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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

News The Morning News

Posted by David Schmader on Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:18 AM

Where's Gregoire?: ~~Crack den~~. ~~Cabinet interview~~. ~~Coma~~. Iraq!

Today in School-Related Drama: While the Seattle School Superintendent prepares to release her recommendations for local school closures, Israeli airstrikes kill 30 outside a UN school on the Gaza Strip.

You Call These Fishsticks?: Angry 4-year-old shoots babysitter.

Where Vigilante Justice Meets Poor Sportsmanship: Puyallup mom pleads guilty to assaulting neighborhood sex offender with baseball bat.

Impending Skoal Boom Among Young Mothers?: Washington State considers ban on smoking in cars with children.

One Hand Taketh Away, the Other Giveth: Widow wins lottery on dead husband's ticket.

Tomorrow We'll Learn She Put Out Cigarettes on the Baby's Eyelids: Port Angeles woman accused of throwing her dead baby in a trash can now accused of drowning said baby in a toilet.

Adidos! McDnoald's! Panosaonic!: Fake-brands shopping center set to open in China.

India Provides Proof of Mumbai Attacks to Pakistan: Also, doesn't the guy in the accompanying photo kinda look like he's topless?

Finally, to help contextualize the ongoing discussion of hip-hop and its ramifications, here's some more actual hiphop. The artist: the Somalia-born/Canada-residing K'naan. Why it's just the song with no visuals: Because videos rarely make music better.

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Burris is denied from taking his Senate seat!

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/01/…

Posted by Uncanny Valley on January 6, 2009 at 8:28 AM

Love K'naan's music since the first time I heard him on CBC Radio 3.

Posted by Simone on January 6, 2009 at 8:29 AM

Homer Simpson on fake brand electronics: "They have all the great brands, like Magnetbox, and Sorny."

Posted by bookworm on January 6, 2009 at 8:43 AM

I don't want to live around the woman with the bat or the molester.

Posted by Mike on January 6, 2009 at 8:55 AM

Bart: Don't be a sap, Dad... These are just crappy knockoffs.
Homer: I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see one.

Posted by gillsans on January 6, 2009 at 9:13 AM

"you call these fish sticks?" -- lol

Posted by bob on January 6, 2009 at 9:29 AM

Another ski lift disaster:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/yea…

My favorite detail is that his kid was stuck sitting in the lift chair the whole time. Next stop - intensive therapy!

Posted by some shrinkage occured on January 6, 2009 at 9:40 AM

@7
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Posted by ha ha on January 6, 2009 at 9:54 AM

From MSNBC's First Read:

But now Obama's pick of Leon Panetta to head the CIA has drawn new criticism because of (1) Panetta’s lack of intelligence experience and (2) the fact that Obama's team apparently didn't even consult the selection with incoming Senate Intelligence Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, who prefers a career intelligence official in charge of the CIA.

We're doomed. We have a novice in the CIA and a rookie charismatic demagogue about to be president. We’re doomed. We’ll probably have a dirty bomb attack in a major American city before Easter. At least Bush kept us safe!

Posted by raindrop on January 6, 2009 at 10:04 AM

At least Bush kept us safe!

Except for that largest-ever-terrorist-attack-on-American-soil thing.

Posted by flamingbanjo on January 6, 2009 at 10:24 AM

@10, not to mention the anthrax attack and Katrina

Posted by Just Sayin' on January 6, 2009 at 10:27 AM

1. Burris: seat him, no legal grounds to deny him.
2. Panetta: great pick, he's antitorture. Tell Pelosi to fuck off. Lots of nonprofessionals served in this role, like GW Bush, remember?
3. Israel: of course the blurb is distorted as the "school" was used for munitions and to house Hamas soldiers. Hamas using civilians as cannon fodder deliberately. Very cruel.
Very biased (and tool-like) to report it as attack on school when it's an attack on a munitions base (located in a school by Hamas, to deliberately increase deaths of Gazan civilians, so that media tools worldwide will report it as an attack on a school).

Posted by PC on January 6, 2009 at 10:29 AM

I'm impressed the 4 year old could even hold a shotgun, much less fire it.

Posted by Mike in Renton on January 6, 2009 at 11:03 AM

Perhaps that 16 year old with the toilet baby can baby sit the trailer trash gun toting 4 year old. Any luck and by the end of the night both will be removed from the gene pool.

Posted by The End is Near! on January 6, 2009 at 11:09 AM

K'naan isn't really hip hop. He's more like K-os (who is also Canadian, I think). But still alright.

Posted by The CHZA on January 6, 2009 at 11:38 AM

@12: IIRC it was GHW Bush, #41, not GW Bush, #43 that was head of CIA.
Re Israel - there's plenty of blame to go around for anyone who wants any. Israel has still lost, because now even Fox News - FOX NEWS - has pix up of dead Palestinian babies.

Posted by Read it in Haaretz on January 6, 2009 at 12:04 PM

raindrop @ 9,

You know, Osama had very specific goals in mind when Al-Qaeda attacked the US:

1) Draw the US into unwinnable wars in the US.

Check.

2) Removal of all US forces from their holy land, Saudi Arabia.

Check.

3) Bankrupt the US economy through impossible spending on wars and the military.

Check, check, check.

He couldn't have been more successful if Bush had been an Al-Qaeda sleeper agent.

Congratulations, your hero Caligutard helped Al-Qaeda achieve total victory in the War on Terrah.

Posted by Original Andrew on January 6, 2009 at 12:26 PM

@6 I feel sick b/c I laughed so hard...not funny that someone got shot, but a damn funny line.

Posted by julie russell on January 6, 2009 at 2:11 PM

K'Naan.
Awesome.

Posted by Sparkplug on January 6, 2009 at 9:24 PM