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Article by missy on April 14th, 2009 at 10:40 am 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 [...]
Article by missy on March 16th, 2009 at 8:21 am 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 [...]
Article by John on March 11th, 2009 at 10:52 am Image via Wikipedia 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 [...]
Article by missy on February 17th, 2009 at 10:32 am 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 [...]
Article by fantasticforrest on January 21st, 2009 at 7:39 pm 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 [...]
Article by missy on September 24th, 2008 at 4:10 pm (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 [...]
Article by John on August 31st, 2006 at 8:09 pm 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 [...] | |
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