Beer is Good For Your Constitution

When I first moved here there were two kinds of beer drinkers in Cheboygan, the Pabst drinkers and the Stroh's drinkers. I was one of the Stroh's drinkers because it was the closest thing I could find to what I used to drink in Germany. Of course it didn't have the alcohol content of German beer, but it was the closest in taste. The German beer sold in the U.S. may be made in Germany, but they make a watered down version for export, and I thought that Stroh's tasted more like real German beer than the German made beer that was sold in the U.S. The Stroh's company was eventually bought out by Miller, I don't know what became of Pabst. After that, it got harder and harder to find Stroh's around here, and I assumed that Miller had discontinued the brand, so I switched to Milwaukee's Best, which is also a Miller product. I guess Pabst and Stroh's are still around, but not around here. I have never seen a restaurant that carries Milwaukee's Best, so I usually order Miller Genuine Draft when I'm dining out. I don't care much for the craft beers because they are more expensive and usually the wrong color. Call me a bigot if you want to, but I believe that the only beer worth drinking is yellow beer.

I have read more than once that the Founding Fathers of our great nation drank a lot of beer in their day. Some sources claim that was because most of the water in those days wasn't fit to drink, but I think it was just because they liked it. I don't have the exact quote at my fingertips, but  Benjamin Franklin is known to have said that beer is proof that God loves man and wants him to be happy. If you drink a lot of beer on a regular basis, you build up a tolerance so that it hardly ever makes you drunk. I never did drink with the intention of getting drunk anyway, I drank beer because I liked it and, if I ever got drunk, it was by accident. After I recovered from my bleeding ulcer back in 2008, I resumed drinking beer, but I cut my consumption by two thirds. The beer may not have caused the ulcer, but according to the doctor, it certainly didn't do it any good. I would rather limit myself to two beers a day than give it up entirely, and I haven't had a sick day since.

I know you don't care much for the constitution but, like it or not, it is the supreme law of the land. Everybody who is elected to federal office and everybody who joins the military takes an oath to preserve and defend it, and there's probably a reason for that. Without the constitution the government people could do anything that they wanted to. You may think that would be all right when the Democrats are in power, but what about when the Republicans take over? So what if the Founding Fathers may have been a little drunk when they wrote it? All that proves is that they had the good sense to realize that people like themselves should not be trusted with unlimited power.