The Seattle chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight (and every Tuesday), 8PM at the Montlake Ale House, 2307 24th Avenue E. Our intrepid leader Nick sent out an email implying that we’ll have a breathalyzer at tonight’s event, so perhaps we’ll finally have our first annual Mike McGavick Drink Off to see exactly what it takes to get to a 0.17 blood-alcohol level. Once again I’m offering a free copy of Sen. Byron Dorgan’s new book, Take This Job and Ship It to the first person to show up with a functioning breathalyzer, and a free ride home to our victim.
And FYI, we may not be recording a Podcasting Liberally this week as our producers Richard and Gavin are both out of town, and Richard’s ETA is rather tentative. So if you’ve got some good recording gear and would like the honor of being Producer for A Day, come on down.
Not in Seattle? Washington liberals will also be drinking tonight in the Tri-Cities and Vancouver, and here’s a full run down of WA’s ten Drinking Liberally chapters:
| Where: | When: | Next Meeting: | |
| Burien: | Mick Kelly’s Irish Pub, 435 SW 152nd St | Fourth Wednesday of each month, 7:00 pm onward | September 27 |
| Kirkland: | Valhalla Bar & Grill, 8544 122nd Ave NE | Every Thursday, 7:00 pm onward | September 14 |
| Monroe: | Eddie’s Trackside Bar and Grill, 214 N Lewis St | Second Wednesday of each month, 7:00 PM onward | September 13 |
| Olympia: | The Tumwater Valley Bar and Grill, 4611 Tumwater Valley Drive South | First and third Monday of each month, 7:00-9:00 pm | September 18 |
| Seattle: | Montlake Ale House, 2307 24th Ave E | Every Tuesday, 8:00 pm onward | September 12 |
| Spokane: | Red Lion BBQ & Pub, 126 N Division St | Every Wednesday, 7:00 pm | September 13 |
| Tacoma: | Meconi’s Pub, 709 Pacific Ave | Every Wednesday, 8:00 pm onward | September 13 |
| Tri-Cities: | Atomic Ale, 1015 Lee Blvd, Richland | Every Tuesday, 7:00 pm onward | September 12 |
| Vancouver: | Hazel Dell Brew Pub, 8513 NE Highway 99 | Second and fourth Tuesday of each month, 7:00 pm onward | September 12 |
| Walla Walla: | The Green Lantern, 1606 E Isaacs Ave | First Friday of each month, 8:00 pm onward | October 6 |
Fact: As long as Muuuuslims don’t vote Republican, most Democrats could give a shit about terrorism. BUSH is their enemy, not Democrat voting Muuuuuuslims.
“We must not listen in on the terrorist’s cell phone calls, or track their wire money transfers, because the Muuuuuuuuslims have rights, and we need their Democrat votes”! [Carl Grossman]
Better have a puke bucket ready for whoever DOES hit 0.17.
“Al-Qaida lieutenant warns of new attacks” …………Doctor JCH Kennedy warns of Trident Sub unloading all missile [D-4] tubes on Muuuuuslim targets, military and civilian! You want to stop Muslims terrorism? Scare the shit out of them!! If they continue to fuck with Americans, repeat with another fully loaded Ohio class Trident. This will work EVERY time! Enjoy, mother fucking ragheads!!!!
New opening phrase!
“Would someone on the right please tell JCH just how much he’s embarrasing your side?” – John Barelli.
Posted earlier, but worth repeaing. Latest Rasmussen poll:
Maria Cantwell – 52%
Mike McGavick – 35%
“The current survey is the first conducted since McGavick’s admission of a drunk driving incident earlier in his life.
These results mark the first time since February that Cantwell has reached the 50% level of voter support. Rasmussen Reports is now shifting this race from “Leans Democrat” to “Democrat” in our Senate Balance of Power ratings.”
http://www.rasmussenreports.co.....Senate.htm
Let’s see…killing lots of Muslims hasn’t worked, what should we do? I know—KILL MORE MUSLIMS! That’s SURELY will work!
“JCH, NO! We need to convert to Islam!” [Daddy Love]
A re-post from an earlier topic, but since that one had pretty much run its course, I thought I should post it again.
I’m not that concerned about whether McGavick won a track race, or won a state championship. Its a bit like a fish story to me, where the importance of the race was magnified with re-telling.
But I missed another point in previous readings, which finally hit me this morning: there is no way Mike could have trained for track the summer after his senior year in high school and received a track scholarship.
First of all, I my daughter earned a rowing scholarship. Like track, they do the longer distances in the fall (called cross-country in track), and shorter distances in the spring. She was recruited by colleges during the summer BEFORE her senior year, making official visits to colleges in the fall and early winter of her senior year, and signing an NCAA letter of commitment in the early spring. By spring of her senior year, all the available scholarships are gone. There are none available to someone who shows up at college that fall and asks to be considered for a scholarship.
If a person wants to earn a scholarship, then they have to “walk on” to the team, train and compete for a year, and hope to be offered a scholarship for next year. But this is very hard to do, because coaches want to use scholarships to entice a potential star to come to the school, not to pay for someone who is already at the school. Unless the athlete is a real superstar and is consideraing a transfer, the coach will hold out the prospect of a scholarship for future years, but gamble that the athlete will not want to change schools after already completing a year or two at their program. (Note: UW women’s rowing program operates differently in this respect).
So Mike’s chances of earning a track scholarship by training in the summer after his senior year are virtually nil. Perhaps I’ve got the details wrong, and he’s talking about the summer before his junior year? But then the reference to the state track championship earned in his senior year would be out of place. Or perhaps Mike never looked into what it would take to get a scholarship, and just assumed he could have gotten one if he had trained for it?
Did he try out for the track team in college? If so, why didn’t he get a scholarship then? I would think he could have spent the fall and winter “training” while he was in college, and then “walk on” to the team in the spring?
Finally, why would Mike! have to quit work to train for a track scholarship? My daughter continued to work part-time in high school while rowing, and worked full-time during the summers. At one point she was in school, in the band, working part-time, and rowing – all at the same time. I never tried out for a college scholarship in swimming, but while I was in high school I still did two-a-day practices during the summer while working full time, and practicing three days a week in the winter while working part-time and going to school.
Now track isn’t one of those sports like football or basketball, where you need everyone together at the same time. You can train just about anytime you can fit it into your schedule, especially during the long summer days around here. Heck, my daughter still goes for an hour-long run every night when she gets home from work in the summer.
So Mike! is trying to make it sound like he sacrificed so much because he had to work. What it shows me is that Mike really expected to party his senior year, under the pretext of “training for track”, but his dad saw through that, and was determined he wasn’t going to waste his summer partying.
In that respect, Mike! probably isn’t much different from a lot of graduating seniors. But now he wants to get “character” credit for spending a summer pumping gas. Well, “Mike!”, welcome to the real world. Most of us worked summers, and many of us worked part-time during the school year, even if some of the classmates where you went to school didn’t.
I think “Mike!’s story of winning a track race got exaggerated in re-telling, from winning a race in a non-sanctioned meet to “winning the state championship”. He probably told the story a hundred times, and somebody asked him why he didn’t run track in college. Well, if he was so good, he had to come up with some excuse, so he complained that he couldn’t “train” because he had to work that summer pumping gas. But he’s told the expanded story so many times, he’s forgotten that most of it isn’t true, and so many have accepted what he says at face value, he’s forgotten that in a Senate campaign, everything he says will be checked for accuracy. So now he’s “offended” about how “uncivil” the campaigns have become.
Again, if this was a story he wanted to tell his friends and family, its no big deal. Its not a campaign issue. It’s just another “fish” story. But he made it the issue by giving it as an example of his “character”. So now we are beginning to see his true character.
Mike!s “character” campaign has clearly not worked out for him, so now it’s going the be dirty tricks and smears from here on out.
Mike!s “character” campaign has clearly not worked out for him, so now it’s going the be dirty tricks and smears from here on out. -Commentby Daddy Love— 9/12/06@ 1:10 pm
As learned from clinton, clinton, carville, gore, mccauliffe, kerry, dean, gregoire, la goldie, brazile, ross…
Mike!s “character” campaign has clearly not worked out for him, so now it’s going the be dirty tricks and smears from here on out. -Commentby Daddy Love— 9/12/06@ 1:10 pm
It would be a real shame if the people with anti-Mike t-shirts hid them under nice conservative clothes and then unveiled during taping, because that would be wrong.
It would be a shame if someone videotaped the GOP trying to weed out the non-McGavick supporters with the candidate’s signs in the background, because that would only be useful in a negative campaign. -Commentby wayne— 9/12/06@ 1:03 pm
You were saying, Mr Pot?
I’ll be there with my MADD t-shirt, my air horn, my Impeach Bush button and a bad attitude. -Commentby RightEqualsStupid— 9/12/06@ 1:25 pm
I have TWO airhorns, and a Bush Lied T-shirt. In the spririt of bipartisanship, I will wear the red shirt with white lettering. Do you think a cowbell would be rude too? Commentby My Left Foot— 9/12/06@ 1:32 pm
You know, I actually hope you all do the things your bragging about doing.
Please, I really do.
Because I also hope that the McGavick campaign then makes another of comerical of those outtakes and uses it to bludgeon cantthinkandwalk for her association with those so opposed to free speech.
“We must not listen in on the terrorist’s cell phone calls, or track their wire money transfers, because the Muuuuuuuuslims have rights, and we need their Democrat votes”! [Carl Grossman]
I have a topic for the Liberal Lonely Hearts Club to discuss at Moron Central tonight…My enemy’s enemy is my friend
Your comrades that enthusiatically share your opinion of President Bush and America
ASS
That’s not a dirty trick, that’s an annoyance. These (thus far purely hypothetical, we should add) people are openly partisan and are just saying as much publicly.
On your side there were the Republican plants who said they were Democrats who followed Ned Lamont around Connecticut and loudly mouthed GOP talking points at his public meet’n’greets.
Do you perceive the difference? It’s Democratic loudmouthed openness v. GOP deceit.
ASS @ 14
I am not surprised that those nations feel that way. You would too.
ASS @ 12
The people who are speaking freely are opposed to free speech? That’s a new one.
ASS would probably hold up Jeff “studmuffin” Guckert as a shining example of how to behave in the presence of Republican greatness.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A teenager accused of raping an 8-year-girl and leaving her for dead in an abandoned landfill has been declared mentally incompetent and unfit to stand trial.
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Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Edward Garrison ordered Milagro Cunningham, 18, committed to a treatment facility of the Department of Children and Families. The order, issued Thursday, requires the agency to report on Cunningham’s condition within six months.
Cunningham, a native of the Bahamas, was charged as an adult with attempted first-degree murder, sexual battery, kidnapping and other counts. He had been held without bail since his arrest in May 2005, when he was 17.
Police discovered the girl under chunks of concrete at a landfill May 22, 2005, about seven hours after she was reported missing from her godmother’s home. She identified Cunningham as her attacker.
Authorities said the teen confessed after initially telling police that five men in a station wagon took her.
Cunningham’s public defender argued last year that the teen comprehended and communicated “within the range of a 7- to 9-year-old child,” the Palm Beach Post reported on its Web site Monday. Two of three mental health experts appointed to evaluate him concluded that he was incompetent, according to the newspaper.
The after-hours recording at the Palm Beach County Public Defenders office would not accept an incoming message Monday night.
Officials have said Cunningham was in the country illegally but escaped the notice of immigration authorities after three burglary arrests in 2004 because his cases were handled in the juvenile justice system. [………….Another “Democrat-to-be” illegal alien just doing the felonies that Democrat welfare hacks are too lazy to do!!! Regardless, he must “vote early, vote often” and vote Democratic”!!! Right, Carl??]
I’d like to know…
How many of you moonbats will be riding an otherwise empty fucking metro bus to DL.
C’mon.. yer gawd algore would expect no less of you. Or is all that shit for somebody else? Thought so…
Also, give me a report on how it was sitting near the big fat single mother and her screaming kids and the punk with green hair and a face full of metal.
john ill bet that you came in your pants when carter was president.thats if you were in the navy then.john tell me one democratic president that took care of the troops.NONE.oh did i tell you tthat your an idiot.oh ya i did
ASS would probably hold up Jeff “studmuffin” Guckert as a shining example of how to behave in the presence of Republican greatness. -Commentby ArtFart— 9/12/06@ 3:53 pm,/i>
Sorry sweetcheeks… not a clue who he is… is HE related to that Jenny attorney who is lady in waiting for for queen chrissy?
HCYBPtbaA @ 14:
1) The enemy of my enemy is NOT my friend.
2) The NAM can define terrorism any way they want. What they are really saying is that the projection of state power is terrorism — except when a member of the NAM does so, in which case it is a “legitimate pursuit of the national interest”.
3) The only reason why this story is interesting at all and why anyone should give a rats’ ass about what the NAM says about anything is that their charter members include India and China who are supposed to take over as the Heads of The Free(ish) World one of these days, or so one would believe if one read the newspaper quickly and uncritically.
If you think the US can defy gravity (metaphorically) and ignore history by remaining the sole superpower indefinitely, the NAM is nothing more the outburst of a bunch of juveniles who are mad that nobody takes them seriously.
Juveniles have this funny way of growing up sooner or later. You and I will probably be alive when this happens. Stay tuned.
ASS @ 22
Jeff Gannon was the pseudonym used by male prostitute James Guckert as he spent two years as a White House shill posing as a reporter in the WH press room, who for that two years was the recipient of WH press day passes (thus conveniently avoiding those annoying and embarrassing background checks), and who lobbed fawning GOP talking points disguised as “press” question to the president. He also spent many of his days as a WH visitor doing God knows what kinds of fun things (what DOES a male prostitute do as a guest of Ken Melman, anyway?).
Hey, does anyone else here think Karl Rove is gay?
Daddy Love @ 26:
I can see a younger Karl Rove as a cute, tight-assed bottom at Neighbors or the Manray.
Seriously, gay? I dunno. Given how he likes to spread innuendo about the sexuality of his opponents, I would say he at least has a very active imagination. Whether he confines that to his wife of 20 years, or spreads the love around (so to speak) is something one can only speculate on.
Maybe one of you will get a DUI on the way home. That’d be fitting huh?
I drank lots of water and now I’m pizzing librully!
No I’m not pizzed. I think more people need to hear vile desparate moonbats deliver puke for radio!