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Thursday, July 19, 2012

News The Thursday Morning News

Posted by Dominic Holden on Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:32 AM

George Zimmerman: In an exclusive softball Fox News interview last night with Sean Hannity, Zimmerman, the vigilante neighborhood watch patrolman who tracked down a boy in Florida, said "It Was God's Plan" to fatally shoot Trayvon Martin that night. And he wouldn't do anything differently. Holy God.

Mister McFeely: The mayor of Puyallup is apologizing—and says he's "embarrassed"—after he approached a female employee at the photocopier, touched her shoulder, and said, "What would you say if I told you I was a little bit afraid of you?"

Looters' Paradise: Skyway policing plan leaves area unpatrolled for eight hours a day.

News Flash: "An Oregon man who stripped nude at Portland’s airport security to protest what he saw as invasive measures was found not guilty of indecent exposure."

Dee Awena: Economists say Seattle's proposed baskethooping and puck-in-goaling arena is a "good deal." Meanwhile, strip club owners on the arena site says they're not selling the land—at least, not at the price that's been offered.

Fired for Having It His Way: Burger King fires employee who made a viral video of standing—his nasty-ass boots right in the bins—in the lettuce.

"You People": That's what Ann Romney calls the peanut gallery who thinks Mitt's tax returns are of national interest.

Finally, the GOP Jobs Bill! Just kidding, it's a bill to kill AmeriCorps, NPR, PBS, and Planned Parenthood.

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Wow, between George Zimmerman, Ann Romney, and the Mayor of Puyallup, the news is chock full of sociopaths today.

Posted by suddenlyorcas on July 19, 2012 at 8:37 AM

I can't wait to see that lying sack of shit, Zimmerman, go to prison. God's plan, indeed.

Posted by Pope Peabrain on July 19, 2012 at 8:56 AM

Well, you could technically call it a Jobs Bill...seeing as it will be destroying so many jobs.

Just what we need!

Posted by Pick1 on July 19, 2012 at 9:00 AM

Note to self, be sure to delete gpsand all other meta data from embarassing photos before posting on the internet. No wonder he works in bugerking. I mean worked.

Posted by wl on July 19, 2012 at 9:00 AM

While the King County Sheriff's plan makes some sense in our current political climate, it is interesting timing that the Kinko's won't be patrolling just when the vote to approve this portion of the long running program to annex away all of the urban unincorporated areas is happening.

Posted by The most important thing in comedy... on July 19, 2012 at 9:12 AM

so that's why the "interests" wanted that strip club shut down..
Government needs to get out of bed with the sports clubs - not a dime for stadia.

Posted by myr on July 19, 2012 at 9:21 AM

No, God's plan is to punish murderers, George.

Posted by westello on July 19, 2012 at 9:29 AM

@7 Actually, if you read Joshua & Judges, God's plan is racially motivated genocide.

Posted by Sir Vic on July 19, 2012 at 9:33 AM

The comment about tithing seems so incongruous, I wonder if it's somehow connected. Are they also hiding money from the church? Wouldn't that just be delicious if Mitt's own humble people turned against him.

Posted by MacCrocodile

on July 19, 2012 at 9:34 AM

"God's plan"? Seriously?

Zimmerman, you are a piece of shit.

Posted by Reverse Polarity on July 19, 2012 at 9:46 AM

RE: The GOP's legislature that is nothing more than them pandering to their base.

Reminds me of this: http://www.theonion.com/articles/republi…

Seriously. The bill blocks funding to promote healthy eating. Why would the GOP be against healthy eating? Because Michelle Obama is in favor of it, of course.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on July 19, 2012 at 10:10 AM

The CDC just posted an MMWR report describing this year's pertussis epidemic in Washington state: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml…

Still no good explanation why WA's epidemic is so severe, but it mirrors trends elsewhere in the country.

Posted by emma's bee on July 19, 2012 at 10:20 AM

10 to 1, Zimmerman is going for a not guilty by reason of insanity. It was god's plan,because he told Zimmerman to do it.

Posted by pussnboots on July 19, 2012 at 10:29 AM

From Paul Constant’s book review of America, You Sexy Bitch . . . :

“Maybe if voters educated themselves a little more, we wouldn’t have such a regressive political system.”

A few pages prior, in The Stranger’s endorsement of Maria Cantwell for reelection to the Senate, they claim:

“She supported health care reform (even the beloved-by-liberals public option, after some foot-dragging).”

You mean Cantwell supported it by voting it down?????
The closest thing to the public option was Sen. Byron Dorgan’s amendment, which both Cantwell and Murray voted against!

Evidently, Constant is referring to The Stranger staff in his book review?
Also, from that Cantwell endorsement: “She dove deep into the weeds of the Wall Street meltdown and came back with smart proposals for regulating financial transactions.”

What complete bullcrap! She put on a bunch of dog-and-pony shows, wasting precious taxpayers’ time and funds, being derelict in her duties.

In one of those eye candy moments, Prof. Greenberger, formerly with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and who --- like Brooksley Born --- pushed for credit derivatives oversight, was questioned by Cantwell in her nonsensical fashion.

Greenberger tactfully rebuked Cantwell, pointing out to the dissembling senator that the US Senate had plenty of powers and rules still at its disposal to have reined in those financial transactions, but chose to do otherwise.

And please remember, Sen. Cantwell is a financial super-genius. After all, when she was voted out of office the first time, she spent only several years in the private sector, easily amassing a fortune as an incompetent Human Resources VP, then returning to politics as a multi-millionaire many times over! (In ancient times, that might be referred to as a political payoff or political buyout.)

Cantwell’s voting record has consistently been anti-American worker and pro-war.
Maybe if voters educated themselves a little more . . . . . .

(And must you post those FoxFiction clips?????)

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Posted by sgt_doom on July 19, 2012 at 10:33 AM

I can't believe Zimmerman's lawyers are letting him give interviews with this shit. I mean, it's obvious by going on Fox News he's playing to the right audience, but still, they're just giving away ammunition every time he opens his dumbass mouth.

Posted by NateMan on July 19, 2012 at 10:50 AM

@12 My guesses would be: the NIMBY culture around here that fosters the anti-vaccination crowd; and the long run of shitty, cold weather that creates conditions for people to catch infections.

Posted by Sir Vic on July 19, 2012 at 11:03 AM