Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with culture http://salem-news.com 2007 How about that? Somebody calls you by phone to solicit and offer for a service or product you have no interest in, and within the first 10 seconds you get called by your first name. Instant intimacy, unwanted and uncalled for. This is particularly offensive when done by a young person seemingly reading their cues from a commercially produced script. http://salem-news.com/articles/march102010/name-basis-l.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march102010/name-basis-l.php Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:23:00 PST Local motorcyclists from the Free Soul and Gypsy Joker motorcycle clubs gathering for pizza in Salem Friday night, didn't know that they would end up saving a family from a house fire. And they definitely didn't expect to be the ones who would actually man the fire hose and evacuate the family. Even with small explosions taking place, these biker firefighters held their ground. http://salem-news.com/articles/march062010/biker-firefighters-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march062010/biker-firefighters-tk.php Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:10:00 PST We of Salem-News.com and myself have invited our readers to 'ask Dr. Leveque' questions about medical marijuana. We received this question about libido and fertility on 5 Feb 2010, with a story about the original findings from UCSF Departments of Bio-Physics and Molecular Biology. Why they were doing research on human reproduction wasn't clear, but I have no arguments against it. http://salem-news.com/articles/february142010/fertility_pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february142010/fertility_pl.php Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:55:00 PST There are many of us who have to draw our line in the sand in this life, and it often isn't comfortable. It is very situational and largely circumstantial, but when we take any position that only fits outside the societal norm, we risk many things that more sheep-like people can legitimately expect to have on a daily basis. I knew from day one in this that I had a mission in this life. Then I could not have said what it was, but today as the editor of Salem-News.com I see it as quite obvious. http://salem-news.com/articles/february112010/zionism_series_tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february112010/zionism_series_tk.php Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:51:00 PST Of all of the horror stories about the corrupt legal system against marijuana users, this one takes the cake but I’m sure there are worse cases, if so, send them in. I have already posted about Marijuana Addiction and Fraudulent Therapy. This does it in spades. The criminal was a 20 year old male college student with a totally alcoholic mother and baaaad home environment. http://salem-news.com/articles/february112010/mj_misd_pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february112010/mj_misd_pl.php Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:13:00 PST The tunnel that a major engineering firm deemed feasible recently is actually a two-tunnel project. The engineers were paid to justify and rubber stamp it by the combined transportation agencies of Riverside and Orange Counties, and this insanity should be abandoned, NOW. The first phase is estimated at $8.6 billion, the second phase dependent upon funds generated by the first if you read the fine print. http://salem-news.com/articles/february112010/tunnel_rb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february112010/tunnel_rb.php Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:12:00 PST You have probably read about my take on this subject. It continues to be of great importance as more and more states are waking up, coming out of the Reefer Madness closet and finally recognizing the FACT that marijuana/cannabis is really a MIRACLE MEDICINE highly effective for literally hundreds of diseases. The fact that it is a mild euphoriant, brain stimulant substance gives it an added benefit which almost no other medicine can claim. As such, it is not a bit like Amphetamines and METH which are powerful brain stimulants but also highly addictive and even lethally toxic. http://salem-news.com/articles/february102010/mj_lies_pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february102010/mj_lies_pl.php Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:56:00 PST The "Love Is the Answer Remix Contest" that launches today offers one Grand Prize winner a chance to participate in a one-on-one collaboration with fromtman Rivers Cuomo. Winners will be hand-selected from semi-finalists by Weezer, Interscope/Geffen and Indaba Music, and will be featured on an official release, as well as weezer.com and myspace.com/weezer. http://salem-news.com/articles/february102010/weezer_ak.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february102010/weezer_ak.php Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:35:00 PST Guys, who wants to dawg paddle over to the shallow end of the Salem-News online pool for a while? Tired of all of those intellectually demanding, complex articles, the ones which after you’ve read them and the mind-bending comments sections that follow, you only succeed in giving yourself a migraine-sized headache? http://salem-news.com/articles/february102010/val_day_rb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february102010/val_day_rb.php Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:41:00 PST With more than a third of our children now overweight and many already diabetic, Americans of all political colors should commend the First Lady for her recently-announced campaign against childhood obesity. But taking on such an enormous problem is going to require a lot more than praise. And it will require more than heart-healthy choices, limited TV, and “opportunities for exercise”—buzzwords that public health experts have been tossing around for years with no apparent effect. http://salem-news.com/articles/february102010/obama_kids_jca.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february102010/obama_kids_jca.php Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:56:00 PST The former Vice Presidential candidate from Alaska and running mate of John McCain, is solidly earning the nickname Sarah "Death Panels" Palin, and she was at it again this weekend according to Jon Vogel, Executive Director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Palin's joining of the so-called 'tea-baggers' may live to haunt her, as more of their members simmer to the top of the news in the most unsavory ways. http://salem-news.com/articles/february102010/dems_palin.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february102010/dems_palin.php Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:34:00 PST A developing story in Oregon involves the dishonesty of police officers, and the judges who make the final call on their actions. When you think about it, the entire system is a conflict of interest because the traffic officers and the judges are on the same team. This creates real problems. The issues ring back to the 1950's and 1960's when police all over the U.S. were involved in suppressing people over race, gender, economic status, and their physical appearance. http://salem-news.com/articles/february052010/bad_cops_tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february052010/bad_cops_tk.php Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:39:00 PST Entropy, also known as the second law of thermodynamics, is the measure of disorder in a system. The entropy of the universe as a whole tends to a maximum. In the context of nations, this means that no nation or empire lasts indefinitely. On this point history is clear and unequivocal: Ancient Greece and Rome, Persian empire, Turkish empire, British empire, the Mongol empire of the 13th century which was the world’s largest contiguous empire. http://salem-news.com/articles/february052010/entropy_dj.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february052010/entropy_dj.php Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:22:00 PST I was 21 years old and a college graduate when I volunteered to be drafted into the WWII Army. I really didn’t have to go. I ended up in a seven private section with 18-year old boys. They were still exuberant boys and I had little in common with them except the Army BS. http://salem-news.com/articles/february042010/asking_telling_pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042010/asking_telling_pl.php Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:14:00 PST The Oregon Senate voted this morning to override a veto of Senate Bill 897 from the 2009 session. Democratic and Republican Leaders agreed that the bill is crucial to protecting public employees from unfair retirement calculation errors. The bill passed the Senate 28 – 0 in the 2009 legislative session. “A retiree shouldn’t be responsible for state agency math errors,” said Senate Republican leader Ted Ferrioli (R-John Day). http://salem-news.com/articles/february042010/pers_veto.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042010/pers_veto.php Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:54:00 PST Oregon National Guard soldiers currently deployed to Iraq may be in a war, but they're also in one of the world's oldest and most fascinating places. Master Sgt. Thomas Hovie of Salem, Oregon is a non-stop video photographer and editor. In this report showing soldiers of the 2-162 Infantry, Oregon National Guard, touring the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the palace of Saddam Hussein, Tom also doubles as reporter. http://salem-news.com/articles/february042010/babylon_th.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042010/babylon_th.php Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:16:00 PST Mario Benfield is the past commander of the only American Legion post whose membership is predominantly gay and lesbian. Benfield and other vets are sick of Pres. Clinton's 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' policy banning gays from military service if they are honest about their lives. http://salem-news.com/articles/february022010/gay_uniform_tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february022010/gay_uniform_tk.php Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:19:00 PST Boy oh boy do we get weird questions. Writing “ask Dr. Leveque, Pharmacologist” in my biography is a mixed blessing. One recent inquiry, “What is Spanish Fly and does it really work?”. I think every 15-year-old boy has heard about this, and it seems to pique his fancy. http://salem-news.com/articles/february022010/cantharides_pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february022010/cantharides_pl.php Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:40:00 PST The assumption is that each individual is capable of thinking for himself provided he or she is old enough to vote. Whether it be true or not is a matter of opinion. There is another sort of individual that exists in the corporate sense quite distinct from ordinary human beings, and it is to it that the Supreme Court directed its attention recently... http://salem-news.com/articles/january302010/votes_kr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january302010/votes_kr.php Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:50:00 PST Anybody who has read any of my medical marijuana articles in Salem-News.com, GOOGLE or several other websites knows that I am a strong advocate of this MIRACLE MEDICINE. In the meantime the ridiculous propaganda movie Reefer Madness still seems to be believable to many people. In fact Marijuana Addiction Therapy is widely advertised on television and on many websites. For my own peace of mind I decided that I had better look into it. First of all, if a person is arrested on any kind of marijuana charge the judge will say so many days, months or years in jail or go to a drug rehabilitation program. http://salem-news.com/articles/january292010/therapy_pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january292010/therapy_pl.php Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:20:00 PST Frequently I get emails asking about Migraines which affect about 30 million Americans and is probably one of the most devastatingly debilitating ills of mankind caused by dilation of blood vessels in the brain and causing pressure on the brain itself. It has been around for a long time and probably was first treated with alcohol which might have made it worse till the person was anesthetized by the alcohol. http://salem-news.com/articles/january272010/migraines_pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january272010/migraines_pl.php Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:27:00 PST At a golf course in Petion-Ville, where thousands of displaced Haitians live in camps without access to toilets and basic food supplies and water, some have started small businesses to survive. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says that there are 500 tents in this area that can hold up to 20,000 people. http://salem-news.com/articles/january272010/displaced_haiti_tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january272010/displaced_haiti_tk.php Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:02:00 PST One of the many things that we try to teach our children is how to make a good decision. Sometimes the problem can be that we may not always make good decisions ourselves or we may allow emotions to influence our choices. http://salem-news.com/articles/january262010/decisions_bs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january262010/decisions_bs.php Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:00:00 PST The staff of an orphanage in Haiti has contacted Salem-News.com in hope of locating a well known doctor who may be in a hospital in the Dominican Republic. Dr. Laine Jo Smith has an orphanage in Laplaine, Haiti. Lucille Innocent with Dr. Smith's team, says three days after the disaster, they received a text from him, stating that "He is alive, to come get him under the rumbles of the Perfection auto ecole in Delmas 28," Innocent said. http://salem-news.com/articles/january262010/doctor_tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january262010/doctor_tk.php Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:35:00 PST I think newspapers similar to The Hearst Newspaper chain like to sell lots of newspapers and this seems to have a catchy interest. So be it. I really can’t understand the big kafuffle, this has been going on for at least a million years. The male has always been the most assertive about this but not necessarily. Every male animal I know of is essentially polygamous. How about groupies and WWII victory girls? http://salem-news.com/articles/january262010/addicts_pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january262010/addicts_pl.php Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:56:00 PST Thirteen days following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti, tens of thousands of bodies remain buried beneath the rubble and in mass graves around the capital Port-au-Prince. As each day passes, the dead keep coming. Precious few of the quake victims are receiving proper burials. Other uncollected bodies have been burned in the streets. http://salem-news.com/articles/january252010/haiti_death_tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january252010/haiti_death_tk.php Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:52:00 PST Lights... cameras, action! A Hollywood themed birthday party this week in Salem celebrated a different aspect of movie super stardom. The grand red carpet was laid out for the 70th birthday party of Patricia Naas of West Salem, whose son-in-law is one of Hollywood's biggest names. Patricia's daughter is Susan Hartwick, wife of Joe Hartwick, President of feature film production for 20th Century Fox. http://salem-news.com/articles/january252010/mothers_tk_dp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january252010/mothers_tk_dp.php Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:51:00 PST United Nations peacekeepers from Brazil along with the United States Army distributed food today in Cite Soleil, one of the poorest and most troubled neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince. The partnership between American and UN forces strengthens the ability to secure an area while contributing to humanitarian aid on the ground. http://salem-news.com/articles/january252010/haiti_food_tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january252010/haiti_food_tk.php Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:15:00 PST The 2010 Winter Rod And Speed Show in Albany, Oregon was a blast from the past. Hundreds of cars of all varieties from throughout Oregon were on hand to show off their rolling works of art. Lee Morgan is one of the organizers, he talked to Salem-News.com about the exciting event that generated proceeds to help the family of a teenage girl named Cherokee, who died recently from cancer. http://salem-news.com/articles/january242010/car_show.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january242010/car_show.php Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:25:00 PST As the logistical challenges that have hampered the relief effort in Haiti begin to get ironed out, some of the injured have been brought to the Dominican Republic. The Dario Contreras Hospital in Santo Domingo is the city’s primary care center. Staff there have been mobilized to treat Haitians, especially children who have been suffering from injuries sustained in last week’s devastating earthquake. http://salem-news.com/articles/january212010/haiti_dominican_tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january212010/haiti_dominican_tk.php Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:11:00 PST