http://www.portlandmercury.com Comments On: Portland Mercury en-us Copyright 2009 Portland Mercury. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Portland Mercury readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Portland Mercury. webmaster@portlandmercury.com (Portland Mercury Webmaster) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0800 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:45:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by BlackedOut]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:55:04 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by BretBernhoft]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:47:24 -0800 Portland Mercury
My general feeling about this is that Erik put off writing this until 15 minutes before his final deadline, and then just put down whatever he could think of. Please don't do that again. I know your paper is a rag, but at least I could count on it being a sarcastic, insightful and humorous rag. This was just disappointing.


Posted by Solace098]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:30:25 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by Number Six]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:44:08 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by Night Moves]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:35:09 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by alan cordle]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:20:30 -0800 Portland Mercury
Will Portland's economically depressed citizens take the bait? Perhaps if the officers decide they have no confidence in Commissioner Saltzman, they would like Commissioner Leonard better?

I don't know any police personally, I would bet that 95% are great, they are just swept up in a bad work culture and bad union leadership which makes their work harder and drains public respect and support.
Posted by R]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:12:26 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by Skinny City Girl]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:04:07 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by jjjjjjj]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:42:44 -0800 Portland Mercury next!!!!!!....oh my Gawd!...."

And so, the beat goes on....

WE JUST REPORT IT, YOU DECIDE!
Bad Robot reporting 4 FAUX NEWS
Posted by Bad Robot]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:37:08 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by BOBSLoB]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:06:57 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by steph_1609]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:02:38 -0800 Portland Mercury
Pls call me at my office to discuss the section 8 issue. 503-823-3589. Pls ask for me or Daniel Ledezma.

I have launched a Section 8 task force--and it includes housing advocates. We are working on improving the success rate for voucher holders. The meetings are public and you are welcome to attend.

The barriers people face include credit histories, transportation issues, personal finances--as well as certain landlords who don't participate in the program. We are looking at a range of options--including getting the word out about the hard work of HAP to improve customer service.

I oppose discrimination period. But there are some steps I can take now to improve the success rate without a change in the law.

Nick
Posted by Nick Fish]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:59:29 -0800 Portland Mercury
(Not that killing a guy gets you arrest for murder around here...)
Posted by Matthew D]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:47:00 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by Wallstreet]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:54:20 -0800 Portland Mercury
using "retarded" to mean slow is just fine in my book (like "that flat tire was retarding that car's progress"), but when it's only used in a disparaging manner, then, sure, I have a problem with it. that's not to say you're not free to use it, just that you should be aware that if somebody objects to that usage, maybe it's not up to YOU to decide if it's okay or not.

if a gay person called you on your use of the word "faggot", would you continue to use it around them? or would you make a consideration based on your relationship with that person and decide maybe your own intentions aren't worth the possible offense you're making?

(as for calling yourself a cracker or a honky, well, if you're a cracker or a honky, then it's your right to do so.... do you also call black people niggers, as they've reclaimed that word for themselves in some ways?)

ah, internet arguments, how fun!
Posted by jonashpdx]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:26:18 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by kbickers]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:18:54 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by CH]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:54:37 -0800 Portland Mercury
But mostly Fuck you Sam Adams. You could have been good for Portland but now, because he could not leave a teenage piece of ass alone, Randy Leonard is running the city (into the ground).

I'll vote yes on recall not matter who is running. It's not about the scumbags running the campaign, and the are scumbags. IT'S ABOUT THE SCUMBAG MAYOR.


Posted by Anton_Chigurh]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:18:15 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by Graham]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:12:33 -0800 Portland Mercury i mean if those out there on the other side of the page, the the more passive side by convention, the readers, if they/we demonstrated more often our intellectual demands, eventually those who wrote pabulum would be farmed out to the infant and/or senile - and some of us wouldn’t be bored, but others would get ‘left behind’
-and those of substance would flourish among their kind-

aren’t ideals great

with those who believe in zombies and rapturings, it is difficult to reason, having that not in common
there are those who think they could simply close a door and the oncoming -let's say glacial melt- will pass them by, but,
the the winds of dog will come and blow them away and separate them into heaven and hell as sure as the US justice system - and there ain't nothin' you can do about that! -
so you can see the difficulties in presenting reason to that sort of mind

What would a 'really serious' article about the "apocalypse" (the ship Cousteau sailed?) look like, eh?
would it have fold-outs of how the buildings really collapsed and the heavens really opened?

would abandoned underwear be a sign that the rapture was underway?

Then I say - all you who work in multi-story buildings , donate to this worthy cause and throw your underwear out the highest window, let the wind catch it and let it be a sign that the end of the world as we know it has come; let all this liberated underwear be evidence that thousands of us have ascended, leaving behind the predicted empty underwear; and here you are, still here, and look who’s around you?
Is this what you thought the preacher promised you as the collection plate came around?

for this, the expression "You've got another think coming, eh?" serves so well

vocab 6 th grade
style 6 th grade
challenge 6 th grade

statistically, this suits us, the american lcd public

in the right to privacy is included the right to be and to remain, ignorant

ignorance is so much less fuss and bother than tinkering or re-invention-

but i like the graphic for the article - much more informative than any article could be
Posted by iolo indeseo]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:07:39 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by rabblevox]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:55:58 -0800 Portland Mercury
It goddamn does if the parents in question are BUSHES! Many despicable dumb-asses only voted for Bush. Everclear did a concert for his kid! For that alone, they should forever be discredited!
Posted by DamosA]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:07:32 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by Dave Bow]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:32:07 -0800 Portland Mercury
Everclear's musical mediocrity is beside the point, since the article barely gives lip service to their music and instead focuses on the author's myopic personal view of one man's personality. And anyway, "Heroin Girl" was a good song, which gives Everclear one more good song than most of the bands in Portland. There's a reason the Northwest's musical heyday was never referred to as the "Portland Scene".

and really? you think it's valid to dislike a band because they got paid to play a gig for someone who's parents' politics you disagree with? I guess bands are only cool if they play free benefit shows for PETA or some such nonsense.
Posted by Rip City Hustle]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:17:08 -0800 Portland Mercury