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Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:38:31 +0000

This is likely to turn out to be one of those cases where the owner is somehow involved in the wrong doing. And I side with those who advocate for the ultimate demise of the culprit, regardless of who it might be. Done & done.

KATU - Portland, OR : Owners of electrocuted dog seek $60,000 in damages | KATU.com - Portland News, Sports, Traffic Weath

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:23:13 +0000

No, people are getting ignorant and stupid. In this case the contractor and the city inspectors were both. and those that can't get their pea brains wrapped around that are another breed of the same cat.

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Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:19:35 +0000

It doesn't matter if NOTHING happened, and NOTHING was harmed. Even though it could have been a human being. The morons who did the work FAILED to do the most basic, rudimentary grounding. It's like blocking and tackling in football. If you can't do those basics, the NFL probably isn't going to make you a "professional". That is what they get paid to do. They were "stupid" and incompetent and put others at risk in the process. That is reason enough to can their butts. Ya get paid to do a job, if you do it wrong, ya get canned, what is so tough to understand about that? And, if in the process you happen to kill some living entity, you SHOULD get sued. That's the way it works. Sheez.

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Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:01:45 +0000

I hope the case goes to trial and some jury awards the dog owner 10X punitive damages, and that every pinhead who had a role in this cluster (private contractor, and gov't inspector) loses their job. The only thing that would frost that cake would be if the court ordered the sterilization of all the com-mentors on here that don't GET-IT to reduce the chances that they might propagate. ;-)

KATU - Portland, OR : Post-holiday recycling event coming up | Northeast Portland News

Fri, 7 Jan 2011 23:38:06 +0000

Just rake 'em, don't drive 'em. ;-)

KATU - Portland, OR : Post-holiday recycling event coming up | Northeast Portland News

Fri, 7 Jan 2011 21:48:53 +0000

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Total Reclaim & their subsidiary Ecolights Northwest actually recycle much more than block foam. They literally recycle anything that runs on electricity as long as there are no fluids or fuels involved. So, pretty-much any E-Waste, including computers, etc. They also recycle most types of batteries. Ecolights Northwest, at the same address, recycles just about any type of light bulb or whole lighting fixture, too. Total Reclaim also recycles HVAC and refrigerant containing appliances such as A/C units and refrigerators, freezers, etc.

KATU - Portland, OR : Free collection event this Saturday for clean block foam and selected electronics | KATU Communities

Fri, 7 Jan 2011 21:16:37 +0000

Total Reclaim will also be the processor for foam collection events at all 7 Portland Metro area Whole Foods Markets, including Vancouver, collections event as well as the City of Lake Oswego event that same day. Total Reclaim & their subsidiary Ecolights Northwest actually recycle much more than block foam. They literally recycle anything that runs on electricity as long as there are no fluids or fuels involved. So, pretty-much any E-Waste, including computers, etc. They also recycle most types of batteries. Ecolights Northwest, at the same address, recycles just about any type of light bulb or whole lighting fixture, too. Total Reclaim also recycles HVAC and refrigerant containing appliances such as A/C units and refrigerators, freezers, etc.

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Sun, 12 Sep 2010 19:38:44 +0000

Dear sweetpea1970, You make good points with your examples of Union failures to take care of all the individual cases that you site. But, I don't care that you are going to change your original comment because it is very easy to address now that you have expressed why you feel the way you do about Unions. It is not unusual for Republicans and conservatives to take a "waht have you done for me lately", short-sighted perspective that is primarily focused on the NOW, and the ME. What i mean by that is the lack of a big-picture, broader perspective. Without ANY UNION, even TODAY, the FACT is that you would be making even less than $18K and underage children would be forced into slave-labor conditions just like the 3rd-world countries that you read about. And don't even waste both of our time here denying the possibility of that because I can bury this message board with links to examples of the Corporatocracy's efforts to move the American labor force in precisely that way. Your message expresses your dissatisfaction with your compensation AND your dissatisfaction with Unions, and yet YOU don't offer ANY solution other than knuckling-under to the Corporatocracy by supporting the political party which has always, historically waged war on the only alternative, and the middle class itself. By not supporting Unions because your personal experiences with them have not been effective, just means that you, like all Republicans want someone else to do the heavy lifting for you ... your responses all sound to me like, "hey these Unions aren't making my life any better, so I'm going to support the only option I see before me, which is the party who wants to enslave me even more ... I'll just go-along-to-get-along as the Republicans continue to try and total eliminate Unions altogether". Then what sweetpea1970? Then what? Did Mom & Dad tell you somewhere along the way that you should trust in the rich, robber-baron carpet-bagging Corporate executive to take care of your best interests? If so, do you really still believe that crap? Sure Unions have been rendered weaker and wounded and less effective in helping their membership. And that has heppend because this REALLY is a WAR ... a war bertween the haves, and the have nots. The relationship between Management and Labor is as much of an adversarial relationship as any that exists. This is a FACT: it is managments' job to get the most production for the least expense possible, and it is labors' job to get the most income from the least output possible. It is a FACT of any Capitalist economy. AND, management has the edge. Management has all the resources on their side. You and the rest of labor has squat ... it is like Labor is taking a knife into a gun fight. The ONLY thing that labor has is the ability to organize, and Repuke law makers have been trying to steal that right ever since Reagan started the war on Unions that has persisted ever since. The Repukes have wounded Unions. Unions have been weakened in recent decades, no question. And that is why your "perception" is that somehow their time has come and gone. In reality, Unions are needed more today as in the worst of Labor times that caused their creation in the first place. sweetpea1970, my first gig came in 1968. Today my income is a bit over the American median statistically. That and 5-bucks will get me coffee at Starbucks. But what might surprise you is that my business card has the word Manager on it somewhere and over all that time I have even owned my own business. Why tell you those things? To emphasize that I know what managements' perspective and slant on labor versus bottomline and executive compensation is from the INSIDE. I'm telling you that management and the Corporatocracy will NEVER "do-the-right-thing" for labor unless FORCED to do so. Who can WORK at making that happen if not Unions? Answer: "Nobody". So, you keep voting with Republicans and you'll be voting against your own best interest. But whoever you vote for ... it ain't enough if you want "stuff" to get better. Ya gotta fight the good fight. You gotta care about more than "what have they done for me lately". You gotta care about a bigger picture than just your personal slice. If you don't it's never getting any better for any of us. Period. When Republican politicians tell you that we have to give the top 1% of the richest of the rich more tax breaks because they are the ones who own all the businesses and can create jobs for all of us ... they are LYING their asses off to protect their on fat wallets and they could care less about the $18/yr secretary ... and sweetpeas1970 ... none of them will stand toe to toe with me and argue that FACT, because I will expose their BS with little effort. You are being conned and I know it to be true. Good luck.

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Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:45:07 +0000

Politics is by definition an adversarial environment. Republicans drew the line in the sand by trying to turn our Democracy into a Corporatocracy, and now they get all indignant whenever they can't shout-down the opposition, or buy them off. "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."--John Kenneth Galbraith Did I mention that I don't like Republicans? Heck, I don't even like anyone who likes a Republican! ;-)

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Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:38:57 +0000

Apparently SweetPea your whole family's education is the net of Bush's every child left behind policy because you misread and misquoted my comment entirely. Either that or each member of your family makes more than $250K annually and just want to propagate the lies put out by Lush Bimbaugh and Glenn Wreck to each of your own economic advantage over the majority who do not net more than $250K annually. Or perhaps you'd like to work 7-days per weeks and do so for less than the minimum wage fought for by Unions? You can thank a Union for the 8-hour day and the 7-day week, but you are probably too young to know and understand any of that. You probably believe that the Corporatocracy gives a damn about you because your mommy and daddy told you they do. You probably believe that giving Millionaires $100,000/yr tax break will creates jobs too. If so, no doubt you believe in the tooth fairy too. Gimmie a break. Tell ya what, try getting NFL players to give up their Union.

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Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:28:55 +0000

"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."--Dante Alighieri

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Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:12:57 +0000

Regarding "Trickle-Down Economics: "If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows."--John Kenneth Galbraith

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Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:01:24 +0000

I don't recall reading where anyone said that boycotting all companies who outsource would be "easy" If it isn't "easy" we already know that Republicans won't participate. The party of the GOP is the party of "no" because it is always easiest to just-say-no. One strategy might be to focus consumer attention on one or two members of the Corporatocracy at a time. For instance, Credit Unions are an EASY replacement for ALL 10 of your "MAJOR" financial institutions. Now THAT is EASY enough that even a Repuke could do it. Load Ubuntu Linux on your Dell and be done with Microsoft ... I'm typing this reply on exactly that. What is that saying? A journey of a thousand miles, begins with that first step. Your "good luck" is very specific to challenge us to one which is successfully competing on a global marketplace. There in lies part of the solution. Dump WTO. Dump NAFTA. Dump CAFTA, and overnite our jobs and export picture improves. Go back to the tariff system that succeeded for over 200-years before Repukes got a hold of it. And then EXPORT our domestic labor lessons. Kroger, largest grocery retailer in America is Unionized. Shop a local Fred Meyer instead of Wal-Mart and that small gester adds-up with other small gestures. Sure, the barge doesn't hang a U-turn overnight. But sit an whine about how big the opposition has grown certainly won't get 'er done either.

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Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:48:24 +0000

Gee Al, great job ... tracing the roots of a piece of s-ware back to an International resource, wow, what do you do for an encore? No one said that it would be "easy" to find products still produced in these United States, so we already know we can't count on Republicans to help get it done.

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Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:34:36 +0000

Yeah, as long as those "private sector jobs' are not paying Wal-amrt greeter wages though. Because if those "private sector jobs" don't pay an American Living Wage, then our tax dollars (Gov't) end up having to subsidize those "private sector jobs". and if my tax dollars have to subsidize those so-called "private-sector-jobs", then as far as I am concerned those "private-sector-jobs" are still Government jobs.

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Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:30:34 +0000

Scoty9, there is only ONE reason that the Corporatocracy exports jobs ... to make their executive's wallets fatter. Period. Corporations anywhere in America pay a far smaller percentage of their profits to taxes than almost any other industrialized nation in the world. And if they do, all they need to do is a get a post office box in the Cayman's to avoid paying ANY at all.Don't take my word for it, get a passport and go see for yourself.

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Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:24:31 +0000

Al_02, wowzers, it was YOU who typed about ceded markets. I was replying to yours. As for the cyclical and Amish commentary that you toss out, you are displaying your ignorance. Apparently you demean and discount the Amish life style that in order to make your point. That is all I need to read to understand where you come from better. I'm not Amish, but I am smart enough to recognize that we have much to learn from the Amish. Al, put down the Kool-Aid glass. You wrote (I have to quote you because you seem to suffer memory loss for your own words): "the countries that took the business from US (Japan, Germany) lost it to Korea, who lost it to China, who are now losing it to countries like Vietnam." That's correct. Do you not recognize what that string of occurrences is based upon??? Waht they have in common? ONE thing, and ONE thing only: cheap labor. Your entire premise is based upon an infinite supply of cheap labor. Is your knowledge restricted to economics (the greatest waste of an education short of basket-weaving)? Riddle me this genius ... what happens when places like China with their one-child law begins to enjoy their new prosperity so much that they get fat and lazy and no-longer wish to get THEIR hands dirty either? Your short sighted and narrow perspective of the world cracks me up. It's the rubber band effect. It is already happening if you are cognizant enough to recognize it. By-the-way, steel manufacturing still exists in the U.S. and you would know these things if you put down that glass of Kool-Aid and stopped getting your information from Lush Bimbaugh, and Glenn Wreck. All things in the universe are connected. Your economics text book does not begin to scratch the surface. China is reflective of mistakes made by the US in the 50s. For all their current news-making manufacturing glory there is an equal but opposite story of a poisoned environment, growing obesity, high percentage of smoking deaths, exporting poisoned everything baby food, pet food, you-name-it), all in a race to enhance the minority at the expense of the majority. Pick up a history book Al, to avoid being forced to relive it ... what is going on today in those places that you cited as having taken "the business" form each other is not sustainable. But that's ok, you stay on that gravy-train and ride it as far as you can, Al. Al, even your economic knowledge seems limited because several "economists" have already suggested that indeed manufacturing WILL return to the USA. Do you own Googling Al; Google-is-your-friend. ;-)

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Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:29:19 +0000

To Al-02, hey Al, It only takes a little "pain" to reverse the trend. And it seems to me that the "pain" is growing. Not even the "long since conceded markets" are permanently "conceded". Be aware that EVERYTHING is cyclical. And one cannot ignore the law of nature that for every action there is an equal but opposite reaction. It's a fact. It is an elitist and very Republican perspective that somehow the people who work in manufacturing environments are somehow lesser than those who work on Wall Street and that every American should aspire to be a pencil pushing, paper shuffling MBA-puke. The very IDEA that the American economy must "evolve" into 100% think-tank, brain-trust, keep-our-hands-clean driven economy is part of the problem and wrong headed.

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Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:09:56 +0000

Yeah, so their executives can buy some more $15,000 platinum toilets or $6,000 shower curtains! YEE-HAW! Got freight to move? Don't move it with Con-Way.

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Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:07:22 +0000

"100% employee owned" doesn't mean squat. 100% non-Union is their problem. Fred Meyer workers are Union. I shop Union.