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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Cillizza: Obama speech looks past policy to legacy.

Ann Telnaes: Boehner thinks the House is working hard.

Where hate and love come together: Westboro Mingle:

Sam Seder: Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) “This Christmas give the gift of me to your children.

Remembering Nelson Mandela:

Moment of Clarity: Fracking, wooden tables.

An anthem for the end of Hannukah.

Ann Telnaes: Cardinal Dolan thinks gay marriage is about marketing.

Jon: Minimum wage debate.

American Moment: On climate change.

G.O.P. Autopsy, Obstruction, Lying and Denial:

Kimmel: Is George W. Bush losing it?

Random Rush: “ObamaCare is forcing people to get divorced!!!!!!

Rob Ford…The Movie.

Young Turks: Driving while Black…with a White girl.

Nia-Malika Henderson: Women left behind in the economic recovery.

Drone Nation:

Stephen interviews Denver Post’s pot editor.

Daily Show: Why the media is ignoring Wall Street scandal.

Rep Jim McDermott (D-WA-07) explains ObamaCare and why it’s so important.

Thom: ALEC’s 2014 extreme agenda exposed.

Moment of Clarity: Why you are a slave.

Pope Commie!

White House: West Wing Week.

Sam Seder: Bill-O the Clown defends us against the War on Christmas.

Mental Floss: 30 game changing video games.

Roy Zimmerman: Notes from the road

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

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottlePlease join us this evening for a round of political prognostication over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday evening at the Montlake Ale House, 2307 24th Avenue E. Our normal starting time is 8:00pm.




Can’t make it tonight? Check out another Washington state DL over the next week.

The Tri-Cities chapter also meets tonight, and every Tuesday night. The Lakewood chapter meets this Wednesday. For Thursday, the Spokane and Tacoma chapters meet. And on Friday, the Enumclaw chapter meets.

With 212 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.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Zina Saunders: Factory farm super bugs.

Pap: wealthy CEOs fighting retirement benefits.

The lost SNL audition tapes.

Obama: Immigration reform.

The Horrors of Affordable Health Care for Everyone:

Chris Hayes: FAUX News’ racist ‘Knock-Out Game’ fear mongering & stereotyping.

Dennis Trainor, Jr: Going postal to save the post office.

Lawrence O’Donnell: Palin’s & O’Reilly’s sorry explanation of Obama’s “socialism”.

The Seattle divestment forum.

Maddow: Billionaires’ bad day as new rules rein in nonprofits (via Crooks and Liars).

Thom: Will Republican treason take down Obama?

Holy Economics:

The Rob Ford calendar.

Red State Update: Podcast 54.

Young Turks: Domestic oil production up 50% under Obama.

Pap: McDonalds offers financial advice for underpaid employees.

Georgia court lists “slave” as possible occupation on website.

This Week in the Republican War on Women™:

White House: West Wing Week.

Greenman: Rhymes with Smokey Joe.

Thom and Pap: The Media’s war on Obama.

Obama: The economy.

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

Preparation for self-failure

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Republican anarchists didn’t like everything about the shutdown they forced last October. No…it wasn’t the fact that important things like food and aviation safety programs were put on hold. It wasn’t that poor people were going hungry or that “essential” government employees were working but not receiving their paychecks. It wasn’t that untold numbers of applications, hearings, meetings, consultations, and enforcement actions were delayed, sometimes causing damage beyond repair. It wasn’t that scientific research and medical trials were being harmed (sometimes irreparably). It wasn’t that the taxpayers paid for, and lost two, weeks of productivity from millions of government employees.

It wasn’t the $24 billion in damage they caused to the U.S. economy. Oh, well.

Nope…it wasn’t about any of that. It was because…Veterans. And national parks.

“Why were veterans turned away from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?” House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., asked Wednesday….

“Why were members of the Americans’ finest generation in their 80s and 90s turned away and told they could not visit what would be undoubtedly in many cases their last time at those monuments?” Issa asked. “Why were private businesses and nonprofits operating near park land shuttered?”

Because YOU SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT, you stupid fuck!

Republicans were caught unawares. And then, even with their best efforts, they were unsuccessful in shifting the blame of their own obstructionism to the Black guy in the White House.

What to do for the next government shutdown that could happen again after January 15th? Plan ahead!

The Provide Access and Retain Continuity (PARC) Act, which has 17 Republican co-sponsors, would allow states to keep national parks operating in the event of another shutdown and would make them eligible for reimbursement by the federal government. (During the shutdown, six states entered into a similar agreement.)

That’s right…Republicans are now planning for their own failure to govern. “Screw all the other negative consequences…we want our shutdowns to be less politically painful.”

Bruce Sheaffer, Comptroller of the National Park Service, isn’t having it. He delivered a solid smackdown to G.O.P. obstructionists:

We have a great deal of sympathy for the businesses and communities that experienced a disruption of activity and loss of revenue during last month’s government shutdown and that stand to lose more if there is another funding lapse in the future. However, rather than only protecting certain narrow sectors of the economy…from the effects of a government shutdown in the future, Congress should protect all sectors of the economy by enacting appropriations on time, so as to avoid any future shutdowns.

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[Planning for failure] “is not a responsible alternative to simply making the political commitment to provide appropriations for all the vital functions the federal government performs.”

In other words…DO YOUR DAMN JOB!

Fucking assholes.

Turkey Links

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Happy Thanksgiving and/or Chanukkah. Here are some links to hold you through the day….

A Thanksgiving Message from Gary Oldman:

Jonathan Mann: Some Thanksgiving Thoughts.

Pardon Me?

How To: Make the perfect turkey.

National Menorah illuminates Washington D.C.

Thanksgiving poll: Did we steal America.

Ann Telnaes: What would a turkey choose?

Mental Floss: 25 little known facts about Thanksgiving:

Sam Seder and Janeane Garofalo Offer Tips for Thanksgiving:

Sharpton: Biggest political turkeys of the year.

ONN: FAA Issues Holiday Reminder That Planes Can Crash And Kill You.

Mark Fiore: Peace Turkey.

Young Turks: Ready to argue politics at Thanksgiving.

Special “thanks” from American Family Voices.

STILL THE BEST THANKSGIVING CLIP EVAR!!!: The Thanksgiving Massacre!:

British people explain Thanksgiving.

Ann Telnaes: Black Friday Thursday.

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottle

Don’t be caught off guard when Uncle Ernie unloads about Obama’s death panels and the U.N. coming for his guns. Please join us for an evening of politics and a pint at this evening’s Thanksgiving warm-up edition of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday evening at the Montlake Ale House, 2307 24th Avenue E. Our normal starting time is 8:00pm.






Can’t make it tonight? Check out another Washington state DL over the next week. The Tri-Cities chapter meets tonight and every Tuesday night. The Bellingham and Burien chapters meet on Wednesday. And next Monday, the Yakima, South Bellevue and Olympia chapters meet.

With 212 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.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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So…the Vice President walks into a sub shop.

Cheney on Cheney:

Lawrence O’Donnell with Bill Maher: North American politics:

Young Turks: FAUX News Freaks out over Oprah race comments.

Bashir: Why Sarah Palin is a ‘a racist, world-class idiot’.

The “Constitutional Option”:

Sarah Silverman on first meeting Obama.

Young Turks: The Obama “one nation under God” fake controversy.

“Walmart Poor:”

Sam Seder: Caller humiliates Rush Limbaugh.

Ann Telnaes: Selfies we’d like to see.

The Audacity of Affordable Health Care for Everyone:

Stephen: On Russia’s gay Olympics ban.

Hundreds of gallons of highly radioactive waste leaking into groundwater at Hanford.

Bashir: U TX Young Republican’s totally no-racist Catch-An-Illegal-Immigrant ‘Game’.

Fifty Years Ago, A Tragedy:

ONN: News of the Week.

Christie’s Governors: The extreme class of 2014.

The News to the North:

Stephen: Oklahetera!

White House: West Wing Week.

Maddow: Right wing abandons facts to bash Obama:

Congressman Coke Hypocrite (R-FL)

Ed: How Ohio Republicans are planning to rig the 2014 vote.

Maddow: Marriage equality spreads.

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

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottle

It’s time to let out your inner Socialist! Please join us for an evening of politics over a pint at tonight’s gathering of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday evening at the Montlake Ale House, 2307 24th Avenue E. Our normal starting time is 8:00pm.




Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out another nearby DL meeting over the next week. Tonight the Tri-Cities and Shelton chapters meet. The South Seattle chapter meets this Wednesday. And for Thursday, the Spokane and Tacoma chapters meet.

With 212 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.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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So…the President walks into this bar…

Michael Brooks: The fraud, Chris Christie.

So…’sup in Canada?

The GOP: Not fresh, not new:

Mental Floss: 24 untended scientific discoveries.

Thom: The real web of economic life.

Audience laughs as Sen. Ted Cruz claims he didn’t want a shutdown (via Crooks and Liars).

Is Bitcoin coming to a campaign near you?

The Tragedy of Affordable Health Care for All:

Red State Update: Episode 52, The Fat Elephant in the Room.

Chris Hayes: Shrub and Jews for Jesus.

Young Turks: Koch brothers’ corruption on steroids.

Kshama Sawant goes national (via Slog).

Mark Fiore: Right-Winglandia.

Bill Maher with some new rules (via Crooks and Liars).

Minority Report:

Sam Seder: Gun rights group terrorizes mothers advocating for gun safety.

White House: West Wing Week.

Ed and Pap: The Rick Scott $1.4 billion fraud.

Young Turks: Trolls Invade AMA of Seattle Pastor Mark Driscoll.

Ann Telnaes: Our perpetual state of war.

Michael Brooks and Cliff Schecter: The Democratic Party’s future is progressive.

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

Socialism in your own back yard!

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Wow. This evening’s King County ballet drop has just made Seattle City Council Position 2 race much more interesting!

Socialist Kshama Sawant has just taken the lead over the formerly unbeatable Richard Conlin. The current tally is 79,751 votes (49.91%) for Sawant to 79,710 votes (49.88%) for Conlin. That’s a 14 41 vote edge for Sawant.

We still have some way to go (14 more days) until the election results must be certified by King County. If I am reading the spreadsheet correctly, 26,878 (or about 14.4%) of the ballots remain to be counted in this race. The trend has favored Sawant in the later ballots.

“First they came with a statue, and I said nothing….“

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleA week after the election, we still have a few nail-biters in Seatac, Seattle and Virginia. So please join us tonight for an evening of electoral prognostication over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday evening at the Montlake Ale House, 2307 24th Avenue E. Our normal starting time is 8:00pm.

Initiatives….




Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings over the next week.

Tonight there are meetings of the Tri-Cities and Vancouver, WA chapters. On Wednesday, the Bellingham chapter meets. On Thursday the Bremerton chapter meets. And next Monday, the Aberdeen, Yakima and Olympia chapters meet.

With 211 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.

Democrat Mark Herring just took the lead in the VA A.G. race

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Almost a week has passed since the general election. One of the more interesting set of races was in Virginia, in which the Governor and Lieutenant Governor positions were won by Democrats, and the Attorney General race was narrowly in favor of the Republican Mark Obenshain over Democrat Mark Herring. Since last Tuesday, precincts across the state have been correcting their counts. As of this morning, Obenshain was up by a mere 17 votes out of some 2.2 million votes tallied.

Over the past few days, discrepancies, including a missing tally from an entire machine, have come to light in the Democratic stronghold of Richmond. A couple of hours ago, a hearing was held by the Richmond electoral board to clarify those discrepant or suspicious results in eight precincts. The rather dramatic review of those eight precincts netted Herring a total of 132 votes, giving the Democrat a lead of 115 votes.

The Republicans immediately demanded a review of ten more precincts. The request was granted, and those are being examined as I write this post. But, the first five precincts examined so far have resulted in exactly zero changes—they keep their election day tallies. I note that the Richmond electoral board is composed of two Republicans and one Democrat, so it will be hard for Republicans to concoct rational conspiracy theories around the hearings (as if “rational” has ever been a criterion!).

Of course we are still a long way from having this resolved. The loser will almost certainly request a recount, although N in Seattle tells me that the Virginia recounts rules are far more restrictive than what we are used to here in Washington. And then there will be the inevitable lawsuit a la the first Gregoire–Rossi race in Washington or the Franken–Coleman race in Minnesota.

The other likely set of changes to the vote count will come from about 500 outstanding provisional ballots. Most outstanding provisionals will come from blue-leaning areas—the great majority from Fairfax County, and a handful from Roanoke city. These will be adjudicated through tomorrow afternoon, when the final tallies must be certified. It is always dicey projecting provisional ballots, but we should expect Herring to pick up at least a thin majority of the provisional votes that are accepted. (BTW: there was a flap over the weekend about “rule changes” in who could represent provisional voters. The flap turns out to be pretty much bogus.)

So it looks damn likely that Democrats will have swept the three statewide races in Virginia. Given that the current Virginia Attorney General and failed gubernatorial candidate, Ken Cuccinelli, was openly boasting about being the first AG to sue the federal government over ObamaCare, his gubernatorial loss combined with the loss of the Republican in the AG slot would be a stunning symbolic victory!
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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Chris Cillizza: The country’s most vulnerable governor.

Sam Seder with Aasif Mandvi Behind the Daily Show “Racist Republican” segment:

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

White House: West Wing Week.

LEAVE AQUA BUDDHA ALOOOOOOONNNNE!!!!!:

Pap: Chris Christie is the face of the Republican train wreck.

Stephen has some words for employers who are less than LGBT friendly.

On to 2014!

Please don’t not have sex (via Slog).

Read the tweets you politician deleted.

The Tragedy of Affordable (but Somewhat Inconveniently Acquired) Health Care Insurance for Everyone:

The biggest prison profiteer of them all.

Absurdity Today: JP Morgan and other abominations.

Mental Floss: 26 bizarre college courses.

Sam Seder and Adele Stan: How the Koch brothers are funding the Republican War on Women™.

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

ONN: The Onion Week in Review.

The Spy Who Listened to Me:

Ed with Lizz Winstead on why Ken Cuccinelli lost…”Women like sex but he doesn’t”.

Bill Maher with some New Rules (via Crooks and Liars).

Melissa Harris-Perry: Sunday shows fail to cover devastating cuts to SNAP program.

Sam Seder: Shrub does a keynote for Jews for Jesus.

Politician runs for Congress in FOUR DIFFERENT STATES simultaneously!

Chris Christie’s victory speech in campaign buttons.

Jon: 2016? TOO SOON!!!!

Yes…We Really Are Stooping To Local Politics…Canadian Local Politcs!:

The Obamas surprise some White House visitors:

Thom: You might be a Republican if….

Young Turks: CBS apologizes for Benghazi report.

Absurdity Today: Stuff in the news.

Laura Flanders with Melissa Harris Perry: The Pregnant Woman Who Ended up in Jail.

Maddow: Shrub’s new friends.

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

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleIt’s election night. Please be sure to VOTE, and then join us for some electoral punditry and political prognostication over a pint at tonight’s Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday evening at the Montlake Ale House, 2307 24th Avenue E. Our normal starting time is 8:00pm.






Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings over the next week. Tonight the Tri-Cities chapter also meets. The Lakewood chapter meets this Wednesday. For Thursday, the Spokane and Tacoma chapters meet. And on Friday, the Centralia chapter meets.

With 211 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.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Bill Maher with some new rules (via Crooks and Liars).

Maddow: The fight to keep Republicans from tainting scientific climate reports. Part I.
Maddow: The fight to keep Republicans from tainting scientific climate reports. Part II.

Spooky Times:

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

Steve Kornacki: The history of Black Senators, Part I.
Steve Kornacki: The history of Black Senators, Part II.

Maddow: How you pay congress to do nothing!

Sharpton with Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA-7): Republicans will say anything about President Obama just to see him fail.

Cruz Mis-sell:

Sam Seder: Seattle’s socialist movement.

Jon has some words for the media: Go fuck yourself.

Thom: Why is the GOP trying to insert the Government into a woman’s uterus?

Liberal Viewer: FAUX News likes bank fraud?!?

The Audacity of Affordable Health Care for Everyone:

Mental Floss: 32 superstition orgins.

Jonathan Mann: Mother Nature is motherfucking scary.

Sam Seder: Rick Santorum reveals that Hollywood is run by Satan!!!

Pap: Teabaggers don’t understand the economy.

Chris Cillizza: Is blocking judges and effective tactic for Republicans?.

Serial Plagerist Rand Paul:

White House: West Wing Week.

Stephen mocks GOP Senators who disapproved of their own previous debt ceiling vote.

Chris Cillizza: The very scary proposition of dead people on the voter roles:

Steve Kornacki: Fifth-year slumps, Obama versus Bush.

Thom: How climate change affects the oceans.

Stephen demands Nevada Assemblyman Jim Wheeler “punch himself in the balls” after slavery comments.

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

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