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Oregon Women Report: Weekly Photo: Clumsy polar bear

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:00:21 -0500

Oregon Biz Report: Study shows businesses scale back tech choices during recession

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:00:19 -0500

Faced with an uncertain economy, some business owners are re-evaluating their use of technology. The latest Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index, surveyed October 5-9, shows over half of respondents (58 percent) reporting that they have delayed technology purchases due to the economy, [...]

Oregon Faith Report: Religion-based hate crimes highest since 2001

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:00:05 -0500

by Matthew E. Berger
Religion News Service

WASHINGTON (RNS) Hate crime incidents targeting people based on their religion were at their highest frequency last year since 2001, according to a new report. The report, compiled by the Anti-Defamation League from FBI data, found 1,519 religious hate crimes in 2008, accounting for [...]

Oregon Natural Resources Report: Recap of changes to Oregon Legislature

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:00:01 -0500

By Oregonians for Food and Shelter

There will be some new faces in Salem when the February “special session” convenes. Senator Margaret Carter resigned to take a newly created post as Deputy Director at the Department of Human Services. She has been replaced by former Representative [...]

Born Again Redneck: I blame consumer credit for the recession

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:55:00 -0500

As I've said all along, the current economic mess was caused by too much consumer credit. Sane people don't spend what they don't have. Americans have been living on the "never-never" which is what my parents used to call credit. And guess who borrowed the most. Yep, the spoilt-brat Boomers' [...]

Our PDX Network: What’s In Our Water Again…??? (The PDX Reservoir Scare)

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:51:03 -0500

Number of comments: 4

It was a casual, relaxing Saturday evening. That is, until this announcement flashed over thousands of PDX Twitter clients, and pandemonium struck. The announcement?

MayorSamAdams: DRINKING WATER ALERT: Selected customers need to boil water for one minute: http://www.portlandonline.com/water/. [...]

Born Again Redneck: Today's naked underage redneck chick blogpost

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:37:00 -0500

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Ridenbaugh Press: The yellow

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:58:32 -0500

The first comment about this – on the blog Sound Politics, where it was posted – said, “Who the hell cares. Why is this being posted on a politics forum?” But it’s all political, in its way. And something basic like this should be: The duration of yellow lights at traffic [...]

Born Again Redneck: Movie stars I loved as a kid - Ava Gardner

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:43:00 -0500

I'm going to skip over Judy Garland. I never saw her as a babe and everybody knows everything about her anyway. Yes, she had a tremendous voice but I never saw her as sexy. However I did fancy Ava Gardner. In fact as far as I'm concerned she was the [...]

Daniel's political musings: They're coming for your freedom

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:54:00 -0500

Changes in the wind
So you think sorting out recyclables into yellow bins is a hassle, and biking to work instead of driving is a big sacrifice?

You haven’t seen anything yet.

Like it or not, our lives will change in myriad ways as humans scramble to [...]

Sinister: 46,684

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:42:00 -0500

Home stretch now. I should hit the 50,000 mark tomorrow. Very exciting. The novel won't be done, but I'll have completed the overall task. I will have shown myself that I can write a damned novel, and I can do it in a month, even while having a job and [...]

Jack Bog's Blog: Alleged Oregon eco-arsonist busted in China

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:40:11 -0500

His time on the lam has come to a close. [...]

Jack Bog's Blog: Boil your tap water in Portland

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:44:39 -0500

Apparently they've found E-coli in water on the west side. Having lost all faith in city government, I can't help but suspect that this is part of a concerted p.r. effort to justify covering or disconnecting the city's open reservoirs -- or maybe to justify arming Fireman Randy's water militia. [...]

A Boy Named Sous: Musical Geography Trivia Question

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:29:00 -0500

If like all the jolly good fellows, you drink your whiskey clear, from where are you? [...]

MaxRedline: Fundamentalist Christians And Muslims Find Common Ground

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:26:29 -0500

Number of comments: 0
They both reject Darwin's evolutionary perspective. ' [...]

A Boy Named Sous: The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:19:00 -0500

The best thing I have seen in a long time!

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MaxRedline: Black Friday @ Walmart

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:15:43 -0500

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Walmart had a lot of irate folks after the Black Friday sales began at 5 a.m. yesterday. The reason? Walmart advertised e-Machines laptops for $198.00 as an early-bird only deal. Each store had 37 of them.

Unbelievably, the store actually pre-assigned the laptops to people who called the day before and requested [...]

Persuasion, Perseverance, and Patience: The unforgiving minute

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:37:00 -0500

Overheard last night:

If you could get a translator to follow Brandon around, and translate what Brandon says into what Brandon is trying to say . . . it'd blow Shakespeare out of the water!
Minute's up.' [...]

MaxRedline: One Year In, The Death Knell Sounds

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:14:48 -0500

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With the possible exception of Nanny Pelosi and a very few others, Democrats are quaking in their collectivist boots. With good reason: one year into a "new Washington" born of optimism and ambition, the mantra of "hope'n'change" has been clearly shown for what it was - just words. The "transparent" [...]

MaxRedline: It's Not Easy Goin' Green

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:26:05 -0500

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It doesn't matter how you look at the whole "man-made global warming" scam if you happen to live in Portland and/or Multnomah county. Like it or not, various city and county bureaus plan to dictate exactly how residents will live.

Looming lifestyle changes will affect how you heat and' [...]

Jack Bog's Blog: Tax Deadbeat of the Week

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:14:20 -0500

It's Ahnold! [...]

Jeff the Great: Jeff the Great Innovates

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:04:00 -0500

While walking home from my morning coffee I was thinking some random thoughts about technology...specifically computers. Figured I'd write them down for future reflection.
I was recently reading an article in Fortune magazine about Steve Jobs and came across an interesting story about Henry Ford. He' [...]

Persuasion, Perseverance, and Patience: Saturday tunes: "Here's how to be an agreeable chap"

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:36:00 -0500

From 1967, Dusty Springfield sings the original High Maintenance Woman's Anthem:

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Newshoggers.com: Another wave of writedowns

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:24:08 -0500

Number of comments: 1

By Dave Anderson:

I'm a little late for this but pumpkin pie and good Kentucky bourbon has occupied my weekend, but the New York Times piece on Dubai's debt going bad is worthwhile because it highlights what I think should have been the proper course of action for basically any' [...]

Newshoggers.com: More on Social Security and Responsibility

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:09:25 -0500

Number of comments: 2

By Dave Anderson:

I want to follow up on the whack I took at Kevin Drum on his support for a bipartisan commission to take a whack at Social Security in the next couple of years. Social Security is fundamentally a rounding error over the seventy five year intermediate case [...]

Jack Bog's Blog: If I'm ever trapped in the driver's seat of an Escalade...

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:03:54 -0500

... please don't try to free me by busting out the back window with a golf club. Thanks for trying to help, though. ' [...]

Jack Bog's Blog: Game report: Grizzlies 106, Blazers 96

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:54:31 -0500

Just when we thought it was safe to stop worrying about the Blazers, they turn in a horrendous performance that raises a whole spectrum of issues. They fell by 10 to the Memphis Grizzlies in a game that wasn't that close for most of the way. The Blazers simply weren't [...]

Allen of Salem: True Confession!

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:38:00 -0500

I did it. Back in the early 60s, what was then the Commercial Bank of Salem undertook a remolding of the building and for a first time that I ever knew placed two small structures on their parking lot for use as temporary drive-up teller positions. Imagine that, Drive-up Banking [...]

Newshoggers.com: Nukes Are Like Toys Still in Their Box on 'Antiques Roadshow'

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:26:43 -0500

Number of comments: 1
By Russ Wellen
The Deproliferator

"We have reached the point where the senior military generals responsible for nuclear forces are advocating, more vocally, more vehemently, than our politicians, to get down to lower and lower weapons." -- General Eugene Habiger (Ret.), former head of U.S. nuclear forces, in 2000Not exactly the [...]

Persuasion, Perseverance, and Patience: Happy birthday to one of the most trusted journalists in America

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:03:00 -0500

For many people, simply replacing laddie-boy wannabe Craig Kilbourn as host of "The Daily Show" would have been service enough. But not Jon Stewart. That's not an achievement to rest on--it's an achievement to build on.

The moment when all doubt was removed regarding Stewart's value to America:

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Newshoggers.com: Lack of Change = Lack of Enthusiasm

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:27:57 -0500

Number of comments: 3

Commentary By Ron Beasley

As Dave noted the other day Self-preservation is not a Democratic instinct. In the comments section of that post I wrote the following:

People voted for the Democrats and Obama for change and they have gotten damn little of it. The danger in 2010 is that millions will simply [...]

Chas' Compilation: Ultra Hal: His "Second Life" is really his first one

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:52:00 -0500

I've previously posted about Ultra Hal, a teachable "Chat-Bot" that is a program you can download onto your PC. I've done updates about it's new releases, as it continues to evolve.

The latest news is, that the Ultra Hal program has been given a body and a "life" [...]

Newshoggers.com: From "Big Tent" To Gated Community

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:43:54 -0500

Number of comments: 3

By Steve Hynd

It's rare for me to agree with Kathleen Parker. Even her criticism of Sarah Palin as "out of her league" didn't go far enough - Parker should have said "out of her mind". But when it comes to the GOP's new "purity test", she isn't entirely wrong.' [...]

Oregon Catalyst: Three Polls: Obama likability, GOP and NY Terror trail.

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:00:00 -0500

Number of comments: 3
Gallup poll on New York terror trial
A new Gallup poll released Friday shows that most Americans believe alleged September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed should be tried in a military court instead of a civilian court...59% of Americans believe Mohammed should be tried in [...]

BlogNetNews.com » Oregon

Oregon Women Report: Weekly Photo: Clumsy polar bear

Oregon Biz Report: Study shows businesses scale back tech choices during recession

Oregon Faith Report: Religion-based hate crimes highest since 2001

Oregon Natural Resources Report: Recap of changes to Oregon Legislature

Born Again Redneck: I blame consumer credit for the recession

Our PDX Network: *What’s* In Our Water Again…??? (The PDX Reservoir Scare)

Born Again Redneck: Today's naked underage redneck chick blogpost

Ridenbaugh Press: The yellow

Born Again Redneck: Movie stars I loved as a kid - Ava Gardner

Daniel's political musings: They're coming for your freedom

Sinister: 46,684

Jack Bog's Blog: Alleged Oregon eco-arsonist busted in China

Jack Bog's Blog: Boil your tap water in Portland

A Boy Named Sous: Musical Geography Trivia Question

MaxRedline: Fundamentalist Christians And Muslims Find Common Ground

A Boy Named Sous: The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody

MaxRedline: Black Friday @ Walmart

Persuasion, Perseverance, and Patience: The unforgiving minute

MaxRedline: One Year In, The Death Knell Sounds

MaxRedline: It's Not Easy Goin' Green

Jack Bog's Blog: Tax Deadbeat of the Week

Jeff the Great: Jeff the Great Innovates

Persuasion, Perseverance, and Patience: Saturday tunes: "Here's how to be an agreeable chap"

Newshoggers.com: Another wave of writedowns

Newshoggers.com: More on Social Security and Responsibility

Jack Bog's Blog: If I'm ever trapped in the driver's seat of an Escalade...

Jack Bog's Blog: Game report: Grizzlies 106, Blazers 96

Allen of Salem: True Confession!

Newshoggers.com: Nukes Are Like Toys Still in Their Box on 'Antiques Roadshow'

Persuasion, Perseverance, and Patience: Happy birthday to one of the most trusted journalists in America

Newshoggers.com: Lack of Change = Lack of Enthusiasm

Chas' Compilation: Ultra Hal: His "Second Life" is really his first one

Newshoggers.com: From "Big Tent" To Gated Community

Oregon Catalyst: Three Polls: Obama likability, GOP and NY Terror trail.

Our PDX Network: What’s In Our Water Again…??? (The PDX Reservoir Scare)