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Drinking Liberally — Seattle

by Darryl — Tuesday, 5/13/14, 6:14 am

DLBottle Tuesdays are made for politics. So please join us this evening for some politics over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up earlier 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. On Wednesday, the Bellingham chapter meets. For Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets. And next Monday, the Aberdeen, Yakima and Olympia chapters meet.

With 215 chapters of Living Liberally, including nineteen in Washington state, four in Oregon, and three more in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

by Darryl — Saturday, 5/10/14, 1:52 am

Jon: The NY State Senate’s great yogurt debate.

Mark Fiore: Creative Execution.

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

Richard Fowler: The tale of indicted GOP Rep. Michael Grimm.

Jon: Occupy Jail.

Monica Redux:

  • Young Turks: She’s back!
  • WaPo: Lewinsky’s top five targets in Vanity Fair.
  • Ed: Lynn Cheney’s crazy conspiracy.
  • Sharpton: Wingnuts go conspiratorial over Lewinsky story.
  • Alex Wagner: The mythical power of The Clinton.
  • Ann Telnaes: Cheney’s have a blue dress in their past, too.

Ed: Michele Bachmann launches mission to block National Women’s History Museum .

ONN: The Onion Week in Review.

Liberal Viewer: FAUX News, “Huge Christian cross isn’t religous”.

FBI investigates Bundy supporters over death threats (via Crooks and Liars).

Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: What’s the difference between Tea Party and Establishment Republicans?

Stephen: Everywhere is guns.

Mental Floss: 60 Regional foods you shouldn’t eat anywhere else.

Emily’s abortion video.

White House: West Wing Week.

Thom: Gov ID nightmare.

Bill Maher: New Rule for Justice Thomas.

BENGHAAAAAAAAAAZZZZZZZZZIIIIIII!!!!!1!!11!1! Derangement Disorder:

  • David Pakman: FAUX and Fiends link Benghazi to missing flight….
  • Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: Benghazi and the GOP conspiracy machine
  • Sharpton: GOP’s Benghazi clown act.
  • Alex Wagner: The GOP’s Benghazi-funding strategy
  • Thom: The FAUX News hardon for Benghazi.
  • When in doubt…BENGHAAAAAZZZZZZZZIIIIIIIII!1!I!!!1!!!

  • Matt Binder: FAUX News blames Nigerian girls’ kidnapping on…BENGHAAAAAAZZZZZIIIIII!!!!1!!1!
  • David Pakman: Right wing media cashes in on Benghazi
  • Chris Hayes: Over dead bodies—The GOP runs on #Benghazi
  • Young Turks: Republicans raise money off the dead
  • Reid Report: The GOP’s McCarthyism & Political witch-hunts of today
  • Sam Seder and Digby: The politics of Benghazi
  • Steve Kornacki: GOP Benghazi feeding frenzy, Part I
  • Steve Kornacki: GOP Benghazi feeding frenzy, Part II

Stephen: Tip and Wag.

Thom: ALEC is trying to take down the EPA.

David Pakman: GOP ObamaCare hearing goes horribly wrong…for the GOP.

Maddow: Massachusetts Tea-Party politician, Mark Fisher’s million dollar ransom.

Sharpton: The death of a GOP talking point:

Richard Fowler: A huge week for minimum wage.

Jon: 2016 will be a lame remix of Bush and Clinton.

White House: Inside the WH solar panels.

Stephen interviews a teabagging vampire.

Ann Telnaes: Climate Change cooking.

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

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Drinking Liberally — Seattle

by Darryl — Tuesday, 5/6/14, 6:12 am

DLBottle

It’s Tuesday, and that means the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally will be gathering for its evening of politics and pints. Please join us!

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



Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out another Washington state DL over the next week. The Tri-Cities chapters also meets on Tuesday. The Lakewood chapter meets on Wednesday. On Thursday the Bremerton and Spokane chapters meet. And, the Centralia chapter meets on Friday.

With 214 chapters of Living Liberally, including nineteen in Washington state, four in Oregon, and three more in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

by Darryl — Saturday, 5/3/14, 12:02 am

Ann Telnaes: Cardinal Dolan, loyal anti-gay marriage American.

Baptism by Palin:

  • Jon reacts to Sarah Palin’s waterboarding comments.
  • David Pakman: Sarah Palin on baptizing terrorists with waterboarding.

White House: West Wing Week.

Liberal Viewer: Will immigration reform pass Congress in 2014.

Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: The dangers of a Republican Senate.

David Pakman: SC’s bullshit “Stand Your Ground” law for fetuses.

Down Goes Wisconsin Draconian Voter ID Law:

  • Young Turks: WI voting law struck down.
  • Sam Seder: Judge rules WI voter ID law violates the Voter Rights Act.
  • David Pakman: Federal Judge rules voter fraud almost never happens.

Jesse Ventura for President. Maybe.

Young Turks: Bundy ranch lunatic threatens U.S. Senator.

Michael Brooks: Scott Brown, “I’m totally not from MA!”

Sharpton: Republicans shamefully reject minimum wage bill.

SCTV: Hobby Lobby’s Employee “Benefits”.

Jon on how bad the government is.

Mental Floss: 32 car name meanings.

Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: Seattle and the $15 minimum wage.

Stephen demands to know why Clay Aiken is running for Congress.

WaPo: Mark Pryor’s quiet Arkansas race.

The Week in Racism:

  • Funny or Die: NBA conference highlights.
  • Thom: Why the Koch brothers are behind Bundy.
  • Larry Wilmore: What a week to be Senior Black Correspondent!
  • Ana Kasparian: Clippers owner banned for life.
  • David Pakman: Who is surprised the Donald Sterling is a racist?
  • Funny or Die: Another leaked tape
  • Sam Seder: Donald Sterling banned for life from NBA
  • Maddow: Racism in U.S. Sports, Part I
  • Maddow: Racism in U.S. Sports, Part II
  • Chris Hayes and Bill Maher: On Donald Sterling, Part I.
  • Chris Hayes and Bill Maher: On Donald Sterling, Part II.
  • David Pakman: Bundy, “I am just like Rosa Parks!”
  • Young Turks: Donald Trump is happy to defend Donald Sterling.
  • David Pakman: Did you know that there is no racism in the Republican Party???
  • Ann Telnaes: Racism is dead:
  • Seth Meyers on Donald Sterling

Mark Fiore: NRA Hypnosis.

Late night laughs: Chelsea Clinton edition.

Absurdity today: If you Fucking LOVE SCIENCE and Fucking LOVE Laughing…

Jon is disappointed in Michael Grimm’s lame Healthalicious scandal.

Ed: Nutjobber Glenn Beck, “Hillary will be having sex with a woman on the White House desk.

WaPo: Could Sen. Warren be the next Obama?

BENGHAAAAAAAAZZZZZZIIIIIIIII!!!!!1!11!!!1!!

  • Alex Wagner: Benghazi trufers pounce on newly declassified emails.
  • Cenk gets angry about latest Benghazi conspiracy theory.

Thom: How George W. Bush screwed college students.

Sam Seder: Scalia embarrasses himself in botched opinion.

Roy Zimmerman: Cliven Bundy’s Cattle:

Ann Telnaes: The Oops factor in capital punishment.

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

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Drinking Liberally — Seattle

by Darryl — Tuesday, 4/29/14, 6:15 am

DLBottle

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

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



Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out another Washington state DL over the next week. They’re everywhere! The Tri-Cities chapter also meets this and every Tuesday night. For Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets. On Friday, the Enumclaw chapter meets. And next Monday, the Yakima, South Bellevue and Olympia chapters meet.

With 214 chapters of Living Liberally, including nineteen in Washington state, four in Oregon, and three more in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

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Who will run against Cyrus Habib in the 48th?

by Darryl — Saturday, 4/26/14, 4:31 pm

Rep. Cyrus Habib (D-48 LD) is running for the 48th LD Senate seat as a Democrat, but will he have other opponents?

I live in the 48th, and have pondered this a bit. I haven’t heard any scuttlebutt about potential opponents. Given the importance of this seat—Dems won’t control the Senate without it, and Dems get some chance of controlling the Senate if they win it—I would be very surprised if the Republicans didn’t try recruiting some high profile candidate.

Rep. Cyrus Habib (D-48)

Rep. Cyrus Habib (D-48)


One high profile candidate would be the former state Senator Luke Esser (R-48). Esser was defeated by Tom in 2006 after Rep. Tom switched from R to D and ran for Senate. Esser went on to be state GOP chairman until being unseated by Kirby Wilbur in early 2011.

I doubt Esser will run. He likely burned his bridges with the GOP when he became a lobbyist for the SEIU.

What about Tom’s 2010 opponent Gregg Bennett? Bennett lost to Tom, 47.3% to 52.7%, a mere 1,400 votes that year. Still, Bennett has not declared and his former campaign web site is dead.

So, imagine my surprise and delight this afternoon when I received a polling robocall from Republican pollster Moore Information. The poll included a pair of head-to-head match-ups of a Republican against Democrat Cyrus Habib. The first match-up was Habib against Gregg Bennett.

Coach Butch Goncharoff

Coach Butch Goncharoff

The second match-up was surprising. It sure sounded like Butch Goncharoff. I could have misunderstood the last name, but that’s what I wrote down as the poll was in progress.

Who is Butch Goncharoff? He is the nationally-ranked football coach for Bellevue High School. Really? Why would a football coach run for a part-time Senate position that doesn’t align very well with the school year or the football season? Besides that, a brief web search reveals no information about Mr. Goncharoff’s political affiliation. The man is all football, all the time. The PDC has no record of donations from him. The only thing that has the slightest whiff of politics is that Rep. Dave Reichart (R-48) once gave a House floor speech to congratulate Coach Goncharoff and his team. Maybe he is a friend of Reichert? Or not.

Aside from some kind of mid-life crisis, a run by Goncharoff seems highly unlikely. Still…the domain names GoncharoffForCongress.org and GoncharoffFor48th.org are, oddly, unavailable. That’s interesting, but hardly conclusive.

I see several possibilities:

1. Neither is running and the state Republicans commissioned the poll as a way of recruiting either Bennett or Goncharoff.

2. Bennett is thinking about running and they are using some other high profile person in the 48th as a diversion—to leave some ambiguity.

3. Goncharoff is thinking about running and they are using Bennett as a diversion.

4. They have both expressed interest in running…for the good of the party, only one will.

So…it seems that someone has Bennett or Goncharoff in mind as an opponent for Habib.

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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

by Darryl — Saturday, 4/26/14, 12:48 am

Liberal Viewer: Amend the second amendment?

John Oliver stops by to visit Jon.

ONN: The Onion Week in Review.

Sam Seder: Charter Schools are NOT performing better than traditional public schools in Chicago.

Thom: The Red State Medicade doughnut hole is KILLING people.

Stephen with Jon on leaving the Colbert Report.

David Pakman: Issa’s conspiracy theory debunked…IRS targeted progressive groups more than Tea Baggers.

Mental Floss: 18 famous people missing body parts.

Sharpton: 49 Million Americans lack access to healthy food & GOP wants to make it worse!.

All Bundy:

  • Sam Seder: Cliven Bundy is a liar
  • Chris Hayes: Whoa Bundy!
  • David Pakman: Absurd double standard on Bundy cattle ranch
  • Jon rips Hannity a new asshole over the welfare rancher.
  • Mark Fiore: Cliven Bundy’s Home on the Range.
  • Young Turks: Bundy’s lunatic racist rant
  • Stephen Sings The Ballad Of Cliven Bundy:
  • Ed and friends: Sean Hannity is desperate and delusional
  • Sam Seder: Were Negros better off as slaves?” ponders Republican hero Cliven Bundy
  • Young Turks with the “Which Bundy Said That?” game
  • Ed: Sean Hannity + Cliven Bundy + FAUX News = KU + KLUX + KLAN, Part I
  • Ed: Sean Hannity + Cliven Bundy + FAUX News = KU + KLUX + KLAN, Part II
  • Maddow: Exploring the racist context of the Cliven Bundy / FAUX News Tag Team, Part I
  • Maddow: Exploring the racist context of the Cliven Bundy / FAUX News Tag Team, Part II
  • Jon rips Professor of Negro studies, Mr. Bundy.
  • Sam Seder: Cliven Bundy gives us an amazing look into the Right Wing “mind”.
  • Fanboy Hannity is POed: Bundy is now embarrassing conservatives.
  • Bundy tries splainin’…blames MLK.
  • Sharpton: Bundy compares himself to MLK
  • Jon: The shit gets weird with Hannity
  • Ed and Pap: Ranchers, racists, and Hannity
  • Sam Seder: Why the right wing needs Mr. Bundy.
  • Young Turks: Cliven Bundy blames his racism on MLK

White House: West Wing Week.

Ari Melber: Bob Dole, NUT-case Ted Cruz not ready to be President.

Paul and Paul.

Ann Telnaes: Georgia—the Nut state.

Ed: The GOP’s love affair with ‘voter-intimidation’ and fake voter-fraud.

Dr Phil does some therapy with Barack and Vlad.

Thom: The flat earth society has risen again.

David Pakman: Seattle Boy Scout troop gets cut off…

Late-night laughs: 2016 contenders edition.

The Cowboy and Indian Alliance:

  • Reject and Protect: Opening ceremony.
  • Thom: Cowboys and Indians ride into D.C.

Pap: SCOTUS is rotten at the top.

Sam Seder: America forgets Herman Cain.

David Pakman: GA passes “guns everywhere” bill.

Young Turks: Is running against Obamacare a bad idea?

Stephen with another episode of Better Know a District.

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

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Drinking Liberally — Seattle

by Darryl — Tuesday, 4/22/14, 6:13 am

DLBottleTonight is election night. So get your ballot turned in and then please join us for an evening of politics over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

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



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

With 214 chapters of Living Liberally, including nineteen in Washington state, four in Oregon, and three more in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

by Darryl — Saturday, 4/19/14, 1:16 am

Ann Telnaes: Money corrupts the democratic process.

Maddow: Right Wing Extremists Have Terrorized America More Than Jihadists Since Sept. 11th:

  • Part I
  • Part II
  • Part III

David Pakman: Gov. Rick Perry now the focus of a criminal investigation.

GOP Law and Disorder:

Sharpton: Scott Brown kicks off his NH Senate run…with deception.

Chris Hayes: GOP whackos assemble in NH for “Freedom Summit”.

Deadbeat Rancher Induces Orgasms Among The Right Wing Fringe:

  • Ed and Pap: The latest Tea Party flake.
  • Steve Kornacki: GOP “schizophrenia” on full display in Nevada
  • Young Turks: FAUX News’ Hannity provokes violence.
  • Thom and Pap: Is Sean Hannity going to get somebody killed?
  • David Pakman: Bundy Ranch a huge embarrassment for the right wing.
  • Matt Binder: Cowardly right wing militia will use women and children for human shields
  • Young Turks: Shoot women and children first.
  • Joy-Ann Reid: FAUX’s & right wing’s Bundy-Ranch hypocrisy
  • Chris Hayes: GOP has elevated Nevada ‘welfare’ rancher Cliven Bundy to hero status
  • Thom: Perfect storm for the right wing fringe
  • Young Turks: Bundy Ranchers angry at Glenn Beck
  • Matt Binder: Would Bundy ranch supporters defend Native Americans’ claim to the land?
  • Ed and Pap: Cowboy Bundy…the new face of the Republican Party.

Richard Fowler: Rep Blackburn claims GOP “Led Fight For Women’s Equality”.

Mental Floss: 28 birthday traditions from around the world.

Sam Seder: Louie Gohmert vs. Eric Holder.

Alex Wagner: New Republican female initiative–Marry rich men.

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

Painting Away the Guilt:

  • Mark Fiore: George W Bush’s Art of Legacy.
  • ONN: Bush debuts new paintings.
  • Conan shows that Shrub isn’t the only ex-prez painting

Ann Telnaes: Congress is out on recess again.

Richard Fowler: Republicans having difficulty with the reality that ObamaCare works.

Aasif Mandvi talks about that one time when a republican said the N-word on TV.

Liberal Viewer: Only rich think the IRS is the most intrusive, punitive part of the government?.

Ann Telnaes: The conservative approach to bridging the pay gap.

A Conspiracy With Some Sole:

  • Matt Binder: Rush Limbaugh is Papa Shoether.
  • Maddow: Clinton and the shoe
  • Young Turks: “Shoe Truthers” say Hillary faked it.
  • Sharpton: A new good old fashioned right wing conspiracy theory
  • And here go the nutburgers with Chelsea pregnancy (via Crooks and Liars).

White House: West Wing Week.

David Pakman: Glenn Beck says his theories are coming true…won’t say which ones.

Pap: GOP suffers from Bush amnesia.

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

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Drinking Liberally — Seattle

by Darryl — Tuesday, 4/15/14, 6:11 am

DLBottle DLBottleWant to talk about a $15/hour minimum wage? Want to toast Sen. Rodney Tom’s (R-D-R??-WA-48) decision to retire from the Senate? Want to talk about King County Proposition 1 and mass transit? Then please join us tonight for an evening of politics over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

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






Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out another Washington state DL over the next week. The Tri-Cities and Shelton chapters also meet this Tuesday. The Lakewood and South Seattle chapters meet this Wednesday. For Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets. And next Monday, the Aberdeen, Yakima and Olympia chapters meet.

With 213 chapters of Living Liberally, including nineteen in Washington state, four in Oregon, and three more in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

by Darryl — Saturday, 4/12/14, 12:50 am

The Point: Is the US ready for yet another Bush?

Equal Pay for Equal Work:

  • White House: When women succeed, America succeeds:
  • WaPo: Democrats highlight equal pay push.
  • Ann Telnaes: The GOP offers kisses to women.
  • Sam Seder: How Obama is helping close the pay gap.
  • Mitch McConnell’s equal pay solution.
  • Michael Brooks: Women’s rights are so distracting says Mitch McConnell.

Ann Telnaes: Childless couples need not apply in Utah.

Jon on Sean Hannity’s Spring Break alarmism.

The Week in Scott Brown:

  • WaPo: What New Hampshire voters think of Scott Brown.
  • Maddow: Clueless Scott Brown, Part I
  • Maddow: Clueless Scott Brown, Part II

Mark Fiore: The United States of John Roberts.

Obama: Civil Rights.

This Week in Torture:

  • Jon: Dick Cheney and Back to the Torture.
  • Matt Binder: “Tough guy” Sean Hannity still won’t undergo waterboarding himself.

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

Sharpton: Eric Holder calls out Republican racism

Rep. Vance McAllister (R-LA) get Famous:

  • Young Turks: Kissing Congressman caught on tape.
  • Young Turks: Are self-righteous religious politicians full of shit?

White House: West Wing Week.

Richard Fowler: Paul Ryan’s new pathway to prosperity.

Bill Maher: The G.O.P. has become talk radio (via Crooks and Liars).

Stephen Colbert News:

  • WaPo: The real Stephen Colbert.
  • Colbert on interviewing in character
  • Bill-O-the-Clown: Stephen Colbert is destroying America.
  • Ed: Limbaugh scared shitless about Colbert.
  • Stephen Colbert will replace David Letterman.
  • Jimmy Fallon on Stephen Colbert’s new gig
  • Sharpton: Right Wingers freak-out over Colbert announcement.
  • A little theater with Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell
  • Limbaugh sees WAR in Colbert pick.
  • Seven delightful instances of Stephen Colbert out of character.
  • Stephen with advice for the New York Times
  • Did Letterman lie about his replacement?
  • Stephen Colbert reacts to David Letterman’s retirement

Young Turks: Hillary joins Shrub in the thrown shoe club.

Thom: Climate deniers use same tactics as tobacco companies.

Ari Melber: No escape for Christie as noose tightens.

The Travesty of Affordable Health Care:

  • Ed and Pap: The Koch brother’s ObamaCare windfall
  • Matt Binder: Koch brothers are profiting from Obamacare
  • Jon: The ObamaCare non-Hard sell.
  • David Pakman: Glenn Beck melts down over ObamaCare numbers.
  • John Fugelsang (with Ed): Epic ObamaCare rant:
  • Matt Binder: Republicans who attack Obamacare also…fight for it?
  • Maddow: How Republicans put too-many-eggs in the ObamaCare basket
  • Ed: WingNutjobbers in denial over enrollment numbers.
  • Lawrence O’Donnell: GOP swallows 7.1 million bitter pills.

John Boehner’s bullshit excuse for failure to extend unemployment benefits.

LBJ adviser on how Obama should handle Boehner.

This Week in Republican Voter Suppression:

  • Ed: Republicans making the American voting process “3rd World-like’
  • Chris Hayes and Rev. Sharpton: Obama’s frontal assault on GOP’s bogus, racist voter suppression efforts.
  • Farron Cousins with Howard Nations: What motivates Republican racism?

Alex Wagner: Jim DeMint claims, “Big Government didn’t free the slaves”.

Young Turks: Republicans finally surrender on Benghazi.

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

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Drinking Liberally — Seattle

by Darryl — Tuesday, 4/8/14, 6:20 am

DLBottle Please join us tonight for an evening of politics under the influence at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet every Tuesday in our new home at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. The starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks show up even earlier for dinner.




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

The Tri-Cities, Vancouver, WA, and Redmond chapters also meet on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the Bellingham chapter meets. On Thursday the Bremerton and Spokane chapters meet. The Centralia chapter meets on Friday.

With 215 chapters of Living Liberally, including nineteen in Washington state, four in Oregon, and three more in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

by Darryl — Saturday, 4/5/14, 1:09 am

How border patrol stops should go.

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

David Pakman: Glenn Beck is sued over Boston Marathon conspiracy theory.

Sam Seder and Janeane Garofalo: The survivalist scam.

Ana Kasparian: Will you have to work until you die?

Lawrence O’Donnell: Jeb Bush is the new darling of the G.O.P.

Joni Ernst Responds to Critics: .

Pap: The G.O.P. Autopsy—one year later.

Thom: Charles Keating & the lessons of the S&L crisis.

Money and Politics:

  • Sam Seder: Chris Christie begs forgiveness from casino magnate
  • Ed: GOP 2016 hopefuls kiss casino mogul Sheldon Adelson’s ring in Vegas
  • Mark Fiore: Sheldon Adelson’s Menagerie.
  • Sharpton: Supreme court further undermines Democracy
  • Young Turks: Do you feel sorry for the Koch brothers?
  • Sam Seder: Chuck Koch whines about the oppressed rich
  • Jon: Does money equal free speech?
  • Young Turks: What you need to know about the McCutcheon ruling.
  • Sam Seder: How SCOTUS is destroying American democracy.

Fallon: Vladimir Putin calls Sarah Palin.

ONN: Michelle Obama introduces exercise program to combat obesity in professional baseball players.

Young Turks: Firefox CEO learns bigotry is bad for business…and employment.

Understanding PTSD.

David Pakman: Nutjob Louie Gohmert bizarre theory on ‘Separation of Church & State’.

Sharpton: Dick Cheney caught talking about bombing Iran.

Ed and Friends: The “new” Republican Party.

Thom: Cesar Chavez’s legacy & immigration.

Abby Martin: Are war criminals great painters?.

Kimmel on Putin’s divorce finalization announcement.

Mental Floss: 27 fun facts about fun.

Hank Green: Mass incarceration in the U.S.

A conversation with Jimmy Carter (long).

White House: West Wing Week.

The Tragedy of 7.04 Million People Signing Up For Affordable Insurance:

  • David Pakman: ObamaCare fails to collapse…the conspiracy theories start
  • The health care Week in Review.
  • Young Turks: Conservatives are still hating on Obamacare, but…
  • Obama: On the Affordable Care Act:
  • Late night comedians: ObamaCare edition.
  • Maddow: ObamaCare could be ‘Armageddon’ for Republicans in 2014, Part I
  • Maddow: ObamaCare could be ‘Armageddon’ for Republicans in 2014, Part II
  • Ed: Limbaugh fearmongers over ObamaCare
  • David Pakman: 9.5 Million previously uninsured are now insured.
  • Ann Telnaes: Boehner reacts to healthcare extension.
  • Ed: Ted Cruz gets his ass handed to him on Facebook
  • Young Turks: Kentucky smackdown over ObamaCare.
  • Maddow: 7.1 Million: FAUX News’ & GOP’s Obamacare ‘Death Spiral’ Fails, Part I
  • Maddow: 7.1 Million: FAUX News’ & GOP’s Obamacare ‘Death Spiral’ Fails, Part II
  • David Pakman: Paul Ryan’s new budget STILL trying to repeal Obamacare
  • Steve Kornacki: Measure the true success of ObamaCare

Thom: NJ’s (and 3 other state’s) war on Tesla.

Stephen: Bill O’Reilly’s “anti-equality theory”.

David Pakman: Nutburger MA Gov. candidate thinks Obama loves ‘sexual anarchy’ and might be gay!!!

Sharpton: Obama blasts the Ryan budget.

Sam Seder: Bill O’Reilly’s loses it to his inner racist.

ONN: The Onion Week in Review.

Jon does the math on the GM recall.

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

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Drinking Liberally — Seattle

by Darryl — Tuesday, 4/1/14, 6:20 am

DLBottleDon’t be a fool…join us tonight for an evening of political punditry over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

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






Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out another Washington state DL over the next week. They’re everywhere! The Tri-Cities chapter also meets this and every Tuesday night. The Lakewood chapter meets this Wednesday. For Thursday, the Spokane and Tacoma chapters meet. On Friday, the Enumclaw chapter meets. And next Monday, the Yakima, South Bellevue and Olympia chapters meet.

With 215 chapters of Living Liberally, including nineteen in Washington state, four in Oregon, and three more in Idaho, chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.

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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

by Darryl — Saturday, 3/29/14, 1:13 am

WaPo: Who is Obamacare targeting?

ONN: The Onion Week in Review.

Sharpton: The GOP health care freakout.

Daily Show: Dating young.

More Proof Right Wingers Have Satire Deficit Disorder:

  • Sam Seder with Film Guy Matthew Weiss: #CancelColbert and satire dies.
  • Young Turks: Conservative idiots completely miss the point of satire.

David Pakman: Republican states take the most government handouts.

Chris Hayes: What ‘Redskin’ means to an American Indian.

WaPo: Late night laughs, political roundup.

Thom: Rick Scott is a murderer & Charlene Dill is his victim.

Ann Telnaes: Secret Service needs to go on the wagon.

Most Incompetent Defense Secretary of State Ever Babbles About Stuff:

  • Sam Seder: Crazy old guy speaks about Afghanistan.
  • Young Turks: Looser Donald Rumsfeld criticizes Obama over Afghanistan:

Robert Reich: WhatsApp with stagnant job growth?.

Sam Seder: Pat Robertson thinks Christians are oppressed because they cannot stone gays.

Mental Floss: 44 facts about the U.S. Presidents.

Just days left: Get covered!

Thom: Why not put America first, GOP?

Sam Seder: A ballsy political ad.

Daily Show: The Morning Joe Dysfunctional Family.

Corporate Religion:

  • Ed and Pap: The Hobby Lobby fraud.
  • Mark Fiore: Religious liberty for corporations
  • Abby Martin: How “corporate personhood” is restricting birth control.
  • Factivists: Hobby Lobby
  • Lawrence O’Donnell: Religious freedom and corporations.
  • Pap and Thom: Hobby Lobby’s Anti Obamacare holy war
  • Hobby Lobby Responds.
  • Sam Seder and Dahlia Lithwick: Hobby Lobby at SCOTUS
  • Thom: What god does Hobby Lobby pray to?

Liberal Viewer: Claim Edward Snowden is a Russian spy is entirely evidence-free.

Ed: Autopsied Republicans to model themselves after ‘Dominos’:

Ari Melber: Fact-checking GOP’s ‘economics guru’ Rep. Paul Ryan.

Alex Wagner: Georgia Republicans to allow guns in churches, bars, libraries, etc.

David Pakman: George Zimmerman wants to be a civil rights attorney.

Stephen celebrates the morning shows.

Young Turks: Should college football players unionize?

Stealing the 2014 vote: Republicans ramping up vote-rigging laws for elections.

More Christie Minstrel Show:

  • Pap and Thom: Christie clears self.
  • Sam Seder: Chris Christie’s lawyer clears Chris Christie…blames women for bridge.
  • Ed: Chris Christie is back to bullying tactics on health care
  • Bridgegate: Why Gov. Christie really fired Bridget Kelly.
  • Lawrence O’Donnell: Christie exonerates Christie!

White House: West Wing Week.

Sharpton: Georgia Republicans will start drug testing food stamp recipients soon.

Richard Fowler: Obama to call for ending NSA phone data collection.

WaPo: Kochs’ latest misleading ad.

David Pakman: Georgia house passes “guns everywhere” bill.

Jon: More #mcconnelling….and #meconnelling and #mitchtake and #mcconnellhey.

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

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