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Gluten might be the only thing holding some of us together. Did you ever think of that? No you only think about yourself.

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It would seem the school is covering for this asshole... or they're just fuKKKing cowards... or 100% agree with her. Their Twitter is "Protected" now.

And just in case some of you in here don't know this: The VAST Majority of Land in CA, OR and WA are FULL to the Brim with Racist shit-stained Hillbilly MotherfuKKKers. Just sayin'...

https://twitter.com/mabelru...

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Teachers are degreed people. In what universe does an intelligent person decide to wear blackface to teach a lesson?

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That sounds Latin. What's it mean?

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Well if you can't trust the information you get from a crappy homemade sign posted in a crappy Nissan(?) Then I just don't know who to trust

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You live in the PNW and I'm just a southerner who has visited Seattle a couple of times, so I defer to your expertise, but in Seattle I saw lots of Asians wherever I went. Not visiting, clearly working there and living their lives there.

It stood out to me because at the time (well, and even now) I had not seen nearly as many Asians here in the southern US, at least not in my state.

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They've gotten less jokey during the pandemic.

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Pefferle said, “The Clean Cafe desires to serve tasty food free of gluten, dairy, soy, corn, eggs, peanuts, and cane sugar, as well as organic or raw options."(blinks) Is there much left to serve after all that? Was meat, fish, potatoes and broccoli 95% of their menu?

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Ta, Stephen. I. Just. Can't. Even.

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Oregon is such a weird place. Right wing racists in places like Bend and left wing nutters in Portland and outlying areas that are easily radicalized. I haven't been there in 25 years, but it had that odd vibe then, too. On the other hand, Powell's!

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A standard Portland joke is that the monsters start at the urban growth boundaries.

What you say about the West Coast is true, but it’s important to note that the population thins the farther you get from urban areas; so greater land mass doesn’t necessarily mean greater numbers of people.

The failure of the recall vote in California reflects this. Sure, they bounced Gavin Newsom in Modoc County and other places in northeastern California, but that couldn’t counter SF and LA.

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It helps to remember that each chapter relates—albeit in strange ways—to chapters of “The Odyssey.” That and Leopold Bloom is one of great humanistic characters in literature and, like most of us, fucked up in his own special ways.

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Isn't silver iodide what they used to use to remove warts? She might disappear completely.

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You mean this guy?

“Kristof is particularly well known for his reporting on Sudan. At the beginning of 2004, he was among the first reporters to visit Darfur and describe "the most vicious ethnic cleansing you've never heard of." He recounted what he called "a campaign of murder, rape and pillage by Sudan," and he was among the first to call it genocide. His biography says he has made 11 trips to the region, some illegally by sneaking in from Chad, and on at least one occasion he was detained at a checkpoint when the authorities seized his interpreter and Kristof refused to leave him behind.”

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Whoops, my bad. Obvs geography isn't my strong suit. Pretty bad that on my mom's side we are related to Jessie Applegate. But, then again, I never claimed to be a big fan of Oregon.

Thank you for clarifying, yukondan.

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She's a "special education assistant," which means she all she could have done was take a class at DeVry.

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