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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

News The Morning News

Posted by Jen Graves on Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:54 AM

Economic Crisis on Alert for More Crisis: Paulson warns.

Bill a Problem for Hillary Again: If she wants to become Obama's secretary of state, that is.

We Don't Need No Stinking Fraud Monitors: In corrupt Iraq.

The Council Giveth, and the Council Taketh Away: Council committee approves city budget.

Somali Pirates Steal Saudi Oil Ship: Pirates!

Blow Them Up, or Just Watch Them: The grenade camera.

Tasmanian Devils Fight Cancer: Their cancer is called devil facial tumor disease.

Fun With Money: UW loses $400,000 in the crash, Mark Emmert keeps making record dough!

The World's First Superscraper: In Dubai, of course. (Via ArtsJournal.)

Fifty Cents More: King County bus fares going up.

Go Ahead, Cremate!: A 2,800-year-old stone demonstrates the idea of the soul as separate from the body.

'It's Just Crying, Constant Crying, and It's Gotten Louder Every Night': Seattle City Light won't cut power to a pole BUT KITTY NEEDS TO BE RESCUED.

MTV's TRL: R.I.P.

Double the Fun!: Lynnwood plans to get twice as big.

Your Moment of Ghanaian Gospel.

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You might want to multiply that $400,000 by 1,000.

Posted by brian on November 18, 2008 at 9:02 AM

Actually Obama is handling the Hillary as Secretary of State / Bill as obstacle thing brilliantly. Assuming she doesn't get the job when this is all over, he will look like a heckuva guy for wanting to offer her the job, but also smart for recognizing that her husband is a huge liability; and Bill will come out of it [still] looking like a fuckup. And then Obama can give the job to Richardson the way he wanted to all along.

Posted by some guy on November 18, 2008 at 9:07 AM

I feel sorry for the cat stuck on top of the pole, but I also have to agree with the fire department... when it gets hungry enough, it'll come down. Although I don't know what the pole looks like so maybe the cat can't get down.

If this ends up being the highlight of my day I'll have to re-evaluate the quality of my life.

Posted by Sleestak on November 18, 2008 at 9:20 AM

Thank you for my morning dose of Ghanaian gospel. I didn't know I needed that, but apparently I did.

Gospel is awesome when you can't understand the words!

Posted by flamingbanjo on November 18, 2008 at 9:21 AM

@3: my cat was 50' up a doug fir for 2 days, being dive bombed by a murder of crows every evening. i had to hire a guy with a logger-climbing rig to get him down. they literally don't know how to get down.

Posted by maxsolomon on November 18, 2008 at 9:55 AM

[Vulgar Darwinist comment about natural selection goes here]

Posted by elenchos on November 18, 2008 at 9:58 AM

http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/…

cat rescued

Posted by mike whybark on November 18, 2008 at 10:01 AM

@5 is interesting - we used to use a long rake tied to a pole extender with a bag to get the cat down.

Posted by Will in Seattle on November 18, 2008 at 10:03 AM

i didnt know mtv even showed videos at all anymore

Posted by asdf on November 18, 2008 at 10:07 AM

How interesting that as the economy goes down, Emmert's salary does nothing but go up. How depressingly predictable.

Posted by Greg on November 18, 2008 at 10:18 AM

Guarded optimism for Tassie devils is good news. They are the most adorable creatures on earth.

Posted by Fnarf on November 18, 2008 at 10:18 AM

@5
I can't believe you fit "bombed," "murder," and "logger" all in one brief paragraph about a cat on a pole.

Outstanding!

Posted by Sleestak on November 18, 2008 at 10:29 AM

@2

yes it is soooooo fucked up Billdawg went around raising money to fight AIDS and lower drug costs for those poor people in the Third World. What a disgusting fuck up Billdawg was for doing that. And getting rich folks to give money to fight poverty? Fucked up.

My god, doesn't anyone realize that GWB Sr. also went around the world, openly trading on his name and celebrity, to raise money from rich people and other governments for that tsunami relief thing?

While his own son was in the white house?

Good god what a corrupt thing to do. That GWB Sr. sure was fucked up to be so corrupt.

Hopefully, President Obama will force Billdawg to stop raising money around the world or trying to get drug companies to have fair prices for the Third World. Then lots more people will die but thank god, the world will finally see how loathsome that Billdawg is. He will be destroyed!!!

Then the world will see our billdawgloathing is correct. And if a few more million people die, my what a small price to pay for The Truth About Bill Clinton to finally be exposed!

Posted by PC on November 18, 2008 at 11:30 AM

Hey, PC: I didn't read your post, but I bet it was about some stupid shit.

Was I right?

Posted by Chris in Tampa on November 18, 2008 at 12:14 PM