Milwaukie may not be able to pony up anything toward replacing the decrepit Sellwood Bridge, , but they've got big plans: they'll find a way to come up with $20 to $30 million (how's that for a ballpark estimate?) to build a baseball stadium along relatively un-used McLoughlin Boulevard for a single-A team. And hey! It'll be a public/private partnership! Gotta love that!
City officials say converting the property to a ballpark would stimulate the local economy by bringing thousands of people into Milwaukie for 38 home games a year. "What the town lacks is people coming in and putting their dollars in businesses," Councilman Dave Hedges said.
Sure hope their single-A team doesn't drive traffic away from the Little League and girls' softball league championchips held at Alpenrose Dairy.
Believe it or not, Barry Obama is really, really stupid. Hard to believe, yes.
But here’s a quote from a press conference on July 16th, where he addressed the public pressure to curb government spending, that he and the Congress have been facing:
“….Some of these decisions are tough…but they don’t require us to gut Medicare or Social Security…they don’t require us to stop helpin’ young people go to college…they don’t require us to stop, you know, helpin’ families that have got a disabled child…they don’t require us to violate our obligations to our veterans…and they don’t require quote-un-quote job killing tax cuts…”
What, exactly, was he talking about? None of this stuff was ever brought up in the first place. Congress never discussed gutting So-So Security nor cutting off the needy. And what, exactly, is a "job killing tax cut"? Has this idiot learned nothing from historical precedent? Tax cuts create jobs, and bring more tax dollars into the US Treasury. Barry's an idiot, a fool, or a liar - or perhaps all three.
Orange juice from Tropicana, Simply Orange, Minute Maid, Florida's Natural, etc. all claim to be 100% juice, but there's something they don't mention: after the juice is produced, it's sent to large vats, where all of the oxygen is removed. No big deal, you might think - but why do they do that? They do it because oxygen drives spoilage, and they want their cartons to have a long shelf-life; preferably, up to a year.
But this creates another problem: removing the oxygen also removes the orange flavor. To get around that, they turn to companies that specialize in creating perfumes and flavor enhancers. These companies custom-make flavor packs, which are added to the largely oxygen-free juice to make it taste like oranges again. Oh, and they're not listed as an ingredient.
As is so often the case, a couple of items dropped over the transom today, containing similar subject matter. There's bad (though utterly unsurprising) news, and there's good news. Let's get the bad out of the way first:
Given that Barry promised the most open and transparent administration in the history of the country, it comes as no surprise that "Operation Fast and Stupid" was fully known at the highest levels of the Obama administration several months prior to the murder of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.
The latest evidence that both the White House and attorney general knew and approved of Project Gunrunner and its deadly offshoot, Operation Fast and Furious, came this week in the testimony of William Newell, ATF special agent in charge of the Phoenix office, before Rep. Darrell Issa's House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Newell sent O'Reilly the requested information with the caveat, "You didn't get this from me."
That's never a good sign. That odor assaulting your nostrils is emanating straight from the White House. The Obama administration: Dealers in death.
But in other news, Michigan has around 276,000 folks with concealed-carry permits - about double the number expected after the law was changed a decade ago, and the Detroit Free Press is reporting that the bloodshed and carnage that had been somberly predicted by opponents has - um, well...it hasn't happened.
Only 2% of license holders have been sanctioned for any kind of misbehavior, State Police records show.
Still, anti-gun activists say changing the law was a grave mistake. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence Web site describes state reforms like the one enacted in Michigan as "a recipe for disaster."
Of course. That's why they're anti-gun activists. Don't try to confuse them with a decade of facts.
The feds are starting a massive logging project - cue the "activists!" - in, of all places, Yosemite. The problem, they've determined, is that all the years of promptly extinguishing fires there has had some undesirable effects: a whole lot of trees have shot up, and they're obscuring the views that were the very reason behind the establishment of the park in the first place. Who could have known?
In other news, there's a little problem over in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: back in the 1940's, federal experts seeded the lake with carp, figuring they'd be great for sport-fishing. Sometime thereafter, another group of federal experts decided that, since the place is a wildlife refuge, sport-fishing shouldn't be allowed. The result: carp populations exploded, destroying the habitat of the very birds that the refuge was established to protect. Today, there are millions of pounds of carp in the lake, ranging up to as much as 35 pounds for the larger fish. This presents a problem. They've tried rotenone to kill them, but a lot of the fish just swim up into tributaries. Federal management has created a real conundrum. The experts are still scratching their heads.
It's surprising that it's taken so long, but those wacky, fun-loving folks at the amusingly-namedPhysicians Committee for Responsible Medicine have come out swinging against hot dogs.
Yep, the things are as bad as cigarettes, and they've filed lawsuits against firms like Oscar Mayer and Hebrew National, demanding that warning labels be affixed to every package of hot dogs.
“A hot dog a day could send you to an early grave,” says PCRM nutrition education director Susan Levin in a press release, “Processed meats like hot dogs can increase the risk for diabetes, heart disease, and various types of cancer. Like cigarettes, hot dogs should come with a warning label that helps racing fans and other consumers understand the health risk.”
Oops. Barry decided to take his beef to the American people, using Twitter - and lost over 40,000 followers in one day. That's got to be some kind of a record.
“Can’t believe I had to unfollow @BarackObama for spamming Twitter. Really, really strange behavior,” wrote @Arevill inConnecticut.
I hear that they are going to ask all the cat owners at the cape to keep their cats indoors while the Obamas are there on vacation… They do not want to have all the cats constantly running up to the Obamas and trying to bury them while they are laid out on the beach.
