HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY!
March 17, 2011
March 16, 2011
Happy St. Patrick’s Day + Raymond Davis sets an example
Yelp just posted a list of various places where you could go to celebrate St. Patricks Day in the East Bay, including Fentons ice cream parlor. Fentons?
“At Fentons,” Yelp wrote, “Lynsey T falls for the sweetness of her Celtic crush, the Black and Tan.” WHAT! Doesn’t Yelp realize that the dread Black and Tan slaughtered huge numbers of Irish-Catholic protesters in Belfast and Crossmaglen — not to mention the ones that they murdered in Dublin, Kerry, Cork and Tipperary during the 20th-century Irish battles for independence. Yikes! Yelp, wash your mouth out with soap.
And speaking of murders, let’s talk about Raymond Davis, the American CIA agent in Pakistan who was caught in the act of murdering people, and was just recently set free by the high court in Lahore. Why? Because apparently there’s a law in Pakistan that says if you kill someone you can buy your freedom by paying your victim’s family enough “blood money” to satisfy them. Well, apparently Davis (or the CIA or, more likely, American taxpayers) just forked over two million dollars to the families of the two men who he killed — and Davis is now a free man.
Hey, maybe we should consider doing something like that over here in America too. At the rate of one million dollars per man, then perhaps Bush and Obama could buy their way out of having caused the unnecessary deaths of approximately 5,900 American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan — by offering up “blood money” to the families of the soldiers they killed in these two trumped-up wars. Then Bush and Obama’s get-out-of-jail-free cards would only cost them, er…. Sorry, I’m bad with numbers. You do the math.
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The Tattlesnake — Erin Go Braless Edition
Some ‘Green Day’ factoids and toasts in honor of me late grandmother who, like Guinness stout, Harp lager, and G.B. Shaw, was a great Irish export.
Happy St. Paddy’s Day!
Five Factoids About St. Patrick’s Day
1. St. Patrick’s real name was Patricius, and historians believe he was born in either Wales or Scotland.
2. The original color associated with St. Paddy’s day was blue instead of green.
3. St. Patrick’s Day was alcohol-free holiday in Ireland until the mid-1970s.
4. The shamrock was intended by St. Patrick to signify the Holy Trinity, not the luck of the Irish. He also created the Celtic cross, which is a combination of pagan and Christian symbols.
5. A pint of Guinness Stout, a staple of Irish drinkers on St. Paddy’s Day, has fewer calories than a pint of low-fat milk or orange juice.
A Random Sampling of Irish Toasts (for anyone who’s toasted to use):
Here’s to health,
fitness and tone
I’ve drank to health
So many times
I’ve managed to
ruin my own.
May we get what we want,
May we get what we need,
But may we never get what we deserve.
In all this world, I do think
There are five good reasons why we drink:
Good friends,
Good luck,
Good times,
And lest we be dry,
And any other reason why.
May the winds of fortune caress you,
May you sail a gentle sea.
May it always be the other guy
who says, “this drink’s on me.”
Here’s to cheating, lying, stealing, fighting, and drinking:
If you cheat, may you cheat death;
If you lie, may you lie on a loved one’s breast;
If you steal, may you steal another’s heart;
If you fight, may you fight for what’s right, brother;
And if you drink, may you always drink
With friends and none other.
Though you may be a scoundrel
And a sinner times seven
May you get lost on your way to hell
And end up in heaven.
BTW, think corned beef and cabbage is a traditional Irish dish? Cabbage, yes, but corned beef is English. Read below.
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