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News Today's Morning News: Haiti Begins Relocating Survivors, Toyota Recalls Millions of Cars, and Big Banks Start to Worry
Posted by Megan Seling on Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:16 AM
Moving Day: Haiti begins relocating 400,000 people.
Sticky Situation: Toyota recalls over two million vehicles due to a sticky acceleration pedal.
Insert Medical Cliche Here: Obama and other democrats are scrambling to figure out what they can do about health care after the election of Brown in Massachusetts.
Big Banks are Bummed: Stocks decline after Obama's big bank crackdown.
The War On Terror: "Turkish police have arrested 120 al-Qaeda suspects in a major nationwide anti-terror operation."
It's Cool, I Didn't Want It Anyway: AT&T and Verizon might both get Apple's new tablet. T-Mobile, however, will not.
Conan Update: His last show is tonight and he's a free man starting September 1st. So where will he end up?
RIP: Air America closes, files for bankruptcy.
California's Still a Mess: Now residents have to worry about post-storm mudslides.
No Fly Zone: Mukilteo residents speak out against the FAA's plan to introduce commercial flights at Paine Field.
Wylie Coyote: Officials say they will hunt and kill coyotes spotted in Magnolia.
Finally, this is hypnotizing:
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My suggestion is to dig a really big hole and put Leno, Conan, and everybody at NBC who earns more than $100,000 per annum in it, then fill it back in.
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Anyone who follows the auto industry knows that quality at Toyota has been slipping for almost a decade now. There are a lot of other secret recalls and problems with Toyotas that regular consumers don't hear about. In its effort to be bigger and better than GM, Toyota turned into GM. The Japanese CEO of these "growth at any cost" years has already publicly apologised profusely for steering the company in the wrong direction and is now resigned.
Consumers should mo longer immediately assume that Toyotas stand for reliability and quality.
Consumers should mo longer immediately assume that Toyotas stand for reliability and quality.
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How much do you think you'd make if you worked for NBC, Fnarf? Keep LA cost of living in mind while calculating your answer...
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the Seattle Police, the WDFW and BNSF can go fuck themselves. oh fuck them. those coyotes deserve a chance to go back to the wild. over here on the west side we think we love wildlife, but the minute it inconveniences...blam.
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@5, if I lived in LA and worked for NBC, I would belong in the hole. Kill them all, let God sort 'em out.
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Conan will end up on CBC, where they actually like comics and don't backstab them to cover up for execs mistakes.
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You gotta love the folks who want to just live and let live with packs of wild dogs roaming through a city park. I love the "let them go back to the wild" rhetoric -- as if Magnolia was Yellowstone National Park.
The whole reason we scrabbled and clawed our way out of the jungle is so that we wouldn't have to contend with vicious animals while going about our daily business. That's kind of one of the big points in favor of living in a city. That urban bleeding-hearts have managed to convince themselves that they can have their cake and eat it too -- they can live in a modern urban environment where homeless people aren't attacked by feral dogs, and also enjoy the splendor of nature's majestic wild animals -- just shows how thoroughly this mindset is detached from any understanding of what Nature truly means. Buncha Timothy Treadwells.
Coyotes aren't even remotely endangered. They are quite adaptable and are doing just fine. Protecting urban coyote populations makes about as much sense as protecting urban rodent populations.
The whole reason we scrabbled and clawed our way out of the jungle is so that we wouldn't have to contend with vicious animals while going about our daily business. That's kind of one of the big points in favor of living in a city. That urban bleeding-hearts have managed to convince themselves that they can have their cake and eat it too -- they can live in a modern urban environment where homeless people aren't attacked by feral dogs, and also enjoy the splendor of nature's majestic wild animals -- just shows how thoroughly this mindset is detached from any understanding of what Nature truly means. Buncha Timothy Treadwells.
Coyotes aren't even remotely endangered. They are quite adaptable and are doing just fine. Protecting urban coyote populations makes about as much sense as protecting urban rodent populations.
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Those dreadful Republicans and their refusal to fund basic infrastructure. All it does is hurt us.
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@14/15- FUN FACT: the things you have aren't actually Possums, they're Opossums. Possums are an animal native to Australia, and are pretty cute and generally nice. Although they're both marsupials, they're not from the same order (the biological grouping above "family").
And there you go, you learned something new today (unless you already knew all that).
And there you go, you learned something new today (unless you already knew all that).
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@18: Hey! Aren't you the guy that was concerned about a two year old still wearing pj's at 12Noon??
That was funny!
That was funny!
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@19, close. Australian possums were named after western opossums, who are also marsupials, or pouch-bearers. Western opossums are also called possums, though the Australian ones are only possums. Australian possums aren't "an animal"; there are 69 different kinds, according to Wikipedia, while there are a similar number of Western opossums (but we have no other marsupials, while Australia has hundreds, maybe thousands, including the kangaroos, wallabies, wallaroos, bilbies, bettongs, bandicoots, quolls, wombats, numbats, and Tassie Devils, who are the best).
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@11: Oh yeah, CBC likes comics, but they hate people who like comedy. Royal Canadian Air Farce should have been put to death at least a decade ago, if not soon.
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@21: wait, how is that only 'close'? You're correct in that they're not "an animal" and actually a variety of species (just as your opossums are not "an animal"), but that seems to be a minor oversight. They may be called possums in the US, but my point was that that are actually not possums, which stands. As you know (having referenced Wikipedia yourself) if you type in "possum" it will take you to the page on the Australian marsupial.
P.S. Tassie devils look like overgrown rats, Bilbies trump Tassie Devils for sure. But perhaps we can agree that Tasmanian Tigers trump both (or would, if they still had a chance)?
P.S. Tassie devils look like overgrown rats, Bilbies trump Tassie Devils for sure. But perhaps we can agree that Tasmanian Tigers trump both (or would, if they still had a chance)?
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Pristine Sweeps has launched a "Chimney Sweeps for Haiti" Campaign. They are donating 100% of proceeds from the first 10 chimney sweeps and $20 for every sweep after that. They are also donating 10% of proceeds from any repairs or product sales. All money that is raised will be donated to the Red Cross at the beginning of each week.
For more information check out www.chimney-sweep-seattle.com/haiti-eart…;
For more information check out www.chimney-sweep-seattle.com/haiti-eart…;
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