News, articles and comment:
 What do the tea parties want?
Basically, they want choice. Say, this ...
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instead of this ...
Or, it might be a choice about whether or not the U.S. Government should run multi-trillion-dollar deficits. Or does or doesn't spend your money rehabilitating minarets (mosque architectural components) in nations who harbor terrorists who want to kill every Jew in Israel. Or, if you are a Catholic, whether or not your government uses your money to pay for "free" abortions under the auspices of a socialized medicine program.
It's quite simple, actually. Conservatives and Libertarians want freedom. Liberals (progressives) want to own everything and everybody, like a medievil monarch. The word "progressive" means "change," and implies change in a "forward" direction. Change to what, you ask? You'd like to know just what a progressive means by forward? Well a different U.S. Constitution, for a start. For example, they would like to have a nation which practices massive redistribution of income. Taking from those who earn a living, then giving the money to those who don't.
The government would be the "agent" here, taking a comission for transferring the funds.
So, you say, "There's no compassion in giving away other people's money. What do liberals get for doing it?" My response? "Votes." The aquisition of power. (LL/OrMag)
Tea Party Beginnings and Endings
(OMED: The link above will take you to an essay by Art Hyland of Astoria, Oregon. This is part one of two or three connected essays. In places, this first piece is lyrical. It sings a song verging on the poetic. In the vernacular, it fairly rings with personal, human truth.)
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And, now, for something entirely different ...
 Local Columnist Launches Collection of His Opinions
Oregon Magazine's Editor, Fred Delkin, is a master of the arts of the grape. One of the founding members of the Oregon Wine Advisory Board, and fomer owner of Jake's Crawfish restaurant in Portland, Fred for years did not respect the man discussed in this piece. Praise from one's enemy is rare, indeed.
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(A holdover from recent issues)
Fred Likes the Tesla (A snazzy electric car. $109,000, batteries included)
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The
News Desk: (updated every now and then)
National:
DEFICIT
ADDS
$165,040,000,000.00
--
IN
ONE
MONTH!
US
posts
widest
trade
gap
in
20
months...
'Hindenburg
Omen'
Senses
Stock
Gloom...
DEBT
SOARS
TO
HIGHEST
LEVEL
SINCE
WWII...
California
jobless
rate
hits
modern
record
at
12.6%...
GREECE
CUT
TO
JUNK...
Oregon: (X-Links, mostly from
OrBusMax)
TAX
$
AT
WORK:
"Port
of
Portland's
new
Shangri-la
headquarters
out
at
the
airport
cost
$425 a square foot to build. And they're shooting for $420
a square foot for the new City of Portland-PSU "sustainability
center"...
WHAT BUDGET CRISIS?
WHAT BAD ECONOMY? City of Portland employees on track to get another
holiday, the day after Thanksgiving...
PORTLAND
has
nation's
first
quick-charge
station;
Electric
vehicles
charge
to
80-percent
of
full
power
within
20 to 30 minutes...
MORE TAX $ AT WORK:
ICE holding cells on Portland waterfront?...
A
Job
Market
Still
In
Decline:
A
Government
Still
In
Growth
Drudge Report (Headlines
from everywhere)
| OrBusMax (Lots of PacNW
news)
| Fox News Headlines
|
Breitbart's Current Stuff
| The Daily Caller
| Metro Weather
(KPTV 7 Day projection)
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State of the States review:
Present state of the economy: (X-Links)
Social Security in red for first time...
New
claims
for
jobless
benefits
jump... Impoverished
City
To
Close
All
Libraries... (We
wonder
what
projects they aren't shutting down.)
KUDLOW:
Panic
at
White
House
over
stalled
economy...
Present state of "Climate Change:" (X-Links)
Argentina Has Colder Winter Than Antarctica, Spurring Record Power Use Cold kills 6 million fish, 1000s of alligators, dolphins...
Massive ice chunk breaks off Greenland glacier... (Note: ice chunks break off growing glaciers, not shrinking glaciers, as a rule.)
UN panel: New taxes needed for climate fund...
NOAA: EARTH TEMPS 'HOTTEST ON RECORD'...
Meteorologist disputes: Weather stations
placed in warmer urban areas...
SURPRISE: Pacific islands defy sea level predictions; Islands stable or growing..
Global cooling is coming, top scientist says...
Top Climate Scientist Under Fire for 'Exaggerating'
FOXNEWS Catches Gore: 'What is your reaction to Arctic ice increasing?'
Present state of ObamaCare:
Nothing new here, this month. States are challenging the federal government. There are lawsuits and state executive obstructions popping up everywhere. The polls show that a majority of we the people think socialized medicine is a bad idea, plus this particular act is un-constitutional.
OBAMA NOW DEFENDS HEALTH INSURANCE MANDATE AS A TAX...
Texas doctors threaten to pull out of Medicaid...
IRS's vast new ObamaCare powers... Obesity Rating 'for Every American by 2014'...
Doctors Sue to Overturn the Health Care Bill (A news release from the AAPS)
The Yellow Brick Road to OzbamaCare
Art Hyland's Corner:
(Art's piece about the Tea Parties is up above -- a feature article)
Recent columns by Art:
A Liberal World Exposed (Welcome to "JournalList" dot com)
Socialism: A World of Proof (Karl Marx would be delighted.)
Listen up Children: Government is Talking
Oregon & California's Google formula
Barber's Baliwick:
The Face of Hate Barney and Barack's anti-religion agenda (X-link: Matt's mid-April Washington Times Column) Related story: Federal Judge Rules Day of Prayer Unconstitutional
Barack Obama: Enemy Within
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Fishsciencefiction serialization completed:
Chapter One | Chapter Two | Chapter Three | Chapter Four |
Chapter Five | Chapter Six | Chapter Seven | Chapter Eight |
Chapter Nine Chapter Ten | Chapter Eleven
Chicago reviewer said, "If after reading a few pages you aren't
giggling, you're a candidate for an autopsy."
Books and stories:
The Wisdom of Wooden
America's Greatest Coach Leaves Written Legacy
by Fred Delkin
Who was the first black Speaker of the House of Representatives? Who rewrote the history texbooks so you would never even know there was one? (x-link)
Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black and White
(OrMag has done work in this area: Ken's "Congress"
is a fine example of that.)
Held over >> Delkin reviews a book about the gigantic climate scam:
 Global Warming? Author Debunks Current Claims
Amid all the political excitement being stirred up by President Obama's 'Cap & Trade'measure he wants to shove through Congress, a new book, Climatism, by Steve Goreham, should be read as a complete discussion of the science, politics and the energy policy implications of the global warming debate. Goreham, an engineer with an MBA from the University of Chicago,asks very pertinent and informed questions.
Book Review Archives
Activity Articles: Getting to the bottom of "Bottom Fishing" | The Subject was Crabs | Surfing for Perch (From the archives: Winter or summer, fun for beach boys) | When to Jump Out of an Airplane
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Fun With Science:
(x-links)
Scientists
find
sea
sponges
share
human
genes...
Robot expresses and detects emotions...
Physicist Stephen Hawking: Abandon the Earth!
Life on Earth wiped out every 27 million years
(we've got 16 million to go)...
Russia earmarks $800 million for new spaceport...
A
paper
by
Chris
Impey:
Forget
man-made
threats
--
catalyst
for
apocalypse
will
come
from
outer
space...
Asteroid
makes
historic
return
to
Earth...
World's
biggest
radiotelescope
launched
in
Netherlands...
NASA
ends
plan
to
put
man
back
on
Moon...
A
third
of
Mars
'once
covered
by
ocean'...
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Staff Columns:
Feature E-RFD: Exercise for
the Elderly
Note: E-RFDs are messages that circulate around the internet. Some are factual and some are mythical. We make no distinction between the types, here, but rather offer them pretty much as they come in -- as examples of comment and rumor from a global mind.
"Survivor- Eastern Oregon Style" | Costco Drugs: Unbelieveable | E-RFD Archives
Impure Politics:
"Now, just why in the HELL
do
I have to press '1' for
English?"
"The only thing
necessary for the triumph
of
evil is for good men
to do nothing"
-- Edmund Burke
(X-links)
Mid-Term Election Draws Near: What Conditions Are
Shaping the Body Politic?
Federal
workers
earning
double
their
private
counterparts...
Boy
Scouts
boo
Obama...
White
House
spokesman
says
critics
of
Obama
'ought
to
be
drug
tested'...
UN:
Eat
bugs
to
save
the
planet!
Missing
chef's
body
found
stuffed
in
freezer...
Past, Present and Future Misc >>>>>>>>
Conservatives Now Outnumber Liberals in All 50 States, Says Gallup Poll... (x-link) | Billions in aid go to areas that backed Obama in '08... (X-link) | Iran could have atomic bomb within 6 months... (x-link) | From July's American Thinker: America's Socialist Past (X-link) | When did the lowbrows take over the culture? | Oregon's Hidden Sales Tax (Some basic economic realism for the envious.) | Obama's Angel of Death | A Time To Wonder About Direction | George Will: The Toxic Assets We Elected... (X-link: A rocker made of logic and good writing.) And, another hottie by George: 03/29/09 (Can congress violate constitutional "Separation of powers?") | Specter to oppose 'card check,' says conservative group... (X-link) Maybe. He's a Democrat, now.) | Citizens Against Government Waste (x-link to humorous tales about pork) | Bailouts: FORD SAYS 'NO THANKS' | Speaking of health care: Suppressed
WHO Report Secondhand Smoke Doesn't Cause Cancer
Poland's Lech Walesa's Warning for America...
Ancient History: Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine...
OrMag
Co-publisher Reacts To "Gay" Press Release (Just to make things clear)
<>
Are
you a Democrat, a Republican or a Southerner? <>
Extreme Rights Archives (Gay
ways)
The 50 Richest Members of Congress (If you ain't a millionaire when you reach Congress, you soon will be. It's just a co-incidence, of course.)
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Media: (Some local, some X-links)
The state-controlled national media coverage of the
Glen Beck late August gathering at the Lincoln Memorial was either
non-existent or total garbage. Predictions of Nazi-like signs and
violence were wrong. Predictions of racist rhetoric were
wrong. Predictions of low turnout were wrong (more than 400,000
people attended). Now, some Oregon items we got from OrBusMax.
WHAT NORTHWEST MEDIA BIAS?
THOM HARTMANN: It's Time for Gay 'Reparations'...
SEATTLE WEEKLY: "Ann Coulter is the human equivalent
of a weeping, pus-filled sore located deep in the diseased rectum of
Adolf Hitler's rotting corpse..." and will be appearing at "National
Convention of Self-Loathing Homosexuals..."
WASHINGTON
POST Ignores
Own
Poll
Findings:
58%
Want
Smaller
Gov't,
Fewer
Services... FOX is
Eating MSM for
Lunch: 1/11/2010
Roger
Ailes
the
'most
successful
news
executive
of
last
10
years'... 1/14/2010 FOXNEWS
Ailes
says
he's
not
going
anywhere,
and
NEWS
CORP.
President
concurs...
Historical
Observations:
Roosevelt
or Reagan? USA Needs to Choose
Social
Security:
The Dirty
Little Secret | Where
is the Social Security Trust Fund, and Why Didn't Hockberg and DeFazio
Reveal its Location to the People of Coos Bay?
(Who pays when you cash a government bond?)
Education:
The Hispanic
Education Myth
Race:
Ken's
"Congress" (So you contribute
to PBS?
Did you know you are buying lies?)
Fred's China
Triple Play: Shanghai
Visit Astounds Oregon Mag Editor
(China
trip
part
one) , Oregon Mag
Editor's
Shanghai Experiences Continued... (China
trip
part
two) ,
Ormag Editor
Experiences Globalization
First Hand
( China trip part three)
Dr.
Horton’s
History
Channel
History
of
Slavery
(A
lauded
black professor from a famous East Coast
American
university proves that he either doesn't know or doesn't like
certain
kinds of truth ) How
To Pick the Next President of the U.S.
| Blue
Oregon:
The Secular Theocracy | Complete
2005/2006 article archives 2007 lost in
crash Specific
Covers: Dec08
| Jan09
| Feb09
| Mar09 | April09
|
May09 | June09 | July09 | Aug09 | Sept09 | Oct09 | Nov09 | Dec09 | Jan10 | Feb10
| Mar10 | Apr 10
The Classics::
(Top Grade original works)
Ray Bradbury
|: Ken Kesey |: Oregon's
Racist History
| The
Alaska Airlines Eskimo
| La
Boheme | The
Town
Dump
Truck | Motown
Mouse | Jerusalem
| The Duck Hunter | Walt Morey
| A
Public
Comedy
of Errors |
The
Case of the Pickled Herring
| MacNeil Goldspit
and the K.K.K. Power Grab Caper | Friday
Night Legends & Small Town Heroes
| Oregon
School Funding Mess |
Ken's
"Congress" |
Black
Holes |
Science and
Creation
Myth | The
Genesis of the Universe | A
Woman of Her Times | Meet
Me in
Las Vegas,.Baby | Sesame
Street's
HIV-positive Muppet | Backroads
Beauty | Vintage Motorcycles |
Remembering
the “NAT” | E.T. Went Home?
Oregon
Connections: the Civil
War: a series by Randy Fletcher
The Minister and the General (Former Civil War Foes Meet Again in Corvallis)
Oregon Governor William Lord (Cold Beer and Civil War Memories)
The remarkable life of a Quaker Civil War Hero (A Quaker CMOH)
They Ran Down John Wilkes Booth (A beaut about two Oregon Civil War vets.)
Storming the Ramparts (Up close and personal with a blizzard of lead.)
A Forlorn Hope (An Oregon Civil War hero is remembered 100 years after his death )
How the Civil War Brought Wyatt Earp’s Brother to Portland (Before the O.K. Corral)
The Professors in Pickett’s Charge (War is an education in itself.)
The Forgotten Hero (Memories are made of stone.)
Reverend Daniel Drew of Portland (The rifle-packin' Reverend)
Colonel Isaac W. Smith (Portland’s Confederate Engineer)
Editorial
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| Poetry | Archives
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Government Waste
(Anti-pork people)
GovTrack (What's going on in the U.S.
Congress, these days.)
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Oregon Conservative (News/links/info
site)
Note: this one may be down. Our last
email
was rejected.)
Grassfire.org
(Where
conservative
voters
take
action
on
issues)
Informed
Voter (Current major
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