There are 3 things that are certain in life - death, taxes, and the price of subscription services will go up.

 

There are 3 things that are certain in life - death, taxes, and the price of subscription services will go up.

That would translate into "death, taxes, and inflation" ...

 

Second thoughts.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ha...gon-reconsiders-decriminalization-2024-02-18/


Measure 110 garnered support from 58% of voters, including 74% of voters in Portland’s Multnomah County. The law that resulted went into effect in February. According to an August survey by Emerson College, 56% of Oregonians support a total repeal of Measure 110; 64% support changes to the law.

 

Change is the only true consistency.

 

A good day at work.

 

There's a commercial, don't know if it's local or national, but a driver is passing a young colt on the roadway. The colt is separated from its mother by the steel barrier that lines the roadway. The man gets out of his truck and picks up the colt and puts it over the barrier so it could be with its mother. I like that sort of stuff.

Here, found it in the unedited version:

 

There's a commercial, don't know if it's local or national, but a driver is passing a young colt on the roadway. The colt is separated from its mother by the steel barrier that lines the roadway. The man gets out of his truck and picks up the colt and puts it over the barrier so it could be with its mother. I like that sort of stuff.

Here, found it in the unedited version:

That's sweet. We've done this with neighbors cows and their calves on the road then I was a kid on the farm.

 

Makes your blood boil.

I love that place.

 

No surprise there.

This is causing those that can afford (upper end earners and tax payers) to move, to leave Portland. It's starting to accelerated a Doom Loop of less money for services in the city like public schools that's accelerating. Now those that can barely afford to move are leaving.

Maybe we're all being warned to leave Oregon.

I wonder if the vaccine we got for this in the 70's still provides protection?

 

No surprise there.

Your politicians have blood on their hands.

This is the human cost of that ancient, evil, anti-human philosophy of which I often speak.

And it will only get worse.

As a side note: we have measles now down here in S. Fl.

 

Your politicians have blood on their hands.

This is the human cost of that ancient, evil, anti-human philosophy of which I often speak.

And it will only get worse.

As a side note: we have measles now down here in S. Fl.

An open air insane asylum.

I hope this is a powerful message to those that think decriminalization of hard, deadly, addictive drugs combined with look the other way policing is a sensible policy in America. I don't want to see this spreading.
Most of the surrounding cities have an invisible fence (active police enforcement for public intoxication, vagrancy, parking on the street, homeless shacks and tents, etc..) beyond the Portland city line to keep the zombies inside Portland.

You will sentence people to a slow, degrading and painful death, destroy your neighborhoods, cities and state in what seems the blink of an eye from what was only a few years ago, a wonderful place to live.
This is a failed experiment and the data is solid, it created a nightmare.

 

More drugs, more guns, more disease, more misery, more panic, more exodus. Soon there will be nowhere left to move. In elementary school I learned the rule "Adapt, Migrate or Die". Seems we can't adapt fast enough or migrate far enough. So what's left?

 

More drugs, more guns, more disease, more misery, more panic, more exodus. Soon there will be nowhere left to move. In elementary school I learned the rule "Adapt, Migrate or Die". Seems we can't adapt fast enough or migrate far enough. So what's left?

Here, there is plenty of space to move to avoid a rift in the common sense space-time continuum. 20 or 30 miles makes all the difference.

We could do like Star-Trek, a whole planet is banned with a dead sentence just for going there.

 

No. Star Fleet has the prime directive not to interfere with a planet's natural evolution. I have heard that over 95% of all species to have ever lived on Earth have gone extinct. That's what the planet does. It tries an experiment then moves on. Like the Young Bloods sing "We are but a moment sunlight fading in the grass." The sun is low and the sky is darkening. We're using up all the energy. They also say "Light overpowers the darkness." But being the stinker I am I always include "But darkness is eternal."

 

No. Star Fleet has the prime directive not to interfere with a planet's natural evolution. I have heard that over 95% of all species to have ever lived on Earth have gone extinct. That's what the planet does. It tries an experiment then moves on. Like the Young Bloods sing "We are but a moment sunlight fading in the grass." The sun is low and the sky is darkening. We're using up all the energy. They also say "Light overpowers the darkness." But being the stinker I am I always include "But darkness is eternal."

Sure but there was classified order in the series as shown above that superseded even the Prime Directive to protect Star Fleet from the inhabitants of the planet. The prime directive didn't have a death sentence and it was violated repeatedly.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/General_Order_7

Starfleet General Order 7 was a directive that forbade contact with the planet Talos IV. It specifically stated, "No vessel under any condition, emergency or otherwise, is to visit Talos IV."
...
In 2267, this was the only Starfleet regulation that carried the threat of capital punishment if broken.

So dangerous it was masked with a supermassive black hole effect. The top priority was to protect their own people from losing touch with reality (what these addictive drugs are doing to people today).

 

Whac-A-Mole

 

I'm not so sure this is entirely true, but I found it interesting nevertheless. (See? I used a comma in that sentence)

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I'm not so sure this is entirely true, but I found it interesting nevertheless. (See? I used a comma in that sentence)

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Let's eat. Children.

 

Let's eat. Children.

That definitely qualifies as a paragraph with a choppy style ...

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That definitely qualifies as a paragraph with a choppy style ...

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