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=== Tuesday | December 14, 2010 === | |||
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'''New "Fresh Meat" [[Rose City Rollers]] Roll In As Veterans Roll Out'''<br /> | |||
"Shiny new bright skaters: [[Awnry O’Hulligan]] joined [[GNR]], and the [[Heathers]] drafted [[Teqkill’ya]], [[White Flight]], [[Shame Girl]], and [[Uff-Da]]. Recent departures: GNR lost [[Cher the Pain]], [[Axl Blows]], and [[Knocker Brown]] to retirement. The Heathers are losing [[Viagrra Falls]], and the skater formerly known as [[Mick U Cry]] is now skating for the [[Wheels of Justice]] only as [[Mick Swagger]]. [[Rhea Derange]] is also going travel team only, and [[Rose the Rioter]] said goodbye. The [[High Rollers]] have been standing pat since September. Big changes are afoot this week as the [[Fresh Meat]] draft is coming up on Thursday."<br /> | |||
:''Go to story'': [http://www.rosecityrollers.com/blog/2010/12/skater-resources-update/ Skater Resources Update] | |||
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=== Monday | December 13, 2010 === | === Monday | December 13, 2010 === | ||
[[File:Green-jelly-beans.jpg|thumb|Let them eat green jelly beans.]] | [[File:Green-jelly-beans.jpg|thumb|Let them eat green jelly beans.]] | ||
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*[http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/12/07/oregon.spy.plea/ Son sentenced for helping ex-CIA father restart spy career from prison] | *[http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/12/07/oregon.spy.plea/ Son sentenced for helping ex-CIA father restart spy career from prison] | ||
*[http://www.justice.gov/usao/or/PressReleases/2010/20101108_Nicholson.html Imprisoned Spy Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Act as an Agent of the Russian Government and Money Laundering] | *[http://www.justice.gov/usao/or/PressReleases/2010/20101108_Nicholson.html Imprisoned Spy Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Act as an Agent of the Russian Government and Money Laundering] | ||
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Revision as of 08:44, 14 December 2010
News
Tuesday | December 14, 2010
New "Fresh Meat" Rose City Rollers Roll In As Veterans Roll Out
"Shiny new bright skaters: Awnry O’Hulligan joined GNR, and the Heathers drafted Teqkill’ya, White Flight, Shame Girl, and Uff-Da. Recent departures: GNR lost Cher the Pain, Axl Blows, and Knocker Brown to retirement. The Heathers are losing Viagrra Falls, and the skater formerly known as Mick U Cry is now skating for the Wheels of Justice only as Mick Swagger. Rhea Derange is also going travel team only, and Rose the Rioter said goodbye. The High Rollers have been standing pat since September. Big changes are afoot this week as the Fresh Meat draft is coming up on Thursday."
- Go to story: Skater Resources Update
Monday | December 13, 2010
Green Consumerism: Let Us Count The Logic Flaws
It's no secret that ever since we humans domesticated ourselves (organizing ourselves into "civilizations," for instance), we've embarked on a one-way trip to self-extinction. This is made most obvious, perhaps, by the clever little gadgets we invent: nuclear weapons, automobiles, robotic warfare, "free market" economics, frankenfoods,[1] Nazi gas chambers and many, many others. But sometimes it's the mundane "little things" like "green consumerism," as TreeHugger.com points out, that makes our sad fate most obvious. Happy holidays.
- Go to story: 5 Green Things We Really Need More Of
Sunday | December 12, 2010
More Wall Street Bonus Equivalents Diverted To Oregon Mortgage Payment Assistance Program
As reported by PortlandWikiNewsLeaks last Friday, the Oregon Mortgage Payment Assistance Program has cleverly found a way to divert cash payout equivalents normally reserved for the filthy rich to aid struggling Oregon mortgage defraudees. According to Jolynne Ash at www.portlandmyway.com, "Oregon has $220 million dollars to assist homeowners facing foreclosure with making their monthly payments. Qualifying applicants will be chosen at random and may receive mortgage payment assistance of up to $20,000. Applications will only be accepted between December 10 and January 14, 2011 so act now and spread the word." If the figure of $220 million in available assistance is accurate (up from $100 million, as reported on Friday), the number of Wall Street Bonus Equivalents (WSBE) available to assist struggling victims of Wall Street's mortgage fraud has risen from 1 to 2 & 1/5 (assuming an average $100 million bonus for each Wall Street derivatives trader).
- Go to stories:
- Go to help page: Oregon Homeownership Stabilization Initiative
Saturday | December 11, 2010
Imagine A Whole Lot More
Portland City Commissioner, Nick Fish muses that "you may have noticed an undeveloped wedge of land between I-84 and I-205. Instead, imagine an oasis of greenery, trails, and recreation activities." But why stop imagining there? After all, didn't Barney the Purple Dinosaur urge folks to "use your imaginations"? Imagine replacing the ugly and dangerous I-84 and I-205 highways with delightful light rail trains and bike paths filled with joyous bicyclists. Imagine all that yukky edge city, suburban and exurban sprawl morphing into healthy, sustainable ecovillages. Imagine there's no hell below us; above us only sky. And can you imagine all the people sharing all the world? Or "someday" when the world will "live as one"?
- Go to story: Gateway Green milestone
- Go to purple dinosaur: Barney & Friends
- Go to lyrics: Imagine's Lyrics written by John Lennon
Friday | December 10, 2010
TOTAL SHOCKER!! One Wall Street Bonus Check Diverted To Bail Out 5000 Delinquent Oregon Mortgage Defraudees!
What will that unfortunate derivatives trader tell his or her family? What if your $100 million bonus check was suddenly snatched away from you just before Christmas and you were forced to make ends meet on nothing but your utterly inadequate seven figure salary!?! Can't those shiftless Oregon deadbeats just cower graciously in a tent city, abandoned sports stadium or squalid homeless shelter and stop grasping so greedily for the hard-earned gratuities that Wall Street traders, corporate executives and other captains of "free enterprise" so richly deserve?
- Go to story: Oregon to Launch $100 Million Mortgage Assistance Initiative
- Go to help page: Oregon Homeownership Stabilization Initiative
- Go to homeless shelter: Oregon Homeless Shelters: "With the recession in Oregon, many of these shelters now have waiting lists. Many waiting lists are very long."
Thursday | December 9, 2010
Interview: Public Servant & Bike Pusher
Elizabeth Trinh first became a part of the Holiday Bike Drive when she began signing up participants at the Housing Authority of Portland. Now she volunteers for the Community Cycling Center's Holiday Bike Drive, and translates bicycle safety materials into Vietnamese. Her efforts "have greatly enhanced" the organization's "ability to reach more families more effectively."
- Go to story: Holiday Bike Drive Stories: Elizabeth Trinh, Community Partner and Volunteer Translator
Wednesday | December 8, 2010
Carefully Crafted Jobs Program For Imprisoned Spies Squashed By Authorities
Nathan Nicholson, the son of the highest ranking CIA officer ever to be sentenced for espionage, just wanted to help his imprisoned father reestablish his spying career. "Daddy spy"--Harold James "Jim" Nicholson--is currently serving a 283-month (23-year) sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Sheridan, Oregon after pleading guilty in 1997 to spying for Russia. The younger Nicholson--who pleaded guilty last year to helping his father restart his spying career--was sentenced Tuesday to probation and community service "for continuing his jailed father's espionage activities."
Go to stories:
- Son sentenced for helping ex-CIA father restart spy career from prison
- Imprisoned Spy Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Act as an Agent of the Russian Government and Money Laundering
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