican really be that ruthless?
Let's hope they can rise above their goody-two-shoesness.
At the start of WW2 Americans thought it was horrible the Japanese bombing China or the Germans bombing England. By the end of the war we were bombing the f* out of both Germany and Japan. Notice today both countries are among the least militaristic societies vs their prior histories.
President Joe Biden said during an panel discussion that he doesn't think states should have the right to regulate sex change surgeries or treatments
TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney, who is documenting the transition from male to female on the app, was one of the six progressive panelists to speak with Biden
The trans influencer asked Biden whether states should be able to limit access to 'gender-affirming treatments'
Biden said: 'As a moral question and as a legal question, I just think it's wrong'
Mulvaney has been living as a woman for less than a year
Some feminists accuse her of 'womanface' by play-acting parts of womanhood she enjoys, while ignoring the misogyny faced by females on a day-to-day basis
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As a moral question, why is it wrong to have them postpone until they are legal adults? Maybe they're simply impressionable and not trannies. You know, being children and all.
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was one of the six progressive panelists to speak with Biden
… in the shower
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Saw a very disturbing video on gab the other day of a group of boys dry-humping a group of twerking girls - all encouraged by the 'parents'. All of them were under the age of 10 - some possibly around 8 or so. Some have speculated that this was in Africa or somewhere - but I have my doubts.
All of this, the 'gender-affirming' and 'Drag Shows' is to groom the impressionable children into accepting the advances of pedophiles like Groper Joe later on. No wonder he supports it.
You expressed support for the rioters in 2020 & your top staffer was arrested at one. Gov Inslee turned a blind eye to CHAZ & allowed it to grow, leading to shootings. It makes sense why he would endorse you. https://t.co/C4AnM2dd4Y
[J6Deleted] On January 6, 2021 Twitter Immediately Began Deleting Exculpatory Evidence In An Attempt To Scrub Certain Events From History.
We Captured It All!
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Harry Truman was the only other President subpoenaed by Congress and it was quashed die to the separation of powers clause in the constitution. The J6 committee is due to dibwnd Jan 1 while a legal challenge by Trump would take years to work it's way through courts.
The subpeona is a corrupt Dimocrat swamp flatuation.
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#2 Yep... and why I thought I had not posted it?
I guess I must have fat fingered the touch screen as I powed down.
So does anyone have pointers to some data sources tracking Jan 6th kangraroo committee political circus omissions? Because, it would be interesting to see what was omiited to sing their political smear of MAGA.
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Fairly obvious, the J6 committee is bunch of leftist radicals and RINO Trump haters pushing a different narrative than the truth. See the Reichstag fire for other examples.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Poindextrous lefty Dem mayor of Portland, Oregon. Allowed a year and a half of Antifa/BLM riots to destroy downtown sections of his city while playing catch and release with the perpetrators and hamstringing his police. He got reelected in the course of all that because the alternative was worse. He has yet to accomplish anything of substance, unless destroying a fairly pleasant city counts...
[J6Deleted] On January 6, 2021 Twitter Immediately Began Deleting Exculpatory Evidence In An Attempt To Scrub Certain Events From History.
