Capitol News of the Day: Congress extends the threat of a government shutdown to September in tandem with Senate signing a deal that would speed up the administrations decision on constructing the controversial oil pipeline
Tumultuous Tahrir Square: A violent Egyptian crackdown on anti-military protesters leaves nine dead and and hundreds injured.
All Clear: Japan prime ministers declares that the Fukushima nuclear plant is stable — for now.
Home Run: A US judge sentences Barry Bonds to a two-year probation and a30-day-long house arrest due to his steroid use.
Smooth Move: Tea Party Leader Mark Meckler is arrested on gun charges for toting a Glock pistol and ammo onto a LaGuardia plane.
Stumptown Goes Volcanic: A molten glass explosion at a Portland glass manufacturing plant sends lava-like glass oozing into the streets.
Christmas Miracle!: Who keeps dropping rare gold coins into Salvation Army donation kettles in downtown Portland (or should I say, the Pioneer District)?
Today in Records!: Guinness World Record judges declare 18-year-old Jyoti Amge the world’s shortest woman, at 24.7 inches.
A Calvin and Hobbes Christmas:
About 50 million Krugerrands have been minted since 1967, so they’re not really rare. Not your fault, Alex, I know that idea came from the Oregonlive article.
The situation in Egypt is very depressing.
I liked the dude in the Oregonlive comment section that was bemoaning the fact that you couldn’t import South Africa gold coins back in the 70s-80s… because you know of APARTHEID.
Golly gee I’m a sheltered naive white Portland libtard “progressive”, and I live in Portland the whitest city in the USA, and I am such a white-guilt libtard that I don’t even realize that since Bono and Bob Geldof got rid of Apartheid, that South Africa’s rape and murder rates have skyrocketed so that now South Africa has the world’s #1 rape and murder rates, which it most definitely did not have before that evilbad Apartheid.
That’s some real “progressive” progress right there!