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Mauro Molino, Barbera d'Alba 2009
Garda Chiaretto Rose
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Vineyard 10 White
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Pinot Gris, Columbia Valley 2009
L'Hortus, Rose de Saignee 2010
Maculan, Pino & Toi 2008
McKinley Springs, Bombing Range Red 2008
Trader Joe's Pinot Gris 2009
Montes Alpha, Cabernet 2007
Gran Sasso, Sangiovese, Terre di Chieti 2009
Garda, Classico Chiaretto Rose
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1999
Picos del Montgo, Tempranillo 2008
Chateau de Montmirail, Vacqueyras 2008
La Granja 360, Syrah 2009
Montgras, Carmenere Reserva 2009
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Cabernet 2008
Kirkland, Pinot Grigio 2010
Trader Joe's Coastal Syrah 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Merlot 2008
Trader Joe's Coastal Chardonnay 2009
Vieux Papes Red
Domaine de l'Aujardiere, Chardonnay 2009
Santa Rita, Cabernet, Medalla Real 2007
Penfold's, Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet 2008
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Laforet, Burgogne Chardonnay 2009
Columbia Winery, Merlot 2007
Bonterra, Cabernet 2008
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2009
Maquis Lien 2006
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B.R. Cohn, Cabernet, Silver Label 2006
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Palo Alto, Reserve Red 2008
Menguante, Garnacha 2008
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
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Haden Fig, Pinot Noir 2009
Vega Montan, Mencia 2008
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Mount Defiance, Hellfire (White) 2008
Root: 1, Cabernet 2008
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Pinot Grigio 2009
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Columbia Crest, Two Vines, Vineyard 10 Rose, 2007
Abacela, Grenache Rose 2009
Avia Cabernet 2004
Lemelson Pinot Noir, Thea's Selection 2007
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Cana's Feast, Bricco Red, 2006
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Owen Roe, Sharecropper's Cabernet, 2008
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Comments (15)
As Judge Brandeis said, sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Posted by Joey | December 15, 2010 10:00 AM
As Mussolini said, fear is the best form of crowd control.
Posted by the other white meat | December 15, 2010 10:03 AM
I prefer sunlight over fear.
But I try and live as if everybody could see (or would see)everything I do.
Posted by Harry | December 15, 2010 10:20 AM
Many years ago, long before the internet existed, I thought about creating a "bureaucrats' confessional;" something that would be set up just like a Catholic confessional, where bureaucrats could come to pass along their guilt secrets, and receive absolution.
Obviously, the internet makes my original idea obsolete, but the term, "Bureaucrats' Confessional" might made a good name for a website that serves the same purpose.
Then, in a couple of years, we could sell it to some internet giant for billions of dollars, if we're not already in jail on some trumped up criminal charges.
Posted by Peter Apanel | December 15, 2010 10:25 AM
I think WikiLeaks, as I understand it, is set up to publish pretty much every kind of thing. So the infrastructure is there. We just need a source or two. Volunteers?
Posted by Allan L. | December 15, 2010 10:32 AM
Here's another resource:
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/why-im-posting-bail-money
Just stay out of the clouds!
Posted by Starbuck | December 15, 2010 10:36 AM
How about Oregon GovDocs?
Now with TriMet salaries!
Posted by Garage Wine | December 15, 2010 10:59 AM
I'd be happy to see this type of thing locally, but I must say that the peculiar thing about local corruption is that it all just happens out in the open and no one reacts (from the MSM, to the public, to govt auditors, to the attorney general).
The shenanagins of developer contributions to officials, followed by sweet deals through the PDC, isn't even concealed. It's all documented in the local paper. And it isn't small potatos corruption either, but millions of dollars.
Posted by Snards | December 15, 2010 11:07 AM
I've seen that acronym MSM in that context elsewhere but I don't know the meaning. Google doesn't have any explanation that fits. I doubt it means DMSO2 here!
Posted by Starbuck | December 15, 2010 11:16 AM
MSM = Main Stream Media
Posted by Nonny Mouse | December 15, 2010 11:36 AM
In this context "the main stream media" would be mainly the Oregonian, the local TV news, and to a lesser extent the Willy Week.
We have slim picking here, and none of them employ journalists bright/experienced enough to ferret out the details of local corruption.
Posted by Snards | December 15, 2010 12:07 PM
Thanks, Nonny and Snards!
Posted by Starbuck | December 15, 2010 12:47 PM
Willie Week has a few good diggers, if they have the time. But, the "everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" collective delusion always wins. As long as the beer and pot are good, who cares, aeh??
Posted by dyspeptic | December 15, 2010 1:47 PM
persistent rumors has it that local hacks have collected a treasure trove of files on PPB cops, as well as their personnel files to soon be dumped in WikiLeaks-style with intent to embarrass some recent decisions by the authorities that were told repeatedly by concerned citizens not to do so. So, I would say when the Big Dump comes, we all need to man our computers and pile it on the PPB, City Hall and whoever gets caught with this Big Dumping. Happy Dumping!!!
Posted by just a rumor-mongerer | December 15, 2010 3:57 PM
bojackleaks has a certain how-you-say? franchise 'brand' sounding name, coming as it does on the heels of today's FOXleaks:
FOXLEAKS: Fox boss ordered staff to cast doubt on climate science, December 15, 2010, by Ben Dimiero
A Dec.2008 memo has been leaked, in which FOX News D.C. bureau boss Sammon ordered on-air 'news' persons to ALWAYS LIE that global climate chaos is questioned and unproven, whereas the established and vetted truth is that climate chaos is increasingly destablized, massively ecologically lethal, and caused by continuing human industrial processes, activities, natural resource depredations and emitted pollution. Of course since then, Oregon's FOX-affiliated 'news' broadcasting LIARS has perpetrated the fraud and harm deceits of that public false-information, as LIARS was so ordered and complicit in the conspiracy, and denying accredited science and scientists his (personal got-greedy) access to public airwaves.
Just to freshly remind applicants for franchise '-leaks' branding, the mission purpose is to raise suspicions of each other among co-conspirators, in order to impair the communications within the group needed to conduct the secret planning and antisocial powerlusting conspiracy. So none may assume a partner in crimes has 'got his back,' and each should suspect everyone has got the memo exposing them.
... as explained HERE. (a 3QuarksDaily.com finalist for the 2010 Politics Prize award)However, if you are set to dish it, Jack, perhaps I can bring some dirt, (not honey), and we'll see how long you got the server, in commission.

We saw what happened to the server in Ashland, Oregon, June 2006
(by USGov't-hired thugs with crowbars at midnight)
where the hard-drives hosted dirt on CIA, FBI, DoD, State Dept outlaw operations.
Archived:
FromTheWilderness.com/free/ww3/070506_offices_burglarized.shtml
FromTheWilderness.com/sitemap.html
Posted by Tenskwatawa | December 15, 2010 7:14 PM