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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

by Darryl — Friday, 9/30/11, 11:38 pm

Pap: Climate change leading to food shortages.

Olbermann with Valerie Plame Wilson on ridding the world of nuclear weapons:

Comcast Newsmakers interviews Gov. Christine Gregoire.

Thom: The Good, the Bad and the Very, Very Ugly.

CNN’s Dana Loesch triumphs over the Toe Sucker and Aqua Buddha to snatch the title of Worst Person in the World.

Wall Street Occupied:

  • Sam Seder: Really, the Occupy Wall Street message couldn’t be clearer.
  • Alyona’s Tool Time: Michael Bloomberg.
  • Olbermann with Matt Taibbi on the evolution of the Occupy Wall Street protests.
  • Jon on Occupy Wall Street.
  • Young Turks: Pepper spraying cop.
  • O’Donnell: Unprovoked brutality on Wall Street.
  • Maddow: Why occupy Wall Street?
  • Sam Seder: Interviewing the occupiers.
  • Aloyna’s Fireside Chat on Occupy Wall Street.
  • Thom: News from Wall Street.
  • Sam Seder: Media ignore the Occupation but cover Teabagger meeting at Dennys.
  • Olbermann: DA investigation of the pepper spraying.
  • Thom: Occupy Wall Street—who will win?
  • Young Turks: Michael Moore’s street speech.
  • Olbermann with Sam Seder on the protests.

Alyona’s Tool Time: Bill-O and his NPR hypocrisy.

Maddow: The French 75.

Mark Fiore: TEMA.

Racism in America:

  • Thom: The College Republican’s “race-based” bake sale?.
  • Young Turks: Pat Robertson talks racism.
  • Herman Cain thinks Black folks are brainwashed.
  • Ed with some major Psychotalk from Herman Cain.
  • Olbermann with Janeane Garofalo on how “Herb” Caine helps Republicans hide their racism.
  • Pap: Teabaggers are still driven by racism.
  • Thom: Is racism responsible for infant mortality in the U.S.?
  • Racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz. is Worst Person in the World.

Greenman: NASA on Arctic sea ice.

Capitol Hostage Situation:

  • Newsy: The Onion tweets fake capitol hostage situation.
  • ONN: Video from inside the congressional hostage situation.

Ed with Pap and Joe Madison: At last, Obama fights back.

Olbermann and Markos Moulitsas on Roger Ailes’ attempt at rebranding Fox.

Thom gives Teabaggers a constitutional lesson.

Jon does Bill-O.

Maddow: Unalienable rights are not subject to a vote.

Comcast Newsmakers interviews Peter Goldmark.

The G.O.P. Primary Asylum:

  • O’Donnell: GOP Debate gives comedians material
  • Ann Telnaes: Newt proposes pro-market health care.
  • Young Turks: God, the Bible, evolution and Newt.
  • Read Rick Perry’s lips (via Slog):
  • Young Turks: Rick Perry backs off Immigrant stance.
  • Ann Telnaes: The GOP balloon ride .
  • Stephen on Rick’s lousy debate performance.
  • Stephen: Perry’s heartless gaffe and education for immigrants.
  • Young Turks: Christie presidency unlikely for 2012.
  • Alyona’s Happy Hour: Is Christie too fat?
  • Ed and Pap: Is Chris Christie healthy enough to run for president?
  • Newsy: Is Chris Christie too fat to be Prez?
  • Sharpton: Inside Governor Chris Christie’s uncouth bullying tactics.
  • Bachmann babbles something about Obama and the Arab spring.
  • Ed with some major psychotalk from Michele Bachmann.
  • Actual Audio: Santorum gets all frothy over gay soldiers.
  • Jon and Larry Wilmore on Herman Cain’s surprise Florida straw poll win.
  • Newsy: Rudy thinks about it.
  • Maddow: Former McCain Palin staffers discourage a Palin 2012 run.
  • O’Donnell: Is Palin on thin ice with FAUX News?
  • The Oddest Couple:

White House: West Wing Week.

Thom with more Good, Bad, and Very, Very Ugly.

O’Donnell: Lynch-mob Republicans can’t get enough of the ‘death penalty’ and misery of others.

Rep. Allen West (R-FL) beats a couple of other kooks for title of Worst Person in the World.

Thom: Time for a revolution?

Pap: Time for Democrats to fight.

Stephen ingests Karl Rove’s PAC fundraising secrets.

Greenman: The 2011 Arctic ice minimum.

ONN: Who is/are the worst liars in D.C.?

Thom: Even more Good, Bad, and Very, Very Ugly.

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

How Washingtonians will be hurt if McKenna’s lawsuit succeeds

by Darryl — Friday, 9/30/11, 11:00 am

So what we have here is Rob McKenna participating in the multi-state lawsuit, now fully aware that the goal of the lawsuit is to strike down the entire law.

If McKenna is successful, Washington state gets credit for the downfall of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Ouch! Like that sooooooo represents our state. But that’s nuttin’.

Just for shits and giggles, I decided to look up the immediate effects should the lawsuit succeed in killing the law—the things that would affect hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Washingtonians.

Here’s what I found:

  • Strips small businesses of the 35% tax credit (50% beginning in 2014) provided to make employee coverage more affordable.
  • Eliminate for early retirees the temporary re-insurance program (pending the full development of insurance exchanges).
  • Eliminate consumer protections and the external review process for appealing insurance company coverage determinations or claims.
  • End the prohibition on recissions—that is, insurance companies will, once again, be allowed to drop sick people from coverage.
  • End the prohibition on insurance companies denying coverage to children (and, in 2014, everyone) with pre-existing conditions
  • Eliminate caps—once again allow insurance companies to place lifetime caps on coverage.
  • End prohibition of certain annual coverage limits—some are in effect right now but all such restrictions will be eliminated by 2014.
  • Re-open the Medicare part D “donut hole” by eliminating the 50% discount on brand name drugs for those in the donut hole, and put a halt to the gradual elimination of the donut hole by 2020.
  • Reinstate co-payments for preventive care and, under medicare, once again allow preventive care to be included in deductibles.
  • Eliminate funding for state consumer assistance programs that help folks navigating the health care insurance process.
  • Eliminate funding for resources and new screening procedures that reduce fraud and waste in Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP.
  • Eliminate the option for young adults to remain on their parents’ insurance plan until they turn 26.

That is a selection of the tangible benefits that have already fully or partially kicked in under the law.

It will be painful…particularly to our state’s youngest and oldest citizens.

There are many more benefits to come. Some are extremely important, like getting insurance for the estimated 50 million uninsured Americans.

And then there is the fiscal effects, to the tune of quashing the $210 billion in deficit reduction over the next 10 years, and an estimated $1 trillion over the next 20 years.

Shit…with gubernatorial wannabes like McKenna…who needs al Qaeda?

Open Thread 9/30

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 9/30/11, 7:39 am

– I love the short plays in WordPress.

– at least a few people who will stand outside of the right buildings and yell (h/t)

– Anyone have any idea if the display coming to the bus stop at 3rd and Pike is going to be a one off there, or if there are more planned around town?

– As someone who really likes cartoons on the web, this is a problem.

– All the other states are doing it.

– I’m not a fan of the wild card, but after the last day of the regular season, well I still don’t like it, but it did produce this year.

ATF: Astounding Total Fucknuts

by Lee — Thursday, 9/29/11, 11:18 pm

From earlier this year:

A botched gun-trafficking investigation that allowed suspected criminals to purchase roughly 2,000 firearms — many which later crossed the border into Mexico — came under renewed criticism on Tuesday as federal officials responsible for implementing and overseeing the operation testified before Congress.

The hearing came just hours after the release of a joint House and Senate report providing new details on the investigation, code-named “Operation Fast and Furious.” According to the report, at least 122 guns tied to the operation have been found by Mexican authorities at crime scenes or were recovered during police action against drug cartels.

The operation was “a perfect storm of idiocy,” Carlos Canino, a senior ATF agent in Mexico, said in the report. Other current and former ATF agents testified at the hearing that the operation violated basic agency protocols.

The “Fast and Furious” operation first ignited controversy in March after whistleblowers within the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms revealed to the media and members of Congress that a gun tied to the program had been found last December among a cache of weapons at the murder scene of a Border Patrol agent.

From yesterday:

Firearms dealers in states that allow medical marijuana can’t sell guns or ammunition to registered users of the drug, a policy that marijuana and gun-rights groups say denies Second Amendment rights to individuals who are following state law.

Federal law already makes it illegal for someone to possess a gun if he or she is “an unlawful user of, or addicted to” marijuana or other controlled substances. A Sept. 21 letter from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, issued in response to numerous inquiries from gun dealers, clarifies that medical marijuana patients are included in that definition.

So let me get this straight. Gun sales to people who are widely expected to use those guns to kill people are ok (as long as the ATF thinks that there’s a chance that it could help them bring down Mexico’s drug trafficking organizations), but gun sales to people who have permission from their doctor to use a medicinal plant that makes you more passive are not.

Every time I think members of our government have managed to do the dumbest thing possible, they always top it.

Irony

by Carl Ballard — Thursday, 9/29/11, 8:16 pm

Professional writer who writes for a living at the Tacoma News Tribune, Cheryl Tucker, sure is pleased to use “ironic” wrongly. From her post about how she feels that it’s ironic that Tacoma Teachers want to get paid, “(And I’m sure some teacher will write in to tell me that I’m misusing “irony.” Go tell it to Alanis Morrisette).”

First, super current. Great job keeping up with the zeitgeist. Second, I’m going to have to take a pass on mocking the obvious disdain for teachers: I could just do posts making fun of editorial writers’ disdain for teachers, but there are only so many jokes, and they would quickly get as stale as an Alanis Morrisette joke in 2011.

All that aside, it’s the calling things ironic at all that bugs me. Not so much for the getting it wrong, but that it’s completely unnecessary. If you just describe the thing you think is ironic, and then it turns out not to be ironic, you’ve told an interesting (hopefully) story, and you don’t look the fool. If your story turned out to be ironic, well, congrats on telling a story where irony was a factor, that didn’t need to spell it out for your audience. I mean it’s not like when Romeo is killing himself at the end of the play that he says, “it sure would be ironic if Juliet was still alive” because fuck that, it would be terrible. I guess what I’m saying is why can’t everyone on the Internet write as well as the Bard?

But I’m not just here to criticize meta uses of literary devices and references from the early 1990’s. I’m also here to help. So here’s a list of things you might say instead of “ironic” when you still feel the need to describe a thing, but perhaps you’d like to do so a bit more accurately or interestingly:

  • Interesting
  • Coincidental
  • Poetic justice*
  • Hypocritical
  • Silly
  • Odd
  • Amusing
  • Strange
  • Funny (ha ha)
  • Funny (the other kind)

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