MADE #37 ON BILLBOARD CHART
FEATURED ON SOUL TRAIN
STEVE SMITH’S FIRST TWO CHRISTMAS ALBUMS – BOTH MADE GOLD RECORD!
A MORE TRADITIONAL WORK
STEVE SMITH HAVE NEW ALBUM OUT SOON! FINISHED STUDIO WORK, SHOULD BE IN STORES SOON.
LIKE CONCEPTS FOR UPCOMING RELEASES?
STEVE SMITH THINK FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE COULD GIVE SUGGESTIONS FOR NEW SONGS. IN COMMENTS, GIVE A VERSE OR TWO, AND STEVE SMITH SEE IF IT FIT ON NEXT RECORDING.
…STEVE SMITH NOT FORGET LINKS! STEVE SMITH KNOW THEY BIG PART OF GLIBERTARIAN DAY. KIND OF LIKE RAPE IS BIG PART OF STEVE SMITH’S DAY.
- YOU KNOW WHO ELSE WANT A “STRONG, STABLE GERMANY”?
- STEVE SMITH READY AND WILLING TO OFFER ASYLUM. BY OFFER ASYLUM, MEAN…WELL, YOU KNOW.
- STEVE SMITH VERY UPSET. IF ONE THING YOU NO LIE ABOUT, IT RAPE! STEVE SMITH WISH HE COULD SHOW TRUTH TO BRITISH POLICE. BY SHOW TRUTH, MEAN RAPE. A LOT.
- STEVE SMITH NOT WANT TO BE TOO CYNICAL – BUT IS WARY, BECAUSE THIS LOOK LIKE GOOD THING.
I hope K-Tel carries STEVE SMITH’S albums so I can send them to the whole family for Christmas.
I’d go with Kel-Tec.
That’s what I read at first, but I think I’d prefer an offering from Smith & Wesson.
…the .500 magnum, probably.
I got the Smith & Wesson Blues https://youtu.be/4jm2FCmBkck
I got the no pussy blues.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HhUhWrqv9Js
Damn. Haven’t listened to Grinderman/Nick Cave in at least a year. Weekend playlist building. Thanks!
No problem he came up on random today twice on ipod
I got the Burnin’ Beaver Blues.
If that don’t teach you a lesson,
He’ll show you his Smith and Wesson!
/Foreigner
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED SAYS this place fucking CRAZY, Rapesquatch will be doomed the ALLAH’S JUSTICE! ALOLOLOLO!
I could maybe put up with some rape so long as Santa Smith leaves a Pocket Fisherman and Slicer-Dicer under the tree.
YOU KNOW WHO ELSE WANT A “STRONG, STABLE GERMANY”?
The jokes about why the French planted trees along the Champs d’Elysees write themselves.
Joachim Löw?
Ok… big thumbs up to that last album cover. And by big thumbs up…
MEAN RAPE?
Is STEVE SMITH as good a singer as Donald Trump?
I got really drunk one night in Boulder and sang talking heads with a live band that did karaoke.
That sounds like a fine thing to do once in a lifetime.
It must’ve been the place.
Let’s not start some silly pun sub thread; the usual road to nowhere.
He’s right. There’s no need to burn down the house.
You’re right there with it. It’s just going to drift this way and that.
I told Riven about this pun thread, And She Was not happy about it.
I was going to join in on the puns but I spent much of the 80’s cross eyed and painless so I don’t remember any of the songs.
I am not happy either…
*narrows gaze*
I did that with Psycho killer about 30 years ago, twas fun
So Ron Bailey complains that Trump lying is ending social trust. First of all how would “social trust” lead to libertarianism? Libertarianism isn’t going to happen because of people trusting the government. Classical Liberalism didn’t succeed because people trusted the government either. Second all what is with this ahistorical notion that politicians were all selfless adult truth-tellers before Trump? Libertarians are adopting the equivalent of the leftist belief that the 1970s was some utopia killed by Reagan and Thatcher.
Don’t confuse Ron Bailey with a libertarian.
As far as I can tell his “libertarianism” is his belief that we will become immortal robots.
or anyone else at ToS
Social trust might usher in more libertarian policies on the government level (though I don’t think so). Social trust is not the same as trust in the government.
He’s just taking the Clintonian approach, which is hardly surprising.
I forgot about that. It is impossible to overstate how big the bullet that we dodged was.
Obama lied quite often, and had the famous “you can keep your doctor.” I know Trump was attacked for lying about having his communications hacked, but it turned out that was true.
If lying by the president was going to change America it would have happened long ago.
Really weird to see libertarians adopt the notion that Trump is the first politician to lie.
Not libertarians, This place is as close you will ever get to true libertarianism,
We are self Herding Cats, the others are No True Scotsman types, andin our case there is no “TRUE” anything other than NAP
I say we lock Warty and SugarFree in a room to see if they can write a libertarian platform. And then Gilmore can clean up…the mess.
Your lack of Faith is Disturbing
Lack of…faith? I hear OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED…
After spending a decade explaining why the president perjuring himself was really no big deal, the press is now shocked to find that people don’t really consider the president lying to be a big deal.
Those weren’t lies. He just failed miserably.
/Prog logic.
“If lying by the president was going to change America it would have happened long ago.”
The evidence would argue that it already did and continues to do so..
With everything we know about Obama, Clinton, the DOJ, the FBI, with all the shit they have been up to over the last 9 years…the unbelievable corruption, the banana republic tactics, the outrageous lying that’s what he comes up with? Trump lies?
Did he give any examples f those lies? I would like for someone just once to give me an example of all these lies Trump tells.
Way’ta go Ron. Fall down the proggy rabbit hole just as their whole scheme is collapsing. Genius.
I’ve been wondering the same thing. I keep seeing these lefty idiots saying Trump lies constantly…every day supposedly. Other than his stupid need to inflate crowd sizes and then argue about it, what lies is he constantly telling? I’m not seeing it.
IIRC Reason posted a study awhile back, I don’t remember if it was one of theirs or somebody else’s, that showed that, over time, people’s trust in government declined but their desire for it to do more increased. Bailey’s the kind of guy who likes to extrapolate from statistics, so this position is unsurprising.
The real problem, and this is one that many of the writers have had for some time, is that they don’t much actual reporting or coverage. They’re constantly following the mainstream media when they should be staking out positions and stories of their own. No matter how good the process in between is, if you have garbage in, then you’ll get garbage out.
I think my AdBlocker considers instagram to be an Ad. Whenever they’re embedded in stories like the one for Miss Iraq, I don’t see anything. Then again, sam ething happened on my phone when I was looking at Thicc Thursday.
You have a prudish phone?!
It is just a tease.
Same here. I don’t think it’s AbBlocker that doing it though.
Yeah, it must be net neutrality. Have to buy the instagram plan.
I think my AdBlocker considers instagram to be an Ad
Accurate.
I don’t have adBlocker installed on this computer and the image didn’t load. Coincidental?
Same here. Usually, that’s a good thing™.
Except now it is *stopping* me from seeing bob and vagene.
Which is what the Internet is for.
Depending on which AdBlocker you’re using, some will block social media sites as well. Which can be nice to make sites load quicker.
#metoo Then I clicked on the hashtag at the bottom of the thing and it came up. Would twice.
Sooo, made it back from Williamsburg safely. Stopped in Richmond at Total Wine (off 250) – very different from the one in Fredericksburg – stock, layout, etc (not bad, better on some fronts, not as good on others), but I needed to restock and pick up some gifts. Probably spent too much, but this should last me for a while…all are singles unless otherwise noted (feel free to add recommendation comments/etc). There were a LOT of large bottle special releases and most of them looked really good – some extremely pricey though. Still not finding Apocalypse Brewing in any stores. Will have to swing by the Brewery.
Devils Backbone Vienna Lager (6 pack) – gift for a relative, although I can almost drink it like water now.
Devils Backbone Dark Lager (6 pack) – new to me.
Chimay 3 pack + tulip glass – gift for a relative – almost bought a second one for myself – will probably look again next month.
Legend Brewing Lager (6 pack)
Legend Brewing Brown Ale (6 Pack) – for some reason Legend is almost impossible to find in Charlottesville, although I’ve enjoyed the ones I’ve tried so far – including summer ale at the brewery in Richmond.
Founders Rubaeus Rube Cube (9 Pack cans) – my favorite Founders
Honor Golden Ale (6 pack cans) – trying to support these guys and haven’t found 6 packs anywhere else.
Hardywood Christmas Morning (2 bottles – 2 bottle limit in store!) – hoping this is good – reviews look like it and I’ve never seen a bottle limit on beer before. (Will also try and get to the Hardywood C’ville Taproom tomorrow to pick up some more special release bottles for gifts/me).
Founders Backwood Bastard (750ml, 11.2%)
Sam Adams White Christmas
St. Bernardus Christmas Ale
Troegs Mad Elf (heard lots of good things about this – they had the Grand Cru as well, but need to try first)
Bells Cherry Stout
Highland Brewing Gaelic Ale
Delirium Nocturnum
Alesmith Evil Dead Red Ale
Brooklyn Brewery Black Chocolate Stout
Honor Brewing Maple Porter Night Vision
Barista Chocolate Quad
Xocoveza Imperial Stout
Komes Baltic Porter
Weihenstephaner Original Premium
Orkney Skull Splitter
Orkney Dark Island
Franziskaner Weissbier
Maredsous Tripel
On a side note, I went by DHL to pick up a package of Serbian DVDs only to find out that the package was almost destroyed in transit. I signed for it as part of a 2 pack with another package before I noticed but the employee there opened it with me and verified damaged in transit. Of course I didn’t remember till I got home that I should have taken photos of it’s status just to verify stuff. I already emailed the company (refused delivery – but after the signature – so not sure how that’ll play out). Should be easy for the company to validate with DHL but who knows – I could be SOL since I just didn’t think about taking a single picture before I left…..
Very nice haul. Be careful with the Mad Elf, it’s delicious and goes down much easier then it’s 11% ABV should.
I hope you enjoy the Bell’s Cherry Stout… it’s one of the few Bell’s beers that I despise.
I want to drink like a Fish.
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!
/Opens Founders Backwoods Bastard
I do not see wine on that list. This is a problem.
I would set the Chimay, Delirium Nocturnum and the Maredsous up against most wines for complexity and flavor.
Agreed
One of the most enjoyable things I’ve ever seen at a beer/wine tasting was when some wine person started trying to talk down about beer in front of a rep who did both. He turned to her, and said, “Miss, beer requires at least four ingredients, while wine uses at most three. Beer is always going to have the ability to be more complex, just because they have more options in ingredients.”
Macron is on drugs. Germany is – or parts thereof are, Germany not being the centralized control-freak state that France is – one or two terror attacks and/or doubling of utility rates away from saying “enough of this shit – MGGA!”
“She did it to so that people can understand that it’s possible to live together,” she said.
What a Dhimmi.
So are we too free and prosperous for libertarianism to succeed? More wealth means more free shit to hand out. More liberty means we trust our government and don’t mind the corrupt lying spying statists so much. Since we better off than anyone else in history and Iphones are so wonderful what is there to complain about really?
Medieval times had a lot less free shit and what there was monopolized by the Church, Crown and Aristocracy. The peasants and merchants had no voice in the government and no say on taxes, regulation and spending. Hence why classical liberalism was a potent force at the time.
Hey, if Thomas Jefferson the slave-raping patriarch had soma and South Park he probably would have declared the Classical Liberal moment and called it a day.
Seems to me the root problem is people with no skin in the game voting themselves free shit. I don’t see any politically acceptable way out of that.
For all his faults, I do like the Norquist approach:
“Seems to me the root problem is people with no skin in the game”
Less than a foot from my right elbow: Democracy in America – Alexis de Tocqueville
Elaine: These are good people, Jerry. They read!
Jerry: I read!
Elaine: Books, Jerry.
Jerry: Oh. [pause] Big deal!
What period are you calling medieval?
“so”
…pink and white flowers on Winston’s mom’s underwear.
Thank you for going through my posts…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9s8U0O0XPE
from a single thread
LARF
Societies they claim to care the most about science appear to be the worst for it. If your political ideology is tied to a scientific conclusion than it cannot be changed.
The most libertarian society feasible may be one with a monarch who wants to play golf all day.
It isn’t for no reason that the beneficent libertarian dictator thought experiment persists.
Also it means that rights are meaningless. TOP MEN base their views on Reason, Logic and Science. Only a superstitious Christfag redneck would disagree.
Hoppe fanboi?
Hops, yes
I just wish more people would recognize that their view of “science” makes it into a secular religion, which means that its imposition on the population is a violation of the establishment clause.
‘Jingle Bells’ rooted in racism, Boston University professor says
Wut?
jesus.
Also problematic.
Not Black Jesus.
isn’t the white jesus a painting of a kid related to some pope or bishop?
We wuz saviors and shiet?
A former neighbor of mine has the “largest collection of black Santas west of the Mississippi” and hosts a black Santa party every year around this time. I’m trying to find the right description of this party. Think of a frat party, but with good food and booze and without the sticky floors and douchey college kids.
So a party of people in their 20’s with no children present?
20s to 40s, and there were a handful of kids moseying around. I guess I’m trying to describe how many people were jammed into this house. It was definitely something that my wife and I looked forward to each year.
Sounds a bit like some of the house parties thrown during the Taste of Tremont festival here in Cleveland. Lots of good food, good beer, and good people.
One of the first times I went down there, some locals took me around to various house parties, including one where they sent someone to a nearby bar to get some bitters just to make me an Old Fashioned. The girl tending bar was excited to make one for someone who would appreciate it. It may have led to me being auctioned off in a bar later that day… but that’s another story.
You know, if He was a Black man, i wouldn’t give a shit, Message Brothers, Message
Reminded of a Young JJ Walker painting the black Jesus.
I assumed he was Asian. Cause Asians are wise and also magical.
Love the scare-quotes around “white”. Hon, what the fuck color do you think snow is?
It’s clearish! not white! racist.
OK I read through more of the gobbledygook and by her idiot logic, anything and everything that originated from that era or before is de facto RACIST.
LOL. Fox is kidding themselves if they think there’s any “conversation” going on there.
Yep. The only thing that made it racist is because the first place it was performed was in a music hall that used black face minstrels.
A RAPE IN A MANGER
STEVE SMITH DID ONE DAY
HE GRAB A YOUNG HIKER
WHO NO GET AWAY
THE STARS IN THE SKY
ALL STEVE NEED TO SEE
HIM NIGHT VISION BETTER
NO HIKER CAN FLEE
THAT ALL STEVE SMITH HAVE, NEED MUSE FOR INSPIRATION. BY MUSE MEAN HIKER, AND…YOU KNOW REST.
Well crafted.
*applause*
damn, girl
Yeah, I was at a loss for words at that.
i sometimes think people don’t really grasp how very very political everything to do with prosecution of criminal law is.
the people whose job it is to send people to prison literally sit around and say, “we need more of X”, and apply their resources to getting these #s. Whose purpose is nearly 100% about getting some shitheel lowlife politician re-elected.
Think people like that scumbag Nifong (Duke Lacrosse case). what makes him horrifying wasn’t his special, unique venality, but the fact that he just happened to be the one who exposed that sort of routine scumbaggery and utter lack of concern for the ‘truth’ of the case. He wanted to make a big splash, and if that meant sending a bunch of kids to prison for a crime that never happened? well, that’s just their bad luck.
Its like that all over. A girl i knew was a recent law grad who went to work for the a prosecutors office in Queens. she said they *routinely*, as in every single day, basically sent violent, repeat offenders home with a slap on the wrist…. and then threw the book at people who’d failed to pay their parking tickets, all because certain kinds of laws were *easier and faster to prosecute*. They got better numbers by pumping lots of the latter through, while passing on the people who were genuine menaces to society.
here we have an example of a justice system which is *already* tilted far to the extreme to the disadvantage of the accused… and you have prosecutors *wanting to tilt it farther*, because they know the issue is a hot topic w/ certain constituents. Its literally chewing up lives for no other purpose than to improve the stats in their press-releases which no one will read.
its demoralizing. moral panics are always being used as cheap political levers, and people never learn. You’d think when Clinton was running, that the 1990s “superpredators” shit…which literally helped send 100s of thousands of young black people to prison… would have been a political liability. But people shrug and act like ‘well that was different’, and don’t see how we still constantly do the same thing w/ North Korea, or Iran, or “sex trafficking” or the “opiod crisis”, etc.
to wit:
that’s UK data;
but assuming that, as it has in the US, long term criminality in the UK has been in decline over the past decade (quick check: it has)… the likelihood that *3x the number of actual rapes* are occurring now vs 2002 is simply statistically impossible
yet people claim with a straight face that the incidence of women who ‘lie about rape’ (i don’t doubt many sincerely believe their own lie) is tiny. in the single-digit %, they say.
a simple scan of number would show that can’t be possible. what’s actually happening is that the way the crime is being defined (and prosecuted) is changing. you simply don’t see every single category of crime declining, while this one particular, very very politicized crime, happens to be going in the complete opposite direction, and is spiking dramatically
and note in that second link the definitions they’re using: “Police recorded rape”. Its not convictions. Its examples of “she said”. why don’t they show the convictions too?
Because it would be politically dangerous. Because people in power don’t mind the spike in hysteria. Its *a problem they want to be seen solving*.
But if they actually showed the full range of possible statistics, it would make people ask why they’re not actually getting a better conviction rate. Or if they do publish conviction rates, they’re used in a self serving way to suggest, “we don’t have enough power”. We care, you see. Give us more ways to prosecute these horrible rapists.
I spent a decade combing through govt numbers on a regular basis. One of the main things i learned was that govt bureaucracies love to change the way they count things, and alter definitions used when counting. Every 8-10 years or so.
why? what i concluded was that they mainly do so to make it nearly impossible to track data over extended periods of time without hugely confusing complexity. Because its not in their interests that they be held accountable to their own past. so they muck with their reporting methods every so often to make the world basically unable to measure their performance, and unable to see obvious contradictions/flaws in what they’re reporting.
more: from 2008
you can see exactly how disparity in numbers is spun: “we need more resources” and “The fact that only 5.7% of reported rapes lead to a conviction is a national scandal “
Nowhere does anyone bother to ask why this crime is spiking by double-digits, while every other category is falling (and
And they specifically identify 12% as “false allegations”. it should be appreciated that the police’s definition of “False” actually requires very, very hard proof of falsity; huge swaths fall into the categories of:
‘Victim withdrawal 17%
Victim declined to complete initial process 17%
No evidence of assault 5%
Other/unknown 12%’
Basically, any scrutiny of this sort of stuff would eventually lead you to conclude that the reason for the absurdly low conviction rate isn’t the poor-coppers shortage of technical specialists and super-experienced manpower….. its that a near-majority of the people reporting rape don’t really have anything remotely like a real case.
rape is a violent crime, and is committed by a tiny, tiny number of sociopathic people. this isn’t some layman’s speculation: its a fact even Amanduh Marcotte tries to desperately weasel around Rape isn’t some fun thing dudes want to do. Desire to rape doesn’t spread like a germ.
Yet a govt will pretend with a straight face that somehow there are 3X as many rapes happening, in an environment of declining crime, and insist there’s nothing strange or dubious happening at the point where its being reported.
that’s simply politically impossible to point out. they HAVE to find some way to make it sound *not crazy*, and insist they’re working on this night and day to fix this very serious social scourge. and they will do whatever’s necessary to muddle with statistics to make the problem look very problematic, and that we should probably increase someone’s budget many times to help with that problematic problem.
apologies for the long diatribe. every now and then i get furious with statistics, and the media/public inability/unwillingness to see through them
Dude – i get furious with statistics, and the media/public inability/unwillingness to see through them
You will have to stay enraged for decades.
I saw through the shit because I was a prosecutor for 5 years under an honest to God, legit State’s Attorney – discovery was “give them a copy of your entire file, minus your handwritten notes only”. “If there is no evidence, or there is some, but you can’t prove it – dismiss the case”. Needless to say, he was beaten in a primary by some promising tougher actions.
So I ended up a servant of the Swiss.
FWIW, I agree with most of your points. Being a DA is seen as a stepping stone for the politically ambitious lawyer. (How many reps, govs, mayors, etc are former prosecutors? I’m pretty sure it is a highly disproportionate amount to the population.)
Being a Public Defender is seen as someone that basically graduated bottom of their class, and the Public Defenders office was the only one willing to hire them. And if they actually are good at their jobs, then they can maybe get a job at $1000/hr law firm.
There are some really perverse incentives for to make sure all the good lawyers are on one Side, at least when it comes to the poor.
Once upon a time, I faced the SEC in federal court. Before that, I had the usual sit down with the federal lawyer. After I complained that she surely knew that I had not intended to break any regulation/law, she calmly informed me that she didn’t care; she could win, and so she was pursuing the case. I kinda won, by accepting a deal that cost me nothing, but she still got the “win” box checked, and I’m sure, went on to get promoted and railroad more innocent people. At least, with me, it was civil, and not criminal court.
For the glibs who are cooking-inclined — any suggestions on what to do with leftover cilantro? I occasionally buy a bunch but never use all of it, so I’m looking for something I can make and store. Salad dressing?
1 bunch is barely enough for a good batch of salsa and a half dozen tacos. You should never have leftover cilantro.
make soap?
I’ve seen some variants of pesto that went cilantro based… but I haven’t used any of them. But, if you’ve got more items, you could make a good chimichurri sauce.
Put the excess cilantro into the food processor and add enough olive oil to get a puree consistency. Pour into ice cube tray. Freeze.
throw it in a bottle of olive oil?
You can make a cilantro chimichurri. Just use it instead of parsley or if you have parsley just combine the two.
I keep a ziploc bag in my freezer where I throw vegetable trimmings to use in making stock. If I have a bunch of fresh herbs that may go bad before I use them all, I’ll throw them in the bag.
Salad dressing is a good idea. Make a pesto.
Sometimes I’ll make a batch of pickled carrots, radishes, red onion, garlic, jalpeno/pepper and cilantro.
Chop it up really fine with fresh parsley and use as the base of a salad. Grape tomatoes, green onion, and a lemon vinaigrette.
I also keep a Ziploc of onion and garlic skins, celery tops etc, and leftover herbs. Combined with chicken or beef bones it makes really good stock. Just tie it in some cheese cloth.
I have minced it and frozen it into ice cube trays. Loses texture, but keeps flavor.
BTW, I also keep a bottle of “Cilantro Chutney” from the Indian grocer in the fridge for when I need that fresh cilantro taste but have no fresh leaves in the fridge. It’s a great little secret.
Thanks all. Your ideas are preferable to my basic google search of “leftover cilantro”.
In honor of Rufus, tonight’s new cocktail to try is the Toronto. The Fernet makes this an interesting drink, it will not be a preferred cocktail going forward.
Presently sipping my second La Paloma.
1 healthy dose good tequila
1 half lime squeezed
1 healthy pinch salt
3 oz of grapefruit soda
Stir over ice and serve with a slice of lime
I’m down to my last few modelo negras
Can you get more out there? i know it would suck to not have your go to beer available, and it is Modelo
There’s one store that has it, but it’s a lot more expensive now.
I have to go to this site all the time now…
OT: How’s your lock picking article coming along?
I’ll be submitting tomorrow! I got caught up in life, but it’s pretty much set.
Great! I’m impatiently waiting to read it.
Oh, and I will probably be posing lots of questions in the comments.
Feel free, I’m sure KSue can answer a few as well.
Oh? I never picked up on KSue being a locksmith. That’s great.
My wife has given me her backing to pursue locksmithing for extra income or even possibly a new career if things go well enough. Now the learning process begins.
He’s got his own shop! a real pro.
Dayum! How did I miss that?
I haven’t really mentioned it a lot Mike. Hope the new job is going well Doom.
Are you going to mention the rotary pick?
it’s different in the university than private shops, but I’m getting used to it. I like it.
It does come up.
Here is one of the jobs I did this week. This is what you have to do in SF to keep the bastards from prying open the building front door.
https://imgur.com/gallery/JX70c
As long as both of you are here, I was hoping I could run one question by you. Have either of you heard of The Society of Professional Locksmiths (SOPL)? Membership ($150) includes one year access to their learning videos.
I’m champing at the bit to get some online training, but I don’t want to get screwed. The $150 fee they charge sounds reasonable…assuming the videos are worth it.
Wow, that anti-pry device is something. Is it attached with rivets? I’ve never seen fasteners quite like that.
That’s a cool guard. I haven’t seen a pull handle at that angle before. purpose at least.
I haven’t, Mike. Not sure on a bunch of associations, unfortunately.
If you are just doing it for fun I would exhaust the free stuff and get some good practice cylinders and picks and lock tools. Get some old locks that you can take apart and destroy.
I used steel sex bolts on the outside and steel button heads on the inside. The guard is made of 1/4 inch aluminum. I put the angle on the handle to cover over previous drill holes someone else had on door. The Lock is a bad ass custom Schlage that is the most vandal resistant thing I have yet encountered. They pipe wrench anything less.
And presumably now they just take the pipe wrench to the glass itself? #notalltrashcans
I have not either Mike, but there is a ton of videos out there for free. Have you worked your way through YouTube?
I’ve dipped my toe. For whatever reason I’ve been thinking I needed to give someone money to give me a “structured” learning program. But why? I’ll watch the free ones on YouTube until I’ve seen them all twice. That should hopefully give me the basics, at least, and then I can look into other options. Thanks!
Unfortunately, no grapefruit soda in the house at this point… and I’m not willing to drive.
Smirnoff with a splash of cranberry juice. Topped with Perrier.
Not enough crack cocaine, weed or John Tory.
I just bought some killer weed. I mean, Omg kinda stuff. Stopped at the bar across the street. Was going to go out and try this stuff, didn’t bring my pipe. I has a sad.
Just eat it then…and write the findings here.
Hmm, eating good weed is pretty wasteful. I made it home safely, despite the repeal off NN. Found my pipe and smoked this stuff. All I can say is wow. I mean, good stuff. I don’t like to get stupid, you know? Or sleepy. This stuff is wow get high but not be stupid nor sluggish.
Have I used the word “wow”, yet? Because, wow. Good stuff Menard.
SoWords of the day:
Trasformismo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trasformismo
Rotatavism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon_Regicide
Also when dissenters tried to mess with this with dictatorships this lead to the downfall of the Portugeuse and Spanish Monarchies which in turn lead to unstable Republics and then authoritarian regimes and then two of the PIIGS.
Rotatavism sounds like something associated with this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping
Another word of the day:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami_tactics
Gee I can’t see that working here…
Brad in IT: Excuse me OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED, I was doing routine maintenance and I found a folder named “BOMBS101) so I deleted it, hope that’s OK
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED: BRAD YOU FOOL, YOU KILLED US ALL!…………….
Tupolev, you arrogant ass, you’ve killed US!
I thought your other Avatar was much more flattering, JMO 🙂
Thanks. But if I switch it, how will I know who I am???
Profile editing, easy and fun! And We know who you are no matter what
/Kiss from Bob, platonic of course
You must have made it home (or remembered your password). Does this mean RoadSplosives is dead? Or are you going to keep her in your luggage for traveling?
that would be fun for all of us who travel a lot,eh?
And it would also make it easier for the rest of us to know when someone was out of town so we could go to their place and rifle through their
underwear drawerthings.YES!
I made it home and am now on my trusty laptop (with saved but forgotten password) and back off the Kindle and phone.
So, yeah, maybe I should switch avatars back from Henry the 5th.
Although I did give an impromptu speech at the meeting Tuesday that was Shakespearean in tone, content, and delivery. Which is possibly what led me to the mess I got into, but has borne fruit in the sense that now three competing companies now want to cooperate and pool resources somewhat so we can get this common goal achieved.
Sounds like things went well, glad to hear it. I mean, personal issues aside…
It was pretty great! And I have been on email and phone calls ever sense, which is part of what is driving the high adrenaline confusion and emotions. Must. Calm. Down.
Please tell me you are drinking.
I think that is an excellent suggestion, Mike. Will commence now.
Thanks again for the excellent advice, pep talks, and letting me gush all over the previous couple of threads with what should have been inner thoughts. You are the salt of the earth.
*I love you, man* <—What I imagine drunk buddies say to each other at bachelor parties.
Hic, yep……………….
^this guy has been drunk^
been indicates a past experience, I’m Blazing right now! Pork in the Crock pot, Beer in my Belly, Wife Happy!
Yusef doing better!
I was referring to DOOM, but glad to hear your night is going well, Yusef
So for once I didn’t thread fail? yay for me
Lol.
?
Those three things sound like the ideal Friday night!
Trifecta of happiness.
There’s a guy on this site who hasn’t been drunk?
I haven’t been drunk since 3pm, does that count?
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED: you Work! I am not Fooled!
*Looks at the time*
*Calibrates based on possible time zone*
Nope.
Spends way too much time calculating……………
Nope. Never said that.
And bachelor parties generally are the Nick Gillespies of parties.
*flashes back to bachelor party*
*nods in agreement*
We aim to please! Your roadhayek avatar was cute in a road-worthy way. no wonder you got #youtooed.
Thanks.
What gets me is that I am John-worthy thicc, and now also middle aged, so it is weird when guys come on to me. Just wouldn’t have expected it.
This last July, I was at an engineering conference where I happened to meet an old flame from 20 years ago (we never had a “relationship”, just a college aged week long fling at a conference). We had a few laughs and a very normal couple of first days, but the next day after a half dozen of us went out for drinks and stuff, he found me in the hotel balcony and chatted a while. Then he made some cheeky comments about the past, but I was too dim to get that he was serious, so he eventually came out very engineer-like and said we should just go up and do it again like old times. I laughed and said, dude, are you blind? That was many years and many pounds ago. He said there are some things he’d never forget. I had to just run away.
I can’t believe this is my life. Most of the time, guys I work with just ask me for band-aids or something, but sometimes they really surprise me.
Did you see my advice from the last thread? I have trouble keeping up
Yes, and it was very good advice. And I am not moving anywhere. I have turned down the Ring of Power and will remain Hayeksplosives and fade into the Midwest.
You really can’t ignore the still, small voice once it hits. It has served me well over the years, but Temptation and Flattery really tried to drown it out over the past few days.
I hear this happens to lots of older men.
*scuttles away*
I see what you did there.
“It’s Ok, honey, it happens to everyone”
I have never actually had that problem…yet. Everything else, yes. Oh, one time after I had been drunk for two days straight and no sleep.
*knocks on wood*
The only time Mr Splosives has had that problem is when he is very ill or in extreme pain. Even then he can sometimes be persuaded…
It is kind of funny to read about older gents getting worried about changes down south and that they might lose their women as a consequence, especially because in reality their wives really just want to dance and cuddle and drink coffee with their men. I’d be Ok with just 2x a week or so. But I take what I can get for now.
Forbidden fruit being all the sweeter and what-not. It’s not terrible when you’ve reached a certain age. I’m a fit 53 and all the ladies are friendly.
This is probably 98% of it.
And now I bid goodnight, for my sweet prince is taking me to see a show. I love that guy.
Mr.splosives is a lucky man! Funny, smart and earthy! All dweebs should be so fortunate!
Agreed. Sounds like a real keeper, even if he doesn’t want to play with us degenerates.
Is Macron the ultimate Cosmotarian? He does seem to sum up what they truly want in a politician.
He’s basically a motherfucker so, I guess?
I think the French still have too many troops in Africa for that. Unless we’ve entered into the age of “compassionate libertarianism”…
Well, my beer fridge is on the fritz. All of my beer is frozen, despite the thermostat being set at the warmest setting. I need to find out what’s wrong with the sensor.
That sucks. Every time the power goes out we have to reset the fridge and freezers otherwise everything turns into an arctic cache.
Hopefully no bottles exploded. That can be a mess.
Probabl drunk?
I recommend you run out and get a 6-pack of something tasty to help you diagnose the problem. You know what? It’s a weekend and Christmas season. Get a 12-pack.
Heh. Reminds me of the time we played pick-up hockey at 20 below. Open the beer and it would immediately freeze. Whiskey was our friend.
All of my beer is frozen
Court admits paternity over child born using IVF egg without consent
A family court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by a man who sought to reject a parental relationship with his child as his estranged wife was impregnated without his consent using fertilized eggs stored by a clinic.
Patriarchy!
Jesus Christ on toast. Whenever I sever a relationship it gets cut off like a gangrenous foot. Burn them fucking bridges down to the pylons and don’t look back you stupid fucking lack-wit.
One more thing men should never ever do.
Everyone jacked one into a up! It was the style at the time.
your daily reminder that the f35 is a waste of money
last us air to air kill: 20 Jun 2017
a us fa18 (first flew 1978) shot down a syrian su22 (first flew 1970)
the next one before that: 1999
us f16 (first flew 1974) shot down serbian mig29 (first flew 1977)
the US has made exactly 1 air to air kill in afghanistan since 2001- we had to shoot down one of our own malfunctioning drones
Malfunctioning drone. Al Gore?
Is Al Gore a Robot?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq0PErA-5-I
In other news, Tommy Lee Jones was Al Gore’s college room mate.
No Country aside, I always thought that Tommy cam off as an insufferable cunt. Just my old man two-bits.
Saw an interview with Jones once and he said “I dont suffer fools lightly”
Sometimes a prick is a prick for a good reason.
I see too much of him in me, I guess. If anything, I’d rather be more like you, Suthen.
Tommy Lee Jones the boss
More Boss
That’s quite a compliment Festus. Thank you.
Whatever happened to Fransisco d’Anconia? I thought he posted here for a while…
I don’t know, but he’d get quite nasty if you disagreed with him. Cat butted and left?
Not everyone has the need to air grievances about their spouse to strangers…
I kept it vague. BTW, I like FDA. He just was more aggressive than me.
One more BTW. GFY.
No need – I love and respect my spouse, and this is reciprocated.
Cool. You don’t like what I post, don’t read it. Take your petty shots at someone else. Glad you love your wife. I love mine which is why I wanted some insight from the “strangers” on how to deal with a non specific dilemma. No need to escalate this. Do your own thing. I’ll do mine.
Based-on your response, I believe I misread the intentions of your previous posts. I apologize. BTW – female, so spouse is husband, and I generally enjoy your posts.
Thanks, RH. I overreacted. Tough to catch tone in print.
All ACTUAL women on here should end each post with #meetoo (different for copyright purposes), because we do assume everyone on here is an aspie manchild, because as aspie manchilds we assume those are the only people that understand us…
You think that copper is going to mine itself? He’s a busy guy.
I saw a comment from him a few weeks ago.
No you didn’t.
worldwide air to air kills since 2000: 18, including several drones and an unarmed transport.
Yes! My vintage Ludwig Supraphonic snare drum is on the way. I’m putting together a fucking awesome drum set built out of vintage Ludwig gear, circa 1970-72. Based around a 28” marching bass. No “thump thump thump”; that bass goes “booomm boommm boomm”. Making noise?
I sent this in as a post, but perhaps it works better as a comment:
***
Squirr-El looked up from the seismic scanner. His sighed and buried his face in his hands. “Fools. I tried to warn them. There’s no stopping it now.” A minor tremor shook the building. His wife, Parall-El, rushed to his side. She was cradling Derp-El, their only son.
“Derpton is finished. It’s time.” He pushed a button on the console. A small rocket ship rose from an opening in the floor. Gently, she laid him in the cockpit.
“There’s enough room for you as well,” said Squirr-El.
“No, I’m staying. His odds are better with less weight.”
“It’s alright. He will thrive on Earth. The rays of its yellow sun will give him enormous power. He will be a like god to them.”
“Goodbye, my son. You are all that’s left of us.”
The wall opened as the cockpit closed. The murmur of the engine quickly built to a deafening roar. In the blink of eye, there was only a white plume, with a faint flicker at its tip.
They silently embraced as the building collapsed on them.
***
Life went on as usual in the last hours of the doomed world. In the central court, two men and a woman stood before a panel of judges. One began to speak.
“General Enjer, you and your cohorts Lady Mar Kot and the brute Krysehjez have been found guilty of high treason. You shall be imprisoned in the Spectral Sector for seven cycles.”
They slowly sank into black panel beneath their feet. Inch by inch, they were engulfed
“You haven’t seen the last of us,” growled General Enjer. Mar Kot’s shrieks were as hideous as the rictus frozen on her face. Krysehejez grunted and flexed in a futile attempt to escape.
A few hours later, the black panel floated aimlessly among the remains of Derpton. A random collision it knocked free of the debris field and set it on a course for Earth.
***
After several years in deep space, Derp-El had grown into a boy. The computer sensed this and began to feed his mind with messages from his father. These were stored the recollection diamonds. One lesson was drilled into him constantly:
“Remember, these people have great potential for good. They need only an example to give them hope. It is your duty to be that example, no matter how hard or painful it is.”
***
Farmer John stuck on the side of the road with nothing but Kansas sky and corn as far as the eye could see. How he hated the self-driving cars that were now mandatory. What I really need is a self-changing tire, he grumbled to himself. Damn those half-wit bureaucrats!
His wife munched contentedly on a deep dish pizza when a blaze of orange streaked out of the sky and zoomed a few feet over their heads. It slammed into the field, bounced like a skipped stone, and finally came to a rest after gouging a deep furrow into the black soil.
They followed the trail through the field and came upon a strange object which looked like a silver teardrop. Cautiously, John prepared to poke it with an ear of corn, but his impatient wife impulsively slapped her palm on it. A hatch opened to reveal what appeared to be a boy aged 4 or 5. Cautiously, John prepared to poke him with the ear of corn before his wife slapped it out of his hand.
“He’s a boy, not roadkill,” she scolded him as she picked up the child. “We’ll keep him and raise him as our own.”
***
To be continued…
And a human came up with a Club and killed Him, The End
Well that franchise ended quickly.
Poking things with an ear of corn was the style at the time. You’d see a comely farm-girl at the hootenanny and approach with your corn-cob hidden in your britches and once you were close enough you’d whip it out and touch her on the inner ankle. That meant that she was yours. For life. That’s the way it was and that’s the way we liked it, Dagnammit!
So… in all these British stories, they always show 100 pictures of the victims (int his case the accused), and never show a picture of the bitch who tried to nail him.
Why? Is it because of their really loose slander laws? Vast leftwing conspiracy?
good news and bad news
the good news- a star trek style deflector shield is possible
the bad news- it won’t work against bullets
The idea is to use a laser to heat a section of air some distance on front of the thing to be shielded. The laser warms the air and turns it into a lens which deflects the incoming laser.
The principle is similar to the way hot air near the ground acts like a mirror. This is the source of mirages.
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-us-military-could-go-star-wars-build-deflector-shields-23668
3 predictions
1. it will be extremely expensive
2. it will never be used in combat
3. the dod will spend billions on it
you could say that about the vast majority of shit the pentagon spends money on. shooting fish in barrel. with a minigun. (*which they did on mythbusters)
a treasure-trove of derp which you may want to look into (its in your wheelhouse on multiple levels) is the career of Erik “300,000+” Shinseki, and in particular the “Future Warrior/Land Warrior” program, and the seeming obliviousness to the subject of “batteries”
spare batteries are one of things overloading today’s infantry
of course, the solution to this is not to reduce loads, but to study the feasibility of a powered exoskeleton…which will also require batteries.
no problem- we’ll build robot mules to carry the extra batteries.
i understand that there’s is counter argument, that this soldier-tech stuff will eventually morph into things that actually get used.
its just that the thing under Shinseki was a silly shitshow and they spent $5-7bn on things which were basically less-capable/usable than ipad apps you can get for free.
i think the only thing that did ultimately get used was that sweet, morale-boosting, highly effective camo pattern
I continue to wear that as a form of silent protest. Others wear it because they don’t feel like buying the new stuff.
4. It will give rise to unarmed combat, due to the capacity for blades to pierce the shield and the nuclear explosion risk for both shielded and shooter when hit by a lasgun.
Tom Woods guest today is this guy. talking about the search engine effect.
Interview link.
“do some research!” yells the prog.
by which they mean, “read the first few things google chooses to spit at you”, which has no inbuilt bias at all.
The claims he’s making, if even partially true, should be front page news. Should be, but won’t.
Pretty sure the “News” people know this stuff – on a practical level – better than he does. where stories appear on the “front page” (and how headlines are worded) has same effect in completely twisting people’s perspectives, regardless of the facts reported.
the only difference is that the average person applies a false distinction between “news” and “search engines” because they mistakenly believe the order of search results is “random” and not actually based on any institutional editorial bias.
RAWR! OFFICER STEVE SMITH SAY YOU UNDER ARRAPE!
That fivehead is the most disturbing part of it.
My Friday Night music link sure to piss John Titor off
Not nearly as sugary as my normal offerings.
So I had some leftover flour tortillas and on a whim I made a little pizza with one and it was my best pizza effort ever. I had almost thrown them out.
I think you may have independently invented the quesadilla.
When I was a kid, I independently invented the omelet.
LOL except without the dough on top. But yeah, my efforts in the kitchen are still often very child-like.
You’re supposed to fold it over so you can eat it easier with your hands.
But broiling the top of it is the key step. I’ve made quesadillas before – they were pretty meh in comparison TBH.
“During President Obama’s final year in office the Federal Register, which contains new and proposed rules and regulations, ran to 95,894 pages, according to a Competitive Enterprise Institute report. This was the highest level in its history and 19% higher than the previous year’s 80,260 pages.
. . . .
President Trump has charted a new course, prioritizing the removal of red tape and rolling back regulations through executive orders. The Federal Register page count is down 32% this year.”
—-Wall Street Journal
https://www.wsj.com/articles/dow-24000-and-the-trump-boom-1513294061
He keeps doing shit I like.
He cut out a third of the Federal Register?!
I can’t ignore that.
People say, but he said this and he tweeted that . . . blah, blah, blah.
Look what he did.
If he keeps this up for another four years, they should chisel that jackass Roosevelt off of Mount Rushmore and start calling it Mount Trump instead.
If he keeps this up for another four years, the Libertarian Party should consider endorsing Donald Trump rather than nominating someone on their own.
This is one thing I really like that he’s doing.
But no.
If the LP nominee won and was able to cut the federal register by a third, that would be striking a huge blow for freedom.
It’s striking a big blow for freedom when Donald Trump does it, too.
That’s basically what I’m trying to say.
And you are correct. The way the libertarian party, the never Trumpers, and especially the commi…democrats are behaving is very, very telling.
He cut a third of the published yearly changes/additions. Far from deleting 1/3 of the federal regulations. Another way to be unhappy is that to actually rollback regulations, it would require publishing such changes in the Federal Register as well. I’d be quite happy if it was 200% more than Obama if it was all cutting.
But on the plus side, he’s slowed the rate of increase (probably).
it would require publishing such changes in the Federal Register where in which some bitch face at the fed printing office would refuse the run and be the bravest person on the planet and the mostest biggestest superstar of #resist ever.
I’d love to understand that better. I’m just going by what the article says.
And it says the page count is down 32% in 2017 due to Trump’s efforts.
(95,824 – 80,260) / (80,260) = 18.7%–that’s presumably the source of the 19% more pages statistic for 2016.
(95,924) – (95,924*.32) = 65,228 pages. That’s what I’d be looking for today.
Here’s the table of contents for today’s date–December 15, 2017, and the last page I see listed in the index is 59,994.
If I’m misunderstanding something, I’d sure like to know.
I understand that the length of the Federal Register isn’t necessarily indicative of how egregious each of those regulations left in are, but from a libertarian perspective, making it smaller can’t be a bad thing.
And from what I can see, the Federal Register appears to be 32% smaller than it was in 2016.
No they will have loons at the convention and then nominate some squish faux-libertarian who will endorse Elizabeth Warren a week before the election. In the mean time they will keep calling Trump a lying Nazi.
Libertarians, my ass.
Just to be clear, it’s down 32% from Obama’s high of 19% added to the rolling total? It’s a registry of day to day changes in the federal code, right? So is his administration, or rather the career bureaucrats under his administration, still adding pages to the registry, just at a slower pace?
Nevermind, Gustave answered me.
YES! this,good write up Ken
RAWR! DOCTOR SAY STEVE SMITH NOT DO DRUGS! STEVE SMITH RAPE HIM!
RAWR! STEVE SMITH RAPE LAST OF THE IMMORTALS AND CLAIMS THE PRIZE!
RAWR! STEVE SMITH TEACH YOU LESSON FOR BUYING SUIT FROM JOS A BANK!
See that’s how it’s done. You go for the legs first, then they can’t run away.
when i was doing the consulting thing, and flying all over the place I confess to having bought a bunch of trousers from them. and i think a sport coat. they’re so cheap, its like Ikea/chinese-food-cheap. You’re like, “fuck it, i could spill coffee all over them and just buy new ones because they’re not worth the dry-cleaning bill”
and they come after you like a drug-pusher once you start buying things. everything is like “2 for 1” every month. YOU CAN’T AFFORD NOT TO BUY
i mean, look: $55 for a (repressed laugh) $495 sport coat? i mean, fuck. Who cares if its actually less than the advertised quality? Its *disposable*. You can always give it to your brother/goodwill
I think they’re very popular with the traveling salesman types for exactly the the ‘disposable’ thing. they don’t have to sweat rough handling.
Interesting – I didn’t know any of this, seeing as I never dress up except for weddings and funerals. So yeah, disposable suits would be the way to go for me too.
the main ‘problem’ of the super-cheap stuff is you find yourself wondering “should i spend another $50 extra to get it tailored properly?”
if you do, you have a great fitting and good looking jacket for $100. which is a good deal. but i think most people go, “fuck it its too cheap to tailor” and wear their stuff off the rack, and it shows. esp the suits.
the sport coats are frankly a good deal. esp the linen ones, which i find are often way overpriced by the good makers.
One problem (out in casual dress flyover country) is that tailoring, at least good tailoring, is hard to find.
yes, definitely. its a dying art.
i think it was one of the advantages of department stores before most of them shit the bed/went bankrupt; they always had one.
Good point. I would definitely have some fit issues with anything off the rack.
Socal,Linen?
Just to be clear, these are the dress pants that tear away when you rip them off at the crotch, right? For easier disposal, I guess.
Well, they DO rip in the crotch very easily.
My father is way more wealthy than I. He also doesn’t want much. His limited needs he meets easily.
I néed to buy this man a Christmas present. Any ideas Glibs? I have a reasonable amount of money to spend 1-5 hundred bucks is okay.
He’s a physician/cattle rancher who makes wine and beer in his free time. Maybe if any of you Glibs know something about wine/beer making and know of a cool kit of ingredients for him, that may be a good idea. Thanks in advance.
Retard-Spinner and reap the benefits.
I kid! Does he have a hobby? Hand-tied flies are awesome for the fisherman, high-end golf balls and one of those extendable retrievers for the golfer. A cool hat that he would never buy for himself but always wanted to wear? Fuck, I just birthdayed last week and my Wife is good enough to know that presents make me uncomfortable so I’ve been getting bags of tube socks for twenty years.
Lachowsky, if he is a homebrewer, you can always get him a gift certificate to here, If he has a preference to his drink, you could find a recipe that matches his preferences and purchase it for him.
That’s a good idea. I may do that. But, I can absolutely see me dad putting the gift card in his wallet and forgetting about it.
I want a remote control indoor helicopter so I can terrorize the dog from the comfort of my office computer.
Maybe he does, too.
So do I, but dad is a bit more curmudgeonly than you and I.
Those last about 3 days. Ask me how I know.
Actually Ken, you inspired me
Every evening, my dad drives around his property to count his cows and look for new ones that have been born. I’m thinking a drone with a camera is a great idea. I’m going to go that route. Damn fine idea.
I was just about to suggest that.
Maybe he does, too.
His dad, or your dog?
If he’s already making wine and beer wouldn’t you be running the risk of buying him something he already has?
I doubt it. He buys his supplies from a hardware store amd makes his wine from stuff we grow.
Bet he’d appreciate your time more than anything. His favorite sport, concert, hunting?
The gift of “You are a stranger to me!”
Too late!
Straff, that would be great if I could make it happen. He works hospital shifts and takes care of 100+ cattle. I have a family and work 60+ hours a week. Scheduling something at a future date is damn near impossible. (except for the first Saturday in September. That’s when we dove hunt at my place.)
Sounds like he could use some orphans.
Get him some wagyu beef to make him feel inadequate about his cattle.
As I understand it, wagyu beef is not legal to import into the U.S.
Live cows maybe. There’s importation of beef.
Beautiful beautiful wagyu beef
*unzip*
I know! The ends & pieces scraps in the bin on the side were equally marbled. I just wanted to take about a gallon bag’s worth with me. Even if Customs didn’t find it, dry ice wouldn’t have lasted long enough.
There’s a place in Batesville, Arkansas that raises them. Make friends, stat.
Most likely a hybrid, I know. But still.
Information
https://www.amazon.com/dp/093738187X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fkjnAb1E5G1GJ
A mail order bride.
Guns and/or gun accessories.
Good job ‘othering’ those of us with deceased parents shitlord!
New Pants?
Get a pallet of scrap granite/marble from a stoneyard. Superglue a pair of novelty Groucho glasses to the pile. Put the pile in his front yard by the walkway to the front door. Tell him it’s art.
Elons Nightmare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ8Cf0vWmxE
I was with him till he applauded the emissions. mining still has to happen. the power has to come from something.
If we just stopped mining then Bangladeshi orphans could keep working in our recycling pits. Those rare earth minerals must flow.
Fucking Evangelical preachers look like fine, upstanding men when you hold them up next to that flim-flam man. No wonder he was so tight with Obama.
I knew there was a reason that I liked you, smug bastard and all.
Pepsi bought into it. They ordered 100 of them apparently.
STEVE SMITH NOT WANT TO BE TOO CYNICAL – BUT IS WARY, BECAUSE THIS LOOK LIKE GOOD THING.
Fuck you STEVE you hairy RAPING fuck knuckle. Oil should be at $150 a barrel like god intended.
STEVE SMITH NOT KNOW OPEC CRISIS. STEVE SMITH NEVER LOOK BACK. STEVE SMITH NEVER USE OIL!
YIPPEE KAI YAY, HIKER FUCKER
Is that what happens when you meet a man in the alps?
Manager MOHAMMED is funny but how’s about H.R. JANE?
H.R. JANE – “Good Morning.” Random Employee -” I like your earrings!” H.R. JANE – “RAAAAAAAAAAAPE!!!!”
:In the break room: Employee – “Hey Jane, the coffee’s out, could you hand me a filter?” H.R. JANE – “STOP SEXUALLY HARASSING ME!!!”
*Random male employee walks into break room, sees H.R. JANE, turns around and walks away.* (yes I have worked in that environment. Not Okay!)
In all seriousness, thanks to the Glib overlords for building/maintaining this site. I’m glad to to be some small part of this labor of love.
TITS!
http://thechive.com/2011/11/21/flbp-the-holidays-came-early-this-year-35-photos/
There is only #8.
#8 is holy sweet mother mary and joseph n baby jesus wow. #4 is Auschwitz hip bones. Someone get that girl a cheeseburger.
You forgot to bypass the link.
Huh, did not know the Joe Kennedy stashed his daughter he had lobotomized here in Wisconsin. The Kennedys, America’s royalty.
There’s some pretty dark history there.
Camelot, yo.
I wonder whether Chappaquiddick is any good.
They did a bit with an obvious lobotomy in the current season of Bojack Horseman (his grandmother was given one). Played up pretty disturbingly even if animated and nearly all offscreen.
this made me larf
https://slate.com/business/2017/12/elon-musk-either-hates-mass-transit-or-doesnt-get-it.html
***
Elon Musk vs. the Monorail
The Tesla founder’s disdain for public transportation is all a part of his master plan.
…
And like the rest of the automotive industry, he appears to have a low view of public transit and the people who use it.
…
“There is this premise that good things must be somehow painful. I think public transport is painful. It sucks. Why do you want to get on something with a lot of other people, that doesn’t leave where you want it to leave, doesn’t start where you want it to start, doesn’t end where you want it to end? And it doesn’t go all the time. It’s a pain in the ass. That’s why everyone doesn’t like it. And there’s like a bunch of random strangers, one of who might be a serial killer, OK, great. And so that’s why people like individualized transport, that goes where you want, when you want.”
…
He went on to criticize Japanese trains for being crowded.
The whole thing has the feel of a Seinfeld bit, and a spokesperson for the Boring Company, Musk’s tunneling venture, insisted to Marshall that the CEO was only criticizing today’s lousy mass transit. “He was criticizing the current state of public transportation, not the idea of mass transit itself,” a Boring Company rep explained to Slate. “If current public transportation options were incredible, more people would choose them. Unfortunately more people are choosing cars.” On Twitter, Musk criticized Marshall’s “misleading and misanthropic article” and characterized his comments as a “brief digression.” He also called the transit planner Jarrett Walker, a persistent critic of Musk’s vision of the urban future, a “sanctimonious idiot.” A good time was had by all.
***
If not for the Las Vegas city transit system I would never had known that disgusting woman exposing herself in the back of the bus was running a lucrative cam site. God I wish I didn’t know.
Dang. I have to give it to Musk on those points. Kinda obvious all around, but he sticks the landing.
His spoxperson sounds funny imagined in the voice of the soulless sunny blonde lawyer or whatever who inevitable shows up when corporatese needs speaking.
^in the Simpsons
I can’t imagine a single specific episode or quote, but her upbeat cadence and tone is etched into my brain.
Lindsey Naegl
“Zero is a percent!”
Hot damn, no kidding.
I bet I’m thinking of a pastiche of characters across Simpsons and Futurama.
All were voiced by Tress MacNeille.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q60wHn1-rgE
Wow. Girl gets around.
Slate lost their collective mind when the Donald won. I had plenty of friends there that shunned me because I made fun of the rhheeee. Years long in jokes and hardyhars lost. Thank heaven I wasn’t on Derpbook at the time.
cool album art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTddTMRojk0
hard to go wrong with ww2 themed metal
Are Private Schools Immoral?
A conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones about race, education, and hypocrisy.
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/12/progressives-are-undermining-public-schools/548084/
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Public schools in gentrifying neighborhoods seem on the cusp of becoming truly diverse, as historically underserved neighborhoods fill up with younger, whiter families. But the schools remain stubbornly segregated. Nikole Hannah-Jones has chronicled this phenomenon around the country, and seen it firsthand in her neighborhood in Brooklyn.
“White communities want neighborhood schools if their neighborhood school is white,” she says. “If their neighborhood school is black, they want choice.” Charter schools and magnet schools spring up in place of neighborhood schools, where white students can be in the majority.
“We have a system where white people control the outcomes, and the outcome that most white Americans want is segregation,” she says.
In a recent episode of The Atlantic Interview, Nikole Hannah-Jones and The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, discuss how integrated schools are good for white children and black children.
“If one were to believe that having people who are different from you makes you smarter, that you engage in a higher level of thinking, that you solve problems better, there are higher-level ways that integration is good for white folks,” Jones says.
For black children, the benefits of attending an integrated school are much more drastic. “It’s literally, will you receive a quality education or not? Will you be a full citizen in the country of your birth?”
In a hyper-competitive economy where test scores and college admissions and lifetimes earnings are all linked, Hannah-Jones has seen that the soft benefits of integration, like empathy or compassion, are low on a family’s priority list. “Most white people are willing to trade that,” she has found.
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Yep. All racism. Couldn’t possibly be any other reason not to send your kids to a public school, especially in a big city with high levels of crime.
A young Agile Cyborg happily frolics in a play room:
Watched Zardoz tonight with the fiancee, and I have to say I actually really liked it (the tits helped, obviously).
It wasn’t good, but I could see the potential for it to be good. A modern remake with modern techniques could be quite good.
Watch it never happen in favor of 13 more mediocre Star Wars films.
We won’t get 13 Medicare Star Wars. Oh, that’s not…well I never!
Nah, Zed will be a 95lb kick-ass girl and the floating head will look like Ayn Rand. Instead of puking guns it will be rainsticks ,bongos and dildos.
I’d pay.
what Tits are you talking about? there were no tits Only Sad /English boobs
America, Got Boobs!
Butch Walker; Jingle Bells
I’d like to share videos (not my own, God forbid) but don’t know how. Is there a quick tutorial on-site? Just You Tube and what-not.
Do you use Monicle?
User guide here. If so, then linking is at your fingertips as long as you can copy/paste and click.
Thanks! I won’t fuck with it right yet because Friday is my Saturday and I’m shit-faced but maybe later…
I am old and decrepit, so I’ve got that excuse going for me. Which is nice.
Did you have dinner at 4pm? Cuz I did! I’m only 34, I just take care of old people, my story made SP cry. Imagine that, I got a Glibertarian to cry.
Whoever is speaking on CNN just glibly elided any reference to the specific complaints against the FBI. Nope, it’s just Trump being Temp. No mention of “insurance policy.” Keep it up, chucklefucks. Your medium is dying with your credibility.
Damn you Ajit Pai, you white nationalist!
Ajit Pai. Apple Pie. Coincidence? I think not!
Indian White Nationalist!
Indian-American-White-Nationalist, that’s a whole lot to out down on his census form.
Has Ajit Pai dethroned Bobby Jindal as the Indian-American that woke white people hate and think it’s totally ok to be racist toward?
Yes.
Has Dalmia put out a hit piece on Pai yet?
Feather-Indian-White-Nationalist, or Dot-Indian-White-Nationalist?
“Insurance policy” against his election by a lead investigator? Nothing. “They let you…”? Rape.
Can you imagine what would have happened circa 2009 if some high level Fibbie was caught talking about coons in the White House?
Race would’ve upped it quite a bit. That being said, team red is overselling the case unnecessarily. The entire dossier wasn’t debunked. THey give the bastards at CNN an attack point when they say that.
ZardoZ Spoiler, there are NO Boobs, English Women have tits, which are the Ancestors of what We now call in America, BOOBS!
There is however a weird old people’s home party!
I was there
It was a Drive-in Movie.
Is that the one where Death shows up after they’ve eaten the salmon mousse?
I am the Time Traveler, and now it’s time to sleep, PC! Glibs!
I made chocolate crinkle cookies coated in a mix of pulverized candy cane and powdered sugar. I took them to the office and they were gone by 8: 3 0 am. Tomorrow I will attempt French macaroons. Sunday I will make a peppermint cake by replacing part of the sugar with pulverized candycanes. Then, next weekend I plan to make pretzels and more cookies. I love my new mixer.
Last time I used a mixer I was making homemade chicken nuggets, and it spat raw chicken everywhere, so I chose to hand mix.
It’s a good thing I can’t stand the taste of beer or vodka and whiskey is pricey as shit, or I’d be an alcoholic. Need something to numb the pain, and this backward-ass state won’t let me near any of the marijuana (let alone the psyclobin or MDMA) that’s actually clinically proven that it would help me a shitload more than SSRIs.
Godfuckingdammit I hate everything.
G&Ts cure what ails ya, as long as it’s malaria.
Sorry to hear about that. I’ve been interested in microdosing since I went off Paxil last year.
Microdosing intrigues me. I’ve been running from the Black Dog since I was a toddler and it’s caught me from time to time. Mind you, I did a shit-load of mushrooms and assorted chemicals during my late teens, early twenties so I’d imagine anything that made me feel better would probably feel like more.
I’ve smoked pot from time to time, all of it in my mid to late twenties. Never cottoned to it. Never did psychedelics or anything harder. I’m given to anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, all that.
My brother is seven years older than I. He’s done it all, and young. He talks about buying LSD off a skinhead as a preteen. He’s cooked meth, snorted, popped pills, gone nuts. And he’s the most centered, implacable, genuinely enthusiastic person I know. And successful. He’s indefatigable. I don’t get it, at all.
Data set of two, of course.
Heh. Data set squared. My brother did everything and fucked off the cliff at 15. I did the same and am living the slow death.
https://youtu.be/6qcPS-J0HTg
That’s another thing that interests me.
Unfortunately I have no clue where to get ANY of it, and if I did get it the severe anxiety wouldn’t LET me get it, because of fear of arrest.
It’s fucked and it’s fucked and it’s fucked. The Econtalk interview with the microdosing woman pissed me off so much on account of the lost opportunity.
Nothing is worse than when someone with anxiety problems has to worry about state sanctioned rules when they are trying to deal with their anxiety. ‘The state says I get 30 pills for 30 days, is this thing bad enough to use those pills? If I use those pills then I don’t have enough if I have other problems later. But If I don’t take those pills now I might die. But maybe I won’t die. I’ll just feel like I’m dying for days on end, then if things get worse I’ll still have the pills…”
I’m in a constant state of anxiety. The klonopin does nothing but make me sleepy, but at night I can’t sleep, which is why I’m sitting here at 12:47 AM posting. Occasionally it causes me to get angry, but turned inwards, which fucks up my system even more. Or maybe that’s the $200/month Viibryd prescription. I dunno.
20 years I’ve been going from SSRI to SSRI and I’m basically in the same position I was back then.
And yet somehow I’m the most sane person in my immediate family.
I just drink too much. Pharms will fuck you in the ass.
I’ve been on Cymbalta the last 15 or so years for my anxiety (SNRI, not SSRI, though not sure the difference) With lorazopam kicker as needed. However, I also drink heavily and smoke. Combined, the effects have calmed me. As not a doctor I can’t make any recommendations. (I have also narrowed my triggers and avoid them when possible, caffeine being the first culprit eliminated)
SNRIs also work on norepinephrine – they can help give you more energy in addition to relieving the depression/anxiety/what-have-you. Once upon a time I was moved from Lexapro to Effexor for precisely that reason, and could really feel the difference.
Also, if you have trouble falling asleep at night because you feel as though just when you start to doze off you start to choke that could be an actual physical problem, sleep apnea. Mixing that with anxiety is whole notha level of fucked up problems. Shit, I prolly just triggered you even if you don’t have…fuck anxiety!
It’s not apnea. I’ve had sleep tests because that was suggested to me.
I can’t fall asleep because of anxiety.
You tried Buspar?
Like… a decade ago?
I’ve been on prozac (worked reverse on me, ended up in the hospital), Luvox, Lexapro, Paxil, Buspar, Effexor, Trazodone, Tofranil… I think there might be more, but I can’t remember.
Also, keep at that CBD, I bet that would help.
Do you fear what I fear? A beast, a beast, coming from the snow.
Coming to strike you low! A beast that says “I told you so!”
A beast, a beast, coming in the snow
With a maw as wide as a plow
With a maw as wide as a plow
Krampus was pretty good. In my Christmas movie marathon I put it behind Bad Santa and Die Hard, but they’re all good holiday schlock.
Since he’s taking requests
GRANDMA GOT DONE OVER BY A RAPESQUATCH
JINGLE BELL RAPE
STEVE SMITH THE RED NOSED RAPESQUATCH
CHESTNUTS ROASTING ON AN OPEN FIRE
STEVE SMITH RAPING IN THE WOODS
THAT ALL I GOT. MIGHT NOT BE ENOUGH FOR FULL LP, JUST EP. BY EP, MEAN EXTENDED RAPE.
https://youtu.be/6qcPS-J0HTg Fuck off you Assholes, this is the best Xmas song, ever.
https://youtu.be/u0T7QzuiYtI This one is for Sloopy.
Well darn. I was hoping and waiting for a STEVE SMITH song contest, and then when it comes around I miss it until the threat dies. Ah well, I guess I’ll post it here for posterity and again tomorrow for the comments:
♫STEVE SMITH HUNTS THEE
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
FOR STEVE SMITH IS HORNY
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
A BIG COCK STEVE SMITH BRING
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
FOR HIKER ASS RAPING
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
STEVE SMITH GIVE GIFT TOO
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
STEVE SMITH CUM
SILLY HIKER
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
THIS IS STEVE SMITH RAPE GROUND
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
A SURPRISE STEVE SMITH BRING
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
THAT’S RAPED PEASANT AND KING
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
SHALL STEVE SMITH RAPE NOW
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
RAPE TILL DONE
HIKER TURNED PALE
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
SMALL HEARTBEAT KEPT RHYTHM
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
STEVE SMITH RAPED ANUS THEN
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
STEVE SMITH GIVE BEST RAPE THEN
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
THEN STEVE SMITH FINISH
PAH-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE-RAPE
HIKER NUMB♫
https://youtu.be/bKJ8lszyj1w I put this here because it is an awesome song.
https://youtu.be/gwh2SifEp78 This one is for Playa and all the Californs.
https://youtu.be/eW73VIz7ctU This is for everyone because I am a cunty feller that just found a new shiny.
The wifey is pissed at me because we don’t spend much time together anymore. You bought that horse, woman, knowing that it would eat most of your weekends. I buy beer and Glib. Get bent.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd, have you been drinking again???
Maybe.