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Content Restricted: Apple denies iPhone app to ebook reader for public domain books.

Because LAPD Doesn’t Get Enough Bad Press As It Is: Now they demand San Diego journalists get fired for criticism.

Last Gasp: Woman becomes first to utilize Washington’s Death With Dignity law.

Wiener, Wiener, Wiener, Wiener: Top hot dog makers knee deep in hot water, lawsuit.

Why Else Would You Buy Bulk Mayonnaise and Cheez-Its?: 543 lbs. of pot seized from Costco Parking lot.

Industry: GM gets ready to go under.

This Won’t Stop Them From Being Greedy Bastards: But President Obama signs new credit card bill into law anyway.

Legal Fees Are The Reason Your Gas Is Going Up: Shell Oil on trial for human rights abuses.

And Don’t Forget: SIFF!

It’s World Turtle Day: Because turtles have our best interests in mind.

24 replies on “The Morning News”

  1. Interesting that Obama gave his most major speech of administration yet, the senate slapped him down 94-6 showing craven fear by most democrats, notchange,
    cheney is up 8 points in the polls and all this MSM media passing on of lies about torture “working” etc. is notchange
    is working to rehabilitate GOP and scare the Dems, notchange
    there were major media fear lies about terrorists being put in your neighborhood, notchange
    in general a huge return to fear, notchange
    Obama addressing it squarely in his speech, change,
    yet at the same time, Obama promoting it by staying silent about torture prosecutions, notchange
    and using the term war on terror himself (well Panetta), notchange
    and taking Bush positions on tribunals and release of photos and getting applauded by the right, notchange
    he cannot escape the past
    he cannot triangulate terrror
    the cheney fear surges
    he struggles but cannot emerge from the coils

    this is tragedy.

    and “no comment” on Slog.

    {Suffering slapped and scorned
    a dream is deferred
    and is ready to explode . . . .}

  2. any way you can spin one of the greatest playoff basketball games endings into discussion? maybe comments from Sounders watching the Game and the Shot?

  5. Is there a federal or state law that says people have to use credit cards??

    No??

    Then what difference does it make if they are greedy? Nobody has ever been able to legislate away greed and avarice….

    Psssst: If you didn’t use them, the companies wouldn’t make money and they would go away……

  6. I like the opponent of the Death with Dignity law calling a 66 year old woman dying of cancer “egotistical” for not wanting to stick around dulled by pain medication and dying of starvation. Asshole.

  7. @6: when I was last looking for an apartment, I was fresh out of school and (luckily) didn’t have a credit card yet. Landlords did not want to rent to me because I had no credit score. So we do need them, sadly.

  8. @6: Thank you! The credit system only has power over us because we allow it to.

    @8: I’ve never had a credit card, and I have a blank credit history. The first apartment I lived in didn’t care, the house I lived in after that didn’t care, and the apartment after that just asked for a larger deposit (which was still only $500, as opposed to the usual $300).

    I’m not saying there aren’t inconveniences to not having credit, because there are; namely deposits on things like cell phones and cable. And I wouldn’t have qualified for the apartment we live in now without Jon’s income/credit (which wouldn’t be that big of a deal, I’d just live somewhere else!). In my everyday life, the only effect of having no credit cards is that I don’t buy things I can’t afford. It’s the “we need them because people say we need them” mentality that allows the credit card industry to flourish to the detriment of basically everyone.

  9. @9: I still don’t use it, now that I have one (well, I buy a small thing occasionally and pay it off quick), but it did piss me off that I was turned down for an apartment I really liked because of it. I found a different place that I like, with a local owner rather than a company who took a chance, but it was still irritating and I don’t like that having a credit card at all is a necessity for that sort of thing. But it is.

  10. @6 You do realize that almost everyone, from giant public companies, to little ol’ ladies, use credit in some fashion? Multi-billion dollar companies borrow money on interest to buy other companies, and little ol’ ladies use credit cards to buy depends. Now, let’s say you have a credit card and the credit card company decides to jack up your interest rate to 32.99%, just because they can. Sure, you didn’t need a 50 inch screen tv, but you bought it anyway, and at 12% you could (maybe) afford it. Now you can’t. Why is your interest higher? So the credit card companies can line their pockets with more money. Having a law the protects consumers and will enable at least some of them to become solvent is hardly a bad thing.

    And good luck getting a car, apartment, mortgage without a credit history. It’s an absolute necessity in today’s world.

  11. I didn’t even realize the “Death With Dignity” law was passed, was it reported on Slog? We can only hope that opponents of these laws will end up dying the same slow and painful deaths they attempt to impose on others.

  12. Having a credit card is not the same thing as using it.

    Credit card companies did not invent credit (hello Merchant of Venice!)

    If people stopped using cards at the rate they do, things would change is all that I am saying.

    Also, they are companies. Companies’ express purpose is to make money. They are making money in the American capitalist system like anyone else can (oil companies too). Pretty simple.

    Now, insurance companies making money off of health care — don’t get me started on that one!
    As Aislinn @9 points out, it’s inconvienient sometimes to be without a card, but that isn’t the same thing as a necessity. Health concerns are part of everyone’s lives daily.

  13. Listen to Elizabeth Warren on Fresh Air, you can find her in the archives. She talks about the Credit Companies and the tricks they use to get more money out of consumers.

    This is not just about “irresponsible” consumers, it affects everyone with a line a credit, which again, is a necessity in this day and age. They can make money without taking advantage of consumers.

  17. “cheney is up 8 points in the polls”

    Cheney isn’t running for anything, and he isn’t up “in the polls.” One poll about his likability. And Bush is up six points. Happens all the time post office for Pres/Vice Pres. Get a grip. 37% “approval” is hardly something to worry about.

  21. LMAO at the Teenage Mutant Ninja anti drug propaganda. Researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse have found the brains of morbidly obese pizza-addicted people resemble those of far gone coke and meth users. Functional MRI images of their brains show serious underactivation of dopaminanergic pathways. If the Ninja creators wanted to get real, they’d urge kids to say no to drugs and instead munch on carrots.

    I am not making this shit up! Check this out:

    http://www.drugabuse.gov/whatsnew/meetin…

  24. I’m waiting for the real ending to the anti-drug propaganda scene. The dealer was twice that kid’s size. The kid would be locker stuffing for sure.

    Dealer: It’s pot, dude. It’ll fix up that bloody nose for ya.

    Kid: But I don’t have a bloody… oh.

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