LOL - People ask me why I waste my time on people like you. You have no answer to any of the points I made because you know you can't go toe to toe with me on the facts, so you just resort to a claim on the truth that doesn't even make sense.

A person with an interest in the truth would consider arguments he my not agree with at first, just to test his own assessment. But you took the other road. You don't WANT to consider my argument because you don't want to find out that your wrong. This is how your response gives you away. You don't care about the truth and I don't think you care about those babies either. All you care about is bashing the left and the abortion issue is a device for doing that.

Disgusting.

Portland mayor demands Trump remove federal agents from city
People detained far from property agents were sent to protect
Trump looking for a confrontation, says governor
Associated Press in Portland, Oregon

Sat 18 Jul 2020 09.37 EDT Last modified on Sat 18 Jul 2020 11.47 EDT
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Portland mayor demands removal of camouflage-clad agents detaining protesters – video
The mayor of Portland has demanded that Donald Trump remove militarized federal agents deployed to the city after some detained people far from the federal property they were sent to protect.

“Keep your troops in your own buildings, or have them leave our city,” Ted Wheeler, the mayor, told the president, at a news conference on Friday.

Camouflaged federal agents have descended on Portland. Trump's DHS is out of control
Trevor Timm

The Democratic governor, Kate Brown, said Trump was looking for a confrontation in the hopes of winning political points elsewhere, and for a distraction from the coronavirus pandemic, which is causing rising numbers of infections in Oregon and across the nation.

Brown’s spokesman, Charles Boyle, said arresting people without probable cause was “extraordinarily concerning and a violation of their civil liberties and constitutional rights”.

The Oregon attorney general, Ellen Rosenblum, said she would file a lawsuit in federal court against the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Marshals Service, Customs and Border Protection, and Federal Protection Service, alleging they have violated the civil rights of Oregonians by detaining them without probable cause. She will also seek a temporary restraining order against them.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Oregon said the federal agents appear to be violating people’s rights, which “should concern everyone in the United States”.

“Usually when we see people in unmarked cars forcibly grab someone off the street we call it kidnapping,“ said Jann Carson, ACLU interim executive director. “The actions of the militarized federal officers are flat-out unconstitutional and will not go unanswered.”

Federal officers have charged at least 13 people with crimes related to the protests, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported on Thursday. Some have been detained by the federal courthouse, the scene of protests. Others were grabbed blocks away.

Federal officers use teargas and other crowd dispersal munitions on protesters in Portland, Oregon, on 17 July.

Federal officers use teargas and other crowd dispersal munitions on protesters in Portland, Oregon, on 17 July. Photograph: Mason Trinca/Getty Images
The protests following the police killing of Floyd in Minneapolis have often devolved into violent clashes between smaller groups and the police. Tensions have escalated since an officer with the US Marshals Service fired a less-lethal round at a protester’s head, critically injuring him.


“This is part of the core media strategy out of Trump’s White House: to use federal troops to bolster his sagging polling data,” Wheeler said. “And it is an absolute abuse of federal law enforcement officials.”

One video showed two people in helmets and green camouflage with “police” patches grabbing a person on the sidewalk, handcuffing them and taking them into an unmarked vehicle.

“Who are you?” someone asks the pair, who do not respond. At least some of the federal officers belong to the DHS.

Customs and Border Protection said in a statement its agents had information indicating the person in the video was suspected of assaulting federal agents or destroying federal property.

“Once CBP agents approached the suspect, a large and violent mob moved towards their location. For everyone’s safety, CBP agents quickly moved the suspect to a safer location,” the agency said.

However, the video shows no mob.

In another case, Mark Pettibone, 29, said a minivan rolled up to him around 2am on Wednesday and four or five people got out “looking like they were deployed to a Middle Eastern war”.

Pettibone told the Associated Press he got to his knees as the group approached. They dragged him into the van without identifying themselves or responding to his questions and pulled his beanie over his eyes so he couldn’t see, he said.

“I figured I was just going to disappear for an indefinite amount of time,” Pettibone said, adding that he was put into a cell and officers dumped the contents of his backpack, with one remarking: “Oh, this is a bunch of nothing.”

After he asked for a lawyer, Pettibone was allowed to leave.

“Authoritarian governments, not democratic republics, send unmarked authorities after protesters,” the Democratic US senator Jeff Merkley said in a tweet.

US attorney Billy Williams in Portland said on Friday he has requested the Department of Homeland Security’s office of the inspector general to investigate the actions of DHS personnel.

In a letter, Oregon’s two senators and two of its House members demanded that the US attorney general, William Barr, and the acting homeland security secretary, Chad Wolf, immediately withdraw “these federal paramilitary forces from our state”.

The members of Congress said they would be asking the DHS inspector general and the US Department of Justice to investigate.

“It’s painfully clear this administration is focused purely on escalating violence without answering my repeated requests for why this expeditionary force is in Portland and under what constitutional authority,” Senator Ron Wyden said.

On Thursday night, federal officers deployed tear gas and fired non-lethal rounds into a crowd of protesters. Wolf visited Portland on Thursday and called the demonstrators, who are protesting racism and police brutality, “violent anarchists”.

He blamed state and city authorities for not putting an end to the protests. But Portland police said on Friday they wound up arresting 20 people overnight.

At least two protests occurred Thursday night, one near the federal courthouse and the other by a police station in another part of the city. Police told protesters to leave that site after announcing they heard chanting about burning down the building. Protester Paul Frazier said the chant was “much more rhetorical than an actual statement”.

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Something is grossly wrong with the brain of straightup.
Claimed that most people of the left are taxpaying? Trying to twist the facts. Ridiculous and shameful. Here are the people of the left straightup. One of them is you.
1.They are the 46 million that Obama feed with Food Stamps.
2.They are the 25 to 31 million illegal aliens that the left wanted to vote.
3. They are the people populating all the homeless cities of NYC, Seattle, Oregon, Chicago, San Francisco, Baltimore, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and most of the people loving in the cities under democrat mayors.
4. They are the BLM'S, Antifas, Ms. Gang13.
5. They are the abortionist democrat women.
6. They are the 77% black women making so many babies without husbands.
7. They are the Sanctuary cities residents.
8. They are the drug addicts, drug dealers, convicts, criminals.
9. They are the thugs/mobs causing violence, and one of them is de Blasio of NYC.
10. They are the looters/stealers, violent thugs burning cities, and government and private properties.
11. They are 24/7 handouts.
12. They are the convicted criminals.

These are the people of the left. The huge social problems that plague our country today.
One of them is straightup.

California Governor Gavin Noisome has ordered a statewide mandatory blindfolding policy
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/07/20/blindfolds/

California Governor Gavin Noisome has ordered a statewide mandatory blindfolding policy to help slow the spread of coronavirus. Noisome’s Executive Odor 666-666 requires all citizens to wear blindfolds as well as masks whenever they leave their homes, and revokes all health and religious exemptions from masking and blindfolding.

“Studies show that when you blink, your eyelashes scatter tiny droplets of moisture into the atmosphere, potentially contributing to the spread of COVID-19,” Noisome explained at this morning’s press conference. “The best way to stop these moisture droplets is at the source, by wearing a cloth blindfold over your eyes. If all of us join together and blindfold ourselves, we can get through this thing together without ever seeing what’s really going on and without having to look at each other’s fear-stricken faces.”

Noisome said that mandatory blindfolding, like mandatory masking, not only slows the spread of COVID, but also offers economic benefits. “Cottage industries are already springing up, as enterprising Californians turn ordinary pieces of cloth into blindfolds and sell them on the internet,” the governor enthused. “And while it’s true that the Amazon delivery drivers will take longer than usual to deliver the blindfolds to your doorstep, since those drivers will themselves be blindfolded, the bright side is that Amazon will have to hire more drivers, which is good for the economy. Since paying all those blindfolded drivers will cost Amazon a pretty penny, we expect that Jeff Bezos will put billions of dollars into accelerating the development of self-driving vehicles, which will ultimately solve the whole COVID problem by making humans obsolete.”

Responding to civil libertarians’ concerns about heavy-handed enforcement of the masks-and-blindfolds policy, Noisome said police won’t be arresting or shooting scofflaws, at least not in large numbers, because the police themselves will be blindfolded. “We expect police shootings to go way down,” he explained. “And since the police won’t be able to see the skin color of the people they shoot at, nor aim with any precision, the disproportionate killings of black people will finally end, fulfilling the demands of protestors and turning the page on a sorry episode in our history.”

Noisome said mandatory blindfolding would also obviate the need to remove statues of politically-incorrect historical figures. “If nobody can see the statues, why bother to smash or remove them?” he asked rhetorically. “It’s actually cheaper in the long run to blindfold the population instead of having to pay for statue removal.”

The governor added that if mandatory masks and blindfolds don’t stop the spread of COVID, he would consider issuing another executive order requiring people to wear earplugs to stop the virus from riding into the body on soundwaves. He added in light of scientific studies showing that COVID can be spread by flatulence, the state might also have to require people to “put a cork in it.”

*Council on Foreign Relations CFR & Trilateral Commission TC Background & Quotes*
“An end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old fashioned frontal attack" – Richard Gardner ,
Ambassador to Italy - quoted in (CFR)Foreign Affairs, April, 1974

“Actions at the multinational level will be needed, if the process of international relocation of industries is to be accelerated in an organized fashion…….”
TC Report #23, 1982

CFR members are very tightly affiliated with the U.S. government. Since 1940, every U.S. secretary of state (except for Gov. James Byrnes of South Carolina, the sole exception) has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and/or its younger brother, the Trilateral Commission. Also since 1940, every secretary of war and every secretary of defense has been a CFR member. During most of its existence, the Central Intelligence Agency has been headed by CFR members. Virtually every key U.S. national security and foreign policy adviser has been a CFR member for the past seventy years.
Zbigniew Brzezinski formed Trilateral Commission for David Rockefeller in 1973, and Jimmy Carter was made a founding member. Jimmy Carter became President,
& ZB became Carter's National Security Adviser. ZB was also an Obama advisor

ZB - Referring to the rivalry between the USSR and the United States – “The eventual outcome of the competition is however, foreordained, given the inherent superiority of the communist system “ - 'Between Two Ages' (1970 - ps.146,147

Go to their web site and find out. I know that when my daughter was working her way through college as a part-time bartender and my insurance no longer covered her, Planned Parenthood took care of her urinary infection when no one else would. That made me very happy 'cause I was having a hard time watching her writhe in pain. If left up to the rabid right - she would have just suffered.

Yes, they also perform abortions but if you read my previous rant you would know that I see that as a lesser evil. No one wants to say it's OK to kill an unborn human, I know I don't. But if it's going to happen anyway and it WILL whether it's legal or not (you can't avoid human nature no matter how deep in the sand you stick your head), I would rather it happen in clean environment with qualified medical professionals, equipment and counseling all of which help minimize the pain and suffering.

I also like that PP records enough information so that analysts can study patterns of pregnancy in the context of economic conditions, so that we can learn more ways of preventing unwanted pregnancies.

Honestly, in the fight against the brutal murder of unborn humans I see pro-choice fighting hard and all I see so-called "pro-life" doing is screaming at the only people who are actually helping.

Actually, I spent a lot of time looking into that. Most of that increase in the deficit under Obama was the result of paying interest on loans that Bush took out. This is how money works Marty... when you borrow a lot of money you spend years paying it off with interest. This is why the term "new spending" started to appear in the WSJ and similar rags... to differentiate between obligatory spending and elective spending. As it turns out Obama had a lower level of new spending than any of the last seven presidents.

Here's a chart produced by the Cato Institute that shows spending "changes" which gives us an idea of what new spending looks like.



Here's a link to the article if you want to check it out.
https://www.cato.org/blog/trump-spending-soars-first-4-years

Keep in mind these numbers are relative to each other... We are looking at the increased rate of spending.

Notice Obama hasn't increased spending at all... Some will say that's because Congress put the brakes on Obama. I don't know enough detail to argue one way or another on that. But one thing is clear - the notion that Obama was a big spender is grossly inaccurate.

Now look at Trump - 10% increase overall. Only Carter and Dubbya increased spending more than Trump and I'm betting that more of his non-military spending went to his family and their opulent lifestyle than either Carter or Dubbya.

Actually, I spent a lot of time looking into that. Most of that increase in the deficit under Obama was the result of paying interest on loans that Bush took out. This is how money works Marty... when you borrow a lot of money you spend years paying it off with interest. This is why the term "new spending" started to appear in the WSJ and similar rags... to differentiate between obligatory spending and elective spending. As it turns out Obama had a lower level of new spending than any of the last seven presidents.

Here's a chart produced by the Cato Institute that shows spending "changes" which gives us an idea of what new spending looks like.



Here's a link to the article if you want to check it out.
https://www.cato.org/blog/trump-spending-soars-first-4-years

Keep in mind these numbers are relative to each other... We are looking at the increased rate of spending.

Notice Obama hasn't increased spending at all... Some will say that's because Congress put the brakes on Obama. I don't know enough detail to argue one way or another on that. But one thing is clear - the notion that Obama was a big spender is grossly inaccurate.

Now look at Trump - 10% increase overall. Only Carter and Dubbya increased spending more than Trump and I'm betting that more of his non-military spending went to his family and their opulent lifestyle than either Carter or Dubbya.