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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

News Morning News

Posted by Jen Graves on Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:00 AM

John Quincy Adams is Tweeting: "Thick fog. Scanty Wind. On George's Bank. Lat: 42-34. Read Massillon's Careme Sermons 2 & 3. Ladies are Sick."

New Kind of Iraqi Crackdown: No more access to web sites with sex and violence.

Ahmadinejad: Takes oath, riot police are out.

To the North: Wildfires southeast of Vancouver have caused 5,000 to flee homes.

ZZ Top: Enjoy high fashion, and a life-sized buffalo diorama at the LA Natural History Museum.

No More Paula for You Critics to Kick Around: Abdul quits 'Idol.'

Journalists Released in North Korea: Thanks, Clintons.

New Horror!: Male rape victims on the rise in the Congo.

Taliban Wife Killed in Attack: You don't hear much about the wives.

Woodland Park Zoo Has a New Baby Snow Leopard, for the Love of God: And would like you to vote on his name, giving you four (Mongolian) choices: Gobi (after the Gobi Desert); Boke (strong); Irbis (leopard); or Vachir (thunderbolt). Uh, VACHIR!

$1 Million for 2/100th of an Inch: Size matters at Port of Seattle.

Swine Flu Vaccine Gets First Human Tests: Pay attention, you may be getting a dose of this come fall (if you're lucky).

Seattle Archdiocese Pays $350,000: For more priestly molestation.

Three Killed: Gunman at LA Fitness Center in Pennsylvania.

Watch Out, Kindle: Sony's making one smaller and $100 cheaper.

Why Is NOAA Research Leaving Seattle?: Newport, Ore., showed them the money?

New Strain of HIV Discovered: Linked to gorillas, not chimpanzees.

Porn: The Musical: It's...coming.

Commander in Chief of His Pimp Ship Flying High: Pimp pimps, even behind bars.

From an Older Brother: The kind of obituary any younger brother would want.

No, thank you, I would not like to go and hear this Grateful Dead Symphony:

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re: Congo male rape

We thought homosexuals were gentle people?

Posted by This isn't very nice... on August 5, 2009 at 9:26 AM

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Those men deserve to be raped.
Because they are black and don't support gay marriage.
If they got AIDS even better.

Posted by Damn Savage on August 5, 2009 at 10:03 AM

That snow leopard is adorable and we will call him Chompers.

Now that that's settled, Woodland Park Zoo can probably expect a cease-and-desist from Steve Jobs regarding their reckless use of the term "snow leopard", as well as an inquiry as to what "monkey parts" they might have laying around.

Posted by Dougsf on August 5, 2009 at 12:22 PM