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    i guess i should stop complaining about my pay cut now

    At least I’m lucky enough to still have my Oregon job:

    Oregon’s jobless rate has taken a dramatic jump, to 12.1 percent in March — a rate seen only once before since the years after World War II.

    The increase could put Oregon on a pace to have the highest unemployment rate in the nation when those figures are released on Friday, state labor economist Art Ayre [...]



    another crappy week in crapistan

    Sorry for the lack of posts — L. came down with something like the plague and has been coughing up bits of lung for about 5 days now, and yesterday woke up looking like he’d developed full-blown mumps overnight (either his lymph nodes are having a hard time with the virus or it’s a secondary bacterial infection). So, off to the urgent care and [...]



    Buyer Beware – CNBC and All of the MSM

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    Cenk Uygur has a post over at Huffpo that nails down the real issue with CNBC that Jon Stewart so skillfully mocks in the video contained in the post immediately below this one:

    I have a close friend who works at a business news station — and here is the worst kept secret in show business — it’s all about the access. If [...]



    so hamas would be justified in assassinating israel’s top scientists?

    Another example of Israeli exceptionalism:

    Israel is assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists as part of its efforts to disrupt the Islamist regime’s illicit weapons program, the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday quoted Western intelligence sources as saying.

    The paper also quoted United States intelligence sources as saying Israel is using sabotage, front companies and double agents to disrupt the Islamist republic’s illicit weapons program as an alternative to direct [...]



    Why am I such a hater?

    So, late in the afternoon of the inauguration, I called a very close female relative whom I love dearly despite her sometimes insane political views [ie she thought Sarah Palin was "perky"]. “Just wanted to see how you were doing,” I said, waiting for her to bring up the inauguration.

    She skirted the issue as long as she could, then said, “I took a [...]



    can someone please tell me why this wouldn’t work?

    (1) Figure out how much money is past-due on all those “bad” mortgages (it has to be less than $700 Billion) and LOAN that money to the banks to get them through this “crisis”;

    (2) Get the mortgage holders into mediation with their banks and get them to agree on a realistic value of the home at an interest rate/payment schedule that the mortgage holder can [...]



    Who is running in the primary? Don’t ask the Democrats.

    When is a candidate not a candidate?

    Be sure to check your primary ballot carefully that goes out in the mail today. It seems there are people running in the Democratic Primary that are not even listed on the local Democratic Party website.

    Specifically missing are Hong Tran, candidate for U.S. Senator and Pat Campbell, candidate for WA State Representative, District 17, Position 1.

    According to the [...]