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| === Sunday | January 16, 2011 ===
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| [[File:NuclearBomb.jpg|thumb|Perhaps you prefer spending your money here.]]
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| '''Portlandians As Easily Duped As Our "Illiberal" Counterparts'''<br />
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| Social engineers and consent manufacturing practitioners wept with joy after studies revealed that "progressive" Portlandians are as dull and easily snookered as our nation's most fervent flagwavers. The findings shed light on how citizen "outrage" is manufactured over paltry spending for bike boulevards and bioswales while nary a peep is provoked by the trillions of dollars spent on armaments and defense contractors. The city's bike plan is projected to cost $613 million over the next twenty years. This works out to a twenty-year total of $1,075.44 per Portlandian, or $53.77 per Portlandian per year for the next 20 years.<ref>[http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2010/0204/Portland-promotes-urban-cycling-but-costs-will-be-high Portland promotes urban cycling, but costs will be high]</ref> By contrast, military-industrial-Congressional complex expenditures are estimated to cost $1,254,500,000,000 in the upcoming year. This chalks up to $4,086.32 per Portlandian in 2011 alone, an expense that's expected to continue each year until the Pentagon manages to extinguish all lifeforms that might one day present a terrorist "threat."<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States#Budget_Breakdown_for_2011 Budget Military budget of the United States: Breakdown for 2011]</ref>
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| :''Go to story'': [http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/01/portland_mayor_sam_adams_bike.html Portland Mayor Sam Adams' bike plan, derailed by politics and bungled sales pitch, rides through controversy]
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| :''Go to bike plan'': [http://www.portlandonline.com/transportation/index.cfm?c=44597 Portland Bicycle Plan for 2030]
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| === Saturday | January 15, 2011 ===
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| [[File:A very personal appeal.jpg|thumb|A very ''personal'' appeal from a famous Wikipedian.]]
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| '''Portlandians Celebrate Wikipedia's Tenth Birthday!'''<br />
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| And so does PortlandWiki! In fact, PortlandWiki runs on the same wiki software that powers Wikipedia. And if that's not geek enough for you, why not attend a local birthday celebration in honor of Wikipedia? It's happening this evening at [[AboutUs.org|AboutUs]], 107 SE Washington Street, Suite 520, right here in Portland. Let's celebrate!<br />
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| :''Go to story'': [http://teapollonius.blogspot.com/2011/01/happy-birthday-wikipedia.html Happy Birthday Wikipedia]
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| :''Go to [[Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Party: Portland]] page'': [[Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Party: Portland]]
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| :''Go to [[AboutUs.org|AboutUs]] blog'': [http://blog.aboutus.org/2011/01/14/wikipedia10-portland-celebration-at-aboutus-tomorrow/ Wikipedia10 Portland celebration at AboutUs, tomorrow!]
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| === Friday | January 14, 2011 ===
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| [[File:Solar-Disk.jpg|thumb|Solar disk invaders.]]
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| '''Massive Solar Disk To Descend Upon Portlandians'''<br />
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| "Take us to your sustainability leaders," is just one of the many demands made by the solar disk's otherworldly pilots. "Pay rents 20% above market rate" and "climb the stairs" and "shiver in wintertime; sweat in summertime" are a few of the others. Rumors that the solar disk invaders come armed with solar flare guns remain unconfirmed.<br />
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| :''Go to story'': [http://solarknowledge.blogspot.com/2011/01/massive-solar-disk-part-of-65-million.html Massive Solar Disk Part of $65 Million Oregon Project]
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| === Thursday | January 13, 2011 ===
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| '''Feds to Portland: time to start profiling based on religion or political views'''<br />
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| After the attempted bomb plot in Pioneer Courthouse Square, it surely is time to call in the FBI to profile Portland religious and political minorities as terrorists. What's that? The FBI were the ones who entrapped Mohamed Mohamud into committing that attempted bomb plot in the first place? Who cares! Muslims and radicals bad!
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| :''Go to story'': [http://news.opb.org/article/40599-portland-town-hall-planned-joint-terrorism-task-force/ Portland Town Hall Planned On Joint Terrorism Task Force]
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| :''Go to story'': [http://blogs.wweek.com/news/2011/01/10/city-hall-mayor-announces-location-for-joint-terrorism-task-force-meeting/ City Hall: Mayor Announces Location for Joint Terrorism Task Force Meeting]
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| === Wednesday | January 12, 2011 ===
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| [[File:Bike Trailer Kids.jpg|thumb|Bike Trailer Kids - Photo: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/33764571@N00/2691706214/sizes/l/in/photostream/ Howard N2GOT]]]
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| '''Greenlick To Bicycle Trailer Pullers: "Lose the kids."'''<br />
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| State Rep. Mitch Greenlick (District 33, Northwest Portland/Forest Park) don't want you to pull no trailer full o' li'l tots with no bicycle. Maybe he reckons it's dangerous. Figures some car drivin' fool could run over the little ones, trailer 'n' all. Why don't somebody tell ol' Greenlick he oughta ban humans beings from drivin' them dang fool horseless carriages instead!?! That'll save a coupla lives, at least.
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| :''Go to story'': [http://bikeportland.org/2011/01/12/oregon-house-bills-would-prohibit-wearing-headphones-carrying-kids-under-six-while-biking-45860 Oregon House bills would prohibit wearing headphones, carrying kids under six while biking - Updated]
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| === Tuesday | January 11, 2011 ===
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| [[File:Filthy Lucre Piggies.jpg|thumb|Filthy lucre piggies. Photo: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucias_clay/1064824543/sizes/l/in/photostream/ Lucias Clay]]]
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| '''Filthy Lucre Update!'''<br />
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| Last week, PortlandWikiNewsLeakers brought you a report about "a series of workshops about managing money" (Thursday | January 6, 2011 - "Now You Can Learn To Deal With Your Share Of The Root Of All Evil!"). Good news! Now you can learn about handling your filthy lucre from a public sector source: [[Multnomah County Library]]. [[Smart Saving]] is the library's new financial literacy program that "helps people develop the skills to plan a budget, pay off debt, save for retirement or college, invest, and make sound home buying decisions." The series begins Wednesday, January 12, 2011.<ref>[http://www.multcolib.org/ref/smartsaving/ Smart Saving]</ref>
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| :''Go to story'': [http://www.multcolib.org/ref/smartsaving/ Multnomah County Library's Smart Saving]
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| === Monday | January 10, 2011 ===
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| [[File:Readers Theatre Repertory little logo.jpg|thumb|[[Readers Theatre Repertory]] Presents ''Bloody Ordinary'']]
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| '''The Banality Of The Bloody Ordinary'''<br />
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| ''Bloody Ordinary'' is the "controversial examination of American injustice" through a reinterpretation of Harold Pinter's masterpiece, ''One for the Road''. Directed by [[David Berkson]] ([[Readers Theatre Repertory]]), the story depicts a master interrogator and his torture victims. After the performance, political science professor [[Norm Diamond]] will moderate a "talk with" among the audience and the cast. "I wish I could say that this play's subject matter is dated, but unfortunately, it's not," says Berkson, who sees the production as a thought-provoking starting point, rather than an end. ''Bloody Ordinary'' opens at [[Blackfish Gallery]] (420 NW 9th Ave. | 503-224-2634 | [http://www.blackfish.com/ www.blackfish.com]) Fri., Jan. 14, 8 p.m. and Sat., Jan. 15, 8 p.m. Admission: $8. More info: [http://www.readerstheatrerep.org/ www.readerstheatrerep.org].<br />
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| :''Go to website'': [http://www.readerstheatrerep.org/ www.readerstheatrerep.org]
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