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		<title>Our Morning Roundup: The &#8220;Death Watch is Over&#8221; Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Niedowski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Patrick Swayze Death Watch is finally over. The 57-year-old actor of Dirty Dancing fame, who "succumbed to cancer," as so many news outlets like to say, died yesterday, which means I won't have to look at National Enquirer covers in the grocery store check-out line anymore showing him gaunter and gaunter and closer to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <strong>Patrick Swayze</strong> Death Watch is finally over. The 57-year-old actor of <em>Dirty Dancing</em> fame, who "succumbed to cancer," as so many news outlets like to say, died yesterday, which means I won't have to look at <em>National Enquirer</em> covers in the grocery store check-out line anymore showing him gaunter and gaunter and closer to death each week (This morning's nationalenquirer.com headline: "Swayze is Dead. Brave Patrick Swayze succumbs after long battle to cancer." Don't miss <a href="http://www.nationalenquirer.com/patrick_swayze_dead_at_57/celebrity/67304">their coverage</a>.)</p>
<p>Now, at along last, he can get some peace. But us: What about us? We need someone else's illness to exploit!</p>
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<p>In other news, Rep. <strong>Joe Wilson</strong> (R-Ude) has a big day ahead, as House Democrats prepare to reprimand him for yelling at the president of the United States the other day something that wasn't at all rooted in racism. You probably haven't heard about it, because there hasn't been that much press, but Wilson yelled "You lie!" to <strong>Barack Obama </strong>during his recent address to a joint session of Congress. The decision to hold a vote on a formal sanction, the <em>Washington Post </em><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/14/AR2009091403567.html?hpid=topnews">earnestly notes</a>, "risks escalating the partisan warfare that has erupted since Wilson's outburst." Ya think? For the record, Democrats are so bad at passively exploiting things. They always, always ruin it.</p>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-32282" title="1222280_cock_at_day" src="http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/files/2009/09/1222280_cock_at_day.jpg" alt="1222280_cock_at_day" width="274" height="195" />In still other news, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has written to Virginia Gov. <strong>Timothy Kaine</strong> about renting a prison building near Troutville, which is being closed because of budget cuts, to turn it into <a href="http://www.peta.org/mc/NewsItem.asp?id=13544">America's first chicken empathy museum</a>. I have no idea what this means, but <strong>Bobby Jindal</strong>, the governor of Louisiana, apparently already turned down a similar offer, and if it's not good enough for Bobby Jindal, it's certainly not good enough for Virginia.</p>
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		<title>Our Morning Roundup: Truth Telling Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caroline Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The big news in Washington this morning was already shared with City Desk readers early yesterday evening: Senator John Ensign (R-Nev.) admitted to having an affair with a campaign staffer.  There's no word on whether Ensign plans on resigning but he wishes he could take it all back.  Obviously.  He was a member of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The big news in Washington this morning was already shared with City Desk readers early yesterday evening: <a href="http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/06/16/schandenfreude-alert-john-ensign-to-admit-cheating-on-wife/" >Senator <strong>John Ensign (R-Nev.)</strong> admitted to having an affair with a campaign staffer</a>.  There's no word on whether Ensign plans on resigning but he wishes he could take it all back.  Obviously.  He was a member of the Promise Keepers, for Pete's sake.  There's a lot to be said about Ensign's contradictory behavior but at least he came public without the help of the fine journalists at the <em><a href="http://www.nationalenquirer.com/sen_john_edwards_caught_with_mistress_and_love_child_in_la_hotel/celebrity/65193" >National Enquirer</a></em>.</p>
<p>Drug recalls, crime bills, and a double dose of foreign policy after the jump.<span id="more-24554"></span></p>
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<li>The <strong>FDA</strong> issued a <a href="http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm167065.htm" >press release</a> advising citizens to stop using certain <strong>Zicam</strong> products.  Why?  Because this supposed cure for the common cold can cause the loss of one's ability to smell.  The press release also reminds concerned consumers that "the loss of sense of smell can adversely affect a person’s quality of life, and can limit the ability to detect the smell of gas or smoke or other signs of danger in the environment."  So stop using Zicam or else you might go smell-blind and die in a fire.</li>
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<li>The <strong>D.C. Council</strong> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/16/AR2009061602363_2.html?hpid=moreheadlines&amp;sid=ST2009061602418" >rejected</a> <strong>Mayor Fenty's</strong> emergency crime bill late yesterday because members feared a provision that would make it easier to detain suspected gang members would result in racial profiling.  After some debate, the council passed <strong>Phil Mendelson's</strong> crime bill that focused on gun crimes and minimum sentences for repeated felony convictions.</li>
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<li>Also on the subject of guns, the <em>Post</em> is <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/16/AR2009061601761.html?hpid=moreheadlines" >reporting </a>that would-be Reagan assassin <strong>John Hinkley Jr</strong>. can obtain a D.C. driver's license and volunteer near his mother's house in Williamsburg.  Staff at <strong>St. Elizabeth's Hospital</strong>, where Hinkley has lived since being found not guilty by reason of insanity, hope to increase his freedom so that he may be released from their care to live with his mother.  Hinkley must still remain supervised in the District at all times.</li>
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<li>In foreign policy news, <strong>President Obama</strong> and <strong>South Korean President Lee Myung-bak</strong> held a <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-President-Obama-and-President-Lee-of-the-Republic-of-Korea-in-Joint-Press-Availability/" >press conference</a> in the Rose Garden to show their solidarity in the struggle with North Korea and Kim Jong Il.  The momentous occasion was immediately placed on the back burner after Obama <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rbUH_iVjYw&amp;eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwonkette%2Ecom%2F&amp;feature=player_embedded" >killed a fly</a> during an interview with <strong>CNBC.</strong></li>
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<li>And finally, those jokers over at <strong>Anti Real World DC</strong> have dreamed up a <a href="http://antirealworlddc.blogspot.com/2009/06/green-is-good-fantasy-on-rwdc-foreign.html" >foreign policy conversation</a> between the as-yet-unknown housemates.  Who knows if these kids will discuss their politics on camera, but before they're here, it's alright to tease.</li>
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