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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Kimmel asks people “Do you think President Obama is a Muslim?

Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze is imploding.

Obama: Why I went to Alaska.

Color-blind people see color for the first time.

Thom: Col. Wilkerson: “Dick Cheney is an idiot,” and he “should be in jail for war crimes!”

Greenman: We are the asteriod.

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about social media.

2016 Clowns On Parade:

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

Liberal Viewer: FAUX News asks if #BlackLivesMatter is a hate group.

Congressional Hits and Misses: Hank Johnson edition.

Thom: Thomas Edison was right about solar energy.

Mental Floss: Unusual political parties:

Rare sea creature found off the coast of Papua New Guinea.

Mark Fiore: Obama drills.

Kim Davis, the Thrice Divorced, Four-times Married, Known Adulterer Refuses to Issue Same-Sex Marriage Licenses:

David Pakman: States with the strictest gun laws have lowest rates of gun-related deaths.

Thom: How China messes with American labor.

White House: West Wing Week.

Farron Cousins: Even Bush-appointed judges agree that voter ID laws are racist.

David Pakman: Democratic Party adopts $15/hr minimum wage to national platform.

Greenman: One day at the wind farm.

Obama views glacier melting from climate change.

Sam Seder: Conservatives know the real reason Obama renamed Denali

Richard Fowler: ObamaCare is working, and the proof is insane.

Thom: The Good, The Bad and The Very, Very Rakehelly Ugly!

David Pakman: Mike Huckabee: Planned Parenthood is like ISIS…

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

Comments

  1. 1

    Does Walker know that the Canadian Border is a little different? I mean, it goes through some people’s homes, a Native American reservation, parks, an opera house, library for starters, and the maritime border, including Lake Superior.

  5. 5

    @2,
    Dont be fooled. It was obviously a false flag operation carried out by The Super Secret Black Ops Directorate of PP funded by George Soros and supported by #blacklivesmatter.
    The Fuckwad will be along any minute now with details.

  6. 6

    The alternative to Planned Parenthood in Unplanned Parenthood. Unplanned Parenthood leads to lives of poverty and regret.

    I guess that’s what right wing Christianists want – everybody miserable but following their view of “God” and religion.

  8. 8

    2)With Lake Superior’ s Depth, it would have to be a floating wall. I thought warships at first, but I believe a post-War of 1812 treaty outlaws those on the Great Lakes. I think the Rush-Bagot Agreement has stood the test of time, although there is the law enforcement loophole that allowed the Coast Guard to use light machine guns post-9/11.
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush%E2%80%93Bagot_Treaty

  9. 9

    Last night, I thought I saw a preview for a story King 5 will do next week on Seattle’s Subway. The one that was built in Atlanta instead. Could not find a link about the story on their website, though. Interesting about one thing of Forward Thrust that did pass, a multipurpose stadium. Didn’t we just pay that one off?

  10. 10

    Puffy here is your real nut bag. This isn’t the persecution of Christians, this is the attempt to persecute gay people. The real Nazis are the right wing nut job conservatives.

    Kim Davis’ Attorney Plays The Nazi Card http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....93326.html

    Long live Ireland. Home of the free and the brave!

  11. 11

    Interesting aspect of the issues with security on the Northern Border, the town’s of Derby Line, Vermont and Stanstead, Quebec. Prior to 9/11, they were practically the same town.
    http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/e.....-1.3214089

    One local example is Pt.Roberts, the peninsula that dips below 49 Degrees, but Boundary Bay going North of 49, cuts it off from the rest of Washington State. One quirk of that is Whatcom County Sheriff’s deputies have to leave their guns at the border, and pick another one up when they re-enter the United States. Not sure if that applies if they go by boat.

  12. 12

    @10 Doesn’t “God’s law” command righteous Muslims to kill Christian infidels? Things get messy when people obsess over holy books …

  14. 14

    @13 I like to be politically incorrect. Why? Does it bother you? Is Israel the only other Country that we have to love?

  17. 17

    Is it really just a coincidence that soon after ACORN and the Muslim Brotherhood stole another election for Obummer that a conservative Christian Pope suddenly and mysteriously resigns and hands the reins of power to a Latino illegal immigrant loving global warming hoax pedaling fellow traveler?

    Or maybe Obummer & Billary found a way to get this abortion forgiver in to throw us into confusion?

  21. 21

    @17 Sure. Obama and Hillary stole that election, too. What other explanation is there for a Pope like that?

  22. 22

    Speaking of which, I wonder if our friend Richard Pope will ever run for pope? He’s already run for everything else.

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    I’m sure this is the freedom of religion that our right wing nut bags are thinking about. Nahhhh, they only want to persecute the gays.

    Muslim flight attendant on leave for refusing to serve booze http://www.nydailynews.com/new.....-1.2350775

    Long live Ireland – home of the Free and the Brave!

  25. 25

    Barrons is a weekly magazine that reports on financial markets, and has a politically conservative editorial slant. In this week’s edition, their chief editorial writer takes on Bickle’s favorite subject: Automation displacing wage earners. He foresees a time when robots will replace humans, just as machines replaced horses a century ago. But such an economy would also be vastly more efficient, productive, and richer. What to do with the idled human population? His solution: A “birthright income” supported by taxing the robots’ increased output. People could do whatever they want with their time: Travel, paint, write, read poetry, make love, etc.

    This, of course, implies the end — or at least a substantial modification of — traditional ownership-based capitalism. Indeed, it smacks heavily of socialism, which is surprising coming from the pen of an ideological conservative whose editorials are about as free-market and libertarian as they come. What he’s suggesting is the mother of all entitlements, a universal kind of social security that starts paying benefits at birth, and is the individual’s major (or only) source of income throughout his/her lifetime, supported by taxes on the owners of capital.

    Why would a diehard conservative embrace such an idea? Probably because he couldn’t imagine any workable alternative.

    It’s not only feasible, but probable, that human ingenuity eventually will produce inventions that will put humans out of work. Computers can fly planes better than any person can, and robots can perform surgery more quickly and accurately than any human doctor can. We can’t even assume that human workers will be needed to design, build, and maintain the robots; there’s no reason why robots can’t do those jobs, too, better than people.

    So what would a world in which machines and robots perform all the productive work look like under a purely capitalist model? First, you’d have a hugely efficient and productive economy. Second, the owners of that capital would lay claim to the economy’s entire output — and they likely would be unimaginably (to us) wealthy. (Billionaires would be superseded by trillionaires.) Third, in an economy with no productive employment for humans, the vast majority of people — at least 90% — would have no means of self-support, unless ownership of capital were much more widely dispersed than it is today. (But the natural tendency of capitalism is to concentrate wealth, not disperse it, without some sort of government intervention.)

    How would those people support themselves? Revert to subsistence farming? It’s hard to see how that would work in an age when most people live in cities and giant corporations own most of the farmland (farmed by robotic tractors and harvesters). Even if that were possible, it would result in a peasant society likely ruled by a tiny upper class. (If the capitalists couldn’t maintain their rule over the masses in such a society, the capitalist system wouldn’t survive, because the masses would revolt against such a lopsided distribution of income and wealth.)

    Barron’s editorial writer sees this, and realizes that socialist redistribution of robot-created wealth is the only alternative to revolution and overthrow of capitalism altogether. It is not capitalism itself, but technology, that will destroy capitalism and bring about socialism.

    Be careful what you wish for, Bickle. Every time another fast food worker is replaced by a kiosk or hamburger-flipping robot, Karl Marx chuckles again in his grave.

  26. 26

    Mother Jones has a slew of articles today about how companies treat workers.

    Speedups: All work, no pay.

    http://www.motherjones.com/pol.....long-hours

    Fast food chains tell workers to treat grease burns with mustard, ketchup, and mayo.

    http://www.motherjones.com/tom.....rease-burn

    Robots replacing workers.

    http://www.motherjones.com/med.....automation

    A story about working in a Spam factory that reads like a chapter straight out of Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle.”

    http://www.motherjones.com/pol.....ns-disease

    Conservatives are trying to reverse 150 years of labor progress and return America to the slave-like working conditions of the early 19th century. Why would any working person vote for such people?

  27. 27

    Geez, I don’t recall there being violence at the NYC Gay Pride Parades of recently. But yet violence breaks out at West Indian Day Parade once again….I wonder what the difference is between the two Parades…..hmmm, is the immigrant problem rearing its ugly head?

    http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141200899

  28. 28

    Up in Canada, a Conservative party candidate was dropped by his party when a video surfaced of him relieving himself in a homeowner’s mug. The candidate owns an appliance repair company.
    http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/topst.....-1.3217797

    The Liberals and the NDP have also had to drop a few candidates.

  29. 29

    With the Fair Elections Act, Harper’s Conservative Party has been dabbling in Republican-style voter suppression. While the ID requirements look more like the Help America Vote Act requirements than what we have seen done at the state level, they have been going after other aspects. One is not allowing those living outside the country to vote.
    http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/topst.....-1.3204664

    Meanwhile, felons can vote, including those incarcerated.
    http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/polit.....-1.3202010

  30. 30

    @25 thats a reason for the push to demonize and dehumanize the poor. Make it that much harder to set up a fair system of socialism when the automation disruptions happen.

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