Here's a dilemma we'd love to have: Say the state has put a machine in our home that spits out money at the rate of $70,000 a year. But later the state tells us it's strapped for cash and can only afford to let the machine dispense, say, $64,000 a year.
The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from Brooklyn, where only the dead know, on assignment for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly.
Fraud in Afghanistan? You're High!
Based on over 2,000 complaints and growing evidence of fraud, Afghanistan's Electoral Complaints Commission (located beside the Opium Poppy Ministry of Defense) has ordered a partial recount of the disputed August 20th presidential/puppet-to-be election. Bush's best buddy, Hamid Karzai, can't get re-elected without a coup of his own government, so his awesomely named challenger, Abdullah Abdullah may have a chance. One polling station reported (without naming the ballot box stuffer) nearly 100% of votes cast for a single candidate. Sounds like Florida in 2000, or Ohio in 2004, don't it? One other note: Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother to the current president of Afghanistan, is chairman of the provincial council in the Kandahar region, which is the most productive – and profitable – opium poppy producer in the world. Note #2: In August, British troops seized several tons of raw opium from a farm owned by Karzai, which Karzai quickly denied. Note #3: Two more U.S. troops were killed in a bombing in Kabul; we now have a record level 62,000 troops in Afghanistan, with the Pentagon set to ask for more, and Britain readying to pull out.
Opinion and conjecture abound on the prospect of changing how to pay for medical care in Oregon and across the U.S.
Forty-seven years ago Rachel Carson wrote “Silent Spring” warning of the indiscriminate use of toxic pesticides and their effects on our health and the environment. She challenged agricultural methods and government policies.
So let's get this straight. Obama's predecessor took America to war under false pretense, citing “weapons of mass destruction” that everyone agrees did not exist, and today's Republicans don't want Obama addressing children because of “indoctrination?”
Our previous president preached war against Iraq to anyone who would listen, children, adults, young and old, making us partners in his blunder, and the Republicans dare talk of keeping their children safe from Obama's ideas? What are Obama's ideas? That the government can be an active partner in change, rather than a nuisance? And this notion is suppose to be bad?
The Republican Party seems determined to be “against” everything Democratic.
When Senator Jeff Merkley ended his town meeting at Summit High School, I was standing with the microphone man waiting to be the next speaker. In the last five years I have had over $300,000 in medical bills, largely because I was a passenger in a head-on collision that broke my bones in 27 places.
The idea for a Reverse PPP brings to mind the difference I have noticed between the two places I split my time: Bend and Portland.
Where else but Bend would something as physically taxing as the PPP cry out for making it harder.
For the last 10 years I've been suffering silently as people awkwardly tried to pronounce the year, since we crossed from the 1900s to the 2000s.
But the auto industry is leading a new linguistic trend that we all should embrace.
“If at first you don't succeed, lower your standards” makes a funny bumper sticker, but it's a rotten way to run a public education system.
For some years now, Oregon's public schools have not been a shining example of educational excellence. Early this month, 71 Oregon schools – a record for the state – were identified as “inadequate” according to the standards of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
For the past 10 years, Oregon also has been issuing its own “report cards” on schools. When the 2008 report cards came out, many of them were the kind that, in the old days, would have meant a trip to the woodshed for the kid who brought it home. Two-thirds of the state's biggest high schools got grades of “satisfactory” or “low,” the equivalent of a C or D. A record number of 12 schools were graded “unacceptable.”
The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from a town called “Little Valley” (which is actually a little valley) in New York, totally sane, sober, and unfamiliar with rain after a lovely summer in Bend, on assignment for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly.
A New Bar for Bad Behavior
Phillip Garrido liked building in his backyard – storage sheds covered with camouflage and other extremities that his neighbors questioned. And authorities overlooked, despite the fact Garrido was a registered sex offender in Antioch, California, and visited on several occasions by police and parole agents. Oops! He was hiding and raping Jaycee Dugard on-site for 18 years, since kidnapping her at the age of 11 and fathering two children with the now-29-year-old woman. Authorities are presently digging in that same backyard for the remains of several unsolved murders and missing persons. Let's hope they have better luck and look a little harder this time.
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