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Saturday, October 17, 2009

News The Morning News

Posted by Unpaid Intern on Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 8:29 AM

Post by news intern Garrett McCulloch

What The Hell Were They Thinking? Seattle Times endorses Republican Susan Hutchison. Apparently, she has "fresh ideas." Oh, and she isn't afraid to try to screw over the unions mid-contract.

Stimulating Debt: Federal budget deficit is at its highest level since 1945, which makes spending federal money to stimulate the economy...difficult.

If It's Not A Hoax, He's A Terrible Parent: Turns Out Balloon Boy's dad called for a TV news helicopter before he called the police.

Seattle Schools, Striving To Be The Best: Students still have to earn a C average to graduate, after the school board decided D averages weren't stellar enough.

Debates: Those who would be mayor last night on the Seattle Channel, county executive candidates tonight at 9 p.m. on KOMO/4

Obama's Plate: Too full to accomplish global warming legislation too?

Will We Do This 20 Years After An Earthquake Destroys The Viaduct? San Franciscans mark 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta Earthquake, which damaged and led to the dismantling of their two-story elevated freeway, with parties.

Here, Just Take Our Money: Banks are back to making money again. Too bad it's because we gave it to them.

Booze, The Perfect Gift For This Economy: And available at malls this holiday season.

The Solar System's Wrapped In...ATOMS! Astronomers have discovered a 9 billion-mile "ribbon" of...something on its outskirts.

Let's Just Not Buy Books From Either One: Wal-Mart and Amazon.com escalating their price war.

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Fix the last lede, please.

Posted by oxyala trio

on October 17, 2009 at 8:58 AM

@1 I agree. "Buy"

Posted by B Strand

on October 17, 2009 at 10:20 AM

Side note on the "atoms" story...it's a link to the Huffington Post.

I'm sure a lot of people like the Huffington Post -- but it seems to be turning into an all devouring monster that has a blog post about each and every topic.

What I like to do is go to the Google Blog search page, and, just like with new, surf through the categories, but look at individual blogs. These days, it seems like every third post is the Huffington Post. It's a blog that is spreading like The Blob!

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on October 17, 2009 at 10:30 AM

"The Obama administration said Friday that the federal budget deficit for the fiscal year that just ended was $1.4 trillion, nearly A TRILLION DOLLARS GREATER THAN THE YEAR BEFORE and the largest shortfall relative to the size of the economy since 1945."

Admit it, you miss W...

Posted by we tried to tell you on October 17, 2009 at 11:02 AM

#4: You know who I wouldn't miss? People like you. Go lie in front of a bus.

Posted by Jizz-a-belle on October 17, 2009 at 12:09 PM

The 1989 quake didn't damage and lead to the dismantling of the Nimitz Expressway---it flattened it, along with everyone unfortunate enough to be driving on the lower level.

Posted by Toe Tag on October 17, 2009 at 7:15 PM