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on Live from Salem
Leave the "kicker" alone.
posted 1 year, 2 months ago
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on Meth Laws: Five Years Later
The problem with this type of program, who's intent is good, is that it defeats it's intent when every time there is a major or minor drug "bust" the amount of of money that the drug is worth is also is also advertised. I do mean advertised in the strictest sense. The disclosure of the money worth of the drug in turn drives the drug trade and influences others to get in the business of making and selling drugs of all types. This free advertisement must be stopped.
Stories, such as the present addict's story are a dime a dozen.....they sort of take on a hero worship among the drug cult, all of these people love to hear these never ending drug stories.
posted 1 year, 2 months ago
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on Northwest Passages: Lynn Schooler
Mr. Schooler is one, of what it seems to be thousands of writers, whom have or try to tell stories about Alaska. However, he is correct.....almost correct about the tidal forces of Alaska which really extend for almost a thousand miles from Juneau through British Columbia to Olympia, Washington. As senior pilot for the Alaska Marine Highway System for 29 years, I know these waters first hand. The inside passage to Alaska from Seattle are some of the most challenging hydraulic forces on the planet. In short, these waters are perhaps the one of the most exciting and scenic places in the world. As your guest knows, Alaska makes an impact on a person's life......forever!
posted 1 year, 3 months ago
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on The Biomass Question
I am glad we have women with common sense speaking well on this matter. Burning fuels cause problems.....period. The west coast of the Unites States has huge energy reserves in desert regions for California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon and Washington for Sun producing solar energy, water (river and ocean) energy and wind energy. These are the energy sources we should be spending money on. Leave the forest alone!
posted 1 year, 3 months ago
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on High Speed Momentum
I am one hundred percent for high speed electrical rail service between Eugene, to Vancouver B.C.. For 23 years I have ridden the electrical rail systems of Austria, Italy and Switzerland which are the state of the art in travel. At all the major rail stations and some of the smaller stations of Europe, one is able to shop, have breakfast, launch and dinner at all price levels - the food and shopping possibilities are excellent. In Europe, you can take a train to all the major ski and hiking ares of Europe or other areas of interest. Plus, train travel is an environmental must. If this type of travel is built properly, it will be used. I hate making long and now dangerous road trips on the freeways especially when everyone refuses to obey the law is texting and talking on their cell phone. Rail systems have and still do go through neighborhoods and without problems. High speed rail travel works. The train trip from Zurich, Switzerland to Innsbruck, Austria, travels along beautiful scenic route right along Zurich Zee (lake) and neighborhoods; Lake Oswego would not present a problem, however, in order for this proposed system to work you would need dedicated new track not shared with Burlington Northern Santa Fee line. When in Europe, I have never had recourse to rent an automobile.
posted 1 year, 3 months ago
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on Scientology
For at least five thousand years or when man came out of the trees, religion, created by man has been and is the problem.....look around!
posted 1 year, 3 months ago
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on Restructuring Higher Education
I've been hearing these complaints and solutions for the past twenty years. Whether it is in Arizona, California, Washington and in many other states of the union college and university tuitions continue to escalate. Last week on NPR and news item stated many professors are now earning more than a million dollars a year. This is the problem. Yet, in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and France the cost for a university degree including a PHD is free. I have many friends whom teach in Austria. There are no good excuses for for raising tuitions on what almost seems like on a daily basis. I do not buy into the remedy solutions presented to resolve the high cost of education in this country, which are not remedies. It seems to me that creating debt and interest earned by banks is the main goal of education. In short greed is the driving culprit that is ruining the chances for one to better him or herself via education. This method of education creates a huge class devision too.
posted 1 year, 4 months ago
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on Staff Pick: Quarter-Life Crisis
The problem with all these X and Y types is that they are spoiled Americans whom expect to much early in life. And, the fellow who chooses to live a simple life by living on a sailboat with his computer, is in for a big expensive surprise. There is nothing cheap and simple about living on a sailboat. Now, if you are a Z type born in Africa or the Alto Plano of Peru your choices in life are simple and for the most part, limited - poverty and hard work yet most of these people are happy sorts until religion enters their lives. The X and Y people do not know how good they have it America; apparently people with education are less happy sorts.
posted 1 year, 4 months ago
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on Obama's Popularity
I am disappointed with this Tax Break for The Wealthy including the payroll tax deal reached via the so called OBAMA COMPROMISE. I've heard Peter DeFazio's explanation a hundred times or more, yet it goes no where when fifteen million are unemployed. About once a month I hear how the gap between the wealthy in the poor continues to widen, yet Republicans and Democrats pretend a concerned posture while they look the other way. What we now have is a short term payoff solution in order to support a wealthy class that cannot live without a tax break or perhaps in the future, not paying any taxes at all. When you have to bring in millionaires like Bill (I feel your pain) Clinton, David Axelrod, Mitch (no) Mc Connell including President Obama promoting this type of legislation then I know American politics is a rigged process. Come 21012, for the first time in my voting life, I will not vote, besides, my vote does not count. What I see is a continuation of Bush-Cheney politics which is short change (in money) for America. The Obama legislation compromise is going to create 30 year mortgage paying jobs now, in two years, or for the next fifteen years or more. This country is run by the best greedy educated people who play a different game than you and I. I am disappointed!
posted 1 year, 5 months ago
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on Free Speech or Hate Speech?
When one is young, aging or old, still engaged in the processes of learning or not very well educated or does read in depth or can't read or write and has little or no self esteem compounded by not having job, then that person is influenced by a lot of false truths and will gravitate to those that will make him or her feel good, perhaps will allow him or her to wear some sort of military type uniform that will also provide a presence him or her is looking for. A caller made certain statements about white & black crime yet that individual must live in a blank void. It was not some black, latino or asian who caused the banking, auto and mortgage failures in the United States; apparently certain white crimes are exempt from the callers crime list. Nor was World War II started by a black or latino person, but when one does not read and is raised in an environment of racism, it is almost impossible to explain to that person or group they are wrong. Racism starts, for the most part, at an early age in the home, like religion, it becomes hard wired and it is impossible to change a persons mind on these topics. If people in the U.S. had jobs, or have a better forecast for their future, perhaps people would reframe from using negative free speech. Yet, there are people, regardless of their status, are always unhappy and are dedicated to making others unhappy, for once a dissident one is always a dissident. For instance, Mitch McConnel and his his never ending "NOs", which for me is a form of free speech violation, but then I don't have a net worth of ninety million dollars nor am I a member of congress.
posted 1 year, 6 months ago
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on A Mighty Wind in Union County
The last caller, Doug, is correct. In essence, Americans are spoiled, they complain about everything yet when solutions are available they complain. Wind power for the most part is pollution free, somewhat frees us from our oil polluting use, in fact, there is now an Eagle problem on Californian's and Oregon coasts. Wind power is much safer than nuclear energy. As for the environment, birds and bats adapt. Eagles in the the Pacific Northwest including Alaska are in very good shape. Noise: There is more noise on the pacific coast during windy, stormy and calm days than wind power turbines. People, like birds and bats adapt. In Europe where environment issues are number one, wind power exists and provides Germany with almost a third of their energy needs. In essence we need WIND POWER in the Pacific Northwest because it will be a source of clean energy, provide many needed jobs for Orgonin and it frees us from fighting oil wars for our energy needs.
posted 1 year, 6 months ago
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on Candidate Conversation: John Kitzhaber
It very interesting and refreshing to hear a politician answer a question directly without beating around the bush and not answering the question posed. It is also refreshing to hear that Mr. Kitzhaber actually has sound economic doable plans not based on Republican fantasy.
posted 1 year, 6 months ago
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on Cracking Down on Heroin
I know two families whom have had one son each addicted to heroin and it is devastating to the family structure of the family unit, why, because those sons will commit theft of any valuables the family owns to sale and procure heroin. These addicts will steal anything outside of the the family unit too in order to purchase heroin. The amount of money California and the state of Washington spends on heroin treatment is astronomical. Today a little less than 5% of the treatment is successful. What would I do? I would give the death penalty or life in prison to any person dealing in heroin or any type of drug no matter if it is a first time offense regardless if a death was caused by an overdose. Drug dealers do not care about sex or the age of the person they are dealing with. They prey on those of weak or no character - they believe in nothing except for making large amounts of money for themselves.
According to Joseph Calafano (book High Society) Americans use two thirds of the worlds illegal drugs. I find this shocking in a society that claims of much freedom, yet is willing to legalize the use of marijuana in order to pay for deficits. According to said mentioned book, marijuana is 33% for powerful than the marijuana that was used in the sixties. Perhaps we should also jail the legislatures along with the drug dealers
posted 2 years, 1 month ago
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on Surviving the Quarter-Life Crisis
The person that thinks the sailboat life is an alternative to a less expensive lifestyle along with less stress is in for a big surprise. The up keep of any type of live aboard power or sailboat is enormous - about ten times the cost of of home upkeep. Sailboat and power boat living is for the wealthy!
posted 2 years, 1 month ago
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on Unpacking Heat
America has become a sick nation. In a land that brags about freedom, yet one is encouraged to carry a gun, then something is very wrong with our society. Never have I owned a gun in my entire 67 years on this planet. Nor will I ever enter any of the Starbuck or Pete's coffee franchises again (I have been shopping at Starbuck for over 25 years) because of their blatant effort to make more money by encouraging males that have a problem in their psychological makeup that seems to need a gun to empress others or to obtain some sort of recognition they lack or in their lives. Perhaps this is a base way of impressing women whom they have had no success with in their lives. These types of people need a gun to impress or to relieve the constant fear they live with. If this is the case, and it is, then three months of psychological evaluation should be required for obtaining a gun permit. Background checks don't work! We have had to many random shooting by God fearing Christians in this country in public places where this should not be taking place. And, the NRA should be taken to task for encouraging this fear-gun problem, in essence, what they are promoting is chaos and a way for the people whom produce firearms to make more money for them and their investors - it's about money period and not about protecting ones well being. From now on I plan to have my coffee latte' at home away from the gun coffee tooting coffee houses of America.
posted 2 years, 1 month ago
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on Water: From the Bottle or the Tap?
I am against bottled water in plastic containers which are products made from oil. If we believe bottled water is better (I don't) then use glass which has been used through out most of history of man and is a much more friendly item to use. I am amazed that large new reservoirs are not being built in areas of the U.S. where snow and rain fall are heavy during the winter and rainy months, especially now when the warming of the planet is producing more wet weather. Also, we cannot address the world water problem, if it is as great as it is supposed to be, if we do not address population growth, in short, there is to much people pressure on the planet - we need family planning world wide to lessen the pressure on the planet.
posted 2 years, 2 months ago
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on Rebroadcast: Discovering David Douglas
There were other great collectors in the Americas. I would like to hear Mr. Nisbet's comments on Thaddeo Haenke and Alexander Von Humboldt.
posted 2 years, 2 months ago
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on Police Oversight
The problem is GUNS.....period. Plus, alcohol and drugs just don't mix. I find it amusing that in a country that brags about freedom and the good life, that drugs, alcohol and guns are required to live the good free life in America.....give me a big Bill Clinton break.
posted 2 years, 2 months ago
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on Questioning the Census Boxes
Why doesn't the census ask how many Germans, Norwegians, Swedish, French, Austrians, Russians, Polish, Saudis, Jews, you get my drift, live in America? For some reason the census and others always address those of Spanish-Indian decent as His-spanish..... as though they have just arrived across across from the Rio Grand? There are quite a few million of us whom have been here longer than the anglos, yet one is made to believe that the above nationalities have been here forever. I find (we find) the term His-spanish insulting.
posted 2 years, 2 months ago
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on Our High School
One of your guest mentioned that Portland since 1970 has grown by two hundred thousand and yet there is no appreciable gain in children production therefore, there is a decline in school attendance. I was wondering that perhaps with Portland and other communities becoming a refuges for and promoting lesbian and homosexual activity, now relabeled "gay", is this perhaps another contributing factor why there are less children attending schools. When procreation is replaced by "gay" activity children are not produced and school attendance naturally declines. When evaluating why there is less school attendance we have to gauge all the social conditions that may or may not contribute to whatever is the root cause of the problem at hand.
posted 2 years, 2 months ago
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