Should we be nervous?

You know something is seriously out of whack when it takes a passed House resolution in support of American Craft Beer Week for us to come around to heralding its arrival.

While most of Washington was focused on Tuesday's election results, the House was busy doing something else: Passing a resolution about beer.


House Resolution 1297, sponsored by Rep. Betsy Markey, supports "the goals and ideals of American Craft Beer Week."


"We've got quite a number of microbreweries and entrepreneurs that are creating jobs, and we wanted to celebrate that this is a craft," Markey told POLITICO.


"I think beer has been a tradition since this country was founded," said Markey. "We wanted to celebrate entrepreneurship — and good beer!"

Given Congress' penchant for bunging-up things of late, we give pause to this legislative body getting within sipping distance of our beloved American craft beer industry. However, we suppose this is just Congress' way of relaxing after the heavy-lifting of destroying the American health care system and prior to decimating the energy sector.

Well done, ladies and gentlemen.

It's all probably a big misunderstanding

One has to ask themselves just how “mainstream” a group whose name translated means “the Race” can become. Mayor Jerry Sanders and his merry band of bungling and hapless city council members will vote on a resolution (Item 31) tomorrow proclaiming July 8th as “National Council of La Raza Day” in the city of San Diego.

Why all the shameless pandering? La Raza will be here in town July 12-15 for their annual conference and its been, we suppose, just an assumed fact that cities like San Diego bestow honors upon bigoted agenda-driven outfits such as these.

La Raza's website seems civil enough but there is enough double-talk and code-speak contained therein to make our head-spin. It doesn't take too much time to decipher exactly what these people are all about.

If you’ve got some time, here is San Diego talk-show host Roger Hedgecock with Mayor Sanders from last week and who seems to have his Alfred E. Neuman expression locked firmly into place.



P.S. Both Barack Obama and John McCain are scheduled to address the group. Yeah, good times.

H/T: The James Hartline Report