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- I am sure this will only do good. I mean, how could it do otherwise? MONEY WELL SPENT!
- This is so…not German. If you want to see what a formerly warlike nation, turned impotent looks like. Read this. I mean, was there ever anyone else who wanted the Germans so strained to get weapons?
- Oh? I guess we will see, won’t we?
- Say, weren’t we just hearing State Department personnel whining about how bad things are? Guess this little outpost will raise morale. BEAR ANY BURDEN, PAY ANY PRICE!
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682 responses to “Afternoon Links – December Cover Edition”
“Hey my eyes are up here bud!”
https://archive.is/KPolr
1, 3, 4, 23, 24
5, 10, 17, 19, 25, 30.
Some of these older galleries seem to be of higher quality.
3. I’ll take 3.
Which 3?
Don’t the come in sets of two?
+Total Recall
Any three. Or multiple thereof.
39 just works on so many levels.
And clean up your bedrooms, ya slobs!
She’s got free postcards!
I’d like to send 39 a postcard; most of the rest not up to this morning’s posting.
Great Collection to warm a guy up on a cold winter day.
What’s with all the praise for the commentariat Swiss? We’re just a bunch of worthless drunks!
Speak for yourself. I’m a worthwhile drunk.
#MeToo
Hey! I’m not drunk… I may need to drive later.
*puffs on a chameleon glass pipe*
AHEM!
I smoke too
The last … 18 hours or so since the Alabama race was called have managed to increase my misandry even further.
It’s like the quitting scene in Half Baked, where the only people I’m not saying “fuck you” to are my family and y’all glibs. You cool.
How’s that? I thought you were happy he lost? (well, as happy as anyone could be given the quality of the candidates)
Oh, I’m fucking ecstatic that he lost.
The reactions to the election from both sides, on the other hand…
Never read the comments!
Not even at Glibertarians?
Especially not here – we’re unprofessionall commenters. No one subsidizes our slacktivism!
You wrong. I subsidize by V. Putin.
In that case, we don’t read the links!
Well, make sure you thank a black woman for that.
Intersectionality works!
/prog
Aww. You *do* care!
I appreciate this hand-crafted site.
Thank you!
#metoo
I only get my news from artisanal, grass fed websites.
At least you’re not going to those corn-fed shitholes.
Shit-fed cornholes.
Sounds like the avg reporter to me.
I agree, great place to a part of, thanks!
Uncivil Johnson is right!
I’m just here to meet girls.
I’ve got some bad news for you…
Beer spit on keyboard
/TUUUNDRRRAAAA!!
And it worked. You met Hayeksplsoives and Pope Jimbo.
It’s official. A lame ‘come on’ line is now sexual misconduct.
I know there’s a pretty significant contingent of basement dwelling failures among them, but I’m beginning to think that the MGTOW crowd may be on to something.
And yet there’s such a large overlap between these “HARRASSMENT!” crowds and those asking “where have all the men gone?”
They surround themselves with soyboys who can’t figure out why their overt feminism isn’t getting them laid.
At the very least, Mike Pence is right. I’m not going into a one-on-one private situation with a woman. Either my wife or a group of other people must be present.
beat me to it!
Seriously, fuck everything when the sentence
At the very least, Mike Pence is right.
represents the actual truth of the matter. Dammit, people!
I was taking BSA Youth Protection Training years ago, the backbone of which is never be one-on-one with a minor
and it came to me: why ever be one-on-one with anyone unless you need to be>>
* copier room (nope)
* car trip (hell naw)
I was Pence before Pence was cool.
I see the squirrels migrated here for the winter.
probably user error: I’m a gear head and don’t do this sparky stuff too well
What happened to the duplicate posting?
There are edit faeries around here.
Some of the squirrels are cannibals.
Nasty ass prairie dogs cannibalize each other all the time as roadkill. I fuckin’ hate those things.
Or…..Don IS a squirrel, attempting to undermine the hard-working non-squirells on the site so they can be replaced with a cadre of unionized squirrels…
That isn’t enough to save you. You can still get accused and found guilty of sexual harassment for accusations which took place where others and/or your spouse are present and all attest that there was nothing sexual happening at all. Especially when a university is involved in any way.
There is no defense. For the crime of ending up in a situation where a female can benefit from slandering you as someone who engaged in sexual misconduct with her, you will be found guilty the moment the accusation happens, and enough people will support that finding based on nothing more than the accusation having been made that your life will be severely negatively impacted. This can be true even if the two of you have never met. That’s the real male privilege right there.
“The process is the penalty.”
-or-
“You might beat the rap but you won’t beat the ride.”
Justice delayed is justice denied.
And people wonder places end up like the Middle East.
It’s really starting to make Mike Pence look smarter and smarter every day
Fuck all these people. That’s not sexual misconduct.
I 100% believe that.
They said that Trump attacking Gillibrand by saying “she would do anything” was sexual harassment. Obviously he meant sexual favors, it’s not like she is a political hack who will do anything to get elected. I mean it’s not like she use to be a pro-life, pro-gun Democrat before being appointed to the Senate or anything.
Addendum: Trump will also ‘do anything’ to win an election. Screw everyone
Fuckin’ Luc Robitaille scored like a machine for everyone but the Rangers, and he cost them Sergei Zubov. Seriously, fuck that guy.
Zubey: greatest ever; samurai, sniper, statistician……my greatest joy for a decade in Dallas was watching him flawlessly pick high-odds moves and execute.
Eventually I would learn how to make SMU girls cry, but, until then, Zubov was my greatest thrill.
Zubov and Nedved for Robitaille and Samuelsson was an awful, awful trade.
This is the entirety of her complaint:
To be fair, she doesn’t call it anything more than an advance. Its the bottomfeeders at The Detroit News who limp it in with “sexual misconduct.” However, she did say ““I’m not a liberal lefty and I’m not looking for attention.” Sure. That’s why people publish shit on Twitter – because they aren’t looking for attention.
That’s not bad.
As they say, it’s close enough for government work.
That makes us far more competitive than now.
They couldn’t even get an architect that could make the place not look colossally stupid?
Agreed. It’s a piece of shit, inside and out. Who was the retard that thought subdued window number equidistant between the windows was a good thing? Idiotic artwork. If I had my druthers, it would look like a fucking embassy and the entrance would have mementos of our special relationship, such as replicas of captured regimental colours, mural depicting the burning of the White House and DC, Ike fucking over the Brits/French/Israelis in the Suez, and other items like Exercise Tiger to remind the US employees that they work for the US, not British government, and alliances mean shit when interests do not coincide.
At least there’re crappy half height open cubes for the
workerparasite-bees.London is chock full of these ugly fucking buildings.
Why can’t we just acknowledge that Art Deco represented the apex of design and build accordingly?
While I agree, we could use some neoclassical and gothic revival for variety. Don’t want everything looking the same.
I could be persuaded.
With Craftsman Homes in the Burbs
Real Craftsman homes, though, not those ugly-ass “Craftsman inspired” things they build these days.
Too many Art Deco buildings look like cheap ass run down bus terminals. But still preferable to the modernist crap.
You know what else looks like shit? Current UI design. It’s like someone took thirty years of usability and depth & dimension, threw it in the crapper, and thought monochrome 1981 design is perfect.
Where’s my green phosphor screen?
90% of everything is shit. Modernism can be done well but for every Louis I Kahn or Mies vab der Rohe there are dozens of hacks.
I thought van der Rohe was International style not Modernism.
It’s been twenty years since I was playing pool and drinking beer while ostensibly studying architecture so I could be wrong, he was at least an early influence on modernism.
Meh, sort of? The Chrysler Building is really pretty, but the Oregon Capitol purports to be Art Deco and it’s one of the ugliest buildings I’ve ever been forced to behold.
I love Art Deco. The top on this one is all colorful Injun references too.
Yeah, that works.
They really should just use Tim Burton’s ideas from the 89 Batman movie. I’d like to see that city, with it’s cool statues and 80 story cathedral.
Oh wait, he called it “Fascist Architecture” in the making of documentary.
mementos of our special relationship
A big mural of Cornwallis surrendering to Washington would be nice.
From the tax link: “The agreement would set the top individual rate at 37 percent, down from today’s 39.6 percent, giving the wealthiest Americans a big break”
Yes, wow, such a huge break. They get to keep a whole 2.6% more of their income! …….fuck off, slavers
But seriously, if they get that corporate rate down from 35% to 21%, this economy is gonna take off like a rocket
Let us not forget that 5 years ago, the top marginal tax rate was 35%. The 39.6% rate came into effect very recently. It also did absolutely nothing to reduce the deficit. So this “big break” will still leave taxes 2 percentage points higher than they were in 2012 and won’t have any effect on the deficit.
39.6% was Clinton era, so it has been around more than 20 years.
The Bush tax cut did knock it down to 35% from 2003-2012. Actually, only thru 2010, then it got extended two years. This is why these 10 year limits is stupid.
As I am not in that bracket, I was unaware it went away for a bit.
Especially if it really primarily ends up going into salary.
I am hoping against sticky wages.
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/251387/why-glenn-greenwald-deserves-a-pulitzer-prize
Glenn Greenwald deserves the Pulitzer Prize for debunking the “Russia, Russia, Russia” conspiracy theory narrative, so says…..Tablet Magazine? Odd alliances have been forged
The pulizter is for commie propagandists and Stalin appologists only.
So, Greenwald is the Orwell of our time? A commie, but not a Stalinist.
Or Noam Chomsky of our time. If you want to hear how awful US and Israel are, he’s got your back. Civil rights in Cuba or Venezuela (or Brazil when his boys are in power if he wants to pull “I don’t live there)…eeeh, did I mention how awful US and Israel are?
Tablet and Greenwald aligned? Indeed we are living in strange days.
Greenwald doesn’t submit to the Pulitzer cabal. Better to give it to Wolf Blister.
This is so…not German. If you want to see what a formerly warlike nation, turned impotent looks like.
I dunno, it’s a bunch of bureaucrats not being hired and contractors used instead. I mean, yes, it’s a dark day when Germany fails to staff its government ranks, but still…
I mean, was there ever anyone else who wanted the Germans so strained to get weapons?
USSR in 1920s?
Poland in the 1940s?
Rapefugees right now?
Lithuania in the 1300s?
Now you’re just showing off.
Rome, circa 476AD?
That cover… Literally watching a publication commit suicide.
Uh… You know that’s a Mad LIbertarian Woman special edition, right?
No – my sarc detector hasn’t kept up with the times.
She’s really good at it. Would fool me, too if I didn’t get to see them ahead of time.
The first one I saw on here a few months back actually did fool me, such is the state of some publications these days.
I feel like I should clarify that MLW does an amazing job, which is why it was convincing. But given that I took the outrageous headlines at face value and thought it was a real cover — that’s what I mean by “such is the state of some publications these days.”
Would
Too late, I called dibs.
It says Teen Vogue. Are planning to run for Senate?
They’re Muslims, so after adjusting for tradition, they’re nearly a decade past the age of consent.
Both. Same time.
Yesss, another one fooled. *cackles deviously*
Seriously, great work.
Best one yet.
They really are way too perfect! I really enjoy them, MLW.
Thank you, everyone!
Golf clap.
I was almost fooled, but then I noticed the absent anal column missing.
There’s a reconstructive surgery for that.
MLW– “Another triumph!” Great work!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqn7SxWA8Lo
Excellent work, MLW. Don’t be surprised if you get a job offer from Conde Nast.
Local story from my locale.
http://www.kktv.com/content/news/SPECIAL-DELIVERY-Package-of-marijuana-mysteriously-shows-up-at-Colorado-Springs-home-463526563.html
“Local story, totally unrelated to me. Also, on an unrelated note, I have a gofund me page for bail money on a completely unrelated matter”
-Q
Totally tax-deductible!*
*not really
I”m heading there right now to donate!*
*not really
I guess you got my package.
* ينظر إلى الصورة * هل.
I SENT ALL YOUR NAMES TO THE WELFARE OFFICE.
I hope you didn’t try to sign me up for anything.
I’m a little short, could you spot me 20 loonies?
Canadian cash flew south for the winter.
Well, there are no shortage of loonies around here.
Free money!
Which way to the welfare office?
So Moore is a socon and I highly doubt is very libertarian. On the other hand Doug Jones is a gun-grabbing big spender. The elites are happy. And the GOP will be even more useless than before. The GOPe must be hoping for Dem victory in 2018. No more trying to pretend to give a shit. And if they Impeach Trump then they can toss him out Nixon style.
^^^This. I don’t think the GOPe really wants to be in power. They want all the perks of being permanent Washington fixtures with none of the responsibility of actually having to make decisions.
That way you don’t have to deal with bad media coverage or alienating your supporters or messing with your own privileges. And they sure as hell don’t want a more libertarian Republican Party so allying them to stop Populists ain’t gonna accomplish anything.
Also this seems to be the Cosmotarian strategy. I mean Niskanen is all about how Denmark is utopia and libertarians need to support the welfare state but not too much…
So, like Tony Danza in ‘Who’s the Boss?’
Exactly, only with more accusations of sexual harassment.
Unproven, 250 year old accusations.
Hold me closer, Tony Danza
Area man holds closer tiny dancer.
Who hasn’t been there? Amirite?!
“^^^This. I don’t think the GOPe really wants to be in power. They want all the perks of being permanent Washington fixtures with none of the responsibility of actually having to make decisions.
________________
I think the RINO contingent is just perpetually in the mode of “OK, we have to make the government work, so that means we can’t cut taxes, because as soon as Obamacare passed, it became The Law of the Land, Part of Our American Fabric, and it has to be paid for.” They do this for every single fucking thing that gets passed. As soon as theres a new law or program, they treat it as a Sacred Trust of the People to be funded. Then you have the conservative crowd which, if given actual control of the agenda and the votes of the RINOs, would repeal things. But they don’t have that power, because they don’t have the numbers.
The Democrats are disciplined and organized. They vote for more government, always and every time, in lockstep. There is no debate over their goal, no debate over their strategy. Tax more, spend more, hire more bureaucrats who will vote Democrat and contribute money. It’s just a pure shakedown operation, nothing more. Transfer wealth from their opponents to their supporters. The debate is on how to divide the spoils.
If 50 Senators want more government, 20 want the same amount we have now, and 30 want less……well guess which way the needle moves?
If we have Trump as President and a Democrat controlled Congress, absolutely nothing is going to be done for two whole years. Sign me up for that shit right now.
Republicans can’t do shit about tax reform or actually repealing Obamacare anyways, so what’s the point of having them in power? Only decent thing Trump’s been actually accomplishing is rolling back regulations, and he can do most of that himself.
If they take the House can impeach Trump. There’s no way in hell they can get 2/3rds of the Senate to convict him though, so it’ll go just like Clinton’s impeachment did.
Except that Dem Congress means the next Dem President will pass shitty things that the next Republican Congress can’t repeal.
Also that Assumes that the Anti-Trump Republicans won’t make deals with the Dems.
Also if the GOPe hates Trump so much they can ditch him Nixon style…
Little rusty on the impeachment thing, is it 2/3rds or 60 votes?
Two thirds of senators present. Technically as long as they reach a quorum, they can hold the vote, but something a big as an impeachment trial vote would assure that they are all seated for once. They would need 34 votes asst the lore end with the minimum numbers at quorum, but a fully seated Senate would require 67.
*at the low end, not whatever my phone thought I said.
2/3rds or 67 votes.
Only decent thing Trump’s been actually accomplishing is rolling back regulations, and he can do most of that himself.
Nuh-uh! /9th circuit
Seriously, for any of this to stick, it needs Congress to act.
The Alabama Senate race was basically a battle between Hate, Falsehood, and Cowardice (I trust we all know which side is which). Sort of like Ultima V, if the antagonists had a falling out.
a bunch of worthless drunks!
“Yeah, and you’re crazy. Tomorrow, I’ll be sober. You’ll be crazy the rest of your life.”
Thanks, Mythical Libertarian Woman for that spot-on parody.
Where’d you get the photo? Presumably stock art?
Yeah, I have a ton of credits at Deposit Photos so I’ve been using pics from there to make these.
Very well done.
Check out pexels.com – Lots of free not-too-shabby CC0 images.
“That’s a pretty dress. It’d look really good wadded up on the floor of my living room.”
“Hey, baby, nice legs! What time do they open?”
Math/Physics Pickup Lines:
“I’d integrate your contours”
“I’d like to quantum tunnel you”
“How’d you like to see my natural log?”
“I’d like to scatter my particles all over your field”
“You make me wanna discharge my capacitor”
“I’ll make you feel so good you won’t be able to measure my position or my momentum”
“I want to put my eigenvector into your Hilbert space.”
“You must be a Mexican Higgs Boson cause you sure increase my mass south of the border”
“Your ass is getting lepton by my Fermi particle.”
∇∙(legs)=∫e^x = f(u)^n
No dx and the formatting really doesn’t come off, but whatever.
Let’s conjugate our pairs to reach thermodynamic potential and release free energy.
Let me C your P so I can violate it.
And I’m spent, time to refract.
B4I4QRU/18?
Does that count?
… Hobbit
No, because it makes perfect sense.
“How’d you like to see my natural log?”
You’re German?
/SP rolls her eyes, something she gets much practice doing
You’re doing it wrong. You’re supposed to accuse all of them of sexual harassment, including me for man-splaining this.
Stop touching me there, FSJ…
Tarran in morning links:
Well I certainly agree that nothing will stop the spending. That would require the Dems to betray their primary constituents and cede space to the hard-left and for the Republican Elite to curtail their own privileges and stop worrying about bad media coverage.
However in Venezuela, Zimbabwe and North Korea we see the elites can drag people down with them and still remain in power…
Venezuela Zimbabwe and North Korea did not have about six hundred million firearms in circulation. So we need to hold the front on an armed populace…
BUT THE PEOPLE DON’T STAND A CHANCE AGAINST THE U.S. MILITARY!
/Jeffrey Toobin’s cock.
Oh yes, a demoralized US Army fighting a local force intimately familiar with the lay of the land and indistinguishable from the local population has never failed in its mission.
*lights Titor signal*
Retune your sarcasm detector, Q.
I got it. Titor gets very passionate that those factors are irrelevant and the US Army would crush the populace in short order.
Even though we have lost in that exact set of conditions before?
Yup.
“I got it. Titor gets very passionate that those factors are irrelevant and the US Army would crush the populace in short order.”
If one is assuming that the US Army is actually willing to wage bellum romanum against their families then yeah, sure. But I think that’s a big assumption. The military is painted as this giant diverse group, and it is a giant diverse group. But when you go into an actual infantry unit…..it’s pretty much rednecks and country boys. So the troops you need to actually clear and hold a restive population are the ones who are most inclined to either refuse to, or actively join the other side.
Hell, look at Tiananmen. The first time the Politburo tried to clear the square they used a local army unit. So they had a bunch of Beijing city kids go in and tried to disperse the students, and they wouldn’t pull the trigger. But when they brought in a unit from a rural province, those guys had no issues opening fire.
*shrug*
When Civil War rolled around, how did it go? Turned out US Army is perfectly willing to go Roman on the traitors’ asses.
It also turned out that most people weren’t interested in running a guerilla resistance once real danger came close.
Get a couple states and some of the military and you have a fight. Pretending that Jim Bob is like the Taliban and America is Afghanistan is utterly retarded from a military analysis standpoint.
And Libertarians support the military becoming more Democrat even though that means they will be more likely to shoot them.
Does he really believe the majority of the troops on the ground: the predominantly poor, working class, southerners/midwesterners, not the officer corp., would march on and fight their own predominantly poor, working class, southern/midwestern brothers, cousins, fathers, friends and sons?
If that order was ever sent down the pipe I’d imagine we would have a mutiny on every single military base we posses across the globe.
I believe the majority of people discussing this theoretical conflict think its going to be more about direct military conflict instead of isolation, infrastructure breakdown and mass starvation.
I would say those things would be a given, to one degree or another, in any case when a government either collapses or directs overt violence towards its own populace. So what?
I have no idea about the outcome but Civil War = sucky bad. And I’m reasonably certain I wouldn’t survive.
Pan covered most of it. The US Army is perfectly willing to go after traitors, particularly once they get shot at. Would-be guerrillas talk a good game but talk is cheap. The majority of Americans, even the gun owners, are soft. A little hardship, particularly if their families share in the misery, and we’ll see.
Let’s hope we don’t. And I’m not arguing the toughness of the average everyday American. I’m a cream puff in comparison to my grandfathers. But so are a goodly portion of the servicemen in comparison to say WWII or Korean War vets. And Pan is Correct, we’ve shown the ability to do so in the past but to your point, we’ve grown softer across the board. Personally, I don’t think the average grunt would have the stomach for that nowadays.
I find myself once again looking to The True Believer; you’re right in that misery alone is not enough to sustain a Mass Movement. It’s counterintuitive in that people with the most to defend are the least likely to defend it. Even miserable people will choose a miserable certainty over an uncertainty. The only truly dangerous people are ones that have absolutely nothing left to live for, or those who have utterly rejected the present for some undefined glorious future.
Actually military training has been specifically patterned towards dehumanization of enemy targets since the Second World War and the whole ‘why were soldiers deliberately shooting over their enemies?’ heads’ problem. It’s why a lot of militaries switched from bulleyes targets to human cutouts in training. The difference between draftees and professional career military is also probably a factor.
Titor, you’ve got to watch the “Man Against Fire” episode of Black Mirror. I can’t say more without spoilers, but you would like it a lot.
‘Actually military training has been specifically patterned towards dehumanization of enemy targets since the Second World War…’
But what practical application of that practice have we seen in the field of battle? Maybe I’m ill informed but it seems today’s military is rather restrictive about how it engages in conflict. Almost to the point of what seems to be at times near reckless endangerment of the troops. When you add in things like sensitivity/diversity/sexual harassment training, ect, I have a hard time believing your average US soldier is going to suddenly click all that off in the face of his/her own countrymen. I’m just skeptical. Not trying to be an argumentative shithead.
Today’s conflicts are restrictive because of the ROEs established from on-high, not an unwillingness of the modern soldier to kill. It’s also a strategic and diplomatic move, you want to be the ‘good guy’ and can afford some risk for the appearance if you have overwhelming superior and very little chance of major losses (i.e. Iraq is not going to be able to wipe out a major American city). A civil war, an existential conflict, leaves a lot less room for nice-guy ROEs.
Also
When you add in things like sensitivity/diversity/sexual harassment training, ect,
Actually you could probably use those fucking powerpoints to enrage troops just before contact with the enemy. Might have some morale problems though.
JT, people (in this case we’re talking about Americans) may be soft, but what’s your take on if you piss them off enough and give them a reason to fight, they’ll measure up as a formidable resistance force?
Even if you’re a formidable resistance force you’re exploitable. See the Boer camps.
Wonder how this relates to his idea that Canada might want a coup to save us from Turdeau Jr.?
He’s not Jr. His father was Pierre. He’s Justine.
They don’t have guns.
And we can depend on Alabama to not elect gun grabbing Senators…oh wait.
When the opponent isn’t widely believed to be a child predator, yes, you can depend on Alabama.
So? If Jones is the deciding vote on gun control legislation then we are fucked.
And “gun control won’t happen as long as the Republicans aren’t shitty” is not a reason for optimism.
It’s a partial term, and the odds on him keeping his seat when faced against a normal, non-child-molesting Republican aren’t great to begin with, less if he actually senatizes like a Commie.
Obviously we need to raise the age until which a child can stay on their parents’ health care to 40. And it’s all Trump’s fault.
Central planning leads to completely unexpected rough edges.
So I’m only two years out of childhood? Awesome!
“Coming out … and saying prices are going up, choice is going down and this law is a mess doesn’t really get at the young adult population.”
Yeah….I don’t think that they’re trying to “get at” the young adult population. Those are just regular old facts.
There’s a Moore reference in that somewhere.
“Praise Allah and shrink your waist-line”
they do know that bacon has almost calories, right?
almost calories
not my day
almost no calories
really, really not my day
No worries. You Gilmored up top and fucked up here. Go ahead and muff a link and we’ll call the trifecta and get a beer!
I need to tulpa myself so I can get a new, clean scorecard
Ignoring the fact that I accused you in this morning’s lynx…
yeah, enjoyed that ribbing….thanks
Full disclosure: I can’t keep up with it all. I need spatial / relational cues to align and learn; even with the fun avatars here, it’s hard to keep everyone straight. I gleefully remember all of the names from that other site, but I had that crowd split between good and evil, philosopher and sycophant.
Over here, there seems to be a much lower Tony concentration, so less contrast.
And I tend to focus on ideas and merit and not really notice whom to credit.
Anyway, thanks all for pumping the old vocab back up.
As long as you can focus on the tits, we’re all gonna be alright.
Well, there is your problem right there.
no escape now Don, you’re stuck, Enjoy!
Don’t worry, we’ll point and laugh and then one of us will screw up and you’ll get to join the crowd pointing and laughing.
“Almost calories”
You mean Obama and the buffoons who pimp the Paris Accords are bull shitters?
Well tickle me SHOCKED!
http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201712/12/WS5a2f1266a3108bc8c672194c.html
I decided not to write this comment on the other thread because it was essentially dead already.
RE: the Daily Caller article with Cap’n Stroky and Vagina McGee’s text messages.
What pisses me off the most is not that there is that level of corruption in the government; I have always suspected as much. No, what I’m most pissed about is the fact that nothing will happen, no one will get punished and everything will return to business as usual. It’s one thing to have such corruption exposed, but it’s a higher order of corruption when you can’t even punish people that are so brazen. We really have descended to banana republic status. Trump, boorish and indelicate he may be, was right about the Swamp. There really is a permanent ruling class of bureaucrats and uniparty oligarchs. The sad part is that the Swamp is going to win; Trump represents the electorates ace in the hole, the best attempt at breaking the Swamp’s grip on the country. And it’s going to fail. That’s what depresses me about this the most.
It’s true. But, I never really thought Trump was bright enough or interested enough to do battle with the entrenched interests.
But could anyone both bright enough and interested enough win an election?
Rand Paul *stares out in the distance with misty eyes*
Nope. He’s too short to be elected president.
Sometimes the things you say hurt. *sniff*
There, there. It’ll be OK. Maybe he’ll hit a growth spurt.
If they worked real jobs, they would have been summarily fired at moment this shit went public if not earlier.
Until these people feel that assassination is a real threat, why on earth would they change? And just to be on the safe side, they’re gun-grabbers. So the only viable option is military coup, which is the exact opposite of knocking down Deep State a few rungs.
It would not be hard to argue that the Trump-Russia investigation needs to be restarted with entirely new people and to re-open the Clinton email investigation as well.
But then again I got a chance to win the lottery as well.
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/12/13/report-omarosa-physically-dragged-escorted-off-white-house-grounds-fired-john-kelly/
h/t AlmightyJB
We are living in some kind of simulated reality show and whoever is controling it is just fucking with us at this point
I mentioned this elsewhere.
I read her bio.
I don’t get it.
Coattail rider, finally got booted.
Let me explain it to you Canadians. We in America have this box that shows us pictures. We call it ‘TV’. On this ‘TV’ there are these shows where real people act real stupid. This woman was on one of those shows and that is how she met our current president. Somehow she got a job at the White House, but no one really knew what her responsibilities were and she was just sort of getting a check for doing nothing. Now she has been fired and had to be escorted outside of the White House. This is ‘weird’ by American standards
Stares and blinks.
I don’t get it.
What’s this ‘TV’?
The only TV I know is Tee-Vee from ‘North of 60’.
As if you don’t have the complete Degrassi Junior High collection on DVD.
De WHAT?
You’re not fooling anyone.
Is this ‘TV’ why you’re all so fat?
Can’t be, I don’t even own a TV*, and I’m getting fatter every day. More stupid and drunker also.
*he said smugly.
I’ve been to Ontario. Lotsa fat people there.
Fucken Swiss Chalet alone scares me.
they do know that bacon has almost calories, right?
FAKE CALORIES
“Thanks to the Glibs who contribute their time and effort editing and polishing up the submissions, take the task in hand of turning out links every day – even hung over, on the road or otherwise distracted. You have no idea what it takes to get ZARDOZ and STEVE SMITH to contribute (*shudders* I…I really don’t want to say anymore about that).”
If it wasn’t for the Canadians this site would suck poppy seeds.
/Gazes at Justin Trudeau cuck-doll.
I thought you had a Zoolander body pillow?
That too.
Aren’t they the same thing?
A good rant at a conservative website (Ace of Spades HQ) about the Daniel Shaver police murder acquittal: this actually gives me some hope that maybe the tide is beginning to turn against this kind of bullshit among those who have traditionally given cops the most slack.
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=372911
Even the comments are 9 to 1 against acquittal and surprisingly hostile to the fuzz.
Did you watch the body cam footage? It was absolutely terrifying. Given all the ridiculous and contradictory commands they gave that guy, its hard to imagine trying to defend the cops in this case. I’m not so convinced that conservatives are really turning a corner here — I think this is a more isolated event. I hope I am wrong on that.
It was rough and the shooter as well as the order barker should be cooling their heals in prison for a long time if not the rest of their lives. The verdict was a travesty.
AOSHQ has a slight (really slight) libertarian bent, though, so maybe this is where the hostility towards the police is coming from.
Really slight, and less than it used to. AOS has been around a long time. I’ve been reading it for over a decade, mostly because Ace is pretty damned funny. It was a fairly standard GOPish blog for a long time – yay Iraq War, etc. Became a bit libertarianish for a while towards the end of GWB and the beginning of Obama. Nowadays Ace doesn’t really have much in the way of a consistent, coherent ideology other than outright hatred of the GOP establishment.
The murder victim being white probably helped.
Walter Scott gets a mention and a link as well. That being said, that may hold true for some of the commenters.
Yep, I commented in that thread, and was approvingly cited by several. There is one cop fellator in there, and he’s being castigated by the other commentators. The big thing with younger conservatives, in my experience (I am 28) is their “government sucks” is coming with fewer and fewer “except these parts of the government”.
I think basically if there is a path to small l libertarian policy, it comes in knocking down those “excepts” one after the other. Cops, and federal law enforcement, are well on their way to destroying a lot of goodwill. Videos like Shavers death, and that guy that got shot in the back in SC, those videos are doing it. Team Red was willing to believe the police report, but they are not willing to believe the police report over a 5 minute video of the whole encounter, and more and more that’s what you’re going to see.
This shit with the FBI agent texting his side piece about how ZOMG HE TOTES LOVES HILLARY is also really causing people who were otherwise “well, cops are generally ok” to really despising them.
They might never be minarchists or ancaps but the closer they move to us the better. If they could only put away the war mongering.
Not gonna Happen, War= Money, Filthy yummy Money!!!
Part of it may be when they see a video of a guy who (presumably) has no record, wasn’t doing anything wrong to begin with, and is doing his best to do exactly what they tell him to do but he gets killed anyway, they start to see themselves as potentially being on the receiving end in that situation.
When the victim is someone who has a few priors, even if it was decades earlier, or has a bag of weed, or mouths off a little, its easy to say “that can’t happen to people who are cooperative” or “that can’t happen to people who have not committed some crime”
^^THIS^^
that SR71 video was way funny!
The fake cracking glass walkway was too, I would have had a coronary.
Fed Raises Interest Rates Again As Economy Rolls On
Up to 1.5% now.
“We cannot thank out contributors to this site enough”
‘Thank out’?
That something she does.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B77Qq_3IQAEQ7Da.png
No; “out contributors”: Jesse and Rhywun.
A combination of “thank our” and “choke out.”
MLW- I particularly liked the “open letter to capitalist pigs Conde Nast” part.
Exactly the sort of mindless idiotic self-immolation I have come to expect from “them folks”.
Like the the “writers” at that news site who said, “Fuck the owner. We’re joining the union. What’s he gonna do, shut the website down?”
And to think that just a few short years ago, I thought USAToday was relatively unbiased!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/12/12/trump-lows-ever-hit-rock-bottom-editorials-debates/945947001/
Their credibilty drops in proportion the Glenn Reynolds Editorials, not his fault though
Far as I got OMG LOL
The rewriting of history toward W is one of the more amusing things of Trump’s presidency.
It’s funny to think that someday they’ll be favorably comparing Trump to whatever Republican monster inhabits the White House at the time.
I like that they have a poll for readers to vote on the editorial, but, i notice the lack of a “Go Fuck Yourselves” option.
Probably just an oversight on their part.
In case you were wondering what the NY Times though about the results of last night’s election.
No shit.
Insightful analysis like that is why they get paid the big bucks.
Yup… Xenu’s comin bitches.
One data point does not a trend make.
I haven’t looked at the data so I’m just going on anecdotal evidence here- but nearly all of my friends (a cohort of 20-30 year olds) vote and encourage their friends to do the same. They’re passionate about it.
I voted in my 20s and 30s and then I got cynical. I think it’s college students that vote less.
Shorter analysis: Shitty candidates will get fewer votes. Some people will even stay home instead of vote.
That’s a pretty rosy assessment of a party that just barely managed to win an election against an unlikable jackass who also turned out to be a pedophile.
That Teen Vogue cover is absolutely perfect. Unbelievable work, MLW
Yes. It captured the zeitgeist well.
So Libertarian foreign policy. I see a lot of libertarian writing on American foreign policy but not much on general foreign policy. US shouldn’t intervene and other countries act in their own interests. What sort of actual foreign policy is not clear.
China and Russia believe that intervening in certain instances benefits their interests and do so. Is that libertarian?
Hugh Akston said that Arab countries attacking ISIS wouldn’t count as “foreign intervention” since it involved a “real threat” nearby. Implication that if Cuba was a real threat to the US then it wouldn’t be “foreign intervention” to invade them seems nonsensical.
Trade and diplomacy are great but are recognizing secessionist regimes or coup regimes “noninterventionist”? Wars see countries trying to block trade, How does one deal with these blockades in a non-interventionist way?
Also Sheldon Richman seems very fond of the UN and ICC. How exactly they are “non-interventionist” is unclear. How do they enforce their will? Either they can’t or they have to use force and trade restrictions. Who provides said force? And why are you assuming their leaders selfless humanitarians?
Richman is an absolute joke.
Being a fervent anti-nationalist while having the Palestinian flag on your site is pretty funny, I will admit.
He seems to have some sort internationalist idealism. That everyone will voluntarily adopt his views so other countries will automatically do what entities like the UN and ICC want. And they will be run by selfless humanitarians who support human rights for all. Or that TOP MEN will crush rogue states for reasons he agrees with which is okay.
US membership in the UN is the most unlibertarian thing in your laundry list. It’s permanent, entangling and serves no US interest now that the Soviet Union is history.
Sorry Canuckistanis 🙁
http://freebeacon.com/issues/waiting-times-for-canadas-single-payer-health-care-system-hit-record-high/
If socialized medicine works then why are there so many shortages?
Redistribution of health, comrade.
Zero sum. There is only so much health to go around.
So why is libertarianism falling? Seems they aren’t enough people who pissed off at the system and think libertarianism is the solution.
This is a problem. Classical liberalism benefitted from using tribalism, class-warfare and actual war until these things were turned against them…
Compulsory education.
The liberals supported public schools to save us from reactionary Catholics. Didn’t backfire at all now did it?
That’s only if you assume Protestants had any sincere interest in individual liberty (beyond liberty for themselves and their closest friends).
You forgot the anti-clerical Catholics…
“So why is libertarianism falling?” When was it ever Succeeding? To me, it’s far more an ideology than a Political party and I don’t think it will ever be one,
What is a Libertarian?
Is it succeeding as an ideology?
It is for me.
Lots of people are libertarians when it comes to how they themselves would like to be treated. The problem lies in convincing them to extend the same thought process to others.
“Fuck You I’ve got mine”
You also got the tendency of people who distrust government yet they want TOP MEN to run it and give them free shit.
Yes it is, I do my best to live by the NAP at least, but I’m still Human
But you could argue that prior to the early 20th century the typical American plebe at least believed individual liberty was what made us different from the rest of the planet and that government should leave people the fuck alone. The typical American plebe now can’t stand the fact that we’re different from the rest of the planet and expects government to control everything.
Doesn’t Laizezz Fair mean, Leave me alone?
/spelling
And according to my compulsory (public) education, Laissez Faire is immoral. Straight from my junior high history teacher’s mouth. I will never forget how mad my father got when he asked me at dinner “what did you learn in school today” and proceeded to rehash the socialist drivel coming from my history teacher.
Your Father is Wise, and your are fortunate to have one like that
I will never forget how mad my father got when he asked me at dinner “what did you learn in school today”…
Now that’s how you do it. My kids and i talk all the time about what their teachers think about different topics so I get the opportunity to present another view. It seems to work pretty well.
Parents are the ultimate antidote to teacher-spewed silliness.
Homeschooling works, too.
We actually have really good schools here. Plenty of views.
Besides, I’d be a terrible teacher. We would have waaaay too many field trips!
Lazeez fare
I don’t think you should “argue that.”
Not to be snarky, but I read somewhere that 6×10^5 American plebes got themselves killed squabbling over different versions of “individual liberty” in a particular half decade prior to the early 20th century. It’s hard to believe that a country that just couldn’t live without South Carolina in their collective (I said a bad word) life was constituted from people who thought there was too little liberty or too little government.
I’m not arguing for slavery (least libertarian notion ever?), but I am arguing that lots of plebes signed up to kill other plebes who were living completely within the early, defective Constitution of their day. When your 13 girlfriends leave, you cry; you don’t shoot them.
Says you!
In a few moments, I’ll be braving the winter storm warning to run out and grab beer. I have a fridge full of daily drinkers, but a storm like this requires a little something more. TIA for your thoughts and prayers.
Keep praying and grab a good barleywine!
Al Franken vs. Betsy DeVos: It pays to be careful when dealing with sexual assault
Principals, not principles.
Due Process is only for the elites.
The right thinking elites. If it was Trey Gowdy being accused she’d want his head on a stick.
“Zephyr Teachout”
That is all.
She ran to the left of Andrew Cuomo and got something like 40% of the primary vote, and then promptly disappeared. This is just her keeping her name in the news.
She ran for the US House in my district, and got about 45%.
I swear to fuck I’ve heard that name before, from somewhere/something really retarded. Trying to find it.
The lawsuit against Trump because of the emoluments clause, perhaps?
Up until now I thought that daughter #2 was the only person named Zephyr on the planet.
… Hobbit
How much crack does the author smoke on a daily basis? This is neither the intent nor the outcome of these policies. Is the criminal justice system “too fair” to the accused, requiring the standards be watered down to just a regular amount of “fair”?
In case anyone would like a chuckle:
My 3 year old little girl just came up to me with a paper valentine’s day type heart, stuck under my shirt in the right place, and lightly tapped it to make sure it’s there while sweetly saying “awww”.
Then she suddenly ripped it out while yelling a battle-cry, looks down at in her hand as if it’s real, and says “Yuck, a heart!”.
I’m proud of her, what a little badass. Also turns out I need to be more cognizant of what I watch while she’s still awake in the evenings.
“who do you want to be when you grow up?”
“this guy“
That movie came out when I was 7, and a friend’s parent took us to see it.
I was traumatized for like a week+.
That’s the scene that flashed through my mind.
She’s going to grow up to be Webdominatrix.
That’s the dream every parent aspires for.
*acts nonchalant without looking for get out of catbutt card*
As it should be!
But I don’t hand those coveted cards out for such a small gesture. Sheesh.
Username checks out!
you obviously need to expose her to MORTAL COMBAT.
I had to turn down tickets for the Winter Classic between the Habs/Senators. Prior engagement. I *could* get out of it if I wanted to but these two teams are meh and may not be worth the fight.
Better on TV. Stadiums do not lend themselves to hockey.
I won’t even do that.
Out for dinner and a concert.
Don’t feel like it but hey….chicks.
Even for me, dinner, concert and chicks sounds better than a hockey game, anyway.
I thought the next winter classic was Rangers/Sabres? Or is there some Canadian-content version I’m not aware of.
re: the Teen Vogue
i think its a subtle touch of genius that you add the cover “numbers” the way women’s fashion mags do. there’s always at least 2 or 3, “127 ways to tell your man is alt-right” or “71 diets to reduce neck-fat” or whatever.
Willett’s on the bench!
Kristen’s in the bunk!
Nahhhh…now, if Adam Baldwin were on the bench….
Great guy! I got to schmooze with him at a fancy dinner one time, and even though he was the most popular man in the room, he took the time to shake my hand, ask me about how law school was going, and wish me luck in the job search.
Many lower profile judges were much less gracious and approachable than Willett.
The vote was depressingly close for someone of his character and caliber. Tribalism at its best.
If y’all are looking to add
I’m looking to subtract.
Fuck me!
If you’re looking for another fictional friend to add to the rotation, may I recommend OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED?
All the fun of islamophobic jokes with a side of scornful anti-feminism and pedophila. For example:
“I’ve been worked like a rented mule these past few weeks! OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED has been blowing up my phone all day!”
“We had bring your daughter to work day last week, and OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED told my 9 year old that she was a ji-hottie!”
That’s sexual harassment, and I don’ have to take it. I’m going to the media.
In 10 years.
I haz confuse.
“I’m too stressed these days. We have way too much turnover at work lately because OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED keeps killing infidels!”
I was worried about divorce, OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED said to text “I DIVORCE YOU” 3 times to my Wife, it worked!
“They opened a new cafeteria in our office. Well, cafeteria may be a bit of a stretch; it was more like a small convenience store and it is stocked with the strangest things. They even have canned pineapples and Spam! Anyway, they asked us what we’d like to call the new cafeteria, and OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED kept yelling ‘ALOHA SNACKBAR!’”
MLW, Great artwork, the first one fooled me, is that PS? you’re using?
I made my Camp Pendleton run today, the coast was clear and sunny, beautiful views.
On the USMC Base, it was another scene, entire Groups of V-22s, and attack Helos of various types, and no mufflers, I guess the Marines have mobile Rocket launchers too, did not know that.
A 220 mile headache, but the money is good and I like War toys, so… 🙂
Late late late, sorry.
Yes, it’s Photoshop Elements. It’s from like 2006. But it still works for me, so I have no intention of upgrading!
Better one less airline, eh comrades?
Money quote:
No Anschluss for you!
Competition regulators.
Competition. Regulators.
I. Can’t.
I for one cannot wait until AA has a complete monopoly, because having your bags lost or severely damaged every fucking single time you fly never gets old.
Niki is the worst airline.
So the problem is the Democrats want free shit. More people on the dole means more Dem voters. More immigrants and giving them free shit mean more voters. Giving minorities free shit and privileges means more voters. Giving the MSM a privileges means they will support you. More government means more bureaucrats and giving them pay raises means more Dem voters who will fund and do ads for them. And these bureaucrats will sabotage any attempts to reduce their power. Hence why the Dems will never support budget cuts and why Libertarian Democrats are not going to happen.
The Republican Elite don’t really disagree with them. The Socons, Neocons and Populists don’t necessarily disagree with this either. Only the fiscal conservatives and libertarians oppose this and they have done jack shit.
I live in California, where do I sign up? Oh, that’s right,the LP isn’t a viable party, do the Libertarians rise up? and What?
Sorry to say, but no one wants the responsibility that come s with being a libertarian, Take care of your own, and fuck everyone else.
You can’t win an election against Santa Claus.
^this, so much this, til Santa reveals himself as Social Satan, then I’m fucked
Not only that, there aren’t enough of them and their numbers will dwindle. As the privileged/preferred groups referenced continue to grow, the numbers of those who oppose more government will only decline, both absolutely and relatively, as more and more find it to their economic advantage to jump on board the moar free shit train.
You need a critical mass of liberty-minded individuals to maintain a free country, and the US has been creeping closer and closer to that threshold every day since the end of the revolutionary war. The only long term viable solution is to pick up all the liberty-minded individuals, relocate them, and start a new nation from scratch.
That country would need either heavily restricted immigration or a very powerful Constitution with sharp teeth. Like, “any public official voting for or supporting a law found by any court to be in violation of this Constitution in any part no matter how small and no matter what the reason shall be summarily put to death” level of sharp teeth, just to ensure gridlock due to legislators fearing for their lives of casting a vote that could result in their own personal untimely death. This should effectively create a libertarian factory, as obviously the economy of such a nation would be the envy of the world.
*brings popcorn*
Problem is liberty and prosperity make people less hostile to their politicians.
As far as I can tell the death knell was Truman defeating Dewey, That “Do-Nothing” Republican Congress was the last time the Republicans really tried to reduce government.
I guess you wouldn’t need too much in the way of immigration controls for a new nation, the seed population of which are libertarian-leaning, since no redistribution system would have been established yet and everyone who came would have to make it on their own or leave. If you only started with a million people and had 250k immigrants per year though you could run into trouble fast.
Which is why said nation’s Constitution itself would have to compel a hostile alignment towards them. State Liberty Tree Gardener would have to be an official position created by said Constitution, filled by someone charged with murdering all officials deemed to have violated it. Preferably a fresh immigrant from a communist nation who lost a family member to some sort of secret police that could be trusted with carrying out the task.
She wore a dress. I guess that makes her as qualified as any other congresscritter.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/singer-wore-maga-dress-2017-grammys-launches-exploratory-committee-run-congress/
One thing we ought to learn is that appeals to prosperity and modern technology do not work. Is telling people that “Rockefeller didn’t have a IPhone!” or “You are Better off than a Medieval Peasant!” really a convincing argument for libertarianism? If so socialists would never win elections. Or Classical Liberalism would not have committed suicide.
Logic and Reason are dead, all hail FEELZ! There’s plenty of straw for men, but We aren’t going to win the Heart and Mind of Man, Humans are greedy and violent, same as it ever was.
All you really have to do is compare poor people in capitalist countries to, well, anybody in socialist countries.
Then again, maybe the solution to our poverty-obesity epidemic is the Maduro Diet.
I’m looking at Insty, and I noticed I was looking for Our names in the Comments, it seems we are everywhere
WE ARE GLIBS! WE ARE LEGION!
The day when TOS commenters rolled into Popehat’s comment (and raised the quality by aleph naught percent) was glorious.
Dalasio went to Insty and changed some minds, it was cool
Medicare for all!
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42344180
Dimwits like Moby and Lisa Bloom are petitioning LA County to put all dogs in county shelters on a vegan diet.
No fucking shit. Why don’t you just gas the poor things, Moby, you untalented pile of vegan shit.
The idea seems to be to subject them to long term torture and starvation before gassing them.
PETA.
If the pups are lactating, the shelter is already feeding them incorrectly.
Something that would never happen in nature.
“vegan diets “eliminate” many health problems in dogs”
I guess killing them is one way to get rid of chronic health problems…
There was some vegan “documentary” (read: propaganda piece), I can’t remember which one off the top of my head (all I remember is that they refused to use the word “vegan” and used “all plant diet” or something instead), which proudly displayed a study result showing greatly reduced rates of cancer in mice fed this diet. The only wrinkle was that the mice fed an “all plant diet” lived about half as long as the other mice. This fact was even visible (albeit not highlighted, of course) in the study excerpt they showed on screen.
I think it’s Forks over Knives although some of the links to criticisms of the film don’t work for me right now.
Was it What The Health? When I saw that I thought I was entering an alternate reality composed of alternative facts.
No, it was a couple of years ago. WTH came out this year.
This is the only way Moby can ensure that his dog is not smarter than his owner.
Vegan dog.
People like that hate humans so is it any wonder they would take it out on dogs too.
Ladies and gentleman. Okay, mostly Gentleman. Presenting 2017 Pulitzer Prize winning Politifact Lie of the Year:
Russian election interference is a ‘made-up story’
Wow! Who wrote this, Nick Gillespie?
Russian election interference is 2017 Lie of the Year.
And in a few years they’ll try to repair their credibility by admitting that it really was a made up story after all, after it no longer matters. Like they did with Obamacare, after it was safely passed and implemented.
No one is saying it is a made up story, just that it was ineffectual and blown way the hell out of proportion. Politifact framing it that way is patent bullshit. Why are so many organizations so willing to throw any semblance of trustworthiness they have into the gutter over this issue?
Because they hate Trump and will use anything to undermine him?
They assume their readers aren’t paying any attention and can’t think critically enough to notice?
It’s probably a correct assumption as to most of their readers.
It’s probably a correct assumption as to most
of theirreaders.It’s funny because they have no idea how typical this is of conspiracy theories.
Surgeon admits assault after carving initials into patients’ livers during operations
This makes sense, after all (((we))) control the porn industry as a way to break down traditional families.
https://archive.is/EAJfm
Chuck Schumer – “trumps election is not a mandate!”
Chuck Schumer – “Doug Jones election is a mandate!”
If it weren’t for double standards….
We all know how this works:
Leftists getting 0.000000001% more is proof of huge mandate, The People have spoken and the Will of History.
Rightists getting 70% of the vote is proof that they need to cautious and bipartisan and white racism and evil corporations.
The brought spot in this is that after a few days we can stop hearing about this bullshit race. Fuck the lot of ‘em. Get that tax cut passed and shitcan Obamacare.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
I’ve been thinking was Truman Defeating Dewey a real turning point? That Republican Congress was the last time the Republicans really tried to reduce government and they lost. Since then they have been determined to only increase spending at a slower rate than the Democrats.
And you could argue this was just a fluke. Since the Harding/Coolidge Republicans were the only real fiscally conservative Republicans.
You need to get out more.
Really Cold outside. Brr…
Latest victim of #metoo; Russel Simmons
Is that why he has been in hiding?
Wasn’t that Richard Simmons? oops.
I think the pink leotard Simmons was being held captive by his housekeeper for a few years
Who the fuck is Russel Simmons?
And why does Russel sometimes come with two ‘L’s?
/takes another swig of bourbon.
Drummer for the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. Wait, that’s Russell Simons. Never mind.
She said no, but he was Def…
The People of the State of California v. KSuellington has been dismissed! Hell yes, they were trying to make me shell out $500 of my hard earned money to this terribly run socialist crap hole of a City. Red light camera ticket that didn’t even show the driver’s face enough to tell if it was a man or woman. I sent in a rebuttal by mail twice and they ignored it. After the second one they sent me an additional $300 non payment fee. Luckily I sent that one i by registered mail or they would never have dismissed it. It took three trips down to Bryant Street and an hour in a packed court, but I finally fucking won. They don’t make it easy. I hate giving the gubmint any more than I absolutely have to.
They had to take down the cameras here, the people of the People’s Republic of Murland went into full revolt. They should have known that trying to force people here to obey traffic laws is a completely useless endeavor.
And the red lights here don’t make any sense at all, anyway. They seem to be in no way set to optimize traffic flow. Maybe just the opposite. For instance, I’ve started dropping my wife and Penn Station here in the mornings to commute to her new job. That’s when I found out that coming out of the station and trying to merge on the JFX is not possible. Why? The fucking light will not change. WTF? So then I figured out that I can just turn right, go around the block and hit the on ramp with no light. I have no fucking idea what is up with that. In the afternoon the light works. Maybe it is to try protecting people from merging onto the highway when THERE IS NO FUCKING CARS!
That’s the point. They want to make traffic so bad that people use government transportation.
They are actively doing so here in SF. There is a boulevard a minute from my house that I have driven about ten thousand times in my life. It used to be timed at 32 mph. You could drive two miles and not hit your brakes once. They decided to fuck with that and now it is a total shitshow.
Congratulations. Unfortunately, my last run in with the mechanical 5-0 didn’t go as well. That was definitely me giving the camera a “pew-pew” gesture.
Ha! Thanks guys. It should have been dismissed by mail as there was no way to identify the driver and it wasn’t even a red light run. The camera went off for the guy in the left lane and caught my vehicle too. It was pretty clear that the back bumper was into the intersection.
Why are you running red lights?
*cues Shaggy song*
If snl had any integrity there is a great parody version with bill and wiener just waiting to be made.
So what is the deal with Jeff Flake? Matt Welch called him principled yet talked about his attempts at bipartisanship which seems to contradict this. Oh and calls him a decent, bipartisan Republican despite the fact that these exact sort of Republicans that have served us so poorly since the 1950s.
Flake was a libertarian-ish Republican when he was in the House. And then he went batshit insane once he went to the Senate.
How so?
For a recent example: publicly donating money to a democrat. He could’ve just talked shit about Moore, but no he had to endorse Jones. Another example: Waffling on a recent bill cutting taxes. If you’re representing a red state that shouldn’t be that difficult to sell.
Did he think it didn’t go far enough or too far?
He didn’t want to give Trump a “win.”
High Taxes are good if in hurts Trump. Exact sort of politician we need.
Congressman I used to know. I asked him why he turned into a go-along
“Oh, they got their ways of making you fall in line, believe me.”
First thing I thought was “underage boy”
Is that Congressman Flake or some other guy?
Some other guy
I mean did you used to know Flake?
Now your just a Congressman I used to know,
that I used to know….
I trying to peck these out on a cussed ipad
i hate reading and Commenting on a tablet, PC is the best format for Glib stuff, at least for this old Man
Yeah, he’s a completely principled progtard. Not going into the fact that principled and progtard is an oxymoron.
Razorfist with yokeltarian take.
Flake’s nose is really weird. Pay attention when he looks down. WTF is that? Is he part sturgeon or what?
Are those online cost of living calculators pretty accurate? I just got offered a job in San Diego and wonder how it would compare financially to Minnesota.
It is with a competitor, but it looks interesting.
“just got offered a job in San Diego and wonder how it would compare financially to Minnesota”
I’d guess rent/mortgage wise, very badly in an extreme sort of way. Everything else, like food, might be cheaper in SD, but it won’t make up for it. Speaking from experience.
The biggest difference is going to be housing. Look at Craigslist listings for apartments and at realtor.com or Redfin for sales to get an idea of that. Also state income taxes take a bite. The weather there is about as perfect as you get on planet earth. And it is a short hop to Mexico, which is nice.
Too Humid in SD, go inland 10 miles and your in the Desert Climate, Hot and dry, Really hot.110 degrees hot
If you don’t mind, there are lots of towns around SD that are cheaper to live in, and that coastline is over rated, but Minn against SD? No, the difference is huge
SD is expensive.
MN is a big place with lots of rates…..ya mean MSP or Bemidji?
Why don’t you do it the other way around:
figure out where the cost of living is low relative to earning power, the folks are friendly, the land is beautiful, and the food is amazing….
and then move South; I think your roads and our roads connect somewhere. Nashville, Raleigh, Spartanburg, Tuscaloosa…..whatcha waitin’ fer?
Work in SD, live in, Chula Vista Nat.city even Miramar, Santee is nice
Double. Housing is the big kahuna, but taxes, gasoline, and food will also surprise you in a bad way. It would take a minimum of half a mil per year to get me to move back there.
Oh, and utilities. Eek.
Cmon, I do it on 50k, I.E. but you can still live here
That wouldn’t even pay a mortgage if you had to buy now.
Now, duh brah
Good advice, all. Thank you. I will definitely look around the housing listings for perspective.
I know San Diego is the most “conservative” city in CA (due to military) but I don’t know that I could handle Cali politics.
I am in an inner ring suburb of Minneapolis now. Probably the snow madness and the fact I am currently in Monterey on Business is tempting me…
Don’t do it, ‘Splosives! Just think of Minnesota in the spring, summer, and fall. That is a glorious 4 months every year!
I dunno about SD but I got culture shock during one year in SF. I’m used to inner city politics, hell I happily live in NYC. (And it ain’t for the politics.)
But California – at least SF – is a whole ‘nother level IMHO. I couldn’t take it. SD may be different but I don’t know if it’s different enough.
SD is nite and day compared to SF politics. It is serious loonball leftist territory here. The large naval presence down in SD. keeps things much more conservative. Compare the two cities budgets. SF is at 9 billion for a city of 900k, SD I believe is about 2 billion for a City. Of about. 1.3 million.
Monterey was probably my favorite place in all of the Bay Area. However, that’s a pretty low bar to meet. I hated pretty much everything about the summer I spent in CA.
To overgeneralize my experience, most of the populated areas are in a desert, everything’s really fucking expensive, and most of the people are pretentious assholes. In exchange, you get perfect weather and beaches and mountains within driving distance.
Distance, yes, time, no. It can take absolutely forever to go ten miles.
Yes, those online cost-of-living comparison calculators are pretty good, but definitely check around for rents/mortgages. It would have to be a hella good offer to make the jump from MSP to San Diego.
It’s for about 40k more than I make now, but it looks like a wash on the calculators.
Eh, I will probably stay Midwestern.
But the job offer is still churning in the back of my mind. And the offeror is still buying me drinks…
Tell them it’s interesting, and what it would take for you to make the move (+ 10 – 20%). You never know.
The Churchill biopic Darkest Hour is apparently faring pretty well with critics. What are the odds they shoehorned in a bunch of modern political commentary? Hitler is Trump, Nazis are all MAGA-hat wearing dopes, Churchill glowers over his whiskey and talks in hushed tones about Hitler’s worrisome immigration policy.
I really want to see that. I love Oldman.
Ah, now I remember seeing a commercial. Yeah, he’s great. I wonder how many women he’s assaulted. *googles* On his fifth wife, I see.
Read an interesting review on it at NRO last month: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/453849/darkest-hour-dishonors-winston-churchills-memory
I asked OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED for a day off, he said “more like your HEAD off”
so, God, Moses and OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED walk into a bar…….
*holds up $1*
Whats the punchline?
… the fourth guy ducked.
BH
I’d buy that for a dollar!
^^^
This. Alas.
I’m not sure what is worse: That the Swamp is going to win or that Trump is more against the Deep State than Libertarians.
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED : Why are all these women on file?
HR; um, diversity?
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED : and these JOOOS? what about them?
HR: diversity Sir?
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED : And quit calling me Sir!, I dominate you! I’m not your “Boss” that is an Imperialist Construct, Silence!
HR: about the resumes?
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED : oh yes, hire the best one you can find
What is even going on at this site anymore? The wheels have come off, and ol’ Charlie stole the handle.
What do you mean?
Now i challenge you CS, WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS SITE?
No, he won’t slow down.
No way to slooow, down
I just don’t dig it when people complain about Glibs.com
If you want to rant and argue, go elsewhere, but if you want a solid discussion about events and things of the world, come to the glib side, We have Mexicans, ass and pot sex, or something like that
Nah, I’m not complaining. I was just confused by your comments. Glibs after dark is pretty great, especially when everyone is drinking.
And slipping in some Jethro Tull. Been on a kick this week.
Cool, i think we need you here, glad I was wrong
Well, if everybody else is doing it…
*goes downstairs and grabs a couple beers*
If this wasn’t a Family Friendly Website i might call you a name for not responding
Drunk guy at the office holiday party: Deck the halls with boughs of holly!
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED: LALALALALALALALALALALALAALALALALALALALALAALALA
*30 seconds later*
Drunk guy at the office holiday party: Don we now our gay apparel!
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED: *throws drunk guy off the roof of the building*
Am I a silly, juvenile person for giggling when I learned that the current Ambassador of the United States of America to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is named… Woody Johnson?
All American name for sure!
You shouldn’t laugh, it’s a bit of a sticking point since his brother was passed over for the slot in favor of Woody. Harry hasn’t spoken to Woody since the appointment.
True story: Woody named one of his sons… Jack Wood Johnson.
You mean the guy who’s been such a success owning the Jets?
When a local Minneapolis tv news personality visited and reported from England a couple of years ago, the Brits couldn’t stop laughing at the fact he was named Randy Shaver.
Oh, that’s good.
?
Come on, Hayak, we ALL laugh at Randy Shaver. (He’s on KARE 11, right? I can’t really stomach the local news here.
Prof. Peter Sandercock. ” His research includes testing methods for the treatment and prevention of stroke in large clinical trials.”
I used to know a Dr. BONEBREAK. Orthopedic surgeon.
And a paralegal. Judy Justice.
Uh…
“We never put any money into those assets, the Brits gave us the land”
/Buildings are free
Soooo, are we allowed to try and get this cover pic to go viral? ;p Asking before I post around.
Hell yes!
Once something is online, it’s out there already, so….
Make it happen, Fish!
http://www.urbasm.com/wp-content/themes/linepress/timthumb.php?src=http://www.urbasm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/FLBP-bikini-busty-babe.jpg&q=90&w=619&zc=1
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https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/sexy-busty-flbp-30.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=550
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Jesus, she’s an anime character.
Survival Fallout 4 is rough, but drunk survival Fallout 4 is brutal.
I have loved and had romantic encounters with men throughout my life. I realized some time ago that I needed to be a better person, and my interactions with the people I work with have changed. I have re-dedicated myself to spiritual learning, healing and working on behalf of the communities to which I have devoted my life. Repairing the damage will take a lot of time and soul searching and I’m committed to beginning that effort. There’s no excuse. I look at it now and I feel disgusted with myself. It isn’t funny. It’s completely inappropriate.
Courage!
I thought you were a Dude married to a Japanese Gal, WTF?
She announced she now identifies as a man. I now have to imagine her, *his, damnit* nether regions taste like bacon.
Larf
This is all not about one little Muslim bukkake pic, is it?
Dude, it wasn’t the size that was the trigger.
Suppose Sen. Joe Manchin decided he could support the tax bill in exchange for him becoming a Republican and getting the GOP nod to run again in West Virginia.
Is he at “least as Republican as ________________________?’” Don’t know his voting record but probably far less proggy than most Dem senators. Of course, if he
switched parties, you’d probably see Collins go the other way to restore balance.
First they cane for the cigarettes and I said nothing. https://thetakeout.com/would-you-support-a-meat-tax-to-help-save-the-planet-1821257487#_ga=2.164413239.907924277.1513107482-525539486.1498830680
They have a meat tax already. It’s called selective service.
Yeah, that’s why we have ag subsidies – to make meat cheaper.
Idiot.
Corn= Fuel=expensive feed=expensive Bacon= Angry yusef!
And those agricultural subsidies come from…where?
More of that magic well thinking.
Christ, what a stupid asshole.
Ugh I just noticed it’s fucking Gawker.
Have some more:
I thought Trump was the Hitler destroying America? Now it’s Moore?
They’re hoping the Senate won’t vote for tax reform now. You know, the bill that doubles the standard deduction while increasing taxes on the wealthiest individuals. Something Democrats and their socialist base always wanted. Until now. ‘Cause Drumpf.
My God, can politics get more retarded?
Doesn’t the bill now include state and local tax deductions again? To placate Republicans in districts with a lot of rich Democrats, I would guess.
Really? The Republicans axed the SALT repeal? Christ, what worthless cunts. If they weren’t the Stupidest Party Evah, they would have hammered the Dems on their rich constituents’ “raise muh taxes” hypocrisy.
The amount of economic ignorance lefties display is just stunning. I’d hate to have to go back to animal husbandry but for what it would take to feed my wife and I, to keep us in bacon…I would
I’m sure that’ll end well.
500 comments eh, piss off Reason
502, filthy mammals!
Where’s the avatar, 502? ah, better
But where is 501? hmmm..
I’m sure you’ve all seen this already. That is the greatest interview I’ve ever seen on TV. Thank you Mr. Moore. You and your spokespeople will be sorely missed. How do you not elect the biggest scumbag to come along in years? Shame on Alabamians.
Good lord.
This guy would’ve made a better spokesman.
So he can turn Moore’s public career into a drone as well (because it’s hopefully dead this time)?
Don’t care about the political constitution of the Senate; I’m so glad that jackass and his hangers on have been denied the seat. The dumb fuckwit had the chance to step aside and maybe give Alabamians a credible choice. Instead, he rode the failtrain to loserville. Fuck him, fuck Sessions, fuck Steve Bannon, fuck Trump for coming around, fuck Republicans for backing him, fuck the whole sorry lot of vomitous losers.
HAHAHAHAHA
A marginally less humiliating choice, then.
Fucking Christ, the coasties were right all along. Alabama is a bigoted, theocratic shithole.
Gave us Tallulah Bankhead.
Those California Democrats will be having their Libertarian Moment soon…
I’ve watched this dozens of times, the absolute slack jawed befuddlement this guy displays is incredible. Mel brooks, national lampoon, the Zucker Brother, and The Onion at it’s prime couldn’t have teamed up and created this guy.
I can’t change my user name here, or my name would already be Ted Crockett, Jr. now and for the next several days. It’s the one advantage HnR has over this place.
I’ll just leave this here.
Omarosa quit? Trump admin just got a little less thicc. You must be sad.
She has fire titties.
*Slap*
I am beginning to get the impression that Trump has filled the White House up with boobs.
Wait a minute….has anyone seen Trump and Q in the same room?
Let’s see… we have the SF Trump controlled by a hat and mop, Baked Penguin Trump as SNP, and now Q Trump as a titty motivated lech.
Which narrative is correct? Why not all.
I’ll bet the maid is a Negress, too.
Who don’t know nuthin’ ’bout birthin’ no babies, to boot!
Ah. Jose. Hes a good kid. Soon will obtain a black belt. Follows I instructions well. He’ll probably join the Marines and be some unit’s fuck-up.
My wife is applying to be a gestational surrogate again. “Boring!” you might be thinking. But get this: the prospective male donor, a PI attorney from New Jersey, had Andrew Napolitano for his Con Law prof.
*feeling giddy*
“Boring!” you might be thinking.
Um. No, actually that’s not even close to what I was thinking.
Is this something she does with some regularity?
Yeah, we need details here.
Second time. First time was for a Portuguese couple. It was tough in the beginning: poor thing had to get estrogen injections every other night for a couple months. But it was lucrative for us, and we gave a baby to a couple who couldn’t have one naturally.
Indeed. Taking an (unrelated) class with a couple that owns a surrogate business catering to foreign clients. Very fascinating on the sausage making side.
That seems like a weird position to be in, for you.
“Male donor” was probably the wrong term. My wife would be the carry for the couple’s fertilized egg. Standard IVF.
I get that. It puts me on the fence. I’m terminally jealous, though.
6 degrees and all that.
Now your handle makes sense to me.
Hmmm….not sure if this counts as “cuckold fetish” or not.
https://www.co-parentmatch.com/Natural-Insemination-NI.aspx
This is real. Wow.
So is this.
No, I learned my lesson, HM. Not clicking.
“You can buy white privilege for your baby for only 180 dollars”
I almost fell out of my chair.
It’s really real. He’s not joking.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/23/news/china-us-surrogacy/index.html
That’s a lot of words to say “We fuck”.
I think that was the joke.
Since so many have fallen down the progressive rabbit hole I have a hard time telling parody from earnestness.
Man, you bastards, I thought your interest would be in my knowing someone who was taught by Judge Nap.
*pouts*
Well, we *are* a bunch of degenerate alcoholics…
You are. I’m just a bastard.
Don’t let him bastardsplain to you, Q!
Christ, what an asshole!
Really?
*jumps boards and drops gloves*
*Gets in the Zamboni and begins doing doughnuts*
*picks up Tundra’s gloves*
Mike: Excuse me sir, you dropped these.
Tundra: Oh, well thank you very much.
*drunken degenerate driving a Zamboni slams Mike and Tundra into the boards*
Actually, the best part about IVF is that, once again, when my wife is showing, I can tell people, “it’s not mine.”
That’s F’ed up. And very funny.
Plus your wife can sue who ever approached her for surrogacy for sexual harassment! Double pay day!
Now you’re talking!
It’s Closing Time for Toronto’s Strip Clubs
I bet the Police Union fought this tooth and nail.
http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/undercover_michigan_police_off.html
That isnt the first time that has happened. If I remember correctly the police union did fight it tooth and nail, but lost.
In Louisiana any sex with a defendant is considered coercion or entrapment and the case is dropped.
Well, I for one am just shocked!
Manu Raju
@mkraju
FRANKEN tells me no final decision yet on timing of his resignation from Senate. “We don’t know what the timing is yet. We don’t have an exact.”
6:50 PM · Dec 13, 2017
As in “nevagunnahappen”.
Jones won so why not?
I’m trying to get 100 views on a video, any video,just for kicks,
This is My take on Carol of the Bells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQpqL3gWZIY
You realize that you’re competing against stuff like this?
One of these days, HM, there’s going to be a youtube Nuremberg, and you’ll be made to answer for your crimes.
And why is the marital aid pixelated?
I like it, but the background bells are coming across a little harsh.
Ty , I thought it might be,
If it will bring you some christmas cheer; one of our radio stations has switched to all christmas music format for the time being. When I’m in tomorrow I could play it on air. Don’t know how much cheer having it played on a station I don’t divulge in a location I won’t divulge will bring you; but if it’s something that would bring you joy I’d do it.
I’ll take your silence as a decline to the offer. Undivulged radio station in undivulged location won’t play it then.
Well, fuck.
Pat DiNizio Of The Smithereens Passes
Great band. Cool guy.
I’m getting old.
Well shit. That sucks.
One of the best opening guitar riffs ever in a rock song
I love anyone who plays a Rickenbacker.
Ricks are quality instruments, but I’ve always found them hard to play. Because playing with a pick is how Satan intended the bass to be played.
Lemmy played a Rickenbacker. Enough said.
Yeah and he played chords on it. He was the balls.
Blausey, your music is Gay
Yup. And the intro bass line on Blood and Roses is an earworm.
I thought he had his new show Bull?
WTF? He is way too young. No substance abuse problems I’ve heard of. It’s damned odd.
I saw them 5 times during their tours for their first 3 records. They were a fun band.
A while back I finally took advantage of the internet, and used walkthroughs to finally beat Shadowgate. Man if cheating was easier when I was a kid I would have such higher self esteem.
Nah, you’d not have built nearly as much character than you did playing it like a chore. We’re much better off than those assholes whose parents bought them a Game Genie.
CPRM: Don’t feel bad. I’m not a gamer. I haven’t bought a new platform since PS2. That was over a decade ago. But walk-throughs helped me beat all the LEGO Star Wars and Indiana Jones games. And all the Medal of Honor games. Who gives a fuck. I didn’t spend almost no money on a platform and around $5 on various games to be a loser!
If Frum is losing his shit, this might mean something good.
If Trump actually delivers a FP that takes account of American interests first, then dammit, I may have to vote for the SOB in ’20.
This is something the Dem’s are not considering, I think. Many people who voted for someone else, or stayed home, are thinking the same as you (and me, and others here). Depending on how horrible a candidate the Dems run in 2020, it could be a convincing win for him.
So I guess the Left has gotten over Iraq?
What does that mean ‘the building of democracy’? Like Bush did in Afghanistan and Iraq? Like Obama did in Lybia and Syria and yemen? We sure broke a lot of eggs and no omelet in sight.
Addressing climate change simply means international communism at the expense of the most productive people in the history of the world, i.e. theft.
Trump appears to be doing exactly what he said he would do and that is what is driving them so nuts. Go burn in hell David Frum.
Fuck the omelet, we don’t even have scrambled eggs. Just a bunch of broken shells and gooey hands.
Progressives are evil and insane.
And winning. Don’t forget that.
And the elite’s concern about climate change really makes me trust them.
If they have their way the whole world will look like Cuba.
Neat, then I’ll get a cool old car!
I’m thinking about pitching the idea to our overlords of doing a series of articles on learning Japanese through headlines. Take newspaper headlines from the Yomiuri that would be of interest to libertarians and take it apart from a language learning point of view. Wondering if anyone would be interested in that.
attach pictures hot japanese girls and you’re golden.
I did that in German once, I speak it well but translation? LOL
I would. But I am horrible at languages.
Why would you say that? You’ve already learned one!
And 57% of another!
It’s just a struggle for me.
Diagiappi perspatorini, mi amore.
Moderate alcohol consumption increases L2 spoken fluency and willingness to communicate.
I know I speak an entirely diffeberent langage aftur lcohol insumption.
I’ll send you guys a sample. See how it goes.
Klopp has thrown two fits in 4 days.
On his way
out?
So Heroic Mulatto you never did say who the elites are that are being kept down by the ignorant redneck populist masses?
I take some issue with the term populist. Obama was a populist, and by that I mean legions of worshiping a man with personality and no substance. The current movement is conservatism of the Paul flavor, not the Moore flavor.
Us. Obviously.
Phrasing it that way sounds so… self-serving and not highminded.
I’m joking. I don’t believe the Populares have reached ascendancy over the Optimates yet.
And how do we stop the libertarian elite from not becoming self-serving and corrupt?
You don’t. The tree of liberty must be watered, from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
(smacks palm on head)
Patriots! That makes SO much more sense. I can’t believe that for all these years i thought it was *parrots*. God, do i feel stupid. and all those poor birds.
By tormenting you with Winston’s Mom jokes? Just spitballing here.
The elites are concerned about climate change. Can’t see them adopting any sinister ideas for Our Own Good to deal with it.
Anyone checkout Niskanen Institute? Basically Denmark is utopia and libertarians should become neoliberal welfare statists. How different this is from the current political climate is unclear. Or basically become Bill Clinton or Macron.
After some kind soul here pointed out to me that Egg fucking McMuffin is on the board of Niskanen, I basically came to the epiphany that it’s I-shit-you-not controlled opposition. Seems to be a bit of that going around these days.
Also, I’ve read a lot of Will Wilkinson over the years and, well, ugh. Is the best I can say is that at least he’s not Ezra Klein?
Many of the Beltwayites seem to be “controlled opposition.” Nice cocktail parties obviously.
Also Matt Welch likes himself Vlacav Havel but he seems more the Fierlinger type,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdeněk_Fierlinger
Put yourself in his shoes. You want to bang Kerry Howley, how far would you go?
Kerry Howley used to write for Reason. I remember her “Obama is a liar therefore he is a libertarian” article. Unsurprisingly they didn’t write similar articles about Trump.
Looking at pictures ok, but in motion a meh.
10 years ago, The Jacket had yet stolen all of her life force.
Oh; I smell a Hat and Hair story! The Jacket is lurking in the White House draining young women of their beauty and Hat and Hair must stop it! Quick, light the SF signal!
I totally missed on the chance to make the ‘SF Signal’ a dead link! EDIT BUTTON!
IDK. She’s bangable, but looks a little too much like mattress girl, so not sure if I trust being in an alone situation with her. Isn’t that too bad.
Until the last priest is strangled with the entrails of the last king?
A GIS to refresh my memory did not exactly turn my crank. Unflattering images and hair necklaces. Additionally, lunatic enough to marry Wilkinson in the first place.
Furthermore their response to populism is to double down in defence of the status quo. Huh. And do they convince the elites to adopt some mild libertarianish reform? Of course not. Not that the elites give a shit about them. Also they cede the anti-establishment sentiment to the alt-right, Bernie bots and socons rather then trying it themselves.
That was me. You’re welcome!
All the talk of socons and elites reminds of H. L. Mencken. Man that guy was a shithead. The Kaiser seemed to be his ideal ruler. Considering his rule pretty much did everything Mencken claimed to oppose says a lot about the sort of guy Mencken was. Also he gushed over Ludendorff. The same Ludendorff who lost and when he did lose insisted on the formation of a civilian government that he could blame for his defeat on and then he promoted the stab-in-the -back. Oh and he supported Hitler in the Beer Hall Putsch.
“Oh and he supported Hitler in the Beer Hall Putsch”
So he wasn’t all bad?
40 years later and this is still some of the funkiest shit.
that was the first song with odd-time-signatures which left a strong impression on me. i think its mostly in 7, but has the occasional bar of 5 thrown in to fuck you up.
Thanks HM, every few years I hear that one. It never fails to be fantastic. I like number 7.
Wow. I don’t think I’ve heard or seen that since I was about 5 or 6.
http://www.writtalin.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Screen-Shot-2014-06-05-at-7.33.51-PM-493×350.jpg
Go on…
So exciting around here.
For a bunch of hedonists we sure are active only a few hours a day.
Time zones my compatriot. Time zones. Also, some of us work.
Is that you Rufus?
Just adding this for comment 666
https://youtu.be/9VIjJvWoKLY
Good choice. I’ll save this one for next time: https://youtu.be/WxnN05vOuSM
It is 5am in San Jose. None of the airport bars are open yet, so I have to wait until onboard to get sloshed. Should be in half an hour or so to board.
It was lovely in Monterey, but I am anxious to get back to Mr Hayeksplosives.
Then next week one more work trip, then done for the year.
Woo alcohol!
Damn Skippy. They won’t let us take Nyquill through security. So bourbon it is