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Cocktail of the Week: Orange Oak

2013-02-24T19:08:00.001-08:00

INGREDIENTS:

1 1/2 oz. Makers Mark

1/2 oz. St Germain

1/2 oz. Sweet and Sour

2 Kumquats

1 Pinch Red Chili Pepper

PREPARATION:

Lets start with the Kumquat, or Chinese Mandarin or if you can't find those then oranges are fine too! Cut 2 of them in halves and place in a mixing glass and add the Sweet And Sour and a pinch of Chili pepper. Muddle it thoroughly making sure to crush the chile pepper flakes so as to extract all the spiciness. Now add the St Germain and the Bourbon and shake it hard for 5 fast seconds. Serve on the rocks in a Old Fashioned Glass.

The color is a sexy orange with dancing with the chili flakes and Kumquat flesh, the smell is warm from the spirit base and the spicy ingredients. The taste is a modern interpretation of the classic Whiskey Sour.

Cocktail of the Week: Spicy Date

2013-02-13T09:33:00.005-08:00

INGREDIENTS:

2 oz. Cruzan Pineapple Rum

1 Blood Orange (cut in half)

1/2 Date

2 lime wedges

1 pinch of Cayenne Pepper

PREPARATION:

In a mixing glass squeeze all the juice from your blood orange (around 2/3 oz) and then add 2 lime wedges squeezed and the date. Now start muddling.. the date will be our delicious natural sweetener. Once you have created a consistent pulp add the pinch of Cayenne Pepper and taste for spiciness. Now pour in your Pineapple Rum and shake hard, really hard for 5 fast seconds, and double strain over ice into a rocks glass.

The color is flaming red. The scent is fresh and full of citrusy notes... the taste is a fun intriguing combination of unique flavors, the citrus of the oranges balances the sweetness of the date, the spiciness of the pepper is toned down by the pineapple. This really is a DATE in a glass.. unpredictable, sweet and spicy and sometimes with a bite!

Cocktail of the week: Cojito

2013-01-21T13:36:00.001-08:00

Cojito

A Mojito but with a coconut flavour.

1.5 oz White Rum
0.5 oz Coconut Rum
0.5 oz Lime Juice
4 Mint Leaves

Method: Prepare in glass
Glass: Collins
Recipe:

Add the lime juice and the mint leaves in a tall glass.
Bruise a few mint leaves using a spoon so that their juice can get out.
Fill the glass with ice and add the rums.
Stir.
Add 7UP (or Sprite, or Perrier, or Club Soda) and a twig of mint for decoration.

Volume: 2.5 oz
Alcohol by volume: 32%

Cocktail of the Week: Park Avenue

2013-01-13T15:41:00.001-08:00

Park Avenue

A pineapple flavored Martini.

2 oz Gin
0.5 oz Sweet Vermouth
0.5 oz Pineapple Juice

Method: Prepare in shaker
Glass: Cocktail
Recipe:

Pour all ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake for a several seconds.
Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Volume: 3.0 oz
Alcohol by volume: 29%

Cocktail of the Week: Americano

2013-01-08T23:15:00.003-08:00

Americano

A classic italian aperitif, popular among the American tourists in Italy in the early 1900s.

1 oz Sweet Vermouth
1 oz Campari
1 dash Club soda

Method: On the Rocks
Glass: Collins
Recipe:

Add the italian vermouth and Campari in a shaker along with a few ice cubes.
Pour into a tall glass filled with ice.
Top with club soda (just a splash).
Stir gently.

Volume: 2.0 oz
Alcohol by volume: 20%

Cocktail of the Week: Fire Starter

2012-12-30T22:35:00.003-08:00

Fire Starter

Cinnamon flavoured irish coffee.

2.2 oz Fireball Cinnamon Whisky
5.0 oz Coffee
1 tsp Brown Sugar
2 tbsps Heavy Milk Cream

Method: Prepare in glass
Glass: Goblet

Recipe:

Wisk the cream gently, until it thickens slightly.
Warm a stemmed whisky glass or Paris goblet with hot water; discard the water.
Put the sugar in the bottom of the glass and add very hot coffee to come to within 3 cm of the top of the glass. Stir to dissolve the sugar.
Add Fireball whisky.
Hold a teaspoon, curved side upwards, across the glass, barely touching the coffee and pour the cream very slowly over the spoon so that it floats on top of the coffee. The cream should be suspended on top of the whisky-laced coffee (it hasn't worked if it falls to the bottom).
The coffee is drunk through the cold cream.

Volume: 8.3 oz
Alcohol by volume: 9%

Cocktail of the Week: Woo Woo

2012-12-21T13:17:00.001-08:00

Woo woo

8.3/10 (15 votes) A simpler version of a Sex on the Beach

1 oz Vodka
0.5 oz Peach Schnapps
3.5 oz Cranberry Juice

Method: On the Rocks
Glass: Highball

Recipe:

Build all ingredients in a highball glass filled with ice.
Enjoy!

Volume: 5.0 oz
Alcohol by volume: 10%

Cocktail of the Week: Algonquin

2012-12-17T10:34:00.004-08:00

Algonquin

6.0/10 (1 vote) An unlikely combinaison. Whisky mixed with fruit juice.

1.5 oz Rye Whiskey
0.75 oz Dry Vermouth
0.75 oz Pineapple Juice

Method: Prepare in shaker
Glass: Cocktail

Recipe:

Stir all ingredients together with a spoon with ice. Don't shake it.
Strain into a cocktail glass.
Add a squeeze of orange peel.

Volume: 3.0 oz
Alcohol by volume: 24%

Cocktail of the Week: Dirty Mother

2012-12-07T14:03:00.004-08:00

Dirty Mother

A great Black Russian variant

2 oz Brandy
1 oz Kahlúa

Method: Prepare in glass
Glass: Old-Fashioned

Recipe:

Build in a short glass over ice.
Stir well.

Volume: 3.0 oz
Alcohol by volume: 33%

Cocktail of the week: San Salvador

2012-12-02T17:36:00.001-08:00

San Salvador

A refreshing tropical cocktail

1.5 oz Golden Rum
1 oz Orange Liqueur
1.5 oz Orange Juice
0.5 oz Lime Juice

Method: On the Rocks

Glass: Collins

Recipe:

Fill a tall glass with ice
Pour in all the ingredients
Decorate with a slice of an orange if you wish

Volume: 4.5 oz
Alcohol by volume: 22%

Cocktail of the Week: Duck Fart

2012-11-26T08:33:00.000-08:00

Duck Fart

A manlier version of the popular B-52 shooter.

1 part Rye Whiskey
1 part Kahlúa
1 part Baileys Irish Cream

Cocktail of the Week: Yellow Bird

2012-11-19T15:06:00.001-08:00

Yellow Bird

8.7/10 (3 votes) A delicious yellow girly drink.

1 oz Bacardi 151
0.5 oz Banana Liqueur
0.5 oz Galliano
2 oz Orange Juice
1 oz Pineapple Juice

Method: Prepare in a blender
Glass: Hurricane
Recipe:

Add all ingredients in a blender with a few ice cubes.
Bacardi 151 is great but any light rum can do.
Pour into a hurricane or a tulip glass.
Enjoy!

Volume: 5.0 oz
Alcohol by volume: 20%

Drowning in Hypocrisy: War Abroad; Austerity at Home

2012-01-25T11:29:00.001-08:00

The US government is so full of self-righteousness that it has become a caricature of hypocrisy. Leon Panetta, a former congressman who Obama appointed CIA director and now head of the Pentagon, just told the sailors on the USS Enterprise, an aircraft carrier, that the US is maintaining a fleet of 11 aircraft carriers in order to project sea power against Iran and to convince Iran that “it’s better for them to try to deal with us through diplomacy.”

If it requires 11 aircraft carriers to deal with Iran, how many will Panetta need to project power against Russia and China? But to get on with the main point, Iran has been trying “to deal with us through diplomacy.” The response from Washington has been belligerent threats of military attack, unfounded and irresponsible accusations that Iran is making a nuclear weapon, sanctions and an oil embargo. Washington’s accusations echo Israel’s and are contradicted by Washington’s own intelligence agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Why doesn’t Washington respond to Iran in a civilized manner with diplomacy? Really, which of the two countries is the greatest threat to peace?

Washington sends the FBI to raid the homes of peace activists and puts a grand jury to work to create a case against them for aiding a nebulous enemy by protesting Washington’s wars. The Department of Homeland Security unleashes goon cop thugs to brutalize peaceful Occupy Wall Street demonstrators. Washington fabricates cases against Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, and Tarek Mehanna that negate the First Amendment by equating free speech with terrorism and spying. Chicago mayor and former Obama White House chief-of-staff, Rahm Israel Emanuel, pushes an ordinance that outlaws public protests in the City of Chicago. The list goes on. And in the midst of it all Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other Washington hypocrites accuse Russia and China of stifling dissent.

Washington’s grotesque hypocrisy goes unremarked by the American “media” and in the debates for the Republican presidential nomination. The corrupt Obama “Justice” Department turns a blind eye while goon cop thugs commit gratuitous violence against the citizens who pay the goon cop thugs’ undeserved salaries.

But it is in the War Crimes Arena where Washington shows the greatest hypocrisy. The self-righteous bigots in Washington are forever rounding up heads of weak states whose countries were afflicted by civil wars and sending them off to be tried as war criminals. All the while Washington indiscriminately kills large numbers of civilians in six or more countries, dismissing its own war crimes as “collateral damage.” Washington violates its own law and international law by torturing people.

On January 13, 2012, Carol Rosenberg of McClatchy Newspapers reported that Spanish judge Pablo Rafael Ruz Gutierrez re-launched an investigation into Washington’s torture of prisoners in Guantanamo Prison. The previous day British authorities opened an investigation into CIA renditions of kidnapped persons to Libya for torture.

Rosenberg reports that although the Obama regime has refused to investigate the obvious crimes of the Bush regime, and one might add its own obvious crimes, “other countries are still interested in determining whether Bush-era anti-terror practices violated international law.”

There is no question that Bush/Cheney/Obama have trashed the US Constitution, US statutory law, and international law. But Washington, having overthrown justice, has established that might is right. No foreign government is going to send its forces into the US to drag the war criminals out and place them on trial.

The War Criminal Court at the Hague is reserved for Washington’s show trials. No foreign government is going to pay Washington several hundred millions of dollars to turn Bush, Cheney, Obama and their minions over to them in the way the US bought Milosevic from Serbia in order to create the necessary spectacle at the War Crimes Tribunal to justify Washington’s naked aggression against Serbia.

No government can be perfect, because all governments are composed of humans, especially those humans most attracted by power and profit. Nevertheless, in my lifetime I have witnessed an extraordinary deterioration in the integrity of government in the United States. We have reached the point where nothing that our government says is believable. Not even the unemployment rate, the inflation rate, the GDP growth rate, much less Washington’s reasons for its wars, its police state, and its foreign and domestic policies.

Washington has kept America at war for ten years while millions of Americans lost their jobs and their homes. War and a faltering economy have exploded the national debt, and a looming bankruptcy is being blamed on Social Security and Medicare.

The pursuit of war continues. On January 23 Washington’s servile puppets–the EU member states–did Washington’s bidding and imposed an oil embargo on Iran, despite the pleas of Greece, a member of the EU. Greece’s final ruin will come from the higher oil prices from the embargo, as the Greek government realizes.

The embargo is a reckless act. If the US navy tries to intercept oil tankers carrying Iranian oil, large scale war could break out. This, many believe, is Washington’s aim.

It is easy for an embargo to become a blockade, which is an act of war. Remember how easily the UN Security Council’s “no-fly zone” over Libya was turned by the US and its NATO puppets into a military attack on Libya’s armed forces and population centers supportive of Gaddafi.

As the western “democracies” become increasingly lawless, the mask of law that imperialism wears is stripped away and with it the sheen of morality that has been used to cloak hegemonic ambitions. With Iran surrounded and with two of Washington’s fleets in the Persian Gulf, another war of aggression seems inevitable.

Experts say that an attack on Iran by the US and NATO will disrupt the flow of oil that the world needs. The crazed drive for hegemony is so compelling that Washington and its EU puppets show no hesitation in putting their own struggling economies at risk of sharply rising energy costs.

War abroad and austerity at home is the policy that is being imposed on the western “democracies.”

PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS was an editor of the Wall Street Journal and an Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. His latest book, HOW THE ECONOMY WAS LOST, has just been published by CounterPunch/AK Press. He can be reached through his website

Saving the Rich, Losing the Economy

2011-09-26T14:01:00.000-07:00

by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

Economic policy in the United States and Europe has failed, and people are suffering. Economic policy failed for three reasons: (1) policymakers focused on enabling offshoring corporations to move middle class jobs, and the consumer demand, tax base, GDP, and careers associated with the jobs, to foreign countries, such as China and India, where labor is inexpensive; (2) policymakers permitted financial deregulation that unleashed fraud and debt leverage on a scale previously unimaginable; (3) policymakers responded to the resulting financial crisis by imposing austerity on the population and running the printing press in order to bail out banks and prevent any losses to the banks regardless of the cost to national economies and innocent parties.

Read full article here: http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/26/saving-the-rich-losing-the-economy/

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal. His latest book is How the Economy Was Lost (CounterPunch / AK Press).

Distribution of US Wealth

2011-07-29T10:08:00.000-07:00

This is why our economy is lost:

Why Parents Drink

2011-07-08T10:47:00.000-07:00

The boss wondered why one of his most valued employees was absent but had not phoned in sick.
So he dialed the employee's home phone number and was greeted with a child's whisper.

Child: "Hello?"
Boss: "Is your daddy home?"
Child: "Yes, he's out in the garden," whispered the small voice.
Boss: May I talk with him?"
The child whispered, "No."
So the boss asked, "Well, is your Mommy there?"
Child: "Yes, she's out in the garden."
The boss asked, "May I talk with her?"
Again the small voice whispered, "No."
Hoping there was somebody with whom he could leave a message, the boss asked, "Is anybody else there?"
"Yes," whispered the child, "a policeman..."
Wondering what a cop would be doing at his employee"s home, the boss asked, "May I speak with the policeman?"
"No, he's busy." whispered the child.
"Busy doing what?" asks the boss.
"Talking to Daddy and Mommy and the police dog men." responds the child.
Growing more worried as he heard a loud noise in the background, the boss asked, "What is that noise?"
"It's a helicopter," answered the whispering child.
"What is going on there?" demanded the boss, now truly apprehensive.
Child: "The search team just landed a helicopter."
"A search team?" said the boss. "What are they searching for?"
Still whispering, the young voice replied with a muffled giggle... "ME"

Booze of the week: Burnett's Citrus Vodka

2011-06-03T14:25:00.000-07:00

The older I get, the more things cost, and the less cash I have left for quality booze - you know, the kind that costs $40-100 for 750mL. Today's booze of the week is probably as cost-effective as you can get: Burnett's Citrus Vodka for $5.99 (750mL) at Trader Joes.

You're thinking, WTF, $5.99??? It must be once distilled from cow dung! I hate to break this to you, but Burnett's vodka (made in Kentucky, USA) is quadruple distilled from grain and triple charcoal filtered. That should be enough to clean out all the Kentucky animal dung and urine that's all over the grain the distillery uses.

Unfortunately there's not much info on this vodka, but obviously Burnett's isn't going to allocate a large marketing budget for a $6 vodka. The true test for me was to buy it and make my wife's favorite drink, a Mango Martini. Honestly, we would have never known if the drinks were made with Stoli or Absolut, which means the vodka was free of aftertaste and the drink went down smooth. Furthermore, there was NO HANGOVER. Enough said.

Drunk prank of the week: Bottle Alarm

2011-05-18T09:56:00.000-07:00

Your humble author likes originality, and while a few of the drunk prank photos posted haven't been the most creative, this one is pretty darn good. The pranksters clearly knew one of the worst things a hungover person can wake up to is NOISE, especially coming from the last thing on his mind: BOOZE.

Craigslist humor: toilet for sale

2011-05-11T09:51:00.001-07:00

I once blew up a friend's perfectly good toilet with an M80, which was a total riot and had us laughing for hours - not to mention the continued laughs over the years when reminiscing. The bad part about it was having to fork over a couple hundred dollars for a new toilet, but can one really put a price on never ending laughs? Okay, so had Craigslist been around during the aftermath of my toilet explosion prank, I definitely could have extended the prank by picking up this item on Craigslist:

Bin Laden tops the chart

2011-05-02T10:05:00.000-07:00

After hundreds of thousands Iraqi and Afghan deaths and the ongoing suffering of thousands more, Bin Laden was finally taken out. I'm not sure what all the celebrating is about, as nothing has changed. The US is no safer, and still hated for the decades of imperialism and middle east tyranny. Oh, and Obama's top priority is continuing to serve the oligarchy while the US economy remains in shambles. Anyway, on to the comedy:

Craigslist humor: Planned Parenthood protests

2011-04-27T16:16:00.000-07:00

I'm not wild about abortion, and honesty there's nothing funny about it. However, there's always someone out there who can find humor where you least expect it, and Craigslist is home to such individuals.

Drunk prank of the week: Pretty Lady

2011-04-23T12:29:00.000-07:00

Well, this drunk prank features the usual cosmetic "pass out and I'll mark your face" make-up, but what makes it hilarious is the pranksters actually animate the face in a "Weekend at Bernie's" style.

There seems to be an endless amount of idiots who drink too much and leave themselves in the hands of their buddies. Once I've collected enough of these drunk pranks I'll set up some sort of poll to get an idea of what's the most popular.

Craigslist humor: AIDS scare revenge

2011-04-20T10:59:00.000-07:00

This classified ad is pretty damn funny, but I question whether or not it's really true. So to my few blog readers, don't questions its legitimacy and get all CSI on me , but instead take it as as nonsensical humor, which is what this blog is all about.

People of WalMart

2011-04-18T21:39:00.001-07:00

First off, I wholeheartedly HATE Walmart - yes, hate is a big word, but it seems every Walmart I've stepped foot in leaves me in a state of disgust. I know there are some nice ones and stores vary by location, but the ones here in Southern California royally suck. Half the items on the shelves end up on the floor by mid-day, which means the employees really don't give a hoot. Rarely do I see a Walmart cashier with a smile on his/her face. They realize the job sucks and the company cares more about profit margin than aiming to please a minimum wager. The only happy employees are the old people greeting customers at the entrance, obviously just happy someone gave them a chance to be useful again. Okay enough rambling here, now on a few photos of your everyday Walmart patrons...

Video: Mexican Red Cross

2011-04-15T14:16:00.000-07:00

We all know that Mexico, for the most part, is pretty far behind most high GDP countries, but one would think they'd do a little better than this at trying to transport an ER-bound patient to the hospital. Not only do the physicians have to treat the leg, but they might have to fuse a few spinal discs after what happens here...