Robbing Peter to pay Paul seems to be an unwritten tenet in Portland's City Code Book: yesterday, the Bureau of Development Services served two "Notice of Code Violations." One was served to both Michael J. and Linda M.Wright, and Daniel and Donna L. Cossette regarding the "Recreational Campground" (read: homeless refuge) established by them in NW Portland at 4th and W. Burnside, of which they are co-owners.
The second Notice of Violations is way more interesting, since the City Bureau of Development Services has notified...the City Bureau of Parks and Recreation, "owners" of Lownsdale Square, the two park blocks directly across 4th avenue from City Hall! At least the service of notice was convenient: just "two doors down," as Dolly Parton has sung. We have not only a new definition of "irony," but a wonderful insight into how governments function. If the seven blatant and serious violations of Oregon State Building Code, Portland City Code, Oregon Revised Statutes, Oregon Structural Specialty Code, Property Maintenance Regulations, and the National Electrical Code existing at Lownsdale Square are not corrected within 30 days, the City will fine the City, and the fees double if uncorrected for 90 days. Oh, and since there are more than 20 "units" in the Occupy Portland Anarchistic Campground, the fees are scheduled as $583 per unit. For those who attended Portland Public Schools, that amounts to "a buncha money." A buncha money in addition to the quarter-million dollar cost of restoring what used to be a beautiful Public Park. Of course, nobody from "Occupy Portland" will be held accountable for defacing public property. Such is the fruit of allowing the namby-pamby treatment of mindless zombies who claim a "cause."
You can call Michael Liefeld, Section Manager of Neighborhood Inspections and Compliance Services,
at 503-823-7332
to congratulate him for using common sense and courage in this situation, which attributes seem to be sorely lacking in both the Mayor's and City Commissioner's offices.
Read the full text of the Notices at the Portland Tribune site:
http://www.portlandtribune.com/documents/efiles/Occupy%20letter.pdf
-neon leon
How Do You Spell "Thug?"
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
The SCROOGE EFFECT
Unable to entirely quash the sale of Christmas Trees (and, no, they are NOT "holiday trees, winter fest trees," nor any other sophomoric/moronic politically-correct descriptive) the O administration has levied a "fee" (dare not call it a tax) upon retail Christmas Tree sales. The purpose of this forced "transaction-fee-not-a-tax" is:
"To pay for the new Federal Christmas tree image improvement and marketing program." Say WHAT? Christmas Tree sales need Federal "help?"
Just peachy. Of course, this necessitates the creation of: a "Christmas Tree Promotion Board" comprised of meddling bureaucrats hand-selected by the Secretary of Agriculture. What could possibly go wrong with a gaggle of newly-minted Federal rules and regulations being "overseen" by clueless bureaucratic drones? After all, Christmas Trees sales are in danger and must be "protected" by the Federal Department of Bureaucratic Meddling in Already-Successful Commerce. I suppose, since Christmas Trees don't sell well from January through October, that is enough to trigger the obvious "need" for Federal interference. After all, look at how well the government "fixed" non-existent health care problems by screwing seniors who have been forced to contribute to Medicare since 1964, but will now see that prepaid program sliced and diced into uselessness. Or the "War on Poverty." Or the "War on Drugs." Or "Medicaid." Or "Fast and Furious." You get my drift.
The entire regulation, already in force and in just the nick of time, is one more shining example of this Administration's Statist zealotry to impinge itself into every aspect of American life, cradle to grave, and, in some cases, beyond: refusing FDR's D-Day prayer from the WWII Memorial is one more example of its politically-correct-yet-imbecilic actions. This so typifies the Liberal mindset: avoid dealing with the obvious scandals within its own Administration, such as flagrantly inappropriate and anarchic actions by Attorney General Eric Holder, by launching countermeasures to distract attention from otherwise embarrassing conduct. As Americans go slouching mutely toward a new Socialist tyranny, most citizens seem content to ignore the proverbial "handwriting on the wall."
Tax Christmas Trees. What else could so perfectly describe the O's disdain for you?
-neon leon
"To pay for the new Federal Christmas tree image improvement and marketing program." Say WHAT? Christmas Tree sales need Federal "help?"
Just peachy. Of course, this necessitates the creation of: a "Christmas Tree Promotion Board" comprised of meddling bureaucrats hand-selected by the Secretary of Agriculture. What could possibly go wrong with a gaggle of newly-minted Federal rules and regulations being "overseen" by clueless bureaucratic drones? After all, Christmas Trees sales are in danger and must be "protected" by the Federal Department of Bureaucratic Meddling in Already-Successful Commerce. I suppose, since Christmas Trees don't sell well from January through October, that is enough to trigger the obvious "need" for Federal interference. After all, look at how well the government "fixed" non-existent health care problems by screwing seniors who have been forced to contribute to Medicare since 1964, but will now see that prepaid program sliced and diced into uselessness. Or the "War on Poverty." Or the "War on Drugs." Or "Medicaid." Or "Fast and Furious." You get my drift.
The entire regulation, already in force and in just the nick of time, is one more shining example of this Administration's Statist zealotry to impinge itself into every aspect of American life, cradle to grave, and, in some cases, beyond: refusing FDR's D-Day prayer from the WWII Memorial is one more example of its politically-correct-yet-imbecilic actions. This so typifies the Liberal mindset: avoid dealing with the obvious scandals within its own Administration, such as flagrantly inappropriate and anarchic actions by Attorney General Eric Holder, by launching countermeasures to distract attention from otherwise embarrassing conduct. As Americans go slouching mutely toward a new Socialist tyranny, most citizens seem content to ignore the proverbial "handwriting on the wall."
Tax Christmas Trees. What else could so perfectly describe the O's disdain for you?
-neon leon
Monday, November 7, 2011
HERMAN CAIN and the WOMEN
Herman Cain has become the focus of left-leaning media outlets, formerly called news reporters, due to three or four unsubstantiated reports of "sexual harassment" which may or may not have occurred twenty years ago. That alone should qualify him for either a Senate or Congressional seat, based upon recent history, and puts him on a par with FDR, JFK, WJC, Edward M. Kennedy, and John Edwards, just to mention a few, oh, wait. Never mind, those guys are all Democrats and therefore choir boys in the eyes of the leftist "news" media. Move along, nothing to see here; nope, nope, no media bias here, none at all.
Friday, November 4, 2011
TO: MAYOR "SPINELESS" SAM ADAMS
Re: the "99%"
Sir:
Why are you wilfully ignoring the rights of the 99% of Portland citizens who are NOT illegally camping in Lownsdale square, harrassing and endangering our police forces (whom you have shackled) and our business community; the 99% who abide by Portland's laws, even the ones considered to be impositional or ill-conceived; the 99% who PAY YOUR SALARY through exhorbitant taxation. This is truly a case of taxation without representation due largely to your own inadequacy as an executive and impotence as a decision-maker.
Add your own thoughts at:
http://www.portlandonline.com/mayor/index.cfm?action=UpdateItem&category_id=290&c=49271
-neon leon
Sir:
Why are you wilfully ignoring the rights of the 99% of Portland citizens who are NOT illegally camping in Lownsdale square, harrassing and endangering our police forces (whom you have shackled) and our business community; the 99% who abide by Portland's laws, even the ones considered to be impositional or ill-conceived; the 99% who PAY YOUR SALARY through exhorbitant taxation. This is truly a case of taxation without representation due largely to your own inadequacy as an executive and impotence as a decision-maker.Get up, grow or borrow a pair, and end this nonsense NOW! My business is suffering, my city is a laughingstock, I have no access to the "public" property which has been commandeered by a few unwashed, unsanitary, unlawful, anarchistic, hypocritical, ill-informed, bigoted zealots-without-a-cause, and you SIT. Do your damn job or get a job!
Add your own thoughts at:
http://www.portlandonline.com/mayor/index.cfm?action=UpdateItem&category_id=290&c=49271
-neon leon
Thursday, November 3, 2011
SCHOLARSHIP PERSONIFIED
As a reaction to that latest misquote by the great Historian-in-Chief, Congress reaffirmed "In God We Trust" as the Official Motto of the United States, having been declared as such by Congress in 1956, but, of course, anything which occurred prior to O's birth is now irrelevant, at least as far as he is concerned.
Capitalizing further on his own revisions of American history, last Wednesday the President-pro-tem declared:
"I trust in God, but God wants to see us help ourselves by putting people back to work." Of course, the authentic Biblical scholar and infallible commentator was referring to Hezekiah 9:11, which was quoted in the New Testament at Phillips 6:66. Look them up for yourself.
Oddly, that thought runs in direct conflict with the Bible's teachings:
Proerbs 28:26, "He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, But he who walks wisely will be delivered." -or-
II Corinthians 5:7, "We live by faith, not by sight." -or-
Philllippians 4:19, "And my God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus." -or-
Deuteronomy 32:2b, "Our hand has triumphed; the LORD has not done all this.'"
Pastore Obama's impotent "God" is way too small, even as his own ego is way too large.
-neon leon
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
WAS JESUS A SOCIALIST??
Well, was He a Socialist? What with all the "99-bots" trashing downtown Portland, aided and abetted by Portland's spineless and thankfully one-term "Mayor" Sam Adams, the statement that "Jesus was a Socialist" has been bandied about by several of those morons as well as by even larger morons such as Joy Behar and Michael Moore. I ran across an interesting op-ed, which I reprint with permission:
“Not even close. Jesus feeding the masses would be charity. The situation would be socialism only if Jesus were a government bureaucrat who decided who could fish and where, then take the fisherman’s catch and distribute it as the bureaucrat sees fit. And once the socialistic bureaucrat is in control he can change his rules as he sees fit, because in socialism the government always knows better than the individual.
Socialism is a form of government ownership and administration that advocates no private property. Production is owned and controlled by the state. In Marxist theory socialism is the transitional bridge between capitalism and communism. Advocates of socialism and communism are taking advantage of current economic problems by telling you their way is better, when history proves them wrong.
When was the last time you saw a government program (especially one from the ‘compassionate democrats’) that teaches people the fundamentals of how to make money or how to manage it so that it grows for them? You don’t see that, because once people buy into that way of thinking most of them would no longer need the democrat party, which largely promotes dependence on the government, and what you should get from the government instead of self-reliance.
Historically, socialistic and communistic governments have discouraged or crushed religion and tried to replace religion with government. In California we are already experiencing the results of a socialist-leaning, big government philosophy and it is devastating. This state’s massive economy is on the verge of collapse because 40+ years ago its citizens began to let this idiotiic way of thinking creep into their schools, communities, and state government."
-Ann-Marie Murrell
“Not even close. Jesus feeding the masses would be charity. The situation would be socialism only if Jesus were a government bureaucrat who decided who could fish and where, then take the fisherman’s catch and distribute it as the bureaucrat sees fit. And once the socialistic bureaucrat is in control he can change his rules as he sees fit, because in socialism the government always knows better than the individual.
Socialism is a form of government ownership and administration that advocates no private property. Production is owned and controlled by the state. In Marxist theory socialism is the transitional bridge between capitalism and communism. Advocates of socialism and communism are taking advantage of current economic problems by telling you their way is better, when history proves them wrong.
When was the last time you saw a government program (especially one from the ‘compassionate democrats’) that teaches people the fundamentals of how to make money or how to manage it so that it grows for them? You don’t see that, because once people buy into that way of thinking most of them would no longer need the democrat party, which largely promotes dependence on the government, and what you should get from the government instead of self-reliance.
Historically, socialistic and communistic governments have discouraged or crushed religion and tried to replace religion with government. In California we are already experiencing the results of a socialist-leaning, big government philosophy and it is devastating. This state’s massive economy is on the verge of collapse because 40+ years ago its citizens began to let this idiotiic way of thinking creep into their schools, communities, and state government."
-Ann-Marie Murrell
Monday, October 31, 2011
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