And it looked so good on the rack, all clean and pressed.
"But, most importantly, he said, it’s about freedom."
Yeah, THIS is what we mean when we say we are LIBERATING YOU, world!
That and the right of women to use cosmetics.
"New alcohol rule to boost brunch, starting Sunday" by Jack Nicas, Globe Correspondent | July 2, 2010
A small change in the Commonwealth’s alcohol laws passed with little fanfare as part of the $27.6 billion budget could turn out to be a financial windfall for restaurants and the state of Massachusetts. Alcohol can now be served in restaurants as early at 10 a.m. on Sundays.
I guess you need one after sitting through a sermon these days.
“Anytime I get more hours to sell booze, what better thing can you have?’’ said Steven Uliss, owner of the three Firefly’s restaurants around the state. “Let the festivities begin.’’
Yeah, it is not like we are being told drunk-driving or teen drinking or alcoholism are problems or anything.
And why stop there?
Why not just throw the doors open anywhere, anytime, for whoever wants it?
Make it a 24/7 booze state and let the tax revenues roll!!!!
Previously, restaurants and bars were prohibited from selling alcohol before noon.
Yeah, heaven forbid you should have to wait a whole two hours before you could have a morning drink.
Liquor stores, which cannot sell alcohol until noon on Sundays, unless the sales are banned by their community’s local licensing authority, are not affected by the change.
I would have to move to Utah for that.
And I worked in a liquor store once; they are as bad as the illegal drug dealers.
Dave Andelman, creator of the Phantom Gourmet television show, suggested this spring that legislators consider the change as a way to help struggling restaurants. He said two more hours of drink sales during brunch will bring in thousands of extra dollars per week for some restaurants and millions annually to the state through the meals tax.
Massachusetts, you have a problem.
If what this self-serving s***ter is true your roads are dangerous as hell. Look at all the drunks that are out there.
We are talking a SUNDAY here; what do you think -- glug, glug -- happens the rest of the week (don't homes have cabinets or bars sometimes)?
And the liquor stores sure are open early during the week and on Saturday.
“You’re talking tens of millions of dollars to the state, to the cities and towns,’’ he said yesterday, racing through revenue figures. “This will have a massive impact.’’
Ever notice you are always promised soooo much, Massachusetts?
I mean, they said the sales tax increase would take care of any budget cuts and we still get them.
I'm just so sick of being lied to by the self-serving, agenda-pushing PoS Boston Globe paper. I guess that is why I'm having a hard time getting it down lately.
Uliss said he expects to sell at least 60 of his restaurants’ homemade Bloody Marys before noon this Sunday, when the law goes into effect. He estimated the morning drinks will earn him $22,000 more per year.
“And then the Commonwealth gets 6 1/4 percent of that,’’ he said of the meals tax. “It’s a beautiful thing.’’
In the eye of the beholder.
Related: Praying For a Beer in Massachusetts
It's that bad for you guys, huh?
So how come when I am reasonable and admit my prohibition rantings are futile and sarcastic and am quite willing to compromise is the pot such a problem?
If you guys love your taxes and love your booze, well, there is a whole pile of money over there (along with some FREEDOM, right?)!!
Oh, I see! WHOLE LOT of CASH over HERE in the KICKBACK, 'er, CAMPAIGN PILE -- courtesy of BIG PHARMA and BIG CHEMICAL!!
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At Deep Ellum in Allston, noon on Sundays have traditionally been one of the more trying times for the bartender, said manager Dave Cagle.
“On Sundays, every single person here eating breakfast is waiting for the exact minute it turns noon,’’ Cagle said. “And then right at noon the bartender is making like 40 drinks.’’
I think we need massive intervention.
The bar, which is known for its unusual drink menu, should be full this Sunday with early risers drinking Irish coffees and Ramos Gin Fizzes, Cagle said. “It certainly will add a couple hundred bucks a week to business.’’
I heard talk of thousands and millions, but.... sigh.
Andelman said the law will spark a booming brunch culture and especially help restaurants near Fenway Park and Gillette Stadium before 1 p.m. games.
Just what you need at the ball games: EVEN DRUNKER FANS!
So ALCOHOLISM is a CULTURE now, huh?
Related: The Biggest Story in Boston
Hitching a Ride With Homeland Security
Slow Saturday Specials: Kicks Brought to You by Kraft and Kissinger
Yeah, I guess you might need the booze to warm you up.
Combined with the anger you should be feeling pretty toasty, sports fans.
But, most importantly, he said, it’s about freedom. “If I want to take my parents out for their anniversary and I want to do a champagne toast, I got to wait till noon?’’ he said. “C’mon. We’re the birthplace of freedom.’’
I mean, IMAGINE!
Having to wait a WHOLE 120 MINUTES before you can have a DRINK!
Ever hear of a FLASK!?
How far you have fallen, America.
This is FREEDOM?
And what is the first thing you do in the morning (well, second; I already mentioned the first ), America?
Yeah, look in the mirror:
"Popular Brown also takes hits; After years of Kennedy, left finds a target for gripes" by Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff | July 2, 2010
Local left-leaning activists with a federal gripe once had a void in their lives: In this heavily blue state, with a congressional delegation filled with Democrats, they often lacked a proximate target for their progressive passion.
Things were so bleak, at times, that liberals yearning for a protest had to wait for former President George W. Bush to come to town for a fund-raiser. But that was before Scott Brown arrived in the Senate....
Just goes to show you what frauds the "left" is in this country -- and exemplifies the agenda-pushing quality of New England's largest newspaper.
And don't get me wrong, I'm not a Brownie.
See: Selecting a Senator: Casting My Vote For Kennedy
Selecting a Senator: Electing George W. Bush
Selecting a Senator: Brown is Bush
Ted must be rolling over in his grave, and deservedly so:
Mass. Hypocrisy in Full Flower
If you had just left it alone....
In the nearly six months since, his Boston office, in the JFK Federal Building, has become the hottest protest venue in the city, a stark change from when his liberal predecessor, Edward M. Kennedy, occupied the space on the 24th floor. Brown’s digs have been the site of demonstrations large and small, from union rallies with bullhorns and chants to sarcastic gimmicks, a la last month’s “Sour Scott Lemonade stand,’’ courtesy of teens pleading for summer jobs funding.
“There have been more public protests than in Kennedy’s entire career,’’ said Lewis Finfer, a longtime organizer from the Massachusetts Communities Action Network....
What a sad commentary on the protest movement.
The relative novelty of Brown’s political affiliation explains some of the hubbub, but other factors also draw demonstrators to his door. With his brief time in office, Brown remains a fresh face, and interest groups are still jockeying to influence his decisions. He has also positioned himself as a key swing vote on major issues, exploiting the Democrats’ inability to block a filibuster and keeping himself in the national spotlight.
Except on the health care tax.
“When I was there, I can’t remember a protest of the office,’’ said Scott M. Ferson, who served as Kennedy’s press secretary from 1990 to 1995. “I think everyone now is looking to make their point, which they didn’t years ago. I think now there is more coverage for gimmicks. There are way more outlets competing for news.’’
Agenda-pushing.
That helps explain the gold BMW 328i with the 2 1/2-foot bow on New Sudbury Street yesterday. And the limousine that idled on the same street in April, a similar stunt designed to illustrate an assertion that Brown’s votes against an overhaul of the nation’s financial regulations put him on the side of Wall Street executives, not the kind of everyman who drives a pickup truck....
Related: Who Bought Brown's Election?
Wall Street With a Byrd in the Grave
Why are they not blaming him?
The lemonade stand a month ago had teens selling drinks for 50 cents apiece to raise money after Brown voted against a measure that organizers said would have funded 6,700 youth summer jobs in Massachusetts. The week before, a few dozen gay rights activist marched outside the federal building, urging the new senator to support repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell’’ policy.
And then there were the immigrant advocates who held a sit-in at Brown’s office. And the people with disabilities and their families, who urged the senator to break ranks and vote in favor of extending federal health care funding....
Indeed, even the Tea Party movement, that grass-roots phenomenon on the right that helped propel Brown to office, has taken to the streets outside his Boston office, voicing their displeasure with his earlier vote to advance the bill overhauling financial regulations.
Recent protests, including a demonstration on Monday that organizers say drew hundreds to the federal building, have taken aim at Brown for helping to block long-term unemployment benefits, funding for summer jobs, and more Medicaid money to states....
But no war protesters?
Kennedy did, over his half-century in office, face protesters, perhaps most notably during Boston’s busing controversy in the 1970s. At a rally on City Hall Plaza, a crowd booed and heckled the senator off a stage, chasing him back to the federal building, where they broke windows, Ferson said. Other groups, from protesters of the draft to anti-abortion activists, also took aim at Kennedy’s office, but the attention seemed to wane.
Translation: Kennedy probably faced more protests during 47 YEARS than this guy has in 6 MONTHS, but we are in the HERE and NOW where S***-SLINGING is a BOSTON GLOBE SPECIALTY!
And what of that other embarrassment?
The current senior senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kerry, also draws protesters at times, though that is often because of Kerry’s prominence as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. That held true in May, when several dozen people gathered below his 10th-floor window after Israeli commandos stopped a flotilla headed for Gaza.
Yeah, just SLIP THAT PROTEST IN way at the BACK of the piece, Globe.
I'm surprised you mentioned it at all.
But Brown, arguably the state’s most popular politician, according to a recent Globe poll, can boast, for now at least, of being the most popular stop on the protest circuit, too.
Related:
Brown's Senate Service Template
The U.S. Senate's Chief Brownnoser to Israel
I think Brownie is kneeling on pretty safe ground.
I wouldn't be too worried about the agenda-pushing protesters outside if I were he. nor would I be worried about the agenda-pushing Boston Globe's hatchet job.
They had Coakley winning by 14 on election day!!!
And speaking of Marty:
"Lawyers exploiting ruling, state says; Calls requirement for chemists to testify costly" by John R. Ellement, Globe Staff | June 11, 2010
WORCESTER — Prosecutors and a top state law enforcement official said yesterday that defense lawyers are exploiting a US Supreme Court ruling in a way that is slowing the wheels of justice, costing taxpayers more money, and sometimes hurting their own clients....
Since when has the state cared about taxpayers?
Also see: Coakley's Missing Case
Thank God she didn't win.
She would have been way over her head.
She isn't even a good AG. Always JOINING SUITS, save one.
Related: The Massachusetts Model: The AG's Amnesia
Massachusetts Makes Morgan Stanley Pay
Hey, what do you know, COVER-UP COAKLEY!
They contended that the court’s requirement that chemists be available for defense questioning is costly and usually unnecessary, because there is no doubt the white powder seized by police is cocaine or some other illicit drug.
Oh, look, LIBERAL FASCISM of the WORST KIND!!
Whatever happened to the RIGHT to be CONFRONTED by the WITNESSES AGAINST YOU?
Also see: CSI Massachusetts
Massachusetts Justice: Holding Back
Massachusetts Justice: Wrongful Convictions
Massachusetts Justice: Wrongful Imprisonment
MSM Xmas Gifts: To American Convicts
Yeah, there are NO DOUBTS, huh?
They also said the ruling was initially focused on illicit drugs and ballistic evidence, but has now been expanded by defense lawyers to include fingerprint and DNA evidence.
Yeah, LORD KNOWS we WOULDN'T WANT the TRUTH to come out and see what a ROTTEN FAILURE the COPS ARE at SOLVING CRIMES!!!!
The high court’s 2009 ruling said that a state law that allows written reports to be used as evidence in forensic cases is unconstitutional, and it ordered that the specialists performing the tests must testify in the cases....
Hey, that is the GREAT STATE of MASSACHUSETTS all over.
I'm sorry, "COMMMONWEALTH!"
But Boston defense lawyer John H. Cunha Jr., president of the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, said that Massachusetts, like other states and the federal government, has been rocked by scandals in forensic laboratories in recent years, which increases the need for defense lawyers to make sure the lab work was done correctly.
But there is NO DOUBT it is DRUGS or WHATEVER!
Just WRITE a REPORT and HAND IT IN!!
Un-flipping-f***ing-real that these LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS are COMPLAINING!!!!!!!!!!!
“To just come in there with a piece of paper that says somebody is guilty is contrary to our system,’’ he said. “Cross-examination is supposed to test the evidence. . . . The US Constitution is not a technicality.’’
The GOVERNMENT thinks IT IS!!!!!
Also yesterday, the Patrick administration announced it had appointed a UMass Memorial Medical Center official to take over the State Police lab, a job that has been vacant since 2007 after mismanagement of forensic evidence was discovered....
It is called FRAMING PEOPLE!!!!!
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Maybe I will have to STOP BUYING a SUNDAY GLOBE so my friend can have the SPORTS!
You never know WHO could be on the (hiccup) ROADS!
