In Memory of those who have fallen in service to the Citizens

This event is to honor the 190 law enforcement officers from Canada and the United States that were killed in the line of duty during 2007.

Special honor will be paid to Marion County Sheriff's Office Deputy Kelly Fredinburg who was killed in an automobile crash, while responding to a call for assistance last summer. One hundred eighty-nine red carnations and one white rose will be placed at the memorial to honor the officers and Deputy Fredinburg.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008; 7 p.m.

Location: Department of Public Safety Standards and Training
4190 Aumsville Highway SE
Salem, OR 97317

Who was that Stealthy Tire Slasher?

The story running through the neighborhood has it, the Tire Slashings were quite extensive and quite expensive with some folks suffering more loss than others.

It seems it all stems from a neighbor confronting another neighbor about physical abuse being inflicted on a young dog (Pitt Bull) and that resulting in County Animal Control seizing the pup the next day and citing the owner for their actions.

So just as any red blooded, young American would do, the Dog Owner sets out to make things right by stabbing a whole bunch of tires in the neighborhood and that including the neighbor who fingered them on the Animal Abuse. They got hit extra hard.

There we have it, many people suffered a financial loss and most of them were totally uninvolved and unaware of the motive.

Best I can determine at this time there have been No Reports made to Police by those suffering Tire Slashings. (So much for crime statistics.)

I suspect for most the loss is less than their insurance deductible (assuming they have vandalism coverage), reporting the loss would likely result in an insurance premium increase, any Police investigation may give the Slasher reason to exact even more revenge and taking time to talk with Law Enforcement only compounds the losers losses.

Remember, in Marion County Car Thieves are given tickets and then sent on their way.

What the hey, if we allow foreigners to invade our land to pillage, rape and destroy their way across the country, they why worry about a neighborhood tire slasher?

Where you folks headed?

Friends just completed an extended motor home trip to Sun Country and explain that on their return they were stopped at road blocks 4 times when traveling North and West in New Mexico.

The Police were looking for Illegal Aliens.

He also mentioned hearing of the Border Patrol hiring thousands of new Agents.

How bout that?

Two little words are missing . . .

14 Mexican gang members killed in gunfight on U.S. border

It was a Mexican "Gang Fight" Gunfight.

No Policia were involved.

And, I suspect the same groups that are fussing over Drug Sales Territory here in Oregon.

What a fun Summer it will be!

Its here as of Last Night!

Tire Slashing in my neighborhood.

That along with bus shelter glass shattered and vehicle paint scratched or as its said today, keyed.

Its been creeping closer and closer and now its here.

Here in Salem where car thieves receive tickets for their dastardly deeds and also given a date to appear in court.

But then, here in Salem you don't get a ticket for running a red light except where the traffic cameras catch you.

So what do they give tire slashers . . . a bus pass.

Could it be?

Watching TV last evening I came across a cable access video of an Interim Legislative Committee meeting recorded earlier that day and titled, Comprehensive Revenue Restructuring.

Darned if they are not discussing "Reality" presented of late that Oregon has an economic problem (not an issue) and its time to decide what State programs are up for cuts as Tax Revenue is on the decline.

Who knows, they may even decide that we can no longer afford to give handouts to Illegal Aliens and other concerns as its time to stop the ever constant Traffic Accident Investigations as I think I heard mention of "Congestion" being a problem (not an issue). I can only assume they were speaking of traffic congestion and not such problems as to where one can park their bike.

As a Democrat I might ask,

Would Hillary and Obama both agree to a Cessation of Hostilities until a week before the Democratic Convention and take all the money they would have spent beating on each other and donate those amounts to the Red Cross.

It can be called Hush Money.

But as a Conservative I say . . . Sic'em!

Teddy's Excellent Earth Day Adventure!

Oregon's Gubner Ted Kulongowski set a fine example for all Oregonians on Earth Day by opting to walk from the Gubner's Mansion (Mahonia Hall) to the State Capitol building. Golly, that was impressive and a good hike at that.

Yes, Teddy walked from that old, cold, damp and creaky mansion monstrosity (with an old boiler that catches on fire now and then) the State owns and provides to the sitting Gubner. I must admit that wine cellar-ish barn is likely a great place to take a nap on a hot Summer afternoon.

So there we saw Teddy on the evening TV News walking through Bush Park when he just happened to meet up with a large group of high school kids when he delivered his memorized chant about the environment. It was the same old script he recites at these type of media opportunities be that a first grade class or a Legislative assembly.

But what I'm wondering is, did Teddy walk back to Mahonia Hall and the end of his day or did one of his handlers bring his SUV to the Capitol building? And, if so wouldn't that require two people and an additional vehicle and all wasting time and gasoline? Or, did Teddy walk home alone? Or, did somebody give him a lift home and then return to the Capitol building? Golly, that would seem wasteful.

What about the high school students that just happened to be waiting along the Bush Park trail. Had they been waiting in a warm school bus or did they walk from South Salem High School to meet Teddy and then wait for him standing outside in the bitter 40+ degree rain? Now, what do your think would be appropriate?

Oh yes, can we assume the State employees (Teddy's handlers) that morning had walked out to meet Teddy at the appointed location (about a mile from the Capitol) and the TV News crews with channels 2, 6, 8, 10 and 12 had they all bicycled there from Portland and all bring along all their remote broadcast satellite trucks?

Don't get me wrong but I was greatly impressed with Teddy's demonstration and I learned a great deal.

What most impressed me was learning how the environment would have been better served if Teddy had just stayed in the barn and his handlers hadn't arranged such a wasteful publicity stunt. A stunt with a Carbon Footprint big enough to stumble over.

An effort to thwart Darwin's Law

Nervous Nurse Nancy was on TV news tonight informing we Male Nits how to BBQ hamburger and how to do so without killing everybody in the family.

She gave us a nice little quiz during which we all learned how to wash our hands just like Mrs. Berger taught me in second grade and how to use a digital thermometer to make sure everything was cooked just fine.

I guess she ran out of time to further explain or just assumed that we will all ride to the store in our Super Safe SUV when shopping for the ground beef and wear our walking helmets when entering the store after parking our Super Safe SUV safely.

Perhaps I should wear my Highly Reflective Orange Safety Vest. You know the vest with the Yellow Stripe up the back so everybody knows I live in constant fear of being Unsafe as that would be an issue.

Gimme a break!

Riddle of the Week

What was worth $190 one year ago and today is only worth $98 and the price is dropping fast?

The answer is, a share of Sears Holding Group who owns Sears and Kmart stores.

See for yourself here: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=shld

Once upon a time I shopped at a Sears.

I gave it up when I found that many of their clerks didn't understand English all that well.

And, that over half the other customers didn't speak English at all, were more interested in TVs, Ghetto Blasters and Gaudy Clothing and going wild using their new Sears Credit Cards while letting their out-of-control kids run wild in the store.

Looks like I'm not alone.

When can we hire on?

News has it: One of the two person who received Bullet Wounds in Portland early this morning was a . . . Documented Gang Member.

http://www.kptv.com/news/15933394/detail.html

My questions are:

#1 How does one become a Documented Gang Member?

#2 Who Certifies the suspects Documents are legitimate?

My guess is that somewhere in the Portland Police Bureaucracy they have some staff members who are Certified Gang Member Documenters and likely some who are also Certified as Culturally Sensitive to a Level III.

I just got this hunch!

Who will be the Bigger Loser?

Another one of the suppliers suffering from reductions in New Home Construction is the United States largest provider of . . . Water Meters.

Yep, the lowly Water Meter, those things that sit in a underground boxes out by the curb. The meter that you paid for but belongs to the Water Department.

Water Meter Sales are what many see as a true gauge of the housing industry as they are to a residence what belly buttons are to people with everybody having one right from the start.

With Watts Water Technologies taking a 18% drop in stock value today alone (and a 41% drop from their peak in 2007) I can only wonder what Oregon's Nursery Growers might soon report.

My guess is there will soon be much less demand for Cheap Illegal Alien Nursery Labor once those who brought them to Oregon start to feel the pinch.

The part I like best about such a potential happening is imagining the reaction the Nursery Growers might enjoy when they tell the Illegal Aliens to "go home, we don't need you any more."

Drum vs. Plan

Have you as I ever wondered what Drum Sleepy Ted and the Libs are following as they continue to lead Oregon down the path of economic demise?

Such as today when the number of Oregon businesses are either in trouble or failing yet our Governor pushes ahead with such crazy and anti-business ideas as taxing motor vehicle users on when and where they drive and enlarging the Oregon Health Plan so as to attract more sick and poor people to the state.

Then it hit me, they are not following any Drum and find headline news completely irrelevant as they are . . . following The Plan.

This plan being driven by Neil and his people to create their Oregon Utopia as mentioned in Rob Kremer's Blog http://robkremer.blogspot.com/ introduction and those who I identify as . . . the Manhattanites or The Control Group.

My best suggestion is to not waste any time in trying to understand how you and I figure in all this nonsense . . . as we don't.

Well now!

I see that our StatesmanJournal's new News www Page even includes such reports a Police and Fire Call logs.

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=NEWS

This is where you will find daily listing of such events as Residential and Business Burglaries, Traffic Crashes and Stolen Vehicles occurring in Salem, Keizer, Polk and Marion Counties.

Golly gee, that just like the good old days.

But what about all the more commonly occurring and Diversity Embracing activities that we now enjoy including Rapes, Assaults, Gang Fights, Stabbings, Kidnapping, Car Jackings and Armed Robberies?

The S/J isn't still worried about ink costs and killing trees are they?

Then we wonder!

Headline: Former DHS employee sentenced for stealing food stamps

http://www.newsreview.info/article/20080415/NEWS/146014187/-1/rss02

Please note how they use the word "Former" as if to imply their crimes occurred after leaving DHS.

Brian Vogt, who along with his wife, fraudulently received more than $10,500 in public assistance.

Please note how they only "Fraudulently Received" as if to imply the money wasn't stolen. Perhaps some dastardly person left it on their front porch.

Vogt, currently a substitute teacher, will be allowed to serve his community service through his church, tutoring youth and adults.

Can't allow an educated educator to get away now can we?

I wonder what Special Education courses that effort includes?

Ouch!

The slowing of the economy is obvious with visiting just about any retailer and especially a Big Box store.

What's also obvious was the Quality of Customer hasn't changed yet . . . but it won't be long.

In the coming weeks they will be having Staff Meetings when managers will be stressing how important the All Mighty Customer is to their employment.

The only problem I can foresee with that is I will again need to race to keep up with clerks who insist on leading me directly to the item I seek.

These old legs don't move that fast any more.

Sublime Loans Continue!

Monday, President Bush released $200 million in US emergency food aid funding to help alleviate food shortages in developing countries.

Can we assume the check was drawn on a Equity Credit Line provided us by First & Last the Bank of China?

I'm waiting!

That to hear from the Oregon's Nursery Growers when they cry out for help with discovering the market for Landscape Shrubbery has tanked along with the Home building industry.

Not a lot to burn in a Greenhouse but as we have seen in the past, it can happen.

What I find most disappointing in this expectation is that now the Illegal Aliens will suffer little as they have already established a social and economic presence in the USA and don't need no Sink'en Gringo jobs no more.

Their Sub-Culture has become our foundation.

It only makes sense!

That why that in most cases when Stranger-on-Stranger violence occurs in the Salem area it usually involves Hispanics-on-Hispanics.

The usual purpose of these violent acts executed by one or more persons and inflicted on other one or more persons is to procure Cash and/or Drugs to be enjoyed by the winners of the conflicts.

No time for no stink'en Gringos with their Debit and Credit Cards.

All we gotta worry about is suddenly finding ourselves down range from an exchange

YoYos

Meth Strike Force Makes Bust . . . Again

Five suspects were arrested, charged and booked into the Marion County Jail. The suspects charges included racketeering, possession of a controlled substance, endangering the welfare of a minor and distribution of a controlled substance.

Two of the suspects, Delores Castro-Ordinola, 43, and Alejandro Cabera-Medel, 31, are previously deported felons, police said.

http://www.kptv.com/news/15850938/detail.html?treets=ptl1&tid=26575465688
13&tml=ptl1_8pm&tmi=ptl1_8pm_1_10000104102008&ts=H

What's missing here!

Today, the Oregon Center for Public Policy released new data that shows "Oregon’s Wealthiest are Pulling Away From the Rest."

http://www.ocpp.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?page=nr080408pullingb

In the story they claim "lawmakers should enact policies that promote opportunity, such as expanded job training, worker-friendly leave and child care policies, a more affordable higher education system and a health care system that is more accessible to all Oregonians." Oh yes, they also claim taxes are unfair to the poor but that is expected.

What the supposed in-depth study fails to address is how the middle and lower income families have Suffered the Greatest Loses resulting from the Illegal Alien Invasion and how the Upper Income groups have Benefited the most.

Curious? But then I see Juan Carlos Ordóñez is listed as OCPP's Communications Director.

What you don't see in Salem any more!

That be Junior or High School age kids (boys or girls) often walking alone most anywhere in the city, quiet neighborhoods included.

Occasionally you might see a boy riding a bicycle alone, but then obviously demonstrating their having a specific destination and moving right along. None ever giving evidence of casual purpose. Today, they travel like hunted animals hoping to escape their pursuers.

Its not like when you and I were young and finding nothing else to fill our time we would head out for a walk or a bike ride simply for the recreational value or off to visit a friend.

Today, if the kids are Gringo (non-Hispanic) they are never seen walking alone and often in groups of three or more. However, if they are Hispanic the are almost always seen walking in packs of four to six and then "demonstrating attitude."

So much for the Carefree days of Childhood, as today we have Embraced a Third World Culture and with that our young have lost many of those Freedoms we elders so enjoyed.

Shame be upon us all for we have failed our young.

Take a Look!

Interested in what Atzlan would look like had that area remained under Mexican control?

Then Google Map 'Satellite' the city of El Paso, Texas and Douglas, Arizona and see just two side-by-side border town comparisons where the difference is visible from hundreds of miles in space.

If you want more then Google view Brownsville, TX and other border cities or visit those places on the ground where you will find more shocking comparisons.

Next, please consider how those areas in Mexico that immediately adjoin the US have actually benefited from their being in that close association.

What stopped prosperity from spreading South?

Don't forget that residents of Mexico have enjoyed an equal access to mathematics as did Albert Einstein.

P.S. Count the sewage treatment facilities on both sides of the border as they are easy to spot.

As Jordan goes so does the USA!

As explained on C-SPAN tonight, the middle east country of Jordan is being overwhelmed with refugees from Iraq.

These people by majority are poor and uneducated and over the last few years their presence has driven the cost of housing out of the reach of many Jordanians and the financial demands on their social services is draining the government dry.

The panel members speaking see the situation as in a downward spiral that will come to no good without international intervention.

So who can we look to help us with our downward spiral caused by the Illegal Alien refuse entering the USA from South of our border?

Have we heard it all yet?

Buzz word BS continues to flow from the educators to the financial worlds when reality speak proves . . . hurtful.

This from Wall Street today: Il-liquidity caused some to De-leverage.

Or as was once said, Decline of equity positions caused some to Liquidate assets!

Or as was once said, Loss of wealth has caused some to . . . Sell everything!

Is that all there is?

Oregon Army National Guard Trains with SWAT Team

Soldiers of the Oregon Army National Guard 41 Special Troops Battalion will train with the Clackamas County Sheriff's Department SWAT Team.

The story explains this will help guide our National Guard troops in Iraq.

I have a hunch it will become a two-way street when the National Guard works to support SWAT in Oregon when the street gangs discover our Police forces are totally unable to stop their roving gangs from rampaging through our neighborhoods.

The day is coming and sooner than many suspect.

What's that Sound?

Schools Locked Down After Shots Fired Report

I am aware of schools now featuring ASA (Active Shooter Alarms) systems that are to warn all students and staff there is thought to be a Shooter running lose on campus.

But what do the Alarms sound like?

Are they a Whoop-Whoop like a submarine dive alarm, is it a loud Buzzer with tones like a Fire Station staff alert, or a Hi-Lo horn like the European Police cars?

Perhaps the TV News folks might make us aware as the next time when watching my grand daughter perform in a dance recital and some Alarm sounds I would like to know if I am run for cover or just follow her to recess?

Its a Cultural Thing!

Ramon Rivera Morales, 23, (of Pendleton?) was sentenced this week for raping a 13 year old girl.

The victim told the court, "didn't want for him to be there (in prison) for so many years. Even though he did this to me, I still have feelings for him."

Not to fear Carmalita, as he will likely be out in less than a year and together you can start dropping anchor babies.

http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2008/04/man_gets_15_years_in_the_slam.html