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Monday, July 13, 2009

News The Pre-Afternoon News

Posted by Dominic Holden on Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:38 AM

The Program Cheney Tried to Hide: A strategy to kill al-Qaida leaders at close range instead of using air strikes.

On the Up and Up: Democrats want to investigate Cheney's plan to conceal information from Congress.

When You're Down: Claim that Democrats are compromising national security.

Sotomayor Interrogation: Annie Wagner says the more brutal the better. You can watch it here.

Gay for Pay: Bruno leads box office.

Don't Get Mad: GLAAD gets its panties in a twist over negative stereotypes.

If at First You Fail Miserably: Some street project costs pile up as crews make errors pouring concrete, tear up the mess, and try again—and again—but without a system to track the extra expense.

See What Happens When You Build Anti-Suicide Fences on Bridges: Man leaps from ferry on purpose. Crews have stopped searching for him.

Daughter of the Devil: Liz Cheney considering a run for office.

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The only thing inaccurate with Bruno is that during the course of the movie he would have at least 20 sex partners instead of just two.

Posted by Vincent Canby on July 13, 2009 at 10:52 AM

I think it's "compromising national security".

Posted by pointy on July 13, 2009 at 11:05 AM

Given the amount of serious, nasty, criminal shit about the Bushies that's beginning to come to light, one has to wonder what was in the millions of e-mails and other documents that they actually destroyed.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on July 13, 2009 at 11:07 AM

There are other examples of poor workmanship by city street crews that had to be redone, including 11 new sidewalk wheelchair ramps in West Seattle that were poured and then torn out and replaced in May. Had they been left in place, ramp users would have been funneled into a busy street instead of the safety of a crosswalk.

I've seen so many wheelchair ramps like this. But then again so many neighborhoods have few to none.

Posted by keshmeshi on July 13, 2009 at 11:24 AM

Unless you really want to torture yourself, jumping off a ferry doesn't sound like the smartest way to kill yourself.

#4, shittily-designed wheelchair ramps seem practically universal. I don't understand why they don't just make the entire corner a ramp. Instead they force traffic from both directions to nearly leave the crosswalk to enter a tiny ramp on the corner. At least have two ramps, one for each direction feeding directly into the crosswalk.

Posted by w7ngman

on July 13, 2009 at 11:59 AM

On behalf of Fremont and the Aurora Bridge, I approve of today's Pre-Afternoon News.

Now some poor little kid will come to mommy and daddy and say "Mommy! Daddy! I found a dead body on the beach!"

Posted by Will in Seattle

on July 13, 2009 at 12:09 PM

Does anybody else wonder why we haven't heard what that energy meeting Dick (head) Cheney had was all about. He was so fucking desperate to keep it a big fucking secret. Why hasn't the Obama administration released the minutes yet?

Posted by Vince on July 13, 2009 at 1:19 PM

sasha baron cohen needs to eat a glock.

Posted by guy on July 13, 2009 at 2:24 PM

Actually, a few years ago Judicial Watch of all groups was able to get limited information about the topic of the meeting - Iraq and Iraqi oil supplies.

Posted by Senor Guy