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Thursday, August 2, 2012

News The Thursday Morning News

Posted by Goldy on Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:48 AM

A Good Month for Jay Inslee: Or so says Politico, contrasting some positive polls and good ads for Inslee against a July "littered with unforced errors for McKenna." I dunno. I think we helped force a few.

An Okay Week for Employment: Weekly jobless claims didn't climb as much as analysts expected. Which in this economy I guess qualifies as good news.

A Good Day for Women: The gradual phase-in of the Affordable Care Act continues. As of today, women on individual insurance plans will no longer pay deductibles, co-payments or coinsurance for preventive services like, you know, birth control. Damn you, Barack Hussein Obama, and your dastardly Kenyan Socialism!

A Bad Day for Raccoons: Waste Management and Teamsters Local 117 have reached a tentative deal to end an eight day strike that left tasty garbage piling up on city streets.

A Nervous Day for Goldy: Three US Airways jets came within seconds of a mid-air collision after air traffic controllers mistakenly cleared two outbound flights into the path of a landing plane. Guess which airline I'm flying tomorrow?

A Good Olympics for US Women Rowers: The US women's eight rowing team, including UW's Mary Whipple, won its second straight Olympic gold, narrowly beating Canada. Our free market health care system no doubt made the difference.

A Bad Man Stumps for Dave Reichert: Karl Rove will be in town, raising for money for Washington's favorite "conscience-driven independent."

A Bad Sign for American Intellectualism: Arnold Schwarzenegger is starting a "think tank."

A Sunny Weekend for Seafair: Upper-70's to mid-80's, mostly sunny. Not that we can really trust weather forecasts around here that far in advance.

A Really, Really, Unbelievable Police Story: Arkansas police claim a teen suspected of possessing a small amount of marijuana shot himself in the head while sitting in the back of a squad car, his hands cuffed behind his back. He was shot in the right temple. He's left handed. Really.

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Arkansas cops: too dumb to lie well.

Posted by STJA on August 2, 2012 at 7:52 AM

Yeah, but they were forced pretty much because McKenna was a jerk about everything in the first place.

Posted by seatackled on August 2, 2012 at 7:52 AM

And in less egregious police brutality, also on Raw Story, St. Louis cops tased a 12-year-old girl.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/02/12…

Posted by seatackled on August 2, 2012 at 7:56 AM

Lovely New York story - the Second Avenue subway being built: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/magazi…

Posted by gloomy gus on August 2, 2012 at 8:01 AM

The problem was the DC air traffic controllers, not the airline. So you should be fine.

Posted by raggeddog on August 2, 2012 at 8:21 AM

"How big will the cannon be on my think tank?"

Posted by Cracker Jack on August 2, 2012 at 8:25 AM

Thanks for the spoiler...

Posted by sf gal on August 2, 2012 at 8:26 AM

Still nothing on Pussy Riot?

Posted by Pope Peabrain on August 2, 2012 at 9:01 AM

@1: I suggest we wait until the investigation is completed, including by outside parties, before rushing to judgement.

In the meantime, if you get mugged, injured, in a car crash, or whatever and need the assistance of a constable, I trust he'll be right there tending to your crisis and that you will be very, very, appreciative.

Posted by Gay Dude for Romney

on August 2, 2012 at 9:05 AM

@9 - They don't come out for minor crimes like that anymore...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/18…

Posted by subwlf on August 2, 2012 at 9:10 AM

@9 - not if I get shot in the head you weird bell-end.

Posted by Camembert on August 2, 2012 at 9:10 AM

Speaking of raccoons, saw an entire family of them deftly cross Market St. near Phinney last night around 8. They did appear quite well-fed.

Posted by deign_to_say on August 2, 2012 at 9:13 AM

@9: Well, then I especially hope a cop and EMTs are jolly on the spot for you then. You know that sometimes a bullet can go right through the head and come out the other side without causing brain injury.

Posted by Gay Dude for Romney

on August 2, 2012 at 9:40 AM

Darn, I meant to refer to @11 in @13.

Posted by Gay Dude for Romney

on August 2, 2012 at 9:41 AM

@13: fixed it for you: "well, i especially hope a cop & EMTs are jolly WELL JOHNNY on the spot for you."

Posted by Max Solomon on August 2, 2012 at 9:50 AM

@13
"Well, then I especially hope a cop and EMTs are jolly on the spot for you then."

Of course you do.
Although you do have a history of defending racists.
Perhaps you might, one day, learn that objecting to the behavior of a bad cop does not mean that you object to good cops.
And, maybe, on that day you will also learn that a cop is not and EMT and that an EMT is not a cop.

Posted by fairly.unbalanced on August 2, 2012 at 10:19 AM

Arkansas cops are the ones that weren't cruel enough to be hired in the Texas panhandle county that has half the death row executions for the entire US.

Just sayin.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on August 2, 2012 at 11:17 AM

@15: Thank you! So noted.

@16: I wish you would read my comments before responding. Note I used the word 'and', which is a very handy word to use! It implies more than one thing, it does not imply equality.

Posted by Gay Dude for Romney

on August 2, 2012 at 12:03 PM

About the McKenna slump -- it's the dreaded curse of the Blethen Blowtrumpet: It's been all downhill for McKenna since he got the Seattle Times endorsement.

Posted by ragged on August 2, 2012 at 2:06 PM

@6: Beat me to the punch!
@13: nope.avi
A bullet can go through the head without causing fatal brain injury, sometimes even without causing serious brain injury, but there is always some amount of damage to the brain just from the pressure wave caused by the bullet's passing.

Posted by venomlash on August 2, 2012 at 5:14 PM

@18
"I wish you would read my comments before responding."

Read them? I quote them for you.

You have a history of defending racists.
Perhaps you might, one day, learn that objecting to the behavior of a bad cop does not mean that you object to good cops.
And, maybe, on that day you will also learn that a cop is not an EMT and that an EMT is not a cop.

Posted by fairly.unbalanced on August 2, 2012 at 7:23 PM