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Ye Olde Scribe and Maiden Millie’s: HOP – ING AROUND

The original article seems to have been lost, much like the Ark in Indiana Jones, in the archives of The Score, where it was first published. This article has been reconstructed from Scribe’s fading memory… as he referred to it, a few readers we contacted and a rough/unfinished draft Scribe still had. This column was published about 1999.

-Professor Good Ales

The Death of a Brewpub

Covington, KY

What kills a brewpub? Certainly the homebrewer should support any business that promotes knowledge, taste, an appreciation for good product and intrigues potential new homebrewers. Anything which kills it is our foe. There is an added incentive. It’s quite possible these very personal horror stories can serve as warning buoys for where the monsters might be; what NOT to do as a homebrewer.
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Ye Olde Scribe Has Fun With Biblical Sayings

“Get-eth the ^%$# away from me.”

You must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat. (1 Corinthians 5:11)

Scribe says…
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Beer Profile: Left Hand Brewing’s Twin Sisters Double IPA

Reviewed by Ken Carman

Image courtesy of Ratebeer.com

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Sieg Heil, Mayor Disgrace

“Mayor Michael Bloomberg is spending millions of dollars to win a third term, and he appears to believe that buys him the right to campaign without answering questions about it.
“The latest incident came this week when the 67-year-old billionaire was so irritated by a question that he glared at the reporter who asked it and said, ‘You’re a disgrace,’ as he left the podium.”
– Sara Kugler, “Analysis: Don’t Ask Bloomberg the Tough Questions,” AP, May 29, 2009.

“It’s a classic case of brute political force carrying the day. Democracy be damned, Bloomberg must have his way. He’s the boss. After much arm twisting and some cajoling, the City Council has surrendered to his will, although by an unusually close vote of 29 to 22.
“The irony is that Bloomberg himself once backed term limits. He has gone back on his once strongly held conviction — making an exception for himself.
“Twice the people of New York voted for term limits. The Quinnipiac Poll found this week that 89 percent of New Yorkers still thought that only a referendum could change that measure.”
– Gabe Pressman, “Bloomberg’s Ambition Ignores People’s Will,” NBC New York, Jan. 26, 2009.

“After a spirited, emotional and at times raucous debate, the New York City Council voted, 29 to 22 … to extend term limits, allowing Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to seek re-election next year and undoing the result of two voter referendums that had imposed a limit of two four-year terms.”
– Sewell Chan and Jonathan P. Hicks, “Council Votes, 29 to 22, to Extend Term Limits,” NY Times, Oct. 23, 2008.

From the Beer Bottle Collection: Lift Bridge

Lift Bridge Brewery was at 1119 Lake Avenue, Ashtabula, OH 44004
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The Tattlesnake – On Celebrating Memorial Day in the Aftermath of Cheney’s New Rome Edition

My uncle was an Army Ranger during the Korean War who saw the results of ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ performed by the North Koreans on American GIs. Although there were no waterboardings mentioned that I recall, sleep deprivation, exposure to extreme temperatures, lengthy confinement in small spaces, prisoners kept for days with their head covered by burlap bags, and other forms of torture were routinely practiced. There were no ‘major organ failures,’ yet my uncle, and every one who saw the psychologically broken, hollow-eyed men released by the NK knew what they had ungone was torture, without question. He was proud to say that America didn’t torture our captives. So was my father, who witnessed the results of torture of American POWs in the Pacific Theater during WWII.

It was simple: America does not torture.

The Bush/Cheney Gang, supported by those other execrable toads Bybee, Bradbury and Yoo, have dishonored the service of my father, my uncle and millions of others who sacrificed their youth and risked or lost their lives for a Constitution and a form of government that adhered to its own laws and didn’t descend to barbarism out of panic or sadism or incompetence. Dick Cheney knew very well that Americans would not countenance torture so he had his lawyers invent another name for it, and he continues to dishonor our veterans, living and dead, and all Americans, justifying the crimes he committed in our name and without our permission by insisting he has protected us, when he is really only protecting himself. If Cheney had the kind of guts he is purported to have, he would come out and admit he ordered the torture and take responsibility for it, instead of wrapping himself in weasely euphemisms and the flag. But ‘tough guy’ Cheney doesn’t have the courage to do that — my father and my uncle had more courage in their little fingers than ‘desk jockey’ Cheney has displayed in his entire career. They risked their lives for their country; Dick Cheney has done nothing more than play pathetic political games for his own profit. To say he is disgusting is an understatement.

Perhaps the House and Senate, before voting on Bybee’s impeachment or, indeed, the prosecution of any of these war criminals, should be required to see a film of what American soldiers looked like after they had been subjected to the techniques outlined in the Bybee/Yoo memos, and allow men like my uncle, who have seen the terrible results of Cheney’s ‘enhanced interrogation techniques,’ and those who have experienced them first-hand, to testify in public. It might wake them up to the true horror of what the Bush/Cheney Regime has done in our name.

Also read:
“Everyone Should See ‘Torturing Democracy’”
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Common Dreams, May 30, 2009.

Contact the author at editor@ltsaloon.org

© 2009 R.S. Janes. LTSaloon.org.

Ye Olde Scribe’s News Blurb

“New and improved; now with extra ‘blurb!’”

And..

“Where Scribe takes actual news and adds his own special twist.”

What a deal! You may remember, in the news recently, church elders bought a former funeral home and found it included several recently departed ones. While it was assumed that they would… stiff… the church when it came to passing the collection plate, it was obvious they they wouldn’t cause the usual problems when the preacher goes on, and on, and on. Afraid of snoring members of your flock? Fidgety children? Bowser suddenly finding his way to the pews and demanding he be fed and walked after your sermon went on 10 days? No problemo!

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Republicans Play Grown-Up?

“Republicans, Let’s Play Grown-Up”
Peggy Noonan, WSJ Online, May 30, 2009.

“Mancow’s ‘Waterboarding’ Was Completely Fake”
John Cook, Gawker, May 29, 2009.

“Olbermann and Mancow Knock Down Waterboarding Hoax Allegation”
Jason Easley, Politicsusa.com, May 29, 2009.

Inspection- What Pelosi Can Prove and What She Can’t

Afternoons I drive around in my small pickup and do chores or make contacts for work. I have Sirius… satellite radio… and afternoons are rather droll. The just left, or right, talk show programming during that time is pretty bad, so I tune into POTUS, a kind of catch all stream for left, right and all that’s between.

A news blurb came on. Addressing the Pelosi vs. the CIA conundrum, the “reporter” stated in that droll, newsie, rip and read monotone that “Nancy Pelosi has yet to prove that she wasn’t told about enhanced interrogation methods.”

Excuse me?

And how exactly is she to do that?
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Idiot

They played the audio on The Bill Press Show this morning. The guy sounds like he has dead squirrels for brains…

Man Calls 911 Over Orange Juice

ALOHA, Ore. (May 28) – An Oregon man spent Memorial Day in jail after dialing 911 to complain that a McDonald’s worker was rude and didn’t give him an orange juice he ordered. Raibin Osman was accused of improper use of the emergency telephone number.

The audio won’t come up on my computer. (Yes, I’m still stuck with dial up… for now. In the fall however…)

http://ltsaloon.org/media/911.flv