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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

News The Morning News

Posted by Dominic Holden on Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:51 AM

Mixing Signals: Six hundred and forty one television stations switch to digital broadcast today. Other stations have until June 12 to abandon analog.

White-Collar Workers: Getting laid off and leaving the auto industry.

Later Today: GM will submit plans to resuscitate its business and the Treasury Department will hand over $4 billion.

All Your Face Are Belong to Us: Facebook excuses surreptitiously changing service terms to own your photos, postings, pets, etc.

Cheap Crap: Selling like hotcakes at WalMart.

Three Years and Nine Months to Go: Obama, who will sign the stimulus bill today in Colorado, is campaigning on stimulus plan in purple states.

Hey, Numb Skulls: The stimulus bill would have been bipartisan if Republicans had agreed to more than cutting taxes—i.e., what they tried under Bush.

Face Plant: Japan's finance minister to resign after the shame of appearing slightly drunk.

Missile Aren't Helpful: HRC tells North Korea that launching rockets "would be very unhelpful in moving our relationship forward."

Still Going: Australian bushfire death toll hits 200.

Fort Lewis: Teenage girl found dead in barracks.

Projecting: Deaf folks threaten lawsuit that would require movie theaters to provide captions.

Mowing: Man riding lawnmower dies after colliding with car.

It Wasn't Bush: Liberals ruined the American economy.

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Kill yourself.

Posted by Greg on February 17, 2009 at 8:28 AM

I'd *love* to use some kind of personal technology that would let me see subtitles on movies. Maybe the subtitles could be, like, invisible unless you wear special glasses or something. It drives me crazy when close-captioning is absent from iTunes and Hulu or network Web site video, too, so I wish someone would sue about that while they're at it.

Posted by Simac on February 17, 2009 at 8:30 AM

Dan Savage is the greatest writer of his generation.

Posted by The Incredible Sulk on February 17, 2009 at 8:36 AM

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

Posted by The Incredible Sulk on February 17, 2009 at 8:36 AM

You guys forgot about Norm Dicks yesterday. Dick Sargeant, Dick's Drive-in, but no Norm Dicks.

EPIC. NO-DICK SLOG. FAIL.

Posted by Cookie W. Monster on February 17, 2009 at 8:41 AM

Wouldn't it be equally reasonable to sue the Seattle Symphony to require them to provide closed captioning? Seems like after a point you might be overreaching.

Posted by Dan on February 17, 2009 at 9:43 AM

"Hey kim jong il, attacking us would probably cause us to not like you as much. How's spending 80% of your per capita on a missle program working for you by the way?"

Posted by Joh on February 17, 2009 at 9:44 AM

I love the @1 to @5 deleted aspect of SLOG.

As to cheap crap at Walmart .... if you want to help America's balance of trade and create US jobs, buy the stuff from Costco instead.

Posted by Will in Seattle on February 17, 2009 at 10:41 AM

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I agree. Maybe they'll go after the Seattle Rep next.

Posted by Sad Comment on February 17, 2009 at 10:46 AM

Cinerama has closed captioning. It works with a mirror type thing with the captioning being over the projector's booth in the back.

Posted by Iusedtoworkthere on February 17, 2009 at 10:50 AM

As Barack Hussein Obama signs the porkulous package and the markets tank in the process, I have one question for those who voted for Obama and the Democrats

Did you really think the party most responsible for this crisis, the Democrat Party, would do anything other than make it worse?

Here's the solution. It's always the solution:

Cut capital gains and the upper marginal tax rates and the recovery will begin instantly.

It happened with Reagan in 1981 and it pulled us out of the Carter recession, and again with Bush in 2001 and 2003, which pulled us out of the Clinton recession.

If that happened, every last dollar of mine would go back into the stock market. As it is, we just have to short the market, buy gold, and wait out this incompetent competent Congress until 2010 when we can replace them with tax cutting conservatives, and then 2012 when we can replace this incompetent Marxist Barack Hussein Obama with the jewel of the conservative movement:

Sarah Palin!

Posted by Lord Basil on February 17, 2009 at 12:43 PM

When I was a teenager, I was walking out of Whataburger with a friend when a black Corvette pulled into the parking spot right in front of us. I always thought "What kind of idiot would drive a black car in Phoenix?"

In this case, the person who was driving the car was J.D. Hayworth. At the time he was the "sports guy" on the local news.

Posted by Renton Mike on February 17, 2009 at 5:24 PM

"Six hundred and forty one television stations switch to digital broadcast today."

Its lazy crap "journalism" like this that keeps confusing the heck out of the masses. There is NO "switch to" happening. NOTHING IS BEING "SWITCHED"! TV stations have already been broadcasting simultaneously in both the new ATSC digital and the old NTSC analog for a year or more. What's happening is that the old analog broadcasts are being shut down.

We now return you to our regular scheduled programming.

Posted by MarkyMark on February 17, 2009 at 6:35 PM