Posted on 10/07/2006 8:53:26 AM PDT by Mr.Atos
You know Portland, Oregon?... it’s a suburb of Berkeley, California. Our Mayor rides bikes with the anarchists and spends federal tax money, i.e., your money, on light rail trains and skyway trams. Although a dangerously oppressive place for conservatives, it has its amusing moments of ironical hypocrisy. It is very common to see both of the following bumpers stickers: “War is not the answer” and “Trees are the answer” stuck on the same car, preferably a hybrid.
Ms. Cindy Sheehan will be in Portland Oregon tomorrow evening for a book signing. Sponsoring Cindy is two of the largest home-grown Portland businesses: Powell’s City of Books and the McMenamins Brothers. Powell’s has the local market on books – the downtown bookstore boasts itself to be the largest bookstore in the United States (I think) and the McMenamins brothers were pioneers in crafting microbrew beer.
My daughter went to elementary school with Emily Powell, Michael Powell’s daughter. When the girls hit middle school age, Michael, being the exemplary leftist elitist he is, hauled Emily out of the Portland Public School system and sent her to the most expensive private school in Oregon.
The McMenamins have made their fortune by purchasing and refurbishing run-down, local landmarks and turning the properties into brew pubs. The last time I went to a McMenamins, the price of a small salsa and chips ran about $7.00.
I find it darn interesting that a couple of fat cat capitalists, like Michael Powell and the McMenamin brothers would sponsor a Marxist like Sheehan, who along with her girlfriend, the sulphurous Hugo Chavez, exchange chit-chat with their girlfriend, Iran's Achmenidoodiehead, who happens to be flooding Iraq with the insurgents who are probably the same devils who killed Cindy's son. Cindy and Hugo like to talk about evil conservative Christians and the ‘end times”, but they bed down with the one man in the world who guarantees that he is going to make it happen. Sometimes I feel like my head is going to explode.
I would not be surprised at all to find “No Blood for Oil” bumper stickers on the cars of Michael Powell, Emily Powell, the McMenamin brothers, and all of the Code Pink sisters who will be attending tomorrow evening’s book signing.
You know, every single right-leaning event and lecture I have attending in Portland has ALWAYS been interrupted in one form or another by the lefties. I would have more sympathy for Ms. Sheehan if she wasn't using her son's death as her own profit-producing platform. Powells and McMenamins will be more than happy to sell beer and books tomorrow, but as far as I know, these guys do squat for the military families, who protect their rights to participate in the Capitalist system.
As long as we have carpet-bagging profiteers like the Powells and the McMenimin brothers, people like Cindy Sheehan will stretch out their 15 minutes of fame. They feed off each other and they cause great harm with their greed. Their appeasement is our suicide.
Can we please give them a dose of their own medicine? The email addresses and websites for Powell’s Books and McMenamins Brew Pubs are:
Thanks for the rant.
MCakes
And I have no idea what happened to the title of this post, which should have read, "Portland Welcomes Sheehan..." Admin if you'd please!
This should be worth a local ping!
Your personal insights are very revealing. I think the fat cats like Powell cultivate their leftist reputation in part at least to pandering to their customers. Their prime motivation is greed. "Hey, whatever sells!" is their creed and I think they believe Sheehan is a hot commodity right now.
It's sort of their way in deflecting. "How greedy could we really be if we support the left?"
Why don't you go, and politely ask this moronic gasbag when she first became a traitor.
Is it just me or is McMenemin's food awfully greasy and the service terribly slow? I've only been in one a couple of times (at the lunchtime request of co-workers) and was never impressed. I don't drink beer so I guess the whole pub thing was lost on me. The wait staff always look like dirty hippies too.
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