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  • 51 years ago today: An Evening at the White House with Merle Haggard

    03/17/2024 7:04:38 PM PDT · by ReformationFan · 14 replies
    YouTube ^ | March 17, 1973 | Richard Nixon foundation
    March 17, 1973: A special evening with country music legend Merle Haggard in the East Room of the White House on St. Patrick's Day, 1973. Includes performances and a reading of a poem Haggard wrote for First Lady Pat Nixon on the occasion of her birthday. The program was filmed and produced by the Naval Photographic Center. The Naval Photographic Center White House Motion Film Unit Collection consists of motion film coverage of selected official activities of President Nixon filmed between 1969 and 1974.
  • St. Patrick's Day Rock Songs (Vanity)

    03/17/2024 6:22:10 PM PDT · by MikelTackNailer · 24 replies
    YT | March 17, 2024 | self
    Happy St.Patrick's Day good freepers. It's come to my attention that most of us are too decrepit or responsible now to go out bar-hopping on a whim, so I decided to share my list of Celtic Rock songs for your enjoyment or castigation. These are all positive because I can't handle morose "Danny Boy" and such. If you have more please post them! "Whiskey in the Jar" - Thin Lizzy (1973)I'm Shipping up to Boston - Dropkick Murphys (Live)Dearg Doom - HorslipsDrunken Lullabies - Flogging MollyDrink the Night Away - Gaelic StormHorslips - Bim Istigh Ag Ol (Live at the...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Happy St Patrick's Day! ~ 17 March 2024

    03/17/2024 5:04:24 PM PDT · by Kathy in Alaska · 56 replies
    Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | The Canteen Crew
    The FReeper Canteen Presents... St Patrick's Day Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies militaryand the family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17, his religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over a thousand years. On St. Patrick's Day, which falls during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon. Lenten prohibitions against the...
  • Grand marshal selected for 200th St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Savannah

    02/25/2024 12:49:56 PM PST · by SavannahWonderer · 2 replies
    Congratulations to a really good man and my cousin, John Forbes. Not only is he the 200th Grand Marshall of the best parade in the country, he's following in the foot-steps of his dad who was Grand Marshall 26 years ago!
  • Debate on Irish boycott of US St. Patrick's Day trip debate gathers pace

    02/04/2024 9:58:46 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 16 replies
    RTÉ News ^ | Sunday, 4 Feb 2024 08:18 | Juliette Gash
    Unlike any other small country, Ireland’s Taoiseach gets unparalleled facetime with the leader of the free world in the White House to mark St. Patrick’s Day. In a tradition since 1952, it is usually smiles, camaraderie and photos as a bowl of Shamrock is handed over to the US President. It is the high water mark in US-Irish relations and part of a week of diplomacy, dinners and drink receptions. For the Taoiseach, meeting the US President is a golden political opportunity. But this year it is different. The conflict in Gaza has created an uncomfortable pall over what is...
  • St. Patrick Glad He Brought Christianity To The Anglo-Saxons So Their Descendants Could Get Plastered And Punch Each Other

    03/18/2023 4:03:58 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 19 replies
    The Babylon Bee ^ | March 17, 2023 | The Babylon Bee
    IRELAND — Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, expressed great pride that he was able to bring Christianity to the Anglo-Saxons so their descendants could commemorate it each year by gathering in mobs, get fall-down, hammered drunk, and commit various acts of aggravated assault on each other on March 17. "It really makes all of the hard work and sacrifice all worth it," Patrick said when reached posthumously for comment on the holiday named after him. "I really risked life and limb to preach the gospel to an entire nation populated by bloodthirsty, pagan barbarians. It's a real relief to...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Tunes For Our Troops: Happy St Patrick's Day ~ 18 March 2023

    03/17/2023 6:00:39 PM PDT · by Kathy in Alaska · 126 replies
    Our Troops Rock !! | The Canteen Crew and FRiend
    The FReeper Canteen presents... ***** Tunes For Our Troops ~ Happy St Patrick's Day!! ~ ***** ~ Support The Artists You See Throughout The Canteen ~ ***** Warning: Not all music may be appropriate for children! Please click with caution. Thank you! Tunes For The Troops This music is provided for the entertainment of our Troops, Veterans, Allies & their families! Enjoy the variety of musical selections that the Canteen Deejays provide throughout the thread. Please ping any DJ with your requests for the Troops! All music is removed on Monday.Thanks to all the DeeJay's for their time &...
  • St. Patrick's Day Jokes

    03/17/2023 5:46:30 PM PDT · by TBP · 26 replies
    Me | St. Patrick's Day, of course | TBP
    Why is Ireland a wealthy country? Because its capital is always Dublin. Why is cubic zirconium hte perfect thing for St. Patrick's Day? Because it's a sham rock.
  • Biden hosting Irish prime minister on St. Patrick’s Day

    03/17/2023 12:55:37 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 19 replies
    Associated Press ^ | March 17, 2023 | Colleen Long
    President Joe Biden is set to host Ireland’s prime minister on Friday, after the COVID-19 pandemic scuttled the longstanding St. Patrick’s Day meetup two years in a row. Leo Varadkar, known as the taoiseach, and his partner, Matthew Barrett, will attend a breakfast with Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff. Then they will head to the U.S. Capitol for a lunch with congressional leaders and Biden before the two leaders convene. […] Biden, who often speaks of his Irish heritage and is fond of quoting Irish poets, declared March Irish-American heritage month. The White House is even...
  • Ireland to Use St Patrick’s Day to Promote ‘Diversity’ and Drag Queens

    02/07/2023 6:13:43 PM PST · by marshmallow · 24 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 2/4/23 | Peter Caddle
    Ireland is to use its annual St Patrick’s Day celebrations to promote “diversity” and drag queens, an official announcement has revealed. Ireland’s progressive-leaning Arts Minister, Catherine Martin, declared on Monday alongside a number of drag queens that this year’s St Patrick’s Day festival in Ireland will be about celebrating “diversity” and “inclusivity”. She also took the opportunity to denounce the growing anti-mass migration protests taking place across the country, with many Irish people taking to the streets over their government’s open borders approach towards the current migrant crisis. According to a report by the Irish Independent, the line-up for the...
  • Irish leader huddles maskless with Pelosi before learning of positive COVID-19 test

    03/17/2022 2:19:37 AM PDT · by Libloather · 9 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | 3/16/22 | Abigail Adcox
    The Irish taoiseach huddled with at least one high-profile Democrat before learning he had tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday while visiting Washington, D.C., for traditional St. Patrick's Day celebrations, according to multiple reports. Micheal Martin, Ireland's prime minister, or taoiseach, and head of government, tested positive through a precautionary PCR test after leaving an Ireland Funds gala Wednesday night, the Irish Times reported. Irish Ambassador Dan Mulhall informed guests of the news after Martin had left. A photograph from the event shows Martin seated next to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, both unmasked and apparently in the middle of a...
  • Happy St. Patrick's Day!

    03/17/2021 8:37:32 AM PDT · by Vision · 20 replies
    YT ^ | St. Patrick's Day 1946 | Dennis Day
    Enjoy!Dennis Day sings "Danny Boy" on the Jack Benny Show. St. Patrick's Day 1946.
  • Happy St. Patrick’s Day: Let’s Be Careful Out There

    03/17/2021 5:16:07 AM PDT · by NOBO2012 · 13 replies
    MOTUS A.D. ^ | 3-17-21 | MOTUS
    Top ‘o the mornin’ to everyone and may the spirit of St. Patrick be with you throughout this fine day.At Zephyr's recommendation today’s St. Patrick’s Day post is dedicated to Succotash and her Irish roots. I do hope that freedom and justice – indeed the roots of Western civilization – are still alive and viable here in America where many of us are proud to have some of those Irish roots. In order for them to thrive once more we too need to drive the snakes out of the country. It won’t be easy.The hard stuff never is, but once...
  • Krispy Kreme Is Introducing 4 New Doughnuts for St. Patrick's Day, Including One That Looks Like a Magical Unicorn

    03/12/2021 10:27:25 AM PST · by mylife · 37 replies
    food and wine ^ | 3/11/2021
    This St. Patrick's Day, don't go chasing pots of gold at the end of rainbows. Chase them instead to your nearest Krispy Kreme. Just in time for St. Paddy's Day green hysteria, Krispy Kreme announced their all-new Luck O' the Doughnuts Collection. The green-and-gold confection collection includes four doughnuts — Gold Coin Doughnut, Lucky Sprinkles Doughnut, Lucky Unicorn Doughnut, and Leprechaun Plaid Doughnut. So what do gold coins, lucky sprinkles, unicorns, and plaid leprechauns taste like? Good question. Krispy Kreme explains the flavors this way: Lucky Gold Coin Doughnut — An Original Glazed doughnut is dipped in white icing, decorated...
  • They Killed Everything Beautiful

    05/24/2020 6:30:41 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 29 replies
    American Thinker.com ^ | May 24, 2020 | Nick Chase
    Though neither of us is an artist or musician, my wife and I have been close to the music and arts community in central Massachusetts for more than 40 years, as volunteers, through recording locally-performed classical music concerts and broadcasting them on the local community radio station. As volunteers we also support the local Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra in many different ways, so we are fully aware of the enormous behind-the-scenes preparation - and time - and money - needed to put on a good show. On March 17, 2020 (St. Patrick's Day), this all stopped. Full. Dead. Stop. At first...
  • Ireland cancels all St. Patrick’s Day parades amid coronavirus outbreak

    03/09/2020 11:51:52 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 11 replies
    N ^ | March 9, 2020 | Jackie Salo
    The nation of Ireland has canceled all St. Patrick’s Day parades, including the massive Dublin festivities, over concerns about the spread of the coronavirus. The decision to nix large gatherings for the March 17 holiday was made Monday by a new government subcommittee on the virus, national broadcaster RTE reported. The celebrations are known for kicking off the country’s tourism season with 500,000 revelers from around the world flooding the country of 4.8 million each year for the various parades in its towns and villages.
  • Trump to skip annual bipartisan St. Patrick’s Day lunch, blaming Pelosi

    03/08/2020 7:37:11 PM PDT · by bitt · 22 replies
    justthenews.com ^ | 3/8/2020 | Alex Nitzberg
    In 2003 George W. Bush was the last president to miss the annual St. Patrick's Day luncheon President Trump will not attend the annual bipartisan St. Patrick’s Day lunch Thursday on Capitol Hill, and White House spokesman Judd Deere said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the reason. “Since the Speaker has chosen to tear this Nation apart with her actions and her rhetoric, the President will not participate in moments where she so often chooses to drive discord and disunity, and will instead celebrate the rich history and strong ties between the United States and Ireland at the White House...
  • Trump plans to boycott St Patrick’s Day Speakers’ lunch in Washington

    03/07/2020 3:36:56 PM PST · by 11th_VA · 31 replies
    The Irish Times ^ | March 7, 2020
    US president Donald Trump is planning to boycott the annual St Patrick’s Day Speakers’ lunch in Washington next week the Irish Times has learned, amid ongoing tensions between the president and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The president traditionally attends the lunch on Capitol Hill which is hosted by the House Speaker – one of the rare times in the year that the president visits congress. But it is understood that Mr Trump and vice president Mike Pence have indicated they will not attend next Thursday, though the Oval Office meeting between the Taoiseach and the president will proceed as planned...
  • The Serious St. Patrick

    03/17/2015 8:26:46 PM PDT · by LT Brass Bancroft · 2 replies
    Catholic Education Resource Center ^ | March 15, 2015 | Father George W. Rutler
    Maewyn Succat did not have an easy time embracing the Faith. Although his father Calpurnius was a deacon, Maewyn indulged a spirited youthful rebellion against what he had been taught, and it was only after being kidnapped by superstitious people called Druids that he realized the difference that Christianity makes in the souls of men and the character of cultures. This was in the fifth century, and Maewyn, probably born in the Cumbria part of England near the Scottish lands, was roughly contemporary with the bishop Augustine in North Africa who watched the decay of the Roman Empire. Maewyn eventually...
  • The real Saint Patrick in his own words

    03/16/2019 8:33:44 AM PDT · by Antoninus · 13 replies
    Gloria Romanorum ^ | 3/17/13 | Florentius
    Who was Saint Patrick? Well, for starters, he wasn't Irish. He was born a Roman (Patricius) during the days when Britain was cut off from the empire immediately before the final collapse of Roman power in the west. Though not born an Irishman himself, Patrick had a deep and abiding love for the Irish and dedicated his life to bringing them to Christianity. Amazingly, two works written by Patrick have come down to us from antiquity. The first is his Confessio, which was written about AD 450 under obscure circumstances. Following is an excerpt from this document, where Patrick tells...