The Vig

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
“Center-right” is talk-radio code designed to make their followers believe what they’re watching in the current conservative movement is somehow moderate.  That George Bush, Tom Delay, Bill Frist, Denny Hastert, and John Boener are just middle-of-the-road average dudes.  They’re not.  Sean Hannity, Hugh Hewitt, and Dennis Prager [...]

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Word out of Toronto is the Phoenix Coyotes, despite having a brand new arena, are in a heap of trouble financially.  It serves them right for building the thing in a cotton field in the middle of freaking nowhere.  When I lived down there, the talk was they were going to build the new arena [...]

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Three Everett WA cops with a total of six years of experience between them shot and killed a 31-year-old man last weekend.
Dustin Willard had returned home that night after having a few beers with some friends. Around the same time, neighbors called 911, reporting somebody breaking glass and kicking in a door at Willard’s house.Exactly [...]

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My fantasy team, Briansdong, went into the Seattle-Tampa game with a slim 8 point lead. It came down to the Tampa defense vs Jay Cutler. Tampa picked up 16 points on the hapless Hawks while Cutler somehow scratched together 9 in his losing effort tonight, giving the Dongs a one-point victory. More [...]

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That’s what the O believes solar could be worth.  Of course we heard the same thing a few year back about biotech.
Of course the great unspoken truth here is high fuel prices no longer make it quite as cheap to build these things in China and ship them here.  The other incentive is with the [...]

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This guy is right about where I am.
It’s time for bridge city to show the world a new kind of bridge. Isolationists who would do nothing (aka turn Oregon into a fortress) miss the fact that this is a golden opportunity to do the right thing for once (with major federal $$ prioritized as one [...]

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Here’s an interactive map of the 600 locations which are closing. Looks like Portland only loses one. Location.
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The Seattle Times has the story.
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This is a picture of the access road between the Oregon City Fred Meyer to the south and the Southridge Center to the north.  Like every place else, back in the day this was all a big field.  The Southridge Center was built in the early 80s and originally featured an Albertsons and Bi Mart.  [...]

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The Nampa library is in a bit of a kerfuffle of late over the pulling of two books from its shelves.  Apparently the board believes both The Joy of Sex and The Joy of Gay Sex are a little too risque for the conservative eyes of Canyon County.  Now it looks like there are similar [...]

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Driving to the coast yesterday, we were detoured off the highway a few miles east of the 101 junction.  Seems there’s been an accident.  Now tonight comes word the body of Kinnisso Gemachu Dhiboo was found along the highway last night.  I probably drove right by him and didn’t even know.  Spooky.
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