{"id":270,"date":"2003-06-21T19:18:02","date_gmt":"2003-06-22T02:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/06\/21\/boeing-store-wars-the-messengers\/"},"modified":"2008-01-20T19:20:25","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T02:20:25","slug":"boeing-store-wars-the-messengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/06\/21\/boeing-store-wars-the-messengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing, Store Wars, The Messengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Northwest Cable News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwcn.com\/sharedcontent\/northwest\/boeing7E7\/\" target=\"_blank\">had                   a one-hour special<\/a> on Boeing, its new 7E7 plane, and the                   likelihood that the airline company will have the plane built                   somewhere other than Seattle. Governor Locke plans to reward                   Boeing&#8217;s behavior and its frequent layoffs with a <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&amp;slug=WA%2BCourting%2BBoeing\" target=\"_blank\">$3.2                   billion tax break over 20 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s                         like Elvis&#8230; there&#8217;s [been] a lot of sightings all over the place.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>King Abdullah of Jordan                           on Saddam Hussein&#8217;s whereabouts<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Get PBS to run <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/itvs\/storewars\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Store                   Wars<\/a> in your town. It&#8217;s about a West Virginia town that                   fights an incoming WalMart plan.<\/p>\n<p>Nightline had a special called<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/sections\/nightline\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> The                   Messengers<\/a>, about a preaching competition held at the infamous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/020900-101.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Bob                   Jones University<\/a>. A compelling story, but a bit creepy,                   as most of the contestants, around 18 or 19, looked very 1950s                   in appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Bush waters down an EPA report, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/3006448.stm\" target=\"_blank\">watering                   down references to global warming<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/06\/21\/boeing-store-wars-the-messengers\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Northwest Cable News had a one-hour special on Boeing, its new 7E7 plane, and the likelihood that the airline company will have the plane built somewhere other than Seattle. Governor Locke plans to reward Boeing&#8217;s behavior and its frequent layoffs with a $3.2 billion tax break over 20 years. &#8220;It&#8217;s like Elvis&#8230; there&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/06\/21\/boeing-store-wars-the-messengers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Boeing, Store Wars, The Messengers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/06\/21\/boeing-store-wars-the-messengers\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment","category-politics","category-seattle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}