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These extremes mark a singular fact for the News Pauper; the change is written on the wall. There have been private discussions in the several parties and the battle lines are clear. All that remains is the battle itself, and where and when it will start to claim its victims here in our streets. A schism is ahead, worse than the football match that has been perpetuated in our corporate-owned media.

Those that hold the wealth and power are about to play their last card. When they lose big, the rest of us can begin the journey towards the future.

Perhaps the NP is too critical and paranoid and the losers and the winners have already been pronounced. America is bankrupt morally and financially, broken by the avarice of robber barons. The guilty will not hesitate to stoop in their panic at being held responsible, this is why their media, their bought and paid for pols, continue the onslaught of obfuscation and Astroturf.

An outcome shall expose itself soon, unless those goal posts move again.

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The hospital drama was more an indication of what can go wrong when an admitting Nurse Practioner, decides a patient is not worth the time required to treat compassionately, and decides to exact a little vengeance.

Both my daughter and I suffer with community associated MRSA. Most of the time flare ups are treatable at home with strong sanitation measures and diligence in keeping wounds clean, dry and covered. In a healthy individual MRSA is painful, scarring and troublesome, but not deadly. Even more serious flare ups respond to oral antibiotics after specimens are sent to a lab to determine which specific antibiotic to use.

Thankfully my daughter is now home, the abscess is healing well, and the problem at the hospital is being formally dealt with.

I can not say positively that our MRSA is agriculture related. Taking into account where we lived and that we did NOT acquire it in a hospital, it is likely. Never the less, given the seriousness of an infection, the pain it causes, and the contagiousness of it, I find it disturbing that our agricultural practices are responsible for spreading it. Practices that are unnecessary and harmful in so many ways to our nutritional health, the health of our water and air, and the health and welfare of both the animals and the farm workers.

Perhaps one reason that the industrialists don’t want universal health care is because they know that their production methods endanger the health of employees, communities and consumers. They don’t want to pay for their mistakes.

I honestly wasn’t expecting a good beer here. Hey, it’s a beer brewed to honor Barack, marketed with that in mind. If it had been a beer brewed in honor of any other public figure I would made the same comment. Usually such beers suck worse than an animated Electrolux with attitude. Such beers brewed “in honor of” usually produce a big yawn: at best.

Not here. Avery needs to make this one of their regular offerings. I’ve had plenty Avery, but nothing quite this good. Why did they do this as a one off?

Listed by Beer Advocate as an Imperial IPA. Close, but not quite right. The body is just a bit too caramelized, in my opinion, and just a bit too much part of the mix. An I-IPA is supposed to be more of a showcase for hops with less attention to the malt. The brewers here did not ignore the hops in favor of the malt by any means. But they didn’t let the malt go into the background either.

The first thing I noticed was aroma: hops wafting out of the 22 ounce bottle; hoping to escape captivity. While there’s a bit of Cascade sense here, there’s so much more. The body; chewy: perfect. The mouthfeel… do I dare swallow? I hate to. But once I did there was plenty here other than what fills mouth with pleasure, and no defects… all that’s heavenly.

It is probably a bit too Arrogant Bastard-y hop-wise for the timid, but I thought it was perfect: a heavier than Pale body with a nice hop bite. More complex than Bastard. That’s a compliment, since the original Arrogant tends to be a little one dimensional, for those who don’t appreciate such. (I appreciate both.). Am I getting a bit of Mount Hood as a twist at the end? Maybe Amarillo? They kept me guessing, which is impressive.

Plenty of head with cascading bubbles upon pour.

This is not a beer for everyone. But beer geeks should enjoy something a bit more chewy and alcoholic than Liberty from Anchor, or even Arrogant perhaps. Competes well with Dogfish 90. Perhaps a bit more complex? Better compared it to a slightly milder version of 120?

OG probably well over 50, and I’ll bet it finished out somewhere in the mid to low teens: well modified malt as expected. A guess: about 65 IBU or more, but with enough high alpha to please the hop tyrants out there. I’ve had over 100 and this ain’t it. More Galena high alpha-ish: not a lot, just the flavor seems to indicate a small amount hyper-alpha hops have been added, or a hopback helped turn part of the Cascade more towards the bitter… or high alpha Chinook? Whatever they did, they did it right.

If you are a bit of a geek and want something a bit more complex than most I-IPAs, try it. I bet you’ll like it.

Enjoy.

We the Brewers of Avery Brewing Company, in order to form a more perfect ale, require a new leadership that can liberate us from our quagmires in foreign lands; embrace environmentally sound energy alternatives to imported oil; heal our ailing health care system; free us from tyrannical debt and resurrect the collapsing dollar. We hereby pledge to provide him or her with an ample amount of our Presidential Pale Ale to support in the struggle for the aforementioned goals! Hail to the New Chief!

-From the label