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Saturday, July 5, 2008

The Morning News

posted by on July 5 at 9:07 AM

by news intern Roselle Kingsbury

For Richer Or Poorer: Massive crowds protest the Group of Eight’s annual meeting, held in a “luxury hotel,” while French President Nicholas Sarkozy calls for the inclusion of countries like India and China.

Incriminating Evidence: Two separate reports reveal how Mugabe maintained his presidency: a brutal military campaign and, effectively, stuffing the ballot box.

Move Over, Alaska: Oil companies are exploring the waters off of Florida for oil, prompted by skyrocketing crude prices and President Bush’s push to allow new drilling.

Get Yer Rod: Over 30,000 farmed salmon swim free after a net at Marine Harvest Canada hatchery in Vancouver, B.C., slipped July 1, losing the company around $450,000 of fish.

Booted From Church… And State: London’s Deputy Mayor Ray Lewis resigned today after three separate allegations of “financial irregularities,” including one of embezzling around £25,000 from a former parishioner, earning him the Anglican Church’s censure and his placement on the “Lambeth List.”

It’s McCain’s Party: President Bush seems to be sad, perhaps because one GOP member thinks that Bush “should stay home from the Republican convention, and everybody would be better off.”

Euphemism For “Oops!”: Babbit Neuman Construction firm “mislocates” Edgewood’s city-hall building approximately 13 feet due to a surveying mistake.

No, Really: Joey Chestnut wins $20,000 and the “Mustard Belt” after besting rival and six-time world champion, Takeru Kobayashi by two hot dogs at Nathan’s Famous annual Hot-Dog Eating Contest yesterday.

Public Funding: Japanese metal band Electric Eel Shock earns $50,000 in 54 days through fan contributions on Sellaband.com, says their motto is “Sex, drugs and e-mail.”

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Being a gullible rube, I would have been mollified by a meaningless sop towards inequality such as holding the G8 summit in a Motel 6. Why can't we have leaders willing to pander to my need for symbolic political theater?

Posted by elenchos | July 5, 2008 9:54 AM
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Can I call bull shit on the domestic drilling? The GOP, not the democrats, were in charge of congress from 1994 until 2006, AND they had the White House for five of those years. If domestic drilling is supposed to be so damn wonderful why didn't they do it when they could have pushed it through? It is not like the Democrats had or have the balls to stop them.

Posted by Andrew | July 5, 2008 3:14 PM
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Remember this "Every Child Deserves A Mother and Father"?

Hint, Hint: Kid stomped and kicked to death to 'get demons out'.

http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/every_child_deserves_a_mother_and_a_fath_64

Know how everyone kinda assumed daddy was high as a kite? Well, we were wrong. Daddy was stone cold sober.

http://www.kcra.com/news/16791096/detail.html

But obviously very, very crazy.

Posted by Y.F. | July 5, 2008 9:16 PM
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Fucking fish farms!!! Ban all in-ocean fish farms!! The province will probably not do shit about this. And that article you linked to was not very good, why not try the cbc? If it doesn't mention ecological impacts of a fish farm escape, it is not telling most of the story.

Posted by ams | July 5, 2008 11:51 PM
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Hey, aren't the fisherman always complaining about how the seals and sea lions are stealing their catch? Well, now the seals/sea lions have something to eat.

Posted by yucca flower | July 6, 2008 8:33 AM

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