As we hit the home stretch on health care reform, the House is scheduled to vote later today on legislation which includes the public option. The vote is expected to be very close, and Oregon Congressman Kurt Schrader has been officially undecided.
This morning, the Oregonian pushed for a [...]
Dr. Tawfik Hamid (aka Tarek Abdelhamid), is an Islamic thinker and reformer, formerly an Islamic extremist from Egypt. He was a member of a terrorist Islamic organization JI with Dr. Ayman Al-Zawaherri who became later on the second in command of Al-Qaeda. Hamid writes for [...]
King Harvest - Dancing in the Moonlight by Nancie Koerber of Central Point. Koerber started her career in sales more than 30 years ago. She has owned and operated a successful insurance agency, real estate brokerage and currently runs Champions Realtime Training in Central Point.
I've just returned from a three day trip to Washington DC with 134' [...]
Apparently, the latest sunspot has its polarity wrong and is puzzling sun-watching scientists.
[...]By Ron Beasley
John Cole asks:What does it cost to get $2.4 billion in unemployment benefits extension?
The answer - $24 billion.
You see- you aren’t allowed to just pass a bill extending unemployment benefits at the cost of $2.4 billion dollars, because that would be socialism. It takes another $21.6 billion to [...]
By Steve Hynd
In a new interview with German mag Der Spiegel out today, Obama's National Security Adviser, Gen. James L. Jones, is sounding skeptical about the McChrystal escalation request for extra troops in Afghanistan. He says, dismissively, that "generals always ask for more troops".
SPIEGEL: The Obama administration is reviewing [...]
Latest Wells Fargo survey: expectations for increased revenues improve small business owner optimism
Outlook also better for capital spending and credit availability
From Wells Fargo Bank,
Optimism among small business owners improved during October, driven by improved outlook for revenue, capital spending and hiring, according to the latest results [...]
Faith-Family Film Rview: A Christmas Carol
by Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
A Christmas Carol—Lavish, well-crafted but frequently eerie 3-D animated adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic 1843 novella in which miserly misanthrope Ebenezer Scrooge (voice of Jim Carrey) is urged to change his ways by [...]
FRIDAY, Nov. 6 (HealthDay News) — If an inept or abrasive boss is ruining your workday, you may be taking that stress to heart, literally. New research links having a poor supervisor to a higher risk of heart attack, and that’s not all: people who don’t [...]
Statement by Bob Stallman, President, American Farm Bureau Federation, Regarding Ballot Measure Victories In Ohio and Texas
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 4, 2009 – “Our congratulations go out to the Ohio and Texas Farm Bureaus this morning for the leadership roles they played in important and meaningful victories [...]
Faith and Family Film Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats
By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting
The Men Who Stare at Goats—Fact-based satire, set during the early stages of the Iraq War, in which an eccentric military veteran (George Clooney) regales a reporter [...]
In Portland Oregon, Habitat for Humanity homes are built to be Platium-LEED certified. So who says we can't make a difference on Global Warming because it will cost too much?
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I love our winter storms. They're actually cyclones just like those which are called hurricanes or typhoons further south. The ocean is roaring so loudly that it sounds like the waves are going to crash outside my bedroom window.' [...] We are like the skinny kid sitting on the end of the bench on a basketball team when it comes to playing the game against millions of dollars flowing into Oregon to defeat Oregon's tax measures on the January ballot. We are not like the other team all lined up [...]
By John Ballard
I haven't read it yet but this is a snip from my next reading assignment. I'm posting as I wait for the printer to finish eleven pages.
H/T Maggie Mahar's blog. Looks like pretty good content.
Followup later: It's an excellent article. Recommended reading. Notes and comments after [...]
The global temperature anomaly as measured by UAH is, well, kind of in the middle: +0.284°C. (Can these things really be measured to one part in a thousand?) While Charlie Burr at BlueOregon accused me of stooping "to take the luster off" the Al Gore endorsement of Bradbury by reporting here on the genuine history of bad blood between Gore and Kitzhaber, over at Willamette Week, reporter Hank Stern admits that, journalistically, I simply beat him to a [...]
Commentary By Ron Beasley
Barack Obama ran his campaign on the platform of change but by the time the election rolled around a year ago he had already been bought and paid for by Wall Street and the Financial Industry. James Lieber explains:
We've Bailed out the Banks. When Do We' [...]Fannie Mae - Troubled company!
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It appears that the Oregon League of Conservation Voters is getting ready to take their political work to the next level.
First, the Oregonian has a Q&A with OLCV's new Executive Director, Jon Isaacs:
How are Oregon environmentalists doing politically?The environmental community does not get the respect it deserves from [...]
Across Oregon, after the question "Should U of O end up ahead of Boise if they both win out" I'm sure the most popular sports fan worry is "WTF with the Blazers?" It's way early yet, and 2-3 is hardly a disaster--but there are some evil portents and recurrences of [...]
Wow now this is pretty amazing. In a document published by George Washington University entitled "Thinking Anew---Security Priorities For The Next Administration" the Ft. Hood Shooter's name "Nidal...
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"I can almost remember when a suspect being human was a given, not an option.""Climate Change" (code for Man-Made Global Warming) has been recognized for what we've known all along: a religious belief. The landmark ruling comes from the U.K., but has global implications.Â
His employers contended that climate change was a scientific, not a religious or philosophical belief, and thus not legally protected.' [...]
Obama/Pelosi/Reid are asking Americans to explode our nation's deficits on a risky experiment while reducing coverage for elderly Americans and mandating coverage for other Americans.
Read this...
[...] By Dave Anderson:
Liberals and Democrats have argued that the two governors' races that the Democrats lost this week turned on a combination of local issues and weak Democratic candidates who would not do anything to excite the Democratic base.Â
Conservatives and Republicans have argued that these two races are' [...]
Karl Rove highlights this week from his Wall Street Journal 