Today (Yesterday) in YAY: Marriage equality in New York!
Today in Mixed Messages: The House voted down Obama’s proposal to send US forces into Libya, but preserved funding for intervention in Libya.
Blame the Chunnel! The BBC has traced an E. Coli outbreak in France to a British seed company.
“It’s Time to Take Away Obama’s BLANK CHECK!” Karl Rove and his conservative BFFs at Crossroads GPS will spend a shit ton of money $20 million in attack ads against Obama, apparently because he has caused the apocalypse.
Baby Animal Report: The Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma has 11-day-old clouded leopard cubs, and the Woodland Park Zoo has some owlets.*
*This is a real word.
Today in Reasons To Be British: The Guardian has a horrifying piece on US states where fetal homicide laws are effectively being used to criminalize pregnant women.
In Nevada: Four people were killed and 70 were injured when their Amtrak train collided with a truck.
In Minot, North Dakota Between 3,000 and 4,000 homes have been flooded by the Souris River, which yesterday broke its all-time height record of 1,550 feet.
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Mitt Romney? Tea Party Republicans aren’t sure what to do about Mitt Romney, because he is such a free-thinking liberal.
And now, here are some stereotypes about America. Good morning!
Minot Indiana? As opposed to, say Minot, North Dakota? Which is also under a flood watch?
The Freeper reactions to marriage equality in New York are delicious.
Go cereal makers! love the hands 🙂
The Gaurdian piece on the injustices being done to women by the anti-choice cabal is a nust read.
The right wing in this country really is evil.
@4, Republican Bloomberg spent $100 million of his own money on his last reelection as NYC mayor.
This morning I spotted this Politico profile of former WA governor Gary Locke doing a “thank you tour” as Secretary of Commerce before becoming the first Chinese-American ambassador to China:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/061…
Reminded me of Dan’s classic “old style Stranger” piece on Locke from 2000. Kids, if you came here too late to see Dan in the full flower of his long-form writing on local matters (or if you’re wondering who the first governor was to decide to leave handling Eyman too the legislature), don’t miss this perfect example of what made this paper great:
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/hes-n…
Jay Inslee’s legislative district is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%…
Think before you write, or at least add “above sea level” to the description of the “height” of a river. It would have saved me the pre-coffee confusion of wondering how in hell a river could be over 1550 feet high. . .
The great thing about the situation in ND is that they’re all god-fearing Republicans, and bounce back much quicker w/o the government helping.
Stereotypes are real time savers.
We need our own Crossroads GPS for Dems, we got pleny of rich Dems, get it done.
Raindrop, your concern trolling is so lame. I would think you’d be more concerned about how much money the insurance industry will have to pay out since you care more about private money than you do people.
I hope that the lgbts who are suffering aren’t hypocrites about governmental help and have good insurance that covers flood damage.