OREGON DEFENDER? FACING ADVERSITY FROM THE INSIDE

The state of Oregon doesn’t need any defending, but a series of maps was practically an invitation for an Oregon Defender.

The rest of the states can find their own defenders, and they need them.

Before breaking down these maps from inside the Oregon border, they came from the Parent Influence dot com website, which I know nothing about except for these maps.

Okay, the maps and this link to What Parents Want Their Children To Learn In School. Nothing spells trust like parental educational aspirations.

Now The Maps.

#1: Every State’s Least Favorite U.S. State

The western states hate California and California hates Texas?

I’ve heard “Don’t Californicate Oregon,” but not from Idaho, or Washington, or Utah.

Oregon Defender Rule:

Unless you share a border with another state, or you’re New Jersey, take the hate elsewhere. You may not hate on California.

But you can still marry one.

#2: If Each State Had a Halloween Costume

Oregon’s is a Sexy Bad Tattoo. As a member of the un-inked, what’s a good tattoo?

Oregon Defender says you probably give your liver enough work not to add the extra burden of ink-filter.

But, if you need to see bad tattoos go to a Foo Fighters concert so far out in the middle of nowhere you have to camp. That’s where aging scream-rock fans who’ve become husbands and wives and parents show old ink on loosening skin.

When they’re shaking hard it looks like a live action comic.

#5: The Highest Paid Public Employees in America

Current college football coaches show up highest paid in more states than expected and it doesn’t stop when they stop.

Retired Oregon Duck coach Mike Belotti is a good example, but there’s more to it than Coach Belotti.

No. 3

Former University of Oregon football coach and athletic director, Mike Bellotti receives $47,489 a month, which is $569,864 annually. Bellotti once was the top PERS recipient.

No. 20

(Former Oregon Defensive Coordinator) Nick Aliotti receives $22,533 a month for an annual benefit of $270,400.

No. 14

I(Oregon Ducks) Running backs coach Gary Campbell worked 25 years for the University of Oregon football team. He receives $23,473 a month for an annual benefit of $281,680.

The men coached it up and made a list populated with retired medical people from OHSU, men and women who worked to save lives, along with assorted teachers and administrators.

Why do doctors hit the list at the top? Here’s one answer:

Retired OHSU doctors fill out many of the top PERS recipients in part because their clinical income is also part of the pension equation, along with their state salary.

Between doctors and coaches, which carries more social benefit in America?

Based on the map, coaches.

No. 1

Retired OHSU President Dr. Joe Robertson is the No. 1 recipient of PERS benefits. He receives $77,465 a month, which is $929,581 annually. He was No. 1 last year as well.

Oregon Defender Of Defensive Oregonians

Parts of Eastern Oregon look to Idaho for a new start.

Parts of Southern Oregon look to Northern California for a better life.

That part of Oregon is the stick that stirs a bucket of guts.

That part of America is pain of withdrawal after getting hooked on a rich man’s king-dream like it was their own. And he lost re-election.

It’s the part that blames Baby Boomers for everything wrong.

The part that blames millennials for not following their parents sense of important things like voting rights, getting vaccinated, and giving insurgents from Jan. 6 a fair trial.

How long have you waited in line to vote? Ten minutes? Seven hours? Did you take a day off work to vote, or were the polls open until eight?

Have you heard someone cough and hoped they were wearing a mask and vaccinated? Even though you’re not?

Can you tell the difference between a group touring a public building and a group climbing walls and smashing windows and chasing policemen and looting?

If you want the right to vote as easy for others as it is for you, welcome to the club.

If you enjoy the confidence that you’re not walking among people who take medical advice from Joe Rogan, you might be surprised.

On Taking A Tour

I went to Paris after booking a Rick Steves tour.

Twenty-three other people, including my wife, all had goals and aspirations from the start.

We started a couple of days early on a bike tour so things looked more familiar than a picture or video.

What I didn’t expect were the memorials to school children rounded up and deported in the 1940’s. School children in Paris herded out of town with their parents and never seen again because of a government order.

That’s a bad order from a bad government.

I felt sick reading the lists of names and standing on the same place occupying soldiers followed those orders.

Who can imagine themselves on the parents’ side? Who could imagine themselves on the soldiers’ side?

No one, not one, can imagine what it was like for those kids.

You don’t need to be an Oregon Defender, or a California Defender, but you can never be a defender of any one person or leader who can’t see the differences in voting rights, public health, and an insurrection.

They all mark the path to a bad order from a bad government.

This is a map to make and spread around.