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Election 2017 open thread

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6:00: It is looking like a blue night….

6:03: Democrats take gubernatorial races in NJ and VA. The former reflects the least popular governor in American history. The latter follows from the least popular President in American history. Sure, NJ might have swung a bit from Trump, but Chris Christie pretty much hand delivered this race to the Democrats simply through sheer force of douchebaggery.

6:08: Wait for it…Republicans will accuse Twitter of swaying the elections by bumping up the character count to 280 JUST BEFORE THE ELECTION.

6:47: There is still some windbag on the teevee spewing sophomoric rhetoric and empty platitudes.

7:07: This is big:

8:10: Manka Dhingra leads in the 45th, 55.4% to 44.6%

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleIt is election day! So fill out that ballot, drop it in the mail or a drop box and then join us for an evening of politics, election-watching, and robust conversation over a pint at 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. Or show up early and watch elections results pour in from across the U.S. Here is the Daily Kos Elections election night guide to help you out.





Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 241 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: Genesis 19:30-36

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Genesis 19:30-36
Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to lie with us, as is the custom all over the earth. Let’s get our father to drink wine and then lie with him and preserve our family line through our father.”

That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and lay with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Last night I lay with my father. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and lie with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.” So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went and lay with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.

Discuss.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Jim Jefferies: Recruiting tomorrow’s satanists.

Full Frontal: This brilliant hack could bring down the administration.

Samantha Bee: The Matrix has you(r vote).

Trevor: Silicon Valley answers to Congress amid the Russia probe

Francesca Fiorentini: Top 3 moments in male fragility in 2017.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Enemies are everywhere.

Adam ruins detox cleanse.

Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) has some questions for Facebook.

Dotard Трамп and His Merry Band of Liars and Thieves:

Samantha Bee: Close the boyfriend loophole.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Are you afraid of the left?

What is in the House G.O.P. tax bill?

John Oliver: Floods.

Young Turks: Republicans raising middle class taxes, slashing billionaires’.

Conan: Papa John’s new kneeling pizza.

VOX: The dollhouses of death that changed forensic science.

The mesmerizing art of Turkish marbling.

Samantha Bee: ThunderCub Ames Mayfield.

Francesca Fiorentini: This is the weirdest way to explain tax reform.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Powerful men are living in fear.

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

Open Thread

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Ugh. Just, do fucking better, male legislators and lobbyists. I don’t know who the Democratic legislator mentioned is, but he should resign. Lobby shops have a chance to clean house; They shouldn’t waste it.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleStop by the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally this evening for some boos and freighteningly good fun.

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 240 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 10-30

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I don’t know how much joy I should take from the Paul Manafort indictment. On the one hand, fuck that guy. He must have known what he was doing was wrong. I really don’t have any sympathy. On the other hand, it can’t end here.

I don’t know if it will. But just Manafort and his business associate is hardly enough for the crimes that have been committed.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Jim Jefferies: Drugs—Fun, but not always.

VOX: How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history.

Republican tax plan: How the Koch brothers are robbing America.

Jimmy Kimmel: Pat Robertson hates Halloween

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Americanist vs. Globalist—Going toe-to-toe with Richard Branson

Samantha Bee: (Hot As) Hell House.

The Dotard Трамп and His Flock of Clowns:

Stephen: What did President Bush whisper to President Obama?.

Minute Physics: Time travel in fiction rundown.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: You’re welcome, NRA.

Why did the NAACP issue a travel warning for American Airlines?

Minute Physics: Simpson’s paradox.

Creeps:

Adam ruins moon landing conspiracy theories.

Obama’s baaack.

Samantha Bee: Natural disasters—The greatening:

VOX: It’s time to draw borders on the Arctic Ocean.

The Opposition: An inside look at Antifa.

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

Open Thread (October 27)

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In a previous post, I noted that men should have some idea that something is up with sexual harassment at work. I got some pushback on that. Now I’m reading about George H. W. Bush groping multiple women while making a joke about it. How many Secret Service agents heard his David-cop-a-feel joke and said nothing? How many other people were at those photo ops and didn’t say anything? The women’s colleagues, Bush’s people, photographers, other people in the area.

He said it out loud, in public, multiple time. People knew.

Thread!

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I got my ballot. I filled out all the easy stuff first. Mayor. City Council. The pointless tax advisory measures. But I can’t care about Port or School Board; I know they’re important, but they seem to be perpetually almost where they might be good, but never seem to get there.

And then there are the positions I don’t think should be elected. The possible rapist versus the racist for Sheriff. Judges who I’ll just support whoever NARAL endorses even though I don’t think that judges should be single issue people.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleIt’s Tuesday…and that’s Drinking Liberally night in Seattle. Please join us for an evening of political conversation over a drink at 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 240 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.

Achpen Thread

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Sorry I forgot to put an Open Thread up this morning. I’m trying to finish a library book that I’m not really digging. But if I don’t finish it soon, I’m going to have to either return it or incur late fees. And there are other people who have it on hold, so I don’t want to keep them waiting. But don’t want to return it until either finish it or have something else ready.

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