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Geez, I didn't even get a chance to comment on Ted Williams before he crashed and burned. What I wanted to say was, "A lifetime of woe will not be washed away by 9 minutes of fame..."

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Comic distributor Diamond has cut off shipments to Borders. At one point, Borders sold near 1/3rd of all manga books in the country. Hopefully, this won't hurt the publishers or Diamond too badly.

After all, these are MY publishers and distributor....

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Housing prices in Bend have now dropped to a 5.5 year low. Thus outlasting my advice to people a few years ago to "Wait a couple of years before buying a house."

Hey, these prices could still go down significantly. Forget the rest of the country. Focus. This is Bend.

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Interesting thing about the Stress Index rankings to me, is that Deschutes County, despite having a lower unemployment rate than Crook County, has nearly double the number of foreclosures, and more bankruptcies.

I suspect that Bendites were more likely to overextend.

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This is painful to say, but it's probably unfair for us to expect Rep. Gifford's to magically revert to what she once was. Like I said, The Damage Done. This isn't a T.V. movie.

Today comes news that only 10% of people even survive such a wound. And that she opened an "eye" not "eyes" with all that signifies....

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I KNEW I didn't want them sticking that thing into me!

"St. Charles: Colonoscope Not Fully Sanitized." KTVZ, 1/12/11.

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