The Vig

Portland Beavers: I feel terrible. I didn’t make it to a single game this home stand. Between two Blazer games, more on that in a sec, and the rain, I just didn’t make the time. I’ll do better this week. I promise. As for the week past, the Beavs [...]

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I’ll admit to you, dear reader, that I’ve been watching that Hannah Montana Show. It cracks my buddy’s daughter up when I make a Hannah reference. Reading the spin out of the Hillary camp tonight reminds me a ton of Hannah’s signature line. To wit.
The Obama campaign has dramatically outspent our campaign [...]

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Pete in Parkrose writes:
Someday you’ll have to explain my party’s hatred of everyone I like to me. I read James Dobson’s statement on McCain last night, and I’m not sure I get it. Ditto with Rush, who probably has a hell of a lot more in common with McCain than does Dobson. What’s wrong with [...]

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Oregon City’s Black Point Inn finally closed it’s doors this week.  I’ve only been there once, with my parents about 15-months ago.  We had Sunday brunch.  The place was nice enough.  We had Sunday brunch.  But the location at 7th and Washington seemed awkward.  That’s an intersection everyone drives through but never stops at.  Does [...]

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Barack Obama’s speech yesterday at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
The Scripture tells us that when Joshua and the Israelites arrived at the gates of Jericho, they could not enter. The walls of the city were too steep for any one person to climb; too strong to be taken down with brute force. And so they [...]

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The Washington Democrats finally have their caucus finder website up and running.  It is mind-numbingly easy to use.  And now I know where I’ll be the afternoon of February 9th.  It should make for some fun moblogging, if they let me take my cell phone inside.
In other news, the Obama campaign opens their Washington office [...]

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-I got to work this morning seething about New Hampshire. A comment on Sullivan’s blog summed up the battle perfectly for me. It’s down to those contributing to Social Security against those collecting it. I remember when I was younger being crushed when the Democratic machine put down the Gary Hart insurgency. It feels sort [...]

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I’d only heard a little about it during the day yesterday. I finally viewed it around 9 last night. My initial reaction before viewing it was that she’s coming to terms with the fact it’s over and there’s nothing she can do about it at this point. Her negatives are too high [...]

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Chris Gregoire wants to bring checkpoints back to Washington in an effort to further clamp down on drunk drivers.  If the governor is serious about getting a handle on the drunks in this state, might I suggest some inter-agency coordination?  I’ve had the following scenario happen to me twice in the three years I’ve lived [...]

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On their blog last week, Yahoo! had a little blurb about about their fantabulous new data center over in Quincy. They made quite a stink about their zero-carbon footprint.
Our goal is to operate our Washington facilities with a 100% zero-carbon footprint by using renewable hydroelectric energy, investing in additional carbon-offsets, and producing zero water [...]

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