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The Nanny State Is Coming After Your Beer
Townhall.com ^ | November 18, 2020 | Bob Barr

Posted on 11/18/2020 11:35:18 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin
Beer drinkers, welcome to the War on Drugs.
21 posted on 11/18/2020 11:49:11 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: griswold3
I brew my own. So there’s that....

I do too, but mark my word, these petty tyrants will raise taxes on the hops, grain, yeast or other ingredients just to show you that they can.

If prohibition didn't teach them anything I don't know what will. Maybe a bat to their heads?

22 posted on 11/18/2020 11:52:09 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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23 posted on 11/18/2020 11:52:36 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: Kaslin

Remember the food pyramid?

Thread killed. :)


24 posted on 11/18/2020 11:53:51 AM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: Kaslin

Lol. Prohibition again. The totalitarian freaks never learn.


25 posted on 11/18/2020 11:54:24 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Kaslin

Guck the Fovernment.


26 posted on 11/18/2020 11:56:01 AM PST by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: grey_whiskers

I saw what you did there lol


27 posted on 11/18/2020 11:56:28 AM PST by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: Kaslin

I haven’t paid attention to the dietary guidelines in decades. They’re just junk science and generally proved wrong after a few years.


28 posted on 11/18/2020 11:58:00 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Kaslin

Crap! The election steal by Dems had me up to many bottles a day!


29 posted on 11/18/2020 11:59:05 AM PST by pabianice
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To: Kaslin

” issue declarations and then shame people into following them.”

Good think I have no shame.


30 posted on 11/18/2020 12:00:29 PM PST by VastRWCon (Fake News")
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To: Kaslin

The symbolism in Barr’s message:

1. It’s Trump against Biden.

2. Have a beer or two and relax.

3. The tyrants will be “soon overruled.”


31 posted on 11/18/2020 12:02:49 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: HotHunt

College days

32 posted on 11/18/2020 12:03:57 PM PST by CodeJockey (Dum Spiro, Pugno)
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To: CodeJockey

I have a cousin that can open his throat and drink faster than that. I was fast, but not that fast. We used to hustle other patrons in the bars to a drinking contest with free beers as the prize, and he’d win every single time. That made our money last longer.

He’s also a really big fella, so we didn’t have to worry about getting beat up for it.


33 posted on 11/18/2020 12:10:29 PM PST by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: gw-ington

Well you made me smile.


34 posted on 11/18/2020 12:15:02 PM PST by Fishtalk (@patfish1 is my Parler user name)
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To: Kaslin

In my State, we can produce pretty much anything at home for personal consumption including shine. I drank too much once, just once.


35 posted on 11/18/2020 12:15:24 PM PST by Pollard (Bunch of curmudgeons)
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To: Kaslin

Next - government-supplied Victory Gin.


36 posted on 11/18/2020 12:20:05 PM PST by Noumenon ("Only the dead have seen an end to war." - Plato)
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To: madison10

Bob Barr, former Congressman and 2008 Presidential candidate, not Bill Barr current AG.


37 posted on 11/18/2020 12:23:15 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Preachin'

It was probably twenty five years ago, at least, I remember winning tickets for a closed circuit boxing broadcast at a club type venue. Won the beer chugging contest. I believe the ticket was for a Tyson/Holyfield fight, but it’s been so long ago.


38 posted on 11/18/2020 12:24:13 PM PST by CodeJockey (Dum Spiro, Pugno)
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To: Kaslin

In NH (aka the live free or die state) it is illegal to be above the legal limit (.08). They have undercover police whom go around and audit bars credit card receipts for any single patron buying too many drinks in too short of a time. They try to breathalize those whom are too stupid to realize that they don’t have to agree to a breathalizer test unless they are behind the wheel. For each violation, you can be fined $500 and get 6 months in jail. Naturally prosecutors opt for probation. You guessed it, the probation requires mandatory AA meetings and random urine testing. NH also has a three strikes law, in that if you are caught tipsy in a bar three times, you can do 20 years in the slammer.

Also, let’s say you’re a college kid, at a frat party where you’ve been drinking. If you are under 21, and the police issue you a ticket for drinking (a 74 dollar fine) your license is automatically suspended for 3 years. Imagine, you’re 20 years and 11 months old, and you lose your license for 3 years.

This, in a state which has no seatbelt law (for adults) and no motorcycle helmet laws. Go figure. MADD and their lobbyists are now pushing for a .02 limit, nationwide.


39 posted on 11/18/2020 12:27:03 PM PST by krogers58
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To: baclava

If you can find a six / twelve pack of Yuengling Hersheys Chocolate Porter, try some.

I bought some on a whim the other day and... wow!

I’m not into “flavored” beers, flavored coffee, or any of the like, but this chocolate porter is incredible.

If you hate it, I’ll buy what you don’t drink.


40 posted on 11/18/2020 12:27:08 PM PST by Peter W. Kessler ("NUTS!!!")
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