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“…One of Oregon’s longest annual golf events — the LPGA Cambia Portland Classic — has taken notice of the crime and is moving its 2021 tournament away from Portland to Oregon Golf Club in West Linn.
The decision was made due to safety concerns, as organizers of the tournament cited a nearby homeless encampment as the reason for the move.
“It was a really tough decision,” said Tom Maletis, president of the Foundation. “We are frustrated and disappointed about the move. But it’s just something that we feel is best for the tournament and everyone involved.”
The event was scheduled to take place at Columbia Edgewater Country Club, a private golf club located on the edge of the Columbia River in Portland, Oregon. According to The Oregonian, the area around the golf course has become overwhelmed by one of the city’s largest homeless encampments.
The encampment is located close to the entrance to the private golf club, surrounding a nearby parking lot where attendees, players, and media would park their vehicles for the tournament.
The Oregonian states, “Both sides of 33rd (a nearby road) are dotted with run-down RVs, trailers, tents, makeshift housing structures, and mounds of rubble and garbage. As Portland’s homeless crisis has spiraled further out of control during the coronavirus pandemic, the stretch of road has quietly grown into one of the city’s largest encampments, transforming a tree-lined stretch with large bike lanes into an eyesore, fire hazard and — Portland Classic organizers say — a safety hazard.”…”
JUST IN: Anti-Kavanaugh protesters take over the Hart Senate Office Bldg. atrium on Capitol Hill. https://t.co/jCIbxhTKeu pic.twitter.com/DkOgzngMh4
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 4, 2018
"the protest happening behind me.. is by far the largest,most well organized protest against Kavanaugh I’ve seen yet this week.. after this announcement from Heidi Heitkamp she would vote 'No'..it gave a boost of energy to the opposition @GarrettHaake @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/ZgTRIZ6tMA
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) October 4, 2018
The party of fake
Hat tip to Kane
I take it back. I want MY REPARATIONS!#DoniTheDon pic.twitter.com/xbkUI7i93L
— Doni 🤓🏴🏴☠️ (@DoniTheDon_) June 25, 2021
Democrats are the root causal agent of most problems in our country.
Today, @DeputySecState Sherman and senior officials raised the progress pride flag at the Department. #PrideMonth pic.twitter.com/Lnnd0uzEP5
— Department of State (@StateDept) June 25, 2021
“…While the media and Democrat politicians have consistently called the lab leak origin hypothesis a “conspiracy theory,” a Fox News poll shows that 60 percent of US voters now believe Covid-19 was “created in China lab [and] leaked.” Thirty-one percent of voters still believe that Covid-19 “evolved from nature in China.”…”
“…As our Caroline Downey reports, the Justice Department will today announce that it is suing Georgia over the latter’s election-integrity law. This is ridiculous. The law provides for voting far more extensive than the Constitution’s minimal standards, and well beyond what, about five minutes ago, were state-law norms. The lawsuit is yet another sign, as if we needed one, that the Biden Justice Department is the Obama DOJ 2.0, an activist tool that puts the awesome law-enforcement power of the federal government in the service of woke progressivism.
This is not a surprise, of course. The lawsuit will be brought by DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, which Biden put in the radical hands of Kristen Clarke, for whose confirmation we can thank Senator Susan Collins of Maine, the lone Republican to assent. I wrote about Clarke when she was nominated:
At the all-important Civil Rights Division, Biden has appointed Kristen Clarke, a radical with a history of racist and anti-Semitic commentary. At Harvard, where she led the Black Students Association as an undergrad, Clarke publicly contended that blacks were superior to whites physically and mentally because their brains contain higher amounts of neuro-melanin. Blacks are also spiritually superior, she said, though she elaborated that this is not an attribute that can be “measured based on Eurocentric standards.”
Though she does not exactly come off like a career in stand-up was an option, Clarke would like us to believe that she was just joking — resorting to parody in her umbrage over the publication of Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein’s The Bell Curve. People seemed to think she was pretty serious at the time, as she took pains to cite Richard King, a psychiatrist and melanin/pineal-gland scholar, as authority for the proposition that melanin is “the chemical basis for the cultural differences between blacks and whites,” and the reason why “Black infants sit, crawl and walk sooner than whites.” (C’mon, you know you were wondering!) On a related subject, Clarke certainly seemed serious when she invited a notoriously anti-Semitic Trinidadian academic, Tony Martin, to expound on his theories about the racism of the Torah and the “Jewish monopoly over Blacks” — and when she later asserted, in his defense, “Professor Martin is an intelligent, well-versed Black intellectual who bases his information on indisputable fact.”
Clarke is dedicated to the proposition that identity — racial, ethnic, sex (including, of course, sexual identification), sexual preference, etc. — trumps merit. She made that clear in a recent interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson (embedded in this Paul Mirengoff post at Powerline). She swaddles this noxious ideology in the euphonious argot of “diversity,” much as [Attorney General Merrick] Garland, in his [confirmation] hearing, toed the Biden line of describing as “equity” the Left’s championing of discrimination against whites for the purpose of fighting “systemic racism.” Equity, in this construction, is the antithesis of equal protection under the law, that passé constitutional value it used to be the Justice Department’s mission to defend. Equal opportunity is out, disparate impact is in. Naturally, Clarke thus frets that if COVID-19 has hit black communities harder than others, it must be due to “racial bias.”
In a saner time, someone with Clarke’s record would not have been nominated because the incumbent administration would not want to run the risk of being associated with her views, and even if willing to run that risk, the president wouldn’t find enough votes in his own party to get her through the Senate. (See, e.g., President Clinton’s withdrawal of his 1993 nomination of Professor C. Lani Guinier to head the Civil Rights Division.) Three decades later, to satisfy his left flank, President Biden nominated Clarke because of her radical views, Democrats closed ranks around her, and Senator Collins went along for the ride.
These are still early Biden days. He may not be able to get much legislation through Congress, but there are no brakes on the Civil Rights Division — except the courts…”
Mask wearers will follow any lead, especially if it’s insane.
“We’ve never taken the position as a party that we should defund the police”
They know the media will cover for whatever lie they say. No one will call them on it.
The stupid media will trumpet this like it is true.