I'm a fan.
C'mon...you had to know it was coming...
Posted on 09/05/2006 6:21:12 AM PDT by Valin
CHICAGO, Illinois -- Living in Boston these past two years I have had many opportunities to visit the Old Granary Burying Ground, where several Boston Massacre victims are enjoying their final rest alongside John Hancock, Paul Revere and Samuel Adams. During my sole semester in the Emerson College Master's program last fall, these little forays became a near daily ritual. At this point I have tagged along on more of the free tours of the graveyard than I can count.
In all that time, however, I don't believe I ever heard as much talk of Samuel Adams as I did during two days at the Americans for Limited Government (ALG) conference last month in Chicago. Mary Adams, the group's Activist of the Year for decades of anti-tax work in the imploding welfare state that is Maine, spent nigh her entire speech extolling the virtues of Sam the Publican, going so far as to grandly label her young acolaytes "the political sons of Samuel Adams."
At first the comparison seemed a little overblown, and to a large degree it still does in the context of the kind of "revolution" ALG is fomenting -- essentially the group provides funding, assistance and advice to groups attempting to gain control over issues of state spending, property rights and judicial accountability via ballot initiatives and referendum -- but it didn't take long to see the origins of the basic corollary. The general conference consensus seemed to be that politicians, in the best existing example of bipartisanship in Washington, D.C., have failed to honor the Constitution and America's political traditions, and as such the time had come to find a way to circumvent them for the good of the Republic.
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I'm a fan.
C'mon...you had to know it was coming...
I thought this was a beer thread!
I'm also a fan of Sam Adams, beer brewer, leader, rabble-rouser, governor, and patriot. I pass by his grave frequently.
"We know who have abused us, but let not a hair on their scalps be touched. For the time is coming when they shall lick the dust, and melt away." - Samuel Adams
WOOHOO! On the shelves soon!
legacy of founders bump.
For me, malt is okay, but hops are where it's at...so make mine top-fermented, please. The Summer Ale is a real pleaser, the Brown Ale even more so. If I had to pick just one, it might well be the Honey Porter.
I'll have a Samuel Jackson........
-Eric
...always a good choice.
It'll getcha DRUNK!!
You know about this?
So did I.....I was ready to sign up in hopes of getting a t-shirt or something......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McwQOmHoSYU
Not this group. That's why I posted it, to find out.
Snakes in a beer?
Quite simply: no Samuel Adams (the man, not the beer), no American Revolution.
Hey! Don't discount the value of liquid courage when preparing for a dress-up tea party....
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