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Thursday, November 5, 2009

News The Morning News

Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7:55 AM

Targeting Cops: Someone left a threatening note when they burned three police cars on October 22nd; is it connected to the Halloween shooting? What about this guy, who was arrested at the Lock and Keel Tavern in Ballard after making suspicious comments about the police?

Suspicious Fires: There were three fires this morning, and two of them were near the big Greenwood fire on October 23rd.

We Still Don't Have a Mayor: Here are the most recent election results

Too Little, Too Late: The swine flu shots will be coming in small doses through December and January.

It Was a Bad Halloween: Three people from Kent are charged with breaking into a South Seattle home and breaking the neck of someone inside.

We'll Be Fighting This Battle Forever: The health care bill is being held up again, this time over abortion.

All Over but the Shoutin': The Republican party casts their paltry two gubernatorial victories as a 'renaissance,' but will infighting destroy the GOP before next year?

We'd Better Win Some More Seats Next Year: The Senate pushes through greenhouse gas bill without Republican help.

Boat of Mass Destruction: Israel displays an enormous stockpile of weapons found on a boat, claim they're Iranian.

Infiltration: Have the Taliban taken over the ~~Afghanistani~~ Afghani police?

Asking for a Hot Pound Injection: The Bank of England adds to the British stimulus package.

That's so Sweet! Will She Bring All Her Stuffed Animals? Michelle Bachmann to hold tea party inside the Capitol building today. She hilariously refers to this as a "Super Bowl of Freedom."

Of Course This Happened in Florida: Seven month old baby who was missing for days is found alive underneath the babysitter's bed.

A Sporting Event Occurred: Yankees win the World Series.

And now, your morning Looney Tunes:

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During the holding-out-for-a-hero vote count interstice, could the Stranger please throw itself into praise/shaming the careful haircuts of the Ace Hotel chain into putting their BUTT-curated porno in the Portland hotel too? I don't want to have to go to NYC or Palms Springs for it. Thanks.

http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/…

Posted by gloomy gus on November 5, 2009 at 8:08 AM

I mean, who the fuck goes to Palm Springs anyway who isn't an aspiring class back waxed bleach toothed choke fucker with a fading tribal circle on at least one stretch marked bicep? Damn that's good coffee.

Posted by gloomy gus on November 5, 2009 at 8:12 AM

@1: You can see the generally-scruffy hipstery types of BUTT in most any Portland gay bar, dude. And in most cases, you're instantly assailed with nudity, partial or full.

Speaking of Portland, we need Blow Pony up here. We have Magnum, which is a watered-down version of Jack, but we need Blow Pony! Or they could stop doing Magnum and turn the debauchery dial up to 10 and just have a Jack up here.

Ah man, Jack was the best. I went to all of them... those were some fun, fleeting times.

Posted by Baconcat on November 5, 2009 at 8:20 AM

"Afghanistani"? And you call yourself a literary critic.

Posted by danhowes

on November 5, 2009 at 8:21 AM

This rash of arsons in Greenwood is becoming quite disturbing, I hope they catch the bastard soon.

Posted by nicholaus on November 5, 2009 at 8:22 AM

the cops think the killer drove a DATSUN B210? how many of those are on the streets sporting plates in all of america, much less washington state?

Posted by Max Solomon on November 5, 2009 at 8:25 AM

"Paltry" is kind of an odd way to describe the two Republican governorship wins when there were only two governorships up for election and Republicans claimed them both from Democrats.

Posted by Josh B on November 5, 2009 at 8:31 AM

@6,
No kidding! I knew a guy in Minnesota who drove a Datsun Honeybee, other than that, I don't recall ever seeing another.

Wasn't a Datsun B210 the car Mike Myers drove in Wayne's World?

Posted by Urgutha Forka on November 5, 2009 at 8:37 AM

@ 8, I think that was a Gremlin.

Posted by Matt from Denver on November 5, 2009 at 8:40 AM

@7, the Dems won the same two governorships in GWB's first term, at the height of his popularity just after 9/11. Was that a gigantic sea change?

Posted by Macro on November 5, 2009 at 8:41 AM

That Datsun is a sweet ride.
http://hotmamamia.files.wordpress.com/20…

Posted by Matt from Denver on November 5, 2009 at 8:41 AM

So talking shit about cops at a bar will elicit a swarm of SPD squad cars and a night in jail? Full on police state here we come...

Posted by DOUG.

on November 5, 2009 at 8:47 AM

@9 It was actually an AMC Pacer.

and fuck the yankees.

Posted by The Amazing Jim

on November 5, 2009 at 8:53 AM

@13. Fuck you! We won, bitch.

Posted by I used to comment as Brian until some asshole stole my name on November 5, 2009 at 8:57 AM

Pacers...blah blah...police state....blah blah.

FUCK. THE. YANKEES!!!!

Posted by heywhatsit!? on November 5, 2009 at 9:03 AM

RE: Lock and Keel Tavern
You really have to wonder what he was actually saying if it got to the point where the other bar patrons thought it was necessary to call the police. I'm pretty curious about that myself.

Posted by Hernandez on November 5, 2009 at 9:09 AM

14
Maybe you could get him back and post as "some Asshole"?

Posted by sweet revenge on November 5, 2009 at 9:18 AM

And how many paltry gubernatorial victories did the Democrats score Tuesday?

Posted by Ushering in a Democratic Dark Age- BABY! on November 5, 2009 at 9:20 AM

10
the one-eyed man is king in the land of the blind...

Posted by You Got NUTHIN ! on November 5, 2009 at 9:26 AM

Let's face it, only 20% of the voters actually like the Republican party. Where you run into a problem is when people dislike the Democrats. That clearly happened in this election, and unless Obama & Company manage to turn this country around pretty damned quickly, we had all better get used to seeing a lot more of it.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on November 5, 2009 at 9:27 AM

It would be great if the Stranger did an article on the Greenwood arsonist, the increasing crime there and the general lack of police presence in the area. We need to get more attention to the city's failure to protect the Phinney/Greenwood neighborhood pronto.

Posted by cedarthvader on November 5, 2009 at 9:37 AM

I heard a vicious rumor that Michele Bachmann has a lesbian lover named Christine Gorland in St. Paul, MN. Can anyone confirm?

Posted by DaiBando on November 5, 2009 at 10:40 AM

@22,
Can't be true... It's not that Michele Bachmann is hard to like, she's IMPOSSIBLE to like!

Posted by Urgutha Forka on November 5, 2009 at 12:41 PM

Echoing 21's sentiment: YES, please please do an article about the costly and damn frightening fires being set all over Greenwood. There have been, what, seven? eight? already! Greenwood/Phinney isn't some lame-ass suburb full of NIMBYs, it's part of Seattle and is going up in flames.

Posted by -ink on November 5, 2009 at 1:59 PM