The "great mental ward of the Pacific Northwest"

On 1/13/2019 5:27 PM, wrote:
On Friday, December 21, 2018 at 5:57:25 PM UTC-8, Andre Jute wrote:
From a reporter who was actually the
"The kettle-corn girl is but one of many madcap escapees from the great mental ward of the Pacific Northwest out here making strange noises on the mean streets of downtown Portland on Election Night 2018, and her ecstatic om mani padme hum devotional to kettle corn is soon drowned out as her thuggish black-masked comrades begin their more straightforward and politically meaningful and considerably more comprehensible chant:"

Read the rest of Williamson's report at
https://www.nationalreview.com/magaz...treets-indeed/

On ABC Morning news the other day they said that the most dangerous city in the country was Seattle. They said that it was 250 times more dangerous than San Francisco and 400 times more dangerous than New York.

Well, I sure as hell haven't discovered where those kinds of statistics came from. Though looking at all of the crime statistics Seattle IS the most dangerous city of any size in the entire country. By something like 2:1 or more.

Portland, OR, as I suspected, is only slightly behind this with a MUCH higher crime rate than San Francisco which is so high that most people don't go out alone unless they're carrying. This is why gun battles are so common now - it used to be intergang violence but is getting to be "that guy ****ed me off" and the gun was handy and speaks much louder than words.

So much for moving to the Pacific Northwest which used to be some of the nicer parts of the country.


Television 'news' from what I've seen says the President is
a drooling idiot and also a scheming evil genius, both
statements sometimes within minutes of each other.

There are actual crime and population numbers for Seattle,
Portland, Kings or Multnomah County, for OR and WA, for just
about anywhere actually (I haven't looked and probably
won't) so accepting 2d hand obviously biased/sensationalist
media is not necessary.

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

On 1/13/2019 7:04 PM, AMuzi wrote:
On 1/13/2019 5:27 PM, wrote:
On Friday, December 21, 2018 at 5:57:25 PM UTC-8, Andre Jute wrote:
Â*From a reporter who was actually the
"The kettle-corn girl is but one of many madcap escapees from the
great mental ward of the Pacific Northwest out here making strange
noises on the mean streets of downtown Portland on Election Night
2018, and her ecstatic om mani padme hum devotional to kettle corn is
soon drowned out as her thuggish black-masked comrades begin their
more straightforward and politically meaningful and considerably more
comprehensible chant:"

Read the rest of Williamson's report at
https://www.nationalreview.com/magaz...treets-indeed/

On ABC Morning news the other day they said that the most dangerous
city in the country was Seattle. They said that it was 250 times more
dangerous than San Francisco and 400 times more dangerous than New York.

Well, I sure as hell haven't discovered where those kinds of
statistics came from. Though looking at all of the crime statistics
Seattle IS the most dangerous city of any size in the entire country.
By something like 2:1 or more.

Portland, OR, as I suspected, is only slightly behind this with a MUCH
higher crime rate than San Francisco which is so high that most people
don't go out alone unless they're carrying. This is why gun battles
are so common now - it used to be intergang violence but is getting to
be "that guy ****ed me off" and the gun was handy and speaks much
louder than words.

So much for moving to the Pacific Northwest which used to be some of
the nicer parts of the country.


Television 'news' from what I've seen says the President is a drooling
idiot and also a scheming evil genius, both statements sometimes within
minutes of each other.

There are actual crime and population numbers for Seattle, Portland,
Kings or Multnomah County, for OR and WA, for just about anywhere
actually (I haven't looked and probably won't) so accepting 2d hand
obviously biased/sensationalist media is not necessary.

Here's one source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._by_crime_rate

Not surprisingly, that source disagrees with Tom.


--
- Frank Krygowski

On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 15:27:19 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Friday, December 21, 2018 at 5:57:25 PM UTC-8, Andre Jute wrote:
From a reporter who was actually the
"The kettle-corn girl is but one of many madcap escapees from the great mental ward of the Pacific Northwest out here making strange noises on the mean streets of downtown Portland on Election Night 2018, and her ecstatic om mani padme hum devotional to kettle corn is soon drowned out as her thuggish black-masked comrades begin their more straightforward and politically meaningful and considerably more comprehensible chant:"

Read the rest of Williamson's report at
https://www.nationalreview.com/magaz...treets-indeed/

On ABC Morning news the other day they said that the most dangerous city in the country was Seattle. They said that it was 250 times more dangerous than San Francisco and 400 times more dangerous than New York.


Funny, you know.

NBC News has a different listing;
Based on the FBI's Uniform Crime Report, 24/7 Wall St. identified the
10 U.S. cities with populations of 100,000 or more with the highest
rates of violent crime per 1,000 residents.
https://www.nbcnews.com/businessmain...america-832351

Flint, Mich.
Violent crimes per 1,000: 23.4

Detroit, Mich.
Violent crimes per 1,000: 21.4

St. Louis, Mo.
Violent crimes per 1,000: 18.6

Oakland, Calif.
Violent crimes per 1,000: 16.8

Memphis, Tenn.
Violent crimes per 1,000: 15.8

As Seattle wasn't mentioned I looked it up on another site and it
seems that Violent Crimes per 100,000 amounted to 633, or 6.33/1,000
as per above
https://www.areavibes.com/seattle-wa/crime/

Well, I sure as hell haven't discovered where those kinds of statistics came from. Though looking at all of the crime statistics Seattle IS the most dangerous city of any size in the entire country. By something like 2:1 or more.

Portland, OR, as I suspected, is only slightly behind this with a MUCH higher crime rate than San Francisco which is so high that most people don't go out alone unless they're carrying. This is why gun battles are so common now - it used to be intergang violence but is getting to be "that guy ****ed me off" and the gun was handy and speaks much louder than words.

So much for moving to the Pacific Northwest which used to be some of the nicer parts of the country.

Once again Tom has demonstrated that it is better to keep one's mouth
close and be thought a fool then to open it and prove it.


Cheers,
John B.

On Sunday, January 13, 2019 at 4:04:48 PM UTC-8, AMuzi wrote:
On 1/13/2019 5:27 PM, wrote:
On Friday, December 21, 2018 at 5:57:25 PM UTC-8, Andre Jute wrote:
From a reporter who was actually the
"The kettle-corn girl is but one of many madcap escapees from the great mental ward of the Pacific Northwest out here making strange noises on the mean streets of downtown Portland on Election Night 2018, and her ecstatic om mani padme hum devotional to kettle corn is soon drowned out as her thuggish black-masked comrades begin their more straightforward and politically meaningful and considerably more comprehensible chant:"

Read the rest of Williamson's report at
https://www.nationalreview.com/magaz...treets-indeed/

On ABC Morning news the other day they said that the most dangerous city in the country was Seattle. They said that it was 250 times more dangerous than San Francisco and 400 times more dangerous than New York.

Well, I sure as hell haven't discovered where those kinds of statistics came from. Though looking at all of the crime statistics Seattle IS the most dangerous city of any size in the entire country. By something like 2:1 or more.

Portland, OR, as I suspected, is only slightly behind this with a MUCH higher crime rate than San Francisco which is so high that most people don't go out alone unless they're carrying. This is why gun battles are so common now - it used to be intergang violence but is getting to be "that guy ****ed me off" and the gun was handy and speaks much louder than words.

So much for moving to the Pacific Northwest which used to be some of the nicer parts of the country.


Television 'news' from what I've seen says the President is
a drooling idiot and also a scheming evil genius, both
statements sometimes within minutes of each other.

There are actual crime and population numbers for Seattle,
Portland, Kings or Multnomah County, for OR and WA, for just
about anywhere actually (I haven't looked and probably
won't) so accepting 2d hand obviously biased/sensationalist
media is not necessary.

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

I looked up the crime reporting statistics after hearing that obviously poorly written article. Usually the major media would have nothing bad to say about the pro-socialism Pacific Northwest. That story was from ABC - Anti-American Broadcasting Socialism.

On Sunday, January 13, 2019 at 6:31:53 PM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 1/13/2019 7:04 PM, AMuzi wrote:
On 1/13/2019 5:27 PM, wrote:
On Friday, December 21, 2018 at 5:57:25 PM UTC-8, Andre Jute wrote:
Â*From a reporter who was actually the
"The kettle-corn girl is but one of many madcap escapees from the
great mental ward of the Pacific Northwest out here making strange
noises on the mean streets of downtown Portland on Election Night
2018, and her ecstatic om mani padme hum devotional to kettle corn is
soon drowned out as her thuggish black-masked comrades begin their
more straightforward and politically meaningful and considerably more
comprehensible chant:"

Read the rest of Williamson's report at
https://www.nationalreview.com/magaz...treets-indeed/

On ABC Morning news the other day they said that the most dangerous
city in the country was Seattle. They said that it was 250 times more
dangerous than San Francisco and 400 times more dangerous than New York.

Well, I sure as hell haven't discovered where those kinds of
statistics came from. Though looking at all of the crime statistics
Seattle IS the most dangerous city of any size in the entire country.
By something like 2:1 or more.

Portland, OR, as I suspected, is only slightly behind this with a MUCH
higher crime rate than San Francisco which is so high that most people
don't go out alone unless they're carrying. This is why gun battles
are so common now - it used to be intergang violence but is getting to
be "that guy ****ed me off" and the gun was handy and speaks much
louder than words.

So much for moving to the Pacific Northwest which used to be some of
the nicer parts of the country.


Television 'news' from what I've seen says the President is a drooling
idiot and also a scheming evil genius, both statements sometimes within
minutes of each other.

There are actual crime and population numbers for Seattle, Portland,
Kings or Multnomah County, for OR and WA, for just about anywhere
actually (I haven't looked and probably won't) so accepting 2d hand
obviously biased/sensationalist media is not necessary.

Here's one source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._by_crime_rate

Not surprisingly, that source disagrees with Tom.


--
- Frank Krygowski

Frank again shows that he is losing it. Is that dementia getting worse? Or are you so stupid you don't know the difference between numbers of crimes and crime rate?

The overall crime rate in Seattle is 115% higher than the national average.
The overall crime rate in Portland is 99% higher than the national average.
The overall crime rate in San Francisco is 117% higher than the national average.
The overall crime rate in Chicago is 51% higher than the national average.

Apparently socialism isn't all that successful.

On Friday, December 21, 2018 at 11:06:42 PM UTC-5, John B. Slocomb wrote:


Street protests? Anti popcorn?

Antifa popcorn....

On Sunday, December 23, 2018 at 6:41:17 PM UTC-5, Duane wrote:
jbeattie wrote:
On Saturday, December 22, 2018 at 9:55:50 PM UTC-8, Andre Jute wrote:
On Sunday, December 23, 2018 at 1:26:31 AM UTC, Duane wrote:
Andre Jute wrote:
On Sunday, December 23, 2018 at 12:07:49 AM UTC, Duane wrote:

I can’t believe anyone thinks a 2500 mile wall makes any sense.

Made sense to the Chinese (The Mother of All Walls), to the Romans (many
times, inter alia in Britain and Dacia), the Germans (Siegfried), the
French (Maginot), the Brazilians (concha), Webster (line when he means queue).

Andre Jute
800 Words That Every Housewife Knows -- wallpaper I designed for my
advertising agency's offices


You’d have to see the border between the US and Mexico. A lot of it is
not traversable. The “Wall� is just hyperbole.

--
duane

I hunted up some photographs of the Great Wall away from the tourist
access, and the terrain looked exactly like I imagined it,
uncompromising, not a place, either side of the wall, that any
reasonable person would want for any purpose (1) except to paint or
photograph it and then bugger off in a hurry from its desolation.

The Great Wall was intended to stop invading hoards and not swarthy job
seekers and pregnant women trying to make a run for it. Dehydrated
migrants can be deterred with much less. We certainly don't need the
Great Wall, the Pyramids or some other structure visible from outer space
to tighten up the border. USCBP and local governments/landowners know
where fencing is needed. Let them come up with ideas. The Narcissist in
Chief knows nothing about border security beyond "Build the Wall!"


Yeah like I said, tech has moved past stone walls.

Meanwhile, the government is shut down; the budget deficit soars, and
cabinet officers are sprinting for the doors. It looks like a rat
highway on the strained mooring lines for the ship of state. The giant
corporate tax break has not produced significant economic gains -- even
the WSJ slammed the cut this morning. Korea is still nuclear. China is
in a froth. But in all fairness, NAFTA 2.0 has improved the fortunes of
US powdered milk producers. Mission accomplished!


The new thing here is telling people to look for the “certified Canadian�
stamps on milk products. Sort of like the buy American push I remember
from a while back.

Unless you want an authentic MAGA hat, then you need to look for the made in china label.


What is the solution? A bike ride -- in the rain with my pals. We're hard men!


+1 on that one. Though it’s more like windy ice storms here...

-- Jay Beattie.




--
duane

On Sunday, December 23, 2018 at 11:15:47 PM UTC-5, news18 wrote:

Will the "US swamp"

We used to have a swamp. Now it's a cesspool. Get your facts straight.

On Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 5:00:43 PM UTC, wrote:
On Sunday, December 23, 2018 at 11:15:47 PM UTC-5, news18 wrote:

Will the "US swamp"

We used to have a swamp. Now it's a cesspool. Get your facts straight.

But think how much worse it could have been if Herself got elected. Why, cycling might have been banned. Or worse, made compulsory.

Andre Jute
Balcony seat season ticket holder

On Thursday, January 17, 2019 at 4:39:07 AM UTC-5, Andre Jute wrote:
On Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 5:00:43 PM UTC, wrote:


We used to have a swamp. Now it's a cesspool. Get your facts straight.

But think how much worse it could have been if Herself got elected. Why, cycling might have been banned. Or worse, made compulsory.


We can wistfully dream of how things could have been all we want, but it doesn't change the fact that we have an orange shrek sans the disney treatment creating his own personal swamp in washingotn. I often rethink what mistake I made at the end of my last crit that kept me off the podium, but it doesn't change the fact that I wasn't on the podium. All we can do is try to learn from our mistakes.