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Geeze, sounds like a return to feudalism, which is only a step away from slavery again?
Humans slept outdoors for millions of years, and what actually is a little odd is people thinking they can own land they did not create, and keep others off?
End of an era as Schlitz, the beer that made Milwaukee famous, pours its last
The iconic lager has quenched the thirst of American beer drinkers for 177 years.Shiftless2
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The "Schlitz is the shits" phrase is a long-running, scatological parody of the brand's famous 1970s advertising campaign. It plays on the beer's infamous legacy of causing severe digestive issues for drinkers to mock its historic reputation. Seems that in order to cut cost the manufacturer had changed the formulation and the "new" product wasn't kind to people's intestinal tract.
And who can forget these ads?
Of course that led to an absolutely brilliant counter-ad for a somewhat obscure Texas beer named Longhorn
Cowboy saunters on screen and says "Yup. When you're out Schlitz you're out of beer. That's because you drank all the Longhorn first."
See that commercial once and everytime you see a Schlitz commercial you'll think of Longhorn - free advertisement.
And who can forget these ads?
Of course that led to an absolutely brilliant counter-ad for a somewhat obscure Texas beer named Longhorn
Cowboy saunters on screen and says "Yup. When you're out Schlitz you're out of beer. That's because you drank all the Longhorn first."
See that commercial once and everytime you see a Schlitz commercial you'll think of Longhorn - free advertisement.
Our school biology class did annual tours of the Schlitz labs in their bottling plant on 3rd St.
It was a huge complex covering several blocks.
The area went down hill and became a Black area from people moving up from the South in the 60s.
But I understand it now has been gentrified, and the old Schlitz building are expensive condos.
Milwaukee produced Schlitz, Pabst, Blatz, and Miller.
The only alternatives were Coors from Colorado and Budweiser from St. Louis.
Neither of which were very good in my opinion.
Yeah.
In New York's Southern tier we had Rheingold, sold in wide-mouth bottles. Not exotic, but adequate.
I drank Rolling Rock until Three Mile Island.
In Minnesota Hamm's was fine.
But here in central New York there's a bargain brand called Old Milwaukee. They under-price the competition, and as a result what's on the shelf is usually fresh.
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Old Milwaukee is a branch of Pabst.
But I had forgotten about Hamm's.
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Theodore Hamm's Brewing Company was an American brewing company established in 1865 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Becoming the fifth largest brewery in the United States, Hamm's expanded with additional breweries that were acquired in other cities, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, and Baltimore....}
I'd never heard of it.
We just went back to Minnesoooota to bury gramma.
Wouldn't have taken us so long, but she put up quite a struggle.
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DUN dun dun dun DUN dun dun dun From the land of sky blue waters (waters), From the land of pines, lofty balsams, Comes the beer refreshing, Hamm's, the beer refreshing. DUN dun dun dun DUN dun dun dun Brewed where nature works her wonders, Aged for many moons, gently mellowed, Hamm's the beer refreshing, Hamm's the beer refreshing. Hamm's. |
Lyrics to the Hamm's Beer Advertising Song
as reconstructed by Jeffrey Sward
Attributed to Ernie Garven (1914 - 2004)
Campbell-Mithun Advertising Agency (1952)
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How much science do you see in the daily news?
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Apparently it's never occurred to him that his god created all those facts and gave scientists the tools to understand them. Why would god have done that if he didn't want us to learn about the world around us?
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Sen. Dan Sullivan accuses Democrats of recruiting Alaska Senate candidate with the same name
The incumbent Republican accuses Democrats of recruiting another Dan Sullivan to challenge him as part of an effort to confuse voters.Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, called the move a "blatant attempt to confuse and disenfranchise Alaskans." Tom Williams
June 2, 2026, 4:30 PM GMT-5 / By Rebecca Shabad
“Mary Peltola and D.C. Democrats know they can’t win this race on the issues, so they’ve resorted to dirty, dishonest tactics — recruiting a sham candidate with the sole purpose of deceiving voters and manipulating Alaska’s election system,” Nate Adams, the senator’s campaign spokesman, said in a statement Tuesday.
According to Alaska’s Division of Elections, the other Sullivan is a registered Republican, as well. His campaign logo appears to be similar to the logo for the senator’s re-election campaign — both feature stars and are navy blue, white and yellow-themed.
Sen. Dan Sullivan accuses Democrats of recruiting Alaska Senate candidate with the same name
The incumbent Republican accuses Democrats of recruiting another Dan Sullivan to challenge him as part of an effort to confuse voters.
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"The words hit like a rock, straight in my face." That is how a 16-year-old girl in Hampshire, England described the moment a judge declined to send into custody the two teenage boys who raped her when she was 15. She had met one of them on Snapchat, believed he was her boyfriend, and traveled to meet him in the small town of Fordingbridge in November 2024. A second boy was waiting. The two of them -- both 14 at the time -- assaulted her in an underpass beside the River Avon for roughly 90 minutes while one of them filmed it on his phone. The footage was passed around afterward. She started receiving messages calling her a "slag." She has since told the BBC there were moments she wanted to die.
Gisèle Pelicot -- whose own husband was sentenced to 20 years in France for drugging her and recruiting dozens of strangers to rape her unconscious over nearly a decade -- told the BBC she was "deeply shocked that these individuals were in fact able to gain their freedom again when in fact the victims are suffering so hard they will never be able to heal." She praised the 16-year-old for speaking publicly and reminded the world what justice owes survivors: "Rape is a crime and justice has an essential role. It's there to recognise the suffering of victims, and to remember that they must not remain unpunished."
Two months after the first attack, the same two boys -- joined by a 13-year-old -- attacked a 14-year-old girl in a field beside Fordingbridge Recreation Ground. She had been separated from her friends. She was made to leave her phone and AirTag behind so no one could track where she had been taken. The assault was filmed. Damage to her clothing supported her account that a knife was involved. In a statement read to the court, she wrote: "The person I was before the incident has completely gone and sometimes I feel like I am grieving the person I used to be."
On May 21st, Judge Nicholas Rowland declined to send any of the three boys into youth custody. Under UK law, under-18s who receive custodial sentences are held in secure youth facilities -- not adult prison -- specifically designed to provide education and rehabilitation alongside accountability. The judge could have ordered this. Instead, he gave the boys community-based youth rehabilitation orders, told them "none of you need to go to prison today," and explained that he wanted to avoid "criminalising these children unnecessarily." He cited ADHD, low cognitive ability, and peer pressure as mitigating factors -- this despite the months of planning between attacks, the knife, the disabled AirTag, and the recording of both assaults to share with friends.
After the judge handed down what amounted to a slap on the wrist for such violent assaults, one of the girls asked: "What was the point in putting me through that?"
Hampshire Police and Crime Commissioner Donna Jones called the judge's reasoning "alarming" on BBC Breakfast. She pointed out a detail the public outcry has rightly seized on: the boys never pled guilty. They forced both girls to relive their assaults through a full trial. Yet the judge praised the boys for their "good conduct" between charge and sentencing.
As Jones put it: "This is three males who put their victims through the trial and the ordeal of having to re-live all of that. That has really added to the burden for those two survivors." She added: "These are not low-level offences. They are some of the worst offences you can do to another human being."
Then it got worse. Within days of the Fordingbridge sentences, The Guardian uncovered three more cases in North-East England -- teenage boys convicted of raping girls as young as 14, each given a youth rehabilitation order and fined £26 ($35). That's less than a parking ticket. The cases only came to light because victim advocates supporting survivors in court witnessed the sentencings -- youth courts in the UK typically operate closed to press and public.
Harriet Wistrich of the Centre for Women's Justice has called for a national review to determine whether this is becoming the norm. One survivor, now 16, told The Guardian: "It feels like he just got away with it."
After a national outcry, UK Attorney General Lord Hermer referred all three sentences to the Court of Appeal under the unduly lenient sentencing scheme. "There is an epidemic of violence against women and girls in this country," he said, "and this Government will not hesitate in taking action." The Court of
Appeal will now decide whether the sentences were unduly lenient and whether to increase them -- including, potentially, replacing them with custodial sentences.
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The 15-year-old victim's mother had made her own appeal directly to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on the BBC: "If it was your daughter, your niece, your son, your nephew, your family member, would you be happy? You're in a position of power to help, so please help."
Two girls came forward. They told the truth. And the system told them their truth wasn't enough.
To every survivor reading this: we hear you. We believe you. And we are not going to stop until the law does too.
--> To sign a petition calling for an investigation into Judge Nicholas Rowland and the introduction of judicial accountability framework, visit https://www.change.org/.../investigate-judge-nicholas...
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For several powerful memoirs by young women who survived and courageous spoke out after sexual assault, we highly recommend "Know My Name: A Memoir" (https://www.amightygirl.com/know-my-name), "Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir" (https://www.amightygirl.com/notes-on-a-silencing), and "I Have The Right To" (https://www.amightygirl.com/i-have-the-right-to), recommended for older teens and adults
The 15-year-old victim's mother had made her own appeal directly to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on the BBC: "If it was your daughter, your niece, your son, your nephew, your family member, would you be happy? You're in a position of power to help, so please help."
Two girls came forward. They told the truth. And the system told them their truth wasn't enough.
To every survivor reading this: we hear you. We believe you. And we are not going to stop until the law does too.
--> To sign a petition calling for an investigation into Judge Nicholas Rowland and the introduction of judicial accountability framework, visit https://www.change.org/.../investigate-judge-nicholas...
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For several powerful memoirs by young women who survived and courageous spoke out after sexual assault, we highly recommend "Know My Name: A Memoir" (https://www.amightygirl.com/know-my-name), "Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir" (https://www.amightygirl.com/notes-on-a-silencing), and "I Have The Right To" (https://www.amightygirl.com/i-have-the-right-to), recommended for older teens and adults
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To start teaching children -- girls and boys alike -- from a young age about the need to respect others and their personal boundaries, we recommend "Let's Talk About Body Boundaries, Consent, and Respect" for ages 4 to 7 (https://www.amightygirl.com/body-boundaries) and "My Body! What I Say Goes!" for ages 3 to 6 (https://www.amightygirl.com/my-body)
For older kids, check out the excellent "Consent (for Kids!)" for ages 6 to 10 at https://www.amightygirl.com/consent-for-kids
There is also a helpful guide for teens on topics such as consent and coercion, "Real Talk About Sex and Consent: What Every Teen Needs to Know," for ages 13 and up at https://www.amightygirl.com/real-talk-about-sex-and-consent
For fictional stories that address rape and sexual violence and offer a helpful way to spark conversations with young adult readers around sexual assault, we recommend "Speak" for ages 14 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/speak), "Girl Made of Stars" for ages 14 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/girl-made-of-stars), and "The Way I Used To Be" for ages 15 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/the-way-i-used-to-be)
If you know a teen girl struggling after sexual abuse or trauma, “The Sexual Trauma Workbook for Teen Girls: A Guide to Recovery from Sexual Assault and Abuse” may help at https://www.amightygirl.com/sexual-trauma-workbook-girls
To read more about this case in the BBC, visit https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2117685lwo
Thanks to My Voice, My Choice for sharing this image!
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To start teaching children -- girls and boys alike -- from a young age about the need to respect others and their personal boundaries, we recommend "Let's Talk About Body Boundaries, Consent, and Respect" for ages 4 to 7 (https://www.amightygirl.com/body-boundaries) and "My Body! What I Say Goes!" for ages 3 to 6 (https://www.amightygirl.com/my-body)
For older kids, check out the excellent "Consent (for Kids!)" for ages 6 to 10 at https://www.amightygirl.com/consent-for-kids
There is also a helpful guide for teens on topics such as consent and coercion, "Real Talk About Sex and Consent: What Every Teen Needs to Know," for ages 13 and up at https://www.amightygirl.com/real-talk-about-sex-and-consent
For fictional stories that address rape and sexual violence and offer a helpful way to spark conversations with young adult readers around sexual assault, we recommend "Speak" for ages 14 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/speak), "Girl Made of Stars" for ages 14 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/girl-made-of-stars), and "The Way I Used To Be" for ages 15 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/the-way-i-used-to-be)
If you know a teen girl struggling after sexual abuse or trauma, “The Sexual Trauma Workbook for Teen Girls: A Guide to Recovery from Sexual Assault and Abuse” may help at https://www.amightygirl.com/sexual-trauma-workbook-girls
To read more about this case in the BBC, visit https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2117685lwo
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Very disturbing.
I normally agree with juvenile leniency, but does not seem appropriate here for 2 reasons.
One is that rape is not a juvenile crime, but clearly an adult crime.
The other is that they distribute the video, showing a psychotic lack of empathy or remorse.