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Sunday, August 29, 2010

News Good Morning, News!

Posted by Denis C. Theriault on Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 9:01 AM

Mary Volms booking photo
  • Mary Volm's booking photo
City Council candidate Mary Volm, running against who lost her bid to challenge Dan Saltzman this November, was arrested late Friday on suspicion of driving under the influence as well as reckless driving, according to media reports. A Water Bureau security officer called police to report a woman had "fallen off her Vespa scooter... was becoming agitated, and was beginning to start fights with witnesses." Police say that woman was Volm. She's expected in court Monday.

The education of a wartime president. President Barack Obama is the first president in four decades to sweep into office in the midst of a hot war, and the New York Times examines how he's set about finding his way.

For the first time in more than 400 years, Indonesian volcano Mount Sinabung is spouting gas and particulate from its Sinabung-hole. Thousands of people are evacuating.

Come meet "The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party." Frank Rich writes on David and Charles Koch, two libertarian brothers who have spent more than $100 million to quietly pull the strings of supposedly grass-roots right-wing activism. Jane Mayer also introduces us in the most recent New Yorker.

Rich also mentions Rupert Murdoch. Keep that in mind when watching this Fox News report on Glenn Beck's peculiar celebration of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. yesterday afternoon, brought to you by Beck's sponsor clearly impartial employer.

Haven't had enough loathsomeness? There's always Comcast. The cable company that hopes we won't remember who it is if it starts calling itself Xfinity is battling to win back millions in property tax payments from 10 Oregon counties, including Multnomah.

One fewer show about "little people" on cable network TLC. The Hillsboro-based "Little People, Big World" is shutting down. Remember when TLC used to be The Learning Channel? That still applies these days. If you don't mind, that is, learning only about makeovers, little people, pastry preparation, cult-size families, and people so hefty they can't walk.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen owns the Trail Blazers. He also apparently owns everything we take for granted technologically. Allen has filed a lawsuit in which he claims that nearly every super-awesome tech firm he can think of, like Facebook, Google, Apple and eBay, is using technology that's his. The know-how was developed more than a decade ago, he says, at a since-closed lab in Silicon Valley. And because the billionaire isn't wealthy enough, he wants royalties.

More about the gumshoe work that has Paris Hilton staring at a cocaine rap. It wasn't just a really good guess. To celebrate the fine police work, let's celebrate with this gem from 2007:

 

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Saltzman won the Primary in May with %55 of the vote.

Kinds sad in this small town to see "journalists" regurgitating the weekend crew of KATU without fact checking.
Posted by Dennis is not Matt on August 29, 2010 at 10:25 AM · Report
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Vespa scooter FTW!
Posted by Evil Wm. Steven Humphrey on August 29, 2010 at 11:29 AM · Report
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QUICK!

Call Jason Wurster! Someone needs to start a 'Recall Mary Volm' campign!!
Posted by blownspeakers on August 29, 2010 at 11:32 AM · Report
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Don't Water Bureau security officers report to Randy Leonard ?
Posted by Rosy on August 29, 2010 at 1:22 PM · Report
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Good afternoon all. The Mary Volm news is pretty funny.
Posted by BlackedOut on August 29, 2010 at 1:56 PM · Report
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I somehow doubt that Janelle C. Jeffries would find it very funny.
Posted by A CAT, probably on August 29, 2010 at 3:14 PM · Report
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GOOD AFTERNOON, DENIS; BLACKEDOUT, ROSY, BLOWNSPEAKERS, EWSH, UN-NAMED TROLL!!! HOW IS EVERYONE?!?

I'D LIKE TO THANK MARY VOLM FOR BRINGING US LULZ IN THE FORM OF DRUNKENLY FALLING OFF OF HER SCOOTER!!
Posted by Graham on August 29, 2010 at 3:15 PM · Report
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Call Wurster! We need a Recall Vespa Scooters campaign!!
Posted by TSW on August 29, 2010 at 8:54 PM · Report
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NOTE: I VERY MUCH APPROVE OF THIS LEVEL OF DETAIL IN THE GMN.

ALSO, COTW TO 2SW, THOUGH I WOULD HAVE CHOSEN EITHER BOX WINE OR GRAVITY AS THE RECALL TARGET.
Posted by Commenty Colin on August 29, 2010 at 9:17 PM · Report
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Seriously though, could Mary Volm have made this story any more amusing?
Posted by Andy Mesa on August 29, 2010 at 11:07 PM · Report
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+1 for Box wine and gravity!

Janelle C. Jefferies very next comments FTW!
Posted by TSW on August 30, 2010 at 8:54 AM · Report

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