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Gaffetastic:
Vice President Joe Biden had his “oops” moment Wednesday speaking in a 49er-crazed SF when he told a crowd at a city political fundraiser that “the Giants are on their way to the Super Bowl.” - SF Chronicle, 1-18-12
Gagtastic quote of the day
Ugh:
In a letter to Obama dated Wednesday, Massachusetts Rep. Richard Neal strongly urges the president not to drink Budweiser, now owned by a Belgian company. Nor should the White House consider serving Miller or Coors, Neal writes, both owned by a United Kingdom conglomerate.
Instead, the White House should serve the three men — all with ties to Massachusetts — the local favorite, not only because of its popularity in the region but also because it remains the largest American-owned and brewed beer, Neal says.
But Sam Adams founder and brewer Jim Koch told NPR if it was up to him he would make a special beer just for the event.
“I’d make a blend of ingredients from all over the world. Which is certainly what’s represented there with the three participants,” he said. “I would blend those ingredients together artfully and harmoniously, because that’s really what we all hope for.”
Shall we all clasp hands and sing Kumbaya now?
In related news, another Cambridge a Boston police officer is in hot water over racial remarks he made in email about Henry Gates in the aftermath of the controversy surrounding his arrest:
An officer in the Boston Police Department was suspended yesterday for allegedly writing a racially charged e-mail about Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. to colleagues at the National Guard, a law enforcement official said. Mayor Thomas M. Menino compared the officer to a cancer and said he is “gone, g-o-n-e” from the force.
The law enforcement official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Officer Justin Barrett referred to the black scholar as a ” jungle monkey” in the letter, written in reaction to media coverage of Gates’s arrest July 16.
Barrett, a 36-year-old who has been on the job for two years, was stripped of his gun and badge yesterday and faces a termination hearing in the next week, said police spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll. He has no previous disciplinary record, she said.
“Yesterday afternoon, Commissioner Davis was made aware that Officer Barrett was the author of correspondence which included racially charged language,” she said. “At that time, Commissioner Davis immediately stripped Officer Barrett of his gun and badge, and at this time we will be moving forward with the hearing process.”
Here is the actual email in question (via Memeo). Make sure to read it in full. It is disgusting. Barrett has also been suspended from the National Guard.
Of course, this will be used to paint the Cambridge Boston-area police with a broad brush – especially in light of Crowley’s arrest of Gates, and will also be used to imply/suggest that if Barrett is a racist than surely Crowley must be, too.
Sigh.
The so-called “beer summit” is set for tonight at 6pm. I can hardly wait to hear what happens (not).
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Man, could you imagine the uproar if Sam Adams hosted it and they served their White Ale?
Regarding Koch’s
kiss-upquote:As for the email from the cop: he should be fired not only for those attitudes, but for being stupid enough to put them in writing.
Exactly, Anthony! I was going to post the same thing. That cop was S-T-U-P-I-D! Hard to say that you are going to be impartial when you have an attitude like that. So sad.
As for the beer, I have recently switched to Molson Canadian. After our honeymoon to Canada I absolutely LOVE this beer. I know, I know, it’s Candian but it is absolutely fantastic!!!
Well of COURSE they should serve Sam Adams! Bud Light’s just beer-flavored water.
I gave up on Sam Adams some years ago when I read an interview with the founder of the company, who had just returned from Europe buying hops.
He said something to the effect that he realized that domestic hops were available, but just as with wine, one had to go to Europe for the best.
Uh, yeah. Okay, Mister Euro-Twit. No more of your product for me. I have no objection to drinking European beer, but I refuse to drink and American beer produced by somebody who holds the domestic product in such contempt. I am from the Great Northwest, you know. Insult our beer at your peril.
Bud is no longer American ?
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Why isn’t Gates fired for his constant and continuing racial rants? Wait, oh yeah. He’s the right type of racist, a lefty.
Sam Adams lost me a ways back when they sponsored a “Wildest Place to Have Sex At” contest by some radio shock jocks and the winners were a couple that had sex in a Church.
Classy.
I’m with Steve about the founder being an elitist snob and the Northwest producing some great brews.
Sam Adams must be rolling in his grave.
They ought to serve Bill Ayers Ale. (It’ll blow you away).
Rush just said that Gates is having a Red Stripe, Barack is having a Bud, and Crowley is having a Blue Moon. I personally like the Blue Moon, and it is actually brewed by Coors. I have never liked Red Stripe what do Jamacians know about brewing beer, and hate Bud light. Might as well drink watered down p***. I have found a taste for Michelob Amber Bock, and from time to time, I don’t mind a Sam Adams light, but that is pretty much it for me, not a big beer fan. Actually not a big drinker at all. Most of it tastes like c**p, and I am not a big fan of the effects. – Lorica
It was a Boston cop, not a Cambridge cop…
Back to the topic. If this poor excuse for a “public servant” is a former English teacher it is no wonder college grads are still in need of remedial English. Heck, judging by what he wrote, he’s in dire need of it, too.
Syntax, spelling, sentence construction, take your choice. By any measure anyone with even a modicum of knowledge about the English language (or the American, if you so prefer) could not at any lengths subscribe to the theory this guy is competent in the language, let alone able to teach it to others. And none of this has to do with the fact that the guy is a walking social illiterate.
I would prefer to think Crowley is representative of that particular police department. If this jackass is, the Cambridge department deserves all the scorn that has been heaped upon it, in triplicate.
Whoops – fixed, Cuffy. Thanks.
The part of the letter that really burns me, or rather also burns me, is where he says he would have pepper-sprayed Gates. That’s just bully police-state thinking. People should respect the cops. Of course. But it’s more important that cops not pepper-spray everyone who rubs them the wrong way, almost no matter how loudly.
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He’s only a member of the 14th Ward Democratic party committee in Philadelphia.
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