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Jack Bog's Blog: Tax Deadbeat of the Week

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

It's Ahnold! [...]

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

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: 1

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

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: 2

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: 2
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 [...]

Oregon Natural Resources Report: Surplus salmon help feed hungry on North Coast

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:00:54 -0500

By Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife,

TILLAMOOK, Ore. – Hungry people along Oregon’s north coast will eat a little better this holiday season, thanks to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and a coalition of volunteers who delivered more than 500 pounds of salmon [...]

Oregon Women Report: 1 in 4 Teen Girls Have a Sexually Transmitted Disease

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:00:46 -0500

Number of comments: 1

HealthDay News — As many as one in four U.S. teenage girls have had a sexually transmitted disease (STD), many infected soon after their first sexual encounter, a new government report shows. “The high burden of STDs among teen girls reminds us that we can’t ignore [...]

Oregon Faith Report: Faith and Family Film Review: Old Dogs

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:00:42 -0500

Faith and Family Film Review: Old Dogs
By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting

Old Dogs— Passable comedy in which a sports marketing executive (Robin Williams) learns, seven years after the fact, that his quickly annulled second marriage produced fraternal twins (Conner Rayburn and Ella Bleu [...]

Oregon Biz Report: State Treasurer presses climate transparency for investors

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:00:26 -0500

Treasurer Westlund seeks more transparency for investors about climate risks to companies
By Oregon State Treasurer Ben Westlund,

SALEM – In life and investing, there’s a truism that “What you don’t know can hurt you.” Oregon State Treasurer Ben Westlund is asking the Securities and Exchange Commission [...]

Oregon Faith Report: Faith and Family Film Review:The Princess and the Frog

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:50:02 -0500

Faith and Family Film Review:The Princess and the Frog
By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting

The Princess and the Frog— Enchanting animated musical, set in 1920s New Orleans, in which a voodoo sorcerer (voice of Keith David) casts a spell that complicates the lives of [...]

Pacific Views: Catholic Priorities

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:02:00 -0500

Today Digby wrote:

Perhaps the Church should just concentrate on doing good works for a while and not concern itself with others' moral failings until it gets itself institutionally straight.

But doing good works doesn't seem to be on the agenda for the Catholic Church these days. They seem to be [...]

Mover Mike: College Football Upsets Week 13

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:15:45 -0500

#9 Pittsburgh 16 West Virginia 19

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Allen of Salem: So there we have it!

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:37:00 -0500

The reports of murder and mayhem in the Portland area is so great in volume the Home Invasion, Attempted Murder by Shooting a person in Salem last night doesn't earn a spot on TV News.

And on top of that, 24 hours later Salem Police has yet to release' [...]

HinesSight: More Apple love: an iMac enters our life

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:12:00 -0500

Ah, there she is, so lovely.

Sleek. Slender. Well-designed. Responsive to the touch. Fun to play with.

It's no wonder both my wife and I have fallen in love with her -- though this Apple iMac resides on Laurel's desk and mainly is her techno-toy.

Observe [...]

cyclotram: SF: 560 Mission Street Plaza

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:53:00 -0500

This is the fountain in front of the JPMorgan Chase tower in San Francisco's Financial District. Apparently this spot is fairly new. You don't see a lot of quasi-public spaces like this in' [...]

Mover Mike: White House Science Czar Involved in Climategate

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:41:13 -0500

According to NewsMax

…White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Dr. John P. Holdren, is a key player in the Climategate e-mails flap, which is shaping up as the biggest scandal in the history of modern science.

…Canada Free Press this week revealed that the former Harvard professor and [...]

Our PDX Network: Unholy Night

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:00:32 -0500

It’s been Christmas season for a couple of weeks. Now that Thanksgiving is out of the way, we can focus our full attention on the marketing of good cheer to the good ol’ USA.

Man, that sounds curmudgeonly.

I have issues with Christmas. I was raised in a [...]