President Donald Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said they would not comply with a U.S. Supreme Court order to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a Salvadoran prison to the U.S.
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The Gideon Computer
by
John Presco
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Has Donald Trump put a model of his Jet-A- Prisoner jet on the table to show reporters he is serious about shipping more criminals to his partner, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele? Note the loge are not ablaze in the fireplace. Is Trump going to get a cut on every criminal – shipped? Is this a stupid question? Were talking about Mr. Hotel. Consider the Roach Motel.
“They check in, But, they don’t check out!”
“Trump said last weekend he would “love” to send American criminals there — and would even be “honored” to, depending on “what the law says.”
My novel ‘The Gideon Computer’ has come true! I am the founder of Virtual Brownsville. Today, I found East Brownsville the new home of….The Gideon Virtual Prison! The President is aching to throw more human beings in prison – just to watch them suffer! He told the President of Venezuela he would pay for more hellish prisons, but, he forgot about the cost of housing prisoners. What happened to balancing the budget? What I suggest, Jeff Bezos build several virtual prisons in East Orgon. There is talk about Musk moving names he got on the Social Security Computer – over to…..
THE DEAD ZONE
Citizens of the United States will know a
LIVING DEATH (and then you reroute their SS checks?”
There still will be the big problem of
WHERE TO PUT THE BODIES
As a theologian, I an authoring
THE NEW GIDEON BIBLE
Many prisoners find Jesus in prison. They will FIND JESUS in East Brownsville Oregon. They will do what the New Jesus……says! A million virtual prisoners will go on a
GREAT SPITITUAL QUEST
That will last a lifetime!
“Be happy in your quest!”
Inflicting ECONOMIC HUMIILATION on G-Prisoners, is the PUNISHMENT. My GP’s will have a chip imbedded under their skin that will be read wherever they go. Many items at Seven Eleven are forbidden to them. But, this can be arbitrarily changed. They would be at the counter with a box of TicTaks, and they bet humiliated.
“I can’t sell these to you!”
They may be in a theatre watching a movie, when the armed usher shines a flashligh in your face.
“You are forbidden to be in this theatre!”
“But – I was here last week!”
“If you argue with me, I will zap your chip with my I-Phone, and you wont be able to buy buttered pop-corn for six months, like you usually do!”
“Aha! Then you admit I am a regular custoner!”
ZAP!!!!
There are rewards!
“Mr, Noodles. You have been a model prisoner. You are now allowed to shop at Hobby Lobby. But, you have to hurry. The Blessed Window is open to you for the next two hours!”
Here is Kate who I laid mty idea for Virtual Brownsville, on, at my Selco bank. Play both videos at the same time. As Kate talks about the amazing oak tree in her backyard in Brownsville, a darkness falls upon her bliss,
John Presco
Amazon operates enormous data centers in Morrow County and wants to build six more. It’s seeking tax breaks that would cover five of them. Dave Killen / The Oregonian
Gideon Computer and Amazon of Oregon
Posted on September 2, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
First of all, I am not an elected sheriff, and do no serve in any legal, law enforcement capacity. I elected myself the Virtual sheriff of Brownsville after spending half the day there looking at my family history. I then took of tour of one of my favorite cities, and had an epiphany that is going to take many posts to solidify.
Trump said last weekend he would “love” to send American criminals there — and would even be “honored” to, depending on “what the law says.”
Donald Trump and his White House have moved to deport green-card holders for espousing pro-Palestinian views, shipped hundreds of migrants to a notorious Salvadoran mega-prison without due process (in defiance of a judge’s order), and are now publicly musing about sending United States citizens to prison in El Salvador.
Trump said last weekend he would “love” to send American criminals there — and would even be “honored” to, depending on “what the law says.” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed this week that the president has discussed this idea privately, too, adding he would only do this “if it’s legal.” El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, has for months been offering to hold U.S. citizens in his country’s prison system, which he has turned into “a judicial black hole” rife with “systematic torture,” as one human rights advocate recently told Rolling Stone.
Legal experts agree that sending American citizens to prison in El Salvador would be flagrantly illegal under both U.S. and international law — and that the idea itself is shockingly authoritarian, with few parallels in our nation’s history.
The Trump administration is indeed discussing this idea behind the scenes, two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to Rolling Stone. In their most serious form, these conversations have revolved around attempting to denaturalize American citizens and deport them to other countries, including El Salvador.
“You can’t deport U.S. citizens. There’s no emergency exception, there’s no special wartime authority, there’s no secret clause. You just can’t deport citizens,” says Steve Vladeck, a legal commentator and law professor at Georgetown. “Whatever grounds they try to come up with for denaturalization or expatriation, the one thing that is absolutely undeniable is that people are entitled to individualized processes, before that process can be effectuated.”
In the United States, the grounds to strip a naturalized individual of their citizenship encompass serious material offenses. They include: committing treason or terrorism, enlisting in a foreign military engaged in opposition to the United States, or lying in applications for citizenship or as part of the naturalization process.
Experts say any effort from the Trump administration to denaturalize citizens is unlikely to succeed in court. “Denaturalization is not an easy process,” says Sirine Shebaya, executive director of the National Immigration Project. “To the extent that there is Supreme Court precedent on it … nobody has been inclined to give expansive powers to strip people of their citizenship without any kind of due process. So that is a place where it feels a little bit more like an aspirational effort or something that’s more about sowing fear in communities, and making people feel insecure, and making people from certain parts of the world feel like they’re not welcome here.”
Stephen Yale-Loehr, a retired immigration law professor at Cornell University, tells Rolling Stone he worries Trump could try to deport citizens anyway, court precedent be damned, given how the administration seems to be “attacking on all fronts and worrying later whether their actions are legal. So unfortunately, it would not surprise me if we saw at least one plane load of incarcerated U.S. citizens being shipped off to El Salvador.”
Shortly after stepping back into office, Trump personally directed at least one lawyer working in his administration to look into deporting American citizens via denaturalization processes, telling aides that it is a “good idea” for certain cases, according to one of the sources, who is a Trump appointee. In one of his many Day One executive orders, Trump instructed his administration to move on cases described in a federal statute regarding “revocation of naturalization.”
Several of Trump’s most important advisers, including White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, continue to internally advocate for mass-denaturalization initiatives that they believe were squandered in Trump’s first stint in the Oval Office.
For instance, the sources add, Trump administration officials have discussed possibly denaturalizing and deporting activists and other individuals whom they label as having committed so-called “fraud” on their applications for citizenship by subsequently supporting what Team Trump decides are “pro-terrorist” causes or groups — similar to the specious arguments they’ve made to justify stripping pro-Palestine student activists of their green cards or visas.
According to these sources, Trump administration attorneys and some senior appointees have also discussed potential legal justifications and technicalities they can exploit for denaturalizing citizens who are accused or convicted of certain crimes, especially if the Justice Department or other offices deems their offenses to be gang-related.
The administration has already tried to justify deporting Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act — the notorious 1798 law used to justify the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II — by claiming the men had ties to gangs. As CBS News’ 60 Minutes has reported, the vast majority of the men who were sent to El Salvador “have no apparent criminal convictions or even criminal charges.” Some of the allegations appear to have been based entirely on the migrants’ completely anodyne tattoos and apparel.
In recent weeks, largely due to the president’s influence, some of the discussions among Trump officials and administration lawyers have touched on the idea of potentially sending some of these denaturalization targets to brutal facilities in El Salvador, the sources add.
“It’s not like we would send everybody there — but depending on the case, it can be an option,” says one of the people familiar with the matter, adding that “this is a standard process of exploring legal options, as all administrations do one way or another.”
What’s to stop the administration from using the same pretext they used to send people to El Salvador — and claiming “that these U.S. citizens are the worst offenders?” asks Kica Matos, president of the National Immigration Law Center. “They could start engaging in the same kind of pretextual deportation of people, for whom the offenses at the end of the day might have something to do with what you say, how you live your life, what tattoos you have on your body.”
She adds that “this is all about this administration testing the bounds of the law and trying to consolidate their power by advancing unconstitutional laws and policies, starting with immigrants.”
There are some influential figures in Trump’s orbit — a number of whom the president himself listens to and solicits advice from — who want him to use the hammer of state and executive power to do something big and truly unprecedented.
Mike Davis, a close Trump ally and a fixture among the MAGA legal elite, tells Rolling Stone, “I have advocated very publicly that if you are a current Hamas supporter and you were naturalized within the last 10 years, the Justice Department should move forward with denaturalization proceedings to get them the hell out of our country. Denaturalization has been on the books for a very long time. If you lie on your citizenship application, denaturalization is a consequence.”
When asked if there is any precedent in the past several decades for this kind of crackdown effort, he replies: “I hope this is groundbreaking. I hope Trump and his team are trailblazers on this. Hamas supporters can go to hell, and in the meantime they need to get the hell out of our country.”
Though he declined to get into his private conversations with Trump or his administration officials, Davis says: “The president and his team appreciate both my private and public recommendations.”
It would not be Trump’s first attempt to carry out a broad denaturalization policy. In February 2020, the first Trump administration authorized the creation of a “Denaturalization Section” under the Civil Division of the Department of Justice aimed at — according to a DOJ press release — bringing “justice to terrorists, war criminals, sex offenders, and other fraudsters who illegally obtained naturalization.”
The program was not shuttered by the Biden administration — which instead deprioritized it to the point of obscurity — but its structure and priorities reflect the current playbook that Trump officials are using to justify their disregard for civil rights law in their immigration agenda. The Trump administration’s assertions that the hundreds of migrants it dumped in El Salvador’s prison system were hardened criminals affiliated with transnational gangs and terrorist groups were shaky to begin with, and have continued to crumble in the weeks since their deportations.
Clashes with federal courts — and now the Supreme Court — are teeing up a battle of wills between the presidency and the judiciary.
After a judge ruled that the Trump administration needed to secure the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a man they said they erroneously sent to El Salvador despite a protection-from-removal order barring him from being sent there — the Justice Department took the matter to the Supreme Court.
The conservative-dominated court ruled unanimously, 9-0, that the Trump administration must “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s release in El Salvador and return to the United States. The justices told the Justice Department to “be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken” to bring back Abrego Garcia. (The justices did take issue with the lower court’s demand that the Trump administration additionally “effectuate” Abrego Garcia’s return, calling that wording “unclear.”)
“You had the Supreme Court unanimously reaffirming that [the] federal courts have the power to look into cases like Abrego Garcia’s,” Vladeck says of the decision. Despite the ruling, the Trump administration is now, as Vladeck puts it, “trying to drive a Mack truck through a five-inch-wide remand.”
On Friday, Trump’s Justice Department refused to comply with the lower court’s demand that it provide an update on its efforts to bring Abrego Garcia back to America. The administration complained in a court filing Friday that it had been afforded an “insufficient amount of time” to review the Supreme Court’s order, and additionally argued the lower court “has not yet clarified what it means to ‘facilitate’ ” Abrego Garcia’s release.
Leavitt, the White House press secretary, was separately asked Friday if the administration would time Abrego Garcia’s return to a high-profile visit by Bukele, the Salvadoran president, to the White House on Monday. Leavitt countered that “the Supreme Court made their ruling last night very clear that it’s the administration’s responsibility to facilitate the return, not to effectuate the return.”
Trump, for his part, suggested Friday evening on Air Force One that he would follow the Supreme Court’s ruling to bring Abrego Garcia back to the U.S. “If the Supreme Court said bring somebody back, I would do that,” Trump said. “I respect the Supreme Court.”
To this point, his administration has not yet followed the high court’s order to “facilitate” return of a man whom, by the government’s own admission, it wrongfully deported and imprisoned in a foreign gulag.
“The problem that we’ve seen over the last week is a series of Supreme Court rulings that have gone out of their way to not endorse what Trump is doing, but also created these procedural artifices that have in some respects thwarted what the lower courts are doing,” Vladeck explains. “At this point, what is it going to take for a majority of the Supreme Court to treat the government’s behavior with the kind of contempt that the government is treating the lower courts?
“Maybe that’s the Supreme Court’s end game here is to exhaust every other possibility before provoking a direct confrontation [with the president],” Vladeck adds. “But I think two things should be said about that. One, that’s a dangerous game unto itself; and two, in the interim, real people suffer.”
On a related note, Politico reported Friday evening that former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince and other government contractors are urging the Trump administration to hire them to transport tens of thousands of immigrants in U.S. custody to prison in El Salvador — and that this idea will likely be discussed when Trump and Bukele meet on Monday. Plenty more suffering could be on the way.
My novel ‘The Gideon Computer’ has come true!
Supreme Court rules Trump officials must ‘facilitate’ release of man deported to El Salvador
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Ali Abbas Ahmadi
BBC News
The US Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that the Trump administration must try to release a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a mega-jail in El Salvador.
In a 9-0 ruling, the justices declined to block a lower court’s order to “facilitate” bringing back Kilmar Ábrego García, but they also said Judge Paula Xinis may have exceeded her authority.
On Friday Judge Xinis directed the Trump administration to provide her with daily updates on what steps they are taking to bring Mr Ábrego García back to the US.
The government has conceded Mr Ábrego García was deported due to an “administrative error”, though it also alleges he is a member of the MS-13 gang, which his lawyer denies.
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Mr Ábrego García, a Salvadorean, is one of dozens of alleged gang member migrants placed by the US on military planes last month and flown to El Salvador’s notorious Cecot (Terrorism Confinement Centre) under an arrangement between the two countries.
Following the Supreme Court’s order, lawyers for the Trump administration went in front of Judge Xinis of the Maryland district court on Friday to explain how they will release Mr Ábrego García.
The judge had asked the government to explain by that morning how they planned to bring Mr Ábrego García back, but justice department attorneys filed a motion asking for the deadline to be extended until Tuesday evening.
In a two-page filing, government lawyers called her deadlines “impracticable”.
During an at-times tense hearing that lasted about half an hour, Judge Xinis repeatedly pressed the justice department for specifics on Mr Ábrego García’s whereabouts.
“I’m not asking for state secrets,” she said. “I’m asking a very simple question: where is he?”
Judge Xinis ultimately ruled that the government must provide her with daily updates on Mr Ábrego García’s location and status, what efforts it had previously taken to get him back to the US and what efforts it will undertake.
In court documents, Mr Ábrego García’s lawyers accused the government of trying to “delay, obfuscate and flout court orders, while a man’s life and safety is at risk”.
In its emergency appeal to the Supreme Court last week, the Trump administration argued that Judge Xinis lacked the authority to issue the order to return Mr Ábrego García by Monday night, and that US officials could not compel El Salvador to return him.
US Solicitor General Dean John Sauer wrote in his emergency court filing: “The Constitution charges the president, not federal district courts, with the conduct of foreign diplomacy and protecting the nation against foreign terrorists, including by effectuating their removal.”
The Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, issued its decision in an unsigned order on Thursday.
The justices did not give the administration a deadline for when Mr Ábrego García should be freed.
They said Judge Xinis may have exceeded her authority when she required the Trump administration to “effectuate” Mr Ábrego García’s return.
“The district court should clarify its directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the executive branch in the conduct of foreign affairs,” the Supreme Court order said.
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On Friday, President Donald Trump told reporters that if the Supreme Court said “bring somebody back I would do that”.
“I respect the Supreme Court,” he said.
A justice department spokesperson told the BBC that the Supreme Court correctly recognised “it is the exclusive prerogative of the president to conduct foreign affairs”.
“By directly noting the deference owed to the executive branch, this ruling once again illustrates that activist judges do not have the jurisdiction to seize control of the president’s authority to conduct foreign policy.”
Mr Ábrego García, 29, entered the US illegally as a teenager from El Salvador. In 2019, he was arrested with three other men in Maryland and detained by federal immigration authorities.
But an immigration judge granted him protection from deportation on the grounds that he might be at risk of persecution from local gangs in his home country.
Democratic Senator Chis Van Hollen, who represents Mr Ábrego García, said the case marks a “troubling moment” for the US when it comes to the rule of law.
“It took them only 72 hours to illegally abduct Abrego Garcia and take him out of the country to El Salvador,” Van Hollen told BBC News. “They can get them back in 72 hours or less, and they need to do that. And they need to do it now.”
Mr Ábrego García’s wife, Jennifer Vásquez Sura, is a US citizen and has been calling for his release since his deportation.
“I will continue fighting until my husband is home,” she told the New York Times on Thursday.
Gideon Computer Podcast
Posted on November 20, 2024 by Royal Rosamond Press
This morning I got up, went to the mirror, and parted my hair down the middle. I was considering getting a haircut tomorrow. I was blown away by who I saw in the mirror. I resemble the illustration of Berkeley Bill Bolagard I did in 1986. We have arrived. I am working on setting up our podcast.
John Presco
Reading from ‘The Gideon Computer’
Posted on January 2, 2014by Royal Rosamond Press
Here is John Gregory Presco reading from his novel ‘The Gideon Computer’. This is a time capsule for my grandson, Tyler Hunt, the son of Heather Hanson.
Copyright 2014
Prologue
Chapter One
Part Two
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The Gideon Computer Atop Beacon Hill
Posted on November 19, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
After I talked to my friend, Casey Farrell, I realized I had employed my science fiction novel, The Gideon Computer, to return to Beacon Hill – in the future! It was not safe for me to do so in 1987, or 1986, because I should have died at the hands of very bad men stabbing me to death with knives – back in 1972! Being a Futurian can be confusing. Memory loss – works both ways! I suspect Casey is a Futurian, too, because he came up with a antidote for the creative condition, and not writing it down – he forgot it! This indicates it is a common antidote – of the future – that we both got a glimpse of, and, may return again in one of our hour long discussions. We are going to do a radio show, the name of, will remain a mystery – for now – excuse my pun. Edgar Allan Poe was authoring the first Science Fiction.
Six years ago Chris and Stefan bought a house together in Wilkes-Barre. They only knew each other for a month. I told Chris this may have been a very bad idea. How did she know he would not take advantage of her? He may be a famous artist, and all that, but, do all artists have a stellar reputations?
They had met at a Landlord dispute group in the Village. Christine was being evicted because she had twelve cats. Stefan came to her rescue when she began to cry, and helped find homes for most of the felines. He also painted my ex-lovers appartment – and turned it into – his museum! Hmm! Stefan was living in a hotel. Then they wanted me to buy the abandoned house next door that was about to be torn down. Christine said there was a black cat living in this ruin – that would not let her near it. I was appalled!
“You want me to spend my Trust from my uncle on a building I would not be able to live in – just to save a black cat?”
“Yes!”
“You’re insane!”
Then Christine told me she believed Stefan wanted her dead so he can sell the house.
“He needs money to spend on his Euro-Skanks who have been tricked into seeing him as a great artist. But, he’s not. In half a minute, he twisted a piece of wire, and hung it on a nail!”
“Did he drive the nail into your wall?”
“No! It was already there! He is so pleased with it. He hung all this other trash next to it. We worked so hard fixing my place up. I wanted us to get married after I put him on the Deed. He squiggled this Love Contract on a piece of paper with a badly drawn heart. It’s embarrassing. He put a picture of just himself under it. I take the heart down when we have company, which doesn’t happen anymore. At a gallery, he covered my mouth when I wanted to talk about the show. The artist was asking for some input!”
One of these skanks is an artist – who tried to kiss Stefan on the mouth as a art gallery. Christine physically prevented this. The video shows the three swirling round and round. Chris throws her cup of wine on the rude woman. This artist empties her cup on Christine’s head. This skank is seen with Eins and Herman Nitsch who conducts blood crucifixion rituals. My Boston Blue Blood ended up shoving her lover into a large plastic garbage can full of cheap Dixie cups and Styrofoam paper plates.
To discover The Black Cat, by Edgar Allan Poe, allowed me to ground all my information in my Gideon Computer. Christine had called me a hundred times to make a report on the insane relationship she was having with Eins. I told her many times to not tell me about them because she was triggering my PTSD. The alleged rape of Eins with a toilet plunger by a three hundred pound homeless woman – was enough! She showed the NYPD spatters of blood on the ceiling. When she changed the locks on the door he went to the hardware store – and bought a crowbar!
“You got a hardware store in the Village? He actually slammed the crowbar down on the counter and asked in his German accent; ‘How much?”
Six years ago, I began a painting of this quarrelsome couple. On Halloween ( a year ago) I added tombstones with the name ‘Cat’ on them. I warned Chris not to be alone with Stefan at the house that I put in this work. Stefan goes once a year to tend to his statues in Austria – where the long arm of the law could not reach him. It now occurs to me Belle’s angel warned her daughter about Eins – who couldn’t wait to meet her! I told Stefan we were coming on the train.
“He’s a Doctor Strange kind of guy!”
Three years ago Peter Shapiro, who played for The Loading Zone, wanted to pay my plane fare so I could see what was going on with his old flame. Stefan was avoiding me. The Zone had played with the Grateful Dead at one of Kesey’s acid tests. Pete met our mutual lover at a college mix in 1994. Christine was going to Mill’s College. Peter formed a group called ‘Benny and The Boners’ and played at frat parties. Pete’s father was a professor at MIT. It was love at first sight. The three of us lived with the band in an old Victorian in downtown Oakland.
Oh how I miss our midnight chats coming from a park in the Village. I asked the woman who took my virginity when I was twenty, shortly after I was told by psychics I had died, if she was afraid to sit in that park at night.
“No! Many people know me, and are afraid of me. Strangers to this park pick this up. No one sits closer than ten feet. They walk around me. Predictors do not want to get hurt. A infected scratch can take them out of the hunt. They need their fix. They may have even heard rumors about ‘The Cat Lady of Greenwich Village’.”
John Presco a.k.a. John Wilson Poe
Copyright 2020
I will be reading from The Spoon River Anthology on my facebook.
Yam Eating Scanks
Posted on August 9, 2019by Royal Rosamond Press
When Christine told me she went to an Art Gallery opening, where on a table was a big plate of freshly nuked yams – next to cheap bottes of wine – I began to salvitate, because I saw Van Gough’s famous painting ‘The Potatoe Eaters’ . Yams are called ‘Sweet Patatoes.
“Was there a table cloth? If so, what color was it?” I wanted details. What a bi-line!
“You should have seen them. Some of them had colorfully dyed hair. They were almost eighty. It was like Easter for old hags. They made sure to wear dresses with no sleves so everyone can see their arm-flesh flapping. The more winkled – the better! Half of them were wearing black leotards with holes and rips in them.”
“Who are you talking about?”
“The scanks, the old European scanks, who came up to Stefan to get their Euro-kiss! It was disgusting. The germs! The dirty nasty scank germs. I didn’t want to catch what they got!”
This was my inspiration for my painting of Chris&Eins. I pictured them coming to the door of the gallery.
“Excuse me. Can I see your invitations?” the scank at the door asks.
“We don’t need no invitation. We’re Yam Eaters – of the Village!”
“Oh my God! What a privilege to have you here.”
“We came to eat some yams. It says you will serve them. We love yams!”
“You Yam Eaters go way back. To Holland, I believe?”
“Yes, Holland. You have pegged us. Now can we eat some yummy yams?”
“Excuse me, art lovers! Attention! We got members of the Yam Eater tribe with us!”
This review dovetails nicely with my review of Pynchon’s ‘Inherent Vice’. I am getting to own the Big Picture, being I have been up close to very beautiful women, and, they light up your consciousness, in ways – still to be explained. They are other worldly creatures. The Greek acknowledged this – and the church – who owns thousands of naked statues.
I camped fifty days with a young woman who looked like a young Gene Tierney, who like Rena, suffered from mental illness most of her life.
The truth is, Stefan Eins is jealous of me, and not because Christine and I were real hippie lovers. It is because of the photograph I took and sent it to him that depicts a fossil of his famous horsehoe crab in the cement in downtown Springfield Oregon. I pointed out the smashed-down pipe that the citizens identified as the source of The Creature that came to dwell in their world. Was it from another planet, a planet of Yam Eaters?
“Take note of the flattened pipe. It looks like a penis that delivered The Demon Seed!” I said in my e-mail to Eins.
For five months Christine gave me a eerie report on the hole neat her radiator that she claimed her landlord had drilled in order to spy on her.
“Do you think he is using a spy camera?”
“No! I think he is using his nose – to smell if I still got too many cats!”
I finally got wise. All my life people have been punishing me, torturing me, because I own a UNLIMTED IMAGINATION that has to be from another planet. I am – alien! I was forced to grade potatoes when I was a child. My father was The Spud King! His secretaries called him Vic The Nazi – to his face!
“This battered pipe represents the oppressive church that hides the truth of our real Genesis. They intercept our sexual beings – then pound the shit out of us!” I said to Ein’s on the phone. He called me.
A year later, Christine is telling me Stefan’s mother used to torture her son’s penis by sticking objects up it.
“She wanted him to become a priest. He went to seminary school for awhile, but, he was haunted by bad memories!”
“She was sticking a piece of straw up his penis.” I offered. “This was a common practice amongst German mothers. They did it get all the urine out so the baby won’t dribble. My father claims the same form of abuse, and thus is his excuse for abusing all four of his children. His people came from Germany. This shit gets passed down. Parents refuse to believe the truth that our memories go back – more than they want to know! They don’t want to miss their chance to recreate their abuse!”
Stefan was traumatized as a boy. But, I shocked the shit out him. I had done his portrait, captured his inner self, that he believed would never be revealed. Too many people are hiding in the places made for Creative Open People, they using this opening as their Cloak of Invisibility!
“See! I am wide open to almost everything! Even though I hate yams! I have no problem eating Art Yams!”
I am done with that! I am very psychic. Stefan sent me an e-mail, and called me up and asked if I could resend him this image. He must have got spooked and deleted it.
As for the hole in Christine’s floor………..
“Get a box of Fix-All.”
“What is that? How do you spell it! Hurry, the store is about to close, and I need a bag of kitty litter. My wrists are giving out. I may not be able to carry food home, just the litter! God! Why am I so hungry? This stems from my childhood, where at dinner-time my parents would make me sit at the dining table and watch my brother and sister eat steaks. When they were done, my Fake Mother brought out a bowl of luke-warm, Cream O Wheat. My family would snigger as I ate. I cried and cried! They didn’t care! I don’t know where I am going to get the money to feed all my cats!”
“Christine! Did we talk about the German Psychologist, Allice Miller. I think she is suggesting the reason you adopt so many cats, is, because you are ‘The Un-Wanted Child’. Your parents only wanted – TWO children. That was their ideal! Every time you bring home a new cat – you are spitting in your parents face!”
“Oh that’s nuts! My mother – is not my real mother! My father met a beautiful woman who wanted only ONE child – ME! After my father delivered me downstairs in his office, my real mother – who wanted me – disappeared! I think she was/is a Catholic!”
I’m done fixing stuff, unless you want to hire me for a lot of money! Has Stefan ever fathered a child? Did he get a vasectomy? If you don’t want people to react to your art, don’t create. If you don’t want people to react to your writing, don’t write! If you don’t want people to response to your acting – don’t act!
Christine claims Stefan is not a real artist.
“He rarely paints, or twists a piece of wire anymore!”
I think Stefan became an artist in hope of meeting someone who could figure him out – and fix him! The Catholic Church – failed! I did not! Now what is Eins going to do? If you don’t want get fixed – stop going to a shrink!
Has anybody painted a box of Fix-All? Consider this box my Ready-Made.
John Presco
Copyright 2019
Reading from ‘The Gideon Computer’
Posted on January 2, 2014by Royal Rosamond Press
Here is John Gregory Presco reading from his novel ‘The Gideon Computer’. This is a time capsule for my grandson, Tyler Hunt, the son of Heather Hanson.
Copyright 2014
Prologue
Chapter One
Part Two
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The Human Bun-In
Posted on February 22, 2025 by Royal Rosamond Press
Before Bezos bought Bond for a Billion, I founded the Bun-in in Brownsville. Ten years ago I saw into the future.
JRP
The Brownsville Bohemian Bun-in
March 14, 2014
While having lunch, at Armandos Mexican Restaurant at 120 Spaulding Ave., I noticed two women across the street doing an Irish Jig, or something. Had they won the Irish Sweepstakes? Was this their Lucky Day?
After lunch, I approached them, and we had what can be called a Civic Be-in. Gale was a wealth of information. Sally is an artist who just opened a gallery at my favorite storefront. While talking, Gale moved her bun in a 3D fashion, towards the camera, and back. Then, she broke a piece off and shared her bun with her Bohemian Sister. A Brownsville tradition is born!
Once a year I see Bohemian types coming from all around, even from Europe, to break bun with their Bohemian Brothers and Sisters. As President of the Bohemian Bank, I might virtually take over the Key Bank so I can share my wealth of Bohemian Information and Ideas!
In the 70s I worked with an Art Group and Oakland Redevelopment to change the downtown. I did the same here in Springfield. I subscribe to the revelations of professor Richard Florida.
Jon Presco
President: Bohemian Bank, and, Royal Rosamond Press ‘A Newspaper For the Arts’.
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Gideon Computer and Amazon of Oregon
Posted on September 2, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
First of all, I am not an elected sheriff, and do no serve in any legal, law enforcement capacity. I elected myself the Virtual sheriff of Brownsville after spending half the day there looking at my family history. I then took of tour of one of my favorite cities, and had an epiphany that is going to take many posts to solidify.
I saw into the future in 1986 and got sober so I could finish my science fiction novel ‘The Gideon Computer’. In 2014 I founded Virtual Brownsville that would become real with the backing of Amazon. This morning (9-2-22) I discovered Amazon took over a small Oregon town and built a monolithic computer center. In my novel, Berkeley Bill Bolagard desings the Mach 4 Ford that races other 4s down to LA past the Gideon Institute that is twenty miles long. How long would the Amazon Computer be if you line them – all up? They are all over America.
John Presco
President: Gideon Computer
How leaders in a small Oregon town positioned themselves for an Amazon ‘windfall’ – oregonlive.com
“Amazon plans to build at least five new data centers along the Columbia River in remote Morrow County, a nearly $12 billion project that would more than double the scale of the company’s operations in the region.
The undertaking represents one of the largest capital projects in Oregon history — in one of the state’s smallest communities. Morrow County has just about 12,000 residents.
Lindsay said Morrow County is capable. This is not, she said, a “David-versus-Goliath situation” in which a tiny entity is battling an overwhelmingly larger one. With the right counsel, she said, Morrow County can hold its own.
Nor is this a matter of Morrow County “lawyering up,” she said. The county’s dealings with Amazon, she said, are not confrontational.
Reading from ‘The Gideon Computer’
Posted on January 2, 2014 by Royal Rosamond Press
Here is John Gregory Presco reading from his novel ‘The Gideon Computer’. This is a time capsule for my grandson, Tyler Hunt, the son of Heather Hanson.
Copyright 2014
Prologue
Chapter One
The Amazon data center in Umatilla is one of four sites in Umatilla and Morrow counties that have been completed since 2010, with at least two more on the way.
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How leaders in a small Oregon town positioned themselves for an Amazon ‘windfall’
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An aerial view of an Amazon data center in Boardman on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. When the company and its data centers arrived in Boardman, it brought big economic upside to the rural community, but not without a cost. Dave Killen / The Oregonian
By Mike Rogoway | The Oregonian/OregonLive
EDITOR’S NOTE
This special report from The Oregonian/OregonLive examines what happens when one of the world’s biggest companies lands in one of Oregon’s smallest communities. Internet data centers bring big economic upside, but they come with costs — often amplified by tax breaks. Read the second installment on Tuesday.
When one of the world’s biggest technology companies set up shop in one of Oregon’s smallest counties, it turned to a tiny fiber-optic provider to connect its data centers to the internet.
The obscure nonprofit was founded two decades earlier to hook up Morrow County schools and hospitals to the information superhighway. Suddenly, it found itself providing the same service to Amazon.
Amazon seeks tax breaks for 5 new data centers, worth $12 billion, in remote Oregon county
- Updated: Sep. 01, 2022, 1:32 p.m.|
- Published: May. 05, 2022, 6:08 a.m.
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Amazon plans to build at least five new data centers along the Columbia River in remote Morrow County, a nearly $12 billion project that would more than double the scale of the company’s operations in the region.
The undertaking represents one of the largest capital projects in Oregon history — in one of the state’s smallest communities. Morrow County has just about 12,000 residents.
The deal could add hundreds of jobs and fill regional tax coffers in the county, 160 miles east of Portland. Amazon is already the county’s largest taxpayer by far, accounting for a third of all property tax revenue due to four large data centers it built over the past several years.
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Most of the data centers’ value is exempt from local taxation, though, so Amazon saves far more than it pays. The company secured tax breaks in Morrow County worth $161 million over the past five years – $47 million in just the last year.
And before proceeding with its next project, Amazon wants a new package of tax breaks that would save the company hundreds of millions of dollars more over the next 15 years. That’s generating fresh scrutiny in the county and its largest city, Boardman, over whether Amazon is paying its fair share.
And it leaves officials in Morrow County and Boardman with a conundrum: They would like the billions of dollars in new spending from Amazon, but how does a tiny county in eastern Oregon negotiate a fair deal with a company worth $1.3 trillion? How can they secure the new data centers without giving away too much?
“That’s going to be a tough give and take,” said Greg Sweek, a former county assessor who now manages the local enterprise zone program that governs Amazon’s local taxes. He said county has to balance how much to seek from the company against the risk that Amazon bolts for neighboring Umatilla County, where it also has data centers, or to the nearby Tri-Cities in Washington.
“There’s a monetary amount for Amazon that they’re looking at,” Sweek said, “and I don’t know what that is.”
Data centers come to rural Oregon for cheap land, ample water and relatively inexpensive electricity, essential for powering and cooling all those computers. The Umatilla Electric Cooperative reports that industrial power consumption is up 266% since 2016.
Most of all, though, the tech companies come for the low taxes.
Oregon has some of the nation’s most valuable industrial tax breaks through a program that dates to 1985, when big corporate investments were measured in the millions rather than the billions of dollars.
The state’s enterprise zone program places no limits on how much local governments can give away and provides small communities with no assistance in their negotiations with the companies seeking tax breaks.
In the internet age, Amazon and other tech giants – among them Apple, Facebook and Google – have capitalized on the programs to secure tax breaks from small towns across eastern and central Oregon.
They essentially pit small Oregon towns against one another in search of the biggest exemptions, reaping tens of millions of dollars apiece through deals that exempt their pricey computers from the local property taxes other businesses pay.
The small city of Prineville, northeast of Bend, is home to large Facebook and Apple data centers, each of which receive large tax exemptions. The community has just agreed to a new package of tax breaks for a data hosting company called EdgeConnex. The deal gives the Virginia-based company 75% off its property taxes and puts a cap on the maximum it could pay.
Data centers consist mostly of cavernous, dark chambers with rows upon rows of humming computers. They’re cared for by elaborate cooling systems and a relatively small number of employees, consisting primarily of technicians and security guards.
Still, these server farms provide an enormous windfall in small communities with few economic alternatives. Amazon says its data centers employ 461 people in Morrow County, paying an average wage around $75,000 annually. That’s $20,000 above the county’s median household income.
Amazon Web Services, the Seattle company’s data center group, said in a statement that it contributes economically to Morrow County, supports local science education and is making technical advances to reduce electricity consumption and to conserve water.
And while Amazon enjoys outsized tax breaks, some of its initial investments in Morrow County only qualified for short-term tax breaks that have now expired. The company paid $22 million in taxes and fees in 2020 alone and triple that sum over the preceding decade.
“AWS is proud of the work we are doing in Oregon,” the company said. “Since 2011, we have invested over $15 billion, contributed more than $66 million in tax and fee payments to the local community, and supported the development of 2,000 jobs.”
The job tally includes jobs indirectly supported by Amazon’s spending.
Such benefits accrue to a handful of Oregon communities, primarily in or near Boardman, Hermiston, Prineville and The Dalles. But the state has hundreds of small towns, most of which are not reaping anything from the data center industry.
Public officials in some of the communities that have secured these server farms are fierce defenders of their dealmaking. Sometimes, the local cities and counties don’t even hire an attorney to help them negotiate with the Silicon Valley tech giants.
But others are beginning to express some skepticism.
Wasco County and The Dalles negotiated a new tax break with Google last year that substantially increases what the company would pay on new data centers. And in Morrow County, public officials are discussing how a new tax deal for Amazon would play with their constituents.
Amazon opened its first data center in Morrow County about a decade ago. Its growth has accelerated in recent years and it now has four large facilities, mostly at the Port of Morrow. The port is also home to large food processor, including a massive Tillamook Creamery operation, and a major Portland General Electric gas-fired power plant.
So data centers have grown and diversified the region’s industrial economy while helping fill city and county tax coffers. But Amazon’s new proposal comes amid heated debate over a $138 million school bond on this month’s ballot in Morrow County. The money would renovate and expand local schools.
While some of Amazon’s existing data centers would be subject to taxes to finance the bond, most of the company’s property is exempt. And that’s making the school bond a tough sell among some in the community, who question why Amazon gets a discount and residents don’t.
Amazon has declined to release details of its latest tax break proposal and officials in Morrow County and Boardman haven’t responded to a public records request seeking a copy of the document.
At a meeting last week, Morrow County Commissioner Melissa Lindsay suggested local governments hire an expert to help them evaluate Amazon’s latest request. And she suggested they have a lawyer on hand at their next meeting.
“That hasn’t been past practice,” replied Sweek, the enterprise zone manager. “Attorneys are expensive.”
“Yeah, well, so are mistakes,” Lindsay replied. “And we’ve made some.”
HEPPNER — Morrow County is looking to hire an attorney for negotiations with Amazon as the company readies for a $12 billion investment in five new data centers.
Amazon intends to build these five new data centers in the county, adding to its existing four centers, as part of a $12-billion project. This project stands to create hundreds of jobs in the area, but there are some questions about taxes to which Amazon is subject.
The topic came up in a Wednesday, May 4, Morrow County Board of Commissioners meeting. Commissioners Jim Doherty and Melissa Lindsay spoke of the need to “get it right” when negotiating with Amazon. They said they have begun looking for attorneys for less than $10,000 worth of services to review agreements and consider options.
District Attorney Justin Nelson pulls double duty as the county counsel. He made suggestions for potential attorney, including lawyers who have experience representing Oregon counties against large tech companies Google and Intel.
The vote to seek and retain counsel was 2-0, with Commissioner Don Russell recusing himself and abstaining due to a conflict of interest.
Amazon makes $11M gift after county errs
The day after the board meeting, Doherty and Lindsay discussed the matter further.
“We embarked on a negotiation on a $12 billion project, frankly one of the largest in Oregon,” Doherty said.
He added he and Lindsay realized then this was a “colossal undertaking.”
Looking back at previous negotiations, he said, commissioners realized the county had “an $11 million oops” — the county had not collected $11 million it could have if it had forged a better deal with Amazon.
For its part, Doherty said, Amazon made an $11-million gift payment to the county.
“They didn’t certainly have to (make the gift payment), so I appreciate that they did,” he said.
He added that Amazon, with all of its economists and lawyers, have a superior understanding of deals with the county.
“They have a fleet of attorneys,” he said.
Meanwhile, he added, Nelson’s primary responsibilities do not include dealings with Amazon. And Nelson is the lone prosecutor in the county after his deputy, Richard Tovey, left to become Hermiston’s city attorney.
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With the lack of representation, the county was at a disadvantage, Doherty said, and it was conceivable Morrow County would “stub our toe” in a new deal.
“The potential for a colossal mistake is out there,” he said.
Nelson agreed his office has been overworked lately, due to his missing deputy. As such, he said, he has not been handling as much county counsel duties as he had in the past.
He said that a new attorney, contracted for a specific job, can step in and help, where needed. It will represent the county apart from a local enterprise, which includes Boardman and the Port of Morrow, and has its own counsel.
Doherty said the expense of a new lawyer is worth the $10,000 or less the county would be spending. He posited this money could pay for up to 20 hours of work from a good attorney.
If it turns out the $10,000 is not enough, Morrow County will undertake a competitive bid process, he said.
Lindsay said Morrow County is capable. This is not, she said, a “David-versus-Goliath situation” in which a tiny entity is battling an overwhelmingly larger one. With the right counsel, she said, Morrow County can hold its own.
Nor is this a matter of Morrow County “lawyering up,” she said. The county’s dealings with Amazon, she said, are not confrontational.
“When you say ‘lawyering up,’ it sounds like doors start to slam, conversations stop happening,” she said. “It sounds like a battle. This isn’t, in my mind, a battle where we’re lawyering up. It’s a situation where they have high-powered economists and lawyers analyzing with their best interests in mind, and I think that we have to do the same so that we come to a similar place at the negotiation table.”
She said by May 12 she and Nelson will have selected an attorney. And she has reached out to Oregon economists for additional analysis and advice. These two moves, she said, puts Morrow in a better position with Amazon.
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Amazon and Brownsville Oregon
Posted on October 30, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
Six years ago I had an idea about creating a virtual Brownsville with the help of Amazon that has experienced record growth. I read Wal-Mart might close due to people shopping for everything online due to the coronavirus. I am foreseeing a ghost town a month before I ran into Belle at Ken Kesey Square. I tried to recruit her as a helper. i am trying to save Ken Kesey’s cottage at this time. How prophetic that anarchists and lunatic evangelicals would join forces to destroy me and my work.
“Why couldn’t Amazon buy one of these storefronts and set up a coffee shop with computers so folks can drop in, have a cup of Java, and shop online? Empty storefronts are no good for a small town trying to generate commerce and attract tourist dollars. If more folks do there shopping online, not only will the big malls get hurt, towns like Brownsville will become ghost towns.”
Still, Amazon continues to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the pandemic, as consumers flock to the site for essential goods, groceries and household items. The cost of shipping those goods to customers rose during the third quarter, with expenses up 57% from a year earlier to $15.1 billion.
Amazon is expected to face even greater demand heading into the holiday season, with shoppers likely to do the bulk of their gift buying online instead of making trips to the store.
The Brownsville Bohemian Bun-in
The Virtual Sheriff of Brownsville
Posted on March 13, 2014by Royal Rosamond Press
First of all, I am not an elected sheriff, and do no serve
in any legal, law enforcement capacity. I elected myself the Virtual sheriff of Brownsville after spending half the day there looking at my family history. I then took of tour of one of my favorite cities, and had an epiphany that is going to take many posts to solidify.
Passing two Victorian storefronts that were for sale and for rent, I thought how wonderful it would be to have an art gallery here. Perhaps I will make McKinzie River Boat models like I planned to do in Blue River. But, could I make enough money to pay the rent? How many riverboats would I have to sell? Could I make enough?
Entering an Antique store across the street, I beheld the proprietor on the internet. I asked him what he was doing because I got no normal greeting. Kelly told me he was putting items on the internet for sale so he can pay his bills during these slow season. This is when the lightbulb went off over my head.
“What if there was a Virtual Brownsville where folks could come to town on the internet, and shop around? Folks are spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year shopping on the internet. Many Americans talk about family values and losing the small town feelings they grew up with.”
Kelley told me a person that own the building across the street is building him a website. I suggested he bring up my ides, and build a retail website for the whole town.
I talked to about five other citizens about my idea.
“Why couldn’t Amazon buy one of these storefronts and set up a coffee shop with computers so folks can drop in, have a cup of Java, and shop online? Empty storefronts are no good for a small town trying to generate commerce and attract tourist dollars. If more folks do there shopping online, not only will the big malls get hurt, towns like Brownsville will become ghost towns.”
This morning when I got on my computer and read google news, I read how Amazon is going to raise its membership fees. As the Virtual sheriff of Brownsville, I am now investigating the greatest threat to my beloved town. Who are the bad guys? Who are the good guys.
Jon Presco
That Amazon Prime membership is going to get more expensive.
The online retail giant revealed it is raising the price of an annual subscription to Prime from $79 to $99. The price for the student version of Prime will also rise to $49.
Amazon Prime is an annual subscription service that offers free two-day shipping on select items, access to a host of free videos through the streaming service Amazon Instant Video and access to the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library used to borrow books.
Shares of Amazon are up more than 2% in pre-market trading following news of the price increase.
The price increase was first reported by Cnet.
Amazon first hinted at a price increase for Prime in January during its fourth-quarter earnings call, when the company also revealed its shipping costs surged 19% to $1.21 billion.
The Growth of Online Shopping
Not too many years ago most people shopped in their local stores complete with parking and weather problems, long lines, and wobbly shopping carts. Even when online shopping was available, people felt uncomfortable using their credit cards and giving their personal information to cyber-shops. That has all changed.
Throughout the world online buying has grown exponentially. The money Australians spend online is projected to increase by about $10 billion within the next five years. Consumers may still be concerned about the security of online shopping, but more and more of them are prepared to buy on the web. Faster delivery, easier return policies, and many sites offering free shipping have also increased the desirability of online buying. IBIS World research forecasts an 8.6% per year increase in online revenues over the next five years.
Growth of online shopping has been characterized by strong consumer demands and the increasing number and type of goods available. An 11% annual increase in parcel volume is likely to continue according to Australia’s Postal Chief Executive. Physical stores are moving at least part of their companies online in order to cut costs.
In Nigeria and other African countries, a growing generation of young, internet-savvy individuals has embraced new, online technology. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has documented an increased internet penetration in sub-Saharan Africa. The numbers of users are still far below the world average of around 30%, but are increasing as Africans become more familiar and proficient with online shopping. E-commerce activities have expanded in Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya both due to the proliferation of mobile phones and availability of faster internet networks.
In South Africa, 51% of individuals with internet access shop online. In Kenya, 18-24% make online purchases. In Nigeria approximately 28% of the population has internet access according to ITU figures. The number of mobile cell phone subscriptions has topped 87 million. A new group of internet developers are eager to increase buying options by providing discounted deals on a wide range of products and services. Analysts indicate that a lack of convenient and reliable electronic payment services for online shoppers is a major problem confronted throughout Africa.
In the U.S., Forrester Research shows that $248.7 billion online sales are expected by 2014. A compounded growth of 10% is forecast for the next five years. In Western Europe sales are expected to reach 14 billion euros ($155.7 billion), a growth of 11% percent annually. Apparel, computers and consumer electronics will continue to be dominant purchases; these three areas make up 40% of the current online sales which won’t change in the near future.
Considering that the country is in a major recession, the increase in online buying is a good sign. A survey of U.S. online customers found that 82% are satisfied with buying experiences that began and ended with the online store. Satisfaction dropped to 61% when they researched online and then bought in a store.
Online sales continue to be mostly small-ticket items. The high-ticket products lag far behind by comparison. On average, retailers that have both a physical (store) and online presence have reported an average of 23% growth. Online only retailers (including catalogue sales) however have seen only 9% yearly growth. Online shoppers are beginning to think that the best deals are available online (71%) and that they get better prices there (66%).
The internet is only going to become more popular as time goes by and purchasers worldwide become more comfortable about the security and on-time delivery of their purchases. This is the one area of merchandising that continues to have a positive outlook far into the future.
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http://www.historicbrownsville.com/content/BR2_culture.html
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The area surrounding Brownsville is the self designated Grass Seed Capital of the world. The primarily family-run grass seed farms contribute heavily to the local economy.
Supporting Businesses such as seed brokers, laboratories, farm
equipment dealers, and transporters, are prosperous and growing.
Our easy access to the I-5 corridor makes Brownsville’s light Industrial
Land attractive to small companies looking to lower their transportation
cost or increase their transportation revenue.
Available retail space in the Downtown Commercial area is generally
located in historic buildings. The predominately one story large windowed
store fronts are ideal for specialty retailers, art galleries, bicycle shops,
antique dealers and real estate companies.
Stand By Me – filmed in Brownsville 25 years ago
Join us every summer on July 23rd for a community-wide Stand By Me Day celebration
In 1985, Brownsville was turned into a town named Castle Rock and was teeming with film crews, actors, and the excitement of the movie making process. Today, the movie is still regarded as a favorite and is listed as one of the top 250 American films of all time. A classic movie based on a novella by Stephen King and released in 1986, Stand by Me is a worldwide favorite.
The next Stand By Me Day celebration is Wednesday, July 23, 2014! Join us in Brownsville for a blueberry pancake breakfast, tours of filming locations, and more.
If you can’t make it on July 23rd, visit Brownsville anytime. Download our Walking Map of Stand By Me film locations and take yourself on a tour. Stop and grab a bite at the Brownsville Saloon, the location of the Blue Point Diner in the film. Wander through Pioneer Park, home of the pie-eating contest. Stop by the Pioneer Portrait Gallery to view dozens of photos shot during filming. Check out the Linn County Historical Museum to get your Stand by Me souvenirs – or purchase souvenirs online.
http://www.historicbrownsville.com/content/BrV_Stand_by_Me.html
http://www.oregonlamb.com/faq.html
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM84QE_Water_Powered_Mills_of_Brownsville
Thomas L. Kay
The company’s roots began in 1863 when Thomas L. Kay made a transcontinental trek to the west coast and began working in the woolen mills in Oregon. He went on to open his own woolen mill, the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill in Salem, Oregon. Kay was an immigrant from England and a weaver by trade. He had previously worked in various textile mills on the east coast of the United States. Before opening his own mill in Salem, he had helped to set up only the second mill in Oregon at Brownsville.
Kay brought his oldest daughter, Fannie Kay, into the business and after learning the operation and management of the mill, she became her father’s assistant. In 1876 Fannie married retail merchant C.P. (Charles Pleasant) Bishop. This proved to be a great benefit to Kay’s company and to the Bishop enterprises in the combination of manufacturing and retail sales. The Bishops passed their expertise and knowledge to their three sons: Clarence, Roy, and (Robert) Chauncey.
http://www.historicbrownsville.com/content/BR1_history.html
The Brownsville Bohemian Bun-in
March 14, 2014
While having lunch, at Armandos Mexican Restaurant at 120 Spaulding Ave., I noticed two women across the street doing an Irish Jig, or something. Had they won the Irish Sweepstakes? Was this their Lucky Day?
After lunch, I approached them, and we had what can be called a Civic Be-in. Gale was a wealth of information. Sally is an artist who just opened a gallery at my favorite storefront. While talking, Gale moved her bun in a 3D fashion, towards the camera, and back. Then, she broke a piece off and shared her bun with her Bohemian Sister. A Brownsville tradition is born!
Once a year I see Bohemian types coming from all around, even from Europe, to break bun with their Bohemian Brothers and Sisters. As President of the Bohemian Bank, I might virtually take over the Key Bank so I can share my wealth of Bohemian Information and Ideas!
In the 70s I worked with an Art Group and Oakland Redevelopment to change the downtown. I did the same here in Springfield. I subscribe to the revelations of professor Richard Florida.
Jon Presco
President: Bohemian Bank, and, Royal Rosamond Press ‘A Newspaper For the Arts’.
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