It’s the last Tuesday in August, so it must be election day somewhere. In fact, there are primaries in Arizona, Florida, and Vermont and runoff elections in Oklahoma. So join us for some election night punditry and political pontification 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 and election returns.
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. On Wednesday, the Bellingham and Burien chapters meet. On Thursday, the Woodinville and Spokane chapters meet. And next Monday, the Yakima, South Bellevue and Olympia chapters meet.
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.
Gettysburg Hero To Receive Medal of Honor
Bvt. Lt. Col. Alonzo Cushing, who was killed on July 3, 1863, in the act of preventing Pickett’s infantry from breaking through the Union line, will be awarded the Medal of Honor by President Obama next month.
The 22-year-old Cushing, an artilleryman of Hancock’s 2nd Corps, was posted with his battery midway between the “angle” of the stone wall on Cemetery Ridge and the copse of trees that was the focal point of the Confederate advance.
Ignoring grievous wounds, he refused to be evacuated and continued directing his battery’s cannon fire and the ultimately successful defense of a section of the stone wall that bore the brunt of the Confederate attack.
He has long been recognized as a major Gettysburg hero, arguably more important to the battle’s outcome than Chamberlain’s famous defense of Little Round top, but for whatever reason did not get this honor at the time. Cushing is buried at West Point.
One of our anti living wage, detesters of a Democratic dominated Seattle government that elected a Socialist long before it elected a Republican should give Weyerhaeuser a call.
Apparently that profit seeking company is unaware of all of the lovely Republican dominated municipalities to which it could relocate its headquarters and 800 employees.
It’s not like Weyerhaeuser is unfamiliar with Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Republican paradises of the southeast.
@2 Probably doesn’t want to deal with the unions in those places.
The advantage of living where the average family income is $15,000 a year is you can still buy a house for $35,000 in those places. Of course, it’ll never be worth more than that …