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News & ArtsSaturday, July 24, 2010
News The Morning News
Posted by Unpaid Intern on Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 8:42 AM
Posted by news intern Galen Weber.
Absolute Failure: Anarchy takes hold as Mariners lose to Sox, fall 20 games behind first, and begin to turn on each other.
Daniel Schorr: passes away. Am I the only one wondering if his death will make it onto Weekend Edition?
This Could Get Ugly: North Korea promises war and threatens nuclear deterrence in response to joint US-South Korean military exercises. List of North Korean promises made but not kept: 5.8 × 10^23 (approx).
Famous Last Oil Rigger Words: “Hey lets set the emergency alarm on silent so we can sleep more.”
How Not to Solve Budget Problems: State gives away island it paid $211,000 for.
Can’t be Blamed: Charlie Rangel entered talks to settle ethics accusations against him, but refused to admit any wrongdoing, crippling the talks.
The Recruiters Never Mentioned This: Veterans Affairs to allow use of medical marijuana in select states.
Dam Won’t Break: Senate approves $44 million emergency repairs for Howard Hanson Dam.
Not Mean Enough: Kenneth Feinberg releases his “boooring” report on bonuses at TARP banks.
The Grizzly from Hell: Colorado bear commandeers car, attempts to pick up females, run over hikers, and chase deer, but ultimately contents himself with eating the seats.
Bonus Points: For whoever can name the cartoonist who prophesized such an attempt in a single panel cartoon.
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Gary! Larson!
Gary! Larson!
(makes a nice chant. What happened to him, anyways?)
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But you didn't say "first," so I'll take my bonus points to go, please, with extra napkins.
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Another candidate was Phil Frank of "Farley" fame. He cartooned a whole series based on smart and charming bears in the Asphalt State Park and San Francisco (one of the bears was a Giant baseball nut).
I miss Phil every day. He was a wonderful guy.
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“It was not a safety oversight or done as a matter of convenience,” the company said.
Okaaaaay...
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Today's top local story:
"Girls arrested for attempting to urinate on flag pole | Kirkland Police Blotter"
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/east_king/ki…
Side note: Despite all the advances in cloud computing, it's still impossibly hard to copy a quote and link into a textbox.
Think about that, geniuses!
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This is more what I was thinking:
Quote URL text will copy selected text to the clipboard including Page Title, Location and copy date.
Address :
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Of course it didn't do a good job of quoting it's own page!
So...the search continues...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox…
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