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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

News The Tuesday Morning News

Posted by Unpaid Intern on Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 7:56 AM

Posted by news intern Mike Gore

If Everyone Was Jumping off a Bridge: These guys probably would too.

SO COOL: Mars rover Curiosity is landing Sunday, and it sounds like one of the most amazingly complex ways to get that little guy onto the red planet.

Powerless in India: 600 million folks in India are without power after the whole power grid failed. Trains stopped, traffic is screwed up, and only those who can afford generators are up and running.

Everyone Runs Away From Romney: The rest of his trip was essentially a flop: being denounced by unions he supports, being accused of racism, the London fiasco, and a loose cannon press secretary.

Vote Yes: Just about everyone behind King County Prop 1 admits that it's a "hard sell," but that it's totally necessary.

People in the Olympics are Fit: Gallery of some lovely, lovely (clothed) bodies of Olympians.

That's Not Very Nice: JBLM soldier kidnapped after drug deal gone wrong, but outsmarts captors.

Tweet of the Morning: Oh, Liz Cheney.

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Romney's self-serving, racist swipe at the Palestinians was so much crap. Let's see how well Israel would do if it was dominated by a powerful neighbor that bombs its infrastructure, prevents its commerce with the outside world, and kills its leaders.

Posted by floater on July 31, 2012 at 8:42 AM

@1: Dominated is too kind a word: it is an illegal and militarily offensive occupation of another state.

His comment also completely misses the reality that many educated and technically skilled Palestinians end up in foerign countries where they have economic opportunities they do not have to under a military occupation. This "brain drain" is a huge problem in India as well.

Posted by Theodore Gorath on July 31, 2012 at 9:00 AM

NASA video of simulated landing of Curiosity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BudlaGh1A…

Posted by thatsnotright on July 31, 2012 at 9:37 AM

@4 I raise you Captain Kirk on Curiosity http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogall…

Posted by Large Hardon Colluder on July 31, 2012 at 9:42 AM

Um, actually, India is "Tango Down".

You call it a grid failure, I call it a weakness that was exploited.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on July 31, 2012 at 11:08 AM

@5 - You would call it that, which is why it most certainly isn't.

Posted by Pridge Wessea on July 31, 2012 at 12:45 PM

I can't find a more appropriate place to posit this observation, so here it goes:

Men's water polo is quite simply a pool full of angry naked men in baby bonnets throwing a ball at eachother.

Does the world really need such a spectacle?

Posted by Ipso Facto