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I think I heard they left from school.... mother would not be the one supervising her at school....
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Or they might turn out to vote against the candidate they dislike the most?
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I can't help but laugh when I see democrats/progressives pointing fingers at the GOP with an arrogance and self satisfied look of contentment on their smug faces and say things like " the best bet for the GOP this election cycle may be to vote for none of the above" ...Really? Let us not forget that this condescendin...
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Only people high on dope nail their thumb. Experienced are you? :)
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My first instinct after reading this ridiculous op ed was to make sure someone hadn't slipped in something from the Onion. This is one of those pieces that should never have been written let alone published. Starting with the tortured logic and drive by cheap shots disguised as scientific observations but which we find...
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After reading Francis Fukuyama’s “Political order and political decay” I felt that the professor might be overly pessimistic. Recent events have led me to conclude that our once dynamic and innovative society may indeed be in an irreversible state of intellectual and ethical decay. If this farcical presidential campai...
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This "training" was probably when Chris Wig was going door-to-door begging people to vote for the city service fee, which was defeated in a landslide. Wing is way too far to the left, and is too young to have a good grasp of reality.
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90,000 tweets a day! Shazaam! How many are tweets per needed per recruit?
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I wonder if the author owns and operates a motor vehicle with an internal combustion engine.
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Good observation but I'm inclined to think they're not truly conservatives. Add the nanny laws to the irresponsible county spending spree.....doesn't look conservative IMHO.
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Hope this place makes it; I like the model of popup-to-restaurant, generally. It lets a place figure out what works and what doesn't on the menu before going all-in.
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thanks!? the RG is so poor in writing clear , solid stories. I still don't understand what a "tenure track facility" what is the difference between them and other facility? dumb questions all ...I know the answer....just want to see if you do... (buying that? looking for a lovely old bridge?)
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diane, I wish you would have been more clear about the " hiring 100 tenure track faculty." tenure track facility? is that a specific term? I thought you were speaking of track as in the sport. my dumb? most likely .....and i'm not quite sure what tenure is because I came out of a non-U background and we had senio...
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There are powerful solutions just waiting in Congress that would rapidly lower emissions (50 per cent in 20 years) and create jobs. It is a market based rebated price on carbon that would incentivise clean energy. All revenues from fees are returned as a check to all households. Citizens would be protected from higher...
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We could well be at a tipping point now. As permafrost is beginning to melt, the methane and co2 released could start a runaway greenhouse effect. Our historical record from the mid Pliocene shows sea level rise of 25 feet or more from similar conditions as our current levels of CO2. We may have failed to adapt in ...
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AAU is Association of American Universities, not American Association of Universities. That is a pretty basic error for one whose "beat" is the university.
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This author should write children's books as his science is based really on a complete fraud, Bill McKibben, who is a pied piper shill for the Tides Foundation and Larry Rockefeller. The other guy, Hanson, with his famous hockey stick graph is so discredited and his conclusions completely out of whack with reality, h...
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Oh, get over it already !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Donald and hiliary both have baggage....hers the usual. but the Donald has a special set. he has operated with very little scrutiny relative to being a businessman as opposed to a politician. so he really hasn't been vetted and he has had a lifetime to hide and to squirrel away money and backroom power for years. ...
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Actually the "hockey stick" was Prof. Mann's.
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amen to that mr Goldberg. "my god, what have we done?" indeed. it saddens me to know so many people, reasonable ..nice people, are seeing something in all of trump' ugliness that resonates within them to the point they overlook his hateful nature. I doubt he truly likes anyone - I would love to hear him speak to his...
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".... whose seemingly unstoppable rise has evoked a dawning sense of stunned horror among traditional GOP leaders." Nicely put. Leading to lots of disturbing questions about what happens when what was a two-party system when one party disintegrates. Or – worse – its disintegration leaves a vacuum filled by a demagogue.
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The "methane boils out of the tundra and cooks the earth" meme was debunked in 2011 by the U.S.G.S. Two lines of evidence: One was a numerical simulation that failed to demonstrate runaway hydrate melting (Live by the Computer Model; Fall by the Computer Model); the second is observation of the geologic/ice core reco...
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I wonder if commenters exhale carbon dioxide while they type. Anyone who does should not be allowed to weigh in on this issue, right?
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I read it as being on track. On track for a promotion, on track for graduation. On track for tenure. Tenured faculty at the facility. How much for the bridge?
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"If"? If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. If turnips were swords, I'd wear one by my side, If ifs and ands were pots and pans, There'd be no work for tinkers' hands
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Well ... our local academic Jeremiah (Tom G.) says we're already "stuffed", no matter what we do. ;-) The most credible plan out there I've seen was a study by the Stanford Engineering Department, whose state-by-state survey came up with a tailored mix of wind energy, photovoltaic generation, hydropower, and fuel ce...
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That is still the case in the vast majority of courses that are not about language instruction or basic writing and composition skills.
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I wonder how long it will be before EarthJustice lawyers decide that they can go after us as _individuals_ for being unregulated point sources of toxic CO2 pollution? (What's the maximum fine on the books for that, anyway? $25,000 per day, or something like that? Don't know about you, James, but I'd have a bit of t...
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...a buck 3 80...? tenure is weird. why commit to someone as an employee forever? things change - people change. a union would afford protection against unfair labor practices (ideally, I know)
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The main reason why the number of non-tenure-track positions increased was because of the huge increases in undergraduate enrollments throughout the 2000s, which were not matched by increases in the tenure-track staff. To meet the demand, departments had to hire non-tenure-track faculty on fixed-term contracts. After t...
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My fear is that our govt will some day confiscate everything I worked for and dish it out to losers, freaks and criminals.
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There is a small cadre of power families who are forming what they term a "breakaway civilization." This elite group will retain their select entourage and coterie of skilled technicians, and has plans to leverage technology and exterminate the rest of us. These people believe they are seizing the future for themsel...
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The coolers are not coming. I doubt we ever see any of our promised coolers. The company is out of capital (money). They won't even offer refunds now, after offering full refunds a month ago. I talked to their Director of Marketing Susan Towers yesterday and was told flatly that they will not offer any refunds until a ...
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also which amazes me, his support is not from the wealthy...very few influential people have stood up for him, and a few that have, did so reluctantly. how scary is it that this guy has so much wealth he can support a presidential campaign with little outside funding? after going bankrupt 3....4 times? what, with ne...
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Okay, you can vote to control the tobacco purchase age. Could you elected folks please do something about all the illegal substances available in Lane County to all age groups????? Our beautiful county is looking bad these days. Terrible roads, homeless people, panhandlers in every city, polluted lakes, trash along the...
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been using civil since it started and have seen the improvement, but it remains bulky, obtuse. I hit the right accept button automatically twice just to get through it - liking that as much as a phone tree...+++occasionally I see a very interesting exchange but have no idea where to access it to follow it. seeing who ...
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OK. I get that people are easily duped. So who does Bowers think is the best candidate? Criticism comes easy to Bowers, and even good writing. He says we are "uneducated". Please educate us. As far as Clinton, though I am no fan, what crime has she been convicted of? If she has not been convicted, then his charge "crim...
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I'll say it again, if an 18-year-old can go off to Iraq and die in vain, then 18-year-olds are old enough to purchase tobacco products. If Oregon has a problem with tobacco then ban it.
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yeah, let's take a guess at who devised tenure. A buck 3 80? Sold. Can we work out a payment schedule? See, my car broke down and the utility bill was high and I had to take a day off because my dog was sick and... and..... and.....
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My fear is that half of the increase in wealth in this nation IS going to the 1% who are supposed to be creating jobs, but who instead are outsourcing jobs to low wage countries that have little regard for worker's rights, the environment or international trade law. My fear is that Wal Mart is making a profit by keepi...
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The state of Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, and the Health Authority, are unable to accomplish their mandate for public health and environmental assessment because their regulators, the state legislature, erroneously sees such pointedly investigative contaminant sampling and assessment as being inherently ...
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https://youtu.be/cKUaqFzZLxU -says the ever piquant George Carlin. A future for humanity -depends- on the elite's failure, or else it's https://youtu.be/u2ycDWywGls , and back to the Dark Ages... The world is in insane hands right now... Hope for a soft landing.
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Yes, experts can be fooled. Nobody knows everything...
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"A pox on both your houses" is an easy and, perhaps just a bit self-righteous" position to take during this campaign season. Steering clear of major Party involvement is, in my opinion, principled, but (certainly in the "short run") non-productive, ....perhaps counterproductive. It's becoming clearer and clear that T...
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Cassie, you'd better hope that the idiot who picks up hitch hiking 11 and 14 year-old girls is me and not Gareth Hall. Maybe the girls lied to whomever picked them up.
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I bet Motley would blame the father too, but there was no mention of him :-/
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Paul: There's a difference between "bias" and personal judgment based on available facts. Based on his actions and pronounements, I find Trump to be a thoroughly disgusting person. That's an opinion based on his actions...not based on bias. Here's a wikipedia definition for you: "Bias is an inclination or outlook...
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The state ODEQ and the Health Authority cannot adequately do their mandated jobs because their own regulators, the legislators, do not understand that environmental sampling and assessment would SAVE us far more money than it would cost, by finding our pollution mistakes so that we don't continue to have to pay for the...
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with "a 1 percenter demanding that the 1 percenters pay their fair share of taxes". We need more of this.
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when do i get $24,000 to research liveing in a home ....and not being homeless......i have been homeless for 20 years becouse prison made me to crazy to work...
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People shouldn't be allowed to vote unless they can score 90 on an IQ test. Same with driver licenses.
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I think we all understand that there comes a point where well-meaning logical restrictions on a harmful substances will cross over into government just wanting to control you. Education is one thing but restricting your freedom is another. I honestly think some politicians think it's their job to prevent anything bad...
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Phasing out fossil fuels is difficult, but that is only half the answer. We must also stop eliminating OXYGEN PRODUCERS. Plant a tree or two. Pay attention to clear-cutting in this country and rain-forest depletion all over the world, fueled by greed for more and more 'things'. Pay attention to the acres being conv...
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Hanson was the NASA attention seeker that spoke about Mann's "stick" as it were the gospel ...even after most world class meterologists considered a few more CO2 molecules to have zero effect on the atmosphere other than a fertilizer growth byproduct...which given the world's population is a good thing! Thanks for the ...
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I find myself concerned for your well- being Mike
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The state ODEQ cannot accomplish its mandated responsibility, because its own regulators the legislators do not understand how it is essential to fund pointedly investigative water and air toxic contaminant sampling and assessment in order to SAVE us vast sums of money. The Portland air contamination by toxic metals w...
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ExxonMobil does not have greed...it is a huge public company that your neighbors probably have their pension accounts with. Their folks also looked at lowering sea levels..their job is to evaluate all externalities particularly when it comes to potential collisions with icebergs. Your personification of large companies...
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you TOO? I had the samethig happen this week AND I had to get a new washer as well. bummer yeah? but sure, we can work out terms..something weekly payments for the rest of your life... (actually, that's how I handle pan handlers...if I see them coming, I approach them and speak right away before they do and tel...
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Tenure has its negatives, but it is meant to protect faculty who want to research topics that might make the administration nervous. Someone working on climate change might get fired if the Board of Trustees has been joined by an oil executive, for instance, or if someone decides to research the intersection of race, i...
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The Portland toxic air pollution problem is only one of many such pollution problems carefully avoided for responsible environmental assessment funding for pointedly investigative sampling because of legislative irresponsibility.
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With the low level of voting participation, both nationwide and in Oregon, I wouldn't want to bet on that as the likely scenario.
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The Eugene area has so many fine potters, even creations by high school students gather a high price outside the area. Here, we assume it's "just pottery" because we have so much excellence.
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Last local arrest was Failure to Register as a Sex Offender. December local arrests were Hit and Run and Eluding. He's determined to go to jail. Wish the DA and the Judges would get that done before he escalates to the next level.
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Why, thank you so much for sharing your insincere concern. I do appreciate it... I am quite well, thanks. And such a fine day, too! Fresh from rain, bright with sun. I return your vaguely insulting sentiments with disregard. Have a great day!
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Hi domestikgoddez, Yes, I find the nomenclature troubling, too. The alternative, which universities use, is to call all other faculty besides those with tenure "nontenure related faculty." It's uncomfortable to me to call something by what it's not. By "tenure track," I mean those professors who have tenure, which i...
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People shouldn’t be allowed to vote unless they can score 90 on an IQ test. Same with driver licenses.
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Trump is the other side of the Obama coin. Both have the same personage: narcissist, sanctimonious, mendacious, pharisical, and complete charlatans. The only difference is the ideology.
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PUNK!!!!!!! He shot around 4 or 5 shots and then another 4 or 5, there was another person yelling. This happened 20 feet from 2 bedroom windows. My 16 year old hit the floor and I called 911. So scary. We sat in the stairwell away from the windows for over an hour until we knew it was safe. We come from a small town wh...
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I know this story is about University level educators BUT tenure a "policy" adopted by academia has a greater downside then upside, especially when practiced at the elementary and secondary levels. There is no such thing in real life employment as tenure other then in academia. Tenure when paired with union membership ...
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Oops! Another taxpayer-funded state agency charged with protecting Oregonians drops the ball. Disappointing, but sadly, not surprising. Ask anyone who has sat in his car in long lines at a DEQ inspection facility in the last ten years, watching the horseplay among employees in the alternating stations which have no cu...
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I would prefer that voters pass the same tests required for someone to become a US citizen today. Unfortunately, History and Civics are no longer taught to that level in our schools, and with the abysmal graduation rates (particularly in Oregon) it wouldn't do any good if such subjects were still being taught. At lea...
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Google: Wikipedia Arctic Methane for a review of threats from permafrost.
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Whatever it takes, get it. Happy to throw Vets to the ditch yet he wonders why many of them are having such troubles? Meanwhile, Courtney is and has been an enabler d' hour of corrupt governors, ODOJ, etc. He should just resign and spare himself the embarrassment of a recall.
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Who is John101? I have little respect for people who are afraid to put their name to their spiteful comments. I am the parent of a Spanish Immersion student at Lincoln. I don't live on the hill. I'm neither rich, nor powerful nor part of a syndicate. I am just a parent who really values language learning and was lu...
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"Of course, big, beautiful uncompromising promises are also impossible to keep. So what happens come 2017 when voters get disillusioned by another round of broken vows? " Politicians lie. All politicians lie. Republican Democrat Independent Local State National. All politicians can only sell one thing, lies. It is...
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Wheeler, let me help you out right now. Leave the CRC alone---abandone it. Take up Clean Up. Clean Up the air pollution problem. Clean Up the river banks. Clean up the out of control camping, garbage, used needles. Clean up the corruption amongst city council. Clean up the roads and fill in the potholes & stren...
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Another RG hit job on the GOP. It's become an obsession of late. They have nothing good to say about their own Democratic candidates, so all they can bring to the table is potty mouthing of Republicans. What a depressing mindset that must be.
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Three counts of eluding no less...this boy has been busy.
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Given how employee rights have deteriorated, they don't sound any different than contractors. We are all operate at will. Luu's discrimination case sounds like a good approach to try to shift right back to employees.
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Nonsense. Actual human beings made the decision to mislead, knowing full well from earlier studies that our emissions put civilization at risk. I have read the studies. Do some research. What happened to corporate responsibility (and they are 'people' now, right? SCOTUS says so). No different than a drug company ...
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It is so wonderful to see you contribute to the edit-a-thon! One thing to remember about Wikipedia: all information must be traced to a verifiable source. If you can go back over your suggested emendations and insert sources from where this information comes from, I'm sure attendees will be happy to incorporate that...
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Presumably, if you went to grad school and then managed to land a convenient teaching job for three years, you have a basic understanding of how a contract works. The university has chosen not to offer you another one, making you, in essence, a free agent. Had the situation been reversed and you were interested in purs...
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Coltrane comments: on the other hand, said the cuts really weren’t really abrupt because they’d been on the table for more than a year. For Coltrane these cuts are NOT abrupt to him because he has a seat the table. For the "nonrenewal letters" (plain speak it means termination notices) recipients this IS abrupt and ...
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oh, I understand using proper terms, I think you must as a news format media, but a quick comparison for the uninitiated is helpful and fill put the story. it is not this particular one story and of course I didn't make note of specific stories previously. it is the whole level of reporting could be more in depth. ...
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Eugene / Springfield aren't the bedroom communities they were 20 years ago. Gangs, graffiti, and the people that come with it are now the norm...locals keeping their head in the sand notwithstanding... You probably should of looked at the crime statistics before moving here...
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The biggest problem Courtney has is having allowed his colleagues to subvert the intention of the short session, which was sold to the voters as one for housekeeping purposes and "tweaking" budgets. Instead, they steamroll through major policy changes with virtually no public process with a smug Tina Kotek stating tha...
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Lulu is the most friendly, gracious, incredible person you'll meet. Pure Romance lost quite an asset (and a top seller). Go Lulu!
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Hey, thanks for being a condescending garbage person! I bet you derived a lot of satisfaction out of typing that and no doubt smiled upon completion, marveling at your own ability to yet again be a jerk to complete strangers on the internet. Given your poor decision-making here and the arrogance it must've taken to th...
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Again, had you chosen to leave the university of your own volition, which certainly could be seen as a reasonable career choice, nothing in your contract would preclude that. Instead, a decision-maker at the university chose to go in a different direction. Re-organization and downsizing happens all the time. It's neith...
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Congratulations on the monumental effort it took to not get the point. When someone has to work that hard I assume they know they're wrong.
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I'm sure your hostility will be rewarded in kind.
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Watch the movie "Vera Drake" then think about the subject matter more intensely.
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LOVE the fact that Texas, the land of Backwardtardedness, is actually using what WAS, in that whole Lochner Court period, a reasonably 'decent' attempt by the Court TO protect workers - and turning it into a medieval doctrine. Yes, yes, it did treat women as 'weak' things who's one and only 'real' function was to bring...
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Thanks Dave for your insights. Always appreciate your input on these topics.
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I can't see that this civil comments thing has made any difference. The same old nasty comments from the same people. A lot of personal sniping, changing the subject, lack of logic, knowledge or intelligence. Probably not worth the effort. Sort of like the Republican presidential primary.
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That's a good reminder on language. Thank you. As for taking a source's word for everything, those entities -- and especially the UO -- would be surprised by that idea. So many of the first-blush, single-day stories are just laying out what the entity says is going on, and we count on readers to bring their own intelli...
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Mr. Bowers and I seldom agree on anything. However, we "half-way" agree on the quality of the likely Presidential candidates. Trump is the ultimate "flim-flam" man. I can't imagine ever doing business with someone of his character, let alone having him as President. Hillary certainly doesn't "excite" me as a can...
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Bring awareness to Hoaxer activities & prosecute those who consciously, publicly defame, harass and emotionally abuse the victims of high profile tragedies. More information to visit http://honr.com
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Sorry to say the democrat party of Oregon has determined that with a name like Alcantar-Flores he qualifies for Sanctuary State protection for his crimes. Very little if any real punishment will be dealt out and he will soon be back on the streets conducting his criminal actives....just pointing out the truth. One mo...
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