local venues: August 2013

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 12:38 PM, morlock Bird <morlock@hotmail.com> wrote:

Per your event email re "Heavy hitters. Invites to follow.", I respectfully suggest my own candidacy for consideration of such an invitation based on the following bona fides.

1) Seven Grand Tasting Society allegiance

I was the second person to pay my dues for the launch of the Seven Grand San Diego Tasting Society August 2012. At this July's final 7G SD TS event, I renewed my membership early and in full.

I have attended every single 7G SD TS event without fail, including the one held in tandem with the Southern Calfornia Whiskey Club and at least one independent pay to attend event held at Seven Grand San Diego.
At every San Diego bar I visit, I mention Seven Grand forthwith and laud them highly as the only place in town with an organized Tasting Society.

2) Tasting experience

In addition to perfect attendance at 7G SD TS, I have
- frequently attended events by the Southern California Whiskey Club as far afield as Daily Pint in Santa Monica,
- recently begun attending the Orange County Scotch Club,
- attended regularly, at least monthly, the spirits tasting offered by the San Diego tasting event host second only to Seven Grand, Keg & Bottle Del Cerro
- repeatedly attended the spirits tastings at the San Diego tasting host third only to 7G & KnB, the little promoted Holiday Wine Cellar ( Escondido ), incl their Benromach event at the Andaz rooftop on the first this month.
- traveled solo at my own expense for the full weekend event to the 2011 Great American Distillers' Festival in Portland
- already have my ticket for Whiskey Live L.A. 2013

3) Route experience

I am much versed in taking the train north for sake of whiskey tasting, having done so repeatedly for Southern California Whiskey Club events, as well as the last tasting offered by the Orange County Scotch Club

4) Availability

- flexibility of personal schedule. I can take as long as I want off from my job without lasting consequence, meaning I'm not ignoring or abandoning spouse (none), children (none) or occupation in an ill-chosen indulgence by attending.
- I can forego, hopefully saving the expense of, accommodation at the LaFayette Hotel as I am a San Diego resident.
- I have no problem whatsoever returning to L.A. or not, as best accommodates the needs & interests of the event.
- I will not be bringing a guest, maximizing available seating.

5) Dedication to the event

I am passionate enough about attending that I shamelessly lobby to be included.

6) lagniappe

If permitted to attend, and if approved to do so, will bring to the train an unopened bottle already on my shelf of Freemason whiskey, presumably the preferred spirit of global dominion's cabal.
http://www.binnys.com/spirits/Lombard_Old_Masters_Freemason_Whisky_163360.html
http://www.lombardscotchwhisky.com/oldmasters.htm

suppliantly,
G Bird

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threw you in the drawing, but you did not win, condolences. You can contact Josh at the SD chapter to see about attending the conclusion of the debate in SD.

Take care,

Pedro

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postscript
If I have independently purchased fare on the 4pm Aug. 20 train to San Diego, is there SRO space in the Silver Splendor train car for someone entering from the adjacent train car ?
Are there arrangements to view the train proceedings via the Net or at 7G SD?
What time do you expect to begin Aug. 20 proceedings at 7G SD ?
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epilogue, posted to Southern California Whiskey Club FaceBook site while much in my cups late evening 8.16.13

130820 event entreaty

The other shoe dropped an a hour ago re 7G L.A.’s 2013 whiskey debate train to SD. Bottom line, 7G SD TSociety seating limited to 15 paid members, no guests. I post this here because, since inception, SCWC invoked broader appeal and inclusionary access to spirits enthusiasts. In L.A., there are multiple bibbler SIGs. In SD, 7G Tasting Society is it. All other venues are retail enterprises’ promotion, making mere price comparisons information too graceless to share.

Sponsoring paid public memberships as a basis for exclusionary fete of industry professionals begs the question of stakeholders’ standing. Beverage trade aristocracy means brand ombudspersons supported by corporate financed bonding capacity have no compunction to discuss, let alone advocate, democratic legal liberalization empowering artisanal distillation that elevates retail consumers from propagandized mass market homogenization to informed patrons of socially responsible and responsive community based craftspersons.

SCWC has been fundamentally an L.A. and OC based SIG, but, should it adopt a broader, more global perspective, not least regarding its own future and sphere of influence, it might be better served by proselytizing SD participation to utilize the more readily available spirits import opportunity implicit in closer international border proximity as well as the already renowned burgeoning craft brew community in SD, which has proven adroit at promoting populist expansion to local licensing authority, boding well for more rapid adoption of craft distilling friendly codes and regs than possible in vastly larger and lethargically leviathan Los Angeles regulatory environs.

Free the condensers. Remember our heritage of the Mingo Creek Democratic Association of 1792.

I respectfully request an increased number of SCWC conducted events in San Diego to provide the spirits community there a greater taste of freedom from hidebound commercial industry’s dominion.

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note(s) re cross-pollination of bibbling & sovereignty oriented political philosophy

"The American Temperance Society claimed five thousand chapters and a million members by 1835. ... success of their cause depended on grassroots support."
pg 95 Creating a Nation of Joiners : Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts, auth. Johann N Neem 2009 http://books.google.com/books?id=srR6FpKi7gsC&pg=PA95
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Distillate & Oenophile Mutual charter

Declared therefore founded, and thereto chartered August 1, 2013 by Greg P. Bird to be known by acronym DOM as well as entire spelling, hereto unlicensed, unsanctioned, unaccredited and unincorporated, and ascribing to principles expressed by Beam Global Corporation’s Cruzan brand 2013 marketing campaign of “ island of ‘The Don’t Hurry’ “, which unelaborated underlying premise & motive is product quality and the labor therefor primarily performed well & properly with commercial gain, efficiency and cost effectiveness as ancillary and optional goals. All association and participation in or with this organization for sake of income or obligatory gain is expected and required to be negotiated afore whether individually or collectively. No employees are permitted in this organization.

The DOM organization claims trademark ownership of the EPQR brand and copyright intent for Dram Case product name of barware transport cases, systems and accessories.

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Early manifesto

* Liquor is the flavor of freedom. Self control of one’s own condenser is a major measure of liberty. Cromwellian consensus politics of the Mingo Creek Democratic Association as a linchpin of the 1792 Whiskey Rebellion associated with Daniel Shay is mythic legend to most people today. But sedition against tyrannical law enforcement profiteering on veterans' liberty to imbibe is an understandable rebellion to contemporary U.S. citizens. Have you ever rehearsed what you will say when entrapped in the DUI checkpoint ? Bottom line, "Am I under arrest, officer ? Am I free to go ?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946)#Background

Battle of Athens (1946)

Q. I do not understand what you are getting at. First of all entrapment is being solicited by law enforcement to commit a crime you would otherwise not have committed. So I don't think that is the word you meant to use. If you simply meant to use "trapped", do you mean caught driving with BA above the legal limit? Are you suggesting that I rebel in support of your right to drive drunk and to take other people's lives into your own drunken hands?

A. some can pass the electric Kool-aid acid test. Understanding consumption in moderation and responsible manufacture outside commercial tax structure are liberty is a step on the path to freedom from tyranny. Enforcement quotas & bounties against use of highly promoted material which heavily taxed to pay for enforcement is entrapment

referants:

"Cromwellian consensus" actually Leveler subversion of English Revolution's New Model Army Cf. Putney debates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putney_Debates

Wm Cobbett http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cobbett
champion of organic cultural mores in lieu of law, Corn Law opponent

G.K. Chesterton – Cobbett acolyte, distributist champion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_K._Chesterton#The_Chesterbelloc

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entreaties to ride incl DOM charter & manifesto