Glorious Day!

[AUChizad]

Free The Hops passed the Senate!!!

It's downhill from here as it should have a much easier time passing the House.

[Aubie16]

Figures...

After 6 years in Alabama, I am moving back to Georgia in 5 months. I am happy for you guys though. Driving to LaGrange for good beers sucks.

[Tarheel]

I had to refresh my memory on what Free the Hops was all about; good luck in getting it passed.

http://www.freethehops.org/index.php

[Aubie16]

Just noticed it didn't actually pass the Senate. It passed the Senate Committee vote. Now it goes to the entire senate. Still it should get passed.

The only reason it didn't last year was because they ran out of time and were discussing other issues right at the end of the session.

[Tarheel]

Just noticed it didn't actually pass the Senate. It passed the Senate Committee vote. Now it goes to the entire senate. Still it should get passed.

The only reason it didn't last year was because they ran out of time and were discussing other issues right at the end of the session.

Dragging their feet by design perhaps.

[AUChizad]

http://www.al.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-41/123611786050350.xml&storylist=alabamanews

Alabama House OKs bill allowing more potent beer
3/3/2009, 5:07 p.m. CST
By BOB JOHNSON
The Associated Press       

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama House passed a bill Tuesday that would allow stronger beer to be sold in Alabama despite the objection of opponents who predicted it would lead to an increase in drinking and driving.

The House voted 49-37 to approve the bill that will allow some imported and gourmet beers with a higher alcohol content to be sold in Alabama.

Alabama law currently requires that beer sold in the state have an alcohol content no higher than 6 percent by volume. The bill sponsored by Rep. Thomas Jackson, D-Thomasville, would allow beer with an alcohol content up to 13.9 percent by volume.

The bill now goes to the Senate. A similar version has been approved by the Senate Tourism and Marketing Committee.

Jackson said beer with a higher alcohol content is available in neighboring states. He said allowing the sale of these beers will keep that money in Alabama.

Free the Hops, a statewide group of beer consumers, has been trying for four years to legalize stronger beer in Alabama.

Opponents said the higher alcohol content would make it easier for teenagers and others to get drunk and would increase the number of deaths caused by drinking and driving.

"This means people can get drunk quicker as they go down the highway," said Rep DuWayne Bridges, R-Valley. "Why in heaven's name would we encourage more drinking?"

But Jackson told House members the beers with higher content would be gourmet and imported beers that sell for as much as $7 a bottle. He said the gourmet beers taste different and would not be popular with teenagers.

Another opponent, Rep. Richard Laird, D-Roanoke, said he doesn't understand why the Legislature continues to pass bills to make it easier to buy alcoholic drinks.

"You'll have to drink half as much with this to get drunk," Laird said.

And P.S. fuck these fuddy-duddy opponents. Thanks, dad, I'll decide what kind of beer I prefer to consume.

[Kaos]

And P.S. fuck these fuddy-duddy opponents. Thanks, dad, I'll decide what kind of beer I prefer to consume.

Decide now, because when I'm governor it will be outlawed. 

[AUChizad]

I know your position on this, and I know your personal history as to why.

I'm not going to argue this with you because there's no way for me to do so without appearing to be a heartless bastard.

All I'm going to say is your position is clouded by your personal tragedy. It's not the norm.

My uncle was recently shot in the face and killed. Does that mean I believe every gun in the world should be confiscated? No, it means I abhor the low-life fucks who misuse them.

Prohibition worked out great in the 30's, didn't it?

I know this is a red-hot firebomb issue with you, so I will bite my tongue and not respond to your torrent of rage that is sure to follow.

[Snaggletiger]

"Torrent of rage"

I think you just found the name for that band.

[Kaos]

I'm not going to argue this with you because there's no way for me to do so without appearing to be a heartless bastard.

That was the plan. 

It will be the plan when I run for governor.  Nobody wants to be a heartless bastard. 

There will be no torrent of rage. 

[Tiger Six]

Nobody wants to be a heartless bastard. 

No one wants to be a dumbass either, but that doesn't stop some folks. 

[Buzz Killington]

No one wants to be a dumbass either, but that doesn't stop some folks. 

Pale, the personal rancor reflected in that remark I don't intend to dignify with comment. But I would like to address your general attitude of hopeless negativism. Consider the lilies of the goddamn field or... hell! Take at look at Jumbo here as your paradigm of hope.