Shake your shamrocks but be safe.

It’s Green Beer time across America..

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day, world.

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With the energy of a Metallica song, I wish you all a Happy Saint Patrick’s Day, 2015..

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Last night I posted something that has been getting re-posted for a long time on my personal Facebook page: It was from CRACKED, and it was the ‘8 insulting ways people act ‘Irish’ on St. Patrick’s Day’.. What sort of astounded me was the reaction it got from someone.. She was hardcore angry over the content. She is Irish, I am just about 50% if you would measure me, so I offered up the article because a friend of mine did and I found it interesting… 

But her ferocious outrage and indignation with the article was obvious from her lengthy post about the author .. corned beef.. and cabbage.  Perhaps I should have linked up this article by Seamus McKiernan on the HUFFINGTON POST. He has dual citizenship, here in the United States and also in Ireland. He is not celebrating St. Patrick’s Day because he fears that the events occurring at local watering holes and parades across the US of A have become a ‘cartoonish’ farce..  He also pointed out that St. Patrick’s colors were blue, not green.. and that the good Irish saint may not have even been Irish! 

The HUFFINGTON POST isn’t done yet.. another blogger, Bill Stieger, writes about the American version of drinking the holiday to death.. He says,

"Do you think I exaggerate? Read the messages on the horrific buttons and sweatshirts these revelers wear to degrade the tribe: "10 percent Irish/90 percent beer," or "Member of the official Irish drinking team!" Check out pervy intonations, like "Erin Go Braghless," or "Kiss my Shamrocks," or my favorite of all: "I’m starting a drunken brawl with the first person who stereotypes the Irish." I mean, please!

Can you name another ethnic group so bent on its own self abasement? Imagine any other culture or ethnic group frolicking in costumes and behaving in a manner that perpetuates the stereotypes of bigots. None do it. But Irish Americans insist on acting like the clowns at their own circus.”

I guess it’s green beer night across America.

Let your shamrocks be safe and your blarney stay down.

Don’t overdo it. 

For many out there, it’s green beer night. Be safe, be careful.. I don’t want to sound like a dad, but just be smart. And I am a dad..so no green beer for me tonight..

And that’s not saying there still won’t be a cold beer, brownish in color, later..

Here in Pennsylvania we are dreaming of a white St. Patrick’s Day..green beer and yellow snow will light the way..

Ohhh yea.. This is our President. More Irish than yours! ha! Take that Ireland. We got this. 

….and no, he’s not driving..

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The whiskey is in the jar…0

No matter who sings it.

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Flogging Molly - Irish Pub Song

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