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 17:00:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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 A hot chick to stare at is no excuse for holding people up to their destination.
Posted by frankieb]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 07:41:22 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Todd Mecklem]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 07:02:38 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Maxims&Arrows]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 07:00:33 -0700 Portland Mercury
I think the reason that spoilers for major events are not terribly devastating to most film goers is because they only spoil one or two of the surprises held in the plot. Things that are not generally spoiled are the arc of the characters, clever quotes, cool action scenes, or small but pivotal actions. Since any good film (hopefully) has several surprises, it can afford to lose one or two of them, because the rest of the narrative should still be surprising enough to be absorbing.

That said, I despise spoilers. The big twist or surprising development that everyone felt the need to reveal was intended by the filmmakers to communicate an extremely important message within the context of the film. By spoiling that major event outside of the film's context, it seems to remove any invitation to consider the meaning of it. For example, finding out that Darth Vader is Luke's father shatters Luke's (and our's) notion that Luke is absolutely good and infallible. We see that the potential for Luke to turn to the dark side is inside of him (as well as the potential for Vader to turn to the light side). This detail was spoiled for me long before I saw SW:ESB, and it was only recently that I reflected on what the scene meant in the context of what came before and after. I have often found that when a major scene is spoiled for me, I am removed from the narrative of the film and shocked back to reality as I recognize what was spoiled prior. This seems to disrupt my flow of the context of the film and I see the scene outside of the events, and it's later that I have to go back and figure out what the scene is meant to convey (and not just feel shocked by it).

TL;DR: a good film should be a series of surprises. Although any good film should be able to hold up as an absorbing film with one or two of its large surprises spoiled, we are being robbed of the delivery of an important message within the context of the film.
Posted by Shawn Mehess]]> Sat, 25 May 2013 06:59:37 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Cpt_Amurrica]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 23:42:24 -0700 Portland Mercury
Peter
Posted by PDXTeacher]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 23:23:26 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Tina Granzo]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 23:15:45 -0700 Portland Mercury
Any union contract that doesn't allow someone like Kruger to be fired is a bad contract, and offensive to the public.

The fact that forces deep within the police force have been leaking documents in order to help this guy is completely insane, and shows the Portland Police are rotten to the core.

Kruger pulled this latest stunt because he knows he's safe. The powers that be are on his side. Which means the department itself holds Nazi sympathies.

Bust their fucking union. They deserve worse.
Posted by jamdox]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 22:55:11 -0700 Portland Mercury
and really, holding up traffic to ogle women? and some of the comments that people left here sound eerily akin to comments about women dressing a certain way asking to be raped. like women are at fault for you douchers inability to contain yourself and your uncomfortable stares.
Posted by bort]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 22:26:35 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Gza1340]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 21:34:40 -0700 Portland Mercury