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This Week's KPOJ/Spanning the State Limerick Challenge

torridjoe torridjoe posted 9 hours ago from loadedorygun.net

  TJ and guest host Thom Hartman nearly ran out the clock on prose discussion of Oregon politics, so it's a short one today. (You can also play along with the "Lost Limerick Challenge" at p3 .)

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LoadedO's Weekly Segment on KPOJ, Monday 730AM

torridjoe torridjoe posted 17 hours ago from loadedorygun.net

 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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Merkley Meh on Medicare Buy-In; Is He Right to Complain?

torridjoe torridjoe posted 27 hours ago from loadedorygun.net

Haven't seen this come up in the OR blogosphere, although HuffingtonPost had a pretty up-front treatment of it and the Register Guard repeated the comments in a piece actually more about Ron Wyden--but while Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson discuss the new reform mashup bill to be unacceptable from ...

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Spanning the State: "Next year the door would be shut early"

torridjoe torridjoe posted 35 hours ago from loadedorygun.net

Following up on last week's StS , let's take another look at the urban/rural economic divide in Oregon.   Last week I mentioned reports showing that childhood poverty in Oregon varied widely but not randomly, ranging from 6-14% in the urban areas of northwestern Oregon, such as Lake ...

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Blazers LiveBlog! Tonight, 5pm vs Cleveland LeBrons...er, Cavaliers

torridjoe torridjoe posted 3 days ago from loadedorygun.net

Blazers v Cleveland LeBrons

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Things are tough all over

torridjoe torridjoe posted 3 days ago from loadedorygun.net

The things you find out when you show up at Drinking Liberally: Politico has an item on a recent awkward "no comment" moment from Oregon politics: All Dan Benjamin wants is his money. Benjamin, a contractor who owns Sundance Contracting, did some work in 2006 and 2007 for Michelle Wu, wife ...

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Volm Takes Up Wurster's Cudgel...So to Speak

torridjoe torridjoe posted 3 days ago from loadedorygun.net

As broken early on by Matt Davis at The Merc --in one of the longer comment threads in Blogtown history I'm sure, featuring a pretty grand extended personal meltdown--former City of Portland spokesperson Mary Volm will be throwing her hat into the ring for City Council, specifically Dan ...

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Testing, Testing: Facebook/Twitter Feeds Fixed?

torridjoe torridjoe posted 3 days ago from loadedorygun.net

Apologies for a post that is heavy on the meta, but if you've been seeing LO's links on your Facebook account or because you follow us on Twitter, you may have experienced the frustration of broken links--if you clicked on them, it would take you to LO...but to a broken page. We use Twitterfeed ...

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John Minnis, the Well-Practiced Sex Crimes Veteran (and Liar)

torridjoe torridjoe posted 5 days ago from loadedorygun.net

John Minnis....John...Minnis...gosh, where have I heard that name before? Oh, I know I'm hearing it now, along with the rest of you, as  the Attorney General's office has released the findings of its investigation into the (former) cop, (former) state legislator, and now (former) ...

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Portland, Portland Metro-West, and Vancouver Drinking Liberally meet this week

torridjoe torridjoe posted 6 days ago from loadedorygun.net

Here are the regular schedules for the DL chapters in the area, although you might want to check to see if they're having any special events or schedule changes for the holidays.  (Click on their link to join their email list.  To find the DL chapter near you--there are over 300 ...

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The Definitive Oden Reax

torridjoe torridjoe posted 7 days ago from loadedorygun.net

...is not going to come from Loaded Orygun. That's a job that was mostly being done while I was making my way back from the Garden Saturday night, stewing and just feeling a little sick. But for a story that carries national interest in the sports world, you might come across all kinds of ...

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This Week's KPOJ/Spanning the State Limerick Challenge

torridjoe torridjoe posted 7 days ago from loadedorygun.net

Special this week:  Hear Carl do an awesome sea lion impression!   (There are two more limericks waiting for you to play along with the "Lost Limerick Challenge" at p3 .)

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LoadedO's Weekly Segment on KPOJ, Monday 730AM

torridjoe torridjoe posted 7 days ago from loadedorygun.net

 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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Spanning the State: "The essential lifeline"

torridjoe torridjoe posted 8 days ago from loadedorygun.net

New federal data on childhood poverty in Oregon came out last week , and it's not pretty: Rates of childhood poverty vary tremendously around Oregon, with students in rural areas by far the most likely to live in impoverished households, according to new estimates by the U.S. Census ...

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Earl: Delaying Reform? Then No Public Health Care for YOU, Congressman!

torridjoe torridjoe posted 10 days ago from loadedorygun.net

Evoking a famous Seinfeld episode, today Congressman Earl Blumenauer has posted an open letter to his House colleagues via HuffPost and Kos, essentially telling them "No soup for you!" if they persist in attempting to delay health care reform for no other reason than to see it ...

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Jeff Kropf's Tweetocrisy

torridjoe torridjoe posted 12 days ago from loadedorygun.net

If you're not familiar with Oregon Republican Jeff Kropf, he's a seed farmer from Sublimity who was a relatively prominent member of the state House in the Legislature, until he decided that keeping his opponent from getting equal time while Kropf fulminated as Lars Larson's radio stand-in was ...

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Blazers LiveBlog! Tonight, 7pm vs Miami Heat

torridjoe torridjoe posted 13 days ago from loadedorygun.net

Blazers v Heat

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Kristof Makes Health Care Fight Personal, via Oregonians

torridjoe torridjoe posted 13 days ago from loadedorygun.net

Sunday's New York Times has another in a long series of winning columns by Oregon's own Nick Kristof, this time on the subject of health care.  Kristof's work for NYT is often a feature-political hybrid, attempting to take serious and weighty matters and express them through tales of the ...

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Les AuCoin Has Moved!

torridjoe torridjoe posted 13 days ago from loadedorygun.net

Noted Oregonian and former nine-term Congressman Les AuCoin, the man who flipped Oregon's 1st District (now held by David Wu) for the first time in state history, accomplished author and liberal activist, is moving! Well, not physically, and he's actually already moved...his blog. AuCoin and his ...

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Working Duck Wistfulness at ESPN

torridjoe torridjoe posted 13 days ago from loadedorygun.net

An amusing diversion for the mid-morning: saw this for the first time last night, and a Facebook friend shared it today to remind me of it. As an added Oregon-specific bonus, the clip was produced by hotshot ad agency Weiden + Kennedy . Working stiffs--human and otherwise--should be able to ...

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