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This is a business, don't go if you don't like it, change the channel if you don't like it's totally your loss if you don't feel comfortable in a 'black bars', there are a few 'white bars' might be dangerous according to all the gang shootings reported, Biker bars are also a bar that might not be a safe place for your...
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Bill Northrup is probably right about way to go about getting this done.
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I liked it. Two very different life directions, both passionate in their work. One was very well paid, the other very little I would imagine. But the money, or lack of it, was not their motivation. I imagine both felt happiness in their work.
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No, Junior. It's in print and you still cant follow. I never asked you for examples, that is someone else. I pointed out you bias. You then deflected, and now humiliate yourself in public unable to follow a friggin post that's IN PRINT. Junior, if you're not on drugs, get help.
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And what the Willamette Weekly considers a "good" writer is head scratching. Save your breath for your herbal tea dude... You write about Jam Bands... And you gripe about playing too long.
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For the complete story of the Bundy Boys takeover of Malheur and its cultural, political and historical context, including a day-by-day timeline and second-by-second timeline of the shooting, Google: "Range War Redux – Bundy Boys In Oregon". For the philosophical sources of the new Range Wars and associated movements,...
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"cause more people to move to Eugene." First, I would never take such utter stupidity serious...but what this really shows, other than pure stupidity...is the arrogance of scum who would deny others the rights and opportunity freely afforded to them. As a Native American Brian Wanty disgusts me
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I looked up the "Beltway Pundit" (unbiased continual Obama bashing) and read the article. This stood out: "Over the past twenty five years, from 1989 to 2014, Koch Industries has donated $18,083,948 in political contributions to Republicans. " Here is why: " the CRP only shows disclosed and direct campaign contribution...
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can some one please translate this babbling gibberish into something remotely comprehensible?
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People have been trashing public space and the city is working to stop them. Unless they are willing to clean up after themselves, this is the only reasonable alternative.
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John, the state is not willing to forgive you yet and the investigation is still ongoing so why should we. You clearly do not yet understand the extent of the damage you and your girlfriend have done. You need to stay in retirement and out of the public eye. If you are being advised by someone to do this you are gettin...
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There have been a number of nominee's that have not gotten hearings or an up or down vote. Normally what happens is the president or the candidate removes their name when it becomes apparent that they will not survive the vote. Harriet Maiers is one that did not have a vote.
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Jaded: Once when I asked my father about an allowence, he asked if I thought I wasen't getting enough to eat around home. I never brought up the subject again.
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Drug addiction is a contributing factor, not the root cause. Why do you suppose people become addicted?
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Quite frankly, I'm dismayed at all the posts saying the uninjured Vet should sue. On what grounds? Lawsuits are filed to get back what one looses. He got his scooter replaced, and is uninjured. Hopefully he isn't part of the gimme gimme gimme crowd.
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North Carolina and Oregon both had an unemployment rate of 5.6% in October 2015. North Carolina's has held steady at 5.6% currently, while Oregon's has dropped to 5.1%.
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I would LOVE to go back to Africa, as the white people are prone to saying: if I could actually trace back the family tree through this ordeal back to the Motherland and find people I may be distantly related to. Also, it almost sounds as though you're saying that people of colour in formerly and currently oppressed la...
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“I am very sympathetic to the parks department, our employees and nearby neighbors, but we need a better pathway than chasing our tails,” I have always been under the impression that both ideas for and solutions to these issues is what we elect, employ, and compensate, in some cases handsomely, our city and state lea...
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I wonder about white people that jump right to that statement when topics along similar lines come up. "Just in case you were thinking it, 'I'm not racist'".
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Do you mean a PIO?
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Is "Rhinelander" somehow synonymous with "Nazi"?
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I lived in Madison for over a decade. I'm from Chicago.
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"We spoke with Sally Krantz after this piece was published, and she told us that she isn't a racist and she doesn't understand the backlash" Did you actually dare ask that, "Are you a racist?" Because of her taste in food? What kind of journalist are you? Why do all your articles read like liberal arts, college freshm...
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KEZI video -- Group Protests Eugene Fencing Project http://www.kezi.com/news/Group_Protests_Eugene_Fencing_Project_.html
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Interesting. You think British colonialism and the African/American slave trade were the same thing. The British were one of the first societies, anywhere, to outlaw slavery, to the great consternation of African and Arab slave traders. Slavery, of course, kept on in most non-European societies, especially Africa, the...
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The PC local liberal good old boy club permeates Eugene like the KKK of the 1950's south is in full campaign mode to put a babbling ignorant fool with 0 experience into office of Mayor to replace Queen Piercy. You can cut and paste their talking points, and gee, these clones are doing just that.
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No but your use of "white people" in all your posts, regardless of what has been stated, makes me suspicious you are a racist.
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Could some one please translate this gibberish into comprehensible English, please.
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Their two big call centers are in ,Louisville, Kentucky and Miami, Florida. Are they more business friendly states than Oregon is? The local call center may have simply been originally set up so as to provide better coverage for the Western and Mountain time zones. The number of employees in Eugene was dramatical...
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I don't think anyone is objecting to the cuisines that are a direct result of colonialism- the U.S. is a colonized and colonizing country and it's almost impossible to eat a meal in the US that is NOT affected by colonialism. The rejection here isn't of the food, it's of the marketing. Which is grossly oblivious and sh...
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Our only solutions is to take the State of Oregon to court for usurping our rights to negotiate our own wages for the work we render. Consider, because I am disabled federal laws suspends the minimum wage laws and restores my right to negotiate my own wages so that I can attain employment in independence and dignity. I...
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I almost feel bad for her. Alllllmost. But not really.
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Remember all the local pols who patted themselves on the back for landing the "XYZ" call center and all the good jobs it would provide. Call centers have minimal investment costs in where they locate and, at least in Lane County, manage to get local government to pay for the lions share of it with tax concessions. In...
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You honestly equate a swastika tattoo with "Saffron colonial" food?! Or a gentrified neighborhood?! Serious? I dare you to tell any of your friends that they are racists for living or going to a venue or restaurant in inner NE.
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Australia is not a colony.
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Just curious, if the Round Table owners are responsible for an employee who without their knowledge was violating every rule they probably have for delivery drivers - is Uber responsible their driver that shot and killed 4 people in Michigan?
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you're actually ignoring a lot of British practices with that assertion. first of all, the 1833 act outlawed the slave TRADE, not slavery. secondly, it exempted, among others, the East India trading Company. Thirdly, Britain's reliance on indentured servitude of Indian and Chinese people, began as a result of outlawing...
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So, human feces on someone's doorstep is an appropriate escalation from verbal discussion of explicit racism. Got it.
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Kitzhaber definitely needed to go after the culture of corruption that was created in his administration, but at least he was a bit of a check on the far left. Governor Brown is more like a rubber stamp for the lefts highly partisan agenda. It will be interesting to see what the Kitz has in store for himself in the f...
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This is just further proof that the Malheur occupiers are all mentally ill people. These are clearly the acts of an unbalanced person. They need to all either be locked up in prison, or become a patient at a secure mental hospital. Just look at this image of Scott Willingham taken during the occupation. Just look ...
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I think she is trying to require Republican politicians to do what the Democrats want done and if they don't do that have someone take their pay away.
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You are ignoring the obvious facts, though, that all of these people have repeatedly engaged in erratic and irrational behavior, that no sane person would ever do. The proper context for viewing the Malheur incident is to view it in terms how dangerous our society has become, because we are doing virtually nothing to ...
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You can bet large sums of money that attorneys for those four people's families are drafting lawsuits with Uber as a Defendant even as we speak. It will depend a lot on Michigan law as to how that works out.
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I don't understand....who trying to force someone to become empathetic? I doubt anyone can force anyone to be empathetic. But...are you saying since I meet this "pre-req" I can now force people to be empathetic? There must be something I'm missing.
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Was it also JFK who said, "stop viewing human beings as human and rather as eyesores that are to be pushed off to the side with no regard."?
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This was a rally which was privately funded and sponsored, it was not meant for "open discussion". While these protestors preach free speech and tolerance, they imped this right and are not at all tolerant of the democratic process.
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Really a very poor letter, trying to compare apples to grapefruit. BTW - Larry Coxe's wife is Laurie Trieger, who is the main advocate for this nonsense.
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Yeah, I hear ya. But would you be happy for being punished for the actions of others...if someone else left a mess at this hypothetical park we are speaking of and that barred you from the premises? But of course this hypothetical is an inexact parallel as we are talking about visiting the park with friends...as oppo...
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"The commissioner assured me he would respond but I’ve yet to receive a response from him, even after I sent him an email reminder." Well, per Commissioner Bozievich, a Commissioner's word can't be held against him if he is trying to get a Jail levy passed or binding on the other Commissioners so why would you think ...
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This always has been an opinion column, and light-hearted at that. You are correct though, WW is certainly not what it was and is headed rapidly downhill. Maybe it appeals to a younger than I demographic? IMO, they've got Nigel and Beth and that's about it.
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If Michael Gerson "served as President George W. Bush’s assistant for policy and strategic planning", he's an insider (part of the "establishment"), and of course opposes any outsider like Trump.
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"My grandfather fought British rule, so it’s deeply personal." I'm pretty sure Americans fought British rule too. More than once, actually. But somehow, most Americans doesn't seem terribly worked up about it anymore.
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And yet, Senator Prozanski no doubt has three more 'gun control' laws ready to file for next year to "protect the public". Each of them will be ignored by the criminals and be unenforced by prosecutors such as himself.
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My argument is really neither morality nor marketing, it's about what's in good taste. I don't think it's good for marketing, and I don't think it's terrible morally, but I do think it's tacky in light of what the history involved. It mildly offends some people, grievously offends a few people, and means nothing to mo...
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I have to agree. I asked some of the wait staff how they came to work there, and they said that Sally Krantz sent an armed detachment over to some other restaurant, where she planted her flag, set up a puppet management, and then demanded, at gunpoint, that the waitstaff come work at her new restaurant. Sad.
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another mental midget equates trump to Hitler, and therein these mental midgets belittle what Hitler did. These mental midgets absolutely disgust and sicken me. It takes a sick demented person to equate a loud mouth jerk getting sucker punched after begging for it, with the genocide of Jews. They have no shame, but the...
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As a moderate democrat I am absolutely disgusted with what has become of the Oregon democratic party that has been taken over by a political correct mental illness that knows no shame, and now permeates our state like the KKK of the 1950's south.
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If he had killed or harmed any of his passengers, or attacked others while driving Uber passengers, then the answer would clearly be yes. But that never happened, so your analogy here is totally bogus and off-base. Yes, he took Uber passengers in between his killings. But he did not attack anyone while doing busin...
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The original poster was saying that all people who are familiar with history would be justifiably upset. I was showing that was clearly not true. That you are offended has no bearing on what I said.
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Oof... your ignorance shows, again. British handled America with kid gloves when compared to what they did to Indians. Ever heard of 1943 Bengal famine? No? It was a man-made famine caused intentionally by the war hero of the 20th century, Churchill. Bengal was exporting rice when its population was starving. British c...
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You showed nothing to be "clearly" not true. You made an excuse that some of your Indian friends were ok with the name and the guy who opened it must be (a) Indian and (b) quite aware - both of which were pure guesses on your part. I tried explaining why it was offensive to me, but apparently I was talking to someone w...
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It is equally dismaying that you are so dismissive of the obvious trauma that he clearly must have gone through. The article says that he was on the scooter when it was destroyed. And it was the Springfield Police that replaced his scooter, not the Pizza Shop. This incident happened 3 weeks ago.
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LOL
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They're not guesses at all. I went to a pre-opening party for the restaurant, went to a private party there by an Indian friend, and ate there many times under the original owner. (It has since been sold.) I talked with the owner at length several times. You just seem unable to imagine that anyone thinks differently ...
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I suppose that old English sign referred to wives dropping their husbands off at the bus. A kiss was okay, no hugging allowed.
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Red lights? When did they start that crap?
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Poster boy.
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The homeless have the wherewithal to protest, but not to clean up after themselves? Back to my party at the park - if my friends show up and start getting too rowdy, I'll suggest that they tone it down or leave. If they leave but don't take their empty beer cans, should I leave them, too? If having a place to sleep is ...
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Two narcissists walk into a bar...
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I'm still getting a pretty strong Poe's Law thing from you on this. You can't possibly be so obtuse as to think that Springsteen's fans think he's a "blue-collar working man", and that he's actually tricking them because he's really a millionaire. That's just crazy. He's been selling out stadiums for forty years, but a...
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Willingham sounds like he was ditched and he's just now figured it out and " hey.. where did everybody go? awww - I want to go too". holding his breath didn't work, stomping his feet didn't work, crying as loud as he could didn't work, so he finally threatened to shoot a federal officer to get himself into jail.
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Oh trust me, I very well can see - plain as daylight - that others think differently than me, that much is certain. It's interesting to me the lengths you would go to defend them: by first linking to an article and implying narcissism, then using anecdotes, nicely building into a story. I fail to be impressed that you ...
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Seems like I touched a nerve by calling it like I saw it. Sorry it bugged you enough to attempt a defense, but the fan letter speaks for itself, as does your failure to do either your due diligence re: Red Sauce, or to write a correction once your error was pointed out.
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I've applied 3 times for 911, wanting a career change. I know that I could do well at the job. I've tested well, but never make it past the "group" interview, and you never get to find out why. Perhaps it's my age, but if they are desperate for people, why not give me a chance? I've felt it comes down to certain people...
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great - probably just enough money to bus ALL the homeless people out of portland getting them as far as Eugene...
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these "some people" are all over the place...leaving messes everywhere. it's the norm - not the exception. you find a homeless camp - you find the same kind of unsanitary cr*p as is in the next homeless camp.
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many? you put them up and then what? to what end? do they stay with you forever and become un-homeless? do they move on a day or two later, becoming homeless again?, really what happens after you put them up in your house?
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wasn't it just a few weeks ago the state was grumping about the recreational tax money wasn't coming in from the dispensaries?
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An Open Letter to Saffron Colonial: https://medium.com/@dunx/an-invitation-9f96a0827309#.eitah5d21
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motleycrew... what if "it" was based upon something other than the things you point out? Speculate on friend... first to comment ought to get you something right? not...
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You spelled Courteney wrong
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The “Beltway Pundit”? You do realize it's a blog? Apparently not I'd say. Never the less I say as long as either the republican or democrat establishment has your support the only real party in trouble are the few remaining Americans with commonsense. Ask me how I know. It's because you didn't even begin to touch thi...
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The puzzle is that Trumpians are the very people the GOP has screwed over all these years..from Reagon Democrats onward. They became anti-Union, removing the only thing protecting their better than average paying jobs. They became free traders and lost more jobs. They voted for tax cuts if the rich because some day th...
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I'm increasingly convinced the Don is happy with the protestors, maybe to the point of hiring a few.
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$65,000 dollars? Really? You people are so out of touch with reality. Throwing around $65,000 dollars on a fence, to keep people from sleeping under a bridge? It's shit like this that can make a person hope the system burns.
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I've ignored nothing. None of these militants are mentally ill in any clinical sense, and their political philosophy has a long pedigree in American history - WHICH IS WHAT YOU ARE IGNORING.
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It is wrong for Dionne to say "Trump-like rejection," unless Trump has in fact rejected Garland.
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The blind leading the blind.
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I guess the washed out musician wasn't getting enough attention.
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Roy ... the federal government is the entity that has taken our public lands and is actively selling off the water/mineral rights etc. to big corporate mining entities. The Malheur standoff and the Bundy stand offs both sit on top of big mine-able uranium that Hillary and her foundation have already taken big bribes to...
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Jordan uh-hum woyzeck, Although this must be an embarrassing time, trolling only makes one look more desperate and pathetic.
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Legal grey area?! No what she does is very illegal and as a legal cannabis dispensary operator it angers me very much. With everything I do from certified and calibrated scales to insurance and license fees... This angers me. She should be arrested.
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Unlawful use of a weapon is a class C Felony in Oregon. He is going to become a Felon over this incident, and thus lose his right to ever own or possess any type of firearm, much less that Assault Rifle that he had with him. Here is a photo taken of him during the occupation, holding his Assault Rifle: https://pbs....
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#BlackLivesMatter. Such an obviously true and unassuming statement. If seeing it gets someones knickers in a twist, they've got to clear away their preconceptions and just look at it again as the simple literal statement it is.
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Just be clear, do black lives matter to you, or not? If they matter, then why should seeing "Black Lives Matter" be a problem?
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Do you believe those numbers in oregon are lower because people have returned to work? The numbers are skewed by those at temp services, not on unemployment any longer and other causes. My wife lost her job and the employment office told her it wasnt likely she would find a job that paid close to the same. The person t...
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Hitlers "rallies" weren't meant for open discussion either. Trump is a dangerous man but you attack the protesters who are calling it correctly - the emperor has no clothes. It's startles me to see the support he receives...PT Barnum would be proud. The public debates with tough questions to will ultimately reveal Trum...
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There may never be criminal charges but there are glaring ethical issues. He had to go.
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Hey kids! When coloring Easter eggs, color one (or two) that is uncooked. Great fun! Just remember, play dumb!
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No charges have been filed against Neil Goldschmidt either. Perhaps to you he is the second-best governor this state has ever had. Most people, however, would say the top two were Tom McCall and Mark Hatfield.
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