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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

The Morning News

posted by on November 27 at 7:30 AM

Peace in the Mideast: Bush’s peace-making efforts have met with such success elsewhere, why not the occupied territories?

You Shouldn’t Have: It’s an offer we ought to refuse: “Iraq to offer U.S. long-term troop presence.”

Falling and Falling: Home prices fall 4.5%.

Spanking Ban: Massachusetts considers a ban on spanking—but only of children, kinksters, so not to worry.

Paris is Burning—Again: A new and more intense round of riots break out in French capital after two teenagers died when their motorbike collided with a police car.

Miami Murder Mystery: Why did someone want to kill Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor?

Yippie! It’s snowing heavily at the pass.

We’ll Always Have YouTube: Broadway stagehands remain on strike, but “A Weekend in the Country” remains on YouTube.

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1

Your posts remind me that I've not yet explored the reaches of YouTube. Merciful heavens.

Posted by Michigan Matt | November 27, 2007 7:42 AM
2

Stupid fucking French kids.

Posted by Greg | November 27, 2007 7:51 AM
3

**obligatory "prices will never fall in seattle!" comment**

Posted by head in the sand | November 27, 2007 7:56 AM
4

Oh, and I love Sondheim's A Little Night Music. It was one of the first musicals this little Hoosier Homo bought on tape.

Posted by Michigan Matt | November 27, 2007 7:57 AM
5

Bush is doing all he can to make sure we stay in Iraq... FOREVER!!! Not like we did not see this coming down the pike for quite awhile.

So America, enjoy your never ending occupation of Iraq. It is the one thing we will give to our grandkids and to their kids.

Posted by Just Me | November 27, 2007 7:57 AM
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@ Michigan Matt, try this Youtube link for some more great entertainment!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wffwg7pA0t8&eurl

Posted by Just Me | November 27, 2007 8:18 AM
7

Sounds like plain, old robbery in the case of Sean. Tragic. Miami is one rough city ( over 300 murders.) They will, undoubtedly, bust a cap on your ass.

Posted by SeMe | November 27, 2007 8:21 AM
8

97% of people (who happened to vote in an internet poll) are against the ban on spanking. I'm appalled. I am surprised it's not more even.

Posted by Tizzle | November 27, 2007 8:25 AM
9

No way was that Sean Taylor incident a "plain, old robbery". Sounds like a deliberate hit to me.

Posted by DOUG. | November 27, 2007 8:41 AM
10

In the leg? I dont know Doug. Maybe, but it sure doesnt sound like it. Home invasion robberies go bad all the time, and people get shot in Miami every single day. even the dogs are armed to the teeth there.

Posted by SeMe | November 27, 2007 8:50 AM
11

Yestiddy's US Conference of Mayors-commissioned national report showed the housing crisis will cost Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue area $1.8 billion in economic loss, and that's just next year only. Portland gets a $300 million hit in 2008. Impact on tax revenue? Hmm. Buckle up.
http://usmayors.org/uscm/news/press_releases/documents/mortgagereport_112707.pdf

Posted by tomasyalba | November 27, 2007 9:04 AM
12

Wow. Bush got two client states to sit down together. That takes real skill.

Posted by Gitai | November 27, 2007 9:12 AM
13

Re: spanking. Aren't there occasions like when a swat on the butt is the only thing that a two year old will understand to keep the tot from running out in the street?

Posted by raindrop | November 27, 2007 9:17 AM
14

2 hours later...

What, is the Stranger staff out doing real work now? Where's the love for Slog?

Posted by Greg | November 27, 2007 9:26 AM
15

@13

no.

most 2 year olds speak, you know, with words.

Posted by cochise. | November 27, 2007 9:26 AM
16

@ 10 - this is twice in the last week his house was broken into... in one of the nicest neighborhoods in Miami. Not random.

Posted by rob | November 27, 2007 9:27 AM
17

robbers rob nice neighborhoods. thats what they do. if u break in a home in liberty city or opa locka, 1 youre not getting nothing, and 2, you will be shot.

Posted by SeMe | November 27, 2007 9:32 AM
18

Taylor's house was broken into a week ago and a knife was left on his bed. Sounds like a warning shot to me.

Then this latest "robber" broke into the room where Taylor, his wife and kid were hiding, then shot Taylor twice. Robbers don't do that. Hitmen do.

Posted by DOUG. | November 27, 2007 9:43 AM
19

awwwwwww is it Just me or did not that beiung a tears to my eye

@ Michigan Matt

What part Of MI? i love that 'state?'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Lhw4M-GTg

Posted by June Bee - hanging under the N Aurora Bridge | November 27, 2007 9:44 AM
20

Quote from the article:

"A separate index that covers 20 U.S. metropolitan areas dropped 4.9 percent in September from a year earlier, with 15 metro areas posting declines. Only five metro areas -- Atlanta, Charlotte, N.C., Dallas, Portland, Ore., and Seattle -- showed an increase in prices, but S&P noted that the pace of the rise is decelerating."

Posted by NaFun | November 27, 2007 9:46 AM
21

@18 - spot on

@17 - I'd say robbers are much more likely to break into an average house or slightly above average - the access in likely much easier than an extremely nice neighborhood.

Posted by rob | November 27, 2007 9:50 AM
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@19--I live in the Ann Arbor bubble.

Posted by Michigan Matt | November 27, 2007 9:56 AM
23

OK fine, but sometimes words do not work. I've seen mothers give gentle but firm swats on the tush to curtail a brat's tantrum in the supermarket.

It has to be left up to the parents. There's a difference between spanking and child abuse. Child rearing is not the government's business. So some poor overwrought mother swats her kid and goes to jail?

Posted by raindrop | November 27, 2007 9:57 AM
24

ann arbor - '93 - sept.
driving auto with ichthyasaurases and
T-rex and accessory abstract underwater painted - stencil-freehand-
packed auto en route to Seattle

- radiostation from ann arbor to Grand Rapids youth hostel to drink this new weird shit i picked up - Ricola -as in coughdrop - Tea -

----full listening of a new release star to fini on AA radio station-------- IN UTERO

thnks for the memories - GO WOLVERINES!

Posted by June Bee - Sculpchore Troll | November 27, 2007 10:02 AM
25

Ann Arbor is a whore! Go lions!

Posted by SeMe | November 27, 2007 10:08 AM
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oh they all suck, SeMe. I'm more a Spartan fan actually. Though when Interlochen Music Academy gets a gridiron entry I'm switching allegiances, or until the novelty wears off.

Posted by Judicial Bee | November 27, 2007 10:14 AM
27

All my sympathies are with Taylor's family at this time of their tragic loss. But after reading about this sad event, I can't get passed Taylor keeping a machete near the bed. Deter an intruder by threatening to hack them with a machete?

And Dan, when did you become such a snow bunny? Can I get you to sign my cast at the lodge?

Posted by Bauhaus | November 27, 2007 10:16 AM
28

Penn State does not, I repeat, does NOT suck.

Posted by SeMe | November 27, 2007 10:16 AM
29

Beaver Schmeavers! To the the truth I was haunted by the Mountaineers as a tweebat undergrad. They fans invaded the pitt campus on game day, and chanted in the streets "Penn State Sucks! Pitt Swallows!" not exactly nautilus pumping male models either. more like Kelly the punk in Bad News Bears.

scrreeeeeeeech....not my point owhever,

i'm seriously considering a scrathc of acreage and seceding to toronto after crossing the Mackinac Bridge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MELoVoJiZb0

Posted by June Bee needs to switch servers for the rest of the day | November 27, 2007 10:28 AM
30

Since the government has done such a bang up job keeping kids away from truly abusive parents, it sure makes sense that it's turning its attention to the scourge of spanking.

Posted by keshmeshi | November 27, 2007 10:38 AM
31

@14

It's Tuesday. They're getting the paper ready.

Posted by Lake | November 27, 2007 3:35 PM

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