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Cui bono?

Who benefits?

Who is making the money from promoting this?

posted 4 years, 11 months ago
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Pan et circenses.

Bread and circuses.

In this case beer is the bread, only it is drunk, not eaten.

It's what Romans provided to the lower classes to keep them satisfied.

posted 4 years, 11 months ago
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Thanks.

posted 4 years, 12 months ago
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What is the difference in piano sizes? Don't they all have eighty eight keys and so the same available notes? Concert grand vs baby grand?

posted 4 years, 12 months ago
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Thanks, I'll check those out.

I like that some art you can just walk right by and some just stops you in your tracks.

posted 4 years, 12 months ago
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Exactly.

posted 5 years ago
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I get your point and I apologize about calling it whining, I was out of line.

Personally, I think art should be ranked right up alongside safety and education.

posted 5 years ago
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Eugene used to have a piece I liked that combined art and science; someone started out near downtown and painted the planets to distance scale to show their kid how big the solar system is, stretching out along the Amazon Parkway. It was wonderful.

posted 5 years ago
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What's with all the whining about Government funding art? If our government is really of, by, and for the people, then the people are funding and choosing art and that is a good thing.

posted 5 years ago
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I watched that Art Beat Special, Everybody's Art, last night, and the salmon swimming through the corner of a brick building just stunned me. Everything about it seems just perfectly right; the salmon, the bricklayers craftsmanship, the idea that the salmon runs penetratingly through the Pacific Northwest, all just perfectly perfect!


Does anyone know where that is?

posted 5 years ago
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I can't recommend strongly enough that folks go visit Eastern Oregon, The Steens, Hart Mountain, Malheur Refuge area, Halfway, over by the Idaho border, a lot of that area has views forever with no trees in the way, and I believe it is magnificent.

posted 5 years ago
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Before Reaganism started charging for any visit to the National Forests, I would drive ten minutes out of Bend any time I wanted and just park anywhere and wander around in the woods or just sit by the Deschutes River and de-stress naturally. Now I'll be damned if I am going to pay some Reaganite just to visit the natural world that all Americans own in commons.

I used to raft Big Eddy 9 times in an afternoon with friends who I couldn't take on weekend or week long trips to other rivers, just to give them the experience of how much fun it is. But then the commercial guys got together with the Forest Service and closed down public access to the put in at Big Eddy and the closest take out just below Big Eddy and ruined it for the public. Reaganites got their way by commercializing nature and the public lost.

I suspect that a lot of folks slowed down their visiting because of Reaganomics.

I used to drive out into the desert any old where, throw out my bag and sleep under the stars for a wonderful experience, but now gas is cutting that out.

Ah well.

posted 5 years ago
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"Mandatory minimum sentencing is RIDICULOUS.

Conservative Republicans make a heck of a lot of money through their prison corporations. The profit motive makes it so that they profit much more from operating prisons than they would if schools were properly funded, and kids well educated and trained for jobs. Conservative Republicans are always "working the dark side" to make money off of human beings. So of course Mannix wants mandatory minimum sentences, he and his ilk make huge profits from them.

"Cheap-Labor Conservatives" is a term often used to more adequately describe them.

posted 5 years ago
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Unfortunately, McCain spent his years as a POW learning and polishing techniques to lie and he has made great use of that education ever since. He is a political backstabber, he cannot be trusted.

posted 5 years ago
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Mannix sure makes it clear that Conservative Republicans are sleazy to their core.


The 5th District deserves better, that's fer damn shore.

posted 5 years ago
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This talk of electing a Commander In Chief implies that we are going keep ourselves at war when what we need is a President who will only go to war when our security is at stake and not for the benefit of Bush/Cheney and their Godless Global Oil Companies.

posted 5 years ago
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If you want the US Conservative Republicans to keep murdering Iraqis for their oil, vote for John McCain.

Blood Oil

I don?t trust McCain at all he simply cannot be trusted.

posted 5 years ago
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Why do we always have to pretend that we have to reinvent the wheel in regard to health care? There are working examples around the world that we can look to; Canada, France, Great Britain, Sweden, Norway, Cuba, etc.

And the greatest irony is that the greatest, most powerful military in the world is a shining example of how socialism can work. The US military is a single payer universal healthcare system owned by the government! The great fighter of socialism is socialist at the very core.(corps?) They are on the cutting edge of research and on technology. They don?t make a monetary profit but they do make a social profit by taking care of US soldiers and their families, and the citizens of this US benefit greatly.

We could learn from others, but will we? Hasn?t it all been tried before?

And what about Kitzhabers plan?

Who benefits from keeping things in a state of confusion and unresolved? That great old legal question; cui bono?

Sheesh.

posted 5 years ago
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"Locally I hope that we look at ways we can discover and take an active role in preventing the social conditions that predicate violence against each other."

This is the result of decades of American descent into Conservatism, the politics of fear-mongering, hatred, and divisiveness.

Education, education, education is the way to prevent Conservatism. Ignorance is the way into Conservatism and education is the way out.

posted 5 years, 1 month ago
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Yeah, I can just imagine a bunch of drunken frat boys showing each other who is the toughest hombre on campus.

How about after football or basketball shootouts among angry fans?

Sheesh!

More and better trained police working closely with administration and faculty and interacting with the kids is far more logical and reasonable.

posted 5 years, 1 month ago
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