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Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) uses big numbers.

Obama: The top 10 things that happened in 2015:

David Pakman: Health care costs rise slowest since 1961 thanks to ObamaCare..

Minute Physics: Why December has the longest days.

Obama wins the War on Christmas™.

Maddow: Debate audiences crush records.

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

Congressional Hits and Misses: Best of the Rules Committee.

David Pakman: 2015 lies of the year.

White House: West Wing Week.

The 2016 Carnival of Crazy:

Obamas’ Christmas address

Library of Congress highlights the first book printed in America.

Jimmy Dore: Far right kook wonders how he became so liberal:

Young Turks: Senator Cotton suggests that disability benefits lead to heroin abuse.

Maddow: Best campaign ads tell the story of U.S. politics.

White House: A historic agreement to combat climate change.

The Young Turks: Is Chick-fil-A going gay?

Stephen is ready to go to Mars.

Thom: Are the Koch prison reforms only helping executive & white collar crimes?

The FAUX News Chelsea Clinton conspiracy theory.

Twelve rejected political parody videos:

Maddow: NASA to survey belching, toxic gas leak.

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

Comments

  1. 1

    Just when I thought the conspiracy theories could not get any lower, a new one about Chelsea Clinton’s pregnancy.

  2. 2

    Comedian John Fugelsang perhaps best described the way modern society would look at Jesus if he appeared among us today the way he is described in the New Testament. He said:

    “Jesus was a radical nonviolent revolutionary who hung around with lepers, hookers and crooks; wasn’t American and never spoke English; was anti-wealth, anti-death penalty, anti-public prayer; but was never anti-gay, never mentioned abortion or birth control, never called the poor lazy, never justified torture, never fought for tax cuts for the wealthiest Nazarenes, never asked a leper for a co-pay; and was a long-haired brown-skinned homeless community-organizing anti-slut-shaming Middle Eastern Jew.”

    That’s the Jesus I believe in. Not that god of the conservatives, who is pretty much the polar opposite of all those qualities, a religious overlay of Ayn Rand.

  3. 3

    @1 Just when you thought the GOP campaign demagoguery couldn’t get any lower, Trump flings Monica Lewinsky in Hillary’s face after the latter takes a bathroom break during a debate.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/live/vi.....y-scandal/

    Meanwhile, a rightwing mouthpiece gets thrown off a TV interview show for talking about Lewinsky.

    http://www.mediaite.com/online.....-sex-life/

    It really looks like the right is planning to make Lewinsky a campaign issue. I guess that was to be expected, given the foreign policy incompetence of their party and candidates, and the unpopularity of their positions on abortion, the economy, taxes, Social Security and Medicare, etc.

  4. 4

    This is why we should retain the death penalty in this country.* It should be used sparingly, and only for heinous crimes where guilt is not in doubt, but some crimes cry out for ultimate justice.

    * All suspects are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law, except under Puddy’s jurisdiction where accuseds are lynched without due process.

  9. 9

    There is no clearer example why Americans have a growing contempt for the media than that the story of healthcare costs rising the slowest since the 1960’s isn’t splashed across the headlines. Not sexy enough. Not click bait. Arrrrrrgh!

  10. 10

    @9 Pop Rabbit was a reporter for nearly 40 years, and spent most of his career with a major midwestern newspaper. He covered the local government beat, and he was an old-school journalist who exposed corrupt politicians, reported campaigns and elections objectively, etc. He never had yard signs on his lawn or bumper stickers on his car, and didn’t let his kids associate his name with their youthful political activities. When he retired in the late ’70s, he told me things were changing in the news business, in ways he didn’t like, and he was glad to be getting out of the business. So, even back then, partisan bias in news reporting was becoming a problem. It has only gotten worse over time.

    Of course, nearly all the owners of newspapers and TV stations are rich white guys, and the so-called “liberal-biased media” is and always has been a laughable myth. Just look at our own local rag — the Seattle Times — as an example. But needless to say this doesn’t stop rightwing propaganda shops from ginning up a phony “liberal media” myth to discredit news reports that don’t kowtow to Republican interests as much as they’d like, e.g., as when a news story mentions “climate change” as something that might actually be happening.

    Just last month, Sheldon Adelson, an odious gambling magnate and, along with the Koch brothers, the biggest bankroller of reactionary causes of them all, bought the Las Vegas newspaper. His first act as new owner was to assign three reporters full-time to digging up dirt on the judge presiding over lawsuits against him because she made rulings he didn’t like. This is abuse of media power at its worst, but unfortunately, is all too typical of how rightwing billionaire control of America’s media is being used today.

    Fortunately, the rise of the internet has given us an alternative to the traditional billionaire-controlled media, and the entry barriers are so low that anyone, even schoolkids, can disseminate information and news on the internet. Of nearly equal importance is the advent of cheap and ubiquitous cellphones with video recording capabilities, and the existence of YouTube and other internet platforms for the dissemination of videos. These developments turn virtually every person into a news reporter, and undercuts the ability of wealthy and powerful interests to control the flow of news and information.

    Here in Seattle, it also helps that for over 10 years now Goldy’s blog has provided a venue for the truthful and objective reporting of local political news, and for debunking rightwing lies, such as the propaganda formerly disseminated by Stefan’s now-defunct sucky little blog. In the end, truth prevails; HA is thriving more than ever while (u)SP lies under the sod, unloved and unmourned, dead and buried in an unmarked grave.

  12. 12

    How (Some) Republicans Talk

    Pat Brady, a former chairman of the Illinois Republican Party and more recently a co-chair of John Kasich’s presidential campaign, said in a radio interview last week that “If you’re going to take on Donald Trump, you’ve got to take him out with a head shot.” Brady says he wasn’t speaking literally. The Kasich campaign says they don’t know this guy from Adam and Eve, so move along folks, there’s nothing to see here.

    http://www.politico.com/story/.....hot-217073

  13. 13

    “‘I don’t want Jihadis in my neighborhood’: Wyoming locals try to drive out town’s first mosque”

    “Well, I don’t want Jihadis in my neighborhood,” Stop Islam in Gillette founder Bret Colvin explained. “We don’t want to take the chance of having a problem. Why let them all in and then see what happens when you can just nip it in the bud? ”

    http://www.rawstory.com/2015/1.....st-mosque/

    I don’t want Seventh Day Adventists in my neighborhood, especially the batshit crazy ones like the loon. I think they’re terrorists who are up to no good and I don’t want to take a chance of having a problem. Does this mean I can run them out of town?

  14. 14

    I just got the February 2016 electronic edition(print goes on sale next month) of TRAINS Magazine, and the cover story is about the construction and installation of Continuously Welded Rail. Something interesting I learned, besides sourcing some from domestic sources(three US mills, ArcelorMittal Steelton Works, Steelton, PA, Evraz Rocky Mountain Steel, Pueblo, CO(once owned by Colorado Fuel and Iron), and a new player, Steel Dynamics, Columbia City, Indiana), Union Pacific is buying some rail from a mill in Japan. Two, maybe all three of the domestic suppliers use Electric Arc Furnaces, which work with scrap iron, while it was mentioned that foreign mills tend to be of the integrated type, which use raw iron ore. On a lighter note, the name of the ship that hauls the rail from Nippon Steel to the Port of Stockton, the Pacific Spike.

  15. 15

    @ ER

    This is how that’s done. The rail segments are really about 60 feet long, and welded on site. They’ve been doing huge improvements on signals and all new rail up in my area and the work has been mostly continuous for the last few years. They’ve added a third siding line that is about 3 miles long up along the Custer segment and the turnaround/offload loop at the BP refinery is getting a lot of new work done to it.

    They still think they’re going to build a coal terminal but that idea is all but dead. The local folks found out that it was going to be an almost entirely automated switching control system with the control office in Kansas or some shit. So any local jobs that are being promised are most certainly bullshit.

  17. 17

    Rabbit posted a link to Ayn Rand Christmas Cards.
    And then I find this
    http://www.forwardprogressives.....ake-sense/

    “Jesus Christ believed in helping the poor; feeding the hungry; opposing greed; believed in acceptance; taught to provide for the needy, all while preaching love and generosity. Ayn Rand believed that we should only worry about ourselves, that the “self” is the only thing that matters and essentially charity was stupid.
    You know, the exact opposite of the values for which Jesus Christ stood.”

    I just wished so called christian conservatives were not such hypocrites. Be Christian, or admit that greed is all that matters to you.

  18. 18

    “I just wished so called christian conservatives were not such hypocrites.”

    Speaking of which, the loon will soon be here to lay some Christian hate on us.

  22. 22

    Was back home visiting with family and friends. My buddy, a mis guided Republican, said he likes Trump. I really don’t get it.

    Well we talked a little about politics. As we walked to our cars in the parking lot separated by a few spots, He said to me that although we disagree in politics that he still loved me, and then he walked towards me and said to me “give me a hug”, so we hugged. He knows I’m gay – he has a beautiful wife and two great kids. He use to start on his college football team and held or holds the title of top wrestler in high school in the state he grew up. I told him I loved him too.

    But I really worry that politics is pulling us further apart. We have to do something in this country before it gets to ugly.

  23. 23

    It just gets worse for Republicans with each passing day.

    “GOP presidential front runner Donald Trump took a few shots at Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) on Sunday morning for throwing his support behind rival Marco Rubio, stating that Gowdy’s recent hearings on Benghazi were a “disaster”.”

    “I hope he does a better job, frankly, than he did in the Benghazi hearings,” the billionaire businessman stated. “Because they were a total disaster.”

    “He didn’t win with those hearings, They were a total not good for Republicans and for the country. I mean, it was very bad for the country.”

    http://www.rawstory.com/2015/1.....publicans/

  24. 24

    Yup, it just gets worse and worse.

    “I’m terrified he’s going to be our nominee,” said Chris Freiberger, 58, of Manchester. “I think he’s a buffoon, I really do.”

    “Freiberger, a bank chief information officer, had narrowed his list to Christie, Rubio, and Cruz but feared he would confront a “lesser of two evils” decision between Trump and Clinton.”

    http://www.rawstory.com/2015/1.....opularity/

  26. 26

    Batshit insane Christian loons shower Sarah Silverman and Jews with love, wingnut-style. It’s “oven” time for Sarah and the Jews, with Sarah going in the oven last!

    “Sarah Silverman just made conservatives explode with rage — and only needed to use six words”

    Sarah sez, “MERRY CHRISTMAS! Jesus was gender fluid!”

    http://www.rawstory.com/2015/1.....six-words/

    “@SarahKSilverman cry for attn from Jewish Hollywood elite preaching to Christians.Dare you to say same to Muslims about Mohammed”

    “@SarahKSilverman So edgy, so irreverent. Now try mocking Pedohammed, you pathetic, pusillanimous sociopath.”

    “@SarahKSilverman Why do Jews like Sarah love mocking Christianity?”

    “@SarahKSilverman She’s funny, we’ll put her in the oven last.”

    “@SarahKSilverman jew are a disgusting person. Jew know that?”

    “@SarahKSilverman oven worthy tweet”

    Way to let your freak flag fly high, wingnuts!

  27. 27

    I’ve never had so much fun quoting Republicans.

    “Republican strategist: Some GOP House and Senate candidates will flee convention if Trump is the nominee”

    “I think you’re going to see some of the folks running in blue and purple states running away from our nominee if it is Donald Trump, maybe even Ted Cruz”

    http://www.rawstory.com/2015/1.....e-nominee/

    Cruz? Not if Bob gives him the Kiss of Death first.

  28. 28

    For the record only – because Puffy will accuse me of being like all the rest, and in essence accusing more than just me and generalize all gay people as the same. But I don’t see anything hateful in what this person said (although I am assuming that it wasn’t any different than what the article states).

    Perfectly fine to have her opinion of what she thinks, and the teacher was wrong and hopefully she wins in Court.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....a688805621.

    Unfortunate that I would be censored here to believe or have the opinion that heterosexuals are more neanderthalish than gay people.

    Another thing to note is that it was news on Huffington Post – Puffy would like you to believe that those liberals sites wouldn’t print anything like that and would try to hide the “liberal agenda”.

  29. 29

    Puffy I though all Israelis were your friends?

    http://www.alan.com/2015/12/27.....hristians/

    I think I once watched a documentary that showed the Israelis as the ones that first started using bombing as a terrorist tactic.

    And why is the guy characterized as “Far-Right”. How come he isn’t “Far-Left”. What is the opposite of “Far-Right”? Why is hate always found on the “Far-Right”

  30. 30

    @23 the guy is a genius – he’ll have every Republican constituent (un educated or educated fool) hating Trey Gowdy, their hero. Their Hero no more. I think Trump has to be careful, there is a point where this will stop working.

  31. 31

    @27 – that’s why Boob turns to Demographics that say the South will get more representation and the North will lose representation, he can’t stomach the Presidential Republican candidates anymore; he’s trying to find some silver lining in the gray & black clouds.

  32. 32

    Yes, Teabagged to Death!

    http://www.alan.com/2015/12/27.....ive-party/

    George Will better check in with the racist Republicans out there, they are drooling about this guy. Will may be correct but what he might be wrong about is that that the majority of “Republicans” will vote for him…..and if Trump and the rest of the Republicans can brain wash their fools into the frenzy that Hillary is evil, then he just may win the Presidency.

    The Republican’s if they knew any better (which they don’t) would stick with the issues and run Trump out of the race before the start attacking Hillary.

    My friend that I mentioned above, said he likes Trump and is voting for him because he’s not voting for Hillary. He didn’t say Bernie or a Democrat. He said Hillary. I think if he said he’s voting Republican over a Democrat, then I wouldn’t feel like this is not necessarily going to end up being a vote for Trump but against Hillary – and Trump can thank his opponents running against him for that, they are doing all the work for him.

  36. 36

    Dunno why Adelson would want a weekly paper in a small Connecticut tourist town, but this guy is connected to Adelson’s media interests, so who knows?

    Funny, though, how all the newspapers owned by ultra-rich, ultra-conservative white guys end up being “liberal-biased” in the minds of wingnut whiners.

  37. 37

    15) They have been trying to automate yard operations for years. On some industrial branches eminating from Balmer(BNSF Interbay) and Argo(Union Pacific Georgetown) Yards in Seattle, there are signs warning some of the trains could be automated. I saw such a switch job on a track near where I work. Since it crosses a driveway and a street, it was two people with beltpacks driving it, while pulling the pins on the couplers.

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