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on Snitching on Dad

Hmm, doesn't your suggestion change the basis of all American law that you are presumed innocent until PROVEN guilty?

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on Snitching on Dad

I can only think of one method, although many people will disagree with my proposal, that would affect change in this legislation: use publicly available name, address, and birth dates to report the governor, state congressmen, and local news reporters. Once these people start getting reported without cause, the legislation will be changed to prevent abuse. Until high profile politicians start being targeted with this reporting system, the law won't be changed.

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on Assessing the Assessment

HA! I love it, Chad!

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on Assessing the Assessment

I agree with you that military, prison, and emergency assistance spending should not be included.

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on Assessing the Assessment

Amen!

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on Assessing the Assessment

I the the GDP to be a least a bit more useful than the government's unemployment figures. Most people don't pay attention to the fact that the government only releases numbers on the number of people who are receiving unemployment benefits. So, when you hear on the news that we have a 3% unemployment rate. It is VERY misleading. It doesn't account for those who's unemployment has ran out, did not qualify for unemployment, or did not file for unemployment. So, that 3% unemployment rate is very misleading and the news media rarely clarifies the truth behind that figure. At least with the GDP, as imperfect as it is, it does provide us a snapshot of whether or not money is being spent domestically.

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on Meat Me In Oregon

Today's guest keeps mentioning "Foie Grais" which has been declared illegal to sell in most cities greater or equal to the size of Portland in the USA as being animal cruelty. NPR itself has done several stories on the cruelty involved with the production of Foie Grais, yet "Think Out Loud" is providing this chief a platform to sell the public on Foie Grais. This is a bit hypocritical of OPB and a reason that some listeners might not send in their contribution pledges to OPB from the last fundraising drive.

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on It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a... Secretary of State?

You are right, Matt. It is costly. I think the parties should have to pay for their own primary elections from party funds instead of using public funds. I think this would help to streamline the process.

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on It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a... Secretary of State?

In essence, I would agree with you. There is a big difference between a wealth of information and true education. The biggest problem with the American electoral progress is apathy from voters who don't vote out of frustration with the system and arrogant entrenched politicians who answer to big business instead of the voters in their districts.

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on It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a... Secretary of State?

So, the guest says parties are a Private Club... In that case, why are we, the public, footing the millions of dollars per state bill for their primary nominating process? The Democrats and Republicans want us to pay for their primary elections with public funds, but when the public criticizes their nominating process we're told to go sit in the corner and shut up. You can't have it both ways.

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on It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a... Secretary of State?

Very true, Justin, the question today, however, is with an educated public and up to the second news available, should such a system continue to remain in place?

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on It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a... Secretary of State?

I would agree with the state's Superdelegates being apportioned out according to the state's popular vote for candidates.

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on It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a... Secretary of State?

You're right, East, the Democratic Party LIED to us to win Congress back in the last election and did NOT deliver on promises to remove troops from Iraq, impeach Bush, etc. It was "inconvenient" for the House Speaker to keep political promises that she made to Americans. Having pointed out this lie, I am really worried that the party will be dishonest to America again by allowing Superdelegates not the members of the Democratic Party choose the candidate for the party.

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on It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a... Secretary of State?

It is amazing to see this spin that the head of the Oregon Democratic Party put on the issue of Superdelegate selections. These Superdelegates were NOT elected as Superdelegates. They were elected to other offices, but they were NOT elected as Superdelegates. Furthermore, I've read in the news about some of the Superdelegates are as young as 21 and appointed to that role by state party officials. I can't believe that the host let this woman get away with this FALSE SPIN.

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on It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a... Secretary of State?

I thought that was interesting too. Funny, I thought that Darlene Hooley was responsible to the voters of Oregon not to a national candidate living in New York. I guess I was wrong.

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on It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a... Secretary of State?

From what I understand, they are now free to vote for / support any other candidate of their choosing.

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on It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a... Secretary of State?

Yup, and voters here in Oregon will definitely remember the Superdelegates from our state such as Kulongoski, who swing their votes AGAINST the public vote in the state. Every poll taken in Oregon shows Clinton in third place with Edwards more popular than her, yet she has Kulongoski's Superdelegate vote. I don't think Oregon voters will be very forgiving of this.

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on It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a... Secretary of State?

All of the major news outlets from CNN to Fox News have reported that the Superdelegate system was started NOT to improve the candidate selection process. The Superdelegates were invented because top leadership in the Democratic Party were no longer attending the convention because the candidate was being chosen by primary elections. The lack of big names at the convention was causing the party to LOOSE MONEY on the convention. This decision to create Superdelegates is all about money not improved politics.

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on It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a... Secretary of State?

You know, you don't agree to appear on a radio interview program in an election year to discuss superdelegates then say that you refuse to discuss the politics behind YOUR vote as a superdelegate. The fact that OPB let the congressman get away with this arrogance today is very disappointing. The show host should have removed him from the discussion.

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on The State of the Economy

Eric, I agree with you that this "boost" is only a matter of perception. The payment itself will not effect the economy. The payment will act only as a Prozac to the American consumer making him feel good about spending additional money of his own.

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