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News & ArtsWednesday, October 17, 2012
News The Morning News: The Debate! An Earthquake! A Court Date! And More!
Posted by Megan Seling on Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 8:14 AM
There Was a Debate Last Night: Read Paul's recap right now.
Candy Crowley Is Awesome: But some say she shouldn't have sided with Obama when Romney was all "Blah blah barf! 14 days to call it an act of terror! Give me a lollipop! WHERE'S MY LOLLIPOP! WAAAAAAAH."
There Was an Earthquake in Maine Yesterday: No reports of injuries or damage.
George Zimmerman Has a Court Date: The (tentative) start for Zimmerman's trial will be June 10. But that could change because there are "still several unresolved pretrial matters to complete."
Shooting at the Border: "A Canadian border guard was in stable condition after she was wounded by a gunman who later killed himself, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said."
About That Zumba Prostitution Ring: The list of alleged customers includes a former Maine mayor.
Just Dope It: Nike has ended their contract with Lance Armstrong. Armstrong has also stepped down as the head of Livestrong, his cancer foundation.
What a Dick: An man accused of attacking a 91-year-old supposedly has a "trail of victims," say Everett police.
OH GOD: "The victim, Jose Melena, was cooked to death in a steam oven at the Bumble Bee Foods plant in Santa Fe Springs on Thursday, said Erika Monterroza, a spokeswoman for the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health."
I Wish They Called It iPantyliner: A mini iPad will probably go on sale November 2nd. Supposedly. Maybe. We'll see.
Microsoft Has a Tablet Too: The Surface tablet will cost you $499.
Is It Our Evil Twin!?: An Earth-sized planet has been discovered outside the solar system.
The Hockey Lockout Continues: GODDAMMIT.
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Oh, look over there, it's another earth. Oh, look over there, it's another earth. Oh, look over there...ad nauseum.
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Are female sanitary products really the first thing people think about when they hear the word "pad"? I guess I'm just not in that world.
@1: the reason the discovery of the planet is notable is because it's orbiting the star (more accurately, stars) closest to ours. So this is literally our next door neighbor.
@1: the reason the discovery of the planet is notable is because it's orbiting the star (more accurately, stars) closest to ours. So this is literally our next door neighbor.
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Why do you consider the Zumba prostitution thing national news? I could see if you were bringing attention to the story in an effort to normalize the idea of prostitution, but that doesn't seem like the intent in today's morning news.
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@1, it's really pretty cool. Only a few decades ago many astronomers were not totally convinced that other stars would have many planets let alone the number they seem to have.
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Oh and our evil twin rammed into us millions of years ago (I think it was called Theta?) and the destructive residue created the moon.
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I love that there are now so many known Earthlike planets that @1 can be bored by it.
I don't know about you, but I sure love living in the future.
I don't know about you, but I sure love living in the future.
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We should launch a probe full of Robot Chicken archives, and see what they send back.
This planet has the smallest mass — a measurement of weight that doesn't include gravity — that has been found outside our solar system so far.Maybe not much Wow Factor, but at least a Golly Gee Factor.
We should launch a probe full of Robot Chicken archives, and see what they send back.
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I'm still torn on the Candy thing, I liked it when it happened but good lord did it give the right ammunition on the "biased" claims.
As for the right wingers saying she lied on the fact check, don't make me stab you.
The argument is that "She was wrong because the statement wasn't calling the current acts an act of terror. That wasn't the context of the statement Obama was making."
The irony of arguing context here is laughable. The context of the statement Candy made was that Romney was arguing semantics. He was pushing specifically about that one word, he wasn't talking about the context in which it was delivered.
So in the context of the debate, her statement was completely true...
Context is only important when it benefits your own claims apparently...YOU DIDN"T BUILD THAT!
As for the right wingers saying she lied on the fact check, don't make me stab you.
The argument is that "She was wrong because the statement wasn't calling the current acts an act of terror. That wasn't the context of the statement Obama was making."
The irony of arguing context here is laughable. The context of the statement Candy made was that Romney was arguing semantics. He was pushing specifically about that one word, he wasn't talking about the context in which it was delivered.
So in the context of the debate, her statement was completely true...
Context is only important when it benefits your own claims apparently...YOU DIDN"T BUILD THAT!
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At least there's an NHL offer on the table, and they're shooting for a full season to start Nov. 2. On the other hand, no offer for two weeks, and then Bettman makes a so-so offer with a one week deadline. Donald Fehr is just as big an asshole, and he's going to want to drag this out a bit. I'm hoping for Dec 1, but Gretzky said Jan 1.
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@3: It's a national story. It was also Megan's prerogative to choose whatever articles she deemed newsworthy.
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So.....
if Obama knew it was a terrorist attack the day after why was he going on about the video clip at the UN two weeks later?
ADD?
if Obama knew it was a terrorist attack the day after why was he going on about the video clip at the UN two weeks later?
ADD?
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Why America is f**ked!
Last night, America witnessed a gathering 80 of the dumbest humans in creation, a bunch of undecided voters (WTF???) who would put questions to Silly Willy Romney and President Obama, the two biggest jive-assed mofos in America.
Silly Willy Mitt Romney's jobs program: more "free trade" agreements, support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership and more imported foreign workers.
President Obama's jobs program: more "free trade" agreements, support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership and more imported foreign workers.
A brief review is in order due to further uncovered information over the past 3 years.
The constant refrain, up to the present, on "casino capitalism" and "casino bets" and other such nonsense was pure Wall Street propaganda, misinformation and disinformation to hide and obfuscate the reality: massive and total insider trading of rigged deals in rigged markets.
A short look at their "free market": the Abacus CDO, which hedge fund guy, John Paulson, made $3.4 billion (paid off due to TARP bailout funds via the taxpayer), consisted of Paulson and Goldman Sachs working together to design a doomed deal, the Abacus CDO, full of crappy sure-to-default mortgages, then Paulson and GS purchased CDSes (naked credit default swaps, or unregulated insurance fraud instruments) against the sure-to-default deal they created and knowingly peddled.
At $1.4 million per CDS, the return was $100 million per --- only the banksters could create such instruments to defraud the public and dramatically increase the national debt by robbing and destroying the national tax base and tax revenues!
Another example of designed-to-fail, pure insider trading: Magnatar Capital, a Chicago hedge fund with a 96% default rate on all their deals (same CDO/CDS scam) with the defaults triggering the CDS payouts.
These, and many other similar deals, had nothing to do with progress, innovation, productivity or creation, they simply enriched a select few (pathological lying super-crooks and psychopaths) while destroying much --- dramatically increasing the national debt --- these examples are how all those multi-billionaires came into being, and why the debt is so colossal today.
All those CDSes, much of it sold through AIG, is exactly why a $17 trillion bailout took place to pay them off ($16.1 trillion through the Federal Reserve during 2007-2009, with another $.9 trillion from Treasury).
And nobody went to jail and the same super-crook, Gary Gensler, who enabled recent multi-billion dollar thievery of Jon Corzine at MF Global, is still head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). (Corzine illegally stole segregated, or individual investment, accounts to pay off JPMorgan Chase's margin call for their collateral.)
There is no difference between the Romney platform and the Obama platform, just as there was substantially little difference between the Gore and Bush platforms, which was the reason that election was so close and could so easily be stolen.
Yes, there is a difference between the pathologically lying, psychopathic super-crook, Willard Mitt Romney and President Obama (who doesn't fall into those categories, but does represent pathologically lying, psychopathic super-crooks) -- but the end result will be the same, regardless of which one is elected.
Many of us real democrats and activists have been fighting the likes of Diana Farrell (McKinsey Global Institute, Jim Kolbe (from the Reagan administration), and Jeffrey Immelt and his mentors (GE) for many years --- and these were Obama appointees to his administration --- the top three jobs offshoring evangelists in North America.
Yet, there is still Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party......
More...
Last night, America witnessed a gathering 80 of the dumbest humans in creation, a bunch of undecided voters (WTF???) who would put questions to Silly Willy Romney and President Obama, the two biggest jive-assed mofos in America.
Silly Willy Mitt Romney's jobs program: more "free trade" agreements, support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership and more imported foreign workers.
President Obama's jobs program: more "free trade" agreements, support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership and more imported foreign workers.
A brief review is in order due to further uncovered information over the past 3 years.
The constant refrain, up to the present, on "casino capitalism" and "casino bets" and other such nonsense was pure Wall Street propaganda, misinformation and disinformation to hide and obfuscate the reality: massive and total insider trading of rigged deals in rigged markets.
A short look at their "free market": the Abacus CDO, which hedge fund guy, John Paulson, made $3.4 billion (paid off due to TARP bailout funds via the taxpayer), consisted of Paulson and Goldman Sachs working together to design a doomed deal, the Abacus CDO, full of crappy sure-to-default mortgages, then Paulson and GS purchased CDSes (naked credit default swaps, or unregulated insurance fraud instruments) against the sure-to-default deal they created and knowingly peddled.
At $1.4 million per CDS, the return was $100 million per --- only the banksters could create such instruments to defraud the public and dramatically increase the national debt by robbing and destroying the national tax base and tax revenues!
Another example of designed-to-fail, pure insider trading: Magnatar Capital, a Chicago hedge fund with a 96% default rate on all their deals (same CDO/CDS scam) with the defaults triggering the CDS payouts.
These, and many other similar deals, had nothing to do with progress, innovation, productivity or creation, they simply enriched a select few (pathological lying super-crooks and psychopaths) while destroying much --- dramatically increasing the national debt --- these examples are how all those multi-billionaires came into being, and why the debt is so colossal today.
All those CDSes, much of it sold through AIG, is exactly why a $17 trillion bailout took place to pay them off ($16.1 trillion through the Federal Reserve during 2007-2009, with another $.9 trillion from Treasury).
And nobody went to jail and the same super-crook, Gary Gensler, who enabled recent multi-billion dollar thievery of Jon Corzine at MF Global, is still head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). (Corzine illegally stole segregated, or individual investment, accounts to pay off JPMorgan Chase's margin call for their collateral.)
There is no difference between the Romney platform and the Obama platform, just as there was substantially little difference between the Gore and Bush platforms, which was the reason that election was so close and could so easily be stolen.
Yes, there is a difference between the pathologically lying, psychopathic super-crook, Willard Mitt Romney and President Obama (who doesn't fall into those categories, but does represent pathologically lying, psychopathic super-crooks) -- but the end result will be the same, regardless of which one is elected.
Many of us real democrats and activists have been fighting the likes of Diana Farrell (McKinsey Global Institute, Jim Kolbe (from the Reagan administration), and Jeffrey Immelt and his mentors (GE) for many years --- and these were Obama appointees to his administration --- the top three jobs offshoring evangelists in North America.
Yet, there is still Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party......
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Those who want to follow a game with NHLers in action can listen into CITR 101.9 FM (of course there is streaming at www.citr.ca) when Bieksa and his buddies, including Daniel and Henrik Sedin, Dan Hamhuis, Manny Malhotra, Max Lapierre, Cory Schneider, and Willie Mitchell play against the UBC Thunderbirds in a charity event tonight at 7:30 pm. Hockey is hockey, and those who think a greedy NHL Commissioner with three lockouts under his watch dictates what hockey is, while other leagues play their scheduled games are deluded.
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Sgt doom, you forgot to mention that Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala were arrested before the debate and held until after it. It is interesting to listen to the debate on Democracy Now and hear the rest of the candidates speak.
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@15, The Stranger or most of the Sloggers don't listen to Democracy Now...it's not main stream media enough for the newspaper's publisher.
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Thank you for mentioning that biffp @15.
Here is Democracy Now!'s second expanded presidential debate featuring Jill Stein of the Green Party, Rocky Anderson of the Justice Party, and Virgil Goode of the Constitution Party.
This is part of Democracy Now!'s Expanding the Debate series.
Also watch the segment on Jill Stein's arrest and eight hour detainment yesterday for attempting to enter the venue of last night's debate.
Here is Democracy Now!'s second expanded presidential debate featuring Jill Stein of the Green Party, Rocky Anderson of the Justice Party, and Virgil Goode of the Constitution Party.
This is part of Democracy Now!'s Expanding the Debate series.
Also watch the segment on Jill Stein's arrest and eight hour detainment yesterday for attempting to enter the venue of last night's debate.
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You should watch the expanded debate, even if only to get a few belly laugh's from Virgil Goode's (rhymes with "lude") earnest xenophobia and advocacy of assault weapons (for hunting, of course). And his accent -- not that there's anything wrong with that.
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