Brett died.
[VHYRUS SAVES THE DAY– BUT BRETT CAN’T LINK ON HIS PHONE]
But let’s talk about this instead:
BUT SERIOUSLY VHYRUS SAVES THE DAY BECAUSE NO ONE AROUND HERE ACTUALLY WORKS:
I just noticed that there are no PM links queued up at all. Let’s fix that.
Dems tell Mattis not to go along with his own idea. Uh…. okay.
Insufferable Asshole keeps getting more insufferable. Please just go away… please?
Looks like California is going to pot. Jeff Sessions hardest hit?
The horror. THE HORROR! Pants shitting at it’s finest.
Okay that’s all I got. Go… do… something.
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550 responses to “Open Thread.”
Family friendly, but not vegan friendly.
You don’t make friends with salad Jesse.
You’ve never had my salad, John.
Light touch of Italian, crisp romaine lettuce, liberal application of pepperoncini, and a high end charcuterie board of Italian meats and cheeses.
Okay that was definitely a euphemism.
The Italian meat part, anyway.
*waggles eyebrows*
I love you just a little more today, Jesse (no homo).
*Panics, turns on 50s PSA to figure out what to do*
It’s too late. You’ve got the gay now. The downside is that you are no longer attracted to women. The upside is that you no longer have to deal with women.
Enjoy drinking Zima
Jack Nicholson is ageless. “Gee Mister Mysterio, thanks for the lift!”
Charcuterie with a bottle of Rioja is my favorite lazy dinner.
Worst. Florida. Man. Evar.
Shouldn’t it be face seasoned with bath salts or something?
Sorry Jesse. Want to do some whippets and forget this happened?
Only if they’re bully whippets. The normal ones really don’t do anything for me.
When a problem comes along, you must whippet.
If you put it in a bread-bowl, it would be like cold deep-dish pizza
Not even tossed salad?
I’m very impressed with Playa’s meat.
That’s what HE said.
All kidding aside, I’m old enough to recognize those cars as “beaters” instead of “classics” and was forced to watch many a public service announcement-type film like this. They made us watch “The Child Molester” in the gym when I was nine and I had nightmares for weeks. Not very Groovy, Man…
An OMWC production?
Asparagus makes my pee smell funny,
Why are you smelling your own pee?
I tried getting a cold to render my nose ineffective, but nothing works. It’s overpowering!
The smell is caused by the volatile chemical Asparagonic acid, named that because it’s found in asparagus. Lazy scientists.
I heard that only affects a portion of people. Others have no change
I heard it affects everyone, but a portion of the people can’t smell it.
I think the latest was that there were smellers and non-smellers AND producers and not-producers of the particular asparagus metabolite.
So you can safely tell folks there are only four types of people in the world: those that can produce and smell asparagus pee, those who can produce it but can’t smell it, those who can’t produce it but can smell it in others’ pee, and those can’t produce it and can’t smell it at all (the blessed few).
Sadly I’m in the first group.
So, you’re saying DOOMco and I were both right? I’m not sure I want to live in a world where that’s possible.
Youre practically a hipster, now.
Never! I will do the honorable thing and kill Brett L first!
I guess I’m in the latter? Because I only recently heard of this “asparagus pee” phenomenon, but grew up eating asparagus whenever it was in season, and think everyone going on about asparagus pee is just messing with me.
How committed are you to finding out? I’m driving across country and am not against having an asparagus heavy meal and visiting.
It’s pretty foul smelling. A little goes a long way.
It’s more foul if you’ve been drinking. Fifteen beers and an asparagus feast will make the dog run away in terror. At least you are standing in a handy place when the vomit arrives, God Willin’.
I thought prime rib night at the WI supper club was Saturday and the fish fry is Friday.
We’ll be having dinner at Mark’s East Side Supper Club tonight. Will report back. But I’m guessing fish fry.
If i recall, prime rib night was Tuesday @ Pete’s Tavern. I’d go once a month. It was affordable, as prime rib goes. the food there is ~B+ but I mainly went for the cheers-ish atmosphere.
$15.95!
http://www.nyctastes.com/2012/12/tuesdays-at-petes-tavern.html
That’s a great deal. So great that I’m a little suspicious.
Its good! not the best i’ve had (*my fave was @ Winged Foot golf course, which muh pappy belonged to for a while), but for under $20 it was @#*($&@* great.
their clientele always seemed pretty heavy w/ Wall St’rs and off-duty cops. Basically, ‘cigar smoking’ types. I think they could afford to keep it cheap because the regulars all tipped like Made Men.
Yokel media going after ENB hard.
Bit too much ‘rah rah alt-right’ and talk of ‘pro-degeneracy creeps’ for my liking, but the latter part does somewhat sum up why the TOS/Cato brand of cosmotarianism is a dead end.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
*Sips pomegranate Manhattan out of frosty martini glass*
Huh?
I now marginally like ENB more than before I read the article, so guess it’s re-education camp for me when Vox Day ascends the Skull Throne.
Yep, the sides of this civil war seem to be made up of retards. Have to get through all the crap to the end, which is basically just TL;DR “Koch-brand cosmotarianism is insular and incapable of growing”.
I just want someone to hurry up and ascend the Skull Throne and send me to a camp. I know it’s going to happen, so I’d rather have it over with sometime soon.
What did you decide on the .327?
I looked at my budget and realized I can’t afford another carry gun when I can’t carry anyway (gubmint employee).
Government employees can’t carry or can’t carry at work?
At work. And going to/from the building is where I encounter 99% of the people that would warrant carrying.
Who doesn’t like camp? Maybe they’ll have arts and crafts.
Like rock-breaking and stitching pillow covers with anti-kulak slogans.
This one time at government camp…!
Hearty Applause!
Wait, being anti-Milo makes you pro-degeneracy?
I am confused.
I don’t bloody know, I think I may need to overdose on redpills before I figure this shit out.
“The Liberty Conservative” Huh. I guess “The Oxymoron Moron” was already taken.
Is it possible to hate ENB and also The Liberty Conservative? I pick that team
I believe that’s ‘Team Gliberia’.
*perks up*
What do our cheerleaders look like????
Like this.
That got a genuine LOL. Superb!
Fuck my keyboard. I had a page-long screed with colorfully florid language about Robbie Hairdo wandering into the wrong tire shop and hit the wrong key. Poof! Unto the aether, random scrawlings. Next time I’ll be sure to slither into a cave and paint it on the walls so that no one will ever see it for forty thousand years. Fuck, it was good and I had just hit the groove. Fuck.
Some of it’s probably the web page layout, but it reads like a high school newsletter put out by the socially awkward kids, printed out on Mom’s new inkjet.
The punching down by ENB is bad enough; no need to go on about “Feminazis” and “enormous panties.”
But then, things like that aren’t designed to persuade anyone.
Some of it’s probably the web page layout
Yeah, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a two-column wrapped text page layout on the web. It… doesn’t really work.
Yeah. I don’t like what she did but this piece just made her sympathetic.
Hmm maybe someone shroud write a post on this
MAYBE
I was hoping my tweet would get in there
What’s “Yokel media”? Breitbart?
WAIT I WAS MAKING EMERGENCY PM LINKS!
FUCK YOU IM SUBMITTING IT ANYWAY!
There! POST THOSE FUCKERS!
NO FUCK YOU SOAVE 2.0 WE AIN’T RUNNING A SHIT SHOW LIKE TOS HERE YOU PUT YOUR LINKS IN ON TIME OR NOT AT ALL.
IT WASNT MY DAMN JOB I WAS JUST TRYING TO HELP!
*cries, runs out of room*
**soothes Vhyrus, includes his links**
*talking between sobs*
Thank… you…riven…for…fixing…my…links!
*blows nose*
Hah! Anytime, buddy. 🙂
You best better have sum purdy hair, boy….
*sharpens knife, fingers belly button hole*
“Soave 2.0”
That’s just brutal, man. ‘To be sure’, that’s a low blow
Nice links.
My fault. Copy and Paste doesn’t grab the link.
Sorry, everyone. I know death is no excuse. I made links, but I shat the bed on saving them, apparently.
I just made some links for you brett
Playa isn’t in Wisconsin, is he?
I don’t get the Wisconsin references.
It’s a reference to Wisconsin supper clubs, which are known for their prime rib dinners.
Interesting. Thanks.
I’m quite the prime rib aficionado, so I’m going to have to investigate this further.
And you will have a brandy old fashioned, won’t ya?
I’ll do whatever the Wisconsin supper clubs want me to do. They have prime rib.
The Gobbler or GTFO.
Just look at that stupid sprig of green whatever sitting there on those mashed potatoes. YOU ADD NOTHING! Stop sprig blocking my mashed potatoes!
Paging Sugar Free: has MAGA Prime spotted joyriding on Caitlyn Jenner’s head?
TMZ thinks so!
Caitlyn drives a bug-eyed Sprite = awesome!
Doesn’t look like it would be very good at the “Death-Dealing” part of whatever bargain that xe made with Elder Gods to become the best athlete on earth, that one time…
Is MAGA Prime cheating on Donald or prepping Caitlyn for her Presidential campaign?
This is the real MAGA Prime. The one on The Donald’s head, the one that was kidnapped – a clone model. Or is it? They both think they are real, but only one (at most*) can be right!
*they could both be clones, while MAGA Prime was taken by The Beyonder for a mission of cosmic importance
MAGA Prime would never go anywhere with anyone dressed that gay.
The outfit, the smile…but on the other hand, look at that hair. It’s like, PM Zoolander hair, but on a male frame.
It’s like, PM Zoolander hair, but on a male frame.
+1, lol
It looks like me circa 1985 but you have to subtract the chiselled jaw, muscular physique and general who-gives-a-fuckness demeanor. I mean, if you stood us side by side 1985 Festus would have the same hair and be wearing the same coat. No difference, none at all. I was KANGZ!
Hi, I’m the Beyonder. Gifted with omnipotence and omniscience yet so retarded I chase after Kitty Pryde.. or some other inconsequential female.
I really loathed that guy.
Maybe it’s a leftover from the Crisis on Infinite Heads series?
A mesh-backed remnant of an obliterated multiverse that was fired backward in time from the hencewhen where the hair has grown to fill the galaxy…
Special Double Issue!
Ooooh! Those cool little digest ones wherein you turn the comic up-side down to read pt. II? Pretty exciting for a seven year-old. It’s like a universe of derp esploded in my brain!
Driving, huh? So whatever happened with her manslaughter charge?
Master Luo heads back to the beach. Continues to be my hero.
He’s molesting women in broad daylight, and they’re allowing it. This guy is some sort of super genius.
Not funny, PM. I was worried.
Brett told me to say that.
My shame is great. Luckily, I’m at a bar and they have a non-seppuku solution.
I can’t think of any other solution at a bar.
Gin.
TBF, Brett told him to tell you all he was dead rather than face the shame of not bringing out links in a timely manner.
I’ll be his second for hari kari.
*hands over sake, rice paper and knife*
Brett has forgotten the face of his father.
A little break from the crazy politics stuff but still Libertarian themed:
The island ghost town in the middle of the SF Bay
I take the train shown in the video for my commute to work. I always wondered what those dilapidated buildings were doing out in the middle of nowhere. Not quite Libertopia, but a solid effort.
Are you people retarded with the links today?
Come on get your shit together. I have dinner to go prepare.
Arrgh! Apparently the Glibs site adds “https:”; SF Gate is stuck in last century and only uses http://
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/The-island-ghost-town-in-the-middle-of-the-SF-Bay-11303918.php
That page doesn’t load for me.
Drop the ” at the end of the link
YOU BROKE ALL THE LINKS!! AAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*dies*
Way to go Vhyrus.
GOD DAMMIT IT WASN’T ME!!
That’s just like you, blaming Brett for your failures.
Goddammit Vhyrus, I’ve got my eye on you.
There’ll be more discussion about the actual links today than in all the history of Glibertarians to this point. You should be pleased.
Is this our latest contest? Whoever can search the news and match an article to each link first gets a free MAGA hat with a Donald wig glued into it.
I hope that piece of meat isn’t human.
Don’t knock it til you’ve tried it.
It’s the hunger!
The discussion about whether or not it was racist to prefer eating the white guy over the black guy always made me chuckle.
+1 longpig
Did the links die with Brett?
Unlike Brett, the links will be missed, and mourned.
Where are the actual links? Wait… is this a test to see if anybody noticed there were no links?
Okay FUCK IT WE’LL DO IT LIVE!
Dems tell Mattis not to go along with his own idea. Uh…. okay.
It’s like Lord H did the links today.
“For one, they wrote, the ban would be the result of “arbitrary and capriciously issued” tweets, not a thoughtful deliberative process.”
Do they really think this policy originated from Trump’s Tweet? That he just randomly though, “Transgenders are loser’s we should ban them from the military. Sad!” and Tweeted that on a whim?
Also, I never ever thought I would say this, but those Tweets actually made me respect Trump a bit more. Regardless of the Constitutionality or discrimination or what not, this policy came from the military, not Trump, but Trump released the news himself on Twitter to act as a lightning rod for all of the inevitable scorn and accusations of LGBT betrayal that would inevitably follow. Mattis and the other military leadership, who actually came up with the idea, are getting away clean because the massive TDS is focusing all of the vitriol on Trump.
I love how the Left and the mainstream media have totally sperged out over Trump’s use of Twitter; it just unmasked their hypocrisy in such a beautiful way.
FDR talks to the nation over the radio, and he’s a heroic man of the people. Obama goofs around on late night talk shows, and he’s a totally hip dude who has his finger on the pulse of pop culture. But Trump uses Twitter, and OMG he’s undermining the seriousness of the presidency!!!!!!111
Martin Shkreli found guilty of securities fraud.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/04/pharma-bro-martin-shkreli-convicted-in-federal-fraud-case.html
I have some personal experience with him. This was going to happen sooner or later.
Insufferable Asshole keeps getting more insufferable. Please just go away… please?
Oh my fucking lack of God, this is a thing that is real
“Congress writes to oppose President’s tweets” – this is an actual bona fide cyberpunk future! We made it!
People live very sad lives when token gestures from people they’ve never met are this important to them.
You mean like getting the links on time?
/runs from room sobbing
Sempai noticed me!
Not getting why this* makes him an asshole, He (his office) responds to fan mail, good for him. If it’s the left in the media fawning over him that is annoying, well that’s not his fault.
*There are plenty of legitimate reasons he’s an asshole
Mind you I made these links in like 48 seconds. I guess it is more of the response. You think Trump responding to fan mail would get anything other than absolute scorn and ridicule from the CNN? ‘OMG! Former president still pandering to sycophants!’
Sumo Wrestlers hit hardest.
Carrying too much weight? You may be mistaken for an American! Heavier people are assumed to be from the US
Apparently the study is based on the bogus shit that is BMI.
Like most government science, it’s based on shit-stupid metrics.
I run 5.2 miles 4 days a week and do heavy weight lifting the other 4 days. Yet, I’m “overweight” according to the BMI scale.
I come from a long line of burly farmers. Even when I was in the best shape of my adult life, working manual labor and working out regularly, my BMI was 25+.
It’s ridiculously dumb
The BMI scale has never been my friend, even when I was a trim and fit high school athlete. I’m in my fifties and still wear 32×33 Levis. Fuck that noise.
Ru 4 days, lift the other 4 days of the week. Hmmmm…think I see your problem.
Which is fun since Japan is turning rayon factories into zero calorie noodle factories to feed the diet needs of fat Chinamen.
Where’s the link to the actual study? I want to snark at whoever they interviewed for being open minded and avoiding steriotyping.
I lol’ed at that. Americans are often white (and often not) so that’s not even a stereotype, it’s a hard fact. It’s like saying you’re challenging the stereotype that M&Ms are often red, it’s meaningless.
Look at the other side of that coin. Imagine if someone actually put into print ‘Africans are often black’. The shit storm would be visible from space.
Looks like California is going to pot. Jeff Sessions hardest hit?
The Devil’s Lettuce!
Jesse’s salad?
I wish them lots of luck. However:
. No legal way to move that much inventory out of state, either.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-california-producing-pot-surplus-1501101923-htmlstory.html
That statistic seems highly suspect. I might believe that the state’s legal growers produce more than 8 times what its legal users consume, but that’s a totally different statement.
The horror. THE HORROR! Pants shitting at it’s finest.
THERE! HAPPY?!
Thanks, bud. Sorry I shit up your attempt.
“Any living creature that moves about shall be yours to eat; I give them all to you as I did the green plants. Only meat with its lifeblood still in it you shall not eat.” – Genesis 9:3-4 (NABRE)
Notes to NABRE Bible: “Because a living being dies when it loses most of its blood, the ancients regarded blood as the seat of life, and therefore as sacred. Jewish tradition considered the prohibition against eating meat with blood to be binding on all, because it was given by God to Noah, the new ancestor of all humankind; therefore the early Christian Church retained it for a time (Acts 15:20, 29).”
Wait, rare steak is whatever Christian equivalent of haram is?
“retained [the prohibition] *for a time*”
No. Rare steak is red because of myoglobin, not blood.
As long as the blood was extracted or washed out it was fine, it wasn’t about the level of cooking but the retention of blood. Kosher salt should more properly be (and is more properly) called koshering salt because it’s used to draw blood from the meat.
“Holy Crap. When I said any living creature that moves, I didn’t mean to be taken literally, dip shits. Here’s some additional guidance.”
God, Leviticus chapter 11 and Deuteronomy chapter 14
Hence why the Jews determined the lifeblood law to apply to everyone. The extra-restrictions from Leviticus and Deuteronomy are Jews-only. Us Gentiles can freely eat pork and all other non-Kosher stuff and still be considered righteous by the Jews for only following the Seven Laws of Noah. To me, that makes it seem like it’s way easier to get into Jew-heaven as a non-Jew than a Jew, but perhaps I can be enlightened on a (((Tuesday))).
Dammit, my wife asked me to bring Chinese food home for dinner, but now I want steak.
AND NO THAT’S NOT A EUPHEMISM YOU SAVAGES.
no tacos?
Everyone knows if you brought an Asian home you wouldn’t be sharing with anyone.
I’d hope he’d share with his wife.
Who wears the pants in the household? She’s gonna eat your meat, AND LIKE IT!
Bring home the Chinese food. Half an hour later, when you’re hungry again, eat steak.
Check out this hot Chinese dish…hubba hubba!
Nice buns.
AND NO THAT’S NOT A EUPHEMISM YOU SAVAGES.
Sure it isn’t. *waggles eyebrows again*
We have Chinese every Friday. It’s a feast for getting through the week
On the way home I saw a Honda CRV with a “Resist” bumper sticker.
I haven’t heard much about that “movement” lately. I suppose it is still bubbling away but apparently not with the same post-election frenzy.
Was it made up of religious symbols?
No just white lettering on a purple (the gay color?) background.
Does that mean the pussy hat thing is over finally?
I saw my first Virginia “Don’t Tread on Me” license plate today. Dude waved as he drove by; must have seen my “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Goldwater” sticker.
They’re ubiquitous here in the outer reaches of suburban DC. I have them on my car, and I see at least 2 cars with them every commute.
Let’s give our non-citizen neighbors the right to vote in California
Please do that. It will make the coming civil war about 1000% more justified.
What happens if they give the vote to Vietnamese immigrants who fled Communism?
Knowing the value of the average person’s intelligence, they’ll vote in the next Pol Pot to governor.
The best part is these same people screaming ERMAHGERD RERSHIIUUNNSSZZ!! would then allow literally anyone with a passport and enough money for a plane ticket the ability to directly influence our elections.
What’s the general American position on California holding a referendum to rejoin Mexico? I mean, hypothetically speaking, it’s totally not going to happen or anything…
Shush you. We have content scheduled for Monday on that.
Can I donate to the “Yes” side?
You currently have several options for a California secession movement. Personally I’d recommend the CNP, but Yes California is recovering after one of their founders left the country for permanent residence in Russia and there’s also California Freedom Coalition, which will be covered on Monday. Because I’m an obsessive self-promoter for how little content I actually create around here.
Which one has the least experience with weaponry and the greatest disdain for funding a military?
Asking for a friend. *Slides anti-tank rifle under bed with foot*
It’s california, so all of them.
Probably California Freedom Coalition. Check out #2 on the leadership team.
And stop trying to get spoilers for Monday.
NO FUCKING SHIT! Cindy ‘my son turns in his grave’ Sheehan?!
It gets so much better.
😉
Looking forward to it, thanks for your work.
I think there are many ways they could break CA off. I wonder how a county by county plebiscite would turn out?
Her skull shall adorn my standard in a forenight!
I mean…interesting. Very interesting.
http://www.ppic.org/content/images/PoliticalGeogFigure-4_web.png
I’ll donate to any of them who use the flag of the New California Republic.
I would favor the referendum if it was held on a county by county basis, and only contiguous counties were allowed to leave.
So, that’s gotta be illegal, right?
It’s not, actually. IIRC they can’t vote in national elections (including Congress), but they can be given the right to vote in local/state elections.
Disenfranchised? they voluntarily left their own country to come earn money (often tax-free) in the wealthiest country on earth. WTF did they lose in the process?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7I9V4ZgKoQ
Tom Woods went after left-libertarians who are taking a Jeff Deist (head of Mises Institute and former aid to Ron Paul) speech way out of context. For a group of people that are constantly talking about the pointlessness of intra-movement sniping, left-libertarians seem to always be the first ones bashing anyone associated with Ron Paul and the Mises Institute.
The idea of a left or right leaning libertarian just bothers me on a deep level. I am obviously a right leaning libertarian, but does that mean I should oppose on some fundamental level abortion, immigration, or gay rights? Cause I really don’t. I don’t go out marching for these causes because they aren’t big in my personal life but I don’t actively oppose them. If you start spinning left and right into what should be a very simple and logical political inclination then I think you’re doing it wrong.
That’s what bothers me too. There are people actively calling themselves ‘left libertarians’ and ‘bleeding heart libertarians’. I don’t recall what is dubbed ‘right libertarians’ ever referring to themselves as such (nor should they).
I also never see Ron Paul ever attacking Cato or the Libertarian Party, but on two occasions over the past month, both the head of the Libertarian Party and scholars at Cato have smeared Ron Paul as a ‘racist’ and as the impetus for the ‘alt-right’.
This is why there are “libertarians” and “left-libertarians”.
The moment you are for control of the economy, or control of people’s means and liberties in service to others, you’re no longer a fucking libertarian, because you’ve abandoned the very principle of individual liberty. You’ve become a communitarian.
as far as i’m concerned, you believe in principles like self-ownership and freedom of association, or you don’t. People who call themselves “left libertarians” seem to be people who (like Soave) like the ideas as long as they’re just “concepts”… but when it comes to any actual application of those ideas in practice? then they start saying, “But _____________” and find some excuse to ignore those things and endorse some more lefty-friendly idea.
Your rights end where his cocktail party invitations begin, or something.
people who (like Soave) like the ideas as long as they’re just “concepts”
See, believe the opposite. They’re people who approach governance ass backwards philosophically, and through massive amounts of cognitive dissonance they’re able to synthesize their postmodern, SJW, totalitarian philosophy with an affinity for certain libertarian positions.
They’re not libertarians, they’re progressives whose knee jerk reaction is less authoritarian than the Democrats.
See, *I* believe …
Soave likes big buts!
I find the whole splitting liberty in pieces bullshit. There is no such thing as social and economic liberty. either you are free or not. and the answer is … envelope please … let me get my readin glasses… ok now drum-roll… nooot
I find the whole splitting liberty in pieces bullshit
Also, we’ve hardly got the votes to be splitting. I mean shit, we haven’t even broken into the double-digits! How good is that ~5% of vote when it’s even more diluted?!
This is why compromise on things like basic income and SJW crap are absolute death for the movement. Pragmatism is great when you’re in power, but it demotivates the base when you’re a minimal player.
I think the bigger concern (well, more of how badly it will rot an ideology and delegitimize it from within than being an actual threat) currently is the attempts to ram social justice politics into libertarian thought. Because that’s basically poisoning the well with Marxism.
^ Yes. Whatever happened to treating individuals as individuals?
why do you hate children and the elderly?
Libertarians and sjws are natural mortal enemies. You have a better chance making werewolves out of vampires.
Tell that to Robby and END
Known ‘libertarian’ publications now have writers justifying political violence against homosexuals who say things they don’t like and go after people for dumb jokes on the internet. The rot is already there, we need to cut it out.
Meh, if Scott Speedman can do it, I don’t see the big deal.
Also, would.
gaaaaay
I thought you liked hair guys. This guy is shaved like an infant.
I have broad tastes, Just. Speedman pushes ’90s nostalgia and affable doof buttons.
Why the scowl?
well that is the whole point of cultural Marxism / postmodernism /whatever. Infiltrate everything
Social justice is a collectivist concept. As such, it is utterly incompatible with individual liberty.
The idea of a left or right leaning libertarian just bothers me on a deep level.
Meh. I don’t think being a left or right libertarian means you have to buy into either side’s anti-libertarian positions. Either is, after all, still a libertarian. It just means you come at libertarianism with a particular set of priorities and, yes, blind spots.
Democrats who happen to like guns just don’t like real libertarians it seems.
I used to think you could be a pro gun democrat, but I don’t think it’s true anymore. Private firearms ownership implies agency on the part of the individual, and that is so antithetical to the nature of the modern american democrat that I don’t think you can square that circle anymore.
I think there are some Democrats who see government as a “charity” and safety net for workers and the poor, so support the welfare state while also not having a problem with guns for example. The problem is that many of these are blue color whites who the DNC and party elites are openly ridiculing. I see more of them migrating to the GOP, while also trying to get the GOP to expand welfare too.
Is it really that hard to get the GOP to expand welfare?
We have two parties, the spend more party and the spend more, but slower party.
I see more of them migrating to the GOP, while also trying to get the GOP to expand welfare too.
I see the GOP’s way forward, if they want success as a party in the future, is to position themselves as allies of the welfare state (which is too entrenched to be dismantled) while pushing for freedom on other fronts. If you support the welfare state but also oppose regulations, you can maintain a “they care” image while also providing economic growth, a combination that should win the voters. Of course, for that to work they can’t get carried away and expand the welfare state, as it’s already too costly as it is, but they will have to abandon the dream of significant cuts, as I just don’t see a popular will for it.
I have known pro-gun Democrats, and I’m not that old. However, I don’t think they ever fully addressed the cognitive dissonance. I think it was more that the other issues were more important to them at the ballot box (also, there’s a bit of gray market noncompliance going on).
My experience was the same.
Most people who would describe themselves as pro-gun Democrats are people who vote Democrat but also enjoy guns in their personal life. None of these people I’ve known have ever actually done anything to turn the Democrat Party more pro-gun; they’ve just pulled the blue lever every election (even for Hillary, one of the most anti-gun politicians ever).
So in other words, there are people who call themselves pro-gun Democrats, but they enthusiastically vote for extremely anti-gun candidates every single election.
yeah labels attached kinda negate the whole thing. left libertarians my ass
There was an interesting back and forth in the Morning Links on the “blood and soil” quote.
If you hear the whole speech (which Tom Woods plays the entire thing in his podcast) it is an innocuous after thought that is mentioned at the end of the speech. The whole speech was about decentralization. People attacking Deist are splitting hairs. They’re just looking to attack him
Why though? I get that the Cato guys lean more Chicago while Mises is hard Austrian, but I don’t think that itself is enough to explain the fighting.
I don’t know. Seems like the sniping goes back to when Rothbard left Cato and the Kochs get pissed at him (it didn’t help that Rothbard helped wrestle control of Cato away from the Kochs). Then Rothbard backed Ron Paul with the Libertarian Party nomination over the Koch’s preference that they run again as ‘low tax liberals’. After that the Kochs left the Libertarian Party.
There’s also a basic ideological split. Rothbard, Mises, and all them pretty much hail from the anti-interventionist Old Right. That’s why you’ll never see the Mises Institute or their fellow travelers ever support any American war, but Cato will have people who actively supported the Iraq War.
Why though?
I think it has to do with “respectable” libertarianism. For guys like the Cato crowd, being seen as legitimate in the policy-making crowd is a value. As a result, they’re willing to throw what they see as the embarrassing cousins under the bus.
I’ll also note that the people on the left who decry the failure of others to meet their standards as “the One True Libertarian” (Bo Cara comes to mind. And Michael Hihn) are the quickest to throw liberty out the door.
Survey.
Between Glibertarians and Reason who is ‘Cheers’ and who plays ‘Gary’s Old Town Tavern’?
Glibertarians is Cheers, because it’s more crude and trashy (sorry, but it’s true and why I come here).
THAT’S RIGHT IT IS! I know trashy when i see it!
I have no idea what you’re talking about. Is this a Canada thing?
Technically, reason is Cheers. It’s the place where everybody knows your name, and as we all know, everyone there is Tulpa.
Rufus, you old.
People in glass houses etc.
…should host naked Russian hooker parties far more often?
Might as well just burn “I work for Putin” onto your lawn in gasoline.
It seems a small price to pay.
If those darn kids keep getting onto it, gasoline may be the only solution!
I vote Reason as Cheers – remember how the place started to suck when Sam sold the bar?
Did Charles Koch sell Reason to David Koch?
Damn, that’s an old reference.
Let’s see:
Who’s Paddy’s Pub and who are the McPoyles?
*Huffs gasoline*
Huh?
I find this question othering
Wait, if Reason is Cheers, and we’re Gary’s Old Towne Tavern, does that mean that Nick’s going to bulldoze this place to the ground eventually?
(I’m old too)
You spelled ‘towne’ correctly but I have auto-spell and didn’t feel like fighting it.
Glibertarians
Reason
This bar.
Rufus is Coyote Ugly.
/flicks mullet, winks, turns and walks away while kicking cat out of the way.
Always saw glibs as more a Paddy’s Pub
It were Teh ROOOOOOOOSKEEZE! wot dunnit.
The overall Russian intent is clear: disruption of the United States political system and society, a goal that in the Russian view was best served by a Trump presidency. What remains to be determined is whether the Russians also attempted to suborn members of the Trump team in an effort to gain their cooperation. This is why the investigation by the special counsel, Robert Mueller, is so important. It is why the F.B.I. counterintelligence investigation, also quietly progressing in the background, is critical. Because while a Russian disruption operation is certainly plausible, it is not inconsistent with a much darker Russian goal: gaining an insider ally at the highest levels of the United States government.
In short, and regrettably, collusion is not off the table.
Yes, yes, of course. Treason, it is.
This sort of stuff is only slanderous innuendo when one is speaking about the Clintons.
Would someone please show me some evidence?
Anybody familiar with John Schindler, the guy who writes and tweets a lot and claims to be a former spook? He claims that his NSA sources have Sean Hannity on the phone with Russian intelligence. What’s Schindler’s track record for accuracy?
Tweet: “#NSA friends tell me they have Hannity in OPERATIONAL calls with known RIS agents. Team Mueller has it all. He is going down. SAD!”
Sean Hannity was probably bragging to the Russians how he has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do or whatever. Seriously, if this whole Russian probe ends up with Hannity in jail, it will have been worth it
Ok, I have to agree with you there.
It would be equal parts unexpected and hilarious.
Hannity has a security clearance? Or other contractual obligation that prevents him from speaking with Russians on the phone, even if those Russians are known to Hannity to work for the Russian Government? I’m just not seeing the crime here.
I am, however, seeing the crime in NSA workers divulging sources and methods to a former spook, now journalist.
Jeez, remember when NSA stood for, “No Such Agency?”
This
Good point. Spitballing here, but maybe the claims is the Russians were using Hannity as a go-between to the Trump campaign? Although, using a go-between doesn’t really make any sense if you’re already colluding.
Yeah, I don’t the allegation either I suppose.
I’d further like to know how they’re going to get that “evidence” into a courtroom.
“Seriously, if this whole Russian probe ends up with Hannity in jail, it will have been worth it.”
If it’s for an actual crime he committed…maybe. It’s a witch hunt though that is setting some horrible precedents. Honestly, if they throw anyone in jail aside from the people who started this conspiracy theory I’m afraid it will be used to justify future similar witch hunts.
I’m just ripping on Hannity. I’m not being serious
The pisser about Federal witch hunts is that they often nail people for activity which had nothing to do with the point of the witch hunt.
PopeHat‘s talked a lot about the concept of the perjury trap, which Martha Stewart, Scooter Libby, et al can tell you is an actual bad thing.
From the link, mainly because I like how his concise explanation:
Since asserting your 5th amendment right is seen as a de facto admission of guilt these days, I’d go so far as to argue that you have a 5th amendment right to lie to federal investigators.
That seems to have worked for the entire team in the Clinton State Department. That and immunity for all including their pets.
Ken White really wants to be a good person.
Too bad he’s so shit at it.
does he have a list?
The list is life.
He has a little list…
Is that the guy who was fired for texting dick pics?
I think you’re thinking of Weiner…
Yeah there is absolutely no other way to write that is there?
Nah, not Carlos Danger. This guy.
I don’t know if its the same guy OP is talking about, but the odds seem pretty good.
That’s the guy. He’s had a pretty spotty career, people who worked with him say.
Yeah, that is the guy! How about that.
Yep, he’s Deep State Dic Pic. An absolute tool.
Not familiar with the guy, but you can add his name to the list of unindicted FISA violators. It is both sad and scary that what limited protections were created in the 1970s are being casually thrown out the window left and right for politics.
I don’t know, but I would say so what? When the fuck did it become high treason to talk to furriners. This whole Russia hysteria is not just a case of invisible evidence, but invisible evidence implicating non-existent crimes. I can think of 100 reasons for a news person to talk to Russian intelligence if given the opportunity, and zero reasons why that would ever be a crime.
Is Hannity holding state secrets? Even if he was you would still need more than proof he talked to someone else to even start sniffing at crimes. This whole thing makes the world stupider.
^ This
For fucks sake. Everyone in the DC game (Pols, journalists, talk show maggots……..) talk to Russians and many may be so called “agents”. The whole thing is dumb as dog shit.
So a former spook is admitting he’s getting classified information illegally from current NSA employees? Yeah sure.
Signed former military spook who actually spent an incredibly boring month at the NSA to break up the monotony of an incredibly boring tour of duty ‘spying’ on foreign govts.
Justin Raimondo: Has Seymour Hersh Debunked ‘Russia-gate’?
Nothing really new, just a summary of the current situation. In spite of the ongoing MSM blackout of the Hersh tape, it ends on an optimistic note:
I heard about Hersh’s accusation. It’s interesting to ponder. But, I don’t even think the investigation even involves Russia anymore, because there was no ‘there’ there.
If I were the Russians and I wanted to stir the pot, upon finding out that Rich was the WikiLeaks source, I might put a hit on him. Just sayin.
It comes from a Tom Clancy novel, and therefore is probably complete bullshit, but I thought the US and Soviet (now Russian) intelligence apparatuses had a gentlemens’ agreement not to kill each others citizens on each others’ soil?
Practically, shit like that just never stays quiet, or blows up in your face to begin with, and the tit for tat stuff can get exhausting.
Which is the primary reason I have for doubting any Arkancide conspiracy theories, despite the staggering number of people who seem to end up dead when they cross Bill or Hillary. If those theories were true, how in the world can they possibly keep it quiet, and for Chrissake’s what team of super-villains do they have doing the hitting?
Random question prompted by Rufus’ question above:
In an alternate world where Hillary wins the election, does the break in the commentariat that caused this place to exist happen?
It probably happens faster due to the incredible sucking noise generated by TOS lovingly fellating the new chosen one.
No. The uneasy peace between the cosmos, the yokels, and the ‘I don’t give a shit’s remains intact.
In Hillary’s universe, does reason still consider Sloopy’s mom getting beaten by cops to be too local?
I’ve heard a few references to Reason screwing up with Sloopy’s mom in the past but don’t really know the story. What happened?
We kind of got a preview of what the content would be like when Gillespie published his smug “Clinton is totes going to win, and it’s because those Trump supporters are backwards idiots” a couple hours before the election. I think the die was cast when Gillespie made the editorial standards go to shit during the actual election, they would have continued to publish garbage like Dalmia, Chapman and Soave, etc. Might have taken a bit longer but the outcome was probably the same.
Yes, it does.
The anger wasn’t so much at the site taking an anti-trump stance. It was at the childish quality of the postings. Childish coverage of Hillary would have been quite off-putting.
And… bluntly… the “not appropriate for Reason” stance that caused the rupture would still have happened because it predated the assault on Sloopy’s mom by months.
In fact, I really want to highlight this exchange I had with Matt Welch last spring:
To which Welch snottily replied:
One reporter could have covered that shit-show adequately. They sent everybody. And the fart-sniffing and navel gazing commentary they produced was to journalism what a can of pringles is to nutrition. And you can tell what a bang up job of satisfying their customers they’ve been doing by the plunging alexa rating.
I skimmed the comments and laughed at this:
Meanwhile, the Russia witchhunt, er, “investigation”, has been going on for over a year now (and looking worse than ever) but the common narrative response to that is “investigations take time! Just wait and Trump will be publicly executed right before Hillary becomes Queen soon enough!”
Well if the split didn’t happen you lot would not have received the blessing of reading my writing, so it’s all good
We have made a terrible mistake.
This is online harassment. Someone tell Jezebel
In that alternative world, Nick Gillespie’s post at 6:40 pm on the Election Day wouldn’t have sounded so retarded. So, perhaps, I could still have some respect for him.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
If you had any respect left for Gillespie, a perusal of his Twitter feed should help with that. Did you know that literally everything is racially motivated (even when it’s not)? The Jacket sez so.
I’m vaguely proud commenters didn’t go corpse-humping and Nick-dumping six hours later.
Our short attention spans are vastly more overpowering than our trolling ability.
If I hadn’t left before, I would have certainly left due to ENB’s recent behavior. It’s entirely unacceptable, and I don’t want any part of it or that organization.
Dalmia making excuses for antifa going straight Brownshirt at Berkeley, with no backlash from her employer, certainly didn’t help.
Despite the Weigeling, gamboling, millennial polling, Rico Suave-ing and TDS-ing, this was actually the last straw for me.
Oh, yeah, and that horrific piece about how Trump calling out fake news for being fake news was actually a fundamental attack on freedom of speech and the press. I have zero desire to go look for it but that shit could have been lifted straight out of WaPo, NYT, or the fucking Intercept, for heaven’s sakes. Absolutely disgusting.
I can’t believe that’s still there.
I guess she stands by her statement.
I had been clicking a few things there, about twice a week till then. No more. I got off their email list, no longer subscribe on youtube(which was the only good part left), and made sure i can’t see them when i do go on Facebook by accident.
I’m out. I was out, but now i think ghosted is the more accurate term.
I think the break probably still would have happened. My impression is that the drift toward progressivism at TSTSNBN has been an intentional strategy to try to lure a more millennial audience. I recall seeing an uptick in cites of Buzzfeed and Vice. Seriously, they were publishing articles pushing fundamentally unlibertarian arguments and trying to justify it with “well we publish in other venues, as well”. A Clinton win would have justified this shift and reinforced it. Their strategy would be solidified in the prog harder camp.
It still would have happened. If not exactly this, something close. A different discord to just comment on articles if it didn’t, maybe
Caitlyn drives a bug-eyed Sprite = awesome!
!!!!!!!
*texting while driving in a bugeye means if you ram into another car, the only fatality will be you. Way to be responsible, Caitlin.
If you crash that car you deserve to die.
Mmmmmm, prime rib. *gurgle*
Mmmmmmmmmmmm
Get a room you guys
Don’t deny your urges
Looks like California is going to pot. Jeff Sessions hardest hit?
Forget Jeff Sessions, I wonder what Caesar’s Legion thinks of this.
(If you’ve played Fallout: New Vegas, you’ll recognize the town from the article)
Not even a lottery reference in the article, even with the line in the article, “Nipton has fewer than two dozen residents, but it has a way has a way of playing backdrop to big dreams.”
Bunch of Profligates anyway.
So it is midnight and still 30 degrees. (86 to you heathens, better then the 103 during the day but still damn hot) Goddamn heatwave. My poor old air conditioning (going on 12 years or maybe 13, who says Koreans don’t build quality product) is barely coping. I need a new one. Been running since 6 PM and it is still 23 degrees in the house.
1 oh fucking three? What’s the humidity?
Bout 65% I’d say. Some parts of the country might reach 108 tomorrow, but not Bucharest. I think the record for the last 100 years was 110.5 in 1927
I would like to point out that’s about how hot it is in Phoenix Arizona, but with about double the humidity.
I’d tell you to kill yourself but I think the weather will take care of it shortly.
I once went to Antalya Turkey when there were 102 F and 90% humidity. It was a fucking nightmare.
Ugh, thats Houston weather right there.
Back in my day (2008) we had 122 degrees in Baghdad for three days straight! And I was wearing 144 lbs of armor and carrying 15 rifles!!!!!!!!!
…walking uphill both ways through the snow?
Sand AND snow.
Weather underground has the humidities during the daytime highs to be in the 20-30% range at the airports like Coanda International.
So, I’m reading it as basically like Houston weather. Which sucks during the summer, admittedly.
I swear, I didn’t see Trash’s comment about Houston before I made mine.
You generally have to get someplace truly hellish before you start seeing 80-90 percent humidity, and 95 plus temps. Someplace like the Persian Gulf say. I don’t know how people live and work someplace like Doha in the summer.
When people are going to Riyadh to get to better weather…
al Basrah…August. I want to die just thinking about that.
55-60 C when I was there. The wind + dust made it feel like it burned your skin. Fuck that place.
Funny thing is there are 3 official weather stations around Bucharest and one is in a region with a bunch of lakes and the temperature is now 6 degrees lower but the humidity is 95%. Dunno which is better.
have to look at heat index. 103 @ 65% = 148f heat index. 98 @ 95% = 172f.
I don’t think humidity is that high during daytime this are the values now. now it is like 70 @ 95 and 82 @60
If that’s the case then the lake wins.
Except for additional mosquitoes
Turn that A/C up a bit. Coming from somewhere where it’s on 24/7 for at least 9 months out of the year, it’s set at 77/25C during the summer, when the high’s usually in the low 90s and the low’s in the upper 70s or around 80.
Seriously I don’t know how people can hate modern technology when we have AC and refrigerators for cold beer
ANyway Bucharest has the most extreme weather of European Union capital cities. It is hot in summer – record high 108F (42.5C) and really cold i winter can reach –25F (-30C) so quite the difference
Been talking up squirrel season to my daughter. She’s siked. She would likely limit out (6) if she could. She shows empathy for her friends so not concerned with burgeoning sociopathy.
So… rifles for kids?? Go! Obviously 22lr. Read good things about that CZ 455 scout.
Hard to go wrong with a good old 10/22
I’ve had my second 10/22 now for at least 25 years.
I’m leaning bolt over -semi.
You can always pull the mag and single load them, and when the kid is done with it you can throw in a 25 rounder and make a fun little bullet hose.
455 scout comes standard as single capacity flush mount mag.
How old is she? I know Cricket still makes a bolt action .22lr. Its a single shot but the stock is sized for kids.
Cricket is half the price but I like the wood stock on that 455. She may want Cricket though because she could get muddy girl camo stock.
“CZ 455 scout”
I think that is an excellent choice. I like the idea of starting her out on a bolt action. Teach her to use the iron sites. Try to get her master eye to match whatever her strong side if it doesn’t already. Easiest to do that when they’re young.
Why a 22? Tradition?
How about a 17 hmr? I have a Savage 93 BRJ and it is a absolute tack driver.
Love the stock on this. Now I have to add another toy to my list damn you!
http://www.sportsmansguide.com/product/index/savage-93r17-brj-bolt-action-17-hmr-21-barrel-51-rounds?a=1790594
I wasn’t even rifle shopping the day I bought it. I saw it on the shelf and instantly knew I wanted it.
Nice:)
Less recoil than 17hmr. Eventually get it though for superior BC.
I’m thinking I’ll start my daughter on my 177 spring gun when she gets old enough. Then we can talk about bang-bang guns if she likes the springer.
My granddaughter just turned 8. I may look at starting her on a 177 next year.
I saw you said up-thread that you are leaning bolt, but if you do go with semi-auto, the Marlin Model 60 is a great rifle.
I’ve had mine for 21 years.
Stun guns that look like cell phones are sold online and marketed as self-defense tools, but de la Guerra said they could be potentially dangerous on an aircraft.
Butter fingers…Goddammit.
So it’s pretty much a weapon of mass destruction.
Bah! I accidentally posted before I dove into my rant.
“But let’s talk about this instead”
Ok, some bastard put that fantastic pound of flesh in an oven that was too hot. The outside is overdone, the inside is underdone, and those mankey white bits are going to be hard and cartilaginous. I know its just food porn, not food-food, but if you can’t roast a prime rib properly in a smoker or an oven, and there’s no shame in that its a high wire with no net, swallow your damn pride and drop it in a sous vide.
It’ll probably end up looking better, too…
“the inside is underdone”
No such thing. I think it looks pretty good. Would eat.
The inside looks perfect to me.
The temp is likely fine, but that girl needs to be held at temp for a while to improve texture. By cooking in a hot oven, you aren’t going to soften up the fat as much as you will if you either roast it at 110 or 120 for a few hours or put it in water at 125.
It looks good, but that’s an outstanding cut of beef and we can do better than good.
Tell you what, you ever find yourself in my neck of the woods I’ll dig into my meat share and pull some out of the freezer and try to convince you.
I did a 4 bone sous vide once. The flavor was a little off from what I’m used to.
I’ve had that happen to me too, but my kid is kind of protein adverse and he’ll eat rare steak if its sous vide.
What time and temp did you use? Did you salt it before hand? I’ve found that for big roasts that you aren’t going to take up to fall-apart texture, the salt makes a big difference.
Oh, and garlic can put off weird flavors too.
131 for 6 hours. Salt and pepper.
I think 6 hours is probably way too long to have it liquid (in this case, its own juices).
The best prime rib I’ve had is at LG’s in Palm Springs. They dry roast it in a rock salt crust at 170 for 6 hours.
I’m going to try that method soon.
I do salt at least 12 hours before. Than rub with pepper, a little butter, and fresh rosemarry if its alive outside. Pasturize it at 131 until everything is dead, then keep it at 125 for 12 to 24 hours. Then an hour in cold smoke and a few minutes over hot charcoal for crust. Kind of fussy, but never had an off flavor, never felt like it was brazing it.
170 sounds crazy hot. They must use the salt to insulate it. Never tried that. Report back, I’d be interested to see how it turns out.
170 is as low as my oven goes.
And why the fuck did they put all that food on a salad plate, how the hell is someone gonna manage to eat any of that without most of it ending up on the table?
With a fork and knife, I would assume.
If you can cut that steak and not knock the asparagus and potatoes off the plate you are a better man that I.
Why not just eat the asparagus first?
And risk knocking the steak off the plate?
Dude, you aren’t supposed to eat salad. It’s bate for tomrrow’s meal. Everyone knows this.
I fully agree with the smoker approach. The reverse sear is the way to go. That method is by far the most important information I have ever learned from the Glibertariat.
As I am sure no one fucking cares most Romanians have a weird aversion to beef that is not on the soul destroying gray and dry side of very well done
Interesting! Is it an aversion to rare beef or just beef in general?
Stop pretending you’re interested.
Now, if he mentioned Moldovans on the other hand…
/raises eyebrow.
Not an aversion to beef but a pork centered culture. We don’t really have meat cows, just general purpose cows for milk, meat and also until quite recently pulling wagons. I know oxen are more efficient at that, and were used for really heavy loads, but it was more efficient to have a milk cow also occasionally pull a light wagon.
What’s Adrian Mutu up to these days? I always picture him coked up banging the Romaine sisters.
I’m sorry, I don’t listen to hip hop
Seriously fascinating to me since I live in beef country, USA.
Not that I eschew pork, either. Love me some bacon–and I prefer a nice slow cooked pork roast to a beef one. Sue me.
“I live in beef country, USA.”
Euphemism of the day?
Not an aversion to beef but a pork centered culture.
That was Korea. Their beef was an expensive luxury item and frankly their sauces and seasonings worked better with pork than beef or chicken.
You’re really not helping your local tourism board with this stuff.
Seriously. Talk about the hookers and show pics of Mila Kunis.
She’s Ukrainian.
Romania has…Bela Lugosi?
MILA IS NOT ROMANIAN?!
…..my whole life is a lie…. *slits wrists*
Hey we have Madalina Ghenea which appears naked in a movie called youth
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pL2lUBsRX6w/VjKQ-KQZx_I/AAAAAAAAhO8/HQea21qiIiY/s1600/MG-5.JPG
NSFW not that you bums work
Ghenea on 30 december 2015 has stated on Instagram: “Ceausescu was leading a Communist regime, but everyone had something to eat and there wasn’t, like now, the abyss between poor and rich”.
Real winner there Pie.
That does not really make those tits worse
Commie tits are always worse than capitalist tits.
But seriously walk through Bucharest in summer. A frustratingly quite high number of hot scantly clad women around,
I love the commie bull shit lie of ‘everyone ate and had a job’.
Retarded.
When I would talk about my former job at the prison with “progressives”, they’d often say something like, “Isn’t it crazy that we can give prisoners free healthcare and education, but we can’t do that for the rest of our citizens?”
That shit works in prison (to a point) because prisoners are given almost zero freedom. I love how the “progressives” who say that are unintentionally admitting that their vision for America would depend on removal of nearly all individual liberties.
Simona Halep.
Before or after breast reduction?
BEFORE!
She should never have had that reduction.
*opens easteurope.rtf*
Let’s see…only one entry!
Yes, because Reason servers were so shitty two years ago, I have two months of archives on
Perving for ProsAccomplished Female Athletes Of Eastern and Central Europe saved in a file. I cheated because the original link rotted away, but this was the only Romanian entry.Maybe Thicc Thursdays have affected my mind but that woman is absolutely titless.
This is what happens when you let Heroic Mulatto colonize your brain.
Olympic-level swimmers will be, yes. Why the photographer didn’t focus on her legs I have no idea.
I mean, I have two months of posts and she was the only Romanian I could find – although, as mentioned above, I excluded gymnastics and tennis, which are two sports they excel at.
You need to bring the series back.
That sounds like work! Will you accept what I vaguely remember being one of the best received posts instead?
Accepted. Thanks!
I’m actually surprised. The beef in the Serb quarter of Priština was really good. I guess I assumed Romanians would be at least as good on that front…Now I’ll have to dig out my ancient Romanian cookbook.
You’re comparing the richest socialist country in Europe with the poorest one.
I get that, and I had clearly never thought through this very deeply, but I generally expect a little culinary bleed-through between neighboring countries.
*compares Romania and Serbia now, starts sobbing uncontrollably*
You will find good tartar in Romania just little rare beef. Then again things are a changing, The improvement in food in Romania in the last 10 years is astounding. You can actually get quite good sushi now in Bucharest as well. Which was unheard of a while back. And decent steak, though it is about 10 to 30 dollars a pound, depending on the butcher shop and the quality, which is pricey for many Romanians.
Interesting. I’ll have to catch up with my Romanian friend and ask him about some of this. He went to university for food science and was quality/recipe control in meat factory for a while before moving here.
In an alternate world where Hillary wins the election, does the break in the commentariat that caused this place to exist happen?
The timing might have been different, but the place was turning to shit well before the election. I was pretty much done, no matter what.
yep.
To be sure
I think the catalyst for the split was their refusal to cover what happened to sloopy’s mom. I don’t think national politics was nearly as instrumental in driving people away as the utter loss of faith that occurred because of that. And the reason they gave was total bullshit. They cover picayune “local” bullshit all the time, and not just in the brickbats. They basically said, fuck you, your mom’s story can die on the altar of our editorial direction. To which a solid portion of the commentariat responded, what a shitty thing to do and who actually likes this editorial direction anyway?
Don’t forget the fact that The Other Place was more than eager to use his relationship with Banjos and their children as a pleading point for donations during the annual pledge drive.
I didn’t make any proclamations saying ‘Fuck ___!’ afterwards and to this day still visit the site, though far, far less often, but it certainly made me lose a lot of respect for the staff in general.
I still like a few writers there, Welch, Scott, Andrew, and a few others but overall the tone of both the articles and comment section are just fucking toxic. The place is…angry.
I’m a RRefugee too. I saw something about sloopy’s mom at The Other Site, but I didn’t get the story. What happened?
I probably won’t do justice to the story on my own, and I don’t know that I can find a good summary by searching this site. Apologies for any misremembered details…
Sloopy’s mom is a nurse, who was working at a high school during a basketball (IIRC) game, who went to assist an injured player on the court, told the referee to put the game on hold, and ended up being physically assaulted by a cop, who then charged her with some BS crime.
There’s more to the story than that, but I don’t trust my memory that much.
Tl;dr goes, and i could be wrong
His family was at a HS baskeball game, kid goes down, or appears to be hurt.
She is a nurse(?) And tries to help. The police physically remove her. They hit her.
Details aside, the story was very much up Reason‘s alley of police abuse. Or so most of us would have thought, anyway.
This.
The last I heard, the local police department has been thoroughly shamed by the community involved around the area over this and offered to drop the charges against his mother if his family dropped its civil suit. And the family response to that plea has been a resounding ‘Fuck You!’
The Reason coverage of the LP convention was pathetic in that it seemed to believe that the convention was consequential in some way.
Pretending the selection of that idiot Weld as VP was anything but a slap in the face to “actual libertarians” was quite revealing.
Both Weld and Johnson shit the bed pretty hard last year. That reason did not call them on it was a big beef of mine.
That Gillespie did the exact opposite, i.e. threw insults at the people who thought they were a bad pick, is telling.
WTF happened to Johnson? tarran has suggest that there is some financial shenanigans going on, but beside that Johnson went from full-throated defenses of liberty (2012) to mealy mouthed appeals to some kind of nonspecific different political choice (2016).
tarran once made a comment about Johnson that I thought was very astute. He said(paraphrasing here) Johnson is an authoritarian like all the others. The only difference is that Johnson believes the iron fist of the state should hold you in as light a grip as possible, subject to his preference.
He apparently paid his campaign manager a cool 1.8 million or so annualized, about ten times more than the next highest paid CM who was Rubio’s. That seems pretty fishy to me barring whatever else may have happened.
He had to refund $333,000 to the FEC for money that they had given him for “non-qualified” campaign expenses for a previous campaign.
A large number of people, knowing about this issue, who wanted to make sure their donations were spent on this election cycle asked for assurances that current donations wouldn’t be diverted to pay off this debt.
He gave assurances that any donations he received this year would be spent on this year’s campaign.
AND GARY JOHNSON FUCKED THOSE PEOPLE OVER!!!!!
It’s very clear that Gary Johnson ran to get donations to pay off his debts. He ran a shitty campaign because he was taking a dive. He wasn’t going to spend the donations on a serious attempt to poll well, since if his campaign started getting traction people, would expect him to spend even more money on spreading the message. He needed to run such a lack-luster campaign that nobody would give a shit if the money wasn’t being spent efficiently.
He smoked himself retarded.
Also, the unmitigated trashing of Rand Paul’s run in comparison with the knob slobbering coverage of a particularly unlibertarian Johnson/Weld ticket pretty much exposed their idiocy.
Rand was running for the wrong Team. Principals, not principles
The Johnson/Weld issue was a big one for me. I knew Weld was crap and Johnson was as charismatic as Hillary, but it wasn’t until after the election that I learned about the shady stuff the Johnson campaign was doing, like using donations to pay for 2012 campaign debts. That combined with TDS signalled to me that reason was going full feelz and Team over principles. Plus, all the fun people came here.
Sooo, if your only experience with films from the dark continent are English-language South African flicks – ie. Neil Blomkamp or Richard Stanley directed pieces – you could pick a worse place to expand your viewing experience than the Congolese film noir “Viva Riva”.
Would linked to pimp my channel and new review last night, but I was a little busy out in town watching “Le Samourai” – great presentation, but I have a feeling they just stuck the criterion blu-ray into the projector.
That thing looks really good. I don’t want to stereotype but they couldn’t have had a great budget, yet the trailer looks like they got all the money on screen – unless it’s carefully curated and 85% of the movie is two people in front of a wall…
Well, European or US investment funds do go a lot further if you can do the entire thing effectively in a 3rd world country. Like I was saying, I’d guess very little was filmed on any sort of sound stage.
“Stun guns that look like cell phones are sold online and marketed as self-defense tools, but de la Guerra said they could be potentially dangerous on an aircraft.”
To what extent, exactly? The last I heard, the cockpit door was bolted shut during flight for the most part. So a guy grabs his decoy, advances towards the cockpit, is stopped by either a flight attendant or the door, stuns them, then what? It’s not like you could use it to puncture the fuselage or anything.
Everybody on that flight would immediately think 9/11!!! and bum-rush the fucking idiot before he could commandeer the plane.
While I get it that needing one on hand isn’t necessarily likely in that situation, having the option to carry one might actually stop or deter somebody idiot enough to try anything.
I might do a FF on this even though they aren’t firearms, but here’s a little primer.
There are 2 types of devices usually called stun guns: Tasers (as in brand name taser brand tasers) and everything else.
The everything else is 99% cheap chinese plastic shit you buy at flea markets and on ebay for $20. It puts out a very high voltage low amperage electric arc, which hurts while in contact with skin.
That is all it does.
It is pain compliance and nothing else. No lasting damage, no incapacitation, and the effects wear off the moment contact is broken.
In short, there is absolutely zero risk from someone having one on a plane, unless he could somehow torture a person into letting him into the cockpit, which is essentially impossible.
Real Taser brand tasers actually do incapacitate and have the ability to actually do some damage, but since there are no tasers shaped like phones we can completely rule those out.
Ah!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmvt7yFTtt8
271 comments AND NOT ONE OF YOU ASKED ABOUT BRETT?!
DO ANY OF YOU WORK?
nope
He’s dead to us! Dead!
I maintain DADT policy on Florida-related matters.
Meh he was just going to end up Orphan Chow.
The lede was far too glib to be taken seriously.
Not on Fridays.
And who is Brett?
rifles for kids?? Go! Obviously 22lr.
As I have said before, I’m a fan of what I like to call the “carnival gun” which is an exposed hammer pump action and shoots short, long and long rifle. You can get an original Winchester, but even the ones that look like they have been wrapped up in a logging chain under the seat of a pickup truck for fifty years go for upwards of $650 around here.
* so called because I remember them from carnival shooting galleries when I was a kid.
Are you a Bronx street rat from the 1890s?
So, I missed the Civil War discussion this morning,
So instead here’s a discussion: did Abraham Lincoln outgrow his youthful irreligious views?
“It’s almost beyond dispute that, as a young man, Lincoln was hostile to Christianity and organized religion in general. While living in New Salem, Illinois, he was part of a group of friends heavily influenced by Enlightenment writers like Voltaire. Mansfield speculates that Lincoln’s bad experiences with ministers, his troubled relationship with his own father, and the shame he felt at his mother’s illegitimacy probably affected his lack of faith as well.
“At one point, Lincoln even wrote a book, which he intended to be published, outlining his objections to the Christian religion. A like-minded but more realistic friend burned the manuscript, knowing that to publish it would jeopardize Lincoln’s political ambitions.
“Most of that is widely agreed-upon. What’s in dispute is where Lincoln went from there, after he left New Salem and settled in Springfield. As the years progressed, and as Lincoln moved from the Illinois state legislature to Congress, and eventually the White House, his public statements took on an increasingly-religious tone.”
“What’s in dispute is where Lincoln went from there”
Just guessing here but he went on to be President, start The Civil War and has a memorial people visit more than they do the Jefferson memorial?
Religious =/= Christian. Not a Lincoln historian myself, but I know he was one of the big “civic religion” people. Perhaps he stayed hostile to Christianity but became a more fervent member of the church of the state?
He probably would have been more open to religion if churches in the 1850’s had been more accepting of alternative lifestyles.
IS THERE A RIGHT WAY TO PUT SLAVERY ONSCREEN?
“For decades, the pageantry of black suffering has endured with curious and voyeuristic obsession in the public square, in part becoming something of a cottage industry for white creators. The cartoonish, fabricated antipathies of D.W. Griffith’s 1915 slave epic The Birth of a Nation were echoed in ostensibly even-handed interpretations such as Edward Zwick’s Glory and fantastical renderings including Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained. (Art, Zadie Smith writes, has “never been politically or historically neutral.”)
“Nor is the conversation around the dueling alt-history series the only contemporary focal point through which the matter of black suffering has been considered: Kathryn Bigelow’s new film Detroit, about the 1967 riots that antagonized the Motor City, has been scrutinized for being “grotesque and even a bit exploitative” in its refusal to grant depth to its black characters, and instead reveling in the violence inflicted upon them….
“We live in a world where black suffering abounds and is parroted with disheartening ease across TV screens and social feeds. “If we already understand that slavery was terrible,” Brit Bennett wrote in the New Republic, “why must we keep experiencing stories about slavery’s horrors?” Perhaps a past should be just that—a time before, an experience not to be lived again.””
My response.
I was hoping for a large blatting with a pip-squeak as the curlicue but maybe that’s just me? This is the internet so…
So you’ll stop complaining about the legacy of slavery responsible for all of the woes for black people in spite of evidence to the contrary, and you’ll stop demanding reparations for slavery, right?
Kathryn Bigelow’s new film Detroit, about the 1967 riots that antagonized the Motor City
Dear god, more 60s shit?
Won’t end until the Boomers all die off, and then then the Millennials seem to have a ‘Civil Rights LARPing’ mindset which means they’ll probably still get made.
Consider that term stolen.
I look forward to more movies like Hidden Figures, with totally fictional fake racism that Katherine Johnson herself says she never experienced in real life. This can only end well and will promote peace and harmony among man.
At least the riots and racial tensions were real in 67. The movie in 30 years about Occupy Wall Street is going to be wholly fabricated horseshit.
I was listening to the radio and the commenter says everyone is paying attention to the White House last week of all the craziness with Scaramucci and Priebus.
I would say I pay attention to politics more than average but I still didn’t know who either guy was before last week. I knew Brannon, Gorusch, Comey, Sessions, Devos, the EPA guy who I forget his name but Priebus and Scaramucci didn’t register before last week.
I doubt 95% of the US could tell you what either do. I think that’s the problem with so much political commentary. The Washington insiders have their faces up the asses of politicians so much they think every fart is news. I don’t think anyone much cares or knows half these people in the whitehouse. I don’t care if they were fired, or hired or died of a heart attack.
This inside baseball shit that they talk about every day just isn’t interesting, and I don’t think it’s important to anyone.
Priebus was head of the RNC for a while, but I don’t know the other guy.
He was White House Communicator Director for like two seconds. People pointed out that he was anti-gun and ex-Goldman Sachs. He went on some profane rant in an interview and called Rinsed Penis a crazed schizophrenic lunatic and talked about how he wasn’t trying to suck his own cock like Steve Bannon, etc.
Then his pregnant wife was divorcing him and the left tried to make it out like some “she didn’t want to stay married to the Communicators Director of Adolf Drumpfler’s Fourth Reich, #resist” thing, and for the first time in history the marital status of the brand new White House Communication Director was major international news… for some reason.
“Rinsed Penis”
Mike or John-O? You decide.
I’m afraid I’m not sure where I first heard that. Wish I could say I came up with it, heh.
I can google as well as the next guy the point is these are minor political players that nobody cares about except inside baseball political junkies.
It’s the equivalent of yammering on about how Tom Brady’s fifth receiver got cut and spending hours pontificating on the affect it will have on Americans.
It won’t because nobody cared who they were before.
I was explaining this to someone the other day.
We’ve watched umpteen seasons of the West Wing, so we know how this job works. Some educated people in the back room come up with ways to make the President’s ramblings sound like a coherent message, and BJ reads the White House spin to a roomful of reporters. Is it really important who reads the spin? I have no background in public communications and I could do the damn job. We could type the press release into Steven Hawking’s Speak n Spell and he could do the job. We could rotate it every day. This isn’t the same as picking a new Defense Secretary every week.
I mean, personally, I would just appoint Gilbert Gottfried to that position. For life.
She- Hulk is doing an admirable job, you sexist shit-lord!
Wayne and Garth ruined things with their shenanigans
“Historic Aurora cemetery will get fence to stop people driving through it…
“Back in 2005, thanks to a $10,000 grant, city officials and the local chapter of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War had a ceremony there that included installing nine grave markers for Aurora Civil War veterans that had been removed by vandals years earlier.
“Another six markers were added later. At that time, it was reported that people would drive through the cemetery — Flagg Street dead ends into the cemetery and there is no gate there —and that kids would use the cemetery as a ball field.
“[Alderman Juany] Garza told fellow aldermen at the Committee of the Whole meeting this week that people have continued to drive through the cemetery from Flagg to Root.
“”It’s because there is no fence and no notice to drivers at night,” she said.
“The new fence would take care of that, she added. There also will be a new, bigger sign noting the cemetery.”
Pal Beck Bennett helps Kyle Mooney dish in depth about deep dish
“Kyle Mooney credits his friendship with fellow “Saturday Night Live” ensemble member Beck Bennett as being “the real reason I know a thing about Chicago. Yes, thanks to Beck, I know all about some of the best deep dish [pizza] spots here,” said the actor and comedian while in town to promote his film “Brigsby Bear” (opening Friday)….
“As he rattled off the names of Lou Malnati’s, Pequod’s, Giordano’s, Pizzeria Uno and Due and other famed pizzerias, Mooney stopped for a moment and reflected, “I’ll bet you Chicagoans really get sick of hearing outsiders like me go on and on about deep dish pizza. I’ll bet a lot of Chicagoans don’t even like it, right? It’s kind of like just for the tourists,” he added, with perfect insight into this reporter’s view on the subject.”
You know, I just checked Wikipedia, and Catholics still recognize the Purgatory. Are you sure you want to be doing this?
Weekend links, you can always scroll down and ignore.
I heard that Real Chicagoans ™ don’t consider Pizzeeria Uno to be Chicago-style pizza?
Is this true or is this one of those “Real Seattleites Hate Starbucks (which is why there are 2 on every block downtown where the offices are)” things?
I love it when a handful of people claim to speak for a large group.
And then we have to bring up the rotary engine again… Swear to God , one more time and we’re disinviting you from the Eclipse Party.
How conveeeennnnient!
“…As I see it, Democrats’ problem isn’t that they’re on the wrong side of policy issues. It’s that they’re too ready to bother too many ordinary people about too many of their personal choices, all the way down to the hamburgers they eat.
“They don’t always want to prohibit those choices. But they have become smug and condescending toward anyone who does not match the personal lifestyle choices of liberal elites. Why would the voters on the receiving end of that smug condescension trust such a movement to operate the government in their best interest?
“The nice thing about the hamburger problem is that Democrats can fix it without moving substantially on policy. They just have to become less annoying….
“Americans are socially liberal … …
“… but they do not like being told to feel guilty about personal choices…
“The hamburger problem is about more than just hamburgers and football…
“Liberals have supplanted conservatives as moralizing busybodies…
“If everything is political, then culture will necessarily dominate politics…
“Cultural power is more motivating than public policy…
“An air of self-dealing makes liberal moralizing worse…
“This can be fixed…
“1. Don’t tell people they should feel guilty….
“2. Say when you think the liberal commentariat has gone overboard. correct cause….
“3. Offer an agenda that provides benefits people can see as mattering in their daily lives.
“4. Don’t get distracted by shiny objects….
“Turning down the temperature on culture is not admitting defeat…
“Liberals overreached, but Trump is overreaching, too…”
Jill Filipovic: Prog harder
“The chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Ben Ray Luján, said in an interview this week that his party intended to support candidates who can win, regardless of their position on abortion rights.
“There will be no abortion “litmus test” in the Democrats’ drive to win back the House, he said. His comments echoed earlier ones from Nancy Pelosi, Charles Schumer and Bernie Sanders.
“That’s not just an insult to the women (and men) who make up the Democrats’ base. It’s a fool’s errand.
“Much of the left has learned all the wrong lessons from Hillary Clinton’s defeat. They could focus on increasing turnout among their base — women and African-Americans — but Democrats have instead taken a rhetorical page from both Donald Trump’s sexism and Bernie Sanders’s populism by trying to appeal to disaffected white guys.
“This pivot to the right on women’s health is particularly insidious, reflecting an anti-feminist backlash across the political spectrum.”
“The [Democratic] party has a lot to lose by alienating [prochice women] in a dodgy gamble to scoop up Trump voters, where a “win” apparently means building the ranks of the party by adding more people who are hostile to women’s rights. Clearly, we have enough of those guys already.”
Let me guess, anything short of enshrining abortion as a cultural expression of womanhood is unacceptable?
The day the Democrats actually run anti-abortion candidates for President is the day hell freezes over.
Yeah, that’s basically it. Tacos, beer, abortions. You can’t just dismiss the arguments of prolife folks outright: you have to be smug and condescending and rub their faces in what they openly consider the murder of babies. This is an election-winning formula on a national scale, that’s for sure, and I encourage the Democrats to listen to Filipovic.
She’s just a gift that keeps on giving. Fuck it – make her campaign manager for Clinton 2020 run!
It’s going to be hard to do that while wining and dining with the Kenyan upper class in Nairobi and whining about the people actually there to improve the lives of the poor.
If Democrats want to win, they need to dial back on their racism and their repeated bashing of populism. For the latter, they don’t seem to realize that most of the country views them as out of touch elitist, and constantly bashing the very same movement they praised when it happened during the Progressive Era that is directly tied to the will of the people over the elites is a very bad idea.
Democrats’ drive to win back the House
Chortle. I guess this comes into play after the Stupid Party introduces “kill all fags” legislation or decides to own Obamacare.
According to an Oregon Judge:
Steve Smith Not Actually A Sasquatch
STEVE SMITH LOVE NOT LIKE THAT OF SQUARES!
Oh, and when you get prime rib at a nice restaurant, this is almost always the au jus. You can spend all day making your own, but this is just better. Period.
Have you tried bathing in it?
*expecting this to be HM’s new fetish in T-minus…..
The wife and I really like Johnny’s
I used to use Johnny’s until I found out about this. You’ll never look back.
I’ll check it out. Thanks for the heads up.
Speaking of au jus, make a French dip sandwich with boursin slathered on the toasted roll. Fucking phenomenal.
Drippings and Sherry or GTFO.
Extreme weather seen killing 152,000 Europeans a year by 2100
Because greenies will make the price of electricity so high that no one will be able to afford to run the AC
People making predictions of things over a hundred years in the future always struck me as hilarious. Hell, based on our 80s predictions we can’t even get 20-40 years figured out. I mean, can you imagine what dangers people thought would be an issue in 1917?
“Polio will cripple the Anglo-Saxon nations by 2017 just in time for the Kaiser’s moon colonies to start firing their artillery pieces.”
The history of USGS/IEA (*and other ‘official’ agencies) estimates of “How much oil remains in the ground” is one of the more hilarious debunkings of “forecasting” i know of.
I used to have a great link to an example, but have since lost it. this is close to it =
http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/bg159.pdf
The short of it is that every estimate always predicts doom in about 40 years, but their current-state ‘proven reserves’ number keeps multiplying to ever larger and larger amounts. Last i checked it seemed they had given up and just said, “fuck it, we have 100 years of oil” because that was a nice round number.
I think the reason “40 years” is a nice number for when ‘people should really start worrying’ is that its just far enough in the future that the people making the estimates will have retired from their jobs and no longer have to answer for their mistakes.
Well, Europe will be massively overpopulated by then, so that’s good, right? Or are we not allowed to pit doomsday predictions against each other?
Good question. It seems that Intersectionality would allow it. Or maybe forbid it? I’m not sure.
So I’m at a pinnapple stand:
Me: Una piña colada por favor.
So he goes and guts the pineapple and makes a piña colada. I hand him 100 Pesos.
Pineapple guy: cuesta dos cientos cincuenta
Me: Wait what!?!?
Pineapple guy: thats ah, two hundred ah….
Me: I know what it is you charged me one hundred last time.
Pineapple guy: ¿Que?
I gave him another 200 Pesos. My wife is outside now enjoying her $14 piña colada.
what locale?
Puerto Peñasco, Sonora (aka Rocky Point). It’s Cabo for less. At least everything but the drinks.
Thank you.
you should squint your eyes, whistle the “good, the bad, the ugly” tune, and stare at him until he capitulates.
^this guy knows how to deal with problems effectively
Lol. If we’re both Mexican, does that make me the bad?
Well, with that top hat you can’t be the ugly. And quite likely can’t be the good, either. So…
Doubly so with the rad Pedro moustache.
Its actually a Van Dyke. The pic got cut off.
http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=MXN&to=USD&view=10Y
i think you’re doing something wrong, at least. shoot the bartender and see if his replacement is more congenial.
Oh, I checked the exchange rate before I left (18:1) I am not in denial about it, I got hosed.
The fact he hosed you on the price means you are not a Mexican senor Sharpshooter. You are gringo now. I meant to ask this morning if you were going there. I met a few people in PHX that go there and wondered how it was. It seemed to be the place of choice for Phoenixites. First trip?
True, but I confuse the hell out of everyone, which can be nice. In fairness though he charged the same to three actual Mexicans. I’m in a row of condos along a beach owned by Ex-Pats so obviously its a touristy spot.
I go here 2-3 times a year, its way cheaper than CA. Its a small shrimping town but they built up a few hotels along the Sandy Beach in the last 20 years. Im over in Las Conchas, which is a rough beach (rocks, shells, etc) during low tide but Im 20′ from the water during high tide. Pretty affordable. http://rmktravel.com/las_conchas.htm
The turn of phrase is “Phoenician” BTW.
Phoenician, Phoenixites, Phoneatinators, Phoenablos, same same. I have checked that place out online several times but never made it down there. Nice to hear a review. My last trip to Mexico was Tulum which was very fun. The girlfriend shared your heritage so she confused the hell out of the locals as well which was kind of funny. They would talk to her because of her appearance as opposed to me which is full on no doubt gringo, but I understand more Spanish than she did. We had a great time.
Enjoy your weekend!
I used to go there a lot in the 90s. My parents actually bought a plot of land there before the government stole it from them.
Serious question. I’m not doing much with my life and the Wife has a piece of country property in her sights. It’s too far from town for me to maintain my present job and she’s being pushed into this by her daughters. I feel like I’m at a tipping point because I know that this issue will not go away. Carbon monoxide or the rope? It’s hard to get firearms in Canada these days unless you are a criminal. The mortgage will be payed out and she’ll be shed of me. Bonus – just paid the truck off last week.
August 5, 2017 Feelin’ Fine!
Hello from Greenland!
If you have a wife and family it sounds like you have plenty going on in your life.
Yeah, I can get maudlin when I’m in my cups. Sorry about that little episode my fellow glibsters. I’ll be better until the next time that I start bleeding from my “whatever”.