03/27 - International Whiskey Day

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 03/27/2023 - 5:00am
Image from page 307 of "Pacific wine and spirit review" (1893)

~~ Bourbon Whiskey

Whiskey (or Whisky),from usquebaugh, from uisce is a type of distilled alcoholic beverage made from fermented grain mash. It is also the first word in "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot", but that is a different subject. Once when I wrote about this topic years ago, I was informed by one Untimely Ripped that "whisky" is the current preferred spelling but that one should at least acknowledge "whiskey" lest a certain ethnic group get their ethnic up. Heh, certainly fine with me.

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But Wait! Alarme, Alarme! There is a "Whiskey Fungus" about. The NYT has an article about it, should you feel like paying to read it. ( https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/us/whiskey-fungus-jack-daniels-tennes... ) Boing Boing cites snippets in its article about it here - https://boingboing.net/2023/03/04/whiskey-fungus-is-a-real-life-lovecraf.... It appears to have been around for centuries and we don't seem to have bothered to learn anything about it, but you're on notice - It IS Out There

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On this day in history:

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1794 -- The US established a permanent navy

1836 -- The Mexican army massacred 342 POWs at Goliad, Texas.

1886 -- Goyahkla aka Geronimo surrendered to occupying forces

1901 – Emilio Aguinaldo, President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured by the US military

1915 -- Typhoid Mary was quarantined

1964 -- The Good Friday earthquake hit Alaska (9.2 richter)

1975 -- They started building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System

1980 -- A panic hit the commodity and futures exchanges when the Hunts tried to corner the market in Silver

1981 -- Solidarity staged a "warning strike"

1990 -- The US Started broadcasting TV Marti propaganda

1998 -- The FDA approved Viagra

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Some people who were born on this day:

“The story of the blues is you tell your feelings. That’s what it is, you have to catch the blues when it comes from the heart. I don’t care if you’re black, white, green or yellow.”

~~ Phil Chess

1702 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, organist and composer
1710 – Joseph Abaco, cellist and composer
1724 -- Jane Colden, botanist
1809 -- Georges-Eugene Haussmann, engineer commissioned to rennovate Paris
1820 -- Edward Augustus Inglefield, explorer
1824 – Virginia Minor, women's suffrage activist
1844 -- Adolphus Greely, explorer
1845 -- Wilhelm Roentgen, physicist, discovered X-rays, won first Physics Nobel Prize
1847 -- Otto Wallach, chemist, terpene maven
1851 -- Ruperto Chapi, composer
1851 -- Vincent d'Indy, composer
1854 – Giovanni Battista Grassi, physician, zoologist, and entomologist
1863 – Henry Royce, engineer and businessman, founded Rolls-Royce Limited
1868 -- Patty Hill, birthday girl
1875 – Albert Marquet, painter
1879 – Edward Steichen, painter and photographer
1886 -- Sergey Kirov, bolshie
1886 -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect
1892 – Ferde Grofé, pianist and composer
1901 -- Carl Barks, the duck man
1905 -- Leroy Carr, singer, pianist, & songwriter
1905 – Elsie MacGill, author and engineer, "Queen of the Hurricanes"
1906 -- Pee Wee Russell, composer; clarinet & sax player
1909 -- Ben Webster, saxophonist
1915 -- Robert Lockwood, Jr., guitarist
1921 -- Phil Chess, record producer
1924 -- Sarah Vaughan, singer
1924 – Margaret K. Butler, mathematician and computer programmer
1932 -- Junior Parker, singer and harmonica player
1950 -- Tony Banks, keyboard player and songwriter for Genesis
1950 – Maria Ewing, soprano
1951 – Chris Stewart, musician and author, original drummer for Genesis
1959 -- Andrew Farriss, rock musician and multi-instrumentalist
1960 – Renato Russo, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1970 -- Mariah Carey, singer & songwriter
1970 – Brent Fitz, multi-instrumentalist and recording artist
1975 -- Fergie, singer, dnacer, songwriter, & pea
1987 – Polina Gagarina, singer and songwriter
1990 – Kimbra, musician

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Some people who died on this day:

“Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!”

~~ Yuri Gagarin, who "looked and looked but didn't see god"

1572 – Girolamo Maggi, polymath
1770 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, painter
1923 -- James Dewar, physicist & chemist
1928 – Leslie Stuart, organist and composer
1945 – Vincent Hugo Bendix, engineer and businessman, founded Bendix Corporation
1968 -- Yuri Gagarin, pilot & astronaut
1977 -- Shirley Graham Du Bois, activist, author, composer & playwright
2015 – Johnny Helms, trumpet player, bandleader, and educator
2018 – Bert Nievera, singer

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Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:

International Whiskey Day
World Theatre Day
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Today's Tunes

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Joseph Abaco

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Ruperto Chapizzz

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Vincent d'Indy

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Leroy Carr

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Pee Wee Russell

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Ben Webster

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Robert Lockwood, Jr.

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Phil Chess collected, recorded and produced artists, like Robert Lockwood Jr., Muddy Waters and ...

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Sarah Vaughan

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Junior Parker

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Tony Banks,

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Andrew Farriss

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Mariah Carey

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Fergie

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Bonus: some Chess

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Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?

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I won't be here when this posts

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Submitted by QMS on Mon, 03/27/2023 - 7:08am

Enjoy your pilgrimage!

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Submitted by Lookout on Mon, 03/27/2023 - 7:10am
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I like whisky every now and then, but usually stick to beer and wine. We normally keep a bottle of Irish whisky, but we live fairly close to the Jack Daniels and George Dickel distilleries. They make sour mash whisky which is basically Bourbon, which must be made in Bourbon County KY to be called so.

Thanks for the OT!

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Submitted by usefewersyllables on Mon, 03/27/2023 - 8:39am
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Now, that sounds like a good idea! Breakfast of champions...

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Twice bitten, permanently shy.

Submitted by Lookout on Mon, 03/27/2023 - 10:48am
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@usefewersyllables

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Submitted by usefewersyllables on Mon, 03/27/2023 - 10:57am
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@Lookout

That's definitely the ticket.

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Submitted by dystopian on Mon, 03/27/2023 - 9:24am
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la da da, la da da,

Hi all, Hey EL! Hope it's all good out there! Bottle of Crown Royal, check! Two.

Just had a singing returning breeder Yellow-breasted Chat, my first ever March record here in 20 years, about a week or more early. Few nights ago we heard a Long-eared Owl hooting again, right over (in an audio sense) a pair of Great Horned's hooting! I saw a pic of a Great Horned with a Long-eared as prey item once. Saw one go after a Barn Owl once too. Just the first lightest sprinkling of migrants starting to show up, which is fantastic. Something special about that to me.

Here is a fav Whiskey song... I kinda like Procul Harum's best, though didn't catch on to it at the time it came out, but did with Blackfoot's version a few years later which got some L.A. radio airplay. I will lazily just plop the links in.. in case anyone wants to hear it they can click...

Whiskey Train

Blackfoot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeP1PiDXjLo

Leslie West
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-LffIABW_U

Procul Harum - 1970
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgxQyuj77Sk

back into the salt mine for me...

I'm countin' on all to have good ones!

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Submitted by soryang on Mon, 03/27/2023 - 12:02pm
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I must have heard this song at least a thousand times at the pub in the 90s, along with Bad to the Bone.

Bill Wax used to play the great Phil Chess produced singles on the BB King Bluesville program on SiriusXM.

Youtube coughed up some great short video with some old JTBC photos from the Korean CIA, circa 1965. I don't know how to share or embed it. This is the link below. Some of the characters in the video are Kim Jong-pil, (of the political troika, the three Kims); Park Jong-kyo, Chief of the Presidential Security Service (for dictator Park Chung-hee); and Kim Hyung-yook, head of the Korean CIA during the Park dictatorship. They are shown partying it up, with Japanese heavies, Kodama Yoshio (former Class A war criminal released by the US after WWII with no trial); and Hisayuki Machii, a Korean born Yakuza gang leader in Japan. Kodama, was reported in one historical account I read, responsible for coordinating looting in Japanese occupied territories during WWII on behalf of the Japanese Imperial family. During WWII he was commissioned as a general officer. He also coordinated drug trafficking, smuggling of war materials with Chinese warlords and gangs.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DZIpiDi-WTY

Wikipedia has a this on Hisayuki:

Under the American occupation

Like fellow yakuza powerbroker Yoshio Kodama, Machii had good relations with the US occupation authorities due to his staunch anti-Communist stance: Tosei-kai soldiers were often used as strikebreakers during the occupation years. Machii himself worked with the United States Counter Intelligence Corps.[citation needed] While leaders of the Japanese yakuza were imprisoned or under close scrutiny by the American occupying forces, the Korean yakuza were free to take over the lucrative black markets. But rather than trying to rival the Japanese godfathers, Machii made alliances with them, and throughout his career, he remained close to both Kodama and Taoka.[3]

Machii's vast empire included tourism, entertainment, bars and restaurants, prostitution, and oil importing. He and Kodama made a fortune on real estate investments alone. More importantly, he brokered deals between the Korean government and the yakuza that allowed Japanese criminals to set up rackets in Korea. Thanks to Machii, Korea became the yakuza's home away from home. Befitting his role as fixer between the underworlds of both countries, Machii was allowed to acquire the largest ferry service between Shimonoseki, Japan, and Busan, South Korea—the shortest route between the two countries.[2]

Role in the kidnapping of Kim Dae-jung

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He was widely believed to have helped the Korean Central Intelligence Agency kidnap then-leading Korean opposition leader Kim Dae-jung from a Tokyo hotel (see kidnapping of Kim Dae-jung).[3] Kim was whisked out to sea where he was bound, gagged, blindfolded and fitted with weights so that his body would never surface.

Kim's life was allegedly spared because of the personal intervention of the US Ambassador to Seoul, Philip Habib, who didn't wait for Washington instructions to find Kim. This lead me to an archived NY Times article basically trying to lionize Kim Hyung-yook.

Former Chief of Korea's C.I.A. Kim Hyung Wook
June 23, 1977
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/23/archives/former-chief-of-koreas-cia-k...

Surprised youtube put the short video with the KCIA photos in the cue, and surprised the old NY Times article opened for me.

So the bottom line here is that the 1965 Japanese-Republic of Korea Settlement Agreement which purportedly absolved Japan of legal liability for any Korean claims including those for war crimes, specifically massive slave labor and sex slave crimes against humanity, was (Surprise!) negotiated by war criminals and yakuza on behalf of Japan. (Kodama's cellmate in Sugamo prison, Kishi Nobusuke was also involved in the negotiations that led to the 1965 agreement).

There are many legal authorities in Korea,(including the Korean high court) and some in Japan, who say it doesn't bar personal claims for war crimes. The agreement doesn't bar personal claims for injury, it precludes property claims, and subrogation claims. There was an internal Japanese Justice Ministry memo to this effect also. Ignorantly, President Yoon said he wouldn't pursue the "subrogation claims" of any South Korean corporation that volunteers to pay for Japan's war crimes. One commentator noted that that Samsung hadn't come forward with any contribution pledge so far. POSCO did (they received a large share of the economic development funding that Japan provided). I saw another video showing that Lee Jae-yong, the Samsung Group Executive Chairman, was in Beijing for the China Development Symposium which was attended by 100 corporate executives from around the world, including Tim Cook from Apple.

Wendy Sherman, US Deputy Sec. of State- "Why can't they just get over it?"

(edited-spelling, typos)

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Submitted by ggersh on Mon, 03/27/2023 - 1:04pm
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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

Submitted by humphrey on Mon, 03/27/2023 - 1:14pm

But still!

Here we go again.

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Submitted by humphrey on Mon, 03/27/2023 - 1:35pm

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