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Sunday, January 29, 2012

News Sunday Morning News

Posted by Riya Bhattacharjee on Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:50 AM

Sheldon Adelson: Ladies and gents, meet the man behind Newt Gingrich's money. Adelson, 78, is a Las Vegas casino magnate who once tried to open a casino in the Middle East.

"Newt Gingrich for President of the United States": Herman Cain endorsed Newt Gingrich yesterday, says Gingrich is going through the "sausage grinder" in Florida. A recent poll shows Romney leading in the Sunshine state.

"Stalin-esque": That's what Sarah Palin is calling criticism of Gingrich.

29: The number of Chinese workers captured by Sudanese rebels after a fight with the government, the insurgents said Sunday. China is a major military supplier to the regime in Khartoum. It is also the largest purchaser of Sudanese oil.

14: The age of golf's youngest tour winner, Lydia Ko.

300: The number of people arrested in Occupy Oakland protests yesterday. News reports are calling Saturday's protests the most turbulent since police broke up Occupy Oakland encampments in November. Police used tear gas after some protesters threw flares, rocks, and bottles at them.

Wanted: Police are looking for the suspect or suspects who shot three people at Citrus restaurant in South Lake Union early Saturday.

Seattle's new baby sea otter: Here are some pics by local AP photographer Ted Warren.

Finally, a broke Irishman builds a 1.4 billion euro house with shredded bills.

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Maybe if Herman Cain had met a sausage grinder earlier in his career he would have had fewer problems in his campaign. Har.

Posted by TVDinner

on January 29, 2012 at 9:13 AM

Also, the Department of Defense says it "can't account for" $2 billion for Iraq's reconstruction. Hey, no biggie. It's only money, right?

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on January 29, 2012 at 9:33 AM

I like Palin's take on Gingrich's GOP critics because it is eerie (though not at all unexpected) how all the talking heads, usually such boosters of the hardest right, closed ranks around the more moderate Romney. The coordination is stark.

Posted by Matt from Denver on January 29, 2012 at 9:36 AM

@2:

Maybe somebody built a house out of it?

Posted by COMTE

on January 29, 2012 at 9:52 AM

The Republican right, like so many things, was dead set against casinos saying it was money taken from families, blah, blah, blah. Then they saw a way they, too, could take the same money for themselves. No they're like pigs at the trough. Adelson's loyalties are with Israel, not America. He's more than happy to see American youth dying in a war with Iran.

Posted by Vince on January 29, 2012 at 9:55 AM

I wonder who Sheldon Leonard would support?

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Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on January 29, 2012 at 10:08 AM

GOP Will Eat Itself

Posted by treacle on January 29, 2012 at 10:58 AM

@5
a lot to chew on in those last two sentences. it doesn't quite make sense, yet it does. Bloodthirsty Israelis?

Posted by dnt trust me on January 29, 2012 at 11:04 AM

I kind of like how Occupy doesn't much pretend to have a cause beyond drawing attention to itself any more. I do hope someone will report on today's emblematic Occupy Seattle event, that nice woman gay-marrying the demolished warehouse.

Posted by gloomy gus on January 29, 2012 at 11:12 AM

Joseph Palin, Sarah Stalin, Joseph Stalin, Sarah Palin.................yikes!

Posted by zombie eyes on January 29, 2012 at 11:16 AM

Remember when Will in Seattle said Romney would have to drop out of the race by now?

Posted by Fnarf

on January 29, 2012 at 11:30 AM

#11

Remember when you said that WiS said that Romney would drop out of the race?

It twar but three days ago...I remember it well....a slight squall had just come up over the ship's bow...and as you pointed your harpoon toward the great white beast...

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archive…

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on January 29, 2012 at 12:35 PM

And now that mysterious visitor from the East...the AMAZING WILNAK!

Tell us, O Wise One, what does your crystal ball say...

"will in seattle" and "I predict" site:slog.thestranger.com

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22will+i…

Oooo, may the Blue Bird of Paradise use your backyard picnic table as a latrine!

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on January 29, 2012 at 12:47 PM

@13: Your powers are weak, old man.
"If Mittens doesn't break 39% he can't win the election and may not make it out of SC." Direct quote from Will in Seattle, here.

Posted by venomlash on January 29, 2012 at 1:29 PM

@2 right. Senator Everett Dirkson: "A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you you're talking reall money."

Posted by thatsnotright on January 29, 2012 at 2:22 PM

Has anyone gone to the Citrus website and looked at the pictures in the gallery? No wonder I can't think of anyone I know who has been there. It is douchebag central. The place must reek of Axe Spray and weave glue.

Posted by thatsnotright on January 29, 2012 at 2:27 PM

@7 brilliant. Thank you for that.

Posted by riot gorl on January 29, 2012 at 2:31 PM

Palin would of course pronounce it "STAH-lin ES-qwee."

@2: $2 Billion? That's all? Remember that time we lost $12,000,000,000 in cash, weighing several hundred tons, because we were distributing the money out of burlap bags randomly stuffed with cash without even the most basic oversight?

I'm being flippant, of course. That $2,000,000,000 is a comparatively low figure in reports about money lost in Iraq is... unbelievable.

Posted by Knat on January 29, 2012 at 3:38 PM

Re: the house built of 1.xB Euros ... Aye, it is just paper. But more importantly, money should be backed by people's skills and the goods and services they create for each other's betterment. Our current currency problems stem from the fact that money as we know it bears little if any connection to things people do, and gains it's value from, essentially: casino games, the interest rate, and how much the gov't actually "prints".

Time for a money revolution. Where we the people get to define value.

Economic democracy anyone?

Posted by treacle on January 29, 2012 at 4:50 PM

#19

I agree...with computers I can set an instantaneous relative value between any two things. Money has become an irrelevant middle man that skews real valuations and only benefits those who control that obsolete system mostly for their own gain.

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on January 29, 2012 at 11:25 PM

finally a use for the worthless , artificially inflated euro .

Posted by whatsbeckgottadowithit on January 30, 2012 at 11:39 AM