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posted by on June 11 at 8:04 AM
Allies & Enemies I: Pakistan claims American airstrikes killed 11 of its paramilitary soldiers. America responds that the soldiers were from the Pakistan Frontier Corps. and probably working with Afghan insurgents.
Allies & Enemies II: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has joined President Bush in wanting new sanctions against Iran. In response, Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Bush a lame duck:
“America wanted to harm us in the past 30 years, especially under Bush,” [Ahmadinejad] said. “It went to Afghanistan and Iraq and announced that Iran was the third place, that it was their main target.”
Meanwhile, In Iraq: As the U.N. mandate authorizing an American presence nears its end…
High-level negotiations over the future role of the U.S. military in Iraq have turned into an increasingly acrimonious public debate, with Iraqi politicians denouncing what they say are U.S. demands to maintain nearly 60 bases in their country indefinitely.
The Vetted: Barack Obama’s choice of former Fannie Mae chief James A. Johnson to spearhead vetting of potential running mates turns out to be a gift to the McCain campaign.
Abu Dhabi Chrysler Building: An oil-rich Arab fund is set to buy an American landmark.
A Zero Approval Rating Will Do That: Vice President Dick Cheney is being kept at a distance from the McCain campaign.
$250 Per Barrel?: The head of Gazprom, one of the world’s largest energy company, says yes.
The New Virgins: Hymenoplasty on the rise among Muslim women in Europe.
Good News: Despite rumors, Paul Newman doesn’t have cancer.
Cold Mountain: One stranded climber dead, two found alive on Mount Rainier this morning.
Cold City: Seattle has gone two weeks without a 70 degree day. Fairbanks, Alaska, meanwhile, hit 70 six times in the past 10 days.
The Money Game: Christine Gregoire raised $785,000 in May, while opponent Dino Rossi raised $701,000.
Ballad for the Balladeer: Longtime Pike Place Market busker Jim Hinde died Monday, at the age of 56.
Total Flamer: An arsonist is on the loose in South Seattle.
Shooters, Shot: Local oyster industry “in a state of panic” over the bacterium Vibrio tubiashii.
Finally: The Gung Ho Commando Outfit!
I am heading to Target right now to get a Gung Ho Commando Outfit-Iraq Edition!
I would have killed for a army set up with a machine gun like that! But instead we had Explorer GI Joe with fuckin fuzzy beards and rescue equipment...
This kind of shit just makes me crazy with rage. I want to say more about how barbaric and wrong it all is, but I get so angry I can hardly breathe to talk.
What kind of doctor wouldn't be able to tell that this procedure was performed?
@4 Let's hope the doctors are sympathetic enough toward women to only say "the hymen is intact." and leave it at that.
I love it. The father expects his 32-year-old daughter to still be a virgin. And of course they're not going for the most obvious solution: Leave. Change your name. Move to the other side of the country or to a different country.
Died in his sleep. At age 56? Somethings not right there... Dan needs to put one of his crack investigative reporters on this one. I smell foul play. (Or worse...)
So, James Johnson was about 1/20th as greedy as Dick Cheney, is that the sum of the Republicans' complaints?
@@4 and 5 -- staining the sheets on the wedding night will be sufficient.
@9: RTFA plz.
These medieval idiots do know it's possible for a virgin *not* to bleed, right? I wonder what was the one guy's criteria for his wife lying. She didn't bleed? She didn't scream out in agony when he rammed his pinky-sized cock into her?
Fucking novices.
@11,
If you're talking about the French annulment case, she didn't bleed and that was enough for that Medieval knuckledragger.
@6 - um, they did leave for a different country - France.
Gung Ho would be great. But only one kid of the five of us would have it as we ran through the woods.
The oyster virus scares me. It could be the death knell for the entire Sound if it gets in (the article makes it sound coastal).
@10: Get real. What possessive Muslim father is going to let a man look up his daughter's hooha? And what female doctor is going to tell her patient's father that she Daughter lacks a functioning hymen? Or at least she'll interpret an ambiguous structure so as to give Daughter the benefit of the doubt. Ergo, not an issue till the crucial moment.
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