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After working many years out of 290 where many good black plumbers and fitters are members . There are many white and black members that will never be qualified to run work . You have to be organized enough to run yourself let alone others . You have to get along with those you are supervising. You need excellent communication skills and good knowledge of your work. I will wait for the jury to decide and not assume this person was discriminated against .
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It's great that Lucy Vinis understands homelessness. It's not so great that she will make it the city's top priority. We need a mayor who can see all of the problems we have, not just those of a few.
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If "taxpayers" covered the bills at the University of Oregon, it wouldn't be in such a fix. Public money covers only 5-6% of the operating budget -- a rate that would make the likes of Wisconsin governor Scott Walker drool with envy. Because the taxpayers don't pay for public higher education, the University is obliged to cover its costs with tuition payments, three quarters of which come from out of state. Oregonians get the best education that someone else's money can buy.
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That completely explains that note in history when Obama became the winner of the ‘Liar of The Year’ Award. "Obama is one the best presidents this country has ever seen". LOL
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"I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
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The 79 non-renewed employees held non-tenure-track positions. They were instructors whose job descriptions, in most cases, did not include research and publication. Their service obligations were few, relative to tenure-related faculty. Tenured professors and professors on the tenure track are obligated to do all three: teach, research and publish, and donate some of their time to university service.
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I Said nothing about University funding. I said research grants. Many professors die if they can't bring in government money for research. That includes scientific, political science, environmental science, studies of every kind. I question your 6%, you're telling me the state is only giving 6% to the university?
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PCTC.com LOLOLOL another liberal propagandist unashamedly begging for handouts.... how much did you send in? https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=gjBlVHV4-eFXvKSKQNjAXcmvosjVxv_8gDEf5Ha8DpHMJnZx5cWLa0mTUgW&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8defcd6970d4fd9d661117ac2649af92bb
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Rumor has it some in Canada are recommending to build a full-length border wall, to keep Bill and Hillary Clinton out. My guess is the Canadians have seen what two lying psycho's can do to ruin a country.
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Our newest crop of parents will now have the opportunity to explain to their pre-pubescent children the details of the various non-sexual acts that Bill Clinton did not have with Monica Lewinsky when he was President as well as what the big deal was about the 'blue dress' and the 'cigar'. Or, considering it's all on the internet, they'll just look it up for themselves. It's political history. It certainly won't be hidden during the campaign from July to November.
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That ordinance does not apply to a vehicle being pulled by horses since horses have the right of way on every roadway in the state of Oregon
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Questioning orthodoxy clearly frightens you. Art Pope and his ilk are a scourge upon the body academic, at least in Raleigh and Chapel Hill, where the nation's oldest public university, North Carolina, was founded and funded by trading gifts and subscriptions from donors for guaranteed free educations for their children. How un-public-funding of them. Rich guys running the show -- Deady was chairman of the first UO board of trustees by the way, and Villard held some impressive sway as well, both gentlemen being rather vital benefactors at the university's troublesome birth -- is a new phenomenon. That's funny. Academic freedom of speech, and the bedrock principle of tenure, must be preserved at all costs. Let's check with the University of Kansas assistant professor on academic leave since mid-November for uttering the n-word during a graduate-level discussion of racism. Conservatism run amok. Damn red-staters. Fiscal fitness does not mean for-profit. It means accountability.
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Trump would finish behind you.... https://disqus.com/by/disqus_ubXKjJorKD/
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I don't know if professors die, like the Bothans, if they can't bring in research grants. That would be taking the "publish or perish" motto a little too literally! The U of O brings in around $100 million per year in research grants. These are a mixture of federal and private funds. I don't think the state of Oregon has a research grants program. The federal funds are, of course, taxpayer funded. State taxpayers support the University through budget allocations, and this is usually described as 6-8% of the University budget. President Schill alluded to having faculty that are less active in research increase their teaching load. I know that is policy in some departments already, but I suspect the enforcement is spotty.
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To those who say they will move to Canada if Trump is elected president I say why wait?
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you make a good point.... I think out-of-state tuition is 3X that of in-state. A real incentive to recruit out of state. The University operates very nearly like a "private" college or university without much support from us taxpayers. It's no surprise that so many graduates are facing crushing student loan debts.
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"lawmakers fear and hate seeing policy—except for tax increases—made at the ballot box." Wrong. That applies only to Willamette Valley Democrats. Freedom doesn't bother the rest of us.
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I'm absolutely positive that I am now "over the hill". What I don't understand is why I can't remember every being at the very top. It had to happen, didn't it?
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Is that how you base your decision on who should be president?
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Vermont hasn't been a Republican state, or a conservative state since the 1970s. Howard Dean, liberal governor from 1991 to 2003, is from Vermont. In 2008 President Obama received his 2nd highest percentage of votes in Vermont, exceeded only by Hawaii. Based on that fact, I must question the writer's personal opinions.
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I took his Hitler comment as rhetorical.
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I also didn't inhale.
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Nice collection of Old Soul vituperation; even one against me in that grouping.
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"We must be the laughing stock of the world." Actually, just you.
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Heh, I'm not sure how much more dumbing down they can do.
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If anyone is impeding the flow of traffic unnecessarily, for the purpose of making a point, then I see them as being somewhat self-centered, and or uncaring for the time and even perhaps safety of other users of a major highway. Traveling at night and or perhaps using a less used section of roadway, or backroads, would at least show some concern for others, just because you can, does not in turn equate to, you should. Having the right of way, isn't always the Right thing to do, not to mention the people forced to drive through the dropping his horses leave behind.
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Why should the U of O students risk arrest to protest an increase that is going to pay for you salary, benefits and retirement? Which of your European student riots resulted in reductions in tuition?
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The union failed to find any. The school district failed to anything beside "Microagression". Sounds more like race card being played for profit.
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One only has to pull out into a marked pull-out and use the right lane where there are two or more lanes in your direction. There is no law requiring slow moving vehicles to leave the roadway. I'm always amazed at what crybabies our motorists are. Rather than enjoy this novelty, many are apparently wasting the time of our woefully understaffed state police. How hard is it to deal with a bit of traffic? I also wonder how many of those motorists were unlawfully using their cell phones while driving to call in this nonhazard.
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It's pretty obvious what the article and the author opinions are. I doubt when this case gets thrown out the WWeek will run a follow up article.
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"Morgan says he was paid 10 percent less than the white worker who previously held his job." It normal for a newly promoted person to be paid less than someone who has held that position for a while.
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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." H. L. Mencken
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They wouldn't. They probably be applauding the company for it's feminism.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. H. L. Mencken
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What do you think will help trump gain the support of the Republican base in whatever state he is currently campaigning in? That's what he will answer. A cat named Java
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Met a guy who got a degree in nuclear medicine. Basically, he ran the machines. $20,000 in debt. He got a good job at $60 an hour. Then the hospital went to contracted work, his pay went to $30 an hour. If we want a world-class workforce, we'll have to figure out how to train them. Germany Chile, Finland, Norway, Sweden offer free college to all of their citizens. But of course, this can't work. Those people are oppressed Socialists. In 10 years the Feds will make $110 billion on student loans. Profit good! We could levy a tax of a fraction of a percent on Wall Street speculators who nearly destroyed the economy, raising $75 billion. 1,000 economists endorse such a tax and 40 countries throughout the world have a similar tax including Britain, Germany, France, Switzerland, and China. But that can't work and the rich would have less money and cut our jobs. Right? Sanders, too idealistic. https://berniesanders.com/issues/its-time-to-make-college-tuition-free-and-debt-free/
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really, No area code? where are you from 1990's?
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Clever marketing by CB!
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Perhaps the ghost of Deady exists in Deady Hall? Are there moans of despair heard during classes there? Have innocent blacks been found dismembered in the hallways? What is the actual source of this alleged 'fear'? Are only black students afraid? How do the Chinese students react, since he was an advocate for them? To 'fear' a building due to its name is ludicrous at best. It doesn't even reach the status of decent hyperbole.
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I still find it very funny that a bakery can be fined for failing to bake a wedding cake for a same sex couple, when same sex marriages were illegal in that state at the time. The state and other keep referring to it as a wedding cake. Maybe someone can explain this to me. Would not it be appropriate to say that I cannot bake you a wedding cake because same sex marriages are illegal.
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more like Whaaaat? not hostility. now, if I had been 30th in line behind this crew doing 3 mph,, and i'm on my way to sisters.....it would be hostility...you betcha. as in if I can walk faster than the cars move down the road...state highway 126... on the road...i'm taking a hike and looking for the next cop to ask WHAT are you THINKIN? talk about road rage....some fools' got his personal carry legal hand gun on him and he's had it! and I think on top of that it's illegal..it's a hazard, especially on a curvy road. so not hostility...just can't support the horse and wagon show. p.s. - it's nothing to do with the message - though, i'll bet god got called upon many times that day, but not in support of the wagon crew...
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No, mallory is right. My local grocery store has the chip readers installed. I too have used my card in the chip reader many times and never been asked for a pin.
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George Bush did this Anti-Bribery proclamation in 2004. . The entry into the United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, of the following persons is hereby suspended: (a) Public officials or former public officials whose solicitation or acceptance of any article of monetary value, or other benefit, in exchange for any act or omission in the performance of their public functions ) Public officials or former public officials whose misappropriation of public funds or interference with the judicial, electoral, or other public processes has or had serious adverse effects on the national interests of the United States. It included: The spouses, children, and dependent household members of persons described in paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) above, who are beneficiaries of any articles of monetary value or other benefits obtained by such persons.
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Most students drop out of college because of cost and also having to work full-time or nearly full-time and thereby not having the time to study. All college and university education should be free, just like high school is free. One needs a college education today as much as people needed a high school education 50 years ago. An educated Oregon population works to the benefit of the whole population. A benefit to one is a benefit to all. GS
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President Bush published this Proclamation in 2007 against immigrants and non-immigrant entry by " (b) Syrian government officials, former Syrian government officials, and persons who meet the criteria for designation under section 3(a)(i) or (ii) of Executive Order 13338 of May 11, 2004, who deliberately undermine or harm Lebanon's sovereignty, its legitimate government, or its democratic institutions, or contribute to the breakdown in the rule of law in Lebanon, including through the sponsorship of terrorism, politically motivated violence or intimidation, or the reassertion of Syrian control in Lebanon; The spouses and dependent children of persons described in subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d) of this section were also prohibited entry.
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"""On september 1st, 1853 I left my farm on the Umpqua and started for Jacksonville on horseback to hold the United States District Court there. At the Umpqua Canyon I overtook Lieutenant L.F. Grover with the advance company of Colonel Niesmith's company, hastening to the scene of war. He shared his blankets with me that night on the south Umpqua. The next night we slept at Levens, on Cow Creek, after a day of drenching rain. Late on the morning of Saturday, September 3rd, I left Levens. Grover remained behind to await a portion of his command. At Grave Creek, I stopped to feed my horse. There was a house there called the Bates House after the man who kept it. It was a rough wooden structure without a floor and had an immense clapboard funnel that served as a chimney. There was no house or settlement within 10 or 12 miles more of it..."""
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I've used my chip cards both ways. There are also dollar amounts involved. Larger amounts apparently need chip read and a signature at some places.
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"""...There I found Captain J.K. Limerick in command of a company of volunteers. It seems he had been sent there by General Lane after the fight of Battle Creek on account of the murder of some Indians there. Bates and some others had induced a small party of peaceable Indians who belonged in that vincinity to enter to an engagement to remain at peace woth the whites during the war, which was going on at some distance from them. By way of ratification they invited them to partake of a feast in an unoccupied log house just across the road from the Bates House. While the unarmed Indians were partaking of the proffered hospitality, the door was suddenly fastened and they were shot down by their treacherous white hosts. Nearby I was shown a large hole which the bodies of these murdered Indians had been unceremoniously tumbled...""" -- Judge Matthew P Deady
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At least one or two were caught in Washington state. They were caught voting for a spouse that had died just before the election. Of course, you kn0w, if one or two are doing it, the odds are quite high that a number of other people are doing it.
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Not sure, but we can see the response from the secularist left..... Jesus bashing.
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Where's the tolerance bro?
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That's the percentage of taxpayer money I've read before. I believe that the money that used to go to the U of O was taken to support K-12. Lots more SEIU and Teacher Union voters there than in the University system, don't you know?
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Forbes is reporting that, if elected, Trump will receive $1,000 cash from the Koch Bros for each American Demokrat who buys a one-way ticket to Canada.
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Some dispensaries in town have seeds :-) plant at least 2 times the number of seeds for the number of plants you want to grow. Half of the seeds will most likely be male
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That is an excellent reply to my post. I was hoping someone might actually think about what I was saying. But, as a middle aged man this research happened before I was born. So, If your point is that _once_ the UO did good research then that is a good reply. What is it doing today? Can it still do good research (without the help of the effects of WWII brain drain)? Why would the people of Oregon like to invest in this school? If I put myself in debt to send my child there will their life be better? Is this a day spa for 2nd string rich Californians? The answers from the university are either opaque and "just trust me". If you want funding then these questions will need to be answered.
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Ann Curry's judgment that the it was "immoral" to use tuition increases to offset increasing pension and medical costs was right on the mark. And I would add "shameful" to the list of words that describe the Legislature's utter abdication of responsibility to fund their state universities. The Legislature unleashed the PERS monster. They need to fix it before it eats every public dollar and asks for more.
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By activating populist anger against "Trumpistas", Mr Robinson is every bit the bigot as Donald Trump. Too bad PC labels have zero effect on Trump. Mr Robinson is peeing in the wind.
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Would a wooden chainsaw piece of art, e.g. statue suffice?
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The above named B.O.D. is one of the most impressive line-ups I've seen on a new local team. I think these folks are going to make it happen in a way we will all be very happy to experience.
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There's no tuition at most European universities, so the question rarely comes up.
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Don't like seeing people putting animals in harms way.
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So what is the source of tompainell's assertion that "In Europe, such attempts to raise tuition are met with near riots by concerned, passionate students"? I thought he might actually be a truthful person; my bad.
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Universities are "liberal" only in the sense that they're forward looking institutions. One shouldn't expect higher education to give, for example, equal time to creationism and evolution. Is that what you mean? As far as your union problem, well, since Reagan middle-class wages have stagnated--- correlation or cause? Remember now, Ronnie began the union-busting and he did a good job. Meanwhile, those wimpy little Germans are quite happy with the world's strongest economy and extremely strong unions. Gosh. Those damn commies, eh? They manage free or cheap universities, free healthcare, and high wages---- magic, I call it!
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Your not my brother, and furthermore anyone who goes out of their way to inconvenience others, on a whim, deserves none.
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In the 1980's lower level courses were almost all taught by gtfs - before email when office hours were the only times students could contact a prof. Today, students send tens of emails a week requiring replies seven days a week, all hours of the day. No serious researcher can put in the hours to answer hundreds of student emails and maintain publishing. UO isn't paying enough to retain talent. Now walk away from the hope of tenure while firing all the professional instructors who do the grunt work of teaching large lecture courses? Not a plan for success.
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It seems that disregard of science isn't limited to one political party and in Oregon these beliefs often cross political lines: climate change, vaccines, nuclear energy, GMO's, sales tax, and pumping your own gas. (OK, the last two not so much science, but strongly held opinions often with little rationale.)
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Tim - you sound as if you’re bigoted against Donald Trump. Is that possible? big·ot·ry/ˈbiɡətrē/noun: bigotry; intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself
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3-to-1 is about right. But the incentives reside in-state, in Salem. The taxpayers of Oregon and their elected representatives have always been cheap about higher education, have resented every penny, and have cut accordingly, to the point where all that's left is the resentment. But the UO (along with OSU, PSU, WOU, EOU, SOU, and OIT) bear a mandate to educate the young of Oregon inexpensively. The UO achieves this -- and yes, tuition is relatively low -- by recruiting out-of-state students. Somebody has pay for the institutions that Oregonians demand, despite their unwillingness to fund them. Thank heavens for the moms and dads of California, Washington, and the Pacific Rim. They pay your tuition.
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No such"note" except in your revisionist versions
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Interesting that two SEHS grads had judges for parents and success in the movie biz: David Linde & Eric Max Frye. Congrats!
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Ronnie also eliminated my tax deductions for car and credit card interest and solved Carter's 12% and higher inflation legacy. He also outspent Gorbachev and partially eliminated the USSR threat that has now resurfaced under Bush and Obama. Only the public employee unions are prospering today. Those lovely German companies you love are building their cars in the non-union South of the US or in Mexico, taking advantage of Clinton's NAFTA Treaty.
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And most deserved.
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No he wouldn't. Trump is a walking failure of American elitist doctrine that will fail like the rest of the GOP hopeless.
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Except that so far he hasn't, despite all the liberals screaming up and down that he's burnt toast. In fact, the opposite is true.
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From the Washington Post By Aaron Blake December 12, 2013  The fact-checking Web site Politifact has named President Obama's claim that people could keep their health insurance plans if they liked them its "Lie of the Year." Obama in recent years has repeated some variation of the following phrase: "If you like your health-care plan, you can keep it." The problem was, it wasn't true, as millions of Americans with health plans that didn't meet Obamacare's standards got cancellation notices.
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I think I've just been accused of being bigoted against a bigot because of his bigotry. It's like one of those infinite mirror images. I love it.
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Not according to the Jehovah's Witnesses or some of the Quakers and Amish. Matthew 22:20-22King James Version (KJV) 20 And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? 21 They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's. 22 When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way.
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Wasn't that during the time when literacy itself was limited primarily to the clergy?
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What do you value? There is no acceptable level of herbicides in living cells because the body will not flush it out of the system. It is in the soil, watersheds, air, plants or other animals. So if you can live without water, breathing, other life forms and the food you eat . You need to take a look what has determined an unsafe level of toxins being sprayed apparently everyone but the Forestry Department understands that once absorbed by the body you cannot get rid of it. With Chidren it's evern more severe impacting their phsycial and emotional development. There is no question about the damage these herbicides toxins do. So get informed because you sound ignorant about the subject.
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Yes that is about how much funding the University receives from the state. And yes the motto in academia is "publish or perish". All of the professors, including the adjuncts and associates, continuously have to be active in research and publishing if they ever hope to get tenure, or to get hired at a prestigious university that pays well. The problem, and I am speaking from the point of view of humanities in general, is that they don't specify the type of research that is favored from the top down. They are purposefully vague about it. In reality, they are letting go of people who, in languages especially, are specifically trained to teach languages. They expect TTF (tenure track facutly) to do these people's jobs thinking that they, as the content creators of the future (according to the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences) should be the ones teaching the future generations of researchers. That may be fine and well in the sciences, but in languages it is not going to beneficial.
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When my two children were old enough to attend college in the 90's (a five year separation between the two) I discovered that, as a two income family, it was too expensive to send them to the University of Oregon. The eldest took a scholarship at Reed and the youngest a scholarship at Willamette (both private schools, and Reed at the time the most expensive college West of the Mississippi) and it was cheaper out of pocket than sending either of them to the U of O. Now that I have discovered that the U of O is far inferior to what it was when I attended, what do you think the odds are that it will receive any money from my estate?
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Clear cutting is also a problem in Oregon where erosion on the coast causes landslides and water flow that damages road infrastructure. The existing laws favor the Corporations and although our knowledge has improved about herbicides toxins the antiquated laws have remained the same allowing private Corporation ownership to behave according to old agreements and laws. You as a private citizen have no rights as individuals, no court of law the best you can do as in a large numbers state your case to the Oregon State Attorney General. There have been attempt by some citizens to present the problems to a legislative committee to help adjust the laws to what we now know about toxins. But Corporations have deep pockets and some of the State Representatives do not want to injure the relationship they have with Forestry Industry the public be damn.
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I wanted to add one more thing. The reduction of NTTFs in humanities will not get replaced by those new 100 TTF position President Schill announced he would pursue. Those new professors will be in the schools or departments that, as others have already mentioned, bring in large endowments and grants to the University. We all need to take into consideration the wave of anti-intellectualism and anti-philosophy that is sweeping across the country and ask ourselves. Why? Who benefits most from a populace incapable of being critical of the status quo? Who benefits most from university students who are not taught how to analyze and criticize systems of human interaction and cultural production?
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Well apparently the Forestry Industry doesn't have to reveal what they're spraying it's written into their old agreements. Only the Oregon State Health Department can get that information when their is a crisis. In the Tri-Lakes area it became a crisis and the Oregon Department of Health had to stop it. No DEQ, no Oregon State Foresty Department, no Oregon State Department of Agriculture can do anything to protect the people from what Corporations and the State of Oregon have agreed to with laws that are dated. Toxins are dangerous to the health of us all and waiting for a crisis isn't the way to plan your life.
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Nor does the Catholic Church, or the Mormon sect, openly admit that their formal doctrines make women second-class citizens. They don't have to. One simply has to look at the obvious facts of the total absence of women in any real leadership positions in those groups--indeed, for a thousand years women in the Catholic Church have been servants (to men), and women in the Mormon sect, for a century and a half, have simply been breeders and pleasure-givers (per founder Smith's perspective--see Krakauer's "Under the Banner of Heaven" for a useful look at the development of Mormonism). Indeed, until the 1970s the Mormon church was openly racist, as well as misogynist. It has "formally" abandoned the former position (though minority membership remains miniscule), but the role of women remains clear.
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Mr. K., I wouldn't worry too much about rumors of Repub gerrymandering. I suspect Democrat party loyalty will more than make up for it. Why, in some parts of the country, Democrats are so loyal that they continue voting for the party slate, years after they're dead and buried! ;-)
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The dude *did* say we should have a "decent respect for the opinion of mankind" in one of the founding documents, though, didn't he?
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http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article4265
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Yet still, I haven't caught those media reports of hundreds or thousands of people, hitchhiking it to Key West, then trying to float across to Cuba on inner tubes to take advantage of that superior health care system of theirs ... :-/
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Go east young man, go east, lot's of sinners back there.
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Sorry, I would of been happy with a Fred Meyer serving all residents of the South Hills, instead of an arena that's only going to serve a select few.
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well when is rural ports of the state going to start helping the homeless.....lots of land can be used as homeless camping places....and the farms could use the homeless as workers....if the farms where realy growing some thing.....but most farms are not growing any thing....
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Obama isn't a failure. No, the Republicans brought Trump onto themselves. The left has a rabble fringe, and the right has a rabble fringe. John McCain was a good candidate, who was very qualified to be our President. He deserved the nomination in 2000, but by 2008 he wanted the presidency so badly that he went over to the dark side, and started pandering to the fringe on the right. It's a dangerous thing, trying to harness hatred. He chose an utterly scary and unqualified running mate because of her gender, and pretty much created the Tea Party, which in turn spun out of Republican control. Now the Republicans find themselves without much of an identity, except as the party of hate and negativity. Their history is better than that. I think they can come back from this, but it will be hard work, and they will probably lose this next election unless they can escape Trump. Maybe changing the primary system to that the west gets to vote too would be a start.
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"Traveling at night"? So there are four horses and three trailers around a blind corner on a 55 mile per hour 2-lane road where people driving at that speed often have their driver's doors blown off by people passing at 60+ day and night. What makes you think this is a safer idea? There are no other 'backroads' across the Cascade Mountains. This is a 2-lane road, there is no 'less used section of roadway'. Either you need to get out more to see what these roads are like or do some other reality check on your post.
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LOL... Like in 2014 when because of Obama's policy failures and lies the American people handed both houses of congress over to the republicans. No wonder Canada wants to build a wall to keep democrats out.
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"The fire chief said he has been eligible to retire under the state’s pension plan for public employees since 2009." This is PERS that seems so wrong to most Oregonians (sans public employees). This gentleman has done a fine job but the story points out how flawed PERS is. Groves retiring at 56 was eligible in 2009. Twenty five or so years of employment and retiring, not at all like real world options. Yes, it is a contract, yes those who could "fix" it won't, they are also PERS members and yes this is wrong since it was known to be unaffordable at the contract signing. Can taxpayers sue for being roped in and trapped into tax raises due to the contract? No. There is no option other then to sue the State for knowingly accepting a unsustainable contract BUT the State is PERS both the Judiciary and Legislature are a part of PERS. Are the taxpayers victimized with no legal recourse? Seems so. Is it right? No & No. WHY are public jobs treated so differently from the private sector.
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ORS 811.130: "A person commits the offense of impeding traffic if the person drives a motor vehicle or a combination of motor vehicles in a manner that impedes or blocks the normal and reasonable movement of traffic." A horse drawn wagon is not a "motor vehicle". ORS 825.005 Motor vehicle means any self-propelled vehicle and any such vehicle in combination with any trailing units, used or physically capable of being used upon any public highway in this state in the transportation of persons or property, except vehicles operating wholly on fixed rails or tracks and electric trolley buses
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Actually your opinion summary is pretty near identical in rhetoric to the unhinged fringe left.
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Thanks. Do they know that the Malheur party is over? It'd be a shame for them to travel all that way for naught.
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