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100+ Oregon related deaths in war
2008-03-25 05:59:00 Iraq War Stats / MOSAIC More About: Deaths , Oregon , Related
MOSAIC - 4000 soldiers...
2008-03-25 05:36:00 Incredible... click to enlarge... More About: Mosaic , Soldiers
Monday's links...
2008-03-25 01:11:00 -Dozono is in / Quitting 'not an option' / vid... / Adams glad-ORE GOP... no hope for Portland area-3,000 w/o power in Hillsboro-Bike community disturbed about no mention in state of the state-Whales stop by en route to Alaska / VID-Man's home ransacked because of Craigslist hoax-North coast embraces Obama-Rose garden gets NCAA in 2009-ORE state fair music line-up released-VID: Portland youth More About: Links
4000 later... MSNBC coverage
2008-03-24 22:51:00 Terribly sad reality of this war... Sure the attacks are down, but look out... -Al-Qaida #2 urges attacks on Israel, US / Hizbullah swears revenge against Israel More About: Coverage , MSNBC
My point exactly...
2008-03-24 22:28:00 The surge is not working... Take it from Hagel. I just posted yesterday about Senator Graham trying to pretend it is working.... not the case says even Patraeus. More About: Point
Nearly 48 mill. Europeans to disvocer Oregon in new 15-part TV series
2008-03-24 21:54:00 Freakin sweet... I'd say that Oregon and Washington will probably be able to use any tourism this draws with danger of losing the salmon runs and high gas prices... Nearly 48 million Europeans will discover Oregon via their televisions when the European Travel Channel, in partnership with Travel Oregon, airs the 15-part series, "Oregon Uncovered." The show, to debut January 2009, will feature More About: Series , Tv Series , Part
Bush Admin -- Search our emails? Hell no...
2008-03-24 16:55:00 With pretty crappy excuses as well... The White House’s chief information officer said the Bush administration should not be compelled to search for millions of e-mails on individual computers and hard drives that may have been lost between 2003 and 2005 because it would be too expensive and require hundreds of hours of work, according to a filing the White House made with a federal court. More About: Search , Emails , Hell , Admin
VID: Portland highschoolers stage walk-out war protest
2008-03-24 16:47:00 Did you catch this video? Soo great. Portland youth... representin' For more 5th anniversary protest videos see LL... More About: Protest , Stage , Walk
Aspiring Idaho politition setting the political stupidity bar quite high...
2008-03-24 16:43:00 Funny and stupid... WTF is wrong with Idaho ? <!-- sphereit start -->A Senate candidate has legally changed his name to Pro-Life and will appear on the ballot that way this year, state election officials say. As Marvin Pro-Life Richardson, the organic strawberry farmer from Letha, 30 miles northwest of Boise, was denied the use of his middle name when he ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2006 More About: Political , Stupidity , High
PIC -- San Fran's 'Hunky Jesus' competition...
2008-03-24 16:38:00 A lovely Easter tradition... More About: Jesus , Competition
War protesters storm Chicago Easter mass throwing fake blood.
2008-03-24 09:52:00 Here is the vid... As they listened to the gospel during mass Sunday, few parishioners at Holy Name parish could have imagined how their holiday service and their Easter finery were about to be tainted. Six protesters disrupted the beginning of Cardinal Francis George's homily to shout their opposition to the Iraq war. The demonstrators—who called themselves Catholic Schoolgirls Against the More About: Chicago , Protesters , Storm , Fake
Sunday night's links...
2008-03-24 07:18:00 -WA -- Seattle based ship sinks -- 4 dead / 43 rescued-OR -- Dozono to announce Monday decision to stay or go-Issue of race a touchy subject -- even in progressive Portland-WA -- Found: 1986 message in a bottle-OR -- Another party turns violent with shooting / Portland early morning standoff-WA -- Seattle's biggest risk; Deep recession-Portland's cheap eats -4000th US casualty in More About: Links , Sunday
Sen. Lindsey Graham -- 'The surge has worked on all fronts'
2008-03-24 07:12:00 Is he serious? How can he say this with a straight face when generals are admitting it hasn't been effective! More About: Surge , Graham
How safe is your state? Oregon rated 21st...
2008-03-24 06:27:00 Congressional Quarterly has just released their list of the ratings of America's 50 safest states... It is certainly interesting. Oregon 's safety actually went up a point, which of course is great to know. Washington rated 10 below Oregon coming in at 31st. The listings they released are available in PDF format at the site if you so choose, but I have captured the list in order of safest to More About: State , Safe
Olbermann... What did the media do on the 5th anniversary of the war
2008-03-24 03:46:00 An interesting look... More About: Media , The Media , Anniversary , Olbermann
U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 4,000
2008-03-24 03:36:00 Sad... BAGHDAD - Four U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in southern Baghdad late Sunday, raising the death toll for American forces since start of the war to 4,000, according to the Pentagon. The grim milestone was reached less than a week after the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion to topple former Iraq i dictator Saddam Hussein and coincided with a spate of violence across Iraq More About: Death , Toll
Truckers threatening to strike...
2008-03-24 02:59:00 Sound American economy without truckers? Is that possible? Not a chance. Dan Little, the owner/operator of a livestock hauling company in Carrollton, Mo., estimated Tuesday that at least 1,000 other truckers from across the United States have committed so far to joining him in a strike on April 1. Although none of the truckers interviewed Tuesday at the Iowa 80 Truck Stop, Walcott, which is More About: Strike , Truckers
PIC: Massive explosion in Ark.
2008-03-24 02:06:00 This is incredible... I heard it was big but this is impressive. And there is a gas leak reported which has caused an evacuation... BOONEVILLE, Ark. -- Firefighters said they are on the scene of a large, out-of-control fire at the Cargill Beef Packing Plant in Booneville in Logan County.The fire started in a freezer just before 2 p.m. Sunday and has been burning out-of-control all afternoon More About: Explosion
Register Guard -- Oregon Dems Anguish over election choice -- ?
2008-03-23 23:25:00 Do you indeed anguish? The choice is quite simple for me but understandably there are many who would disagree... In the end, I think we will all support the nominee and those who dont... well I think that is ridiculous. Anything else would be childish at such a critical juncture. More About: Election , Oregon , Choice , Guard , Register
Sunday's links...
2008-03-23 23:14:00 -WA -- Seattle based ship sinks -- 4 dead / 43 rescued-OR -- Opening statements at recent mayoral debate-OR -- Another bike officer hit-Issue of race a touchy subject -- even in progressive Portland-Can a street of dreams be green?-Have a nice Easter; Whatever it means to you -String of pedestrian accidents strikes Oregon... 1, 2, 3-Obama finds comfort zone in ORE / Obama v. Hillary may be More About: Links
You know your a class act when...
2008-03-23 23:01:00 Best week ever tells the tale... More About: Class Act , Class
pfft'.... thanks a lot viagra!
2008-03-23 22:42:00 Yea so when I hear a commercial with a catchy tune, I will often find myself humming or singing that tune throughout my day if it gets stuck in my head... Well the latest string of Viagra commercials with that tune and the guy singing 'vivaaaa viagraaa'... Yea... I have found myself marching around singing to myself 'vivaaa viagraaa' which is just fucking excellent when there are people around.
The danger of McCain's “Senior Moments”
2008-03-23 21:22:00 I find this important now after some of the things Bill Maher pointed out in his video I posted recently here. I thought the whole age thing wasn't a very substantial arguement against him. But it is beginning to be slightly more worrisome. How many 'senior moments' are his supporters going to allow before they realize this is a potential serious problem with pretty dangerous implications. More About: Danger
Bike Boxes getting great reviews... here and abroad
2008-03-23 20:56:00 Only here in Portland are we weird enough (and damn proud of it!) to make green mean stop... People across the tubez of the internetz seem to really be noticing and applauding the bike boxes and so far seems they have been very well received by bikers and drivers alike. I pointed out earlier how they noticed all the way in Tampa almost immediately. Treehugger noticed today... After recognizing More About: Reviews , Bike , Great
Saturday Night Links...
2008-03-23 04:05:00 -Dozono run in doubt / Outpouring of support comes after ruling-OR -- Opening statements at recent mayoral debate-WA -- Missing sex offender; extreme threat / FOUND-WA -- FBI's Seattle mystery man-Another ORE bike officer hit-Obama Media - Listen / Oregonian Coverage / Videos-Obama takes campaign to conservative So. Ore.-Obama talks war, environment and Oregon's importance-Republicans losing More About: Links , Night , Saturday
Salmon under threat of virtual collapse...
2008-03-23 02:09:00 This sounds much more alarming the way they present it than I have previously read... NBC Nightly news covered this tonight... Federal fisheries managers are considering closing ocean salmon fishing off Oregon and California this year to protect struggling chinook salmon stocks from California's Sacramento River Basin. Lawmakers from Oregon and California sent Gutierrez a letter earlier this More About: Collapse , Virtual , Threat
Another bike officer hit in Oregon... injured.
2008-03-23 00:11:00 This comes after the recent release of the video which shows a Hillsboro officer hit while making a stop on patrol... VERY glad to hear he is also okay this time. MILWAUKIE, Ore. - A police officer was injured Friday evening when a passing car driven by an elderly woman struck him while he was standing on the side of the road for a traffic stop, police said. Officer John Redenbo suffered minor More About: Bike , Oregon , Injured
Girls gone wild in more hott water...
2008-03-22 23:27:00 This keeps getting more and more funny... So in a nutshell... the people over at girls gone wild and others were hoping to get her to do some nude modeling for them after this whole Spitzer deal in New York, offering as much 1 MILLION dollars... but then Girls Gone wild found her in 7 days worth of archived footage. Now it turns out that she may have been only 17 so they cannot show the footage! More About: Wild , Water , Girls Gone Wild
Should Sho go?
More articles from this author:2008-03-22 23:20:00 Portland Mayoral candidate Sho Dozono has gotten an 'out pouring of support' after the ruling that he cannot recieve public funding which put him in quite the dilemma... this poll from over at KGW shows how some people are feeling about it... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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