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ChineseLAist Hosts Super Tuesday Drinks at Seven Grand
Image courtesy of whalt via Flickr.
Although the presidential candidates don’t really have much to say when it comes to transit (you can check out Street Heat LA’s presidential round-up here), that doesn’t mean you can’t take transit to get the LAist’s Super Tuesday Celebration at Seven Grand in Downtown LA.
Starting at 7pm bloggers will congregate at the whiskey bar and discuss the presidential race and other issues facing our world today. Or they will just get wasted. The first 75 peeps who show up wearing their “I Voted” sticker will, unbelievably, receive a free drink! Sounds like a pretty good reason to vote, hell just Christmas Tree the ballot if you don’t care and grab some free booze (jk).
Seven Grand is located in the transit hub of Los Angeles meaning there’s no good reason to drive. Especially since drinking and driving is not only illegal, it’s dangerous as well. I know most of you bloggers are a bunch of pinko green libbed out Obama supporters anyways, so don’t let me catch you being hypocritical! In fact, MetroRiderLA will help you out with transit access info. See ya there!
Oh, yah: Sorry guys, Seven Grand is 21+. I know you’re legally allowed to vote and fight in wars, but you can’t have a sippy sip. Sowwy. And yes, we can blame the car-culture for this. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 held states hostage, like a dealer to a junkie, by withholding federal highway funds from states that did not enforce a minimum drinking age of 21. So although technically the drinking age is set by the states, it was actually coerced by the Feds! Go big gov! I often wonder why my fellow libertarians claim the car-culture offers freedom…
HOW TO GET THERE:
Seven Grand is located at 515 West 7th Street and is served by rail and bus. Click the above map for transit stops near Seven Grand from Public Routes. You can also check the Metro Trip Planner for the best route from your location.
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You’re a libertarian! Forgive me for sounding a bit Robdawggy, but how do you reconcile that with the inherently public nature of transit? I think the failure of privately run mass transit in LA is one of the biggest reasons why I don’t identify myself as a libertarian but as an “it’s complicated”. I think that taxation for transportation projects, since they don’t offer enticing profits but provide an essential service to a great number of people, are justified in receiving tax money. You could argue that if the Pacific Electric Co. didn’t have to pay to maintain the roads on which it ran cars it might have survived, but I’m not so sure about that.
I’ll get into it in another post, but let’s just say that the amount of auto roadways in the United States doubled during FDR’s New Deal. And how do libertarians feel about the New Deal? Furthermore, as a libertarian I dislike most all government control, not just taxation. You have to ask yourself, did the car culture bring more or less government control into the lives of free individuals? You didn’t have to hold a government issued identification card to be allowed to get around on a Pacific Electric train, did you? You have to ask yourself, is mobility a natural right? And if so, why do we have to get the government’s permission to exercise that right?
Also, could you show me the financial records for Wilshire Blvd? I’d like to see how profitable it was last quarter.
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speaking of republitarians, it’s funny how i always hear them bitch about things like giving amtrak one billion+ dollars a year or funding public transportation in general, when hundreds of billions of taxdollars go to a useless war in iraq. never hear them bitching about that. whenever i hear these people talk about how important their tax-dollars are, i let out a little chuckle.
i also love how these patriots and faithful defenders of american’s rights always demand more freeways and stuff(for their “freedom”), ignorant of the fact that freeways are created via lots of eminent domain. you know, when like the big, bad, evil government, like forcibly takes land away from taxpayers and patriotic americans? if these folks were really about property rights and stuff like that, they would actually be against freeways and for subways!
true libertarians ride public transportation!
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Great point Cochon. The problem with most republitarians as you call them, is that government abuse of power is okay when it helps further their personal vision of freedom. If eminent domain is used to build freeways, that’s okay because people like to drive, thus it’s actually “the market” and not the government. Same goes for zoning. Before the car-culture, did zoning exist? No. And what is zoning but the government telling free people how to use their land? But of course, for republitarians, zoning is fine as long as it favors their suburban lifestyle and enforces ample parking provisions. To them, zoning is again a result of the free market, not government intervention.
And what are these subsidized middle eastern wars really about? Car food! Tasty tasty oil. Oh wait, I mean weapons of mass destruction. Er no, terrorism. Oops, I mean the global threat of “islamo-facism”.
i once got into an online discussion with some dude, where he, amazingly with zero irony, railed on public transportation as some kind of afront to the freedom of americans and stuff. it got pretty heated until i reminded him that the the saudi government - from which he so patriotically buys his oil to provide him his american freedom, has given money to al qaeda, thus colluding him with the september 11 bombers, an event that i witnessed, not from the safety of my living room, but with my own eyes. his reply was simply “grow up.”
grown-ups take responsibility for their actions.