27 August 2025

Duh. High-dose THC products linked with adverse mental health outcomes. Legalization of pot was one of the worst decisions made by Oregon lawmakers. This started the flood of homeless criddlers and gronks. The last thing we need now is something that increases mental illness in young people.

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Kroger lays of 100 at the corporate office at the Fred Meyer HQ. This time, it's not the cashiers and restockers. It's the executives. More loss of tax base to Portland.

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Pfizer lays off 100 Bothell employees. Seattle Genetics was a star in the biotech scene in Seattle, with their successful drug brentuximab vedotin.  Then they became SeaGen. Then Pfizer bought them. Now Pfizer is shutting them down and moving manufacturing to North Carolina.  More jobs lost to Washington, so unattractive to business.

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People are finding out about the Palisades Fire charity donation fund. Celebrities Raised Millions for LA Fire Aid. Much of the Money Went to Programs for Illegal Aliens and Nonprofits That Only Assist 'Black and Brown Communities.' Yeah, what a joke. I bed hardly any Black and Brown folk owned property in Pacific Palisades that got burned down. This was just a grift to get more money.

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Google could get broken up this week. Really? I find that hard to believe. Who would have the guts to do that?

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Some people are criticizing Trump's move to buy a 10% stake in Intel, and worry that this it is dangerous for government to own a piece of a private company. It was felt to be important to keep alive an American chip maker.  I doubt this will happen again, or to just any company.  But clearly, though, the Taiwanese rule this space.

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