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Monday, November 16, 2009

News The Morning News: Meteor Showers, Shootings in Baghdad, and Missing Five-Year-Old Girls

Posted by Megan Seling on Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:02 AM

Good morning! Here's some news.

The First Payment Is 1.2 Billion, Due Next Month: GM starts to repay America and Canada.

The Sky Is Falling!: Early Tomorrow morning, Asia and some parts of North America will get a nice view of the Leonid meteor shower.

3...2...1...Clouds: Atlantis is ready for take off, but the weather might not be.

Sorry: Australian leader apologizes for child migrate programs, which gathered up children "from single mothers and impoverished families in Britain, then sent abroad for a better start in life."

Party!: They're going to dig up a couple crates of whiskey that have been buried under ice for 100 years.

I Can't Wait for the Made for TV Movie: Thanks to global warming, giant jellyfish are swarming in the waters off the coasts of Japan.

Overdue: An anonymous person has returned library books that were checked out 51 years ago, along with $1,000 to cover late fees.

Guantanamo Bay, Illinois: Today officials are going to inspect the Illinois prison that could be used to house Guantanamo Bay detainees.

Oh, Awesome!: Did you get a tax credit on your taxes last year? Well you might have to pay some of that back next year.

Bad News From Baghdad: 13 people were abducted and killed in Baghdad, some believe it was revenge against Sunnis.

And the Girl Is Still Missing: The mother of a missing five-year-old girl is facing charges of human trafficking, felony child abuse involving prostitution, and filing a false police report.

RIP: Dr. Robert Willkens, a doctor and civic leader, has died due to complications of the H1N1 virus. He was 82 years old.

Shoplifterrrr!: A woman from Ohio is under investigation after allegedly stealing 10 doses of the H1N1 vaccine from a Thurston County hospice center.

Duh: Mountlake Terrace officials won't allow a medical marijuana shop.

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Megan, you have bolded me into submission.

Posted by gloomy gus on November 16, 2009 at 8:07 AM

Yeah right, Friends Forever, or at least until Screech video tapes himself with a dirty sanchez...

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on November 16, 2009 at 8:08 AM

@1 Yeah, that was a lot of bold. I fixed. I fixed!

Posted by Megan Seling on November 16, 2009 at 8:14 AM

that's not whiskey, that's Shackleton's whiskey

Posted by I'd like to drink some of that on November 16, 2009 at 8:29 AM

Is that the "Shoplifterrrr!" cry from Home Alone?

I hope so!

Posted by Stripes on November 16, 2009 at 8:32 AM

The Stranger donated extensive in-kind resources to candidates and causes it supported in the election earlier this month-

>"Approve R-71" signs on newspaper boxes
>"Approve R-71" running at the top of the print edition for weeks
>"Approve R-71" banners running on the website for weeks (a website with Zillions of unique visitors a month, most in Washington state)
>Banners and advertisements for candidates for office running on the website for weeks.
>News "reporters" doing exhaustive extensive infomercial advertising masquerading as journalism to promote candidates and causes endorsed by The Stranger.

Did the Stranger report the value of these extensive in-kind contributions to Washington State Public Disclosure Commission (PDC) as required by law ?
What was the value of the donated services, time and expertise?

Can Dominic look into this?

Posted by Building Confidence in the Political Process on November 16, 2009 at 8:35 AM

No mention of the bicyclist who ran over a toddler at 1st and Pike and then tried to get back on his bike and ride away?

I'm sure if it was an automobile hit-and-run you'd be launching a 3-part investigation.

Posted by Justin on November 16, 2009 at 9:01 AM

@7:
OOh yah! The Stranger is sooooooo bicycle friendly that they refuse to investigate crimes committed whist one is bicycling. Let free bicycle anarchy reign!

Give me a fawkin' break!

Posted by Keekee on November 16, 2009 at 9:57 AM

So why is there no mention of the big news story about the cyclist who plowed a child over in front of Pike Place Market, and then tried escaping only to be tackled by witnesses down the block?

Hmmm?

Is the Stranger fair and balanced enough to cover a story about a cyclist that is going to face multiple assault and battery chargers for causing a child's mouth to be wired shut to fix the damage?

Story please!

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Boy-Inju…

Posted by Reality Check

on November 16, 2009 at 9:58 AM

I heard there was a bike/pedestrian incident?
Anybody else hear anything??

Posted by HOMRAI on November 16, 2009 at 10:23 AM

@6 - I think those were what people in the business call "trailer ads for editorial endorsements".

Lesson One: don't pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel or who knit tubes for the Internets when they're not shooting pr0n movies for Hump.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on November 16, 2009 at 11:26 AM

The Space Shuttle just launched successfully...

Posted by Peter F on November 16, 2009 at 11:33 AM

The five-year-old girl was found dead :(

Posted by Aislinn on November 16, 2009 at 11:49 AM

If the liberals, and the althip media had any sense, this story on GM would be repeated TEN THOUSAND TIMES all over cable and the internet, and by Obama, to show that GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS WORK esp. this massive thing called Keynesian intervention in the eocnomy to prevent a great depression. We'd see countless vigils praising Obama and the democrats for the 25,000,000 jobs that we saved. We'd all trakc the repayments from GM and others (really, manyof the "bailout" funds will be repaid...IOW the "bailout" term itself is a lie)....we'd have "Franklin Roosevelt No-Frear-Itself Parties" instead of just tea parties with liberals and leftists celebrating how great government is and how well it works. We'd all be hearing about Germany and how a real jobs programs works.

Oh wait, we're in America where even liberals like the STranger go to Alaska and wwrite things like "well yes gummint really sucks you know but it's not as bad as corporate power" and toher totally right wing influenced mythlies.

All while mocking Sarah Palin! the level of self delusion and self nonawareness is amazing and breathtaking and in the end

sad.

Because Obama nd the liberals and the alt hip media don't teach America this stuff, THAT"S why we have only have a recovery an d that is why we only did half the stimulus we needed and that is why the GOP just won in NJ and VA and that's why we're all sitting here kind of dispirted about Obama and hope and change and unity.

Thank you. I shall go back to my cave to pop out from time to time. The truth is 95% of all liberals in this nation are trolls for the GOP because they/we fail to trumpet these things and instead we write garbage like "oh yeah the feds govt. really sucks up here in Alaska, that's sure true" and other hallucinatory regurgitations of rightspeak.

More...

Posted by pee cee on November 16, 2009 at 11:54 AM

@6: I think the paperbox inserts might qualify as ads, but most of the rest falls under free speech and a newspaper's right to make editorial endorsements and to promote them. Why don't you file a complaint with the PDC and find out?

Posted by J.R. on November 16, 2009 at 12:23 PM

@13 - yeah. bummer. although the CNN lede "girl's body found" was kind of uninformative ...

Posted by Will in Seattle

on November 16, 2009 at 12:46 PM

@5,
It think it's supposed to be the voice-cracking yell from Mark in Empire Records.

"Attention Rex Manning fans, to your left you will notice a shoplifter being chased by night manager, Lucas. This young man will be caught, deep fried in a vat of hot oil and served to our first hundred customers. Just another tasty treat from the gang at Empire Records."

Posted by Normal Adjacent on November 16, 2009 at 12:53 PM

@9 tl;dr

clicked on the link in the story, the parent clearly admits fault:

"You tell your kids to look both ways before crossing the street, and be aware [of cars], but I've never mentioned watch out for a bicycle."

that seems pretty darn neglectful to me.

Posted by Josh Bomb

on November 16, 2009 at 1:26 PM

15
The "Approve R-71" signs on newspaper boxes; "Approve R-71" running at the top of the print edition for weeks; "Approve R-71" banners running on the website for weeks and Banners and advertisements for candidates for office running on the website for weeks are all advertising with easily determined value.
The News "reporters" doing exhaustive extensive infomercial advertising masquerading as journalism to promote candidates and causes endorsed by The Stranger is just business as usual.

Posted by I Have on November 16, 2009 at 3:14 PM