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    Hotels in portland

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    So I am meeting up with a girl I am seeing, so I am only interested in 4 or 5 star hotels that are nice for a romantic tryst

     

    If you had to choose between:

    Embassy Suites

    The Westin

    Hotel Modera

    The Nines

     

    What would it be?

     

    I am interested in trying out Hotel Modera or the Nines, but I have not stayed there ever. Any thoughts. A part of me wants to try something new, but a part of me knows the Westin and Embassy Suites to be good.

     

    Thoughts?

     

    Thanks,

    Josh

    Hotels in portland

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hey guys,

     

    Does anyone have any recommendations for a good hotel in Portland? I want something somewhat nice, but I also want to stay in the range of $100-$150 a night. I need it for Oct 7-9 (2 nights).

     

    Does anyone have any recommendations or even know of any website for deals?

     

    Thanks,

    Josh

    So where is all the outcry about "Obama's War"?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    3. Obama is a better president than McCain would be.

    Have you looked into the alternate dimension of our multiverse and seen how the world would be in an alternate reality? Or all you just speculating here?

     

    Speculating, based on what he said in the campaign.

     

    5. Anyone who joins the US military is an unfortunate, misinformed, and ill-educated individual who we should hope won't be turned into a psychopathic murderer.

    Yet they protect your ability to sit behind a keyboard and mock them.

     

    They simply do not. The US military reduces my freedom and my safety, it does not protect me in any way, shape, or form that I want or find not morally reprehensible. The US military protects my ability to exploit people in other countries due to military hegemony, but not since the 1940s has the US military protected anyone, and almost all military activity (including, in some ways, WWII) is a criminal offense that would have our country's leaders hanged next to the Nazis at Nuremburg.

     

    Look at Iraq, Panama, Grenada, Libya, Afghanistan, the Phillipines, East Timor, Latin America, Africa, and let's tally up where US soldiers were protecting and where they were coercing the local populace as an arm of US economic colonialism, and let's see what we come up with.

     

    I highly suggest 9-11 (or any other book) by Noam Chomsky, A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, and most especially the documentary Why We Fight which is available here.

     

    6. Serious anti-war activists have always known 1-5 and condemned Obama's wars.

    There always has to be a criteria or distinction between "serious" activists and the pansies who just talk the talk, right? I mean, if you're not in the ALF, you're not a "serious" vegan, right?

     

    I don't understand what you're trying to say here. What I'm saying is that peace activists who are not holding signs to be fashionable, do not support Afghanistan.

     

    7. Revolution.

    You can fight the fight, man. I don't want to. I thought I did at one time, but I'm content living in a great country, having a comfortable home, friends, leisure activities, romantic partners, and all the wonderful things that life is worth living for, many of which I haven't even mentioned. If you want to be sprawled out on the asphault by an FBI bullet to the dome, more power to you brother, keep up the good fight.

     

    I definitely also want to be content and enjoy the good things in life. I don't think it's a yes/no issue though. I was just listening to Democracy Now! and it turns out Martin Sheen has been arrested for anti-war activity more times than years he has been alive.

     

    But the lifestyle we lead is afforded to us in many ways by inequality served at the end of a gun. Sometimes it's less obvious (Colombian military trained at the School of the Americas on how to terrorize and kidnap their populace, so they can privatize utilities and bring in United Fruit Company to give us cheap bananas) than others (US supporting the extermination in East Timor, current support of the Turkish government as they massacre their Kurdish population) but rest assured that what we enjoy is, in a lot of ways, at a terrible cost.

     

    I think we have a moral responsibility to stop this any way we can.

     

    Hey,

     

    I appreciate the time you took to write out your well thought out post that was devoid of some of the childish ad hominem remarks of some of the earlier posters.

     

    I respect your opinion but I disagree. That is all.

     

    Josh

    Ryan's "Hope to compete again in 2014" log

    in Online Training Journals & Blogs

    Posted

    Ryan,

     

    Your log is very inspirational. I know I always read it when you update it.

     

    I also like how you have been commenting on your life situation in your blog. I love the honesty. I crave it in myself and others, it is so meaningful to me. My life has both been totally shitty and awesome in the last couple of months, so I know where you are coming from.

     

    @ finding the passion in lifting: For me it has been something that has waxed and waned, and transformed itself and it's purpose over the last couple of years. I was getting tired of my bodybuilding routine in the last couple of months, and now I am working with an olympic lifting coach, and finding so much joy and interest in that right now. I'm not looking to compete in oly lifting or anything, I've never been that strong, but this style of training is fun and will also build up my physique, and so I am very passionate about it. In time I'm sure you will find your next big passion and run with it.

     

    Josh

    So where is all the outcry about "Obama's War"?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    1. Obama, like many other presidents in history, is a war criminal.

    Alright.

     

    2. Obama, like virtually every other president in history, is a criminal.

    ?

     

    3. Obama is a better president than McCain would be.

    Have you looked into the alternate dimension of our multiverse and seen how the world would be in an alternate reality? Or all you just speculating here?

     

    4. The US government is a criminal institution.

    No comment.

    5. Anyone who joins the US military is an unfortunate, misinformed, and ill-educated individual who we should hope won't be turned into a psychopathic murderer.

    Yet they protect your ability to sit behind a keyboard and mock them.

     

    6. Serious anti-war activists have always known 1-5 and condemned Obama's wars.

    There always has to be a criteria or distinction between "serious" activists and the pansies who just talk the talk, right? I mean, if you're not in the ALF, you're not a "serious" vegan, right?

     

    7. Revolution.

    You can fight the fight, man. I don't want to. I thought I did at one time, but I'm content living in a great country, having a comfortable home, friends, leisure activities, romantic partners, and all the wonderful things that life is worth living for, many of which I haven't even mentioned. If you want to be sprawled out on the asphault by an FBI bullet to the dome, more power to you brother, keep up the good fight.

    Sydney from Aug 5 - 14

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    You should get in touch with Chris or others while you're out there.

     

    Have fun!

    Chris has PMed me and we plan on hanging out for sure.

     

    I leave tomorrow!

     

    I don't know if we have any other forum members down there, but if we do yall should get in touch!

     

    Josh

    Sydney from Aug 5 - 14

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hey yall,

     

    I will be in Sydney Australia from Aug 5 - Aug 14. I will be there next weekend for a workshop but will basically have tons of free time and am on vacation.

     

    Gonna probably do the typical tourist type stuff as well as go to bars/clubs to do my thing Aussie style.

     

    If any of yall want to meet up, you should PM me before Monday. We can grab lunch or go out or something. I don't know how much I'll be lifting but I'll be down to go to the gym if you want.

     

    Also if anyone has any recommendations on cool shit to do, I am currently figuring out an itinerary of some sort so I'm open to suggestions.

     

    Cheers,

    Josh

    Random Thread

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    "she like where you goin I ain't got my shoes and purse

    I said it's none of your concern and she yelled (your a jerk!)"

     

    This song is so dumb, but I dig it. Maybe it's cuz I always think of the way girls play-hit you when they call you a jerk, whenever that happens it always makes me lol.

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