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Sunday, April 29, 2007

The Morning News

posted by on April 29 at 8:43 AM

Posted by Sage Van Wing

Bigger, Faster: Army’s Chief of Staff wants to accelerate troop increase

Action: Worldwide protests to end genocide in Darfur.

Action: Several suicide bomb attacks.

Democracy+Secularism=Inseparable: Huge rally in Turkey.

Why We Vote: WA State Democrats will continue to select delegates through caucuses.

Compromise?: Rice says no.

The Maze: A piece of highway interchange connecting to the San Francisco Bay Bridge collapsed in flames.

Misleading: Information about condoms wrong in federally funded abstinence-only programs.

Greener?: China may be ahead of the U.S. in curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

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disaster junkies won't find a photo for the freeway collapse at the sj mercury news link provided, but some enterprising flickr user has one posted here already:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/476897084/

Posted by Alan | April 29, 2007 9:14 AM
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Protests to end genocide is almost funny. Only way it can end is capturing or killing bad motherfuckers, IMO.

Posted by The CHZA | April 29, 2007 3:21 PM
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Oh no! With the highway damaged, people will try to take the exact same number of car trips on a system with much less capacity! Nobody will think to use public transportation or carpool or telecommute! It will be a complete disaster!

Posted by The Washington State Department of Transportation | April 29, 2007 7:23 PM
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Also--in case you missed it in the New York papers this morning--Seattle will be the out-of-town tryout for Mel Brook's musical version of Young Frankenstein prior to its Broadway run.

Posted by Boomer in NYC | April 30, 2007 6:00 AM
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Gene Wilder proclaims,
It is not boomer, it is pronounced Boomer!

Posted by almost rhymes with hummer | April 30, 2007 7:29 AM
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