Bill Pitcher | The Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon

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    Bill Pitcher on 10/23/2021 at 4:22 PM
    Re: “Fore! Sale
    Perhaps Bend ought to consider becoming a sanctuary city from Oregons 1980s era land use regulations. There will never be sufficient buildable residential land in Bend unless we declare independence from Oregons urban growth boundary scheme. Oregon last granted Bends application to expand our UGB in 2016. How many people have moved here since 2016? How many times have our City Councilors applied to expand Bends UGB since 2016? Insufficient supply to meet demand means higher prices. Want more housing? Change out Bends city government.
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    Bill Pitcher on 06/03/2020 at 3:42 PM
    1. Iran has been remarkably quiet since Qasem Soleimani received his just reward.
    2. Whatever evidence the corrupt House democrats thought they had to impeach Trump wasn't enough to convince 2/3 of the Senate. That's the way it worked with Bill Clinton. Win some, lose some.
    3. Trump banned travel from China in January ten days after the first traveler from Wuhan landed in Seattle. At the same time, democrats were encouraging tourists to Chinatowns in NYC and San Francisco to celebrate Chinese New Year and blocking all legislation while they impeached Trump. What exactly did democrat governors do? Oh, yes....
    4. Blame your governor for knee-capping Oregon's economy. Florida and S. Dakota, to name but two, stayed reasonably open and incurred a low Covid19 mortality rate, nowhere near that of NY, NJ and Pennsylvania. Does anyone really think those three states' governors would've issued lockdown orders if the epicenter of the Covid19 virus had been Salem, Oregon? BTW, our vaunted WHO scientists lauded Sweden's long-term approach to Covid19 response at the end of April. Only one US news outlet reported that.
    5. Peaceful protestors have been met with respect as they should. Antifa and its sponsors have been met with level of response that lawbreakers deserve. 10% of all US murders since 1980 have been interracial (fact, look it up). 2/3 of those have involved white victims (look it up). Do you recall all the police brutality and lawlessness that followed policeman Mohammed Noor's shooting of innocent Justine Damond in Minneapolis two years ago? Hmmm, no one else does either....
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    Bill Pitcher on 06/03/2020 at 3:19 PM
    Re: “Beat The Press
    Gee, and I thought you'd include a reference to Andy Ngo and Brandon Brown....
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    Bill Pitcher on 05/27/2020 at 3:48 PM
    170 late-term abortions in Oregon in 2015 and over 10k nationwide. 20 executions by the death penalty nationwide in 2019. An estimated 1/3 of all deaths attributed to coronavirus in the US (directly due to Covid-19 and those dying of other causes while testing positive for Covid-19) were nursing home patients, i.e., citizens under the care of regulated nursing facilities. Meh?
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    Bill Pitcher on 05/13/2020 at 9:52 PM
    Of course Bend can’t reopen. It’s just a subsidiary of Portland and Salem.
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    Bill Pitcher on 04/17/2020 at 7:03 AM
    Bend has a housing shortage, right? And we elect a city council that restricts housing supply by prohibiting rentals? If I own property in Bend I’m LMAO all the way to the bank.
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    Bill Pitcher on 04/16/2020 at 8:27 PM
    It seems self-evident that if the government can limit personal freedoms to respond effectively (the government's assumption, not mine) to COVID-19, then the government may control homeless camps to control the infectious disease time bombs that they are. In fact, it now becomes clear that the governor long has had the power to do so, but lacked the political will.