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Saturday, June 16, 2012

News The Saturday Morning News

Posted by Unpaid Intern on Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 9:10 AM

Posted by news intern Joseph Staten

Did You See All the Smoke in SLU Last Night?: An electrical fire ripped through the University of Washington medical-hub building-in-progress in South Lake Union last night, causing no injuries and $50,000 worth of damage.

United Nations Suspends Syria Mission: The U.N. is holding off on further attempts to implement a six-point peace plan until further notice, citing intensifying violence.

Boys & Girls Club Leader Watch: A 28-year-old leader program director in North Seattle was arrested yesterday after it was discovered he had been fooling around with a 17-year-old volunteer.

No Headline Can Properly Capture My Terror: A man in Oregon is confirmed to have the plague (yes, that plague) after being bitten by a stray cat.

Catch You On the Flip Side: The Voyager 1 space probe, launched by NASA in 1977, is now exiting our solar system around 11 billion miles away, the first time any manmade object has done so.

In Space, No One Can Hear You Rhyme: Beloved astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Wu-Tang Clan co-founder GZA are collaborating on a rap album about space. Meanwhile, the Internet collectively shits itself.

This is a Good Day in Space News: China has launched its first woman astronaut in its latest manned space mission.

"To Inspire People Around the World": Nik Wallenda ~~became the first person to~~ tightrope walked across Niagra Falls last night, clearing customs in the process and giving the headline as his reason for entering the country.

Well That Was Rude: Some dude kinda heckled President Obama during his immigration policy announcement yesterday, and is now famous.

Hope You Have the Big Cans: Garbage and recycling pickup in King and Snohomish counties could be disrupted as negotiations between Waste Management and the driver's union reach a standstill.

Maybe It'll Get Another Club???: Bellevue Square (which has been calling itself the "Bellevue Collection," if you haven't been recently) is planning to expand.

New Yorkers, Invest in Solo Cups: In a city that hands out more summonses for public drinking than for anything else, a judge has ruled that the "sniff test" for determining whether a cupped beverage contains alcohol is no longer sufficient.

Fast Food Jobs as Shitty as You Think They Are: A guide ranking the quality of employee treatment at 150 of the most profitable restaurant chains gives "zero" ratings to basically every fast food chain you've ever heard of (plus the Cheesecake Factory and Ruth's Chris Steakhouse).

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The Bubonic Plague has been around a long time and will not go away any time soon. It survives in smaller animals and is transmitted by certain flea species. I know of at least one (somewhat) isolated location in Eastern WA where it is believed to be present. Happy Camping!

Posted by bugwitch on June 16, 2012 at 9:46 AM

Hooters is also on the list of bad places to work.

Someone should do a comparison between working conditions at Hooters and at a strip club.

Posted by seatackled on June 16, 2012 at 9:47 AM

Wu Tang Clan? Was hoping for NWA with Tyson. I hope they Chart with 'Putting a cap in the planet Pluto'.

Since it feels right, the only reason for auto tune... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poey…

Posted by Large Hardon Colluder on June 16, 2012 at 9:48 AM

Plague is treatable these days, but who tries to take a dead rat out of the mouth of a stray cat?

Posted by Gern Blanston on June 16, 2012 at 9:50 AM

That restaurant rating is real, but the "article" for it is a flimsy Five Guys advertisement.

Posted by suddenlyorcas on June 16, 2012 at 9:57 AM

Also, the guy writing a book about hitchhiking across America who was shot the other day in Montana? He shot himself, for the publicity.

Posted by Fnarf

on June 16, 2012 at 10:00 AM

@6, hahahahahaha! Holy fuck that is beautiful.

Posted by gloomy gus on June 16, 2012 at 10:01 AM

@1: care to share the location?

Posted by Max Solomon on June 16, 2012 at 10:12 AM

Poor buttsore right wingers hate a compassionate president. Too fucking bad. He did the right thing and Mitt Romney can suck it.

Posted by Vince on June 16, 2012 at 10:31 AM

@ 6, will all the urban snobs now apologize to Montana? I won't be holding my breath.

Posted by Matt from Denver on June 16, 2012 at 10:34 AM

@8 Wenatchee National Forest. I was told about it while I was doing an undergraduate research project out there. I basically just stayed away from that beat up shack/house-thing.

Of possible interest: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/c…

Posted by bugwitch on June 16, 2012 at 10:50 AM

Need to do some quick fact-checking. The first person to tightrope across Niagara Falls was The Great Blondin in 1859.
http://www.tourniagara.com/history/dared…

Posted by Smartypants on June 16, 2012 at 10:51 AM

And by the way, The Great Blondin made several trips across the falls, one time taking a small stove in a wheelbarrow. Halfway across he cooked an omelette, lowered it down by rope to passengers on the earliest incarnation of Maid Of The Mist, then finished his trip.

Nobody does take out like that anymore.

Posted by Smartypants on June 16, 2012 at 10:55 AM

Signs warning of the bubonic plague are not uncommon in the mountains of Southern California. Don't feed the squirrels!

Posted by emor on June 16, 2012 at 11:14 AM

@12 news outlets have been reporting this weirdly. some say he's the first to "high wire," some say he's the first to tightrope "directly over" the falls, and others just say he's the first "in 116 years." so i'm just going to get rid of all "first" talk. thanks.

Posted by Unpaid Intern on June 16, 2012 at 11:31 AM

@11: thanks i think. the wenatchee national forest is over 4 million acres in size.

Posted by Max Solomon on June 16, 2012 at 11:55 AM

@10 Nope. Montana made points when they used to be able to fly the bumper sticker "Montana. At least our cows aren't mad." But since BSE was found there, it's been down hill.

Posted by Large Hardon Colluder on June 16, 2012 at 12:07 PM

They updated the story about NDT and GZA: "According to NDT there is no collaboration. They just met to talk science. However GZA's album will be influenced by all things science and awesomeness."

Posted by OuterCow on June 16, 2012 at 1:22 PM

Space Rap is *awesome* see for reference Deltron 3030.

Posted by Westlake, son! on June 16, 2012 at 2:38 PM

"...has the plague after he was bitten while trying to take a dead rodent from the mouth of a stray cat."

Note to self: let alley cat keep dead rat. Find new hobby.

Posted by Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

on June 16, 2012 at 3:19 PM

What an idiot for trying to take a dead rodent from a stray cat. Why even bother. That cat did him a nice favor by killing a pest.

FYI, I feed chipmunks at Crater Lake when I was young. Got photo proof too. It was cool.

Posted by Simone on June 16, 2012 at 3:32 PM

Its the bubonic plague for gods sake! Its not exactly deadly if you get assistance and antibiotics within 24 hours of the first symptoms. Also since you usually wont contract it unless you get fleainfested clothes its not exactly a big risk anyway.

Also how the hell did he contract it from the cat? I mean did the fleas join in to help the cat protect its snack?

Posted by JensR

on June 16, 2012 at 4:03 PM

Cats and dogs can be infected with bubonic plague from the rodents they catch, or the rodent fleas that jump onto them and bite. People in turn can get infected by cat/dog bites or even contact with skin or bodily fluids of infected cats and dogs.

In my little backwoods hellhole, the little wild mice carry hantavirus. You can sweep a cabin where an infected mouse has pissed or shat months before and get infectious virus from inhaling minute quantities of the dried excreta without ever even laying eyes on a mouse.

Posted by rob!

on June 16, 2012 at 4:16 PM

First of all, it's "womynned space mission" and it's not funny.

Secondly, personned spaceflight? Pffffff. OVER!

Posted by capicola on June 16, 2012 at 5:25 PM

@10 I actually read the article, and the person identified as the shooter was from WA.

Posted by Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In on June 16, 2012 at 5:55 PM

@22 et al., it's NOT the bubonic plague. It's blood-borne; the bubonic plague is in the lymph nodes.

Posted by Fnarf

on June 16, 2012 at 6:21 PM

Now he's trying to find a publisher for "Bullshit in America".

So sad. Like so many a Mudede post -- another story that should have been true.

Posted by RonK, Seattle on June 16, 2012 at 8:46 PM

Ah, a strong Russian accent for breakfast. Thank you Intern!

Posted by STJA on June 17, 2012 at 6:00 AM

Intern, this was a very tight and well-written morning news update. Nicely done!

Posted by The Cap'n on June 17, 2012 at 6:25 AM

Fnarf @26 is correct about the form of the disease in the Oregon case. That said, the Yersenia pestis bacterium is behind all three forms: septicemic (rampant in the blood), bubonic (lymphatic), and pneumonic (in the lungs).

For a truly creative and illuminating use of discarded plastic soda bottles in the Philippines, you should watch this video that popped up in the "suggested" pane after the one in the news above:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0C-lSvbL…

Posted by rob!

on June 17, 2012 at 7:26 AM