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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

News The Morning News

Posted by Grant Brissey on Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:08 AM

Let's Talk About the Weather: Giant dust cloud engulfs Sydney.

I'll Stick with My Credit Union: Banks backtracking on overdraft fees.

Throw the Book at Them: Government, etc., continue scrutiny of the Google book settlement.

No Candy For You: FDA bans flavored cigarettes.

Media Blackout: No press credentials for the sold-out "Welcome Home Glenn Beck" in which Glenn Beck is presented the key to the city of Mount Vernon.

Please Eat Internet Explorer While You're There: Cougar still touring Redmond.

Bad Engineering: Chimney collapse in India kills 15, traps 50.

Bring Them Back Home: South Korea sells Korean war rifles to American nerds.

You're Talking Too Fast: Republicans demand more information on healthcare overhaul.

Let's Have a Cigar: Clinton Initiative takes on gender inequality.

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Your cigar reference is straight out of a late night talkshow monologue from 1998.

Posted by matt on September 23, 2009 at 9:24 AM

Meanwhile in Atlanta, neighbors of the Eagle say the charges of drugs and outdoor sex are lies and that the Eagle has never pointed speakers playing sounds of gay sex outside, even though the anonymous complaint specifically identifies that residential building as the target of the speaker attack. The Mayor is also investigating anti-gay bias specifically and the Police Chief is investigating each officer individually. Go Mayor Franklin!

Also, why do we have flavored cigarettes?!

Posted by Baconcat on September 23, 2009 at 9:29 AM

Isn't a menthol a flavored cigarette?????

Posted by Keekee on September 23, 2009 at 9:43 AM

Indeed it is, Keekee. But since the vast majority of smokers of menthol cigarettes are black people, it was deemed to be too hot a potato to touch.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on September 23, 2009 at 9:59 AM

The Republicans are demanding more information about the Senate healthcare bill? That's fucking rich. As if they don't already know exactly how they're going to vote.

Posted by Proteus on September 23, 2009 at 11:27 AM

So an occasional smokes-when-drunk smoker like myself can't buy a pack of Nat Shermans once a month or so, but an obese octogenarian on oxygen can wheel themselves down to the smokeshop and buy a carton or BPCs, Basics or some other ghetto crap cigarette? Crazy. Why not just taz the hell out of them even more, and your pack-a-day smokers may reconsider their habit, and the people who rarely smoke still can. Oh and making them $12 a pack will sure as hell make penniless teenagers less likely to buy them...

Posted by Subdued Excitement on September 23, 2009 at 11:33 AM

Nat Sherman makes actual cigarette flavored cigarettes too.

Posted by McGee on September 23, 2009 at 11:37 AM

Back when I used to smoke, I had friends who would buy cherry flavored Sweet Dreams cigarettes. Those were pretty good. The filter was flavored, so afterward your lips tasted like cherries.

Posted by UNPAID COMMENTER on September 23, 2009 at 7:34 PM