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Gift-giving liberals,

We hope everyone is having a great Festivus, Hanukkah, Christmas, or starting tomorrow, Kwanzaa and Boxing day. In other words, we hope you're having happy holidays, and we wish the best to our soldiers that are stationed far from their families during the holidays.

This Friday (tomorrow, Dec. 26th) we'll be meeting at the Broadway Theater (111 East 300 South) at 7pm to watch a screening of "Milk", an account of America's first openly gay man elected to office, starring Sean Penn. The show starts at 7, so be sure to get there with enough time to purchase your tickets. We can head over to Junior's Tavern afterward for drinks.

And here's what's been keeping us interested on the 'net:

• Merry Christmas from Santa Bush watch
• Chris Buttars accidentally has a happy holiday read
• A look at Slot Machines vs Voting Machines read
• A very interesting world clock view
• BLM auction disrupted by UofU student, likely keeping that land from extractive energy companies (OneUtah.org did a good job covering it, and the student, Tim DeChristopher, has been blogging there) read/watch
• There are more slaves in the world today than any other time read
• Tennessee got coal for Christmas. "Clean" coal read/watch
• White vigilante groups shoot blacks ruthlessly during hurricane Katrina watch

Have a safe and happy holiday season, and we'll see you Friday at the Broadway Theater!
Jeremiah, Heather, Laura

Drinking Liberally SLC meets from 6:30-9:30 every Friday in the back room of the Piper Down (1492 S. State Street).
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Jolly old liberals,

Saint Nicholas of Myrna, the patron saint of prostitutes, thieves, and pawnbrokers, will be visiting the good little Christians of the world in less than a week. This Friday a big group of naughty Salt Lakers will be dressing up in Santa's modern, commercialized wardrobe while moving from bar to bar in search of holiday cheer to put in their glasses and steins.

This Friday, December 19th, we won't be holding our usual meetup, but instead we'll be joining the folks on the Santa Pub Crawl starting at Lumpy's downtown (125 W. Pierpont (250 South)) at 7:00pm. Click the image below to see the full schedule:

Please note: we have had no involvement in the preparation and planning of this event - please direct any questions to the e-mail address on the image. We're just tagging along for a good time.

Next week, December 26th, we plan on skipping our regular meetup again to go see the movie Milk. We'll provide more details about that in next week's e-mail.

And now, here's what's keeping us entertained on the 'net (follow DrinkLibSLC on Twitter for more:

• The obvious link: Pres. Bush getting shoes thrown at him: watch
• Objective: Hit the President in the face with your shoe: play
• 12 things to throw at Bush besides a shoe read & laugh
• Do Union auto workers really make $73/hr? read
• Interested in sustainable agriculture? read
• January 31st (February 1st eve?) will be Utah Wine Night: read (autoplay music)
• Typo in Prop. 8 defines marriage as between 'One man and one wolfman' read
• QSaltLake's Person of the year: Thomas S Monson read
• Arctic melting past the point of no return? We're screwed, huh? read
• The U.S. State Department kicks Blackwater to the curb watch

Cheers!
Jeremiah, Heather, Laura

Drinking Liberally SLC meets from 6:30-9:30 every Friday in the back room of the Piper Down (1492 S. State Street).
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Holiday Liberals,

The influx of Utah money to pass Prop 8 in California and Chris Buttars making Keith Olbermann's Worst Person in the world count as low points, but the fact that Salt Lake County voted Democratic is certainly one of the highlights of the year. What other memorable or noteworthy moments are on your list for 2008? Join us this Friday, December 12 in the back room of the Piper Down (1492 S. State) for our last "regular" meetup of 2008 as we come up with our list of the Best and Worst political moments of the year.

Thanks to everyone who joined us last week when we celebrated Repeal Day and filled out holiday cards for Buttars. You can look at some of the cards here. We'll have more this Friday as well.

Next week, December 19, we will be participating in Salt Lake City's 13th annual Santa Pub Crawl. The event will kick off at Lumpy's (125 W Pierpont) from 7:00-8:15. For complete Pub Tour listing, see our website.

Friday, December 26th, we will be attending a screening of MILK at the Broadway theater. It is still too early to confirm movie times so check back in a future email.

From Drinking Liberally SLC to all of its members, we wish you a happy and safe holiday season and thank you for helping promote democracy in Utah one pint at a time.

What we're reading and watching:

• Some Drinking Liberally Holiday cards to Buttars read
• The Trib's Glen Warchol mentions the cards to Buttars on his blog read
• Barb Guy's eloquent column on Chris Buttars' war on Christmas read
• The new magazine ad from the big 3 read
• Bill O'Reilly wishing you a merry war on Christmas watch
• Jon Stewart gives a preacher a lesson in tolerance on the Daily Show watch
• Media Matters list of the most outrageous comments of 2008 read
• You can cycle Provo to Salt Lake with the mayors of each city (and help the Utah Food Bank) read
• Rep. Christine Johnson talks about an LGBT food drive you can participate in this Sunday watch

See you Friday,
Heather, Jeremiah, Laura

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Holiday Happy Hippies,

Thanksgiving is now behind us. Just up ahead is Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, Festivus and probably a few others. So where's the controversy in saying 'Happy Holidays'?

Join us this Friday in the back room of the Piper Down (1492 S. State) from 6:30 onward as we celebrate another holiday - the American drinkers' holiday - Repeal Day!

On December 5th, 1933, our own crazy state of Utah became the last state needed to ratify the 21st amendment and repeal prohibition across the country. And now 75 years later, Drinking Liberally is going to celebrate the anniversary of our constitutional right to enjoy booze.

And since we'll be so full of holiday spirit, don't you think it's only right to send 'Happy Holiday' cards to the Grinch who stole Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Festivus? We do, so we'll be bringing holiday greeting cards for everyone, and then we'll make sure they're delivered to Olbermann's recent choice of Worst Person in the World, Senator Chris Buttars.

We'll also be bringing the last of our Drinking Liberally SLC beer and rocks glasses. They make great gifts for friends and uptight neighbors, or just to add to your own collection of drinkware.

And here's what we've been reading and watching (as found on our Twitter feed):

• Proposition 8 - The Musical! watch
• Bush lets down his guard a little, apologizes read
• The test best things about the coming depression read
• Noam Chomsky talks about Obama's cabinet choices watch
• More proof that beer is good for you read
• Christmas impeachment ornament read
• Santa's Gmail inbox cracked! read

See you all tomorrow for Repeal Day!
Jeremiah, Heather, Laura

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