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Matthew 5:28
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Discuss.

The vanishing snows of Kilimanjaro.

Lawrence O’Donnell: Mitt Romney tries to rewrite Mitt Romney:

Congressman Asshat of Iowa:

• Thom takes on Rep. Steve King (R-IA).
• Matt Binder: “Mexican kids are drug mules!”, says asshat Rep. Steve King (R-IA)
• Sam Seder: Is it okay to laugh at asshats like Rep. Steve King?

Sharpton: Sarah Palin’s ‘maverick’ hypocrisy exposed.

Bill Maher with some new rules.

White House: West Wing Week.

This is the 40th time!

Bashir and Eugene Robinson: History shows when Republicans shut down government, they lose.

John Fugelsang: We’re in the golden age of slut-shaming.

Fast Foods Forward and FAUX Fumbles:

• John Oliver: Fast food workers and FAUX News pundits.
• Thom schools Hannity on hamburger costs.
• Lawrence O’Donnell: The case to increase the minimum wage.
• Thom: Can anyone survive on $7.25

Kimmel: This week in Unnecessary Censorship.

ONN: Onion Week in Review.

Thom: The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Ugly.

Melissa Harris-Perry: New law forces clinics to close in North Carolina.

Jimmy Dore does Bill O’Reilly.

Sharpton: How FAUX, O’Reilly, and fellow right wingers are failing miserably in the racism conversation.

Mental Floss: 79 common mispronunciations.

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Helen Thomas’s legacy:

FAUX’s Worst Interview Ever:

• Young Turks: Worst interview ever???
• Michael Brooks: Even FAUX News should be ashamed of this interview.
• Young Turks: FAUX News tries to defend the “worst interview ever”
• Reza Aslan on his now infamous FAUX News interview.
• Here come the Spoofs!

Liberal Viewer: Would NSA spying program prevent 9/11 attacks?.

Thom: How the G.O.P. causes child prostitution.

Sam Seder: DOJ sues Texas over voting laws.

Mark Fiore: Syria’s Royal Easel.

John Fugelsang plays six degrees of Edward Snowden:

Melissa Harris-Perry: Judge grants reprieve for WI health clinics.

Ruse Harstel on his racist homophobic cousin.

Red State Update: Podcast episode 37.

ONN: New Pew poll says nation just wants to be safe, happy, rich, comfortable, entertained at all times.

Young Turks: Rand Paul and Chris Chrstie duke it out!

Inappropriate Mayorial Material:

• Anthony Weiner refuses to quit.
• Young Turks: Weiner aide vs Weiner intern catfight
• Broadway goes Weiner:
• Chris Hayes: FAUX News smears Huma Abedin with baseless claims of terrorism ties.
• Matt Binder: FAUX News attacks Huma Abedin
• John Oliver: Anthony Weiner’s ‘Not Quitting’ ad.
• Stephen defends San Diego Mayor Bob Filner.

Melissa Harris-Perry: Do nothing Congress takes a recess.

Young Turks: The G.O.P. War on Women™ gets expensive.

John Fugelsang: Politicians fiddlin’ while North Carolina burns.

Thom: Conservatives are driving us to suicide.

Lawrence O’Donnell: The Republican disease of dysfunction in washington.

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

The State Supreme Court issued a pretty damning opinion.

However, several justices nevertheless expressed concern about the issues raised, saying race is often a factor – conscious or unconscious – when lawyers use their peremptory challenges to dismiss potential jurors from cases.

“Peremptory challenges are used in trial courts throughout this state, often based largely or entirely on racial stereotypes or generalizations,” Justice Steven Gonzalez wrote. “As a result, many qualified persons in this state are being excluded from jury service because of race.”

When lawyers question members of a jury pool in Washington, they can ask prospects to be removed for cause, such as some evidence the juror would not be able to sit impartially on the case. They are also allowed three peremptory challenges, by which they can have jurors removed for no reason at all, as long as the effect is not purposeful discrimination.

Even though the Supreme Court upheld the conviction in this case, this is still a shot across the bow. And hopefully it will lead to actual changes.

I’m sort of already on vacation mode, so here’s a post that (a) is another damn library post and (b) has vacation planning as the intro. Also, (c) the post doesn’t really know what it wants to do and (d) is pretty short, but that’s just me being me. Sorry in advance!

I was at the library trying to find something light but interesting to take on vacation. I looked through the science section, and I came across a fair amount of intelligent design and similar nonsense mixed into the actual science and popular science books. I was rather startled, but I suppose it’s better than them not being available.

To be clear I certainly don’t want to be censorious or to tell librarians how to do their jobs. And if people want to read it, well then I guess it should be at the library. I mean, it isn’t the library’s job to say what books are good and bad science. It’s just surprising to see it.

– It’s too bad that the state’s unions have to justify their existence, but they do a good job of it.

– Everybody get your rotten tomatoes ready, Scott Walker is coming to town.

– Taking pictures is not a problem, and certainly not worthy of escalating a situation, King County and Seattle police.

– I’m on the record in the Hillary Clinton is great camp, but if she runs (and I’m not saying either way) there is going to be a lot of stupid. Even by the standards of the manufacturers of stupid.

– From the first day the first troll king pooped out his first troll-sac full of butt-eggs (and then told his placenta to eat less/exercise more, fatty), the conventional wisdom has been to ignore them. Ignore them and they’ll go away. Stop feeding them and they’ll starve. Except…has that worked?

– And a heads up: I’m on vacation next week. I may do a few posts, but will probably be more preoccupied with family stuff. Darryl will be around, and maybe the rest of the front pagers.

Fuck.

Two men were taken to Harborview Medical Center on Wednesday afternoon after reportedly being shot while driving on a freeway in Tukwila.

[…]

The victims, ages 23 and 24, sustained non-life-threatening injuries, according to the Seattle Fire Department.

I don’t know what to say except, please don’t shoot anybody.

There aren’t enough fuck-offs for whatever legislator this is:

Mayor McGinn described how a coalition of mayors presented a united front for transit funding, including Mayor Skip Priest (R – Federal Way). However, when the mayor talked with a Senate Republican leader, who he did not name, he was told, “We want Seattle to starve until we get what we want.”

Sen. Kohl-Welles said the votes were there in the Senate to pass the transportation package (House Bill 1954), but that leadership would not allow it to come up for a vote. In a telling sign that transit advocates did not have a presence in Olympia, the senator said “I wish you were down here with us.” She offered that “There is hope the governor will call a special session.”

It’s impossible to know for sure who said that, but it was either Rodney Tom or someone he has elevated to a position of power. Whoever it was, I’m sure they talk like that all the time, and so Seattle legislators must know who they are. It’s not OK that Seattle legislators aren’t pushing to starve their city or district.

But OK, fine. Our legislators favor a one sided congeniality over protecting their constituents. It’s terrible, but kind of understandable. What I don’t understand is that the non-Seattle legislators think Seattle will let ourselves starve.

Ideally transit solutions will come from the state, but Seattle is pretty good at figuring out work arounds when the state doesn’t do its job. Think of the Families and Education Levy. Sure it would be better if the state would fund education at an adequate level. But Seattle didn’t wait around for that when the state failed year after year with Republican and with Democratic legislatures. We passed, and recently expanded the levy to make up some of that shortfall. Oh, and by the way: we didn’t have to share with the people who want to starve Seattle.

It’ll be tough to do something like that to save Metro funding without the authorization from the state. But I’m sure Dow, and some of the King County mayors, have staff and attorneys working on something. It almost certainly won’t be as elegant as what they asked the state for authority to do, but they aren’t just going to give up on Metro, just let it starve.

It’s the Tuesday before the primary. This is your chance to join us for an evening of electoral politics over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet every Tuesday evening at the Montlake Ale House, 2307 24th Avenue E. Starting time is 8:00pm. Some people show up even earlier for Dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out another DL meeting over the next week.

The Tri-Cities chapter also meets tonight. And for Thursday, the Spokane and Tacoma chapters meet. On Friday, the Enumclaw chapter meets. And next Monday, the Aberdeen, Yakima, South Bellevue and Olympia chapters meet.

With 207 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, four in Oregon, and three more in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting near you.

– Tents are a half assed solution to our homeless problem. But the people who opposed Nickelsville legislation don’t even want that.

– Kirby Wilbur is going to DC to chair the Young America’s Foundation so he won’t be the state GOP chair anymore.

– My sincere best wishes for Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler’s family.

– Obamacare? More like Obamaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacare!

– At comparable points in their presidencies, for every day Obama has taken off, Bush had already taken 4.5 days off. Obama could stay on vacation for the rest of 2013 and still not be within striking distance of Bush’s hyper-lazy pace

Richard Conlin was on his bike and had a crash with a car over the weekend.

City Councilmember Richard Conlin is recovering from a painful broken shoulder blade after he collided with a car while biking in Madrona Sunday.

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The Times reports that Conlin is back at work. He was struck by someone making a quick u-turn without looking at 34th and Pine

No fun. Here’s hoping for a full recovery.

– The campaign for Oregon to join the rest of the West Coast for marriage equality.

– Abortion is an extremely safe procedure that rarely results in serious complications, and despite anti-choicers’ vehement efforts to cloak such laws in feigned concern for maternal health, current medical practices are such that risk to patients won’t be reduced by restrictive rules requiring admitting privileges.

– I’ve never had Miss Marjorie’s, but now Steel Drum Plantains are all I want. (h/t)

– I remember thinking this when the column was written. And to think Douthat is considered one of the heavyweights of the conservative movement.

– Oops

Last week’s contest was won by milwhcky. It was a Hyundai factory near Montgomery, AL.

This week’s is related to something in the news from July, good luck!

Matthew 8:30-32
Not far from there a large herd of pigs was feeding. So the demons begged Jesus, “If you force us out, please send us into those pigs!” Jesus told them to go, and they went out of the men and into the pigs. All at once the pigs rushed down the steep bank into the lake and drowned.

Discuss.

Thom: The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Ugly.

Sam Seder: Republicans try to slash funding to EPA and the arts.

John Fugelsang: What to say to people who defend Walmart:

Pap and Thom: How GOP greed destroyed Detroit.

This Week in the Republican War on Women™

• Ann Telnaes: Boehner on what the American People want.
• Sam Seder: Judge blocks Republican abortion ban.
• Farron Cousins: The GOP War on Women™ Is alive and well.

Maddow: NC GOP continues despicable effort to thwart minority votes.

Thom: Holder to Perry….You feeling lucky?

ONN: The Week in Review.

Mark Fiore: Cruel and unusual blues.

Cuccinelli’s Bizarre Views:

• Cuch…Extremist.
• Ann Telnaes: Cuccinelli’s position on homosexuality.
• Young Turks: Cuch gets trolled HARD.

Katrina vanden Heuvel: One word to describe the Republican party today.

Alex Wagner: Feds target Texas’ racist voter restrictions.

Obama on The Economy:

Bashir: U.S. has highest first day infant mortality rate of industrialized countries.

Obama on Trayvon Martin:

• Matt Binder: Obama, “Trayvon Martin could have been me”.
• Liberal Viewer: FAUX News race baits on Obama’s Trayvon Martin remarks.
• Stephen: FAUX News and Obama’s speech
• Thom: The G.O.P. is the biggest death cult in America

DEA raids medical marijuana dispensaries.

Bill Maher: Tweets from Pope Frank.

Pap and Sam Seder: Rep. Gohmert’s rhetoric echoes racist militia talk.

Red State Update: How freedom sounds fifth anniversary (Podcast 36).

Young Turks: Bill-O the Clown on black people.

Thom: More Good, Bad, and Very, Very Ugly.

Susie Sampson’s Tea Party Report: Week in Review.

Weinergate 2.0:

• Stephen: Anthony Weiner’s penis.
• Weiner gets the animation treatment
• John Oliver: On Weiner.
• Young Turks: Col. Morris Davis, Weiner is a victim of religious discrimination.
• Alex Wagner: What was the Weiner thinking?
• Sam Seder with John Fugelsang: The real problem with Weiner
• John Fugelsang and friends on politician sex scandals.

Ezra Klein : Holder cites evidence of racism in Texas.

Pap and Sam Seder: Liz Cheney’s crazy talk campaign.

Young Turks: NC voter suppression bill would ruin real democracy.

White House: West Wing Week.

Ann Telnaes: Exposing the media.

George H.W. Bush shaves his head in solidarity with 2 year old battling leukemia.

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is a fucking bigot:

• Same old party: On Dreamers
• Stephen: About Steve King.
• Maddow: GOP compares immigrants to dogs…Part 1 and Part 2
• Chris Hayes: GOP’s drug-mule racism.
• Alex Wagner: King is the new ‘dog-face’ of GOP anti-Immigrant extremism
• Sam Seder: Asshat Steve King (R-IA) Says DREAM Act kids are drug mules
• Young Turks: King claims 99% of Latino Dreamers are drug runners.
• Ezra Klein: Rep. Steve King’s racist comments frustrate GOP Latino outreach.

Sam Seder: The silliest G.O.P. conspiracy yet.

Young Turks: Glenn Beck’s bizarre dollar bill conspiracy theory.

Obama on Education and the economy.

John Fugelsang: Exotic dancers of America, John McCain has your back.

Thom: Boehner brags about turning America into Detroit.

Mental Floss: 26 Weird Animal Mating Habits.

Ezra Klein : GOP political hooliganism over Obamacare.

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

I’m glad that the city of Seattle is making a serious effort to crack down on wage theft.

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn and other officials warned Thursday that the city will investigate and prosecute when businesses fail to pay employees what they’re due, after five fast-food workers filed police complaints saying they’d been cheated out of pay.

“Wage theft is a crime,” McGinn told a news conference and rally on the steps of City Hall. “An honest day’s work deserves an honest day’s pay.”

Seattle passed a law two years ago specifying that wage theft falls under the city’s regular theft statute and can be prosecuted as such, but no one ever has been charged with it. The law also allows the city to deny or revoke business licenses for those convicted of wage theft in the past 10 years.

Over at the SPD blotter, Detective Jeff Kappel lets people who have been the victims of wage theft know how to file a complaint.