Posted on 02/24/2002 3:48:41 AM PST by TomSmedley
Reread my original post, then your reply, then my reply to you. I think you misunderstood me just then.
I read somewhere that Iron City might be going out of business. On a related note, I was recently in Richmond and the restaurant had Yuengling on tap. I didn't realize that beer had spread so much.
To me, those arguing in favor of Prohibition are no better than those arguing for gun control. Proponents of gun control always point towards tragedies involving children to make their case that guns should be taken from everybody. Well here we have prohibitionists using the welfare of children as a tool to take away alcoholic beverages from everybody. It is really contemptible, these tactics.
It's precisely the same thing. Liberals want gun control. Conservatives want alcohol control. Both of them want tobacco and drug control.
I daresay without beer there'd be a lot less of that going on.
Can't argue with that statement. It's a shame that many conservatives undermine their moral authority by taking these untenable positions that undermine our liberties and freedom.
I don't take illegal drugs in any shape or form. Yet I do not support the war on drugs. Here's why. For example, I don't smoke marijuana and wouldn't know a marijanua plant if I saw one. But do you know that if somebody didn't like me, they could sneak into my yard at night, transplant some marijauna plants into my garden and call the police? I would then, under federal law, have my property seized. What if somebody planted a bag of cocaine into my suit jacket when I wasn't looking as I was standing in line at the airport? Maybe I am just being paranoid but I resent the fact that it is so easy for somebody else to destroy my life because of these repressive drug laws. It is just too easy to frame somebody up. This is not what America was supposed to be.
Thank God we hav a government to make decisions for the masses and to limit people's choices for them. To hell with those who can handle life with responsibility, we need a government that rules for the least responsible among us.
So imported beer is not the inferior product it used to be. I guess travel times across the Atlantic have been much shortened. For example, I picked up a case of Czechvar that was just brewed in November over there. It used to be that import beers would take many months to reach our shores by which time they were usually not very fresh.
My advice to buying imported beer: Go to a store with a good reputation and a lot of traffic. Otherwise you might be buying beer that has been sitting on the shelf a year or more. Also buy beer by the case, especially if the beer comes in clear or green bottles. Once the six-packs are pulled from the case, they become exposed to light and are likely to get "skunked."
I agree with you. I do not use illegal drugs either, but I think we overreact to them. And our children see it. We say 'Drugs are bad' one day and give them an aspirin the next day. Rather than teach children to behave responsibly with alcohol, drugs, etc., we legislate against them.
Really. I knew of an alcoholic once who would drink rubbing alcohol from CVS. He was even known to pry the top off an AquaNet (hairspray) can and drink that. It is sad to see somebody ruin their lives over alcohol. But trying to deny alcohol to everybody else isn't going to help those people. The fact is, most people who drink alcohol do so moderately and have little or no ill effects from it.
In fact, the only major civilization and/or religion to make serious inroads with Prohibition is the Muslims. And that makes you think. Why are Muslims so hateful and so damn uptight about everything? If Muslims were able to let off a little steam every weekend at the local pub or tavern, you think they might loosen up a little? I'm being totally serious. I think the lack of alcoholic beverages is a major contributor to the Muslim problem. When I think of civilization, I think of a major city where you can go to a restaurant with friends or your significant other and have a nice dinner with a bottle of wine or a good beer. Or going to a sports bar on a Sunday afternoon and watching a football game over a few mugs of beer with several hundred others. The Muslims have never known that. Maybe that's why they hate us so much.
Yep, even the cheap bar stuff I had there was pretty damn good... I tell ya what, that weissbier goes straight through ya though... Y'knowwhatImean?!
Yeah sure. And if we let that Elvis Presley get up on TV and wiggle and gyrate in a sexual manner, our young people will start having premarital sex and dressing wierd and all kinds of wierdo freaks will take over the music world and. . .oops bad example. Nevermind. parsy.
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