Feb. 18: President Obama coming to Oregon

PORTLAND TRIBUNE, 2/11/2011 by By Jim Redden - "Governor says trip will spotlight high-tech future: President Obama will travel to Oregon and visit the Intel Corp. campus in Hillsboro on Friday, Feb. 18. ∴ Gov. John Kitzhaber welcomed the visit, saying it demonstrated the president’s interest in the state’s new strategies for job creation and ensuring long-term competitiveness."Read more at the Portland Tribune...

COMMENT: Re: Obama coming to Oregon ∴ Why am I NOT overjoyed? ∴ Others will say this far better than I, but I must say it. And I cannot say this strongly enough. ∴ This city is considered the Bluest of the Blue, only because the rest of the state and a great portion of the local electorate are totally dismissed and even worked over by Portland's local, state, and regional governments. ∴ A great many of the people I meet will open up to tell me they believe, they know and fully understand, that we live in not just a liberal, but a hostile-liberal environment. ∴ You cannot have a real "conversation with Oregon" if you lock half the people out, and meet with your own clique behind the closed doors of your echo chamber. ∴ Frankly, that is not American. It is not like really the Oregon I knew and loved. ∴ This has come a long way, and cannot be corrected by a couple of group hugs. "We" have crossed too many big rivers for that. ∴ But it is what we've had these last couple of decades. --Jerry

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“In God We Trust” in Capitol Visitor’s Center

PRESS RELEASE, 10/1/2009 - WASHINGTON, DC: U.S. Congressman Mike Pence released the following statement after the unveiling of our national motto "In God We Trust" engraved in stone in the Capitol Visitor Center:

"Our nation's rich spiritual heritage was further declared with the unveiling of our national motto ‘In God We Trust,' carved in stone in the recently completed Capitol Visitor Center.

"I am grateful for the leadership of Congressman Dan Lungren who introduced the legislation directing the Architect of the Capitol to emblazon this sacred motto in the Visitor's Center, which garnered the support of 410 Members in the House, as well as for the strong leadership of Congressman Randy Forbes, the Chairman of the Congressional Prayer Caucus.

"This motto is now permanently etched in the Center which now serves as the gateway into the United States Capitol building, and it is my hope that this will always be a visible reminder of the faith from which we come and the God who has so greatly blessed our nation."

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