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Archive for September 27th, 2011

September 27th, 2011 - 12:53 pm § in Hypocrisy, Misc.

BREAKING NEWS: Iran and Turkey: Allies against statehood for Kurds!

Ankara, Turkey – Middle East Headache: Turkish PM Signals Joint Operation With Iran Today 03:43 PM Ankara, Turkey – Turkey’s prime minister has signaled a joint military offensive with Iran against their common enemy: Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq. Recep Tayyip Erdogan says[...]

September 27th, 2011 - 8:38 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW

BREAKING NEWS: NIH budget has modest cuts .. so far

The Senate Appropriations Committee has proposed to  trim the budget of the National Institutes of Healthby .6 percen, This would leave the NIH at  $30.5 billion ,The Committee also proposes  $582 million to launch the National Center for Advancing Translational Research, while eliminating  the [...]

September 27th, 2011 - 7:29 am § in The Ave Scene, UW

Paul Allen a No Show at $1.2 billion dollar SLU party, but Josh is still impressed

Josh Fiet at Publicola blogs: I got to South Lake Union about 9:30 on Sunday morning for breakfast and 1) We had to circle around to find parking and 2) There was a line out the door at the restaurant, Portage Bay Café. I guess I wasn’t the only one who wanted to be in/see/test […][...]

September 27th, 2011 - 12:09 am § in Misc.

BREAKING NEWS: Inslee has, apparently, lost ground to McKenna

Poll Analysis: Inslee 38%, McKenna 44% by Darryl, from HorsesAss  excerpted A new poll is about to be released in the Washington gubernatorial race . 0f the 532 surveyed, 404 436 had an opinion: 170 202 (32 38%) supported Inslee and 234 (44%) supported McKenna. The undecided group made up 24.1 18%.[...]