Fuel Cafe, Portland Oregon

07/19/2025

Would you let Jeffrey Epstein around your child?

02/11/2025

Have you read about tattoo’s?

When you stick ink-filled needles into your skin, your body’s defenders respond accordingly. Scientists aren’t sure if that’s good or bad for you, Katherine J. Wu reported in 2023. ⁠

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01/21/2025

Ninety-two years ago this month, on January 30, 1933, Adolf Hi**er was appointed the 15th chancellor of the Weimar Republic. In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy, Hi**er set about destroying a constitutional republic through constitutional means. https://theatln.tc/JDRkyh2q

In this essay, Timothy W. Ryback details how Hi**er “systematically disabled and then dismantled his country’s democratic structures and processes in less than two months’ time—specifically, one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes.”

“We have come to perceive Hi**er’s appointment as chancellor as part of an inexorable rise to power,” Ryback writes. But Hi**er’s ascendancy and his smashing of constitutional guardrails “are stories of political contingency rather than historical inevitability.”

“The Führer was a man who was possible in Germany only at that very moment,” Hans Frank, the N**i party’s legal strategist, once said. “He came at exactly this terrible transitory period when the monarchy had gone and the republic was not yet secure.”

“Had Hi**er’s predecessor in the chancellery, Kurt von Schleicher, remained in office another six months, or had German President Paul von Hindenburg exercised his constitutional powers more judiciously, or had a faction of moderate conservative Reichstag delegates cast their votes differently, then history may well have taken a very different turn,” Ryback writes.

Read more: https://theatln.tc/JDRkyh2q

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11/11/2024

09/02/2024

Today is the last day for FUEL CAFE. It’s been a good ride until COVID changed so much, so quickly. The struggle with the labor pool, all the increased costs and the decline in business (this summer saw a sharp decline in tourism) has made it clear that the risk outweighs the reward.

We are grateful for all of the loyal support, for the people near and far who visited while in town and for the local community. As two kids who were raised in North & Northeast Portland it was an honor to serve you!

Mari & Kevin Shelby

(Please vote for a better Portland!)

09/02/2024

THANK YOU FOR YOUR BUSINESS OVER THE LAST 13 YEARS. OUR RIDE IS COMING TO AN END!

07/14/2024

Cocktails and Mimosas are flowing at Fuel Cafe. Come try one on for size 😋.

07/14/2024

Yes, please! I’m in Denver and the surrounding areas preparing for a backpacking trip and it is clean, no tents, no graffiti everywhere and it feels calm here. In Portland and the surrounding areas it looks and feels like CHAOS. Stop the chaos, it’s making Portland and the state of Oregon look like a 3rd world country where no one cares! Get the people off the streets and help them return to the communities where they came from in a better state of being then when they arrived here. They came here to take advantage of our (failed) drug laws which also needs to be reversed.

Tomorrow, highway workers will close a five-mile stretch of I-84 to clean up illegal dumping and graffiti. How did we let things get to this point?

As mayor, I’ll prioritize graffiti, illegal dumping, and other quality-of-life issues our failed leadership has ignored for years. I’ll start by cost-effectively sheltering our unhoused neighbors, and shift city resources to restore, repair, and revitalize our city.

07/04/2024

Look who stopped by…

06/08/2024

Don’t Give Up!

06/07/2024

Learn about Keith Wilson for Mayor he is the real deal! Check him out on Linked-In.