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Open Thread!

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 1/9/17, 5:53 am

Did you get your democracy voucher? I did! I’m super excited to use them. Like, should I just find one candidate I like and give them all of the money? I can’t just use them to reject Tim Burgess due to the fact that he’s retiring. But surely there will be someone.

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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

by Darryl — Saturday, 1/7/17, 12:07 am

White House: West Wing Week.

SCOTUS Wars:

  • Young Turks: Could Dems block Supreme Court nominations for entire Трамп term?
  • Sam Seder: Republicans are now saying that obstructing SCOTUS nominees is wrong!?!

Trevor with Keegan-Michael Key: A final address from Obama’s Anger Translator:

Farron Cousins: Paul Ryan attaches Planned Parenthood defunding provision to Obamacare repeal.

Young Turks: Proof Republicans don’t give a shit about ethics.

Michelle Obama’s says goodbye as FLOTUS.

Трамп—The Putin Poodle, Sexual Assaulting, Serial Philanderer, Scam Artist Goes to Washington:

  • Stephen: Трамп Tweets tough, but he has nothing on Jesus.
  • Maddow with Chuck Schumer: Donald Трамп captured by hard right.
  • David Pakman: Трамп spokesidiot wants Hillary “punished” for “trying to influence election”!
  • Trevor: Russia/Трамп reacts to President Obama’s Sanctions
  • Olbermann: What did Трамп know and when did he know it?
  • Sam Seder: Kellyanne Conway thinks its unfair That Dems won’t help destroy Obamacare
  • Young Turks: Трамп on Russian hacking
  • James Corden: Hillary Clinton will make Трамп’s inauguration awkward.
  • Maddow: Republicans shift Donald Трамп coverage with packed schedule
  • Jimmy Kimmel explains how truth works.
  • Is Трамп a crony capitalist?
  • Young Turks: Трамп takes aim at CIA
  • David Pakman: Трамп whines that hearing was delayed. It wasn’t. Officials call out his lie.
  • Olbermann: Still supporting Трамп? This message is for you:

  • Sam Seder: Bernie shows YUGE Трамп Tweets on the floor…
  • Ari Melber: Donald Трамп biographer thrown out of Трамп golf course
  • Farron Cousins: New study confirms racism, sexism propelled Трамп into office
  • Some House Members object to the Electoral College vote.
  • David Pakman: Why hasn’t anyone hacked Трамп’s tax returns.
  • Young Turks: What is the T. R. U. M. P. act?
  • Stephen: ТрампCare and “Intelligence”
  • Late Night: Трамп and Cover
  • PsychoSuperMom: It’s My Patriotic Duty (To Make As Much Fun Of Trump As I Can)
  • Joy-Ann Reid: Donald Трамп’s lack pf acts for inauguration getting under his skin
  • David Pakman: Трамп is so hated, he has to go to British singers for inauguration entertainment.
  • Maddow: Resistance to Donald Трамп grows with local roots
  • James Corden: Трамп Tweets.

Ways Hitler was like a teenage girl.

Young Turks: Republicans ban live-streaming from the floor…what do they have to hide?

Vice News: Seattle’s trans law enforcement.

David Pakman: Republican’s bizarre attempt to prevent Supreme Court from citing their prior ObamaCare cases!!!.

Sam Seder: GOP Rep’s Twitter poll BACKFIRES BIGLY, shows YUGE support for Obamacare.

The 2017 Congressional Clown Show:

  • Trevor: House Republicans grapple with backlash on ethics vote:

  • Farron Cousins: Voter backlash forced Republicans to abandon plans to destroy Ethics Committee.
  • Mark Fiore: De-Obamafication.

Obama: President Obama on social progress and equality.

Sam Seder: Megyn Kelly pretends to be sad about leaving FAUX News to join the real “Journalists” at NBC.

Stop Jeff Sessions.

Young Turks: What is Obama’s real record on the economy?

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

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OpenthreaD

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 1/6/17, 7:09 am

It’s kind of amazing that when the Office Of Congressional Ethics gutting vote came about all of Washington’s Republicans were either for it or Didn’t vote (it’s not organized by state, but I’m pretty sure that’s right). Remember when Reichert was running as a straight arrow? Well, it was always bullshit, of course, but now it’s even more exposed as such.

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First Open Thread of 2017

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 1/4/17, 7:06 am

Oh hey, people’s minimum wage just went up. It’s still needlessly complex in Seattle. Washington’s is not as much as I’d like it. Still and all, the sky hasn’t fallen yet.

Also, everywhere in Washington has sick leave/safe leave now. So use that if you need it. I don’t know how strong the enforcement will be (it has been pretty weak in Seattle).

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Drinking Liberally — Seattle

by Darryl — Tuesday, 1/3/17, 5:08 am

DLBottleStart out 2017 by feeding your inner political animal. Please join us tonight for a New Year 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 other 196 chapters of Living Liberally, including ninteen in Washington state, three in Oregon and one in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.

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HA Bible Study: Revelation 1:9

by Goldy — Sunday, 1/1/17, 6:00 am

Revelation 1:9
We suffer because Jesus is our king.

Discuss.

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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

by Darryl — Friday, 12/30/16, 11:31 pm

Pap: Racist Republicans target minorities in Georgia.

Jeff’s earth.

Adam Ruins everything: Electric cars aren’t as green as you think:

White House: West Wing Week.

2016 Was Fucking Insane!

  • Young Turks: How 2016 impacted us all.
  • Daily Show: Hasan Minhaj says “Goodbye” to 2016
  • You’re Wrong with Mike Lawrence2016 was great for nerds.
  • 2016 was a bad year for music lovers.
  • Young Turks: 2016 Jerk of the Year
  • Young Turks: 2016 Turk of the Year
  • Famous farewells of 2016
  • Honest New Years

Young Turks: Oops! Professional asshole Carl Paladino didn’t mean to PUBLICLY post racist comments.

Chris Hayes: Mega racist and Drumpf campaigner Carl Paladino fired from School Board for being a fucking racist.

Epic Rap Battles of History: Theodore Roosevelt vs Winston Churchill:

Ari Melber: FAUX News reports FAKE NEWS about Food Stamp fraud.

Minute Physics: The No Cloning Theorem.

The Sexual Assaulting, Putin Loving, Walking, Talking Conflict of Interest:

  • Sam Seder: How easy will it be to roll back civil rights under Drumpf?
  • Young Turks: Meet the con artist leading Drumpf’s inauguration prayer.
  • Ben Dixon: Are Drumpfists beginning to realize they’ve been conned?
  • Drumpf’s attack on sanctuary cities explained.
  • Michael Brooks: Drumpf on “Lock Her Up”, “That plays great before the election, now we don’t care”.
  • Young Turks: Drumpf already historically unpopular.
  • Farron Cousins: Still think Drumpf’s a populist? Then you aren’t paying attention!
  • Ari Melber: Drumpf is Tweeting the U.S. towards nuclear destruction
  • Mark Fiore: Ode to the pundits.
  • Sam Seder and Digby: “The fact that [the James Comey letter] happened at all should be deeply, deeply concerning.”
  • Ben Dixon: Did the RNC really compare Drumpf to Jesus?
  • Young Turks: Drumpf takes credit again for doing what he didn’t do.

Sam Seder: Lawrence Lessig on why the Electoral College has got to go!

PsychoSuperMom: Eight is better than one.

White House: Rare look inside where Obama lives at the White House.

Newzoids: Putin’s Top Gun:

Alex Lawson with Nancy Altman: The GOP’s plot to kill Medicare starts Jan. 3rd!

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

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Last Open Thread of 2016

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 12/30/16, 7:00 am

Good riddance 2016.

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Upon thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 12/28/16, 7:07 am

The precinct maps of ST3 are both illuminating and about what you expect. The cities, especially Seattle, and the close in suburbs are for it and the rest of the area isn’t as much or are against it. I hope as rail gets further and further out, that more people between the cities and further out can enjoy it as much as some of us in the city.

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Drinking Liberally—Seattle

by Darryl — Tuesday, 12/27/16, 6:16 am

DLBottle
Please join us tonight for a year-end edition of Drinking Liberally with 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 other 196 chapters of Living Liberally, including ninteen in Washington state, three in Oregon and one in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.

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The “This could be the last Christmas ever” open thread

by Darryl — Sunday, 12/25/16, 9:50 am

Daily Show holiday gift guide.

“Skeptic on a Stick” holiday toy commercial

Adam Ruins Everything: The drunken, pagan history of Christmas:

Conan: The Toilet Santa.

You’re Wrong with Mike Lawrence: The best and worst of Christmas

Seth Meyers: Walking in a Winter Punderland

Liam Neeson Auditions For Mall Santa Claus:

Drumpf in Twitter war with Santa

PsychoSuperMom: Don’t they know (not everyone does Christmas)?

Obama’s Holiday message

Young Turks: How to trigger a war on Christmas.

Woke Christmas Carols

Late night Crew Poetry: My Christmas wish, New Year’s groove

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HA Bible Study: Jeremiah 10:2-5

by Goldy — Sunday, 12/25/16, 6:00 am

Jeremiah 10:2-5
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.

They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

Discuss.

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How the Kvetch Stole Chanukah

by Goldy — Saturday, 12/24/16, 10:31 am

Every Joo
Down in Joo-ville
Liked Chanukah as such…

But the Kvetch,
Who lived just north of Joo-ville,
… not so much.

The Kvetch hated Chanukah, the whole Chanukah season.
Now don’t ask me why. What? Should I know the reason?
It could be he wasn’t a mensch, that is all.
Or his petzel, perhaps, was two sizes too small.
Such meshug’as comes from one thing or another,
But like most Joo-ish boys, we should just blame his mother!

But,
The reason, whatever,
His mom or his putz,
The Kvetch hated Chanukah. Oy, what a yutz!
For he knew every Joo down in Joo-ville tonight
Was busy preparing menorahs to light.

“And they’re giving out gelt!” he sighed as he said
“I need waxy chocolate like holes in my head!”
Then he nervously whined as his fingers tapped horas,
“I MUST stop the Joos from igniting menorahs!”

For,
The Kvetch knew that soon…

… All the Joo girls and boys
Would say the baruch’ha, then unwrap their toys!
And then! Oh, the oys! Oh, the Oys! Oys! Oys! Oys!
If it’s not what they wanted, the OYS! OYS! OYS! OYS!

Then the Joos, young and old, would sit down for a nosh.
And they’d nosh! And they’d nosh!
And they’d NOSH! NOSH! NOSH! NOSH!
They would nosh on Joo-latkes, and Gefilte-Joo-Fish,
Which was surely the Kvetch’s least favorite dish!

And THEN
They’d do something
Which made the Kvetch plotz!
Every Joo down in Joo-ville, Bar Mitzvahed or not,
Would sit down together, their proud ponim’s grinning.
Then dreidels in hand, all the Joos would start spinning!

They’d spin! And they’d spin!
AND they’d SPIN! SPIN! SPIN! SPIN!
And the more the Kvetch thought of this Joo-Dreidel-Spin,
The more the Kvetch thought, “I can’t let this begin!
“Oy, for fifty-three years I’ve put up with it now!
“Chanukah, Schmanukah! Stop it!
… But HOW?”

Then he got an idea!
And the moment he had,
He said
“I’m no Einstein, but this… not half bad!”

“I know just what to do!” Then he donned an old sheet,
And dug up some sandals to wear on his feet.
“I’m the Prophet Elijiah! They’ve set me a plate!”
(For the Kvetch couldn’t keep Joo-ish holidays straight.)
“The Joos ‘ll oblige ol’ Elijiah, no doubt!
“I will simply walk in. Then I’ll clean the place out!”

“All I need is a camel…”
He looked far and near,
But this wasn’t the desert, and camels are dear.
Did that stop the old Kvetch…?
That pischer? No, never:
“If I can’t find a camel,” the Kvetch said, “…whatever.”
So he called his dog, Max. Then he took an old sack
And he tied a hump onto the front of his back.

THEN
He climbed on this
dog-dromedaryish mammal.
You never have seen
Such a schmuck on a camel.

Then the Kvetch cried “Oy vey!”
As old Max started down
Toward the homes, while the Joos
Where still schmoozing in town.

All their driveways were empty. Just SUV tracks.
All the Joos were out last-minute-shopping at Saks,
As he rode to a not-so-small house on old Max.
“It’s a good thing I brought” the old Prophet Kvetch thought,
“All these bags with to stuff all the stuff the Joos bought.”

Then he looked at the chimney. It seemed quite a stretch
That a fat goy like Santa could fit, thought the Kvetch,
“Still, the goyim believe stranger things, that’s for sure.”
Then the Kvetch shrugged his shoulders, and walked through the door
Where the little Joo dreidels were all strewn about.
“These dreidels,” he grinned, “are the first to go out!”

And he schvitzed, as he shlepped, with an odor unpleasant,
Around the whole house, as he took every present!
Barbie dolls! Mountain bikes! Brios! And blocks!
Pokemon! GameBoys! And all of that shlock!
And he stuffed them in bags. Then his arms spread akimbo,
He shlepped all the bags, one by one, out the wimbo!

Then he shlepped to the kitchen. He took every dish.
He took the Joo-latkes. The Gefilte-Joo-Fish.
He cleaned out the Sub-Zero so nimbly and neat,
Careful to separate dairy from meat.
Then he shlepped the Joo-nosh right out the front door-a.
“And NOW!” kvelled the Kvetch, “I will shlep the menorah!”

And he grabbed the menorah, and started to shlep on,
When he heard a whine, like a cat being stepped on.
He spun ‘round with shpilkes, and coming his way,
It was Ruth Levy-Joo, who was two, if a day.

The Kvetch had been caught by this small shaina maidel,
Who’d been watching TV on her big RCA’dle.
“The Prophet Elijiah?” she quizzed the old fool,
“You visit on Pesach, they taught us in shul.”

And although the old Kvetch was surprised and confused,
It’s not hard to lie to a girl in her twos.
“Bubbeleh… sweatheart…” he started his tale,
“Your dad paid full price, when this all was on sale!
“And like any good merchant, I just want to please ya.
“I’ll ring it up right, then I’ll refund your VISA.”

Then he patted her tush. Put a Barney tape in.
And she spaced-out as fast as the spindle could spin.
And as Ruth Levy-Joo watched her mauve dinosaura,
HE went to the door and shlepped out the menorah!

Then the match for the shamas
Was last to be filched!
Then he shlepped himself out to continue his pillage.
On the walls he left nothing at all. Bubkes. Zilch.
And the one speck of food
That he left in the house
Was a matzoh ball even too dense for a mouse.

Then
He did the same schtick
In the other Joo’s houses.

Leaving knaidlach
Too dense
For the other Joo’s mouses!

It was quarter to dusk…
All the Joos, still at Saks,
All the Joos, still a-shmooze
When he packed up old Max,
Packed him up with their presents! The gelt and the dreidels!
The chotchkes and latkes! The knish and the knaidels!

He hauled it all up to his condo in haste!
(A Grinch might have dumped it, but why go to waste?)
“Shtup you!” to the Joos, the Kvetch loudly cheered,
“They’re finding out Chanukah’s cancelled this year!
“They’re just coming home! I know just what they’ll say!
“They’ll ask their homeowners insurance to pay,
“Then the Joos down in Joo-ville will all cry OY VEY!”

“All those Oys,” kvelled the Kvetch,
“Now THIS I must hear!”
So he paused. And the Kvetch put his hand to his ear.
And he did hear a sound rising up from the shtetl.
It started to grow. Then the Kvetch grew unsettled…

Why the sound wasn’t sad,
It was more like the noise
Of a UPS trucker
Delivering toys!

He stared down at Joo-ville!
And then the Kvetch shook,
As truck after truck
Replaced all that he took!

Every Joo down in Joo-ville, the Golds and the Steins,
Re-ordered their presents by going online!

Chanukah HADN’T been cancelled!
IT CAME!
…On UPS trucks… but it came just the same!

Then the Kvetch, staring down at the gifts where they sat,
Stood kvitching and kvetching: “For this, I did that?
“It came without traffic! It came without tax!
“It came without shopping at Bloomie’s or Saks!”
And he kvetched on and on, til he started to shvitz,
Then the Kvetch thought of something which might make him rich!
“Maybe stores,” thought the Kvetch, “don’t need mortar and bricks.
“Maybe toys can be bought with a few well-placed clicks!”

And what happened then…?
Well… in Joo-ville they say
That the Kvetch raised
Ten million in venture that day!
And the minute his web site was ready to go,
He raised ten billion more on his new IPO!
He sold back the toys to the homes they came from!
And he…

… he the Kvetch…!
Founded YA-JOO.COM!

©2000 by David Goldstein
All rights reserved

[An HA holiday tradition (and with perfect timing what with the first night of Chanukah and Christmas Eve lining up this year), with apologies to the late, great Dr. Seuss—but not to those greedy, litigious bastards at Dr. Seuss Enterprises, LLC. So there. Happy Christmukah.]

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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

by Darryl — Friday, 12/23/16, 10:43 pm

Trevor and Barack: Navigating America’s racial divide.

David Pakman: Most Americans realize that things are pretty good under Obama.

How one man found his inner Obama.

Putin Puppet, Pussy Pawing, Presnit Erect Трамп:

  • Daily Show: The gift of reproductive rights
  • Olbermann: Our new corporate overlords plan to thrive.
  • Conan: Трамп and Obama’s last phone calls of 2016.
  • Jon Stewart and David Axlerod on what makes Трамп’s presidency horrible
  • Roy Zimmerman: My TV
  • Farron Cousins: Трамп is the result of years of GOP anti-intellectualism
  • David Pakman: Do Трамп supporters realize that Trump has NO mandate?
  • Thom and Dan Sisson: Thomas Jefferson would be appalled.
  • Michael Brooks: Oh Good! Henry Kissinger is Giving Трамп “presidential advice”
  • Young Turks: Those weren’t LIES…Трамп was being “symbolic”
  • Rachel Maddow and Seth Mayers on Трамп conflicts of interest.
  • David Pakman: Newt Gingrich admits that Трамп is not draining the swamp
  • Conan: Трамп calls Obama about line of succession.:

  • David Pakman with Richard Cahan: Трамп’s Muslim registry should remind us of Japanese internment camps
  • Seth Meyers: A closer look at climate change and a Трамп presidency
  • Mark Fiore: The Трамп who stole America
  • Thom: To hell with Godwin’s Law… We’re there!
  • Sam Seder: The imminent threats to voting rights under the Трамп administration
  • Seth Meyers: Tweetin’ with the Prez

Michael Brooks: Alex Jones is back to Birferism!

Mental Floss: 27 things you might not know about Star Wars.

Left behind in the rush for lithium.

The Hostile Transfer of Power:

  • Seth Meyers: A Closer Look at the power grab in North Carolina.
  • Michael Brooks: NC just experienced a coup. It could spread.
  • Samantha Bee: A very special legislative session
  • Thom: The NC GOP power grab.

Samantha Bee: Strange bedfellows.

Young Turks: Michelle Obama responds to “angry black woman” criticism.

2016 Pretty Much Sucked:

  • The Daily Show year in review
  • Key of Awesome: The 2016 Didn’t Totally Suck Song
  • James Corden recaps 2016
  • Four heated house moments from 2016

Demographics of the 115th Congress.

Jonathan Mann: Abolish the Electoral College:

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

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Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 12/23/16, 7:22 am

If you’re celebrating the Feast of Sol Invictus, Newtonmass, Festivus, or perhaps some obscure one, have happy holidays.

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