The Irish Coffee… there are few drinks as often ordered, and routinely butchered. On its own, it’s a fairly simple cocktail that requires just some basic ingredients. In the hands of far too many people, it runs into the rocks of canned whipped cream, Irish cream, creme de menthe, sprinkles, and/or a cherry on top. Let’s start with the basics, you’ll need good coffee, heavy whipping cream, sugar, and Irish whiskey.
This drink does benefit from a very pretty presentation when pulled off correctly, so if you’ve got an Irish coffee glass, go ahead and start warming it up by filling it with boiling water. There’s about as many recipes and origin stories for this drink as there are Irish pubs in the world, so measurements can (as always) be adjusted to taste.
After your coffee is made, and your glass is warm, dump out the water and put in ~2 teaspoons of sugar (or the equivalent amount of simple syrup), add in your coffee (about 6 ounces, if you’re using a properly sized glass, that should leave enough of a collar for the cream), and stir until dissolved. After that add about 1.5 ounces of Irish Whiskey (I’m partial to Tullamore for this), and then top with the heavy whipping cream just whipped enough to pour like honey (use the spoon you just stirred with to assist with the layering)..
Since we’ve already got the Irish whiskey out, and someone will surely complain if there’s not some green ingredients in a drink. Let’s move on to the Tipperary, a twist on the Bijou (swap out the whiskey for gin for that drink) that goes back to the 1900’s
- 1 part Irish Whiskey
- 1 part Sweet Vermouth
- 1 part Green Chartreuse
- Dash of Bitters
As we’re dealing with a spirit only drink, this gets built over ice, stirred until cold, then strained into a chilled glass. Garnish with an orange twist. The recipe has evolved over time, with most modern incarnations being closer to a 3:2:1 ratio instead of equal parts.
If you must get a drink that involves creme de menthe, let’s at least go with a classic: the Stinger.
- 2 part cognac
- 1 part white creme de menthe
Build this over ice, stir to chill, then strain over crushed ice. The variants of the drink will be based on what you use for the base spirit to replace the cognac (as an example, swap out the cognac with Irish Cream, change it to a 1:1 ratio, and you have an Irish Stinger). If you must… you can use the green creme de menthe, which won’t change the flavor, but will definitely affect the color of the drink. Since this was originally an upper class drink, make sure to drink it with your pinkies out.
way to ruin perfectly good cognac.
Also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7uIRg3bL54
Agreed. At least use some cheap-ass brandy.
You want to argue with the Vanderbilts?
If I meet one i’ll kick they ass…
Start with the dingus on CNN.
Agreed to this “I’m partial to Tullamore for this”…for the coffee that is. Alone, I will pass.
The silly thing about vermouth is it goes bad fairly quick so why not bottle it in smaller bottles like 200 ml? I blame capitalism they make you take a big bottle and you throw away half and get another.
Here it’s pretty easy to find the bottles in various sizes. I usually stick with the 375 ml bottles.
Yup. I just got 12oz. bottles of Carpano Antics and Mt. Defiance sweet vermouth. I’m starting to develop a taste for the stuff.
Not at the rate I go through it.
for me a 700 ml standard bottle would last like 8-9 months
700mL?
Is that some sort of commie thing?
And he’s doling it out a half-dram at a time.
all the amercan whisky bottles I have are in metric. I aint never seen no “fifth” printed on a bottle
1/5 gal x 3785ml/gal = 757 ml. Metric cheats us out of 7 ml!
you mean 57
Most bottles here are 750 ml
here wine is 750, liquor is 700
https://bauturialcoolice.ro/rittenhouse-straight-rye-whisky-bottled-in-bond-0-7l
0.7L
Liquor here primarily comes in 750mL bottles (sometimes called fifths, but not so much anymore) and 1.75L called “handles.”
1L bottles also exist, though are less common except at Duty-free shops.
1L bottle exist here as well. I had a 1L bottle of wild turkey 101 for example
1.75L called “handles.”
I buy these every now and then.
I buy Jim Beam and Christian Bros. in handles.
I’d buy Rittenhouse that way if my liquor store carried it.
I plow through at least one “handle” of vodka a week.
Same here. I buy it in the 1.5L size.
Do we need an intervention?
Learn to like Vermouth by itself.
Problem solved.
no. it sucks.
also this reminds me of Bill Murry in ground day
Sláinte agus saol agat
?? ☘️ ?? ? ??
origin stories for this drink as there are Irish pubs in the world
So a lot of blarney about authenticity from faux bro[gue]s.
The truth is always, like an Irish pub, but a stone’s throw away.
Dogs will break your heart.
FUCK
Uh oh.
UOK?
Yeah hope that is a “they got into the trash can and I scolded them only to be met with sad puppy dog face” and not anything more.
This doesn’t sound good.
🙁
oh man,
And you wouldn’t give up a moment with one just to avoid the broken heart.
This times a zillion.
Sorry.
I know the feeling well. Sorry.
?
Thanks everyone
It just going to be a shitty night.
Sorry, Zwak. Obviously if there’s anything we can do, just ask.
Sorry, I hope you’re better soon.
zwak – we might all be drunk later tonight but we are all here to help in anyway we can.
My heart (and Mrs JI’s) is with you.
Damn, I’m sorry Zwak.
For some reason, many of the strip club DJs of New Orleans’ French Quarter took to drinking Green Chartreuse on their breaks and after work (the dancers almost exclusively drank shared Mind Erasers). Consequently, the bar at which I worked has a plaque congratulating us for selling more Green Chartreuse in 2002 than any other bar on Earth.
l0b0t…you are first person that has information about almost anything that I never felt was a “one upper”. Your knowledge and life anecdotes of all things is truly amazing.
Drinks to Culturally Appropriate the March holiday
1) Green food coloring.
2) Miller Lite.
Killian’s Red? Do they still make that? I enjoyed it but had to disregard it as it gave me the wind something fierce.
I believe it’s part of the MolsonCoors family, which was shut down the other day due to a hack.
Most of our local breweries will do up an Irish red and a dry stout for March.
Hm.
I choose foods based on their ability to clear a room in the way out.
Nothing gives me greater joy than having full control of locking the car windows so I can have all the Dutch Ovens I want.
*takes note not to ever get in an enclosed space with muzzled*
Friends needs not worry.
Mostly just the wife and kids. But that doesn’t mean you won’t get caught in the wrong spot every once in a while.
I was working on a job in Green Bay many years ago and I went to lunch with the consulting engineer on the job and his client, our prospective customer. The consulting engineer ripped a non-silent-and-also-deadly and didn’t bother to roll the windows down–I was in the back seat and the child lock was engaged. It was early September and still quite hot out. He acted like it was nothing but the client and I were turning green.
Always fun.
Sounds like something that would cost you a client.
Idk. I like it but haven’t gotten it in a while.
In all seriousness I am trying to get some Smithwicks for Paddy’s Day.
When I worked in the dining hall as an undergrad, I was always terrified to work the tray return on Green Beer Day. (The U always scheduled spring break to coincide with St. Patrick’s Day, but somehow that failed to prevent Green Beer Day.)
Our choice for green beer back in the day was Miller Genuine Draft
For some reason, the grocery store is selling green bread.
and ham?
They always sell ham.
I assume that “corned beef sandwich” just isn’t “Irish” enough. But who is having a St. Paddy’s party a week in advance?
One local brewery is giving away green pancakes on Wednesday for donations to charity.
How many charities are going to serve green pancakes to their clients? I mean, really.
That’s just the mold, don’t buy it.
Now, this is how you redneck.
is it just me or does the redneck look vaguely Asian?
Between TX and LA, there are a LOT of Vietnamese rednecks.
One of them was even on Big Brother – https://bigbrother.fandom.com/wiki/James_Huling
There is a Lao family that runs a donut shop that we frequent here. They have thrown themselves into the N. Lousiana culture, they have pictures of them fishing and wearing Real Wood camo clothes and the like. I think it is pretty cool.
maybe Lao also fish.
The Camo clothing and driving big pickups is the tell that it is N. LA culture. Unless there is a redneck culture in Laos that I don’t know about.
there is a redneck culture everywhere… there are variations off course but rednecks are adaptable, the move country they switch culture variations
Well I suppose, but the manner in which redneck culture presents itself and the cultural markers (clothes, vehicles etc.) will likely be different. The SE US’ redneck culture has its own unique markers.
My inlaws from east of the Iron Curtain are rednecks in spirit, but I call them peasants.
Alaska redneck culture shares the big pickups, but also features lots of long beards, flannel, fur hats, boots and guns – lots and lots of guns, frequently openly carried.
That reminds me, I heard that in the Bad Times in Romania, one of the few western television shows that Ceaușescu permitted was ‘Dallas’ (because he liked it) and as a result, there was or is a Romanian Cowboy sub-culture. I have no idea if that is accurate or not. Any insights?
if there was I never saw it. So I doubt it.
That is a little disappointing. Romanian Cowboy culture would be interesting.
Romanian cowboys?
Close enough for government work.
NOLA has some amazing Vietnamese restaurants and French/Vietnamese bakeries resulting from the Asian immigration as well.
I suppose that follows, what with the whole French Indochina thing.
Bahn Mi FTW!
That is now my son’s favorite meal from a Vietnamese restaurants.
Hell yes, Ban Mi and Pho are amazeballs
The whole gulf coast does.
My dad was one of the guys who built the massive tent city at Eglin AFB to temporarily house Vietnamese refugees at the end of the war.
Hank Hill agrees.
‘Murica. Hell yeah!
From the comments:
Nowadays though, they should have used a Woka-Cola truck.
Beautiful.
Creme De Minthe and no Grasshopper?!
That’s the one where you have to snatch the pebble from the drink before you slam it back, right?
I don’t now where that person is from but it should be nuked
is the accent exaggerated for comedic purposes or do people sound like that?
Ever see That ’70s Show, esp. Bob Pinciotti?
I have seen some back in the day but do not remember much. mila kunis was hot though.
E.g.: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=93eK2vUTIZE
“Hey there! Hi there! Ho there!”
That 70s Show is in the running for all time favorite TV show.
Scrubs was another great one.
And it’s depressing to think that we’re now further removed from the 90s than the 90s were from the 70s.
Only 2 deceased cast members from ’70s.
Never saw Scrubs but I can name 3 of the actors.
One of my favorites is Married with Children… yet another show that couldn’t be made today. I’ve been watching it with the wife and she left out a gasp (followed by laughter) when Al made some kind of whale joke to an annoying fat woman involving a harpoon. That kind of humor is just verboten today.
Agreed.
I was just coming of age with MWC, so it’s hard to gauge much if it because I didn’t understand so much of it.
For you.
I needed those laughs today, thanks tundra.
Damn, I’d forgotten about that show. Back when television was sometimes entertaining.
My mom used to drink those like they were going out of style (NARRATOR: They were already out of style).
I was thinking of her, and her tipple of choice, when I looked up the recipe and discovered that the drink was supposedly invented at Tujague’s, a 165-year old restaurant in NOLA’s French Quarter.
If you’re stuck in the Quarter for some reason, go there for lunch. I’m partial to the courtbouillon, myself.
1st anniversary of house arrest.
45th anniversary of marriage.
should we guess which is worse?
Still no parole?
Congrats! On the latter, of course.
Damn, I wouldn’t be to that milestone even with the first wife – congrats. You must’ve done an OMWC and gone the child-bride route.
Congrats, man. The latter is an awesome accomplishment.
Congratulations on 45 years of marriage.
1st Anniversary of the stupidity is tomorrow in NH.
I’m dating the stupidity from the beginning of the state of emergency. Locking down and shutting down businesses came later.
house arrest.
The world is spoiling my mood today.
One year ago, we got halfway to our vacation in southern Mississippi only to find out the event we were going to was cancelled. We stopped for the night, then turned around. The weather was hideous even for March when we got back. So that week of vacation was totally lost.
First day back to work lasted about 3 hours, before the company sent us home.
Other than the Honey Harvest, it has been a year without social gatherings.
Lately, I’ve started calling the covid lockdowns, house arrest.
Two more weeks, K, and I can celebrate as well, well, as well as any other person my age. Your mead was the hit of the HH, several folks have been asking if you are returning again. I answer for you and I see a smile cross their face(s).
https://www.lawnchairusa.com/
Opinions?
Had enough of that shit in the 80s.
Someone stole a plastic chair off my front porch yesterday. That has to be the worst value to volume theft ever.
Haven’t heard of them specifically but I dig the retro Wonder Years / Edward Scissorhands look.
That brings back memories. My parents were so cheap that we kids had to refurbish those chairs with new webbing. Of course I do the same thing with the chairs I have now. Some habits are hard to break.
You’re the only other person I’ve ever heard of who had to re-web those things growing up.
There’s a lot of things in my childhood that I thought were normal at the time…
That makes 3 of us.
We did, too. Why would you throw away something so easily fixed?
That’s 5 of us.
6
7
And…I also still possess the outlawed, hard to find, OG lawn darts- JARTS
I had to rub Mom’s feet. :puke:
I recall my Grandpa re-webbing his similar lawn chairs. We didn’t have that style, if I remember. I imagine those chairs kept the Pop Rivet company in business for a while.
Well now we know what happens to kids whose parents do this…
Two thumbs up.
One for the Made in America.
And one for the cool retro chairs.
-1 thumb for $60 + for a chair you could get from Ben Franklin back in the day for $9.99
“Ben Franklin” Now that’s a trip down Memory Lane.
I’m not a fan of those foldable camp chairs that go into a tube bag. Retro folding chairs all the way.
We have these. Much better.
Have these people met americans?
I’m more of a motel chair man myself.
Irish Car Bomb for me, please.
insensitive
Depends on how well the triggering mechanism is built.
They may have invented the technique, but the Arabs took it an ran; developing it into an abhorrent art form. IIRC, the Irish also gave the world the drive-by shooting and kneecapping, so they can still hold their heads high.
The Italians were pretty good at it too… not just the mob. The Years of Lead were an interesting time to be Italian. Not in a good way.
Some yutes insisted on ordering one of those at an Irish pub I used to frequent. The bartender after attempting to dissuade them, finally acquiesced and poured the drink for them… then charged them for a full pour of each component.
Heh
I made an Irish Car Bomb Pie once. I got the recipe out of BeerAdvocate magazine. It was pretty good.
I’ve made that same pie. It was a hit at the party we brought it to.
I do get them from time to time. I usually have to be a few drinks in though.
*hurls*
No, you *hurl* a Molotov Cocktail.
Irish hurling.
In the hands of far too many people, it runs into the rocks of canned whipped cream, Irish cream, creme de menthe, sprinkles, and/or a cherry on top.
Ick.
After your coffee is made, and your glass is warm, dump out the water and put in ~2 teaspoons of sugar (or the equivalent amount of simple syrup), add in your coffee (about 6 ounces, if you’re using a properly sized glass, that should leave enough of a collar for the cream), and stir until dissolved. After that add about 1.5 ounces of Irish Whiskey (I’m partial to Tullamore for this), and then top with the heavy whipping cream just whipped enough to pour like honey (use the spoon you just stirred with to assist with the layering)..
The local Irish pub makes their Irish coffee this way. A new bartender came from a place that made Irish Coffee with Bailey’s instead of whiskey and whipped cream. I ordered an Irish coffee while she was working. I wasn’t at the bar like I usually was, so this probably jinxed things. My waitress came over and said the bartender screwed up and made my Irish coffee with Bailey’s. I said I didn’t care, I’d drink it anyway. I like coffee and Bailey’s.
someone will surely complain if there’s not some green ingredients in a drink.
I won’t.
If your beer is green, send it back.
Even the Berliner mit Woodruff?
dang it.
Yes, there might be one exception.
One.
There was a collaboration four pack released here of a Berliner Weisse, two cans with raspberry, two cans with woodruff. I picked up several of the four packs while it was available.
Great cocktail article as usual Nep. The Irish coffee has become a favorite for my wife and I when we get visitors for the weekend. One or two to start off the night is a great base for interesting conversations.
She follows your recipe but with brown sugar. Occasionally there is a nutmeg or dark coco dusting on the whipped cream.
From the Fourth Profession by Larry Niven.
“There aren’t many bars that will keep the makings for Irish coffee handy. It’s too much trouble. You need massive quantities of whipping cream and ground coffee, a refrigerator, a blender, a supply of those glass figure-eight-shaped coffee perkers, a line of hot plates, and—most expensive of all—room behind the bar for all of that. You learn to keep a line of glasses ready, which means putting the sugar in them at spare moments to save time later. Those spare moments are your smoking time, so you give that up. You learn not to wave your arms around because there are hot things that can burn you. You learn to half-whip the cream, a mere spin of the blender, because you have to do it over and over again, and if you overdo it the cream turns to butter.
There aren’t many bars that will go to all that trouble. That’s why it pays off. Your average Irish coffee addict will drive an extra twenty minutes to reach the Long Spoon. He’ll also down the drink in about five minutes, because otherwise it gets cold. He’d have spent half an hour over a Scotch and soda.”
There’s a reason I usually make them at home (with the exception of a couple of local places).
I love that story. It should be a movie. I guess there would need to be more “action”.
“one or two to start off the night is a great base for interesting conversations.”
Look at Mr. Swinger over here.
Just in time for the weekend. Thanks Neph!
weekend no longer makes sense in quarantine
I’m not in charge of the scheduling, just the writing.
Live by the horde, die by the horde.
https://www.oann.com/portland-mayor-seeks-funding-for-police-after-police-budget-slashed-last-year/
that is racist to tauren
Irish coffee, drunk many times at the Sierra Vista. Locals knew where the back room was so you didn’t have to sit with the tourists.
When we make it, we always use a French roast, sugar cubes (not powdered or simple syrup), and Jameson’s.
When we make it – why?
Why do Italians drink caffe coretto?
because Italian coffee culture sucks?
Italy was the one place where we could even get excellent coffee at the truck stops.
I like light roast specialty coffee usually acidic African stuff, Kenya being my fave as such I do not like Italian coffee and think Italy is one of the worse European countries for coffee because they are so proud of their stuff you don;t find alternatives
Vienna is the same.
Now Amsterdam that is where you get good coffee (no, I do not mean so meting else, I mean coffee)
That being said, italy is improving the last few years
I like the whole coffee service the Dutch do. Usually a nice tray with a copper pot, a lovely china cup, and a few nibbles.
I like light roast specialty coffee usually acidic African stuff, Kenya being my fave
I knew I liked you, PITS. I’m a little more broad-minded – I’ll go with Ethiopian coffee also.
Oddly, my other favorite region for coffee is pretty much at the other end of the taste spectrum – South Pacific coffee – Sumatra, Java, etc. Medium dark roast.
Some of the best coffee I’ve ever had was in Amsterdam. A Java, if memory serves.
Tourists in Sierra Vista…. that wasn’t a thing I remember from my time in Fort Huck-a-Chuck-a.
THE Sierra Vista. Major tourist trap, but… damn, it’s a delicious drink.
That is a joint in PHX-metro?
No, it’s a cafe in San Francisco which claims to be the place that brought it to the US.
Okay, because the town of Sierra Vista is a sort of cruddy Joe town full of military retirees and trainees making fools of themselves downtown.
[snort] downtown SIerra Vista? Which strip mall is that?
Awhile back I had a post on trying to get past the negativity. Had a good morning for that this morning on my drive in. We had some clouds blowing through with just a light drizzle from a few of them. It was sunny for me, and my timing was perfect to get the right angle of the sun for rainbows. Outside of my trip to Panama, I have never seen so many rainbows in one go, including probably the brightest one I have ever seen. As I was driving, no pics, sorry. Great start to the day.
I’m about 10 days into reducing the amount of time I spend on my phone. The bad is that it’s reduces my time on glibs. The good is that it reduces my stress/negativity level and increases my energy.
It’s easy to make excuses these days and not get out into the world. Living life is the antidote to the totalitarian BS.
I am committed to a minimum 4 mile walk every day. It helps immensely.
I’m also trying to spend more time with actual people in real life.
I’ve been fortunate that I have come to the office every day throughout this mess (and, of course, that I like my job and my colleagues), so my actual people/real life hasn’t been reduced that much.
Silver lining: due to the stupid gym restrictions, Mrs. Dean put together a nice home gym in our garage, and for the first time in decades I’m getting some exercise in every day. I’ll skip Saturday, because I’m going to the range, and last time I went my hands are shaky, which I think was due to my arms and shoulders being stressed/tired from the morning workout. I may make Saturday leg day (squats *waves at Warty*, lunges, and box steps), and see how that works
I’ve really enjoyed lifting at my speakeasy gym. The guys are cool and no goddamn masks.
People suck. Spend more time with dogs.
Dogs suck. They bite Secret Service agents and frighten a confused old man.
Secret service agents suck. Dogs bite them because dogs are awesome.
This. Biting government people is free speech.
I pick up mine in nine days!
Is your secret service agent a rescue or did you go the breeder route?
you get a secret service agent?
the risk of making the obvious joke is that someone can beat you to the punch
I heard that SS agents are difficult to house train. Make sure to get plenty of pee pads.
Sheesh. Tell me about it.
A href =”https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Lily-41-days-old-scaled.jpg”>This fuzzball
Ever get so excited about picking up your new puppy you fuck up your HTML?
Pssh. Like I’m going to go all the way to Columbia.
Is Lily a golden?
There used to be a restaurant in Boise (was either HaPenny Bridge or where Bone Fish Grill is now, both gone) that served a Hot Irish Nut, Irish coffee with Frangelico. Was very good.
Funny story from work. An engineer received a call from a contractor who was concerned about sagging in one of the trusses we designed. It’s supposed to have allowable deflection of a 1/2″ under load but had deflected over two inches under its own weight. The engineer asked for pictures and discovered the truss was missing webbing…..
Turns out the client wanted to hold a ceremony after erection was complete and had a guy saw off a pair of web members from the middle of the truss so he and the other principles could sign them and have them welded back on.
So he put a guy in a man lift to spend some time cutting them off, brought them down to be signed, then back up in the man lift to do welding way off the floor. All to save having to get into the manlift himself. Makes sense.
That’s some quality comedy–I could see that as a G.O.B. Bluth move.
I’d guessed they were on the ground at the time, but that’s even dumber and therefore probably true.
Isn’t removing structural components the preferred method to determine necessity? How else are you going to determine which walls are loading bearing in your house for example, without removing studs?
Just like in WWII, they figured out what parts of an airplane were necessary by letting the Germans shoot them up and seeing which ones returned to base.
Fucking prick engineer.
I don’t mind being talked down to, but if you’ve failed to elicit a response by email after hours it might be a better idea to give me a call rather than sending another, prissier email.
well, that sucks. Especially after hours on a Friday.
I remember my wife’s first St Patrick Day here. She was like ‘Hey, I want to go to this place to drink green beer!’. I’m like, well, you know that’s just beer with food coloring in it right? She frowned at me and got that pouty look she gets when I poo poo on any of her great new revelations. ‘No, is green beer! Look here, see green beer!’. And I’m like ‘OK, let’s go drink some green beer’.
Sometimes I think you are my lost twin brother.
30% of us want to kill grammy.
Who is this ‘us’ you speak of? I’ll have you know, US here at Glibs, that’s more like 100%. Because the ones who don’t want to kill Granny by not taking a vaccine, want to kill granny by running her over in a giant gas guzzling SUV or monster truck with machine guns mounted on top.
Getting or not getting the vaccine is like voting or not voting–it only matters to the individual, when you take the entire population into account.
And the magic number for herd immunity is 70%, so no prob. If 70% get vaccinated, the immunity rate will be even higher because of people who have had it, or are baseline immune from it.
Wanna bet Dems start pushing for vaccine passports because FYTW? And don’t think you’ll get out of it for having caught the coof and recovered, no, you’ll need to get jabbed like everyone else.
Tyler Cowen (who I sometimes like, but who’s become disappointing over the years) has excerpted his Bloomberg column entitled “Why vaccination passports probably won’t work well”:
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/03/why-vaccination-passports-probably-wont-work-well.html
It’s a reasonable take on the problems that will come with creating any sort of useful-everywhere-for-all-reasons kinda passport.
Re: Southeast Asian / Louisiana culture mash:
It was New Orleans Vietnamese who (allegedly) came up with Yakamein, for which I am forever grateful.
The dish has gotten a reputation as a hangover helper, but I’ve made it into my go-to winter warmer. Tremendous stuff, and you can tweak the recipe any way you want.
Hangover helper? If you put some Benadryl and Pedialyte in it, sure.
I take a Benadryl and a couple ibuprofen before bed if I’ve drunk a lot. Hangover Hinderer.
Yeah, and lots of Pedialyte.
A friend recently gifted us a subscription to Garden & Gun. I like it – haven’t had magazines delivered to the house for the longest time.
One of Jamie Bernstein’s many projects is the Yakameiniacs. https://youtu.be/rgceOsaSCUg
The cultural appropriation never ends.
So, I’d like to share a snippet of a form letter I received from that asshat Toomey:
Stock up, bitches.
Toomey is a complete POS
Is bone cancer too harsh to wish upon someone?
The judges will allow it.
I like ALS for these kinds of shit heels.
yeah, cancer is pretty nasty. My grandma died of bone cancer, among other kinds.
Is there a link to that text as an official statement anywhere?
It’s an email response to a GOA form letter I sent him regarding Garland and Murthy.
So, no one at his office read the letter.
No surprise.
To be fair, I omitted the first several paragraphs that were related to that topic. I also omitted the final couple too.
I am not sure what they think is going to happen if they pass a gun ban. I am also not sure that they don’t want what is going to happen if they pass a gun ban. I am half convinced they want some kind of catastrophe as a pretense for forcing their will on us. I dont trust these fuckers as far as I can spit.
Well it will certainly spell the end of the Republican party as a major player in national politics. There’s very little reason to keep them around for anything else–the base will split badly. It won’t be a 50-50 split, maybe more like 70-30 on guns, but it’ll be enough that they can never put a majority together again, and good luck trying to elect a Republican President after that.
Well they will get to kill a lot of us and the cops who buy it during raids, and there would certainly be many-invading the houses of heavily armed people who will be rightfully paranoid would be extremely dangerous, will be used as the pretext for more raids. For them it’s a win-win as long as they don’t misjudge the situation too much.
+10000000 drone strikes
+$1000 to Lockheed shares
I assume Cheney, Romney, Collins etc will all also be onboard. The Dems may not even need to scuttle the filibuster to get this passed.
Meanwhile the WSJ editorial board is still blaming Trump for dividing the GOP.
“I also support legislation to fund research at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on firearms safety and gun violence prevention.”
Which particular disease causes gun violence?
Recidivism
I thought they already did and found that guns are used defensively 250,000 to 2,000,000 (or somewhere around that) times per year.
Fuck off.
” finally combat our Nation’s gun violence epidemic.”
Legalize drugs.
No, no, no, every politician knows the right way to do it is to go after the *proximate* cause, that way the untouched *root* cause keeps the problem going a lot longer, allowing more political opportunities to hand out favors to donor blocs who claim to address the new proximate causes.
Shall not etc.
“Civil liberties are subject to reasonable regulation” – HRC, 2016
I received a form letter from my US Representative in response to my sending off something to him from the NRA or GOA. I can’t remember.
I’m not sure why I sent the note off. He is a gun grabber.
“I share your concern about gun violence”
“I care about your opinion.”
They do that to show you who’s the boss and to rub it in.
So much for our (R) senator. Not a surprise from Toomey. I don’t even have to look to know what Casey’s (D) opinion will be. I think it’s time to start making this a one issue vote for any Senator. They need to know >50% of the electorate won’t vote for them next cycle.
17 million guns sold in a year (many first time buyers), through a crisis created by .gov and they think the winning idea is gun control. Oh wait, it doesn’t matter anymore…
Have they forgotten 1994?
There’s a generation of voters who weren’t around in 1994 and have been propagandized all their lives.
Have you forgotten 2020?
*cough* Dominion
That was my thought too. The controlled opposition no longer needs to pretend to be opposition.
Someone’s begging for a defamation lawsuit.
Maybe I’m going out on a limb here, but how many the first time were lefty rioters hoping to shoot some normies and get away with it? Or maybe they were terrified of the MAGAs, and needed protection.
New common sense legislation: You voted for OMB? Turn in your guns. The rest of you… Militia.
I support the Second Amendment right of law-abiding citizens to own guns for protection, sporting and collection.
Not if you intend to deny the people the instruments that would allow them to execute the actual purpose of 2A.
our Nation’s gun violence epidemic
Fucking delusional bastard – no!
More like our national retarded and corrupt Congress critters epidemic. I’m 100% certain if we’d send them all on permanent vacation, we’d solve most of our problems. Right after we force them to repeal 90% of the laws already on the books.
I gave into temptation. I made myself some boozy coffee. I’ve hit my booze limit for the week but I will exceed the limit with dinner at the brewpub sometime this weekend.
What does “booze limit” mean? I understand each word separately, but put together, I’m at a loss.
“When a 2 becomes a 10” is a decent rule of thumb.
That’s what I call a super-grower.
My buddy and I had a system for that…look at her, look at your hand…whichever looks better, stick with it.
When you wake up with a massive hangover, you’ll know.
Pfft. If I quit drinking every time I had a massive hangover, I’d have quit dozens of times!
Hell, I’ve quit hundreds of times after I had a hangover, like for an entire half a day!
In my house it means
passing outfalling asleep.If age doesn’t slow down your drinking, nothing will.
Hasn’t worked for me, so nothing will.
That’s an impressive pr0n stache there, Juris.
[gives the Sam Elliot mustache waggle]
I toy with the idea of shaving it off the day I retire – the wife has never seen my upper lip.
Dude, if I haved off my goatee, which I haven’t in more than 30 years, I’d feel and look in the mirror like an alien, and my wife loves it, so why would I do that?
Keep it, it looks good.
In order to get my weigh under control, one of the things I’ve done is limit booze. I have a weekly booze limit. Which will go out the door this week, and next week because of St. Patrick’s Day.
About 4/5 a bottle of Jameson, usually.
I drank all of my wife’s Baileys doing that. She’s threatened me if I get into her Irish Eggnog.
I exceeded my limit Wednesday night. I’m still slightly hungover from that.
It’s good that you have a limit. Considers it.
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Nah!
Got the new living room carpet installed today (we’ve been here just shy of 7 years) – which is nice, but the real satisfying part is, I was able to screw down the poorly affixed subfloor and get rid of the most annoying squeak in the house. I will be walking over that spot and smiling for a long time to come.
Man, I have to tell you. I am pretty much done with carpeting. Getting ready to buy a new home and I want all the floors to be wood or tile. Carpets wear out too quickly, are too hard to clean. I’m all about some nice area rugs here and there, but no more carpeting for me.
Tile is hard on feet and backs, made bearable only by Crocs (ugh) and gel mats.
Don’t stand in one place on the floor for a long time. Problem solved.
What I’m saying is, that if there’s a place you’re going to stand for a while, like the kitchen of bathroom sinks, they make rugs and mats for that which last a long time.
Like gel mats?
I recommend doing so.
We just put down vinyl plank due to having a pool and it’s great.
Wow, I thought I had a nice living room and then here comes Mr. Pool-in-the-living-room to put me in my place…
The pool is outside, but yeah, my house is nicer than yours.
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We need carpet badly. It’s now 14 years old, and has been subject to 2 messy boys, several cats, and a dog we had a very hard time training when she was little.
I’m sure I’ll need to replace sub-flooring.
Not looking forward to it.
Since we’ve lived here 8 years, the carpet has been through 4 kids and housebreaking 4 large dogs. It was probably at least 20 years old before that. No more carpet.
I planned on replacing with Pergo but noticed there is hardwood in excellent condition underneath. I’m just going to rip the carpet up and call it a day. Fortunately, the previous owners didn’t glue or staple it down except at the edges.
New carpets/floors are great. Enjoy!
Damn traffic flaggers. Reading Glibs is good and all but I need to go now. Like in the commercials for bladder control medicine.