If A Man's Home Is His Castle, What's His Stoop?

MayorBob.

Posted to Legal on Mon Sep 15, 2008 at 12:49:05 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Kimber VanRy believes the police in Brooklyn ought to have better things to do.  He doesn't have a problem with them being on patrol and available to protect law abiding citizens from assault and what not.  But he believes they may have stepped over a very broad line in doing what they did to him on August 27th.  Because that's the date he was handed a summons to answer up in court for drinking in a public place.  He's especially torqued at the notion because the public place where he was drinking was his front stoop.

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Belgian hegemony ensnares the King of Beers

pO157.

Posted to Business on Tue Jul 15, 2008 at 02:07:45 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Belgian brewer InBev became the largest in the world with its $52B takeover of American beer king Anheuser-Busch.

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The Samuel Adams Brewery Tour [Review]

pO157.

Posted to Etcetera on Mon Jun 09, 2008 at 06:34:48 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

I was recently in Boston and had a few hours free time and a partially charged Charlie Card, so I decided to go and take in the Sam Adams Brewery Tour.

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Beer - Warm Weather Whistle Wetter

skeeter1.

Posted to Etcetera on Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 07:21:13 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Try saying that headline five times fast!

Well, like it or not, summer is creeping up on us fast.

To me, that means beer!  The brandy, scotch, wine, bourbon, and so on that we warmed our bellies up with all winter long are going back on the shelf.

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Alcohol -- The World's Drug of Choice

skeeter1.

Posted to Etcetera on Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 12:20:10 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Just about everyone likes to mellow out with an alcoholic beverage from time-to-time.  There are just so many and life is too short.

Wine has always been popular and a very good accompaniment to a meal, but there are many other options.

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Throw Your Kids a Beer Party, Go to Jail -- For Two Years

profwhat.

Posted to Legal on Sun Jun 10, 2007 at 10:12:29 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Elisa Kelly and George Robinson are about to serve 27-month jail sentences.  Their crime?  For Kelly's son's sixteenth birthday party, they gave beer and wine to her sons and their 15- and 16-year-old friends.

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Blue-Nose Bureaucrats Ban Butt Beer

MayorBob.

Posted to Legal on Tue Dec 05, 2006 at 01:46:05 AM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.

Ben Franklin once said "beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."  Other than that brief 20th century fling with Prohibition, Americans have embraced Franklin's wisdom and have pronounced their partiality to one brand or another of beer.  Bottom line, the acid test for most beer drinkers is how good tasting the beer is.  Then there are the government bureaucrats whose idea of good taste is something totally different than beer drinkers.  Because a particular brand of British beer fails their bottom line good taste test, the liquor control folks in Maine are banning the sales of said beer.  But, it's not the taste of the beer that has the bureaucrats in Maine steamed; it's the good taste of the label on the bottle.

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Three Rivers, Three Colleges, And $3 Pitchers Of Beer Make A Deadly Combination.

MayorBob.

Posted to Etcetera on Fri Oct 27, 2006 at 02:27:08 PM EST. RSS.

Although the headline reads like the title of a Country & Western tune, it encapsulates the combination of circumstances which have a Wisconsin town looking for answers.  The question that La Crosse, Wisconsin city officials are trying to answer is what to do to prevent any further senseless deaths in their town?

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