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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

News The Morning News

Posted by David Schmader on Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:06 AM

Triumph!: Huskies win Women's College World Series of Softball.

Tragedy: Officials confirm that debris in Atlantic Ocean is missing Air France flight, and that Air France received a bomb threat days before the disappearance.

"Historic Outreach to the Muslim World": President Obama arrives in Saudi Arabia.

Kids These Days: Vancouver teen arrested after posting alleged "hit list" on Facebook.

After An Alleged 30 Years of Selling U.S. Space Program Secrets to China: Ex-Boeing engineer on trial for economic espionage.

Put a Clenched-Jawed, Emotionally Effusive Tiger in Your Tank: 69-Year-Old British Columbia Man En Route to Seattle Found with 27 Pounds of Ecstasy in His Gas Tank.

Rape or Roleplay?: A Smoky Mountain mystery.

Because Even the Dumbest Hunters Can Tell the Difference Between a Woman and a Bear: Teen hunter from Skagit County found guilty of manslaughter after fatally shooting woman he allegedly thought was a bear.

Finally, in honor of the National Weather Service's heat advisory—predicting two days of near-record-level temperatures—here's Martha and the Vandellas. (Besides being an obvious choice, thematically, it's the greatest song of all time.)

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WOW--there's a heatwave in my computer after watching them! What, at LEAST 40 years ago, right? They're fantastic!

Posted by ...Thanks for posting M & the V's!... on June 3, 2009 at 8:36 AM

Is it increasingly obvious to anyone else that the Air France plane broke apart before it went down? And if it did, doesn't the obvious culprit seem to be an explosion, either accidental or intentional? I kinda wonder when the press will just ask Air France what seems to be clear...

Posted by switzerblog on June 3, 2009 at 8:40 AM

That hunter kid will only get 30 to 90 days behind bars for murdering a woman. That is so, so wrong. I see that the sentence here has something to do with intentions; he didn't MEAN to shoot a woman, so gee, he shouldn't really be punished too hard.
But something about that seems so wrong. If we were all incompetent all the time, and not held responsible for it, society would fall apart.

Posted by onion on June 3, 2009 at 9:29 AM

Yay husky softball

Posted by Joh on June 3, 2009 at 9:43 AM

There's a report that Air France got a bomb threat recently on a B Aires flight to Paris.

Shit. Was this crash a test run? Obama's big speech is tomorrow.

If I were flying tomorrow anywhere near Egypt I would have second thoughts.

On the Hunter thing it was two kids who were negligent and careless, what's the point of putting the kid into juvie for 15 months (first class manslaughter, recklessness) versus three months (second class manslaughter -- negligence).

And btw if you are hiking during hunting season think about an orange vest.

Further responsibility will be imposed financially via a civil suit against the kids and their parents and their grandpa whoever was sitting in the truck letting them go off with guns by themselves.

Posted by PC on June 3, 2009 at 9:45 AM

Of course, the younguns don't know what they're missing, but I sure feel lucky that I grew up with music like Martha and the Vandellas. Note that they move on stage, but it isn't a dry-humping, striptease show attempting to cover up the lack of signing talent and style.

Thanks, Dave. I feel alive again.

Posted by Bauhaus I on June 3, 2009 at 10:01 AM