Friday 29, 2007
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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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- Vicki Walker Announces Run for Sec'y Of State. (KMTR)
- Democrats Put GOP Through Agenda Wringer In 2007 Session. (Harry Esteve, Oregonian)
- 71-Year-Old Portland Man Shoots, Injures Intruder. (Oregonian)
- FLAGS AT HALF-STAFF FOR THREE OR SOLDIERS. (Oregonian)
- Marion County Judge Rules Lap Dancing Legal Free Speech. (SJ)
- Judge Lets 36% Cap On Interest Become Law. Cap on consumer loans takes effect Sunday. (Oregonian)
- Minnis Announces She Won't Run for Re-election.
- OR House Speaker, Democrat Jeff Merkley, Considering Run Against Gordon Smith. Merkley said the meeting in New York came at the request of U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who as chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is in charge of recruiting possible challengers to take on Smith next year. (Fox 12)
- Tax Foundation Rep. Speaks Against Gordon Smith's Proposal To Expand Fed Health Spending With $$ from a Higher Fed Excise Tax On Cigarettes. (AP)
- Gordon Smith Among RINOs Switching Immigration Vote To Defeat Bill. (The Hill)
- You Tube, OR Senate Republicans.
 Sen. Larry George Calls Out Governor On Measure 37 -- You Tube Video. (Posted May 30, 2007)
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 Senator Jason Atkinson Defending Measure 37, You Tube, Posted June 18, 2007 "This bill goes around the public process...This bill is an embarrassment..."
- OR Legislature Closes Shop -- 12:36 Thursday, 6/28/07. (Oregonian)
- Senate Colleagues Prepare for Bi-Sexual (but married ot a man) Kate Brown To Step Down As Dem Caucas Leader. Conjecture about her running for Sec'y of State or against Sen. Gordon Smith. (Colin Fogarty -- OPB)
- Paid Family Leave Bill Stumbles When Five Democrat Senators Join Republicans To Reject. [It's a tax bill in disguise which requires a 60% vote of the people.] HB 2575 had already passed the House by one vote. (SJ)
- Bill Allows Direct Shipments for OR Wineries. (SJ)
- Amnesty Fighters Focus On Wyden, Boxer, Bayh, Lugar Offices. (Mass Media)
- House Approves Fee Increase for PGE & PacifiCorp Customers. Bill now goes to Senate. (SJ)
- Jeff Golden, Radio Talk Show Host, Might Challenge Gordon Smith. (Mail Tribune)
- Funding for [Unnecessary] Arts Got $9.75-M Boost In '07 Session. (SJ)
- $1-M Grant Sends OR History Teachers To American Historical Sites. (Mail Tribune)
- SB 5549-A, Companion Bill 994-A: "Christmas Tree Bills" for State Employee Pay & Benefits. And employee unions are still negotiating. (SJ)
- Medford Considers Controlling Panhandlers. (Mail Tribune)
- Signatures Fake, Witnesses Say. Fraud trial -- Slavic immigrants testify they did not sign petitions used to get public campaign financing. (Oregonian)
- Boquist, Walker Voted Against Approved Ethics Bill. House voted 40-18, Senate 27-2.
- OR Senators Split On Immigration Cloture Vote. (Oregonian)
- State Law Puts Limitations On Driving By 16- and 17-Year-Olds In Delivery Jobs. (SJ)
- FEDS INDICT 10 DEL MONTE WORKERS ON FRAUD CHARGES. Charges: Possessed fraudulent immigration document & committed SS fraud. (Oregonian)
- Western Beverage Workers On Strike. Western Beverage wants to replace the members' pension with a 401(k) plan and take away their union insurance, he said. Union members have voted down the company's offer twice. (SJ) [They are making a mistake. Eventually the union insurance will financially fail just as the PERS did. They should take individual responsibility for their lives and take the 401-K while they have the chance. Being union-lemmings is going to eventually doom them.]
- Beer Distributor Goes On Union's Unfair List. "Local 162 Business Agent Phil Muter said other parts of the company proposal seem intended to weaken the union in the future: Maletis wants to eliminate the right of drivers to honor picket lines, end company deduction of union dues from workers’ paychecks, get rid of the requirement that all workers pay union dues, and change the grievance process." (NW Labor Press) [Gasp! Workers would have true liberty from the highway robbery & frequent misrepresentation of unions. We can't have that. Unless unions can change history and stop being as unjust as some of the worst corporations they so severely criticize they will need to be defeated as surely as any heartless corporation. No organization which forces its members to depend upon a socialist system to eat and thrive cares about those members. It's time for the union membership to say enough of this kind of bondage. Individual choice, voice and liberty is best for ALL Americans.]
- Rep. Kevin Cameron's June 25th Newsletter. Sine Die is Imminent -- $6.8 Billion More in Debt -- Press Release-HB 2575 Deducts $35 Million from Oregonians' Paychecks
- Emilie Boyles Testimony Fundraiser Misled Her. (Oregonian)
- Gordon Smith Joins Others In Letter Seeking Obama for Sponsorship Of HIV Act. (The Advocate)
- A Streetcar Named Acquire. "$4-M deal - Rep. Peter DeFazio and a Clackamas company outmaneuver competitors to get manufacturing jobs for OR...There was just one thing: Nowhere did the federal bill authorizing the $4 million mention Oregon Iron Works. Competitive bidding for the project was a year off. No company had a claim on the money or work." [What is the rhetoric we are always hearing from DeFazio about improper bidding procedures by the Bush administration and Halliburton? It's those awful Republicans who just want to help their favorite demon corporations & are willing to bypass procedure to do it. Surely after all DeFazio's rhetoric against this sort of thing this sort of thing is beneath DeFazio, isn't it?] (Oregonian)
- All Aboard the Earmarks Train [Courtesy of Rep. Peter DeFazio] (Oregonian)
- Del Monte Plant Obeyed Pay & Overtime Rules, State Concludes. (Oregonian)
- Anti-Abortionists Scored In '07 Session Despite Dem Majority. Pro-embryonic stem cell research bill did not pass. (Oregonian)
- House Votes 309-115 To Ban FCC On "Fairness" (The Hill) [But, there's more than one way to skin a cat. The FCC is beginning in Maine to brainwash silly people into thinking it is "their" idea. The FCC "just wants to help you." See following article on the FCC in Maine.]
- Maine: "Localism" In the Media? Where are the conservative organizations being represented on the panel? Public comment (to the FCC). [Shades of "fairness"?] FCC Chairman and Commissioners Statements at Public Hearing On "Localism" In Portland, Maine (6/28/07). This is only the first of such events planned to take place around the nation. [Are these events merely an end-run around the hated "fairness doctrine" efforts by a different means by a different name?] (FCC) Webcast of First "Localism" Proceeding, June 28 Public Hearing. Will be available shortly. (FCC)
- Fred Thompson's "Testing" Tactic May Net FEC Complaint. (The Hill)
- Georgia: GOP Sen. Is Still Comfortably Ahead Of Two Dem Challengers... But His Ratings Have Plummeted Since He Supported the Bush Immigration Bill. Both Dem opponents have run to the right of Chamblis on immigration. (The Hill)
- Idaho Potato Farmers Hiring Prisoners When Immigrants Unavailable. (The Olympian)
- The Singing Sensation and the Song the Media Tried To Demonize -- Now On You Tube. Decide for yourself if their song says it right. The all American Revoli Revue singing "Press One for English."
- AP Reporting the Senate Has Killed the Immigration Bill.
- Schwarzenegger Appoints Openly Bi-Sexual Democrat To Head State's AIDS Office. (Bay Area Reporter)
- Gov. Schwarzenegger Quietly Appoints Same-Sexers To Key Positions. The picks are significant in that the positions could be launching points for future runs for political office, something Log Cabin California Director James Vaughn has made a top priority. And Vaughn expects more gay Republicans to be named to various posts this year. (Bay Area Reporter)
- Denver Post: "Tancredo, Sen. Salazar Launch Food Fight Over Immigration Bill." ...The Department of Homeland Security refused to accept the basket, citing security concerns. "I wanted to make a point of the fact that he made this ridiculous comment about the danger of our food supply if we didn't have this amnesty bill," Tancredo said.
- Iowa Poll Results Will Determine If Tancredo Stays In Presidential Race. (Right Wing World)
- Tancredo Campaign Call for Rep. Paul To Be Included In Iowa Presidential Forum. (Iowa Politics.com)
- Same-Sex Politicos Note Richardson Attends "Pride" Events Himself Rather Than Sending His Wife (a la Mrs. John Edwards). (Bay Area News)
- Paul Greenberg: Today's Constitutional Crisis. This habitual, obsessive and in the end self-destructive secrecy is all so unnecessary -- and irritating. But does that mean it's illegal? Apparently so, to hear Ron Wyden, the very Democratic senator from Oregon, tell it. "The vice president is saying he's above the law," says Senator Wyden, "and the fact of the matter is, legal scholars are going to say this is preposterous." (Sac Bee)
- New Federal Rule Angers Almond Growers, Raw Food Eaters. After Salmonella outbreaks in 2001 and 2004 that were traced to raw almonds, the Almond Board of California rallied for a federal rule requiring all almonds in the state to be pasteurized to keep bacteria from infecting the nuts while they dry in the orchard or while they're processed. n(SJ)
- U.S. Supreme Court Abandons 96-Year-Old Competition Rule. (AP)
- "AMNESTY" FAKE PAPERS PLEDGED IN MEXICAN FORGERY RING WIRETAP. (WA Times)
- U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against Affirmative Action In Schools. (WA Times)
- Oregonian/KGW-TV Poll: Political Cynicism At New High Among OR Voters.
- Birth Parents Allowed To Be With Gravely Brain-Injured Girl In Foster Care. (Oregonian) Foster Child Unconscious In Hospital. Peals and Kuntupis said they have been complaining for months that their daughter was being physically abused, but Department of Human Services caseworkers, they said, did not take the complaints seriously. (Oregonian)
- Ron Paul Opinion On Embryonic Stem Cell Federal Funding Relies On States' Rights Arguement. [Avoids moral or ethical issues that even government should address. This is classic Libertarian cop-out rhetoric that basically allows anyone to do what they please regardless of how immorally pernicious to society it may be. This is not the "under God" foundation of civil government that our Founders intended which, by the way, includes the basic "right to life".]
- Good Comment On Ron Paul's View Of Gov't Funded Embryonic Stem Cell Research. (Backwater Report)
- KANSAS Attn'y Gen'l Refuses To Press Charges Against "Tiller the Killer." Insists he has not broken law with late term abortions. (Lifesite)
- Nat'l Park Service Stands By Request that Eliz. Edwards Cease Filming At Herbert Hoover Nat'l Historic Site Or Leave Park Immediately. Local Democrats apologize to Eliz. (West Branch, Times Online)
- ABC, AP Reports Ron Paul To Crash Iowa Forum. The gathering is sponsored by the Iowa Christian Alliance and the watchdog group Iowans for Tax Relief which excluded Paul from their invitations.
- Ron Paul Web Site Indicates Rally Will Be Held At Presidential Forum Site. Immediately follows debate.
- Was Romney Really Cruel To His Dog? Lot's of blogger comments from those who believe it. (ABC News)
- Part Four Of Boston Globe Series On Romney Includes Story of Trip With Dog. [The Boston Globe made no issue of the incident, but other paper columnists are blasting it as cruel. Oregon Conservative believe most people would consider it a typical family vacation experience in dealing with a family pet. The dog most likely would have had the same nervous reaction, to travel, inside the car as so many other pets have. Far better to only have to hose down the dog and the outside of the car. Just as with the game of gossip, reports about this incident are being gradually embellished.]
- Rosie Fans Displeased With Photo Of Adopted Daughter Wearing Toy Ammunition Belt. (ABC News)
- Tennessee State Senator: The Fed. Gov't Has Failed On Immigration. States have got to pass own good laws. (Volunteer TV)
- Federal Farm Subsidy Programs: How To Discourage Congressional Conflicts Of Interest. (Heritage Foundation)
- Glenn Beck Replacing Michael Savage Time Slot In Seattle. Lars Larson airs at 11 p.m. (Seattle PI)
- Elizabeth Dole Goes Unchallenged By Latest Potential Dem Challenger for Senate Seat. (CBS)
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 VIDEO: Ted Nugent On the Border. "The answer is so simple it's stupid." -- "...We've got a bunch of real warrior heroes in the border patrol in ICE, in law enforcement all along our southern borders and northern borders. Just let 'em do their job! Cut the big dogs loose! Let 'em enforce laws. That's not novel. That's logic unless you're a bureaucratic chimp." -- "I never went to college. I was too busy learning stuff." -- "...anti-logic...of sanctuary cities..." (You Tube -- on Neil Cavuto Show)
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