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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Stephen is horrified by Boehner’s support of gay Republican.

Funny or Die: Here’s how you’re getting fucked!

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

David Pakman: Obama outperforms Reagan on jobs, growth & investing.

White House: West Wing Week.

Ed and Pap: Rick Scott can’t shake his criminal past.

Bill Clinton Returns to Arkansas to save the Dems.

Maddow: GOP-driven voting laws hurt turnout report.

Sam Seder: Republican Scott Brown thinks nobody cares about equal pay for women.

Jon to AIG: Go fuck yourselves.

Young Turks: Obama to close Gitmo…Republicans freak out.

Lewis Black says fuck voter suppression:

Thom: Boehner admits Republicans have no jobs plan.

Sam Seder and Janeane Garofalo: Why the climate crisis is getting worse.
Mental Floss: 100 Amazing Facts.

Pap: What Republican obstruction has cost.

Political Ebola:

Rubin Report: Doing this in Seattle will get you fined $1.

Jon has a problem with Obama’s “Terrible, horrible, no good, very bad war”.

Young Turks: Jon Stewart for Meet the Press host?

Stephen defends Columbus.

David Pakman: Joe the Plumber goes full racist with misspelled slurs:

Maddow: Tasteless GOP political ad still online.

Sam Seder: Rand Paul was insane and hated the poor as a college student.

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

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    I had an adventure getting home tonight. I work just off Nickerson, and with the D-Line on Detour, it’s not stopping at 15th and Emerson while crews are working on the Emerson flyover, and the stop I usually board at, Emerson. I had to walk across the Ballard Bridge to get to the nearest open stop, just to go south. I just got home.

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    Yet another crooked corporation: A California homebuilder is being sued for $30 million by 1,500 homebuyers for shoddy construction.

    http://seattletimes.com/html/l.....t2xml.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Texas has enacted a law that takes away homebuyers’ right to sue builders for shoddy construction, instead requiring them to submit to arbitration by a panel of builders’ representatives. The Koch-backed ALEC organization is trying to get this shitty law enacted in all 50 states. Meanwhile, if you move to Texas for some reason, which I can’t comprehend, do NOT buy a newly-built home there, because if it has defects, you have virtually no legal recourse, you’ll just be stuck with it.

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    Neighboring Arizona, also run by Republican troglodytes, has passed a law disallowing municipalities from enacting minimum wages higher than the state standard, and of course there isn’t a state standard, Arizona’s minimum wage is the federal wage of $7.25, and they’d repeal that if they could. You don’t want to live in Arizona unless your income comes from somewhere else, such as a pension, because you can’t live on the wages there.

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    Now that state-level minimum wage increases are gaining unstoppable momentum, even in deep-red states like Alaska, and stonewalling the issue isn’t working anymore, conservatives are trying a new tactic. Yep, you guessed it, they’re pushing “minimum income” in lieu of “minimum wage,” meaning tax credits and welfare. If we go along with this, you know what’ll happen next, these slimeballs would try to repeal the guaranteed income in the next session of Congress or the legislature. The only time I’ll ever trust a conservative is when his hands are in the air with a gun pointing at him while waiting for the police to arrive.

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    @2 Meanwhile, Joe the (un)Plumber is talking about going to school with “pollocks, WAPS, [sic], krauts, n*****s,” etc. (watch video above). What school? If he ever went to school, he must have slept through every class, because he never learned to spell. (Back in 2008, we learned his arithmetic isn’t so hot, either.)

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    I have an idea: “Joe” and Palin should run together as a ticket for their own independent party (they could call it the “Secession” or “Confederate” Party); by making the GOP split the idiot vote with them, they’d make sure only Democrats would win.

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    A lot of people I know that are republican don’t really oppose gay marriage, as pol suggest. They hold themselves as innocent bystanders to other republicans who are opposing gay marriage. But those same people will accuse or hold responsible a democrat voter for the ills of their own party.

    Next time just reply that you are an innocent bystander and that you don’t always agree with your own party. Don’t let them hold you accountable because they are never accountable.

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    12)Not sure, but Washington may be one of the 25, but supposedly the Redistricting Commission drew the 9th to be a majority minority district.

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    With the potential of third party and independent candidates to spoil some races, and parties making deals to avoid it, I was wondering if Faivote, which among reforms that they champion, is ranked choice/instant runoff voting. Maine Governor, Kansas and South Dakota Senate, are a couple of races it could be useful in. I did not find much on these races, on their site, but found something on their criticism of Top Two, but instead of abolishing the system used in Washington, California, and Louisiana, they proposed ways of making it better.
    http://www.fairvote.org/resear.....-with-irv/

    One is Top Four, which could see some third party and independent candidates advance, also would allow IRV/RCV to be used. Unless we were willing to change the rules on when ballots were due, I doubt it would work here, as it was one of the reasons IRV failed to work in Pierce County.

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    In New Zealand, they dumped Winner Take All in favor of Mixed Member Proportional for elections to their House of Representatives in the 1990’s. For most of those 20 years, their had not been an absolute majority government. This year, for the first time in 20 years, a party has won more than 60 seats in the nominally 120 seat unicameral legislature. One of the reasons that the center-right National Party won it’s third term was that the economy is doing well(the dairy industry supplying the Chinese market helped, and the recession was not bad there to begin with), the Labor Party leader was not popular. One thing about this election, is no vote was wasted, the left-leaning Greens and right-leaning New Zealand First won seats proportional to their vote share. One aspect to the New Zealand system, is the indigenous vote. Of the 120 seats, 71 are by district, , 7 of those come from Maori-only electorates, but are different than majority minority districts seen in the US. The number of these rise and fall based on how many enroll on a special voter roll, and are drawn accordingly.
    http://www.fairvote.org/resear.....w-zealand/

    The threshold for representation is 5%, or one district seat.

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    Wash State never elected a black? Noooooooooooo… progressive Wash State? Mississippi sent the first black senator to Congress. ever. Remember Republican Edward Brooke of Massachusetts became the first African-American popularly elected to the Senate. Then MA became DUMMOCRETIN land! Looks like Black Republican Tim Scott will win in South Carolina. Think about Gary Franks (CT), J.C. Watts (OK), and Allen West (FL). They were all voted in by white majorities! Then Connecticut through out their black Republican congressman and went DUMMOCRETIN all the way! The withe DUMMOCRETINS of Congress couldn’t allow Allen West to survive so they went all out racist on Allen West.

    It should be noted that Tim Scott held Jesse Helms congressional seat and is representing a former Jim Crow state in the senate. Butt DUMMOCRETINS will skip over that because it makes their puny argument fail!

    This is something HA DUMMOCRETINS want to forget about their party… From WikiPedia

    From 1890-1908, Democratic state legislatures in the South essentially disfranchised most blacks and many poor whites from voting by passing new constitutions or amendments, or other laws related to more restrictive electoral and voter registration and electoral rules. The Democratic Party essentially dominated the “Solid South” until the 1960s. As a result of the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the U.S. Congress passed laws in the mid-1960s to end segregation and enforce constitutional civil rights and voting rights.

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    Seems poor empty tea bag with the puffed butt has a hardon for Puddy. Puddy not around for a few says and #9 proves his “love”!

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    Meanwhile real news passes by and nuthin about it in the Friday Night Comix…http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....story.html

    VERO BEACH, Fla. — There were no U.S. air marshals watching the newly clean-shaven passenger on the transatlantic­ flight, no FBI agents waiting for him as he landed in Newark in May 2013 after returning from Syria’s civil war.
    …

    Earlier this year, after returning to Syria, Abusalha became the first American to carry out a suicide attack in that country, blowing up a restaurant frequented by Syrian soldiers on behalf of an al-Qaeda affiliate. His death May 25 was accompanied by the release of a menacing video. “You think you are safe where you are in America,” he said, threatening his own country and a half-dozen others. “You are not safe.”

    More HA DUMMOCRETIN religion of peace friends!

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    SchizoPudd @ 24

    You do know that most of the Cocoa plantations in Africa are worked by slaves, right? Slaves owned by Dutch, American (*cough*, Pat Robertson) and Swiss billionaires.

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    It’s just as we suspected: Greedy Wall Street billionaires are trying to buy themselves a GOP congress.

    http://www.cnbc.com/id/102071727

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Why would anyone in their right mind vote for a greedy Wall Street billionaire? That’s exactly what you’re doing if you vote for their GOP proxy.

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    Studio 54. That is such old news You do realize they already published dozens of books and made at least one movie about the dark side of Studio 54. The only people shocked by this any more seem to be people like you. The way you wrote your condemnation strongly suggests you are envious of the place and may secretly wished you had been there. The same way that the most vocal opponents to gay rights and gay marriage are usually secretly harboring gay tendencies.

    Here’s something else to think about
    http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010.....-scandals/

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    This was a fascinating article.
    I’m not black, my husband is, and our son is biracial,
    http://www.theatlantic.com/pol.....ld/381189/

    “And this was the summer of Jordan Davises, the summer of bodies when every day, a black parent could log on to the Internet and see the bodies of black people choked into oblivion, beaten on the side of the road, stalked and raped, tased for straying too long, pistol-whipped for running too fast, shot down for mental illness, shot down for cos-play, shot down for allegedly ignoring orders, shot down for too quickly obeying orders.”

    Every segment in that paragraph, was a link to a story where a black kid was kill or shot just for doing those things.

    This was a fascinating section. The protective quality of being white in America, as in, the cops are 21 times more likely to shoot a young black man over a young white man.
    “…I read a story about a white couple suing over “wrongful birth.” The “wrongful birth” came about because one of the mothers was mistakenly artificially inseminated by a black man. The mothers claimed that their desire was to “find a donor with genetic traits similar to them.” There are all sorts of genetic traits influencing everything from height to weight to eye-color to predilections to certain diseases. But the traits that the couple wanted were those that firmly would place their child under the protective dome of white America.”

    I wonder how many blacks choose to be conservative because they thinks it will give them and their children some form of “protection”? I can imagine advantages,

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    You do know that most of the Cocoa plantations in Africa are worked by slaves, right? – Really racist deadtoad? Got proof?

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    Giggle pig worser,

    Where did Puddy claim shock on Studio 54? Just another libtard drug joint full of libtards doing drugs! Butt this book claims to be the real expose not something

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    What’s interesting is the skip over by HA DUMMOCRETINS especially over the prostitution scandal!

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    Apparently you are outraged, personally I don’t care about prostitution. And it’s hardly a scandal, it’s nothing like the scandal of the Iraq war. You show me where you were outraged by the bush and cheneys first. This is just hypocritical conservative posturing by your part.

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    worser,

    Sux to be you. They throw the Secret Service under the bus but cover this political operative son who was just a involved. Then they cover it up before an erection!

    Yes it sux to be you!

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    In New Zealand, the Maori seats in the House of Representatives have been subject to debate in recent years, among the Maori themselves. Prior to the switch to MMP, it was only 4 districts, regardless of how many chose the Maori electoral roll, but after the switch, the number has floated between six and seven. With Mixed Member Proportional, the number of Maori elected in all parties has gone up. The system has done the same in Germany as well. The Turkish community is well represented across party lines at all levels, and in 2013, the first two members of the Bundestag of African Origin, both Muslims I believe, were elected, one from the Social Democrats, the other from the Bavaria-based Christian Social Union.
    http://m.nzherald.co.nz/rotoru.....d=11334641

    A little history of the Maori seats.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.....lectorates

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    In Proportional representation systems in General, women candidates tend to do better than winner take all. The Bundestag election last year, saw a record number elected.
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-24626276

    One way it is done is the position on the list. In Sweden, the Social Democrats accomplish this through a voluntary quota, of 50%, which basically means every other candidate. The way the Social Democrats got their African member elected, was he ran for a district in Saxony-Anhalt, but was also in the top three on their party list in that state, and the party vote is closed list. Germany allows this process of Double inclusion, but it is not a requirement of Mixed Member Proportional.

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    Oh my and where is deadtoad the racist here? http://www.salon.com/2014/10/1....._and_over/

    EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Warren on Barack Obama: “They protected Wall Street. Not families who were losing their homes. Not people who lost their jobs. And it happened over and over and over”

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