Obama Pledges Millions More to Fight AIDS: He’s asking for $15 million to fight AIDS domestically and $35 million abroad. He even gives a hat tip to his predecessor for making serious progress on ending AIDS—weird how infectious diseases like that can just end.

81-Year-Old Wins Pacific Mayoral Contest by Write-In: Cy Sun, an 81-year-old, won the Pacific, WA mayoral contest by knocking on every door in town three times, ousting incumbent Rachel Hildreth by 70 votes. His opponent complained of “dirty campaigning.”

Roommate Allegedly Kills Fiancée in North Seattle: When a 51-year-old man returned home to the 13500 block of Linden Avenue early Saturday, he allegedly attacked his roommate and his roommate’s fiancée with a knife, killing her. Apparently, he was mad that he had to move out and make room for the couple.

Occupy Seattle Crackdown: 16 protesters were arrested early Saturday morning while occupying a building set for demolition. Additional reporting from Capitol Hill Seattle here. (Hat tip Hannah Hoose.)

Portland Police Use Social Media to Stop Occupy Portland Rally: 19 protesters were arrested in Portland yesterday, as they prepared to take another settlement. The mayor ordered the park to close early, and police were tipped off on the action by checking the Occupy franchise’s social media footprint.

US Violates Iranian Airspace; Iran Shoots Down Drone: An unmanned aerial vehicle was flying over the eastern border of Iran, violating Iranian airspace, and was shot down. The drone suffered minor injuries and now—joy of joys—is in the possession of the Iranian armed forces.

Really Cute Foster Dogs, Pig, Horses, Recovering Well: After being seized from their Olympia-area home two months ago. Most of them have almost doubled their body weight, and are waiting to be adopted until after their owner’s animal abuse trial.

That’s One Way to Win an Endorsement: When your opponent, Attorney General Rob McKenna, doesn’t show up to the Washington Education Association endorsement meeting. Go Inslee (by default)!

As an apology for the late morning news, here is an aptly-titled Youtube clip “Mission Impossible Squirrel.” ‘Cause I totally wouldn’t have put up a cute squirrel clip if I’d gotten up in time.

11 replies on “Sunday Morning News”

  1. To be fair to the roommate, why should he have to leave? They’re the ones starting a new life, they can get themselves a new place to stay.

  2. @1: Even if the surviving victim bought the condo back in 2009? What would be fair to the roommate would be giving him until the end of the month to find a new place to live. But now the roommate doesn’t have to worry about that or rent.

  4. Here’s what I consider good news in the war on chicanery:

    SEC Is Investigating Marlins Stadium Deal

    The U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission has opened an investigation into the public financing deal behind the Miami Marlins’ new ballpark.

    SEC officials delivered letters to the city of Miami and Miami-Dade County Thursday, requesting financial records, meeting minutes and communications with the team and officials from Major League Baseball, according to a person familiar with the matter. Miami and county officials have until Jan. 6 to deliver the documents.

    The federal regulators will examine nearly $500 million in bonds sold to fund the ballpark and the financial deal struck for stadium parking garages, according to the county and to a statement from the team.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424…

    Occupants,

    Want to support something positive?

    Support the SEC.

    Support Bill Gates Original Recipe’s estate tax reform.

    Support the real change.

    Not sales taxes on the poor classes.

  5. Well, at least now we know for sure what McKenna thinks about teachers. He’s tried to play the stealth candidate on so many things, disguising his true intent and thoughts. This action speaks loud and clear – he’ll be pulling a Scott Walker/John Kasich if he gets elected. Not that I’m surprised, but this was really a dumb move on his part if he wanted to at least give the impression he gave a shit about education. Instead he gave the teachers the finger and unzipped his pants for the big business groups to give him a blow job as they all salivate over the money they’ll make when he privatizes education. The good thing is that he just pissed off several teachers I know who are Republicans and probably would have voted for him, but now will not. They’re pretty vocal too…

  6. Fortunately, many teachers know who Uriah Heep is, and they’re unlikely to vote for him, regardless of their political persuasion.

    …[Uriah Heep] is one of Dickens’ most memorable characters. The extended metaphor of his “fishiness” and coldness works well and creates a character that might cause some readers to feel a few chills up the spine.

  7. @5, a Publicola commenter Trevor noted that by scheduling an endorsement announcement to immediately follow the candidate forum, WEA signaled to McKenna that they had no interest in anything he might say at the forum, that his attendance would merely help them highlight their support for Inslee. McKenna is a dick, but what candidate in his right mind would show up just for that? I hope the rank and file are confident with the strategy of guaranteeing that if that asshole wins office he will fuck them over that much harder.

  9. @7 They always schedule an endorsement announcement afterwards. That’s the purpose of the delegate meeting – to hear from all the candidates, vote on who to support, then make an announcement. There was nothing different about this one – McKenna chickened out and then started the spin.

  11. @10, WEA may endorse Inslee but that doesn’t mean that all teachers would have favored Inslee. This might turn them, but then McKenna knows he’s got it sewed up, with even Dems blaming the current Dem Governor for everything. He doesn’t need teachers.

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