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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

News The Morning News

Posted by David Schmader on Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:39 AM

The King County Massacre: King County Executive proposes covering budget shortfall by ~~cancelling all~~ slashing funding for human services.

Ill-Gotten Gains: Investigator plans to sue Bernie Madoff's sons, brother, and niece.

It's a Start: The King County sheriff's deputy accused of beating a 15-year-old girl in a holding cell has been fired.

The More the Merrier?: Vatican says other religions are just as rife with child sexual abuse as Catholicism.

If You Put Duct Tape All Over Your Cat, You May Be Sent to Jail for Two Years: A fact a Philadelphia man may learn the hard way.

Armed Hot-Dog Robbery Only Gets You 18 Months: As this dude learned.

You've Gone Around the Bend, My Huckleberry Friend: Million-year-old "Moon River" crooner Andy Williams calls President Obama a Marxist who wants to ruin the country.

And again, for your morning treat, here's the PS22 Chorus, the pop-song-covering kids' choir that's been seen everywhere from The Today Show to Madison Square Garden. But their most perfect representation remains the classroom videos, which have received over 10,000,000 YouTube viewings. At least 3500 of those are from me.

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Oh, god no! Don't tell me we lost Any Williams! If he goes, then all of Branson will follow.

Posted by The Amazing Jim

on September 29, 2009 at 8:00 AM

The Catholic Church is right. It's 'only' 1 in 20 priests that sexually abused kids, and of those most of them are probably fags anyways. Calm down everyone.

Posted by Donutspal on September 29, 2009 at 8:00 AM

I love the 22, and the director's new "emote with your head, everyone!" choreography is the pee-my-pantsest thing I've seen a choir have to do since SMC's "Tribute to Sir Elton John."

Posted by gloomy gus on September 29, 2009 at 8:00 AM

Ok, so it wasn't pedophiles raping children. It was gays who like to have sex with children. Thank god! That's a relief.

Um, quick question. Can anyone tell me what the difference is between a pedophile and a guy who likes to have sex with children? (doesn't that sound like a good lead in to a joke?)

Posted by Root on September 29, 2009 at 8:02 AM

Re: slashing human services - not all funding, but all General Fund dunding, something like 12% of human services budget.

Posted by kinaidos on September 29, 2009 at 8:18 AM

On the cop who beat the 15-y/o girl for kicking her shoe at him - why didn't they take her shoes when they booked her? When I got arrested I had to give mine up along with my belt, sweater, and pretty much anything else except a single layer of clothing...

Posted by nb on September 29, 2009 at 8:24 AM

Duct tape a cat, get two years in prison. Bolt down thousands of ducks and torture them to death, have a thriving Seattle business. Don't let them get away with it.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/26/please…

Posted by stop duct taping cats too on September 29, 2009 at 8:29 AM

Thanks for posting the choir clip David. I heart them.

Posted by joshua_james on September 29, 2009 at 8:29 AM

I expect to see the duct-taped cat making an appearance on an episode of It's Always Sunny sometime next year. It will involve Charlie, natch.

Posted by laterite on September 29, 2009 at 8:34 AM

The kids are great, but what's with the shirts? It looks like the black kids are in black shirts and the white kids are in orange ones.

Posted by BakerB on September 29, 2009 at 8:36 AM

I wonder what Robert Smith thinks of this...

Posted by Keekee on September 29, 2009 at 8:41 AM

@10: It looks like the younger kids wear orange and the older kids wear black.

More shots of their teacher, please. He's dreamy.

Posted by TVDinner

on September 29, 2009 at 9:10 AM

Ah, c'mon now Catholic Church. If all the religions were molesting children while jumping off a bridge, would you do it too?

Posted by Julie in Eugene on September 29, 2009 at 9:18 AM

Newsflash: Rich Old White singer of soporific retirement home music dislikes poor people and minorities, longs for Good Old Days.

Posted by Andy Williams' Colostomy Bag on September 29, 2009 at 9:52 AM

Why is it, when an abused animal makes the news, there is always plenty of folks who want to adopt, but countless animals die every day in shelters because no one wants them?

Posted by crazycatguy on September 29, 2009 at 11:32 AM

Pious defiant assholes - nothing like a "your pedophiles are ickier than our pedophiles" contest. Pigs. Buttfaces. Bossy, arrogant, deluded, sick narcissists.

Posted by LuisitaPhD on September 29, 2009 at 12:17 PM