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on Islam in the Northwest
I think people of your faith or mine or anyother faith must all work harder at dealling with the people in our midst who pervert the teachings of faith. The problem is you canot just as I canot expect of you to learn all aspecs of every religion and therefore only the people of a perticual religion or any religion for that matter have to be responcible for their own religion. Otherwise people of no faith will try and slove it and there lack of knowledge will end up gutting any religion into just a shell of what it is really meant to be.
posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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on Islam in the Northwest
I think most people relise it is the minority of muslims who are terrorists I think people get tire of having to say Muslim extreamists, especialy since no one really gets bent out of shape if you do not say christian extremist if a christian does something wrong.
I find it interesting that a bomber or a person who atempts a bombing is not considered a hate crime??? Isnt it isnt bombing pioner square an attempt to kill those you hate?
The bomb may be fake (thank God) but if at the time the peson who attempted to set it off did not know it was fake and they beleived they were going to kill people and that persons reasoning is they do not like the people or the culture of the people he wants to kill, how is that not a hate crime?
posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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on Latino Summit
I think this is very true, just look to how the countries south of us handle their own illegal imigration problem.
posted 2 years, 7 months ago
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on Latino Summit
I think this is a great idea
posted 2 years, 7 months ago
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on Latino Summit
wow so the rich republican are the sources of all eval yet again yes rich people both republicans and Democrats hire gardners and house keepers poor republicans and democrats do not. The same could probably be said for independants. I am glad that while we maybe disagree on imigration that you atleased understand that trickle down economics works.
posted 2 years, 7 months ago
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on Latino Summit
I am always hering how we need to learn more and respect more about other cultures and While I enjoy learning about other coulter I do not ever hear people promoting our coulture.
Afterall it is our culture of inovation and freedom not government handout that created the economic opertunities that people are coming here for.
posted 2 years, 7 months ago
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on Latino Summit
The guest said we need to do what is morally rite. that is simplefollow our imigration laws. I am not ignorant about the contibutions of hispanics in our history it is similar to that of all the people who came here.
The reason following the law is the most humain thing is because even ifn everyone who is here ilegally is hardworking at trying to do the rite thing they create the situation in whitch they can be taken advantage of because they are here illegally.
This is not hate it is a simple practical fact.
posted 2 years, 7 months ago
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on Suggest a Show
I would really like to hear from Dr. Micheal Savage abou this being banned from travelling to Brittan and the lack of any media coverage of this on any media inluding fox news.
posted 2 years, 8 months ago
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on Cleaning up the Gulf
You are absolutely corect about the creating hysteria. It is getting old and I think dangerouse. It seems like fear and anger is dangerouse because people begin to act on their feeling instead of thinking about what is the correct plan of action.
posted 2 years, 11 months ago
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on Cleaning up the Gulf
There are tons of ways of soaking up oil. Many americans have worked hard and have good solutions. But they havent been tested or aproved by the EPA.
or had an environmental impact studdy???? This is why this is so frustrating there really couldnt be much more harm than the oil so let them go at it. If you find out someothing is perticularly bad quit using it.
I am for the environment but this constant stop you cant do that or that or that. the environmental movement in part is to blame for this they have created so much regulation that even when somehting couldnt be worse you cant do anything.
posted 2 years, 11 months ago
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on Cleaning up the Gulf
Oh and oregon is the 10th largest state most of the rest are not that much smaller.
except rhode Island and delaware Rhode island is about the same as from portland to salem. or roughly the size of the average county in oregon They are little itty bitty ;)
posted 2 years, 11 months ago
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on Cleaning up the Gulf
Great point about size Great Britan (england ireland wales and scotland) I belive is almost exactly the same size as Oregon.
posted 2 years, 11 months ago
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on Cleaning up the Gulf
To your second point thank god! I have said for years why dont we focus on all the people still using home heating oil which is deisel just not colored for hiway use. It is a lot easier to make something for your home than it is for your car.
posted 2 years, 11 months ago
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on Cleaning up the Gulf
someone just argude that my suggestion to bann imported coffee would put tons of people out of work which is true and not what I want to do I was just making the point that people constantly talk about feul use bud dont look at their own actions. I dont buy coffe.
And arent you suggesting that we pute probably twice as many people out of work buy getting rid of using oil?
posted 2 years, 11 months ago
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on Cleaning up the Gulf
President Bush waved the act that prevents for ships from operating in us waters after catrina so why didn't president Obamma to that and accept all the forein assistance that was offered?
Why was the minerals managment department pushing green energy instead of regulating the oil companies that was there job. there are people whos job it is to push green energy.
This is what happen when you persue an agenda with out thought or reason. If the minerals managment people hadnt been directed to push green energy the problems that caused this.
it is fine to persue green technology but that isnt everyones job if yo uhave a perticular job those people need to do that work.
posted 2 years, 11 months ago
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on Cleaning up the Gulf
Forget ethinol it has terrible reprocutions for fresh water the mid west used to grow wheat and then they switched to corn they bagan pumping huge amounts of water out of a very slowly replenishing aquafer. It is not a good solution.
The original model T ran on pea nut oil. We subsadise that so maybe that could be used at 15 percent instead of ethonal.
Why do I not ever hear an uprising against home heating oil use that is deisel oil it just isnt colod for road use so you cant get out of paying the tax. Why dont we get the millions of people using that to heat there home s to switch first.
It is a lot easier to make some alternate energy thing that can take the place of your furnace than a alternative energy thing that has to travel efficiently in a car
posted 2 years, 11 months ago
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on Cleaning up the Gulf
realy you want to do what europe does? europe that is completely broke including england and so forth?
sinc ewe are really talking about cars I am a car guy so you should understand that cars in europe get much better gas milage because they do NOT have acatalitic converters so they polute much more that our cars do.
We chose to have catolitic converters to reduce our poltion there are always compromises you cant have everything.
so chose 25 miles to the gallon and less polution or 45 miles to the gallon and worse polution.
speaking of choices they didnt build sand berms because there was no environmental impact study so they just let the oil com ashore it a a choise. and ther is going to be a negative no matter which choice you make so quite making things out to sound like this chioc ethere are no bad results.
My I remind everyone that we went to oil instead of killing wale for lamp oil. it was a better solition at the time. it may not be the best now but stop educate yourself and understand there is no impact free solution.
Also please dont just say throw all the crap out in eastern oregon just because you dont ever come out here and it doesnt impact doent make it ok
posted 2 years, 11 months ago
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on Cleaning up the Gulf
why dont we ban imported coffee first and save all that oil in transportation costs?
ALSO if you have looked at the statistics for your self the north west has been cooling for atleased the last 4 years and it has been shown that most of the global warming stats have been altered so can we drop that argument yet.
Do you live in a house becaus eif you do it was built by people who drive trucks because it is hard to fit enough lumber in a preius to build a bird house
and the real cost of a litium ion battery in a hibrid is greater that the oil the car will save over its life.
posted 2 years, 11 months ago
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on Cutting Across the Board
The oregon state legislator has held education hostage and extorted money from oregonians for decades. wasnt it nessassary to pass 66 and 67 to avoid this?
The state legislatur has constantly raised taxes for this or that and then used the money for whatever they like, with no accountabillity.
Eoyees should take a 9% cut with everyone else.
I would say anyone who has been in the oregon legislature for more than 4 years should been thrown out. they have completely miss handle the state and its assets. Even if someone was against some thing and didn't vote for it they should have stood up and said something and made it clear what was happening and brought us to this point.
posted 2 years, 11 months ago
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on RX: Health Care Costs
I am sorry that is not how they make thier money.
They know that people will have a larg clame for some time after starting the insurance say 18 monthe so the money you pay in gats invested and grow for those 18 months. When you brake a leg they pull the money out of the investment to pay the claim.
so killing off the insurance companies will probably have some seriouse economic implication since all that investment will go away.
I may only be 35 but I listen far more than I speak and I only speak when I have a fair sertanty that what I have to say is correct. If more people did the same maybe REAL Change would happen instead of demagoging about an industry that isnt the probem the problem is the government and its inablity to do a damn thing correctly
posted 3 years, 2 months ago
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