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A Bend Police Department officer will be investigated for allegedly violating policy by wearing a keychain connected to a far-right group while in uniform on Saturday. Bend Chief Mike Krantz did not identify the employee, though Cpl. Josh Spano is the officer seen in a photograph circulating on Reddit and Facebook. Attached to the front of Spano’s service vest is an item reading “molon labe” in Greek lettering, a phrase associated with the far-right Three Percenters militia.

An Oregon school district hosted a diversity summit in which participants encouraged White educators to be as bold as Capitol rioters and pressured others into pursuing "anti-racist" ideology. During the Feb. 10 zoom conference, some teachers emphasized a need for White teachers to intervene when they saw systemic racism. "My lovely White people," says Beaverton school district teacher Stephanie Yelder, "be as bold as those idiot invaders, insurrectionists about storming that Capitol. Go about this change like them. They are wacky, but you know what to do, so have that same energy."

Chapman Square, one side of the Occupy Portland encampment downtown, on Tuesday. The protest now is in its 19th day, and the police have been kept occupied, too. Such a Monday the Portland police had as they kept an eye on the Occupy Portland encampment. Tuesday's "public safety update" indicates that the political protest has attracted mentally ill people, street kids and a man striking "fighting poses" to congregate with the political protesters. Herewith, edited for clarity, is the police report: Monday 7 a.m.: Officers receive a request from Occupy Portland to get in touch with Project Respond (the acute-care...

Beaverton middle school teacher Jason Levin, who founded the now notorious "Crash the Tea Party" website, is no longer a teacher. Jason Levin Levin resigned Wednesday in lieu of termination, said Beaverton School District Legal Counsel Camellia Osterink. District officials would not say why Levin was facing dismissal, but that it followed an internal investigation into his use of public resources and time spent at school. "There was some question whether that conduct occurred during the work day," Osterink said of Levin's work on the website. Reached today, Levin said, "My attorney has advised me not to comment." His attorney,...

JACKO'S chimpanzee pal Bubbles is missing his old friend - and could be the subject of a Hollywood movie and book, his owner claims. The 26-year-old is living at a sanctuary where he was taken in 2003 after becoming too aggressive. He is now healthier in mind and body and new owner Bob Dunn claims a mega-bucks deal is "on the table". Bob said: "There's a lot of interest. Bubbles has led an interesting life. There's lots to say." Jacko rescued Bubbles - his "child" - from a Texas cancer research centre in 1985. They were often seen together in...

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Vice President Biden, Madame Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Bush, Vice President Cheney, President Clinton, President Carter, reverend clergy, fellow citizens, we observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom—symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning—signifying renewal, as well as change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago. The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the...

LONDON -- A Norwegian escort told a court Monday that Boy George manacled him to a bedroom wall and beat him with a metal chain after accusing him of hacking into his computer. The former Culture Club singer is on trial for the false imprisonment of 29-year-old Audun Carlsen. The 47-year-old singer, who is standing trial under his real name, George O'Dowd, denies the charge. Carlsen told London's Snaresbrook Crown Court that he met the singer through a Web site and went to his London home for a naked photo shoot. After the encounter Boy George sent a series e-mails...

How many members of the Obama household does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None. The room is illuminated by the light of Barack's halo.------------------- Knock, knock.Who's there? Obama.Obama who? "Sweethome" Al Obama--------------- How many members of the Obama household does it take to screw in a lightbulb? One. Barack holds the bulb and the world revolves around him.--------------- Knock, Knock.Who's there? BarackBarack who? If this place is barackin' don't come a knockin'------------- Now an unfunny one!How many members of the Obama household does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None. President Obama outlawed incandecent lightbulbs in 2009,...

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I watched the movie The Warriors last night and I was struck by how much of the crap spoken by "The One" Obama, is similar to the crap spoken by "The One" Cyrus, the leader of all the gangs. They even look alike, if you can imagine some funky hair on Barry O.Here are some great movie quotes: "Cowboy – What do you know about Cyrus? Cochise – Magic, whole lot o’ magic. Cowboy – What do you know about Cyrus? Rembrandt – He’s the one and only. Cyrus – Can you count suckers? I say the future, is ours!...

I found this article interesting It basically says that white supremacists are supporting Obama for Predident, which makes a lot of sense, because every member of the Klan during the times of civil rights strife in this country, was a Democrat.

For those who don't know what a fisking is, it is a point-by-point refutation of an error filled letter or news story, named after Robert Fisk, the nuttier-than-Grapenuts British "journalist". This letter to the editor in the Oregonian today by Paul Lee, screamed out for the fisking treatment. I agree with columnist David Reinhard that the problem of hate-filled intolerance is worsening, but his assertion that it is more prevalent among left-leaning people must be challenged. To this reader the opposite seems true. The ideology of the right wing of the political spectrum has historically supported positions that serve as...

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Hey has anybody noticed that Ms. Cowoline, the superintendent of Kinsville Academy, looks exactly like Sarah Palin. Why izzit?

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When Obama told Joe the Plumber that he was going to "redistribute the wealth", he essentially outed himself as a Marxist. While the press was investigating Joe the Plumber for having dared to ask a critical question of the Sainted One, they missed seeing the embalmed corpse of Vlad Lenin leaning up and saying in Russian, "Right on, man!" and giving Obama a fist bump. Now we have proof that Obama was a member in good standing of the Illinois New Party, a splinter of the Democratic Socialists of America(DSA) and ACORN. You know the DSA whose members include Barbara...

Spotted in Hillsboro recently,On the other hand, here is a Democrat.She's all WOMAN, matey!

Some of my choices: WHAZZZAP!Your insolent and incorrect answers make me want to puke!Hey Barry, did you have burritos for lunch?

Well, what do Joe's neighbors make? Let's do the math. Here is Joe's house, 1209 Barley Mill Rd, WilmingtonThe market estimate for Joe's house is $1.3 million according to Zillow, although if you look at the picture there is no way that house is only 1,800 square feet. (I wonder if the tax man knows this). The cheapest home on the block is 1299 Barley Mill Road at $784,000. Assuming that Joe the Policeman has saved up $156,800 for a down payment of 20%, a 30-year fixed mortgage at todays rate of 6.38% would equate to a monthly payment of...