The Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally turns 10 years old this Tuesday. Please join us in our celebration. There are rumors that founding hosts Nick and Lee will make an appearance. I’ll be handing out copies of “Drinking Liberally: 10 Years In Poetry.” There will be food. There will be drinks. There will be conversation. Will you be there?
We meet every Tuesday evening—birthday or not—at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks stop by earlier for dinner.
Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings this week. Tonight the Tri-Cities chapter also meets. On Wednesday, the Bellingham and Burien chapters meet. The Woodinville, Kent, and Spokane chapters meet on Thursday. And next Monday, the Yakima and South Bellevue chapters meet.
There are 189 chapters of Living Liberally, including seventeen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are excellent there’s a chapter meeting somewhere near you.
Twelve years of work destroyed in probably under ten minutes probably by some Christian fucktard who looks at anyone with less than lily-white skin as being subhuman. In the former United States, now a national-corporatist vassal state of the banks, such is increasingly common. The gloves are off with the racist element, and the paradigm is becoming more popular as people see little if any reaction to their acts of terrorism. It starts with petty vandalism, and rationalizations of circumstance in Police incidents of violence. Willfully turning one’s face from the little things and failing to notice the greater pattern.
The TeaParty wants to become the next Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, but with Velveeta cheese and hotdogs.
Look over there! TITS! And the fags are coming for your childrens! And theres a NEEEGGROOOWW in the WHITE house!.
Yeah, I’m glad I never had kids.
Hooray for the free market!
@2,
Yeah, just borrow the money and don’t pay it back.
@1 Probably some kid with a spray paint can.
@3 That’s what vulture capitalists do, so why shouldn’t everyone else?
Nick Hanauer @NickHanauer
If the law of supply & demand says “when wages go up, jobs go down,” why isn’t Walmart laying off workers?
Retweeted by Goldy
I dunno, maybe it’s because Wal-Mart chose to slash benefits instead.
Amid Soaring Profits, Walmart to Cut Off 30,000 Workers From Health Insurance
Walmart will stop providing insurance to workers scheduled fewer than 30 hours a week, Welborn explains. As the Wall Street Journal points out, this is not the company’s first cut of this kind. In 2011, Walmart slashed coverage for new employees scheduled fewer than 24 hours a week, and in 2012 it instated the same cuts to new workers scheduled under 30 hours a week.
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In addition to the elimination of health insurance for part-time workers, beginning January first, Walmart will substantially increase costs for workers who do have company health insurance. For example, Welborn explains, Walmart’s “most popular and lowest cost associate-only plan” will increase by 20 percent per pay period.
http://www.commondreams.org/ne.....-insurance
Frees up money to pay higher wages. Now they’re at the minimum Obama wanted in 2013, they’re at or above any federal increase that might possibly occur before 2017, a lot of the heat is off, and they get to claim they did it voluntarily.
Oh. And they DID cut jobs. A lot of them, not very recently ago.
No one said the law of supply and demand is immediate. Nor that related events always occur in expected order.
You might need something to talk about at the 10-year celebration tonite.
Trayvon Martin: DOJ Set to Announce No Charges Against George Zimmerman
http://abcnews.go.com/US/trayv.....d=29186648
Beats the hell out of talking about whether or not an Army Ranger actually served in special forces.
Or whether CBS’s guys or NBC’s guy are more accurate in whether O’Reilly was in any type of danger.
When you nuture the people in your life with the greed of money, you can’t blame the bitch when she wants all your money after she falls out of love with you.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/2.....index.html
@6….
Shhhhhhhhh….don’t tell ‘Boob’ the sloppy solipsist, but neo-liberal authoritarian capitalism is a total, abject failure for all but the few who reap the benefits.
“Or whether CBS’s guys or NBC’s guy are more accurate in whether O’Reilly was in any type of danger.”
Whether or not O’Reilly was ever in any type of danger isn’t the exactly the fucking issue.
“I’ve reported on the ground in active war zones from El Salvador to the Falklands…”
“I was in a situation one time, in a war zone in Argentina, in the Falklands…”
Those folks from NBC and CBS who are piling on O’Reilly, those about whom O’Reilly lied and said were “hiding”, actually have the experience to know the difference between a “war zone” and an “expense account zone”, as in staying in a fine cosmopolitan hotel and ordering room service.
@5,
OK, all folks with student loans out there just don’t repay those loans.
Yeah, that’ll work…
TWO TERM President Obama VETOES the odious Keystone XL pipeline..
http://www.politico.com/story/.....?ml=?ml=bn
Why do klownservatics lie about the oh so temporary job benefits of this pipeline?
Oh the Koch Bros own lots of tar sands leases!
The Senate turtle and ghoul thinks it can override the veto.. Not likely.
F you McConnell and the bagger klowns in the House.
@12
F you McConnell and the bagger klowns in the House.
Oh, YLB. Not just them.
Keystone XL: Mary Landrieu’s final indignity
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....indignity/
Can we get a little exclamation point love for the former Senator from Louisiana, YLB?
I should be there tonight and maybe early if they’re showing the Flyers game.
Sloppy Travis Bickle,
“I dunno, maybe it’s because Wal-Mart chose to slash benefits instead.”
Nope…that’s not it. Unless you are an imbecile who cannot do simple estimates of effects and magnitudes. Let’s analyze your bullshit.
Do you have any idea of how many U.S. employees Walmart has? (Hint 1.4 Million a couple years ago.) The 30,000 employees that work <30 hours a week make up a tiny, tiny fraction of their workforce. Let's see...that would be around 2%.
But Walmart suggests that their new wage policy will affect 500,000 people. I haven't seen anyone doing the math (which is complicated by different state minimum wages), but I don't think the insurance cuts to 30,000 part time employees is going to come close to paying for the $1,000 to $4,000 per year raises that 500,000 people will be getting by next year. Do you?
And that "substantial" increase of 20% per pay period for health insurance (which is really 19%)? That is, literally, an increase from $18.40 to $21.90 per 2-week pay period. Or about $7/month. And that increase doesn't necessarily save Walmart any money, since their insurance costs may have gone up, as well.
Once again, you've found a factoid, and failed to critically analyze its relevance to the discussion, and ended up implying something that is unsupported.
You suck as a thinker.
Perhaps it is time to find something more useful to do with your head...like volunteering for Habitat for Humanity. You could drive nails with it!
@ 15
I suck at a lot of things.
6,000 Wal-Mart employees currently at $7.25 federal minimum wage. Like you, I didn’t see enough info out there to figure out how much it would cost Wal-Mart, so didn’t try. I also don’t know how much Wal-Mart will save in federal taxes, other taxes, and other deductibles that will be affected by this increase in their labor costs.
It’s been all of one week, and Wal-Mart hasn’t announced any job cuts since they announced an increase in their minimum hourly wage that hasn’t taken effect yet. Somehow that proves, or disproves……. what, exactly?
That’s about as well-reasoned as suggesting that a hotel sale in Seattle
http://horsesass.org/15-minimu.....ord-price/
shortly after passage of a minimum wage increase that hasn’t taken effect yet somehow is evidence that the wage hike was a smart move.
Come to think of it, the same guy might very well have written both.
Happy Anniversary, Darryl.
@ 15
Perhaps it is time to find something more useful to do with your head…like volunteering for Habitat for Humanity. You could drive nails with it!
Rather near the bottom of the Graham’s Hierarchy of Disagreement pyramid, no?
O’Reilly caught in another “1,200 mile” lie.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2.....ion/202655
“Rather near the bottom of the Graham’s Hierarchy of Disagreement pyramid, no?”
And explicitly refuting the central point, as Darryl did with you, is at the top, Try that instead of scoring cheap shot snide points, and maybe you’d fare a little better.
Trailer for “The Marshawn Lynch Story”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmTxm0I9hyU#t=109
@11 yeah the only people that shouldn’t have to pay off their student loans are doctors.
Sloppy Travis Bickle,
“Rather near the bottom of the Graham’s Hierarchy of Disagreement pyramid, no?”
Not at all.
The fact that you cherry picked a small aside “near the bottom” rather than the central point and majority of content in my comment that was “near the top” of the pyramid is symptomatic of your inability to engage in honest dialog.
The entire point of the disagreement hierarchy is that an argument can be evaluated, at first pass, by how high it ascends. An argument that honestly and accurately refutes the central point of the other participant is NOT made invalid because other DH levels that may be invoked.
I would point out that your comment @ 17 is a totally dismiss-able level “DH2 Response to Tone”. Feel free to do a bit more climbing…if you can actually refute the central point of my comment @15, have at it.
vomit producer @1… Got proof?
Or it could be some progressively taught child with a spray paint can!
ISIS, creeps whom think like HA DUMMOCRETINS kidnapped more Christians and Obummer’s sadministration says nuthin!
ISIS kills Christians and HA DUMMOCRETINS don’t care! Seems Obummer doesn’t care either and HA DUMMOCRETINS attack Rudy and Scott whom call out Obummer for the sadministration’s lack of commentary supporting Christians! Looks like they are right again!
Currently on the TMC channel, “Being There”, a movie with “Basketball Jones” in the soundtrack.
As well as Deodato’s version of “Also sprach Zarathustra”.
Don't miss a purported Dem trying to appeal to same crowd who'd vote for a nutjob embarrassment like Bobby Jindal.
Yawwwwwn… Bob serving up yet more weak sauce.
like klownservative nutjob Jim Adkisson
And
like one stupid, credulous, deranged bullshitting asshole of a village idiot troll.
Happy 10th..
Seattle DL.
Yeah, happy 10th everybody, I can’t count anymore the number of trolls we’ve run out of here. Sloppy Bob and Pudnutz are the last two cockroaches under the kitchen sink.
Happy 10th Anniversary.
I was listening to WBBM out of Chicago on the tune-in app tonight. Mayor Rahm Emanuel only got 45% of the vote, making Chicago History. For the first time since the creation of the non-partisan primary, the mayor’s race is headed to a run-off. The race, in April, will be between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Cook County Commissioner Jesus “Chuy” Garcia.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/20.....el-garcia/
The Chicago City Council consists of 50 Wards, and 19 of them are facing run-off elections. One of them, is Patrick Daley Thompson in the 11th Ward, and yes, he’s the nephew of Rahm’ s predecessor.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/20.....-in-april/
Mayor Rahm Emanuel had formed a SuperPac to support his loyalists and oppose those that do not support him. At least one of Chicago Forward’ s incumbents, outright lost, and some are headed to Runoffs.
http://chicagodefender.com/201.....l-runoffs/
Cockroach senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit? Puddy been to a few Drunken Libtards. No hiding from Puddy! Cockroaches hide like certain HA DUMMOCRETINS! Puddy like whacking silly libtard ASSes with FACTS!
See ya senile schismatic IDIOT Wabbit!
Meanwhile more Obummer sadministration creepy action! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....minor.html
Hmmm… Another Obummer sadministration DUMMOCRETIN sporting himself! Trolling little kids more important than ISIS terrorism?
http://twitter.com/conncarroll.....72/photo/1
Sure is amazing how this Keystone Pipeline legislation with bipartisan support (received 63 DUMMOCRETIN votes) qualifies per Obummer as “circumventing longstanding processes.” That’s your community organizer! Butt hey… Tom Steyer is happy and that’s all that matters is BIG MONEY To the DNC coffers! Screw the little people! http://youtu.be/bKXcA8kcFVs
And something else to upset HA DUMMOCRETINS… Looks like the HA DUMMOCRETIN perpetual grievance will need something else to convict George Zimmerman now… .http://www.usatoday.com/story/...../23942297/
Maybe the “senile schismatic legal mind” of HA could figger out some new charge, impanel a new grand jury and try George again!
@ 36
Yeah, I guess we’ll have to wait until he shoots another teenager in the stomach for walking in the dark while black.
@20,
And why do you suppose that is?