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RANDOM LINKS FOR 2/12/12

February 11th, 2012 by Clark Humphrey

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Did you know Heinz had a soup factory in Kent? Emphasis on the “had.”
Just when you thought you’d seen everything, something unexpected comes. Today’s edition: A poet who’s actually got people listening to him. Meet the Tacoma guy behind the viral video “Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus.”
A Facebook ad said an Issaquah heavy-metal guitarist with the stage name Steve Thunderbolt was looking for bandmates, but insisted on “no blacks”. Not ’cause he was a racist or anything; it was just “a drug issue and a safety issue.”
It’s not just Ron Paul. The national Republican Party as a whole seems to just luuuuuv them some white supremacists.
The UW president, the state’s highest paid employee, claims finding answers to education funding in Wash. state is “above my pay grade.”
Soul divas aren’t supposed to die this young.
Let’s hear it for last week’s #1 selling musical star on Amazon’s CD and download charts: Leonard Cohen! (Really.)
Let’s close, just for the heckuvit, with Mike Wallace in a shortening commercial.