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Sunday, May 10, 2009

News The Morning News

Posted by Unpaid Intern on Sun, May 10, 2009 at 8:20 AM

post by News Intern Alexander P. Brown

We Told You To Panic, Now Panic Harder!!!: Snohomish man dies from swine flu related complications.

About As Stressful As Planning A Kegger: Banks lobbied, received concessions from Fed in test.

Hello World, It's Me Again, Big Brother: FBI pursues new high tech surveillance strategies, no new laws proposed to keep them honest.

This Is What An Incendiary Documentary Looks Like: Film looks at closeted politicians who fought against gay right.

This Is Unfortunately Becoming The Norm: Georgia professor wanted for murder of wife, two others, found dead of apparent suicide.

Starting Zombification In 3... 2... 1...: Possible site of free will found in brain.

Comedy About The President Can Be Done: Wanda Sykes as the featured performer at the 2009 White House Correspondent's Dinner.

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Considering the question of "Free Will" is a philosophical/metaphysical question and thus all efforts to draw correspondence to neuroanatomy relies on speculation, "newscientist" is apparently run by morons.

I saw the same information referenced elsewhere, though without any silly speculative comments about "free will", so I can only assume this is sensationalist nonsense.

But trust the nonsense! It comes from *scientists*!

Posted by Mr.Joshua on May 10, 2009 at 8:46 AM

Wanda I love you. gay-marry me?

Posted by beelzebufo on May 10, 2009 at 8:46 AM

Also Mr. Obama, surely there's a cabinet post somewhere for her?

Posted by beelzebufo on May 10, 2009 at 8:47 AM

Please fix the FBI link

Posted by Edge on May 10, 2009 at 8:51 AM

The film "Outrage" doesn't try to out public officials who are gay. What it does is expose hypocites who vote against gay rights as public officials. Why shouldn't their constituents know they are gay when it's their constituents that want them to vote against gay rights!?!If a closeted gay wants to run as a Republican, and his party has done everything it can to enforce a narrow right wing religious agenda, he must stay in the closet. This makes them vulnerable to threats of outing. If then Republicans want to vote for a gay candidate who votes against gay rights they can stand the public criticism.

Posted by Aqua Regia on May 10, 2009 at 8:59 AM

The man in Snohomish had an underlying heart condition, and thus is in the TRADITIONAL flu-risk category, and has nothing to do with the lethality of swine flu, which appears to be killing dramatically FEWER people than any other kind of flu we've ever seen.

Posted by Fnarf

on May 10, 2009 at 9:58 AM

@5
This interview is pretty good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB9oVmspk…

Posted by NumberOne on May 10, 2009 at 10:11 AM

I thought Republicans were a non-existent party?

Why doesn't Obama use his fillibuster proof majority to ram home legislation?

Why is he stalling?

His principle legislative achievement so far is Welfare for East Coast Millionaires.

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on May 10, 2009 at 12:44 PM

@8 to what news item are you referring? or are you just taking the opportunity of a morning news post to soapbox?

Posted by devilsmoke on May 10, 2009 at 1:03 PM

doing the whcad is kind of like the nobel prize for comedians.

Posted by wanda PSYKEs!! on May 10, 2009 at 4:01 PM

"I hope his kidneys fail" almost killed me.

Posted by David Schmader on May 10, 2009 at 4:08 PM

"Not too long ago, you could go to jail for congregating in a bar, and for some people it's still very real," she said. "I'm not going to condemn those people," she said, "unless they use their power as a public official to hurt their own community."

Not too long ago? How long does it have to be before we ask that politicians have a spine? They need to be held to a higher standard than the rest of us, not a lower one. And if they vote against gay rights while being gay, they bloody well deserve whatever they get.

Posted by wench on May 10, 2009 at 5:22 PM