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Housing: Nationwide boom linked in part to skeezy mortgages.
Slapped Wrists: Don Imus suspended two weeks for calling Rutgers basketball players “nappy-headed hos.”
Piracy: The U.S. puts China on notice.
Profits: Britain tells former captive sailors they can’t sell their stories.
May 1: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s deadline for taking control over his country’s oil fields.
Obesity: Americans 100lbs. or more overweight are the country’s ”fastest-growing group of overweight people.”
2007: The year Turner County High School in Georgia finally de-segregated its prom.
North Korea: Already missing deadlines for nuclear dismantlement.
Imagine That: Appeals court says President Bush’s save-the-salmon plan is “sleight of hand.”
Servants: Southern California millionaires are having trouble finding good help.
Fort Lewis: Contaminated water may be poisoning family homes.
The Shield: Seattle police chief Gil Kerlikowske won’t spend the $120,000 the City Council gave him to hire a sergeant to investigate officer misconduct.
Seattle Sonics: One step closer to boondoggling Renton.
Voting: On-line registration awaiting signature on Governor Gregoire’s desk.
Sexy Presidential Fact of the Day: From Edmund Morris’s Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan:
Reagan tried to kiss Pat[ricia Neal] once, more out of duty than desire, and she fended him off easily: “Oh, Ronnie, no!” She was neither the first nor the last woman to find him more attractive than desirable. Joy Hodges once told me a similar story, and said that Dutch en s’excitant gave her a curious urge to giggle.
Comments (9)
Imus also used the phrase "you people" while defending himself in an on-air conversation with Al Sharpton.
Posted by Jonah | April 10, 2007 8:44 AM"Who is 'you people,' Mr. Imus?" asked Sharpton.
Brilliant.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04102007/news/nationalnews/imus_gets_the_old_heave_ho_nationalnews_john_mazor_and_david_k__li.htm
I couldn't find the word "en s’excitant" in the dictionary. What does it mean?
Posted by elswinger | April 10, 2007 9:19 AMHigh school proms still segrated in 2007?wtf.
Posted by summertime | April 10, 2007 9:43 AMThat prom in that article should be interesting to cover massive report of.
I guess its not CNN material, but Imus is. illogical.
oops. I looked again and saw it was posted by associated press one hour and 45 minutes ago.
Posted by summertime | April 10, 2007 9:51 AMStill how was the prom segregrated up to this day? The school is intergrated, but they don't dance together.
They had separate proms. CNN covers this high school's prom every year. This isn't the first time they have tired to have an integrated prom. Every time they have tried, there has been very low turnout for the official prom (usually only attended by the kids who set it up, and possibly any Latino or Asian kids) and the two majority races had their own segregated proms.
Posted by elswinger | April 10, 2007 10:16 AMSonics can jump in the Sound - ain't gonna happen.
Posted by Will in Seattle | April 10, 2007 10:53 AMWal-Mart will never let its stooge in Washington actually put the smackdown on China. Where will they get all the plastic shit they sell to millions of Trailer Trash people every day? Unalloyed greed. ALWAYS.
Posted by Sum Yung Guy | April 10, 2007 11:07 AMKerlikowske will not investigate his own department? Why am I not a bit surprised?
And please, until we have some really hot gay presidents, no more sex facts of the old white guys who sit in the oval office
Posted by Andrew | April 10, 2007 2:05 PM@ 2: s'exciter is French for "to become excited," with a strong sexual connotation.
"en s'excitant" is the gerund form, so basically he's saying 'Dutch when sexually aroused gave her a curious urge to giggle."
Posted by j'adore le francais | April 10, 2007 6:34 PMComments Closed
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