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Thursday, September 24, 2009

News The Morning News

Posted by Grant Brissey on Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 7:19 AM

AIDS Looking Weaker: New vaccine trial could reduce infection risk by one third.

Have You Lost Your Job Lately?: Unemployment numbers down for third week in a row.

Slow the Cold War: Nations to discuss not proliferating nuclear weapons.

They Keep Breaking: Microsoft is offering a $50 rebate on the purchase of an Xbox 360 Elite console until October 5.

Don't Go South, Young Man: Southern climate proves hospitable to H1N1.

How Fast Is Your Connection?: The internet turns 30, according to some.

Mutiny: Mount Vernon city council disses Glenn Beck and mayor.

Community Serviced: Ex Seattle rotary manager charged with $350,000 in theft.

Chrome Plating: Is Google really announcing its OS on Twitter?

Let's Build a Swimming Pool: Water presence confirmed on the moon.

Don't Get High On the Local Supply: Russia presses U.S. to destroy Afghan poppy crop.

Watch It Burn: Drought-like conditions encourage California wildfires.

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"N1H1?" Dyslexic much?

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on September 24, 2009 at 7:45 AM

You'd think somebody assigned to the ABC medical news unit would know enough to stop referring to H1N1 as "swine flu".... God I hate mainstream media...

Posted by hartiepie on September 24, 2009 at 7:55 AM

Having gotten so used to new drugs coming out with wacky names, it seems a heroic service to language that Genentech calls its AIDS vaccine (one of the two that combined to mysteriously work in Thailand)...Aidsvax.

Posted by gloomy gus on September 24, 2009 at 8:12 AM

Wrong. Unemployment numbers are stil increasing. The number of new unemployment claims is falling meaning the rate of increase in unemployment is falling. But unemployment is still increasing.

Slowdown in increase is not reduction. It's slower increase.

The big ship is starting to turn but hasn't turned yet.

Posted by PC on September 24, 2009 at 8:25 AM

@4: I'm failing to see why that can't mean "down."

Posted by Grant Brissey

on September 24, 2009 at 8:37 AM

5
that's why you 'work' at slog,
my good man...

Posted by ged on September 24, 2009 at 9:03 AM

oh boy.
an AIDS vaccine!
teh Gays can throw their leaky Chinese condoms away!
reopen the bathhouses!
Let the Good Times Roll!!

then give it a year.

maybe two-

before the next Gay Plague hits.

this one will be a flesh-eating bacteria.
gnaws your pecker off.
(not in a gay way...)

Posted by Ouji on September 24, 2009 at 9:07 AM

That Florida cracker is HOT.

Posted by meowmeowkitty on September 24, 2009 at 9:17 AM

#6, "unemployment" can mean "unemployment claims".

Perhaps that is why you 'contribute' anonymously.

Posted by w7ngman

on September 24, 2009 at 9:24 AM

A friend of mine who was born and raised in Tennessee has a tattoo of the shape of the state on his neck. When people ask him what it is, he says its a "birthmark". Yuk yuk.

Posted by john t on September 24, 2009 at 9:24 AM

9
"RFLMAO" can also mean "Wow, what a dumb fuck you are..."

Posted by careful, if you feed the trolls you may lose a finger on September 24, 2009 at 9:30 AM

Moon water!

Posted by Peter F on September 24, 2009 at 10:21 AM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I destroy all the puppies in Afghanistan, they're gonna lock me up and throw away the key...

Not PUPPIES, you great fool! POPPIES! The opium seed flowers!

We can do that; we don't even need to have a reason. All right, let's do the same thing, but with poppies.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on September 24, 2009 at 10:45 AM