billybob Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Just now, oldtimer said: https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/restaurantsandnews/trumps-tariffs-could-be-bad-news-for-whiskey-drinkers/ar-BBK1F97?li=BBgdrt0&ocid=spartanntp Darn. Yes what a bunch of horse dookey. We shall see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigStewMan Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 food and drink is even politicized -- is there no end to this madness? time to make friends with those cats on the show Moonshiners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Food and drink have always been. My post is more concerned with economics, but man is a political animal. Eg: Freedom fries, the Boston tea party, opium wars (lol)...whiskey tax rebellion, potato famine...I think you all get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 here ya go folks. Tell me more about protection from a tyrannical government. This was during the first president's administration. Any real history buffs here (besides the Kid)? The Whiskey Rebellion (also known as the Whiskey Insurrection) was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 during the presidency of George Washington. The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government. It became law in 1791, and was intended to generate revenue for the war debt incurred during the Revolutionary War. The tax applied to all distilled spirits, but American whiskey was by far the country's most popular distilled beverage in the 18th century, so the excise became widely known as a "whiskey tax". Farmers of the western frontier were accustomed to distilling their surplus rye, barley, wheat, corn, or fermented grain mixtures into whiskey. These farmers resisted the tax. In these regions, whiskey often served as a medium of exchange. Many of the resisters were war veterans who believed that they were fighting for the principles of the American Revolution, in particular against taxation without local representation, while the federal government maintained that the taxes were the legal expression of Congressional taxation powers. Throughout Western Pennsylvania counties, protesters used violence and intimidation to prevent federal officials from collecting the tax. Resistance came to a climax in July 1794, when a U.S. marshal arrived in western Pennsylvania to serve writs to distillers who had not paid the excise. The alarm was raised, and more than 500 armed men attacked the fortified home of tax inspector General John Neville. Washington responded by sending peace commissioners to western Pennsylvania to negotiate with the rebels, while at the same time calling on governors to send a militia force to enforce the tax. Washington himself rode at the head of an army to suppress the insurgency, with 13,000 militiamen provided by the governors of Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The rebels all went home before the arrival of the army, and there was no confrontation. About 20 men were arrested, but all were later acquitted or pardoned. Most distillers in nearby Kentucky were found to be all but impossible to tax—in the next six years, over 175 distillers from Kentucky were convicted of violating the tax law.[3] Numerous examples of resistance are recorded in court documents and newspaper accounts.[4] The Whiskey Rebellion demonstrated that the new national government had the will and ability to suppress violent resistance to its laws, though the whiskey excise remained difficult to collect. The events contributed to the formation of political parties in the United States, a process already underway. The whiskey tax was repealed in the early 1800s during the Jefferson administration. of note regarding some of my prior ruminations: In Caetano v. Massachusetts (2016), the Supreme Court reiterated its earlier rulings that "the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding" and that its protection is not limited to "only those weapons useful in warfare".[ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 We are going to see where this corona takes us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 8 minutes ago, The Dude said: We are going to see where this corona takes us. Corona? Straight to the urinal... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Another perfect broken martini. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Stock up and save now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigStewMan Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 2 hours ago, The Dude said: We are going to see where this corona takes us. shirtless pictures in front of a toaster? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 2 minutes ago, BigStewMan said: shirtless pictures in front of a toaster? Harsh, but funny. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimjimbo Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 3 hours ago, oldtimer said: opium wars There was an opium war and I missed it? Damnit.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 Drunken Master is a good movie to get an overview. English are the bad guys, as usual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richieb Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 3 hours ago, oldtimer said: Corona? Straight to the urinal... Thank you. And Im guessing, hoping, you mean Prior to consuming ?!? The only way this swill is the top selling import beer is great marketing. Any beer that requires a slice of fruit to make it palatable ??? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 9 hours ago, richieb said: The only way this swill is the top selling import beer is great marketing. It works for Bose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paducah Home Theater Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 Yeah I know, its' pretty awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyOwn Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Took a half day today, Took tomorrow off...Cheers Folks This is whats going down at my end.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Too much hair, in truth. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 For those who see a non-sequitur, that is because a post was deleted. And yes, it is funny. And within a traditional American genre. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyOwn Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 If deleted Very Unfortunate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 need to get a dark beer, probably Guinness, to make another batch of corned beef...someone bought more than needed. I'm not complaining, it is a traditional American dish, for irish Americans. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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