Oh, a tiny little bit more bad news about the Tea Party music. Dave Box got one of the song titles wrong.

Don McLean did "American Pie"(as far as I know, Don Henley hasn't covered it). Did you perhaps mean "End of the Innocence", which would be amusingly ironic from that crowd?
And I'd tell Tom Petty about them using his song...Tom would probably sue their hermetically-sealed white asses.

Don Henley didn't do "American Pie" and "democrat" is not an adjective.

"The Democratic Party of Oregon's ball, over at the Portland Hilton, charged $4.25 for soda"

IT'S POP!!!!!! This isn't California.

Um......... I grew up here, and I'm pretty sure it's soda. Sorry dude....

Looks like the STUPID ASSHOLES in this state made sure that M73 passed & M74 failed. Thanks alot, fuckers! More prisons to lock up sick pot smokers, just what OR needs...

Dear outraged Don McLean fans! Thanks for altering us to the error in attributing the classic "American Pie" to Don Henley. Clearly we are not true Americans. The error has been fixed and Dave Bow has been flayed.

MY hot button issues lost, I'm pissed, everyone else is stupid.

Seeing as how Multnomah County is going to stop prosecuting dozens of crimes, such as "addicts caught with small amounts of drugs such as heroin, cocaine or meth; first- or second-time shoplifters caught stealing anything worth less than $250; suspects who resist arrest, or who run away from police officers; drivers who hit and run, as long as they have insurance", I fail to see how most of Oregon can enforce M73 pandering BS measure.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.s…

@whahappen: I always hear one or the other here, usually soda. But if I were writing this back where I grew up, in Chicagoland, I totally wudda said POP.

I'm curious as to why The Portland Mercury placed Measure 74 losing under "Bad News" since the editorial board urged a "No" vote on the measure. If you recommend that your readers vote "No" and it loses, shouldn't the loss be placed under "Good News?" Luckily, for Multnomah County residents and other progressives, Measure 74 was on the ballot and helped get out the vote in progressive strongholds, helping John Kitzhaber barely defeat Chris Dudley.

"our national Democrat leadership"

So you change the Don MacLean reference but you leave in this stupid rightwing idiocy? You are aware of course that using the word "democrat" as an adjective is a kind of subversive code among the far right, kind of like a Masonic handshake --if the Masons still ran the country and were petulant retards.

Or maybe a better analogy is to the raised fist salute that lefties used to use during the five minutes back in the 70s when black nationalism was trendy.

Anyway, you know what I'm saying. It makes it sound like Denis Theoraiualt is passing little coded messages to Cheney and Pat Robertson, and the meaning is clear: 'I'm here writing "news" for this paper that only maintains a news section at all as an excuse to sell ads for dominatrices, but it's just a ruse because it's a perfect spot to lay low and keep an eye on the fringe anti-American types. You give the signal and I'm ready to start icing all the libs, starting with Sarah Mirk.'

It's the way righties reveal themselves to each other without getting into it with the lefties, who presumably are too busy hugging trees and having gay sex to notice.

American pie is an awesome song.Tom would definately sue for using his song.About 4 million for not legalizing cannabis and 3 and a half million for it in California.Not bad.Full legalization is around the corner.Patience.

Smirk can't handle erroring?How surprizing.Gonna kick me off the site if I criticize you or your staff like you stiffs did on blogtown?Yep probably.Just because the song is called American Pie don't mean its exclusive to Americans or any pollitical party.Its about changing times and reflection.Is Smirk American?Fuck I dont know but I'm placing my bet on her being a Nazi reborn.Got a meat map?Smirk got plenty of grissle.Right pinky out while you sip now.

So looking over the election results posted in the Oregonian this past Sun. i see that ALL the canidates who won (or were re-elected) to various state-wide offices were either Democrats or Republicans.

Looking at just the numbers, i see that ALL canidates who were afiliated with [other] parties other than Dem or Rep recieved votes in just single digits. 1% mostly.

I pretty-much voted Independent, [Pacific] Green Party, or Working Families Party down the line, b/c THEY were the ones that made the most sense. Canidates from THESE parties were talking about pulling troops out of both Iraq & Afghanistan, ending "free trade" agreements imposed by the WTO, imposing BALANCED trade tariffs on imports, reducing funding to the Dept. of Defense/Perpetual War, making America a manufacturing base once again, etc. You know, what some folks would consider "radical".

Folks all over this country SAY they want "change", but they really don't. There's been all this "anti-incumbent" hysteria, so all the brain-washed idiots replace their Dem incumbents with Republicans/Teabaggers... what a fucking joke. And when these assholes fuck things up on a massive scale, like we all know they will, then folks will get fed up with them & 2 - 4 years from now there will be a Democratic wave [once again].

All the fucking dumb-asses want to beat everyone else over the head about voting. People love to say, "If you don't vote you can't complain" - which i think is just horseshit. Thing is, as long as everyone is willing to keep playing this game of ping-pong b/t the two major parties, how the Hell can we ever expect anything to be different???

I'm not from California. I'm anti-pop, pro-soda.