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"A moderate by definition is one of three things; somebody who sits around and waits for a majority to form and then joins it, a conservative who is pro-choice, or a liberal."
-- Rush Limbaugh, June 5, 2001
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- What's In a Ballot Measure Title? Measure 49 sponsors know. (Nigel Jaquiss, Willamette Week report)
- Sen. Smith Meets with OR Tribes to Discuss Future. (Oregonian)
- Sheriff Bernie Giusto On Hot Seat Over Goldschmidt Scandal; Told To Surrender His Police Certification. (KATU)
- Study: Mannix Measure Could Mean Three More OR Prisons. (Mail Tribune)
- On Using Oregon's Pensions Funds for Investment in Iran. Some would like to change this [for both good and bad reasons]. (Editorial, WW)
- Gov. K. Says He Wants New Rules On Drivers Licenses. Oregon, one of eight states that don't require proof of "lawful presence" to get a driver's license, is considered to have some of the loosest requirements in the country. While other states require birth certificates or passports, Oregon has a long list of documents that qualify as evidence that the person is an Oregon resident. (Oregonian)
- Feds Put More Hold Requests On Marion County Jail's Foreign-Born Inmates. (SJ)
- The "Governor" Awakens. (Max Redline, blog)
- Medford: Judge Won't Dismiss Teacher's Lawsuit To Carry Concealed Weapon. For now, she's free to bear arms.(Mail Tribune)
- Reading the OR Constitution Can Give One Odd Ideas. Such as this one: Bring back dueling. (Editor, Albany Democrat-Herald)
- Former State Trooper to Spend Three Days In Jail for Lying To Grand Jury. Fabricated story of an assault during traffic stop. (SJ)
- Salem: Officer Shoots Aggressive Dog; Owner of Second Dog Sought. (Oregonian)
- Salem to Pay Ex-911 Dispatcher $35,000. (SJ)
- Elections Officials Shut Down PAC. (SJ)
- Oregon"s 150th Birthday: Gov. Wants Ideas for Month-long Statewide Party. (Oregonian)
- Pendleton Marines Arrested for Long Beach Murder. One, Ramon Hernandez, did two tours in Iraq. (ABC News)
- Significant Meth Drug Bust In Florence. Seven different law enforcement agencies combined...(KATU)
- McMinnville: 16-year-old Arrested for Inappropriate Touching Swim Students. (Fox 12, Oregon)
- Medford Mom Of Three Disappears. (Mail Tribune)
- Judges Breath New Life Into Trojan Lawsuit. (Nigel Jaquiss, WW)
- NW Natural Gas Pursues Additional Rate Drop. (Albany Democrat-Herald)
- Morris-the-Cat Democrats. (Paulie Brading, Blue Oregon) [M's Brading may be like some Republicans who do not understand the purpose of a primary. Dems, as well as Republicans, need to decide who most represents the voters in, and values of, their party. It's a necessary double-edged sword.]
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National/International News
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- Sen. Smith War Chest Reaches $4-M. $6-M raised, $2-M already spent. (Jeff Mapes, Oregonian)
- City Of Brookings Unanimously Votes Against Marine Reserves. (Curry Pilot)
- Tinkering With the Constitution An OR Tradition.
- Seaside Signal Report On Union Event & Political Hopefuls.
- AP's Julia Silverman [Commentary, as well as news really] On Tobacco Co. $$ Against M-50. The constitution has been amended and re-amended hundreds of times since its inception in 1859. "In terms of what we have already placed in the constitution, I think we are beyond a purist approach," said Lane Shetterly, a lawyer and former Republican legislator from Dallas. [Yup. That's the liberal legislator's mindset. Tinkering with the Constitution is no big deal.]
- Union Runs Ad Targeting Walden Over SCHIP Vote. Is one of nine targeted as mean to children for supporting Pres. Bush's veto. (Oregonian)
- Oregon's Patriot Act Decision Appealed. Administration to defend use of secret searches, wiretaps [to fight terrorism]. (SJ)
- White House Slams Hooley & Dems Over Spy Proposal. (Oregonian)
- Contemporary Example of a PC "Random Act Of Kindness." "Random": proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers; "at random," without definite aim, purpose, method, or adherence to a prior arrangement; in a haphazard way: Contestants were chosen at random from the studio audience. [And in this instance utterly insulting to any intelligent black person.] Portland: Panhandlers for Slavery Reparations. (Statesman Journal)
- Salem: Bilingual Church Raising Money for Mexico Churches. (SJ)
- "Left-Coaster" Blogger Finds List Of Liberal Supporters Of Gordon Smith Bill Sanctioning Iran Interesting. Not pleased with Hitlery.
- Voters Pamphlets Began Arriving Wednesday. (Oregonian)
- Oregon's Food Stamp Benefits, Income Qualifications Increase. (SJ)
- Multnomah County: Tax Bills Begin Arriving Saturday. (Oregonian) [Multnomah voters voted for these taxes sooooo, happy days are here again, especially for those who will be paying even bigger taxes than some others. It's liberal heaven in Multnomah.]
- Forum to Feature Sec'y Of State Candidate, Kate Brown. (SJ)
- Fake News Guy Stephen Colbert Pokes Fun at Portland. (Oregonian)
- Salem-Keizer: District Staffers Working Nights To Correct Errors Resulting In Missing Pay for School Bus Drivers. (SJ)
- ConAgra Refuses to Recall Banquet Potpies. Rejecting requests by Oregon & Minnesota Health Officials. The company says a recall is unnecessary. It contends that contamination is limited to its poultry potpies. Risks can be eliminated, the company says, by instructing consumers to cook the pies thoroughly enough to kill salmonella bacteria. (Oregonian)
- Letter to Editor, SJ: M-49 Is a Threat To Rights Of Property Owners.
- Paul Allen Launches a New Search for Space Aliens. $50-M of new listening dishes. (Oregonian)
- Juicy Lawsuits: How Low Can They Go In the Pearl District. (Willamette Week)
- Portland: Smile, You're On Google. A new map feature lets Web surfers view Portland up-close & personal -- perhaps a little too personal for some. (Oregonian)
- WW Asks: Should You Believe This Man?
- Willamette Week on John Edwards' Visit to Portland.
- OR State Reps. Together In Supporting OR Brewers. (The Oregon Commentator, a Conservative Journal of Opinion. Blog.)
- Greg Walden Joins Other Congressmen In Rocking for Fundraising. (WA Post)
- Gresham Outlook Spouts the Liberal Lie On AARP's Health-Care Sales Pitch. Think it's wonderful how Smith & Wyden work together.
- Wyden Among Those Who Refused To Vote Against Condemning Attack On Petraeus. (Musings Of a Vast Right-Winger, blog)
- Marion County: Public Input Sought On Future of Parks. (SJ)
- Blue Oregon's Chisholm Thinks OR GOP Is Scared of Merkley. [Dream on.]
- Merkley Web Site Touts ILWU Endorsement.
- Our Oregon Republican Senator & Ted Kennedy Featured Among the Same-Sex Hollywood Elites for Matthew Shepard Hate-Crimes Event. (cyndi.8m.com/blog -- Cindi Loper's blog)
- Medford: County Privitizing Libraries To Save Money. (Julia Silverman, AP)
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National/International News
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- Australia: Immigration Minister, Kevin Andrews, Assures Australia Has Taken Into Account Worries Of Some People When Deciding Its Immigration Policy. (The Age)
- Australian PM, Mark Vaile, Defends Immigration Minister's Handling Of Decision To Slash Australia's Intake of African Refugees. (ABC-Radio Australia) [More power to him! He's right.]
- Turk-Austrian Man Shoots Colleague, Slices Off Penis In "Honor Killing." Honor killings, driven by the view that a family's honor is paramount, are an ancient tradition associated with Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq and Iran as well as tribal areas in Pakistan and some Arab societies. (Fox News) [Yet, sloppy immigration polices abound the world-around as though such cultural practices pose no dangers to the socities they enter.]
- Canada's Expectant Moms Heading To U.S. To Deliver. Mothers in British Columbia are having a baby boom, but it's the United States that has to deliver, and that has some proud Canadians blasting their highly touted government healthcare system. (Fox)
- London, Britian: Openly Homosexual Actor, Comedian Condemns Law Criminalizing Criticism Of Homosexuality. Jailing people is a disastrous policy that will crush democratic freedoms & result in a backlash against gays says Christopher Biggins. (Lifesite)
- Union Snubs Kulongoski Speech. Labor meet - AFSCME members are angry that the governor approved hefty raises for state managers and much less for others. (Harry Esteve, Oregonian)
- The Word On the Street Is "Diversity." "As you've probably noticed, there's a serious effort under way to change N. Interstate Ave. to César E. Chávez Boulevard, after the former farmworker union organizer." (Phil Stanford, Portland Tribune)
- Measure 49: Dave Reinhard of the Oregonian.
- Critic: M-49 Laced With Poison Pills. (Raelynn Ricarte, Hood River News)
- The Funny Thing about Socialized Medicine. (NW Republican)
- Single-Sex Schools Seem To Be Working. (KATU video)
- Organization Claims Oregonians Actual Wages Are Short Of Living Wages Needed. (Oregonian)
- Hispanic Suspect Sought In Attempted Strangling Of Veterinarian. (KOIN TV)
- "It Was Divine Intervention" Says Family. (KATU video)
- Ideas, If Not Faces, Are Familiar In '08 Races. Filings so far make regime change seem unlikely at City Hall. (Jim Redden, Local News Daily)
- Portland's Condo Boom Is Over? They are sitting empty for now. (Oregonian)
- Former Salem Cop Sentenced to 90 Days In Jail. Is registered as a sexual predator for oral sex with 17-year-old. (Oregonian)
- Sam Pipe Bomb Maker To Be In Prison for Life. (Dennis Thompson, SJ)
- Good Year for Wallowa-Whitman Timber, But Not Like the Old Days. (Oregonian)
- DMV Reporting Applicants with Fake Papers to Police. Youngs said she does not know why so many of those suspected of fraudulent activity by DMV employees appear to be Latino. "If that is an accusation people could level, we would want to address it because that was the last thing that was intended," she said. She said the agency will evaluate the procedure after six months and investigate further if Latinos make up the bulk of suspects. [And if they do, that's a reason to discontinue the practice of checking for false papers?] (KATU TV)
- OR Forum On Immigration: Mexicans Step Across Our Borders & Get... (Topix)
- Sen. Smith To Discuss Mental Health (& Hawk Book) During Mental Health Awareness Week. (Peter Wong. SJ)
- Corvallis Gazette-Times Opinion: Give Civil Unions a Chance.
- Oregonian Editorial Defends Kulongoski Illegal Immigrant Drivers License Plan.
- Salem-Keizer Tops State In Weapons Expulsions. 11 students expelled for weapons last year. (Tracy Loew, SJ)
- Report Card Offers Schools Lessons for Improvement. (Betsy Hammond, Oregonian)
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Adams Hitches His Yoke to Yocom. Sometimes what decides an election doesn't make big headlines. (Portland Tribune)
- Zone Out -- As Drug-Free Zones Expire, Business Owners, Police Say Hands Are Tied. (Peter Korn, Portland Tribune)
- Hood River County: County Employees Stage Two "Informational Pickets." Plan strike if county refuses to change contested clause in health care agreement. (Raelynn Ricarte, Hood River News)
- Dog Disguise Doesn't Fool Owner Of Stolen Pooch. (KGW)
- New International Flights Taking Off from PDX. (KGW)
- OR Health & Sci. Univ. Report Says Wide Hips May Hold Breast Cancer Link. (Oregonian)[Oh brother! Another reason for ladies to hate looking feminine.]
- Colorado Debates Compulsory Unionism. Some western states manage to contain labor unions' excess political power. (NW Republican)
- Four Democrats Pull Out of Michigan Primary. (AP)
- GIULIANI'S Mayoral Backing Of Adotpion Over Abortion NEVER EXISTED. (Life News.com)
- Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Claims Man Who Says He Was Abducted, Tortured By CIA. (KATU TV)
 Mountain Lion Killed after Dog Attacked. Charges possible against dog-owner for shooting lion. [Wouldn't YOU shoot to save this precious pet. See photo & video.] (The Denver Channel) More than 50 stitches to repair Duke's injuries. He'd be dead if not for his owner. - Molson Coors, SABMiller Combine U.S. Ops. Beginning Tuesday will be known as MillerCoors. (Oregonian)
- McCain: Retool Jobs Programs. (AP)
- SEIU Won't Endorse Democratic Candidates. (AP)
- Edwards Not Giving Up; Says Dean Looked Inevitable, Too. (AP)
- Obamaminable Proposes Deep Greenhouse Gas Cuts. (AP)
- Clinton Proposes 401(k)s, Matching Funds. (AP) [A chicken in every pot whether capitalist or socialist.]
- Clinton: Trade Deals Should Be Rejudged. (AP) [Telling Union people what they want to hear.] With the presidents of four unions that are supporting her in the audience, Clinton tried Monday to address one of her biggest problems with labor — her husband's signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement. [Surely she has talked with her husband about this, eh what? How long before he publicly come out and admits he made a mistake and says Hillary is right. Or will they do a brave "he says, she says" - "good cop, bad cop" routine?]
- Tom Tancredo's Campaign Depends Upon Standing In NH & Iowa Primaries. (AP)
- Romney Leads In Iowa Poll. Fred Thompson second. Giuliani, Huckabee even for third place. (AP)
- GOP's 6th Debate Is Thompson's First. (AP)
- Court Allows Neo-Nazi's Death Sentence. (AP)
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Bush, TX At Odds Over Death Case. To put it bluntly, TX wants Pres. Bush to get out of the way of the state's plan to execute a Mexican for the brutal killing of two teenage girls. (AP)[Why does Bush want to make an exception in this murder case?] The president wants to enforce a decision by the International Court of Justice that found the convictions of Medellin and 50 other Mexican-born prisoners violated their rights to legal help as outlined in the 1963 Vienna Convention.
- Fired Professor, Ward Churchill, Teaches At CO Univ. Anyway. (The Denver Channel)
- Far-Left [unknown] Entertainer Donating Proceeds from Recordings to Matthew Shepard Foundation. Urges support of Gordon Smith hate crimes bill. Britton's blogspot asking for support for Smith's bill.
- Young BYU Republicans Don't Plan Protests Against Harry Reid. [That kind of behavior is for campus liberals.] (Desert News)
- Reid Tells BYU Crowd That Socially Responsible Dems Mirror Mormon Values. (Salt Lake City Tribune)
- Text Of Harry Reid BYU Speech. (Reno Gazette Journal)
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National/International News
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- FBI Puts Antiwar Protesters On Criminal Database; Canada Uses It To Ban Protesters from Entry. (Op Ed News) [Tsk, tsk. Engaging in un-American activities if finally treated as criminal. It's about time.] Wright told OpEdNews "We were told (by the Canadian border agents) if we tried to enter Canada again, we would be officially deported from the country, which is "big trouble. 'We've warned you not to come back until we are criminally rehabilitated.' -- Wright asserted, "We will never be criminally rehabilitated since we intend to continue to engage in non-violent peaceful protest of Bush administration policies, particular the war on Iraq and we intend to peacefully and nonviolently protest all of these until they end. They can lead to arrests for civil disobedience, like refusing to move from the fence in front of the White House or standing up and speaking at congressional hearings."
- Canadian Forest Industry Must Face Reality of Global Marketplace. (Avrim Lazar, president and chief executive officer of the Forest Products Association of Canada -- Vancouver Sun News).
- Kulongoski: OR To Be Part Of Anti-Terrorism Exercise. Says has joined Portland Mayor Tom Potter, In Salem, to announce that later this month OR will be part of the largest anti-terrorism exercise in the nation's history. (KETV)
- Obama Gets Slim Win In Sunriver Straw Poll. (KETV)
- Red Guard Editorial Thinks Kulongoski's Immigration Proposal Is Promising. His proposal gives illegals all the same driving privileges & obligations as citizens.
- Statesman Journal Likes Kulongoski's License Give-a-way To Illegals.
- Signature Effort Fails to Block Oregon's Civil Unions Laws. nbsp;Only 116 valid signatures short. (RG) [Where were Oregon's Christians on this? Why didn't Lars Larson talk about this on every show until they had enough signatures. ]
- MEASURE 49: Property Rights at Stake. (Oregonian)
- Surprise, Surprise, DMV's Fraud Busts Hit Latinos. Reporter Esmeralda Bermudez Seems to Think It is Prejudice Against, & Singling Out of, Latinos. [The majority of those being fraudulent are illegal "latinos"? Well, there are some "latinos" who would object to her broad use of this word. Let's be honest. It is usually Mexicans who are committing this fraud. Including all Latinos is not fair. In so doing, SHE is singling out a group that does not deserve the bad reputation. Only those committing such fraud should be branded and it isn't all Latinos.]
- Club Lunch To Focus On M-49. (SJ)
- Commentary by Steve Buckstein: The "Perfect Logic" Of Taxing Smokers." [No on M-50] (SJ)
- SJ Reporters Thelma Guerrero Wants You to Credit Mexicans for Building Transcontinental Railroad. Not just those Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Irish and Anglos.
- You May Think You Own Your Land, But Not Really. Dave Thomahlen, of Deschutes County, found out the hard way there are penalties for cutting down trees to protect one's house from fire hazards. (Bend Bulletin) [What ever happened to private property rights?]
- Alcohol Sellers No Fan of Oregon's Interim IDs. "We have to take some other ID," she said. "They're just too easy to make on a computer." (RG)
- Dems Start to Choose Sides In Merkley-Novick Race. (Julia Silverman, SJ)
- Kucinich Blasts Trade Pacts, Insurance Companies at Oregon's AFL-CIO Convention. (Oregonian)
- Democrats Try for Majority, Wary Of GOP. (KOIN)
- Mean Duin, Oregonian: "The Dirty Little Secrets at DEQ."
- Is Your School High School's Nickname "Warriors?" Well, hey. That's too Indian sounding. It may have to go. (Teresa Williams, News Review)
- Three More Laws On Those Slow Drivers, Slow Lanes. (Commentary, Mail Tribune)
- Some Think VA Medical Services to Veterans Not Satisfactory. (Mark Larabee, Oregonian)
- OR Attn'y Gen'l Joins Other State Attn'y Generals In Signing Letter
- S. Renee Mitchell, Oregonian: On Renaming N. Portland's Artery to the Expo Center Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard.
- Phil Knight Gives $$ to M-49 Effort. (Oregonian)
- Split Bend Council Rejects Fireworks Ban. (KETV)
- Bird Boom Threatens Expensive Efforts Of Gov't to Put Salmon First. (Oregonian)
- Denver: Police Arrest 83 Protesters At Denver Columbus Day Parade. (Fox News)
- Descendants Of Christopher Colubus' Co-Pilots Want Pinzon Day Celebrated. (NY Post)
- Library On Congress On Columbus Day.
- Far-Left Whackos Lauch You-Tube Video Attacking Columbus Day. Includes known liars like Ward Churchill .
- Columbus: Christian vs. Humanist View. [The logs of Christopher Columbus indicate that Columbis was a Christian who believed he was on a divine mission. The Oregon Conservative has read the translation of these logs and refutes recent attempts to smear Columbus.]
- Christopher Columbus, Muticultural -- Politcs, ot history, is behind this new tale. (Nationa Review) Rewrite the history books, indoctrinate the children, and you can own the future. The bit about the Arab navigator is not just being put out by State, but will also be taught in Massachusetts public schools this year [2004].
- WA: GOP Hope "Run, Dino, Run" Event Will Put Rossi In Gov's Race. (RG)
- Underdog, Ron Paul, Rakes In $5-M. More than what some of the candidates given far more coverage have gained. (Yahoo video)
- Obama Thinks He Can Take Faith Vote from GOP. There are times on the stump when Obama even sounds like a pastor himself, referencing New Testament phrases and sometimes saying "I'm not gonna preach to ya!" when emphasizing a point to his audience. (CNN)
- Christian Ballet Company Fulfills Need for Retaining Values. (SJ)
- Iowa Poll Puts Clinton Atop In Key State. (AP)
- Columnist Disturbed By Claim to Christian Foundation to U.S. Constitution. Denies it's true. (SJ)
- Today's Global Warming Scare Story. (AP)
- CA State Board Of Equalization Will Tax Alcopops as Distilled Spirits. "This is an enlightened step forward in controlling underage consumption of alcohol."... (Marin Institute)
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National/International News
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- Britain: Media Reports Slam Gordon Brown's Decision for No Election. (Reuters)
- Just Re-elected Musharraf Installs Loyalist, Former Spymaster As Deputy Army Chief. Thus handpicking his successor as leader of the military in a key step to restoring civilian rule. (AFP)
- Musharraf Win Lifts Pakistani Stocks to Life High. (Reuters)
- Helicopter Escorting Musharaff Crashes, Four Dead. Musharraf landed unharmed in his own chopper. (AFP)
- Striking Deal with Musharraf May Cost Bhutto Badly at the Polls? Cracks are already appearing in the Washington-ordained alliance of Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto... (Boston Globe)
- Toll from Pakistan Battles Up to 80, Showing Tasks, Failings of Musharraf. [An anti-Musharraf-spin news report.] (Canadian Press)
- "Musharraf's Success a Victory for Democracy." [A pro-Musharraf editorial from Pakistani newspaper.] (Daily Times, "A new voice for a new Pakistan")
- I Know My Life Is At Risk In Pakistan, Says Benazir Bhutto. (Daily Times)
- Pakistan: 16 "Foreigners" Kill In Afghanistan Attack. Would-be suicide bomber stopped before he could kill. (Daily Times)
- 8 Die As India's Army Chief Visits Kashmir. Surge in violence shows that troop drawback not feasible: Indian army spokesman. (Daily Times)
- Afghanistan: Tons Of Heroin,Hashish, Headed for Iran, Seized. (Daily Times)
- Cuba Pays Tribute to Che Cuevara 40 Years After His Fall. (Reuters)
- ITALY: Uproar Over Tax Break for "Big Babies." More than a third of Italian men over he age of 30 live at home with their parents... "We must send those we call 'big babies' out of the house," the minister told a Senate hearing on the 2008 draft budget. (Reuters)
- Amsterdam: Dutch Customs Find Beetles Stuffed With Cocaine. "This is a very striking method of smuggling. We have never seen anything like this before," said gov't. spokesman Kees Nanninga. (Reuters)
- Pakistan Troops Kill 65 Taliban In Border Battle. (Reuters)
- Dutch Police Seize Huge Cocaine Shipment, Arrest 3. In shipping container filled with coffee. (AOL news)
- Sydney, Australia: Mr. Potato Head In Ecstasy Bust. (CNN)
- RARE IRANIAN PROTEST TARGETS AHMADINEJAD. (AP)
- Sudan Army Attacks Darfur Partners In Peace: Rebels. (AP)
- ISRAEL (Olmert & liberal supporters) MAY OK DIVISION OF JERUSALEM. (AP)
- BRITAIN To Cut Iraq Force to 2,500. (AP)
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