Political Coffee 4-30-2020

Ode to my mother’s husband of 29 years, Richard “Dick” Borgaard-

The beast must be fed: Oregon demands taxes from lottery game purveyors even though they shut them down? What sense does that make? https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2020/04/state-of-oregon-wants-its-lottery-taxes-despite-shutting-down-video-poker.html

Turn criminals loose so they don’t get the virus? Parole board considering: https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/04/coronavirus-spurs-oregon-parole-board-to-consider-early-release-for-some-seriously-ill-inmates.html

Why did he lie? Konspiracy Kate Brown’s top doc gets caught in a lie: He said he didn’t know testing capacity but documents show the agency did know: Do you want to be tested to see if you have or had the virus? Oregon’s testing is up, only after the state allows more of em, except they are still restricting them. remember the stories about all the unused testing capacity we have?  https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/04/coronavirus-testing-rises-sharply-in-oregon-as-capacity-expands-guidance-loosened.html

Will you do business with a business that keeps track of you to satisfy Komrade Kate’s edict of contact tracing as a condition of reopening the economy? https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/04/oregon-restaurants-may-be-asked-to-consider-keeping-patrons-names-for-coronavirus-reopening.html

Incompetent Kate’s Employment Dept still has 100k unprocessed unemployment claims: https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2020/04/oregon-has-more-than-100000-unprocessed-jobless-claims-some-have-been-waiting-more-than-a-month.html

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