It seems that many Republicans have discovered that taking control of Congress is the goal. This time around, we need to force the Republican Congress to use its power.
Ah, Neo, I was pretty sure that wasn’t a New England shoreline.
So the mayor of Portland, Oregon has decided the “homeless” crisis there has to be addressed, curiously enough , just before an election.
What a coincidence.
What I do not understand – maybe some one can provide an answer – is where does the money come from that allows the homeless – a good percentage( 30% 50% 80% ??? ) of them drug addicts – to buy drugs?
I realize that some of the addicts resort to theft, etc., but most probably do not.
So where do they obtain the money? Are they on welfare?
And who is supplying the drugs?
Drug pushers?? If so, why are they not targeted for arrest / conviction?
And it’s not just Portland, Oregon; it’s Seattle, SF , Philly, etc.
Anyone have an answer???
That’s a pretty shot Neo. It looks similar to places along the Monterey to Big Sur area.
Something I’d recommend is the docent’s tour of the lighthouse at Point Sur. The lighthouse itself and the history of the Point is decent, but the highlight is the place itself and the views. They let you stand outside the lighthouse at the top. When we did that there was 30 mph wind which I thought was fun.
I hope someone has an answer. I’ve always wondered that myself.
Neo Neo Neo, Ft Bragg? How Dare You! Named for a Confederate General who also fought as a US Solider in the Mexican War. They are taking History away. Renaming all 10 US Military establishments that were named for Confederate Generals.
One answer to JohnTyler’s question, but I don’t think it is the primary answer, is panhandling. I once saw a TV exposé where some panhandlers were surveilled after departing their begging spots. Some had homes and cars and even jobs. They dress down for their panhandling gigs. No IRS 1099’s to file for panhandling cash.
Also, some places in lunatic-land California have a cash stipend for the homeless. I’m relatively sure that San Francisco has one and I think my town implemented one after they put a neo-Marxist college prof. on the town council. Some homeless have a little inheritance or annuity or something. Emphasis on little.
Ann Althouse offers that Bob Woodward of the Bezos Birdcage Liner needs to leave the silo.
SHIREHOME, I looked it up. Fort Bragg, CA, was named before Braxton Bragg became a Confederate general. Ft. Bragg, NC, the Army base in Fayetteville, is going to be renamed “Ft. Liberty,” I think.
Nope. To the extent it’s even necessary, those posts have been ennobled by the deeds of the tens and tens of thousands of Soldiers who have passed through them.
Neo – I read an article that home heating oil is already being rationed in New England.
Do you know anyone who has been impacted by this activity? I hope you have multiple ways of keeping warm. I have gas heat, but I also have small electric heaters to warm up the immediate seating area.
I live in OK and the local gas company has a fixed rate plan – you agree in October to a year-long fixed rate. The rate is based on long term contracts. Some years it does not work out, but many years it is beneficial. For example, the per decatherm fixed rate in 2021 was 2.837, 4.54 in 2022, and will be 8.612 in 2023. For 2022, the actual gas cost was 7.798 to 11.263 per decatherm and has been increasing monthly. Both the electric and gas company have budget plans where you pay 12 month average. It does help with cash flow.
Does anyone else have these budget helping options?
I attended a rally for Maryland congressional candidate Neil Parrot over the weekend. The rally was part of Ted Cruz’s Truth and Courage bus tour. I don’t usually care much for political rallies or speeches but my daughter is working for the Parrot campaign so I decided to go.
I was never overly impressed with Ted Cruz but I will say he is a very impressive and dynamic speaker. His speech was funny and hit what I think are all the points Republican candidates should be emphasizing — crime, inflation, the border crisis, and the just plain insanity of so much of what id going on now.
He’s obviously given this speech many, many times. His delivery was perfect (no fear of Fremdschaemen) and was such a stark contrast to listening to Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Fetterman etc.
So where is the glorious Mayor of Portland–who allowed this catastrophe to happen– going to put all of these homeless people when he closes down–and I presume–tears down and removes these camps scattered throughout the city?
How is he going to prevent these homeless people from just returning to recreate these encampments all over again?
Does he have doctors ready to examine them all, hospital beds, and drug rehab and/or mental health facilities ready to receive them?
Is he going to just hand each of them a bus ticket, and shove these people and this problem on some other place?
Or, is he going to gather them all up and create his own version of a Palestinian refugee camp somewhere on the outskirts of Portland?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Homeless sources of money.
Some panhandling.
Some theft.
Some are receiving welfare payments.
Some are on Social Security Disability.
Some get allowances from their families.
Some are getting money from non-profits that help the homeless.
It’s a mixed bag. About 80% are addicts or mentally ill enough be unable to hold a normal job. Most of this cohort do not want help. In my county a team of sheriff’s deputies and social workers regularly go to the camps offering rehab and shelter to any who will take it. They seldom get any takers.
Only a government that’s willing to enforce vagrancy laws – offering a choice between rehab and jail (tough love) is going to put a dent in the problem.
There is a segment of the population that has no sense of wanting to do the right thing unless forced to do so. I have a nephew whose son told him that he hated being sober and working. He is now living in a homeless camp in Denver and will probably die there. He has no sense of responsibility or desire to take care of himself. Only coercion will force him to do so.
It can be solved but will require long term efforts to help the mentally ill and combat addiction. Most politicians don’t have the attention span to deal with it. They want to pass a law and move on. This is a personality problem that has no quick fixes.
A neat little trick…by our adolescent eliteist pranksters…. (Bet they giggled themselves silly with this one…)
“GOP Sues Google Over Routing Donation Emails To Spam”— https://www.zerohedge.com/political/gop-sues-google-over-routing-donation-emails-spam
Opening grafs:
‘ Two weeks before the midterm elections, the Republican National Committee hit Alphabet Inc.’s Google with a lawsuit, claiming they can’t communicate with party members to fundraise because the big tech firm routes their emails into spam folders.
‘ The GOP lawsuit alleges Google “has relegated millions of RNC emails en masse to potential donors’ and supporters’ spam folders during pivotal points in election fundraising and community building.”….’
Well, you know—“a glitch”—you get the idea….
Richard Aubrey says, Nope. To the extent it’s even necessary, those posts have been ennobled by the deeds of the tens and tens of thousands of Soldiers who have passed through them.
My dad was sent to Fort Bragg (NC) in 1942 for paratrooper training with the 82nd Airborne. Next was Camp Claiborne in Louisiana (named for the first non-colonial governor of Louisiana who died in 1817, so no possibility of Confederate allegiance to upset today’s snowflakes), which was deactivated in 1945. Last stop before North Africa was Camp Hood (now Fort Hood) in Texas. I don’t remember my dad ever complaining about Braxton Bragg or John Bell Hood as the namesakes of two of his stateside camps. They were part of the history of the Army in which he served.
Re: Seascape
neo:
There was a time in my adolescent life when I wanted to paint seascapes like Robert Wood. I even had this book:
Your photo reminds me of Wood. I like the way the moisture hanging in the afternoon light softens the shot and gives it a painterly look.
Also how much I love ice plant. Sadly it is considered an “invasive species.”
Liz on October 24, 2022 at 1:17 pm said:
Neo – I read an article that home heating oil is already being rationed in New England.
_______________________________________________________________
Liz:
Thanks for adding this to Neo’s blog. I’m convinced that the media is doing their best to keep this story quiet.
A few days ago, I added an open-thread comment describing two stories in Bloomberg about diesel fuel and heating oil shortages. (These two petroleum products have the same(?) formulation.) Bloomberg’s emphasis was on how the extraordinary levels of impending inflation will hurt Biden’s popularity. My concern is the chance of a human catastrophe.
Inventories of diesel/heating oil are down to a few weeks. That’s the lowest mid-October level since 1951, when the population was much lower. Yes, the war in Ukraine has become a factor, but well before the war started, supplies were dropping fast, and prices were going up rapidly.
This disaster has primarily been caused by the Biden administration’s public vow to kill the fossil fuel industry. Yes, refineries can refine more oil, but the Biden administration has waged a war on refineries, pipelines, and drilling.
There’s no switch to flip for more heating oil and diesel.
Maybe the plan is to ship all the Republicans to Mexico, and redistribute their heating oil rations to Democrats.
PA+cat
My father and I are graduates of OCS and jump school–me–at Benning. Spent some time at Ft. Jackson and Ft. Bragg. My dad was at Camp Carson, named after Kit Carson, not loved by the progs either.
Lots of good guys there, one war or another.
Neo wouldn’t let me have the space to tell what I think of the renaming.
My brother went to benning and went into the 101st everywhere from pre chavez venezuela to qfghanistan
This is expensive and criminally stupid virtue signalling
No, the plan is to chip all Republicans, as done in “Fargo.”
“Hey!! This was NOT supposed to happen.
“Quick!! Get the Propaganda Department to tweak THE NARRATIVE(TM) pronto!!!”
“Don’t panic, dude. We don’t have to tweak anything. Either way, it’s AGW…all the way down the line…”
“Oh. Right. Lost my head there for a sec….”
New England resident here. Heating oil is priced like diesel (I think they may be same stuff, just differently distributed). About $5 a gallon. It’s going to be ugly.
Owen
During the ’73 oil embargo, heating oil was hard to come by. But, not wanting to stall the economy, the braindead PTB said you could have all the diesel you needed–to oil companies and private distributors.
So the distributors made up their heating oil shortfalls by ordering extra diesel–which did not run out. Same stuff.
Which shows to go you that we weren’t out of product, but that the government was involved.
Can’t be. Simply can’t be….
Looks like those dastardly Republicans aim to steal another election.
Again.
To head them off at the pass, “Biden” and his “creative” DOJ are going to have to do something radical. Fast. ASAP. By yesterday….
Got it! A loyalty pledge.
Yer either with us or aginst us.
Your choice.
If yer with us, we’ll allow you to vote. If yer not…well tell me now, which self-respectin’ country would allow you to vote if yer against us?
But we’ll play fair. (It’s the American way…after all…)
Yep, we’ll give you a hint of what that loyalty question will be.
Listen up now!
Pledge question: What is our dear, devoted, clever and courageous “POTUS” ‘s favorite flavor of ice cream? (Du jour…)
Fair’s fair. Good luck to ye’…
With this administration…and Austin as SECDEF, probably should just call it “Ft. Dragg”.
(Only have to change one letter…. save scads of money…)
Province of Alberta leads the way!
“Premier Danielle Smith To End Agreement With World Economic Forum”— https://blazingcatfur.ca/2022/10/25/premier-danielle-smith-to-end-agreement-with-world-economic-forum/
Key graf:
‘ “I find it distasteful when billionaires brag about how much control they have over political leaders,” Smith said at a news conference Monday after her new cabinet was sworn in.
‘ “That is offensive … the people who should be directing government are the people who vote for them….’
Let’s hope such courage, levelheadedness and forthrightness becomes a stampede.
Democrats up to their old tricks.
They call it the SAFETY Act…
(Kinda like all those Soros and FB Organizations IN DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY)
Apprarently, not enough people are getting killed in Illinois…
“America’s ‘most dangerous’ law? Illinois candidate warns of ‘anarchy’ after criminal justice overhaul;
“New Illinois criminal justice reform bill may cause citizens to ‘take the law into their own hands,’ says congressional candidate”—
** xttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/americas-most-dangerous-law-illinois-candidate-warns-anarchy-criminal-justice-overhaul
NOTE: In the link, change xttps to https. (For some reason the real link was getting the comment rejected.
“The left views all of its opponents as vermin to be exterminated. They say that routinely. Believe them.”
— Law Prof. Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit)
Amazing shot! It looks like an impressionist painting.
Kate:
Thanks! Taken on a visit to Fort Bragg, California.
Mollie Hemingway writes a good column on how establishment Republican efforts to divide the party are failing.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/24/liz-cheneys-plan-to-divide-the-republican-party-has-failed/
It seems that many Republicans have discovered that taking control of Congress is the goal. This time around, we need to force the Republican Congress to use its power.
Ah, Neo, I was pretty sure that wasn’t a New England shoreline.
So the mayor of Portland, Oregon has decided the “homeless” crisis there has to be addressed, curiously enough , just before an election.
What a coincidence.
What I do not understand – maybe some one can provide an answer – is where does the money come from that allows the homeless – a good percentage( 30% 50% 80% ??? ) of them drug addicts – to buy drugs?
I realize that some of the addicts resort to theft, etc., but most probably do not.
So where do they obtain the money? Are they on welfare?
And who is supplying the drugs?
Drug pushers?? If so, why are they not targeted for arrest / conviction?
And it’s not just Portland, Oregon; it’s Seattle, SF , Philly, etc.
Anyone have an answer???
That’s a pretty shot Neo. It looks similar to places along the Monterey to Big Sur area.
Something I’d recommend is the docent’s tour of the lighthouse at Point Sur. The lighthouse itself and the history of the Point is decent, but the highlight is the place itself and the views. They let you stand outside the lighthouse at the top. When we did that there was 30 mph wind which I thought was fun.
https://img.marinas.com/v2/cb2734feb720f88936d1887eb4497b71b4acec6a086071333f9fa0ccb08b5dc5.jpg
https://live.staticflickr.com/3672/12093326896_098f30a8aa_b.jpg
A view from the top
I hope someone has an answer. I’ve always wondered that myself.
Neo Neo Neo, Ft Bragg? How Dare You! Named for a Confederate General who also fought as a US Solider in the Mexican War. They are taking History away. Renaming all 10 US Military establishments that were named for Confederate Generals.
One answer to JohnTyler’s question, but I don’t think it is the primary answer, is panhandling. I once saw a TV exposé where some panhandlers were surveilled after departing their begging spots. Some had homes and cars and even jobs. They dress down for their panhandling gigs. No IRS 1099’s to file for panhandling cash.
Also, some places in lunatic-land California have a cash stipend for the homeless. I’m relatively sure that San Francisco has one and I think my town implemented one after they put a neo-Marxist college prof. on the town council. Some homeless have a little inheritance or annuity or something. Emphasis on little.
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2022/10/you-were-really-shouting-at-him-your.html
Ann Althouse offers that Bob Woodward of the Bezos Birdcage Liner needs to leave the silo.
SHIREHOME, I looked it up. Fort Bragg, CA, was named before Braxton Bragg became a Confederate general. Ft. Bragg, NC, the Army base in Fayetteville, is going to be renamed “Ft. Liberty,” I think.
Nope. To the extent it’s even necessary, those posts have been ennobled by the deeds of the tens and tens of thousands of Soldiers who have passed through them.
Neo – I read an article that home heating oil is already being rationed in New England.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/ryanledendecker/2022/10/23/bidens-next-crisis-home-heating-oil-rationing-begins-in-northeast-and-its-not-even-winter-yet-n1639328
Do you know anyone who has been impacted by this activity? I hope you have multiple ways of keeping warm. I have gas heat, but I also have small electric heaters to warm up the immediate seating area.
I live in OK and the local gas company has a fixed rate plan – you agree in October to a year-long fixed rate. The rate is based on long term contracts. Some years it does not work out, but many years it is beneficial. For example, the per decatherm fixed rate in 2021 was 2.837, 4.54 in 2022, and will be 8.612 in 2023. For 2022, the actual gas cost was 7.798 to 11.263 per decatherm and has been increasing monthly. Both the electric and gas company have budget plans where you pay 12 month average. It does help with cash flow.
Does anyone else have these budget helping options?
I attended a rally for Maryland congressional candidate Neil Parrot over the weekend. The rally was part of Ted Cruz’s Truth and Courage bus tour. I don’t usually care much for political rallies or speeches but my daughter is working for the Parrot campaign so I decided to go.
I was never overly impressed with Ted Cruz but I will say he is a very impressive and dynamic speaker. His speech was funny and hit what I think are all the points Republican candidates should be emphasizing — crime, inflation, the border crisis, and the just plain insanity of so much of what id going on now.
He’s obviously given this speech many, many times. His delivery was perfect (no fear of Fremdschaemen) and was such a stark contrast to listening to Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Fetterman etc.
So where is the glorious Mayor of Portland–who allowed this catastrophe to happen– going to put all of these homeless people when he closes down–and I presume–tears down and removes these camps scattered throughout the city?
How is he going to prevent these homeless people from just returning to recreate these encampments all over again?
Does he have doctors ready to examine them all, hospital beds, and drug rehab and/or mental health facilities ready to receive them?
Is he going to just hand each of them a bus ticket, and shove these people and this problem on some other place?
Or, is he going to gather them all up and create his own version of a Palestinian refugee camp somewhere on the outskirts of Portland?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Homeless sources of money.
Some panhandling.
Some theft.
Some are receiving welfare payments.
Some are on Social Security Disability.
Some get allowances from their families.
Some are getting money from non-profits that help the homeless.
It’s a mixed bag. About 80% are addicts or mentally ill enough be unable to hold a normal job. Most of this cohort do not want help. In my county a team of sheriff’s deputies and social workers regularly go to the camps offering rehab and shelter to any who will take it. They seldom get any takers.
Only a government that’s willing to enforce vagrancy laws – offering a choice between rehab and jail (tough love) is going to put a dent in the problem.
There is a segment of the population that has no sense of wanting to do the right thing unless forced to do so. I have a nephew whose son told him that he hated being sober and working. He is now living in a homeless camp in Denver and will probably die there. He has no sense of responsibility or desire to take care of himself. Only coercion will force him to do so.
It can be solved but will require long term efforts to help the mentally ill and combat addiction. Most politicians don’t have the attention span to deal with it. They want to pass a law and move on. This is a personality problem that has no quick fixes.
A neat little trick…by our adolescent eliteist pranksters…. (Bet they giggled themselves silly with this one…)
“GOP Sues Google Over Routing Donation Emails To Spam”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/gop-sues-google-over-routing-donation-emails-spam
Opening grafs:
‘ Two weeks before the midterm elections, the Republican National Committee hit Alphabet Inc.’s Google with a lawsuit, claiming they can’t communicate with party members to fundraise because the big tech firm routes their emails into spam folders.
‘ The GOP lawsuit alleges Google “has relegated millions of RNC emails en masse to potential donors’ and supporters’ spam folders during pivotal points in election fundraising and community building.”….’
Well, you know—“a glitch”—you get the idea….
Richard Aubrey says, Nope. To the extent it’s even necessary, those posts have been ennobled by the deeds of the tens and tens of thousands of Soldiers who have passed through them.
My dad was sent to Fort Bragg (NC) in 1942 for paratrooper training with the 82nd Airborne. Next was Camp Claiborne in Louisiana (named for the first non-colonial governor of Louisiana who died in 1817, so no possibility of Confederate allegiance to upset today’s snowflakes), which was deactivated in 1945. Last stop before North Africa was Camp Hood (now Fort Hood) in Texas. I don’t remember my dad ever complaining about Braxton Bragg or John Bell Hood as the namesakes of two of his stateside camps. They were part of the history of the Army in which he served.
Re: Seascape
neo:
There was a time in my adolescent life when I wanted to paint seascapes like Robert Wood. I even had this book:
–“How Robert Wood Paints Landscapes and Seascapes”
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1294797235/vintage-how-robert
Your photo reminds me of Wood. I like the way the moisture hanging in the afternoon light softens the shot and gives it a painterly look.
Also how much I love ice plant. Sadly it is considered an “invasive species.”
Liz on October 24, 2022 at 1:17 pm said:
Neo – I read an article that home heating oil is already being rationed in New England.
_______________________________________________________________
Liz:
Thanks for adding this to Neo’s blog. I’m convinced that the media is doing their best to keep this story quiet.
A few days ago, I added an open-thread comment describing two stories in Bloomberg about diesel fuel and heating oil shortages. (These two petroleum products have the same(?) formulation.) Bloomberg’s emphasis was on how the extraordinary levels of impending inflation will hurt Biden’s popularity. My concern is the chance of a human catastrophe.
Inventories of diesel/heating oil are down to a few weeks. That’s the lowest mid-October level since 1951, when the population was much lower. Yes, the war in Ukraine has become a factor, but well before the war started, supplies were dropping fast, and prices were going up rapidly.
This disaster has primarily been caused by the Biden administration’s public vow to kill the fossil fuel industry. Yes, refineries can refine more oil, but the Biden administration has waged a war on refineries, pipelines, and drilling.
There’s no switch to flip for more heating oil and diesel.
Maybe the plan is to ship all the Republicans to Mexico, and redistribute their heating oil rations to Democrats.
PA+cat
My father and I are graduates of OCS and jump school–me–at Benning. Spent some time at Ft. Jackson and Ft. Bragg. My dad was at Camp Carson, named after Kit Carson, not loved by the progs either.
Lots of good guys there, one war or another.
Neo wouldn’t let me have the space to tell what I think of the renaming.
My brother went to benning and went into the 101st everywhere from pre chavez venezuela to qfghanistan
This is expensive and criminally stupid virtue signalling
No, the plan is to chip all Republicans, as done in “Fargo.”
Wooopsie!
“La Nina Transforms Australian Desert Into Wetlands”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/la-nina-transforms-australian-desert-wetlands
“Hey!! This was NOT supposed to happen.
“Quick!! Get the Propaganda Department to tweak THE NARRATIVE(TM) pronto!!!”
“Don’t panic, dude. We don’t have to tweak anything. Either way, it’s AGW…all the way down the line…”
“Oh. Right. Lost my head there for a sec….”
New England resident here. Heating oil is priced like diesel (I think they may be same stuff, just differently distributed). About $5 a gallon. It’s going to be ugly.
Owen
During the ’73 oil embargo, heating oil was hard to come by. But, not wanting to stall the economy, the braindead PTB said you could have all the diesel you needed–to oil companies and private distributors.
So the distributors made up their heating oil shortfalls by ordering extra diesel–which did not run out. Same stuff.
Which shows to go you that we weren’t out of product, but that the government was involved.
Yikes!!!!
“Breaking Bad: For Democrats, the Races Are All Beginning to Break for Republicans”—
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/10/23/breaking-bad-for-democrats-the-races-are-all-beginning-to-break-for-republicans-n1639322
Can’t be. Simply can’t be….
Looks like those dastardly Republicans aim to steal another election.
Again.
To head them off at the pass, “Biden” and his “creative” DOJ are going to have to do something radical. Fast. ASAP. By yesterday….
Got it! A loyalty pledge.
Yer either with us or aginst us.
Your choice.
If yer with us, we’ll allow you to vote. If yer not…well tell me now, which self-respectin’ country would allow you to vote if yer against us?
But we’ll play fair. (It’s the American way…after all…)
Yep, we’ll give you a hint of what that loyalty question will be.
Listen up now!
Pledge question: What is our dear, devoted, clever and courageous “POTUS” ‘s favorite flavor of ice cream? (Du jour…)
Fair’s fair. Good luck to ye’…
With this administration…and Austin as SECDEF, probably should just call it “Ft. Dragg”.
(Only have to change one letter…. save scads of money…)
Province of Alberta leads the way!
“Premier Danielle Smith To End Agreement With World Economic Forum”—
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2022/10/25/premier-danielle-smith-to-end-agreement-with-world-economic-forum/
Key graf:
‘ “I find it distasteful when billionaires brag about how much control they have over political leaders,” Smith said at a news conference Monday after her new cabinet was sworn in.
‘ “That is offensive … the people who should be directing government are the people who vote for them….’
Let’s hope such courage, levelheadedness and forthrightness becomes a stampede.
Democrats up to their old tricks.
They call it the SAFETY Act…
(Kinda like all those Soros and FB Organizations IN DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY)
Apprarently, not enough people are getting killed in Illinois…
“America’s ‘most dangerous’ law? Illinois candidate warns of ‘anarchy’ after criminal justice overhaul;
“New Illinois criminal justice reform bill may cause citizens to ‘take the law into their own hands,’ says congressional candidate”—
** xttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/americas-most-dangerous-law-illinois-candidate-warns-anarchy-criminal-justice-overhaul
NOTE: In the link, change xttps to https. (For some reason the real link was getting the comment rejected.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/this-week-in-history-a-cowed-jfk-surrenders-to-khrushchev-during-cuban-missile-crisis/