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Portland launches home share pilot program to tackle housing crisis
koin | Mar 2, 2026 | Amanda Rhoades

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Portland homeowners can now earn extra cash by renting a room out through the city’s new home share pilot program.

The Portland Housing Bureau announced last week that it is offering one-time grants to homeowners who rent out their spare rooms using a qualified home share provider.

In a press release, Mayor Keith Wilson said the city is exploring ways to utilize existing housing as part of its ongoing effort to address the housing crisis.

“For many Portlanders, home sharing is a win-win solution, helping homeowners to supplement their incomes while providing low-income tenants with affordable housing options,” he said. “We’ve seen similar programs thrive in cities across the nation, and I’m excited to offer incentives and support to boost home sharing in our community.”

Homeowners who meet all requirements can receive $1,000 for the first room, and $500 for each additional room after the first 30 days of leasing.

The rooms must be made available for at least 12 months, and rent cannot exceed $200 per week, including utilities and fees. The rooms also cannot have been rented out within the last 12 months. Tenants may not be members of the homeowner’s family or household, and may not be charged a security deposit.

Fareed Dumb’s Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Losers

In Which We Applaud Fareed Zakaria for Belatedly Seeing the Blindingly Obvious
PJ Media | 18 Nov 2025 | Stephen Green

… CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, finally noticing what conservatives have known for years.

… While congressional Democrats “promised wonderful sounding new programs” like free childcare, in the real world, they “preside over bloated bureaucracies and inept execution.”

“Government that promises more costs more, but delivers less,” something he called “a paradox that defines much of blue state America.”

Merely an Exemplar of Our Times? Or a Metaphor for Our Times?

Shocking Video Shows Bull Runner Gored as He Checks His Phone
New York Post | Sep. 10, 2023 | Jane Herz

At an Aug. 30 “bou embolat” (bull with balls) event in Alcàsser, in the Valencia province of Spain, a runner was attacked while playing with his cell phone.

In shocking video obtained by CEN Media, the muscular bull, with burning balls of flammable material attached to its horns, is seen charging towards the young man, who is distracted by his phone.

He barely sees the bull until the very last second — but by then, it was too late.

As he tries to escape, the unidentified man trips and falls. The bull is seen trampling him as spectators scream in the background. The bull wore flammable material on its horns.

The Stupid, it burns!

Haven’t done one of these in a while but this one is just so precious. I am wondering, do liberals genuinely not want to see minorities in any STEM program? I mean, come on man! If you tell students that their ain’t no such thing as a “right” mathematical answer and that “showing your work” is a racist White Supremacist concept surely that is what they are hoping to achieve, ain’t it? I guess if they push to get the “A” for arts added to make it STEAM that could help with expanding minority participation, but then you might as well go ahead and include the “BW” basket weaving, and “ARS” AntiRacist studies majors as well.

Well, you can disbelieve me if you want but here is the full article. Go ahead and read it.


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A sample of the stupidity, don’t let it burn ya!

Examples of “white supremacy culture” cited by the document include a focus on “getting the ‘right’ answer” and requiring students to show their work.

Glenn Ricketts, Public Affairs Director for the National Association of Scholars, told Campus Reform that the course illustrates that “no aspect of the educational process at any level is off limits for the social justice indoctrination.”

“Mathematics was once considered immune: after all, doesn’t 2 + 2 = 4?” Ricketts said. “But as I have read recently, the problem that math and arithmetic insist on correct answers is actually a hidden form of ‘white supremacy,’ as everything else is as well.”

I’ll wait for you to stop all of your sobbing, just keep it to under a few hours, I have to get to the golf course.

The Stupid, it burns!

To be fair stupidity is not limited to the United States. It appears that even military types overseas can be pretty durn stupid. I don’t know if it can rival our pledge to recognize the lived experiences of others but it certainly can give it a run for it’s money.

NATO chief suggests battle tanks with solar panels as militaries go green

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Yes folks, they are serious.

Nato should examine how it can power tanks and jets with alternative energy, such as solar panels, to reduce its carbon emissions, the alliance’s secretary general said.

Reducing reliance on fossil fuels would also make troops less vulnerable to attack because they would not have to rely on long supply lines getting fuel to the front line, Jens Stoltenberg said.

The Nato chief suggested that militaries should advance research into low-emitting vehicles because of the advantages they bring, at an online seminar titled New Ideas for Nato 2030.

“Nato should do its part to look into how we can reduce emissions from military operations,” he told the Chatham House event. “We know that heavy battle tanks or fighter jets and naval ships consume a lot of fossil fuel and emit greenhouse gases and therefore we have to look into how we can reduce those emissions by alternative fuels, solar panels or other ways of running our missions.”https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/nato-chief-suggests-battle-tanks-with-solar-panels-as-militaries-go-green-1.1160313

Even others on the net comprehend the burning stupidity.

The stupid, it burns … an M1 tank gets 0.6 mpg. A gallon of diesel contains ~ 40 kWh of energy. A solar panel puts out ~ 1 kWh per day. A solar panel is about 17 sq. ft. You MIGHT fit four of them on an M1 tank without impairing the weapons and sensors. Then you’d need four Tesla Powerwall batteries, weight half a ton.With that setup, every ten days you could move your tank 0.6 miles …w.

Read it and weep as the saying goes.

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Be Afraid, the Stupid it Burns!

I couldn’t decide which group this should be in. Then I decided why not both? So in case you missed this.

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Now first off I want to apologize to anyone who served this country with distinction and dedication. I salute your service. But if you don’t read this and cry you are braver than I.

Navy task force recommends pledge to respect ‘intersectional identities’ in attempt to combat all forms of discrimination

Now personally I want, in the immortal words of Saint Rushbo (PBUH), a military that can break things and kill people. I don’t think that is the mission any more.

“I pledge to advocate for and acknowledge all lived experiences and intersectional identities of every Sailor in the Navy,” the proposed pledge reads. “I pledge to engage in ongoing self-reflection, education and knowledge sharing to better myself and my communities. I pledge to be an example in establishing healthy, inclusive and team-oriented environments. I pledge to constructively share all experiences and information gained from activities above to inform the development of Navywide reforms.”

You just know that Xi and Vlad are just quaking in their boots.

Can it get worse. Checks magic 8 ball. Yes, yes it can.

“At the command level, we need to: a. Start a dialogue with your superiors, peers and teams and listen to their personal stories and experiences. If we have not directly experienced racism, sexism, ageism, or other forms of discrimination, it is often difficult to realize they exist,” the report said. “However, they do exist in our Navy and country, and it is our responsibility to eliminate them. b. Keep the conversation going. Practice inclusion every day by integrating Sailor and civilian perspectives in early stages of problem-solving and idea generation. In each meeting you have and problem you tackle, include all perspectives to gather varied points of view that will help you make the best decision.”

Sticks and stones may break bones by names will really, really hurt you.

The task force also tackled issues relating to the treatment of gender minorities, updating ship and street names on installations, and countering hate speech.

What happens when the military stops meeting it’s recruitment targets. Just asking. For a country.

The Stupid, it burns!

So the clown show continues.

Today’s installment brings us the concept that you are white when the left deems you to be white even if you aren’t white. And that goes doubly for hispanics who are technically white, except when the Left wants them to be brown but if they wrong think they go right back to being white again.

Confused?

Get used to it.

EGADS! NYU Prof Attributes Black Trump Support to ‘Multiracial Whiteness’

“What are we to make of [Afro-Cuban Proud Boys President Enrico] Tarrio — and, more broadly, of Latino voters inspired by Trump?” she asks. “And what are we to make of unmistakably White mob violence that also includes non-White participants? I call this phenomenon multiracial whiteness — the promise that they, too, can lay claim to the politics of aggression, exclusion and domination.”

Now who can argue with such genuine Liberal gibberish?

“Multiracial whiteness offers citizens of every background the freedom to call Muslims terrorists, demand that undocumented immigrants be rounded up and deported, deride BLM as a movement of thugs and criminals, and accuse Democrats of being blood-drinking pedophiles,” the NYU professor argued. “Here, the politics of exclusion, violence and demonization are available to all.”
I, for one, don’t think Democrats are blood drinking pedophiles. Well, not ALL of them.

By this standard, even Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous maxim in his “I Have a Dream” speech — asking to be judged by the content of one’s character rather than the color of one’s skin — constitutes some form of “multiracial whiteness.” Even George Orwell would not have predicted this horrifying doublespeak.
So, MLK is ours now? And you know Jackie Robinson was a Republican. Just sayin’…

The Stupid, it burns!

Welcome to a new feature we will, unfortunately, probably adding to quite frequently.

Our first installment comes from Congress. (I know, I know, easing pickings but this really fits the definition of “The Stupid, it Burns!)

Dem. Congressman Concludes Congress’ Opening Prayer With ‘Amen…and A Woman’

The Democrat congressmen invited to give the invocation for the opening of the 117th U.S. Congress is making the rounds on social media for concluding his prayer in…well, a highly unusual way.

And by “unusual,” I mean “unusually stupid.”

Democrat Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a United Methodist pastor and  the representative for Missouri’s 5th District, concluded his prayer by dedicating it “in the name of the monotheistic God, Brahama, and god known by many names by many different things,” with “Brahama” referring to the primary creator god in Hinduism.

He then bizarrely finished his prayer with “Amen…and a woman.” 

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