Hey folks, all
is fine in Earlville. Some people tell me that I should list the
menu. Well, here is my best attempt! Anything you can imagine
cook on a grill! From regular steaks to seasoned ones, chicken and
ribs to a great seafood line up brought in fresh by Geno Haas. Kabobs
of all sorts. Portabella mushrooms and vegetable steamers for the
non meat eaters. Clams and wings for an appetizer? It's all
good. It's all done on a big ol' barby right in the middle of the
room or on one of three out back by you! That's the party!
Rock on! jim
Current
Beer collection at the Bar as of 1/6/06
Duvel: 12oz.
A Belgian Ale, not too heavy.
Chimay:
25oz. Top of the line Belgian. I can't drink 'em-- instantly
trashed.
Samuel Smith Oatmeal
Stout: These products speak for themselves
(winter)
Samuel Smith Nut
Brown Ale: Good solid back ground.
Troegs Hop back:
Amber Ale. Not too heavy but hoppy. (winter)
Newcastle Brown
Ale: English. Joel really likes it.
Bass:
There is nothing I can say that you don't already know. Mixes well
with Guinness draft.( but
that whole story about Guinness and Bass being the original "black and
tan" is a load of crap.
The Irish and the English never liked each other that much.)
Straub:
A small brewery in St. Marys, Pa. This is a refreshing lighter beer.
"No Suger, no salt added."
A diabetic buddy of mine turned me on to it. Never a hang over!!
Corona:
The number one imported beer again! With a 40% increase in '98.
Gotta do the lime thing.
Rolling Rock.
Hey for all the crap people lay on Rock, it's a nice lighter beer.
To hell with them.
Hoegaarden:
The original white Belgian. Super smooth with no after taste.
Kinda girlie but I'll drink it.
Rogue's Dead Guy
Ale: Flowery and more bubbly.
On the sweet side. This is party stuff.
Guinness Draft
(right now in the can) : The liquid
of the gods. Life is good.
Franziskaner Weissbier
Draft: Belgian stlye German wheat beer.
Joel likes this one too.
Yuengling Lager
Draft: The MacDaddy of draft in the
area. "gimmealager"
Victory Hop Devil
Draft:A bitey blend of hops and malt round
out this India pale ale from Downingtown.
Boddingtons:
A creamy pub ale. In a can like the Guinnness. Good stuff.
Bud:
Red Strip:
How in the hell could I forget Jamaica's Budweiser! Ah, the memories
of riding through Nassau on the back of a cattle truck full of natives,
bags of drugs and cases of the Caribbean's finest? Rough nights.
Light beer was first
created for the girls that stayed behind to make the bullets during WW2.
They needed it. We don't. Drink Straub.
Politics................................................
FEUDALISM:
You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
PURE SOCIALISM:
You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with
everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government
gives you as much milk as you need.
BUREAUCRATIC
SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them
in a barn with everyone else's cows.They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers.You
have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken
farmers. The government gives you as much milk and as many eggs as the
regulations say you should need.
FASCISM:
You have two cows. The government takes both,hires you to take care of
them,and sells you the milk.
PURE COMMUNISM:
You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all
share the milk.
RUSSIAN COMMUNISM:
You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes
all the milk.
DICTATORSHIP:
You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.
SINGAPOREAN DEMOCRACY:
You have two cows. The government fines you for keeping two unlicensed
farm animals in an apartment.
MILITARISM:
You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.
PURE DEMOCRACY:
You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.
REPRESENTATIVE
DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you
who gets the milk.
AMERICAN DEMOCRACY:
The government promises to give you two cows if you vote for it. After
the election, the president is impeached for speculating in cow futures.
The press dubs the affair "Cowgate".
BRITISH DEMOCRACY:
You have two cows. You feed them sheep's' brains and they go mad. The government
doesn't do anything.
BUREAUCRACY:
You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you canfeed them
and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. After that
it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the
drain. Then it requiresyou to fill out forms accounting for the missing
cows..
ANARCHY:
You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors
try to kill you and take the cows.
CAPITALISM:
You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
HONG KONG CAPITALISM:
You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly - listed company,
using letters of credit opened by your brother - in - law at the bank,
then execute a debt / equity swap with associated general offer so that
you get all four cows back, with a tax deduction for keeping five cows.
The milk rights of six cows are transferred via a Panamanian intermediary
to a Cayman Islands company secretly owned by the majority shareholder,
who sells the rights to all seven cows' milk back to the listed company.
The annual report says that the company owns eight cows, with an option
on one more.
ENVIRONMENTALISM:
You have two cows. The government bans you from milking or killing them.
FEMINISM:
You have two cows. They get married and adopt a veal calf.
TOTALITARIANISM:
You have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed.
Milk is banned.
COUNTER CULTURE:
Wow, dude, there's like... these two cows,man. You got to have some of
this milk.
SURREALISM:
You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
LIBERTARIANISM:
You have two cows. One has actually read the constitution, believes in
it, and has some really good ideas about government. The cow runs for office,
and while most people agree that the cow is the best candidate, nobody
except the other cow votes for her because they think it would be "throwing
their vote away."
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OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR New York Times
State of the Union: Another Take
By RANDY NEWMAN
Published: January 24, 2007
A Few Words in Defense of Our Country
By Randy Newman
I’d like to say a few words
In defense of our country
Whose people aren’t bad nor are they mean
Now the leaders we have
While they’re the worst that we’ve had
Are hardly the worst this poor world has seen
Let’s turn history’s pages, shall we?
Take the Caesars for example
Why within the first few of them
They had split Gaul into three parts
Fed the Christians to the lions
And burned down the City
And one of ’em
Appointed his own horse Consul of the Empire
That’s like vice president or something
That’s not a very good example, is it?
But wait, here’s one, the Spanish Inquisition
They put people in a terrible position
I don’t even like to think about it
Well, sometimes I like to think about it
Just a few words in defense of our country
Whose time at the top
Could be coming to an end
Now we don’t want their love
And respect at this point is pretty much out
of the question
But in times like these
We sure could use a friend
Hitler. Stalin.
Men who need no introduction
King Leopold of Belgium. That’s right.
Everyone thinks he’s so great
Well he owned The Congo
He tore it up too
He took the diamonds, he took the gold
He took the silver
Know what he left them with?
Malaria
A president once said,
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”
Now it seems like we’re supposed to be afraid
It’s patriotic in fact and color coded
And what are we supposed to be afraid of?
Why, of being afraid
That’s what terror means, doesn’t it?
That’s what it used to mean
The end of an empire is messy at best
And this empire is ending
Like all the rest
Like the Spanish Armada adrift on the sea
We’re adrift in the land of the brave
And the home of the free
Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye.
Thomas Jefferson First Inaugural Address
First Inaugural Address
March 4, 1801
FRIENDS AND FELLOW-CITIZENS,
Called upon to undertake the
duties of the first executive office of our country, I avail myself of
the presence of that portion of my
fellow-citizens which is here assembled to express
my grateful thanks for the favor with which they have been pleased to look
toward me, to
declare a sincere consciousness that the task
is above my talents, and that I approach it with those anxious and awful
presentiments which the
greatness of the charge and the weakness of my
powers so justly inspire. A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful
land, traversing all the
seas with the rich productions of their industry,
engaged in commerce with nations who feel power and forget right, advancing
rapidly to destinies
beyond the reach of mortal eye -- when I contemplate
these transcendent objects, and see the honor, the happiness, and the hopes
of this beloved
country committed to the issue and the auspices
of this day, I shrink from the contemplation, and humble myself before
the magnitude of the
undertaking. Utterly, indeed, should I despair
did not the presence of many whom I here see remind me that in the other
high authorities provided
by our Constitution I shall find resources of
wisdom, of virtue, and of zeal on which to rely under all difficulties.
To you, then, gentlemen, who
are charged with the sovereign functions of legislation,
and to those associated with you, I look with encouragement for that guidance
and support
which may enable us to steer with safety the
vessel in which we are all embarked amidst the conflicting elements of
a troubled world.
During the contest of opinion
through which we have passed the animation of discussions and of exertions
has sometimes worn an aspect
which might impose on strangers unused to think
freely and to speak and to write what they think; but this being now decided
by the voice of the
nation, announced according to the rules of the
Constitution, all will, of course, arrange themselves under the will of
the law, and unite in
common efforts for the common good. All, too,
will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority
is in all cases to
prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable;
that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect,
and to violate would
be oppression. Let us, then, fellow-citizens,
unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse
that harmony and affection
without which liberty and even life itself are
but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land
that religious intolerance
under which mankind so long bled and suffered,
we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as
despotic, as wicked, and
capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agonizing
spasms of infuriated
man, seeking through blood and slaughter his
long-lost liberty, it was not wonderful that the agitation of the billows
should reach even this distant
and peaceful shore; that this should be more
felt and feared by some and less by others, and should divide opinions
as to measures of safety. But
every difference of opinion is not a difference
of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle.
We are all
Republicans, we are all Federalists. If there
be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its
republican form, let them
stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety
with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free
to combat it. I know, indeed,
that some honest men fear that a republican government
can not be strong, that this Government is not strong enough; but would
the honest
patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment,
abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic
and visionary fear
that this Government, the world's best hope,
may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe
this, on the contrary, the
strongest Government on earth. I believe it the
only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard
of the law, and would
meet invasions of the public order as his own
personal concern. Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with
the government of himself.
Can he, then, be trusted with the government
of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him?
Let history answer this
question.
Let us, then, with courage
and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment
to union and representative
government. Kindly separated by nature and a
wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too
high-minded to endure
the degradations of the others; possessing a
chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth
and thousandth generation;
entertaining a due sense of our equal right to
the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry,
to honor and confidence from
our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth,
but from our actions and their sense of them; enlightened by a benign religion,
professed, indeed,
and practiced in various forms, yet all of them
inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man;
acknowledging and adoring
an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations
proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness
hereafter --
with all these blessings, what more is necessary
to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens
-- a wise and
frugal Government, which shall restrain men from
injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their
own pursuits of industry
and improvement, and shall not take from the
mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government,
and this is necessary to
close the circle of our felicities.
About to enter, fellow-citizens,
on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable
to you, it is proper you should
understand what I deem the essential principles
of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration.
I will
compress them within the narrowest compass they
will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations.
Equal and exact justice to all
men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious
or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,
entangling alliances with
none; the support of the State governments in
all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic
concerns and the surest
bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the
preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor,
as the sheet anchor of
our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous
care of the right of election by the people -- a mild and safe corrective
of abuses which are lopped
by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies
are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority,
the vital principle
of republics, from which is no appeal but to
force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism; a well-disciplined
militia, our best
reliance in peace and for the first moments of
war till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the
military authority; economy
in the public expense, that labor may be lightly
burthened; the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the
public faith;
encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce
as its handmaid; the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses
at the bar of the
public reason; freedom of religion; freedom of
the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus,
and trial by juries
impartially selected. These principles form the
bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through
an age of revolution
and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and
blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should
be the creed of our
political faith, the text of civic instruction,
the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should
we wander from them in
moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to
retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty,
and safety.
I repair, then, fellow-citizens,
to the post you have assigned me. With experience enough in subordinate
offices to have seen the difficulties
of this the greatest of all, I have learnt to
expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from
this station with the reputation
and the favor which bring him into it. Without
pretensions to that high confidence you reposed in our first and greatest
revolutionary character,
whose preeminent services had entitled him to
the first place in his country's love and destined for him the fairest
page in the volume of faithful
history, I ask so much confidence only as may
give firmness and effect to the legal administration of your affairs. I
shall often go wrong through
defect of judgment. When right, I shall often
be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the
whole ground. I ask your
indulgence for my own errors, which will never
be intentional, and your support against the errors of others, who may
condemn what they would
not if seen in all its parts. The approbation
implied by your suffrage is a great consolation to me for the past, and
my future solicitude will be to
retain the good opinion of those who have bestowed
it in advance, to conciliate that of others by doing them all the good
in my power, and to be
instrumental to the happiness and freedom of
all.
Relying, then, on the patronage
of your good will, I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire
from it whenever you become sensible
how much better choice it is in your power to
make. And may that Infinite Power which rules the destinies of the universe
lead our councils to
what is best, and give them a favorable issue
for your peace and prosperity.