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Monday, November 9, 2009

News The Morning News

Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:03 AM

Greenwood Is Burning: Another couple of arsons over the weekend and this morning.

Weighing the Death Penalty: County prosecutors decide what to do about cop-killer suspect Christopher John Monfort.

As for the Fort Hood Shooter: He's awake and talking.

Granted, They Probably Shouldn't Have Been Hiking There in the First Place: Hillary Clinton rebukes Iran for charging three American hikers charged with espionage.

Getting Slapped on the Floor of the Indian Assembly: "A legislator of India's newly elected western Maharashtra state Assembly is man-handled and slapped for taking an oath in Hindi rather than in Marathi"—there's video of the pandemonium.

Processed Food Giant Tries to Swallow Whole Other Processed Food Giant: Kraft makes a hostile takeover bid for Cadbury.

Knocked Out of the Playoffs: Seattle Sounders lose to Houston Dynamo in overtime, ending their first MLS season.

But the Seahawks Won Yesterday: "Seattle pulled off one of the biggest comebacks in franchise history with a 32-20 victory over Detroit."

Chart of the Day: Marijuana is less dangerous than aspirin.

Mount Baker Opens This Weekend: It's "the first of the state's ski areas to open this year."

And now for today's collection of snowboarding crashes, weirdly overdubbed with gunshots and crying babies:

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This happened last time I asked for ketchup with my samosas...

Posted by baconpussy on November 9, 2009 at 9:06 AM

Re: Fort Hood "suspect":

It seems pretty silly to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on his medical care when they're just going to end up sticking a needle in his arm and killing him anyway.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on November 9, 2009 at 9:10 AM

I'm worried about 826 Seattle.

Posted by Maggie on November 9, 2009 at 9:18 AM

@ 2, we're not barbarians here. (At least, we shouldn't be.) Besides, that's just a drop in the vast military budget, so it seems silly to even comment on the expense.

Posted by Matt from Denver on November 9, 2009 at 9:32 AM

It bears noting that two of the fires were set two blocks from the McGinn house. A juicy Law & Order would look for attention-starved family or a self-sabotaging mayor-elect. Just sayin'.

Posted by gloomy gus on November 9, 2009 at 9:33 AM

Today would have been Carl Sagan’s 75th birthday. He died here in Seattle, at the Fred Hutchinson Center, in December of 1996, too young...

Posted by Peter F on November 9, 2009 at 9:42 AM

4
we slaughter 845,000 babies a year

Posted by We'reNotBarbariansHERE! on November 9, 2009 at 9:50 AM

@ 7, zygotes aren't babies, and they don't have souls so they can't be "slaughtered". Learn some medicine and theology so you don't look the a fool on top of looking like a coward. kthxbye

Posted by Matt from Denver on November 9, 2009 at 10:07 AM

Crystal is opening on Wednesday. Baker on Thursday. Baker is not the first this year.

Posted by oknow on November 9, 2009 at 10:09 AM

All young men all the time, and to think that gender rules the world. Oh well.

Posted by Sargon Bighorn on November 9, 2009 at 10:14 AM

Regarding the snowboarding crashes, the illustrious Damon Packard did it better with SkateBang: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg63r0vx9… (1:20 is where it all starts)

Posted by aardvarkle on November 9, 2009 at 10:45 AM

That's the "slam section" from an old Standard Films TB movie circa 2002. Probably the last real slam section to make it into a snowboard movie. Now they just mix in the occasional crash into each snowboarder's part to remind you that it is hard to do what they do.
Slam sections and crash reals are stupid. That's why MTV and late night WB channels have shows about crashes.

Posted by snowboardingisnotaboutfalling on November 9, 2009 at 11:26 AM