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Title: The MN .gov shutdown just got serious
Post by: 41magsnub on July 13, 2011, 01:44:48 PM
http://www.startribune.com/politics/blogs/125490398.html (http://www.startribune.com/politics/blogs/125490398.html)

"Beer" is being pulled off the shelves!
Title: Re: The MN .gov shutdown just got serious
Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on July 13, 2011, 01:48:14 PM
riots start yet?
Title: Re: The MN .gov shutdown just got serious
Post by: zxcvbob on July 13, 2011, 01:57:48 PM
http://www.startribune.com/politics/blogs/125490398.html (http://www.startribune.com/politics/blogs/125490398.html)

"Beer" is being pulled off the shelves!

You scared me for a minute there.  Then I saw that it was only Coors and Miller  [barf]
Title: Re: The MN .gov shutdown just got serious
Post by: CNYCacher on July 13, 2011, 02:14:24 PM
So they are too shutdown to fail to renew the licence but not too shutdown to enforce the law?
Title: Re: The MN .gov shutdown just got serious
Post by: vaskidmark on July 13, 2011, 02:28:49 PM
To horse!  On to Minnesota.

If we get there in tme and offer to buy the beer at a discount (hey, 10 cents on the dollar is better better than no cents on the dollar, right?) we might be able to prevent all those retailers from going into bankruptcy, as well as preventing the breweries from laying off scores of folks who cannot get unemployment insurance since the offices where they would apply are already closed.

Why, we'd be actual heroes!

stay safe.
Title: Re: The MN .gov shutdown just got serious
Post by: HankB on July 13, 2011, 02:32:02 PM
They're too shut down to accept checks and process licenses to sell a product they'll collect taxes on, but they're not too shut down to keep a spokeman for the Department of Public Safety on the job???

So they need papers to stay in business . . . but the state isn't issuing papers. Didn't Chicago get spanked by SCOTUS on their gun law that required handguns to be registered, but they were refusing to register handguns? Sort of similar, in a way . . .
Title: Re: The MN .gov shutdown just got serious
Post by: roo_ster on July 13, 2011, 02:48:49 PM
You scared me for a minute there.  Then I saw that it was only Coors and Miller  [barf]

That is beer?  More like bumping uglies in a canoe.
Title: Re: The MN .gov shutdown just got serious
Post by: Brad Johnson on July 13, 2011, 02:56:41 PM
Hmmm... the state refused to honor the renewal, and included payment, because the check was too big?  That's like the power company saying "we can't take payment for your $90 light bill because you sent us $100." 

Refusal of payment for incomplete renewal documentation or violations of licensing is one thing.  Refusal of payment because the check is too big is another.  Sounds like MillerCoors has an ironclad case for, at the very least, monetary damages based on loss of sales and legal fees.

I see this one getting resolved PDQ as it's a massive public relations disaster for the .gov.

Brad
Title: Re: The MN .gov shutdown just got serious
Post by: TechMan on July 13, 2011, 05:10:10 PM
That is beer?  More like bumping uglies in a canoe.

To be fair 41magsnub did put the word beer in quotes.
Title: Re: The MN .gov shutdown just got serious
Post by: seeker_two on July 13, 2011, 05:50:18 PM
I have an idea.....does anyone have a 18-wheeler, a Trans-Am, and a basset hound handy?.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_and_the_Bandit#Plot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_and_the_Bandit#Plot)


 =D
Title: Re: The MN .gov shutdown just got serious
Post by: geronimotwo on July 13, 2011, 09:18:29 PM
Hmmm... the state refused to honor the renewal, and included payment, because the check was too big?  That's like the power company saying "we can't take payment for your $90 light bill because you sent us $100." 

[miller rep]"tha last agent said to ALWAYS add an extra 100k!"
Title: Re: The MN .gov shutdown just got serious
Post by: Fly320s on July 13, 2011, 09:28:00 PM
Sounds like they just created a run on Miller products.

I wonder... do any other products sold in MN require a branding license?
Title: Re: The MN .gov shutdown just got serious
Post by: RoadKingLarry on July 13, 2011, 11:50:39 PM
I have an idea.....does anyone have a 18-wheeler, a Trans-Am, and a basset hound handy?.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_and_the_Bandit#Plot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_and_the_Bandit#Plot)


 =D

Those things will be easy, but can you come up with at least 2 working 23 channel CB radios?
Title: Re: The MN .gov shutdown just got serious
Post by: White Horseradish on July 14, 2011, 01:00:11 AM
Those things will be easy, but can you come up with at least 2 working 23 channel CB radios?

I have that in my garage. Thing is, I'm in MN...

Trade them for beer?
Title: Re: The MN .gov shutdown just got serious
Post by: RevDisk on July 14, 2011, 01:32:20 AM
Folks wonder why I keep a two case reserve in the closet. 
Title: Re: The MN .gov shutdown just got serious
Post by: seeker_two on July 14, 2011, 09:45:59 AM
Those things will be easy, but can you come up with at least 2 working 23 channel CB radios?

That's easy.....go to any Pilot or Flying J truck stop...they have cases of them.....with whip antennas and matching fuzzy dice.....  =D
Title: Re: The MN .gov shutdown just got serious
Post by: CNYCacher on July 14, 2011, 09:55:08 AM
Folks wonder why I keep a two case reserve in the closet. 

I don't wonder that.

I do wonder just how many products this applies to, and just how damn big your closet is!  :laugh:
Title: Re: The MN .gov shutdown just got serious
Post by: RevDisk on July 14, 2011, 11:40:11 AM
I don't wonder that.

I do wonder just how many products this applies to, and just how damn big your closet is!  :laugh:

Quite a few.  And quite large, surprisingly.  I'm working on reorganizing it, starting to look pretty good
Title: Re: The MN .gov shutdown just got serious
Post by: bedlamite on July 14, 2011, 05:54:29 PM
Quite a few.  And quite large, surprisingly.  I'm working on reorganizing it, starting to look pretty good

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Title: Re: The MN .gov shutdown just got serious
Post by: RoadKingLarry on July 15, 2011, 12:33:18 AM
That's easy.....go to any Pilot or Flying J truck stop...they have cases of them.....with whip antennas and matching fuzzy dice.....  =D

Those would be the "new" 40 channel versions.