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Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2009
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
Guild, Red, Lot #02 2008
Dievole, Dievolino Sangiovese 2008
Laforet, Burgogne Chardonnay 2009
Columbia Winery, Merlot 2007
Bonterra, Cabernet 2008
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2009
Maquis Lien 2006
Scott Paul, Pinot Noir, Le Paulee 2007
Cameron, Chardonnay
B.R. Cohn, Cabernet, Silver Label 2006
Graffigna, Cabernet 2005
Palo Alto, Reserve Red 2008
Menguante, Garnacha 2008
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Felsina Berardenga, Vin Santo 1997
Anne Amie, Pinot Gris 2009
McKinley Springs, Bombing Ramge Red 2007
Vieux Papes Red
Dionysius Chardonnay 2009
Haden Fig, Pinot Noir 2009
Vega Montan, Mencia 2008
Chateau la Vernede, Coteaux du Languedoc 2007
Mount Defiance, Hellfire (White) 2008
Root: 1, Cabernet 2008
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Pinot Grigio 2009
Columbia Crest, Two Vines, Vineyard 10 White, 2008
Columbia Crest, Two Vines, Vineyard 10 Rose, 2007
Abacela, Grenache Rose 2009
Avia Cabernet 2004
Lemelson Pinot Noir, Thea's Selection 2007
Chateau de la Roulerie, Rose d'Anjou 2009
Casal Garcia, Vinho Verde Rose
La Ferme Julien, Rose 2008
Cana's Feast, Bricco Red, 2006
Hogue, Genesis Merlot, 2008
Owen Roe, Sharecropper's Cabernet, 2008
Kim Crawford, Unoaked Chardonnay 2008
J. Scott, Pinot Noir 2008
Edmunds St. John, White, Heart of Gold 2008
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2006
Stevenot, Cabernet, Sierra Foothills, "Stanford" 2000
Portuga, Vinho Rose 2009
Taylor Fladgate, First Estate Reserve Porto
Franciscan, Cabernet, Napa 2006
Chaparral de Vega Sindoa, Garnacha 2008
Quinta da Aveleda, Vinho Verde 2008
St. Francis, Chardonnay Sonoma 2008
E. Guigal, Cotes du Rhone Blanc, 2007
Edmunds St. John, Bone-Jolly, Gamay Noir 2008
St. Innocent, Pinot Noir 2006
Jigsaw, Pinot Noir 2007
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Merlot, Indian Wells 2007
Charles Shaw, Chardonnay 2008
Edmunds St. John, Bone-Jolly, Gamay Rosé 2009
Cameron, Willamette Valley Chardonnay
Il Valore, Sangiovese, Giovane, Puglia 2008
Duck Pond, Chardonnay, Wahluke Slope 2007
Kim Crawford, Marlborough Pinot Noir 2008
Domaine du Pesquier, Cotes du Rhone 2005
Cantina Zaccagnini, Montepulciano d'Abruzzo 2006
Domaine Matrot, Chardonnay, Bourgogne 2007
David Hill, Oregon Sparkling Wine, Brut
Chandler Reach, Monte Regalo 2006
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2008
Kirkland, Columbia Valley Merlot 2008
D'Aragon, Old Vine Garnacha 2008
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2005
Pavin & Riley, Merlot 2006
David Hill, Estate Pinot Noir, Barrel Select 2006
Castle Rock, Paso Robles Cabernet 2006
Magnificent, Cabernet, Steak House 2008
Conundrum 2008
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1998
Saint Cosme, Cotes-du-Rhone 2007
La Granja, Tempranillo 360, 2008
Santa Rita, Mendalla Real Cabernet 2006
Columbia Crest, Grand Estates Merlot 2006
Andezon, Cotes-du-Rhone 2007
Collegiata, Montepulciano d'Abruzzo
Troon, Druid's Fluid 2008
La Granja, Tempranillo 2008
Monte Antico, Toscana 2006
Vieux Papes, Blanc de Blancs
Jack London - The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
Jack Walker - The Extraordinary Rendition of Vincent Dellamaria
Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin
Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus - The Nanny Diaries
Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
Keith Richards - Life
F. Sionil Jose - Dusk
Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting
Justin Halpern - S#*t My Dad Says
Mark Herrmann - The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law
Barry Glassner - The Gospel of Food
Phil Stanford - The Peyton-Allan Files
Jesse Katz - The Opposite Field
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
David Sedaris - Holidays on Ice
Donald Miller - A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith
C.S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ivan Doig - Bucking the Sun
Penda Diakité - I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Grace Lin - The Year of the Rat
Oscar Hijuelos - Mr. Ives' Christmas
Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Steven Hart - The Last Three Miles
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Karen Armstrong - The Spiral Staircase
Charles Larson - The Portland Murders
Adrian Wojnarowski - The Miracle of St. Anthony
William H. Colby - Long Goodbye
Steven D. Stark - Meet the Beatles
Phil Stanford - Portland Confidential
Rick Moody - Garden State
Jonathan Schwartz - All in Good Time
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Anthony Holden - Big Deal
Robert J. Spitzer - The Spirit of Leadership
James McManus - Positively Fifth Street
Jeff Noon - Vurt
Miles run year to date: 54
At this date last year: 50
Total run in 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
In 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269
Comments (14)
Aw, gee whiz. 100 bucks to a politician's legacy factory? With all of the poor and needy around, and for whom $100 would make a difference, we should have a rule added for next year to place such political 501c3's out of bounds. C'mon.
Posted by Mojo | January 30, 2011 9:31 AM
As if the wealthy Bush family and friends can't swing their own show, to boot.
Posted by Mojo | January 30, 2011 9:33 AM
Next, it'll be the Goldschmidt Golden Gravy Train Foundation or the Sam Adams Home for Wayward Mentors, or the Dave Hunt Commemorative Legislative Kiosk....
Posted by Mojo | January 30, 2011 9:37 AM
As much fun as this is between the Bushie Foundation and the Starvation Army (who will take government contracts but believe they don't need to abide by the laws of the jurisdictions they take the funds from), I will be bowing out next year. Because I can't go for that.
I'd rather my charity donations be of a form that can be itemized anyway.
Posted by Nick | January 30, 2011 10:09 AM
Don't let the door hit you.
Posted by Jack Bog | January 30, 2011 10:16 AM
I see the NFC is a 2.5 point 'dog in the Pro Bowl today, and the Mariners are 125:1 to win the 2011 World Series! Current World Series favorites...the Philadelphia Phillies at 3:1.
Posted by Rich | January 30, 2011 10:23 AM
Congrats, Gary, from a lifelong liberal. Jack is right--your prerogative. I hope your $100 goes towards the library. I loves me some presidential libraries and museums.
Don't like it, Nick? Write a check to Carter or Clinton's foundations. That's -your- prerogative.
Posted by Paul Hamann | January 30, 2011 11:34 AM
Lighten up losers. Jack has taken a lot of time and his own money to give us some fun and help people. Ultimately everyone wins. With my abysmal team selections... I'm looking forward to the next soccer World Cup.
Posted by Ricardo | January 30, 2011 12:16 PM
We have been stopping at Presidential museums along the way across the country. Agree or disagree it is always interesting to see how these men wish to be remembered.
Currently we are in Texas. What else can I say? It sure ain't Oregon!
Posted by Portland Native on the road | January 30, 2011 2:06 PM
Excellent choice picking the Bush Foundation. Reading the website was the highlight of my otherwise humdrum day. "Results matter", indeed.
Hilarious!
Posted by none | January 30, 2011 4:19 PM
Congratulations Gary. I was hoping that foot fetish video of yours would surface so you would be disqualified under the strict ethical rules of this contest, but it didn't happen. Thanks Jack for making Sundays exciting all winter!
Posted by Biggest Cubs Loser | January 30, 2011 6:20 PM
Paul -
Don't worry, I am generous to charities whose work I believe in. As for presidents... shrug... they have enough beneficiaries.
Nick
Posted by Nick | January 30, 2011 8:06 PM
I too found the Bush Presidential stuff, uh, hilarious - I guess.
I'm not sure he did any of the things he lists to define his presidency - although I don't know about the health insurance for Africa part.
He might have tried, be he never actually "rallied America" in the aftermath of 9/11.
And he never "liberated millions of people around the world from tyranny and oppressive regimes," unless you count the refugees who escaped from places like Iraq.
He certainly didn't "inspire new generations of students to reach for higher educational achievements." That's comical - although darkly so.
Hiw impact on "poverty and crime" was huge, but it was in a positive direction.
In terms of living in denial, this guy is certifiable.
Posted by Pete Buick | January 30, 2011 8:11 PM
Nick - What are you talking about when you say Salvation Army takes government contracts but doesn't abide by the laws of the jurisdictions they take the funds from?
I agree that's true about the Bush administration, but how is it true for the S.A?
As someone who has put coins, and even bills, in the pots, I want to know!
Posted by Pete Buick | January 30, 2011 8:15 PM