…………..Just got home from a weekend of pure Zen on The Ocean…….


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Now, I’m sure that once again, I’m gonna piss a few people off. So be it…facts be facts and I ain’t gonna sugar-coat a goddamm thing!!!

The last time I said something that could be construed as REMOTELY negative about a member of the Hebrew following (New York State Attorney general Eliot Spitzer and his relentless persecution of the Seneca nation of Indians) on my most recent blog (“Roughly the 16,740,473rd blog on the ‘Net”*), my ex- (yes, it’s Lisa, the one who has been stalking me) had her former co-worker (this loud, obnoxious Jewish woman) start going off and posting extremely racist posts on my blog about American Indians……so I’m hoping this won’t happen again…..

….but let’s be real here and call a spade a spade.

Let’s face realities here…..

I mean, if the Christo-fascists (You know, Christo-fascists, the extreme Christian fundamentalists with violent tendencies. I mean, if the Right-wingers are going to keep overusing the term they coined, “Islamo-fascists”, why not apply it to other religions as well??) had the same legislative lobbying influence as the Jewish Lobby does in the United States, do you really think that Mel Gibson would be in the shitstorm he is in now??

I mean, what is perceived to be the mass, mainstream media, corrected me. I had believed that the most recent Israeli atrocity in Lebanon (the bombing of a “terrorist-infested” apartment complex) had killed a lot of women and children. NOW, when the mass, mainstream media is claiming figures like 58 civilians have been killed, including 32 women and 14 children….this is what's being said now!

Two days ago, MSNBC and The Washington Post HAD quoted a rescue worker stating "The victims all seem to be civilians, women and children" and now, magically and mysterously, that statement has TOTALLY disappeared from BOTH web pages......

Um-hum.....

(WikiNews kept it, though)

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….yet the Jewish Lobby in the United States is attempting to put a spin on it like “Well, we have to defend Israel!”

AGAINST WHOM?? Women and three-year-old children???












So what does the US do at the U.N.?? Vetos a resolution condemning the airstrike and instead, agreed to vote for a resolution that expresses quote: ``extreme shock and distress'' over the “incident”!

What kind of chicken-shit cop-out is that??

OK….basically, I’m not in favour of anybody killing ANYBODY’S civilians!! But as much as Palestinian suicide bombers are widely condemned for their actions, there is no actual Arab or Islamic state government that is OPENLY and OVERTLY ordering and directing suicide bombers to go and blow up people in a disco in Tel Aviv!

The Israeli air force, is directed and ordered and controlled by the Israeli Government. The Israeli Government is elected into power by and controlled by the citizenry of Israel………therefore, it tends to follow that the populous of Israel as a whole has tacitly approved the bombing of Lebanese civilians.


SHIT....and a lot of Americans are THAT stupid to wonder WHY September 11th happened????? Yeah....THAT must have been it.....they hated us because of our freedom. Yeah....suuuurrre......


It’s funny…..it’s “terrorism” when an individual or a very small group makes a secret, violent attack against civilians all on their own!

When a recognized government's military happens to kill civilians, then, as long as they have a lot of friends in positions of power in the U.S. (i.e. – Joe Liberman), they’re simply “defending their nation.”


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Really could have used a laff today, so I watched FOX News.....and made a couple observations:

• Best quote I heard today from some reeeaaaaalllly hot chick (my housemate later told me her name is Michelle Malkin) who is billed on FOX News as “a FOX News Political Contributor”, quote:
  
  (….Islam is) “The religion of perpetual outrage”

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Is he not really a progressive, but rather a ploy and is he actually part of the same reptilian-alien-lizardman bloodline as George W.Bush, Dick Cheney, and other scary, thin-lipped scaly types?





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P.S. - Looked at a page on that lizard-man-alien site. Intestering blurb on flouride:

"...was designed to test mind-control machinations; to test the use of fluoride which deadens brain activity and slows resistance to authority;...."

OK.....so THAT'S why Portlandia is the only major metropolitan area in the U.S. that doesn't fluoridate it's water supply! Ahhh......I get it now.....

....gotta love "Little Beirut"!

So THAT explains why they do what they do......



It was bizarre! I had E-Mailed several friends of mine the "yellow sheet" which is the Oregon Liquor Control Commission's 50 signals that you are intoxicated. If not, clicking below will enlarge it for you so that you can have a guffaw and a chuckle:

Right. So, I'm at work speaking with a proprietor of a local "Gentleman's Club" (I use that term in quotation marks for a reason.....but hey, we DO have the most "Gentlemen's Clubs" per capita than anyplace in the entire United States) and he's going off and off about the O.L.C.C.! Now, this is one bureau which you could make the smash hit comedy of the year about. It's just bizarre......

....so he's going on about how idiotic their regulations are. Being a big fan of Government and regulations, I had asked him: "Such as....?" when he told me something I thought was total rubbish!

"Naw, man....if you serve alcohol and food, you must have tables and seating that alot no less than 288 sq. in. of eating space per person eating......"

Yeah....suuuurrre......OK.....just drop off your land use application and get out of my office.......

But no, wait! He told me to check out their web site.........

OH MY GOD......this is like a Zucker/Abrhams/Zucker farce......I mean, when I saw this (bottom of page 2 out of 6), I was stunned.....

And now I actually read this website, and holy shit!!!! It's like the Yes Men have taken over the O.L.C.C.

So, in 2003, this one lady leave the directorship of the O.L.C.C. to join (get ready for this) an organisation called O-CRUD (TOP of page 2 out of 6).......she's replaced in the interim by a woman named Karen.

Right. So, this woman Karen doesn't even make it to permanent director, getting replaced by a woman with a really bad hair day!

OK....so, this one bird here gets Das Boot for visiting my buddy DeWeI (LOVE the pic) just a few months ago. OK.....

OK...so what is it, then? Three directors in three years?

I don't even know who's in charge there this week?????

I mean, come on.....you want a leader for your alcoholic beverage control bureau?? Jesus Christ!!!!!!! It's not BRAIN SURGERY!!! It's called finding some guy down at the local who is widely acknowledged to be the biggest barfly there.....and just hire him!!!!!! WHO ELSE would know more about liquor control than a Barney Gumble or a Charles Bukowski.....

-E-

Christ on a bike!! Of ALL the places I've resided (Not counting the U.K. or Canada)..........

........My people (The Oregonian Tribe) have GOT to secede from the entity called The United States.

• George Dubya Shrub the First called Portlandia "Little Beirut"

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• You can enjoy a smoke and a pint here.....WITHOUT having to exit the pub!

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• We don't persecute them thare Injuns like New York State

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• Economic opportunity based on merit......YET NOT a materialistic culture

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• No Lexus-Liberals (Sorry again, Washington State)

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• I'm not a big fan of abortion at all, but if some young female messes up, and she KNOWS her father (or mother) will beat the living hell out of her, we protect her (according to this article, we're one of SIX in the entity known as The United States that WILL protect her)

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• Oh yeah....and we have an Urban Growth Boundry statute!

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What a scary land a lot of us live in............

-E-

From what I understand.....

.....Coors Field in Denver is making the same threat.

Ya know....you'd THINK that they'd eventually catch on....

This was just too funny.......but I don't know if I was just stunned by how funny it was, or stunned that insurance corporation executives and managers, at a conference on catastrophic loss, were ACTUALLY ASKING QUESTIONS about this "product"!

They've done this before......shit, you'd THINK some people would learn to check ID's or at LEAST get a picture of who they are expecting at their lectures.....

.....I've heard of "The Yes Men", but I've not seen anything by them.....but now, I think I'm gonna buy the DVD......this was priceless.

-E-


P.S. - Click on the top of the Democracy Now website "watch 256k stream".....they'll show a video of this.

It's so surreal and bizarre.....looks like Willy Wonka's worst nightmare! If this video doesn't get you to piss yourself laffing, you've got no sense of humour whatsoever!!

Too much Buffalo.....not enough Ernie....

• Did have fun in Western New York. Actually did go to my high skool reunion Friday, danced on a few tables, won a raffle prize I never even bought a ticket for and saw some people I was actually kinda glad to see. My friend and I had a spirited debate on the drive home as to exactly who out of our former classmates goes the other way and who doesn't......

• Thought no place could have more humidity than Oregon......wrong again. Buffalo had the lovely "wet, hot blanket effect" as soon as one would leave an air-conditioned house!

• It's easy to see why people in Western New York tend towards the more obese side physically. After eating in Buffalo for three days, one will easily wonder how people in other cities eat the slop that's foisted in front of them!

• Got to hang at my folks house for a few days. My mum looooooves these really moronic, brainless sort of conservative cop shows, like "America's Most Wanted" and "COPS". Now, probably thee one thing that's more embarassing than the fact that these shows are actually allowed to air on American Television in the first place is that a pretty fair number of Americans actually tune in to watch these show! THAT shit's distressing in and of itself!

So, I see one episode of America's Most Wanted (and watching absolute anti-intellect, right-wing fuckwitt James Walsh blather on making statements like "Police want to nail this skumbag to the wall" and shit like that. Kinda interesting that BEFORE the suspect guy was even found guilty of anything at a trial or a plea bargain, he's a skumbag, according to Fuckwitt Walsh. Please note: The term "suspect is NEVER used in "America's Most Wanted".....and if you look carefully, most of the "skumbags" that they are chasing after are Hispanic or African American).

On this episode, they had some African-American guy (co-host?)going on a tirade against the good, rural folks of the Southern Tier of Western New York for making Bucky a bit of a folk hero. Too funny....

Flight takes off now.....pics and more soon.....

-E-

Few notes from the NorthEast…..

• After a great graduation party, I had the pleasure of viewing the Rocks lose two of three from the Goddamm Pittsburgh Pirates! The Pirates possess THEE worst record in baseball…..losing two outta three to Pittsburgh……now that took a special kind of skill. Cool pics that were taken from thee best stadium in baseball (PNC park) coming as soon as I take the film to Rite-Aid……

• Had six hours to kill between when they kicked my father and I out of our hotel in Pittsburgh and when first pitch was at PNC Park, so we went to go see a movie. Went to a suburban strip mall with a cinema that looks like it was built in that really ugly era of architecture (like, the late 1960’s) and that also had these really cool avocado-coloured naguahyde seats and about six screens. With not much to choose from, my mum called and suggested we see The Devil Wears Prava. Oh man….what a shite film! I mean, not only was it a chick flick……but it was a really baaaaad chick flick! The only saving grace was that Vincent Chase (Head On, James Cameron’s Aquaman, Queens Boulevard) was in it. Afterwards, I had heard that Vincent (and my ex- boo’s brother as well) had both received a phone call from 1978…..it wanted its hairdo back……

• Spent 48 hours in a casino. Strange shit, I kinda now how the frauds of the Biosphere II felt, living in a hermetically-sealed environment where everything you need is right there (pints, smokes, newspapers, hotel, food, condoms, etc. etc. etc.).

• Got really tired and bored with playing slots, so I ambled on over to the dice table. Fucking hell…..THAT was strange!! I walk up there, find an open spot and this fat, old scary looking sort (like an extra on The Sopranos) to my left says “Hey! Ya mind moving to the other side of me? I’m trying ta shoot here!” So I do and I decide to toss down ten bucks on something called “Field”! Next thing I know, somebody from the casino who works behind the dice table puts two $5 chips next to my two $5 chips!!

“Wow, employees can wager here?” I asked!

“No, those are yours….you won.”

“How’d I do that?”

Let’s just say that the dice table rules and payouts are quite literally like quantum physics……and I had noooooooo clue what the hell was going on. Then, suddenly, a gentleman who works at the casino who appeared to be holding something that looked exactly like a miniature shepard’s crook shoved five dice at me. At first I was going to ask him where his flock is, but thought better of it. I thought this was a comp souvenir or something! Then he goes, “Please select two dice.” And I grab two and go “OK, why do I get these?”


“You’re shooting. It’s your roll!!”

“I have to hurl these things???? Are you serious??”

“Yes. You’re next in line!”

I was having baaaaad visions of Fat Tony da Gangster next to me going out to tell Guido that I am to be fitted for cement shoes because I rolled the wrong number! SHIT!!! How do I get myself into these situations???

Then another old fiddy-something organized crime-looking fat guy with a cigar hangin’ outta his mouth goes “Hey! How come that guy’s (me) the shooter??” To which the guy who holds the shepard’s crook said “He’s got action” (obviously, this guy has never talked to any girl I’ve ever slept with….they’d all beg to differ.)

I mean, I’d seen this shit, like, on TV and in the movies……but I had nooooo clue. So I just hurled the dice to the far end of the table, and people appeared to be happy. I guess they were happy as long as I didn’t throw a seven. It was creepy…..as I rolled, they kept getting louder and louder and Fat Tony was slapping me on the back, and I felt like that kid in the Vegas Vacation movie (the one who ends up with the entourage of ‘hos...Nick Papagiorgio I think his name is)……I rolled for what seemed to be an eternity, then got the hell out of there….

• STILL looking for a "Run, Bucky Run" T-Shirt......

• Speaking of T-shirts, saw the best T-Shirt at the Seneca Niagara Casino: “Try Community College – It’s just like regular college, only easier!”

Back home soon.......

-E-

GOLLY!! They really don't mess around in Washington County.....

.........here's YET ANOTHER example about filing false police reports where I reside.


Oooooh.....'nother cute little factoid that I had no idea about and that a friend of mine just brought to my attention:

Misdemeanor arrest (i.e. - filing a false police report) + green card = deportation

A friend of mine back East had literally begged me not to press on with having her arrested. So, for my friend's sake, I called off the dogs.

HOWEVER, the next time this woman harasses either myself OR my family, she will end up being Assistant Master Control Operator at TV station CYUK in The Yukon.

'nuff of that, then....

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In Pittsburgh now. Great place....one of the few cities in the NorthEast where I would have not had a problem residing (except for the fact that the street system is laid out in a sort of organic pattern and if one does not know the lay of the land and the the way the roads follow the bases of the hills and mountains, you're simply not going to find your way around sans a GPS).

The Rocks bats go dead and they continue a lovely losing streak by losing to a team with thee worst record in Major League Baseball last night.....and I got to witness the spectacle two rows above field level right on top of the dugout in the nicest park in the Major Leagues (courtesy of a graduation gift from Bill and Marilyn Campbell......thank you friends).....


Well, I expect a better result by The Rockies today.

-E-

......and, a blog for unincorporated Washington County.....part II....

....as a post-script to my friends down the road from me in Aloha:

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/07/14/911.misuse.ap/




















Washington County Sheriff's deputies arrested the woman for this.

Perhaps this could serve as an advisement to another late 40's psychotic woman in Colorado that, as a Washington County Assistant District Attorney told me...............

.............Washington County don't be messin' around with those who be makin' false police reports.



-E-

A BLOG FOR ALL OF WASHINGTON COUNTY......



OK...OK.....FIRST OFF, I am publishing as a private citizen........NOT as a representative of any governmental agency or bureau or department whatsoever......




.....BUT, I've been reading about the huge controversy here locally: They're putting a Mega-Lo-Mart on the very edge of my local unincorporated area (Cedar Mill) but OFFICIALLY within the veeery outer edge of the City of Beaverton (who happens to be my employer)......the part of Beaverton that borders Cedar Mill.











People wanna lynch the bureau I serve, which really irritates me. They spew arrogant, ignorant and ill-imformed shit like "Unfortuniately, we were undermined by the Beaverton City staff....."

The Board of Design Review had to approve it, really, they had no choice...the City Development Code WAS followed....everything we did WAS DONE above board....and, by statute, it HAD to be approved. Neither we as planning staff nor The Board of Design Review tried to undermine ANYBODY!

A LOT of this came down to annexation! In my unincorporated part of Washington County (Cedar Mill), Beaverton sees a tony bedroom community (well, MY part of Cedar Mill certainly is not tony, but still, I had to use that word in this post) where it can provide essentially the same services that Washington county now provides, but at a much higher tax rate, according to some people!



















Hell, The Mayor of Beaverton (Rob Drake) even called The Mill "Bohemian"!!!! I mean....now, when the very pro-business Mayor of the City of Beaverton implies that the residents of your little hamlet are "Bohemian".....shit's just too funny....

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"...and then, Little Johnny, after the big, bad, evil (Phil) Knight was destroyed (in court), Nike happily joined the Beaverton Family, and we all lived happily ever after!"



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Discovered a GREAT blog by My People fighting back against The Crusades of the 21st century: Preemptive Karma

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I'll see some of you over the next week.....look forward to catching up on things....

-Ernie-

Random Friday Afternoon Ramblings.....

....Because I'm going to a place with zero internet this weekend......The Eastern Oregon High Desert.

I like the high desert....I despised it when I lived in Colorado, but I suspect that was more to do with how much I despise Denver and the brazenly materialistic ways of its money-grubbing inhabitants than with any Geographic ugliness.....

• AGAIN, RE-discovered why I really should avoid pub quizzes yesterday. Our team, with two extra players, still finished 13th out of 17......sad, really.....

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• I found the name of the trade lobbying organisation that represents the rent-to-own thieves I spoke about at length in an earlier post! Their name? No, I AM NOT making this up: "The Association of Progressive Rental Organizations" LOVE it! Why not refer to Nazis as "Progressive Neighbourhood improvement Specialists" or something like that!

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• Oregon gets awarded the first round playoffs of the NCAA men's basketball tourney for 2008. To obtain that, they had to have the State lottery discontinue state-run betting on NFL Football. Joy, now THEE only game where the state really doesn't hold much of an edge has just been removed from us, the bar owners are ecstatic because this will [theoretically] get more people addicted to video crack (video poker/video slots....available in ANY pub in Oregon), the State will lose a TON of revenue after they remove Sports Action (the name of the NFL betting game), and the FIRST round of the NCAA playoffs ALWAYS brings more flies than fans in attendance UNLESS A COLLEGE FROM WITHIN 100 miles is involved. I mean, in Portland's bracket, if, say, U-Dub (University of Washington), Stanford and Ganzaga Cheeze are in the Portland regional, OK, then, there will be some fans. But REALISTICALLY?? Come on.....A FIRST-ROUND GAME?? Do these idiots in the State Government think that tourists from ALL OVER THE U.S. (like they have been trying to dupe us....ooops, mean, sell us on) are going to come to Portland for a FIRST ROUND NCAA TOURNEY GAME?? Do you really think, if University of Georgia, or University of Miami, or Canisius College in Buffalo make it, and get assigned to play the first round in Portland....do you REALLY think that they are going to draw more than TEN FANS who will travel here to watch these first round games?? Restaurants and hotels are going to see NO significant increase in revenue during the first round of the tourney, and the State will be out MILLIONS lost from canceling Sports Action (NFL betting). Christ on a bike.....

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• So Ken lay died! NOW, who recovers money, if anybody! DOES his fortune go to his estate (his family)? Can a criminal court judge force the estate to turn over assets to Lay's victims? Can an estate be sued in Civil Litigation? Or does his family simply get to keep his wealth?? Should be interesting to see how it all plays out.....

........"heart attack" my ass!!!!

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See ya Monday.....

-E-

Just more fun than a barrel of monkeys.....

Interesting story on filing of false police reports and harassment.....

(CAREFUL with the above link: It has a very disturbing pornographic image, but I put this link up simply to display that one CAN fight back against harassment!!!!!)

......Oh joy!

Today, I get to pop down to Human Resources and advise them that a certain individual and her new sex partner are harassing me and sort of get them aware of what's going on (Lisa has attempted to telephone me at my former place of employ and fortunately has been screened out), show them E-mails and see if I can get any sort of protection from the police department (who also happen to reside in my building).

Always a LOT of fun, as it makes Human Resources think twice about what they did in hiring you ("....but, but, he didn't put on his resume that he had psychotic old women stalking him!").

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What to do if your ever stuck in this sort of mess??

• If somebody is making false police reports simply with the intent of embarrassing you and harassing you by having the police show up, have a speak with an Assistant District Attorney in your county of residence. This actually helps a great deal!

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OK....my public service for the day has been completed!

Just a quik note: LOVE the pun! MSNBC.com's headline: "Ken Lay Dead." Too clever.....

Random Sunday Afternoon Ramblings....

• Took the Cascades train to Seattle this weekend (COOOOL train). One of My People was leaving the Bureau of Development Services, and PDX B.D.S. farewell parties usually go after 1AM.....this one was no different! So I KNEW I wasn't gonna be in ANY shape to drive the three hours to The Emerald City to see my ballclub play, so I took the Cascades train!

• Shouldn't have tried to sing karaoke to The Jam's "Going Underground" after my forth Long Island......Paul Weller never slurred so nicely.....

• Rockies bullpen snatches defeat from Jaws of Victory!!! Still, though....they're not officially out of playoff contention by the middle of June, but rather with three well-played games (like, today would be a good start), The Rocks could be on top of the National League West Division in the middle of July (NO, this is NOT a mis-type)!!!

• Seattle's fans are still ignorant, arrogant and boorish (like, just getting up outta their seats and getting their fucking $12 Latte in the middle of an exciting play [and blocking everybody's view] instead waiting until a pause in the action), but SafeCo Field still isn't a bad place to watch a ballgame. It's certainly not thee best ballpark I've seen a match in (PNC Park in Pittsburgh is), and it's not as good as Coors....but it's not horrible, so.....

• PLUS....I got to see Jim Bouton toss out the first pitch!!!

• Happy 4th.....

(Sorry.....no .jpegs today.....I'm not on my computer)!!

-E-