Last week’s contest was won by wes.in.wa, who got 4 out of the 6 locations. Sorry that the sadness of the topic turned off a few folks, so I’m not sure I’ll do something quite like that again. But here were the correct answers:
A – Akron, OH – news story
B – Michigan City, IN – news story
C – Bullard, TX – news story
D – Memphis, TN – news story
E – Liberty Township, MI – news story
F – Yuma, AZ – news story
This week’s is a random location somewhere on earth, good luck!
If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple.
Discuss.
Young Turks: Recreational pot causes long lines in CO .
The Horrors of Affordable Health Care for All:
Sam Seder: Did Chris Christie create massive traffic jams because of political feud?
Young Turks: Belief in evolution—Republicans versus Democrats.
Benghaaaaaaaaaaaaazzzzziiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!1!!11!
Pap and Thom: Oil industry wants to privatize profits, socialize risks.
Zina Saunders: The animated life and times of Ronald Reagan.
Young Turks: Billionaire warns the Pope.
Invasion of Privacy, Florida Style:
David Pakman: Scott Walker makes WI #1…in jobless claims.
WaPo: How unemployment benefits could make a comeback.
Sam Seder: Is David Brooks high?!?
Young Turks: Charlie Christ “evolves” on gay marriage.
New Year:
Maddow: Epic Koch brothers smackdown (via Crooks and Liars).
Sam Seder: Democrats will win with minimum wage in 2014.
David Pakman: Same-sex couples breaking records in Utah.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
At 9:30 today, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray will hold a live web cast to “discuss next steps to raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour for all Seattle City employees”.
Watch it here:
Because we need another open thread.
– I Was An NFL Player Until I Was Fired By Two Cowards And A Bigot
– What the fuck, Border Patrol?
– Run Goldy.
– Hey, schools and other public institutions. Handle rape allegations better.
– The gun show loophole will almost certainly be on the ballot in November.
– I will have to stop using American idioms.
– OK, I’m going to be back to normal next week. I think it’ll still be Monday-Tuesday-Thursday open threads, but if you’d prefer Monday-Wednesday-Friday threads, let me know and I’ll consider it.
Today was “Green Wednesday” in Colorado, the first day of legal marijuana sales to all adults. Another great milestone in the dismantling of one of America’s most tragic and destructive policies. There’s not an exact date for when Washington’s stores will open, but it should be around May or June.
Here are my blogging resolutions for 2014:
(Yup…it’s another open thread.)
1) Top 1 Top Lists of 2013 of 2013
(Feel free to use this as an open thread; no more of these unless I think of something even stupider.)
The last year end list wasn’t WA/Seattle oriented, like this blog ought to be. So here’s one for that.
In no particular order:
– General
– Primary
(seriously, feel free to use this as an open thread, and yes there’s more of this nonsense to come)
1-E
2-A
3-I, O (Tie)
5-U
(Feel free to use this as an open thread)
This is the Open Thread for the Bird’s Eye View Contest below. Please don’t leave any non-contest comments in that post. They WILL be deleted.
Last week’s contest was won by milwhcky. It was the store in San Jose where one of the winning Mega Millions tickets was sold.
This week is the 5th week in December and last weekend of the year. As followers of this contest know, when I do the monthly news events, I try not to select news events that are particularly depressing. Sometimes I can’t avoid it because that’s what a lot of the news is, but for the most part, I’ve avoided selecting one of the many deadly shootings that occur in this country every damn day. So last year at this time, in order to highlight just how common these occur, I did a roundup of views that were related to mass shootings.
This year, I’m highlighting another horrible aspect of our nation’s ridiculous obsession with guns. All six locations below are related to a shooting where a child under the age of 5 was accidentally killed by a gun in 2013. As someone who has two kids under the age of 5, I can’t even fathom how stupid you have to be to allow something like this to happen to your own child, but it happens almost weekly. So again, forgive the morbidity of this week’s contest, but this is something that shouldn’t be so damn common.
Notes:
1 – All views are default orientation (up is north)
2 – The “no political comments” rule will be strictly enforced in this thread, there will be an Open Thread posted at 12:01pm that you may weigh in on the larger subject of gun control (or whatever else you want)
A
B
C
D
E
F
Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up the road, some youths came from the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”
So he turned around and looked at them, and pronounced a curse on them in the name of the LORD. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.
Discuss.
Young Turks: Edward Snowden declares, “Mission Accomplished”.
White House: Favorite GIFs of 2013.
Top ten things FAUX decided will lead to the “Wussification of America” in 2013 (via Media Matters).
Newsy: Poll finds 113th is the worst Congress ever.
Maddow: The Koch brothers now funding & “polluting” Florida State University:
Michael Brooks and Michelle Goldberg: The Right’s war on “White trash” the the poor.
Holiday Residual:
David Pakman: Obamacare signups soar.
The GOP’s most terrible Christmas gift.
Sam Seder: Why don’t we have universal health care?
Young Turks: Alan Turing is pardoned.
How the conservative media treated women in 2013 (via Media Matters).
Newsy: NSA phone metadata collection ruled unconstitutional and then ruled constitutional.
Women to watch for 2014.
Sharpton: Cartoon combatant Sarah Palin defends racist ‘Duck Dynasty’ star.
The Jibjab 2013 Year in Review.
Pontificating on the Pope:
Sam Seder: The Tea Party is just the Republican base.
Why a “do nothing” congress? Republican nutjobbers blame Obama.
Photos found from photographer killed in Mt. St. Helens blast.
Lawrence O’Donnell: The “teaching moment” in Duck-Dynasty racism and homophobia.
Matt Binder: After children die in tornado, GOP still blocks tornado shelters by cutting taxes.
David Pakman: Congress ends least productive year in recent history.
Sharpton: The “bully bridge politics” of N.J. Gov. Chris Christie.
Climate Change Chump Change:
Lawrence O’Donnell: Debate about opting out of health insurance:
Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: A trip to the Creation Museum.
Young Turks: Tea Party happily uses poster mocking them in popular video game.
Newsy: Obama looks ahead for 2014.
David Pakman: 13 states raising minimum wage in 2014.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
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