Welcome to Portland Pride 2005!
Pride Northwest would like to invite you to join us in celebration of Portland's 2005 Pride Festival and Parade on June 18 & 19, 2005 at Tom McCall Waterfront Park in Downtown Portland.
Under the banner of "Everyday People" (such as this person) the "LGBTQQI community" or "confused sexual degenerates" as I like to call them, will be displaying their full plumage in Downtown Portland.
As you can see from this picture it is a real family event with no overt acts of sexuality...
With the presence of children though you may still have some questions such as:
Why does Pride Northwest allow women to be topless at the event?
Why are there scantily clad men in the parade?
Why are there kink and leather-oriented people in the parade?
Rest assured that PrideNW will answer all these questions to your satisfaction:
In Portland, it is not illegal for women to go topless in public, so they are free to do so at the Pride events. Pride encourages all of its attendees to express themselves as they choose, and to remind people that we have to be tolerant of one another.
Who will have booths at this event:
Democratic Party of Oreogn (liberals can't even spell Oregon)
Department of Human Services (DHS)
Freedom Socialist Party
Multnomah County Health Department
OHSU / Partnership Project
And a who's who of a private bussiness boycott list!
What won't we be seeing at the parade? A repeat of this! Thank you Measure 36.
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Our southern border is a welcome mat, our citizens are simply doormats
From LGF
An illegal immigrant from Lebanon was sentenced Tuesday to 4 1/2 years in prison for conspiring to raise money for the Islamic militant group Hezbollah, which the United States has designated a terrorist group.
The government said Kourani paid a Mexican consular official in Beirut $3,000 for a visa to enter Mexico, then sneaked across the U.S.-Mexican border in 2001 and settled in Dearborn, the center of Michigan’s Arab-American community of about 300,000.
How many examples do the "we need the illegal aliens" crowd need before they get nervous? Even if we forget the law, the strawberries, the race card, and the fact that liberals don't want to have to mow their own damn lawns, can we at least recognize that our open borders are a security risk?
An illegal immigrant from Lebanon was sentenced Tuesday to 4 1/2 years in prison for conspiring to raise money for the Islamic militant group Hezbollah, which the United States has designated a terrorist group.
The government said Kourani paid a Mexican consular official in Beirut $3,000 for a visa to enter Mexico, then sneaked across the U.S.-Mexican border in 2001 and settled in Dearborn, the center of Michigan’s Arab-American community of about 300,000.
How many examples do the "we need the illegal aliens" crowd need before they get nervous? Even if we forget the law, the strawberries, the race card, and the fact that liberals don't want to have to mow their own damn lawns, can we at least recognize that our open borders are a security risk?
New Mac Johnson column
A Quiet Turning Point in Iraq?
The “Association of Muslim Scholars” is the most-quoted voice of Iraq’s Sunni Arab population. Since the “Iraqi insurgency” is almost exclusively composed of Sunni Arabs, fighting to maintain their traditional place as the masters of Iraq, the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) generally serves as a mouthpiece and apologist for the insurgency, playing Sinn Fein to the terrorists’ Irish Republican Army, so to speak.
But this week the AMS finally had enough of terrorism, calling for an investigation into a shallow mass grave found outside Baghdad containing the bodies of 20 men, killed execution-style. Why the change of heart? The men in the grave are believed to be Sunni Arabs – and it wasn’t the American “infidels” that put them in the ground. The violence that the Sunni Arab Terrorists have visited upon the Shiites and Kurds is, increasingly, being reciprocated. It is tempting to speculate that a turning point has quietly been reached in Iraq.
Consider just one recent example of how the Sunni Arab insurgents are making sure that fellow Iraqis get deadly serious in fighting them. This weekend, the insurgents tried –and failed – to kill the leader of Iraq’s special forces, General Rashid Flaiyeh – by mortar-bombing his mother’s funeral. Now I’m no psychologist, but I have to believe that Gen. Flaiyeh has a very short “To-Do” list for the upcoming decade or so.
A compelling case demonstrating the Iraqi population's increasing frustration with the terrorists in their midst.
The “Association of Muslim Scholars” is the most-quoted voice of Iraq’s Sunni Arab population. Since the “Iraqi insurgency” is almost exclusively composed of Sunni Arabs, fighting to maintain their traditional place as the masters of Iraq, the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) generally serves as a mouthpiece and apologist for the insurgency, playing Sinn Fein to the terrorists’ Irish Republican Army, so to speak.
But this week the AMS finally had enough of terrorism, calling for an investigation into a shallow mass grave found outside Baghdad containing the bodies of 20 men, killed execution-style. Why the change of heart? The men in the grave are believed to be Sunni Arabs – and it wasn’t the American “infidels” that put them in the ground. The violence that the Sunni Arab Terrorists have visited upon the Shiites and Kurds is, increasingly, being reciprocated. It is tempting to speculate that a turning point has quietly been reached in Iraq.
Consider just one recent example of how the Sunni Arab insurgents are making sure that fellow Iraqis get deadly serious in fighting them. This weekend, the insurgents tried –and failed – to kill the leader of Iraq’s special forces, General Rashid Flaiyeh – by mortar-bombing his mother’s funeral. Now I’m no psychologist, but I have to believe that Gen. Flaiyeh has a very short “To-Do” list for the upcoming decade or so.
A compelling case demonstrating the Iraqi population's increasing frustration with the terrorists in their midst.
"Partnership": one partner gets stuff, one partner gets screwed
Meeting will address visiting consulate
Community organizations are being urged to attend the next meeting of the Polk County Hispanic Advisory Council to learn more about an upcoming visit by the Mexican Consulate.
Verónica Pérez Colmenares, of the consulate office in Portland, will explain the Mobile Consulate and the Carrousel of Information program that travels throughout the state.
The partnership between Mexico and Oregon State agencies offers Mexican families in Oregon communities information about services that are available to them.
Which definition do you think is more appropriate?
part·ner·ship - A relationship between individuals or groups that is characterized by mutual cooperation and responsibility
par·a·site - One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return
Community organizations are being urged to attend the next meeting of the Polk County Hispanic Advisory Council to learn more about an upcoming visit by the Mexican Consulate.
Verónica Pérez Colmenares, of the consulate office in Portland, will explain the Mobile Consulate and the Carrousel of Information program that travels throughout the state.
The partnership between Mexico and Oregon State agencies offers Mexican families in Oregon communities information about services that are available to them.
Which definition do you think is more appropriate?
part·ner·ship - A relationship between individuals or groups that is characterized by mutual cooperation and responsibility
par·a·site - One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return
Monday, June 13, 2005
Another letter for the acronym
OSU has established a Pride Center to advocate for gay, lesbian,
bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and intersexed (GLBTQQI) students and to
serve as an inclusive resource for the entire campus. The Pride Center was established
in the autumn of 2004.
GLBTQQI: gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and intersexed. Boy am I glad that they added the "intersexed." I was starting to think that OSU wasn't tolerant of them.
You will also be glad to know that while transgendered people are still being "discriminated" against by not allowing men to share a locker room with 6 year old girls they do have a box to check when it comes to their gender on DHS documents such as THIS ONE.
bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and intersexed (GLBTQQI) students and to
serve as an inclusive resource for the entire campus. The Pride Center was established
in the autumn of 2004.
GLBTQQI: gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and intersexed. Boy am I glad that they added the "intersexed." I was starting to think that OSU wasn't tolerant of them.
You will also be glad to know that while transgendered people are still being "discriminated" against by not allowing men to share a locker room with 6 year old girls they do have a box to check when it comes to their gender on DHS documents such as THIS ONE.
Pick any locker room you want...
Eugene City Beat: Transgender law proposal to get airing
The proposed law would make it illegal to discriminate against transgender people in employment, housing and public accommodation.
The proposed law also would make it illegal for an employer to deny access to a restroom that a worker "deems most appropriate for the employee's gender identity." It also would be unlawful for a health club owner to deny someone the use of showers and locker rooms if the person believes that the facilities fit his or her gender identity.
Law proponents are willing to speak to church and other groups, Rich said. "We are trying to connect the faith community with the gender identity work group so we can dispel the hate and fear," she said.
This law will allow a 40 year old man to shower in the woman's locker room at the YMCA. That man could then go into the woman's restroom in Burger King. But thankfully the "gender identity work group" is going to dispel the hate and fear that we have regarding this because we are just being unreasonable to say that grown men shouldn't be sharing a locker room with our wives and daughters.
Hat tip: The Oregon Conservative
The proposed law would make it illegal to discriminate against transgender people in employment, housing and public accommodation.
The proposed law also would make it illegal for an employer to deny access to a restroom that a worker "deems most appropriate for the employee's gender identity." It also would be unlawful for a health club owner to deny someone the use of showers and locker rooms if the person believes that the facilities fit his or her gender identity.
Law proponents are willing to speak to church and other groups, Rich said. "We are trying to connect the faith community with the gender identity work group so we can dispel the hate and fear," she said.
This law will allow a 40 year old man to shower in the woman's locker room at the YMCA. That man could then go into the woman's restroom in Burger King. But thankfully the "gender identity work group" is going to dispel the hate and fear that we have regarding this because we are just being unreasonable to say that grown men shouldn't be sharing a locker room with our wives and daughters.
Hat tip: The Oregon Conservative
There is a difference
Program to help Hispanics looks to add services
Rossy Gomez remembers her first job interview north of the Arizona-Mexico border with crystal clarity.
A college graduate and native of Mexico looking for work in the United States, she got an interview for a counter job at a McDonald's restaurant in a small border town.
She got the job, but Gomez realized during the interview that she wasn't going much higher up the career ladder unless she improved her English, a language she had studied for years in school.
She violated labor laws and probably committed ID fraud but realized that if she was going to continue to break the law she would have to learn better English.
Today, Gomez speaks nearly perfect English and runs her own business.
But she also spends much of her time trying to help other Hispanics overcome the same hurdles she encountered 17 years ago through El Programa de Ayuda. Ayuda means "help" in Spanish.
17 years in America and she speaks "nearly perfect" English?
A Hispanic advocacy group, El Programa helps Spanish-speaking immigrants adjust to Central Oregon by connecting them with essential services as well as educational and job opportunities.
In Mexico there doesn't exist the kind of social support network that is offered in many areas of the United States.
"Here the community and the state wants to help. But a lot of Hispanics don't know that," she said.
Yes we do, we are a very kind and generous nation. But we DON'T want to help illegal aliens live in our country!
The organization, which raised about $40,000 this year for all of its operational expenses, hopes to more than double its revenue next year.
The bulk of those dollars comes from a $30,000 Deschutes County grant.
This caught my eye because I had just responded to a comment from a previous post that indicated that the "rhetoric" against illegal aliens did not differentiate between the lawbreakers and Hispanics. I think that I am pretty clear that the people I have a problem with are the illegal aliens and my problem is that they, with their very presence, are breaking the law. But articles like this, where it is very clear that the people being helped are illegal aliens, insist on calling the lawbreakers "Hispanics."
Before you start calling me names I would like you to answer some common sense questions:
1. What age can you legally work?
2. If you were born in America should you be able to speak English by the time you reach that age?
3. What is one of the most common types of Visas to come to America with?
So if you can't speak English when you are looking for work then you probably weren't born in America. If you don't already have a job lined up then you are not here on a work visa. At this point I am willing to bet you $5 that the "job applicant" is an illegal alien.
But I guess the BendBulletin doesn't care to note the difference between American Hispanics and illegal aliens.
Rossy Gomez remembers her first job interview north of the Arizona-Mexico border with crystal clarity.
A college graduate and native of Mexico looking for work in the United States, she got an interview for a counter job at a McDonald's restaurant in a small border town.
She got the job, but Gomez realized during the interview that she wasn't going much higher up the career ladder unless she improved her English, a language she had studied for years in school.
She violated labor laws and probably committed ID fraud but realized that if she was going to continue to break the law she would have to learn better English.
Today, Gomez speaks nearly perfect English and runs her own business.
But she also spends much of her time trying to help other Hispanics overcome the same hurdles she encountered 17 years ago through El Programa de Ayuda. Ayuda means "help" in Spanish.
17 years in America and she speaks "nearly perfect" English?
A Hispanic advocacy group, El Programa helps Spanish-speaking immigrants adjust to Central Oregon by connecting them with essential services as well as educational and job opportunities.
In Mexico there doesn't exist the kind of social support network that is offered in many areas of the United States.
"Here the community and the state wants to help. But a lot of Hispanics don't know that," she said.
Yes we do, we are a very kind and generous nation. But we DON'T want to help illegal aliens live in our country!
The organization, which raised about $40,000 this year for all of its operational expenses, hopes to more than double its revenue next year.
The bulk of those dollars comes from a $30,000 Deschutes County grant.
This caught my eye because I had just responded to a comment from a previous post that indicated that the "rhetoric" against illegal aliens did not differentiate between the lawbreakers and Hispanics. I think that I am pretty clear that the people I have a problem with are the illegal aliens and my problem is that they, with their very presence, are breaking the law. But articles like this, where it is very clear that the people being helped are illegal aliens, insist on calling the lawbreakers "Hispanics."
Before you start calling me names I would like you to answer some common sense questions:
1. What age can you legally work?
2. If you were born in America should you be able to speak English by the time you reach that age?
3. What is one of the most common types of Visas to come to America with?
So if you can't speak English when you are looking for work then you probably weren't born in America. If you don't already have a job lined up then you are not here on a work visa. At this point I am willing to bet you $5 that the "job applicant" is an illegal alien.
But I guess the BendBulletin doesn't care to note the difference between American Hispanics and illegal aliens.
The laws of supply and demand don't apply to government
Oregon can't keep up as traffic bogs down
The state's busiest stretch of road, Interstate 84 in Portland, is a maddening snarl during rush hour. Traffic slows from 65 mph to a crawl. Cars inch forward as they struggle to enter the city in the morning and leave in late afternoon.
With no room to widen the lanes, ODOT spokesman Dave Thompson said it's an example of what the department faces across the state: Demand for roads far outpaces supply.
In the absence of enough road space, the department uses what it calls intelligent transportation to better manage traffic flows.
That includes reader boards on the roadside to alert drivers to impending congestion, red-and-green ramp meters that control the stream of cars merging onto a highway and a Web site that provides commuter information.
"A better-informed driver makes better choices," Thompson said.
And what choice would that be Mr. Thompson? Stay home from work? How many employees does ODOT use to manage the reader boards, ramp meters, and website that basically all say the same thing: traffic sucks.
The state's busiest stretch of road, Interstate 84 in Portland, is a maddening snarl during rush hour. Traffic slows from 65 mph to a crawl. Cars inch forward as they struggle to enter the city in the morning and leave in late afternoon.
With no room to widen the lanes, ODOT spokesman Dave Thompson said it's an example of what the department faces across the state: Demand for roads far outpaces supply.
In the absence of enough road space, the department uses what it calls intelligent transportation to better manage traffic flows.
That includes reader boards on the roadside to alert drivers to impending congestion, red-and-green ramp meters that control the stream of cars merging onto a highway and a Web site that provides commuter information.
"A better-informed driver makes better choices," Thompson said.
And what choice would that be Mr. Thompson? Stay home from work? How many employees does ODOT use to manage the reader boards, ramp meters, and website that basically all say the same thing: traffic sucks.
Sunday, June 12, 2005
Liberal ownership society: you don't really own anything
The New Ownership Society (The *socialist* Nation)
Just beneath the surface of conventional media concern, the groundwork is quietly being laid for a powerful new strategic initiative: a progressive "ownership society." Traditional liberal approaches may be blocked for the moment at the national level, but there are increasing openings for serious action at the state and local levels, with longer-term nationwide implications. What is striking is that the idea that wealth should benefit the community directly is quietly becoming a commonplace. This community-oriented concept is the polar opposite of the Bush ownership principle that wealth should be concentrated among individuals (especially those at the top).
Note: Home ownership is at record levels.
Land development is "old economy." A fast-growing arena of new activity involves Internet and related services. In Glasgow, Kentucky, the municipally owned utility offers residents electricity, cable, telephone services and high-speed Internet access--all at costs lower than private competitors. The city also has access to an Intranet, which links local government, businesses, libraries, schools and neighbors. In 2003 the municipality offered a package of eighty digital cable channels for $19.95 a month. More than 350 communities, including Tacoma, Washington, and Cedar Falls, Iowa, have built or are planning networks like the one in Glasgow.
You mean that government can undercut it's private competition? I bet that next you will tell me that those evil private companies will lay off workers just because they can't make their evil profits. Imagine that.
The basic principle at work in municipally owned real estate development is that appreciation of land should be turned to public advantage. Community land trusts help produce stable and affordable housing for low- and moderate-income residents. One of the earliest and most influential is the Burlington (Vermont) Community Land Trust, organized with bipartisan support when an early-1980s economic boom caused housing costs to spiral out of reach for many long-term residents. Land is owned by BCLT and leased to homeowners. Member-residents devote no more than 30 percent of their income to rents or mortgages. Those benefiting from the resulting low costs sign contracts agreeing that future housing resale prices will not increase beyond a certain percentage, thereby allowing other low- and moderate-income families to benefit from BCLT's efforts.
So you don't really own your home in this socialist panacea that liberals dream of. But they'll call it an "ownership society" anyways because our true master, government, owns it.
We may add two further strategies to this listing: First, more than half the states now have venture capital programs in which the state invests in promising companies, commonly taking back public ownership of stock.
The "ownership society" where the state decides who owns what has been tried before... I don't really remember if that experiment failed or not.
The stage, in fact, is now set for significant advances in policy development and progressive strategy. Two factors suggest that a major breakthrough is possible over the coming decade: the expanding fiscal crisis at all levels of government, and the steadily increasing insecurities of the global economic era. The former is already forcing consideration of alternatives that promise new ways to earn service-supporting revenues, directly or indirectly. The latter increasingly highlights the need for strategies that anchor jobs, especially those that improve the local tax base.
For writers at The Nation, the need to anchor jobs is not about helping people feed their families or buy a house, it's all about "improving the local tax base."
Just beneath the surface of conventional media concern, the groundwork is quietly being laid for a powerful new strategic initiative: a progressive "ownership society." Traditional liberal approaches may be blocked for the moment at the national level, but there are increasing openings for serious action at the state and local levels, with longer-term nationwide implications. What is striking is that the idea that wealth should benefit the community directly is quietly becoming a commonplace. This community-oriented concept is the polar opposite of the Bush ownership principle that wealth should be concentrated among individuals (especially those at the top).
Note: Home ownership is at record levels.
Land development is "old economy." A fast-growing arena of new activity involves Internet and related services. In Glasgow, Kentucky, the municipally owned utility offers residents electricity, cable, telephone services and high-speed Internet access--all at costs lower than private competitors. The city also has access to an Intranet, which links local government, businesses, libraries, schools and neighbors. In 2003 the municipality offered a package of eighty digital cable channels for $19.95 a month. More than 350 communities, including Tacoma, Washington, and Cedar Falls, Iowa, have built or are planning networks like the one in Glasgow.
You mean that government can undercut it's private competition? I bet that next you will tell me that those evil private companies will lay off workers just because they can't make their evil profits. Imagine that.
The basic principle at work in municipally owned real estate development is that appreciation of land should be turned to public advantage. Community land trusts help produce stable and affordable housing for low- and moderate-income residents. One of the earliest and most influential is the Burlington (Vermont) Community Land Trust, organized with bipartisan support when an early-1980s economic boom caused housing costs to spiral out of reach for many long-term residents. Land is owned by BCLT and leased to homeowners. Member-residents devote no more than 30 percent of their income to rents or mortgages. Those benefiting from the resulting low costs sign contracts agreeing that future housing resale prices will not increase beyond a certain percentage, thereby allowing other low- and moderate-income families to benefit from BCLT's efforts.
So you don't really own your home in this socialist panacea that liberals dream of. But they'll call it an "ownership society" anyways because our true master, government, owns it.
We may add two further strategies to this listing: First, more than half the states now have venture capital programs in which the state invests in promising companies, commonly taking back public ownership of stock.
The "ownership society" where the state decides who owns what has been tried before... I don't really remember if that experiment failed or not.
The stage, in fact, is now set for significant advances in policy development and progressive strategy. Two factors suggest that a major breakthrough is possible over the coming decade: the expanding fiscal crisis at all levels of government, and the steadily increasing insecurities of the global economic era. The former is already forcing consideration of alternatives that promise new ways to earn service-supporting revenues, directly or indirectly. The latter increasingly highlights the need for strategies that anchor jobs, especially those that improve the local tax base.
For writers at The Nation, the need to anchor jobs is not about helping people feed their families or buy a house, it's all about "improving the local tax base."
Tancredo for President!
Immigration’s U.S. Rep. Tancredo’s top topic
U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, a vocal critic of President Bush’s immigration policy, announced he would run for President in 2008 — if he could not find a more viable candidate to adopt his views on illegal immigration.
“I don’t consider myself a candidate today,” Tancredo said when asked if he is considering a Presidential run, adding, “If no one will take this banner up (illegal immigration) — and I say this with great trepidation — yeah, I will.
Tancredo’s primary goal, however, is to “push (illegal immigration) to the forefront of the Presidential debate” and persuade another Presidential hopefuls with more stature and resources than he to “take this banner up, not just with words, but their heart.”
Tancredo made similair statements on The Lars Larson national show on Thursday (6/9/05) which can be heard HERE.
Obviously he is our best hope for making this huge problem an issue in '08 and I will vote for him if he runs.
U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, a vocal critic of President Bush’s immigration policy, announced he would run for President in 2008 — if he could not find a more viable candidate to adopt his views on illegal immigration.
“I don’t consider myself a candidate today,” Tancredo said when asked if he is considering a Presidential run, adding, “If no one will take this banner up (illegal immigration) — and I say this with great trepidation — yeah, I will.
Tancredo’s primary goal, however, is to “push (illegal immigration) to the forefront of the Presidential debate” and persuade another Presidential hopefuls with more stature and resources than he to “take this banner up, not just with words, but their heart.”
Tancredo made similair statements on The Lars Larson national show on Thursday (6/9/05) which can be heard HERE.
Obviously he is our best hope for making this huge problem an issue in '08 and I will vote for him if he runs.
Thursday, June 09, 2005
Spanish speakers only
MARION COUNTY JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
Health Resources Coordinator - HIV (Bilingual)
Salary: $12.99 - $17.40hr (+5% for speaking Spanish)
In addition to salary and vacation, 3 weeks of Compensation Credits may be exercised as time off with pay or as supplemental income.
Has anyone ever heard of "compensation credits" in the private sector?
This position provides interpretation services to monolingual Spanish speaking clients, therefore fluent bilingual Spanish/English skills are required. An additional 5% will be added to the hourly wage as compensation for this skill. Finalist will be required to pass a Standardized Spanish Fluency Assessment as part of the hiring process.
Monolingual Spanish speaking clients is the polite term for people who don't speak English, AKA illegal aliens.
Accesses, identifies and develops community resources: Participates in developing absent or deficient services (i.e. housing, support, etc.)
For a disease that is purported to "cut across all social, economic, sexual orientation, etc etc barriers", they sure seem focused on on demographic. By the way, I can gurantee you that I won't get HIV because I don't share needles or have sex with strangers. This is a disease that is the result of behavior, not circumstance or casual contact.
Health Resources Coordinator - HIV (Bilingual)
Salary: $12.99 - $17.40hr (+5% for speaking Spanish)
In addition to salary and vacation, 3 weeks of Compensation Credits may be exercised as time off with pay or as supplemental income.
Has anyone ever heard of "compensation credits" in the private sector?
This position provides interpretation services to monolingual Spanish speaking clients, therefore fluent bilingual Spanish/English skills are required. An additional 5% will be added to the hourly wage as compensation for this skill. Finalist will be required to pass a Standardized Spanish Fluency Assessment as part of the hiring process.
Monolingual Spanish speaking clients is the polite term for people who don't speak English, AKA illegal aliens.
Accesses, identifies and develops community resources: Participates in developing absent or deficient services (i.e. housing, support, etc.)
For a disease that is purported to "cut across all social, economic, sexual orientation, etc etc barriers", they sure seem focused on on demographic. By the way, I can gurantee you that I won't get HIV because I don't share needles or have sex with strangers. This is a disease that is the result of behavior, not circumstance or casual contact.
Parking meter increase for this maybe?
Job Opening
Coordinator, Public Art
Hiring Range: $3534 - $4418 per month
Position Summary: Coordinate artist selection, design, fabrication and installation of all art projects for the I-205 extension. Provide support for other projects as assigned. Perform related duties as required.
Who will "coordinate" the public art? Please, please, please, if you are interested in this position then apply quickly. I shudder when I think about all the public art that isn't being "coordinated" while there is a vacancy for this job.
Coordinator, Public Art
Hiring Range: $3534 - $4418 per month
Position Summary: Coordinate artist selection, design, fabrication and installation of all art projects for the I-205 extension. Provide support for other projects as assigned. Perform related duties as required.
Who will "coordinate" the public art? Please, please, please, if you are interested in this position then apply quickly. I shudder when I think about all the public art that isn't being "coordinated" while there is a vacancy for this job.
What won't they tax?
Help stop Portland's cell phone tax!
Wireless consumers like you can still stop this outrageous new tax proposal! Contact the Portland City Council today and tell your Commissioners to VOTE NO on new wireless taxes. As a wireless consumer, you already pay your fair share in taxes. It’s outrageous to load more taxes on wireless service, when the Commissioners don’t even know where the new funds would go!! Tell them to say NO to new taxes on your wireless service!
Courtesy OregonWatchdog.com
Wireless consumers like you can still stop this outrageous new tax proposal! Contact the Portland City Council today and tell your Commissioners to VOTE NO on new wireless taxes. As a wireless consumer, you already pay your fair share in taxes. It’s outrageous to load more taxes on wireless service, when the Commissioners don’t even know where the new funds would go!! Tell them to say NO to new taxes on your wireless service!
Courtesy OregonWatchdog.com
New Ann Coulter column
Woodward Does Washington
Rather more prosaically, Felt leaked details of the Watergate investigation to The Washington Post only because he had lost a job promotion—making him the Richard Clarke of the Watergate era. This will come as small consolation to the Cambodians and Vietnamese tortured and slaughtered as a direct result of Nixon's fall. Oh, well. At least we got a good movie and Jimmy Carter out of it.
Also ironic is that Felt's free-love, flower-girl daughter was estranged from her father for decades on account of her rejection of conventional bourgeois institutions such as marriage. Now she is broke—because of her rejection of conventional bourgeois institutions such as marriage. (Too bad she didn't follow Pop's advice to "follow the money.")
She lives in a house bought for her by her father (evidently skirting the standard "as long as you live in my house you'll live by my rules" lecture) and said she decided to reveal her father as Deep Throat to try to make some more money. "I'm still a single mom," she explained, "I am not ashamed of this." She ought to be. See, the idea of marriage is to get a man other than your own father to support you while you raise children. (Guess what she does? That's right! She's a teacher!)
You didn't read it in a newspaper, you read it in an Ann Coulter column!
Rather more prosaically, Felt leaked details of the Watergate investigation to The Washington Post only because he had lost a job promotion—making him the Richard Clarke of the Watergate era. This will come as small consolation to the Cambodians and Vietnamese tortured and slaughtered as a direct result of Nixon's fall. Oh, well. At least we got a good movie and Jimmy Carter out of it.
Also ironic is that Felt's free-love, flower-girl daughter was estranged from her father for decades on account of her rejection of conventional bourgeois institutions such as marriage. Now she is broke—because of her rejection of conventional bourgeois institutions such as marriage. (Too bad she didn't follow Pop's advice to "follow the money.")
She lives in a house bought for her by her father (evidently skirting the standard "as long as you live in my house you'll live by my rules" lecture) and said she decided to reveal her father as Deep Throat to try to make some more money. "I'm still a single mom," she explained, "I am not ashamed of this." She ought to be. See, the idea of marriage is to get a man other than your own father to support you while you raise children. (Guess what she does? That's right! She's a teacher!)
You didn't read it in a newspaper, you read it in an Ann Coulter column!
Preferably in time for Spongebob Squarepants...
ACLU of Oregon Urges State Officials to Immediately Resume Medical Marijuana Card Program
PORTLAND, OR -- The American Civil Liberties of Oregon issued a letter today to the State Attorney General’s office and the Department of Human Services urging the immediate resumption of the state’s medical marijuana card program in compliance with state law.
"As long as a patient has submitted an application for a medical marijuana card with the Department of Human Services, they have the same level of legal protection as if they were holding the card in their hands, unless and until that application is denied."
That last statement is very interesting. Does that mean that if I submit an application, no matter how fraudulent, I have immunity from state marijuana laws until that application is denied? Imagine how long it takes that beuaracracy to deny an application, especially if they are on drugs...
PORTLAND, OR -- The American Civil Liberties of Oregon issued a letter today to the State Attorney General’s office and the Department of Human Services urging the immediate resumption of the state’s medical marijuana card program in compliance with state law.
"As long as a patient has submitted an application for a medical marijuana card with the Department of Human Services, they have the same level of legal protection as if they were holding the card in their hands, unless and until that application is denied."
That last statement is very interesting. Does that mean that if I submit an application, no matter how fraudulent, I have immunity from state marijuana laws until that application is denied? Imagine how long it takes that beuaracracy to deny an application, especially if they are on drugs...
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
*Update* Gay olympics
Kraft Says It Proudly Supports The Gay Games
Kraft Inc. is sponsoring the upcoming Gay Games in Chicago. Ask Kraft to withdraw its sponsorship.
Send a letter to Kraft through the AFA website.
*Offensive* Photos from previous "gay games"
And you thought that the olympics were all about athletic competition. But I guess that anything that the radical homosexuals adopt has to become all about sex...
See my previous post on this.
Kraft Inc. is sponsoring the upcoming Gay Games in Chicago. Ask Kraft to withdraw its sponsorship.
Send a letter to Kraft through the AFA website.
*Offensive* Photos from previous "gay games"
And you thought that the olympics were all about athletic competition. But I guess that anything that the radical homosexuals adopt has to become all about sex...
See my previous post on this.
Imunity from the law
Is Your Security Guard an Illegal Alien?
Is the private security guard watching over your home or office an illegal alien? If so, is the government doing enough to fix the problem?
These questions must be asked because the inspector general (IG) of the Social Security Administration has discovered that a California-based security guard company employed 4,321 people in 2001 whom the company did not correctly identify on W-2 forms, often an indicator that a worker is an illegal alien.
The IG’s office, however, believes current law prevents it from identifying this company not only to the public but also to the Department of Homeland Security and the State of California.
In Oregon we had a company who, between 1997 and 2001, filed 18,228 W-2's that could not be matched to SSA records. The amount of earnings reported on these W-2's was $68,088,754. Obviously those jobs must have been ones that "Americans wouldn't do."
Why our government protects this company, who probably knows at this point that it is employing illegal aliens, from public disclosure and penalties is beyond me.
Is the private security guard watching over your home or office an illegal alien? If so, is the government doing enough to fix the problem?
These questions must be asked because the inspector general (IG) of the Social Security Administration has discovered that a California-based security guard company employed 4,321 people in 2001 whom the company did not correctly identify on W-2 forms, often an indicator that a worker is an illegal alien.
The IG’s office, however, believes current law prevents it from identifying this company not only to the public but also to the Department of Homeland Security and the State of California.
In Oregon we had a company who, between 1997 and 2001, filed 18,228 W-2's that could not be matched to SSA records. The amount of earnings reported on these W-2's was $68,088,754. Obviously those jobs must have been ones that "Americans wouldn't do."
Why our government protects this company, who probably knows at this point that it is employing illegal aliens, from public disclosure and penalties is beyond me.
Leave them down there next time...
Teachers swap ideas, agendas in Oregon-Mexico exchange program
A recent trip to Mexico meant more than sunshine and margaritas for nine Oregon teachers.
Motivated to learn the cultures of their Hispanic students and to close the gap between Mexican and American teaching methods, the teachers had things other than relaxation on their minds.
By "close the gap" do they mean improve Mexican schools? I bet not. Are they doing a such better job than us that we have to visit them to learn their teaching methods? Or did they want to know: "how can we teach your citizens about your values and your culture in our classrooms?"
The program, designed to enable teachers to better assist Mexican students in achieving the best cultural and educational experiences they can, coordinates teaching exchanges for American and Mexican teachers.
“Teachers should have that experience,” said Nicolasa Mohs, of the Willamette ESD Migrant Education Program and coordinator of the Oregon-Mexico Education Partnership. “For Oregon educators, it is to their benefit to experience the cultures of the students that are in their school, in their classrooms.
For the last time, the culture of the students in the classroom should be an American culture. I am very tired of people treating America as if it doesn't have it's own culture or that it's culture is somehow secondary to whatever culture you may choose to identify with. It is very disturbing to me to see Hispanics who were born in America and have never even been to Mexico identify themselves as "Mexican."
First, because it shows stupidity. "Mexican" is not a race, it is a nationality. A Mexican is a person who is citizen of Mexico.
Second, it shows that these people have no pride in America and that their loyalties lie with another country. It demonstrates that in a lot of cases even second and third generations have not assimilated into our society.
Round trip ticket per person from Portland to Oaxaca:
$633-$803 per person. Total: $5697-$7227 HOTWIRE
I sure would like to know if these teachers flew first class...
I sure would like to see their expense reports...
I sure would like to know how our "broke" education system can afford to send 9 teachers to Mexico for 9 days...
A recent trip to Mexico meant more than sunshine and margaritas for nine Oregon teachers.
Motivated to learn the cultures of their Hispanic students and to close the gap between Mexican and American teaching methods, the teachers had things other than relaxation on their minds.
By "close the gap" do they mean improve Mexican schools? I bet not. Are they doing a such better job than us that we have to visit them to learn their teaching methods? Or did they want to know: "how can we teach your citizens about your values and your culture in our classrooms?"
The program, designed to enable teachers to better assist Mexican students in achieving the best cultural and educational experiences they can, coordinates teaching exchanges for American and Mexican teachers.
“Teachers should have that experience,” said Nicolasa Mohs, of the Willamette ESD Migrant Education Program and coordinator of the Oregon-Mexico Education Partnership. “For Oregon educators, it is to their benefit to experience the cultures of the students that are in their school, in their classrooms.
For the last time, the culture of the students in the classroom should be an American culture. I am very tired of people treating America as if it doesn't have it's own culture or that it's culture is somehow secondary to whatever culture you may choose to identify with. It is very disturbing to me to see Hispanics who were born in America and have never even been to Mexico identify themselves as "Mexican."
First, because it shows stupidity. "Mexican" is not a race, it is a nationality. A Mexican is a person who is citizen of Mexico.
Second, it shows that these people have no pride in America and that their loyalties lie with another country. It demonstrates that in a lot of cases even second and third generations have not assimilated into our society.
Round trip ticket per person from Portland to Oaxaca:
$633-$803 per person. Total: $5697-$7227 HOTWIRE
I sure would like to know if these teachers flew first class...
I sure would like to see their expense reports...
I sure would like to know how our "broke" education system can afford to send 9 teachers to Mexico for 9 days...
They are so tolerant that they will hurt you
Teen reporter targeted for immigration column
A 17-year-old student who wrote an anti-illegal immigration column in his school newspaper was targeted by a radical Hispanic group that sponsored a protest where students marched through campus behind a Mexican flag.
Trent Demarest of Corvallis High School in Corvallis, Ore., tells WND he decided to make his last column of the school year about what he considers one of the most important public-policy issues facing the U.S.: illegal immigration.
"She told me: 'There are a lot of people really upset about your article. I've gotten outraged e-mails from teachers and there are kids who want to beat you up,'" Demarest explained.
The second protest, held on Thursday, was more about "brown pride," Demarest said, and was sponsored by the MEChA chapter at Oregon State University, which is also located in Corvallis.
MEChA is a radical pro-Mexico student group that says it is committed to "the physical liberation of Occupied America" and a separate Hispanic nation in the Southwest U.S. It's motto is "Por La Raza Todo, Fuera de La Raza Nada: for the race, everything; outside the race, nothing."
Sounds like a tolerant bunch to me. If you aren't the same race as them then you get "nothing." If you disagree with their point of view then they want to beat you up.
I have to question any group that thinks that if you oppose criminals they take it as you mean them. Let's not get confused, being Hispanic is not a crime, being an illegal alien is. The two should not get mixed-up at all. But it is Hispanic groups that make the association between criminals and Hispanics. It just makes no sense.
A 17-year-old student who wrote an anti-illegal immigration column in his school newspaper was targeted by a radical Hispanic group that sponsored a protest where students marched through campus behind a Mexican flag.
Trent Demarest of Corvallis High School in Corvallis, Ore., tells WND he decided to make his last column of the school year about what he considers one of the most important public-policy issues facing the U.S.: illegal immigration.
"She told me: 'There are a lot of people really upset about your article. I've gotten outraged e-mails from teachers and there are kids who want to beat you up,'" Demarest explained.
The second protest, held on Thursday, was more about "brown pride," Demarest said, and was sponsored by the MEChA chapter at Oregon State University, which is also located in Corvallis.
MEChA is a radical pro-Mexico student group that says it is committed to "the physical liberation of Occupied America" and a separate Hispanic nation in the Southwest U.S. It's motto is "Por La Raza Todo, Fuera de La Raza Nada: for the race, everything; outside the race, nothing."
Sounds like a tolerant bunch to me. If you aren't the same race as them then you get "nothing." If you disagree with their point of view then they want to beat you up.
I have to question any group that thinks that if you oppose criminals they take it as you mean them. Let's not get confused, being Hispanic is not a crime, being an illegal alien is. The two should not get mixed-up at all. But it is Hispanic groups that make the association between criminals and Hispanics. It just makes no sense.
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Cheapening marriage
Senate panel passes bill to create civil unions
A Senate panel passed a bill to create civil unions Tuesday, the latest step in the Legislature's battle over whether gay and lesbian couples should be allowed to have legally recognized relationships.
It will now head to the full Senate, where it is expected to pass, setting up a tug-of-war with the Republican-controlled House, which is currently considering its own bill. That legislation would provide a more limited set of reciprocal rights to any two people over 18, including relatives.
I'm not sure which group is worse, the Democrats who will give the radical homosexuals any special privilege they ask for, or the Republicans who don't have the guts to simply stand up and tell the gays no and instead create a bill that is a boondoggle for businesses. (At least my state senator is always willing to stand up and say NO!)
Let's be clear, gays want affirmation of their lifestyle, that and the ability for force private groups to provide benefits that the private groups choose not to provide. Any company can offer "partner" benefits if it wants to, any hospital can offer visitation. Some choose not to. Why should the state force them?
As for the House Republicans, how about we just create a bill that would force my employer to provide health insurance for anyone within the sound of my voice. Or hell, anyone that appears on the same page in the phone book with me. Are these people nuts? We don't need "reciprocal" benefits and more than we need civil unions. What interest would my employer have in insuring my roommate, brother, or that guy who is willing to pay me $50 a month to say that he lives with me?
Society has chosen to offer certain incentives to families, husband, wife, and kids, because these stable families are the best way to raise healthy children. Let's not let radical gays, or the fear of their wrath, distort that.
Make sure your representatives OPPOSE senate bill 1073!
A Senate panel passed a bill to create civil unions Tuesday, the latest step in the Legislature's battle over whether gay and lesbian couples should be allowed to have legally recognized relationships.
It will now head to the full Senate, where it is expected to pass, setting up a tug-of-war with the Republican-controlled House, which is currently considering its own bill. That legislation would provide a more limited set of reciprocal rights to any two people over 18, including relatives.
I'm not sure which group is worse, the Democrats who will give the radical homosexuals any special privilege they ask for, or the Republicans who don't have the guts to simply stand up and tell the gays no and instead create a bill that is a boondoggle for businesses. (At least my state senator is always willing to stand up and say NO!)
Let's be clear, gays want affirmation of their lifestyle, that and the ability for force private groups to provide benefits that the private groups choose not to provide. Any company can offer "partner" benefits if it wants to, any hospital can offer visitation. Some choose not to. Why should the state force them?
As for the House Republicans, how about we just create a bill that would force my employer to provide health insurance for anyone within the sound of my voice. Or hell, anyone that appears on the same page in the phone book with me. Are these people nuts? We don't need "reciprocal" benefits and more than we need civil unions. What interest would my employer have in insuring my roommate, brother, or that guy who is willing to pay me $50 a month to say that he lives with me?
Society has chosen to offer certain incentives to families, husband, wife, and kids, because these stable families are the best way to raise healthy children. Let's not let radical gays, or the fear of their wrath, distort that.
Make sure your representatives OPPOSE senate bill 1073!
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