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Tuesday, November 7, 2006

The Morning News

posted by on November 7 at 8:45 AM

Inches of rain that fell yesterday in Seattle: six

Seats the Dems need to retake the house: 15; the senate: six

Percentage of Americans who know they’ll vote today: 68 (It’s the highest in a midterm election in decades.)

Mainstream media outlets cooperating to keep polling data away from bloggers today: 3

Years until China passes the US in emissions of global-warming gasses: less than three

Percentage of the vote won by Daniel Ortega in Nicaraguan election: 39

Limit on the number of passengers who will be allowed to ride the Monorail if it reopens: 200

Weeks until prosecutor decides whether to seek death penalty against Jewish Federation shooter: five

People whose debit card info was stolen using a tricked-out ATM in Redmond: 306

Percentage rise of country music album sales over the last year: 10; of albums overall: negative 5

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1

Hand it to Hank Jr. and his Monday Night Football theme song. Country music is on the rise.

Posted by Experience Music | November 7, 2006 9:53 AM
2

Hurray for Harper's List Style!

Posted by golob | November 7, 2006 9:56 AM
3

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2006/11/06/daily7.html?jst=b_ln_hl

$3.1m, or a 9% increase in revenue for Fisher Comm. from paid political advertising. Sure, in the great republic of ours, you pay to play. This statistic will more then likely go over looked, but in our democracy, whatever happened to the notion that the people own the airwaves and the people have a right to hear from every and any crackpot running for office. But do the people really need to pay Fisher Comm. for that right to play political advertising?

A dead public debate, but doesn't it make you wonder?

Posted by Phenics | November 7, 2006 9:57 AM
4

not that i'm for obstacles in voting, but i'm expecting that the rain and flooding will affect voting outside of the city more than in seattle. does that mean that god's a democrat this election? or as jeffrey (from PR) would say, is god drunk today?

Posted by Gidge | November 7, 2006 10:01 AM
5

Has Schmader stumbled into the office yet? I'm jonesing for my tuesday-morning Studio 60 slagging.

Posted by robotslave | November 7, 2006 10:08 AM
6

Colluding to withhold polling info is likely an attempt to gerrymander the poll results so that they mirror the election results should precincts decide to tamper with the voting, so that there's consistency and no one with an eagle eye can discern a rat.

Posted by Gomez | November 7, 2006 10:24 AM
7

Golob: Huh?

Last night's Studio 60 was like a poor version of the West Wing episode where they get stuck in Iowa (or some other farm country). there were some funny elements, but overall, bleh!

Posted by Ginger | November 7, 2006 10:29 AM
8

Six inches is the 72-hour total, not just yesterday. Yesterday was about 3.78 inches.

Posted by Fnarf | November 7, 2006 10:32 AM
9

I wonder if this means country music is more popular than ever, or if country music fans are just way behind the times?

I mean who buys music anymore?

Posted by deadken | November 7, 2006 10:53 AM
10

Deadken, likely the latter. 'Necks are slow to change.

Tower Record's mistake, aside from overpricing their product and rendering themselves irrelevant, was not consolidating their ops to the Deep South, re-doing their image and just doing business downthere.

Posted by Gomez | November 7, 2006 11:39 AM
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"Yesterday was about 3.78 inches."

So glad to learn that 'fnarf's' stretching exercises have doubled his length.

It's such a turn-on when 'fnarf' talks dirty to me, and it's been soooo long (the antecedent of it is not, to repeat, 'fnarf's' it; see above). All it usually takes to start the splattering and slobbering of 'fnarf' invective is the mention of Ann Coulter or DDT, so I'll mention Ann Coulter AND DDT in the same sentence. That'll start him up. Maybe get him up to, hell, who knows, 4.0 inches?

Coulter's latest is good on DDT, quite good on Darwin. Check her out. (I was a reluctant convert to Annimism, believing that Coulter was the right's Al Sharpton, a gaudy & dangerous ornament. But sometimes, like the Reverend Al, she's better than anybody at telling hawks from handsaws or shit from Shinola. The confection called 'fnarf' should learn from her. Before it's ... too late.)

Posted by hot damn ann | November 7, 2006 3:37 PM
12

The late Daniel Ortega, dead man talking. Amazing that Chamorro didn't neuter him when she had the knife.

Posted by sandalista | November 7, 2006 3:40 PM

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