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• Political ads challenging Eastside state Senate candidate draw complaints

  28-07-2017 23:45
  The advertising blitz is being fueled by a flood of campaign cash pouring into the 45th District state Senate race. That Eastside contest is expected to determine which party controls the state Senate.
  
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• Political ads challenging Democratic state Senate candidate draw complaints

  28-07-2017 23:45
  The advertising blitz is being fueled by a flood of campaign cash pouring into the 45th District state Senate race. That contest is expected to determine which party controls the state Senate.
  
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• Reince Priebus Leaves Post as White House Chief of Staff

  28-07-2017 23:33 via thestranger.com
  
  by Steven HsiehGone Win McNamee / Getty
  The Republican establishment is getting flung out of President Donald Trump's orbit. First went press secretary Sean Spicer. Now, after just six months on the job, White House chief-of-staff Reince Priebus is leaving. He'll be replaced by General John Kelly, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Trump made the announcement via Twitter:I am pleased to inform you that I have just named General/Secretary John F Kelly as White House Chief of St
  
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• Beats, Zines, and Weed Queens: a Look Back at the International Girl Gang Expo

  28-07-2017 23:25 via thestranger.com
  
  The International Girl Gang Expo was all about having fun, smoking weed, and getting laid - with women as the protagonists.by Greg ScruggsPortland-based R&B singer Blossom: a soulful voice and earthy presence. STEPHANIE DORE
  Houston-via-Los Angeles rapper Tiko Texa$ summed up last night’s International Girl Gang Expo in five simple words: “Bad bitches and good weed.” Hosted by Women.Weed.Wifi, an art collective dedicated to female creativity via cannabis, and part of STG&rs
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Anxiety Attacks at the Trio Rodeo

  28-07-2017 23:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  My boyfriend of eight months, K, and I are polyamorous. We started the relationship on that foot, and for a while I was the partner he spent the most time with. There have been ups and downs, but overall our relationship is solid and loving. However, recently we both started dating the same woman, L, and they have been spending more time together than with me due to my work schedule.
  They both reassure me that they love me and care for me deeply, but I am an anxiously-attached pers
  
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• Week in Weed: House Republicans Block Weed Amendments, Washington’s Weed Waste, and an Anti-Pot Billboard Fail

  28-07-2017 23:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Amber CortesViolent crime and marijuana usage: not a thing. SANGRIANA VIA GETTY IMAGESTwo weed-related amendments didn’t make it to the House floor, thanks to asshole Republicans. But, a weed-related amendment protecting state’s medical marijuana rights did make it past Senate Appropriations —thanks in part, to…Republicans. Oh well, sometimes you just gotta suck it up and say, “Thanks, John McCain.” (No, you don’t, fuck that guy.) Anyway, the Washing
  
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• The Biggest August Events in Seattle

  28-07-2017 22:45 via thestranger.com
  100 Festivals, Food Events, Concerts, Performances, And Moreby Stranger Things To Do StaffAugust may be the final full month of summer, but, thankfully, there are plenty of ways to go out and enjoy it in Seattle. Below, we've rounded up the 100 biggest events that you should know about, including art events like Seattle Art Fair and the opening of Storme Webber's show at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle Opera's Madame Butterfly, the Tim & Eric 10 Year Anniversary Awesome Tour, food events like t
  
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• Atomic Blonde Is Cooler Than You and Your Crusty Old Dude Spies

  28-07-2017 22:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Elinor Jones
  Atomic Blonde isn’t subtle. On about the 89th shot of Charlize Theron walking coolly down a Berlin street wearing sunglasses to an 1980s new wave hit, I wondered if it wasn’t a little excessive. Yes, of course—it’s absolutely excessive. But also: great! Excess is great! Sunglasses and Charlize Theron and 1980s jams are all great!
  Theron plays a British spy (OR IS SHE?) trying to out-spy some other spies (OR ARE THEY?) who murdered this one other spy (HRRMM
  
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• Jeff Bezos Was the Richest Man in the World for a Few Hours

  28-07-2017 22:18 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede William H. Furness III, 1904
  At the end of the first decade of the previous century, the American anthropologist, William H. Furness III, published a book called Island of Stone Money. It was about the monetary system and economy of Yap, a remote island in the Pacific. The people of that island used huge circular stones with holes in them as money. This kind of money was called "fei."Some fei were 13 feet tall; others, just a foot. All were hard to move from place to place.Also
  
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• Inbox Jukebox: A Weekly Shortlist of Good New Music. Belle & Sebastian, Mick Jagger, Haunted Horses, and More

  28-07-2017 21:56 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalBelle & Sebastian channel the Boo Radleys on their new single. Søren Solkær Starbird
  Belle & Sebastian, "We Were Beautiful" (Matador). Disclosure: I've only owned If You're Feeling Sinister (I'm a sucker for a song title like "Stars of Track and Field"), and haven't followed bookish Scottish pop charmers Belle & Sebastian very closely over the ensuing two decades. Maintaining this detachment toward them, I've respected their subtle craftsmanship while not ge
  
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• Regarding ‘domestic dispute’ and other failures of language

  28-07-2017 21:42
  Earlier this week, we and most other Associated Press-member news outlets forced an ugly, outdated term on our readers – "domestic dispute."
  
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• ‘Slow down’: Extra patrols are on lookout for lawbreaking motorcyclists

  28-07-2017 21:39
  The law-enforcement push in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties will last through mid-August. Motorcycle crashes account for nearly 15% of all traffic deaths statewide, though motorcycles represent only 4% of registered vehicles.
  
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• Taste This, Seattle: One Meatball at Artusi

  28-07-2017 21:31 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tobias Coughlin-BogueBehold, Artusi's marvel of efficient, meaty beauty. Anthony Nathan
  Eating meat is, according to science, pretty much the worst shit you can do for Mother Earth. I'm sure you've heard the statistics by now, but it takes something in the area of 1,800 gallons of water to produce a pound of beef, and cow burps alone are contributing significantly to global warming. Certainly, when I ride the 132 past South Park's many industrial operations—with their yards full of rust
  
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• Seattle Times: Parks Department Keeps Using "Most Hazardous" Pesticides

  28-07-2017 21:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufGolf courses: Likely full of pesticides.COPYRIGHT USGA/JOHN MUMMERT (COURTESY OF WWW.USGA.ORG)
  Nearly two decades after Seattle officials promised to use more eco-friendly methods to kill weeds on city lands, Department of Parks and Recreation employees are still spraying parks and golf courses with hazardous pesticides, the Seattle Times reports.
  Between 2012 and 2016, parks department officials sprayed public lands with tons of of pesticides the city itself deemed the "most h
  
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• Great Performances and Dialogue Breathe Life Into Landline's Middle-Class Problems

  28-07-2017 21:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by Kathy FennessyI got 99 problems, and being middle class ain't one. Amazon Films
  Gillian Robespierre, writer-director of Obvious Child, "the first romantic comedy I can think of that centers around an abortion," reunites with SNL alum Jenny Slate in Landline, a serio-comic take on secrets and lies in Giuliani-era Manhattan.Frustrated adman Alan (John Turturro) is keeping something from hypercritical wife Pat (Edie Falco); engaged daughter Dana (Slate) can't resist a man from her past; and teen
  
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• Landlord Carl Haglund Files $25 Million Claim Against City After Kshama Sawant Dubbed Him a "Slumlord"

  28-07-2017 21:03 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi Groover"This really is a Carl Haglund law," City Council Member Kshama Sawant said when she unveiled a new law in 2015. City of Seattle
  The Seattle landlord Carl Haglund, who owned an apartment building filled with rats and roaches, claims city officials defamed him in 2015 when they called him a "slumlord" and named a rental protection law after him. Now, he wants $25 million in damages from the city and his lawyer is threatening a lawsuit against Council Member Kshama Sawant.Haglund o
  
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• Connelly: Health care vote proves Senate women do heavy lifting

  28-07-2017 20:45
  The Senate's dramatic health care showdown delivers a gender message: Women are now wearing the pants (O.K., pantsuits) in our nation's capital, seeking to work across the aisle and get things done.  They are also standing up to a bullying president.
  
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• Your Complete Guide To August 2017 Events in Seattle

  28-07-2017 20:43 via thestranger.com
  100 Festivals, Food Events, Concerts, Performances, And Other Big Eventsby Stranger Things To Do StaffAugust may be the final full month of summer, but, thankfully, there are plenty of ways to go out and enjoy it in Seattle. Below, we've rounded up the 100 biggest events that you should know about, including art events like Seattle Art Fair and the opening of Storme Webber's show at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle Opera's Madame Butterfly, the Tim & Eric 10 Year Anniversary Awesome Tour, food e
  
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• A Black Man Knocks on the Door of a Beacon Hill House and...

  28-07-2017 20:37 via thestranger.com
  
  by Kathy Strange
  The video quality is remarkably good: a doorbell’s view onto a dark yard. A casually dressed black man approaches and rings once. He waits on the porch for a moment, looking less confident as the seconds tick by. Then he turns and walks away. A woman posted the video to the “Beacon Hill, Seattle” Facebook group, which has nearly 3,200 members, asking for help identifying the man, saying that she was frightened. A few people of color and white people commented t
  
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• 'Welcome to Tweakerville' sign touches nerve in Everett

  28-07-2017 20:30
  On Wednesday Gary Watts, the owner of Z-Sport Automotive, put the message on the large sign outside his business at 3532 Smith Avenue just off Interstate 5 on a major gateway to the city. He told MyEverettNews.com he was fed up with the crime surrounding his business.
  
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• It Gets Wetter: An Emotionally Turbulent Drag Queen Attempts to Put on a Serious One-Woman Show

  28-07-2017 19:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Betty Wetter reveals realism to be the overwhelming burden it is in It Gets Wetter!by Chase BurnsBetty Wetter doesn't give a fuck about linear narratives. Kremwerk / Kingmon Creative
  If theater is dying, realism is killing it. Serious Theatre™ will disagree. These large repertory theaters instead blame reality TV, social media, and tweet seats for their unstable medical condition. They would rather not take responsibility for the fact that they've unsuccessfully courted new audiences by co
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: Woman Walks Downstairs

  28-07-2017 19:25 via thestranger.com
  
  by Callan BerryCallan Berry [ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Stas Thee Boss's Mercurial Debut Album Is an 11-Track Remedy for the Breakup Blues

  28-07-2017 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jake Uitti
  STAS THEE BOSS
  S’WOMEN
  (self-released)
  Trying to move through an excruciating breakup can often leave all parties feeling like they’re drowning—like it can be hard to move or feel buoyant again. And these are the evocative tones and modes through which Stasia Irons (aka former THEESatisfaction MC/vocalist Stas Thee Boss) creates her latest LP, S’WOMEN (pronounced “swimmin’”), a record she fashioned as a means to cope, process, and rejuvenat
  
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• Sharks are ‘magnificent and majestic,’ says Pacific Northwest shark expert

  28-07-2017 18:19
  "They're amazing, powerful creatures, and they deserve a tremendous amount of respect," said a veteran marine biologist at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium of sharks.
  
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• Italy approves hotly contested mandatory vaccine program

  28-07-2017 18:19
  MILAN (AP) — Italy’s parliament on Friday gave final approval to making a slate of childhood vaccinations mandatory for school children up to age 16, a move aimed at countering an anti-vaccine trend that officials have attributed to misinformation. The packet approved Friday was hotly contested in Italy, where the number of children being vaccinated […]
  
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• State’s wolf kill turns up the heat in Washington cattle country

  28-07-2017 18:11
  Wolves should be taken off the state’s endangered-species list to open the door to more wolf kills to protect livestock, ranchers say — even as wolf advocates are considering a citizen initiative to better protect them.
  
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• The Morning News: Obamacare Repeal Is Dead, Murray Sex Abuse Accuser Files Defamation Claim

  28-07-2017 17:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneEvil plan, foiled. MARK WILSON / GETTY
  Millions of People Won't Be Kicked Off Their Healthcare, Yet: McCain, Murkowski, and Collins voted "no" on the "skinny" Obamacare repeal. "It was the absolute least [McCain] could do to help his own constituents keep the healthcare that he's relying on to keep his body alive," Rich writes. "But also don't forget that Democrats didn't include Medicare for All on the list of policies they'll be pushing in 2018. Until they earnest
  
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• Space capsule with 3 astronauts blasts off to orbiting lab

  28-07-2017 17:55
  BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) — A Soyuz space capsule successfully blasted off for the International Space Station on Friday, carrying an American astronaut, a Russian cosmonaut and an Italian astronaut. NASA’s Randy Bresnik, Russia’s Sergei Ryazansky and Italy’s Paolo Nespoli lifted off from the Russia-leased launch pad in Kazakhstan shortly after sunset at 21:41 p.m. on […]
  
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• A Soyuz space capsule carrying an American, a Russian and an Italian blasts off for the International Space Station.

  28-07-2017 17:45
  BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) — A Soyuz space capsule carrying an American, a Russian and an Italian blasts off for the International Space Station.
  
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• The Seattle Times’ first story about Jeff Bezos, when you had to ‘hook up to the Internet’ 22 years ago

  28-07-2017 16:07
  Amazon.com was only 2 months old when Seattle Times reporter Elizabeth Pérez wrote about the fledgling, virtual bookstore. Now the company is worth nearly half a trillion dollars.
  
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• There are now 1,000 bike-share bicycles in Seattle

  28-07-2017 15:56
  LimeBike joins Spin as two bike-sharing companies that are looking to offer a new dockless approach to short-term urban bike rentals — something that Seattle has struggled with in the past with the ill-fated Pronto program.
  
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• Small plane crash near Enumclaw Airport sends 3 to hospital

  28-07-2017 15:02
  Three people inside the plane suffered serious injuries, authorities said.
  
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• Seattle’s pesticide phaseout lags: Potentially harmful products used in parks

  28-07-2017 15:00
  Despite the city’s commitment to lower its use of pesticides, Seattle continues to apply thousands of gallons of pesticides to its parks and golf courses each year. And some parks the city branded “pesticide-free” have been treated with pesticides as recently as this spring.
  
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• Podcast: sidewalk interviews with Seattle voters about their picks for mayor

  28-07-2017 15:00
  Seattle’s wild 2017 mayoral primary in its final days. So what’s the word on the streets? In Episode 47 of The Overcast, the Seattle Times weekly politics podcast, reporters Daniel Beekman and Jim Brunner hit the sidewalks and talk with local voters about which candidates are creating a buzz as the Aug. 1 primary-ballot deadline […]
  
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• Need a flexible teacher training program that won’t lead to a lot of debt? Try Highline College.

  28-07-2017 15:00
  Highline College will begin offering bachelor’s degrees in teaching this fall, a program that could help increase the diversity of teachers in neighboring schools.
  
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• Bellevue’s OfferUp app becomes a robbery tool in Florida

  28-07-2017 15:00
  Since the start of 2017, the OfferUp app -- which allows people to sell items to each other without a retail store or a middleman -- has led to the arrests of at least five people on robbery charges in Florida’s Palm Beach County and Treasure Coast.
  
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• ‘The Back Door’ singer D.L. Menard, Cajun legend, dead at 85

  28-07-2017 14:59
  NEW ORLEANS — D.L. Menard, whose song “The Back Door” is among the most popular in Cajun music, is dead at the age of 85. Louisiana Funeral Services and Crematory in Broussard said on its website that Menard died Thursday at his home in Scott, Louisiana. Including covers by other artists, the song sold more […]
  
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• D.L. Menard, Cajun music ambassador, is dead at 85

  28-07-2017 14:59
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — D.L. Menard, the Cajun musician whose song “The Back Door” became an anthem for his culture and carried him to 38 countries on State Department tours, has died at the age of 85. Menard died Thursday at the home where he lived with his granddaughter Nelda Menard in Scott, Louisiana, according […]
  
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• Angelina Jolie on Crying in the Shower, Baby Maddox, Menopause and More in Candid Interview

  28-07-2017 12:23 via thestranger.com
  by Night SloggerYou have made your choice, you can be what you want to be.
  But I will bury him; and if I must die,
  I say that this crime is holy: I shall lie down
  With him in death, and I shall be as dear
  To him as he to me.
  It is the dead
  Not the living, who make the longest demands:
  We die for ever…
  You may do as you like
  Since apparently the laws of the god mean nothing to you.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• How Long Have Ben Affleck and Lindsay Shookus Been Dating? Inside Their Surprisingly Long History

  28-07-2017 11:17 via thestranger.com
  by Night SloggerI have heard nothing: I know
  That two sisters lost two brothers, a double death
  In a single hour; and I know that the Argive army
  Fled in the night; but beyond this, nothing.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• He Said, She Said: Celeb Couples Get Real About Their High-Profile Splits...

  28-07-2017 10:15 via thestranger.com
  by Night SloggerIsmene, dear sister,
  You would think that we had already suffered enough
  For the curse on Oedipus:
  I cannot imagine any grief
  That you and I have not gone through. And now ––Have they told you of the new decree of our King Creon?[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• ‘She would not stop laughing at me,’ says Utah man charged in wife’s death on Alaska cruise ship

  28-07-2017 09:21
  The Utah woman's husband was charged with murder after he was discovered with blood on his hands and clothes, and with blood spread throughout the cabin on the Princess Cruises ship, according to the FBI.
  
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• APNewsBreak: Couple was celebrating anniversary on cruise

  28-07-2017 09:21
  The Utah woman's husband was charged with murder after he was discovered with blood on his hands and clothes, and with blood spread throughout the cabin on the Princess Cruises ship, according to the FBI.
  
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• APNewsBreak: Yellowstone to punish workers for misconduct

  28-07-2017 09:07
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — As many as 10 workers in Yellowstone National Park’s maintenance division will be disciplined after an investigation found female employees were subjected to sexual harassment and other problems. The move comes as widespread reports of harassment, bullying and other misconduct have tarnished the image of the National Park Service and its […]
  
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• APNewsBreak: Yellowstone park cracks down on sex harassment

  28-07-2017 09:07
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — As many as 10 workers in Yellowstone National Park’s maintenance division will be disciplined after an investigation found female employees were subjected to sexual harassment and other problems. The move comes as widespread reports of harassment, bullying and other misconduct have tarnished the image of the National Park Service and its […]
  
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• APNewsBreak: Penalties for Yellowstone workers in misconduct

  28-07-2017 09:07
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — As many as 10 workers in Yellowstone National Park’s maintenance division will be disciplined after an investigation found female employees being subjected to sexual harassment and other problems. The move comes as widespread reports of harassment, bullying and other misconduct have tarnished the image of the National Park Service and its […]
  
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• APNewsBreak: 10 at Yellowstone to be punished for harassment

  28-07-2017 09:07
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park’s superintendent says he’s taking disciplinary action against as many as 10 people after an investigation found women in the park’s maintenance division were subject to sexual harassment. Superintendent Dan Wenk told The Associated Press potential penalties will range from reprimand to suspension or termination. The move comes as […]
  
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• The Bill Is Dead

  28-07-2017 07:46 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithMcCain scraped the nearly empty barrel of his integrity and found just enough to give him the strength to vote NO on the "skinny repeal." Win McNamee / GETTYOf the Republicans, McCain, Murkowski, and Collins voted NO on the GOP's effort to kick 16 million people off of healthcare and to raise premiums by 20 percent, aka "skinny repeal." The rest of those motherfuckers DID vote to needlessly kill tens of thousands of people.On McCain, briefly: The vote, though he didn't have anyone e
  
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• Leading Disney parks ‘Imagineer’ Martin Sklar dies at 83

  28-07-2017 07:24
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Martin A. “Marty” Sklar, a right-hand man of Walt Disney and central figure in the development and expansion of his company’s theme parks around the world, has died. Disneyland spokeswoman Suzi Brown confirmed Sklar’s death for The Associated Press. A company statement says he died Thursday at his Hollywood Hills home […]
  
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