In Case You Missed It: The Des Moines Register endorsed Mitt Romney.

Planned Parenthood to Close Three Locations: Health centers in Oak Harbor, Silverdale, and Forks will close at the end of the year. The closures are mainly due to the the loss of state financial support.

Someone Who Isn’t McGinn for 2013: Former Seattle City Councilmember Peter Steinbrueck says he might run for mayor. It’s two years away, but “The right time for an announcement, he suggested, might be in about six months.”

Last Convoy of American Troops Leaves Iraq: The last solider was quoted as saying “That’s it, the war is over.” ThinkProgress has photos.

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Almost Too Gruesome to Write About: Police questioned a man this morning in the death of a woman who was burned alive in an elevator in Brooklyn.

In Kazakhstan: Protests that began with an oil worker’s strike have spread across western Kazakhstan. So far 11 people have died and many more have been injured. The president called for a state of emergency in the western region.

An Eye for 550 Eyes? Israel will release 550 Palestinian prisoners in the second phase of the deal to release Israeli solder Gilad Shalit, who has been held by Hamas since 2005.

Václav Havel Dies at 75: The playwright helped lead the velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia and served as the first post-communist president. His motto: “Truth and love must prevail over lies and hate.”

To continue the Tom Waits weekend, here is one of my favorite song titles (and songs):

11 replies on “Sunday Morning News”

  1. Fucking New York elevators. Earlier in the week a poor woman got killed when a door closed on her leg and then the elevator dropped a couple of floors. 🙁

  2. I hope our troops returning home from Iraq and all our troops around the world, have happy holidays. I’m grateful we’ve turned a corner and ended that terrible and costly war.

  3. Fortunately, we will be much less dependent on oil from/transported through Kazakhstan that we spent so much defense money in large part to strategically protect, what with the widespread popularity of “fracking” for U.S. natural-gas extraction, the resumption of Gulf oil exploration with little obnoxious additional regulation, the imminent approval of the Keystone XL pipeline for yummy tar-sands crude, and the major Brazilian offshore oil discoveries (they won’t need it; everything there runs on sugar-cane-derived ethanol).

    /bitter bitter sarcasm

  5. And CNN is reporting that Iraq’s government is already “coming apart at the seams.” That didn’t take long. Civil war in 5-4-3-2-1.

  7. We aren’t talking about how Obama was putting pressure on the Iraqi government to allow our troops to stay longer instead of replacing them with private contractors right? Just want to make sure my talking points are ready for 2012.

  8. Romney the Schumpeterian:

    That free-market system often calls for “creative destruction,” he said, or the collapse of one industry in the name of progress that enriches the entire society.

    “My business was not buying things, taking them apart, closing them down. My business was associated with trying to make enterprises more successful. Not always was I able to succeed, but in each case, we tried to grow an enterprise, and in doing so, hopefully provide a better future for those that are associated with that enterprise,” he said.

    Romney said when is on the campaign trail talking to business leaders, he asks whether the current administration has helped them hire more people or be more successful. He said he never sees a single hand raised in the audience in response.

    “His policies have hurt, not helped,” he said.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/…

  11. I’m in favor of the death penalty but only in cases where there is absolutely no doubt that the murderer committed the murder(s). When we discussed this on another thread, someone claimed that there are never any cases where there is absolutely no doubt. In response to him, I pointed to four cases off the top of my head: the guy who shot Gabby Giffords (and murdered other people); Maj. Nidal Hassan, who murdered people at Fort Hood; the mass murderer at Virginia Tech and the mass murderer in Norway. There is absolutely no doubt in any of those cases who committed the murders.

    This certainly appears to be one of those cases. The guy even confessed. I don’t think New York has the death penalty but if it did, I’d have no problem with this vile thing being executed.

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