News May 11, 2009 at 1:32 pm

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Clearly the coolist sort of job is one where you don't actually have to work at all, and prevail at the tippy top of any food chain is just the most scornful rebuke of the local media et al. Take it as a Gary Hart pledge - get on that plane to Belgium and observe his labors.

For we mortals there is Potato Champion @ www.potatochampion.com with rosemary truffle ketchup.
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Oh please. Was there no real news today, Matt?
Anyone who has ever attended a high- level conference understands that presenting information is only a small part of justifying why a conference is beneficial.
I looked at the conference sessions through your link and was surprised to see that Sam is the ONLY person from the US presenting at this international conference.
Have you neglected to read any of your paper's coverage about how Pdx is becoming a national leader in the biking economy?
Take down this ridiculous post, please. You look like a jerk.
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McPDX: I know from the Mercury's own demographic survey that half of their readers ride a bicycle regularly, and I would be very surprized if Matt doesn't know that.
http://post.portlandmercury.com/extras/pdf…
So you should just relax, this post is Matt trolling us.
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LOL. Biking economy. Stop, yer killin me.
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It does seem silly that the Mayor needs to go to this. Shouldn't someone in say transportation or "gasp" the Bike Alliance go to this. Judging from that pic last week of Adams on a bike. He don't know shit about them.
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Seriously if he was here we could totally get rid of the sit lie ordinance...I mean...we weren't talking about it last week were we? We didn't have the votes to get rid of it last week did we?

What?

We did? Oh yeah...Amanda Fritz wanted to talk about it some more.
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Helpful tip for Sam, re: age of consent in Belgium:

Age du consentement à l’acte sexuel
Dans la loi actuelle, pour tous les actes sexuels, sauf viol (14 ans), l’âge du consentement est fixé à seize (16) ans.
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Matt, are you going to tell your audience who is paying for this trip or is that too much to ask?
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Pour la clarification : Si je savais, je vous dirais. Mais je ne fais pas, ainsi je pas. Nous demanderons ses communications directeur, Roy Kaufmann.
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I have read that Velo City is paying for him to attend. I don't know the details so I don't know exactly what that covers.
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Oui mais on Europe les maires ne foutent pas les jeunes. Ils sont tous catholiques.
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Et le gens en Belge detestent les pedophiles, aussitot qu'ici.
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rawr do not post articles critical of our political leaders that is not what the press is for

when i support our leaders
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Kaufmann dit: "Sorry for the delayed response. Velo-City Conference organizers are paying for the majority of the cost for the mayor and the chief of staff. The third delegate from the city is paying out of his own pocket to attend. "

Please wait...

and remember to be decent to everyone
all of the time.

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