Much fuss about this. I’ll mention in passing that at the same age, my daughter was awarded “Most Likely To Conceive.” Not that she was a slut… oh wait, who am I kidding?
Even more fuss about this. The thing I hate most about progs and the press is that they make me feel sympathetic toward that slug occupying the White House.
I’m… speechless about this. Snowflakes get more and more delicate. If they were in my research group, they’d melt and vaporize in nanoseconds.
This does NOT happen in my research group. A deeply weird story.
This is TDS writ large. “Democrats argue the fact that Gianforte didn’t win by 20 precentage points like President Donald Trump did in November shows voters are fed up with the President and the Republican agenda. They say Montana’s election — like races in Georgia and Kansas — is a bad omen for Republicans heading into 2018.” I’m reminded of this song.
As I get more and more depressed about Trump continuing Obama’s war-boner policies and proving himself no different than the Hildebeast, I listen to this, one of my favorite anti-war songs. I’m sure that if I asked the singer, he’d have blissfully blocked the Team Blue guilt from his mind, but hey, the song is still great. For those of you with more electric tastes, I offer this gem.
And now I’m going to drive home, crack open a bottle, give SP the high hard one, then sleep for the next three days.
Comments
327 responses to “Friday Afternoon Links”
wait, a special election has fewer people voting than a presidential one?
The other day a girl I went to high school with was super excitied that a Democrat flipped a seat on some random town council in NC. Trump’s days are numbered…
It’s happening!!
Fewer.
Fuck it- Less.
edit fairy?
*flutter of wings*
The proper English is lesser-er.
English?
/bodyslams Q Continuum
And you’ll still get elected!
Thanks!
Yes, because the Democrats bus voters to the polls in the little buses for special elections.
As I get more and more depressed about Trump continuing Obama’s war-boner policies and proving himself no different than the Hildebeast,
There isn’t a ‘no fly zone’ (i.e. act of war) over Syria shooting down Russian jets yet.
That’s good.
But he did bomb a Syrian airfield.
That’s bad.
But fortunately it seems to mostly be a bit of a one-off over the whole chemical weapons thing.
That’s good.
But the war in Yemen continues on, with the U.S. doing the Saudis’ dirty work.
…
…That’s bad.
Can I go now?
This is the longest case of pneumonia in medical history.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4545818/Hillary-Clinton-coughing-fit-graduation-speech.html
Sick Hillary. Sad!
“Chardonnay Lung”
Lifehacker: How to Agitate Politically Without Jeopardizing Your Job
My suggestion: don’t.
Well I Glimore’d that but good.
I never agitate. On the other hand, I’ve never hidden my utter contempt for the Democrats in general and Obama and Hillary in particular at work. My office is located in the city where Trump received 6.5% of the vote.
My office is small enough that everyone knows everyone else’s positions on pretty much everything. The only surprise ever was our older than Methuselah, ultra-republican doctor lambasting the owner for donating in the company’s name for prop 8.
A few years later I met his very obviously gay grandson and figured out why he was so far off the Republican reservation on that one.
Comrade Clinton has a cough, nothing more.
+142 day “cold”
Is perfectly normal! *cough* *cough* *cough*!! See, I too have cough! Cough is good!!
I thought Gollum died along with the Ring?
I like to think she’s hitting a crack pipe before going out.
Great campaign poster. I find it hard to believe that the “coastals” thought that body slamming a British leftist journalist would reflect badly on a Montana candidate. Plus since most of the ballots were already cast in early voting that it could have swung the election. Next up, Team Blue arguing that California and New York have it correct because they do not have early voting and for “democracy” early voting should be abolished.
Like gerrymandering for racial reasons, abolishing early voting is okay when Team Blue does it.
Meh, I’m with Shapiro on this one.
Ha! I was listening to NPR (yeah, I know) on the way home last nite and the reporter was talking to average people on the street of a small Montana town. He was mystified that a lot of them didn’t really think it was a big deal. One classic old dude had the best comment, “well everyone has done something like that at least once in their life. They probably just didn’t get arrested for it.” Hilarious.
was NPR baffled?
It’s all so very baffling. These strange mountain people just won’t vote the correct way.
That’s because they’re too stupid to look at it rationally and calculate who will give them the most stuff. Dumb hillbillies.
Hell maybe we should just let NYC and the SF metro area elect all our officials. It would save the woke from having to deal with the bitter clinger, deplorables on the rest of the NA landmass.
The election of 2016 shows once again the wisdom of the electoral college and I love telling SJW how wise an idea it is. Their idea of the “popular vote” promises will run aground on the shoals of law unless each state that signs up for that dreck changes all the underlying presidential election law for the state.
No one Pauline Kael knows voted for Gianforte.
This is a good breakdown of the near-perfect misquote
Wow, that VF story was kind of interesting. But it does seem to be a distinction without a difference.
That’s hardly a misquote. She’s *bragging* that she knows almost no one who voted for the currently-sitting president. while the wording of what she said, and what is commonly attributed is certainly different, the sentiment isn’t really as different as Wolcott would like to pretend.
Simply because she’s self-aware of her NYC urban-elite-bubble doesn’t make the pride in it any less foolish or provincial.
Additionally – how ridiculous and hyperbolic does James Wolcott’s last line there look today?
Sanity? not really – it was just the conventional-lefty-received-wisdom in 2012.
In 2016, many people in the same NYC/NYT liberal bubble world were realizing how fucking deluded they were when they said things like that – because they’d spent all their venom on perfectly-reasonable and moderate Republicans.
Now, when faced with Trump, no one takes their assertions seriously anymore, because perpetually crying wolf had diminished their credibility with anyone except the already-anointed.
” I find it hard to believe that the “coastals” thought that body slamming a British leftist journalist would reflect badly on a Montana candidate. ”
I find it to even dumber than that. In the 1990s, millions of Democrats who were genuinely concerned/disgusted with Clinton’s affair with Lewinsky voted for him because they preferred his policies over Dole’s. Millions of MA people voted for Teddy Kennedy for decades in spite of his personal life because they preferred his ideas over his opponents. Why is it so hard to believe that thousands of people would vote for someone whose ideas they prefer?
Milo claims Louise Mensch is a troll out to discredit the left. If true, well done on her part. Even intelligent people I know have been falling for her “revelations’.
If Mensch is controlled opposition why the fuck does Milo deem it necessary to rat her out?
He is trolling her…meta-trolling?
Dammit Milo I’ll have to upgrade you from dick to asshole!
Who is Louise Mensch?
4 ways smart people cope at work after a terrorist attack
Of course the first is ‘validate your employee’s feelings’.
You want to end the snowflake generation? Number one thing to do is treat people’s emotional responses to non-important things with no respect whatsoever. Don’t validate them, call them out for letting their brain chemicals get the better of them. Sure, if their blood mom died or something, they need some time to deal with it, but constantly validated the most shallow, emotional and immediate response to everything is the core contributor to snowflake culture.
+1 Toughen the fuck up.
Calling them out in a work setting could be risky. Ignore whenever possible; issue a perfunctory expression of sympathy when you have to say something.
Someone needs a hug.
/sticks arms out.
*backs away from Rufus*
Free Hugs
Dear god, this drives me up the wall. Unless they were in Manchester, there is no reason for them to have this sort of reaction. Heck, I was nearly blown up by terrorists on two occasions (IRA bombs in London at the tail end of the Troubles and on 9/11). How did I cope with it? Shrugged my shoulders, figured it just wasn’t quite my day to die yet, and went on with life.
I swear, reading the news only increases my misanthropy. And I didn’t think it could be increased any more!
I’m curious how close your “almost” was. Like, you were in tower 7 or just in the state of NY?
London – I walked by the bomb location about 4 or 5 minutes before it went off. Nobody got hurt thankfully.
9/11 – I was walking out of my office to go over to the Pentagon when a coworker told me that the towers were hit. I went back to my office to call over to the person in the Pentagon to see if the meeting was still on. Was on the phone with them when the plane hit. Can’t remember the exact office number I was going to, but if I remember correctly, I would have been wandering near the area of impact. My meeting was on the A ring, so I most likely would have been safe, unless I got really, really lost…
Also had a couple IDFs in Iraq/Afghanistan, but the closes of those was about 150 meters…
The high hard one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vgn1pjbYlw
I guess they called it a fowl ball.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoDse9WV9po&authuser=0
Not a gaze but I’ll take it.
Ah yes, I remember watching that game. Good times.
It’s Friday afternoon, I just want to go for a ride with my buddy Norm McDonald.
His Netflix special was great
Was that recent?
yea, pretty recent.
When you say ‘pretty’ you mean ‘pretty-pretty’ or just pretty?
how are your hugs?
I saw it pop up on Netflix maybe a month ago. 3 weeks?
My hugs are…STAY TUNED.
Aw man he’s the best.
Hey is there a video of the Montana guy beating up the reporter? I think I’d like to watch that.
Was it a legit bodyslam or one of those deals were two unathletic people sort of collide and fall down?
Well, if it wasn’t a legit bodyslam, it would just take away from CNN’s in-depth analysis from a “cage fighter” over what a bodyslam actually is (to include WWE references). I’m perfectly fine with the media narrative on this one. Most Americans are just going to laugh at it with some small percentage feigning outrage.
I’m trying to figure out how much time to waste looking for a video of the incident.
There isn’t one.
The best wintess account say only fragments through a partially closed office door.
Fragments of the reporter? That’s pretty rough.
No, the witnesses didn’t see much.
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/bombshell-montana-assault-witness-changes-story-admits-no-neck-grab/
I was hoping for something like this.
I blame climate change.
https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2017/05/26/on-eve-of-ramadan-islamic-gunmen-kill-28-coptic-christians-on-pilgrimage-in-egypt/
/Benny Hill music
28 Coptic Christians killed. Women hardest hit. By the patriarchy.
*narrows gaze*
Made my way over to WaPo, skipped their hot take about the massacre entirely and got good nauseous on the comments. I guess it could just be me getting suckered by trolls but it’s rather disturbing how eager some people are to engage in victim blaming because the victims in this case are not on their list of protected groups.
*good & nauseous
Shut the fuck up, (((Weigel))).
If only that lolbertarian wasn’t in the MT Congressional race, Democrats would have picked up a House seat.
I went on a more long winded rant, but yes – 5.8% was nice to see for me. The LP is very inconsistent, but no political party is going to pass a purity test. I know nothing of the candidate, but a strong showing. The sort I think a real libertarian could have had in this previous election if not for Johnson-Weld.
Plus it is Montana.
I miss the Johnson weld jokes
The best part of the Montana thing is just how hurt progs are by it. They legitimately expected a win because of how the media presents things, and I think even most media members following the story thought an upset was possible. Drudge’s headline story on the GOP’s win from the Washington Post last night was a story that didn’t even bother to mention the final tally, and my guess it was written before hand with the expectation the Dem would win after the incident with the Guardian report. Then votes are cast, and 50% goes to the Republican with low approval ratings to just 43% for the Dem. And, oh yea, the libertarian candidate somehow managed 5.8%.
They will try to paint this as some referendum on Trump, as they do on a daily basis. But it just doesn’t work if you even bother to scratch beneath the surface. The media still doesn’t get it. Most Americans don’t care about them.
It’s fucking daffy that there are Guardian correspondents even covering a measly House race in Montana, frankly. Like, they really have the budget for that? Are they on the government dole along with the BBC or what? That’s how fucking desperate these loons are.
Happy-fun-proggie-tear-drinking time just goes on and on!
Progressives are just entering that weird space that libertarians are finally just plotting their way out of: where your echo chamber is so strong and self assured that you believe your own bullshit, and when things don’t happen the way you expect you are truly surprised.
I don’t recall ever being surprised that Obama and his flock weren’t very libertarian, nor with his predecessors. I’m not saying anyone is immune to the bubble effect, but it’s pretty a leftist superpower that they hold a patent on.
My understanding is that a lot of civil service jobs are advertised in the Guardian, so yes, they are on the government teat in a manner of speaking.
It should be a lesson for the Dems, but I’m sure they won’t heed it. Basically, you can’t run the same candidate in a place like Montana that you would in San Francisco.
Face it, your guy just lost to someone who physically attacked a reporter three days ago….in front of witnesses!
How bad is your candidate if the voters decided he was worse?
Clearly justifiable given our cis-heteropatriarchal privilege microagressing society. These ladies just need a safe space to double-click their lesbian mouses to Gal Gadot.
http://nypost.com/2017/05/25/no-guys-allowed-screening-of-wonder-woman-has-fanboys-furious/
that’s different?
You know, I have no problem with this. I think it was covered in morning links. There’s the obvious hypocrisy and forced accommodation laws, but if a bunch of broads want to get together to watch Wonder Woman privately, I’m not going to complain.
Beyond calling progs out on their bullshit aside, I’m calling bad business decision on this one. Most women don’t want to go see a comic book movie. My only guess is that the theater had contacts with the local gender studies department at UT and was guaranteed a full screening, but even then you’re still probably losing money.
I just think it makes some sense to call out hypocrisy like this. I don’t want to make them let the guys in, I want them to realize that exclusive clubs are fine. and discriminating is used to make that happen sometimes.
On one hand, freedom of association.
On the other hand, Civil Rights legislation is used to fuck up all kinds of freedom of association stuff, so why not apply it broadly so people realize it’s stupid.
On the gripping hand, this may prevent people from seeing the latest DC cinematic abortion, thus improving the culture.
The free market will fix this. More people will buy the non sjw’d stuff (either by preference or virtue of the sjws hating capitalism and not selling to white males which are the overwhelming majority of American consumers) and the derps will eventually lose to the real, actually not racist/biased capitalists who only care about the color of your money. Everyone lives happily every after, except the progs who die starving and alone. The end.
WOO!
“except the progs who die starving and alone”
I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Imagine a society where white males are very much in the minority and still regarded as an impediment to the success of everyone else. White will be the new jew. Can’t wait.
And people wonder why we keep buying guns.
Nobody wonders about that. Your guns are just a proxy for something else.
/Prog obsessed with your dick.
+3.5 inches of shame
I’m working on stockpiling ammo now myself. There’s only 4 arms between me and my fiancée.
Not sure whether it is best to mock or encourage this sort of thing. Because once they have women-only events and don’t get smacked down by public accommodation laws then…
Curves has been fine for a while. never got how that could be.
but we have YMCA and YWCA. ???
YMCA snd YWCA are both religious organizations, so exempt.
ahh. How does Curves do it?
By only admitting women that John would approve of and letting the men make the rational choice to work out where there is more eye candy.
But how do they keep the Johns of the world out? You’re incentivizing chubby chasers at the same time you’re disincentivizing everyone else.
Because womyn, shitlord.
No fucking idea. But look at it in practical terms – no SJW male is going to try to join because that would be anti-woman. I imagine that most regular guys would avoid the place for obvious reasons.
“See? we can leave you alone! now leave us alone!”
-freedom of association
We can have our own system, it’s a counter-system. And then, you do things together, you swim, you row, you… boat, you eat, you stink. We can just be guys! You can have sex, you can do it, you know, many guys at a time, but it’s not gay.
…then when people try to sue them for it they will revise the laws to only apply to “protected classes” (womyn, gays, PoC, and to their chagrin eventually cops) because bigotry = prejudice + power and ensure that it will help the marginalized people while avoiding evil white males abusing it.
Didn’t judges already tacitly rule this way last year? I’m pretty sure they did, though I forget which particularly derpy story it was related to. It’s already minor precedent. I think it may have had something to do with female only car services or some shit.
Seems like a disaster waiting to happen. How many women will get lost trying to find the theater? Then after they all go to the bathroom together the line will be hours. That doesn’t even get into the period synchronization. It’s going to be a bloodbath.
Brew some up for after your bender. Irish of course.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/may/25/drinking-coffee-may-help-prevent-liver-cancer-study-suggests?CMP=fb_us
Between that and the recent news about how to prevent prostate cancer, it’s never been this satisfying to follow medical advice.
*studio audience laugh and applause*
Hey, glib execs!
Is there any word on funding?
Also merch. but really, i just want to put some coin in for all this. It’s been great, and I appreciate all you guys have done.
^This.
Yes and yes.
And let me know if you need any help with the 501(c)(3) process, assuming you’re still doing that.
We have a non-501(c)(3) ….organization/structure. Uncle Fed wants too much and restricts to much.
We have worked this out with our terrific general counsel…ME!
Merch ain’t my thing – but I know the subject has come up at a meeting inside the Glibertarian Remote Island Volcano Superfortress.
cool. I’m even willing to make stuff for a store!
Where can I donate?
Volunteering to pay for something that free? I’ll bet you feed your orphans people food too.
∆ this too. I’m a poor person but I’ll give a pittance
Completely OT but I think I found the one cat who isn’t 100% libertarian. When I called her name she actually ran from the upstairs to come sit on the sofa with me.
Lulling you into a false sense of security so it can eat your corpse when you die. Tis the Cat Way.
Why wait until death, when kitty can help speed his quittance?
That’s why it tries to sleep on his face.
Years ago my uncle got a kitten. I asked him if it had started trying to trip him to get his attention when he was hungry. He said he’d never heard of cats doing that and thought my roommate’s cat was (unusually) homicidal. I got a text a week later from him complaining that his cat had just tried to murder him by tangling itself in his legs and then being furious that he’d tripped over it.
Cats are the best.
Why wait until death, when kitty can help speed his quittance?
fuckin’ bleeding hearts…
A Russian Blue?
No some American longhair mongrel. But I think it’s all a plot.
Funny you ask that. I’ve been around several Russian Blues that are remarkably trainable and affectionate (with a few people).
They will fetch just like a Retriever. If you get one I warn you not to start doing that. They will drive you batshit crazy nagging all the time to play fetch.
You’re never too old to hunt a Sasquatch
STEVE SMITH STAY AWAY THIS TIME. NOT LIKE INCEST.
STEVE SMITH MAY WANT TO VISIT AUNT WEEWEE.
23% Of Women Don’t Shave Their Pits, Thanks Feminism!?
Meh. I think it’s more of a response to their male counterparts being much more cavalier about shaving their faces. I shave about once a week and even still keep it so its a very aggressive 5 o’ clock shadow. So if my wife wants to do the same with her pits, fine.
There’s always porn.
Do you have even patriarchy, bro?
Gross hairy women probably don’t attract the lesbian girls any better than they attract the straight guys. Maybe being in attractive and too self absorbed to care about being attractive will become a long term trend but I doubt it.
The first story is bullshit. It’s clock boy all over again. They are using tort law to fuck with us.
The second story is a gem. Arrogant Eurotrash needs to be put in their place and the climate change scam should be shoved up the perpetrator’s asses.
When snowflakes melt we call it ‘spring’. Flowers bloom.
Wasn’t there a women’s study prof not long ago who came out and admitted he just pushed the feminist line so he could fuck his female students?
I cant encourage them enough. Keep it up Democrats. Please.
Clinton:
“I am going to crush news organizations that have no right to exist.”
“If congress wont act on gun control I will take executive action”
“Probably half of Trump’s supporters are in what I like to call the basket of deplorables”
“We are going to bring in more than a million refugees”
“We have to be honest about systemic racism and particularly the responsibility of white people, not just people in public life but all of us,…”I don’t have the answers, I’m not a behavioral psychologist or anything, but I think that needs to be done in every community kind of setting we can find that is open to doing it,”
“Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We’re saying that for America to get back on track, we’re probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”
“Don’t let anybody tell you that it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs.”
“You know, we can’t keep talking about our dependence on foreign oil and the need to deal with global warming and the challenge that it poses to our climate and to God’s creation and just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.”
“No. We just can’t trust the American people to make those types of choices … Government has to make those choices for people.”
“If you have guns in your home, tell your parents to keep them away from you and your friends and your little brothers and sisters.”
“I also believe that every new handgun sale or transfer should be registered in a national registry…”
“…four dead Americans…What difference, at this point, does it make?”
“All rights are subject to reasonable restrictions”
I could do this all day. She is a totalitarian plain and simple.
Donald Trump:
“I will be everyone’s president”
“We are going to put American interests first.”
I will just leave it at that.
Right about systemic racism. Lots f racists hating on inter-racial marriage.
http://www.truthovertradition.com/interracial-marriage-is-destroying-black-america/
“If you have guns in your home, tell your parents to keep them away from you and your friends and your little brothers and sisters.”
My three year old keeps trying to break into my biometric safe. I think my oldest son told him that’s where I keep the loaded gun.
When my son turned 4 I taught him to shoot. I kept the guns locked up but told him “Anytime you want to see a gun you come get me and I will show it to you.” We never once had a problem with him sneaking around trying to play with guns.
We had a lot of fun shooting and by the time he was 12 I taught him to hit clay pigeons with the K-22 Smith and Wesson (Throw them head-high and straight away from the shooter). It gave him a lot of confidence to learn to do something he thought was amazing and impossible for him to do.
I waited until my oldest was 7 because that’s the minimum age most of the local ranges require. I could take him out to a spot in the desert but safety practices can be hit or miss and most of those spots are pretty well known. Commercial ranges are good for that.
I am fortunate enough to live in an area where I can shoot whenever I liken my own land, no range rules and no other people. It makes a big difference. When I have gone elsewhere I have had people I didn’t know show up so I left immediately. It seems rude to me and not too smart to just pull up where someone else you dont know has taken the trouble to be alone to shoot their guns.
I also dont like ranges…I understand why they are the way they are, I just dont like it. They are worse than water parks. I grew up with rope swings over lakes and creeks. We ran, dove, threw clay balls at each other, swam underwater etc. I dont need some freshman kid with one lifeguard course scolding me not to do those things.
All part of his plan to kill you so he can marry Mommy.
“All rights are subject to reasonable restrictions”
Even gay marriage and abortion?
Those are different because shut up.
What Intersectionality Means to Wear Your Voice
Shorter Wear your Voice: “We’re Bigots.”
“Give us money”
I’ll make it a safe space by refusing to visit the site or read anything they write. Can’t be safer than that.
Fun police chase from yesterday.
Are you just glued to KTLA 5 all day long?
+1 Chase Channel
LOL – there’s these nifty swell things on YT called “subscriptions”
Psht, back in my day we just had interrupted after school cartoons.
Cartoons?!
Back in MY day, we had to read comic books very quickly, to simulate cartoons.
Get thee to a zoetrope, Swiss.
Least you could mail money to buy stuff from comics, like an onion for your belt, which was the style at the time.
On account of the war and all.
the lights on that cop car in the beginning is very nice. I’m used to seeing those ridiculous strobes giving everyone a seizure.
Huh? /Recovers from Grand Mal
they’re fucking blinding. It’s way too much.
And I do have Epilepsy, Don’t Appropriate me!
For no reason at all:
During the last round of rain we awoke at 4 am to discover we had a roof leak. The kitchen ceiling fell in. There is a 6ft x 4ft hole in the middle of the kitchen. I cleaned up the mess, patched the roof and lined up a drywall guy to come fix the ceiling…he will show up tomorrow.
About 2am this morning my wife woke me up. She heard a suspicious noise in the kitchen.
“Can critters get in the house through that hole?”
“No, the attic is sealed up. It was probably just more insulation falling. I will clean it up later.”
“But what if a possum got in the kitchen through the hole?”
“He is probably just making a peanut butter sandwich and a glass of milk. He will leave when he is finished.”
Picturing that made her laugh and she couldn’t go back to sleep for giggling, so of course neither could I.
Dogs rearranging your furniture at night while you sleep
*Dean Suthen shakes fist*
ALPO HOOOUUUUSSSSEEEEE!!!
sorry about the roof
glad you got a handle on it. and humor even.
See, here’s the thing. Well-adjusted people with life skills can cope with adversity and everyday challenges. They fix what they can fix and get on with it.
(Or pour another drink and ignore it.)
That involves two things:
1) Having the financial stability to be able to afford a minor/moderate emergency
2) Having the emotional stability to not fly off the handle when something goes wrong
Most snowflakes have neither, and are somehow proud of that fact.
Having emotional stability also means being able to control impulses…which goes a long way toward financial stability.
Why not both?
You’re smarter than I am.
Hmm…….to be sure some people have no idea how to change a tire
“Trash pandas!”
Sorry about your roof.
Lemme guess, flat roof?
Sunday is the Greatest day of Racing,
Monaco GP
Indy 500
Coke 600
No Alonso at Monaco
Indy 500 Yea!
600 mile race, in stages? Fucking awe full, loses the whole endurance aspect of the race
And Me and my 5 speed Kia are running Angeles Crest Highway tomorrow morning at sunrise, 62 miles of fun and fear,
I’m pulling the head off my 2F sunday.
Gasket? or replacement?
gasket. A new one for the exhaust as well. Then I try to get the carb rebuilt.
I’m glad I quit doing major repair, I get dirty and banged up enough as it is, and my Mechanic is great.
I want to learn more than anything else. I am also broke.
Auto mechanics is a real good way to learn about life in general, and applies to all kinds of Mechanical work, keep it up!
That’s the goal, anyway. Thanks
No, he’s an original geek, and the 2F is an animal.
My nickname is Bob the Builder, Learn what you can, and always hang around the best guy in your shop.
If YOU are the best guy in your shop, Leave ASAP cause you ain’t gonna learn much more, IMHO
YAAAS!!
1262 miles of racing!!
Once teleportation comes along, someone could do the Monaco-Indy-Charlotte triple
But won’t the cars just teleport to the finish line, making the races short and pointless?
Me – “Why doesnt the Enterprise just teleport a bomb over to the enemy? Why all this shooting and maneuvering?”
Wife – “I am not watching my movies with you anymore.”
Me — “Why do they send the two highest ranking officers on the ship? Don’t they have Marines in the future?
Me — “Is this the episode where Black Spock can’t control his urges?”
Me — “As if Crusher wasn’t annoying enough, they made a Asian version.”
Wife — “You are ruining Voyager for me.”
I dunno…people still toss cabers, even though we have cranes and forklifts and Kenworths n shit.
Speaking of caber tossing. This weekend is Scottish Fest at the OC Fairground. Bringing my camera, wearing a skirt, and watching burly men in skirts pick heavy things up and toss them around while grunting and sweating.
OMG YES. Future Manly Monday?
This is my plan. Provided I don’t die of fried mars bar and scotch egg related heart failure before I get back to my computer.
WorldSBK is doing round 6 at Donington Park this weekend as well. And they don’t have an insanely terrible streaming business model.
I’d really like it if people here could SPOILER WARNING when they’re going to be talking about these races, because I can’t possibly watch them all at once…
OMWC said, “This does NOT happen in my research group.”
Because:
A) you’re a professional;
B) the people who work for you are professionals;
C) all your employees are over 11;
D) it’s a sausage fest in your research group;
and
E) you are justifiably wary of my knowledge of anatomy and proficiency with rusty tin can lids.
+1 OddJob
Is his research group based on kielbasa cooking by adults?
Mmmm kielbasa! I miss that (and a thousand other things that are not plant-based).
So I take it this NY picnic you’re talking about we’ll ditch OMWC and find a place that serves white hots and salt potatoes?
Damn, Skippy. We’re on.
Incidentally I’ve still never had a garbage plate.
WHAT?!
WHAT?!
I’VE NEVER HAD A GARBAGE PLATE
One side of my family is from the Finger Lakes region. I’d never even heard of them until a few years back. When I asked my cousin about it he got uncomfortable like I’d propositioned him indecently and I haven’t asked again.
Not my kind of thing. It just looks thoroughly unappetizing. My Rochester born-and-bred maternal extended family never prepared or ate it.
fair enough. I wouldn’t tell you you should get one. They aren’t good.
It’s closer to “i gotta get this off my bucket list”
“i gotta get this off my bucket list”
That was my take on it. It seems like the type of thing to do when you’re REALLY hung over.
and how.
ah, you’re a veggiesaurus now?
Been doing the plant-based thing for a while now. OMWC is of the butter-eggs-cream-cheese vegetarian tribe.
I gotta say, this “non-ethical vegan” thing has put a real crimp in our geeky pizza routine.
Happily, most of the cocktails I make are plant-based. Oh, that reminds me, it’s time for Happy Hour.
*makes another long island*
there’s always pineapple, SP!
*runs away*
Yes, I do love me some pineapple cocktails.
I’m on Metronidazole right now so no alcohol. Sucks.
Cheers!
Likewise!
proficiency with rusty tin can lids
Tdap boosters for everyone!
on that, anyone hear from the Doc?
That takes all the fun out it!
Fine lockjaw and yellow eyes for some and tiny American flags for others.
Now you’re talking.
I question the professionalism of a man who demands to called “Dr. Old Man With Candy”.
He didn’t spend six years at Windowless White Van University to be Mr. OMWC.
You don’t want to know the title of his dissertation.
I think I can guess.
He was clearly much younger then.
He’s younger than that now?
Good lord, the WaPo comments.
Set yer DVRs for this one.
hm. I might even have PBS!
Thanks for the heads-up!
It was fascinating, and very, very, very sciency. I hope they do an episode on spicy.
The hotter the better!
I wish I could handle hot like I used to, but I have to be more judicious now than when I was a kid.
Re: the DRMO questions last night…a few nice options coming up for auction. If I lived closer to CA, I might look at that Willey.
that 416 trailer makes for a great off road camping setup.
The jeep does look darn good.
Damn you! I may have to bid on that Willys. It looks to be in great shape.
Before I forget, that’s actually the “non-rolling stock” page.
The rolling stock has a few more options listed. Down the road, that might actually be a decent option for some heavy machinery if I ever get off my butt and try some licensing programs (GI Bill FTW).
More lefty racist autophagy!
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/05/26/police-tell-prof-hes-in-danger-for-not-participating-in-campus-no-whites-day/
I don’t understand how this is legal. If colleges went around be asking blacks to not show up I would expect some legal issues. I guess it’s the whole politics is downstream of culture problem. It’s legal because the culture accepts it.
It isnt legal. This kind of shit happens inside of proggie bubbles where the judiciary is either a fellow traveler (Berkley commie mayor) or beholden to school admins. Sue in federal court or go up the system until you are out of the bubble and these scum will get put in their place.
They are going to keep getting their asses handed to them until they stop and crawl back under their rocks.
I would think someone would call FIRE and bring them in on something like this.
You know what they say about train stations with big platforms…
http://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/woman-in-love-with-train-station-objectum-sexual
Where’s the shinkansen tentacle pron?
Wait, I know. Bukakke ekiben.
They’re ideal for unloading freshly mobilised infantry divisions heading to the front to fight the Hun?
Equality love constitution something platitude.
Went to use a bathroom in a Starbucks. Seeing as this is NC, the usual single toilet bathrooms are clearly marked “Men” and “Women” not the usual unisex ones. Door to Men’s is locked. Seeing as I don’t carry my birth certificate with me, i figured it was best to wait and not use the Women’s. Waiting waiting. See a woman (no, not “woman”) walk by and look up to see the employee door still swinging. Go back to waiting. And waiting. Finally try the door again. It’s unlocked.
Who do I report this bathroom violation to? Is there a Bathroom Usage Board with its own police officers (like the ABC) to enforce the toilet regs? I’m pissed.
Off to watch the Mudcats play ball tonight.
I think you just got literally raped.
The NC law said the cities cannot make laws telling private businesses what to do. The businesses can do what they want.
Don’t any of YOU PEOPLE work?!
What do you mean “YOU PEOPLE”? Did you just assume my species?
My enlightened Swiss overseers let us out two hours early every Summer Friday!
It’s 6pm on a Friday. No.
I am working. I can administer this site, edit images in Photoshop, and drink cocktails all at once.
And she can bring home the bacon, fry up in a pan, and never let you forget you’re a man.
Mmmmm I miss bacon!
Having bacon wrapped burgers tonight. Lean beef with onion, jalepeno and chipolte powder wrapped in bacon. Fully loaded burger (lettuce, onion, kosher dill pickle, tomato, salt, pepper, mustard and…mayo…thats right mayo haters, mayo)
The grills is burning off last week’s burger residue as I type. God that smells delicious.
I think my dinner is pasta and chicken. want to trade?
Stick it back in the freezer and get your ass over here. There’s plenty.
Photoshop!? So privileged! MSPaint for life!
Have you seen this by any chance?
Wow!
I thought this would be the link when I read the url
Ha, I’d never seen these.
I really like em.
Nice!
I’m very privileged. It’s my birthright.
I work tomorrow…
Just kidding, of course. But I am jealous I have not been able to keep up with the glibs this week. So much to catch up on and no time to do so. I heard the alt-texts have been good but because I’m always on mobile I haven’t been able to see. Long weekend and going out of town so maybe I’ll catch up soon. Off to the shower for another long night of irresponsible drug use. Ugh… life’s rough.
Totally random, I think George Take needs my libertarian boot up his ass. I hate that guy. Should have never let him out of his concentration camp
Went a little overboard at the end, but yeah, George Takei’s a cunt. He’s that special kind of celebrity stupid where he’s completely out of touch with reality, completely uninformed on issues, but still feels the need to open his mouth and spew his opinion for the masses.
I remember when the Russian Olympics were on and he started whining about how they should happen at Vancouver again due to the whole Russian anti-gay laws thing. Ignoring the reality of how the Olympic commission works (hint: cronyist as fuck) and the actual logistics and work required to set up Olympic venues (the Vancouver Olympic village, for example, was already turned into low income housing), the polls showed that the people of Vancouver seemed largely unhappy with the previous Olympics and were unwilling to fund another.
When this was pointed out to Takei, he basically implied they were homophobes because they won’t foot the (entirely unrealistic) bill. That’s the depth of his thought.
My derp book started following him either by accident or some vast conspiracy. But I took the opportunity to debate with some of his followers. I always make a point to be polite in my debates but no one seems to want to have an honest debate about anything these days. I guess it’s my own fault but it ended withme wanting to punch Mr Sulu. It’s a shame, I do enjoy having political discussion with polar opposites but that’s hard to do these days
The left is not interested in debate. They are actively saying they dont even want to engage with their fellow leftists, the nazis. They just punch ’em.
I used to really like him and enjoyed the early days of his social media when he just posted memes and jokes. Then he started posting some political shit, got rewarded for it by the echo chamber, and went full progtard.
he got punished for unwokeness when he came out against Nu!Sulu’s gay marriage in Star Trek Beyond. I think like a lot of progs (i.e. Whedon), when they fall into the grinder, they double down after that to get their ‘cred’ back.
“As I get more and more depressed about Trump continuing Obama’s war-boner policies and proving himself no different than the Hildebeast…”
To be fair, I think Campaign Trump pandered to both the hawks and the non-interventionists at the same time. IOW, whoever screams the loudest will get what they want. Problem is, not enough of us, too many McCains.
Trump’s only really big interventionist promise was in regards to dealing with ISIS in Iraq. His bigger platform promise was a partial military buildup and increased funding. Which can have warboner implications, but overall Trump’s foreign policy platform was a lot more obsessed with trade than war.
However, there is something to be said about how the only time he got any praise from both sides of the aisle was when he bombed Syria. Which really just shows you how fucked up DC is.
You really do have every incentive in the world to be a hawk in DC, on both established teams. Look at how the Left has been threatening primaries towards Tulsi Gabbard because she doesn’t tow the regime change party line. At this point, only hardcore Berniebros support her in the party. The only reason Rand is left alone is b/c he was just reelected.
I taught a little girl with the exact same name as the “most likely to be a terrorist” one. She would even be a seventh grader now. That was in a different state, though, but it sure as hell gave me a double take. There’s no way anyone would call that girl a terrorist, though, unless she’s got assholes for classmates. She was a good kid.
Wait, I just reread it and realized it was the teacher who gave out those “awards”?! Fuck that teacher.
I dont believe the story. Clock boy gave us a heads-up on over the top oppressing the minorities in grade school stories. It sounds too much like it was made up by someone who reads too much WaPo. That’s just not how real life discrimination works.
This isn’t just one person, though, the whole class got equally asshatted certificates. That would be a pretty large-scale conspiracy for all those kids and parents to come up with together.
Have we seen these certificates? Admissions from the teachers? I am asking because I didn’t read the story.
Yeah, they had quotes from multiple parents and photos of multiple certificates. Both in the article and linked to the local news story. I don’t necessarily think it’s racially motivated? I think the teacher was just an asshole with a mean-spirited sense of humor.
Well, if true then the teacher is also completely out of touch with reality, the social climate and current events.
Also, the McMartin preschool fiasco comes to mind. I am still skeptical.
It was mentioned as an aside at the CNN article that apparently the teacher is black and, according to one of the interviewed family members, had previously harped on one of the black kids in the class for not acting black enough (one of the other awards that she gave out was “Most Likely to Fit In With White People”). So it’s going to make it hard for the media to turn this into Clock Boy 2.0 without heads exploding. They aren’t going to have as much success with framing it as racism in a case like this. (I still would argue that the terrorist one isn’t racist, it’s just mean and tacky. The White People one, on the other hand…)
Seventh grade? They are assholes.
Scrolled back up. Notice Bob Boberson claims some people dont know how to change a tire. It gets worse Bob.
Someone I know got on their HOA. They are in charge of handling problems for people. He gets questions about how to change light bulbs. I am not exaggerating. For a week he was getting one frantic request after another from a woman who was in a panic about an opossum that walked across her porch one night. This is in the greater Houston area. There are so many people now who have lived sheltered lives that they are helpless.
I asked if I could reply to the woman about the possum. “If you have an opossum lurking around your house at night be very, very careful. You have to bait it with hot dogs and then hide and wait for it. When it appears, and it will, you sneak around behind it, leap on it and grab it by the neck. You have to strangle it quickly or it will get its tail around your neck and start strangling you back…”
He stopped me there and said he would handle her.
That’s pretty funny. I was referencing Robby Soave’s article from back after the election when he wrote some cute piece on the rubes in middle America and how maybe they aren’t ‘literally hitler’ because one changed his tire for him. God I love Glibs and do not miss the other place.
But yeah I agree with you, the learned helplessness of a large swath of our citizenry is pretty scary. I once watched a young man absolutely struggle with trying to dig a hole with a spade once at my job. I walked up and asked him if he’d ever used a shovel before and he looked at me a little desperately and embarrassed and meekly said “no.”
I just muttered “I’m sorry your father failed you so badly” and walked off. Felt like a dick but I was to disgusted to show him how.
I just told my wife about this conversation. She scoffed “Tires? Lighbulbs? Have you looked around? Most people cant even dress themselves. It’s like a clown horror show out there.”
When our daughter, webdominatrix, was managing a coffee shop, she routinely had tot teach the employees how to use a broom.
I’m no a millennial but I’m almost one….kinda that weird in-between after Gen X. I try hard not to engage in the “get off my lawn millennials” arguments but I gotta say they make it pretty tough sometimes. It seems that self sufficiency is something many if not most of them have ever considered.
Hey! There are a few libertarian millennials.
*tobias’s dozens of us gif*
I was born in ’88, whatever that makes me. My wife made a good point. There’s a huge break in the millennial cohort between those of us who had limited technology introduced into our lives (I didn’t have a cell phone until high school, and even then it was powered off and in my backpack because it couldn’t text) and those who grew up with technology in their crib. I actually played outside as a child. My younger brothers did, but less so than I did.
I want to call the split in 94, but might not have any real argument.
Agreed. Didn’t have my first cell phone until after college. A big part of it I think is whether you were one of the dying breed of “free range kids” in an area where it was still socially acceptable and where there were other free range kids to run with. It only makes sense that if you had autonomy and a healthy amount of liberty in your life as a child that you’d grow up to value that in your adult life.
It’s hard to draw a bright line because it was a cultural shift, so some people shifted quicker than others. For example, my best friend had a playstation at age 4. I occasionally got to play on my dad’s commodore 64, but didn’t get a console until 10th grade.
I almost feel bad for the kid we knew who had his mom picking out his clothes until high school.
He couldn’t do anything at my house.
you know the current state of affairs really sucks when this is something to brag about.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the end of the era of kids being able to go places and do things without their parents hovering over them and what it will mean for libertarianism. Intentional undermining of childhood by the state in order to render to populace more docile? Inevitable result of advances in technology and mass media? I’m not sure but it doesn’t bode well. Doesn’t seem like people are going to appreciate liberty if they’ve learned and been encouraged toward dependence from the cradle.
There are a dozen kids that live within a mile of me, early teens and pre-teens. I am at the end of a dead end road and the road ends at a bayou.
Right now those kids are out racing up and down the road on four wheelers. They run around in the woods a lot. If they dont kill themselves we wont be completely lost.
Intentional undermining of childhood by the state in order to render to populace more docile?
yup.
If it makes you feel better, I’m in the suburbs, with a park a block down the street from me. I see groups of kids walking or riding bikes to it pretty much any day it isn’t raining (and some days it is).
It’s part of the reason that college kids are such totalitarian assholes. Their whole life there was an adult around to handle problems. Bully? You don’t have to learn how to deal with him, just call over an adult, etc.
I’m reminded of the vintage can opener in the Pettin’ in the Park number from Gold Diggers of 1933. (Unfortunately it comes after the two-minute clip above, as do the even more spectacular scenes like the roller skating baby peeping Tom.) You know, the sort that doesn’t even have the little wheel.
Reminded me of this. Frank Reynolds fires kid who can’t fix copy machine (Always Sunny in Philadelphia).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5ZpiTGI7D4
The Warthog!
Probably lucky for that kid I wasn’t in a position to fire anybody! Seriously though I felt bad about it after….not his fault that he obviously didn’t have parents who cared to make sure he left the house with some basic life skills
The terrorists have officially won.
Upthread there was some thanking– potential bribery — of the good people who put this site together. I would like to add what I think is the highest compliment I can think of: I got home from work tonight, kicked off my shoes, opened the laptop and started reading the links. It was easily 25 minutes before I realized I HADN’T EVEN FIXED MYSELF A DRINK YET!
Here’s some SAINTS for ya:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9M3b9lh-7s
SP says that we’re more addictive than alcohol. She said this as she was mixing drinks.
And it’s true- she would never read the comments at reason, and now she’ll drop in references to posters here, knows all the handles…
Always make a drink!
Although, yes, I also have this place up before I smoke or drink.
My phone also suggests this site above all others.
I tried to show this site to a libertarian-leaning friend of mine (who was utterly put off by The Other Site and their lefty pandering). I had told him a lot about the interesting links and great discussions we had here, and he seemed interested. He was over at my place one fine Monday afternoon, and I pulled up Glibertarians…
Me: “Hey dude, this is the site I was telling you about. Check out the-”
Him: “Uh… ‘Manly Monday’? Why is there a picture of some oiled-up bodybuilder?? Is this where you spend all your time?”
Me: “Well that’s, uh, I mean… That’s just…”
I had the same conversation with Mrs. Trshmnstr.
lol
i do think that the weekly-format of Glibertarians makes it immune to potential charges of “Conservatism”
“Democrats argue the fact that Gianforte didn’t win by 20 precentage points like President Donald Trump did in November shows voters are fed up with the President and the Republican agenda”
They’re desperate. They’ll jump in the air, scream, drink champagne, and post dancing banana gifs at the vaguest signs of Democrats having a pulse. It’s like they’re standing at the death bed watching the machine flatlined and all of a sudden, somebody screams ‘IT MOVED! DID YOU SEE THAT?’.
Look! The Dem’s candidates aren’t dead, they’re just pining for the fjords!
There’s never a mention that for both parties, special elections are almost always going to run close margins because of the lack of incumbents and lower turnout.