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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

News Morning News: Yesterday Sucked

Posted by Anna Minard on Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:58 AM

Walker Wins: "Republican leaders throughout Wisconsin and the US released statements late Tuesday heralding the recall victory." Paul Constant tells us not to cry: "Anyone claiming to read some obscure truth out of the tea leaves of tonight's recall election is simply shoveling shit on a desperate deadline."

Women Lose: The Paycheck Fairness Act goes down in a shitty procedural vote. Wonkette tells us not to cry: "If the wage gap did exist—which it doesn’t, so don’t worry about it!—it might be from the stupid choices that women make. Or if it did, it would be OK, because it is already shrinking." Ha ha!

RIP, Ray Bradbury: The Fahrenheit 451 author has died. He was 91. See a lovely set of photographs of Bradbury here.

A Bloody Day in Afghanistan: More than 30 civilians were killed today in two suicide bombings and "a Nato air attack on a village home [that] killed up to 18 civilians who had gathered to celebrate a wedding."

Hosni Mubarak: Not feeling well. "Officials at Torah prison south of Cairo [say] Mubarak, 84, was suffering from shock and high blood pressure as well as breathing problems... days after he was sentenced to life in prison for failing to stop the killing of protesters in the uprising that unseated him last year."

UW Students: Trying to watchdog the university themselves while budget cuts slash classes and hike tuition.

Child Pierced by Syringe: In Aberdeen hotel bed. "The syringe, which was caked with dried blood, pierced through the mattress cover and poked Emily Smith's right heel as she crawled into her bunk bed at Guest House Inn and Suites."

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Anyone who can't read the profound truth out of the tea leaves of last night's recall election is simply blowing Paul Constant out their ass.....

Posted by Paul is so fuill of shit on June 6, 2012 at 9:23 AM

Since when do hotels have bunk beds?

Posted by boogens on June 6, 2012 at 9:51 AM

Ugh! That story is horrendous.

Posted by Keekee on June 6, 2012 at 10:06 AM

RE: Bloody syringe

The family stayed at the hotel another night... The manager added the hotel offered to move the family to another room and conduct a security sweep of the first room, but the family declined.

WTF? Who are these idiots? It's like the family in Poltergeist who, after finally rescuing their kid from the devil, decide to hang out in their haunted house for a couple more days.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on June 6, 2012 at 10:34 AM

@2: When they have "kid suites". Holiday Inn Express has these.

As for Hosni Mubarak... Ain't it funny how convicted war criminals seem to get so sick right around the time they are tried and convicted? Milosevic went the same way, didn't he? Must be some kind of Dictator's Disease that goes around. Or else it is just withdrawal from being denied the continued flow of blood from your sacrificed subjects.

Posted by K on June 6, 2012 at 2:19 PM