Form Letters! Form Commemoration!
I received a form letter from Nick Fish’s office today, in response to my email to city council members, regarding the proposal to rename 39th Ave. after Cesar Chavez. It contained the following non-specific blandness:
“Mr. Chavez was an American hero who fought for better working conditions for workers everywhere and safer food for us all. His legacy is worthy of an appropriate public commemoration in our city..”
I emailed them my response:
And Portland is worthy of doing so in a unique way, as opposed to just throwing a street-naming at him like everyone else. Can’t we be a little more creative here? Does anyone really care about this, or are you just doing this to get it out of the way quickly and get the street re-naming people out of your hair?
Stand by Your Sam
As I’m sure you already know, Sam Adams issued a statement yesterday stating his intent to return to work tomorrow and continue being the mayor he promised us he would be.
This is a great victory for the people of Portland against the narrow-minded and the knee-jerk media blitz. But it’s not over yet. The conservative media outlets who called for Sam to resign will most likely not let up. Along with the people who think in black and white and have been easily manipulated, they’ll probably make a good amount of noise. The Oregonian will most likely continue their rash of ridiculous stories surrounding the issue. Maybe they’ll even drag Beau and more of his oddly named pets out again and put who knows what in his mouth. (heh).
It’s important to write your commissioners and your local papers telling them you support Sam and that he should have a fair chance to do all the great things for this city that he promised. Talk to people who are against Sam in an assertive, but positive way, explaining your viewpoint and the need to really think about this issue and the shades of gray surrounding it, before taking action based on moral absolutes.
We are better than petty accusations, impositions of biased morality, and absolute judgement without consideration for unique situations.
I’m confident that, if we can approach this situation like intelligent, compassionate adults, we can get through this quickly and move on to the bright future this city deserves.
I’ll have more specific information on what you can do to help over the next few days.
Leave Sam Adams A-LONE!
Leave him aloooooooooooone!!!

He had good reason to lie. He’s going to be a good mayor. And I’m happy he lied, because if he hadn’t, he might not have gotten elected. He lied about a very personal issue, that was no business of the press’ anyway.
Now the press has a witch hunt against him. They want to make an example of him to show it’s unacceptable to lie to them about anything. I don’t agree. I think it was acceptable. I don’t think everything works in black and white.
The Portland media is running a genuine smear campaign against him and it’s just sad. Now, if it happens to come out that Mr. Breedlove wasn’t 18 when they first did the nasty, that’s a different story, but as for now, LEAVE HIM ALONE!
Shoes for Dubya

As if today couldn’t get any better, with the Portland snow and all, a story has just broken that an Iraqi journalist threw HIS SHOES at President Bush during a press conference. According to the Chicago Sun Times article “In Iraqi culture, throwing shoes at someone is a sign of contempt.”
I guess you learn something new every day. In what culture is throwing shoes at someone a sign of love?
The BBC has a great video clip in their article, complete with slow motion goodness. Bush even appears to smile like he thinks it’s a fun game after he ducks the first shoe. Hilarious!
Blaggo my Eggo!
Nothing goes well with breakfast like a little Blago.
As a former Illinoan, I find the gubernatorial scandal(s) highly amusing. The Portland Mercury is thickening my pot of joy. You see, “Roddy” has been posting on the Mercury blog, bringing all his charm with him. He derides the readers, tells you to “Fuck off, Fucko!” and most recently offers to step down for 500,000. (750,000 in a french maid’s outift).
Go check it out. It’s super fuckin’ funny, mother fucker.

A Gay Proposal
(for Ending the Energy Crisis and Defending the Integrity of the American Family)
Recently, California passed a Proposition, numbered 8, which took away from homosexuals, the right to marry, which they’d been granted earlier this year. It seems, shamefully, that very few individuals are aware of the opportunity that such a decision brings to the table. By ignoring it, we would be criminally wasting a precious resource.
Now, there are those who say we should scientifically explore ways to generate new energy. They say that, with careful plans and a resolute attitude, the economic shadow that’s fallen over the country will blow by like a summer cloud. But such whimsical nonsense is simply a wrong-headed path down the same road to ruin we’ve been on.
There are also those who say that homosexuals deserve the same rights as anyone else and should be treated as bona fide human beings. That gay marriage does no damage to the unraveling fabric of our American Family. Clearly this is wrong, as we’ve seen what happens when gay marriage is allowed elsewhere. We cannot allow our country to fall into the same endless chaos and morbid anarchy as Canada, Holland, Belgium, Spain, and South Africa. As we’ve seen Massachusetts, where they allow gay marriage, has already been twisted into a frothy bowl of Sodom. And Connecticut will soon see the waifs of broken homes wandering her streets. Equal protection under the law has been shown to be a wasteful myth!
Since we, as a democratic community have stripped them of essential rights, which we hold should be afforded to all human beings, we’ve effectively deemed that homosexuals are, in effect, sub-human. To anyone with imagination, this is just the beginning. Subhumans living among us could have all sorts of other rights taken away, rights that could otherwise keep them from being a useful resource. Let us no longer kid ourselves and let sentimentality and feelings get in the way of progress.
Our nation is in a dire crisis. The financial markets are taking a beating and we have no idea where we’ll get the energy we need to get through the century.
But, with a few more minor changes, we can halt this raging freight train of destruction in it’s smoking tracks. I would like to propose that we not rest on our laurels, but rather, take more rights from the homosexuals (since we’ve proven that, with a little outside cash, and some mild deceptive media, this is a simple thing) such as the right to live and travel where they wish, nay, even their very freedom from captivity itself!
In a way, we will also give them what they want. Lifelong partners. We can round them all up and put them in “Honeymoon Camps” where they will live out the rest of their lives in pairs, behind closed doors, where their corrupting influence cannot affect our children. Now, since it’s well known that your average homosexual has a sex drive exceeding the voracious hunger of a velociraptor. By harnessing (and they do love harnesses) them to special machines, designed to turn the power from their endless sexual movements into useable energy, we can power our cities! The electro-harness will open the floodgates of limitless energy! The lights will burn brighter than ever before in our schools and churches.
Spearheading such a massive process will take the creation of a new institution. I suggest we create a private corporation to which we can outsource the job. We can call it “The Ministry of Love” in reference to the loving unions we’ll create in the camps. In this way, we can bypass nasty red tape like “oversight”.
This may sound a little bit drastic, but you have to break some eggs to make an omelette. We can’t waste our precious resources a second longer. We must embrace this new source of power and let the thrusting hips of the gay animal propel us into the future!



