http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/12/27/morning-news-the-top-10-news-stories-i-found-interesting-at-600-am-this-morning Comments On: Morning News: The Top 10 News Stories I Found Interesting at 6:00 AM This Morning by Cienna Madrid en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by seatackled]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:14:43 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Simone]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:43:35 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Phoebe in Wallingford]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:59:54 -0800 The Stranger
Some of us bought our Book of Mormon tickets back in May, when they went on sale to the in-the-know.

Posted by N in Seattle]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:02:09 -0800 The Stranger
@7 -- It was a parody of Beauty and the Beast, called Beauty and the Beat. http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2012/06/urban-b…
Posted by vavavarooooom]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:19:22 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Bauhaus I]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:11:02 -0800 The Stranger
Not just six months, an *additional* six months to the time they already have. As if Eyman has ever had trouble getting enough signatures for his bullshit initiatives.

Signature gatherers are obnoxious enough as it is. One grabbed my arm and tried to drag me over to his table a few years ago. A woman protested those signature gatherers that same year, and the little wimps complained to Safeway management to make her go away. What we need are more regulations to keep those assholes from violating *our* rights.
Posted by keshmeshi]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:10:48 -0800 The Stranger
I must be the only one thinking this.
Posted by MrBaker]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:52:40 -0800 The Stranger Posted by sperifera]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:52:35 -0800 The Stranger Posted by westello]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:49:52 -0800 The Stranger Posted by MrBaker]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:48:24 -0800 The Stranger
Where Do Billionaires Come From?

(The little girl, Jun Hao, ran into the ultra-modern kitchen, in the year 2440, to ask her mother an important question from school.)

"Mommy, mommy, do you know where billionaires come from? We had this subject today in class, and it's still confusing to me. It was about some place long ago called oosa!"

"Oosa," responded her mother?

"Oh, Juni, you mean the USA, a country which existed centuries ago, a completely corrupt, fraud-based society."

"Well...." began the mother, "..it goes like this...."

During a period in the late 20th century, and very early 21st century, the evil greedy people in that country performed a number of insurance swindles, it was really that simple.

Companies like Ambac and MBIA sold unregulated insurance, in the form of credit default swaps, which they had no capital to back up, and when they had to payout, they couldn't, and therefore all those municipal, and other, bonds they had insured in that country were immediately downgraded, but their owners, that is, the owners of Ambac and MBIA, made a fortune by selling all that unregulated insurance they couldn't back up.

In fact, the largest insurance company, AIG, sold $460 billion worth of unregulated insurance, also called credit default swaps, which made them a fortune, but they also had no money to back up those insurance policies they sold to hedge funds and the major banks (Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and Bank of America), so the government, those taxpayers, had to bail them out.

So the insurance swindlers made billions off of the ignorant citizenry, and that's where their billionaires came from, my darling.

But thanks to them, and their shipping all their jobs and technology and investment to China, and we Chinese using their greedy ways against them, today the Chinese Daffodil Imperium rules the entire planet. And sometime around 2025, the Chinese government wisely put to death all their greedy billionaires.

Posted by sgt_doom]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:38:06 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Volo]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:12:13 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fenrox]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:05:21 -0800 The Stranger I wish he'd fall into a well and not get rescued.
Posted by StuckInUtah]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 09:36:29 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Urgutha Forka]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 09:32:02 -0800 The Stranger Posted by fletc3her]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 08:59:13 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Die Tim Die]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 08:42:52 -0800 The Stranger
You raise good questions. If a gun is properly secured, either in a gun safe or with a trigger lock, then it can not be accessed very quickly and under adverse conditions.

My dad kept a loaded .357 under his pillow til the day he died (peacefully, in his sleep). Made for some unintended horror/hilarity when the family came to tidy up his house after his passing.

Also I suspect many hard-core gun owners believe even their safely-locked-away guns will protect their security when the day comes that they must rise up against the tyrannical government.

As to the addresses being published- I dunno. I assume most of them already have the sign in their window with a muzzle's eye view of a gun and text reading "Protected by Smith & Wesson". So their neighbors at least must know where the gun owners are.

Given that most residential burglaries happen during daylight when no-one is home, it all seems stupid. Having the sign, knowing the addresses, thinking a gun will prevent a crime...
Posted by Dr_Awesome]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 08:41:26 -0800 The Stranger Posted by suddenlyorcas]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 08:29:17 -0800 The Stranger
how is the glock useful for defense of your home, if you have to keep it locked in a gun safe?

alternatively, if it's loaded, and ready, and by your hand while you sleep, say on the nigth table -- isn't it available for your teenage kid to take? or for the intruder?

I don't get how it can be both "safely stored, so the new lanza kid doesn't take it!" and "ready to shoot an intruder into my home, it takes a man with a gun to stop a monster bad guy with a gun!"

pls. explain.

also this: if part of the purpose is to deter intruders, sort of shift their attention to the pansy assed liberals who refuse to arm themselves, why isn't publishing a map noting all gun owners addresses a good thing?
seems like you all would want that. unless you're like afraid you might be called on to engage in free speech on gun issues, or something else terrifying. thanks for the explanations and have a nice day!
Posted by actually using first amendment!]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 08:27:40 -0800 The Stranger Posted by seatackled]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 08:21:37 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Theodore Gorath]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 08:14:42 -0800 The Stranger
Popcorn time!!!
Posted by Last of the Time Lords]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 08:11:10 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pope Peabrain]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 08:05:03 -0800 The Stranger