The Seattle chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight (and every Tuesday), 8PM at the Montlake Ale House, 2307 24th Avenue E. Join us for some holiday cheer and hoppy beer as we devilishly plot our next strike in the War on Christmas.
Not in Seattle? Washington liberals will also be drinking tonight in the Tri-Cities. Here’s a full run down of WA’s eleven Drinking Liberally chapters:
| Where: | When: | Next Meeting: | |
| Burien: | Mick Kelly’s Irish Pub, 435 SW 152nd St | Fourth Wednesday of each month, 7:00 pm onward | December 27 |
| Kirkland: | Valhalla Bar & Grill, 8544 122nd Ave NE | Every Thursday, 7:00 pm onward | December 7 |
| Mercer Island: | Roanoke Tavern, 1825 72nd Ave SE | (Starting January) Second and fourth Wednesday of each month, 6:00-8:00 pm | January 10 |
| Monroe: | Eddie’s Trackside Bar and Grill, 214 N Lewis St | Second Wednesday of each month, 7:00 PM onward | December 13 |
| Olympia: | The Tumwater Valley Bar and Grill, 4611 Tumwater Valley Drive South | First and third Monday of each month, 7:00-9:00 pm | December 18 |
| Seattle: | Montlake Ale House, 2307 24th Ave E | Every Tuesday, 8:00 pm onward | December 5 |
| Spokane: | Red Lion BBQ & Pub, 126 N Division St | Every Wednesday, 7:00 pm | November 29 |
| Tacoma: | Meconi’s Pub, 709 Pacific Ave | Every Wednesday, 8:00 pm onward | December 6 |
| Tri-Cities: | O’Callahans – Shilo Inn, 50 Comstock, Richland | Every Tuesday, 7:00 pm onward | December 5 |
| Vancouver: | Hazel Dell Brew Pub, 8513 NE Highway 99 | Second and fourth Tuesday of each month, 7:00 pm onward | December 12 |
| Walla Walla: | The Green Lantern, 1606 E Isaacs Ave | First Friday of each month, 8:00 pm onward | January 5 |
(And apparently there’s also an unaffiliated liberal drinking group in Olympia that meets every Monday at 7PM at the Brotherhood Lounge, 119 N. Capital Way.)
Roger Rabbit rarely appears at DL, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t drink some beer for him.
‘Tis the season!
(Click the link in 2. above!)
1 Hear! Hear! As for you trollfuck assassins, NSA spooks, and Republican process servers — I hope you fucking FREEZE
on your stakeout tonight waiting for me to show up. As usual, I will not announce my intentions in advance.
wow! this thread is already up
to 7 posts!
FullContactPolitics is sitting in his mom’s basement tonight drinking alone and hoping terrorists blow up a passenger jet so he can get elected to the legislature.
What a sorry sack of shit.
I wonder if FCP is Mark the Redneck Welsher?
Don’t Trust MSM to Objectively Report News? Read This …
OK, so I don’t trust MSM either. They’ve been way too kind to the U.S. Fascist Party and its smirking titular — I mean titillating — leader. You want REAL news? Read the blogs … or the supermarket tabloids.
Quoting (under the Fair Use doctrine) from “The Globe,” Dec. 11 issue, p. 28:
“The White House has learned that a bombshell tell-all book is being floated to publishing houses by an unknown senior staffer — a ‘deep throad’ type of source.
“President Bush has been told the book will expose the full extent of his drinking binges in the Oval Office, the dirty details of his tattered marriage to Laura and also his secret meetings with a mystery woman ….
“In a series of world exclusives, GLOBE has exposed the deep-rooted problems in the Bush marriage and Laura’s continued threats to divorce the president unless he changes his ways — and steers romantically clear of Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. …
“‘But all that is just the tip of the iceberg,’ says the insider. … ‘There have always been whispers that Laura spent a great deal more time out of the White House and lived a very separate life from the president. We’ve heard for years that the only time they would get together was for public appearances and political reasons. And there are plenty of not-so-quiet whispers of drunkenness in the White House at the worst possible moments. …”
Hey, if you want to read all the lurid details, go buy the fucking newspaper — those guys have to make a living too!
Did I say VIVA CHAVEZ all ready? :-)
I guess I should say VIVA Lula da Silva in Brazil to while I am VIVAING. :-)
I have decided this Gates guy might be ok if he keeps talking the straight talk like he did today. Even though he is a war criminal from the Ragon administration. But I guess he is better then this current group of war criminals. I guess it is to much to hope for that the republicans come up with a non war criminal I guess they just don’t know any.
Socialist @ 12
Contigo, dire “viva Chavez! Viva a todas Bolivaristas! En su ojo, Jorge Bush, tiro en el leche de su madre!”
With some folks these are the major symptoms to become acquainted with when dealing with Post-Traumatic Stress. Today Roger was displaying many of these symptoms.
• Depression
• Cynicism and distrust of government and authority
• Anger
• Alienation sleep disturbances
• Poor concentration
• Tendency to react under stress with survival tactics
• Psychic or emotional numbing
• Negative self-image
• Memory impairment
• Emotional constriction
• Hypersensitivity to justice
• Loss of interest in work and activities
• Problem with intimate relationships
• Survivor guilt
• Difficulty with authority figures
• Hyper – Alertness —hyper arousal
• Avoidance of activities that arouse memories of traumas in war zone
• Emotional distance from children, wife, and others
• Self-deceiving and self-punishing patterns of behavior, such as an inability to talk about war experiences, fear of losing others, and a tendency to fits of rage
• Suicidal feelings and thoughts
• Flashbacks to dangers and combat
• Fantasies of retaliation and destruction
• High risk employment/recreation
Roger and Gang how many people have some of the symptoms and what do you do about them?
If you are a Veteran call this person for answers to your questions? 253-512-8722 and ask for Tom Riggs.
If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theatre of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2,112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers. The firearm death rate in Washington, D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period.
That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in the U.S. Capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq.
Conclusion: The U.S. should pull out of Washington immediately.
Maybe we should pull all the National Guard Troops out of New Orleans due to the large crime rate in that city.
New Orleans, with a pre-Katrina population of 455,000, had virtually no crime in the months after the storm hit on Aug. 29, 2005, when the city was largely empty.
That changed as the evacuees started returning. In April murders began occurring regularly, sometimes in groups. The current population is uncertain, though various estimates put it at 200,000 to 250,000.
Guard members and state police were sent to New Orleans shortly after what police called one of the city’s worst acts of violence in 10 years: the fatal shooting of five teenagers in mid-June.
Over Labor Day weekend, four people died in 13 shootings in the New Orleans area.
The Guard members and state troopers have helped bolster a police department whose membership fell after the storm by more than 200 to about 1,420. Blanco said the cost to the state will be about $14 million.
National Guard troops and state police will patrol the city through December, Gov. Kathleen Blanco said at a summit of law enforcement officials and crime experts called to address a spate of killings marring the recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
“Crime has no role in recovery,” Blanco said. “It limits our ability to recover.”
Police are on pace to recover as many illegal firearms this year as they did in the two previous years – even though half as many people live in the city now, said Robert Browning, an agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
But in a positive sign, court and prison repairs should be done next month, an official said, which means the city’s crippled criminal justice system will be able to process its influx of suspects more efficiently.
The summit opened hours after an early morning killing brought the city’s homicide count for the year to 100.
16 I went to veterans counseling and I’m OK now.
17 Is this how you wingnuts rationalize away the 2,900+ U.S. lives you squandered in Iraq?
Roger you and your friends in New Orleans have a common problem PTSD, yours from Viet Nam and theirs from Katrina. Maybe the government should provide you all some help.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder can occur following a life-threatening event like military combat, natural disasters, terrorist incidents, serious accidents, or violent personal assaults like rape. Most survivors of trauma return to normal given a little time. However, some people have stress reactions that don’t go away on their own, or may even get worse over time. These individuals may develop PTSD.
People who suffer from PTSD often suffer from nightmares, flashbacks, difficulty sleeping, and feeling emotionally numb. These symptoms can significantly impair a person’s daily life.
PTSD is marked by clear physical and psychological symptoms. It often has symptoms like depression, substance abuse, problems of memory and cognition, and other physical and mental health problems. The disorder is also associated with difficulties in social or family life, including occupational instability, marital problems, family discord, and difficulties in parenting.
Can any of you wingfucks who dissed Kerry for his “stuck in Iraq” joke tell me why Bush should get a free pass for calling Webb’s soldier son “boy?” Mac? Sergeant Mac? How about you, Mac, do you think it’s appropriate for the C-in-C to call a soldier deployed to a combat zone “boy?” Is that a respectful way to refer to our troops? “Boy?” Are our troops in Iraq “boys” and “girls?”
Hey wingfucks! Is calling a soldier deployed to Iraq “boy” respectful? Huh? How about that? Is it okay for Bush to call our troops “boys” and “girls?”
Roger Rabbit says:
17 Is this how you wing nuts rationalize away the 2,900+ U.S. lives you squandered in Iraq?
Roger do you suggest we leave New Orleans?
HEY FLAKEY KLAKE,
THE IRAQ STUDY GROUP SAYS CUT AND RUN. I THOUGHT WE WERE WINNING ACCORDING TO YOU.
AND WHADAYAKNOW? THEY WANT TO BRING THE BOYS HOME JUST IN TIME FOR 2008! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
SO MANY WINGERS HAVE FALLEN OFF BUT I HAVE A FEELIN’ YOU’LL STILL BE HERE FLAKEY KLAKE.
NEVER THOUGHT WE’D BE RID OF JCH.
Inside Defense, the invaluable suite of military-related newsletters, is live-blogging the Gates confirmation hearings. And there’s already a bunch of great stuff up — from whether we’re winning the Iraq war to whether we can afford Future Combat Systems. Go check it out. UPDATE 12:04 PM: One thing that jumps out at me is how realistic — and pessimistic — Gates is about Iraq. The status quo there is “not acceptable,” he says. But, at the same time, there are “no new ideas” on Iraq….
What say you? The Socialist Democrats get elected and no exit plan for Iraq? Lies, Lies, Lies, and more Lies from those who promise to get us out of Iraq and win the War on Terror.
http://insidedefense.com/gates/
Special Report: The Gates Confirmation Hearing
Good reading for a different point of view.
I love it when Klake pretends to have military knowledge. I love it when Bush pretends to have military knowledge. It’s all funny since they’re both chickenhawk cowards!
(my emphasis)
So Roger are you intellectually honest enough to spew your venom at YOS LIB BRO? If you believe in reasoned discourse, you certainly will.
Was this swallowed by the spam filter?
Before the Democrats can have legitimate ideas as to how to proceed in Iraq, they first need to get to the truth. Let the hearings begin!
Here are some comments by Stefan’s father, Professor Ira Sharkansky at Hebrew University in Israel, concerning the civil war in Iraq:
“My own perception is that the civil war started about the time of the media event some years ago when that statue of Saddam Hussein came tumbling down. For the American president, a “civil war” may require only two orderly armies fighting one another, perhaps one dressed in blue and the other in gray.
Whether it is a civil war or something else, the American army, with its British allies and a few others does not seem to be dealing with it effectively. …
Whether it is or is not a civil war may have something to do with there being a misstep or a total failure in Bush’s effort to produce democracy in Iraq. Among the motivations for groups fighting one another, and the foreigners, is their strong opposition to an American version of democracy.”
http://www.usefulwork.com/shar.....07602.html
Klake, given the results of the last election, is irrelevant. I see he has about 9 posts here today, but I didn’t read them because he is irrelevant.
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Yos Lib Bro’s choice of terminology isn’t appropriate, but is less egregious than Bush’s because:
1. YLB doesn’t know better;
2. YLB didn’t have malicious intent;
3. YLB isn’t the Commander-in-Chief; and
3. YLB has a smaller audience than Bush, namely the 2 or 3 million people who read HA every day, whereas Bush’s comments were broadcast by the mass media to the entire country.
So, no, I won’t defend YLB’s language (it’s indefensible) –but explain to me how Bush’s deliberate comment is less offensive than Kerry’s mangled joke? This episode simply points out how completely and shamelessly hypocritical you wingnuts are. If you had a shred of real respect for our troops, you would criticize Bush for what he did and said. It was extremely disrespectful to a serving soldier in Iraq. But all I hear from the right is deafening silence. You assholes don’t give a fuck about our troops in Iraq. All you care about is power and your fucking agenda. Fuck you pigfucking, troop-hating, anti-American cockroach-dick-sucking assholes.
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One more thing. It’s sheer hypocrisy for wingnuts like you to complain about “venom.” You assholes started the venom, and you’ve dished out far more of it than our side has. Guess what, there’s payback coming your way! Are we supposed to say nothing while you pricks call us “unpatriotic” and “traitors” and “terrorists?” Fuck you! If you can call names, so can we! I’ll stop when you stop. You first, because you pigfucking troop-hating anti-American cowards started it. If you’re tired of talk and want to do something about it, show up at my burrow — and bring a gun so I can claim self-defense! Fuck you, and fuck your fascist sister, too! You’re ugly. Your toes are ugly. You have an ugly face. You have an ugly sister. Your sister is fucked by pigs. How you like them apples, fascist?
32 klake has always been irrelevant. There’s never been a time in the history of the universe, ever, that klake was relevant to anything. He is merely a useless consumer of oxygen and producer of carbon dioxide. Klake is even more useless than old tires. At least you can make artificial reefs out of tires.
Nice rationalization. I figured you weren’t rabbit enough to be consistent. LOL @ 2 to 3 million.
You’d have to be a mind reader to know Bush’s comment was deliberate. As I stated before “boys” is a phrase that has been used to describe our soldiers for generations. Apparently it’s only offensive to you when Bush says uses the term.
You attacked me for not calling out other posters for using terms like “traitor”. You also spent several posts pontificating on how condesceding the use of the word “boy” is. Yet the first time another poster uses this term you equivocate and rationalize, primarily because you agree with him politically. Pretty lame Roger.
re 36: You can always tell a conservative just by the look on their face: a smug, tight , self-satisfied grimace that just screams,”I’ve got a big, sour-dill up my ass and I love it!”
No offense…
37:
And when they have smirks, as Bush and Cheney do, it means they REALLY like that sour dill up their ass.
CF, ROGER RABBIT IS ON THE SIDE OF THE ANGELS HERE. DUBYA IS THE WORST.PRESIDENT.EVER. HE’S A BULLY. HE AND HIS BRAIN ROVE HAVE IT IN FOR WEBB BECAUSE WEBB LEFT THE RESERVATION. WEBB AND TESTER AND ALL THE OTHER WINNERS KICKED OUT THE RUBBERSTAMPERS WHO WERE KEPT IN LINE BY THE ROVE INTIMIDATION MACHINE.
YOU VOTED FOR THIS TWICE, WE DIDN’T IT. STICK THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT.