Still Infallible Heroes: Independent review forgives Seattle firefighters for lack of training and proper equipment in deadly Fremont blaze.
“A Loyal Son”: 42 year-old man from Black Diamond convicted in mother’s death by bedsores gets three years and three months. Son argues her final days (seeped in blood, urine, and pus) were exactly what she wanted.
It’s a Goddam Fallujah Up in Here: Mexican drug cartel uses car bomb qualifying the country for FUBAR status.
Their Bad: State to pay $2.1 million to the family of a three year-old who was abused and eventually killed by his mother’s boyfriend despite alerts from the boy’s father to Child Protective Services. Mother’s boyfriend: “[the boy] acted like an asshole”.
Guess Who’s Back: The barefoot bandit.
It was for Science!: Center found to inject mentally ill people with “potentially dangerous impurities”. Research is suspended.
The Replacement: Senate seat of finally dead Robert C Byrd is filled.
Real Estate is Profitable Again!: Dino Rossi reports an income between a shit ton and a real shit ton ($380,000 and $1.5 million respectively).
A Decepticon of Sorts: McCain is (rightfully) accused of political shape shifting in a debate among three arguably terrible choices for his Arizona senate seat.
The Golden Tickets!: Some tickets for cell phone use may be invalidated due to a technicality.
Maybe a dingo: Australian PM announces general election in August. Race expected to be close, with no clear favorite.
Why did the Independent Review even CONSIDER questioning the firefighters?!?!? How APPALLING!!!!
Next thing you know they’ll be critical of the next case of police brutality caught on tape!!
Totally UNAMERICAN!!! I’m calling Homeland Security!!!
Death by bed sores doesn’t have the appeal of say, death by chocolate.
Cato the Dumbass Dumbass:
Did you read the article or just Galen’s snarky comments?
If you’ve ever read one of these reports — do they publish reports on the inside of your rectum? — you’d know what the above sentence means.
@3, do you have a hard on for Cato? Just wondering….
@4 — Yup. I get my 3.5 inches of hot flesh fully engorged whenever I read his sensitive, insightful comments.
–Chavez said the killings did not qualify as terrorism.
“We have no evidence anywhere in the country of narco-terrorism,” he said.–
He went on to add, “Well, except for the carbombs and the beheadings and the scores of murder victims, but other than that, things are bueno!”
Great headlines, Unpaid Intern!
Mexican car bomb. Tequila and ….? Really loud backfire. stupid cartels.
It never surprises me when stepfathers or boyfriends abuse or kill their lover’s offspring. It’s natural instinct for males to get rid of their competitor’s genes.
@9,
What accounts for that? Is it a biological imperative to eliminate one’s own genes?
Maybe in his case, that’s a positive thing, Kesh.
Steeped, not seeped
McCain’s been a bitter old fuck since losing the election. I don’t know which would be worse among the choices in Arizona. Obviously, the name of the game is obstructionism whoever wins.
Dino’s income $380K to $1.5M? Lunch money to his crowd. $1.5M is probably gross and $380K is the gross adjusted income after all of his “deductions.” Just wait until he gets to DC (if we should be that unlucky). He’ll be wiping his ass with $20 bills.
You’re right keshmeshi, you have invalidated my argument.
Just a question – if the car bombs, beheadings, et. al. do come across the border, will it be OK for Arizonans and residents of other border states to be a little nervous and upset? Or will that still just be racism? I’m interested in how the residents of the relatively lily-white Pacific Northwest – who by and large don’t have people creeping through their yards, crashing on their property, etc. – feel about this issue.
@catsnbanjos: Chickens gotta come home to roost sometime. Maybe when American blood starts spilling on American soil we’ll start giving a shit about what our rapacious appetite for drugs, oil, diamonds, etc, is doing to the rest of the world.
The real question is, what are we here in the PNW going to do when those AZ-holes start creeping through our yards, crashing on our property, etc, trying to find a better life (read: steal our jobs).
@11,
You’ll get no argument from me.
@14,
You have a point with some of the animal world, but, in the human world, it sure seems like violent fucks are violent fucks and aren’t too picky about whom they abuse.
@15. I just spent a full week in AZ and did’t see any people creeping through yards, crashing on anyone’s property, etc. I didn’t see any of that when I lived there for 29 years either.
#18 – did you live on the border? Because it is happening. Although your reasoning does seem flawless – e.g. if I didn’t see it during a “full week”, it can’t be going on.
#16 – not sure what a lust for diamonds has to do with Mexico, but OK. So when those chickens come home to roost, is it proper for people to show concern for their own well-being? Or just shrug and chalk it up to international karma?
And yes, I guess you have hit on the real question: what would you do if there was a sudden, large, undocumented foreign migration to your neck of the woods? I see lots of calumny heaped on those dumb, racist rednecks of Arizona, but very little appreciation for the fact that there is a problem. And even less constructive advice about what to do about it. I admit I do get tired after a while of the constant refrain of racism. There is, like it or not, a giant demographic shift going on in our southern states – hell, in all our states. And there are some unpleasant consequences of that shift for a lot of people. It seems kind of flippant to expect them to just ignore them for the sake of some PC, multi-cultural ideal. Just my two centavos. I’m sure many will think I’m a racist monster for even suggesting we learn some empathy for the residents of AZ. I can live with it.
Dino the Dino – Still Retarded!
awesome anti-immigrant paranoia in Slog today – nice work, angry, ill-informed fucktards! To answer your queries – I’ll make them some nice lemonade.
Lemonade for 12 million – that’s gonna take some doing. Better get on it. Oh, and by the way, they’ll also be wanting dinner, and someplace to live, and schools for their kids, and medical care, and, oh yeah, don’t forget jobs.