Judge rules against Michigan over wine shipments

03 Oct 2008 No Comments

by ryanin Michigan, News Tags: , ,

The state prohibits out-of-state retailers from shipping wine straight to Michigan consumers _ unless the retailers have a location in Michigan and are a part of a three-tier regulatory system.

A federal judge in Detroit earlier this week declared Michigan’s law unconstitutional for discriminating against out-of-state retailers.

Woo hoo! Wonder if they’ll appeal.

WOODTV.com

How to Identify a potential Facebook friend from West Michigan

07 Jun 2008 No Comments

by ryanin Michigan Tags: ,

  • Status update includes the words “God, family, Dutch, coupon,” or “homosexual”.
  • Misspelled  interests which include “religioun, privalege” or obscene amounts of exclamation points.
  • Profile picture is of the newest child, the latest death, church steeple, or deer head.
  • Education includes a high school with the word “Christan” or county name in title.
  • Current job contains the words “farm”, “pastor”, “shift”, or “laid off”.
  • The person’s last name contains vowel combinations pronounceable only by descendants f Central-Northern Europeans.
  • Attended either of the following colleges: Hope, Calvin, Western, or Grand Valley.

There's a Surprise – Granholm calls for seating Democratic delegates

05 Mar 2008 1 Comment

by ryanin Michigan, Politics, Rants Tags: , , ,

The governors of Michigan and Florida are saying it’s increasingly important that delegates from the two states be seated.

Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm and Florida Governor Charlie Crist say it’s “reprehensible” the voices of 5.2 million people who voted in the two primaries would be silenced.

They say it’s “intolerable” that the Democratic National Committee has stripped the states of their delegates for moving up their primaries in violation of DNC rules. [emph mine]

No, Governors, what’s reprehensible is both of you placing those delegates in jeopardy in the first place. Pretending the rules don’t apply to you is intolerable. It’s almost as if this was all a political gamble to pocket some delegates for your candidate.

The thing that chafes my butt about the entire drama is that this was done in flagrant violation of known rules. The DNC had told both states not to do what they went ahead and did anyway. And now, when it’s dire for Hillary Clinton, now the delegates in Michigan will go to the only candidate who, by an amazing co-incidence, was the only Democrat on the ballot.

It all stinks and none of either states’ delegates should be seated.

Governors of Michigan, Fla. call for seating Democratic delegates

Oh, Come ON: Schembechler Day?

31 Jan 2008 No Comments

by ryanin Ann Arbor, Politics Tags: , , , ,

Good to see some old fashioned pandering going on at the State capital. Rebekah Warren (D-Ann Arbor) has proposed “Bo Schembechler Day” as  an official State day (whatever that means). It would be the same day as the first UM football home game (natch), as if that day isn’t already a High Holy Day in AA already.

Bo’s was a nice guy and all, but I think the hero worship angle is pretty well covered at this point.

WOODTV.com – Schembechler might get own official day in Michigan

Free the Grapes!: To Ensure Consumer Choice in Fine Wine

21 Jan 2008 2 Comments

by ryanin Vice Tags: , , ,

Personnel bookmark. Why is this country so damned uptight about alcohol?

Free the Grapes!: To Ensure Consumer Choice in Fine Wine

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