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Re: “Cop Union Running "No Confidence" Vote on Sizer And Saltzman”
I suspect that if you're thinking of a dainty little girl in a Bo Peep outfit with a pink bow in her hair, that's not how this girl presented herself. If you want to be treated like a 12 year old instead of a gangsta girl, dress that way! Actually, if you take a swing at a cop, and especially if it connects, I think being bean-bagged at close range instead of something more serious, like a few heavy whacks on the noggin with a club, is doing you a favor. When the parents fail the child in terms of instilling some civil behavior, too often it's left to the authorities.
Re: “Oregon Unemployment—Slightly Better, But People Are "Giving Up" Looking For Work”
Actually, what will happen as the economy improves for business is this (think about it): during the downturn businesses have learned to do more with less, by paying fewer employees than before to work some overtime, by analyzing their workflow and streamlining it, by buying from suppliers who themselves are making similar economies.
In other words, even when the economy improves, a lot of those jobs aren't coming back.
It's really time for the American people to get used to some socialism rather than get used to huge numbers of impoverished unemployed, many of them resorting out of necessity to criminal activities.
Re: “$$s & Sense: OLCC Ponders Looser Happy Hour Laws”
What do we need an OLCC for anyway? Their purpose seems to make life inconvenient for bar operators and patrons by issuing ridiculous and frivolous rules. Aren't they the ones who tell us that in a stripper bar an 18 year old girl can display her junk 2 feet from my face but she can't drink a beer in the same establishment? They treat us like children. It's time to give them the boot.
Re: “TriMet Axes Free Bus Service from Fareless Square”
Let me comment as someone who lives downtown and does just about everything downtown. Normally, I take a bus from the far north end of the transit mall into town. I go into town to bank, buy prescriptions, and occasionally to see a movie. I sometimes go into town once in the morning and once in the afternoon. I live on a small income. I guess I'll just ride my bike now instead of paying $2 or $4 a day just to go 15 or 20 blocks.
Re: “50 Pounds of Pure Junk”
Oh, fuck off all you anti-business asswipes. You buy a fucking magazine and ignore almost all the ads in it and for that you pay $4.95 or something. At least "junk mail" you can ignore for free. Get a brain and use it.
Re: “Sullivan on Torture”
The fact is, torture can work. Yes, if you know what you want someone to say, you can torture them until they say it, but if you're trying to get information out of someone, torture can actually accomplish that. Of course you verify what you learn and if they've lied, you torture them more/harder, but to say that torture doesn't work is silly. It obviously can.
On the other hand, we don't want torture to be routine. But if the Obama Administration got wind of a plot to poison Portland's water or detonate a dirty bomb upwind of the city and 10's of thousands of lives were at stake, are you really so against torture that you wouldn't want some Jack Bauer type to do whatever it took to stop it, even if it involved torturing someone who's at war with us and could just as easily have been shot to death in battle?
Re: “Yao Coming”
I hear The Blazers have a plan to counter Yao Ming. I wonder if perhaps it might involve Jeff Gillooly and a police baton?
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