Top 10 Reasons Why Drinking Beer is Good for your Health!

I told you I was bringing this thread up before the site goes down...

I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but here's an excerpt from a review of a book, "Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet, The Life of Luther Martin":

"There is a legend many conservatives tell about the ways the Founding Fathers have been remembered. Once upon a time, the tale goes, historians gave the men who created this country the respect they deserve. Then hippie revisionists took over the academy, and now schoolchildren are indoctrinated with every unpleasant rumor and fact about the Founders that the tenured radicals can find.

This story has many holes, even when the subject is George Washington or Thomas Jefferson. But when it comes to Luther Martin, the long-winded Baltimore attorney who stood up for states’ rights during the debates over the U.S. Constitution, the truth is almost exactly the opposite. For two centuries, Martin has been remembered, if he is recalled at all, for the unappealing rumors and facts that had attached themselves to him. Those unflattering portraits, which depicted the defender of decentralism as a prolix dipsomaniac who stood athwart the Constitutional Convention yelling “Stop!,” were initially spread not by radical academics but by Martin’s fellow Founders. Now the independent historian Bill Kauffman, who may not be a hippie but certainly is a revisionist, has rehabilitated Martin’s reputation in an irreverent and enjoyable biography, Forgotten Father, Drunken Prophet. Martin may have been an alcoholic prone to rambling, Chavezesque speeches, Kauffman says, but he was also a prescient critic of the problems built into America’s Constitution."

Read more at:

http://www.amconmag.com/article/2008/dec/01/00031/

Oh yes, what am I drinking tonight? Sam Adams Winter Lager and, er, eggnog spiked with Rebel Yell Kentucky Bourbon. Good luck with that upgrade, Michael...it's gonna be a long, cold, snowy Sunday without you...

Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietam servitutem. ("I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude"). Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 30 January 1787.

Enjoyed a Newcastle Brown,Wait ! do I hear Legal stomping this way ?

"Study the past if you would define the future."
Confucius

from Scmaltz brewing

I am drinking this as I type this...13% ABV, 100% greatness

Cheers,

TimB

Ska Brewing Milk Stout vs Left Hand Brewing Milk Stout taste test I am conducting.

The winner is......

Left Hand's

Cheers,

TimB

B.E.E.R.-Best Ever Economical Recreation

made some amazing brew. Check it out.

http://www.theceltexperience.co.uk/history.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/216383.stm

"I believe the true significance of the Gold Commission is that the politicians and central bankers were so alarmed at such a thing that they made sure it was packed by an array of Keynesians and monetarists." (Ron Paul 1985)

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