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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

News The Tuesday Morning News

Posted by Dominic Holden on Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:30 AM

Michelle Obama Speaks Tonight: The DNC opens today, featuring the FLOTUS on stage at about 10:00 p.m. EST (7:00 p.m. on the West Coast). “She will not criticize Gov. Romney or Congressman Ryan,” says a campaign source. Here's the full day's schedule. We're gonna be live-blogging her speech, so y'all come on back.

Did Romney Get a Bounce from Last Week's Convention? "The bump that Romney has gotten is minuscule so far—less than one percent, unless the numbers change," writes Andrew Sullivan. Meanwhile, Gallup says Romney picked up 2 points, while the previous two GOP conventions helped their candidates with 3- and 5-point bounces, respectively.

Woman Sues Starbucks for Burns: "The woman’s attorneys reportedly claim the barista did not seal the lid on the cup. When she took a sip, the lid came off and the hot tea poured over her."

Can't We Both Be Wrong? Mexico president Felipe Calderon says it's Americans' appetite for drugs that has fueled violence—and his six-year effort to disrupt the cartels has nothing to do with it.

A Seattle Times Editorial: Says Democrats laid a false criticism on Rob McKenna. The Republican candidate for governor didn't support a budget that cut $74 million from education because his spokesman says so, the Old Bethen asserts.

They Are Framing So Hard: The Old Blethen explains that an urban parochial school—my alma mater—pumped up its roster by buying laptops, making it an example of "charter-style" changes that could save education! The free market always wins! ~~Tomorrow's headline: End tax breaks for newspapers!~~

Shooting Near Bumbershoot: The man was reportedly driving an SUV directly toward an officer, so the cop shot at him.

Family Turned Away from Flight: They were traveling with a boy with Down syndrome:

Joan and Robert Vanderhorst were flying on American Airlines from Newark, New Jersey to Los Angeles on Sunday with their 16-year-old son Bede. But they say that as they waited to board the flight, they were told that they weren't allowed on the plane.

Joan pulled out her cell phone and began to videotape, documenting what she believes was a violation of her son's civil rights and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Bede — who was labeled a flight risk — can be seen in the video sitting at the gate, quietly playing with his hat. ...

"This little boy had a seat in the first class area, and for some reason, they didn't want that. That wasn't acceptable," Joan said. American Airlines claims Bede was "excitable, running around, and not acclimated to the environment" and that the pilot had unsuccessfully tried to calm him down.

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It's pretty misleading to say "the cop shot him" since the suspect wasn't shot. Maybe "the cop shot AT him/his car" or "shot out the tires on his vehicle" (which is what actually happened.

Posted by augurgirl

on September 4, 2012 at 8:38 AM

@1) Shot at him, indeed. Thanks.

Posted by Dominic Holden on September 4, 2012 at 8:42 AM

Anywhere I go the hot water used to make americanos or tea seems a lot hotter than what I use at home (stovetop kettle). What gives? Sometimes I get a small tea on a cold night to try to keep warm at the bus stop, but it's so hot I can't drink any till I get home.

Is the temp mandated by dept of health?

I've burnt my tongue enough to be cautious.

Posted by internet_jen on September 4, 2012 at 9:01 AM

The young man with Down's Syndrome (yes article, he's no longer a child) seems better behaved than too many of his 'normal' peers.

Posted by suddenlyorcas on September 4, 2012 at 9:17 AM

Sounds like malarky again; if the lid hadn't come of, she'd have burns all over the inside of her mouth? Hot tea is hot, people.

Posted by Banna

on September 4, 2012 at 9:26 AM

@5--but starbucks' tea is insanely, ridiculously hot. I don't even get tea there anymore because I don't want to wait 30 minutes to drink it. This is totally believable.

Posted by Ouch! Dang! on September 4, 2012 at 9:43 AM

Ask for ice cubes in your tea or americanos.

Posted by care bear on September 4, 2012 at 10:13 AM

You'd think the McDonald's lawsuits during the '90s would have learned them. Idiots.

@3,

I suspect it's not mandated by the government. Water that hot causes more problems than it solves.

Posted by keshmeshi on September 4, 2012 at 10:24 AM

@6/7

White-people-problems. Cue the violins.

Posted by Confluence on September 4, 2012 at 11:10 AM

Regarding the hot tea woman:

Several commenters on here are correct, for whatever reason, hot water that comes out of coffee machines (and restaurant sinks) at these places is almost at boiling temperatures.

I think it may have something to do with the dishwashing equipment/coffee machines, which use steaming hot water...if they are both coming out of the same hot water heater, you would have to set that hot water heater to a very high temperature, much higher than in a home.

When I was a barista at a small shop, we were told to put an ice cube or two in tea/americanos to avoid this very issue.

Posted by Theodore Gorath on September 4, 2012 at 11:16 AM

If you can't control your child enough to get him seated and belted for takeoff, you can't fly.

Even a retard should be able to understand that. Yet somehow the mother can't quite grasp it. Genetics, how do they work?

Posted by Who's The Real Tard? on September 4, 2012 at 11:24 AM

@10,

What I don't get is that I've accidentally spilled boiling water on myself at home a number of times. I scalded myself, but not severely, just enough to cause some pain, redness, and minimal swelling. But once, at a craphole donut shop in San Francisco, I accidentally spilled hot tea on my belly; it caused blisters, and I had scars that lasted for several months. What is it about coffee shop water that causes such serious injuries? And a more fundamental question: why can't a Fortune 500 company like Starbucks figure out a fucking solution?

Posted by keshmeshi on September 4, 2012 at 11:28 AM

CHUCK NORRIS and 1,000 years of DOOOOOOOM!

http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012…

Only YOU can vote against Obama!
Or you cause the country to fall into something WORSE than SOCIALISM for ONE THOUSAND YEARS!

Posted by fairly.unbalanced on September 4, 2012 at 11:40 AM

@12: Good question...does it perhaps have something to do with spilling the liquid on exposed skin, where it would mostly just quickly run off the area and spilling it on clothing, causing the hot water to stay in contact with skin for longer?

I dunno really, I have never spilled a hot drink on myself at a restaurant or coffee shop. Even when working at one for a year and a half, believe it or not. I did catch a few drips from the hot water spigot on a coffee machine once and a while, but a splash of cold water from the sink fixes that right away.

Posted by Theodore Gorath on September 4, 2012 at 11:49 AM

@4 he's 16. he's not (legally) a man.

Posted by Allyn on September 4, 2012 at 12:02 PM

They should sue the airline out of existence.

ADA is the Law of the Land.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on September 4, 2012 at 12:59 PM

Re: the kid with Downs -- AYFKM? Is there not a door between the cockpit and first class? Bullshit, American Airlines. Think of how long they spent in TSA lines...

Posted by Nitidiuscula on September 4, 2012 at 6:48 PM