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When your boss orders you to undergo a psych evaluation, you generally don't respond by setting fire to his house, let alone do it when his family's inside. Generally.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) - A central New Jersey police officer faces arson and attempted murder counts stemming from a fire at the home of his police captain.
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Stowe, a top-end boarding school at Buckinghamshire, finds itself in a bit of a pickle.
The school, which opened in 1923 with 99 pupils and whose other alumni include businessman Sir Richard Branson and the late actor David Niven, is housed in one of the country’s most imposing neo-classical buildings, Stowe House, set in 750 acres of landscaped gardens and parkland outside Buckingham.
Yes, it's quite illustrious, old chap, and it costs some 33,000 pounds to send your crotchfruit there. In the interests of Elf'n'Safety for the precious snowflakes, the school - although strongly condemning sexual activity among students - decided to offer the "morning after pill" if needed.
Supplies were exhausted during the first weekend.
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LUBA says the activist was improperly activistic, tells commission to reconsider Oregon LNG issue.
Clatsop County commissioners must reconsider the land use permit they previously denied for a pipeline to serve the proposed Oregon LNG gas export terminal in Warrenton.
Oregon's Land Use Board of Appeals on Friday remanded the earlier decision to the county after determining that one of the commissioners was biased against the project and should have recused himself from the 5-0 decision to deny a permit for the 41-mile segment of the pipeline that crosses the county.
This has been an ongoing source of entertainment for many of us as we watch the county approve, then disapprove, only to be ordered to revisit the project.
The county originally approved a permit for the pipeline in 2010, but that decision was reconsidered after three new commissioners took office in 2011. They decided by a 4-to-1 vote to withdraw the permit, and subsequently voted unanimously to deny it.
Oh, there's little doubt that the nutballs will once again vote to stop the project, but it's free entertainment. It's sort of like watching a bunch of unreconstructed hippies doing the Hokey-Pokey.
They're all about the environment and the economy, which is why the only jobs available in the Astoria area are temporary jobs that involve repairing the damage done to the Port of Astoria docks by literally tons of California sea lions. And of course, the environment really benefits from all the poop those critters shoot out.
But hey, natural! Of course, so is ebola.
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Portland mayor "Streetcar" Charlie Hales and his sidekick, Steve Novick, want to impose a "street fee" on Portland residents and businesses in order to pay for a little bit of the massive deferred maintenance bill that the city's managed to run up during the past decade or so. That'll happen when the city diverts transportation funds from roads and bridges to bicycle paths, streetcars, and light rail schemes; while crying poverty, Novick wants to spend another $600,000 to "study" running another silly two-car "train" line down highway 99W to two suburbs whose residents have already voted to bar their respective municipalities from spending any money to accommodate such a project.
Welp, it sort of looks like the Hales/Novick "street fee" is going over about as well as the proverbial lead balloon, which appears to surprise the dynamic duo, so they've begun considering other options. Streetcar Charlie's looking at a citywide sales tax, while Stevie's considering a citywide income tax. But either way, they By God want more money.
Of course, the problem is that, given the city's track record, nobody wants to give them any more. This is a frustrating situation for any bureaucrat, but especially so for Portland bureaucrats - because they've become so used to making some claim like It's For The Children™ and watching as the money rolls in. Streetcar himself is just hopping mad; he this week challenged anybody to find any misspent funds since he took over, pointing out just how angry such claims make him. Of course, moments later, he had to issue a clarification, as examples poured in: he didn't mean to say "misspent", he meant "illegaly spent". So you see, there's a big difference, and he simply misspoke because he was upset. Yeah.
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Believe it or not, there's an acute drug shortage in American medical facilities, and it's only going to get worse. That's because from start to finish, it takes about three weeks to manufacture sterile saline solution, which is used in virtually every medical procedure.
It seems weird that something so simple should be so complex; how hard can it be to make salt water? As it happens, making salt water's not hard - but making it sterile is. Who'd have seen this coming?
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I happened to stumble across Randy Cassingham's story from a decade ago regarding a Beaverton guy who beat his two year-old son to death:
Slave owners beat their slaves, says attorney Randall Vogt. Therefore, it's "justified" for black men to beat their sons. Vogt is defending Isaac Cortez Bynum, who beat his 2-year-old son to death, and says he'll use a "post traumatic slave syndrome" defense "in a general way" in Bynum's Beaverton, Ore., murder trial. "If you are African American and you are living in America, you have been impacted," says Joy DeGruy-Leary, assistant professor at Portland State University's Graduate School of Social Work, who originated the slave syndrome theory.
"Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome"? Coming from PSU, that's about expected. No Joy there; they grow prime vegetables at PSU. Where to begin on this? How about the fact that many so-called "African-Americans" can't even locate the continent of Africa on a map?
How about that the USA ended slavery with the 13th Amendment in 1865 (though the Civil War effectively ended the practice immediately prior to enactment)?
How about the fact that this guy, in 2004, was never a slave, and never knew anybody who was enslaved?
How about admitting that PSU's Joy is just full of it?
There's a reason why "Social Work" is generally not regarded as having any value as a course of study - and even less as a "profession".
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A 22 year-old Beaverton girl met up with her 29 year-old girlfriend from Seattle, and the two ended up in Olympia - where they shimmied up a ledge and found their way into the second-floor office of Gov. Inslee. There, they took a bottle of wine, a state trooper hat, and a framed photo of Inslee with Magic Johnson, among other things.
The hat and wine are understandable; girls just wanna have fun. But the only reasonable explanation for swiping the photo seems to involve target practice.
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Well, the Mexican government apologized, so there's that.
TUCSON, Ariz. (CBS Las Vegas) — Border Patrol agents in Arizona were reportedly fired upon by a Mexican military
helicopter that traveled across the border.
Hey, "borders" are just sorta lines on a map; they really don't mean anything (to the Obammy administration).
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Yes, the public vegetators have had just about enough of Bill & Melinda Gates, and so they staged a rush-hour demonstration in Seattle to show just how much they care about the chillin. It has to be important to them, as they did it in the summer, when school's out. So they marched to the B&MG Foundation orifices in downtown Seattle, where they had themselves a speaker-fest:
Featured speakers include Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant; University of Washington, Bothell education professor Wayne Au; and Anthony Cody, a former California teacher and blogger for the newsweekly Education Week.
Sawant's an avowed socialist from India, so you know where this whole thing's headed.
Participating educators say the Gates Foundation, through its initiatives and the groups it funds, has blamed teachers and their unions for shortcomings in student performance while discounting the role of poverty.
Umm, right; it's all about the poverty. People in America have no clue about poverty, and the "participating vegetators" are right at the top of the list when it comes to cluelessness. Poverty is what you have when a chicken egg is seen as valuable. It isn't what you have when you pay for your Kraft dinners with an EBT card because food stamps are demeaning.
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Yeah, about that...Obammy and buds blame the harsh winter. Sorry boys, you need to do better than that. And hey, how can you have a "harsh winter" when Air Force One and the entourage are doing so much to contribute to mann-made global warming? Did Obammy not take enough vacations?
In fact, this was the worst Q1 read on GDP in 32 years (1982), and the three winters following that produced annualized growth rates of 5.3 percent, 8.2 percent, and 4.0 percent. This was hardly the first tough winter America has faced in terms of weather, but it was the worst in decades economically.
Supposedly, the magical recovery began exactly five years ago, as Obammy pulled us out of the recession that was caused by George W. Bush. This was also about the time he was causing ocean levels to recede.
But in Q1 of this year, GDP dropped by three percent, and it wasn't due to the weather. Between Obamacare and the thousands of new regulations produced by his administration (25,000 more, and counting), Obammy's "fundamentally transforming" the country, all right.
And there's much more to come:
As businesses cut hours and postpone or cancel expansion plans, fewer jobs are created and workers who do have jobs earn less money. That soft labor market also hampers wage growth and has a dampening effect on consumer spending. That's before the cost of Obamacare hits the workers themselves, with a new report suggesting that the brunt of those costs hit middle-aged women hardest.
The Obama administration has already postponed the employer mandate once to delay the inevitable economic damage of these options. They could do so again to try to get this past the midterm elections, but that would generate even more economic impact.
The ACA needs the employer mandate in place to raise around $150 billion a year to pay for the premium subsidies that mask 76 percent of the average premium cost to the individual, according to the same report above.
The question now before us is: just how much more of Obammy's "fundamental transformation" can we stand?
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