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Idiocracy is here. Citizens United is here. Disinvestment in education for thirty years gave us our version of the barbarian class. This will continue until we make Somalia look like a developed country.
Election results: Louisiana Link
8:06pm LA, Senate - 0.00% reporting
https://www.google.com/search?q=la+voting&oq=la+voting&aqs=chrome..69i57.4303j0j4&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#q=la+voting+results&revid=2030392532
About 50 percent voter turnout predicted for La.
By MELINDA DESLATTE
Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Secretary of State Tom Schedler says he expects about half of Louisiana's 2.9 million registered voters to cast ballots for the Nov. 4 election.
That's above turnout in the last midterm congressional election, but still well below the 68 percent of voters who showed up at the polls for the 2012 presidential election.
Schedler is Louisiana's top elections official. He based his projection Monday on turnout in the state's early voting period, which runs through Tuesday. About 30,000 people per day have been casting their ballots early, with the strongest turnout in Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
Top of the list of elections is a heated U.S. Senate race between Democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu and Republicans Bill Cassidy and Rob Maness (MAY-ness), along with several hotly-contested congressional races.
http://www.fox8live.com/story/27025903/about-50-percent-voter-turnout-predicted-for-la
Early voter turnout explodes in New Orleans; could be good sign for Mary Landrieu
Here In New Orleans:
New Orleanians have been voting early in droves, according to the Orleans Parish registrar of voters.
About 17,430 city residents have cast ballots during early voting, which ends today, said Sandra Wilson, registrar of voters. That's nearly twice as many early voters as the last midterm election in November 2010, when 9,031 voted early in person, according to the Louisiana Secretary of State's figures.
The primary election in October of that year, which included statewide races and constitutional amendments, saw even fewer early voters at 3,278.
The big early voting turnout this year may be a good sign for Democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu as she fights to keep her Senate seat. African-Americans, who vote overwhelmingly Democrat, have much higher early voting rates than whites, and maximizing voter turnout in New Orleans is seen by many as key to Landrieu's electoral hopes.
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/10/early_voter_turnout_explodes_i.html
Gamergate’s fickle hero: The dark opportunism of Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos
A recurring theme of the Gamergate movement is that it's not about harassment or misogyny, and that the harassers are a minor fringe in the movement, or even false flag conspiracies by anti-Gamergate trolls.
As I wrote last month, there is a serious ethics problem in video game journalism and the industry does need reforms. The latest example of this is the paid branding for the popular "Lord of the Rings" game "Shadow of Mordor," where the publisher only allowed YouTubers who offered praise for the game to receive early review copies. Giving small-ball independent reviewers free copies of a $60 game if they offered it praise seems like a very clear and serious case of corruption.
But there were no organized boycotts or campaigns against the game's producers, Monolith Productions and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The scandal came and went. One YouTube gamer made a satirical video trying to highlight the issue. As of this writing, it has 79 views.
Which highlights a core problem with the movement: When a legitimate corruption scandal not involving women, or feminism, or any real misogynist angle arises, it's more or less ignored. It seems to be deemed not exciting enough to raise Gamergate's hackles.
It's hardly a surprise, then, that the movement has anointed some highly suspect heroes: far-right anti-feminist writers like the American Enterprise Institute's Christina Hoff Sommers and Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos. Neither has any real history with video games or deep understanding of the issues that the industry and its journalists face, but both have a very real history of taking the side against wherever the feminist movement happens to be.
https://trove.com/me/content/XenCW?chid=179957&_p=full-channel-head[2]
As Far As Really Bad Religious Songs Go..."Jesus Is My Friend"
How to Restrain a Woman
All Hail Vulvatron, GWAR’s Unlikely New Vocalist (nsfw)
The public face of GWAR — the all-singing, all-decapitating, blood-and-guts-drenched thrash metal horror circus of Richmond, Virginia — was always founding member Dave Brockie. He took the stage in the impossibly foul guise of ringleader “Oderus Urungus,” of course, but sans makeup, he was a much-loved fixture of the Richmond scene, and when he passed away from an accidental heroin overdose at the age of 50 earlier this year, a dark cloud seemed to pass over the metal community.
After a few months, GWAR began making moves to carry on without Brockie, a move he undoubtedly would have appreciated. The show must go on, after all. The lineup has been in near-constant flux ever since a ragtag bunch of punks and art students christened themselves Gwaaarrrgghhlllgh (later shortened) and released debut album Hell-O in 1988. Dubbed the Slave Pit, a rotating cast of lurid characters has come and gone over the past two decades, but never without Brockie.
Now, the band was left with a seemingly impossible task: finding a new front-person. How could anyone ever replace the outrageous, magnetic Dave Brockie? They couldn’t, and the GWAR crew knew better than to try, so they came up with something entirely different, and entirely unexpected. The band that has spent 30 years shocking the conscience of middle America might have made their most shocking move of all.
Meet Vulvatron, a spiky purple Amazon whose massive (prosthetic) breasts occasionally shoot geysers of blood out onto her hapless audience. Vulvatron is not dancing, or breathing fire, or keeping the slaves in line (though one assumes she’ll be adept at all three). For the first time since the departure of dancer and backing singer Slymenstra Hymen (Danielle Stampe) in 2000, GWAR has a female member, and she’s the frontwoman.
http://www.wonderingsound.com/feature/vulvatron-gwar-new-frontwoman-metal/
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