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American Tax Dollars and Imported Workers

If you're an American worker or taxpayer, the headline at the top of The Bulletin's front page on Sunday made your blood boil – or should have.

Source WeeklyJuly 28, 2010November 26, 2023

If you're an American worker or taxpayer, the headline at the top of The Bulletin's front page on Sunday made your blood boil – or should have.
“Stimulus jobs go to foreign workers,” it said. Underneath it, a subhead elaborated: “Oregon contractors hiring for forest work, say qualified locals unavailable.”

Opinion

The Great Hailstorm of '10: The sky cries, WikiLeaks, Schorr dies and more!

The author is honoring the wishes of an honest reader who expressed concerns about “facts” and “pompous writing” by offering only accurate and unfunny stuff this week.

Source WeeklyJuly 28, 2010December 4, 2023

The author is honoring the wishes of an honest reader who expressed concerns about “facts” and “pompous writing” by offering only accurate and unfunny stuff this week. Sorry to those who like jokes about South Carolina and underwear-stealing cats, we do need to set a higher standard for news- – much like the need for skimpier bikinis afloat on the Deschutes.

Opinion

Tammy Baney Takes a Stand

In politics, going along to get along is often the easiest and safest course.

Source WeeklyJuly 21, 2010April 29, 2024

In politics, going along to get along is often the easiest and safest course. Nowhere is that more true than within the cozy confines of the Deschutes County Commission, where there are only three members and anybody who doesn't go along is a conspicuous minority of one.
Last week Commissioner Tammy Baney refused to go along with her colleagues, Alan Unger and Dennis Luke, in speeding the approval of the county's new destination resort map. The obstacle, in Baney's mind, was a special provision involving the Cyrus family's Aspen Lakes development.

Opinion

Ain't No Party Like a Tea Party

The author is wondering when all of the competitive bikers will stop being here.

Source WeeklyJuly 21, 2010April 4, 2025

The author is wondering when all of the competitive bikers will stop being here. Seriously, those shorts aren't flattering, few of you are really sponsored, and it's too hot to not just cruise, roll around town on a single gear, a fat seat and no risk of colon cancer, just chillin'.

Opinion

Hassling Oregon's Home Brewers

This probably is a historic first: This week's edition of THE BOOT was inspired by a bit of imbecility involving Oregon's liquor laws, but we're not giving it to the Oregon Liquor Control Commission.

Source WeeklyJuly 14, 2010January 24, 2023

This probably is a historic first: This week's edition of THE BOOT was inspired by a bit of imbecility involving Oregon's liquor laws, but we're not giving it to the Oregon Liquor Control Commission.
The OLCC, it seems, is just an innocent pawn in this story, which involves the regulation of home brewers. Oregon's liquor control law – enacted shortly after the end of Prohibition some 70 years ago – forbids anyone not licensed by the OLCC to make alcoholic beverages but carves out an exception for “the making or keeping of naturally fermented wines and fruit juices or beer in the home, for home consumption and not for sale.”

Opinion

Put a Cap on It: BP's heroic efforts, Steinbrenner vs. Martin, the Barefoot Bandit and more!

Source WeeklyJuly 14, 2010March 17, 2023

The author is investigating nearly 30 percent unemployment among American students (3xs the national unemployment rate yet hardly half of Bend's) by sitting along Drake Park and donning mirrored sunglasses, not perving on the bikini-clad floaters mind you, but investigating.
Ponder This At The Pump
“I couldn't be prouder of the team that put on the sealing cap. That really went extremely well,” lauded BP Senior Vice President Kent Wells upon attaching a cap that “could seal” the leaking well that has spewed over 4,000,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico since BP's Deepwater Horizon platform exploded on April 20th. Tar-balls are now being found in the fragile Lake Pontchartrain ecosystem yet no one from BP has been arrested. Congrats! Even better news: BP predicts (if the well is capped, which we've heard before) that up to 3.36 million barrels could be collected over the next three weeks. Huh? Wait! Wasn't that well spewing “only 20,000” barrels a day (versus the original ruse of “only 5,000” – – which scientists now estimate at really 35,000-60,000 per day)? For the sake of humanity, the environment and the huge legal battle to come, get your numbers straight.

Opinion

The State of Oregon vs. the Big Bad Wolf

The wolf has always gotten bad press. To early Christians he was a symbol of evil, or even the Devil himself (in contrast to Jesus, the “good shepherd” protecting the flock).

Source WeeklyJuly 7, 2010June 19, 2023

The wolf has always gotten bad press. To early Christians he was a symbol of evil, or even the Devil himself (in contrast to Jesus, the “good shepherd” protecting the flock). In folklore, from werewolf legends to tales about the Big Bad Wolf who harassed the Three Little Pigs and the wolf who almost ate Little Red Riding Hood, Canis lupus consistently was cast as a villain – though sometimes a comic one.
His literary reputation, combined with a tendency to grab the occasional spring lamb or calf, didn't endear the wolf to European-Americans as they moved across America and set up farms and ranches. The result was a campaign of extermination that eliminated wolves from most of the lower 48 states, including Oregon.

Opinion

Batten the Hatches

The author is eating delicious geese, swept-up from Drake Park and gassed, just the way he likes it.

Source WeeklyJuly 7, 2010January 4, 2023

The author is eating delicious geese, swept-up from Drake Park and gassed, just the way he likes it.
Definition: Kafkaesque
Independence Day is obviously over, as Pfc. Bradley E. Manning is facing criminal charges for “leaking” 2007 video of one of our Apache helicopters killing 12 civilians in Baghdad, including two journalists working for Reuters. WikiLeaks released the video in April, and the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade's investigation into the incident found the aircrew “accurately assessed that the criteria to find and terminate the threat to friendly forces were met in accordance with the law of armed conflict and rules of engagement.” Now some 22-year-old from Potomac, Maryland, will be the fall guy, not for mass murder, but for “allegedly” transferring classified data to his computer and adding unauthorized software to a classified computer. How dare someone in the military leak footage to the media of our military slaughtering our media?

Opinion

The Room Tax Chiselers

Source WeeklyJune 30, 2010May 12, 2025

We've seen businesses perform some amazing acrobatic feats with numbers, but the cast of Cirque du Soleil couldn't top the stunt that Wayne Purcell, Brett Evert and some other Bend hotel owners are trying to pull off.
About 10 years ago, when the city decided to raise its transient room tax to 9%, the hotel owners pleaded for – and got – a $10-per-person credit for the supposed cost of providing complimentary breakfasts to guests. For example, if a couple rented a room for $100 a night, the hotel could knock off $20 for the meal credit and thus owe room tax on only $80.

Opinion

America the Fat: Our booming national waistline, Justices free handguns, Cheney's black heart and more!

EDITOR'S NOTE: After last week's column regarding kief suppositories and questions over President Obama firing General Stanley McChrystal, the Source Weekly was forced to fire Mick McMenaminuses

Source WeeklyJune 30, 2010October 23, 2024

EDITOR'S NOTE: After last week's column regarding kief suppositories and questions over President Obama firing General Stanley McChrystal, the Source Weekly was forced to fire Mick McMenaminuses. Kief suppositories may exist, but the demand sparked after Mick's mention overwhelmed international markets; meanwhile, questioning the President of the United States is simply unAmerican. We wish Mick well as he wages a legal defense of previous columns concerning aliens unearthing Gary Coleman's body and accusing members of the Tea Party of inbreeding.

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