"Has anyone—beyond having a place to crash or let their dogs poop on the Astroturf—actually been helped to like, y’know, get off the street?"
The jogger on SE Hawthorne who just got mauled by a homeless drug addict's pit bull may spur a temporary compassion-break for the homeless. They often own dogs that do more than crap.
Even supposedly respectable Portlanders can be seen walking that breed a lot, with dogs that can easily pull away from owners who lack strength. The pit bull population of a given area seems to coincide with its crime rate. People who think they merely need to be rescued from "bad owners" are denying genetics. That pseudo-debate is symbolic of how Portland handles crime in general.
Speaking of "Pathological Altruism" I was reminded of a recent event in my neighborhood where a woman taking a jog was viciously attacked by a dog who was being supervised by a homeless Fentanyl addict who was given Narcam and the dangerous dog given a ride home while she had to depend on a citizen who was brave enough to rescue her. Only days before this happened I was taking a nice stroll in that very area over to visit my bank. I noticed a business that I made a mental note to later visit when I had the time. I once loved a walkable neighborhood now I may drive over if I go at all.
Don't worry about offending owners by crossing the street when you see them walking pit bulls. Those dogs are favored by a lowbrow mindset, sometimes dressed in respectable clothes. Their presence drags down quality of life and there are too many of them now.
I was nearly bitten in the Pearl District by a dog whose female owner simply shrugged after it made a fast lunge within a foot (typical detached smugness, but they'll whine endlessly about police errors). If her dog had been in full attack mode she couldn't have controlled it. This was not the first time, either. When you speak to those people, they tend to say nothing because they're trashy.
Had the same experience with a Rottweiler. I jumped and literally saved my keester. She couldnn't have controlled that beast to save her (my) life. I had never noticed the neck on those things until I looked closely at that one mid-leap.
Great article! I love this! They need to be reminded how incredibly stupid they are! From the top down! They have no common sense, and especially not Kafoury!
They think they can change the mindset of these Zombie Fentanyl junkies?? With milk and cookies?? And then, uh oh! It doesn’t work out?? And they have yet another empty building doing nothing for no one??
Mind boggling and absolutely maddening!
Why not invest in more POLICE??!!
The city is falling apart and the Fentanyl junkies are like starving coyotes. They just keep coming back. The city sweeps the Fentanyl camps, and tents in the Burnside Bridge and a day later they set up their tents again.
I have no compassion left. Pathological altruism is KILLING Portland and that Kafoury woman is leading the charge!!
Too bad the wide public acknowledgement of fentanyl's lethality didn't happen pre-Floyd. A fair trial for the sacrificial MN cop might have been granted. It never made sense that he tried to kill the gold coffin martyr in plain view, unless he'd planned to end his career that morning.
Chauvin was a moron. A stupid gung ho cop with no understanding of simple anatomy and how the human body works. He was told by two of his fellow officers to stop, they also were charged, and he ignored what they said. I have no sympathy for that moron. It was the perfect storm and it devastated America. He deserves every year he serves in prison. Floyd was no saint either, but he didn't deserve to be tortured to death like that. It was horrible...
While the progressives' solution to managing the drug and homelessness crisis continues at the pace of molasses, the city is rapidly being dismantled right before our eyes. Take a look at https://old.reddit.com/r/PortlandCriddlers/new/. Damage has been happening way more than I had imagined. I knew about the open-air drug use, break-ins, litter and poop. But our city's trees are being chopped down, bridge infrastructure is compromised, electrical outlets are wired into tampered city light fixtures, and RV explosions and tent fires are fairly commonplace now. Thankfully the $1000 /mo free money to the homeless bill just died in the legislature. Holy crap if that passed.
"It cannot be said enough: this is a crisis. That state agencies are so understaffed that the workload continually gets shifted to those that remain is unsustainable. It affects us and the folks that keep our state running." OMG - why won't people want to come and stay in Oregon???
The first byline on the Oregon Way piece says it all: Melissa Unger. She runs the state’s largest labor union, the Service Employees International Union Local 503.
When Melissa says, “Frog!” Tina Kotek jumps.
Melissa’s brother, Ben, served all of one tern in the state House and quickly realized where the power really was. He didn’t run for re-election and became executive director of the lobbying group, Our Oregon. He is now a political consultant in Georgia. Among his causes are climate change, Jay Inslee and psilocybin mushrooms.
When I shop at New Seasons during berry season, I keep an eye out for the Unger Farms brand — and don’t buy them.
No, climate change isn’t a leftist issue. If you politicize an issue — and leftists, in particular, have seized on climate change — watch the issue devolve into fundraisers and grandstanding like yesterday’s student walkout.
Those kids who turned out for a photo op in Pioneer Courthouse Square aren’t going to find energy solutions to fuel their comfortable lifestyle. It will be the students who stay in class and study.
Like you say, though, nature doesn’t care about our fate. It’s good to be reminded of that.
Rather speaks for itself:
https://katu.com/news/local/right-to-rest-bill-proposed-in-oregon-legislature-would-decriminalize-public-camping#
"Has anyone—beyond having a place to crash or let their dogs poop on the Astroturf—actually been helped to like, y’know, get off the street?"
The jogger on SE Hawthorne who just got mauled by a homeless drug addict's pit bull may spur a temporary compassion-break for the homeless. They often own dogs that do more than crap.
Even supposedly respectable Portlanders can be seen walking that breed a lot, with dogs that can easily pull away from owners who lack strength. The pit bull population of a given area seems to coincide with its crime rate. People who think they merely need to be rescued from "bad owners" are denying genetics. That pseudo-debate is symbolic of how Portland handles crime in general.
Speaking of "Pathological Altruism" I was reminded of a recent event in my neighborhood where a woman taking a jog was viciously attacked by a dog who was being supervised by a homeless Fentanyl addict who was given Narcam and the dangerous dog given a ride home while she had to depend on a citizen who was brave enough to rescue her. Only days before this happened I was taking a nice stroll in that very area over to visit my bank. I noticed a business that I made a mental note to later visit when I had the time. I once loved a walkable neighborhood now I may drive over if I go at all.
Don't worry about offending owners by crossing the street when you see them walking pit bulls. Those dogs are favored by a lowbrow mindset, sometimes dressed in respectable clothes. Their presence drags down quality of life and there are too many of them now.
I was nearly bitten in the Pearl District by a dog whose female owner simply shrugged after it made a fast lunge within a foot (typical detached smugness, but they'll whine endlessly about police errors). If her dog had been in full attack mode she couldn't have controlled it. This was not the first time, either. When you speak to those people, they tend to say nothing because they're trashy.
Had the same experience with a Rottweiler. I jumped and literally saved my keester. She couldnn't have controlled that beast to save her (my) life. I had never noticed the neck on those things until I looked closely at that one mid-leap.
Great article! I love this! They need to be reminded how incredibly stupid they are! From the top down! They have no common sense, and especially not Kafoury!
They think they can change the mindset of these Zombie Fentanyl junkies?? With milk and cookies?? And then, uh oh! It doesn’t work out?? And they have yet another empty building doing nothing for no one??
Mind boggling and absolutely maddening!
Why not invest in more POLICE??!!
The city is falling apart and the Fentanyl junkies are like starving coyotes. They just keep coming back. The city sweeps the Fentanyl camps, and tents in the Burnside Bridge and a day later they set up their tents again.
I have no compassion left. Pathological altruism is KILLING Portland and that Kafoury woman is leading the charge!!
Too bad the wide public acknowledgement of fentanyl's lethality didn't happen pre-Floyd. A fair trial for the sacrificial MN cop might have been granted. It never made sense that he tried to kill the gold coffin martyr in plain view, unless he'd planned to end his career that morning.
Chauvin was a moron. A stupid gung ho cop with no understanding of simple anatomy and how the human body works. He was told by two of his fellow officers to stop, they also were charged, and he ignored what they said. I have no sympathy for that moron. It was the perfect storm and it devastated America. He deserves every year he serves in prison. Floyd was no saint either, but he didn't deserve to be tortured to death like that. It was horrible...
“Pathological altruism.” That sums it up nicely.
While the progressives' solution to managing the drug and homelessness crisis continues at the pace of molasses, the city is rapidly being dismantled right before our eyes. Take a look at https://old.reddit.com/r/PortlandCriddlers/new/. Damage has been happening way more than I had imagined. I knew about the open-air drug use, break-ins, litter and poop. But our city's trees are being chopped down, bridge infrastructure is compromised, electrical outlets are wired into tampered city light fixtures, and RV explosions and tent fires are fairly commonplace now. Thankfully the $1000 /mo free money to the homeless bill just died in the legislature. Holy crap if that passed.
Meanwhile over at the Oregon360 Media substack, a couple of writers are concerned about the shortage of workers in the public employee system. https://theoregonway.substack.com/p/state-worker-crisis-deserves-attention
"It cannot be said enough: this is a crisis. That state agencies are so understaffed that the workload continually gets shifted to those that remain is unsustainable. It affects us and the folks that keep our state running." OMG - why won't people want to come and stay in Oregon???
This destruction is happening in every institution at every level in this nation.
The first byline on the Oregon Way piece says it all: Melissa Unger. She runs the state’s largest labor union, the Service Employees International Union Local 503.
When Melissa says, “Frog!” Tina Kotek jumps.
Melissa’s brother, Ben, served all of one tern in the state House and quickly realized where the power really was. He didn’t run for re-election and became executive director of the lobbying group, Our Oregon. He is now a political consultant in Georgia. Among his causes are climate change, Jay Inslee and psilocybin mushrooms.
When I shop at New Seasons during berry season, I keep an eye out for the Unger Farms brand — and don’t buy them.
Climate change isn't a leftist issue, you know. They may overreact to it in some ways, but nature doesn't care about the fate of any humans.
No, climate change isn’t a leftist issue. If you politicize an issue — and leftists, in particular, have seized on climate change — watch the issue devolve into fundraisers and grandstanding like yesterday’s student walkout.
Those kids who turned out for a photo op in Pioneer Courthouse Square aren’t going to find energy solutions to fuel their comfortable lifestyle. It will be the students who stay in class and study.
Like you say, though, nature doesn’t care about our fate. It’s good to be reminded of that.
and you are flirting with pathetic fallacy