Aiming fluid.
Posted on 06/15/2007 12:34:44 PM PDT by Pyro7480
The indirect dig at southerners bothers me far less than the implication that global warming is real, and the cause of every unusual event in our world. That, too, reveals their mindset, and their inability to understand the world with anything but anecdotal evidence.
Believe it or not, we have have dry spells and droughts before.
That’s true. But in this particular instance, the hit was on Southern conservatives.
man has little if anything to do with either/both.
the "sky is falling crowd" of enviro-WHACKOS & the LEFT just want two things: $$$$$$$$$$ & POWER.
free dixie,sw
yep...my bad....been out in the sun all afternoon....80% would be a mite stiff even for the meanest Hells Angel..lol
I don’t drink much but I admire good whiskey....I always was partial to Makers Mark too...really corn mash tasting
up east of here where the Cumberland mountians start up a bit about 50 miles east of nashville they make good copper tubing moonshine....the peach mash stuff is awesome but you have to be careful...by the time you know it’s on ya it’s too late.
we get it from an old 85 year old man whose kinfolk have been making it in the same spot for 150 years....folks come from all over even Canada for a case.
free dixie,sw
FINE stuff. i "bruised my mouth" on more than one 1/2 gallon jar! (CHUCKLE)
Prohibitionists probably outnumber drinkers among Southerners.
Actually the “climate change” is supposed to make it rain all the time, so what’s causing the drought?
Beer, the drink of moderation.
I can see that possibility.
Prohibitionists probably outnumber drinkers among Southerners.
I can see that possibility.
Today's conservatives, with their reduction of conservatism to "reducing the size of government," have forgotten the Election of 1928, and indeed, the entire Prohibition Movement.
Prohibitionism (or "temperance") began among orthodox Puritan clergymen, but as Puritanism gave way to Unitarianism it became a "left wing reform" cause of the same order as abolition, women's rights, world peace, vegetarianism, and socialism. To this day certain conservatives harp on the "leftist origins" of the temperance movement (even Marx listed it among the impotent utopian socialist movements, and the extreme racialist and anti-Semite Revilo P. Olver referred to the Prohibition era as "Bolshevism"). Yet by the 1920's things had changed completely--prohibitionism was now an integral part of "100% Americanism" and was championed by Fundamentalist preachers, the Ku-Klux Klan, and Henry Ford.
Now that conservatism has placed "small government" above all other considerations it would be unthinkable for a contemporary conservative to advocate prohibition. And for their part, the Left began to oppose it once the idea was no longer theirs and the Left today touts the "failure" of prohibitionism, while refusing to learn that same lesson with regard to such things as tobacco and guns. Er . . . personally, I don't put tobacco and guns in the same category; I'm against gun control but I'd love to see tobacco outlawed outright.
Anyway, the fact that the belief that alcohol consumption is inherently sinful now reigns in the part of the county that has long been associated with spirits is just another of the ironies of American politics.
Our next lesson will be how the arch-conservative anti-Jacobin Federalists of the early Federal period became the radicals of the abolition and Civil War eras!
The last time I checked CNN was based in Atlanta Georgia.
What else is new brother? They all think we’re a bunch of racist, drunken dimwits anyway. Too bad we can’t paint a bullseye on their backs. Buncha snobbish dorks anyway.
They gotta keep pushing the stereotype, they are so desperate to “make the news”.
Let me initial that down at the bottom.
You can still get honest 90-proof sour mash in a black label, only not from the Jack Daniels distillery. I never forgave them for watering their black label from 90 to 86 proof, and Green Label from 86 down to 80 -- they might as well have changed the label colors to lavender and pink, as far as I was concerned.
I was leaving a football game one time in 1966 when I heard a fender-bender out at the entrance to the parking lot. I looked over that way, and I saw that one of the cars involved was a yellow GTO. As I looked, I saw a liquor bottle come sailing out the window of the Goat, end over end, arcing high through the air and landing in a grassy ditch. I wandered over, halfway expecting someone to beat me to it, and found myself in possession of a mostly-full fifth of Jack Daniels Green Label. I took it back with me to my dorm, where some of my dorm mates were playing pool, and we proceeded to have ourselves a pool game and a half. Since this was in Louisiana, there was no problem about passing a bottle around. The rule in that state is, if you are tall enough to reach the bar, you're old enough to drink. And nobody woofs at a man walking down the street with a drink in his hand.
Don't worry about that, the Moo's have done it for you -- and the stupid buttheads don't even have sense to turn around and see the little red dot.
They're the number-one targeting priority for any terrorist group that gets its hands on WMD, but they woof at George Bush and "his" war on terrorism.
They'll pay hideously for their stupidity.
Then they'll blame it all on us. (Like that ever changed.)
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