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Wednesday, September 3, 2008

The Morning News

posted by on September 3 at 7:55 AM

Russian Roulette: Bush Administration will give $1 billion in aid to Georgia—and may include military support. Russia still occupies some territory.

Compassionate Conservatives: Now putting their “Country First.”

The Harder They Come: Bush calls McCain “the man we need”; then spotlight is usurped by someone more credible—a wishy-washy former Democrat who ran against Bush.

Lie-Berman: Joe’s speech assailed for inaccuracies about Obama’s voting record on bipartisanship, troop funding.

Wrong Paul: Thousands of dupes attend shadow convention for Paul. Congressman’s access to Republican convention restricted.

Ms. Maverick: Palin requested $197 million in earmark funding for Alaska.

Convention Protesters: They protest either party, apparently—but they always make the left look bad.

Cut the Cord: Buses to carry commuters while the viaduct—West Seattle’s “lifeline”—is under construction. “That will never work,” say drivers with no alternative.

Chopper: NATO helicopters in Pakistan kill 15—women, kids, Taliban, and governor.

The Was Easy: Staples’s second-quarter profit drops 16 percent.

Six Dead in Skagit County: Shooter kills six, including sheriff’s deputy responding to a disturbance, on multi-house murder spree and turns himself into police. Mother says he is mentally disturbed and has lived in the woods on and off for years.

Making Waves: Georgia prepares for Tropical Storm Hanna—currently over the Caribbean—expected to make landfall Friday afternoon.

Absent Ape Eight-foot mechanical gorilla missing in Maine.

Urban Wildlife: City creates $462,000-dollar parks-ranger program. They don’t carry guns and act like social workers.

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1

Hey, I think you mean $197 million in earmark funding.

Posted by LDP in Cincinnati | September 3, 2008 8:32 AM
2

Yup, thanks.

Posted by Dominic Holden | September 3, 2008 8:35 AM
3

Money quote from Ron Paul:
"I did not want to run people's lives. I did not want to run the economy and I did not want to run the world. I didn't have the authority to do it, and I didn't have the Constitution behind me to do it".

A nice contrast to McSame, who would never say anything of that sort. A protest is a protest, and RP ran a peaceful, organized one. Say what you will, but he had more effect than the hippies and anarchists.

Posted by P to the J | September 3, 2008 8:47 AM
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Oh, and Dom, RP is the only (former)candidate to explicitly say that he would end the drug war, and end the ban on growing industrial hemp, which is your biggest beef with O and Biden. Does that count for anything in your book? Let me know. Thx.

Posted by P to the J | September 3, 2008 8:50 AM
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@ 4) No, Paul's position on drugs is irrelevant to me. I'm not a one-issue voter and he's a right-wing bigot. But even if I was a one-issue voter (which I'm not), his take on drug policy would still be meaningless because he could never be elected to implement that policy.

Posted by Dominic Holden | September 3, 2008 8:57 AM
6

great. a half-million/year to babysit the homeless.

Posted by max solomon | September 3, 2008 9:00 AM
7

As long as they don't screw up the bus I already take over the viaduct every day, I'm all for more of them.

Posted by Abby | September 3, 2008 9:10 AM
8

I'm John McCain, and I approve of Sarah Palin's hot fundy booty.

Matter of fact, in my mind, I'm groping it right now.

And no, I don't feel like letting it go.

Posted by The Incredible Sulk | September 3, 2008 9:11 AM
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My friend was at the RP rally, and he said it was actually fantastic (he is not a paultard, but there to write about it).

I asked him if we could expect RP to be the Nadar of 2008, and he said "oh yes."

As Dan said previously, why doesn't the news media focus on the GOP party split?!

Posted by Original Monique | September 3, 2008 9:30 AM
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Also, McCain specifically criticized Palin for earmarks while she was Mayor of Wasilla.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-earmarks3-2008sep03,0,284198.story

Posted by Ziggity | September 3, 2008 9:31 AM
11

I was nearly shot in that shooting spree. I drove through, 2-3 minutes prior, if that. Almost dead, me.

Posted by le Juif | September 3, 2008 9:32 AM
12

Holy Hell Le Juif! You need to move to the city, where it's safe.

Posted by Original Monique | September 3, 2008 9:53 AM
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OK, Dom, prove to me he is a bigot, and spare me the "Ron Paul Newsletter" crap, because that is all anyone ever had. He didn't write it. If that is the only thing you have, then prove to me that Obama didn't attend a madrassa and McCain isn't a Manchurian candidate. The fact that people spew the bigot card for someone who supports the freedoms expressed in the Constitution, ESPECIALLY Amendment 1,2, and 4, 1 and 4 being the big ones in the war on drugs, while Obama hates 2 and voted AGAINST 4 with FISA, and McCain is in the neocon xtianist pocket these days, is surprising. That's the kind of thinking that people say with the reporting on Obama and Ayers. It's beneath you. I love your Week in Drugs reports, Dom, but with all the CFHOD reporting you guys do, you should also look at the other side of these guys who are (or were) running that favor medijuana and recreational nonviolent use by adults. That's all I'm saying.

Posted by P to the J | September 3, 2008 10:05 AM
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le Juif, I'm so glad it wasn't you!

I read about the shooting spree on the BBC website yesterday. It was weird to read about something happening less than an hour from me on a European website before I read about it on any local websites.

I was going to make a snarky comment, but I lack the intestinal fortitude to wade into the thunderdome today. Well, at least so far today...

Posted by PopTart | September 3, 2008 10:22 AM
15

Busses are kisses. The large motor vehicles capable of carrying 80 or so people around are buses, not busses. Make a note of it, thanks.

And wish me a happy birthday, you bastards. I'm as old as Michael Jackson now.

Posted by Fnarf | September 3, 2008 10:28 AM
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15)Happy Birthday, Fnarf! And, indeed you are right, "busses" are kisses. The perils of writing at 7 a.m.

Posted by Dominic Holden | September 3, 2008 11:13 AM

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