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    We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for awhile, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
    Carl Sagan

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    Sack GoldMans

    April 11, 2009–A New Way Forward organized bailout protests around the country. Locals hit Portland's Pioneer Square to protest our tax dollars being given to greedy Banksters.

    Colleen Lindsay and Mike Ellison at Bank Bailout Protest

    Photos courtesy of Rich

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    New Nationalism Speech – Teddy Roosevelt History Lesson

    Mt. Rushmore, Theodore Roosevelt closeup. Image via Wikipedia

    Since the 1980s (when I worked for Eastern Airlines, which no longer exists due to deregulation fever) we as a people have amnesia when it comes to the lessons that history teaches us.  Regulations did not just magically appear one day.  They were derived from the wisdom that came about from the mistakes of the past.  Reagan [...]



    $25 Billion for New Signs and Renovations

    WAMU logo

    Ever since my favorite local bank, Washington Mutual (I know it is not a local bank) was taken over by JP Morgan I have been wondering about how its new overlord would handle the name of the organization.  I was thinking that it could keep the Washington Mutual name since it has for me been a good bank and therefore if others feel [...]



    walk and knock for the hungry

    This year’s Walk & Knock canned & boxed food drive is taking place December 6th, with opportunities to volunteer that day, and/or on Saturday Oct. 25 and Saturday Nov. 29, when we’ll be folding the paper Walk & Knock grocery bags that will be put into the Columbian for subscribers.

    You can find information about the event here, and sign up to volunteer here. This [...]



    get some camomile tea for that tillerman, would ya?

    Maybe that would calm him down a little bit.

    John McCain can’t believe that Barack Obama could ever be his equal, much less his rival for the Oval Office.

    What came through last night was McCain’s unerring sense of entitlement to the Presidency, and his being absolutely appalled at the, yes, audacity of Barack Obama thinking he could ever be even half the man that John McCain [...]



    Columbian Endorses Carrier, Probst and Wallace

    David Carrier

    Tim Probst

    Deb Wallace

    The Columbian has an accurate and strong endorsement for all three Democrats running for the State Legislature in the 17th Legislative District in Clark County.  As a former Chair of the 17th District Democrats and someone who knows all three endorsees, it is quite surprising to see a newspaper that endorsed George Bush in 2004 see the light and [...]



    Palinology

    David Michael Green publishes another near perfect post about Palinology:

    Whoa and Woe: Living In Sarah Palin’s America (collapsible content, click to show/hide)

    I can’t tell you how despondent I’ve grown in the last weeks.

    Is there really no hope for this country, after all? It now appears so.

    In January of 2003, John Le Carre wrote that, “America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but [...]



    Welcome to the RNC, Here are Your Handcuffs

    Image by Getty Images via Daylife

    The police once again lock up some innocents right away as a show of force in order to presumably intimidate the rest into behaving.  Different event, same old tactics.  Ho-hum.

    Statement forwarded from Democracy Now!:

    Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman was unlawfully arrested in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota at approximately 5 p.m. local time.

    Goodman was arrested while attempting to free two [...]

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