I bet that article didn't point out that the vast majority of homeless women live with friends or family. The men are mostly left on the streets.

Really? I didn't know that one  . It makes sense regarding how the genders are socialised. Women are encouraged to always have social ties. However, I can't tell you how many male friends I know, whom once being married, give up most if not all of their social ties other than their wife.

Our concern for homeless men is pretty lacking. If the average American saw a homeless man with his dog, living under a bridge, I'd wager their reaction would be to feel sorry for the dog  .

He brought an American flag to protest fascism in Portland. Then antifa attacked him

Updated Aug 20;Posted Aug 20

Paul Welch came to the downtown protest Aug. 4 to let his political leanings be known.

With pride he clutched his U.S. flag as he moved among the crowd of like-thinking demonstrators.

Soon a group of black-clad anti-fascist protesters, also known as antifa, demanded he lose the flag, calling it a fascist symbol. Welch refused, and a tug-of-war ensued.

It ended with Welch taking a club to the back of the head, lying on the ground in a pool of his own blood.

Only Welch was not a Proud Boy, a Patriot Prayer supporter or among the other conservative activists who descended into the area that day, many from out of town.

He was one of hundreds of progressive Portlanders who had turned out to oppose the right-wing rally held at the Tom McCall Waterfront Park. 

"I didn't come as a part of any one group," Welch said in an interview with The Oregonian/OregonLive. "I was just protesting outsiders coming here for their tacitly fascist event."

Anger following the demonstration has largely been directed at Portland police, whose use of "less-lethal" riot-control weapons on counter-protesters hospitalized at least three people and injured several others. 

But others, like Welch, became targets of violence at the hands of protest participants, even as police kept rival political factions apart. A video taken of his attack has been viewed more than 800,000 times online.

Many have assumed the tussle over a U.S. flag placed Welch squarely in the right-wing camp.

Not so.   

"I had felt like showing that a liberal, free Portland — or any major city, really — is much more American and much more numerous and strong than any of these interloping groups," he said.

A "slightly progressive leftist" by his telling, Welch is a registered Democrat in Oregon, voting records show. He cast his ballot for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential primary and Hillary Clinton in the general election, he said.

The 38-year-old line cook is also no stranger to street protests in Portland. He said he attended the Women's March held during the weekend of Donald Trump's inauguration.

This summer, Welch, who works six days a week at a catering company, stopped by the Occupy ICE encampment on his days off to bring protesters water, toilet paper and sunblock, he said.

He's no fan of Trump or the president's policies. Nor of Patriot Prayer, whose repeated rallies in Portland, Welch believes, have little purpose other than to inflame the city's liberal residents.

"They're just offensive," he said.

Oh the freaking irony 

They need a dang good whoopin, not a whipping, a whoopin.

I know soyboys are pretty thick in that part of the country, but that was a solid mess of them.

Liberal women want men "fixed"?  Why is this a surprise?

Well, I'm not sure you can look at the various news reports over time of the "grooming gangs" operating in several places in England - seemingly without any serious interference by the police - and then take into account the treatment of Tommy Robinson and Count Dankula and feel like you're being trolled.  I guess it's possible but I'm not getting that kind of vibe.  I honestly think England could go either way at this point.  I don't like it but ignoring bad news is just foolish. 

Some of the European elections over the next few years promise to be interesting.  Apparently there are political upheavals brewing in several countries in the E.U. about on par with the election of Donald Trump here in 2016.  It will be an uphill fight for them to get back to where there is some semblance of an orderly society based on historic Western European principles and values but the sooner its begun the better IMO. 

In this country the trial balloon for implementing sharia law community courts is the sanctuary city movement. If they can force the federal government to allow that and be forced to continue funding it - its only a baby step to having the same kind of festering wounds our European friends have inflicted upon themselves.  If we allow that to happen its going to get bad here.  Real bad.