Botzo

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[–] Botzo 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I envy your lack of this particular childhood trauma.

[–] Botzo 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

No kidding.

I remember dad making me read some book proving the end times were here because Saddam was Nebuchadnezzar reborn (the proof was their silhouettes looking similar). So much "whore of Babylon" stuff.

He recently sent me a YouTube video of a guy talking about the valley of Jehoshaphat and Trump heralding the end times.

It never ends.

[–] Botzo 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

As much as I'd love to convince you to drink some other cocktails, you've got a set of decent selections already. I'll add and reiterate.

Bourbon $25-$35 (depending on where you are assuming US) these are mixing price and all eminently sippable neat:

  • Wild Turkey 101
  • Elijah Craig Small batch
  • Buffalo Trace
  • Old Grand Dad Bottled in Bond

Tennessee whiskey (like Jack Daniels but better and about the same price):

  • George Dickel

Scotch $20-$25 It will hit the note for speyside drinkers and won't break the bank:

  • Chivas 12yr

Scotch $35-$50 cheap single malt you won't mind sipping after the party:

  • Glenfiddich 12
  • Glenlivet 12
  • Bruichladdich Laddie

Irish $55-$60 not big on Irish whiskey, but I always have a bottle for the ones who insist and Jameson is frat party trash:

  • Redbreast 12yr

White Rum $20-$25

  • Plantation 3 stars
  • El Dorado 3yr

If you feel like something with color and a bit bigger flavor,

  • Appleton Signature

If I could beg you to step away from the amaretto, a boulevardier is a fine whiskey cocktail that can be adjusted easily to taste. Get you some campari and sweet (red) vermouth (carpano antica, cocchi di torino, or punt e mes) to go with the bourbon. I like a ratio of 2 bourbon to 1 campari and 1 vermouth.

[–] Botzo 27 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Pardon any errors here (Cunningham's law and all), I was a bit toasty while listening to the knowledge fight episode.

My favorite part of this whole thing is that he's calling shenanigans because he knows that the high bid didn't win. And Alex signed documents acknowledging there were other factors.

There were 2 bids. Just 2. And do you know what the high bid was? $3.5 million. That's it. A paltry sum for his life's work. The price of a McMansion in California.

[–] Botzo 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

The executive branch ethics program works to prevent financial conflicts of interest to help ensure government decisions are made free from personal financial bias.

https://www.oge.gov/web/oge.nsf/about_what-we-do

Since it went so well last time Trump was president, it's just another virtue signal for him to wipe some more shit on.

[–] Botzo 30 points 3 weeks ago

Memories are really short apparently.

Recess appointments are "on the table."

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-cabinet-recess-appointments-john-thune-1986307

[–] Botzo 42 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

The rabbit hole is only about a thousand podcast episodes deep.

https://knowledgefight.com/

[–] Botzo 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I hear ya.

Cat woke me up at 5:30. Managed to get another hour of sleep after. Just enough to feel extra groggy.

Might have to have a second cup of coffee before 10.

[–] Botzo 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah. Unfortunately at this point it is pretty much just a bit of grandstanding to try to maintain a semblance of a bar. A bar likely to be entirely ignored (best case scenario) by the new trump administration.

[–] Botzo 5 points 3 weeks ago

Hello fellow Midwesterner!

[–] Botzo 9 points 3 weeks ago

I guess I'm confused but your need to qualify that statement at all.

Maybe we went wrong somewhere...

[–] Botzo 10 points 4 weeks ago

That's why the recess appointments are so important to them. And Thune has already signalled he is happy to bend the knee.

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