The ballots have dropped and the mid-term elections are nigh. There are races to discuss, candidates to evaluate, and endorsements to ponder. So please join us tonight for an evening of political ponderance 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. On Wednesday, the Bellingham and Burien chapters meet. And on Thursday, the Woodinville chapter meets.
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.
I mailed my ballot in 2 says ago. I like the idea of voting early and just dropping the ballot into one of those collection boxes here in Pierce County.
@1 “I like the idea of voting early and just dropping the ballot into one of those collection boxes here in Pierce County.”
If you’re a Native American living on a reservation in South Dakota, Republicans want to make you take a day off work and drive 50 miles each way to vote … that is, if you somehow make it through their voter registration hurdles and survive their challenges to your registration.
The funny thing is African-Americans, prompted by their preachers in Sunday church sermons (and you know how emotional African-American church services are), are so pissed off by Republican efforts to keep them from voting they’re turning out in droves and enduring the long lines and other obstacles thrown at them by the operatives working for a political party that’s so unpopular its main strategy is to prevent their fellow Americans from exercising their “most precious right” — their right to vote. In other words, there’s a backlash that’s biting them in the ass. Good! They deserve it. What kind of sick bastards believe in making it easy to get guns and hard to vote? It should be the other way around.
In the 2008 election, I stood in line at the local United Methodist Church for 3 hours and 40 minutes to do a write-in vote for Ron Paul for president. There was no way I’d vote for the Republicans.
@2 the libertarian doesn’t care about what is really happening unless it’s the established government, such as policing and regulating. He’s got his head beautifully tucked between his ass cheeks. He’s not going to worry about someone else civil rights, only if they pertain to him and he sees himself as being impacted otherwise he’ll stay quite and only chirp up with complaints of big bad government.
@4. Do you think anyone that has to wait 4 hours to cast on vote is going to get back in line to vote again another 4 hours later. Voter Fraud all drummed up by Reoublicans to stifle democracy. The great constitutiknalists!
Living in Connecticut, I’ve never had to wait more than a half hour to vote. Why so many placed where it takes 4 hours or more.
@5, 6, 7
Think whatever you like.
@8 where are all the don’t tread on me people speaking vocally against bans on gay marriage and it’s constitutionality? They don’t exist. Bunch of hypocrites. You can’t wave that flag around and claim you care about government treading in you and stay quite about gay marriage. All your credibility goes out the window.
@9
Actually, I voted for the initiative here in WA. I don’t have any problems with gay marriage.
@10 The bigots in Kansas never explained how gays marrying in Massachusetts undermine their marriages. Maybe wives in Kansas are upset because their husbands ran away with guys. Or perhaps GOPers fear if gay marriage catches on red states will depopulate.
@11
Has nothing to do w/ my comment @ 10.
@10 – I wasn’t speaking about you per say. I was speaking about Libertarians in general. I know I shouldn’t generalize. But I have heard one person wiht the Gaston Flag coming out for marriage equality or condoning bans. Extremely hypocritcal. And again, you loose all credibilty. It’s like trying to hold me, a liberal, responsible for every action that a Democrat does. I like many republicans who say they are innocent bystanders in the fight against marriage equallity, I am an innocent bystander in a lot of what Democrats do, don’t hold me accountable just because I vote for them.
All you liberals out there, you don’t have to try to defend democrats for everything they do. One in a while, if you just want to be lazy (you know we support those that don’t like to work and are lazy), just toss out there that you are just an innocent bystander to all of it. Similiar to how some Republicans that say they don’t agree with gay marriage bans but still vote Republican.
@12 Of course it does. #11 and #12 are on the same topic. You must have failed the portion of the SAT test where you have to choose for similarity among geometric shapes.
@15
In you mind, anything is possible, Roger.