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posted by on September 28 at 7:18 AM
Private Security: The investigation into the firm Blackwater USA reveals guards firing on civilians, turning guns on each other.
Military State: Pakistan’s high court declares Gen. Pervez Musharraf can run for re-election as president.
Myanmar Madness: The government’s crackdown has reached bloggers.
Lost & Found: After being missing for eight days, Tanya Rider of Maple Valley was found trapped inside her car yesterday. She remains in critical condition at Harborview.
Health Care Hustle: A bill expanding child health coverage, which president Bush vowed to veto even before reading the final language, passed the Senate with a veto-proof majority yesterday. It remains two dozen votes short of being veto-proof in the House.
Name Dropping: Nicholas Rajula, running for parliament in Kenya, is claiming to be a distant cousin of Barack Obama.
Clearing the Clusterfuck: President Bush is pressuring airline executives to reduce delays at the nation’s airports.
Race and the White House: Giuliani, McCain, Romney and Thompson all skipped yesterday’s debate at Morgan State University.
Puppet Masters: Creepy, super-secret conservative group to meet with creepy, super-secretive vice president in Utah.
brickPhone: Apple wages losing war, updates tries to stick it to hackers and modders with an update to its iPhone software.
Sims’s Surprise: King County executive Ron Sim came out against the $17.8 billion Transit/Roads package yesterday.
Nickels’s Nimcompoopery: The mayor vetoed the City Council’s neutered club ordinance yesterday, calling it “meanlingless” and a “waste of time and city resources.”
Pet Issue: King County’s animal shelters are a mess, in need of serious overhaul.
Enxo04 brings teh Halo 3 ownage:
Giuliani, McCain, Romney and Thompson are working wonders for the Republican Party.
Eight days before they bothered to look for her cell phone signal? What am I missing here?
Nickels is a shit. I heard him referred to the other night as "Baby Huey". It's fitting.
Maybe this was said before... but ALSO:
the Matthew Sheppard Hate Crimes bill passed in the senate.
Next time you flip your car and are trapped upside down near the hiway, just try to keep breathing until the cops get tired of trying to beat the information out of your husband.
Maybe if they had used a taser on him he would have talked sooner.
The spouse characters are the thing I never get on Law and Order. If your relative is missing, why would you act beligerent when questioned. I figure most people would be fine with being questioned, as long as the cops were still looking elsewhere at the same time. It seems like that is what this guy did.
Meanwhile, in news from a sane country:
Federal budget surplus balloons to $14B
A booming Canadian economy generated such big tax revenues this past year that the federal budget surplus approached $14 billion, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday.
The surplus will be used to pay down the federal government's accumulated debt, which will have dropped to $467.3 billion as of March 31 of this year — its lowest level in 14 years [vs. nearly $9 TRILLION in the US]. Since 1996, the debt has been paid down by $95.6 billion.
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2007/09/27/surplus.html
I saw no "ownage" there; I saw a middling, unfocused use of an SMG and someone dumb enough to pick up a single spiker when the second one was right next to him. Boooooooring.
I was going to buy one of those Iphones today. Not kidding you. In the hope that there will be lots of cool 3rd party software available for it (like a real memo feature) but now, no way.
Apple sure is acting like MicroSoft: They don't get people want good products and that people don't care about Apple or MS's future roll-outs of shittier products.
Pox on both of their houses.
Sims needs to check with his wife and see what she wants him to do about the digusting animal shelters run by the county. Where's your conscience on that issue, Ron?
That Cheney bit sounds like an old "Simpsons" episode, wherein Homer is inducted into the ultra-secret Stonecutters' group...
#8 - you took the words right out of my mouth. Lets miss with every grenade throw, except the one we walk into ourselves, lets miss the melee attacks, lets shoot at our own shield, toss the grav lift in the wrong spot, but most importantly, let's NOT DUAL WIELD THE SPIKER!!! WOO YAY FTW!!!
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