The Seattle chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight (and every Tuesday), 8PM at the Montlake Ale House, 2307 24th Avenue E.
I’ll be filling in tonight for Frank Shiers on 710-KIRO from 9PM to Midnight, so I’ll be arriving and leaving early tonight, but I’m sure there are other folk worth having a drink with.
Not in Seattle? Washington liberals will also be drinking tonight in the Tri-Cities, and a full listing of Washington’s 11 Drinking Liberally chapters is available here.
Hey Goldy – How ’bout a report on how much money is rolling in from your contribution link?
Got enough for a Lexus yet? Or is Tim still kicking your ass?
Are you into 3 figures yet?
Remember to drink to Mrs. Gregoire’s overspending.
In fact, I hear if you raise a toast to that you’ll find the Republicans in the room. They’ll buy your drink!
Horrible day for taxpayers, great day for some guy named Dino Rossi.
Josef – Sure seems odd…. the papers sorta left out the part about how 30 fucking billion dollars compares to 2006 or 2005. I’d like to know those numbers so we can see the percent increase.
Gummint greed knows no limits…
WINGNUTS: A FRIENDLY REMINDER TO DRIVE YOUR GAS GUZZLERS TO YOUR FAVORITE WINGNUT DRINKING SPOTS. THE MORE GAS YOU GUZZLE, THE HIGHER THE PRICE AND THE SOONER WE’LL SEE ELECTRIC POWERED VEHICLES. JUST THINK OF IT – IF YOU KEEP ON GOING LIKE THERE’S NO TOMORROW WHICH IS IN YOUR NATURE, GAS WILL BE $10/GAL!
ALSO, PICK A DESIGNATED DRIVER – YOU DON’T WANT TO GET A DUI/DWI. OF COURSE, I DON’T EXPECT TO LISTEN TO ME – YOUR PROBLEM.
Maybe the state should pay parents to be involved in their kids lives and school……(ha ha)
No matter how much money we throw at our education system, until parents care enough about their kids to be involved, the system will fail.
After protecting the CITIZENS (fire, police, military,) And making sure we have ROADS, Education should be the next priority of govt spending. Of course, I wonder how many illegals are availing themselves of our “free” education system. If the healthcare system is any indication then…..
Washington State budget situation pales in comparison to what your Republican heros have done in D.C.
Tell me why what they’ve done is OK?
LMAO…what a dynamic duo…Mark the welshing dipshit and Head uphisASS Josef. What is this world coming to?
OH YEAH – MTR
PAY YOUR FUCKING GAMBLING DEBT.
Here’s what the ecodorks never understand:
I LIKE my SUV. I don’t CARE how much pollution it creates. I don’t CARE how expensive gasoline is. Period. End of sentence. Why they think they can debate me A) liking my SUV; B) not giving a crap about the environment is beyond me; and C) willing to pay for gas, is beyond me.
But… I will say, I’m willing to meet them halfway. Only problem is, I have yet to find one that will.
Do you care about the environment? Do you want one less SUV on the road? Do you want me to drive a cleaner car? Fine. Buy it for me. Otherwise, fuck off.
Why should I give up something I like, for something I don’t want, in order to achieve a goal I don’t give a shit about?
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Look, just because public transport in whatever little backwater you’re in sucks doesn’t mean the concept of public transport sucks, nor do all implementations of it.
Wrong. Wrong wrong wrong. This is, at best, only true for commuters (and even for them, it’s certainly not very cheap or convenient. OR pleasant.)
Public transportation is a joke. People, on the whole, aren’t going to trade the luxury and convenience of their own personal automobile to instead sit (or stand!) shoulder-to-shoulder with some obnoxious stranger on some filthy, smelly bus. Some might do it for a commute (even I do now and then – but only when my work doesn’t take me out of the office), but the people who have to get to sales calls, deliveries, pickups, the people who travel to courthouses or construction yards or client meetings, the people who have dozens of pounds of cargo (my friend, for example, tends to carry 50-60lbs of marble and granite to prospective clients) – mass transit is not going to help these people. If someone needs to go grocery shopping, or pick up their dry cleaning, or wants to go out for a night on the town, they’re not going to hike to a bus stop, wait for a bus, and then hike to their destination, come back with an armful of bags, wait for the bus again, and then hike home. It’s ludicrous. If their kid has a seizure at school, they’re not going to take a bus trip that takes twice as long (or more) to get there. God forbid you should have to go somewhere during work, or after work.
The world is made up of more than just people who go to school or the office and come straight home everyday.
The right wing traitors are pissed that their asshole buddies at the builders assoc aren’t getting to steal state budgets!
Roger Rabbit is not feeling well and will not attend tongith, so the NSA guys and GOP snipers can pack up and go home now.
ANTI-LIBERAL: JUST A FRIENDLY REMINDER TO DRIVE YOUR GAS GUZZLING SUV WHEREVER THE FUCK YOU WANT WHEN YOU WANT. DRIVE IT TWO BLOCKS TO PICK UP A GALLON OF MILK. I DON’T GIVE A FUCK. BE ASSURED YOU’RE HELPING BRING ABOUT A NEW GENERATION OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES THAT IN ALL LIKELIHOOD WILL BE POWERED BY CLEAN, RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY. IMAGINE HOW QUIETER THE ENVIRONMENT WILL BE. EVER DRIVE AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE. IT IS IN EVERY WAY BETTER – IT IS MUCH MORE RESPONSIVE, ENERGY EFFICIENT AND IT IS QUIET.
ANYONE WHO CLINGS TO THEIR OLD GAS GUZZLER WILL STICK OUT LIKE AN EXPOSED ASSHOLE. WHICH IS WHAT MOST WINGNUTS ARE ANYWAY.
@ 10, setting aside the rest, are you just an asshole? Don’t care about pollution? I hope your kids get lung disease.
Shit. The fucking trolls have their power back.
3 Yeah, Rossi believes in leaving every child behind, especially the sick ones.
How many 10s of 1000s of poor kids would Dino kick off Medicaid this time, if he was still in the senate helping write the budget? It was 40,000 last time. You wingnuts should be real proud of your hero picking on little kids — especially as you don’t even pay the taxes you’re complaining about!
Slimesuckers.
Hey Josef, have you asked Zits for a date yet, or are you still beating off to her picture taped to the wall above the can?
@5 Wingnuts — pleeeeeze drive your Hummers to the GOP watering holes this week! My oil stock is down on weaker oil prices — we need more demand! Also, forget the designated driver, and by all means, drive drunk! This will accomplish several socially useful things:
a) eliminate some of the Republican population,
b) keep my lawyer buddies in cash,
c) keep Republicans off the streets and in drunk tanks and jails where they belong,
d) provide work for unionized cops,
e) justify Gregoire’s increased spending on the state patrol and prisons.
Thanks. Your cooperation is appreciated.
@6 No matter how much money we throw at our education system, until parents care enough about their kids to be involved, the system will fail.
What a bunch of crap! The last thing a teacher needs is parents standing over his/her shoulder telling him/her how to teach (a subject about which most parents know less than nothing), and the last thing a kid needs is his/her parents breathing down his/her neck telling him/her how to do math (a subject about which most parents know even less than nothing).
I went through 12 grades with NO parental involvement beyond reading the report card. Which was just fine! I told my parents, unless you want to do my homework yourself, butt out! Fortunately, I had several thousand siblings, so they didn’t have time to interfere with my education. Consequently, I know more science than all the wingnuts put together. I think they got all this flat earth crap from their stupid parents. Stupid is, as stupid does.
Public transportation is a joke. People, on the whole, aren’t going to trade the luxury and convenience of their own personal automobile to instead sit (or stand!) shoulder-to-shoulder with some obnoxious stranger on some filthy, smelly bus.
Yes. Much better to use our tax money to subsidize insane growth strategies relying on single user autos and suburbs stretching beyond the horizon, a strategy that also ignores some really important market externalities (i.e., market failure for you rightwing dipsos).
Why should I give up something I like, for something I don’t want, in order to achieve a goal I don’t give a shit about?
I’ve often asked the same question about my tax money being squandered in Iraq.
10 Do you care about the environment? Do you want one less SUV on the road? Do you want me to drive a cleaner car? Fine. Buy it for me. Otherwise, fuck off.
Typical freeloading Republican. Doesn’t want to pay taxes so he can afford to squander our limited oil supply on creating pollution. Then uses his antisocial behavior as an excuse to ask US to buy a car for him. Fuck you! I hope you chock on your fumes. Hey, I have a suggestion for you. Wanna burn more gas? Just keep your SUV running in idle for a while after parking it in your garage. Make sure you close the garage door during this procedure.
(hey, just kidding! ann coulter humor)
choke, not chock
Roger Rabbit says:
@5 Wingnuts — pleeeeeze drive your Hummers to the GOP watering holes this week! My oil stock is down on weaker oil prices — we need more demand! Also, forget the designated driver, and by all means, drive drunk! This will accomplish several socially useful things:
a) eliminate some of the Republican population,
b) keep my lawyer buddies in cash,
c) keep Republicans off the streets and in drunk tanks and jails where they belong,
d) provide work for unionized cops,
e) justify Gregoire’s increased spending on the state patrol and prisons.
Thanks. Your cooperation is appreciated.
Your welcome. Can I change A) to young blondes.
20 Now these pricks are complaining because Gregoire is building roads and bridges for them to drive their single occupant vehicles on.
Not to worry, the world has only 29 years of oil left (at current consumption), then we won’t have any traffic congestion and won’t have to spend a dime on highways or bridges.
And if the wingfucks think my horse pals are going to carry them around on their backs for nothing, boy do they have a surprise coming.
23 No! No substitutions are allowed.
@6 No matter how much money we throw at our education system, until parents care enough about their kids to be involved, the system will fail.
Actually should be:
@6 No matter how much money we throw at our education system, until liberals are run out of the public schools, the system will fail.
I should know, I am part of the problem, of course if you want your child to learn how to put a rubber on a cucumber I can show them a thing or two.
@24: Those trollfuck pricks will complain about everything and anything in order to get (a.) taxes reduced, or (b.) tax subsidies. To hell with anything else. It’s all about me, me, me. To top it off, they will quote psychopaths like Ayn Rand to justify their anti-social behavior.
I say let them all go on “Survivor” and enjoy their paradise, and don’t pay the winner. After all, they’re all welchers anyway.
Click here for photos of defeated GOP Sen. Conrad Burns violating 9 traffic laws and trying to kill his staffer — all at the same time! http://tinyurl.com/y4ebjj
30 What an asshole! But what do you expect from a Republican.
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I guess dems care about this when there is a “R” after your name.
I am for public transportation,education and social programs as long as liberals pay for them. The only problem is that most liberals dont pay taxes. Why are liberals against war? It is not like there are many of them serving in the military. I dont get it. Oh well.
And how many sons and daughters of the GOP congresspeople are serving in Iraq right now? Maybe,hmm, none? This moonbat’s nephew is about to do a second tour in Iraq next month. My nephew, in fact, voted for Kerry, based deeply upon his previous tour in Iraq. So, Andy, join the Armed Services if you feel so deeply about it. They’ll take even the worst case wingnut. Asshole.
32 It’s not okay for anyone to do it. Any questions?
33 … most liberals dont pay taxes. Why are liberals against war? It is not like there are many of them serving in the military. I dont get it.
Simple. When you get the facts wrong, your conclusions are bound to be screwed up too, and confusion follows.
Putting it another way … garbage in, garbage out.
I hear Bush is looking for 20,000 more combat troops to send to Iraq, so now’s a golden opportunity for patriotic wingnuts to volunteer!
About the so-called ‘War on Christmas’, it occurs to me that it was declared literally not by the Leeberals, but by republican icons, national punditry who cultivate divisiveness and exploit enmity for political power and graft. How unchristian is that?
I wonder what the ‘Moral Majority’ would think of a non-traditional manger scene. Gathered around the rustic, partially enclosed lean-to are the characters Jesus, Mary and Joseph, the 3 wise men and their camels, Shepherds and sheep, the other manger animals, a donkey, a cow, and winged Archangel Michael hung on a string.
Sounds like a manger scene, right? But what if all the characters had the faces and figures of the smiling, big-belly Bhuda. Jesus naked in the manger, bearded Joseph, all the characters are clothed normally, but their faces are the smiling bhuda. The animals too have the bhuda face.
Would the professional worldly christian scream blasphemy, horror and all sort of wickedness? Undoubtedly, most would not consider the acronym WWJD.
antiliberal @10 regarding
“If someone needs to go grocery shopping, or pick up their dry cleaning, or wants to go out for a night on the town, they’re not going to hike to a bus stop, wait for a bus, and then hike to their destination, come back with an armful of bags, wait for the bus again, and then hike home. It’s ludicrous.”
They’re not? Cause, I pretty much do every day. I am wondering who this they is that you claim to be speaking for.
For your information, I took a bus home from work at 9:30 pm in the middle of the storm and it was in fact running on time. It has ran on time every day during all this power outagage to work, groceries, and a night out. Also I have not had to wait in line for gas even once, and those those cute little remarks about DUI’s really dont apply thank you very much.
Now on the other hand, while we are discussing “Why should I give up something I like, for something I don’t want, in order to achieve a goal I don’t give a shit about?” , why have I given up my right of way to walk wherever I want for a stupid interstate, and why am I paying taxes for one?
I say, before you begin burying all those power line, first bury all the highways like they did at the 90 lid and freeway park and give me back my right of way. To put it another way, you do have a right to own anything you want, you do not have a right to drive it. I do, have a right to walk wherever I need to go, and your desire to drive whatever you want doen’t trump my rights to walk.
You can stop paying for transit on the day I can stop paying for interstates, subsidies for oil companies, bailouts for auto manufacturers and wars to keep up constant flows of that oil.
Just wanted to say it was great seeing y’all again at Drinking Liberally. Good to be back in Seattle.
Maybe at your next DL you could discuss
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....on/columns
Even the Kurds think the ISG was a waste. But that doesn’t stop Moonbat!s from thinking otherwise.
“The plan would reward regimes that have undermined the U.S. effort at every turn. Iraq would fall under the regional powers, and the Iraqi people would come out the losers. Any vacancy left in Iraq by the coalition forces before Iraq is ready to stand on its own would be filled by those opposed to democracy. American credibility would dissipate, and any chance for success in Iraq would evaporate. If this comes to pass, hopes for real democracy in the Middle East will be history. The regional powers that border us have an interest in keeping us weak and divided.
Once again Kurds are about to be sold out. Should the U.S. administration adopt the recommendations of Baker-Hamilton, the Kurds will be sacrificed to protect the interests of Iraq’s neighbors. We were massacred in 1975 and 1991 by Saddam Hussein because we thought that our commitment to democracy and tolerance made us natural U.S. allies.”
Enjoy your traffic congested Wednesday Moonbat!s.
@42 Why do YOU want to suck up to the Kurds? No one else does. The Turks don’t. The Russians don’t. The Iranians don’t. Hell, even the Palestinians don’t like the Kurds. Nobody likes the Kurds. Even Kurds don’t like Kurds.
MWS THINKS JIM BAKER IS A “MOONBAT”. TYPICAL LOSING WINGNUT. SO DELUSIONAL IT’S PATHETIC.
Supply and Demand? Or Fuck’em till I need their Vote – 250 dumb Americans won’t know the difference.