Wayward Landlubber

I'm sorry rupublicans lost one of their influencers. Even worse, he was killed by the very weapon on which he and his Republican toadies have refused to place any sensible restrictions. Maybe this will change your behavior, but I doubt it. It's  too bad Charlie Kirk was killed while proselytizing in front of young collegians. It's too bad they had to witness the violence of that act. I will send them an email extending my thoughts and prayers.  You might think that is harsh, being so flippant in the face of one family's tragedy. I think this behavior-thoughts and prayers-has been, through the years, normalized by prominent rightwingers. It was the approved republican response for too many children killed at school by some unstable idiot with a gun and an attitude. Some of those children were as young as 1st or 2nd grade. It was the approved Republican response for people carrying groceries to their cars, while an unstable idiot with a gun and an attitude shot up the par...

My name is Larry Ramsay and I live in zip code 97301. This lawsuit is going forward challenging the Oregon Sanctuary Law so the US Attorney General can send in federal troops, along with ICE officials. Suppose you are successful; suppose Black SUVs are a daily presence in Portland, Eugene, and Salem. We will have people hired by the puppy-killer lady and the Attorney General cliche' for blond. Men and women who have been quickly hired and poorly-trained by these poor examples of leadership. Even worse some of them may be people who desire the excitement of gun-fire.  This is the script for another Kent State. Do you Madame Commissioner want your Visage splashed all over Facebook after such an event? I am not sure that this will help your political aspirations. The Republican regime in Washington DC will stink up the way local republican politics will be regarded for years to come in Oregon because they will be here telling you how to do your job, if you know what's good for you...

She's gone.  As of 3:45 pm Pacfic Standard Time.  I walked in with my companion of the last 7 years.  My emotional comfort cat.  She has not wanted to be with me  for the last three days, She hid from me and scooted away from me  if I tried to reach into her space.  I had to pull her up by her scruff To put her in her cat carrier.  She used to like the carrier. And I walked out with my cat carrier And Gracie's bling collar.

My name is Larry Ramsay and I have deep connections in the mid-Willamette Valley. Both my parents went to high school in Molalla. I have kin buried in graveyards from Eugene to Portland, and towns in between. I know when there was no whiskey in Whiskey Hill, and how Liberal is not liberal. I picked hops in St Paul and bucked hay a bicycle ride in any direction from Woodburn. I stand before you having spent all but my first 6 years in Marion County. I left for a while after 20 to travel some, I came back. Every person in this room can find an ancestor who migrated here from somewhere not here. They weren't called illegals in those days, but they were accused of many of the same crimes as these people of color that Republicans can't abide. Some may have been guilty, some might have been hanged unfairly. Many just wanted a better place to live free from the oppression their extended families grew up with. I live in a blue state and that pleases me. Idaho may be a beautiful state, ...