Friday Stuff

I guess Ben Carson believe this about the pyramids too (here) - truly, words fail...



…and once again, Al Jazeera America reports on stories ignored by our corporate media; this one about convicted criminal Rudolph Norris (granted clemency by Number 44, possibly the motivation behind this disgusting bit of corporate media wankery) and mandatory minimum sentencing against the backdrop of the proliferation of crack in the ‘90s…



...and Kyle Kulinski of Secular Talk take a look at the first ad from Bernie Sanders (could do without Sanders’s flip-flopping of sorts over the Hillary Clinton Email nonsense, though – NSFW a bit)…



…and Shep Smith goes off-script again on Black Lives Matter and the suicide of that godawful Illinois cop – kudos (more here)…



By the way, the clip is cut off a bit at the end – this is what Smith said…

“Think of the narrative that came out of that from so many, many places, about, ‘It’s the fault of the Black Lives Matter movement,'” Smith said Thursday. “All of this stuff that was just, it really turned up the rhetoric and it really was factually wrong."

Oh, and here is some food for thought it you end up watching the "big game" tomorrow somewhere...



…and I’m sorry, but this is just WAY too damn funny – some blonde on Fix Noise says that “only” 271,000 jobs were added last month, when economists expected a number that turned out to be lower – I would ask if she and Steve Douchey know how to count, but I think I know the answer already (click anywhere in video to start and stop)…



…and I can’t let this week come to a close without nothing that Ahmed Chalabi died; he was perhaps the biggest proponent of Dubya’s Not So Excellent Adventure in Mesopotamia – I thought this New York Times video got it right with this soulless con artist, who our prior ruling cabal was stupid enough to trust because it suited everyone’s purpose to do so…



…and these guys just keep making great, kick-ass music, including this little number (maybe applies to Chalabi a bit, I guess).

Wednesday Stuff

Concerning yesterday’s elections – this report tells us about the three conservative education board members in Colorado who tried to alter history textbooks and were voted out; hooray for our side (here)…



…and Al Jazeera America tells us about disabled workers paid below the minimum wage at “sheltered workshops” (I guess, though, that it’s just “big gumint socialism” to suggest a state or federal subsidy to offset the difference between the legal and sub-minimum wage – and Andrew Cuomo continues to be not just an utterly wretched Democrat, but an utterly wretched politician in general)…



…and of course, given the most recent activity of too many (but not ALL) cops in this country, there’s only one course of action available, and that of course is to blame filmmaker Quentin Tarantino – riiiiight…



…and turning to our beloved commonwealth, congratulations to just-elected Supreme Court justices David Wecht, Kevin Dougherty and Christine Donohue, along with brand new member of the Pennsbury School Board T.R. Kannan and John Lewis and Judi Reiss, with the latter two just elected to the board of Lower Makefield Supervisors.

However, Charlie Martin eked out yet another fairly close victory to maintain the Republican majority on the Bucks County Board of Commissioners, helped in part by yet another full-page ad appearing in the Bucks County Courier Times featuring “Mikey The Beloved” Fitzpatrick also (who that paper positively fawns over, by the way…and yes, I would be just as miffed if this happened for a Democrat; no newspaper should accept advertising from a political party…EVER).

I guess that means that it is time for this song once more.

Tuesday Stuff

Trevor Noah had a smart commentary IMHO on “the Ferguson Effect” here…HEY! What’s with that “Eagles” dig? (just kidding)…

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…and with all due respect to Mr. Otoupalik, the fact (according to him) that no one has ever questioned a sale at a gun show may have more to do with the fact that NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN ABLE TO TRACE THE SALE OF A GUN AT A GUN SHOW; hopefully, this bill will pass and that will change – we’ll see…



...and yeah, this is stuff of jokes, but ultimately, it’s on us...



…and I hope Kentucky likes rain, because they're sure as hell are going to get a lot of it, metaphorically speaking, from this (not too surprising, but still utterly pathetic).



Update 11/4/15: Just beyond belief...

Update 11/5/15: I think Crooks and Liars blogger Karoli (who I think is great, by the way) and Brad Friedman are pursuing an interesting theory here; I don't know the law on this, but I'd like to see Jack Conway (who is still Kentucky AG, let's not forget) impound a cross-section of voting machines for forensic testing...the caveat is that this may very well not affect the outcome in any way, but better safe than sorry as far as I'm concerned.

Monday Stuff

John Oliver tells us, among other things, why tomorrow’s elections matter here and elsewhere (here, and by the way, as Rachel Maddow pointed out, Mississippi had a perfectly good state exchange that that idiot Phil Bryant very nearly wrecked)…



…oh, and as you listen to conservative mouthpiece Heather McDonald get schooled by a former North Carolina police officer here, please keep in mind that this is the same pundit who once called the New York Times a “national security threat” here…



...and Melissa Harris-Perry talks to Dr. Diane Horvath-Cosper about abortion access in this country, which, despite the best efforts of conservatives and life forms such as this guy, is still legal (even the mob doesn't go after family members)…



…and as a reminder to PA/Bucks County folk, please click here to support Diane Marseglia and Brian Galloway for Bucks County Commissioners (let’s FINALLY get rid of Charlie “I Have A Semi-Open Mind” Martin), along with Judges David Wecht, Kevin Dougherty and Christine Donohue for PA Supreme Court, click here to support John Lewis and Judi Reiss for Lower Makefield Supervisors, and click here to support T.R. Kannan for the Pennsbury School Board.

…because, to echo what John Oliver said, when it comes to effecting change for real (which we can all do tomorrow, those of us unelected of course), there really is no other way (that reminds me – looks like it’s dinner time).