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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Mark Fiore: Voter fraud vigilantes.

White House: West Wing Week.

David Pakman: Huckabee threatens to leave Republicans over gay marriage.

Bizarre Rick Scott’s Fan Fobia:

Ann Telnaes: The thrill of feeding the war machine.

David Pakman: Jobless claims drop to lowest level in 14 years. THANKS OBAMA!

Stephen: Party like it’s Iraq in 2003.

Young Turks: The 2014 Miss Hitler contest.

Pap: Obama goes after corporate hyenas.

Thom: A red state privatization horror story.

350.org: Global power shift.

Ebola Bully:

Sam Seder: Nikki Hailey bizarre defense of Confederate flag.

SCTV: White People with Opinions:

Jonathan Mann: What’s going on in San Francisco.

Puppet Nation: News of the week.

David Pakman: $5.7 BILLION drop in hospital uncompensated care costs due to ObamaCare.

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

Mental Floss: 30 Unusual Wills.

Sam Seder: The most amazing and underreported lie of 2014, brought to you by Mitch McConnell.

Columbus Day…or Not:

Honest Gil goes to Brushy Fork.

Chris Hayes: Pentagon declares climate change a risk.

Stephen schools Sean Hannity on how REAL MEN work out.

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

Comments

  1. 1

    It’s interesting that the fan would be the story, and not the debate itself. Then again, optics can sway opinions, such as 1960.

  2. 2

    What blind stupidity, ignorance and fear looks like in combination.

    It’s so easy to rile up and terrify the conservatives. Just poke them once in a while with some bogeyman, be it terrorism ( so loosely defined as to include any protesting or dissent on the subject du jour), or a scary exotic disease, or the potential for warfare. They slurp it up like San Francisco coke whores at a rainbow party. The first thing they do is reach for their guns and start frantically looking for something or someone they can shoot.

    Scroll down on that for extra lulz. You’ll see how “christians” react when there’s a new demon in their midst.

  4. 4

    Glen Beck has an epic meltdown over the Ebola scare, milking it for every spittle-flecked moment he can muster without blowing an aneurysm. This is what chronic alcoholic psychosis looks like. I’d bet a dime that if his skull was ever PET scanned, it would show a mostly hollow space surrounded by plaque buildup.

  5. 5

    (un)SP is dead and HA lives. Poor Pudge and Jim Miller. They both have blogs, yet nobody ever visits them. So sad. I reckon they’ll have to post comments here at HA if they ever want their opinions read again. Heh. I hope they’ll drop by and share with us just how much that sucks for them.

  7. 7

    John Oliver had a good skit on civil asset seizures in Philadelphia. It seems that if you get stopped for a broken tali light, the cops are likely to check and see if you have any cash in your wallet. Too bad for you if you just went to the ATM to get $100. The Philly cops will label it “drug money” and seize it. Then, if you want to get it back, the city powers make you jump through hoops for even a small chance of getting it back.

    Say, wasn’t Philadelphia the same place, back in the Seventies, where the cops used to dress up like Nazi officers in black leather jackets and stormed around acting like jerks? Seems to me there was a real ass running that police department at the time.

    It’s time to end all this asset seizure stuff. It’s being abused by the cops. And the cops are acting like an occupying force more and more every day.

  9. 9

    @8

    Because we allowed cops to morph into a quasi-military by the War on Drugs abuses and passing on military hardware to police forces around the country.

  10. 10

    @5 Sharansky still has ownership of the domain name till early 2015.

    If he no longer cares about it, look for him to sell the domain to another right wing outfit like EFF.

    It’ll be back – more mean-spirited and insane than ever.

    Things like that (e.g. our local village idiot troll) never stay gone for long.

  12. 12

    @5 Stefan must not have paid the phone bill. Anyone know how he’s doing? Did his corporate lawyer wife ditch him for the gardener? Is he now living in a shelter? Do they have internet there? I do in my burrow. I thought everyone has it.

  13. 13

    @12 & @5,

    I choose to believe that Stefan Sharkansky has seen the light about climate science and has shut it down to diminish the amount of useless hot air it puts into the atmosphere.

  16. 16

    In Vancouver, Canadian Pacific Railway has been clearing the right of way along the Arbutus Corridor of gardens that had been illegally put in the out of service, but not abandoned route. Was bad PR for CP, even though it’s their property, but they got another PR mishap in Montreal. They were clearing land for a staging area for upcoming track maintenance, turned out what they bulldozed, was a city park! The railroad will fix it, though.
    http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/canad.....-1.2803574

  17. 17

    If (un)SP is dead, it died with Pudge accusing everybody of lying too him. How fitting.

    And he seems to have banned scottd on the way down, as well. I had long predicted (u)SP would end with pudge banning the last remaining commenter, and it looks like the real end of (u)SP came pretty close, if indeed it has come.

  20. 20

    @17 Looks like nobody’s paying the rent anymore. Reminds me of a guy from Seattle who moved to Idaho after his wife and kids disappeared, remarried, the new wife cut off the rent checks for his storage locker in Seattle, and that’s when they found his missing family.

  22. 22

    SP used to be one of the most thoughtful voices of the local conservative minority, a low bar to be sure, but still worth reading and engaging in debate. Sadly, the posters have apparently lost interest in serious analysis, writing mostly on fringe topics when they’ve briefly popped out of hibernation. Stefan’s become invisible, pudge increasingly tiresome as the caricature of a bully, Jim Miller way over-impressed with his own smugness. And the few intelligent conservative commenters have moved on, probably embarrassed at the blatant idiocy of their peers. I can now find a more intelligent explanation of conservative reasoning on HorsesAss than uSP. RIP.

  23. 23

    With interchanges like the one proposed at Madison St it’s a good thing that the Thomson Expressway, also called in Drawings, Empire Expressway, was never completed. I have taken the#8 bus down Martin Luther King Jr Way several times, and it is a mix of neighborhoods along the route, with higher densities.
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemunicipalarchives/6842850635/

    Now, as a rail proponent, I know highway proponents would consider the point where LINK towers over I-5 and SR-518, an eyesore, just like some say about elevated highways. I was hoping that the ramps to nowhere could be preserved, even when SR-520 is replaced, it would be a good monument to the era when they thought choking off the city with freeways was the way to go, and also to the era when people learned to fight City Hall, although with winning those fights is getting harder.

  24. 24

    @22 There long ago ceased to by any intelligent conservative discussion in this country. That died with William F. Buckley. Maybe part of the reason is because conservatives aren’t “conservative” anymore. They’re not really for small government, free markets, or individual freedom. Mainly they’re for lining their own pockets from any pocket they can pick, and like everyone else they’ve discovered that taxpayer pockets are easier pickings than most and are trying to make the most of it.

  25. 25

    Amusing Thought: (un)sp.com, the Republicans’ last blowhard blog in WA, is less reliable than ObamaCare’s healthcare.gov

  26. 26

    @24 See, e.g., the $225,000 the ex-proprietor of (un)SP lifted from King County taxpayers while disguised as a public records crusader.

  27. 27

    “Stefan’s become invisible”

    I happened to mention the Association of Aggrieved Waitresses in a comment in his very last post’s thread and I quickly became invisible myself – all comments deleted. After that unfortunate incident I had to anonymize my IP address in order to comment there.

  28. 28

    “I was hoping that the ramps to nowhere could be preserved”

    My dear Ms. Wingnut and others used to skinny-dip off those back in the early 60s. It was a bit of a fad.

  29. 29

    There long ago ceased to by any intelligent conservative discussion in this country. That died with William F. Buckley.

    I watched a lot of Firing Line back in the day.. Buckley always included a liberal point of view on FL but loved to make liberals sweat for it.

    If he was discussing something controversial, he’d sit at one end of the shot and another conservative would be placed at the other end and the liberal would ALWAYS sit in the middle. He or she would be attacked from both sides.

    Then if Buckley was talking to a liberal alone, there would be a conservative “examiner”, i.e. someone who would ask questions of Buckley and his guests during the last 20 minutes of the show. To be fair, if Buckley was talking to conservatives, there would be a liberal “examiner”. Mark Green and Michael Kinsley come to mind. But keep in mind, the liberal, whether he was sitting with Buckley or standing as an “examiner” would always be debating two or more conservatives.

    Therefore conversations were almost always stacked numerically against the liberal point of view which was understandable because conservatives always complained that their view was the minority view and between government and the media, things were stacked against them.

    Of course all that changed after Raygun.. Firing Line gradually became increasingly dull after that. By the time Buckley was complaining about the ugly, expensive d r u g war and calling for it to end or talking up “Intelligent Design”, Firing Line was pretty much irrelevant.

    The lunatics, Gingrich and the ones who came after, came off the back bench and ran the country into the ground.

  30. 30

    The last comment kept getting filtered because I used the common word for legitimate or illegal pharmacological substances.

  31. 31

    Oh wow. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeGKcX-JHNE

    Interesting conversation.. Anglo-phile Buckley sitting one side, Oxford-educated self-identified socialist Christopher Hitchens (way before he became a Bush policy supporter) sitting in the Middle and right wing big mouth R. Emmett Tyrell on the other side…

    Hitchens gets it from both sides.. Kind of. Tyrell seems somewhat out of his depth here.

    That midwestern accent of Tyrell’s compared to the other two is too precious.

  32. 32

    @27 Yeah, don’t let the world forget he got a single-mom fired from her waitress job for shushing his rowdy kid in a crowded restaurant.

  33. 33

    @31 “Tyrell seems somewhat out of his depth here.”

    Hard to avoid when you have no depth to begin with. Tyrell was a smirking twit who counted coup every time he regurgitated another memorized cheapshot. He probably thought of himself as smart and witty. A forerunner of today’s dittoheads.

  34. 34

    It occurs to me the conservative reaction to the Ebola fright had to be expected, given that the U.S. now has almost as many Ebola cases as it has incidents of voter impersonation.

  35. 35

    “[A] hidden risk lies within almost all of America’s estimated 10,000 gun ranges. When shooters fire guns with lead-based ammunition, they spread lead vapor and dust ….

    “Thousands of people, including workers, shooters and their family members, have been contaminated at shooting ranges due to poor ventilation and contact with lead-coated surfaces, a Seattle Times investigation has found.

    “Even those who’ve never stepped inside a gun range have become sick. Employees have carried lead residue into their homes on their skin, clothes, shoes and work gear, inadvertently contaminating family members, including [their] children …. For the public, shooting firearms is the most common way of getting lead poisoning outside of work, according to national statistics.”

    http://projects.seattletimes.c.....cmpid=2628

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Seems like guns aren’t such a good idea after all — unless you never shoot them.

  36. 36

    And the few intelligent conservative commenters have moved on, probably embarrassed at the blatant idiocy of their peers.

    They held out until November 2012, when the re-election of President Obama — an event which their carefully, even artfully, un-skewed polls told them just could not happen — really took the stuffing out of them. Jim Miller forbade all dissent shortly thereafter, which accelerated the rush to the exits for all of the sane right-wingers, leaving just Shanghai Dan, Rags, Smokie, and the ever-reliable KDS.

    I hope it’s all cached somewhere; it’s truly an interesting historical document of the time (2004 – 2014) the right wing of the GOP became irrelevant around here.

  38. 38

    I know we are atill within the incubation period but getting closer to being safe to say that maybe nobody else who was exposed to Duncan May be safe. That is kind of a like a cloud with a silver lining, maybe Ebola is hard to transmit. With all the exposure that was talked about it seems like we should have had another case already.

  39. 39

    @38 Dang! Another issue slips from the GOP’s grasp. And right before the election, too.

  40. 40

    @39 – I read what I wrote -I think you understood me. I think you can tell English was my worst subject in school. But I was also typing on an iPhone, which when I do I find that I rush what I type.

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