Daily Archives: December 28, 2009

TapHunter Presents the Best of Wintertime Beer

December 28, 2009
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TapHunter Presents the Best of Wintertime Beer

Just like the story, The Lost Abbey “Gift of the Magi” winter release beer is a holiday treat. (Courtesy photo) By Jeff Gordon at TapHunter.com Start a fire in the fireplace. Put on your snuggie. Cuddle up with a loved one. Thats right, its winter time here in San Diego. Brrrrrrrrrrr. Need some beer recommendations to combat that chilly 50 degree cold? Youve come to the right place. Weve picked out a few just for you. The following winter release beers are the strong, sometimes dark, cure for the wintertime blues. Local Selections (Local to the West Coast/San Diego area- Prof. GA) Alesmith Yulesmith- An American Red Ale loaded with hops and caramel malt. Karl Strauss To The 9s- An Imperial IPA packed with pine and citrus flavors. Lost Abbey The Gift of the Magi- A Belgian Strong Pale Ale brewed with frankincense & myrrh. Port Santas Little Helper – A black, thick Russian Imperial Stout. Stone Double Bastard Ale – A big aggressive American Strong Ale. The Bruery Two Turtle Doves - A Belgian Strong Dark Ale brewed with cocoa nibs & toasted pecans. Not So Local Selections (To the San Diego area- Prof. GA)

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The Tattlesnake Why the GOP Hates ACORN and the Poor Edition

December 28, 2009
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Remember those ACORN-office videos that a right-wing ringer named James O’Keefe, posing as a pimp, surreptitiously taped with Hannah Giles, a young woman pretending to be his prostitute, that were a media kerfluffle a few months back? Watching them gave me a familiar feeling it was the same feeling I had back in 2003 when glowering TV Doctor Colin Powell, performing at the U.N. Club in New York, shook a vial of white powder in front of the camera and claimed it was Saddam’s Very Own Anthrax. The feeling only increased when ‘Dr.’ Powell produced artist’s renderings of super-secret Iraqi chemical-labs-on-wheels, views that we apparently couldn’t catch photographically from sophisticated spy satellites or aerial reconnaisance overflights because well, he never actually said why. This feeling, as close as I can come to describing it, is akin to doing Houdini’s Chinese Water Torture trick, wherein the master magician was suspended upside-down in a glass-paneled cabinet filled to the top with water — only instead of water, imagine horse manure. The Tattler was wincing with disgust while laughing as I watched geeky white boy O’Keefe, dressed for all the world like Sonny Bono when he had Cher, babe, trying to…

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