How much did it rain yesterday? It rained so hard,and more importantly so fast, that the sewers overflowed into the Willamette River. Which means the river now has our poo inside of it, and you should keep out of it for the next couple of days.
And much like rain always finds its way to the sea, the Cylvia Hayes scandal also keeps finding its way into the news. This time, the Oregonian is reporting that one of the outfits that successfully urged Governor John Kitzhaber not to approve a coal terminal at the Port of Morrow had actually hired Hayes for some work a year before. All that assorted muck has oozed all over Kitzhaber’s boots by now, and now some people, citing vague polls, suggest he could be in trouble next month.
Like we reported would happen, city hall has dismissed the concerns of several advocates and moved ahead with appealing a federal judge’s demand that the city come to court at least once a year and defend its progress on implementing federally mandated police reforms.
Only one gunman, it’s been confirmed, was involved in yesterday’s brazen shooting on Parliament Hill in the Canadian capital of Ottawa. Canadians are calling their Parliament’s sergeant at arms the hero of Parliament Hill for shooting and killing the gunman and likely preventing a massacre.
Over in the American capital, it was just another White House fence-jumper. This time they got him on the lawn.
“They” keep leaking reports on Michael Brown’s death. The official government autopsy, informed by accounts friendly to Ferguson, Mo., police, found Brown was shot in the hand among other places. Whether you see that as proof he struggled for Darren Wilson’s gun and evidence that Wilson was right to follow Brown and shoot him in the road is between you, your maker, and your confirmation bias.
You can’t smoke at work anymore if you work for tobacco giant Reynolds. In related news, McDonalds workers are no longer allowed to eat french fries on their lunch breaks.
Republicans are more likely to retake the Senate after next month’s elections. Economists already are warning us not to expect great things from our economy.
American airstrikes in Syria, aimed at groups like the Islamic State, have killed more than 550 militants over the past month. And also a few dozen civilians.
A cop in New York was caught on video toe-kicking, in the head, someone he thought was an accused subway fare-jumper. Except he was quite mistaken! He’d actually kicked one of the plainclothes cops who rushed in to help tackle the accused man.
The Mormons have made a video all about their secret religious underwear. And the point is that they’re no different than the weird clothes your own religion insists upon.
The mother of Honey Boo-Boo, a child television star who dresses up for pageants, is dating a convicted child molester who once abused another of her relatives.
A former Reagan aide wants the ultraconservative South to secede again—except this time the South would be called “Reagan.” In honor of a Hollywood actor who raised taxes and expanded welfare benefits when he was the governor of California.
AND GOOD NEWS FOR THE SOUTH, IF THEM SECEDE! THEM CAN KEEP ALL OF THEM DIRT ROADS! RONALD REAGAN EVEN SAID SO!
If the polling is from vague sources, why are Democrats so scared about losing the governorship? It’s funny how a money grubbing whore like Chlamydia Purple Haze may bring down Special K and not the crony capitalism, no-bid contracts and failed policies.