Some of us don’t actually need reasons to partake of the water of life. For those of you who are a little more reluctant, I offer this as a service.
A sample:
4. Whiskey can help prevent cancer.
5. Drinking whiskey can lower your risk of having a stroke.
9. Winston Churchill drank whiskey and water for breakfast…and lead a nation through World War II. [and Winston was a real mensch]
14. There are over 5,000 types of single-malt whiskey, and they’re not going to try themselves. [I own at least 30 at last count and they are all exquisite]
There are 18 other reasons (at least).
Whether your chose tipple is Hebridean mouthwash, Kentucky Bourbon, Tennessee Rye, Canadian, Irish, Japanese, or some other essence of malted grain, you can surely find something that fits your taste.
I’ll leave you with a pearl of wisdom from a truly great American:
Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.
— Samuel L. Clemons
partial h/t texpat
Uisge Beatha
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I’ll drink to that.
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Skoal!
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I am speechless that whiskey is the topic for the entire weekend, first weekend of summer. But Iron Mary wish ye all a good mornin’.
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Here’s a little-known gubmint program that will make your blood boil. Can anyone figure out why the IRS would ever want to issue a tax # to a known illegal?
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What?
Few things are more refreshing on a hot summer day than a mint julep or a whiskey sour.
Also, surprisingly, a scotch and water or soda made about 9 to 1 (water to scotch) on the rocks. -
We all need to read the article M42 posted on #4 above. Then we need to link that article in a letter to our congress-terds and demand that the IRS be disbanded and the whole thing replaced with a national sales tax. This madness must stop.
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#7 Me too.
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Good morning Hamsters. Turning into a midsummer day, temp rising and humidity falling, nice southerly breeze, partly cloudy with a bit of haze that is dust from the Sahara Desert floating by. The big winds are in our favor to cause that dust storm migration across the Atlantic and through the Gulf. So the sniffles we might be suffering can’t be blamed very much on homegrown pollen. 🙁 Have not detected any grit in it yet.
#4 mharper’s link to further IRS deviltry with our funds should be enough to set lots of us on the warpath via pressure on our reps. Read the article with an adult beverage at hand, whiskey if you have it, never mind that it isn’t noon quite yet. Apparently there is an edict from DC that the illegal aliens have to be bribed to vote so the libs can stay in power and build their dynasty. Grrr. -
The Kenyan born liar and thief strikes again.
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#10 Has anyone else ever noticed that when you click on the sort in the comments section to try to get it to display oldest to newest it never works? Why would someone want to read the commentary backwards?
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Impressive virtuosity on a much maligned instrument.
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#7 & #8 – There’s only ONE thing I do not like about this Gent……………
He aint a TEXAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -
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#13 Katfish
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Up from a long nap. I worked a half session this morning with the juvenile probation program. It was a delightful session, with only 6 of the little rascals showing up to work on their community service hours today, and half of them checked out and gone by 11 a.m. When there are 20 of them, and they all are trying to check out at the same time at 12:30, it is total chaos.
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Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.
As bunsonburner proves here with his “drive by” appearance.
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Slip slidin’ away…
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Some people are allergic to whiskey. It causes them to break out in handcuffs.
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Checking in briefly…
I made a trip full of LovAB’s stuff last night, and brought home the hired hand so he could help load up our trailer this morning with their furniture. Hubby got a late afternoon phone call yesterday that the well servicing our 3 units in Sweeny wasn’t working, so Handsome Son was given the responsibility of driving the rig from Houston to Bryan. I was really nervous, but he did just fine. We unloaded everything, and hired help and Handsome headed back home, while I stayed behind to help Lovely set up her new home.
Whoever designed the kitchen cabinets should be shot. They all seem to be about 1/4″ too shallow, so normal baking dishes bump the cabinet doors, and the shelving is almost too short everywhere. Seriously, I have bottles that allllllllmooooooossssst fit. I had Lovely sitting on the floor or on the couch, resting. Her back and my back are suffering. I’m taking a break now. I’ll quite likely be mush tomorrow, but it was worth it. The kitchen is now stocked and usable, the new appliances are working, and we’re waiting for the food to finish cooking.
The living room turned out to be a much brighter color than we thought it would be, but at this point, it will be the color it is and that’s that. The kitchen and dining room colors look good. There is much fascination with the new washing machine – it has a see through lid and sings different songs when it’s done.
It is time for me to rest my back and I’ll be unloading the dishwasher soon. -
Twenty One!!! Yes!
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Alrighty then, what is the problem here? Summer slump? Burnout? Ennui? I need this Couch to be a part of my life.
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I just got word that the 45-yr-old son of my old friend is scheduled for heart transplant tomorrow. He has been hospitalized for over a month waiting for this opportunity. If all goes well, he could be at home in 2 weeks, but still going to the Medical Center pretty often for checkups.
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Spouse and I watched The Quartet on Netflix dvd and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Can understand why it received the good reviews when it came out. Maggie Smith (the dowager grandmother in Downton Abbey) was superb and the most recognizable of the primary characters. Retired real life musicians played themselves as residents of a retirement home for musicians in England and were all pictured in their performing years next to pictures of them as the actors in the credits at the end.
Things around here kinda went south as we were starting to watch the news, however. Mariposa had upchucked some dry cat food onto a throw rug in the garden room at the entrance to our bedroom, and spouse didn’t see it as he was marching to the kitchen to get the bug spray to down a flyer in the bedroom. Tracked it into the kitchen and then into the bedroom where it was discovered smeared on the bottom of his slipper after he sprayed the flying bug.
Sounds drifted down the hall to the tv room indicating something went wrong…. I went to check it out, saw it was dry food that stayed mostly dry and easy to clean up, and went back to the news. Got it all cleaned up after that, and spouse removed the corpse of the flying bug. Now we are ready to get some sleep.
G’night all. -
Kristofferson turns 77 this week.
Johnny Cash and Ray Charles sing my favorite Kristofferson song. -
25 & 26 – outSTANDING Brother!
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Tip for LD. Got a colicky baby?
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Does it produce musical notes?
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#28 – a tiny sliver of Ivory soap will getterDUN a whole lot cheaper!
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And a few drops of Karo syrup in water can help (from the other end)
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We dropped off 2 of our 3 kids at the airport this morning so they can travel to a church camp for the week. Do any of ya’ll want to watch a cute 4 yr/old for a week? He can help with the cleaning. If you remind him, he will pick up after himself. Be careful though… he might leave a surprise for ya in the toilet on occasion.
I’ll spend the rest of the day working in the yard again. The new concrete went in just fine last week and I managed to get the reworked flower beds into pretty good shape. -
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And Hammy surfaces with an indescribable baby tool! How does it work? Is it an enema? It’s available at a bizarre variety of shops: Whole Foods Markets, Berings (isn’t that a hardware store??), and the poorly named Diaperlicious. While you’re at Diaperlicious, be sure to pick up the companion product NoseFrida the Snotsucker. -
#28 Hamous
Good Lord, back to witch doctoring. Lacking a stethoscope and trained ear to listen for gut noises (or lack thereof), how does one distinguish between gas colic and a partial or complete impaction? Or torsion of the gut? Or–worst case–both? Manipulating the belly to supposedly move gas along–if that’s what it is–can be effective on its own. However if it’s impaction/torsion or both, it’s a great way to rupture the bowel, thereby spilling infection into the peritoneal cavity. Major emergency surgery. Can also perforate the bowel by merely carelessly inserting the gizmo. Waiting too long with this do-it-yourself approach before seeking medical help can be a disaster. -
I have seen vets use an ice-pick-looking affair to the gut of cows.
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Kinda like deflating a tire.
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Was talking to Aggie Beau and Lovely over their first breakfast cooked in their new home this morning (we’ll be attending mass shortly, for the first time at their new church home). We were talking politics, and Aggie Beau told me that Cathy Englebrecht (???) of True the Vote was used by her husband as a straw buyer for his four gun dealerships, and that was why they were singled out for all of those government audits.
AB is a PaulBot, but I don’t know which of us is misinformed. Does anyone know anything about this? I’m barely functioning this morning and I think I’m about to lay back and close my eyes before church. -
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#36 Shannon
Vets and pediatricians know what to look for and what certain sounds or lack thereof indicate. Both require excellent observational skills because their patients can’t talk. 🙂 -
Catherine Engelbrecht and her husband have a manufacturing company in Rosenberg.
To my knowledge they do not have gun shops. I believe AB’s info is incomplete…. -
Ms. Shannon says an ice pick won’t work.
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No, GJT is the windi tool expert.
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44? Slackers.
Does a Paulbot think its ok for the government to come down on a private citizen if they own a gun shop? -
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Yes, trained practitioners! I can’t imagine it being a good idea for the average parent to be inserting anything up the rectum of a baby. -
I don’t need no tools. Bud Light helps though.
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Ms. Shannon – a nurse for five decades – says that in the early years every nurse knew how to fabricate a tool similar to the Windi tool to assist post-abdominal surgery patients.
I’ll spare you the details. Sorry, Bones.
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I just had a horrific vision of Tim using the Snotsucker on his adorable little granddaughter. So please, let’s not give him any ideas about do-it-yourself baby sitting medicine or vet care.
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A quick search didn’t turn up anything negative or fishy about the Engelbrechts’ gun business. It sounded like it was so minor that it was almost just a hobby. They have some other business, described only as equipment manufacturing, that has also been audited and harassed in the last 2-3 years.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2013/05/20/dojs-witch-hunt-against-true-the-vote-n1601527 -
Here’s a good account of the Englebrecht business and the harassment:
http://thespeechatimeforchoosing.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/video-catherine-engelbrecht-of-true-the-vote-attacked-by-irs-atf-fbi-osha-for-her-politics/ -
I can’t imagine it being a good idea for the average parent to be inserting anything up the rectum of a baby.
Before those ear thingamajigs every parent did it with a thermometer.
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Snowden has slipped off to Russia supposedly headed to Cuba then/or Venezuela or Iceland/ my money’s on him staying in Russia just for Putin to jack with or dear leader.
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Elvis is playing at Casino Coshatta.
I knew it was all a lie. -
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Actually he’s working at an oilfield service company in Dayton, Tx. Worked with him Friday, Elvis, middle name’s Pressley. School was fun he said. -
Did someone mention Rita Coolidge? Nice Bond flick opening song.
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#51 Hammy
Yeah, good point about the rectal thermometer — even if it does seem to be a lot smaller than this gas probe thing you found. Let’s leave it up to Tedtam, as to whether she would use or recommend that Windi tool or the Snotsucker. Uh wait, lemme rethink that. Doesn’t TT use a netipot on her own nose? She may not be an impartial opinion.
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Neti pot or Hitler tea kettle?
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H/T to George Takei for these reviews of Ninja Folding Grappling Hook sold on Amazon…
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Best commercial ever made.
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Heh. John Wayne’s son. Whatever happened to him?
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The OBeelzebubama theme song.
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Thanks for the Engelbrecht info. AB is wicked smart, but that doesn’t always mean he’s correct. I would imagine that if his info was correct, that would be slathered all over the media already.
I, as a former manager of young babies, am firmly for a snotsucker. I got one just this last weekend for the new parents, AAMOF. Sometimes those kids just get so blocked up they can’t breathe. I mentioned the gas releasing device, and AB had a hard time believing it, or that he’d ever use one. “Just wait until your baby cries for 20 hours,” I said, and he kinda nodded. I never needed one, but I certainly wouldn’t blame a parent for giving it a try.
I’m back home, and I see more boxes to go the new house. Books (and more books) (and even more books) for the new baby, and some of Lovely’s old stuff. They’re making another round trip today to get more of their stuff, so maybe next weekend I can run these boxes up there for them.
And for those Catholics and Christians out there – a great healing story! I was barely able to move this morning. Bending over was quite a challenge, and just getting down the stairs took some concentration. My back was hurting before I took on the task of helping the couple move and I set up Lovely’s new kitchen in a preliminary configuration so she could rest HER back and try to breathe (Baby is crunching up against some lungs). I knew I’d be in bad shape today, and I was. While in mass this morning, I prayed for healing. Over the next 10-15 minutes, my back started to loosen up. By the time mass was over, the discomfort was less than what I started with, and the best I’d felt in weeks. It’s not totally gone, but I am certainly mobile and hoping to knock out that last catch in my lower back soon.
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Than heavens Phil just posted something. Thought the blog was doornail dead or kidnapped.
Very scattered showers, more like measles spots, dot the area briefly and then disappear.
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Neti pot or Hitler tea kettle?
They’re interchangeable.
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#61 #62 Hey what happened to Patrick Wayne? One of my favorite movies is “Big Jake” where Jacob Mc Candles teams up with two of his boys one of which is Patrick.
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OK guys, I just got back from my second favorite people watching place, “The Leper Colony” for U folks in Rio Linda, the Leper Colony is the local “Food Town” in Webster Texas,…IF you EVER go there you’ll understand,…… makes Wally World LQQk like royalty.
Of course my favorite place is ANY boat ramp. So my question to y’all is how many vehicles have you actually witnessed being launched? In my 59 years only 3, the first, 67 Buick wildcat @ White Oak Creek, Lake Eufaula Alabama, about 1970, second, CJ-7 Jeep on the very steep ramp @ Walter Hall Park on Clear Creek in League City Texas, about 1989 and last, BUTT not least, a late model Chevy 1 Ton Dually custom painted to match the 12 Meter Fountain with the twin turbo, 1500 HP, 502 Mercruisers, with the TRS Surface Drives, on the trailer @ Clear Lake City Texas, about 1992? That one was Sweet because of the Arsewagon that owned the whole shootin’ match. It wasn’t his fault of course! Somehow it was the fault of his trophy wife/galfriend. -
Not that this site is always accurate but….
Wayne served as the host of the 1990 revival of the game show Tic-Tac-Dough. -
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Well my wife has been working in the back yard some this afternoon and starting around 2 little Layla from across the street has been helping her, she just left and the wife is worn slam out, she’s a handful…Yup Life is Good! 😀
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#64 TT
I got one just this last weekend for the new parents, AAMOF. Sometimes those kids just get so blocked up they can’t breathe.
So you got them the Hitler tea kettle? Or the Snotsucker?
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Big Jake is my favorite Wayne movie.
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Schumer, Bronco, Kerry, et al.: Vladimir, hand over the traitorous Snowden.
Vlad The Putin: Nyet. Thththththppppptttttt. -
#73 😀
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#73 The next time ,…. WHAT?… the next time I won’t take off my goggles.
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Dave, I read recently that Food Town is owned by Gerland’s which has a long history in the grocery business in Houston. Not a stellar history, though. My first encounter with Food Town occurred in 2009 aftermath of Ike, when we were powerless for 13 days. With no power and no generator, life was basically a living hell. But as our Comcast hub also had no power, we had no internet. After a few days of pick up/clean up out in the yard, I was driving to my office in the Galleria area every day in order to work. (Yeah, I know! Bizarre, huh?) David was driving off to a cafe that had power and free wi-fi so he could check his email several times a day. I’d get home around 4 pm and we’d go to a strip center a mile from home that had power. We ate at Subway and then stopped at the Food Town to buy ice. We sometimes got some snacks there but everything seemed a bit foreign with a Mexican slant.
Fast forward several years to the closing of a large Kroger very close to home. Causing me to then drive 3 miles to the next Kroger. Not very convenient if you just need bananas and milk. So I began to do quick trips to what we called “Food Doodle”, and it appears that many of my neighbors have made the same adjustment. And Food Town has adjusted as well. The snack aisle is no longer filled with Bimbo brand cookies, but is looking as conventional as can be. My trips are usually on weekday mornings when they’re not busy, so I can’t comment on the customers. I do notice the cashiers are no longer all hispanic. -
Don’t misunderestimate the quality of all Bimbo products.
At the Bellville Brookshire Brothers grocery, Bimbo is the only sandwich bread that doesn’t turn green in three days.
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Heh. I rarely watch American Dad but it was on in the background and I heard this line: “I don’t speak horse, Francine, I’m not Matthew Broderick!”
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Spew alert, dammit.
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Shannon, don’t you keep your bread in the fridge? This climate isn’t conducive to leaving the bread package out on the counter.
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#77 Iron Mary, lets just say that 80% of the customers @ my store use the Lone Star card and usually charge $200 bucks a pop, the kicker, at least half of them don’t speak English!
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Willll-ber!
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Nope, no refrigerated bread.
I have the bread box my mother used for forty years.
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My Sears fridge has humidity-controlled compartments that keep cheese, deli meats, bread, and veggies in good fresh condition for an unbelievable length of time. I haven’t had bread out on the counter since I left West Texas about 50 years ago.
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#74 Wagonburner
Well, once KGB, always KGB. Plus Putin was truly furious about his warnings of the Chechen urchin murderers being stupidly ignored over here by several supposed security orgs. How long will it take the oafs in DC –both parties–to finally admit that the Obama regime, aided by Hillary and Bill, fellow travelers, and the Chicago mob, has essentially put out the welcome mat and extended an engraved invitation to the all world’s disreputables to hit on America with no fear? Schumer stands exposed for all the world as the fool he is, same for Nancy P. Putin got Obama’s number even before he was inaugurated.
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