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Rich Jerk Watch

Posted Mon, Mar 16, 4:30 p.m.

I agree totally with PJS. Any employee that receives a promise of a bonus based on exceeding his job objectives should recieve his due. But, I'm willing for this process to be vetted on a case by case basis. I welcome any and all lawsuits pertaining to this issue, especially ...

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Yes, that city full of white people is Portland

Posted Fri, Feb 20, 12:07 p.m.

A few years ago, I spent a couple of months at OHSU's Bone Marrow Transplant Center. Although I have visited and worked in Portland for a few decades, I hadn't realised how white it was-until I was bombarded by the sight of the other patients being predominately white, made more ...

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They never go back to Pocatello

Posted Tue, Feb 3, 12:15 p.m.

i would like to point out that Glen H. Taylor indeed left Idaho after his defeat. But, he had enough dignity left to leave Washington DC, preferring to spend the next 3 decades in the hairpiece business in California.

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Sad places and brave people

Posted Mon, Feb 2, 11:17 a.m.

Well, Ted, I'm not "sloughing off" those small towns. My point is that they have weathered booms and busts before, and are capable of doing that again. When a chain hardware store moved in, people drove past mom and pop's to save 51 cents on a piano hinge. Now, that ...

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Sad places and brave people

Posted Sun, Feb 1, 3:30 p.m.

Ted, Worst times since WWII? Are you saying worse than 1971? What a naive premise. Those small towns have lived through more hard periods than they can count. And they will have plenty more. Seattle's economy has been relatively unscathed for almost 40 years because of lessons learned in '69-'74. ...

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Does Mt. Rainier need a better name?

Posted Tue, Jan 27, 11:13 a.m.

What a lot of revisionist hooey. Capt Vancouver did no such thing as name a mountain after someone. I think that by the time he got to exploring Pungent Sound, he was right sick of the rain. He thought, all in all, that it was rainier there, so he named ...

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Seattle snow, a new topic for gibes from New York City

Posted Thu, Jan 1, 5:24 p.m.

See, This is the kind of stuff that keeps folks from wanting to move here. In honor of Emmett Watson, I tell folks who ask me about Seattle's pathetic snow removal efforts that Mayor Snowball is pulling all the stops for the next snowstorm. He's gonna replace 2 rubber bladed ...

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