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Saturday, April 18, 2009

News The Morning News

Posted by on Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:48 AM

Sentenced: Iranian-American journalist gets convicted of espionage in Iran.

Bitter Sweets: Local carnival ride tips over, injures six children and adult.

Stern Warning To Equal Marriage Detractors: Iowa Asst. AG tells county employees to do their job regardless of personal feelings.

They Blinded Them With Science: Psychologists had key role in enemy combatant interrogations according to recently released documents.

No Such Thing As A Free Ride: 520 Bridge toll approved by Washington legislators.

Closing The Gap: Mayor announces 30 city layoffs, library system shut down for a week to help with deficit.

Wait, So It Is Illegal?: Leading torrent site founders sentenced to jail, fined.

Fighting For The Right To Exist: Homosexuals in Iraq targeted for violence, often by police.

One Card To Rule Them All: Puget Sound public transportation card available beginning of next week.

Today marks the anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride, so in honor here's Northwest band Paul Revere & the Raiders performing what could have been the definitive version of "Louie Louie"

 

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Fighting For The Right To Engage in Poopy ButtSex: Homosexuals in Iraq
Posted by someone had to say it on April 18, 2009 at 9:00 AM
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Where's This Weekend at the Movies? What if I want to see some movies? Am I supposed to browse the movie listings by myself?
Posted by Aislinn on April 18, 2009 at 9:18 AM
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re Iowa: In Iowa they should've said regardless of personal prejudice, rather than beliefs.

I no longer believe that people are bigoted against gays because of their religion. I believe that people stick with their bigoted churches because the prejudice and bigotry they hear at the pulpit resonates with the bigotry and prejudice in their hearts.

We should just call it what it is.
Posted by James on April 18, 2009 at 10:49 AM
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@3; couldn't agree more, see @1
Posted by truth in advertising on April 18, 2009 at 11:36 AM
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Y no noticias sobre el pres. Obama?
Asistio una reunion de lideres latinos. El. Pres. Chavez sonrio en conocerlo. Una sonrisa muy grande! Y Obama le sonrio tambien. Luego Chavez se lo dio uno libro -- sobre la opresion sufrida por la gente indigena durante 500 anos a los manos de los europeos!

Le ala derechista en los EEUU esta gritando comunista, comunista.

Y que mas? Ahorita el candidato del FMLN gano en el Salvador! Y hay gobiernos izqueirdistos en Bolivia, Brasil, Nicaragua, Chile, Venezuela, Cuba (claro)...

Pero por lo usual, Latino America se olvida la prensa norteamericano, aun la prensa "alternativa" de Slog. Los taquerias de Seattle, ellos valen la pena investigar, escribir, etc. Pero la gente y las naciones de latinoamerica, ay, para que se nos importan ellas?

Hasta lumbago,
Posted by CP on April 18, 2009 at 11:50 AM
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Paul Revere is an interesting character. He was an accomplished silversmith and took over his father's business in his youth. Revere was the engraver of the famous image of the Boston Massacre. I like that Revere's father's pre-anglicized name, Apollos Rivoire, serves as an indicator of the centuries-long intermingling of French and British in New England that continues to this day. Finally, there were TWO riders in the famous Midnight Ride. Revere took a boat across to Cambridge before mounting up, while William Dawes took the long, land route out through Boston Neck. Boston looked quite different back then before much of the area around the neck was filled in.

1776:
http://home.comcast.net/%7Efredra/SeigeB…

Then and today:
http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/2512/aster…
Posted by Lloyd Clydesdale on April 18, 2009 at 12:09 PM
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re 520 toll. Wow, that's beautiful. Could they screw it up worse? Let's see -- pay $3 or drive to I-90. Tough choice.
Posted by Fritz on April 18, 2009 at 1:29 PM
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I'm a little confused by the Orca item. The linked article indicates that the Orca card will replace all other passes. But unless the pass will also replace cash, then the statement that "the seven public transit agencies using Orca will know right away how many riders they have" is probably not true.

That said, this all seems like a great step in the right direction. I love the idea of using "business intelligence" to more efficiently allocate transit resources.
Posted by Quintus Slide on April 18, 2009 at 2:06 PM
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re: 520

Awesome. They're raising costs to live, as unemployment goes up and wages come down. Way to go liberals.
Posted by TheMisanthrope on April 18, 2009 at 2:09 PM
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Oh, God! I used to like Paul Revere & the Raiders' version of "Louie, Louie", until I saw this! Correct me if I'm wrong, Seattliters, but wasn't "LL" originally a regional hit by the Kingsmen, from the Pacific Northwest? I really like their version. Also the KInks put it on TWO consecutive early LPs (the very same recording)! Toots & the Maytals did a "real" reggae version which is just about my favorite, though. Frank Zappa made merciless fun of the song and the amateur garage/high school bands who played it, but for my money "Louie, Louie" is a more significant contribution to American popular music than most everything he did.
Best wishes to all from Pennsylvania.
Posted by Timmytee on April 18, 2009 at 2:32 PM
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@8: On the bus, that beeping sound you hear when you put your coins in the slot is the driver pressing a tally button. Riders who pay cash are accounted for.
Posted by Greg on April 18, 2009 at 2:49 PM
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Hey great, one card!

I'll just jump on the Sounder and .... what?

Wait a minute....

(Sound of trumpet: Whaaaant Whaaaant Whaaaaa )
Posted by Carded on April 18, 2009 at 6:49 PM
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You know, if I never hear Louie Louie again, I'll be okay with that.

Or never watch Sleepless in Seattle, either.
Posted by NapoleonXIV on April 18, 2009 at 10:37 PM
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@11 -- Thanks for the info.
Posted by Quintus Slide on April 19, 2009 at 8:58 AM
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@8: On the bus, that squishing sound you hear when you put your coins in the slot is my asshole leaking. sorry.
Posted by Dam Savage on April 19, 2009 at 12:07 PM
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It's wasn't Paul Revere's ride. It was a team effort by William Dawes, Paul Revere, and Samuel Prescott. They did it together. Please honor them all.
Posted by east coaster on April 20, 2009 at 8:12 AM

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