Today’s post is essentially four videos. The first one is a survey of the exploding homeless camp terrain using my clandestine Lego Meth Lab educational tool. This area near Lion’s Park will be the subject of a post for next week.
The second video is a chat with someone who approached me while I was documenting this disgusting scene. The third video is my visit to the Missoula Office of the Department of Environmental Quality inquiring about permits for my Lego Meth Lab. And the final video is a song about, you guessed it! My Lego Meth Lab!
Before continuing, make sure to check out my article this week at Western Montana News because it’s about the tactic known as LAWFARE and the possibility that I’ve become a target of this form of attack. If you understand that one big consequence of LAWFARE is the financial hit one takes in order to defend oneself, then you’ll understand why I make requests for financial assistance through Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF).
One of the benefits of having a meth lab made of Legos is that the chances of an explosion are minimal. Since safety is important, I do have a member of the Lego fire fighting crew on hand in case there’s a need, like an exploding propane tank.
On Tuesday, it was likely a propane tank that exploded at the homeless camps around Lion’s Park. This isn’t the first explosion that fire fighters have had to deal with at the camps in this part of town. Back in January, several fires led to an explosive situation. From the link
Fire officials said a space heater set fire to the tent before several propane tanks exploded. No injuries were reported, but everything was a loss.
Earlier this month, fire crews responded to reports of a fire and explosions on a river island off California Street. In that incident, crews arrived to find a 16-foot fire in a pit filled with garbage.
The fire also caused several propane bottles to explode, with fragments nearly hitting first responders.
Yep, this area is a lot of fun for first responders, like earlier this week when a knife-wielding woman was threatening campers. Isn’t it great that so many caring people in Missoula support these campers and their supposed right to blow shit up around them while engaging in other violent, threatening behavior?
This backdrop of urban camps exploding is fun to keep in mind as you consider the boring, yet highly important effort to revamp zoning laws in Missoula. Here’s Grant Kier of the Missoula Economic Partnership discussing this issue in an article from the boring publication, The Pulp:
“All of the data tell us that it is possibly the hardest time in generations for a person starting out to own their own home,” said Grant Kier, CEO of Missoula Economic Partnership, which monitors the housing market for its crucial role in creating a vibrant, resilient local economy.
Missoula’s housing deficit goes back to the years following the Great Recession, Kier said, when the community fell 3,000 housing units behind its immediate needs. Adding to that deficit, the rate of new building is not on pace with Missoula’s growth projections.
“If the community could do one thing, it would be more tolerant to changes to their built environment,” Kier said. “That will lead to changes in housing affordability that will allow more people to live here and will reduce accelerated rates of homelessness.”
And here’s Grant Kier meeting my Lego Meth Lab:
Will MEP join my vision of BETTER METH/BETTER OUTCOMES for our urban camping community? I sure hope so! If not, don’t worry, my Lego Meth Lab is a VERY inspirational educational device that I’m sure will garner some kind of monetary support as I make my rounds around Zoom Town.
You don’t have to wait for a visit from my meth lab to help me out financially, just click on Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF) and donate today!
Tomorrow’s post will have a link to my Western Montana News article, and a song about my Lego Meth Lab, so stay tuned!
I took this picture of an “urban homeless camp” AFTER a sign warning that a cleanup was going to happen was posted in the area near Jacob’s Island. Well, the sign isn’t there anymore, but the camp sure is, which brings me to the question posed in the title of this post: did the Supreme Court decision on homeless camps really change anything?
A news article from Yahoo news caught my attention recently because it highlighted what happens when a Sheriff’s Offices doesn’t want to enforce the law, and what happens is NOTHING. From the link (emphasis mine):
In the Seattle suburb of Burien, Washington, city leaders are battling with the county sheriff, who runs the police force, over the enforcement of public camping bans. Citing concerns about constitutionality, the sheriff’s department has declined to take action, even after the Supreme Court ruling.
For geographical context, Burien is south of Seattle and located in King County, the most populous county in the state of Washington, so it would be the King County Sheriff’s Office that the city of Burien is “battling” in order to get them to enforce the law. Isn’t that interesting?
Back in Missoula it’s just a normal day of knife wielding at the homeless camps near the California Street footbridge, but for some strange reason the person doing the knife wielding was arrested. Why? Didn’t the cops take into account the fact this homeless person has both a vagina AND dark skin?
From the link:
At approximately 6:27 p.m. on July 11, 2024, a Missoula Police Department Officer was dispatched to the area of 501 North California Street. The 911 complainant said there was a female with a knife swinging it at people. Another officer contacted the female on the bike path west of California Street. Officers could see the knife in her right pocket. Once the officers gained positive control of the female, they removed the knife from the female’s right pocket.
The officer placed her in the back of his patrol vehicle and read her Miranda warning. She refused to answer any questions regarding the incident. The female was identified as 64-year-old Linda Rodriguez.
To stay in knife-wielding shape, Missoula has a great medical provider for Linda to access when she gets out of jail, called Partnership Health Center. I still follow a former administrator of Partnership Health Center on Facebook because she’s a poet and someone I once appreciated in my former life as a homeless service provider.
Here’s an article from 8 years ago about her role in expanding services for those in need:
When Mary Jane Nealon first arrived at Partnership Health Center in Missoula, the facility was viewed as a free clinic serving middle-aged adults at the lower end of the income spectrum. It’s operating budget was a few million dollars and its services were somewhat limited.
But with an $8 million renovation now complete and a new medical residency program firmly in place, the center’s image as a free clinic serving the poor is a thing of the past.
Partnership’s operating budget now stands at $22 million and its staff of 45 physicians saw more than 15,000 unique patients last year for a combined 60,000 visits. It’s pharmacy prescribed 90,000 medications in 2015, making it one of Montana’s largest.
“I don’t know that our patient population is driving the growth as much as opportunity,” Nealon said. “The family residency program was a huge opportunity for us because, in the past, we had providers who didn’t want to work with children. They were internists or family nurse practitioners focused on adults. What the residency has done is really bring in families.”
I’m bringing Mary into this post because what she posted on Facebook indicates she’s suffering from a serious condition that many liberals have fallen victim to, and that’s TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME. Because of this difficult-to-treat psychological condition, Mary appears to think Trump’s use of language justifies the use of violence against him.
About a week previous to this lovely comment, Mary thought her thoughts on Biden were important enough to share with her followers. Here’s what she wrote about Biden NOT stepping down:
Thinking this east coaster still resided in Missoula, I made a comment, and this is how she responded:
Actually, Mary, what’s not helpful is the warped liberal mindset that’s taken hold of millions of Americans who can no longer think clearly because Trump is such an existential threat to them. Add a complicit propaganda machine operated by shit-heels like Rachel Maddow, and it’s amazing what can be done to vulnerable minds.
While brain damaged liberals throw deranged social media tantrums, truth-tellers like me are getting pummeled by the underhanded tactics of nasty political creatures and influencers. Tomorrow, at Western Montana News, I’m working on a plea for legal help as I wait for a decision from the County Attorney’s Office about whether or not I’ll be facing felony charges. I’ve received quite an education about our legal system over this past year, and when I’m able to, you better believe I’ll be describing what’s been done to try and shut me down.
If you would like to help a beleaguered local journalist who has the temerity to describe REALITY, as I see it, on the ground, then please consider donating to Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF). Any little bit helps.
After Andrea Davis was elected Mayor last year, she wasted no time traveling to Harvard to get her marching orders from the globalists. No other Mayor in Montana felt it necessary to visit an exclusive east coast institution for matching orders, so why did Missoula’s Mayor feel like she needed this PROGRAMMING in order to do her job?
Here’s a quote from the Current’s latest “reporting” on our Mayor is getting programmed at Harvard (emphasis mine):
In a press release, the city said Davis is among 39 mayors who comprise the program’s eighth class. The leadership program provides senior executives the tools they need to address “increasingly global challenges.”
“You can share ideas, support each other, get straight scoops on the good, the bad and the ugly,” Davis said in a statement. “Sometimes it’s the recognition that we are in this together. There’s that collegial affirmation. The reality is that we are dealing with so many of the same issues.”
Yes, I agree, there are GLOBAL issues that the globalists create because they want to impose their globalist solutions, and weak leaders, like our Mayor, are choosing to expose their weak minds to this garbage. Unfortunately one thing Mayor Davis will not learn at Harvard is that going WOKE is a precursor to going BROKE.
If Mayor Davis would like an example of a business going woke, then going broke, here’s my reporting on the hilarious effort to rebrand a burrito business from the insensitive name NINJA MIKE’S to a more woke name, like Golden Yolk Griddle: Good Hens Get Golden Product Placements, Not Ninjas (February 15th, 2021).
Earlier this year I even specified that the location of the Golden Yolk, like the library, is particularly hard to turn into a successful business because some patrons of Mountain Line have problematic behavior.
Here’s what I wrote last February about the closing of the cafe inside the library:
Since I worked in homeless services for nearly a decade, my bias is toward crediting the challenging patrons of the library for creating a less-than-ideal environment to sell coffee and snacks. This is the same challenge that Subway and Ninja Mike’s experienced at the retail spot by the main bus transfer station downtown, so it’s a good thing Ninja Mike’s rebranded themselves for woke money to become the GOLDEN YOLK.
For more context on the Golden Yolk name change, here’s what I quoted 3 years ago:
Beloved Missoula restaurant Ninja Mike’s announces that, beginning today, it will operate under its new name: Golden Yolk Griddle. With its complete rebrand, the community relationship-centered business can better pursue its mission of offering Missoula delicious, consciously-sourced meals.
“We want to be a supportive force for justice and equity in our community and commit to an anti-racist action plan for our business,” said Golden Yolk Griddle owner Ethan Siegel on the decision to no longer continue under the Ninja Mike’s brand. “Changing our name is a necessary first step in this continuous work. We are glad to be cultivating conversation and participation within our community. ”
Well, guess what? This woke rebranding didn’t work, and now the business is closing. From the link:
The popular breakfast and lunch spot that has been a staple in downtown Missoula since 2009 is currently for sale the Golden Yolk Griddle at 200 W. Pine Street, in the Mountain Line transfer station downtown. It is being listed by Keller Williams Western Montana Realty and shown by Julie Gardner from ERA Lambros Real Estate.
If THIS rebranding effort didn’t work, why does Mayor Davis think her Harvard rebranding effort for our ENTIRE TOWN will work?
If you don’t think Missoula is getting rebranded, then please explain to me what a RESULTS ORIENTED CULTURE is, and why our Mayor wants to turn Missoula into one (emphasis mine):
After her election last fall, Davis joined 28 mayors in the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard’s Program for New Mayors: First 100 Days.
During the program, Davis said she gained new knowledge of best practices and strategies for new mayors. Davis noted the program’s benefits last week when releasing her executive priorities for Fiscal Year 2025, particularly in her goal to create a “results oriented culture.”
For anyone who watched the torturous process of creating an urban camping ordinance, the idea that Missoula will be transformed into some new form of culture by our new Mayor is kinda terrifying.
Isn’t it a given that citizens expect RESULTS from their elected leaders? Maybe Harvard has a course that teaches Mayors how to hide their condescending attitudes toward the skeptical public by creating new bullshit phrases to peddle to them. Is that what’s going on here?
Since RESULTS are what our Mayor is claiming her leadership culture will be built around, I’ll be eager to see those RESULTS along the riverfront, so stay tuned, and please consider donating to Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF) if you see value in the journalistic work I’m doing here in Zoom Town.
That was the question posed simply and directly to me by the Officer accompanying the Dedicated Downtown Police Officer. I guess this question made sense, since I had just told them about my Lego Meth Lab, and normally I would have been a little miffed at the implication, but since the interaction began with the Officers complimenting my song about County Commissioner, Dave Strohmaier, I was too ego-stroked to care.
“No,” I simply and directly said back, “I don’t.”
Before that interaction with law enforcement, a cop near one of my favorite bakeries stopped and did something simple and helpful by asking if we needed help pushing a car into a parking spot. We did, actually, need the physical assistance, so the cop got out and gave us the push we needed.
“I’ll write about this good deed,” I said to the Officer, so that’s what I’m doing. It’s important to do something if you say you’re going to do it.
An old guy approached me near that same Bakery the other day and struck up a conversation. I remembered him from the old shelter days and was glad to hear he’s in housing. I also heard quite the tale of how he ended up in Missoula.
The man I knew by the street name “Canada” had been traveling around the country and he got jumped by “a bunch of blacks” in Jackson, Mississippi. Canada was not from Canada, he reminded me, it was just something that stuck. The attack involved at least one knife and Canada shooting “at least two” of his black assailants. Did I mention Canada is a Vietnam Vet?
After spending 29 days in a coma, Canada was given the old bus ticket option. He chose Montana, arrived in Billings first, but it was “too big”, so he went to Kalispell next, then Missoula. I’m not sure when exactly he got into housing, but he said he arrived in Montana in 2009.
The tourist couple with the kid haven’t moved here YET after visiting Yellowstone, but they asked a classic question indicating they were thinking about it: “What are the winters like,” the husband asked. “Long, but it’s the lack of a functioning criminal justice system that you REALLY should be worried about,” I said. Typical me.
I learned from this couple that they stayed at the campground area where the fatal shooting took place, but the only hint something happened was a brief comment by a ranger. You see, Park Rangers had received information about the eventual shooter, so they were prepared and acted accordingly.
And the Secret Service? What about them? It’s being reported that normal citizens were trying to point out the assassin crawling with his rifle before he got into position and took his shots. How could this be?
We’ve entered a new stage of this charade after this weekend’s assassination attempt. What madness is in store now? I don’t know, but I’m ready to do what it takes, locally, in order to maintain that humorous edge I’ve honed through my own trials and tribulations, which will be heating up for me in ways I can’t necessarily anticipate soon.
Don’t worry, unlike a Democrat nominee for president, I have the mental acuity to counter the moves being made to shut me down, so let’s see how my own experiences with lawfare techniques matches up with martyr Trump.
Stay tuned, this should be an interesting week. If you’d like to support an independent voice telling local stories, then please consider donating to Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF). Any little bit helps.
