Beer May Be Good for Your Bones

A cold brew has high levels of dietary silicon, analysis shows.

Picture source: Kirsty Wigglesworth for AP

While researchers don’t recommend gulping beer to meet your silicon intake needs, a new study shows the potential health benefits of a cold brew.

Written by Jeanna Bryner for msnbc.com

(With National Hop Day approaching, note the silicon levels on IPA- Prof GA)
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Is this Still the World’s Smallest Commercial Brewery?

(Prof. GA wonders, if Bragdy is still brewing, how it compares with the nanobreweries. See previous article. This post may qualify as mostly a “historic marker.” The end of this article there’s a comment regarding whether they are still brewing.)

(Source: Stanzapub.com)

From various sources: as noted.
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Club Update: Music City Brewers

Nashville, TN area

here will be a brief meeting of the Sponsorship Committee at 1:30 prior to the club meeting at 2:00 this coming Saturday at Christ Rueger’s house in Goodlettsville. The purpose of this meeting is to get started on raising funds and/or product for our big 15TH Competition this year. Anyone interested in attending and helping out with this effort is more than welcome. We are starting this process early this year in order to obtain as much as possible in cash donations to offset our costs and donations of product for our raffle.

I want to express special thanks and appreciation to those who assisted last year: Bill Russell, Phil Snyder, Jonathan Adams, Karen Lassiter, Brandon Jones, Pat Bush, Steve Johnson, Chris Rueger, R. J. Tazelaar, Geoff Henderson, Tom Gentry and Tom Vista for their hard work and contributions which resulted in our raffle income $763.00. I think (but am not sure) that is the largest income we have had for the raffle and these proceeds are donated to the Children’s Miracle Network.

See you Saturday.
Liz Snyder
Event Coordinator

Hey All,

See below for Chris Rueger’s address. Also, a reminder that the Febrewary meeting will be at the home of Chris and Kim Rueger. The meeting will start at 2:00 pm on 2-20-10.

209 Engel AVE
Goodlettsville, TN 37072

-Jonathan

You know Karen as a club member, the editor of The Score and her husband Jack’s real boss. But on National Hop Day drink this brewer’s beer at…

National Hop Day!
Saturday, February 27, 2010. 1 – 4 PM
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Boscos has declared the last Saturday in February as National Hop Day! Join us for fun, hops, prizes, more hops, HopGod Ale®, still more hops and still even more hops.

Plus, the Hop Tyrant will thank you.
MORE HOPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pissed Off Puss Pools Money for a Paternity Suit

Written by Ye Olde Scribe

Once a cheating puss named Veronica
Played Archie and Reggie like harmonicas
Till they both had their fill
Replaced all her pills
Then told her she sucked more than Monica
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©Copyright 2010
Ye Olde Scribe
all rights reserved
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Rubbing Salt in Guantanamo’s Wounds: Task Force Announces Indefinite Detentions

By: Andy Worthington for Truthout

(Photo: electron; Edited: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t)

With a stunning lack of sensitivity, President Barack Obama’s Guantánamo Review Task Force chose the anniversary of the president’s failed promise to close the prison to announce its conclusions regarding the eventual fate of 196 prisoners.

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Inspection- Of Ironing Out the Ironies….or Not

You’ll never get them all. I’m not sure I would want to. Old truism: “life is filled with ironies.” Let me get out my pundit-based Sunbeam and at least steam out a few of the more embarrassing and problematic wrinkles, because these “wrinkles” are so big they threaten to rip the fabric of society. And when it comes to the certain current topics the irony is so thick it’s wrapping itself around Uncle Sam’s neck; strangling the freedom out of a nation.

Gays in the military.
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Bagram: Graveyard of the Geneva Conventions

Written by Andy Worthington

On January 15, 2010, the Pentagon released the first ever list of prisoners held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility, the main US prison in Afghanistan for the last eight years (PDF). An annotated version of the list is available here. In a previous article, “Dark Revelations in the Bagram Prisoner List,” I examined the stories of the foreign prisoners rendered to Bagram from other countries, and described the legal challenges mounted on their behalf, explaining how, last March, three of these men won their habeas corpus petitions in a US court, in a ruling that has been challenged by the Obama administration.

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Bush, Cheney and the Great Escape

(Photo: phxpma; Edited: Lance Page for truthout

Written by William Rivers Pitt, source: truthout

With each passing day, it becomes more and more astonishing to encompass the fact that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and their henchmen from the prior administration have managed thus far to escape any accounting whatsoever for the massive battery of criminal activity committed during their time in office. More than a year has passed since these men had their hands on the levers of power, and evidence of their myriad crimes and frauds is laying all over the countryside, yet nothing has come of it.

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Palin: She’s Only In It For The Money

At her for-profit National Tea Party Convention speech in Nashville, TN, on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010, Sarah Palin said the T.P. movement is “a ground-up call to action,” and, for once, she’s right: It was ‘ground up’ in the meat grinder of Fox News, wealthy commodities trader and CNBC personality Rick Santelli, lobbyist and FreedomWorks head Dick Armey, and the legions of anonymous employees of the Corporate Astroturf world. BTW, the former Czarina of Russia East said she was donating her $100K speaking fee to a ’cause,’ without specifying what cause that might be. Could it be her future 2012 presidential campaign, or just to buy up some more of her own books?