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Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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Join us this evening for some hot political conversation over a cold, cold beer at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the small room at the back of the tavern. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks stop by even earlier for dinner.




Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings this week. The Long Beach, Tri-Cities and West Seattle chapters also meet tonight. On Wednesday the Bellingham chapter meets. And the Bremerton, Spokane, and Kent chapters meet on Thursday.

There are 190 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are good there’s a chapter meeting near you.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Thom: Reaganism…a failure from Kansas to Greece.

White House: West Wing Week.

Mental Floss: 24 unexpected things aboard cruise ships.

Songify the news:

If fast food commercials were honest.

Farron Cousins: Republican controlled states fail on EVERY measure

Minute Physics: How do bikes stay upright.

The 2016 Clown Brigade:

Thom: You too can buy a politician.

Jon: Some good news for conservatives.

What does the Waterkeeper alliance do?

Maddow: Impeachment of Governor LePage considered by Maine legislators.

Mental Floss: Why do Americans use Fahrenheit?

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

The Supremes:

Young Turks: Catholics are super sad gay people can get married now.

If Mexicans toasted the 4th Of July the way Americans toast Cinco De Mayo.

VSauce: Who owns the moon?

Maddow: Court forces anti-gay holdouts on marriage equality:

Thom: The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Doxasticly Ugly!

David Pakman: Unemployment dips to 5.3%, debunking Right Wing ‘labor participation’ myths.

Palin Around with Irrelevant:

Cold war reenactment.

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about the U.S..

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

Wooooooooooooo

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Oh hey they’re temporarily reopening the waterfront.

But today, citing the need for access and especially because it’s tourism season (which you’ve definitely noticed because crowds of confused people, maps-in-hand, have nearly taken you out numerous times in the last week) the City of Seattle has re-opened the waterfront for a temporary summer vacation, so to speak.

“A temporary, park-like pedestrian promenade from University to Madison streets will be open with wayfinding, seawall project information, and activities, accompanied by approximately 70 new parking spaces adjacent to Waterfront Park. Seawall construction will continue from Madison to Yesler streets adjacent to Colman Dock,” reads a release from the City.

Enjoy it while you can suckers! One question: park-like? OK, I lied: another question, 70 new parking spaces? Why not more park-like stuff? Another another question: can we just ignore the thing underground keep the park-like pedestrian promenade? Whatever! I’m going to walk it this weekend! It’s going to be awesome. It’s totally going to be park-like!

Republicans Have To Live Here Too

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One of the things that baffles me about the GOP insistence pretending that global warming isn’t a thing and fighting efforts to fix it is that, you know, they can’t go live on some globe that isn’t warming. So when I read things like “Environmentally-concious organizations are upset that the deal would preclude Governor Jay Inslee from using executive authority to set new pollution standards, and have been calling for a no vote” I have to wonder how much of a deal Republicans think they’re getting.

I mean, if you represent farmers in Eastern Washington, why would you want to go back to your constituents and say something like “congrats, it’s going to be hotter and drier, but, also the state will have less and less water to help irrigate, and it’ll keep getting worse over time.” Or if you represent somewhere that’s on fire right now, being able to say “man in 50 to 100 years, we’ll look back and wish it was this wet and cool.”

Maybe 50-100 years is part of the key. Obviously there are differences between long term and short term incentives for these sorts of issues. But when it’s the health of the entire planet where everyone lives, you might think that GOP legislators, their campaign donors, and their constituents might find their way to a self-interested position.

Open Thread 7-1

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– In conclusion, Jim McNerney is a terrible human being. And very emblematic of the New Gilded Age

– Oh hey, congrats to team Hanauer, and like a large portion of the middle class, on the new overtime eligibility rules.

– If you want to know what Seattle’s most radical anti-growth activists really think about multifamily housing, the mayor, transportation solutions, and “those people,” I highly recommend checking out any event put on by the City Neighborhood Council, a group founded in the 1990s to advise the brand-new Department of Neighborhoods on neighborhood planning.

– Also, I don’t know about the rest of the crew, but I won’t be posting anything on the 3rd.

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