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Friday, October 16, 2009

News Good Morning, News!

Posted by Sean Breslin on Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:59 AM

Hey, Portland. Some of today's news items are so odd they make me wish Sarah Palin was still around to offer her take.

Afghanistan elections were fraught with problems the first time around. Let's do it again!

I told myself I wasn't going to post about The Balloon Boy, since I thought it was just a publicity stunt. Turns out I'm not the only one.

Wow. I didn't believe this when I read it: A judge in Louisiana has denied a mixed-race couple a marriage license because he doesn't "believe in mixing the races that way." Hey, everybody, it's 1952 again!

Wait. Priests have girlfriends? I'm so confused.

Tea-baggers: Helping Republicans, or tea-bagging them?

Overprotective stepfather shoots his stepdaughter's boyfriend after he catches them having sex!

Patriot Act nabs someone! This time it's a...Washington exec. For Taking too much allergy medication and acting loopy on a plane.

 

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I guess that horror flick "The Stepfather" caught on a little too quickly.
Posted by tk. on October 16, 2009 at 8:24 AM · Report
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"I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."

Well, that certainly helps clear things up on where this guy stands. I mean, letting the black folk use his outhouse is mighty big of him.
Posted by pdxMB on October 16, 2009 at 9:05 AM · Report
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The priest story is wrong on so many levels. The whole encouraging her to get an abortion for instance. How does he justify that? 'I'm pro-life, unless it is my kid she is carrying, in which case I'm pro-death.' (Really that position should be summed up as "anti-choice.")
Posted by Matthew D on October 16, 2009 at 10:42 AM · Report

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