Signs of hope and devastation linger in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. But the misery for thousands of people awaiting help and a return to normality could get much worse with the advent of much colder weather.
The man behind the newly competent FEMA found out his vaunted “Waffle House” matrix for determining a community’s resiliency doesn’t exactly work north of the Mason-Dixon line.
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GOP veep nominee Paul Ryan has been conspicuously quiet during Willard Romney’s “I’m a Moderate No Really I Was Just Lying to Conservatives This Spring” swing-state, homestretch barnstorming run. But if Willard wins? Expect an activist vice president along the lines of Dick Cheney.
Florida’s Republican elite doesn’t like it when minorities or poor people avail themselves of democracy—cutting early voting by nearly a third. So the state’s Democrats are suing in federal court for more time to drop ballots not on Election Day, but when it’s actually convenient for actual humans with jobs and families.
Things are better in Oregon, but then we have inane controversies like what to do about mail-in ballots returned without postage. The post office is delivering them, even though some elections officers—like in Multnomah County—say their policy is to ignore them. Which is bullcrap. Suck it up and count ’em all!
Israel has drawn up a detailed simulation—with the American presidential election starting the clock—for a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities that, officials claim, magically won’t plunge either the Middle East or rest of the world into a wider war.
Vladimir Putin is an unstoppable leviathan of machismo and brute sex appeal.
While the city and feds look to reform the police bureau over cops’ unconstitutional treatment of folks with mental illness, a man accused of attacking someone at a mental health facility in Northeast, and then a few other people, was Tasered and hit with batons by cops who fought to arrest him. The man was treated for his injuries at a hospital, along with two officers injured in the struggle.
In case you missed yesterday’s post, high school kids carrying wooden signs (not shields) didn’t want to go the way cops wanted them to go during a 1,000-strong, unpermitted anti-debt, anti-austerity march near Lloyd Center and were indiscriminately pepper-sprayed by bike cops. Little kids were nearby, and at least one senior citizen was hit, too.
The police bureau announced it was all in the name of “safety,” because protesters wanted to walk down a busy street. Although, because the officers would have closed that street anyway, there would have been few injuries, if any. Certainly nothing close to 20 people or who wound up injured, instead, directly at the hands of police officers. Police also said the banners were weapons—mostly because they learned, in past marches, that the signs really do make it easier for protesters to push through police lines.
Next time, they should do this in conjunction with an open carry rally.
It’s like they say, when the First amendment fails you, then you have the Second.
A .223 has a lot better reach than pepper spray.
CALLING THOSE LARGE WOODEN CONSTRUCTIONS ‘SIGNS’ IS A LIE. THEY ARE CLEARLY PORTABLE BARRICADES. A CONSTANT PROBLEM WITH LEFTIST PROTESTS IS THE PRESENCE OF THE ANARCHIST REVOLUTIONARIES. THEY START ALTERCATIONS WITH THE POLICE IN ORDER TO ATTEMPT TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THE STATE IS OBVIOUSLY TRYING TO SILENCE ITS CRITICS. THE OL’ RED’N’BLACK (NOT THE CAFE, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN) HAVE BEEN DOING THE SAME THING SINCE THE POTEMKIN.
IS THERE ANY REASON WHY THE RETURN ENVELOPES ON THE BALLOTS AREN’T JUST POSTAGE-PAID? IN 2008, ~1.8 MILLION BALLOTS WERE CAST IN OREGON. I’M SURE THAT THE OREGON ELECTIONS DIVISION CAN ADD AN EXTRA MILLION TO ITS PRINTING BUDGET TO HELP RAISE THE RATE OF ENFRANCHISEMENT.
Thanks for the video’s denis – I needed a good laugh, and these folks looking for a fight with cops was just the answer.
Israel’s conclusion from their own war game simulation of an all out assault against Iran: Everything will be just peachy, Iran won’t retaliate, Russia and China will sit on their thumbs, it will be over in a matter of weeks.
Gee, it all sounds so great…but I’m still not totally convinced. Maybe Netanyahu could come out with another Wile-e Coyote cartoon bomb diagram to put it in terms I can understand?
Fucking A, Dennis, those are battering rams or shields — you can see how they’re designed with heavy-duty loops on them for their forearm and hands.
People don’t make signs like that. And people don’t make signs out of wood to begin with, it’s uneconomical and clunky. No austerity in the sign making world for these people, apparently.
You are an insanely biased journalist, it’s so damned blatant too. Personally, I would have a hard time writing like you knowing I was putting out the truth and nothing but the truth, but I guess you’re okay distorting the truth.
Here’s some pictures of these things:
http://photos.oregonlive.com/oregonian/2012/11/occupy_portland_and_other_grou_24.html
Signs, eh? Yeah right. The video shows exactly what those things were. “Shield” doesn’t even do them justice as they were clearly used as an offensive tool in an advance.
Dennis, you can offer me a turd and call it an apple, but that don’t mean I’m going to take bite. Good grief.
Selfish sycophants begging for attention to their otherwise miserable lives.
Here’s a clue. You’re not cool for taking on the cops. It doesn’t make you awesome to antagonize “the man” until you get a face full of mace. You fuckers deserve that. You don’t represent Portland very well at all. Portland is much better than what you idiots have to offer.
For those of you who bring your kids to these events: You should be investigated by the authorities for putting your kids in harm’s way.