Drinking Liberally will be happening again this Thursday, as it does every Thursday, starting at 6pm (you can drop in later, we’re generally there for at least 2-3 hours) at the Shanty on 4th Ave. (401 E. 9th Street).
This week, we are joined by Mohur Sidhwa, the 1st Vice Chair of the Pima Democratic Party and Chairperson of Legislative District 28. Mohur is going to share with us the latest party news, and join us in conversation about the future direction for our local party. Please come and share you views and concerns with her.
We are rolling out a new, and partly unfinished, website for the local Tucson chapter of Drinking Liberally today. Please stop in and give us your feedback. There are still some unfinished bits, but the main thing missing is a survey we are working on to get some systematic feedback on how to improve your Drinking Liberally experience. We will be sending out an email over our email list when it is ready, and posting it on the site.
Discover more from Blog for Arizona
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
Dwight realizes the TRUTH of time cube! I’m sure he does!
Dwight, Mike writes a blog, not encyclopaedias
Mike:
Might I ask ; What positions do “I SHARE ALONE WITH NO ONTHER DEMOCRAT?!”
It is not for those positions which you might share with Dan Patterson that you need the medication, Dwight. That’s for those positions you don’t share with any other Democrat… save the ones in your imagination and highly selective memory, of course.
RE: DAN PATTERSON FOR MAYOR:
INDEPENDENT RUNNING AS PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRAT:
I looked at the web-site of Mr. Patterson after Mike had interviewed him at Drinking Liberally and found he stands for many of the SAME PROPOSALS I put forth on this blog,and was ATTACKED FOR DOING SO AS STUPID AND IN NEED OIF MEDICAL HELP?
Why why Dan Patterson says we need light rail its OK but when Dwight D. Leister says it he is in need on medical attention?
Why when Dan Patterson says he suppoerts the enviornment and endangered spiecies its OK but when Dwight D. Leister says it he is in need of medical help?
Why when Dan Patterson says we are overtaxed and wants to CUT TAXES its OK but when Dwight D. Leister says it he is in need of medical help?
Why when Dan Patterson wants to restore CITIZEN RIGHTS back to the Citizen and away from BIG Corporate Interests itts OK but when Dwight D. Leister says it he is in need of medical help?
I can go on and on about how Dan Patterson mirrors what Dwight D. Leister has been saying for years about “GETTING BACK TO BASICS!”
I noted the fact that Dan Patterson CAN NOT RUN AS A DEMOCRAT or say the word but must MIX Independent and Progressive into the word Democratic Party? This IS what DWIGHT D. LEISTER has also pointed out that The Pima County Democratic Party has LOST TOUCH with reality just as much as the Republican Party has and we as Democrats need to put The Party BACK into the talking points of WHAT WORKS FOR TUCSON AND PIMA COUNTY AND ITS CITIZENS AND FORGET ABOUT GEORGE BUSH AND HIS WARS!
I was a member of the A.D.A.(The Democrats for Democratic Action) founded by Hubert H. Humphrey a very good personal friend during his lifetime, and we tried to put up the GOOD fight for the rights of the United States Citizen on every front. I can say that H.H.H. today would NOT recognize The Democratic Party and what it stands for. Also as Co-Chair of The Teen Dems for Jack Kennedy in 1960 I can tell you no one in The Pima County Democratic
Party THEN would put up with the CRAP of The Pima County Democratic Party Today! This includes many of my GOOD friends, IRISH HILL;DINO DECONCINI;RICHARD DUFFIELD;RAUL CASTRO;FRED DUVAL;SAM GODDARD,and many many more Democrats who were PROUD TO BE DEMOCRATS who stood for something DURING A REAL WAR; VIET NAM not like a police action now taking place in IRAQ,with pipe bombs and playing CHICKEN on the streets!
As for Mike NOT sharing my POLITICS?
My Politics are very simply put NOT POLITICS FIRST but THE PEOPLE FIRST( some document has wriitten the words; “WE THE PEOPLE”) and ENFORCEMENT OF THE RULE OF LAW; SCREW POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!
Appeasement seems to be Mikes only POLITICS?
As for Jeff Latas;
As a Democratic Precinct Committeeman he and one other Committeeman proposed and passed a resolution forbidding The United States and President Bush from taking ANY action against IRAN under ANY circumstances.
As for Jimmy Carter and IRAN and the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE; Cater himself said that he WON the prize NOT just for Camp David but for “KEEPUING THE UNITED STATES OUT OF A WAR WITH IRAN!”
As for C.A.I.R. representing the IMUMNS AGAINST U.S. AIRWAYS and UNITED STATES CITIZENS who reported suspicious behavior, and The Democratic Party giving C.A.I.R. OFFICE SPACE IN THE U.S. CAPITOL BUILDING as a 501c3; having been given $100 Million dollars in donations from Saudi Arabia and Dubia, whom confess to represent Muslims in America when they DO NOT, are now trying to SUE the U.S. Citizens who reported the suspisious behavior (nothing to do with ratial profiling) and the CONGRESS of THE UNITED STATES TRANSPORTATION BILL was amended by Congressman Pete King to ademnify anyone flying on an aircraft reporting suspicious behavior to Law Enforcement or The Airlines; from being sued by anyone especially C.A.I.R. The Democratic Leadership in The Congress, FOLKS, YOUR DEMOCRATIC PARTY, VOTED AGAINST YOU THE CITIZEN AND THE PASSENGER ON A PUBLIC AIRCRAFT;SIDING WITH RADICAL ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS VOTING AGAINST THE KING AMENDMENT; ALTHOUGH IT PASSED WITH LESS THAN HALF OF THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS VOTING FOR THE UNITED STATES CITIZEN!
So MIKE you say that the Democrats who voted for the U.S. Citizen over the Democratic Party Leadership are “In Need of medical help” as you accussed me of being for supporting THE RULE OF LAW and THE UNITED STATES CITIZENS RIGHTS!@@!???
This CRAP of THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BEING HIJACKED not only by RADICAL ISLAM but now by RADICAL PROGRESSIVES IS REALLY BEGINNING TO GET UNDER MY SKIN!
I warned the DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN 1967 about GOING HARD LEFT and I WARN ALL OF YOU HARD LEFT PROGRESSIVES AGAIN ; The Democratic Party is NOT a LEFT OF CENTER RADICAL HATE ORGANIZATION;and if you continue along these lines the VOTERS will throw us all out on our asses!
Come on down, sjhohn, the only peer pressure will be to introduce yourself to the group and talk away!!
Former Congressional candidate and all-around good sport Francine Schacter is a regular and does not drink. My wife who comes down when she is in town does not drink either.
and fear not, Dwight does not come down.
Can one come hang out at Drinking Liberally if one doesn’t drink? Or am I gonna get peer-pressured into doing something stupid?
And, uh, Dwight doesn’t come by, does he?
Personally I think Dwight is a genius. Have you visited my website? Don’t let the singularity idiots get you down, Dwight. Stop casting your bacon before oysters.
http://www.timecube.com/
Again, a lesson is needed in that dark art known as quoting. I never said Iran IS a secular state, I said it WAS under Mossadegh until we overthrew that democratic state and imposed the Shah upon the Persians. With the only avenue of political resistance under the Shah being Islam, is it any surprise we birthed a theocracy?
Facts are also not such a strong point with our friend Dwight. Carter won the Nobel Peace prize for his role in finalizing a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, not “by doing nothing” about the hostages (see Dwight, that is how you use quotes…) As to what Carter did to rescue the hostages, he only mounted the most convoluted rescue mission in history, which failed, unfortunately, but he certainly gets no points with the hawks for trying to use military force short of an invasion (which would be a fucking disaster). What did Reagan do? He negotiated with terrorists to secure the release of the hostages the first day of his Presidency. Later, of course, we discovered he had been selling advanced weaponry to Iran. I wonder if the two are linked? Nahhh… couldn’t be. Dutch would never do anything unethical or self-defeating…
Dwight, I don’t disagree with you because I don’t share your politics (though in large measure I don’t), or think you are a buffoon (which you are), but simply because you haven’t the vaguest idea what you are talking about. You couldn’t put together a coherent thought if you bought one pre-assembled.
Oh, and not that I’m really interested in what you have to say, but what does Jeff Latas have to do with Iran?
A FACT LESSON:
For those Democrats who are a little short on there History Books; President Jimmy Carter said “HE KEPT THE UNITED STATES OUT OF A WAR WITH IRAN, DURING THE HOSTAGE CRISIS WERE IRAN HELD OUR DIPLOMATIC CORPS AND THERE MARINE GUARDS HOSTAGE FOR 444 DAYS, BY DOING NOTHING; AND 30 YEARS LATER WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR DOING NOTHING ; AND THOUGHT THE NOBEL PRIZE WAS LONG OVERDUE.”
When Presidents of The United States hold as there Elected Duty to HONOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE more than the life of an American Citizen and Diplomat; no wonder Iran thinks we are as Osama Bin Laden said; “The United States will NEVER fight to defend its homeland or its Citizens!”
As everyone is aware Jeff Latas and the Democratic Party will NEVER hold Iran accountable for ANYTHING it does to the United States ior its Allies. This was proven in the 1979 444 day hostage crisis and now today holding 15 British Troops Hostage.
Iran knows we are at the weakest point in our history short of The Viet Nam War withdrawl. The Islamic HITLER of IRAN was walking door to door as a HOSTAGE TAKER IN 1979 and is now PRESIDENT! He said at the time: “HOSTAGES ARE PIGS AND SHOULD BE EXECUTED, in 1979!”
Today as Mike said IRAN is a very SECULAR STATE and as Mike was Educated by a VERY SECULAR NICE IRANIAN PROFESSOR at The University of Arizona all of this is just something we in America are just to busy to deal with.
I encourage Jeff Latas to substitute himself as a hostage in Iran and FREE the British Hostages as they are writing stupid letters of confessions like John McCain! What a nobel act of Jeff Latas to give himself to Iran as Mike says they are our Friends and will treat him with respect as they are the True Friends of all the SECULAR WORLD PROGRESSIVES,and as IRAN denys the Hollicost ever existed maybe we can change our History books to reflect the same fairytale!
As with Korea when Bill Clinton gave them the nuclear technology to build weapons we should Trust IRAN to do the same!