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Calling reps for other states is a complete waste of time. Calling your own rep and registering your opposition to a bill gets tallied, though I don't believe your rationale for opposition does. So even if you dislike it for different reasons than …
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To come back and respond to some of the initial questions LT put out there: I've always been (i.e. thought of myself as) white, as long as I can remember. In a nearly all-white community in Alaska, I didn't think about it much as a kid. My dad's Je…
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I liked that NY Mag article, and I liked the pushback to it. I grant the point that the tone you take has an impact on whether you're persuasive. But it's also the case that you're not obligated to have persuasion as your goal. I'm also just not …
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I haven't followed the DNC conspiracy theories closely… what are they meant to have done? There were more debates, with more viewers, than in 2008 or 2004. The candidate who won did so by quite a bit larger margin than Obama did in 2008. As we saw…
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The DNC is not, like, all that important.
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And to the "Bernie would have won" folks: Check out Kurt Eichenwald's report of the Republican oppo file on Bernie here (starting about halfway in). Yikes.
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Unwillingness to repudiate racism, and willingness to vote for an unapologetic racist, is racism, right? Voting for a person whose first words of his presidential campaign are to describe Mexicans as criminals, rapists, and drug mules is a racist ac…
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Saying this here because maybe it helps get others to do the same — I just set up a monthly contribution to the ACLU. I need to do the same for SPLC. I've been a sporadic donor to both but giving monthly is best for signaling to them that you'll b…
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I dunno, Powell's will pay you 7.5% of the total cost of a sale if you link it into them as an "affiliate", so clearly there are some costs to sales they can absorb. But also what Loose_Thread said.
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It's definitely imperfect. I just stumbled on this Pro-97 opinion piece in my Street Roots. Linking it here partly because I agree with it, but also because I like to link to Street Roots.
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Portland City Club's report is really good for those who want to get way into the details. They cover pros and cons in depth.
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Using your example above … Looking at a company that does a million a week ($50 million a year) in Oregon sales, the idea of M97 is that they would pay about $13,000 a week to help Oregon provide education, health care, and senior services. I still …
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I think you might have meant with $100,000,000 in Oregon sales? I mean, yeah, it's a significant change from the status quo, but of course it is! Oregon has the lowest corporate taxes in the nation. Every other state taxes corporations at a higher…
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Oh, we'd LOVE to see real-world examples of companies' tax returns, but they've fought every effort for corporate tax disclosure. They're totally unwilling to share that information with the public. One can only speculate why they would be terrified…
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I'm just pleased I have a pretty good idea who my parents are
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Oh, I paid it, too. You're required to pay it. It's nice to have a thread for complaining about it, though.
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You can support arts and art education without supporting this especially poorly-designed funding mechanism.
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"Infill" is usually considered enviro-friendly. Increases density, reduces sprawl. Our (new construction) home replaced underused free-standing housing for cars. Now five people live in the spots where cars just parked. Feels right to me.
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We're going to Santa Fe to eat things with green chile sauce and commune with nature. Probably will be a Friedman-free zone.
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Thanks for looking. 3G would be great. Never going to activate phone service on it, so who even cares about that.
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I'm looking for a drawer-phone. Anyone got an iPhone 3G or 4 that they should have sold back when it was worth something? I want to get a big stupid chunky protective case for it and make it Calvin's new photography platform. It doesn't have to be v…
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I was on Ting and it was awesome, except for the Sprint network. I love that you actually pay for what you use. These days, I'm on T-Mobile and I love the coverage and speed in Portland and the prices are good. I'm a super heavy phone user now, but …
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I don't read parenthetical statements
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GOD DAMMIT
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These will help: http://5everyday.com/ and http://www.npr.org/podcasts/425118789/5-every-week Claire Evans and Zac Pennington will tell you what's happening in LA!
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Take your hands out of your pockets when you're introducing Misty Copeland and Yo-Yo Ma, you yo-yo
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Basketball kid was reflected in that price, though.
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I haven't figured out the new Colbert yet. I liked the Biden interview, but at no point during the TV show was Colbert funny. It's odd…
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YT, there are some great resources on the web for better understanding US Trade Embargoes and other export control laws. Just take the time to educate yourself. I will provide a series of links and excerpts below. The State Department's Resource o…
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Yeah, Matt seemed cool, though.