What's with Cascade Bancorp? Down, down, down -- then up 30% in one day, and then down 15% over the next 3 days...
Meanwhile, Columbia River Bank goes down for the count.
Guess who Linda and I got our original home loan from?
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Really? Seriously? You want to maintain that unlimited corporate advertising isn't going to sway the election outcomes?
So advertising doesn't work? Or advertising works and you don't care that our country can now be bought and sold?
I can't tell if the defense of this action is completely naive or completely cynical.
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For the second time since I've been reading the Source, a Wandering Eye column has been removed. What's with that? It was a commentary on the Facebook Server "farm". I'm thinking maybe the math was off? (I also thought of parsing the math, but quickly realized it was beyond my legal-fu and math-fu.)
One thing about a personal blog; no one can remove it but me.
Another thing about a personal blog -- no one can keep me from pointing out when someone else has been censored.
Censored may seem a harsh word, but unless the Source explains Why it took that action, that's what it looks like.
The best solution would be to let the truth be hammered out in the comments, and if there is information that needs to be corrected, then do so, and make a note of it.
But removing it completely? That just makes me wonder how free the columnist really is to state his opinion, you know?
(Besides....Bruce called me the "Sage of Minnesota Avenue" in the censored entry..... Heh.....ha,.....hee,hee....
Though I've noticed that whenever HBM mentions me in the online column, it isn't printed in the actual paper. Which seems kind of petty to me, but .... shrug....)
*****UPDATE********
Bruce responds: "Before everybody gets all paranoid, let me explain that the Source website crashed yesterday and all of the content after Jan. 19 was lost. I have restored the three Wandering Eye posts that were lost, including the one about Facebook's server farm."
Oh................nevermind.
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Watched Caprica last night, and sure enough the B.S.G. guys are up to their old, wonderful, tricks.
Also watched the last Conan last night, and Tom Hanks was smooth and amusing, as usual, and Neil Young is eternal, and Will Ferrell.....sucked as a singer. A 30 second joke turned into a lame ending....
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The economy is undergoing a recovery?
According to economist Alan Beaulieu, today's Bulletin:
"....(but) with a broad, rocky bottom we're going to crawl through then claw our way up the other side..."
Well, alrighty then. When you put it THAT way.
I don't know about you, but crawling and clawing through rocky bottoms sounds painful...
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The Oberdoferman apologizes for being "over the top lately."
You think? (Linda commented; you have to watch out for becoming what you hate. Oberdoferman doesn't want to become the Fox of the other other side....)
Jon Stewart saying that he had "lost the high ground" was really telling, I think. And Oberdoferman was actually savvy enough to realize it.
Jon Stewart is King.
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Meanwhile, Columbia River Bank goes down for the count.
Guess who Linda and I got our original home loan from?
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Really? Seriously? You want to maintain that unlimited corporate advertising isn't going to sway the election outcomes?
So advertising doesn't work? Or advertising works and you don't care that our country can now be bought and sold?
I can't tell if the defense of this action is completely naive or completely cynical.
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For the second time since I've been reading the Source, a Wandering Eye column has been removed. What's with that? It was a commentary on the Facebook Server "farm". I'm thinking maybe the math was off? (I also thought of parsing the math, but quickly realized it was beyond my legal-fu and math-fu.)
One thing about a personal blog; no one can remove it but me.
Another thing about a personal blog -- no one can keep me from pointing out when someone else has been censored.
Censored may seem a harsh word, but unless the Source explains Why it took that action, that's what it looks like.
The best solution would be to let the truth be hammered out in the comments, and if there is information that needs to be corrected, then do so, and make a note of it.
But removing it completely? That just makes me wonder how free the columnist really is to state his opinion, you know?
(Besides....Bruce called me the "Sage of Minnesota Avenue" in the censored entry..... Heh.....ha,.....hee,hee....
Though I've noticed that whenever HBM mentions me in the online column, it isn't printed in the actual paper. Which seems kind of petty to me, but .... shrug....)
*****UPDATE********
Bruce responds: "Before everybody gets all paranoid, let me explain that the Source website crashed yesterday and all of the content after Jan. 19 was lost. I have restored the three Wandering Eye posts that were lost, including the one about Facebook's server farm."
Oh................nevermind.
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Watched Caprica last night, and sure enough the B.S.G. guys are up to their old, wonderful, tricks.
Also watched the last Conan last night, and Tom Hanks was smooth and amusing, as usual, and Neil Young is eternal, and Will Ferrell.....sucked as a singer. A 30 second joke turned into a lame ending....
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The economy is undergoing a recovery?
According to economist Alan Beaulieu, today's Bulletin:
"....(but) with a broad, rocky bottom we're going to crawl through then claw our way up the other side..."
Well, alrighty then. When you put it THAT way.
I don't know about you, but crawling and clawing through rocky bottoms sounds painful...
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The Oberdoferman apologizes for being "over the top lately."
You think? (Linda commented; you have to watch out for becoming what you hate. Oberdoferman doesn't want to become the Fox of the other other side....)
Jon Stewart saying that he had "lost the high ground" was really telling, I think. And Oberdoferman was actually savvy enough to realize it.
Jon Stewart is King.
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