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Friday, March 9, 2007

The Morning News

posted by on March 9 at 8:19 AM

The Justice Department says the FBI is abusing an administrative subpoena in order to get personal records in national security cases.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has been giving some veterans the shaft.

Breaking News: Newt Gingrich is a hypocritical fucktard.

President Bush is set to sign a biofuels pact with Brazil. Critics worry he wants to create an OPEC-like cartel on ethanol.

The European Union has drafted an agreement that would “make Europe the world leader in the fight against climate change.”

Unemployment down, violent crime up.

The local group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is calling for an investigation of Representative Doc Hastings.

Less than half of the people who work in Seattle are able to live in Seattle. Now some public and private officials are trying to change that fact.

Costco has taken its beer and wine battle with Washington State to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Rossi Residue: Citizens for Accountable Elections has filed an initiative to make the King County elections director an elected position.

A ban on cell-phone use while driving has passed the state senate.

The Seattle Times reportedly has two stories up for the Pulitzer.

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1

that the city is even considering subsidizing houses that would be affordable to people making 100 percent of the median income is a sign of moral bankruptcy.

Posted by wf | March 9, 2007 9:03 AM
2

WF, that doesn't make sense. The whole point of the article is that even at median income, people cannot afford median house price.

Posted by exelizabeth | March 9, 2007 9:54 AM
3

On Newty patooty. I bet Rush is going to spin this as that was o.k. because he was not president. That fat fucking liar and hipocrite. In fact both of them. After all this I don't care what Micheal Savage, Limbaugh, Coulter, Bill or any of the namby pandys conservatives around america think anymore.
Even if Obama was an ex gangster from the hood and smoked pot and banged 6 white girls while married. I would still vote for him. Fuck hypocrisy.
In 2008 I don't want to hear zilch from conservatives because they have all been "morally" corrupt as well.
And right now I am personally giving Newt Gingrich and all right wingers the middle finger. And piss off media for not getting this out on Gingrich back then in the 90s.

Posted by DreadLion | March 9, 2007 10:31 AM
4

Hey DreadLion, watch what you say about the Moral Majority!

Posted by him | March 9, 2007 10:34 AM
5

Just yesterday I saw a driver in an SUV talking into a cellphone while going thru an intersection ... clearly NOT looking at any of the other streets or to the sides to see if pregnant women happened to be pushing baby strollers into her path.

Driving while celled is WORSE, medically, than driving while Drunk AND Stoned.

Period.

Posted by Will in Seattle | March 9, 2007 10:36 AM
6

what doesn't make sense is that we have thousands of people living on the streets, we've had massive net losses in rental housing the last few years to condo conversion, no new affordable rentals are being built without subsidy, and the city is thinking that it should build houses, not rental units, for middle class people so they don't have to commute so far. it's completely fucked priorities.

Posted by wf | March 9, 2007 10:36 AM
7

I hear what your saying Him. lol. but what got me so fumed was this passage.

Gingrich argued in the interview, however, that he should not be viewed as a hypocrite for pursuing Clinton's infidelity.

''The president of the United States got in trouble for committing a felony in front of a sitting federal judge,'' the former Georgia congressman said of Clinton's 1998 House impeachment on perjury and obstruction of justice charges. ''I drew a line in my mind that said, 'Even though I run the risk of being deeply embarrassed, and even though at a purely personal level I am not rendering judgment on another human being, as a leader of the government trying to uphold the rule of law, I have no choice except to move forward and say that you cannot accept ... perjury in your highest officials.'


I was like AAAAAAGGGHHHH! Shit he just didn't. Lucky I wasn't holding a hot cup of coffee.

Posted by DreadLion | March 9, 2007 10:43 AM
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You should change the title to "Employment Down. Crime Up." The article makes it pretty clear that the unemployment rate went down because 190,000 or more people gave up looking for jobs. The new jobs created didn't even meet the threshold of keeping up with population growth.

Posted by dirge | March 9, 2007 11:11 AM
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@6 - best thing we can do - seriously - is build 100-story tall inexpensive residential apartment buildings near transit.

Just ask Vancouver.

Posted by Will in Seattle | March 9, 2007 12:47 PM
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Re: Seattle Times' stories

I remember "Your Courts, Their Secrets" - painfully boring.

I don't recall "License to Harm." If it was anywhere near the editorial or endorsements page, then it must have been in the fiction section.

Posted by Original Andrew | March 9, 2007 1:43 PM

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