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[EndtheMadnessNow]

Take an extra shot of whatever tonight...Prohibition was over, 90 years ago today:


The Twenty-first Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide prohibition on alcohol. It was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 5, 1933. It is unique among the 27 amendments of the U.S. Constitution for being the only one to repeal a prior amendment, as well as being the only amendment to have been ratified by state ratifying conventions.

List of states that ratified & rejected the amendment.



Wiki (lengthy bio)

Happy Days are Here Again!

Based upon an event that occured in the United States in 1933, many now celebrate 7 April as National Beer Day.

That day, after more than thirteen dry years of national Prohibition, the manufacturing, distribution, importation, and sale of beer again became legal in the United States.

Well, sort, of. There was a 'small' beer catch. Prohibition, per se, remained in effect.

The 18th Amendment to the Constitution never explicitly outlawed beer, wine, or liquor. Rather, it prohibited the "the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors" [emphasis mine]. To define what that meant, Congress passed additional 'enabling' legislation, the principal bill of which was the National Prohibition Act (commonly known as the Volstead Act, after the Congressman who wrote it). In it, Congress defined "intoxicating liquors" as ANY beverages containing 0.5% alcohol-by-weight or more. All such beverages became illegal on 20 January 1920, the day the 18th Amendment took effect.

Thirteen-plus dry years later, Congress didn't actually legalize beer but, prodded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, simply altered beer's parameters upward. (Roosevelt's campaign planks had included a promise to Repeal Prohibition.) The legislation it passed, the Cullen–Harrison Act, declared, in effect, that alcoholic beverages of up to 3.2% alcohol-by-weight (abw) —which is the equivalent of 4.05% alcohol-by-volume (abv)2— were now to be considered as "non-intoxicating"! On 22 March 1933, the president signed the bill into law, noting that "I think this would be a good time for a beer." The bill took effect two weeks later, on 7 April.

Unfortunately, stronger beers and alcoholic beverages remained prohibited. It wouldn't be until eight months later, on 5 December 1933, that a majority of states would approve the 21st Amendment, finally revoking federal Prohibition of most alcholic beverages.

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Shortly after midnight, a few miles to the north, Baltimore, Maryland's curmudgeonly scribe, H.L. Mencken, took his first legal sip of beer in thirteen years and un-petulantly declared it, "pretty good —not bad at all." And radio stations across the nation gleefully spun the hit song, Happy Days are Here Again.



So long sad times, so long bad times,
We are rid of you at last.
Howdy gay times! Cloudy gray times,
You are now a thing of the past.

Happy days are here again,
The skies above are clear again.
Let us sing a song of cheer again,
Happy days are here again.

All together, shout it now. There's no one
Who can doubt it now.
So let's tell the world about it now,
Happy days are here again.

Your cares and troubles are gone.
There'll be no more from now on.

Happy days are here again,
The skies above are clear again.
Let us sing a song of cheer again.
Happy days are here again!

Milton Ager (music); Jack Yellen (lyrics). 1929.

The signature song & various renditions of it has been used in many movies/TV shows (notably by Barbra Streisand) and was used for the closing credits in Boardwalk Empire season 5, episode 3 "What Jesus Said".


Never a 'Dud' Moment



Posters That Go Hard...


Repression in America (1977 poster from Oakland Museum of California)

"The Killing of America" is a 1981 documentary of the decline of America by filmmakers Sheldon Renan and Academy Award nominee Leonard Schrader created a graphic and provocative examination of America’s history with – and penchant for – senseless violence, mass shootings from race riots to serial killers and much-much more.


Dec 5, 1986: HEARTBREAK RIDGE, Clint Eastwood's triumphant tale of the Grenada invasion.




"Pretend to be shocked":




LOL. Good luck disclosure dude.



"IF" there's some UAP Reverse Engineering happening in Suffolk, VA, those engineers are very lucky... not just for their groundbreaking work, but also because they're right next to a Riverstone Chophouse!




Disclosure go Chop-chop!






Flash Gordon Official Trailer #1 1980.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzFwECV8Kkk


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