Slog - Comments on The Morning News http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365 Big Getting Bigger: Microsoft has put in a bid to buy Yahoo for the low, low price of $44.6 billion. Earlier this week, Yahoo announced it would be cutting 1,000 jobs. Speaking of Cutting Jobs: The U.S. economy lost 17,000 of them in January. A Little Good News: Abu Laith al-Libi, a senior commander of Al Qaeda, was killed yesterday in southern Pakistan. Dept. of Strong Convictions: Faced with the threat of a Clinton presidency, right-wing blowhards long on record for hating John McCain are giving the "maverick" another look. Rich Getting Richer: Exxon Mobile scoffs at Shell Oil's profit... Copyright 2008 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:30:51 -0800 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:30:10 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by dkstar From the McDermott Article: "The money "will be used to defeat fellow Democrats of Mr. McDermott," he said."

- Scumbag.

]]> dkstar http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919033 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919033 News Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:30:48 -0800 Comment by whatever "Insurgents use mentally disabled" - and your problem is that they don't use one of them for their "decider"

]]> whatever http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919036 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919036 News Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:37:03 -0800 Comment by um why do you want Jim McDermott to retire? he's like one of the last great progressives left in congress.

]]> um http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919037 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919037 News Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:39:38 -0800 Comment by lostboy Boehner likes the irony, huh?  Fine, let's run with it.

Boehner conspires with Gingrich and others to subvert an Ethics Committee inquiry and gets caught.  Does he sue the couple who illegally taped his phone call?  No, he sues Jim McDermott for the horrible crime of exposing corruption to the public.

And now McDermott will have to pay (potentially) $850,000 to Boehner, since Boehner was so viciously wronged.

That's an irony angle we should be able to get news media to bite on. What we need now is for the damage award to bring the corruption and hypocrisy back into the news cycle and cause Boehner more that $850,000 in PR damage anew.

]]> lostboy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919051 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919051 News Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:56:36 -0800 Comment by Meinert The MySpace story deserves some more attention and action - supposedly a group called "Christian Crusaders" search Myspace for profiles they find offensive, and then mass complain to customer service.

Their strategy is to send so many emails to customer service that someone, somewhere at Myspace would delete the profile or group.

They have shut down a pro-choice group and now the Atheist and Agnostic Group.

Please complain to MySpace at http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=misc.contactInput&primarySubject=2&secondarySubject=13

If you have more time, go find the Christian groups on MySpace and flood customer service with complaints about how THEY are offensive, because they truly are.

]]> Meinert http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919057 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919057 News Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:00:33 -0800 Comment by DOUG. @3: Generally The Stranger is not a fan of progressives, except when it comes time for public mocking (see Kucinich, Dennis). They're just so clever...

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919108 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919108 News Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:37:03 -0800 Comment by Fnarf How can you be a progressive if you never actually progress anything along? McDermott isn't a progressive; he's a lone wolf. I don't even know why he bothers showing up, for all the impact he has.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919114 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919114 News Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:41:12 -0800 Comment by stunk McDermott probably needs to go, but Ed Murray doesn't need to replace him.

]]> stunk http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919122 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919122 News Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:45:38 -0800 Comment by monkey I was laid off on Dec 10 and my last day was yesterday. Woohoo! I'm another statistic!

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919132 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919132 News Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:51:44 -0800 Comment by unPC Because your congressman should do stuff. More than just talk and get on TV and stuff.

And after this payment he still has about $750,000 more to pay. Personally.
His focus is on that. Not us.

Oh btw had to laugh at Connelly this morning. Headline says we're getting candidates and surrgates come visiting. Story says this includes a former gov. of ID doing something in ID for Obama, Kerry coming here for Obama, and Ron Paul coming here.

In other words: "Candidates Not Coming Here" would be more accurate.

You can thank the State Dems for this, they decided to be more polite" and not "jump in line" the way all those pushy other states did (CA NM AZ CO ID MO AL MI GA MN AR NJ KS CT MA and about 7 others)).

]]> unPC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919186 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919186 News Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:17:18 -0800 Comment by DOUG. @7: Yeah, I guess you're right, since by your definition Joe Lieberman and George Bush are "progressives".

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919194 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919194 News Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:18:44 -0800 Comment by mattjones the mentally ill bomber story has been used before. its most likely propaganda, please be careful how you spread the story.

]]> mattjones http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919209 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919209 News Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:26:11 -0800 Comment by dw Is it just me, or could you just stick Ron Paul's face on George Wallace and that ad would still be usable today?

]]> dw http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919256 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919256 News Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:48:20 -0800 Comment by Fnarf DOUG. @11: Why so angry? Why so stupid? Do you seriously believe that I am a Bush supporter? I have an "ITMFA" sticker on my car, do you know what that means? I donated a TON of money to defeat Bush in 2004, what the fuck did YOU do? Change the water in your bong?

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919322 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919322 News Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:21:34 -0800 Comment by DOUG. Hmm... I don't read much anger in my post, just a simple analysis of your definition of "progressive".

Sometimes "progress" can only mean "a fight to keep from moving backwards". It is an upstream swim for folks like Jim "I think the president would mislead the American people" McDermott.

Congrats on the bumper sticker. Keep on driving!!!

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919360 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919360 News Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:50:12 -0800 Comment by ref Doug don't worry about the sad old troll.

You went a little too deep for him to understand that by his definition anyone that passed legislation would be progressing it, ergo a progressive. Which would include your named pols.

]]> ref http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919394 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919394 News Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:09:01 -0800 Comment by Gitai Okay, these are people who are murderers, who celebrate the mass killing of innocents, and who rationalize even the deaths of those who they're allegedly trying to help. What makes you think that using the mentally ill is too low a blow for them?

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919419 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919419 News Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:27:19 -0800 Comment by infrequent @17. i know! they probably think they are doing them a favour!

(the terrorist leaders probably feel they are doing the mentally ill a favour.)

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919421 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/the_morning_news_365#c919421 News Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:30:10 -0800