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News & ArtsSaturday, May 5, 2012
News Morning News: Big-Ass Moons, Local Predators, and One Useful Application of Twitter
Posted by Cienna Madrid on Sat, May 5, 2012 at 7:06 AM
Washington Students Punched in the Pocketbook: As state universities vote on double-digit tuition increases for the second consecutive year.
Local Women Escapes Predator: "A 22-year-old woman seized her chance on Monday to escape from a violent pimp who was convicted in March of beating her with a belt and a bamboo stick as punishment for trying to run away from him, according to King County prosecutors," writes the Seattle Times.
Local Women Escapes Predator, Pt 2: After a lynx bit its Bellevue owner’s girlfriend on the arm Friday.
Knowledge Causes Shortsightedness: Many students in Asian cities are experiencing visual impairment from studying too hard indoors, some study says.
Prepare to Be Moonstruck: Tonight's super moon will appear 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter than it normally does in the sky.
"I, Unibomber Ted Kaczynski, Still Believe in Global Warming... Do You?" Climate denier group Heartland Institute pulls billboards depicting mass murderers endorsing global warming (as a reverse-peer-pressure stunt?) 24 hours after the ads went up. The billboards were meant to support the group's upcoming Climate Denial Conference, which sounds like a total hoot.
Twenty-Three Corpses: Fourteen headless bodies were found stuffed in a car and another nine bodies were discovered hanging from a bridge in Nuevo Laredo, a small town right across the river from Texas and some say the epicenter for the Mexican drug war.
Seattle Needs One of These: Cabbie becomes Chicago's most popular by arranging rides through Twitter in lieu of making people call a stupid taxi service and then wait and wait and wait.
9/11 Attackers Arraigned Today on Terrorism Charges: Families of victims prepare to watch the hearing via closed-circuit television; However, a trial is still probably more than a year away.
And finally, make some noise:
(Or if "women" is appropriate because of the serial nature of the itemized listings, then perhaps what is needed is greater concordance between subjects and their verbs.)
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Washington State is the new Apartheid South Africa
1) A veneer of white liberalism in the urban core (Seattle/Johannesburg) exists however, it struggles to maintain power only for its inner circle.
2) A vast stretch of non-whites live in shanty towns ( South King County/Soweto) and are kept in line by police forces.
3) An earlier farming class owns most of the hinterland (Inland Washington/Boers).
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