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@Nathan This from a long time member of Imago. I wish I heard more about "following Jesus" which you say is first and foremost. Rather, I hear very little of Jesus' words at Imago, and mostly those of Paul, who never met Jesus.
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Such wonderfully CIVIL comments! Well done RG! Your new system has not only eliminated a great deal of discourse but also allows such wonderful input to continue.
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That's actually not accurate. While most, but not all paid staff are men, many of the leaders are women. Go look at their website.
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in other words they knew Oregon voters would kill $15 an hour minimum wage, and pushed through this stupidity while they could. I am disabled and unemployable. federal laws suspends the minimum wage law and restores my right to negotiate my own wage for the work I render. I can legally work for less than the minimum wage so that I can attain employment as is my right. What this profound stupidity has done is kill trickle up economics 101, and is going to force people to work under the table illegally in order to gain employment. This is not equal rights and equal opportunity. Jobs that once provided priceless opportunity to attain skills and experience needed to attain better paying jobs now require skills and experience to attain. Once again democrats are stripping citizens of our rights to expand the liberal plantation.
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Where are the law enforcement vehicles dash cam videos and the body camera videos.
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1211 N Loring is The Party Place, http://thepartyplace.com/ Not the East Coast company the Party People
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That is pretty wild speculation. There are plenty of times women get pregnant making very responsible choices and then need to terminate their pregnancy because the fetus is not healthy. There are also women who get pregnant through non-consensual sex. There are women using birth control who get pregnant too. And sometimes people make mistakes–"bad choices"– and still, those people shouldn't have to live with those mistakes for the rest of their lives. Men, for example, make mistakes all the time and they aren't then forced to raise a human being as punishment. And let me say, I have personal experience with this. I feel very lucky that I was able to have an abortion when I made a mistake.
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Let me get this straight. You're growing and selling a plant for $75. Someone else can grow and sell the same plant for $15 and still make a profit. So you ask this other businessman if he would just not sell that plant because you want to sell it at an outrageous price? I'm sorry, but I don't see how he is the bad guy in any of that. If anything it just shows that he was a successful businessman and you tried to overcharge people. Seriously, what do you think nurseries do? They grow and sell plants. If you want to succeed, maybe try charging a little less than 5 times what your competitor charges.
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Dude: There is a photo of it right in the press release photos video, in the article above. The photos also show that they had two assault rifles, and a revolver handgun in the vehicle. So they were all heavily armed.
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Unitarians are a fabulous lot, but why are they and the like minded churches so small? Even here in far-left Portland. And I'm voting for Bernie, just so you know. But as someone friendly to liberal religion I can say this, everyone bashing Jules or Imago on here is basically sounding like a single issue voter, and scarily given to group think. What if some people do think marriage is between a man and a woman? Big deal. You don't have to go to their church. (Interestingly, gays didn't seem too concerned about not being able to marry until fairly recently, but that's not my point) But to compare the fight for gay marriage to King's fight for racial justice is ludicrous. No one is better off, in any significant way, because the state of Oregon has approved their union. Blacks on the other hand, are vastly better off after the civil rights movement. By the way, no one is accusing the church or Jules of being anti-minority.
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try reading slower, you'll spare yourself humiliating yourself in public. This stock at the time was incredibly rare and why the high costs. More importantly I gave the giant gunnera as a Christmas gift, and asked that he did not propagate it as this is how I make my living.
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I must be losing it. I actually had to go online to discover the answer. I kept going for one of the dead critter jokes or the 4 elephants in a Fiat joke.
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@Nathan "They don’t very often touch on sexuality....." And unfortunately when they (Pastor Rick) do, it is with predictability, judgement, juvenile language (bells and whistles, one month ago) and it is still focused on more than many other things we should be concerned about.
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NYC rates are 3 times higher (or more) than many other cities. Thus that $2300 is equivalent of about $750 in other cities such as Dallas. Don't even ask what it is like in Detroit, where the per mile rate is almost 1/3 of what Dallas makes. Enjoy the pay in NYC. You won't find it anywhere else.
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Aside of a few morons I don't see many sane people using Uber. A nice marketing gimmick but that's about it.
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And yet even with a few extra turns you will still pay less than a cab. Again, you get what you pay for. Want better service? Pay up.
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It's not really disruptive. This exact technology existed many years before Uber.
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Tattoos have become more common over the past couple of decades. A Harris poll in 2012 found that 1 out of every 5 adults — 21 percent — has at least one tattoo. An earlier Pew Research Center study found that the number was closer to 40 percent among those ages 18 to 29.Feb 21, 2014. -- Google search result Mr. Thompson's numbers are a bit off, but, there are still a lot young adults tatted up. Perhaps the entrepreneurs among them will hire more tattooed individuals.
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Outsider77: There is an old saying: Seeing is Believing. If you refuse to look at the new video, and all of the other evidence presented at today's press conference, then you are obviously hopelessly biased in this matter. And the police have the right to shoot at fleeing wanted felony suspects that are resisting arrest, especially when they are so heavily armed and clearly dangerous. Did you not see the photos of the fully loaded Assault Rifles that they had with them? It was Finicum's insane decision to attempt to flee that caused all of the violence. If he had just stayed where he had been initially stopped, just like the Bundys did, then nothing would have happened to him. Finicum initiated the violence by violently resisting arrest. And did you not hear them talk about getting their guns ready so that they could shoot law enforcement? These people are very stupid low-lifes. How on earth could you possibly choose to support them, against the Oregon State Police?
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Let me strip it down for you and get rid of all the things that you seem to think matter. "Business A" sells "Product A" $15. "Business B" sells "Product A" for $75. Who do you think will succeed?
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NYC Uber drivers don't make that much even if thy drive 24/7.
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I too would like to see the 'automatic' pistol. A revolver I see. It requires you to pull the trigger every time you shoot. I have fired numerous semi-automatic pistols and qualified Sharpshooter on a military Model 1911 .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol. I have also qualified Expert numerous times with an M-16 5.56 rifle which can be fired either automatic or semi-automatic. I have also qualified with an M240C 7.62 mm automatic machine gun. I have never seen an 'automatic' pistol, however. If ignorance is bliss, whoever wrote this or even did a cut-and-paste is in nirvana. Mr. Darling? Care to comment?
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Ask someone the question: How do you get an elephant into a Safeway bag. They should respond "I don't know. How?" You answer "you take the "F" out of "way".
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The one labelled "semi automatic?" Yeah, that's not what the author calls an "automatic pistol." Which was the point of my post.
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"Officials on Tuesday declined to release the names of the troopers involved in the shooting,"... says it all. Sadly, its becoming obvious that our new US Government and Militarized Law Enforcement has been groomed towards a KGB/Gestapo mentality and are creating a nameless Secret Police who can murder anyone without accountability ? The NSA/CIA/FBI and local officials scan these comments, looking for sympathizers. Track you by your RG log in-email-IPgeolocation-computer, and pay you a visit to let you know you're being watched. ...what has America dissolved into these past few decades, our liberties, our rights of privacy and freedom of speech again an ever escalating tyrannical government dictatorship that spies on its own citizens, has the highest incarceration on the planet with a for-profit legal system? = FBI Agents shot first, Finicum never brandished his firearm, LEO fired on innocent passengers - It was preplanned murder - This is not the America I grew up in.
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It actually isn't much cheaper than taxis. At all. I use both depending on the scenario.
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According to an OPB report, these are the highest levels of arsenic and cadmium EVER detected in air testing by OR DEQ, and they had not tested around bullseye before. These levels elevate cancer risk dramatically and cause other terrible health issues. So, residents are justifiably freaked, but you are right to note that many thousands of nonresidents have been breathing bullseye air. OR DEQ is supposedly going to look for cancer clusters, but the immediate area has very few residents and thousands of nonresidents. I can't see how DEQ will gather cancer stats for people like me who worked at the Fred Meyer office right across the street for years, but left years ago, nor for the hundreds and hundreds of kids who spent their early years in the adjoining daycare. I'd guess maybe 5,000 people worked at FM MO for at least a few years since bullseye has been spewing. Thousands probably worked ten years or more at that location, and many worked long hours that approach time spent at home.
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you have a knack for humiliating yourself in public. Bloomers was a 40 acre wholesale nursery that sold common nursery stock. The Bloomers were given a Christmas GIFT and asked not to propagate it. I am disabled and unemployable, hence why I started the business so I could have a job. I worked 1/4 acre. Jim did not need to propagate this plant to make money, I did. One more time Junior, it was a GIFT and he was asked not to propagate it. Had I known he would, I would have never given the gift, and he would have never carried this plant. Now, if you want to continue to humiliate yourself in public, feel free.
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You were kind not to re-open the 'assault rifle' allegation again. Thank you. Those who know nothing about firearms and post on these sites seem to be uneducable on that subject.
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I agree. Many people have come and gone what about them and us still there. I think all of us should be screened for this.
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Alright, alright. Slow your roll. Go eat a snickers. I think I'm figuring something out. So, you were close enough to the guy to give him a Christmas present...yet you really seem to dislike the guy. I mean you seem to dislike him more than you should for what you've said about him. I'm sensing bitterness but also unwarrented jealousy... So, there was some history there but you were never actually that close. I'm gonna guess that maybe your girlfriend worked at his nursery. How close did I get?
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You shouldn't provide gum. One less thing to worry about
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"The family has not yet decided what to do with the growing operation on Sprague Road." This property simply needs to be re-purposed. It would be ideal for a Measure 91 cultivation facility, a large Tier 2 outdoor greenhouse operation.
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In Los Angeles UberX is one-third the cost of taxi
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Finicum was perhaps all the things he's been called, but did he have some legit gripes with the feds? And sure, you don't try to escape from the cops, but if you do attempt to, should you deserve to die? Finicum did not attempt to run over a police officer, he drove off the road to avoid hitting vehicles, and the officer in question is seen strangely running into the path of the pickup. This shooting is not vastly different from the shooting of Walter Scott in South Carolina in April of last year, who was shoot running away from a police officer. In that shooting the officer was arrested and charged with murder. Justice needs to be consistent, whether the victim is white, black, sane, or a bit crazy. Justice is not served when the cops investigate the cops.
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Coming from a cab driver all I can say is WAAAAAAAAAAAA! Uber drivers sound like whiny infants. If you can't handle it, quit driving. Learn some damn customer service, and get a grip. Quit expecting your job to be easy. This IS NOT an easy job. So quit expecting everything to be handed to you on a silver platter.
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40-20 your stats are completely wrong unless you are counting Soc Sec benefits. corporate welfare and unfunded wars have something to do with the deficiet. how soon people forget How the republicans got us into this mess.
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you're just the gift that keeps on giving as simple facts confuse the dickens out of you. Jim was given a gift for his yard, not his business. It was given in friendship. he betrayed that in a manner that is despicable as this is how I support my children. When people go after your livelihood betraying trust they are no longer your friend. This has nothing to do with jealousy as your ignorance concludes.
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Forget Peets, Stumptown, Charbucks, and the wildly overpriced Heart and Coava. The best coffee in town is the stuff you roast yourself, by far. Make your way up to N Mississippi ave and visit Mr Green Bean for some green beans, then get busy roasting!
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I like when they sit up front, I actually find it insulting when they sit far away from me. Also when they take me on long drives to random suburbs, It's cool; like being on an adventure.
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Shane, do you remember doing a stand up gig for some financial advisors in lake Oswego for a Christmas party! The onwer of the house made you take your shoes off and you roasted a bunch of the guys in the crowd? You killed it that night, best Christmas party yet! Happy to see you making it to the big time!
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Oh I'm not the gift that keeps on giving. That's the Gunnera, right? In case you haven't noticed yet, I enjoy humiliating myself in public (as you so eloquently like to put it) just as long as I can get guys like you to follow right along with me. And you still didn't answer my question.
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And there were plenty of leftwing nut cases who wished for a Ruby Ridge or Waco and their rhetoric became the proof. Why some were shown to be so nuts o the Patriot web-sites "quoted" their ridiculous claims. One site posted numerous leftwing comments with the conclusion....[I don't want to paraphrase so to the best of my recollection] " Just shows how many leftwing brown shirt zealots we have in America in lock step of government tyranny".
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I'm a 62 year old white independent. President Obama has my respect, as will all people who serve in that office, with that kind of responsibility. I've not lost a personal freedom in the last 8 years, my stocks have at least come back when it looked like all might be lost, I've found work when I was looking. I'm unhappy with entanglements remaining in Middle East, but I don't have the information those making the decision do, or the experience etc... Assume the worst, Obama is a political being and will support his Party, (as all presidents have in my lifetime). The president may well find a highly qualified candidate that would serve the country well.
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Brown needs to go. She is an unapologetic shill for the public unions, and it's really impossible to deny that fact. Her recent appointment of a former teacher's union lobbyist with no education experience to the top education position demonstrates her contempt for regular Oregonians. She will pursue any means to extract more money from our pockets and distribute them to her owners, err, donors, in the public employee unions. I don't care who replaces her, she needs to go.
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yes, I see that, as people like you are void of intelligence and why you have needed this explained to you repeatedly and you still don't understand. It's why you now deflect off subject to issues that have nothing to do with my post.
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Thanks Jen. Just so you know, I haven't been "bashing" Jules as much as wondering, out loud, how someone with such apparently inclusive values can find a spiritual home with an organization that is so avowedly exclusive. That concerns me, quite a bit, so that's what I've voiced. And I'm not at all single issue, with 50+ years of political activism teaching me that no one can ever agree with me 100% (although Bernie comes close). But there are some issues carry more weight--for me--than others. I'm a single-payer guy re health care, but I'd support candidates (if they agree on other issues) who may not be. But I'm pro-choice, and that's a key position for me, so wouldn't support an anti-choice candidate, regardless of other positions. As a poly-theist, I believe ALL prophets and religions have something to offer, but I oppose religions/churches that are exclusive--like Jules'. Make sense? Oh, and First Church, last I heard, has 1800+ members, so we're not exactly "small"...;-)
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Good luck, Patrick, Teressa and Shobi. Patrick - I'm still enjoying your awesome Coffee xx elixir!
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Unquestionably disgusting. Genital mutilation of young girls is an abomination.
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Sharia law, as advocated as 'ethnic diversity' by many progressives requires it. "Girls' clitoris should be cut (per Muhammad's words in Book 41, Kitab Al-Adab, Hadith 5251)." Would you deny Muslim religious beliefs? How politically incorrect of you. A man can beat his wife for insubordination. A woman's testimony in court, allowed only in property cases, carries half the weight of a man's. A woman cannot speak alone to a man who is not her husband or relative. A non-Muslim man who marries a Muslim woman is punishable by death.
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Not everyone is as enamored as you are with the idea of growing and smoking pot.
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If you started a wholesale nursery you're not exactly unemployable. Do others sell Gunnera for less than $75? Do you realize your words are libelous?
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By deploying under secure cover, impulse firing would have been entirely unnecessary and no life would have been lost. The police chose to have an open confrontation without cover so that they would need to fire at the slightest hint of danger. Their deployment made it necessary to kill. Sorry but I do not segregate my fellow citizens into good guys and low lifes. The life of each American is important and has value. While you apparently feel no loss whatsoever associated with the killing, I do. I cannot understand why we allow police to deploy under conditions of extreme exposure so that they then must shoot on speculation for self protection. It could have gone down differently. By sanctioning this killing you guarantee that similar tactics will continue to be employed and additional Americans will die. By associating no value to the dead man's life, your morals are, in my opinion, lower than the so-called occupiers.
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Or find the males in a few days so you can grow only females. Right here in Portland http://phylosbioscience.com/cannabis-sex-test/
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I laughed so hard I inhaled a piece of cookie I was eating. Bwahahahaha
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What do you mean? Do you not know the kind of man Finicum was? He and his wife primarily made their living by being foster parents to 11 children, who they then exploited by using them as free labor to work their ranch. You support a man who engaged in child abuse?? My goodness! And just look at what he did to his poor wife, leaving her all alone to now manage their ranch. Catholic Charities took all of their foster children away from them after the occupation at the refuge started. So she lost her primary source of income, and all the free labor they had for the ranch, all because of his insanity. Obviously, he cared nothing about her welfare. You support a man who abused and mistreated his wife? His forced his poor wife to have 11 children, telling her that it was immoral to use birth control. These are very dangerous, mentally ill people, who pose a significant threat. Our government needs to put all of those who supported the Malheur occupation under surveillance.
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More utter nonsense coming from you. The police fired blunt impact projectiles to first break the windows of the vehicle. Once they were broken they could then shoot inside the vehicle, and they then shot gas projectiles inside. The gas then forced them all to come out. Your ignorance here is truly overwhelming. None of those additional shots were bullets. They were blunt impact and gas shells.
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With all of the crazy people posting bogus anti-government propaganda online and showing support for these insane Malheur occupiers, it only makes sense to protect the Oregon State Police officers who opened fire. You would want these heroic officers exposed so that they and their innocent families could then be threatened and harmed by these nutcases? Look at all the people that the Malheur occupiers harassed and threatened in Burns during the occupation. There were numerous reports of that. When the two Muslim terrorists that attacked that Mohammed Cartoon Drawing event in Garland, TX 10 months ago, the Garland Police officer that killed them both had his identity protected too. It makes perfect sense to protect these officers as well. These right wing extremists are also terrorists and religious fanatics too, just like the two Muslims that attacked in Garland. In fact, the Mormon Church even publicly disavowed and criticized the Malheur protesters during the occupation.
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Handguns just like that one are the #1 murder weapon in the USA. It is clear that Fincium was attempting to murder members of law enforcement when he was shot.
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Automatic pistols have been available for purchase here in the USA for over 100 years: http://www.coltautos.com/images/Ad_Model_1905_.jpg
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Make a great burrito.
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“Most high school kids across America today couldn’t identify a clitoris.” That's the prime reason Google was invented.
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I find it odd that I, as liberal as they come, celebrate Mr. Trump's run for office. Unlike the author of this article, I recognize that Mr. Trump is championing members of our country who have been ignored and ridiculed, economically ignored, and often sent off to wars, like W.'s Iraq debacle, without care or caution. They aren't beasts. I just watched a Malalla film, which used the same "lion" quote as did Trump. I doubt one would have to look very far to find dangerous and bizarre thinking people who are voting for Cruz and Hillary. This is an election that is listening to the "little people" who have been taken for granted far too long, by both political parties. And I don't give a rat's patootie what Der Spiegel says. The true dark beast is the traditional Republican Party and its surrender to poor-hating elites. And yes, one has to wonder at a Billionaire championing the poor, but that is all that is left to the "poorly educated". And...Go Bernie! Hugh Massengill, Eugene
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So if it can't be proven right away, like a govt. document identifying one's gender, then racism must not be real?
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If the Baker family entourage at the Register Guard thinks "conspiracy theories" are about Finicum and Malheur, they are missing the big picture for all the pixels... "Conspiracy theorist" was a term coined to ridicule the people who questioned findings of the Warren Report. Yet info about Kennedy's murder remains classified top secret? Former Press Sec. Robert Gibbs admitted on live video that he was ordered to deny the drone program existed, when news of the program was public already. He joked "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain." How many times can known liars be caught lying before even the truths they tell are suspected as lies? Crying wolves. These kleptocrats drag a long train of abuses, ranging from war crimes, Imperial regime change hegemony, to poisoning and genocidally murdering it's own citizens. The RG believes it can put lipstick on monsters and present us with beauty queens. No information will ever be enough to cover up for the crimes of Imperial USA.
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What I like about using Uber and Lyft in Portland is that I can get an Uber car from California, Texas, Arizona....you name the State and there's an Uber driver here in Portland. It's strange that Portland Uber drivers don't complain about this. But I guess they don't mind having to compete with a few thousand out-of-State drivers. It'll be great when Uber hits their 10,000 car goal in Portland. The drivers won't earn much, but I'll be able to get a ride in 2 minutes unlike the 5 minute average of those terrible cabs. :-) Oh...and make sure to keep surge rates going strong. We passengers love paying extra because Uber drivers are texting each other to artificially manipulate their availability.
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this man was genius. without him, the beatles might have been one hit wonders. they had ideas but martin had the most talent. they were unable to play many songs from their recordings live because the song was "written" at the sound board. by martin's lead, he either was able to interpret the sound they wanted into actualilty, or enhance it with his own input. this man was as talented as any one of the musicians he produced. for me, this is as much the passing of an era as it is a soulful reminder of the tick, tick, of time...
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In Portland Lyft just announce a flat rate from downtown to PDX for 31 bucks. Radio Cab has been doing that for many years. Portland cabs rates are close to UberX rates when all is said and done.
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How many times can a liar be caught lying, before the truths they tell aren't believed? How many times can liars cry wolf before they betray all trust? The myriad of questions and speculations out there, from germane to wacko, over the Sagebrusher's criminal tantrum and how the Empire struck them back, is but one pixel in the larger picture of the government's credibility eroding away. This is an example of what happens when government lies to and cheats it's own citizens for so long. Hegemonic overthrows of foreign leaders for private gain, illegal wars and war crimes, torture based on lies, deregulation sweetheart giveaways to megacoprorate raiders, selling weapons and giving cashola to brutal dictators and repressive theocracies, poisoning communities all over the nation with industrial effluents, and hiding it. Where is the altruistic and trustworthy government that the RG gushes over? This rotten Empire is like a child predator offering free puppies and candy.
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If Uber/Lyft drivers carried valid insurance I wouldn't mind paying more. But considering the fact UberLyft drivers can (and will) have their insurance canceled if they get caught ( Oregon law says you can't use you personal insurance in a commercial operation) , they're not worth paying extra for. An "empty" Uber/Lyft driver cruising the streets of Portland is an uninsured motorist.
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Never put much faith in these reviews. I thought "Birdman" was the worst movie ever made.... It got an academy award... go figure. To the general public... go watch the movies and make your own decision.
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Actually 3rd pl in Springfield is NOT a dead-end road. At the south end of 3rd pl it runs into G st. At the north end it runs in to Broadway st. Both ends allow access to these streets.
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While I agree that LaVoy did a lot to contribute to his fate, I also do not believe the officers had to shoot him. According to the State Police, they had somebody in place to taser him and the two officers that shot him were behind him and therefore could not see his actions clearly.
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"If young people are curious enough, they’ll experiment....." and they'll find someone to experiment with. I seriously doubt that there'll be much educational research involved during experimenting, outside of what fits where. But let's not talk about it.
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A lot cheaper than water and it seriously increased my ratings! Only got grossed out once when someone left a wad of ABC inside the lid! I buy the Mentos brand gum - no wrappers- on sale.
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Please Santamaria don't let the door hit you, where millions of years of evolution has split you
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This guy is incredibly dumb. He's going to be eaten alive in Los Angeles.
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"Controversial" is the first word of the headline (and prominent in the first sentence) so I had to see what all the fuss was about. Finally several paragraphs in, ok, apparently they don't agree with mainstream Catholicism. Not that controversial. Oh, but the SPLC doesn't like them?!?!? I find the SPLC to be plenty controversial itself, and shameful of the RG to lean on the SPLC to generate controversy in this story. I'd rather have this group own land in Veneta than the SPLC.
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Put the shovel down, dude. Your hole is deep enough.
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The moral hazard created by having the taxpayers buy policies which are the equivalent of stealing mommy's credit card, coupled with the Milgram / Zimbardo effect which is clearly rampant in law enforcement circles including the EPD, results in a dysfuntional justice system run more like a cartel than a public service. Over time, the corrosion of unaddressed malfeasance and the normalization of deviance within organizations allows a culture of corruption to become entrenched, at taxpayer expense. It's the same as an identity theft fraud scam. Those who have hijacked our governments use the taxpayers name on credit to rack up huge debts, the upfront proceeds of which are channeled to profit their cronies, who in return give sweetheart funding to campaings. Citizens are left holding an empty purse at the end of the Ponzi scheme, while the crooks laugh themselves to an offshore bank, and take a golden parachute into luxury retirement.
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Are you of an age to remember when Richard M. Nixon was the "Imperial Presidency"? His Royal Highness, 'President' Obama has reprised the role. Although Nixon didn't kill US Citizens with drones in other countries without due process of law. And he didn't prohibit US citizens or anyone else from flying cross country in airplanes without due process of law. And he didn't prohibit the deportation of millions of illegal aliens 'with the stroke of a pen'. He and Obama both have had the IRS treat political 'enemies' differently because of their political views, however. But even Nixon with his 'enemies list' has never even been accused of killing people like Obama brags about having done.
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So the same LE that lied about firing their weapons is telling us that they found a loaded handgun on Finicum after they shot him? Got it.
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Your editorial covers the money issues quite well, with one glaring omission. You have failed to even mention the increase in administrative overhead and the increase in professors salaries even in dollar figures, much less in the percentage figures which you use to show the increased costs to the students. Tell us both in actual dollars and in percentage increases how much administration (including salaries, benefits and PERS) have gone up and separately, how much those who are actually teaching or researching or lounging with tenure have had their salaries, benefits and PERS go up. And go for apples and apples. Say, the last ten years for students/administration/instructors. The professors say it's the evil administrators, the administrators say its the professors. The students say, all we know is tuition is going up at 4-5% per year.
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Yes, those who rejoice in death are mentally ill. It is unfortunate that we have so many in America.
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Since at least10,000 years ago, human beings have been 'curious' about this subject. Whether they had a name for any of the parts certainly didn't make much difference, or we wouldn't even be here.
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Can't speak for Oregon, but in many states, Texas included, Uber drivers CAN use their personal insurance and will NOT be dropped. Catch up with the times. The Rideshare gap coverage offered by many companies now along with $1 million umbrella coverage is more than sufficient. The fact you suggest that it impacts your decision to "pay more" is lame at best. If you are truly concerned about your safety due to insurance coverage, why would even ride with them, let alone pay less? It's a bs excuse, esp since in most cases (if not all) it's not even accurate.
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The fact that someone from Michigan would have something to say about events in Veneta, Oregon only serves to increase the "creepiness" of the circumstances. The Rajneeshees started out like this in Antelope.
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:Thankfully, most folks at Imago do not take it all literally." Your pastor does. Take some responsibility for attending a church whose take on the bible is both mushy and offensive. The Conservative Baptist churches like Imago Dei actively oppose civil rights for gays, They pick and choose people to condemn, without rhyme or reason, from the Bible. Biking and recycling does not negate the fact that you support a pastor who preaches offensive doctrines. You go because the music sounds lie Mumford & Sons? Get an I-Pod and listen to the real thing. Obviously, one of the Elders has come up with the idea that the blistering criticism on this thread is "group think." No- just the standard critique of fundy christianity. I get the feeling that you don't understand the denomination you belong to and what they so politically. Jules Bailey will lose the election due to the company he keeps.
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Uber/Lyft drivers, if you go to Beaverton and get lost, you're in the wrong industry. When you read the adds about making all this extra money driving for these people, did you not figure wear and tear on your personal vehicle into your "loss" column. Are you really making all this money that Uber and Lyft promised you after you take tires, brakes, gas and upholstery into consideration? I have a question for all you drivers, how many of you have told your insurance company that you're driving for a ride-share service? I pray the day you hit me in your period 1 because you will be sued to the fullest extent of the law, then I go after the city of Portland for allowing insurance fraud to knowingly take place on our streets.
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Democrats: "...have your standards really fallen so low so fast? Are you really that desperate?" "Going back to the past, veering into an ugly future," "There is another path, one that doesn’t leave you self-loathing in the morning. " Bernie Sanders.
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Alas, how the Overton Window has been shifted. Remember, I'm the 28 year old near-terrorist who dared oppose on principle the High Commission, the sagacious Board of Health. I who remained in their Potemkin square to call them out on their nonsense. While the campus neighborhoods alone are more trashy than the square ever was! But we never hear Ben Miller complain about the rodent patterns over there, do we? I was hauled off to the clink, for remaining silent. Apparantly the drivers license which they siezed from my wallet and positively identified me with at the scene according to their own reports, wasn't enough to positively identify me. They were forced to take me to jail. For a cite and release. Oceanfront in Arizona. And at the jail the nice guards slammed my head into the bricks, threatened to strip me naked and seclude me on 'mental hold,' all for remaining silent. What a silent, evil terrorist I was! They will probably dronestrike me eventually. Better get my foil hat on.
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We get it. Jules feels at home with people who support female submission and denial of civil rights to gays. Jules hums "kumbiya" while a guy preaches the same stuff that Ted Cruz hears every Sunday. And Jules will have lots of time to practice denial when he returns to the private sector.
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Let's step back for a minute and consider what happened. The police shot and killed a man. Is this a good thing? Do we support killing of those who we don't like and disagree with? If we believe that police killing (or anyone's killing) is bad, we must ask whether the killing could have been avoided by proper planning and procedure. The police justify their killing (as always) by the need for self protection. Could they have deployed differently so that self protection was not a core issue? Imagine if the officers had deployed behind secure cover which in this pre-planned action was entirely possible. Then they would not have been at extreme risk and the need to fire on speculation would have been removed. By simple changes in deployment tactics, police could have allowed the perps to choose to use deadly force (justifying a lethal take down) or surrender. Can we consider killing justified when simple changes in tactics would have obviated the need for hair trigger firing?
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I hate it when a single passenger sits directly behind me. It's much harder to see what they are doing. For all I know, they want to strangle me.
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Continuing Education is a good way for older folks, like me, to keep their brains from going asleep.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Baptists You must agree that the list of Conservative/Southern Baptist leaders is a list of some of the worst men in America- Franklin Graham, Falwell, Cruz etc. Imago Dei is not that far off. We are not friends. We are enemies, Jen. I want Imago Dei to be exposed for what it is and lose members. I want Jules Bailey to lose the mayoral election. I want civil rights for my gay friends. If Pastor McKinley ever said to my face what he says about unmarried couples in print, he would regret it. I hope he loses his congregation because he preaches a destructive & sneaky take on the supernatural sky god who talks to you (but not me).
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MC, we Americans like killing. So many of us stand behind cold blooded murder of those we do not like. I wish we could develop enough empathy to sense the loss on the killing of anyone. I think that among developed countries, we stand out as uniquely willing to kill whether our own citizens or innocents as collateral damage in drone strikes or other war type scenarios. It does not have to be this way. BTW, I thought in sum Nixon was a good President. Also Obama brags about killing because Americans like to hear about the latest killing done in their name.
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I moved to Portland from another state. I can say it has been a "hell" experience. Dealing with the unfriendly passive aggressive Portlanders has been a terrible experience! The job market started crashing. The rent increased as people lost their jobs. I was desperate and moved in with my abusive ex to share expenses. There has been no free speech or rights of any kind in Portland. If this stuff is politically correct, I don't want anymore! I was forced to share rent and got injured so badly that I couldn't work, and was advised to file for physically disability. No one will rent to the physically disabled. Yes, I have filed complaints. Not one agency in Portland will help me.
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Why do that when I can just politely correct someone's route?
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I believe that the words "mine" and "yours" can be traced back 10,000 years. I also believe that the grade school subject matter Show and Tell had its origins about 10,000 years ago but has been modified for the classroom.
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