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Saturday, September 1, 2012

News The Saturday Morning News

Posted by Unpaid Intern on Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 9:07 AM

Posted by news intern Joseph Staten

$337 Million Powerball Winner Plans to Continue Eating at McDonald's: Now now, don't get upset: The man who won a fortune yesterday seems like a pretty chill dude.

Man Shot and Killed Near 75th and 15th Avenue NE: As Frizzelle reported last night, police are investigating a shooting that killed one man yesterday evening.

40 Dry Days: After the driest Seattle August ever, we're 11 days away from setting a new rainless record.

Eastwood Went Rogue, But Not Without Help: Romney staffers apparently gave Clint Eastwood full creative control over his RNC speech, not requiring rehearsals or the use of a teleprompter.

Paralympics Enter Day 3: And The Guardian recaps Day 2 of the already hugely successful Paralympic Games.

Doing Biking Infrastructure Right: While Seattle can barely muster up two sharrows to rub together, Copenhagen just completed the first leg of a massive network of biking paths, known as the "cycling superhighway," linking the city to the suburbs.

Romney Does Something Sensible And Compassionate: He cancelled a campaign stop in Virginia to spend the day in a hurricane-damaged Louisiana town yesterday.

Renton Fry's to Pay $2.3 Million Over Sexting Lawsuit: After two years of reportedly obstructing government investigations into an assistant manager's alleged sext-ual abuse of an employee, the Fry's Electronics in Renton will pay out near-record settlements to the victim and her supervisor, who was fired after trying to look into the problem.

Pop the Champagne: King County foreclosures dropped 18 percent in the second quarter of this year, a 28 percent drop from last year.

Sort Out Your Shit, Big Corporations: Many Huskies fans and sports bars won't get to watch the football season opener tonight because DirecTV, Dish, and the Pac-12 haven't yet worked out a broadcasting deal.

Today Is (Apparently) International Bacon Day: "Go get drunk on meat," urges the Dallas Observer.

Have you ever wanted to know what happens when you pour hot lava on ice?

Now you know.

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Had to click on "sharrow". How's Dominic's friend recovering? If it's not too much to ask, what were the gory details? Lacerated peritoneum? Renal vein damage?

Posted by dnt trust me on September 1, 2012 at 9:25 AM

Now we also know that the Midwest conman they've got in the VP slot lies even about his running times!

Runner's World via Americablog:
In an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt last week, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan said he's run a sub-3:00 marathon.

And backtracking afterward:

A spokesman confirmed late Friday that the Republican vice presidential candidate has run one marathon. That was the 1990 Grandma’s Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota, where Ryan, then 20, is listed as having finished in 4 hours, 1 minute, and 25 seconds.
http://news.runnersworld.com/2012/08/31/…

Posted by seatackled on September 1, 2012 at 9:26 AM

Oh my god, that guy won millions and now he thinks he has the GALL the spend it (or not) in any way he deems appropriate? RELEASE THE HOUNDS!

Posted by suddenlyorcas on September 1, 2012 at 9:27 AM

And speaking running, Jerry Brown challenged Chris Christie to a three-mile race and more.

http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/201…

Posted by seatackled on September 1, 2012 at 9:31 AM

stupid over content hovering crap - if I were interested in Bumbershoot I'd have tickets.

Posted by fake on September 1, 2012 at 9:37 AM

Okay, but what happens when you put lava on pykrete? Awesome flames?

Posted by Spike1382 on September 1, 2012 at 10:05 AM

The winner guy looks like he's been eating at MacDonalds all his life.

Posted by sarah70 on September 1, 2012 at 10:08 AM

That would have been way better than a Chihuly museum, and we could have just made it an add-on to the PSC.

Posted by COMTE

on September 1, 2012 at 10:09 AM

The wrong people always win these lotteries. If that were me, I'd move into the Cascades Suite at the Olympic, and have all my dinners out at Canlis, and I'd be taken there and back in a sedan chair.

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay

on September 1, 2012 at 11:08 AM

Cardinal Carlo Martini says Church '200 years behind'

Unless the Church adopted a more generous attitude towards divorced persons, it will lose the allegiance of future generations, the cardinal added. The question, he said, is not whether divorced couples can receive holy communion, but how the Church can help complex family situations.

...

"The child sex scandals oblige us to undertake a journey of transformation," Cardinal Martini says, referring to the child sex abuse that has rocked the Catholic Church in the past few years.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-1…

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on September 1, 2012 at 11:12 AM

Re: Huskies broadcasting, WTF? Public school paid for with public funds. Why don't UW games air for free on a local OTA broadcast channel? For example PBS. Or if we must do cable, the Seattle Channel.

Posted by Westlake, son! on September 1, 2012 at 12:56 PM

@11, well, Keep in mind UW is just one of five state schools here. Eastern, Western, Central, WSU, and UW. Should they all get airtime?

I'm having a hard time finding a solid answer, but I thought big college athletic programs were supposed to be self-sufficient, so maybe they benefit from our sales tax dollars indirectly. I was able to find this website with a break down of revenues: http://www2.indystar.com/NCAA_financial_…

If I understand the definition of "Direct Institutional Support" correctly, then UW Athletics might be getting 1.4 million?

Posted by internet_jen on September 1, 2012 at 1:27 PM

9

or you could become a public "service" union bigwig.....

Posted by Let Them Eat Cake. on September 1, 2012 at 2:38 PM

you girls didn't mention the fact that Washington State got asswhupped by BYU.

Washington sux.

The PAC12 sux.

Posted by painters and potters don't do well at manly games..... on September 1, 2012 at 2:41 PM

The lottery winner is "pissed at Uncle Sam" for taking a portion of the 224 million dollar windfall he did nothing at all to earn. Oh, and he picked the numbers because he was guided "from above". OK.

Posted by catsnbanjos on September 1, 2012 at 2:45 PM

@2: Please tell me that the style of your post was deliberate sgt_doom satire.

Posted by venomlash on September 1, 2012 at 4:07 PM

@ 11 UW Athletic Dept is self sustaining esp with this new TV deal.

Posted by Seattle14 on September 1, 2012 at 4:16 PM

When is this "In case you were waiting for the weather report" thing going away? Not until Tuesday? That's mean.

Posted by sarah70 on September 1, 2012 at 4:31 PM

@9 we need to bring sedan chairs back!!!

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on September 1, 2012 at 4:47 PM

@18: no shit. For please, please, please get the TSARY on it and take that banner down. It's long since gone from being a feature into being a major bug.

Posted by gnossos on September 1, 2012 at 4:49 PM

Quick! Run to Red Lobster and tell all them MU THA FUCKAS they too highfalutin for Lynnwood. Eatin Lobster and shit like they Donald Trump. Daymn those bitches saditty.

Posted by Lew Siffer on September 1, 2012 at 9:01 PM