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News & ArtsSunday, June 17, 2012
News The Sunday Morning News
Posted by Unpaid Intern on Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 9:19 AM
Posted by news intern Joseph Staten
Rodney King Dies: The victim of the most famous case of police brutality in US history was found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool this morning.
Greece Votes to Determine Fate of Universe: The second attempt at elections in six weeks will determine whether Greece accepts more bailout money or, possibly, leaves the eurozone.
Fake Cop Sexually Assaults Woman in North Seattle: Police are searching for a man who pretended to be a cop and then sexually assaulted a woman on 93rd Street last night.
Radiohead Stage Collapse Kills One: The Radiohead show in Toronto was cancelled last night after a stage collapse killed one crew member and injured three others.
Today in Questionable Decisions: Triple-murder and armed robbery suspect Travis Baumgartner was arrested at the Lynden, Washington border crossing yesterday after he tried to cross the border without a passport and with more than $300,000 in cash in the car.
And Now, in Questionable Adaptations: Ryan Seacrest and CBS are teaming up to turn the iPhone and Android game Draw Something into a TV show.
New Saudi Heir Is Way More Progressive Than the Last: After the heir to the throne in Saudi Arabia died yesterday, Prince Salman is next in line, and he seems like a pretty chill dude.
Boy, Did We Blow It: The Washington Post looks at Washington state as a cautionary tale of what happens when healthcare mandate laws get repealed: premiums rise and enrollment drops.
Delayed Gratification: Burmese social activist Aung San Suu Kyi finally accepted her Nobel peace prize yesterday, which she was awarded while she was under house arrest in 1991.
Time to Build that Rustic Cabin You've Always Dreamed Of: Nearly 25,000 acres of Cascades land are being auctioned next month, with prices starting at $150 an acre.
A Spaceship Memento Mori: NASA's training shuttle, which helped train every crew in the space shuttle program's 135 missions, is coming to the Museum of Flight this month.
And now, a delightful voicemail from moviegoer who was kicked out of an Austin theater for texting:
Magnited we stand, divided we fall.
King has much mocked for that begging everyone to just get along, but it was a plea for peace at a time of horrible destruction and police negligence, when the divisions created by public policies had poor people turning on each other.
King was never a saint, but he seemed to do the best he could, though he was always haunted by the beating that defined his life for so many of us. I recall an article back in April profiling him that portrayed him as trying to move on, but maybe not always managing to. I hope he did find some peace and happiness in recent years.
The comments are going to get ugly, here if they're not restricted, and certainly everywhere else this is reported.
RIP, Rodney King. Condolences to loved ones.
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With the new Crown Prince in Saudi Arabia, it looks like the Kingdom is finally ready to move into the fifteenth century!
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The girl who left that message, sure you can blast her for being inarticulate (hmm, where have I heard a person's ability to 'articulate' properly referred to as either a "compliment" or a derision?) but she has a point.
I have texted before to find my fellow moviegoers after spending $20+ for concessions and yeah, theaters get dark. I stood there like an ass, wandered up both isles, stood in the back by the door and texted to find out where my friends were. You can bet that I'd be pissed if they threw me out for that shit. Girl sounds like a reasonable person (phone was silent) and this theater just made a total cock of itself, of which it seems SO PROUD. Gross. I wonder if the fact the CUSTOMER (ooh, nasty, why'd she say that? lol) was a girl had anything to do with this...and I bet the dick that posted this shit was a dude. No, really, I'd put money on that--take me to Vegas.
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We do not tolerate people that talk or text in the theater. In fact, before every film, we have several warnings on screen to prevent such happenings. Occasionally, someone doesn't follow the rules, and we do, in fact, kick their asses out of our theater. This video is an actual voicemail from a woman that was kicked out of one of our Austin theaters. Thanks, anonymous woman, for being awesome.
Maybe she called and complained because she was a woman (I can't see a douchebag male doing that - he'd perceive it as a wussy way to express his indignation), but there's zero reason to believe that they're more likely to throw a woman than a man out.
This morning on one of the American Propaganda Network nodes, CBS, they were reporting the "news"?
First, the career propaganda specialist, Dan Levine, interviewed the shill from RAND.
This was the "news"?
Next, Dan interviewed the shill from the Brookings Institution.
This was the "news"?
The events on 9/11 were constantly mentioned --- the superficial events, that is.
Somehow, all of them had amnesia regarding the announcement by the Pentagon's comptroller on 9/10/01 of the unaccounted for $2.3 trillion missing from the DoD's budgets?
Somehow, all of them had amnesia regarding the destruction of that auditing team the very next day on 9/11 --- when a plane crashed into the west wall of the Pentagon --- the very same DIA auditing team who had uncovered that unaccounted for $2.3 trillion?
Now that would have been news!
[Special note: 38% of union households in Wisconsin once again voted for Gov. Walker --- guess where they get their "news" from?]
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Now that they are selling these:
http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_D…
my plan to homestead may soon be possible.
(Have to check the 4G coverage though)...
Let's look the record of Mr. Rodney King, the urbanist dream community member:
According to a complaint filed by his first wife, King beat her while she was sleeping, then dragged her outside the house and beat her again. A robbery and assault conviction. Arrested multiple times for driving under the influence, and spent short stints in prison in the late 1990s for assaulting his ex-wife and daughter…..oh, and evading police and driving 115 mph through a residential neighborhood.
But maybe he had a 'Give Cyclists 3 feet' bumper sticker so he must have been a stand up guy?
Condolences to his family? Which ones, the women he didn't assault?
The Alama Drafthouse is the type of theater where they bring your food and drinks to YOU. So, sorry, your excuse of trying to find your friends when returning from buying concessions won't quite work there.
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