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Thursday, July 9, 2009

News The Morning News

Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:48 AM

Gasbags: UN Secretary General criticizes G8 leaders for not fighting emissions.

Not Okay: Bombs kill at least 41 in Iraq.

Also Not Okay: 25 die in Afghanistan truck bomb blast.

They Have Mastered Their Commodore 64: North Korea continues to assault US computers.

Demonstrations: Iran protests on an important anniversary.

Demonstrations, Part 2: China continues to face ethnic unrest.

Demonstrations, Part 3: Fox News pundit demonstrates his idiot Nazism.

My Wallet Feels Sick: Fatcats profit on Seattle hospitals.

Crafty Rednecks Outsmart Dumb Urbanites: They swindled more stimulus funds for roads.

What the Fuck Is Wrong With People?: 200 dogs rescued in dog fighting sting operation.

This Is Barely News Anymore: Retail sales weak in June.

This Is Confusing: Initial claims for unemployment are down, but continuing claims are still at record highs.

This Is Just Weird: Mortgage fraud actually declined in Washington last year.

And Many More: Amanda Knox turns 22 in prison.

Pit Bulls! Fire! Suspicious Dead Body!: Trouble in University Place.

Why Didn't The Stranger Think of That?: Brit tabloid allegedly hacked into phones of "hundreds of celebrities and politicians."

And now, Your Daily Muppet:

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Obama's approval rating has dropped below 50% (14 points in two months) in bellweather state Ohio.
Palin owns his Ass...

Posted by 2012 is closer than you think on July 9, 2009 at 7:56 AM

Sen. Carl Levin (D. Mich.) (202) 224-622, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, seems to need encouragement to call for a vote on the repeal of DADT. I spoke to one of his aides on the phone this morning who thanked me for my input.

Posted by jasonzenobia

on July 9, 2009 at 7:58 AM

No Seattleite has the right to use the term 'Redneck'- it reveals your racism...

Posted by ...you Stupid Punk-Ass Faggot on July 9, 2009 at 7:59 AM

It's not racist to call someone a redneck - nobody was born a redneck. But you have my sympathy for being born stupid, @3.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on July 9, 2009 at 8:12 AM

it's OBAMA"S fault the money is going to roads-- anyone knows most roads are out in the sticks, and the rural legislators in each state sit on the transportation committees, and they would channel the money he doled out.

The urban legislators like most of ours from Seattle are just too cool and too cowed to sit on a transprotation committe, because then they'd have to say, wow, this whole deal is a scam, because all these dollars go to roads not transit, and they're too chicken to do that.

Obama could have used this money for Change -- directing it to the working poor in the form of bus fare vouchers or vouchers to pay for bus driver hours, avoiding service cuts....or actual investment in rapid transit.

N.B. to Seattleites: the 85% of the State not living in Seattle, despite being rednecks who fuck their daughters and play the banjo, can actually read? So maybe tone down on calling them rednecks, I think it's called "diplomacy" or being "politique"...I'm sure there's some French word for it that you will understand and embrace in your superior mode of existence, ok?

Posted by PC on July 9, 2009 at 8:12 AM

I Praise Sweet Jeebus everyday for "Unregistered Comments Off"!

Posted by EveryDay! on July 9, 2009 at 8:15 AM

4
My first reaction is to suggest you shove your sympathy up your ass but I read your stuff on slog and I think I'll just let it pass.

Posted by The farmer and the cowhand should be friends... on July 9, 2009 at 8:22 AM

@5: If there were rednecks in WA, the beer would be better. Rednecks would take over the WA LCB and turn it to a force for good.

Posted by Amelia on July 9, 2009 at 8:33 AM

@4
Have you ever heard a Person of Color called a Redneck?

Posted by Branson on July 9, 2009 at 8:40 AM

RE: 200 dogs saved in dogfighting ring.

Why is dogfighting so obviously immoral to nearly everyone, but force feeding birds to death or immobilizing pigs in sow gestation crates for their entire lives isn't?

Is it because they're dogs? If they were caught cockfighting or bullfighting (both also illegal) would it be okay?

Is it because the bodies were disposed of? If these dogs were fought to tenderize their meat for sale would it be okay?

Or is it the obvious reason, tradition? Do people just accept factory farms torturing mammals and birds to death because it's common and traditional (like defining marriage as between one woman and one man)?

I don't ever hear people wanting to repeal existing animal cruelty laws, like dogfighting, cockfighting, bullfighting, pulling the skin off live sheep for their wool, beating conscious cows to death, kicking pets, etc. Why is there such resistance to any new laws - against foie gras, veal crates, egg crates, sow crates, etc? It seems to me like social conservatism run amok without any rhyme or reason. Social conservatives think what we're doing RIGHT NOW is perfect, even if it makes no logical sense whatsoever.

Posted by lizzie on July 9, 2009 at 8:44 AM

Lizzie, I think the answer to that is that the death of a fighting dog is violent and actively abusive. People don't see overfeeding a bird in the same way.

And then there is the fact that, yes, how we see different types of animals is somewhat subjective? Why do we care about dolphins more than tuna? Because we do.

Posted by Arsenic7 on July 9, 2009 at 8:57 AM

@10,
Because the poultry and meat industries pay millions to lobby to make sure the public knows as little as possible about what happens at factory farms and slaughterhouses. Dog fighters don't have anything like that.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on July 9, 2009 at 9:36 AM

because chickens taste good and dogs don't

Posted by yum yum on July 9, 2009 at 9:46 AM

@13:
Have you eaten dog???????

Posted by Keekee on July 9, 2009 at 9:58 AM

Dogs are pets. Cattle, chickens, pigs, and ducks are food. That how it is. Sorry.

Posted by McGee on July 9, 2009 at 11:48 AM

What's a person of color? Do you mean Gandalf the Grey?

Posted by Christampa on July 9, 2009 at 2:41 PM

@9, the phrase "black redneck", in quotes, gets 18,500 hits on Google. Most of them link to something about Thomas Sowell's book entitled "Black Rednecks and White Liberals". So: yes.

Posted by Fnarf