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Open Thread 12/27

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I was walking to Drinking Liberally the other night, and the city was all lit up. Christmas decorations, trees, really looked nice in the remaining snow.

Still, all I could think was: Man, Christmas starts earlier and earlier. I mean, wait for New Years Day to pass at least.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleJoin us this this evening for a “good riddance, 2017!” edition of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.




Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 242 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, five in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.

HA Bible Study: Jeremiah 10:2-4

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Jeremiah 10:2-4

Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

Discuss.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Daily Show: Can liberals survive the apocalypse?.

Information about the winter solstice.

Young Turks: Roy Moore’s Muslim Marxist MELTDOWN.

Samantha Bee: FAUX and Friends’ war on justice.

The Dotard Трамп and His Merry Band of Looters, Thieves, and Deviants:

Jimmy Kimmel: The year in unnecessary censorship.

VOX: How smart is today’s artificial intelligence?

New Scientist: The best science and tech stories of the year.

HBO: Alabama—The special election.

Daily Show: Today’s future now — Crime-fighting technology.

The GOP Tax Scam on America:

Newsbroke: White genocide—Fake and present danger.

David Hawkings: The GOP is anxious to look productive in 2018—4 takeaways from the 2018 Congressional calendar.

Trevor Noah: The politics of branding, meeting Obama & Трамп’s first year.

Mental Floss: 500 facts.

I know Robert Muller.

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

Open Thread

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Important PSA everyone:

If it’s cold or wet, and there’s a line to get on the bus, have your payment handy before you get to the front. I don’t understand how anyone gets in line IN FRONT OF OTHER PEOPLE and then can’t be bothered to fish out their ORCA Card or transfer. I don’t get it when it’s nice out, but it’s extra shitty in the winter.

Öpën Thrëäd

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Congrats to everyone who voted for the tax cuts for the wealthy. I look forward to hearing what a deficit hawk you are when you gut education and Social Security to make up part of the difference in a few years.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleJoin us this Tuesday evening for a “what’s all that smiling about?” edition of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.





Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 242 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, five in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.

open Thread

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How far do you feel you have to go in a book before you abandon it. I say unless you’ve been told it starts slow, if you didn’t like chapter 1, stop reading. I don’t have time for this shit.

But now, I’m reading a book on the July Crisis (between Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand being assassinated and the outbreak of World War One). It’s good, but slow going. I am well over 200 pages in. There’s a lot of interesting stuff about Balkan nationalist movements and great power politics. But so far, the Arch Duke remains sadly still alive.

I think I might give it up even though it is interesting, because it’s taking forever.

HA Bible Study: Genesis 6:4

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Genesis 6:4
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Discuss.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Stephen: R.I.P. The Internet.

Young Turks: Five years after Sandy Hook massacre, less than nothing done on guns.

WaPo: Fact checker’s list of the biggest Pinocchios of 2017

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Going at the movies.

The Dotard Трамп and His Band of Predators, Thieves and Reality Stars:

How you can help Puerto Rico.

Young Turks: Robots hassling homeless people.

Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

Farron Cousins: Republican Congressman who mocked sick people as immoral announces he has cancer

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: The Alabama of the solar system.

Sweet Home Alabama:

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: The 12 Wars on Christmas.

Young Turks: The world’s creepiest Congressman resigns amid sexual harassment scandal.

Stephen: Tuck Buckford grills his CIA-Loving Google Home.

VOX: How the end of net neutrality could change the internet.

The G.O.P. Tax Scam on America:

Jokes Seth can’t tell: Starbucks’ gay agenda, the lowest point in U.S. history.

VOX: The diet that helps fight climate change

James Cordon breaks down an insane 2017.

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

Open Thread 12-13

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I was at the library the other day, so this is one of those posts.

There’s a remodel going on, and they’ve taken out the pay phones. I don’t want to write a post bemoaning progresses: It’s better that most people don’t need to use them. But! There is still a population that needs them.

Alabama Election Thread

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Will you be singing Sweet Home Alabama? Or will Alabama Get Away? Either way this is the place to discuss tonight’s Yellowhammer special election. If it ain’t (broadly) about this election, take that crap to the previous open thread.

I’ll be (*ahem*) Mobile on my way to Roanoke Park Place Tavern, and may post random observations and whatnot as the spirit moves me.

Here’s one for the geeks among us:

5:56: AP has Moore leading for the first time, 7% reporting….

6:02: I wish Washington election results would trickle in like this. This “one ballot dump a night” business sucks!

6:05: With 16% precincts reporting, Moore’s lead has shrunk to +2%.

6:10: Now 21% reporting, Moore’s lead is up to +5%

6:20: 33% in, Moore up by 5%.

6:26: Now 40% in and Moore is still up by 5%.

6:33: Yep…with 50% of precincts reporting, Moore’s lead over Jones has shrunk to 3%. Remember, bigger and more urban precincts usually report later….

6:40: Moore’s lead is back up +7% with 62% in.

6:57: Now 75% reporting and Moore’s lead has shrunk to +3% (51% to 48%).

7:03: Now 77% and Moore’s lead shrinks to +2%.

7:06: And at 81%, Jones is down by -1%.

7:09: And with 85%, Jones is almost even with Moore at 49% each. Jones is still down about 5,000 votes out of a million and some votes.

7:13: NYT still has Jones winning with a 73% probability by a margin of 2.1%

7:15: And as I typed that, the NYT “needle” jumped giving Jones a probability of 84% and a final 2.7% margin.

7:19: AP has 86% of precincts and Moore’s lead is about 500 votes.

7:22: Now we have 88% reporting and Jones is up by 8,000 votes. The NYT web site has Jones probability of winning >95%.

7:37: I love the fact that Jones’ margin of victory is LESS THAN the number of write-in votes. In so many ways, this qualifies as a STRANGE election!

7:52: If you are an Alabamian, child molestation is worse than being a Democrat. VERY SLIGHTLY WORSE!

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