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Monday, March 5, 2007

The Morning News

posted by on March 5 at 8:11 AM

Iraq’s intelligence agency appears to be back in the torture business.

At least 26 dead, 54 wounded in latest Baghdad suicide bombing.

The Bush administration has no backup plan for Iraq—unless you count “Plan B is to make Plan A work” as a backup plan.

Asian stock markets took another tumble last night. Wall Street, so far, is mixed.

John Edwards responded Sunday to being called a “faggot” by Ann Coulter:

“I think its important that we not reward hateful, selfish, childish behavior with attention,” Edwards told reporters in Berkley, Calif. “I also believe that is important for all of us to speak out against language of this kind; it is the place where hatred gets its foothold, and we can’t stand silently by and allow this kind of language to be used.”

After less than two years on the job, NAACP head Bruce S. Gordon is resigning.

Walter Reed isn’t the only VA hospital in need of attention.

Advances in technology are helping us pollute, start unnecessary wars longer than expected.

420 lbs. woman goes to hospital with stomach pains, leaves with surprise newborn son.

Microsoft throws a ton of money at search engines, loses ground to Google.

Seattle Big Brother nabbed over 8,000 red-light running drivers last year.

A King County Metro driver has been arrested on suspicion of voyeurism.

Breaking News: Meals on Wheels to start delivering baby food.

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1

The obese woman article is old. I've been telling that as the greatest Yo Momma joke ever for a week now.

Posted by I thought I'd read new news but... | March 5, 2007 8:38 AM
2

The obese woman story begs the question: who banged a 350lb + woman in the first place. I'm all for full figured curvy women, but wow. Can you imagine? Yikes!

(I know, I'm an A-H)

Posted by Mike in MO | March 5, 2007 9:34 AM
3

it's her fiancee. i presume he's 'banged' her more than once.

my question is, are someone's money problems really 'news' even in a local paper like that one? why is there a quote about spending money on dogs?

Posted by Tiz | March 5, 2007 9:41 AM
4

In other news, why is the traffic camera thing "Big Brother"? Traffic cameras are a great, cheap way to catch people who run red lights. (As a frequent pedestrian, I'm thrilled.)

I'd rather they use cameras than cops, who cost much more and should be used for crimes that can't be solved by a video camera.

It's easy to not have "Big Brother" breathing down your neck: don't run red lights.

Posted by other news | March 5, 2007 9:51 AM
5

I don't think anyone banged the obese woman. She accidentally swallowed a baby because the biological mom set the baby down too close to the obese woman's plate of food.

Posted by him | March 5, 2007 10:30 AM
6

An important question: how 'red' does the light have to be to get a ticket? orange-ish, or really red.

I went through the yellow once at one of those, but perhaps shouldn't have, and saw the little flash of light of the camera, and worried for a while.

Posted by Tiz | March 5, 2007 11:02 AM
7

Hate threats and public calls for genocide against sexual minorities and/or liberals are perfectly all right, as long as Ann Coulter claims they are jokes.

Ha, ha. Imagine the hilarity if someone were to break a beer bottle and threaten to bury it in her scrawny ass canal, but instead just inserted it halfway.

Posted by Creek | March 5, 2007 11:25 AM
8

The Seattle Times has ignored the Edwards/Coulter story, although they did print three stories on the Edwards blogger brouhaha. When I called the Times on Sunday and asked why they had not run the story, they seemed unsure as to what I was referring to. When I called them this morning and asked why they still had not run the story, they acknowledged that it was a "big story", but did not know that they had not published anything about it.
Today on her website, Coulter accused the Edwards campaign of being "a front for Arab terrorists". Yes, that is a quote.
Please call the RNC stenographers at the Seattle Times and ask them to justify their hypocrisy.

Posted by samdinista | March 5, 2007 12:28 PM
9

@4, @6 - if you make a right turn at a full red, it counts as "running a red".

Which, is, of course, legal.

Posted by Will in Seattle | March 5, 2007 12:59 PM
10

Hey you in MO -- #2

welcome to the bigger world

i am a big lady who fucks a very big, 10 inch thick dicked guy, a lot

puny boys are not my thing, little skinny women not his

get it - surprise, surprise in the big world

dan, you have a fat phobia, you need to read this too

big hung, really big, full of vim and vigor men like big women, duh

Posted by andrea | March 5, 2007 2:23 PM
11

just a point of clarification - walter reed is an army hospital. it is not part of the VA system. there are lapses on both sides, though much of the problems for the VA are due to being chronically underfunded. it still rates better than almost every other U.S. healthcare organization as far as quality/patient satisfaction.

what has happened to those soldiers is a travesty, and the army's response so far is not inspiring confidence in their ability to clean up their own mess.

Posted by jason | March 5, 2007 3:33 PM
12

@10,

My God, your boyfriend has a 10-inch-thick dick? I stand in awe.

Posted by keshmeshi | March 5, 2007 5:49 PM

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