Slog

News & Arts

Line Out

Music & Nightlife

« Whateva! Whateva! I'll Do What I Wa… | Can't We All Get Along? »

Thursday, October 8, 2009

News Morning News

Posted by Jen Graves on Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:48 AM

Michelle Obama's Family Tree: Back to the slave Melvinia.

Car Bomb at Indian Embassy in Kabul: 17 killed.

Obama's Team: Distinguishing Taliban from al-Qaeda.

Romanian Exile Herta Müller Wins Nobel: Censored and persecuted in her own country.

Obama Postpones Meeting with Dalai Lama: Because China is our overlord.

Irving Penn Has Died: His photographs.

Famed Washington State 'Pirate' Ship: No longer allowed in California.

Congressional Budget Office: Yes, we can afford health care.

Dear Native Americans: Sorry! Ill-conceived!

Homeless Man Set on Fire: In downtown Eugene.

Retail Up in September: But that's not saying much.

As Economy Gets Better: Flights will be even later.

U.S. Figure Skating Championships: Spokane prepares.

My Grandpa Was So Not That Bad: Stalin's grandson sues newspaper for defamation.

Bloomberg Taking on Gun Dealers: With a sting!

France's Culture Minister: Paid Southeast Asian boys for sex, supports Polanski.

Maoists and Police: Battling in India.

Guinean Soldiers: Attacked, humiliated, and raped women in particular.

Peace in the Middle East: Ain't happening, says Israeli foreign minister.

Happy birthday, Sigourney.

Share via

Comments (10) RSS

Oldest First Unregistered On Registered On Add a comment

Ill-conceived, huh? Like how anyone born into any indian nation prior to the middle of the 1920s was a ward of the state and was not a legal voting citizen, even if they tried to get nationalized? Or telling various nations that they have to maintain a functional population within a specified area to get land trust monies, even though it was an impoverished life with sparse healthcare and poor food supplies due to a near-embargo on outside help implemented by the BIA? Ill-conceived, like burnishing that embargo by saying it was to protect their land and keep them culturally cohesive, instead of what it really was doing-- starving and killing them off? Or how federal agents regularly raided more prosperous residents of tribal areas to prevent an "infiltration of outside influence"?

Ill-conceived?

Right, thanks. You guys rock. Woo!

Posted by Baconcat on October 8, 2009 at 8:59 AM

I like the way nobody questions how many laws Bloomberg broke with his "sting." Setting up a straw purchase is illegal-illegal-illegal. How come he's not going to jail?

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on October 8, 2009 at 9:08 AM

I wonder how old this grandson of Stalin's is. He goes by the last name Stalin was born with, so his father must be the Georgian son Stalin had by his first marriage - the same son Stalin let die in a German POW camp rather than exchange other POWs for, because Stalin by that time identified as Russian and hated being reminded that he was Georgian. Now the grandson wants grandpa to get a better spin in the press? Fucked up.

Posted by Matt from Denver on October 8, 2009 at 9:23 AM

Irving Penn died? No!

Also, Levi Johnston is posing for Playgirl, I thought that would make the morning news. http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/964…

Posted by care bear on October 8, 2009 at 9:38 AM

Michelle Obama is one of the angriest black women ever. She and Barry Soetoro (aka Barack Hussein Mohammed Obama) are two peas in a pod.

Posted by Lord Basil

on October 8, 2009 at 9:43 AM

re:France’s new culture minister

There is so much we can learn from the French...

Posted by Vive L'Europe! on October 8, 2009 at 10:13 AM

re:Guinean Soldiers

There is so much we can learn from the Africans...

Posted by White Guilt on October 8, 2009 at 10:15 AM

Best Sigourney line, EVER!

"So who do I have to fuck to get off this ship"

from Aliens 4, completely incongruous to the rest of the dialogue-- LOVE IT!!!

Posted by freshnycman on October 8, 2009 at 10:16 AM