Posted on 12/05/2018 5:38:07 AM PST by Bull Snipe
The XXI Amendment to the Constitution becomes effective. The XXI Amendment repeals the XVIII Amendment to the Constitution.
The end of the “Noble Experiment”
Like every other Progressive idea the unintended consequences were worse than the problem it was intended to solve and of course it did not solve the problem.
“Like every other Progressive idea the unintended consequences were worse than the problem it was intended to solve and of course it did not solve the problem.”
Sounds a little like the War on Drugs, doesn’t it?
Funny how they thought it took a Constitutional amendment to outlaw a substance but now the Federal Government does this and more now .
If anyone needed a drink at a time in our nation’s history it was then.
Or the war on poverty.
If anyone needs a drink, they never drink jus one. Truth time... :)
Skoal
On this date in 1933, a Tuesday, the USC Trojans, having shut out Notre Dame 19-0 and blanked Georgia 31-0 were preparing to face the Washington Huskies in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on December 9.
Oh, what delight to
Be given the right to
Be carefree and gay once again.
No longer slinking,
Respectably drinking
Like civilized ladies and men.
Cocktails for Two--Carl Brisson (1934)
Thanks
I think I’ll have a drink.
(A very small one, but still)
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