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COOL! Portland 'bike militia' protects lone night bikers 2008-02-07 14:51:00 What a truly neat idea and what a great service! I am sure that PSU students will use this! Its gets so damned dark here so early! Last month, a new Portland bike escort service began, providing cyclists who must ride at night a bike buddy to accompany them on their trip. The Portland Bike Militia, a group created last year, runs the bike escort service and came together with the goals of ...

Rally pumps up numbers against LNG terminals 2008-02-07 14:48:00 Lets please stop this... Not Oregon. Not LNG. SALEM -- A clear divide is emerging among Oregon Democrats in the fight over whether to build three liquefied natural gas terminals in Oregon, along with hundreds of miles of buried pipelines to move the gas to West Coast markets. At a rally Wednesday in Salem, Oregon House Speaker Jeff Merkley, D-Portland, who is hoping to be his party's U.S. ...

Atlantis Launches Carrying the STS-122 Crew 2008-02-07 14:43:00 Best of luck to the crew... MORE... Check out the video of the launch at NASA's site... ...

Revver is dying........................dead. 2008-02-07 14:07:00 Revver seems to have fallen on hard times and is looking to sell. Get this... it is looking to sell for 300K - 500K when it was started with an over 13 MILLION DOLLARS in investment!!! Its early buzz has imploded and now its death is slow... that sucks. But hey, there are simply too many video sites and the costs for streaming are far too expensive. How in the world does YouTube afford it?! ...

MIT - The time to act on global sustainability is NOW... 2008-02-07 13:56:00 Damn straight... it is the era of consequences. It's time for work toward sustainable development and sustainable energy systems to turn a corner, shifting emphasis from looking for possible solutions to taking action and finding ways to get those solutions implemented.That was the message that emerged as more than 300 researchers and students from 16 countries around the world converged on MIT ...

Thursday's links... 2008-02-07 13:44:00 USA TODAY COVERSTORY Romney OUT! FNC analysis - Romney McCain's running mate? Standoff in LA - officer / suspect killedWA child-rapist arrested in Oregon Five internet cables cut now!Conspiracy theories arise Fixed by weekend LL - Southern tornado footageMS - No fat people allowed in restaurantsFLASHBACK: How earthquake prone is Portland? ...

Ted Haggard quits 'gay cure' program - doomed to life of methy-gayness... 2008-02-07 13:43:00 Teddy Haggard has officially quit the oversight program which was supposed to cure his gayness issues ... and help him 'recover'. So his church has reacted by ditching him and saying 'so long!' -- he is doomed to a life of gayness!!! ...

Political minute... look at all this MONEY!!! 2008-02-07 13:34:00 AP is reporting that Obama has raised $7 MIL since Super Tuesday alone... while Hillary has raised $4 MIL along with injecting $5 MIL of her own money. Romney just announced also that he was going to give Clinton's campaign $30 MIL!?!?! WTF? So Romney has dropped out which many speculate has sealed the deal for McCain. ROMNEY 30 MILLION DOLLARS IN THE HOLE! Thats a lot of money to blow.. ...

Clips - Countdown and Buchanan... 2008-02-07 13:23:00 BUSHED! from Countdown... And secondly... a great quote from Buchanan... Pat Buchanan: McCain “will make Cheney look like Gandhi” ...

"If Attacked, Iran Will Target U.S. Forces in Neighboring Countries" 2008-02-07 13:11:00 From the mouth of the IRGC commander... but i guess this is saying, if they are attacked... by the US. If they are attacked by others I am sure they arnet going to be jumping on the US forces... but when we are attacked we attack back too... so whats so odd about this? The following are excerpts from an interview with the commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Gen. ...

Just Out covers Astoria... 2008-02-07 11:55:00 Portland's Just|Out had a great feature story all about Astoria and the Northern Oregon coast -- I thought it was great! Check it out! And they even feature my favorite place in Astoria... the Astoria CoffeeHouse... ...

Portland roads initiative to go to voters... 2008-02-07 11:44:00 Yesterday, Sam Adams released a statement about this - I really hope this all works out - seems it would really be worth it and do ALOT of good! Portland's City Council today erased a new street maintenance fee they passed just a week ago as the fee's chief backer, Commissioner Sam Adams, advocated putting it on the Nov. 4 ballot. The move followed weeks of tense negotiations, broken promises ...

Southern Tornadoes... 2008-02-06 19:13:00 I hope the best for those recovering from the tornadoes today in the south. NEWSWIRE... ...

VID: Robin Chase: Getting cars off the road and data into the skies 2008-02-06 18:36:00 Here is the lady who founded Zipcar and she gives a great talk at TED... <!--cut and paste--> ...

UK police lose 6 MILLION man hours from bureaucracy 2008-02-06 17:41:00 I suspect in many ways its worse in the US - but sometimes that red tape is the only thing between us and big brother. A senior officer said today that he fears the police have become a "minor irritant" and "almost an irrelevance" to criminal gangs. David Lindley, deputy chief constable of Leicestershire Police, said his force has to "dip in and out" of investigations, while a shortage of police ...