http://porblogs.com Portland AND Oregon Blogs Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:10:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Anwaar Hussain of Truth Spring Dear Americans, With your election of Barack Hussein Obama, you have almost realized the dream of Martin Luther King. Now truly you have a chance to rise up as a nation and live out the proper meaning of the creed: "We hold these truths to be ... http://www.uncommonthought.com/mtblog/archives/2008/11/20/a_letter_to_ame_1.php My friend John McCarthy has sent this link, which shows ballot evidence of folks struggling with, or screwing up, their right to vote in Minnesota. The ballots reveal weird, but not entirely... http://theredelectric.blogspot.com/2008/11/democracy-in-action-sort-of.html Here is a link to an excellent project by Andrew Zuckerman. He interviewed a wide array of deeply interesting people, and got them to pass on their wisdom to the next generation on film, both moving and stills. When you click around, you will see that there are ... http://bugthumper.blogspot.com/2008/11/andrew-zuckerman-wisdom.html The other day, Portland school board watchers warned us that the board was planning to change the rules for giving notice to the public before selling off "surplus" school district property, particularly real estate. The school board denied it was considering a change, but yesterday morning an... http://bojack.org/2008/11/how_to_give_public_land_away_t.html by Matt Davis Kiss your work day goodbye.... http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2008/11/20/the_monty_python_channel_on_yo        http://larryfire.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/lost-season-5-poster/ by Alison Hallett Peter Matthiessen took the National Book Award in fiction last night for Shadow Country, beating out favorites Aleksandar Hemon (The Lazarus Project) and Marilynne ... http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2008/11/20/national_book_award_winners by Ezra Caraeff Another week, another Mercury music section to read while I file papers against the authors of that book I was featured in. I thought ... http://endhits.portlandmercury.com/endhits/archives/2008/11/20/this_week_s_mercury_music_sect by Ezra Caraeff Another week, another Mercury music section to read while I file papers against the authors of that book I was featured in. I thought ... http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2008/11/20/this_week_s_mercury_music_sect        http://larryfire.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/coraline-theatrical-trailer/ How good is your vampire knowledge? Take the quiz HERE.          http://larryfire.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/vampire-quiz/        http://larryfire.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/scary-financial-times/ by Marjorie Skinner And so it begins. There is a huge landslide of events going down tomorrow, so try not to overdo it at Local35's anniversary party ... http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2008/11/20/massive_day_of_shopping_events_2 by Wm.? Steven Humphrey Let's let our imaginations run free for a moment, shall we? Let's imagine an awful, awful "what-if" scenario in which Barack Obama did ... http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2008/11/20/the_absolute_worst_moment_in_t by Matt Davis Update: The talk is sold out. You might like to try showing up in the rain and scalping a few tickets. But I'm sorry ... http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2008/11/20/annie_liebovitz_tonight_1 The parade of obscenely overpaid CEOs slithering into the Capitol and asking Congress for bailout billions continues. This week it was the auto industry executives. Rather than prove that they are smarter than the average guy, they illustrated how supremely stupid they are by flying in to... http://bojack.org/2008/11/this_weeks_bozos.html Holiday cooking advice from Butterball is now available no matter where you are — at home, on the road, in the grocery store, or at the stove. Sign up to have text messages from Turkey Talk-Line experts sent straight to your phone. You can register HERE.        http://larryfire.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/turk-nology/        http://larryfire.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/final-spirit-poster/ by Marjorie Skinner And so it begins. There is a huge landslide of events going down tomorrow, so try not to overdo it at Local35's anniversary party ... http://mod.portlandmercury.com/mod/archives/2008/11/20/massive_day_of_shopping_events by Alison Hallett Ehud Havazelet recently won the Oregon Book Award for his novel Bearing the Body, about a man determined to find out the truth of ... http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2008/11/20/bearing_the_body_giveaway by Wm.? Steven Humphrey Here's some good civil rights news: The California Supreme Court will take a look at Proposition 8 to see if the voter-approved ban ... http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2008/11/20/good_morning_news by Ezra Caraeff No one said the Greg Oden era of Portland Trail Blazers basketball was going to be pretty. You can see the above image for ... http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2008/11/20/well_that_was_nice By Anwaar Hussain of Truth Spring Dear Americans, With your election of Barack Hussein Obama, you have almost realized the dream of Martin Luther King. Now truly you have a chance to rise up as a nation and live out the proper meaning of the creed: "We hold these truths to be ... http://www.uncommonthought.com/mtblog/archives/2008/11/20/a_letter_to_ame.php Ford Motor Company has two classes of common stock: one held by the public, and another held only by descendants of the original Henry Ford. The Ford family stock has the right to elect its own directors and has superior... http://isaac.blogs.com/isaac_laquedem/2008/11/the-laquedem-plan-to-bail-out-detroit-part-ii.html By Rick Wolff. Originally posted at The Greanville Journal In the public imagination George W. Bush (and his malignant sidekick, Dick Cheney) represent the height of political criminality and "abuse of power." His regime is therefore excoriated as an aberration to an otherwise healthy if not exemplary system of governance and ... http://www.uncommonthought.com/mtblog/archives/2008/11/20/the_system_that.php