The Trumpet 1-2-2017

[Matata]

No I didn't but you will understand because I am a retired old lady on a fixed income. I can make you something.

Chocolate chip cookies with real milk chocolate not those icky dark chocolate things that look like turds and REAL butter, salted, REAL salted butter, and sugar not an artificial sweetener and lots of vanilla, REAL vanilla, not that imitation stuff that tastes like it came from a wild animal's bladder and pecans, no walnuts, no almonds, yes almonds, oh, and drizzle a little caramel over the tops of the cookies.

I don't use any fake stuff of any kind. But you are the demanding sort.

You should talk to my poor husband LOL.

 

[ksinger]

No I didn't but you will understand because I am a retired old lady on a fixed income. I can make you something.

Chocolate chip cookies with real milk chocolate not those icky dark chocolate things that look like turds and REAL butter, salted, REAL salted butter, and sugar not an artificial sweetener and lots of vanilla, REAL vanilla, not that imitation stuff that tastes like it came from a wild animal's bladder and pecans, no walnuts, no almonds, yes almonds, oh, and drizzle a little caramel over the tops of the cookies.

I don't use any fake stuff of any kind. But you are the demanding sort.

You should talk to my poor husband LOL.

tiny threadjack...

Speaking of suffering (not) husbands - mine got 3 bottles of scotch this Christmas. The Balvenie Single Barrel 12, a Highland Park 12 (that one from me; the 15 would have busted the bank), and a bottle of plain 'ol Oban. His scotch stash therefore continues to hover at 9 really good ones, and a bottle of Lauder's, which he calls "good enough scotch". Used mostly for party emergencies and marinades.

Boy is snobby and spoiled.

end threadjack...

 

[Matata]

tiny threadjack...

Speaking of suffering (not) husbands - mine got 3 bottles of scotch this Christmas. The Balvenie Single Barrel 12, a Highland Park 12 (that one from me; the 15 would have busted the bank), and a bottle of plain 'ol Oban. His scotch stash therefore continues to hover at 9 really good ones, and a bottle of Lauder's, which he calls "good enough scotch". Used mostly for party emergencies and marinades.

Boy is snobby and spoiled.

end threadjack...

I cannot, in good conscience, let a fellow human being subject his liver to such a vast amount of liquid assets. Being the self-sacrificing sort that I am, I volunteer to help him reduce the effects on his liver. I can be there by Friday.

 

[kenny]

tiny threadjack...

Speaking of suffering (not) husbands - mine got 3 bottles of scotch this Christmas. The Balvenie Single Barrel 12, a Highland Park 12 (that one from me; the 15 would have busted the bank), and a bottle of plain 'ol Oban. His scotch stash therefore continues to hover at 9 really good ones, and a bottle of Lauder's, which he calls "good enough scotch". Used mostly for party emergencies and marinades.

Boy is snobby and spoiled.

end threadjack...

I cannot, in good conscience, let a fellow human being subject his liver to such a vast amount of liquid assets. Being the self-sacrificing sort that I am, I volunteer to help him reduce the effects on his liver. I can be there by Friday.

+1.

I'm a selfless saint.

 

[ksinger]

Matata, Kenny, I'm touched. I know my husband, being the hopeless lush that he is, will understand and be thrilled by your kind, kind offers to save him from a sad fate.

(Actually, rather than boozing it up, he's babysitting (long story) tonight so I suspect he may avail himself of a drop when he finally gets home)

 

[AGBF]

OK...I wasn't going to get personal here, but I must. My father gave up drinking blended Scotch many years ago. (I remember the days when a bottle of Chivas Regal was a nice gift for him, but that is a very distant memory). Years ago he moved to single malt Scotches and I entered the realm of the searcher for the right one for him. I never went into the very exotic and peaty ones, but tended to get older and older Glenlivet and Glenfiddich with some experimentation into ones written up as appealing to the general taste. (I do not drink at all, so I cannot depend on my own palette and my husband thinks that Manischewitz is as good as the finest wine on the the market, so he's no help.)

To make my long story a bit shorter, the house is full of single malt liquor and my father is no longer drinking. I have given away about ten bottles of Chivas Regal and all sorts of other liqueur and cognac I found in a liquor cabinet and in the cellar, but I didn't want to give away his single malt Scotch. So on Christmas Eve when my great nephew flew in (from San Diego on his way to Israel), and I encouraged him and Derrick (my father's aide) to have some drinks, they looked to a bottle of single malt Scotch that was in the kitchen.

Only Re'em (my great nephew) hates scotch. And Derrick doesn't really love it. So I went crawling behind some bins into the almost empty liquor cabinet and pulled out some old bottles. There was an unopened Grand Marnier that took both their fancies, but the cork was broken and stuck in it and I had no corkscrew. So they pushed it into the bottle and (refusing to let them be manly and just drink it), I poured it through a sieve. We had all been watching "The Bird Cage". They got roaring drunk, especially Derrick, who had never had one drink on the job, and went out for cigarettes. I ended up using Grand Marnier (strained) in the ham I was making in the slow cooker for Christmas. And I couldn't wake either of them up the next morning for Christmas! I finally heard Re'em in the shower at about 11:30 and got Derrick up at noon. It was a beautiful, drunken, Christmas Eve.

Deb

 

[redwood66]

LOL at the drunken Christmas eve Deb. I really don't like hard liquor all that much. But I love The Birdcage! !!! I have the dvd and pop it in every once in awhile when I need a good belly laugh. I hope your dad is doing well.

 

[Karl_K]

Well, I'd place you more in the libertarian side of things from the little I have seen you post.

Signed,

Your arrogant, east coast, liberal, leftist snob friend,
Kate

So now i'm a right wing idiot simpleton leftist libertarian
Rofl
In reality I don't really fit into any one political group.
Each has some things I like and some I don't.
My 4 biggest pet peeves are
1. the federal government that has stolen too much power from the states and the people.
2. rule by bureaucracy instead of the rule of laws which has led and will continue to lead to major abuses.
Agencies like the IRS, ATF, EPA and many others which both write the rules and enforce them.
There is a huge lack of checks and balances.
The founding fathers were very smart in setting up a system of checks and balances which rule by bureaucracy destroys.
3. civil forfeiture laws and the abuse of them.
4. civilian disarmament

 

[Karl_K]

Forgot to add 5 thru 9.
5: Corporations writing laws that legislators then pass into law. Too much corporate power in general.
6: International packs done in secret.
7: Don't like the UN.
8: Don't like illegal immigration including illegal use of h1b visas, support increased and cheaper legal immigration that is fair to everyone.
9: lopsided trade and trade agreements. NAFA and most favored trading status for China are a travesty. Moving plants outside the US for goods sold in the US.