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posted by on July 6 at 6:57 AM
Penalties: In the U.S. corruption gets you a promotion. In China it gets you a death sentence.
Erosion: GOP lawmakers are starting to flee from Bush’s Iraq debacle.
Double Down: Three people wounded as nutjob walks into New York New York casino in Las Vegas and opens fire.
Speaking of Vegas: It reached 116 degrees there yesterday. But that was relatively cool compared to 125 degrees in Baker, California.
Red Ring of Death: Microsoft set to lose $1 billion repairing faulty Xbox 360s.
Weight-Loss Pill: Would you risk shitting your pants to drop a few pounds?
Meanwhile: Scientists suspect global warming may be to blame for scrawny grey whales.
Fair & Balanced: Rupert Murdoch has reportedly succeeded with his bid to purchase the Wall Street Journal.
Nightlife: After hearing complaints from angry Belltown residents, Councilmember Sally Clark submitted her committee’s proposed nightlife regulations. Though the votes aren’t yet there to pass it, the council wants “some regulation in place as soon as possible.”
Revelry: Fireworks, gunfire at a 4th of July celebration in Skyway.
Copping a Feel: Pat-downs will continue at Qwest Field before Seahawks games.
Godfather of Gore Fact of the Day: In 1965, Herschell Gordon Lewis released Monster a Go-Go. Here’s how he descibed the making of the film to John Waters in 1980:
HGL: A fellow I know had filmed something called Terror at Half Bay—he shot eighty thousand feet of film and had no picture. As often happens, he ran out of money. We shot some other footage and bought his uncut negative. Out of his eighty thousand feet, there was no action at all. He had hired the tallest man in the world, Henry Height, who just died last year. Henry was a real sweetheart. He was so big that his ankles cracked—he was simply too big for his ankles. Henry played an astronaut who went to outer space and came back doubled in size. They put some pizza or something on his face to give him a strange look. I shot a couple of thousand more feet of film—close-ups of hands holding telegrams, feet walking, anything to make it come out—there was no sense to it.JW: Did it turn out to be a success?
HGL: Oh, yes. Mostly in the South.
Here is the original trailer of Monster a Go-Go.
Scrawny Grey Whales would be a great name for another shitty local band here in Seattle.
No, you're thinking of Whales.
Speaking of shitting your pants, Brad's news summaries are hilarious. And to the point, exactly.
Pity about the WSJ. The editorial board is insane but the actual reporting is good. Too bad under Murdoch the news page is going to match the Ed board.
Man, I wish we could execute officials here.
The heat wave is going to cause deaths on the west so here is a top read story: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003776431_webtoddler05m.html
As you can see the problem is a 33-year-old woman is the grandmother!?
Good thing they're going to use that shooting in Belltown to shove through the nightlife regs. It would have been wonderful had the police insisted that the club deal with the angry mob on the streets, rather than the cops having to trouble themselves with it. I'm sure that would have ended well for everybody.
*twinkle*
Step-grandmother. Granddaddy went and got himself a trophy wife.
The club's security did handle it.
There was no angry mob, or fight on the street.
Remember the original assertion that a fight started in the club and spilled out? Did you see the security footage?
Well, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me a second time--you can't get fooled again.
Our city government has about as much respect for us as our federal one does. This just shows how flawed this plan is. If they're already misstating and misusing the facts of this shooting to gain their ends, imagine how misused these regulations can be in the future.
Another toddler, this time in Spokane, almost died yesterday by being locked in a oven/car.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003777278_webtoddler06m.html
"SAY YES TO WAR!" Dan Savage in The Stranger Oct. 2002
Is the United States Killing 10,000 Iraqis Every Month? Or Is It More?
Michael Schwartz, After Downing Street
War on Iraq: 300 Iraqis killed by Americans each day sounds like an impossible figure, but a close look at the reported numbers of violent deaths and rate of armed patrols makes it all too likely. www.alternet.org/waroniraq/
Well, heck, that would explain the truly bizarre ending to that movie. It's the weirdest thing. Everyone's chasing the astronaut monster, and he just disappears. Then they find the astronaut miles away, and he's fine. It's really, really bizarre.
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