Oregon, My Oregon

 PJM's Vicky Taft has a roundup of idiocy from Oregon: West Coast, Messed Coast™ City to Become ‘Sanctuary’ for Men Who Dress as Women. 

It’s called a “student visa,” not an “activist visa,” and after revoking visas of four students at University of Oregon this spring, the Trump Administration has informed Oregon’s land-grant university, Oregon State, that it has revoked the visas of 13 of its international students.

It’s unclear why these students have been booted out of the country, but it’s clear that the Department of Homeland Security has been busily ferreting out anti-American anti-Semites involved in Gaza protests and violence for visa revocation.

[U]niversity spokesperson Rob Odom told The Corvallis Gazette Times that the quick timing by the Trump Administration caught them off guard.

While immigration records are terminated from time to time for different reasons, the suddenness of these federal agency-initiated actions nationally has led us to review student immigration records even more frequently so that we can provide support to those impacted,”

Odom says OSU will now join the lawsuit against the Trump Administration brought by the American Association of University Professors.

Oregon voters have got even bigger problems. More than 14 new tax increases have been considered in the state legislature by Democrats, according to the Oregon Taxpayers Association. Among the taxes are a 125% increase in wage taxes, a car tax, a 50% increase in the gas tax, a new tire tax, a 100% increase in DMV fees, a weight and mile tax for truckers, a vehicle delivery charge tax, an EV road use charge, a 63% increase in bike taxes, and on and on it goes. 

I’m beginning to sense a theme here. I wonder if they don’t like roads and cars there or something.

Danielle Chambers

While there’s a war going on against taxpayers, the Corvallis, Ore., city council has been preoccupied with the hurt feelings of a newcomer to its city.

A man (Danielle Chambers) who dresses as a woman, who moved to the city a year ago to undoubtedly do this very thing, has gotten the council to sign on to becoming a “sanctuary city.” The designation as a “transgender, intersex, and gender diverse people” sanctuary is believed to be a first in the state of Oregon.  Under the designation, kids can receive “care” that affirms their new gender choice, but not their factory-setting sex. To affirm their born sex is the banned “conversion therapy,” but to actually attempt to convert a person to the opposite sex is not. Got it?

The city will also “investigate instances of violence or discrimination committed against transgender, intersex and gender-diverse people and ensure that those communities have equal access to health care, housing, education and employment.”

And here along I thought Corvallis was relatively sane for a college town west of the Cascades.