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Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses.

Now This: Why grown men are afraid of Greta Thunberg.

John Oliver: Compounding pharmacies.

Real Engineering: Should we fear the next big solar storm?

Wired: Astronomer explains how SETI searches for aliens.

The Dotard Трамп And His Crooked Clown Posse:

Matt Lieb (Newsbroke): Why a universal basic income (UBI) isn’t progressive

Stephen: Rachel Maddow—Russia uses oil and gas as a weapon.

Mark Fiore: The billion ant mega colony and the biggest war on earth.

The Atlantic: Why your phone isn’t safe.

Twenty-Twenty Vision:

Now This: Why Jay Inslee vows to keep fighting the climate crisis.

Jim Jefferies: What socialism really looks like

Vox: No, vitamin C won’t cure your cold

Stephen: Sec. Hillary Clinton—Greta Thunberg spoke truth to power at the U.N.

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

Comments

  1. 1

    On some Facebook news threads, I was amazed how many people that didnt agree with Senator Sanders that were wishing him a speedy recovery. A little hope.

  3. 3

    2,
    Points out the importance of reforming IRS rules for non-profits.
    Certainly the most abused provision in existing tax code.

  7. 7

    Not sure if it’s official,,but it seems an era may have ended at King County Metro. Of an order for 400 Gillig Phantom 40ft diesel buses made in the mid 1990s, Coach 3430 was all that was left on roster as of this summer. Turns out, it was the Operator of the Year’s coach, and they pick the new Operator(s) of the Year in September. 22 years of service for the bus. This may have been the most consequential decision then King County Executive Gary Locke when it came to Metro. Metro was originally going to replace 1970s vintage buses with CNG, but the cost of the plan to modify 7 garages would have cost around $500 million. The bus is being replaced by hybrid-electric and battery electric buses, two technologies not around when this order was made.

  8. 8

    Leading Rick Perry by a ring in his nose out onto the prarie to let the wolves have him could work.

    But only if Trump were not wearing bacon BVDs.

  10. 10

    So Steak Sauce is quoting Breitbart and Daily Stomrfront Caller for his scoops that keep blowing up in his face.

    Pompeo admits the Quid Pro Quo

    This is what we do,” Mr. Pompeo said, calling it “Totally right.”
    “Nations work together and they say ‘Boy. goodness gracious if you can help me with ‘X’ We’ll help you achive ‘Y’ It’s a win win.”

    (CBS, NBC, WSJ, Reuters)

    Justice department has been investigating the origin of the Russia probe in an attempt to discredit it. Barr has had ZERO interviews with any FBI or DOJ officials involved in the original investigation. (Politico)

    Donald now admits he made the Ukraine call, didn’t want to, but was urged to by Rick Perry. That’s a complete reversal of the “it was a perfect call’ narrative he’s been spinning for more than a week. (CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, FoxNews, NYT, WAPO)

    Ukrainian prosecutor Guiliani met with and is pretty much the entire basis for the ‘proof’ that Biden was crooked has

    No formal legal training and a long history of wielding the law as a weapon in his personal political battles, disregarding the concerns of senior diplomats who said he wasn’t credible. (New York Times)

    GOP Senator Ron Johnson:

    Sen. Ron Johnson, a top Republican ally of President Donald Trump, said a U.S. diplomat told him in August that the Trump administration had frozen almost $400 million in aid to Ukraine because the president wanted a commitment that Kyiv would carry out investigations related to U.S. elections. (NBC News)

    A SECOND intelligence officer may have filed a totally different Whistleblower complaint regarding Donald’s Quid Pro Quo offers to foreign governments for political dirt on a Democratic candidate. (CBS, NBC, CNN, NYT, Reuters, AP, BBC)

    Because the best strategy is to leave no witnesses…

    President Donald Trump reportedly plans to slash his National Security Council in wake of a bombshell whistleblower complaint about his call with the president of Ukraine.

    According to Bloomberg’s report on Friday night, National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien and acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney informed the council’s senior staff this week of Trump’s decision to heavily reduce the number of employees.

  11. 11

    @10 “if you can help me with ‘X’ We’ll help you achive ‘Y’ It’s a win win.”

    Somebody should tell him that talking about fabricating dirt on a political opponent isn’t the same as discussing trade agreements or reducing nuclear stockpiles. Preferably a federal judge.

  13. 13

    @10 “Donald now admits he made the Ukraine call, didn’t want to, but was urged to by Rick Perry.”

    I’m surprised he didn’t claim the dog made him do it. Oh, that’s right, he doesn’t have a dog. No dog will have him. No cat or budgie bird, either. Even cockroaches avoid him, because they don’t want their reputation tarnished.

  14. 14

    @ RR @ 13

    It was the absolutely perfect call. It was the absolute best call anyone could ever have made.

    Which at first never happened, but then did happen but there was nothing illegal that was talked about, then it did happen with the illegal stuff included but was totally okay because the President somehow has a constitutional duty to break the law.

    I mean, if the President can’t break the law, who could? It goes against everything this Great Nation stands for.

    Of course, now that it did happen and was totally illegal, it was actually Rick Perry that made President Stupid Fuck do the illegal thing. Therefore Stupid Fuck is completely innocent but also a compleat fool who was tricked by Rick “Smrt Guy Glasses” Perry!

    The bestest, most stablest and intelligentistical human to have ever graced a position of leadership and authority in all of human history.

    Well, except for Jesus. If it wasn’t for his grace and blessings we wouldn’t have such a Great Leader, praise the Lord.

    You deplorables picked ‘im, you pay for ‘im.

  15. 15

    12,
    That’s easy.

    Every Republican You Know is a whole lot dumber than you ever imagined possible.

    So. What should be done about that?

  16. 16

    Even cockroaches avoid him, because they don’t want their reputation tarnished.

    I haven’t yet encountered a single Republican who avoids him.

    I am told they exist. But I have no evidence of that.
    I don’t think it is true.

  17. 17

    God bless Democrats – get rid of this treasonous lawless corrupt lying mother fucking pig!

    This isn’t politics – it’s the only thing that will save this nation.

  18. 18

    Probably troubling for Donald

    White voters only, Wisconsin

    Fox poll: Biden 46 Trump 41, Warren 44 Trump 44, Sanders 43 Trump 43

    Anyone suppose Hillary got 21,000 more votes among non-whites in Wisconsin?

    Donnie took white voters by 11%

    Though just getting to Election Day should be troubling for Donald

  19. 19

    Federal Judge issues order to White House to preserve all records of dealings with foreign leaders.

    Significant for three reasons.

    DOJ argued that they would do so in compliance with existing public records law and the judge decided that might not be true.

    Judge accepted argument that the likelihood of White House destroying records was well above 0%.

    Judge recognizes that White House might be less than forthcoming with future FOIA requests from journalists and/or Congressional subpoenas.

    This is where some Dumbfuck will talk about wiping a server.

  22. 22

    “President Donald Trump told House Republicans Friday that he was urged by Energy Secretary Rick Perry to make the midsummer phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that is now at the center of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News. Trump suggested it was a call he didn’t even want to make, the sources said.”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/trump-blames-energy-secretary-rick-perry-ukraine-call-center-impeachment-n1062931

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: “The dog made me do it.” Oh, that’s right, Trump doesn’t have a dog — no dog wants anything to do with him — so he blames Rick Perry, who from Trump’s point of view is the next best thing to a dog. (Trump probably opens the back door for him when he needs to go.)

    This is how Trump rewards loyalty. Inevitably, more than a couple of the people working for him in the White House will notice. Stayed tuned, we’ll be hearing from them.

  23. 23

    In addition, gay men have disproportionately higher rates of AIDS. Our study is the first to show that bath houses – known dens of transmissible venereal disease – are more readily available in neighborhoods with more gay men.

    “In addition, gay men have disproportionately higher rates of skin cancer. Our study is the first to show that indoor tanning⁠—a known carcinogen—is more readily available in neighborhoods with more gay men.”

    https://www.newsweek.com/tanning-salons-could-targeting-gay-men-opening-lgbt-neighborhoods-putting-them-risk-cancer-1463179?utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter

    gman, it’s not like these are payday loan shops in your neighborhood. You don’t have to tan, and you don’t have to let several men who are strangers to you mount you bareback during the course of a Saturday evening.

    Just don’t. Simple. Simpler, even, than that pill you pray will work.

  24. 24

    @23 Apparently Doctor Dumbfuck didn’t learn anything from gay bath houses when he went to the barn. It’s not like he can plead ignorance. And we all know where doc’s hoof-in-mouth disease came from.

  25. 25

    @23

    Cool fantasy you have there bro. Horses tend to be coerced and hard to get more than one at a time. Must be frustrating.

  27. 27

    So. What should be done about that?

    I know – and it involves high buildings and bridges

  28. 28

    @23 thanks for the advice…..but rest assured, you don’t have to worry about me. I don’t tan, in a booth or naturally on a beach. But I’ll be sure to tell my niece, who’s been in a tanning booth since she was like 17 and my sister who can bake on a beach for hours at a time, days after day, year after year.

    Oh and don’t look now but there’s EEE coming for you too.

    As far as being mounted….you horse gets more action than me.

  30. 30

    jason

    Peter Maloney is misguided in my view, especially when he says that “we could be sexual”. Excuse me, Maloney, but it’s not sexual, it’s sleazy. There is nothing more sleazy than having sex with an abundance of anonymous men. I can be sexual with my monogamous partner in my bedroom, so please don’t sully the word with the sleaze that goes on in these sex clubs.

    Also, doesn’t he realize that it is the promiscuity of sexual behavior that occurs in these clubs that actually leads to rampant venereal diseases? Perhaps he needs to be told.

    The only thing that most of these sex clubs do is make money for the owners. Let’s not allow these money-making ventures to represent who we are. They are no more representative of who we are than the Nevada brothels are for heterosexual men.

    https://www.queerty.com/torontos-37-year-old-bathhouse-closes-to-become-a-different-kind-of-sex-den-20100424

    Bob – maybe you should meet Jason

  31. 31

    26,
    Behold dear friends.
    “Trump fatigue” is finally getting to them.

    This guy sure as fuck never took a Sunday off.

  32. 32

    22,
    Oh my gawd how awful.

    Poor Rick Perry. So terribly sorry for him, really.

    /s

  33. 33

    Oh my gawd how awful.

    Poor Mitt Romney. So terribly sorry for him, really.

    /s

  34. 34

    Oh my gawd how awful.

    Poor Ron Johnson. So terribly sorry for him, really.

    /s

  35. 35

    31

    But Trump Derangement Syndrome is still a raging epidemic, particularly here on HA.

  37. 37

    # 36 is spam. Please remove.

    @ 35

    Fat Donny tried to murder someone when he was in middle school. He was expelled from at least three schools before he was 18 years old for thefts, assaults and possibly an attempted rape.

    Fat Donny has name his entire lifelong career as a thief and fraudster, and everyone who actually knew the man in NYC knows this. He got 2.7 % of the vote in the five boroughs of NYC in the 2016 election. New Yorkers know exactly what the man is.

    It isn’t derangement, it’s being utterly appalled at the fact that we have a drug-addled sociopathic illiterate window-licker in the White House and after he’s made so many outright stupid mistakes and committed so many felonies just in the last two years that nobody can keep up, he still has the support of about a quarter of the population.

    Just because he robs banks with Lawyers instead of guns doesn’t make him anything other than a bank robber.

    You book-burner types don’t admire the man for what he’s accomplished, you admire him for what he’s gotten away with. He’s just like you.

    He’s a Thief, he’s a liar, a sadist and bigot. He’s possibly the stupidest individual in the Federal Government right now (with the possible exception of Louie Gohmert or Steve King).

    He’s everything you stand for. He represents the wife beaters, child rapists, scam artists and murderers. That’s who supports Fat Donny. The criminal element.

  38. 38

    Oh. That’s also a problem.

    AP:

    KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Rudy Giuliani was pushing Ukrainian officials last spring to investigate one of Donald Trump’s main political rivals, a group of individuals with ties to the president and his personal lawyer were also active in the former Soviet republic.

    Their aims were profit, not politics. This circle of businessmen and Republican donors touted connections to Giuliani and Trump while trying to install new management at the top of Ukraine’s massive state gas company. Their plan was to then steer lucrative contracts to companies controlled by Trump allies, according to two people with knowledge of their plans.

  39. 39

    Here’s what has been going on with Fat Donny Too Scoups.

    Stole this from a FB post and it really does hit the nail on the head.

    ==

    Trump: Elizabeth Warren has too many giraffes.

    Press: Sir, Elizabeth Warren doesn’t have any giraffes.

    Trump: I’m just saying there’s a giraffe problem. There is a big giraffe problem. [cough] Elizabeth Warren.

    Press: It seems like you’re trying to tarnish a political opponent with a made-up problem.

    Trump: No, I am against people having too many giraffes. It’s all about giraffes, and this is widespread. There are so many examples of this. You don’t think people should have a bunch of giraffes in their house, do you? What kind of person thinks that is ok?

    Press: That’s not happening.

    Trump: So many examples. Why, here’s an example, one of so many, but just off the top of my head — look at Elizabeth Warren, who has too many giraffes.

    Press: Sir, Elizabeth Warren has no giraffes.

    Trump: She stole them from the zoo, you know.

    Press: Sir, she doesn’t have any giraffes. The zookeeper says there are no giraffes missing.

    Trump: That zookeeper is corrupt. I fired that zookeeper. This is the sort of thing I am talking about. So widespread. Such a problem. The zookeeper, Elizabeth Warren. It looks bad. Really bad. It doesn’t look good!

    Press: What

    Trump: Did you hear about her rhinoceros? Or I should say rhinoceroses, rhinoceri. I am hearing that she has too many of those too. In her house. This is just lawlessness. On such a scale. People would be — they would be shocked if they knew.

    Press: Sir, this is not making any sense.

    Trump: People say she does. I mean, we knew about the giraffes. That’s a well-established fact by now, it’s old news by now and everyone is very concerned about it. It’s a fact to me and to people from which I am hearing. I mean, she just walks out of the zoo with who knows how many rhinoceroses. Right out the front door! And we don’t even know how many rhinos. It’s really so shameless.

    Press: Sir, this didn’t happen.

    Trump: Right there in broad daylight, and then she gave the middle finger to a little girl who was crying. Yes, remember that? It was in the newspapers, it was all over the news but nobody said anything. Clearly this is something we need to investigate.

    Press: Sir–

    * * *

    Pence: There are legitimate questions that ought to be asked. Not only the fact that she has too many giraffes but also the fact of the rhinoceroses. The American people really deserve some answers.

    Press: But the story is not true. None of it is true.

    Pence: Well we just won’t know until we investigate this. This is a serious ethical issue and we just can’t wave it off with a “this isn’t true.” That’s really unfair to the American people because what if it’s true even if it doesn’t appear to be?

    Press: But there are no grounds for an investigation.

    Pence: The president is right. Whatever he said, it was right.

    * * *

    Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Eric and Don Jr. are out walking their giraffes on Fifth Avenue in New York. They are giant, magnificent giraffes.

    Eric [petting giraffe]: Good doggy.

    * * *

    Trump: Clearly this is something we need to investigate. Everybody wants this investigated. I called Petco about it. Here is the transcript.

    Press [reads transcript]: Sir, this is you threatening to kill the manager of Petco if he can’t supply a photograph of a giraffe in Elizabeth Warren’s living room.

    Trump: There was nothing improper about that call. Just read the transcript.

    Press [reading]: You said “I will come to Petco and kill you with a knife if you do not do what I say.”

    Trump: See? Completely exonerating.

    Press: It says “I will stab you to death and then burn your crummy store to the ground.”

    Trump: Why are you making a big deal about that? It’s nothing. Just a friendly call, just a couple of guys talking.

    * * *

    Giuliani: There is giraffe poop all over Elizabeth Warren’s lawn. I read about it in an e-mail and I found the same information on the internet. Here it is in a jpeg with Impact font.

    Press: Sir, that is your poop. You pooped on Elizabeth Warren’s lawn.

    Giuliani: Yes I did. Of course I did. That’s my job. I was hired to do that.

    Press: Giraffe poop would be much larger than that, which is a human’s poop.

    Giuliani: Not necessarily. Earlier today I printed out some very true information from a website and I gave it to the police, the animal police. Well I should say the *acting* animal police. I think that once this very true information is known you will have a very different story.

    Press: Sir, didn’t you just say it was your poop?

    Giuliani: I never said that.

    * * *

    Press: Mr. President, it appears you fired the zookeeper because she would not put giraffes into Elizabeth Warren’s house.

    Trump: The giraffes were there. I fired the zookeeper because she was bad, rotten. Really not good.

    Press: We have a picture you drew of a giraffe inside a house, see the giraffe’s head and neck are sticking out of a window. Underneath the picture, it says in your handwriting “like this.” You sent this picture to the zookeeper.

    Trump: I don’t recall that. I don’t think I did. I would never draw a giraffe, Democrats are the ones who draw giraffes. That zookeeper was trouble.

    Press: She was voted Zookeeper of the Year for the previous six years. She is famous for her ability to prevent giraffe theft. You promoted her twice.

    Trump: Are you even listening to me? It’s like you’re not even listening. She was trouble. TRUH. BULL. She was a mess, this lady. Oh she was so bad.

    * * *

    Trump: Elizabeth Warren claims she has no giraffes, I think this picture will blow that phony story out of the water. I think you will agree with me when I call her “Lyin’ Liz.”

    Press: Sir, this is a photograph of Elizabeth Warren and her college roommate at a Halloween party in 1969. They are in costume.

    Trump: That is Elizabeth Warren with a giraffe. Good old Lyin’ Liz. Hold on, let me play this Nickelback song so you’ll understand.

    Press [shouting over Nickelback song]: That is Elizabeth Warren’s college roommate in a costume, not a giraffe.

    Trump: I think what the American people need to know is that Elizabeth Warren claims she has no giraffes, she has never met any giraffes, and yet her college roommate was a giraffe as shown by this picture. Lyin’ Liz.

    Press: Sir, I’m looking at this a bit closer and I believe her roommate is dressed as Tigger from Winnie the Pooh, not a giraffe.

    Trump: Lyin’ Liz. Lyin’ Liz and the Giraffe Gaffe is what they say, that’s what they are saying. Lock her up. In the zoo with her giraffe friends. Make her eat giraffe feed. Force it down her throat. I think that’s what the American people want. After what she has done to this country, frankly it is what she deserves. I have this Breitbart poll…

    * * *

    Next month, 47% of the American public, to the other 53%, over Thanksgiving dinner: How could you vote for a lying giraffe and rhinoceros thief like Elizabeth Warren? She belongs in a cage. You are insane.

  42. 42

    41,
    Are you saying The American People® don’t deserve answers?

    My God. You’re a monster!

  44. 44

    Oh my gawd how awful.

    Poor OfMaryKay. So terribly sorry for him, really.

    /s

  45. 45

    39,
    People are saying that an “almost decorated” Marine who “could have” served in Afghanistan and was only passed over for decorations because of “politics” and for some reason can’t recall his unit designation or dates of enlistment saw the giraffe(s).

    How DARE you!

  48. 48

    @46 “Pence and the Hump fuck goats, so they really should understand.”

    We’ve been on to these pervs for years. It’s all about goats.

    “Louisiana Republicans voted to keep bestiality legal & anal sex against the law”

    “That’s right, those ten think anal and oral sex (known in Louisiana law as “crimes against nature”) should be illegal, but screwing a goat is a-okay.”

    https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/04/10-louisiana-republicans-voted-keep-bestiality-legal-anal-sex-law/

    Surely the doctor understood that his showing up here and telling us he that he had just bought himself a horse and a fancy rich-guy horse trailer with a shower and bar would at the very least raise a few eyebrows.

  49. 49

    Well whaddya know!
    Other world leaders (like Erdogan) record the stupid motherfucker on their end too.

    Who could have possibly foreseen that?

    #youbuiltthat

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