No holiday safe from the eco-zealots
Yeesh: “Green Your St. Patrick’s Day Partying.”
3. Vegan eatin’: Vegan corned “beef” and cabbage
I’ve never tried this one, but I’ll say this: I’m increasingly impressed with imitation meat meals. Especially vegan junk food (like Foodswings in Brooklyn). But if you want to reduce the impact of your St. Patrick’s Day food — or if you want to cater to your friends who don’t eat meat, here’s a recipe for Vegan corned “beef” and cabbage.4. Have a clothing swap party
Recession BONUS: Dress in green and bring clothes you don’t wear anymore to trade with friends. It’s the cheapest, greenest wardrobe option around! Here is the cheesiest possible video explaining the rules of clothing swap parties.5. Try greener lighting
…which is to say none! That’s right — party by moonlight. Or candlelight. Prove that you can do better than Earth Hour while partying.
Doug Powers says: Spare me.
Call it the wear(y)ing of the Green.
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Considering today is also my 44th wedding anniversary, I’ll celebrate as I damn well please, and these greenies can (expletive deleted)
What’s wrong with them giving suggestions? Lighten up.
Any time I hear wierd suggestions like these, I go out and purposely leave some carbon footprints somewhere. When are these people going to wake up? We can all be good stewards of this earth without being ridiculous!
Ironically, this is a day real drinkers abhor. It’s amateur hour at the bar, and completely unfun. Crowded and overpriced. Like going to a restaurant on Valentine’s day.
Congratulations!! Have a great day! (We will celebrate our 40th this year.)
Absolutely nothing wrong with the suggestions, other than to remind us of all the weirdos out there who are buying into the man-made global warming crap. And in the long run, this is going to destroy our country with stupid rules and regulations that are entirely UNNECESSARY. Doesn’t make me feel much like lightening up.
I’m concerned about all the methane that will be farted and all the CO2 that will be belched after all the green beer that will be consumed. The atmosphere just can’t hadle it…where is BO’s outrage now?
/sarcoff
My favorite green food: Soylent Green.
“It’s people! It’s people…..”
Sounds pretty kinky – where is this party taking place?
New Year’s Eve is another one! We used to have neighborhood parties so no one would have to drive that night. Now, everyone just does their own thing that night. We rent a movie and stay home. We start the New Year without hangovers, and the whole neighborhood takes turns having brunch on New Year’s Day.
Humorless Socialist- GREENING is another way to control free people “For the common Good”
How many arms does the Socialist aka Progressives have? Lets see there are the feminazis of N.O.W. the Green People, The Militant Gay People, LaRaza, ACORN, Food Police, Global Warming Alarmist- aka The Anti Industrialist, this is just one more arm of the same beast.
The Message: We want to control your lives we know you live in a Free Republic with a Constitution but
GodMessiah Willing, we will get around that pesky document that free people hang their lives on.Uh, yeah. Right.
Do these enviro-nazis even know that burning candles emits (wait for it!) – carbon! Lets all just throw away every lightbulb and start using candles. Wait! I know! Lets grow lots of olive trees, make oil from the fruit to burn in lamps so we can have light, cut down the trees and we can burn them for warmth!
Knucle. Dragging. Liberal. Morons.
A lot of their suggestions are sound for reasons other than reducing one’s carbon footprint. Personally, I find nothing wrong with conserving energy, primarily because it saves me money. There are also lots of good ethical and health reasons not to eat meat.
I say, enjoy the holiday, and give your blood pressure a break as well.
Total amateur hour. I’ll drink alone in the dark rather than put up with tonight’s nonsense, thank you very much.
Veggie corned “beef” is just a bastardization. If the original is so great that you feel the need to imitate everything about it (and do a piss porr job–fake meat, will never ever taste like real meat, why not just eat the original?
No lights, lots of beer, and swapping clothes.
That takes me back….
Basic training?
I may consider trying the vegan corned “Beef” and Cabbage when the Whitehouse starts eating vegan Wagyu “Beef” and arugula.
Actually I feel green enough by taking a methane producing cow out of the field and having it corned for St Paddy’s day. If I eat corned tofu, the cow will still be producing methane.
Not sure about the tofu, but the cabbage itself produces enough methane to force my wife to make me sleep in the basement.
Well if you like that, you’re gonna love the Obama Fingers!
chapoutier:
You mean your poison of choice isn’t cocaine? What kind of lawyer are you?
All:
Anyhow, vegan diets always seemed kind of arbitrary to me. Why stop with animals? Where is the cutoff? How to determine what kind of animal sufficiently suffers? Is a CNS a factor? Are bugs OK? How about jellyfish? Do plants suffer? Why not limit yourself to simply minerals and vitamins?
Weird; pass the dead cow.
Ahh not really.
None that I can think off. Everytime I see my freinds kids pet rabbit I think of stew, but I restrain myself.
I’m pretty sure candles emit less carbon than lightbulbs.
One that wasn’t a lawyer in the 80s, for starters.
The left is such a pathetic bunch of crybabies and wussies.
Veggie meat substitutes? Laughable. Clothing swaps? Lame. Party by moonlight? These idiots need to find out when the moon rises. In Houston today the moon rises at 1:20AM.
Sounds like college to me, Chap.
Lightbulbs emit carbon? I am sure you mean the factory that produces the electricity to run the bulb.
Has bluesoc ever burned a candle?
Chap:
Good point.
Nope. I was not a good boy as a teenager. Lets leave it at that. This is a g rated blog.
I am pretty sure you are wrong.
You feel the need to ridicule good intentions.
I’m a mostly vegetarian-not vegan-but gimmee a break.
On Saturday I was just craving one of “Cracker Barrel’s” reubens.
It was delicious.
I am an animal-hugger so I don’t make a habit out of eating/poultry-I do eat fish-but on the rare occassions that I do it’ll be the genuine article.
Btw-It’s sunny with a high of 70+ here in the Windy City.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day fellow Malkinites!
Barb-Twerp
Yes, and?????
Good intentions doesn’t make them less stupid.
I wore an army hat for my green clothing.
LGM:
Well, personally, I haven’t ridiculed them so much yet (though others have).
However, it’s not so much ridiculing their good intentions as ridiculing their ideas about not eating meat; which are worthy of ridicule.
Vegan diets are silly, contrary to our evolved status as herbivores, generally unhealthy (as is eating too much meat), and totally arbitrary as I was saying before.
Being 2nd generation Irish, I’ll belch in front of any greenie vegan today. I don’t even drink beer, but I’ll find a way to burp………. I’m such a gentleman….
omnivores (sorry not herbivores)
I’m not clear as to what’s stupid about wearing used clothes and cutting down on energy use? It sounds like my childhood.
Good intentions – perhaps. But you know what they say about good intentions, right?
It’s just exhausting. Nothing is safe from eco-nuts reminding how we’re supposedly destroying the planet.
I agree with zeroangel:
(Although I think you meant “our evolved status as omnivores“, right?)
When you eat vegan corned “beef” and enthusiastically enjoy it, then we’ll talk. I’ve tried various vegetarian/vegan “meat” products, and they’re absolutely disgusting.
Besides – I thought cow flatulence contributed to global warming. Don’t we want to off those babies to prevent further emissions?
bluesoc:
I don’t have a problem with either of those things. I just think vegans diets are silly.
Oh that, and I also think that all too often strict “enviromentalists” are zealots and unrealistic. In this case, maybe not so much though.
That makes sense, if you are poor. Its kind of like walking in the rain without a raincoat, even though you have one, simply to make a point. Dumb.
englishqueen:
Yes, I corrected it in #34. Thank you.
1. We do lots of things contrary to our evolved status. It’s part of being a Human rather than merely an animal.
2. Vegan diets are not too unhealthy. They do require supplements. However, when did it become a thing a ridicule to put convictions and principles over one’s self?
3. Different vegans cut out different things from their diets, depending on their reasons for being vegan. There may be differences between vegans, but it’s not arbitrary.
Boy, these people would love me. I made homemade corned venison from the neck of a deer I shot last fall…….and it will be really yummy!!!
Enviro-weenies! Spare me, indeed!
Amen, sonofdy!
If they require supplements, by definition, they are unhealthy.
sigh…
There’s those buzz words again.
Yes, lgm, I plan on doing my part, daily, in fighting the good fight against this insane argument about global warming/climate change. It is, after all, my good intentions as well.
Be right over…
Your analogy misses the point. If it were accurate, it would read “it’s like not buying a raincoat from the store even though you can afford one”
I’ve often wondered why non-Christians celebrate holidays like St. Patrick’s Day, Christmas, and Easter. Then again, most folks think St. Patrick’s Day is about clovers, leprechauns and some guy chasing snakes out of Ireland (just as many think Christmas is about a jolly fat guy in red and Easter is about painted eggs and mammals of the lepus genus).
You’re not stimulating the economy if you trade used clothing with your friends. Does that really sound like something Obama et al would say is good for the economy?
That they have to take supplements means that the vegan diet itself is unhealthy.
I wonder how many of them use Rx drugs that have been tested on animals?
What’s stupid is that everything they have to do needs to be some sort of statement. They’re not enjoying the holiday as much as they are using it as another instance to stroke their eco-egos and flaunt their supposed superiority of us regular folk who celebrate the holiday as normal and can’t understand this global warmin’ business.
This last weekend, I was talking with one of my guys during drill about politics, and every time he would talk about obama he felt the need to qualify everything with a preface about not being racist. We shouldn’t need to do that. I told him that he should be able to express his opinion without that because that assumes oposition to obama is racist. We need to all stop doing that.
rant off.
I don’t remember which morning show it was on at around 715ish this morning, but they were showing this ‘eco friendly’ car that’s only got three wheels, and I thought it was ugly, but they were touting it as being green, and then I heard the description of the powerplant (electric).
I looked at my wife then and said, that’s not Green, if you have to plug it in to charge it up the energy has to come from somewhere. That’s not Green at all
Which I found to be greatly laughable 
No room for subtlety with you, is there? It’s all or nothing.
Which would also be dumb if it is raining.
bluesoc:
1. Yes, this is true. However, I think we can agree that empathy toward animals is clearly a “backfiring” of evolution of empathy toward other human beings. That does not mean it’s bad to care about the suffering of a cow (or any other animal). In fact, if the day comes where we can grow cow meat in a vat with cow stem cells and it is identical to regular cow meat I will be all for it! No need to kill cows anymore and that will be great. In the meantime however, until a cow learns to speak or derives Pi (3.14159… not the food) I am inclined to care more about my desire to eat meat then the cow’s desire to not be eaten by me.
2. The very fact that they require supplements it testimony to the fact that they are unhealthy.
3. The fact that different vegans cut out different things makes it arbitrary by definition. Isn’t the whole point about not causing animal suffering? Well then the question becomes, “which animals can suffer?” There is no difference between a vegan and myself except we draw a line at a different point. I might not eat (for example) a chimpanzee or a dolphin, and the vegan might not eat a cow, but we will both eat a fish, perhaps.
The left is getting ready to start advocating nuclear power. It’s all the rage in Europe, you know.
Any one bring me a green beer and i’ll slap them.
Common sense is that way. A healthy diet will give you all your body needs WITHOUT suppliments.
Everyone who’s jumping on my “not too unhealthy” comment missed my greater point.
When did we start ridiculing people for putting their convictions and principles above their self?
vegans are cruel and vicious..taking vegetables from a plant is like RIPPING its arms off..the poor plant can’t run or hide…it has to suffer in silence, while those bloodthirsty vegans DISMEMBER IT while its still alive…truly cruel and evil…
Let all the nations of the world designate a continent where we can send all the enviro-crazies and moonbats. I suggest Antarctica. Let them eat algae burgers to their hearts’ content.
bluesoc:
When thier convictions and principles are silly, unhealthy, arbitrary, and worthy of ridicule. *smile*
Oh bluesoc, get over yourself. That has been happening sinceway before christ.
It’s the beer, laddie. (Or lassie, as the case may be.)
When did we start ridiculing people for putting their convictions and principles above their self?
I hope someday they invent a healthy alcoholic beverage. I would drink that by the gallons.
I for one enjoy tortured chicken for lunch. It is the tears of pain that tenderise the meat so well. Puppy soup is good as well.
sarcasm off/
he he he
It’s fine for people to conserve, etc. But does every single holiday have to be another opportunity to bloviate about climate change? Especially when it’s low (and sinking) on the list of people’s priorities? I mean, come on, when you’ve got books like Santa Goes Green for Christmas, this is a little ridiculous.
I turn off lights, turn down heat, buy clothes for my kids from Craigslist, etc. because it makes sense. But nobody told me to do it, nobody makes me do it, and if you don’t want to – that’s your choice. If it’s so good and saves money, people will do it of their own free will.
By the way, if you’re making corned beef, my mother-in-law has the most delicious way of preparing it:
Boil as normal with the seasonings until it’s almost, but not quite, tender.
Then take it out of the pot, put it in a baking pan with about 3/4 of an inch of water.
Rub brown sugar on the top of the beef and bake for 45-50 minutes (or until tender) at 350º.
It is fabulous.
When it started to get ridiculous.
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When it started to get ridiculous. I think that was 15,000 BC
Amen!
I like szechuan tofu..have it a few times a week for lunch. But except for Friday’s during Lent I rarely go a day with no meat. It’s my choice. I don’t want anyone (liberal or conservative) telling me what I CAN choose. But which side of the spectrum is most likely to try to limit my options???
Are vegan’s allowed to have dogs or cats? (as a pet, not to eat)
When it became glaringly obvious that they were intolerant, arrogant, condescending and insufferable.
When it comes to a vegan diet on St. Patrick’s Day, nothing is more appropriate than whiskey, which is distilled from nutritious whole grains and pure water and aged in solid wood barrels. To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a case of tainted Irish whiskey. Indeed, the very word is derived from the Gaelic phrase for “water of life.”
If they have no food for a week, fido had better watch out!!!
I’d date a smoker; I’d date a liberal; I’d even date a Yankees fan …
But I would NEVER date a vegetarian!
P.S. Happy B’day to me!
Funny, I’d always pictured you drinking alone in a dark room with nothing but the glow of a laptop keeping you company.
Meh. I am as big a meat eater as they come and I am married to a vegetarian. It all depends on whether or not they are militant about it.
TaylorK
I don’t approve of unneeded animal testing. I’m thinking of makeup, soap, cleaning suppplies etc.
I have genetic hypertension-which means that it can ONLY be controlled by prescription drugs.
I appreciate the sacrifices that some animals made so I can have my medication.
That is just Sunday through Thursday. And a desktop. Not a laptop.
Yes, and strangely enough, they name them Stu.
Comedian Jim Gaffigan has a great joke about chicken:
Some vegitarians told me, “Do you know what they do that that chicken?” And I said, “No, but it’s delicious!”
They don’t have pets – they are legal guardians of those poor, defenseless animals. After all, animals have the same rights as you or I have.
(wish it was sarcasm, but out here in Kalifornia, that happens to be a truth in many local jurisdictions)
nbarry said in #74 “To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a case of tainted Irish whiskey.”
maybe not, but great grandpa did have a hog fall into one of his moonshine vats.
Hmmm. What was the road to hell paved with again?
Plants are what food eat.
I went to school with a guy whose family were steak ranchers. I used to drive by a farm that had hams slopping around in the mud and some fryers pecking in the dirt.
Always room for God’s creatures.
tortured chickens!!!
Puppy soup
ok I am done.
On March 17th, 2009 at 10:28 am, sonofdy said:
None that I can think off. Everytime I see my freinds kids pet rabbit I think of stew, but I restrain myself.
http://recipes.epicurean.com/recipe/18731/hasenpfeffer-(german-rabbit-stew).html
Talk about fast food, first you have to catch it
Jeez sonofdy. That is horrible.
You gotta skin the thing first. THEN throw it into the pot.
I’ll second that, although the English side of my family will require that I drink black and tan today!
They are like a perpetual, always present, never ending, wet blanket.
But then you don’t get the tears of pain that add just a little flavor that you can’t get otherwise…
My husband is of Korean descent, Ret Army Vet…he has told me that anyone will eat anything if they get hungry enough
keiko gi
Lots of good fiber in the fur too…..
I find commercial brand bottled tears work almost as well.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/black_and_tans.htm
You know who the black and tans were right???
ouch….
The greenies are always pushing their agenda on me because I have animals and they profess to know best.
I have never seen a German Shepherd grazing in a soy bean field.
Happy Birthday!!!
I couldn’t date a smoker…my wife wouldn’t let me! LOL