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'19 shootings in 54 hours. Stunning' Portland police chief slams city's spiraling violence - which has seen it break annual murder record - and blasts furious calls from woke critics to defund his department

  • Portland saw 19 shootings over 54 hours between early last Friday morning and Sunday evening, which the city's police chief called 'stunning'
  • The violence ended with a double homicide in the city's Old Town neighborhood
  • Suspect Michael VanDomelen, 45, was arrested after allegedly shooting the victims, an unidentified man and woman, while he was high on meth
  • Oregon became the first state in the USA to decriminalize the possession of small quantities of any illegal drugs, including crystal meth, in 2020
  • The two deaths are registered as Portland's 71st and 72nd homicide this year, surpassing the city's previous annual record of 70 set in 1987
  • Portland has had about 1,000 shootings with 314 people injured by bullets so far in 2021
  • Homicides increased by nearly 30% across the country from 2019 to 2020, FBI data shows
  • Police have blamed the rise of deadly crime on staff shortages and budget cuts
Maybe defund the police wasn't such a good idea.
We have an idiot governor and Portland has an idiot mayor.
Oregonians will never get it.
 
On Wednesday, the NIH sent a letter to members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce that acknowledged two facts. One was that EcoHealth Alliance, a New York City–based nonprofit that partners with far-flung laboratories to research and prevent the outbreak of emerging diseases, did indeed enhance a bat coronavirus to become potentially more infectious to humans, which the NIH letter described as an “unexpected result” of the research it funded that was carried out in partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The second was that EcoHealth Alliance violated the terms of its grant conditions stipulating that it had to report if its research increased the viral growth of a pathogen by tenfold....

...the NIH letter—coming after months of congressional demands for more information—seemed to underscore that America’s premier science institute has been less than forthcoming about risky research it has funded and failed to properly monitor. Instead of helping to lead a search for COVID-19’s origins, with the pandemic now firmly in its 19th month, the NIH has circled the wagons, defending its grant system and scientific judgment against a rising tide of questions. “It’s just another chapter in a sad tale of inadequate oversight, disregard for risk, and insensitivity to the importance of transparency,” said Stanford microbiologist Dr. David Relman. “Given all of the sensitivity about this work, it’s difficult to understand why NIH and EcoHealth have still not explained a number of irregularities with the reporting on this grant.”
 
I heard there was an elementary school in Los Angeles who took a field trip to a gay bar recently. This was to let them know that if this interests you once you reach puberty, it is available. More "Woke" ****.
 
A book "Gender Queer" which describes gay sex explicitly is being put in school libraries. A parent in Orange County Fla. read passages from the book at a school board meeting and was removed for being vulgar by the same board that approved the book.
 
That just made my day. Man people are funny. I am all for same sex... well, i suppose any sex, but how much you wanna bet this book was approved with no one reading it and just on the merit that it was inclusive of homosexuality because, well.... ra ra ra inclusive. That really, really did make my day and I was having a fairly bad day so thanks.
 
I heard there was an elementary school in Los Angeles who took a field trip to a gay bar recently. This was to let them know that if this interests you once you reach puberty, it is available. More "Woke" ****.
To be fair, when we were in elementary school we went to a saw mill and a dairy farm. I am gonna go out on a limb and say the gay bar would be a hell of a lot more fun :)
 
By the way,

No Twix candy bars for me, ever again. They go "Woke", I go away!
I honestly feel bad for a little boys that have those kind of issues. In reality I don't believe in the next hundred years there's ever going to be a day when that is 100% accepted by everybody and considered 'normal'. Same goes for the other 75 genders that people think exist.
......in some people's minds.
 

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