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Friday, August 14, 2009

News The Morning News

Posted by Dominic Holden on Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:35 AM

All Cats and No Cops: Interim King County executive proposes closing some parks, eliminating most funding for animal control, and "significant layoffs” to manage $50 million budget shortfall. Most departments will take a 10-percent cut; however, the sheriff's office budget will remain a priority.

Rock Out: Federal judge tosses out permit for gravel mine on Maury Island to build a 305-foot dock. A new permit could take a year, or it may never happen.

Bigot Ballot: Referendum 71 looking increasingly likely to make ballot.

The "Death Panel" Myth: Came from the same media outlets that fought against Clinton health-care reforms, including The Washington Times.

In an editorial, the newspaper reminded its readers of the Aktion T4 program of Nazi Germany in which “children and adults with disabilities, and anyone anywhere in the Third Reich was subject to execution who was blind, deaf, senile, retarded, or had any significant neurological condition.”

Noting the “administrative predilections” of the new team at the White House, it urged “anyone who sees the current climate as a budding T4 program to win the hearts and minds of deniers.”

Fire Walk With Me: Woman shopping at "Savage Boutique" in Miami shopping mall sets herself on fire, and then goes for a walk engulfed in flames.

Rich Getting Richer: Income inequality has hit historic disparity, says report from the University of California.

Guantanamo Inmates: Officials consider transferring them to Michigan prison.

Still "News": Obama was born in Hawaii, not Kenya, says his aunt.

Fact Versus Fiction: Obama to hold town halls in Montana and Colorado to confront deluded teabaggers.

Hudson Talk: Air traffic controller who gave plane clearance for take-off was talking on cell phone when plane crashed into a helicopter over Hudson River. National Air Traffic Controllers Association says blaming the controller is "absurd" and "insulting."

Bitter Pill: Obama's call for pharmaceutical companies to relinquish monopolies on new medicines after seven years ires drug manufacturers, who want to hold exclusive rights for 12 years.

Nicole Brodeur: Worried and puzzled that teenagers take inappropriate pictures of themselves.

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So Dom, you think it's just awesome that 13-year-old girls would send around nude photos of themselves to 13-year-old boys. That would then be forwarded to other 13-year-old boys in school, and eventually to 40-year-old pervs, and onto child-porn websites, etc.

Just checking. Because that's exactly what's happening.

Posted by bigyaz on August 14, 2009 at 8:50 AM

Cities dedensifying...houses between houses being torn down...urbs crumbling...

‘Walkaway’ properties quickly deteriorate, dragging down borrowers and neighborhood

http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdo…

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on August 14, 2009 at 8:50 AM

word on the street:

R71 is DOOMED!

Posted by Dominic, pass it on.... on August 14, 2009 at 8:54 AM

I guess it's too much to expect that you'd mention that Les Paul died. Who cares about 94-year-old guys, right? Even if he did happen to invent the electric guitar.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on August 14, 2009 at 9:01 AM

@4, and multi-track recording. And general rock-star awesomeness capabilities.

Posted by lily on August 14, 2009 at 9:08 AM

I don't know who Les Paul is.

About the photos thing - aside from their being underage and that being creepy in the wrong hands - when are people going to accept that everyone has a naked body? Maybe it is not a big deal once everyone stops freaking out about it.

Posted by subwlf on August 14, 2009 at 9:09 AM

4 and 5.. they mentioned it yesterday morning on line out..
http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/a…

Posted by reverend dr dj riz on August 14, 2009 at 9:12 AM

@ 4) That was in yesterday's edition of The Afternoon News.

Posted by Dominic Holden on August 14, 2009 at 9:12 AM

@ Bitter Pill -- I just took my morning dose of the nearly $40,000 worth of prescription drugs I will take this year. What percentage of that would be profit for those bloodsuckers?

Also, good morning everyone. I hope your Slog Happy hangovers don't hurt too much.

Posted by meowmeowkitty on August 14, 2009 at 9:12 AM

@2: Suburbs are decaying and dying out rapidly, woo.

Posted by Baconcat on August 14, 2009 at 9:17 AM

@1

Dan advocates letting teens sext nude pictures:

http://slog.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/m…

which leads to teens being harrassed and committing suicide:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29546030/

How is this different from gay teens being harrassed to the point of suicide?

Posted by . on August 14, 2009 at 9:36 AM

@11, so your solution is criminalizing the teens that send the pictures, rather than those harassing them? Makes sense.

Kids do stupid things and unfortunately may have to suffer some humiliation for it. Go after those that torment the teens, not the teens for using some poor judgment in sending the photos to untrustworthy people.

Posted by Karla Canadian on August 14, 2009 at 9:45 AM

The air traffic controller should not have been talking on the phone. But there are two other factors here. One is that he'd already handed the flight off to another controller. Also, when flying under visual flight rules, the ultimate responsibility to see and avoid other aircraft always lies with the pilot. They're not supposed to rely on ATC traffic advisories to do it for them.

Posted by Orv on August 14, 2009 at 10:41 AM

The Democrat Party, as I pointed out recently, has become almost a mirror image of Nazi Germany, and though there may not be any direct language about the so called "death panels" in their socialized medicine legisation, remember that liberals have penchant for making legal determinations up out of whole cloth, as they so often do. That's the main reason this socialized medicine legislation must be opposed at all costs.

Socialism always equals death and nothing more.

As for the claims of Obama's aunt, she's only making them to keep from getting deported, although Barry Soetoro himself could keep her here if he were interested in anything other than his diabolical agenda for America. Furthermore, the story cites WKYC-TV in Cleveland, which is a well known liberal bastion - the Communist Dennis Kucinich is from there, so you know where they're interests lie.

Posted by Lord Basil