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Drinking Liberally

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The Seattle chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight (and every Tuesday), 8PM at the Montlake Ale House, 2307 24th Avenue E.

It’s a busy evening for me so I’m sure to be a little late. First I’m heading down to Renton for a King County Democrats fundraiser for Darcy Burner (5:30 pm to 7:00 pm, Renton Carpenters Hall, 231 Burnett AVE N… you’re all invited), before rushing back to Graham Hill Elementary School for the district’s site hearing on school closures. I’m guessing I won’t get to the Alehouse much before 9 pm.

If you happen to be a liberal drinker on the other side of the mountains, the Tri-Cities chapter of DL also meets Tuesday nights, 7 PM, Atomic Ale, 1015 Lee Blvd., in Richland. Go ask Jimmy for more details.

Comments

  2. Roger Rabbit rarely attends DL because of the pill-crazed wingfucks skulking at the corner table.

  3. Here’s another example of GOP “good government” —

    ‘Breathtaking’ Waste and Fraud in Hurricane Aid
    “By ERIC LIPTON, The New York Times

    “WASHINGTON (June 27) — Among the many superlatives associated with Hurricane Katrina can now be added this one: it produced one of the most extraordinary displays of scams, schemes and stupefying bureaucratic bungles in modern history, costing taxpayers up to $2 billion.”

    For complete story, see http://articles.news.aol.com/n.....4409990001

  4. roger…my little buttercup…..before you cast stones on the GOP perhaps you could use that tiny bunny-brain to think really hard about all the democrats in the katrina zone that never fixed any of the levees…..hmmmmm?

  7. 4

    christmasidiot — who the fuck was IN CHARGE of the money and responsible for OVERSIGHT? What do you think will happen when there is NO MANAGEMENT?

    Short answer: Don’t expect Republicans to manage anything; they’re only good for blaming their failures on others. (Man that sounds like a lot of bosses and managers I’ve worked for, too.)

  8. 4

    P.S., I’m not your “little buttercup!” I’m a large virile rabbit with an insatiable reproductive instinct, and if you want to suck my dick you’ll need a reservation. For a good time, call 1-800-SUK-ROGR.

  13. Can any of you wingbats explain how the fuck the government is gonna read the flag burner’s mind? Or are they just gonna prosecute everybody who burns a flag? You know, do monthly sweeps of VFW and American Legion halls …

  16. 16

    Lucky for our trolls the amendment was defeated, because they desecrate the flag every time they open their unpatriotic, America-hating mouths.

  17. Roger, you have too much time on your hands and too little to share besides vitriol. Get a life. Sure, republican leaders are liars and crooks, and too many republican loyalists are idiots. Give it a rest. Your repetitious posts don’t add much, really, ever. They detract. What, you want to come off like a republican with all this manic, paranoidal, compulsive posting like anything you write has real importance? You write like a pot-head. I’ll lay odds, you’re doing pot right now. Suck it in hard and hold it in as long as you can, man, as if your high is anything more than psycho-babble.

  19. Just wondering… how many of you will be walking, hopping, riding a bike, or an otherwise empty metro bus to DL? I mean… c’mon… your god Algore told you that you gotta do something about solar warming. Least you can do is make a half assed attempt at something is stoopid as DL.

    Let me know how that goes…

  20. 14 – The same way they do hate crimes. Tell me how that works mister paralegal?

  23. I say ban flag burning in public. The lefties pass hate crimes so that give us the right to make flag burning a hate crime. What, you lefties dont like. Fuck You!! Hehe

  24. Morooon@25 That’s so typically NeoConvict. . .Destroy a core Constitutional Right to satisfy a partisan hissy-fit. You Go, Rufus! A Real poster child for the knuckledragging rightwingnuts. .

  25. 23 – He’s off script. He’s never supposed to say global warming – he’s supposed to say “climate change”. That is unless turdblossom told him the bullshit wasn’t working.

  26. 26

    If you want to burn a flag do it on your own property not the publics. You have as much right to burn a flag in public as you do a cross.

  28. SO GOLDY IS RUNNING DOWN TO RENTON TO GET A LITTLE SNIFF OF DARCY.I THINK GOLDY HAS AN INTERNAL HARD ON FOR DARCY AND IS FUCKIN HIMSELF TO DEATH.

  29. Oh, goody, uor little genetic anomaly is back. How are things out there in wingnut fantasyland,Y’O (Trailer park Yahoo)? .

  30. Y’O has to be forgiven for always typing in captals. . .he hasn’t quite figured ou that new-fangled keyboard thing. . .he’s so used to sending his messages with a ‘talking drum’.

  31. Why, just the other day, Y’O was telling Mark The Retarded Redneck that he was starting to get the hang of this new technology. . . fire!

  32. We told Y’O’s more intelligent twin not to look up when it was raining, but he did anyway. . .and drowned when he forgot to close his mouth.

  33. 28

    Dufus, you’ve raised an interesting point — why is flag burning protected as “free speech,” while cross burning is not? Here is the answer:

    “Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore commented, ‘A burning cross is a symbol like no other. It doesn’t just say, ‘We don’t like you.’ The message is, ‘We are going to do you harm.'”

    http://www.law.com/jsp/article.....8518258780

    In other words, cross burning conveys a threat, while flag burning conveys only protest, dissent, or disrespect. Cross burning implies violence to come; flag burning does not. The First Amendment has never protected threatening speech.

  34. Roger, it’s my understanding that in Washington we do not recognize “Fighting Words”. Is that so?

  35. It should be pointed out that the 2002 Supreme Court decision that upheld state laws against cross burnings which are intended to intimidate, also said a cross burning at a KKK rally is protected free speech.

  36. 36

    Not so.

    The “fighting words” doctrine essentially says that epithets or insults which incite violence are not protected speech. This is an oversimplification; there is a complicated legal test.

    The issue typically comes up in the context of prosecutions under assault, harassment statutes, or disorderly conduct laws. This is most likely to occur as a violation of a municipal ordinance.

    An illustrative case is Seattle v. Camby, 104 Wn.2d 49, 701 P.2d 499 (1985), which involved a prosecution under Seattle’s harassment ordinance of a restaurant patron who invited a bouncer to “step outside” so he could “kick your ass” and threatened to return later if the bouncer didn’t step outside. Based on the specific facts of the case, the Court of Appeals ruled the defendant’s conduct was unlikely to result in a breach of the peace, and reversed his conviction. However, this decision leaves no doubt that Washington follows the U.S. Supreme Court doctrine that “fighting words” are not protected free speech and can be grounds for a criminal conviction.

    http://www.mrsc.org/mc/courts/.....2d0049.htm

  38. 18

    Reading blog comments is a voluntary activity. If you don’t like my comments, why do you read them?

  39. Along the same lines, Roger, I was introduced to the following line of reasoning in the Navy: Incitement to Riot (a chargeable offense) is never a defense against Riot (another chargeable offense).

  40. And if you really want to get into it, you can research whether there is a “duty to retreat” before claiming “self defense”. In other words, if you are really faced with an imminent threat of death or injury and you have an avenue of retreat open, are you required to retreat rather than assault or kill the person who is threatening you? Hint: there is no “duty to retreat” in Texas (big surprise, huh?)

  41. Does the “purely moral tone(d)” Gore speak “from a sense of conviction?”

    The man
    -flew a personal jet to the Kyoto Conference burning 70,737 gals of fuel

    -was caught campaigning on Air Force II from April 1999 to May 2000 flying 375 logged hours burning 1,207,125 gallons of kerosene

    -was documented at Cannes debuting his new movie while he and his entourage used five vehicles to go five hundred meters from the Carton Hotel to the Palace where the film was shown.

    -was also spotted and photographed arriving at the Sierra Club convention in San Francisco on 9/09/05 in a Cadillac Escalade of his choosing on the occasion of giving another in a his long string of speeches accusing normal people of abusing his sensibilities by using wasteful fuel strategies like driving large SUVs.

    -never been observed outside a photo op alighting his corpulent being from a Prius or anything similar.

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