Political Coffee

Who’d thunk it? Kayne West and Chick-fil-A team up along with Anthem Blue Cross to deliver sandwiches/hand sanitizer to provide food to over 11,000 people per day in Los Angeles: https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/04/21/kanye-west-teams-with-christian-nonprofit-los-angeles-dream-center-to-provide-300000-meals-during-pandemic/ Idaho farmer gives away millions of potatoes for free because he can’t sell them: Dairy’s are dumping milk that could be given away for free so should Kate suspend raw milk rules and allow people to get for free? […]

More data from Professor Hinkley: it affects you. https://www.professorhinkley.com/blog/coronavirus-isnt-killing-oregons-economy-the-lockdown-is-1 Kate’s plan to re open Oregon: is it realistic? https://democratherald.com/news/local/brown-begins-to-map-out-plans-to-reopen-the-state/article_a8b2ec02-2e6a-55f6-9923-486502c60551.html More stories of unused testing: https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/thousands-of-coronavirus-tests-going-unused-each-week-in-oregon/283-42fc54be-507e-47f7-a8bd-335d32200d51 If Oregon adds presumed virus deaths to official toll, will that delay reopening state? https://www.wweek.com/news/state/2020/04/19/oregon-may-add-presumed-cases-of-covid-19-to-the-official-death-toll/ Kip Kinkel get out of jail early bill strikes again: where’s the justice? https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/04/not-even-judge-is-happy-with-short-sentence-given-to-oregon-teen-guilty-of-sadistic-sexual-murder.html SCOTUS stikes down Oregon’s non unanimous jury law: https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/04/oregons-nonunanimous-jury-system-struck-down-by-us-supreme-court.html

Kate lays out her conditions for reopening the economy but it lacks two things: advice from business and compassion for the mental health of people. https://www.opb.org/news/article/kate-brown-reopen-oregon-unemployment-budget-covid-19-interview/ Testing in Oregon could expand immediately, but Kate won’t allow it even though it’s one of her conditions to open the economy: one phone call could change it: https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/04/coronavirus-testing-could-expand-in-oregon-right-now-instead-tests-sit-idle-amid-restrictive-guidelines.html Professor Hinkley is back with long but stunning post about the un necessary lockdown and […]

Freedom Friday: Headline fraud: Oregonian story doesn’t tell you why small businesses aren’t getting funds to stay open based on Dems blocking more money: https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/04/feds-exhaust-emergency-payroll-loan-pot-frustrating-oregons-small-business-owners.html 20% of OR small businesses may close if shutdown going into May: it will be bigger. https://oregoncatalyst.com/47037-20-small-business-close.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OregonCatalyst+%28The+Oregon+Catalyst%29 The economic news is gonna be really bad in Oregon, unless you are a government employee: https://oregonbusinessreport.com/2020/04/early-signs-of-the-very-bad-economic-news/ Kate says she’s glad that Trump agrees with her on how […]

Kate sort of lays out conditions for re opening Oregon: just a head fake folks cause she’ll wait to see what others do first. Why? https://www.eastoregonian.com/coronavirus/brown-reopening-oregon-will-take-longer-than-we-want/article_5e9891d8-7e89-11ea-a3c4-d356f8eb4eb9.html Is it time for statewide ‘Open Oregon protests’? Happening big time in Michigan: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/coronavirus-stay-at-home-orders-protests-economy Forbes magazine article on Oregon: Interview with Patrick Gleason with ATR who authored the article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickgleason/2020/04/14/economic-downturn-comes-on-the-heels-of-one-western-states-multi-year-tax--regulatory-onslaught/#73fb86113078

The fish wraps says virus didn’t start in lab: disinformation a day after story breaks about https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/04/did-the-coronavirus-start-in-a-lab-no-but-more-than-a-quarter-of-americans-believe-the-conspiracy-theory.html Chinese factories shutting down: https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-factories-shutter-as-export-orders-dry-up-amid-pandemic_3310277.html When should Oregon reopen for business? https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/gov-brown-to-discuss-reopening-oregon-in-press-conference/ Stupid rant by idiot commentator at WW: https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/04/14/are-we-crashing-our-economy-for-a-fear-out-of-proportion-to-reality/

OHA tells churches they cannot offer communion on Easter Sunday: it’s unconstitutional and must be challenged legally https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/04/11/oregon-easter-rules-drive-in-church-services-allowed-but-no-communion/Apparently we U.S. taxpayers paid for the Chinese to develop coronavirus using bats after we gave them 3.7M in the bio weapons lab near Wuhan where it is alleged they sell animals used in the lab for experiments at the fresh market: https://www.infowars.com/global-bombshell-china-admits-to-developing-testing-covid-19-in-wuhan-level-4-lab/Daily Mail story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8211291/U-S-government-gave-3-7million-grant-Wuhan-lab-experimented-coronavirus-source-bats.html