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loadedorygun.net - 11 hours ago
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The news of the morning, of course, is
the passage last night (by two votes, one of
whom was a Louisiana Representative who will shortly become the most primaried member of the Republican Party in the history of America) of the House version of the health care reform bill . The Oregon ...
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Spanning the State: "The most important single step in ...
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loadedorygun.net - 26 hours ago
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HR 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America
Act, passed the floor vote by 220-215 at a
few minutes after 8pm, Pacific Time, tonight. The Oregon delegation votes : Yes: Blumenauer, DeFazio, Schrader, and Wu. No: Walden (Flip those around, and you've got their votes for the ...
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HCR passes House 220-215: Oregon delegation splits 4-1
loadedorygun.net - 31 hours ago
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Carla at Blue Oregon has been on Kurt
Schrader (OR-5), who's been unwilling to say whether he'll
support the health care reform when it finally comes to a vote in the House, probably later this evening. While callers were getting through to DeFazio's, Wu's, and Blumenauer's offices in DC ...
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OR-5: Last Chance to Weigh in with Schrader on HCR
loadedorygun.net - 36 hours ago
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It's hard to get truly excited about the
fair-to-middlin' health care reform package now pending final debate
and a vote later today, because it really stood just a few cruel Blue Dog votes away from producing an ironically cheaper (and more effective) bill they couldn't support. Kurt Schrader ...
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Earl Signals Opposition to Stupak Abortion Amend; Vote ...
loadedorygun.net - 2 days ago
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Across Oregon, after the question "Should U of
O end up ahead of Boise if they both
win out" I'm sure the most popular sports fan worry is "WTF with the Blazers?" It's way early yet, and 2-3 is hardly a disaster--but there are some evil portents and recurrences of past problems that should ...
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Blaze?...Blaze! Someone Call 9-1-1! The Blazers Is Illin'!
loadedorygun.net - 5 days ago
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Today's Election Day across the country, such as
it is in Oregon with only local races on
the ballots in-state. But there's another one coming up in January that you may not be thinking about, and it's an important one--the key question will be an attempt at repeal of the tax fairness measures ...
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Measures 66/67, Explained in Pictures for Teabaggers
loadedorygun.net - 6 days ago
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The O gave some good pub this morning
to Basic Rights Oregon, the GLBT advocacy group who
have announced that they will be spending the next three years leading up to Election Day 2012 attempting to have Measure 36, "One Man One Woman," repealed. The ballot measure constitutionally limiting the ...
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BRO Brings in Heavy Hitter for Marriage Equality (w/ ...
loadedorygun.net - 6 days ago
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(Left wanting more? Play along with the "Lost
Limerick Challenge" at p3 , where you'll find two
more chances to match wits with Calliope, the muse of epic poetry--plus, we welcome our first U.S. congressman into the Hall of Political Poets.)
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This Week's KPOJ/Spanning the State Limerick Challenge
loadedorygun.net - 6 days ago
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Join TJ Monday @730 AM on KPOJ's Morning
Show with Carl Wolfson and Friends , on your
AM dial at 620, or via the web directly here or on your Iphone/3G/ITouch using the IHeartRadio app. That's producer Paul Pimentel on the left, Christine ...
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LoadedO's Weekly Segment on KPOJ, Monday 730AM
loadedorygun.net - 7 days ago
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Professional and serial abuser of Oregon's initiative system
Bill Sizemore is facing racketeering charges again . This
time, the OEA and AFT-Oregon are suing both Sizemore and his main sugar daddy Loren Parks for alleged campaign shenanigans: The unions claim Sizemore and Parks conspired to ...
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Spanning the State: "Those three shadowy figures"
loadedorygun.net - 9 days ago
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Discontinuity -- n. 1. Lack of continuity, logical
sequence, or cohesion. 2. A break or gap. Man,
that game was a mess. It was a game that by several metrics the Blazers should be ashamed to have lost, while by other metrics it's a wonder they were even in it to begin with. So the stats ...
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Continuity, Victory Flee the Garden: Nuggets 97, Blazers 94
loadedorygun.net - 11 days ago
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Update, 3pm-- well, thanks to a quick return
of my voicemail, we can correct this erroneous story
forthwith: according to Schrader spokesman James Atkin, the story I just reported is NOT accurate, and in fact the opposite is true; Schrader opposes Med +5 in favor of a negotiated rates option ...
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Updated: Schrader DOES NOT Support Med + 5% Public Option
loadedorygun.net - 12 days ago
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The Men of the Red and the Black
opened their 40th season this evening at the Rose
Garden, before a typically involved crowd whose emotions and outbursts paralleled the play: expectant and unsettled at first, excited and boisterous as the Blazers made their game changing run in the 2nd, ...
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Game Recap: Blazers 96, Rockets 87 in Blowout-Turned-Edgy
loadedorygun.net - 12 days ago
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The 2009-10 NBA season for the Portland Trailblazers
starts this evening at the Rose Garden, with the
Houston Rockets providing the opposition. A special (if somewhat bittersweet) welcome back to Martell Webster, who will start at the 3-hole for the injured Nic Batum, who looks to be out until ...
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RIP CITY! Season Starts Tonight--Welcome Back, Martell!
loadedorygun.net - 13 days ago
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Big, huge, MAJOR news from the Senate: The
public option lives. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)
announced Monday that the bill he will bring to the Senate floor will include a public health insurance option that individual states could decline to participate in. "The public option, ...
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PUBLIC OPTION IS IN! Merkley Releases Statement on ...
