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Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottlePlease join us tonight for some more political punditry and electoral prognostication over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday evening at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up before that for dinner.



Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out another Washington state chapter of Drinking Liberally over the next week. The Tri-Cities, Vancouver, WA, and Redmond chapters also meet on Tuesday. The Lakewood chapter meets this Wednesday. On Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets. And next Monday, the Aberdeen, Yakima and Olympia chapters meet.

With 201 chapters of Living Liberally, including seventeen in Washington state, three in Oregon and three in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Stephen is horrified by Boehner’s support of gay Republican.

Funny or Die: Here’s how you’re getting fucked!

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

David Pakman: Obama outperforms Reagan on jobs, growth & investing.

White House: West Wing Week.

Ed and Pap: Rick Scott can’t shake his criminal past.

Bill Clinton Returns to Arkansas to save the Dems.

Maddow: GOP-driven voting laws hurt turnout report.

Sam Seder: Republican Scott Brown thinks nobody cares about equal pay for women.

Jon to AIG: Go fuck yourselves.

Young Turks: Obama to close Gitmo…Republicans freak out.

Lewis Black says fuck voter suppression:

Thom: Boehner admits Republicans have no jobs plan.

Sam Seder and Janeane Garofalo: Why the climate crisis is getting worse.
Mental Floss: 100 Amazing Facts.

Pap: What Republican obstruction has cost.

Political Ebola:

Rubin Report: Doing this in Seattle will get you fined $1.

Jon has a problem with Obama’s “Terrible, horrible, no good, very bad war”.

Young Turks: Jon Stewart for Meet the Press host?

Stephen defends Columbus.

David Pakman: Joe the Plumber goes full racist with misspelled slurs:

Maddow: Tasteless GOP political ad still online.

Sam Seder: Rand Paul was insane and hated the poor as a college student.

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

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleWe have less than a month to the next election. So please join us tonight for some political punditry and electoral prognostication over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday evening at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up before that for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Perhaps you can visit another Washington State chapter of Drinking Liberally over the next week. The Tri-Cities chapter also meets this and every Tuesday. On Wednesday, the Bellingham chapter meets. And the Bremerton chapter meets on Thursday.

With 203 chapters of Living Liberally, including seventeen in Washington state, three in Oregon and three in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Thom politically corrects FAUX News Nutburger Steve Doocy.

Jimmy Dore chats with Rep. Peter King:

Sam Seder: Palin flubs on White House.

Women and Republicans

Jon: American priorities.

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

ONN: The Onion Week in Review

Young Turks: FAUX News has bullshit eruption after Obama calls bullshit on their bullshit.

Sam Seder: Bill-O blows a fuse over Colbert’s mocking of his stupid idea.

Mental Floss: 14 Money Saving Life Hacks.

Puppet Nation: Please hold for the President.

The Republican War on Voters™:

James Rustad: “The Ballad of [Texas Gubernatorial Wannabe] #GregAbbott”.

Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: Cristie’s Tunnelgate will dwarf Bridgegate.

Jimmy Dore gets a call from Gov. Rick Perry.

White House: West Wing Week.

Young Turks: CNN’s cowardly attack on Reza Aslan.

Thom: How privatizing medical records will harm you.

Sam Seder: Michele Bachmann wants a global war with Islam.

Breach!

John Fugelsang and Thom: Why the American dream is on the chopping block.

Puppet Nation: Vote Granny.

Jimmy Dore chats with President Obama.

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

World War III Kickstarter update:

ObamaCare is Working!

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

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottlePlease join us tonight for some politics over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday evening at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up before that for dinner.



Can’t make it to Seattle? Perhaps you can visit another Washington State chapter of Drinking Liberally over the next week.

The Tri-Cities chapter also meets this Tuesday. The Lakewood chapter meets this Wednesday. On Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets. The Enumclaw chapter meets on Friday. And next Monday, the Yakima, South Bellevue and Olympia chapters meet.

With 203 chapters of Living Liberally, including seventeen in Washington state, three in Oregon and three in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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ONN: The Onion Week in Review.

Liberal Viewer: Republicans crush students with debt rather than invest in the future.

Thom: Stop conservatives before they kill AGAIN.

Obama addresses the U.N.

Michael Brooks: GOP ad tries to attempts to reach women, demeans them instead:

Puppet Nation: Obama’s new security advisor.

Mark Fiore: Climate blah, blah, blah, change.

NFL Woes:

Mental Floss: 29 early sports rules.

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

Puppet Nation: ISIS Needs Women.

Pap and Howard Nations: The Dixieland dilemma.

Jimmy Dore calls Luke Russert about “journalism” & false equivalencies.

The War President and Friends:

Late night political funnies.

Young Turks: Congress takes a stupid-long vacation.

White House: West Wing Week.

Rev. Sharpton on AG Eric Holder.

Jon: Schools Congress on climate change with a simple demonstration.

FAUX News Boob:

Pap: The Party of Voter Suppression.

Puppet Nation: Hot Air over New Jersey:

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

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

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottlePlease join us tonight for the start of fall and some politics under the influence at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday evening at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up before that for dinner.



Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out another Washington state DL over the next week. The Tri-Cities chapter also meets tonight and every Tuesday night. On Wednesday, the Bellingham and Burien chapters meet. And on Thursday, the Woodinville chapter meets.

With 203 chapters of Living Liberally, including seventeen in Washington state, three in Oregon and three in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Maddow: New polls show mid-term elections tilting toward Democrats.

White House: West Wing Week.

Scotland Votes to Remain in UK:

Ann Telnaes: Hillary’s back.

Thom: GOPer admits that Obamacare is working.

Mental Floss: 35 jobs that no longer exist.

Drums of War:

James Rustad: What would Richard Nixon Do?

WaPo: Rick Perry 2.0.

Debate: Rand Paul v. Rand Paul.:

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

Bush League:

Bill Maher’s dirty little secret.

Thom: Both the evangelical movement and ISIS are anti-evolution extremists.

Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot:

Sam Seder: School privatization leads to rats and feces.

Maddow: Mid-term troubles. Republicans panic as Senate candidates slip.

Liberal Viewer: James Baker admits George W Bush caused chaos in Middle East.

#Wasillabillies:

Sam Seder: Chris Hayes BUSTED for un-PC talk.

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

“No Evidence of Wrongdoing”:

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

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottle

Please join us tonight for an evening of politics over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday evening at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up before that for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings this week. Tonight the Tri-Cities and Shelton chapters meet. The Lakewood chapter meets this Wednesday. And for Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets.

With 204 chapters of Living Liberally, including seventeen in Washington state, three in Oregon and three in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Thom: Why Republicans are embracing over-the-counter birth control.

Puppet Nation: Resurrecting Christie.

Cillizza: How close is the Senate race?

Thom: The REAL cost of a Big Mac.

David Pakman: Nutburger Rick Santorum thinks secularism is a religion and should be banned from school.

Young Turks: Ted Cruz booed off stage by Christians sick of his BS.

Bill Maher: “History will treat [Obama] very kindly”.

ONN: The Onion Week in Review.

The Drums of War:

Thom: Republicans have forgotten the victims of 9/11.

Mental Floss: 36 facts about cats.

Young Turks: Palin family caught in a drunken brawl.

White House: West Wing Week.

David Pakman: Scott Brown’s cringe-worthy introduction.

Ed: North Dakota nutburger Kramer things Obama has a “War on Potatoes”.

Sam Seder: Surprise. Latest Right Wing hero is a total fraud.

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

Cops Do The Darnedest Things:

Bill Maher: The target Representative.

Obama: The 11th observance of 9/11.

Puppet Nation: Just go with Mitt.

Sharpton: Michelle Obama campaigns in Georgia while Republicans demonize ‘Black-voting.

Jimmy Dore chats with Arnold about Maria cheating:

David Pakman: Louie Gohmert wishes Central American kids were more like North Koreans.

Young Turks: GOP filibuster bill to overturn Citizens United.

Thom: Why we need to prosecute OUR torturers.

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

Legislature scolded for late homework

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It sounds like a Big. Fucking. Deal. The Washington State Supreme Court has just found the state Legislature in contempt of court. Boy are they in trouble, now, huh?

The court said in an order issued Thursday it would hold off on punishing the Legislature until after the 2015 session. If lawmakers do not complete their plan for fixing the way the state pays for public schools by the end of that legislative session, the court promises to reconvene and impose sanctions and other remedial measures.

Oh. Dang…I was hoping for something more like Rodney Fucking Tom being frogmarched to the gates of the Monroe prison.

The contempt finding is related to the McLeary vs. State case, in which the Supreme Court ordered the Legislature to fully fund the state’s public education to be in compliance with the State Constitution that makes it the

…paramount duty of the state to make ample provision for the education of all children….

The Court has repeatedly “emphasized” that the State is engaged in an ongoing violation of this constitutional duty, and has known that funding is “constitutionally inadequate” for decades.

But the lack of “ample provision for […] educaton” isn’t what the Legislature was found in contempt for. Rather, it is because they are late with a report telling the Justices how they planned to fully fund education. Specifically:

After the 2014 legislative session, the Committee issued its report to the court. In it, the Committee admitted that “[t]he Legislature did not enact additional timelines in 2014 to implement the program of basic education as directed by the Court in its January 2014 Order.” […]

[O]n Spetember 3, 2014…the State again admitted that it did not comply with the court’s January 2014 order….
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[T]he court unaimously finds the State in contempt for failing to comply with the court’s January 9, 2014 order.

They are tardy with their homework, just like children in school, who would simply earn an F.

Rather than handing out an F, the Court offers this:

Sanctions and other remedial measures are held in abeyance to allow the State the opportunity to comply with the court’s order during the 2015 legislative session. If by adjournment of the 2015 legislative session the State has not purged the contempt by complying with the court’s order, the court will reconvene to impose sanctions and other remedial measures as necessary.

And if the Legislature fails again, the court wants a report on why they should not sanction. Otherwise…

[n]o other pleadings should be filed by any of the parties except at the direction of the court.

In other words, “shut up and finish your damn homework!”

Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottleThe last Tuesday of the primary season is upon us, with primary elections in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Delaware and Rhode Island. (Okay…we’re ignoring the 13 Sept primary in the U.S. Virgin Islands.) So please join us this evening for some electoral politics over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday evening at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up before that for dinner.



Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out another Washington state chapter of Drinking Liberally over the next week. The Tri-Cities, Shelton, and Vancouver, WA chapters also meet on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the Bellingham chapter meets. The Bremerton chapter meets on Thursday. And next Monday, the Aberdeen and Yakima chapters meet.

With 203 chapters of Living Liberally, including seventeen in Washington state, three in Oregon and three in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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That Canadian Immigrant:

Mark Fiore: The Presidential Painsuit.

Puppet Nation: ISIS Schmisis.

Cheap Labor:

Liberal Viewer: Nutburger Peter King’s bogus claim that al Qaeda planned to attack Ft. Knox.

Sharpton: Republicans go into warp-drive trivial by attacking Obama’s tan suit.

The Wrong Guys:

Mental Floss: 40 tremendous college traditions.

Sharpton: Right Wingers preaching impeachment to their racist teabagger base.

A Batty Story:

Richard Fowler: Go figure…Medicare is not such a budget-buster anymore.

Sharpton: Carpetbagger Scott Walker enlists out-of-state supporters for Senate election

What’s Black and Brown and Red All Over?

Obama visits Stonehenge.

Maddow: Rand’s burdens.

Puppet Nation: NATO Plays with itself.

The Politician–Industrial Complex:

Some nutjob Republican tries to argue that health care can be harmful to health.

ONN: The Onion Week in Review.

Fruits of the Political Season:

White House: West Wing Week.

Pap: Republican obstructionism shapes Obama’s legacy

Young Turks: Dumbass politician from Oklahoma warns Christians about ALL Muslims.

Old McDonnell Had a Pen:

Puppet Nation: Burger King hates America.

Jimmy Dore calls Mitt Romney:

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 celebration of labor along with some political conversation over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday evening at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up before that for dinner.



Can’t make it to Seattle? Perhaps you can check out another Washington State chapter of Drinking Liberally over the next week. The Tri-Cities chapter also meets this Tuesday. The Lakewood chapter meets this Wednesday. And on Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets. Finally, the Enumclaw chapter meets on Friday.

With 203 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, three in Oregon and three in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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ONN: The Onion Week in Review.

Jonathan Mann: Fuck Yes, I’m A Social Justice Warrior:

Presidential Fashion:

John Green: Understanding agriculture in the developing world.

Mark Fiore: Pentagon hymn, The Shores of Tripoli.

Ferguson Issues:

Ann Telnaes: An ice bucket challenge for the media.

Ed and Pap: Could Mitt possibly save the GOP?

Mental Floss: 25 famous people who were once interns.

Sam Seder: Obama’s ambitious new global climate push.

Turtle Soup:

Psychosupermom: Put the blame on me, Bob.

White House: West Wing Week.

Young Turks: Chris Christie is against voting unless you’re a Republican.

Gov. Oops:

Sam Seder: State senator pleads guilty to bribery—for switching his vote from Michele Bachmann to Ron Paul.

Alex Wagner and Chris Cillizza: The role of Obamacare in the North Carolina’s Senate race.

Sharpton: Female voters Just Say No to Republican candidates.

Former Home of the Whopper:

Puppet Nation: Shrub returns Barry’s call.

Chris Hayes: Republicans threaten ANOTHER government shutdown

ONN: GOP maintains solid hold on youth that already look like old men.

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

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