Happy new year all!

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by Darryl — ,
Join us tonight as we close out 2014 and toast in the new year at this week’s Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.
We meet every Tuesday evening for friendly conversation at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up before that for dinner.
Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings over the next week. Tonight the Tri-Cities chapter also meets. And next Monday, the Yakima and South Bellevue chapters meet.
There are 177 chapters of Living Liberally, including fifteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.
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Obama violates his own “head” rule.
Sam Seder: FAUX News affiliate smears and distorts an anti-Police brutality rally.
Young Turks: Darrell Issa turns up bupkis in IRS “scandal”.
Alex Wagner and friends: The race gap:
Pap: Republicans up a creek on immigration.
2014 in Review:
A holiday message for Congress.
WaPo: Can we buy Cuban cigars now?
Farron Cousins: What can you get when you buy a politician?
A Grimm Reality:
David Pakman: FCC ignored hundreds of thousands of net neutrality comments.
Michele Bachmann talks with God.
Young Turks: D.A. McCulloch knowingly put liar on the stand.
Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: What led to the fracking ban in NY?
WaPo: Members recall their best and worst days in Congress.
David Pakman: More Chris Christie corruption?
Bang!
Lawrence O’Donnell: Putin v. Obama.
White House: West Wing Week.
David Pakman: Almost everything Republicans have said or predicted about Obama has turned out to be wrong.
Thom Hartman: The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Ugly.
Eric Schwartz and friends: MPG for Kim Jong-Un (NSFW):
Chris Hayes: GOP and FAUX News are WRONG again on Economy and Obamacare.
Thom: Where did Santa and the elves come from?
The Koch Dystopia:
Lawrence O’Donnell: Innocent 14 y.o. executed and exonerated 70 years too late.
Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: Why would Jeb Bush run?
WaPo: Caught in the ocean during the 2004 tsunami.
What do Democrats and Republicans think of each other.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
by Darryl — ,
Join us tonight for some pre-holiday cheer and some political catharsis over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.
We meet tonight and every Tuesday evening for friendly conversation at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up before that for dinner.
There are 177 chapters of Living Liberally, including fifteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.
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Thom: Politically correcting Bill-O on his crazy climate change statements.
Season’s Greetings:
James Rustad: Ted Cruz…a rebel without a clue.
Thom: You don’t frack with New York.
Jon hits Hannity over referring to Jay Z as a “crack dealer”
The Cuban Mingle Crisis:
Congressional Hits and Misses.
Ed and Pap: Another corrupt Bush seeking White House?
Young Turks: Andrew Hawkins has some powerful words:
Megyn Kelly: When things go weird with Obama.
Torture in our Name:
Larry Wilmore’s Nightly Show promo.
Sam Seder: Jeb Bush and the Republican clown car.
Obama talks about his own experience with racial profiling.
Thom: Is a climate disaster lurking off of the coast of Washington state?
Poison Pills:
White House: West Wing Week.
“Mom…you’re embarrassing us!”
Thom: The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Ugly.
Obama takes a swing at Keystone.
Sony and Kim-J:
Jimmy Dore: Ben Stein reveals his racist side talking about Ferguson.
Mental Floss: 13 inventions and innovations creating a better future for women.
Matt Binder: Ten Sandy Hook families sue gun maker.
Maddow: On Putin, GOP & FAUX News must eat their words:
Jimmy Kimmel: The YEAR in unnecessary censorship.
Does Stephen Commit Comicide?:
Thom: Is George Zimmerman right?
Sam Seder: Ted Cruz “own goals” the G.O.P..
Farron Cousins: Jeb Bush is the worst Republican traits on one package.
Not Mental Floss: 13 thing you think are true but aren’t.
Nutbag Republican state lawmaker proposes women have to ask men’s permission to have an abortion.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
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As most of you know, the Horsesass in the title of this blog was inspired by Tim “Biggest Lie of My Life” Eyman. Specifically, Goldy purchased this domain name as part of his initiative that, if passed, would have declared Mr. Eyman a horse’s ass.
The fate of the initiative in qualifying for the ballot and, ultimately, succeeding at the ballot cannot be known, as the meddling state Attorney General sued Goldy to keep the initiative off the ballot. And, no, it wasn’t Rob McKenna—who certainly was an irrational Goldy-phobe. No…it was actually AG Christine Gregoire.
Goldy stuck with the Horsesass brand name, if only to give former FEMA Director Michael “Heck-of-a-Job-Brownie” Brown a little bit of irony in his life.
Goldy’s little local lefty blog has, apparently, inspired more than just McKenna and Brownie. People for the American Way who, among other things, have a project called Right Wing Watch, have an annual award that seems related to this blog:
The Equine Posterior Achievement Award has been created to honor that leader whose abilities to misrepresent an issue, manipulate his/her followers, brazenly disregard reality or pander to our baser instincts reach such ridiculous levels that we don’t know whether to laugh or cry. In other words, a genuine “horse’s patootie.”
Huh…it sounds like something Tim Eyman could qualify for…I mean, if he was actually a leader and had something approaching a national profile.
In any case, since you are reading a blog called Horsesass, might I interest you in voting for the most worthy recipient of the Equine Posterior Achievement Award?
This year’s nominees are Ted Cruz, the Benham Brothers, Gordon Klingenschmitt, Jody Hice, Texas State Board of Education, Glenn Beck, Pat Robertson, Ben Carson, Bryan Fischer, and Kevin Swanson. Them are some good nominees…but you can, instead, write-in your own favorite horse’s ass.
But don’t bother writing in Eyman. He’s no longer relevant.
by Darryl — ,
Join us tonight for some politics under the influence at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.
We meet tonight and every Tuesday evening for friendly conversation (sometimes it gets a little harsh, but we stop short of torture) at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up before that for dinner.
Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings this week. Tonight the Tri-Cities and Shelton chapters also meet. The Lakewood chapter meets on Wednesday. And on Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets.
There are 177 chapters of Living Liberally, including fifteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.
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Mental Floss: 90 facts about the 1990s.
Thom: Is the Koch brothers’ curriculum coming to your kid’s school?
Congressional staff walk out to protest police killing black men.
Mike Pesca: Please say something nice about your opponent:
Jimmy Dore: Racism is dead…just like all the black people police killed.
Thom: More Good, Bad and Very, Very Ugly.
Alyona: Nutburger Michele Bachmann want to bomb Iran for Christmas.
Jon knows how to beat ISIS: Send more Millennials.
Torture in Our Names:
David Pakman: Republican plan to cancel Obama State of the Union gains traction.
Stephen interviews Smaug Burns…a very serious conservative.
Pap: Will wage theft derail minimum wage movement?.
Chris Hayes: Was Darren Wilson’s STAR witness #40 even there???.
Sam Seder: Scott Walker wishes his Jewish friends a “molotov” Hanukkah!.
White House: West Wing Week.
Maddow: Bad predictions about protests from Bill-O-the-Clown and Megyn Kelly.
David Pakman: Idiot Rick Perry thinks inequality is not a prob. because the Bible predicts poor people.
Puppet Nation: News of the week.
Just Pain Ugly:
Mental Floss: Misconceptions about your house.
Thom: The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Ugly.
Slate: $0.00 is the Cost of Making Public Colleges Tuition Free.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
by Darryl — ,
Join us tonight for another adventure in politics over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.
We meet tonight and every Tuesday evening at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up before that for dinner.
Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings this week. The Tri-Cities, Redmond, and Vancouver, WA chapters also meet on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the Bellingham and Spokane chapters meet. The Bremerton chapter meets on Thursday. And next Monday, the Aberdeen and Yakima chapters meet.
There are 177 chapters of Living Liberally, including fifteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho, so chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.
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Thom: The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Ugly.
Puppet Nation: News of the week:
Ever notice how America is like a bad boyfriend.
Mental Floss: Misconceptions about Sleep.
David Pakman: More guns = more crime, no matter what NRA feels.
Thom: The secret ALEC conference.
Black and White and Red All Over:
Mike Pesca: A tribute to Nancy Grace.
Sam Seder and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: The Republican mission to destroy climate action.
David Pakman: Nutburger Republicans consider banning Obama from delivering State of the Union Address.
Mental Floss: 26 little things that changed history forever.
Richard Fowler: The GOP plan to rig the 2016 election.
White House: West Wing Week.
Immigration Action Reaction:
Sam Seder: What the fuck is up with Uber?
Guess who’s coming to The Colbert Report.
Maddow: AZ, KS, and Florida GOP are trying to kill solar power.
Thom: More Good, Bad, and Very, Very Ugly.
University of Virginia Rape Story:
Young Turks: Glenn Beck sued for defamation by Saudi he constantly defamed.
Thom: Some more Good, Bad, and Very, Very Ugly.
Stephen thanks Nazis for getting Congress to agree on something.
David Pakman: Nutjob Christan pastor calls for killing gay people.
TurkeyGate!
Obama speaks on the economy.
Richard Fowler: Voter proved he wasn’t quite dead yet.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
by Darryl — ,
Please join us tonight for another evening of politics and conversation over a drink at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.
We meet tonight and every Tuesday evening at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up before that for dinner.
Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings this week. Tonight the Tri-Cities chapter also meets. The Lakewood chapter meets on Wednesday. On Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets.
There are 178 chapters of Living Liberally, including fifteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho, so chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.
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Mark Fiore: Congressional Turkeys.
Young Turks: People love ObamaCare, so long as they don’t know what it is called.
Puppet Nation: U.S. News:
White House: West Wing Week.
Richard Fowler: Sen. Elizabeth Warren takes her fight to Walmart.
Young Turks: Governor insists food stamps come with drug tests.
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week.
David Pakman: Republican Koch House passes bill muzzling EPA scientists.
Sam Seder: Solyndra turns out to be the opposite of a scandal.
Ferguson, Goddamn:
Thom: Is Walmart playing “Hunger Games” with its employees?
Farron Cousins: Net Neutrality battle rages on.
David Pakman: Director of ex-gay conversion clinic ends up marrying his same-sex partner.
Sam Seder: How Republicans ran from their right wing victory…
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
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Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses—Thanksgiving edition
The meaning of Thanksgiving, Cold War style.
Fallon: Pros and cons of Thanksgiving.
What we talk about when we talk politics at Thanksgiving.
‘Twas the night before Thanksgiving:
Der Witz: Happy Thanksgiving.
Rubin Report with Dave Rubin and Gina Grad: Talking politics at Thanksgiving.
HuffPo’s collection of Thanksgiving Jokes.
Meghan Trainor’s Thanksgiving Carols
Obama pardons the Thanksgiving turkey:
…and the ever-classic “Sarah Palin and the Thanksgiving day massacre“:
Just don’t do it (H/T Bob Dole)!
The politics of Thanksgiving day,
Mental Floss: 23 Thanksgiving food facts.
Even lemurs can enjoy Thanksgiving dinner at the Brookfield Zoo.
Medite says, “Enough with the “How to Discuss Politics at Thanksgiving” Posts Already, including a dozen “how to discuss politics at Thanksgiving” links.
Roy Zimmerman: I’m dreaming of a Black Friday:
by Darryl — ,
Please join us tonight for some pre-Thanksgiving turkey talk and political prognostication over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.
We meet tonight and every Tuesday evening at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up before that for dinner.
Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings this week. Tonight the Tri-Cities chapter also meets. On Wednesday, the Bellingham and Burien chapters meet. And next Monday, the Yakima and South Bellevue chapters meet.
There are 202 chapters of Living Liberally, including sixteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and three in Idaho, so chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.
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Mental Floss: Misconceptions about pets.
Sam Seder: Tommy Chong smokes FAUX News.
Executive Action:
Matt Binder: The KKK does some “rebranding”.
Lawrence O’Donnell: Why the 2014 election spells disaster for Republicans in 2016.
Stephen: Assholes for Freedom.
Sam Seder and Dahlia Lithwick: What’s ruining the Supreme Court.
Liberal Viewer: FAUX News politicizes ISIS beheading.
WaPo: Sentenced to death without all the evidence.
David Pakman: Libertarian “champion” Rand Paul helps kill NSA reform bill.
Lawmaker asks about a moat for the White House.
Sam Seder: Bill-O-The-Clown kicks off the 2014 War On Christmas Season for FAUX News.
Political Keystone:
Olbermann: Bill-O the Clown is BACK as Worst Person in the World!
Sam Seder: The funniest public service ad ever.
Puppet Nation: U.S. News of the Week:
White House: West Wing Week.
Lewis Black breaks down FAUX News’ relationship with Black Friday.
David Pakman: Court rejects challenge to contraception rules.
Stephen does Jon.
Chris Hayes: More deceptive FAUX News propaganda.
Neutrality Confusion:
Thom: The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Ugly.
Mental Floss: 62 last name meanings.
Maddow: What we want and who we elected to do it.
Jon: Who is Jonathan Gruber?
Thom: More Good, Bad, and Very, Very Ugly.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.