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Saturday, July 7, 2012

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Posted by Unpaid Intern on Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 8:28 AM

Posted by news intern Mike Gore

Full speed ahead! California's high speed rail proposal moves forward. The cost? $68 billion.

Terrorism suspects arrested in UK Police arrest more people in connection to a terrorism plot in the UK, but say it wasn't related to the Olympics. Everything is ok, people!

Maybe jobs bills would help? Boehner has strong words for Obama over jobs report, but still hasn't done anything to help economy along.

Elite closes doors: Gay bar will be "re-opening soon" according to sign, but owes $30,000 in back taxes according to other sign.

Mystery disease: Cambodian kids falling ill, dying because of unknown disease that attacks lungs and brain.

Time for an election! Libyans head to the polls in the first election in over 40 years.

We're on fire, too: 250 acre wildfire in Chelan gets more firefighters to handle the job.

Flooding hits Russia: Flash floods hit Russian town at night, without warning, killing nearly 100.

Now for a compilation of skydivers and base jumpers doing zen things to electronic music:

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The first segment of the new high speed rail will be a 130-mile stretch from Madera to Bakersfield. Historically, it's a big mistake to do something like this piecemeal. Funding can be cut off at any point. The Metro Red Line in LA was supposed to go all the way out to Woodland Hills, but ran out of money (and political will) in North Hollywood. Learn from Boston's Big Dig. Get it all underway. When the ground is broken and full construction is underway, politicians have a harder time cutting off funds for completion.

Posted by Bauhaus I on July 7, 2012 at 8:48 AM

80,000 jobs a month doesn't even keep up with the new workers coming into the workforce. If that's all that is created in July the unemployment number will probably go up slightly.

But as much of an asshole as Boner is you can't ignore the arrogance of those who WERE in a position to push a jobs bill in 2009 (when they had majorities in both houses and nearly a super majority in the Senate) and choose not to do so. But I suppose in partisan land you can't talk about that.

Posted by Last of the Time Lords on July 7, 2012 at 10:28 AM

That video was pretty freaking fun. I wonder who the first person to jump out of an airplane fully trusting that their cloth baed, wind harnessing contraption would successfully deploy and lower them safely to the ground was. Crazy fucker.

Posted by mikethehammer on July 7, 2012 at 10:53 AM

*cloth based, of course.

Posted by mikethehammer on July 7, 2012 at 10:54 AM

@2... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Re…

While I completely agree they should have done way more, at least back then they were able to do *something*, we would have had a complete disaster without it.

"All the Democrats voted in favor, but only three Republicans voted in favor (Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, and Arlen Specter), with Specter later switching to the Democratic party"

Posted by JonnoN on July 7, 2012 at 11:20 AM

Flash floods in Russia, record heat wave in North America. Yep no global warming here!

Posted by California Kid on July 7, 2012 at 1:39 PM

Tanishq Abraham, 9, Working Toward College Degree in California

http://abcnews.go.com/US/Parenting/tanis…

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on July 7, 2012 at 6:41 PM

@3,

Seems like the first person might have done it out of necessity, rather than for fun, like when being shot down in war or at least testing out parachutes for military purposes. But then I don't know the history of parachutes or skydiving.

Posted by keshmeshi on July 9, 2012 at 11:05 AM