• OT? - I Don't Believe It!

    From George.Anthony@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 27 12:38:25 2024
    Not in The Garden of Oregon. Say it ain't so Joe.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/crisis-northwest-voters-beyond-turning-point-decades-progressive-politics
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  • From bfh@21:1/5 to George.Anthony on Sat Jan 27 14:11:25 2024
    George.Anthony wrote:
    Not in The Garden of Oregon. Say it ain't so Joe.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/crisis-northwest-voters-beyond-turning-point-decades-progressive-politics

    Things will get better at the end of the day going forward in the
    passage of time when they clear out the root of the problem - graffiti
    and plywood.

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  • From bfh@21:1/5 to Technobarbarian on Sat Jan 27 19:13:36 2024
    Technobarbarian wrote:
    In article <xzctN.360721$p%Mb.29618@fx15.iad>, redydog@rye.net says...

    George.Anthony wrote:
    Not in The Garden of Oregon. Say it ain't so Joe.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/crisis-northwest-voters-beyond-turning-point-decades-progressive-politics

    Things will get better at the end of the day going forward in the
    passage of time when they clear out the root of the problem - graffiti
    and plywood.

    Hey, we claim that Portland is the modern birth place of plywood.
    We make and sell a lot of it here. We expect to do a lot more with
    laminated wood, including bigger and better buildings.

    Yeah, but it makes very very poor glass windows. Maybe you've got
    somebody out there who can invent transparent plywood?

    "While we may think of plywood as a common, modern material, the first
    patent for an early plywood prototype in the U.S. was issued back in
    1865. It wasn?t until 1905, however, that plywood really stepped into
    the spotlight?and sparked a new industry?when the Portland Manufacturing Company exhibited their ?Three-ply Veneer Work? panels at the World's
    Fair in Portland, OR. The new material drew attention, with several
    door, cabinet, and trunk manufacturers placing orders.

    While early customers were primarily sourcing plywood for door panels,
    in 1920, the Elliott Bay Mill Company based in Seattle started serving
    more automobile industry customers, who used the plywood for running
    boards. By the end of the 1920s, there were 17 mills operating
    throughout the Pacific Northwest.

    Though gaining popularity, plywood was held back in its early years from reaching its full potential due to inadequate adhesives. That all
    changed in 1934 when a chemist at Harbor Plywood Corporation in
    Aberdeen, Washington, developed a waterproof adhesive that could be used
    for exteriors. Around this time, several of the independent mills joined together to found the Douglas Fir Plywood Association (DFPA) and created product standards for plywood. The increased quality and production
    standard served as a catalyst for plywood?s growth and use, particularly
    in home construction, resulting in more than one million homes
    constructed using DFPA-trademarked materials. The developments in the
    1930s also led to more mills producing all the way to the 1990s."

    https://solutions.dunnlumber.com/projects/the-history-of-plywood-in-the- pacific-northwest

    Naturally, jive ass is getting the Fakes News version, relying on retrumplican sources. They are hammering out changes to our drug laws in Salem. The retrumplicans and the law enforcement people would like to
    return to the old system, because that's the way they make their money.
    After all they are LOL the party of law and order. They love crime and punishment. The retrumplicans have been hammering on the apocalypse
    message. They want as much fear as they can drum up. The Democrats are
    saying that there have to be better ways to deal with the problem,
    because we really can't afford to spend that sort of money on a solution
    that doesn't solve the problem. And the cost of crime and punishment
    just keeps going up.

    It's that same old insanity thing again, about doing the same thing
    over and over and expecting different results.

    In the end I expect that the politicians will find the cheapest
    possible way to convince the drug users to keep it on the down low. It
    looks like we'll probably try low level harassment next.

    TB



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  • From George.Anthony@21:1/5 to Technobarbarian on Sat Jan 27 18:23:58 2024
    On 1/27/2024 4:09 PM, Technobarbarian wrote:
    In article <xzctN.360721$p%Mb.29618@fx15.iad>, redydog@rye.net says...

    George.Anthony wrote:
    Not in The Garden of Oregon. Say it ain't so Joe.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/crisis-northwest-voters-beyond-turning-point-decades-progressive-politics

    Things will get better at the end of the day going forward in the
    passage of time when they clear out the root of the problem - graffiti
    and plywood.

    Hey, we claim that Portland is the modern birth place of plywood.
    We make and sell a lot of it here. We expect to do a lot more with
    laminated wood, including bigger and better buildings.

    "While we may think of plywood as a common, modern material, the first
    patent for an early plywood prototype in the U.S. was issued back in
    1865. It wasn?t until 1905, however, that plywood really stepped into
    the spotlight?and sparked a new industry?when the Portland Manufacturing Company exhibited their ?Three-ply Veneer Work? panels at the World's
    Fair in Portland, OR. The new material drew attention, with several
    door, cabinet, and trunk manufacturers placing orders.

    While early customers were primarily sourcing plywood for door panels,
    in 1920, the Elliott Bay Mill Company based in Seattle started serving
    more automobile industry customers, who used the plywood for running
    boards. By the end of the 1920s, there were 17 mills operating
    throughout the Pacific Northwest.

    Though gaining popularity, plywood was held back in its early years from reaching its full potential due to inadequate adhesives. That all
    changed in 1934 when a chemist at Harbor Plywood Corporation in
    Aberdeen, Washington, developed a waterproof adhesive that could be used
    for exteriors. Around this time, several of the independent mills joined together to found the Douglas Fir Plywood Association (DFPA) and created product standards for plywood. The increased quality and production
    standard served as a catalyst for plywood?s growth and use, particularly
    in home construction, resulting in more than one million homes
    constructed using DFPA-trademarked materials. The developments in the
    1930s also led to more mills producing all the way to the 1990s."

    https://solutions.dunnlumber.com/projects/the-history-of-plywood-in-the- pacific-northwest

    Naturally, jive ass is getting the Fakes News version, relying on retrumplican sources. They are hammering out changes to our drug laws in Salem. The retrumplicans and the law enforcement people would like to
    return to the old system, because that's the way they make their money.
    After all they are LOL the party of law and order. They love crime and punishment. The retrumplicans have been hammering on the apocalypse
    message. They want as much fear as they can drum up. The Democrats are
    saying that there have to be better ways to deal with the problem,
    because we really can't afford to spend that sort of money on a solution
    that doesn't solve the problem. And the cost of crime and punishment
    just keeps going up.

    It's that same old insanity thing again, about doing the same thing
    over and over and expecting different results.

    In the end I expect that the politicians will find the cheapest
    possible way to convince the drug users to keep it on the down low. It
    looks like we'll probably try low level harassment next.

    TB

    Bwah Hah Hah, Haw Haw Haw, Snicker Snicker Snicker. When's the last time
    ANY politician found the cheapest way to do anything?
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  • From bfh@21:1/5 to Technobarbarian on Sun Jan 28 13:40:20 2024
    Technobarbarian wrote:
    In article <R_gtN.360750$p%Mb.303867@fx15.iad>, redydog@rye.net says...
    From: bfh <redydog@rye.net>
    Newsgroups: rec.outdoors.rv-travel

    Technobarbarian wrote:
    In article <xzctN.360721$p%Mb.29618@fx15.iad>, redydog@rye.net says...

    George.Anthony wrote:
    Not in The Garden of Oregon. Say it ain't so Joe.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/crisis-northwest-voters-beyond-turning-point-decades-progressive-politics

    Things will get better at the end of the day going forward in the
    passage of time when they clear out the root of the problem - graffiti >>>> and plywood.

    Hey, we claim that Portland is the modern birth place of plywood. >>> We make and sell a lot of it here. We expect to do a lot more with
    laminated wood, including bigger and better buildings.

    Yeah, but it makes very very poor glass windows. Maybe you've got
    somebody out there who can invent transparent plywood?


    When you can do things like this with it you don't need it to be trnasparent. We have glass for that.

    https://oregonbusinessindustry.com/freres-mass-ply-panels-learn-more- about-coolest-thing-finalist/

    https://www.dezeen.com/2021/06/23/mga-mass-timber-buildings-forestry- college-oregon/

    https://frereswood.com/products-and-services/mass-ply-products/

    BTW Oregon is still the biggest softwood producer in the United
    States and we make more plywood here than any other state. Be sure to
    stock up for your riots and weather events.

    I've never had a riot here, and the last weather event blew over my
    grilling table and broke the umbrella. I don't think plywood would
    have helped. Maybe if I'd put all the tools in my toolbox on it, it
    wouldn't have blown over. I didn't even use plywood to build the table.

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  • From bfh@21:1/5 to Technobarbarian on Sun Jan 28 13:41:52 2024
    Technobarbarian wrote:
    In article <up46qt$3jbv3$2@dont-email.me>, ganthony@gmail.org says...

    Bwah Hah Hah, Haw Haw Haw, Snicker Snicker Snicker. When's the last time
    ANY politician found the cheapest way to do anything?


    The politics here is a bit different than what you are used to. We
    have the right to make new laws through the iniative process. We can
    also get rid of laws we don't like through the referral process. This
    helps us to keep the politicians in line. For example, the citizens here passed a law limiting property taxes. We require our state government to
    have a balanced budget.

    We currently have about the cheapest system possible for dealing
    with serious mental illness here. If someone isn't an obvious, immediate threat to themselves or others, we dump them on the streets. We lock up
    the small percentage who don't pass this test, but we try not to lock
    them up for very long. The longest anyone can stay in our biggest mental hospital is one year. After that most of them are dumped on the streets
    in the county they came from. The people who can't be released after one
    year are sent to smaller, more secure facitlities, where their case is reviewed regularly, incase they become well enough that we can dump them
    on the streets.

    This system obviously needs a little refinement. Now that the
    problem is obvious and making the people who live in Portland seriously unhappy, the politicians are talking about it in Salem. You might read
    more about that on Fakes News too.

    Some of that sounds sorta similar to what TX and FL do with illegal
    immigrants.

    BTW I don't live in Portland. I live in the Portland metropolitan
    area. Out here most of us only see the problems in Portland when we turn
    on our television. Portland has been a dumping ground for Oregon's
    problems for a long time. Back when the police were allowed to harrass homeless people for camping out most of them ended up in Portland
    because it was more difficult for the police to harrass them there.

    TB



    --
    bill
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  • From George.Anthony@21:1/5 to bfh on Sun Jan 28 18:28:42 2024
    On 1/28/2024 12:41 PM, bfh wrote:
    Technobarbarian wrote:
    In article <up46qt$3jbv3$2@dont-email.me>, ganthony@gmail.org says...

    Bwah Hah Hah, Haw Haw Haw, Snicker Snicker Snicker. When's the last time >>> ANY politician found the cheapest way to do anything?


          The politics here is a bit different than what you are used to. We
    have the right to make new laws through the iniative process. We can
    also get rid of laws we don't like through the referral process. This
    helps us to keep the politicians in line. For example, the citizens here
    passed a law limiting property taxes. We require our state government to
    have a balanced budget.

          We currently have about the cheapest system possible for dealing >> with serious mental illness here. If someone isn't an obvious, immediate
    threat to themselves or others, we dump them on the streets. We lock up
    the small percentage who don't pass this test, but we try not to lock
    them up for very long. The longest anyone can stay in our biggest mental
    hospital is one year. After that most of them are dumped on the streets
    in the county they came from. The people who can't be released after one
    year are sent to smaller, more secure facitlities, where their case is
    reviewed regularly, incase they become well enough that we can dump them
    on the streets.

         This system obviously needs a little refinement. Now that the
    problem is obvious and making the people who live in Portland seriously
    unhappy, the politicians are talking about it in Salem. You might read
    more about that on Fakes News too.

    Some of that sounds sorta similar to what TX and FL do with illegal immigrants.

    Bwah hah hah!



          BTW I don't live in Portland. I live in the Portland metropolitan >> area. Out here most of us only see the problems in Portland when we turn
    on our television. Portland has been a dumping ground for Oregon's
    problems for a long time. Back when the police were allowed to harrass
    homeless people for camping out most of them ended up in Portland
    because it was more difficult for the police to harrass them there.

    TB




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  • From George.Anthony@21:1/5 to Technobarbarian on Sun Jan 28 18:28:14 2024
    On 1/28/2024 11:51 AM, Technobarbarian wrote:
    In article <up46qt$3jbv3$2@dont-email.me>, ganthony@gmail.org says...

    Bwah Hah Hah, Haw Haw Haw, Snicker Snicker Snicker. When's the last time
    ANY politician found the cheapest way to do anything?


    The politics here is a bit different than what you are used to. We
    have the right to make new laws through the iniative process. We can
    also get rid of laws we don't like through the referral process.

    How often and how many times has this happened?

    This
    helps us to keep the politicians in line. For example, the citizens here passed a law limiting property taxes. We require our state government to
    have a balanced budget.

    We currently have about the cheapest system possible for dealing
    with serious mental illness here. If someone isn't an obvious, immediate threat to themselves or others, we dump them on the streets. We lock up
    the small percentage who don't pass this test, but we try not to lock
    them up for very long. The longest anyone can stay in our biggest mental hospital is one year. After that most of them are dumped on the streets
    in the county they came from. The people who can't be released after one
    year are sent to smaller, more secure facitlities, where their case is reviewed regularly, incase they become well enough that we can dump them
    on the streets.

    This system obviously needs a little refinement. Now that the
    problem is obvious and making the people who live in Portland seriously unhappy, the politicians are talking about it in Salem. You might read
    more about that on Fakes News too.

    BTW I don't live in Portland. I live in the Portland metropolitan
    area. Out here most of us only see the problems in Portland when we turn
    on our television. Portland has been a dumping ground for Oregon's
    problems for a long time. Back when the police were allowed to harrass homeless people for camping out most of them ended up in Portland
    because it was more difficult for the police to harrass them there.

    TB

    --
    "There are none so blind as liberals who will not see"

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  • From kmiller@21:1/5 to bfh on Sun Jan 28 18:41:02 2024
    On 1/28/2024 10:41 AM, bfh wrote:
    Technobarbarian wrote:
    In article <up46qt$3jbv3$2@dont-email.me>, ganthony@gmail.org says...

    Bwah Hah Hah, Haw Haw Haw, Snicker Snicker Snicker. When's the last time >>> ANY politician found the cheapest way to do anything?


          The politics here is a bit different than what you are used to. We
    have the right to make new laws through the iniative process. We can
    also get rid of laws we don't like through the referral process. This
    helps us to keep the politicians in line. For example, the citizens here
    passed a law limiting property taxes. We require our state government to
    have a balanced budget.

          We currently have about the cheapest system possible for dealing >> with serious mental illness here. If someone isn't an obvious, immediate
    threat to themselves or others, we dump them on the streets. We lock up
    the small percentage who don't pass this test, but we try not to lock
    them up for very long. The longest anyone can stay in our biggest mental
    hospital is one year. After that most of them are dumped on the streets
    in the county they came from. The people who can't be released after one
    year are sent to smaller, more secure facitlities, where their case is
    reviewed regularly, incase they become well enough that we can dump them
    on the streets.

         This system obviously needs a little refinement. Now that the
    problem is obvious and making the people who live in Portland seriously
    unhappy, the politicians are talking about it in Salem. You might read
    more about that on Fakes News too.

    Some of that sounds sorta similar to what TX and FL do with illegal immigrants.

    Take away their dictionarys and encyclopedias?


          BTW I don't live in Portland. I live in the Portland metropolitan >> area. Out here most of us only see the problems in Portland when we turn
    on our television. Portland has been a dumping ground for Oregon's
    problems for a long time. Back when the police were allowed to harrass
    homeless people for camping out most of them ended up in Portland
    because it was more difficult for the police to harrass them there.

    TB




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  • From bfh@21:1/5 to kmiller on Sun Jan 28 23:31:22 2024
    kmiller wrote:
    On 1/28/2024 10:41 AM, bfh wrote:
    Technobarbarian wrote:
    In article <up46qt$3jbv3$2@dont-email.me>, ganthony@gmail.org says...

    Bwah Hah Hah, Haw Haw Haw, Snicker Snicker Snicker. When's the
    last time
    ANY politician found the cheapest way to do anything?


          The politics here is a bit different than what you are
    used to. We
    have the right to make new laws through the iniative process. We can
    also get rid of laws we don't like through the referral process. This
    helps us to keep the politicians in line. For example, the citizens
    here
    passed a law limiting property taxes. We require our state
    government to
    have a balanced budget.

          We currently have about the cheapest system possible for
    dealing
    with serious mental illness here. If someone isn't an obvious,
    immediate
    threat to themselves or others, we dump them on the streets. We
    lock up
    the small percentage who don't pass this test, but we try not to lock
    them up for very long. The longest anyone can stay in our biggest
    mental
    hospital is one year. After that most of them are dumped on the
    streets
    in the county they came from. The people who can't be released
    after one
    year are sent to smaller, more secure facitlities, where their case is
    reviewed regularly, incase they become well enough that we can dump
    them
    on the streets.

         This system obviously needs a little refinement. Now that the
    problem is obvious and making the people who live in Portland
    seriously
    unhappy, the politicians are talking about it in Salem. You might read
    more about that on Fakes News too.

    Some of that sounds sorta similar to what TX and FL do with illegal
    immigrants.

    Take away their dictionarys and encyclopedias?

    What? What? What? I think I've been whooshed..........and you
    misspelled "dictionaries". Did someone take away your dictionary?

          BTW I don't live in Portland. I live in the Portland >>> metropolitan
    area. Out here most of us only see the problems in Portland when we
    turn
    on our television. Portland has been a dumping ground for Oregon's
    problems for a long time. Back when the police were allowed to harrass
    homeless people for camping out most of them ended up in Portland
    because it was more difficult for the police to harrass them there.

    TB






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  • From George.Anthony@21:1/5 to Technobarbarian on Mon Jan 29 10:11:31 2024
    On 1/29/2024 9:45 AM, Technobarbarian wrote:
    In article <up6ret$54u4$4@dont-email.me>, ganthony@gmail.org says...

    On 1/28/2024 11:51 AM, Technobarbarian wrote:
    In article <up46qt$3jbv3$2@dont-email.me>, ganthony@gmail.org says...

    Bwah Hah Hah, Haw Haw Haw, Snicker Snicker Snicker. When's the last time >>>> ANY politician found the cheapest way to do anything?


    The politics here is a bit different than what you are used to. We >>> have the right to make new laws through the iniative process. We can
    also get rid of laws we don't like through the referral process.

    How often and how many times has this happened?

    Pretty frequently. For example, we currently have two iniatives
    filed to amend our newest drug law. And it isn't always necessary to
    start a petition drive. Our politicians passed a new minimum wage law
    because they were afraid the cititzens were going to raise the minimum
    wage even further.

    "Push to change Measure 110 gains momentum and money
    A coalition has filed ballot initiatives to prohibit hard drug use in
    public places and has $700,000 lined up from donors, including Phil
    Knight"

    https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2023/09/18/push-to-change-measure- 110-gains-momentum-and-money/

    Even if this petition drive fails it will spur our politicains to
    make changes. And if you check out these iniatives you are likly to find
    that they are focused on cheap solutions. Even Mr. Nike doesn't want to
    spend a lot of money on this problem.

    TB

    But how many times have the initiatives been successful? I hope saner
    heads prevail (if there are any up there) and the drug initiative
    passes. Things aren't looking so good right now in The Garden of Oregon
    drug circles.

    --
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  • From George.Anthony@21:1/5 to Technobarbarian on Mon Jan 29 11:54:37 2024
    On 1/29/2024 11:10 AM, Technobarbarian wrote:
    In article <up8ing$h7fv$1@dont-email.me>, ganthony@gmail.org says...

    On 1/29/2024 9:45 AM, Technobarbarian wrote:
    In article <up6ret$54u4$4@dont-email.me>, ganthony@gmail.org says...

    On 1/28/2024 11:51 AM, Technobarbarian wrote:
    In article <up46qt$3jbv3$2@dont-email.me>, ganthony@gmail.org says... >>>>>>
    Bwah Hah Hah, Haw Haw Haw, Snicker Snicker Snicker. When's the last time >>>>>> ANY politician found the cheapest way to do anything?


    The politics here is a bit different than what you are used to. We
    have the right to make new laws through the iniative process. We can >>>>> also get rid of laws we don't like through the referral process.

    How often and how many times has this happened?

    Pretty frequently. For example, we currently have two iniatives
    filed to amend our newest drug law. And it isn't always necessary to
    start a petition drive. Our politicians passed a new minimum wage law
    because they were afraid the cititzens were going to raise the minimum
    wage even further.

    "Push to change Measure 110 gains momentum and money
    A coalition has filed ballot initiatives to prohibit hard drug use in
    public places and has $700,000 lined up from donors, including Phil
    Knight"

    https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2023/09/18/push-to-change-measure-
    110-gains-momentum-and-money/

    Even if this petition drive fails it will spur our politicains to >>> make changes. And if you check out these iniatives you are likly to find >>> that they are focused on cheap solutions. Even Mr. Nike doesn't want to
    spend a lot of money on this problem.

    TB

    But how many times have the initiatives been successful? I hope saner
    heads prevail (if there are any up there) and the drug initiative
    passes. Things aren't looking so good right now in The Garden of Oregon
    drug circles.

    You continue to ask stupid questions.

    You, apparently, are too stupid to know there's no such thing as a
    stupid question. Those were legitimate queries. Too many times things
    like you posted have no basis in fact. Of course you gave your usual non answer. I asked how many times not for a couple of examples.

    We pass enough iniatives to
    keep the politicians on their toes. At one time Oregonians passed a law
    that said marriage was limited to one man and one woman. Right before
    the video revolution we passed a law against obcenity. The chances are
    that these two new iniatives won't actually run a petition drive. That
    can be expensive. I don't think they have enough money to pull it off at
    this point. It's just a way for Mr. Knight and his buddies to fire a
    shot across the state legislature's bow.

    You can be sure that the law will be ammended. At the very least
    the politicians have to act like they're doing something. From what I've
    seen so far, they are likely to come up with the cheapest solutions
    possible, that will get the citizens off their back. My prediction is
    that no one will be satisfied. I expect these problems to fester, in all
    of our big cities, for a long time to come.

    TB

    --
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  • From George.Anthony@21:1/5 to Technobarbarian on Mon Jan 29 11:55:45 2024
    On 1/29/2024 11:36 AM, Technobarbarian wrote:
    In article <RdxtN.258029$7sbb.83607@fx16.iad>, redydog@rye.net says...

    Technobarbarian wrote:
    In article <up46qt$3jbv3$2@dont-email.me>, ganthony@gmail.org says...

    Bwah Hah Hah, Haw Haw Haw, Snicker Snicker Snicker. When's the last time >>>> ANY politician found the cheapest way to do anything?


    The politics here is a bit different than what you are used to. We >>> have the right to make new laws through the iniative process. We can
    also get rid of laws we don't like through the referral process. This
    helps us to keep the politicians in line. For example, the citizens here >>> passed a law limiting property taxes. We require our state government to >>> have a balanced budget.

    We currently have about the cheapest system possible for dealing
    with serious mental illness here. If someone isn't an obvious, immediate >>> threat to themselves or others, we dump them on the streets. We lock up
    the small percentage who don't pass this test, but we try not to lock
    them up for very long. The longest anyone can stay in our biggest mental >>> hospital is one year. After that most of them are dumped on the streets
    in the county they came from. The people who can't be released after one >>> year are sent to smaller, more secure facitlities, where their case is
    reviewed regularly, incase they become well enough that we can dump them >>> on the streets.

    This system obviously needs a little refinement. Now that the
    problem is obvious and making the people who live in Portland seriously
    unhappy, the politicians are talking about it in Salem. You might read
    more about that on Fakes News too.

    Some of that sounds sorta similar to what TX and FL do with illegal
    immigrants.

    The big difference is that we're dumping our problems on our own streets. If we could dump them somewhere else the problem would have
    been solved a long time ago.

    TB


    Proving Texans are smarter than "feel good" liberals.
    --
    "There are none so blind as liberals who will not see"

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  • From George.Anthony@21:1/5 to Technobarbarian on Tue Jan 30 11:11:23 2024
    On 1/30/2024 10:59 AM, Technobarbarian wrote:
    In article <up8oor$i8ml$2@dont-email.me>, ganthony@gmail.org says...

    You, apparently, are too stupid to know there's no such thing as a
    stupid question. Those were legitimate queries. Too many times things
    like you posted have no basis in fact. Of course you gave your usual non
    answer. I asked how many times not for a couple of examples.



    Well, at least this explains why you keep asking stupid question.

    I accidentally stumbled on the answer to your question this
    morning. This is further proof that this was a dumb question. The answer doesn't make any difference and you are unlikely to read it. You
    certainly will not learn anything from it. This is a list of all the
    ballot measures since 1902 that we were able to vote on thanks to our
    right of: iniative, referendum and referral, with the results.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oregon_ballot_measures

    I love the fact that you are NEVER able to answer your own
    question. This indicates that you are a dumbass who can't find his own answers.


    TB

    I had no need to look for the answer. You were the one bragging about
    The Garden or Oregon politicians. If you "stumbled" on the answer, why
    didn't you give me an answer. You are the one with the wayback machine.
    Because you found the answer makes my question dumb? You need to look in
    the mirror. You are one smug, self-important, holier than thou name
    caller. I love it when I touch a liberal nerve.
    --
    "There are none so blind as liberals who will not see"

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