Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Friday, February 27th, 2009
So I've just spent the last 5-6 weeks working somewhere that I hear continual contemporary country music (except for the one time that they played each Jolene and The Gambler) for 9 hours a day, twice a week. That works out to about 90 hours of this stuff in the ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Well, of course I am no longer a resident of Portland, but as someone who both appreciates that city's "progressiveness" and also finds it to be annoying and generally quite a facade. I thought that the news today was quite interesting. Last year we elected Sam Adams mayor. I did ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
I was just bobbling around cnn.com looking at the election stuff when I stumbled on a page listing the various states ballot measures... Grit your teeth for 6 of the first 8 listed:
Arizona: Ban on Gay Marriage
Arkansas: Ban on Gay Couples Adopting Children
California: Ban on Gay Marriage
Colorado: End Affirmative Action
Colorado: ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
So for some reason, I was just stumbling around looking for local blogs and I came across this one: Rob Kremer. As I looked around the stuff was so naive and/or sinful that at first I assumed that it was intended as tongue-in-cheek. But, of course, I soon realized that ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
But I just can't get behind Obama. Well, I haven't tried too, either. I am still stuck on Nader or or Gravel or maybe even Kucinich (except that apartment by mine with the stupid "Kuchinich, the eyes that see through the lies" poster in the window irritates me to no ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Though I haven't really settled one way or another between Obama and Clinton (not that it matters, I'll vote for whichever gets the nod), the tide keeps turning me more towards supporting Obama. This newest dumb flap about the "behind closed doors" comments he made about "bitter voters" really just ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
It's rare that something makes me take the side of big business, especially take the side of the music business, as I don't support the merger of many business into just a few conglomerates and I don't support the homogenization of the music business into just a few mainstream artists. ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
In a conversation at work today, I had to get into my "the US wants Israel there because they want to start a war, since they're waiting/hoping for Armageddon" mode. Of course, one of my favorite subjects for loathing/complaints, for many reasons. I remember reading some quote from GHW Bush ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Yes, another cop-out headline from our local daily, the always vapid "Oregonian". This time it was "Al Qaeda trains kids to Kidnap, Kill"! Well, yes, all governments (and similar groups) train young people to kidnap and kill. That's what foreign affairs and national security are all about. Threatening others with ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Even if the underdogs ran away with the handful of rings, I still don't see this years Superbowl as all that important an event. But today though, well, this election season in general. Either Hillary or Obama are going to be the democratic presidential candidate which is rather shocking, either ...
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