THE WAR ON ADULTS DRINKING ADULT BEVERAGES
So I took the kids out for pizza the other night. Unfortunately, the restaurant didn’t serve alcohol. However, our waitress explained that we could walk upstairs to the tavern, get a drink and bring it back to the restaurant.
“We have an arrangement with them,” the waitress explained helpfully. “We don’t serve booze and they don’t serve pizza.”
A little inconvenient…but works for me. So I walked upstairs and ordered a beer for me and a glass of wine for Gia - who had stayed in the pizza shop with the kids. To which the bartender explained that he could only sell me the beer, not the wine.
Huh?
“We can only sell you one drink to take out because we don’t know who the other drink is for,” the bartender sheepishly explained, noting it wasn’t his rule. Apparently it’s part of the government’s insane and often stupid over-regulation of alcohol sales in a futile effort to keep booze out of the hands of the underaged – you know, like 20-year-old soldiers returning home from Afghanistan.
So I had to buy my beer, take it down to the restaurant, then send Gia up to the bar, buy her glass of wine separately, and bring it back to the restaurant.
Seriously, think about how stupid this is.
The bartender is allowed to sell me a beer to take out of his establishment and into the establishment downstairs where he has no idea who I might give it to, but he couldn’t sell to me, at the same time, a companion glass or wine for my wife because he has no idea who I might give it to.
By this government-inspired “logic,” shouldn’t package liquor stores be banned from selling me a six pack of Bud Lights under the argument that the seller has no idea who I might give one of the six beers to once I leave the establishment?
When are we going to stop treating grown adults in purportedly the freest nation in the universe like little children? Alas, it appears no time soon.
MEET JENNY BETH “TEA PARTY” MARTIN
You’re invited to come meet the President of the Tea Party Patriots, Jenny Beth Martin – who will be in town to speak at this year’s FreedomFest - at a cocktail reception this Wednesday night, July 11, at 5:30 pm at McCormick & Schmick’s in Las Vegas.
This is NOT a fundraiser and there is no cost to attend. The reception is being co-hosted by me, John Laub, Jim Lamb, Daniel Montano and Matthew Waymire. Please click here to RSVP or shoot an email to jlaub@regenmd.org
ROMNEY AND THE DEMOCRATS
Something to keep in mind as Obama’s minions continue to beat up on Mitt Romney’s record as governor of Massachusetts: He was stuck with a Democrat legislature with a huge majority.
Indeed, in 2002-2004, the Massachusetts House was 82.5% Democrat and the Massachusetts Senate was 85.6% Democrat. And in 2004-2006, the Massachusetts House was 85% Democrat and the Massachusetts Senate was 86.8% Democrat.
As such, as Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform points out, “During Romney’s four-year period as Governor, he never had a moment when he could successfully veto any Democrat legislation if the Democrats voted together.”
When it comes to criticizing what happened in Massachusetts from 2002 through 2006, Democrats in glass houses…
POLITICAL POTPOURRI
What’s wrong with this picture?
The Clark County Commission has decreed that it is illegal to use a cat or dog to garner sympathy while panhandling on the Strip, but it’s OK to use a child for the same purpose.
And those same county commissioners have decreed that it’s illegal to sell bottled water to tourists walking on the Strip in 105-degree heat without a business license, but refuse to issue such business licenses to folks just trying to make a living rather than live off the government.
Well, at least the smut peddlers are still allowed to operate unimpeded.
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“(K)nowing it is now constitutional for Congress to tax us for NOT doing something that left me wondering just what Freedom we were celebrating on Independence Day. You've got to ask how supporters of Obama-care, now Obama-tax, would feel if a different stripe of elected officials came to power and taxed them for not buying a firearm, not owning a bible, or not sending their kid to a private school.” – Jon Caldara of the Independence Institute
“The most lucrative was a November speech in Hong Kong to Swedish-based telecom giant Ericsson -- $750,000. Clinton also earned $700,000 for a March speech to a local newspaper publishing company in Lagos, Nigeria, and $550,000 for a November speech to a business forum in Shanghai, China. He earned $500,000 apiece for three events in Austria and Holland in May and in the United Arab Emirates in December." – CNN on Bill Clinton earning $13.4 million from paid speeches in 2011
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