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Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:31 AM
AP Says Nope to "Hope": Sues Shepard Fairey over Obama image.
The Longest Charging Document Ever: Nazi camp guard charged with 29,000 counts of being an accessory to murder.
Sacrebleu! Frances considers banning under-18 drinking.
Tough Break: Italian court bars key evidence in CIA trial.
At Least He Won't Have to Worry About Deadlines For a While: Afghanistan Supreme Court upholds student journalist's 20-year sentence for blasphemy.
Is There Life On Mars? NASA rover may have found water on the red planet.
Isn't It Ionic: Meet the battery of the future.
Writing Your Own Obituary: NY Times on the death of newspapers.
Submission Hold: Seattle School District pays $15 million to settle safety suit which left wrestler paralyzed.
Will It Get Chopp'd? State senate passes home warranty bill. Former Stranger news intern Brian Slodysko has the story.
The crappiness continues:
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James Bond Jr.!
I knew the phrase "Bond. James Bond. Junior." waaaay before I knew its predecessor.
I knew the phrase "Bond. James Bond. Junior." waaaay before I knew its predecessor.
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The new about the new batteries is pretty awesome stuff.
No longer will I have to wait hours for the batteries in my Xbox 720 to recharge. I can pop them in the charger, fix myself a microwave pizza, and enjoy hours more playtime.
No longer will I have to wait hours for the batteries in my Xbox 720 to recharge. I can pop them in the charger, fix myself a microwave pizza, and enjoy hours more playtime.
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Is anyone else bothered by the fact that the song makes reference to Jr. learning from his Uncle James? I mean, if his uncle is James and he's James Jr., what sort of twisted family situation do they have going on?
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"AP Says Nope to 'Hope'" has officially made me fall in love with this Jonah Spangenthal-Lee character.
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OMG that Geoff Brumfiel guy on the BBC website discussing the batteries is SOOOOOOO dreamy. I've never seen a rugged nerd before.
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While you're at it, could some intrepid investigator - I know, I know, hard to find these days - see what the hell is up with the Workplace Privacy Bill that was summarily killed yesterday? Rumor has it the Dems, including The Gov caved in to Big Biz interests and squashed it, using the pretext of a "threatening letter" sent by WA State Labor Council promising to withhold political endorsements & financial support to any member of the Legislature that voted against it. Now, supposedly Gregoire has called in the State Patrol to investigate, even though, by all accounts the letter did nothing more than what Boeing, and their friends have been doing all along - threatening to take Labor's ball and go home if the Dems they've supported in the past didn't want to play ball with them.
Good luck getting anything out of anybody, though, for some reason nobody wants to talk about it.
Good luck getting anything out of anybody, though, for some reason nobody wants to talk about it.
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These new batteries are just what electric autos need. I hope more research gets put into this and we get to see them in action in a couple of years.
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Charles Freeman Jr., President Barack Obama's choice for a major intelligence post, has withdrawn his name because it's a big fat antisemitic lie that Zionist Jews run Washington DC.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/11/a…
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/11/a…
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@9, you can find the story in the Times this morning:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/po…
Boeing and other lobbyists pull the same crap all the time, but usually in the form of a quiet word with a bill proponent in Ulcer Gulch. The Labor Council, for God knows what reason, decided to put it in an email to legislators. In the trade, it's known as "stepping on your prick."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/po…
Boeing and other lobbyists pull the same crap all the time, but usually in the form of a quiet word with a bill proponent in Ulcer Gulch. The Labor Council, for God knows what reason, decided to put it in an email to legislators. In the trade, it's known as "stepping on your prick."
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That's pretty exciting about the new battery technology. Check this out ... it's the cell-phone charger of the future:
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I remember having a crush on James Bond, Jr. as a kid. For the life of me, I can't remember why. Seeing that clip, maybe it had something to do with that awesome Mike Seaver hair.
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