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Blazers Update: Concerns Aside, Room for Optimism at the Q-Pole

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

For any true Blazer fan, it was a harsh weekend of reality: think your team is the Lakers or the Celtics--or even the Hawks or Nuggets--this year just by fiat of the calendar? The natural outcome of added pounds and maturity on the players, and some vague belief that the NBA universe follows ...

torridjoe posted 12 hours ago from loadedorygun.net

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This Week's KPOJ/Spanning the State Limerick Challenge

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:51:26 +0000

Special this week--show-stopping dancers and naughty inside jokes! (Left wanting more? Who wouldn't be? Play along with the "Lost Limerick Challenge" at p3 .)

torridjoe posted 16 hours ago from loadedorygun.net

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LoadedO's Weekly Segment on KPOJ, Monday 730AM

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:08:48 +0000

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 ...

torridjoe posted 25 hours ago from loadedorygun.net

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Spanning the State: Old media/New media

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:31:22 +0000

Item 1: I was in downtown Portland (on the east side--that becomes important) to hear live music last night, and the people who were in the bar were, for a time, living in totally different worlds, depending on what media they were plugged into at the moment. If you were watching the TV, ...

torridjoe posted 33 hours ago from loadedorygun.net

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Rev. Currie in Theo-Political UCC Internet Tussle

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

I admit I'm watching all of this from the sidelines, but it's fascinating: unbenknownst to me, the right wing trash rag American Spectator features a blog by former Reagan political director Jeffrey Lord. Furthermore, this longtime conservative critic is actually a member of the same religious ...

torridjoe posted 3 days ago from loadedorygun.net

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The Stillborn Gubernatorial Campaign Announcement

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:15:34 +0000

I get the feeling he thinks he's capitalizing on a tea party zeitgeist of which he would be a natural leader, and he must seize the moment personal circumstances be damned--but this is really not a good way to announce your candidacy for governor: Sizemore filed Monday to seek the Republican ...

torridjoe posted 7 days ago from loadedorygun.net

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Blazers LiveBlog! Tonight, 7pm vs Chicago Bulls

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:44:23 +0000

Blazers v Bulls

torridjoe posted 7 days ago from loadedorygun.net

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This Week's KPOJ/Spanning the State Limerick Challenge

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:55:58 +0000

Special this week--know your species: kids versus chickens, coyotes versus wolves! (Left wanting more? Play along with the "Lost Limerick Challenge" at p3 .)

torridjoe posted 7 days ago from loadedorygun.net

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Webster Disarms 3-Guard as Blazers Feast on Wolfmeat: 106-78

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:00:00 +0000

With an aerial bombardment worthy of Sarah Palin, a suddenly rejuvenated Martell Webster and the rest of the Blazers went Wolf-hunting on a reliably bad Minnesota team that has now provided 30% of Portland's wins this season, blowing them out this time by the greatest margin at 28, ...

torridjoe posted 7 days ago from loadedorygun.net

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LoadedO's Weekly Segment on KPOJ, Monday 730AM

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:46:58 +0000

torridjoe posted 8 days ago from loadedorygun.net

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Spanning the State: Good news and bad news

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:11:51 +0000

The good news: Oregon's unemployment rate appears to have leveled off . The bad news: It's leveled off at 11.2%. The good news: Oregon's unemployment rate in May was 12.2% The bad news: The national unemployment rate is 10.2%. The good news: Oregon's state economist says the ...

torridjoe posted 8 days ago from loadedorygun.net

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Wyden's Hostage Siege on HCR Ends; Reid Agrees to "Free Choice"

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:22:19 +0000

As you may have heard, Senate leadership have agreed to support a scaled-down version of Ron Wyden's "Free Choice Amendment," which would attempt to open up health exchanges to those who currently have employer-based health care, but would wish to switch: As part of an agreement hashed ...

torridjoe posted 10 days ago from loadedorygun.net

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Tax Fairness Opponents Get Double-Blow from Courts on Ballot Titles

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:07:37 +0000

It's not been a good week for those who are trying to build opposition to the tax fairness bills passed in the Leg last year and now referred to January's ballot. In two separate rulings at both the lowest and highest levels of Oregon's court system, teabagging plaintiffs who had sued for a ...

torridjoe posted 11 days ago from loadedorygun.net

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Live Blog with OLCV's Isaacs on M66/67, NOW!

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:12:04 +0000

A quickie: right now (4pm) the new head of the Oregon League of Conservation Voters, Jon Isaacs--late of the victorious Merkley for Senate campaign--is conducting a live blog on Measures 66 and 67. Why would an environmental advocacy concern take the time to talk about tax fairness? Isaacs ...

torridjoe posted 11 days ago from loadedorygun.net

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Wyden in Trio Urging PATRIOT Delay...and Rushes the Senate Chamber!

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:51:21 +0000

The O carries a story from this afternoon describing a trio of Democratic Senators who are seeking a slowdown on the potential extension of some of the more egregious USA PATRIOT provisions otherwise set to expire. (Betcha didn't know the Act's title was actually in acronym form, didya? It's ...

torridjoe posted 13 days ago from loadedorygun.net

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Blazers Update: On the Road, Punking the Chumps But Not 2Nite

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

Fans, we're nearing the end of the first extended road trip of the season--which has seemed awfully long already, even though only seven of the first dozen have been away games. I think it's just the newness of the season, getting only a couple of home-cooking games at a time before being ...

torridjoe posted 14 days ago from loadedorygun.net

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This Week's KPOJ/Spanning the State Limerick Challenge

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:37:04 +0000

Special this week--the TJ/Bill Sizemore Smackdown: "Mr. Sizemore, you can have this limerick when you take it from my cold, dead hands!" (Left wanting more? Play along with the "Lost Limerick" at p3 .)

torridjoe posted 14 days ago from loadedorygun.net

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Earl's Pseudo-Mea Culpa on "Death Panels," in NYT

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:45:48 +0000

We can all blame Oregon Representative Earl Blumenauer for giving Betsy McCaughey, Sarah Palin and the rest of the lunatic wing of the Republican Party their fodder for the biggest and most absurd summer episode surrounding health care reform: "death panels." Were it not for his totally ...

torridjoe posted 15 days ago from loadedorygun.net

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LoadedO's Weekly Segment on KPOJ, Monday 730AM

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

torridjoe posted 15 days ago from loadedorygun.net

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Spanning the State: "Over a fiscal cliff"

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:27:44 +0000

When an Oregonian article uses some version of that phrase "over a cliff" three times in a single 400-word piece about Oregon's budget future, it's a safe bet they're trying to make a point : California drew national attention to the risk that states would go broke when it had to issue IOUs to ...

torridjoe posted 15 days ago from loadedorygun.net

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