Occupiers alert!
It's too bad that the hipsters don't get out of bed early enough to go picket this Dunthorpe resident. Living off the greatest thievery in the nation's history, he now has the taxpayers of Portland paying his hot dog vendors and risking their scarce tax money for his business. Oh, well -- at least he lives here.
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Comments (9)
Like Father, like Son.
Apple doesn't fall far....
Posted by LTJD | February 13, 2012 6:28 PM
$45 buck a plate to learn how to milk money away from needed infrastructure and enrich yourself and your pals?
Guys like him need not fear the occupy crowd, because the occupy crowd doesn't look that far into what's really wrong locally, and/or the enablers of this guy are tangentially connected to the occupiers.
I'll skip it. I'll buy an egg mcmuffin and read this blog. I'll save some money and will probably not feel slimy afterwards.
Posted by roy | February 13, 2012 6:29 PM
The Big Zero has a story on their web site about two homes in N/NE Pdx that were occupied illegally, with those in both houses holding a stash of anarchist materials. Too bad there's not decent transit service to Dunthorpe - I'll bet the houses (and the liquor) would be much nicer for the squatters in the SW quadrant.
Posted by umpire | February 13, 2012 7:37 PM
The greatest thievery in the nation's history? Don't forget the marvelous work Henry Paulson's Goldman Sachs did outside America. Some of it can currently be seen in Athens when the smoke from the fires clears long enough.
Posted by Bill McDonald | February 13, 2012 8:59 PM
Paulson was selected as "Sportsperson of the Year" at the Oregon Sports Awards Sunday. As a baseball fan, I can only shake my head in dismay.
Posted by Al in SE | February 13, 2012 9:11 PM
For the Occupiers to actually protest something tangible and reality-based would require a focus and coherence of which they have proven themselves incapable.
They're much more comfortable in their vague, ethereal mists, living in rat- and disease-infested squalor and wallowing in self-pity.
Posted by The Other Jimbo | February 14, 2012 9:25 AM
Al in SE wrote: "Paulson was selected as "Sportsperson of the Year" at the Oregon Sports Awards Sunday."
Which he claimed, by "virtue" of his wealth. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he acquired the requisite MBA and then, enabled by family money and influence, moved through a few showplace sports businesses en route to settling into managing a comfortable hobby business in Portland.
Call me naive, but I think a title like "Sportsperson of the Year" should be earned . . . and over a greater length of time than Merritt has invested.
Posted by NW Portlander | February 14, 2012 12:46 PM
NW P
I think it was a platinum spoon!
Posted by pdxjim | February 14, 2012 1:44 PM
pdxjim: It's a possibility! But on second thought, it was probably a Gold(man Sachs) spoon.
Posted by NW Portlander | February 14, 2012 2:39 PM