http://www.portlandmercury.com Comments On: Portland Mercury en-us Copyright 2013 Portland Mercury. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Portland Mercury readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Portland Mercury. webmaster@portlandmercury.com (Portland Mercury Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 25 May 2013 21:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by jamdox]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 20:38:15 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by j.cas]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 20:07:37 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by frankieb]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 20:02:58 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by j.cas]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 20:01:14 -0700 Portland Mercury Who cares about the march?
Posted by frankieb]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 19:43:58 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by frankieb]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 19:29:17 -0700 Portland Mercury I prefer not to know anything, or as much of nothing as possible, going into a film.
Sure, the Twist is a gimmick in there, often blunt or stupid, but I think the film-maker would prefer would like you to see it fresh too.
Posted by frankieb]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 19:28:09 -0700 Portland Mercury http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1123375…
Not safe, and the science SAYS so. Lies repeated long enough are still lies.
Posted by Homer]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 19:11:49 -0700 Portland Mercury
What a stupid, biased title. Yes, I'm sure the nation was riveted. How about this title instead:

"With the whole world (most of whom do not fluoridate) watching, Portland votes consistent with the majority - again."
Posted by Homer]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 19:08:47 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Ian Karmel]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 18:53:57 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by The Showstopper]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 16:56:23 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by The Showstopper]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 16:52:47 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by zeke_denaughty]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 16:33:31 -0700 Portland Mercury
If that's your thing than by all means give Baby Doll a try. If Chris says it's good then it's definitely worth a shot.
Posted by Gza1340]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 15:41:18 -0700 Portland Mercury
I guess the lack of diversity in Portland is the one thing that gets to me. It really just feels like well-to-do white people making decisions for well-to-do white people. I suppose there are worse things in life. At least many of the big decisions that get made here are made with the majority of people in mind.
Posted by Gza1340]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 15:22:59 -0700 Portland Mercury Oh, c'mon now Barbara.
And you call this misogyny?
You are really scraping the bottom of the barrel for stories, aren't you?
Posted by frankieb]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 14:46:43 -0700 Portland Mercury
Your translation of eprophet's comment seems to be right on, unfortunately. Most of us fellas are pretty pathetic and inconsiderate and childish when it comes to how we handle our fascination with the female form. We're such monkeys, and there's no getting around that fact, only some of us try not to let said monkeyness take the reins in most situations, like when we're supposed to be driving or when the feelings of the boob-havers are in play.

We have it pretty easy, us guys: Along with being able to piss while standing up, generally being stronger, generally getting paid better, and not having to suffer through menstruation, we also aren't immediately judged by our fuckability nearly to the degree that women are the second they step into public.
Posted by human in training]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 14:10:57 -0700 Portland Mercury
http://tonyortega.org/2013/05/25/jon-atack…
Posted by Ze Moo]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 13:36:05 -0700 Portland Mercury
Clearly you only read the first couple lines of my comment, otherwise you would've realized that i am quite far from being a "scientology sock puppet". Much like your skills at reading comprehension, i think Scientology is bullshit. My point was simply that it isn't alone in its realm of bullshitness, as it has great company with its pals Christianity, Judaism, Islam, etc., etc.

And are you seriously challenging my statement about the water-walking/talking, flaming foliage vs. spaceships/e meters thing? A couple of those things sound reasonable to you, do they? Are you one of those that thinks Jesus broke his mother's hymen on the way out of the womb and that all women are descended from some dude's rib, yet you dismiss as hogwash stuff that is just as outrageously and hilariously fictional simply because it's found in a book outside of the Bible?
Posted by human in training]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 13:18:39 -0700 Portland Mercury

This above is a standard line that scientology sock puppets use to distract. and it is BULL.
Posted by Suzanna Nielsen]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 12:49:56 -0700 Portland Mercury
They played fast and loose with the truth and with our democratic process: mischaracterizing studies (including last year's Harvard meta-analysis and the National Academy of Sciences' 2006 report...in both cases, the authors' own statements refuted what proponents were claiming researchers concluded);

exaggerating the scope and degree of the "dental health crisis" (to the point of conspiring to delay public disclosure of evidence contradicting their claims until after the vote);

employing technically accurate but misleading language in their rhetoric (e.g. "There is no evidence that fluoridation at optimum levels causes any harm", when, in practice, there is no way to ensure an "optimum" dose given individual variations and multiple other sources of exposure in the environment);

exploiting "poor kids" to stir up liberal guilt in favor of fluoridation (nevermind that decades of data from dozens of fluoridated cities show significant INCREASES in dental decay among lower-income children since fluoridation, and that the general consensus of researchers is that the REAL crisis is lack of access to basic, routine dental care...something every lower-income child in Portland already has through OHP);

and attempting an end-run around the public will and Portland's democratic process (conducting back-room deals with the City Council, virtually skipping the phases of scientific review and public input, and manipulating the timing of the petition period and election in ways they thought would work to their advantage).


NOW, they add insult to injury by slandering their victorious opponents as elitists with no concern for "equity" and/or simpletons driven by "fear" and incapable of comprehending the "complexity" of their arguments.

To top it all off, they insist "the fight isn't over", suggesting they have so little respect for the will of the majority (and a significant majority at that) that their plan is to just keep at it until they manage to cram fluoridation down our collective throats by any means necessary.


I will close with the words of Philippe Grandjean (senior author of the 2012 Harvard study) and Anna Choi (lead author of the study):

“Fluoride seems to fit in with lead, mercury, and other poisons that cause chemical brain drain. The effect of each toxicant may seem small, but the combined damage on a population scale can be serious, especially because the brain power of the next generation is crucial to all of us.” Grandjean

"These results do not allow us to make any judgment regarding possible
levels of risk at levels of exposure typical for water fluoridation in the U.S.
On the other hand, neither can it be concluded that no risk is present. We therefore recommend further research to clarify what role fluoride exposure levels
may play in possible adverse effects on brain development, so that future
risk assessments can properly take into regard this possible hazard."
Choi and Grandjean
Posted by Raven333]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 11:53:09 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by ill paxton]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 10:33:21 -0700 Portland Mercury
So, I hope you'll accept my apology and put the bitterness behind us.

M&A.
Posted by Maxims&Arrows]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 10:10:12 -0700 Portland Mercury
1. @hippo, There is no law that an employer can't act arbitrarily. Nearly the opposite is true: employers can't deliberately treat members of protected classes differently.

2. @Denis, I don't think Kruger posting a letter clearing him of harassment becomes itself harassment, nor does it rise to harassment just because Kruger wrote Galvan's name on it. He wasn't ordered to keep this secret, and her name has been public record for a long time - Galvan was certainly known as the complainant inside PPB.

That maybe changes if he'd e-mailed the letter to the entire Bureau, or did some larger-scale thing, but this is a pretty understated action for a guy who, in his spare time, builds Nazi shrines on public property.

The bottom line is that Kruger's a dick, but unfortunately in this case (and many others), it's not against the law to be a dick.
Posted by Commenty Colin]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 09:27:20 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Fletcher Lanning]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 08:52:59 -0700 Portland Mercury