Archives for June 2017

Josh Pieters: What Is Climate Change?

This is almost as crazy as that viral NRA video.

America Lives Through the Terrible Трампs:

• Full Frontal: Words still have no meaning
• Stephen: This is what is wrong with the President.
• Late Show: New White House briefing rules:

• Seth Meyers: Трамп’s private prisons.
• Stephen: Трамп rejoices over CNN’s commitment to journalistic ethics
• Olbermann: Why are we appeasing Трамп
• Seth Meyers: Трамп tweets while Republicans huddle on health care
• Трамп’s refugee/travel ban explained
• Women respond to Трамп’s “Morning Joe” tweet.
• Bill Maher: The real housewife of Pennsylvania ave.
• Samantha Bee: ICE unleashed
• Olbermann: Трамп will not be cleared
• Stephen: Stephen returns from Russia with an apology for Трамп

Samantha Bee with Elizabeth Warren: Persisting 101.

Bill Maher interviews Dan Savage.

Grace Parra: Defend immigrants & the immigrant defense project.

GOP Death Panels:

• Samantha Bee: Last call for nasty women.
• How a bill becomes a law: Трампcare edition:

• Seth Meyers: Senate Трампcare would leave 22 million more uninsured
• Thank you, Senate!
• Stephen: “Repeal and Replace” is being “Delayed and Postponed”
• Jim Jefferies: The new healthcare plan is a secret
• Samantha Bee: Medicaid’s last stand
• WaPo: Why health care is so tough for Republicans.
• Mark Fiore: The Institute for Empathetic Studies
• 13 men wrote a health care bill that would hurt women
• American health box:

• Seth Meyers: Трамп doesn’t seem to know anything about health care
• Poll: Senate health care bill is deeply unpopular

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

Sorry I forgot to post something this morning. I’m reading a biography of Alexander Dumas’ father, and it’s quite fascinating. I just read it on my way in to work instead of doing any writing. Here’s your thread. 9 hours late, and a half-assed apology.

Do we have a budget yet? Now? How ’bout now? I mean it would be nice. Now?

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight. Please join us while Washington state is still in business and people can still afford health insurance.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the other 234 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, five in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.

Seattle Pride went rather well. The only hitch was it would have been nice if it was 10 degrees cooler. I couldn’t watch the whole parade, even though I was in the shade.

Proverbs 16:18
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Discuss.

The Daily Show: DJ Khaled’s World of Positivity.

Stephen cares about your health (for money)

Sam Seder and Andy Kindler: Something about how unfunny Denis Miller is.

Mental Floss: 29 states with weird nicknames for their residents.

The Travesty that is Трамп:

• Sean Spicer, Sarah McLachlan ASPCA commercial
• Kimmel: Lil’ Havana
• Samantha Bee: Fantastic words and where not to find them
• James Corden: Surprise! Трамп doesn’t have Comey tapes
• Olbermann: What if Трамп actually fires Mueller?
• Ezra Klein: Трамп’s policy agenda is a bigger scandal than his Russia ties
• Stephen: Sean Spicer is irreplaceable (because no one wants his job).
• The President Show: The President is in trouble.:

• Olbermann: So, does Трамп have tapes of Comey?
• Michael Brooks: Trump lied about the Comey tapes to see if HE WOULD LIE
• Late Show: Leaked best man speech from the wedding Трамп crashed
• Daily Show: Donald Трамп—A man of characters
• Young Turks: tweets strange non-denial of Comey tapes
• Jimmy Fallon: Pros and cons of Трамп being investigated.
• Ten memorable moments from Sean Spicer’s news briefings
• Olbermann: Трамп appears to be self destructing.
• Kimmel: Drunk Donald Трамп on electoral maps
• The President Show: Witch hunt.
• Stephen: Is Трамп under investigation? His lawyer says yes, no, and more!
• Seth Meyers: Is Трамп under investigation? He and his lawyers disagree.

Mark Fiore: Friend or foe?

Hasan Minhaj: America’s war problem.

Two dads, two daughters, one goal.

Sam Seder: Governor Brownback’s failed Kansas experiment

The Congresscritter Carcinoma:

• Stephen: Republicans want a vote, not a debate, on AHCA.
• Seth Meyers: Senate GOP tries to rush its cruel Трампcare bill
• Trevor: The terrifying tale of Трампcare:

• David Hawkings’ Whiteboard: How Congress’ schedule works
• Young Turks: Sen. Rand Paul thinks Trumpcare not vicious enough.
• Seth Meyers: Republicans don’t know what’s in their own health care bill
• PsychoSuperMom: Secret bill.
• Trevor: Whatever Трамп is selling, his people are buying
• Ezra Klein: The Senate health bill—poor people pay more for worse insurance
• Republican health care bill reveal party
• Bill Maher: Make America sick again!
• Roy Zimmerman: Old Man Fibber:

• Senate Majority turtle Mitch McConnell has changed his mind on how to pass health care reform
• Wall Street owns Congress.

Late Show: What Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods will look like.

Maddow: Russian election hacks took US to Brink if cyberwar: .

Bill Maher: I didn’t reproduce day..

Samantha Bee: Summer news.

Trevor: So much news, so little time.

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

My morning bus route has had the same substitute driver a few times now. He has been excitedly greeting everyone who gets on the bus, “good morning!”

If every driver had to do that, it would be a horror. But for one driver not every day, it was nice? Maybe.

I remember a conversation I had after the consent decree in Seattle. A friend of mine couldn’t understand why SPD needed it. They said something like “there are so many big city police departments that are so much worse.” I don’t know if that’s true, but if it is, it speaks poorly of policing in general in this country.

If Charleena Lyles couldn’t rely on the supposedly not so bad SPD, who she called, there really has to be fundamental reform of all police.

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight for our weekly gathering of conversation over drinks. Please stop by and say hello.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the other 234 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, five in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.

Seattle has a lot of neat little parks. I was in one just North of Northgate Mall over the weekend. It had a bunch of exercise equipment. What a hoot. I used them all in my street clothes.

Genesis 9:20-25
Noah farmed the land and was the first to plant a vineyard. One day he got drunk and was lying naked in his tent. Ham entered the tent and saw him naked, then went back outside and told his brothers. Shem and Japheth put a robe over their shoulders and walked backwards into the tent. Without looking at their father, they placed it over his body.

When Noah woke up and learned what his youngest son had done, he said, “I now put a curse on Canaan! He will be the lowest slave of his brothers.”

Discuss.

Mark Fiore: Meanwhile, besides Russia.

Finally they’ve made a “Handmaid’s Tail” for men.

Trevor: What’s in the mysterious GOP healthcare bill?

Samantha Bee: Great moments in congressional hallway history.

WaPo: Oregon becomes first state to offer “not specified” gender option on ID cards.

James Corden: We have a new name for FAUX and Friends, too.

The “Dear Leader Трамп” Sessions:

• Seth Meyers: Sessions testimony and GOP secret health care bill
• Late Show: Introducing Трамп leakage protection underwear
• Session’s testimony in 3 minutes.
• This is a big deal.
• Sam Seder: Трамп scandals vs. the great Obama Dijon-mustard scandal
• Conan: Melania Трамп is redecorating the White House
• Farron Cousins: Трамп is personally under criminal investigation
• Kimmel: Flags against Трамп
• Stephen: Robert Mueller’s dream team is giving Трамп nightmares
• Songify the News: Трамп Vs. Macron
• Seth Meyers: Трамп is personally under investigation.
• Trevor: Rumors over Robert Mueller’s fate & Jeff Sessions in the Senate hot seat
• Newsy News: Трамп vs Comey
• David Pakman: Трамп breaks new record—60% disapproval
• Jonathan Mann: Jeff Sessions supercut song:

• Seth Meyers: Late Night White House press briefing–How long until Mike Pence becomes President?
• Kimmel: Jeff Session’s “tell”
• Sam Seder: Ivanka Трамп is surprised by “level of viciousness” in politics.
• Jimmy Fallon: Трамп Cabinet.
• Farron Cousins: Trump becomes the least popular President in record breaking time
• Young Turks: Трамп is now under investigation by special counsel
• WaPo factchecks Трамп: “America built the Golden Gate Bridge in four years and the Hoover Dam in five?”
• Lawrence O’Donnell and friends: Трамп’s Tweets destroying his presidency
• PsychoSuperMom: The ballad of Jeff Sessions
• Stephen: Melania Трамп gets emotional about moving into the White House
• Kimmel: What really happened when Melania moved into the White House.
• Jimmy Fallon: Трамп gets some birthday cards
• Full Frontal: A very Comey watching party.
• Jimmy Kimmel: Donald Трамп plays “Where’s Waldo?”
• Late Show: Jeff Sessions stars in “How to spot a stoner”.
• Seth Meyers: Трамп attacks Comey, makes cabinet praise him
• The President Show: The birthday boy.
• Stephen: The threat from Russians is real.
• Kimmel: Is Трамп the subject of the greatest witch hunt in history?
• Jim Jefferies Show: Life in Melania Трамп’s hometown
• WaPo: Two years later, has Трамп kept his campaign promises?
• Samantha Bee: Sessions’s southern-fried snoozefest
• Stephen: Is Sen. Kamala Harris “hysterical” or “a woman doing her job?”
• Kimmel: Jeff Sessions and Looney Tunes
• Highlights of Jeff Sessions super informative testimony
• Late Show: “Real News Tonight” clearly influenced Трамп’s “jobs” Tweet
• Trevor: Трамп’s parade of shills
• The President Show: The President pushes his luck:

• Seth Meyers: Melania and Barron move into the White House
• “Witch hunt,” “fake news”: Our whiner-in-chief
• Young Turks: Трамп digs in deeper on Twitter.
• Samantha Bee: Sessions ‘n Cotton’s movie talk.
• Jimmy Kimmel: Donald Трамп’s birthday message to himself
• Stephen: Jeff Sessions can’t recall what he forgot to remember
• James Corden: Melania moves in and Donald crashes weddings.
• WaPo: Special counsel investigating Трамп for obstruction of justice
• Sam Seder: Kansas’ “trickle down” experiment is what Трамп whats for America
• Lawrence O’Donnell: ‘The cancer on the Donald Трамп presidency’
• Jimmy Fallon: Трамп stuff.
• Young Turks: Nearly 200 lawmakers sue Трамп.
• Seth Meyers: Трамп’s Facebook wall birthday wishes.

ONN: Why are there so few female directors?

Samantha Bee: The Rikers debaters:

Minute Physics: Quantum shape-shifting—Neutrino oscillations and footnote.

David Pakman: Five officials face manslaughter charges in Michigan.

Stephen: FAUX News is dropping their “Fair and Balanced” slogan.

Trevor: Another Uber sexist steps down.

Guns, Congress, and Sports:

• David Pakman: Republican Congressman shot at baseball practice
• WaPo: History of the Congressional baseball game.
• Sam Seder: Gov. Terry McAuliffe calls for gun control after baseball practice shooting
• Roll Call: History of the Congressional baseball game.
• Josh Gay: Common sense is absent from gun control debate
• WaPoHistory of lawmakers and violence from 1776 to today.
• Roll Call: The most recent shootings and threats to lawmakers
• Young Turks: Ted Nugent is done with “hate”, calls for civility!

John Oliver: Brexit II.

New Scientist: Pandas are feeling the heat.

13 men are deciding healthcare.

David Pakman: Breitbart loses 90 percent of its advertisers.

Jimmy Dore chat with Bernie Sanders about why he flaps his arms.

Samantha Bee: Child brides.

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

Another Rainier cherry post.

Washington state cherries are in! So good. So still not good for me how many I’ve eaten.

Also: I was walking up some stairs and there was a cherry tree with dozens of Rainiers on it. It was on public property, so could I have taken some? I have taken black berries from public rights of way many times, but cherries seem different.

Another reminder: Please don’t shoot anyone.