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on Primary Election 2010
Dudley is a Joke... that's it!
Oh... His ideology is that He Doesn't Like Paying Taxes!
posted 3 years ago
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on Primary Election 2010
Why do all of these candidates promise to fix things that they have absolutely Nothing to do with.... They are promising to bring jobs to Oregon. They Can't Do That!
They just wanna cut taxes for themselves and their rich buddies. Oregonians are closing schools, and the rich folks are to cheap to pay their taxes.
These people are promising to cut services, and acting like this is a good thing.
posted 3 years ago
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on Primary Election 2010
Party Primary elections are for members of that Party! If you choose not to be a member of that party you don't get to voice your opinion. If you would like to participate, claim a Party. If you don't feel any allegence to any party... Why are you complaining?
They don't let me into the club... Why? cuz I ain't a member!
To have an open primary (as many advocate) just removes the whole purpose of the Primary. If there was an open ballot, that would just mean having two elections. An open ballot would look like the Iraqi ballot.... Hundreds of names that mean nothing, my the candidates with the most money win.
posted 3 years ago
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on The Face of Race
Amen
posted 3 years ago
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on The Face of Race
Okay Albert...
Once again I plead with you to look in your own heart and have the courage to admit your own bigotry and do something to change that.
So long as you will use your intelligence to realize how blatantly judgemental and racist that statement is.
posted 3 years ago
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on The Face of Race
"Should government only serve one group of its constituents? Are you afraid of racial equity?"
Not really... But let's get rid of all racial bull manure. No special treatment by race, creed, religion or lack of religion, sex, sexual orientation, or national origin.
BTW-- The woman being interviewed went to college because of support of the Alaska Native People. She got that support because of her RACE! Complaining about racial mistreatment that happened Decades or Centuries ago is also wrong. If it ain't, I would like to go back to Finland and get my land back that was stolen by the Czarist Russians, and the Soviets.
Therefore... complaining about slavery, Jim Crow, The Long March, The Trail of Tears, as well as the mistreatment on Chinese and Irish Immigrants by the Railroad Barons, and the internment of Japanese Americans.... All that stuff is getting pretty old.... GET OVER IT!
posted 3 years ago
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on The Face of Race
"This model is not serving People of Color"
Ah... The truth come out! You want Special Treatment!
"We have got to make a Racial Equity adgenda front and center"
Since you have already decided what the statistics should say, you can tweek them any way you like to fit your adgenda.
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And to the people who say that Portland is the 'whitest city'... I can walk through North Portland (where I live) and see NO white people! So do we need to move some white people in there to even things up? The rent is much cheaper there than in Beaverton, so let us move 65% caucasian people into N. Portland and get this equality thing going!
posted 3 years ago
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on The Face of Race
But you are Whitey! White Folks own everything and are responsible for all the bad things in the world
Haven't you been paying attention?
posted 3 years ago
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on The Face of Race
Poor Homeless folks live under bridges with $0000/year.
Go look at the line of people outside the Portland Rescue Mission or the Blanchet House. Go look at the people sleeping in doorways. They are usually White Folks. But since they don't have a "household income" to be statistically sampled, they are not mentioned in your statistics. The fact that the people you are sampling have homes means that they aren't that bad off! See the poor old woman collecting cans in a shopping cart. Or the people who live along the river in the National Park.
And here your are trying to justify your Racist position with statistics.
posted 3 years ago
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on The Face of Race
She states that "White people are over-represented in Housing"... White people are 79% of the populationg of Oregon... So 'People of Color' are 21%....
So what percentage of Housing should be dedicated to 'People of Color'?
posted 3 years ago
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on The Face of Race
I am sick of "People of Color" screaming "Racism" about everything! This detracts from the TRUE problem of oppression of Poor People. The rich exploit the poor! And many poor people have brown skin. But people of all races are oppressed by the rich. But all y'all rich intellectuals buy into this crap. I have many bBlack and Native American activist friends from the 70's til Now... Playing on the 'White Man's Guilt' has been a 'Plan' for a long time. Allowing this Reverse-Racism allows all the Poor to Suffer, and gives 'People of Color' an excuse for low achievement, and to request Special Treatment. Cuz "We are minorities and we need a hand-up!"
The truth is there are more poor 'White' people than poor 'People or Color' but this "Racism" fulfills a self-serving agenda of Preferential Treatment for 'People of Color' in Hiring, Education, Housing, Financial Assistance, and Health Care. [Blonde-haired, Blue-eyed, Caucasian People are a Minority also]
This is bullcrap... And you are trying to peddle your Racist rich-people guilt onto everyone else.
[Disclaimer-- I am a 53 year-old unemployed White Male. Once my unemployment runs-out, I may end-up sleeping under a bridge. There are NO special programs for Poor White Trash because we don't have a dedicated, guilt-fueled, lobby]
posted 3 years ago
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on Paper Mills
As far as newsprint paper sales go... I used to buy a newspaper to read on the MAX to and from work... But now the price is not competitive. I cannot afford a buck just to read the headlines and the funnies.
Other riders read the news on their laptops with no paper involved.
But the major problem with the loss of Timber, Paper and Other jobs is GREED. These corporations need to realize that they don't have to make massive profits off of everything they do.
You can run a business where people are employed and the company makes a profit... Yeah, you can make more pofit if you open a factory in Korea, but nobody in America will get a job from it.
posted 3 years, 4 months ago
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on Reporting Abuse
This is what is wrong with society today. All those kids born since the 60's who have never been disciplined. You need to smack your kid once in a while. There is no reason to negotiate with a child. Either discipline your kids... Or don't have any!
posted 3 years, 4 months ago
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on Reporting Abuse
This Lawyer that has made all this money by sueing the states of Oregon and Washington... I believe this guy has a total conflict of interest here. Where does he think that the money for his law suits come from? (Yeah, He Knows) This does not represent the well-being of anyone. Of course he wants DHS Child Welfare to get more money... That is where he gets his money.
posted 3 years, 4 months ago
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on The "P" Word and Climate Change
2012 will come and go... Just like every other supposed date for the "End Of The World".
Dates like that just allow people to do Nothing about their problems because they feel that it doesn't matter.
A few hundred cults have told us that the world is gonna end, and they were all wrong.
posted 3 years, 5 months ago
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on The "P" Word and Climate Change
Good Points... But understand that the Religious Right thinks that if we mess the planet up enough Jesus will return and save us all.
This is why we keep on getting in trouble in the Middle East... Because the Religious Right thinks that they are doing God's Will by starting Armegeddon.
This same logic encourages these folks to have as many children as possible, and require others to do the Same.
And babies are so Cute when they are standing in the soup line.
posted 3 years, 5 months ago
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on The "P" Word and Climate Change
Real Quick... When I was 5 years-old, we were listening to the Radio. (more informative than TV in the early 1960's) They announced that there was THREE BILLION people on the planet according to the 'Population Clock'.
Right now there is an estimated 6,791,681,062 people on the planet. The population has more than DOUBLED in my lifetime.
In the 60's we were often warned about overpopulation. People of my generation were advised to only have one child, two at most, to leave room in the world for others.
Nowadays everybody ignores the problem. We are turning fertile farmland into housing, and using our FOOD to make bio-fuels.
You see the end coming! (or at least I can) I am just gonna watch the show.
posted 3 years, 5 months ago
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on Stimulus Money
I have been unemployed since 6/30/08. None of these stimulus projects actually create jobs for the really needy. On Burnside, you can see hundreds of unemployed people sleeping in the park outside my building. If it wasn't for unemployment checks, I'd be out there with them.
Things like Highway projects just give work to companies that really were not hurting anyway. This does not create any readily available jobs for the Truly Unemployed. This just means that these people who already have well-paying jobs can buy another car.
What about the thousands of truly needy people out here. I live in Old Town, where there are always alot of Homeless People. But I can compare it from two years ago... There are dozen of people sleeping in the park by the 'Elephant' in the N. Park Blocks, during the day... EVERDAY. Hundreds of people are there when 'Food Not Bombs' is feeding out there. There are no entry-level jobs being created.
The stimulus is just being used to keep the rich contractors Rich!
BTW-- All the 'Day Labor' places that were paying $10/hr back when minimum wage was $7.25/hr... They Now pay $8.40/hr because people are desperate for work
posted 3 years, 9 months ago
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