WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica’s ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been on the rocks since a century ago.
The drillers will be trying to reach two crates of McKinlay and Co. whiskey that were shipped to the Antarctic by British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton as part of his abandoned 1909 expedition.
Whyte & Mackay, the drinks group that now owns McKinlay and Co., has asked for a sample of the 100-year-old scotch for a series of tests that could decide whether to relaunch the now-defunct Scotch.
Workers from New Zealand’s Antarctic Heritage Trust will use special drills to reach the crates, frozen in Antarctic ice under the Nimrod Expedition hut near Cape Royds.
(HT: Don Surber)
I’ll need a sample as well. For tests. Scientific tests.
Tags: Ernest Shackleton, Scotch
Ernest Shackleton
“It’s better to imagine it than to taste it. That way it keeps its mystery” – Al Fastier, who has been charged with recovering Shackleton’s whisky
It’s lain untouched for a century, but now the whiskey left behind in the Antarctic ice by explorer Ernest Shackleton is to be recovered. But Al Fastier, who is leading the expedition, has pledged not to sample the brew. More details (Daily Telegraph)
(HT: BBC Quote of the Day)
I’d volunteer for the expedition, but not if I had to swear not to taste it.
Tags: Ernest Shackleton, Scotch
November 19 is National Ammo Day.
It is a nationwide BUYcott of ammunition. You buy ammunition. 100 Rounds a person.
The goals of Ammo Day:
The goal of National Ammo Day is to empty the ammunition from the shelves of your local gun store, sporting goods, or hardware store and put that ammunition in the hands of law-abiding citizens. Make your support of the Second Amendment known–by voting with your dollars!
There are an estimated 75 MILLION gun owners in the United States of America. If each gun owner or Second Amendment supporter buys 100 rounds of ammunition, that’s 7.5 BILLION rounds in the hands of law-abiding citizens!
The gun/ammunition manufacturers have been taking the brunt of all the frivolous lawsuits, trying to put these folks out of business. Well, not if we can help it! And we CAN help it by buying ammunition on November 19!
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Tired of the steady march toward socialism? Tired of our duly elected president bowing in subservience to every foreign leader he meets? What can you do?
A commenter at American Digest offers this list. Some of the items struck me as a bit extreme, but strangely, each passing day and new revelation makes them seem less extreme.
- Let your elected leaders at every level know you will not be a passive observer of the dismantling of the Constitution. They need to hear from every single person or they will believe what Obama and CNN tell them – that we all WANT big government nannies to run our lives! Learn who is a friend of freedom and who an enemy, party lines or economic status regardless.
- Define for yourself which other countries treasure liberty and justice, and let congress and anyone who will listen to you know that we should support and defend them, and only them.
- Make a personal/family/community survival plan.
- Acquire guns, ammo and the skills to use them.
- Acquire an understanding of basic nutrition and first aid.
- Acquire the food, water and supplies to meet those needs.
- Acquire warmth and shelter that isn’t dependent on the power company or on uninterrupted paychecks.
- Determine the friends, neighbors, family who will hang together no matter what.
- Develop a tough and resilient attitude. Have copies of the Bible and the Constitution.
- Become more self-sufficient and more focused on the eternal truths of life.
- Downsize and decentralize.
- Stay away from people who depend on government for jobs or handouts.
- Stay far away from places where most people are government serfs.
- Move away from where the trouble will be and towards where the food is grown and the Patriots are.
- Stop using credit, pay down debts.
- Learn to cook, sew, mend, do leatherwork, raise food, keep chickens, make simple shoes, knit, can, do carpentry, fix your own vehicles.
- Learn self-defense and go to the local shooting range often. You will meet a few crazy people and dozens, hundreds of Patriots.
- Trade the sports car for a truck, the vacation home in a fancy place for a working farm in a plainspoken unfashionable spot or a cabin and acreage out back of the beyond.
- Cash out your big-city lifestyle and become a craftsman in a small burg.
- Learn to track and hunt and fish.
- Run for local office. When you lose, run again, and again.
- Give interviews freely and always talk about the Constitution, freedom, personal responsibility and small government.
- Become part of the water board, school board, neighborhood watch, volunteer firefighters or lodge brothers.
- Work with the police, firefighters, and other public security groups to be sure your area has a plan for crisis management.
- Get bikes, dogs and cats.
- Join or start a local barter group.
- Join up with Tea Partiers, Independents, Libertarians, Republicans, ANYONE in your area that works and votes for freedom, responsibility, small government.
- Document and publicize the power-grabbing, tax-wasting activities of everyone else.
- Do everything possible to support local military bases, personnel, activities.
- Make friends and look for common ground with everyone who loves freedom.
- Figure out at least one conversational “hook” that can help a misguided Obama believer at least start to see a tiny bit of light.
- And don’t spend too much time online. Hit a few decent blogs for the news and the latest Patriot chat, then back to work.
Tags: news, obama, socialism
Is there really such a thing as a Star Wars golf geek? The Darth Vader bag is a little over the top, ya think? The clone trooper bag is subtle and understated, with clean lines that says, “It’s them! Blast ‘em!”
(HT: GeekAlerts)
Tags: geeks, golf, star wars
If you’re a terrorist, don’t try to make pudding in a bear’s cave. Bears generally have their own ideas of what to eat.
A bear killed two militants after discovering them in its den in Indian-administered Kashmir, police say. Two other militants escaped, one of them badly wounded, after the attack in Kulgam district, south of Srinagar. The militants had assault rifles but were taken by surprise – police found the remains of pudding they had made to eat when the bear attacked.
It is thought to be the first such incident since Muslim separatists took up arms against Indian rule in 1989. The militants had made their hideout in a cave which was actually the bear’s den, said police officer Farooq Ahmed. The dead have been identified as Mohammad Amin alias Qaiser, and Bashir Ahmed alias Saifullah.
News of the attack emerged when their injured comrade went to a nearby village for treatment. “Word spread in the village that Qaiser had been killed by the bear,” another police officer said.
A joint party of the police and army personnel went into the forest and collected the bodies of the two militants. Police say they also recovered two Kalashnikov assault rifles and some ammunition from the hideout.
The bear couldn’t be reached for comment.
Tags: bears, India, terrorists
This little guy was only a 10-footer, but from the size of the bite mark, the other shark was at least twice that length. Another reason not to swim in Australia…
Tags: sharks
clean boogies first
Where would we be without the internet? I’m betting this would be great on toast….
Moose nose, jellied or boiled
Ingredients: one fresh moose nose, two or three cloves of garlic, salt and pepper. Method: clean moose nose by skinning or by dipping in scalding water and scraping. Remove all hair. Dice meat and cover with water. Add salt, pepper and garlic. Boil until tender, remove and chill. Serve cold in broth, which will be jellied.
Don’t forget the ‘remove all hair’ part. Otherwise it would just be gross.
Canadian North Cookbook adds:
Let cool overnight. When cool, discard the bones and cartilage. You will have white meat from the bulb of the nose and dark meat from the bones and jowls. Slice thinly and alternate layers of white and dark meat in a loaf pan. Let cool until jelly has set. Slice and serve cold.
(HT: TimesOnline)
Tags: moose noses, recipes
