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News & ArtsThursday, December 4, 2008
News The Morning News
Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:19 AM
Automakers Whining in D.C. Right Now: New York Times liveblogs the welfare queens' pleading.
European Banks Cut Rates: Even in Sweden, they're fucked. Our treasury might slash mortgage rates, too.
Pink Slips Keep Fallin' On My Head: Layoffs everywhere, all the time.
Is There Any Love?: Zimbabwe declares cholera emergency.
Mission Accomplished: Condoleezza Rice says Pakistan will play ball in finding Mumbai suspects.
Schooled: 9 Seattle schools could be cut altogether.
Back on His Word?: Obama quietly drops call for oil company windfall profit taxes.
Whoopsie!: Sound Transit accidentally collected $3 million more in excise taxes than it should've also, the Port is full of fraud. Also 7,700 people are being cut from the state's Basic Health Plan.
Dumbshit: Idiot Republican Florida congresswoman hangs up on Obama twice by accident.
97% Recounted: But still no winner in Coleman/Franken.
God Is Great: Couple beats their one-year-old baby to death with hammers, claiming they were trying to rid her of demons.
Saving the World, One Cut of Pork at a Time: A meeting about eco-meat.
And now, because all the news is so goddamned depressing: Hero dog pulls injured dog from certain death on the highway.
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Gas is down $100 a barrel. The appearant gouging and windfall that was really sexy during the campaign is no longer important to the public if the oil co.'s aren't even raping us at the moment
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Either Live Leak doesn't work if Firefox or Safari or doesn't work on Macs, but Good Doggie.
MSNBC says that a Somalian Al-Quaeda recruiting cell has been uncovered in Minneapolis.
MSNBC says that a Somalian Al-Quaeda recruiting cell has been uncovered in Minneapolis.
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Oil prices began to plummet once Obama's victory was all but imminent. Perhaps the oil companies got the message: Stop gouging or we will tax you.
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For the next "War On Drugs" post: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28045145/
I don't think I ever will go to Mexico.
I don't think I ever will go to Mexico.
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Whoopsie Goldberg, just like scary tyler moore, is a washed-up 1980s has-been who forgot to take her happy pill this morning, just like every morning since Jan. 17, 1987. Please post more videos with Devo and/or Midnight Oil in them.
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Wow. Everyone around here may be feeling pinched in the pocketbook, but at least we don't have cholera.
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I know @6, I'm sorry! This is my first week on Morning News and I feel oddly responsible for the news. It's all my fault the whole world is going to hell in a handbasket.
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"certain death on the highway"
i'm pretty certain that dog was dead on the highway. and 2, that second dog dragged it away because HE WANTED TO EAT THE SHIT OUT OF IT.
i'm pretty certain that dog was dead on the highway. and 2, that second dog dragged it away because HE WANTED TO EAT THE SHIT OUT OF IT.
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Is it weird that I'm surprised *every* time someone beats their kid to death for being full of demons? I mean, it happens every other week or so...
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Paul, don't feel bad, I already knew the world was doomed long before you reported the news this morning.
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The NYT article about eco-meat makes me sad. It's becoming very clear that livestock isn't just one of the causes of global warming, it's THE major human cause of global warming. Humans are destroying the planet because they can't get enough of the taste of flesh and blood. People are vampires.
Meat-eaters, how about a deal? You quit eating meat (at least beef) and we'll let you drive Hummers, throw cigarette butts out the window, throw beer bottles and cans in the garbage, and triple-plastic bag your groceries. It'll still be a huge net plus for the environment. As a bonus, you lose some weight and gain about 5-7 years to your lifespan.
Meat-eaters, how about a deal? You quit eating meat (at least beef) and we'll let you drive Hummers, throw cigarette butts out the window, throw beer bottles and cans in the garbage, and triple-plastic bag your groceries. It'll still be a huge net plus for the environment. As a bonus, you lose some weight and gain about 5-7 years to your lifespan.
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Depressing? Port Commissioner Pat Davis is in tears! That's not depressing, it's a reason to party! I hope she goes to jail.
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That video is still pretty depressing...
... I mean, jeez... I just saw a dog get run over by a car.
:(
... I mean, jeez... I just saw a dog get run over by a car.
:(
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Somehow I don't think the baby was the one possessed by demons.
Oh well - at least God saved her from gay foster parents.
Oh well - at least God saved her from gay foster parents.
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Yeah, that video didn't cheer me up at all. It was actually kind of icky seeing the smear of doggie guts left behind as the almost certainly dead dog was dragged off.
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#13 is right! All meat eaters drive Hummers, smoke cigarettes and litter. I'm pretty sure they give you a free pack of smokes and a forty of Mickey's when you buy a roasting chicken at Safeway. I mean, I wouldn't know, because I would never purchase such a thing and I shop at PCC. But then again, I don't know lots of things and it's never stopped me from speaking my mind before. "Not knowing" is no excuse for not seizing every opportunity to Speak Truth To Power, because if those of us with the gift of moral clarity don't raise our voices the world will meat and smoke and beer itself to death.
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Yay! Hero Dog!
He'll have his work cut out for him once the unemployed start playing in traffic too.
He'll have his work cut out for him once the unemployed start playing in traffic too.
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Watch it again. Call me a skeptic, but I'm pretty sure that dog was just trying to hump the other dog. Oh well, whatever gets you on tv...
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J.R. Labrador,
Every day, all over the planet, people risk their lives to help other people and animals, with no expectation of reward. Most of the time it goes unreported, because it is such a frequent occurrence; many people have no other job but risking their lives to help others, like firefighters and police.
Every day, all over the planet, people risk their lives to help other people and animals, with no expectation of reward. Most of the time it goes unreported, because it is such a frequent occurrence; many people have no other job but risking their lives to help others, like firefighters and police.
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