Month: February 2017

by William Skink

News coming out of Helena is grim. Cuts to budgets are going to have very real impacts on vulnerable populations. For example, of the 4.5 million in proposed cuts to the judicial branch, child advocates will be on the cutting block–a cruel move that will also be fiscally compounded by the resulting loss of federal funding that will be triggered if this happens.

So, mean and stupid.

Luckily not all of Montana is being threatened by the machete of austerity. Here in Bubble Town (Missoula) Convention Center plans are being pushed through, labor is being told to fuck off, and development is happening all over the valley, despite any and all objections from the plebes for consideration.

I guess it’s the anticipation of all this development and coming tax dollars that helps city officials justify spending over $150,000 to make sure the visual atrocity of the Verizon store on Broadway never happens again.

I’m not kidding.  From neon Verizon outrage came the “Design Excellence Workshop” which will now gobble up tens of thousands of dollars:

That Design Excellence Workshop was born in part from complaints surrounding the new Cellular Plus retail store on East Broadway. The bright neon lights, corporate architecture and single use of a downtown property prompted something of a public outcry, and it set the city on a course to write new rules guiding the design of commercial buildings.

City staff and members of the council have since interviewed and selected a consulting firm to craft “character management tools.” If adopted next year, the tools would guide the design of new construction in Missoula.

“We hope to get a contract approved and moving forward this month,” said Laval Means, planning services manager with Development Services. “It would be a 16-month-long project, at the most.”

The selection team chose Winter & Co. to lead the planning process, and it set a budget of roughly $159,000. Of that, MRA would contribute $25,000 while the city commits $75,000. Development Services would provide the remainder.

Isn’t that fantastic? One ugly store gets built, and so many (of the right) people get outraged that the city finds over a hundred thousand dollars to create a whole new set of design regulations to micro-manage development so the visual offense of the Verizon store won’t be repeated.

In summary, while kids are losing their court advocates and dying from an under-funded CPS system that can’t protect them, Missoula is bankrolling signage Nazis to impose their sense of decorum on the future look of Missoula.

Way to go, Missoula

by William Skink

Nancy Pelosi said an incredible thing to a refugee from Yemen. For those Democrat supporters who aren’t familiar with the crisis in Yemen, it’s been directly enabled by former President Obama’s decision to support Saudi Arabia in its despicable attempt to blow Yemen to hell, damn the collateral damage.

But fucking Nancy Pelosi isn’t going to criticize Obama. Oh no no no. This is what Pelosi said to the refugee:

During her CNN town hall tonight, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi heard from a Yemeni refugee named Bushra who asked her about President Trump‘s travel ban.

She told Pelosi that her mother wasn’t able to get into the U.S. due to the ban, and she asked what Democratic leadership will do to help “ensure that more families are not torn apart.”

Pelosi said, “Your family is suffering because our president is reckless… and his administration is incompetent. How and why they did this is because they’re grand illusionists. Every time they have a problem with something, they create another problem.”

It’s almost like Yemen, pre-Trump, doesn’t exist. And Democrat warmongers don’t exist. And Saudi Arabia bankrolling Hillary Clinton’s failed campaign never happened.

This is one of many reasons I find Democrats so absolutely disgusting. Fuck your partisan outrage and selective memories, Democrats. This is why you lose and deserve to lose.

by William Skink

Today Ben Swann’s social media presence went dark. Those who followed the fallout of Swann’s brazen choice to report on Pizzagate knew this was coming from semi-cryptic messages Swann himself put out after a week suspension.

Ben Swann probably realizes he’s got a big bullseye on his back now. Pedo-networks are real, powerful people are implicated, and they don’t fuck around.

The Catholic church, Hollywood, CIA, Saudi Arabia–these are just some of the high and mighty entities suspected of being involved in human trafficking, sometimes profiting, sometimes partaking.

Why aren’t more people outraged over sexually exploited children? Maybe it’s just too horrible to acknowledge. Despite scandal after scandal after scandal, the stories just come and go. Poof!

I get it, it is horrible to imagine. If you have kids, it’s unfathomable. How could anyone abuse a child like that? It’s enough to make one hope hell exists so these monsters can burn there forever.

If you see Pizzagate and think fake news, there’s a pretty good chance you haven’t looked at the circumstantial evidence.

Don’t look. It’s easier that way. There is so much outrage already, I’m afraid delving into this particular gutter could induce a stroke.

So just forget it. Go save the refugees or the fetuses or, even better, read up on the disastrous cuts CASA is facing here in Montana, because budget shortfalls are a great reason to punish abused children by slashing funding for advocates to help them through the criminal justice meat grinder.