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Re: “Burgerville”
I loved Burgerville's old halibut fish and chips, but I will never order their new product again. I'm still trying to forget the nasty taste of it a day later. It used to be that they cooked it after you ordered it. Now they are preheated and sitting around waiting and getting dry, and they are just fancy fish stix, not the product they were selling a year ago by a long shot. The price is still high though. Honestly, a McDonalds filet-o-fish is usually quite a bit better that what I picked up from them yesterday, and McDonalds is serving pollock.
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Re: “Saltzman Suspends Chasse Cop For Beanbag Shot On 12-Year-Old Girl, Updated With Video”
In the video it looks like Humphreys was walking around with the shotgun looking for an opportunity to use it, and he got it. His partner was holding onto the girl while Humphreys stood back, aimed and shot her.
Re: “Saltzman Suspends Chasse Cop For Beanbag Shot On 12-Year-Old Girl, Updated With Video”
If bad cops were held responsible for their actions, it would cause a morale problem among all the other bad cops in the Portland police department.
Re: “How Can Progressive Portlanders Accept Racism?”
Atomic, pretty much whatever you do to a neighborhood that upgrades that area is part of the gentrification process. That area becomes more desirable, housing prices rise. For someone who makes very little, if rent were to go up even a little, they will move.
It's hard to believe that the Mercury staff and readers are trying to find a way to keep the races segregated and setting up schools and infrastructure for them that is separate but equal, but that is exactly what they are pushing. Trying to create a prosperous city within a city for our black folk sounds wrong because it is wrong.
Integration is happening all by itself, which is a positive process. If you want to improve opportunities for people at lower incomes, then fund our education system and promote job growth.
Re: “How Can Progressive Portlanders Accept Racism?”
The Mercury staff is schizophrenic on this issue. Today the problem is "failed attempts of integration and desegregation." Another day the problem is "loss of traditional black neighborhoods," also known as segregation. Next you rail against gentrification. A day later the call goes out to invest urban renewal dollars in improving poor neighborhoods, promoting gentrification.
Re: “Monogamy Isn't Realistic”
Advice from Dan Savage on how to be manogamous is as valid as advice from Sarah Palin on how to be gay.
Re: “Good Morning, News!!”
Merritt Paulson's Stadium plans prominently display the title "phase 1." Is "Phase 2" the roof over the stadium, or is that planned for later in the publicly funded sports enterprise extortion game?
Re: “Leonard: May Kill MLS Over Paulson Remarks”
A race track in Boardman? Will enough fans make the commute from Hermiston to make that pencil out?
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