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Thursday, September 6, 2012

News The Thursday Morning News (DNC edition)

Posted by Riya Bhattacharjee on Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 7:31 AM

Last night: Barry hugs Bubba. (Also, #arithmetic is trending like crazy on Twitter)

Tonight, tonight!: Obama will formally accept the Democratic presidential nomination (#indoors).

Obama is no Clinton: Romney camp says, but, but ...

"This convention is done:" Former Romney advisor Alex Castellanos says that Clinton's speech “will be the moment that probably reelected Barack Obama.”

Gabby Giffords: The former Arizona Rep. will lead the Pledge of Allegiance at the DNC tonight.

DNC Words: Obama (507 mentions), Romney (241 mentions), Economy (158 mentions), God (66 mentions) - the NYT has the rest.

CIA faces new waterboarding accusations: Human Rights Watch report says U.S. tortured Gaddafi opponents.

4 million gene switches: Not junk anymore.

Roddick Retires: After losing to del Potro in the U.S. Open yesterday. He was the last American man to win a grand slam.

Want to buy a Warhol?: Here's your opportunity.

End of the ride-free zone in Seattle: Among other Metro bus route cuts starting Sept. 29.

And only because he was so totally awesome last night, here's a mash-up of Bill Clinton's best moments from his speech, courtesy of HuffPo.

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Cool, Riya's back. More reporting from her would be excellent.

Regarding torture and Libya, I recall that one of the leaders who overthrew Gaddafi refused to turn over the Lockerbie bomber precisely because he himself at some point had been tortured by US agents.

Posted by seatackled on September 6, 2012 at 7:48 AM

Really, Riya?
NOTHING about the whole:
"God was in the Democrap Platform,
right before He was out of it..." Fiasco?

And that floor vote?
Democrapsy is action, Right?
AWESOME!

Sadly, it is a "Worst of Both Worlds" Shitstorm.....

The Angry Atheist Secularists are not happy.
(are they ever?...)
In fact they are Pissed.
Over the Shitty Humiliating way the were screwed over.
Reamed.

God is not Happy.
He can count.
He is not deaf.
He knows the Democraps really voted to kick him off the Island.....

Posted by you know, Obama Prays. EVERYDAY!..... on September 6, 2012 at 8:04 AM

Bus riders, take note. The end of the downtown Ride Free Area also means the end of pay-as-you-leave. Be prepared for long farebox lines with massive bus delays downtown and in the tunnel.

Avoid downtown transfers if at all possible, and get an ORCA card to speed boarding.

Posted by Lack Thereof on September 6, 2012 at 10:38 AM

The Romney Directive

The Romney/Ryan campaign ordered the Democratic Party to insert new language in their campaign plank: praising the lord and recognizing Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel.

The Democratic Party immediately capitulated!

No doubt those 750,000 American workers who lost their jobs over the past six months are now filled with hope for change?

The crucial question is, was that Romney’s first directive to the Obama administration?

We think not.

Late in the Bush administration, the banker whistleblower, Bradley Birkinfeld, flew from UBS, Switzerland, to Washington, D.C., armed with a list of American super-rich tax dodgers, and on that list appeared the name of Willard Mitt Romney.

After Obama was elected president, the Obama administration prosecuted Birkenfeld into jail, and although UBS was fined for those tax dodgers, they essentially buried that list.

Of course, among the names on that list of super-rich tax dodgers there probably appeared the names of the financial backers of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Mitt Romney, but we are certain that Romney’s name was featured.

Anybody still unsure as to the obvious orchestration of American presidential elections?

All you faux crats out there, you vile rightwingers who dare call yourselves “progressives” --- stand ready for the next Romney directive!

We true progressives shall cast our vote for the authentic democrat, Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party.

Affirmative on Jill Stein, negative on Obamney!

Posted by sgt_doom on September 6, 2012 at 11:17 AM