Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Saturday, February 21, 2026
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Friday, December 26, 2025
the coolest thing that has happened to me all year.... Larry sent me a Christmas card, and doubled down with a tip jar dragster! Then tripled down with the compliment of the year!
Ain't that the coolest!
Thank you Larry! This is incredible, you made my day, clanged my tip jar (and designed a new one!) and sent me a Christmas card! That's so dang generous, and awesome!
Thursday, December 25, 2025
Wednesday, December 24, 2025
Monday, December 22, 2025
Sunday, December 21, 2025
Merry Christmas! I think some readers will not be checking back to see what gets posted later this week, so I think this is the best time to share these
From George Lucas, and Skywalker Ranch
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Sunday, December 07, 2025
cops must be full of donuts, and bored as hell to get out of the car to bother people who are putting xmas lights on their cars
There is NO HARM CAUSED by taping holiday lights to the outside of their cars, in the lasnd of the free, home of the brave.
But West Palm Police posted a picture of a recent traffic stop, showing a Tesla decked out in multicolored lights.
“Yes, it’s festive. No, it’s not street-legal, whether you’re cruising the North Pole or our streets”
Really? Ain't you got the backbone to chase some store thieves, bust some drug dealers, look for stolen cars, check for expired registrations, cars without insurance? Talk about god damn lazy.
Saturday, December 06, 2025
I bet the crew of the Madam Schlitz VII were not fortunate enough to get some beer sponsorship from the Schlitz beer company
Just after the start of 1945, the division saw its bloodiest fight. While the more famous Battle of the Bulge was going on in the Ardennes Forest, German troops launched counteroffensives in other parts of the Allied line. On the French and German border, some of these attacks focused on tanks of the 12th Armored near Herrlisheim, France.
The 12th Armored lasted long enough to be relieved by other U.S. units and was pulled back from the front. During the fighting around Herrlisheim, the division lost approximately 1,250 men and 70 combat vehicles.
Like other major Milwaukee brewers, Schlitz benefited immensely from the nearby Chicago market, opening an agency there in 1868. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 temporarily destroyed the local brewing industry, and Schlitz more than doubled sales over the next year.
Schlitz employed a wide array of scientific, technological, and marketing innovations to standardize their product and compete for leadership of the national market. In 1883 William J. Uihlein brought the first pure culture yeast strain to the United States from Copenhagen, which allowed Schlitz to produce a higher quality beer more consistently. Schlitz helped establish the Union Refrigerator Transit Company in the 1890s, with Joseph Uihlein, Sr. as president, to develop and operate a more cost-effective refrigerated freight line for the brewery. Schlitz was the first to introduce the brown bottle to industrial brewing in 1911, which protected the beer from the harmful effects of light during shipping.
Its decline began in the 1970s after recipe changes, leading to its sale to Stroh's (1982) and later Pabst (1999), with the original Milwaukee brewery closing in 1981 and becoming Schlitz Park, while the brand is now owned by Pabst Brewing Company and produced in other locations
Beer brewing during World War II saved the beer industry. During World War I, anti-alcohol crusaders launched a campaign to label beer makers in America, many of whom were German immigrants, as anti-American and wasters of U.S. resources. It helped the passage of the 18th Amendment, which banned the manufacture and import of alcoholic beverages.
After Prohibition was repealed, breweries went right back to doing what they knew best, but the industry was still on shaky ground. Then World War II broke out, and the U.S. government saw beer as what we would today call a "force multiplier." It declared beer production an essential wartime industry, with 15% of its output reserved for the military.
When the Korean War started, some of the old "dry" politicians and activists were still around, fighting against the evils of alcohol. The teetotalers somehow managed to convince the Department of Defense that troops could do without the two-beer ration. When the news hit headlines, it sparked a nationwide debate.
A U.S. representative, Democrat Andrew J. Biemiller, who represented Milwaukee, demanded on the House floor that the Army explain its rationale for cutting off its soldiers' taps. He argued that beer could be used in place of water when necessary and had "as much alcohol as a good pudding."
While the war raged in Korea, the war at home between beer lovers and anti-alcohol groups like the Woman's Christian Temperance Union was fought to keep beer out of the hands of the GIs. Then, a couple of brewing heavyweights escalated the conflict.
A U.S. representative, Democrat Andrew J. Biemiller, who represented Milwaukee, demanded on the House floor that the Army explain its rationale for cutting off its soldiers' taps. He argued that beer could be used in place of water when necessary and had "as much alcohol as a good pudding."
While the war raged in Korea, the war at home between beer lovers and anti-alcohol groups like the Woman's Christian Temperance Union was fought to keep beer out of the hands of the GIs. Then, a couple of brewing heavyweights escalated the conflict.
Milwaukee's own Jos. Schlitz Brewing Company and Blatz Brewing Company offered to buy the troops a round and see what might happen. The companies volunteered 600,000 cans or bottles (apiece) of their products to be sent to the Korean Peninsula and handed out to the Americans fighting there.
Army Secretary Frank Pace agreed to the donation, so long as the beer was less than 3.2% alcohol by volume.
The first cans of Schlitz, which was America's top beer at the time, rolled away from Milwaukee on Sept. 28, 1950. Blatz wasn't far behind, shipping theirs out on Oct. 4, 1950. The beer made it to the troops in time for Christmas.
The first cans of Schlitz, which was America's top beer at the time, rolled away from Milwaukee on Sept. 28, 1950. Blatz wasn't far behind, shipping theirs out on Oct. 4, 1950. The beer made it to the troops in time for Christmas.
Friday, December 05, 2025
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