edited by: Mike Landfair,
Oregon Editor
Here's yet another story on the staggering cost of the health care fiasco that was passed in the House by Nancy Pelosi et all last week; it would increase costs by $289 billion.
The House-approved healthcare overhaul would raise the costs of healthcare by $289 billion over the next 10 years, [...]
As anybody who hasn't been living under a rock for the past 40 years know, abortion is one of the most sacred cows of the liberal left and the Oregonian (but I repeat myself). Any restrictions on abortions cause murderous screams of anger from the left, because they can't stand [...]
Here is another story for the ever-growing Ignored Stories category. A Gallup poll was just released that shows that most Americans believe that healthcare is not the federal government's responsibility.
PRINCETON, NJ -- More Americans now say it is not the federal government's responsibility to make sure all Americans [...]In their ongoing quest (along with the rest of the MSM) to destroy any conservative who dares to question libaralism, the Fish Wrapper makes a front page link of an AP story that supposedly "fact checks" Sarah Palin's new book "Going Rogue" (you know, the book that was so popular, [...]
Wherein Loaded Orygun’s “torridjoe” calls Blue Oregon’s Kari Chisolm “a condescending dick.”
In the department of unintentional hilarity, this is one of the best entries I’ve read on local blogs recently. Chisholm, whose Blue Oregon blog is a de facto organ for the Democratic Party of Oregon, makes his [...]
The Fish Wrapper editors have shown in the past that they like to follow lock-step with the global warming/climate change hysteria/religion, and they continue their path with the latest editorial perpetuating the global warming hype, "Walking Out on Global Warming".
The main thrust of the editorial is that as [...]
They don’t make TV like this anymore.
Copyright © 2009 More Hockey Less War. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. [...]For 8 years, Abby Johnson was the director for the Planned Parenthood (aka Abortions 'R Us) clinic in Bryan, Texas. However, after watching an ultrasound of an abortion and listening to the communications from superiors that they needed to focus on more abortions because they were more lucrative, she couldn't [...]
Continuing in its quest to be the biggest propoganda mouthpiece for the Obama administration among all dinosaur media outlets, the Fish Wrapper (aka The Oregonian) published a story about how the Generational Theft Act of 2009 (also known as the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act) has "saved or created" [...]
From LuLu, our little “parlor panther.”
Newspaper circulation numbers continue to decline across the board, and the Dead Fish Wrapper is no exception. Over the past six months, the Fish Wrapper's numbers decreased by 12.06%. Astonishlingly, though, that wasn't the biggest decrease. Here are numbers for the top 25 papers in the country, as published by [...]
Great article at RealClearMarkets about how newspapers want us to subsidize them because their business model is failing so miserably.
Have you ever stumbled on an oxymoron so stunning that it takes your breath away? Try coupling this with a case of chutzpah so revealing that the lack of shame [...]
The view from the concourse of Memorial Coliseum, the world’s only transparent arena
As a member of the the mayor’s Rose Quarter Stakeholder Advisory Committee, I got the chance to tour the two-arena, 35 acre Rose Quarter with [...]
Here's something you won't see the Dead Fish Wrapper report on: a new poll by Rasmussen that shows that it's more important that people aren't forced to change their health insurance coverage than the availability of a public option.
It seemed like such a great idea… a walking tour of Beverly Cleary’s neighborhood, which, it turns out, was Ramona Quimby’s and Henry Huggins’ neighborhood.
Rain in the forecast? Who cares! It’ll be all the more authentic!
Well, it didn’t rain, [...]
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it, always.” — Mahatma Gandhi
Today is Gandhi Jayanti, a [...]
A couple years back, the Oregonian’s hackneyed Web front-end, OregonLive.com, started experimenting with a local implementation of Reddit, a link-sharing social network. It never gained critical mass, and it was easy to game the system to get (and keep) links on the front page of OregonLive.
Hey, we had our [...]
A new study titled "Trust and Satisfaction with the National News Media" was released by Sacred Heart University yesterday, and the findings are not good for MSM outlets such as the Daily Dead Fish Wrapper. One of the primary findings says it best: almost half of Americans "have permanently [...]
Fear mongering about socialism in America would be comical if it weren’t so damned frightening. What can the rest of the world think of us?
We spend twice as much per capita on health care, and still have tens of millions without access to basic, preventive care. Why [...]
Cicadas:
Monarch caterpillars:
Chioggia beets with caramelized onions and garlic and pan-seared green beans an zucchini with crisp basil, Parmesan and lemon zest
I love beets. Despite this love, and despite having been a produce guy for 10 years, I [...]
It's interesting that as Obama and the Dems push towards government control in every area of America that they can justify (currently health care), other countries are moving away from it. As an example Canada has had socialized medicine for years, and it is the type of single-payer system we' [...]
From my flickr friend OneEighteen, who drives ships in and out of the Port of Houston for a living.
Copyright © 2009 More Hockey Less War. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. [...]Although Obama and the Dems continue to deny it, health care rationing really is a concern with Obamacare, and seniors should be the most concerned. As reported in the Wall Street Journal:
Elderly Americans are turning out in droves to fight ObamaCare, and President Obama is arguing back that [...]
My coworker has me on a Bollywood crash course. Evidently, you don’t know Bollywood if you don’t know the classic 1960 film Mughal-e-Azam (The Emperor of the Mughals). This film has everything: love, war, music and dance. It was shot (mostly) in black [...]
Tonight’s garden feast: capellini with garden fresh pesto, rustic whole wheat bread, and rice salad with fresh green beans, zucchini, basil, and jalepeño. I haven’t made pesto for years, but it’s not hard to remember.
Pesto fresh basil garlic olive oil some kind of dry, [...]
Via Annaliese, who did hers according to David Bowie (on Facebook). Instructions: “Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Pass it on to 15 people and include me. You can’t use the band I used. Try not to repeat a song title. It’s [...]
We spent a couple days at the Oregon coast (highs of 60-65) after several days of 100+ in Portland with lows around 75. It’s still hot in Portland. We paid a visit (and a whole lot of simoleons) [...]
Here’s a little number I whipped up for breakfast today.
Ingredients: a couple fistfuls of freshly dug spuds a fistful of basil half an onion half a bell pepper a dash of paprika salt and pepper to taste olive oil Method:
Go out and dig up some [...]
A great place to spend a quiet and peaceful Fourth of July.
Of course, we hit the beach, too, and enjoyed visiting tide pools left by unusually low tides.
[...]
…beat blogging!
Two and a half years ago, I started ranting on this site about the gross educational inequities in Portland’s public schools. This eventually got the attention of the local mainstream media and the greater school district community. I didn’t set out with a mission, [...]
As reported by Noel Sheppard:
The day before the House was to vote on a controversial energy bill destined to be the largest tax hike in American history, it was revealed that the Environmental Protection Agency had suppressed an internal report challenging the entire global warming myth. Despite the [...]
Come help tell Senator Wyden we want everybody in and nobody out!
Gather at the Federal Building (1220 SW 3rd Ave) at 11:45 to hear doctors, nurses and patients speak about our broken health care system and how we can fix [...]
…but at least he didn’t break any laws, at least not that he can be successfully prosecuted for!
WooT!
(Thank goodness for Adams that his paramour is a lying sack of you-know-what, and that there were no other witnesses. Else, things might have come out differently!)
Thanks for keeping Portland weird, Sam! [...]
The World, a cruise ship that has been converted to a cross between a Pearl district condo tower and the world’s largest SUV, has been moored downtown all week. With 165 multi-million dollar condo units, 270 crew members, five [...]
They just keep coming… we’re freezing, making jam, and eating fresh!
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Not a stork, a blue heron. Checking out their fish pond, no doubt.
Copyright © 2009 More Hockey Less War. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. [...]With all the hullabaloo surrounding our very own scion of a Bush crony begging public money for his private sports teams, and with the rump of Oregon’s infamous Goldschmidt gang doing his bidding, it sure is nice to have Amanda Fritz on the city council.
As reported in the [...]
Not a random grouping of letters.
Garden report:
weeded and thinned: beets, carrots harvested: the rest of the spinach, strawberries direct-seeded: pole beans, winter squash, zucchini transplanted: tomatoes, cuke, jalepeño pruned: Rose of Sharon confirmed: ladybugs released by junior yesterday are hanging out in the potatoes anticipating soon: raspberries, blueberries, new potatoes Copyright © 2009 [...]Dime Caridad
I don’t know what else to call this, especially after drinking one. Check it out:
1 pint frozen raspberries from last year’s harvest
3 ice cubes
3 shots vodka
4 fl. oz. club soda
3 T. sugar
Blend the hell out of it, and share it with your lover on the [...]
Poncho Sanchez at Montreux, 2004
Copyright © 2009 More Hockey Less War. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. [...]Ingredients
1 package rice noodles
chopped vegetables (onion, carrots, broccoli, etc.)
tofu or meat
oil for stir fry
Peanut sauce ingredients
4 t. oil
1/2 onion, minced
5-10 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 t. chili powder
2 T. sugar
2 T. rice vinegar
3 t. soy sauce
1 c. water
1/3 c. peanut [...]
Hey yins guys, I got more beer! (For my Pittsburgh family… go Pens!)
Word that Oracle will purchase Sun Microsystems may not seem to be of general interest, but it’s big news in the tech sphere. In my office, where we support Sun’s Solaris operating system, along with HP Unix, IBM’s AIX Unix, Linux and Darwin (Apple’s port of [...]
A wounded Sam Adams, aided only by an army of man-child soccer fans and erstwhile enemy Randy Leonard, has failed to “get things done” vis-a-vis demolishing the Memorial Coliseum to make way for patrician Merrit Paulson’s stunted sports dreams.
At one point, Adams said he would resign if he could [...]
Merit Paulson, millionaire son of Bush Treasury Secretary and former head of Goldman Sachs Hank Paulson, wants to tell us to do with our Memorial Coliseum.
Isn’t that cute.
Besides being insanely rushed, there are many reasons to oppose this absurd deal.
The Coliseum is a modernist masterpiece, [...]
One thing people conveniently like to forget in their fight for gay rights, they forget that what the gays really want is to clamp down and take away free speech rights for anyone who might dare to speak out against them ("Free speech for me, but not for thee"). This [...]
Action without spiritual vision gives rise to division.
Vision without action remains mere imagination.
Vision, however, with action becomes a means of peoples’ welfare,
As it brings about an inner transformation in them…
–Swami Tejomayananda
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I’ve been pretty hands-off on the new prez, at least publicly. But I keep asking myself a couple things. First, why they hell haven’t we nationalized the banking system yet? Second, why the hell isn’t Obama talking about single payer health care?
(Of course we knew ahead of [...]
This week’s celebrity slap-down between city commissioner Randy Leonard and county chair Ted Wheeler may signal the beginning of the end of an era in Portland development. (Warning: wonkishness ahead.)
First, let’s talk about how urban renewal, a.k.a. Tax Increment Financing (TIF), is supposed to work (and [...]
Portland City Council is approving the MLS deal today without $15 million in urban renewal funding, but not without some first-class fireworks between commissioner Randy Leonard and county chair Ted Wheeler. Dan Saltzman introduced the amendment removing the $15 million, then voted yes on the amended measure, along with [...]
I eat lunch most every day at an Indian grocery near my office. Since they’ve got B4U Music on the big screen, I can’t help but associate Bollywood and cholle.
And let me tell you, nothing tastes better than some good Indian food after a vigorous game of [...]
Per Terry’s request, more harmony (Lion Song by Jay Harden):
As for “more bass”, maybe it’s your computer speakers. The recording engineer thought we mixed the bass too high!
Copyright © 2009 More Hockey Less War. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only.From the Left Coast Sports Babe, with a tip of the hat to Greg Drinnan’s Kamloops, B.C. based Taking Notes:
Barack Obama took his first foreign trip to Canada this past week. He said in a speech there that he expected to fix the U.S. economy, bring the [...]
Just before I moved to Oregon from the broad American prairie, I was playing bass in a band called Totem Soul. We earned enough money playing in college bars to pay for three days in a professional recording studio (this was before the age of [...]
Sir! No Sir!, the suppressed story of the GI movement to end the war in Vietnam, is being screened this Saturday as a benefit for the Portland Central American Solidarity Committee’s anti-war delegation to Venezuela.
Details:
Saturday February 28 Doors open at 5:30pm Event begins at 6pm Limited seating - Tickets: [...]What else can you say when your new mayor is sidelined on the top two items on his 100 days plan: first education, and now economic development?
Even while many local politicos cower quietly in fear of retribution from a wounded and cornered Sam Adams (and his sycophants repeat the [...]
News that the state of Oregon is considering reinstating the teaching license of an admitted serial child sex abuser is weird enough. But it gets weirder.
Roberta Weber, cited in the O as someone “who directed hard-of-hearing education and other special education programs in Portland for years”, defended the former [...]
I’ve promised a post on Portland’s collective extended adolescence, but somebody beat me to it (don’t worry, I’ve still got a thing or to to add to the conversation). Adrienne calls it Peter Pan Syndrome (PPS). Here’s a mature 25-year-old’s take on some of the 40-something behavior she observes [...]
First off, I friggin’ love Portland, so don’t give me that hater bullshit.
Now that I’ve got that out of the way, let’s cut to the chase: Portland is over-the-top passive aggressive.
It manifests in traffic, politics and inter-personal relationships. At the grocery store. At work. In lines. At concerts, sporting [...]
Copyright © 2009 More Hockey Less War. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only.I was a lesser incarnation of myself when I stumbled upon the Oracle. But this was not clear at the time, obviously.
We were in a labyrinth, we being me and some other, whose identity also was not clear at the time, when we came across him.
“You could have left when [...]
Some of the prudes, Victorians and hypocrites, who, as evidenced by their statements, obviously want to turn back the clock on sexual liberty:
The editorial board of Just Out: “By his own admission, by committing the act of lying to the citizens of Portland, Adams has failed to show the [...]Forwarded from the community:
Thursday, January 29th, 7:15pm. PSU Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 101
Are you outraged at Israel’s war path through Gaza? Who wouldn’t be at the senseless destruction, loss of innocent life, the targeting of schools and mosques, the use of horrific chemical weapons [...]
That’s how Commissioner Randy Leonard describes Mayor Sam Adams, who declared today that he will soldier on as mayor, shortly after the Oregonian broke the news that his relations with Beau Breedlove were closer to the thin blue line than previously reported.
Adams should understand that his political future [...]
Say what you will about Sam Adams, he’s got a lot of friends and supporters. I have never been one of them; I’ve always considered Adams to be overly-motivated by personal ambition, and in the pocket of Portland’s real estate developer mafia.
So I see this scandal in the light [...]
I should be thrilled, as an atheist, to be on President Obama’s short list: “Christians and Muslims. Jews and Hindus — and non-believers.” Seriously. For all the God goin’ around today (some of it a tad — ahem — intolerant), I was surprised to get an [...]
…it’s the cover-up.
Also, it’s not about sex, it’s about power.
Randy Leonard says this wouldn’t be an issue if Adams weren’t gay.
Evidently, he never heard about “that woman.”
That’s all I’ve got to say about it for now.
Copyright © 2009 More Hockey Less War. This Feed is for [...]There are about 2% of Americans who are homosexual or gay and lesbian people. We should not let 2% of the population change the definition of marriage.
This is not even just a Christian issue. It’s a humanitarian and human issue.
–Pastor Rick Warren, in support of California’s Prop. 8
Clinton waited [...]
I do not determine what is right and wrong by looking at the budget of my organization or by taking a Gallup poll of the majority opinion. Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
–Martin Luther King, Jr., [...]
On the day that Portland’s seventh-ever woman city commissioner was sworn in, Anna Griffin ran a non-apology in The Oregonian for once (or was it twice?) having called then-candidate Amanda Fritz “shrill.”
Fritz objected to this, naturally, as sexist (how many times [...]
It’s a well known fact around Portland that an inch of snow can shut the town down. So what happens when we get a series of storms over two weeks dropping over a foot of [...]
(The cat won.)
A couple variations on kid favorites for the grown-ups for Nan who was expecting drink recipes from Wacky Mommy.
Snow SnakeAdd a shot of schnapps to a cup of hot cocoa. Top with a mountain of whipped cream. Drizzle a line of creme de [...]
We got another inch or so last night, with the big blast still pending… 6-10″ predicted for the valley floor, over a foot for the gorge (and tons more for the mountains).
With Amanda Fritz poised to be sworn in January 3 as a pioneer in Portland’s public campaign financing, voter owned elections (VOE) skeptic Jack Bogdanski threw some red meat to his libertarian right readers last week.
Bogdanski simply notes the amount of public money spent, $482,227.79, which is enough to [...]
One of the scarier trends over the past few years in legal issues has been hate crimes legislation. To me, it's totally unnecessary, and is nothing more than liberal's way of silencing any opposition to them, bit by bit. The reason it's such a crock is that if two people [...]
I saw this article today and just had to post it. You know this is something the Fish Wrapper would never report on, because it might tell the truth about Obama. As reported by Warner Todd Huston:
Naturally, the U.S. media is following the terrorist crimes in Mumbai, India, as well [...]
Obama’s selection of Paul Volcker and Austan Goolsbee to head his economic team says it all.
Volcker, Fed chairman under Carter and Reagan, is the architect of modern fiscal policy (”monetarism”) that manipulates interest rates (that is, the supply of money) as a tool to control growth and inflation (vs. the [...]
Maybe it’s the economy. Or maybe it’s just the way evil do-gooders do business. But have you ever seen a five-page application (PDF) to work in a coffee shop?
Besides the usual work history and contact information, they want you to write a short essay about why you want to [...]
