Crazy Arms. North Korea tests high-thrust rocket engine. For their “space program”.
R.I.P.
Bring Another Drink. Half of women drink while trying to get pregnant or shortly after conception but give it up once they know they’re with child. Yeah, maybe that’s because they’re normal, Vandy.
Go Bobbie Soxer. Cybersecurity companies hoping women are able to help fill a large number of the 1.8 million jobs they’re expecting. Because diversity is more important than competence.
Vaya Con Dios, Dominican Republic. The US is moving on to the semifinals of the WBC after eliminating our Caribbean friends.
Howard Schultz is stepping away from Starbucks. Rumor has it he’s priming the pump for a political run. Which would be odd since profs tend to despise people that run businesses and then step into the political arena at a later age. Unless, you know, they’re hypocrites.
Happy St Patrick’s Day dear friends. Let’s all see how far into the day we get before we pass out drunk. Oh, what’s that…St Paddy’s is for amateurs? Well then, I guess I’ll drink all of these Shiner Bocks myself. But first, the links.
?Another positive result of Trump’s proposed budget would be a lot of butthurt at the United Nations. Fine by me. Maybe we’ll start pissing more away on them when they remove despotic shitholes from the Human Rights Commission.
?Hey asshole, what part of “freedom of speech” don’t you understand? This is the kind of politician that has never been in the private sector and neither has his brother or his father, by the way. Somebody go out and get some tar, feathers and a rail. I’ll find an angry mob.
?Those potato-eaters sure must have a lot of money at their disposal. What other way to explain them throwing $110,000,000 on the HP campus in Boise and moving their offices there? I guess they’ll finally be able to stop working from libraries, Starbucks’s and anywhere else that has free WiFi and doesn’t cost anything.
Thursday. Not only Thursday, but the least productive Thursday of the year. Good luck if you’re participating in a basketball pool. (I promised not to plug ours again here.) Now let’s get down to business.
OK, everybody in the US Senate, if you trust Rand Paul not to be a stooge of the Russians, raise your hand. 1, 2, 3…97, 98, 99. That leaves you, John McCain. You crazy old bastard, eat a Snickers bar.
Provo, Utah residents assumed it was family issues that caused the police chief to quit. Turns out it was something a little more serious. And based on the reasons his predecessors left, I’m thinking there might be a systemic problem there.
Wednesday morning…one day until the least productive two word days of a basketball fan’s life. (Insert shameless plug for the FREE Glibs NCAA bracket challenge. Password: Podesta).
The Dutch election reaches its climax today. Side note: is it just me or does Geert Wilders look kinda like Leonardo DiCaprio…if he were about 20 years older, a little heavier and if he got stung by a few bees?
The Boston Globe offers up a sober analysis about climate change models. Somebody ought to send that asshole a subpoena from the New York Attorney General’s office and send him to prison for interfering with the “settled science” narrative they’re trying to ram down Exxon’s throat.
That’s it, folks. I hope you guys could muddle through them, what with no bullet points or flashing arrows or a thing that goes “ping”.
I got knocked out in the first round of my club’s match play championship yesterday. Got beat 4 & 3 by a guy I know I should have smoked. So this is for me personally.
I do want to point out the ironic stupidity that is the WaPo’s first paragraph. Read it below and stand, mouth agape, marveling at its simplistic, revisionist retardation. (emphasis mine)
In his final months in office, President Barack Obama sought to lock in a structure and set of rules governing targeted killings and drone strikes so that the incredibly lethal tool would not be abused by his successors.
What the shit? Abused like, oh I don’t know, killing American citizens not even charged with a crime? Or their teenage kids? Or killing more civilians than your predecessor did? Or killing more people in more jerkwater shitholes lacking the means to cause America any harm whatsoever than can be counted? Keep licking those boots, WaPo. That’s gonna continue building your well-deserved reputation of being a myopic shill for Team Blue.
I almost hope UCLA makes it far in the tourney (don’t forget to sign up for the bracket challenge, dammit!), just so we can spend more time with Lonzo Ball’s dad. Dude is off the chain!
Good morning! Only, why is it so damn dark outside at this hour? Oh, that’s right. Some dickheads changed the time on us. Well, that’s not gonna stop me from providing some sweet links for you to get your week started right. At least I hope not.
No! Fuck you, go be productive in the private sector.
The cuts Trump plans to propose this week are also expected to lead to layoffs among federal workers, changes that would be felt sharply in the Washington area. According to an economic analysis by Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody’s Analytics, the reductions outlined so far by Trump’s advisers would reduce employment in the region by 1.8 percent and personal income by 3.5 percent, and lower home prices by 1.9 percent.
“In our world, women have been important to us for a long time,” explained Selena Kalvaria, senior director for Lime-A-Rita. After all, women are statistically 51 percent of the population and according to surveys they make 85 percent of consumer purchasing decisions.
Whatever. You dicks went political and dropped Bud Bowl for Amy Schumer and some story about a legal immigrant. Besides, have you tried this stuff? It’s worse than Bartles & Jaymes.
Ah yes. Nothing better than waking up at 7:00 to that fresh smell of eggs and bacon. Except, you know, its not 7 anymore, its 8. Thanks, dickhead government.
Anyway, here we go…
I know you’re all excited for the field to be set today so you can participate in the Glibertarians NCAA Mens Basketball Bracket Challenge Contest. (Password: Podesta). There will be prizes from your hosts for the winners and some losers, so get in there and play. And speaking of contests, you need to hurry up and get your submissions in by noon on Tuesday for the Logo contest. We’ve had some really good stuff submitted. Remember: every serious entrant gets a free Glibertarians.com bumper sticker with the new logo!
Well, that week went flying by. Spent the whole damn thing setting up my new business website, developing a mailing list and getting an e-blast put together and then studying for my state licensing exam to be an auctioneer. And while I’m no fan of state licensing, I’ve got to admit that there’s a hell of a lot more to running an auction than talking real fancy-like. And I’m glad that the course I took pounded them into my head over and over.
Anyway, I’m getting off topic here. And besides, you guys don’t give a shit about my personal life.
Your chance to get involved for a good cause: belittling those that do worse than you.
Well, most of you don’t. Unless, that is, my personal life involves setting up the First Annual Glibertarians College Basketball Tourney Bracket Challenge (a carryover from the Hit & Run Tourney Pick Em days for those of you that remember) and giving you the password to get in (password: Podesta). Max entries per person capped at three, so you’ve got options there to have some fun with upset picks. And I can tell you this: there will be prizes for the winners involving our new logo. Which reminds me, the deadline for entries is rapidly approaching. So get off your asses and get them in here. More on this over the weekend and Monday.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Except this time, “try” means adding seventeen year olds to the voting rolls. Hey George, if you really gave a shit about 17 year olds, you’s want to lower the drinking age and smoking age to 17 instead of pushing them up, and you’d demand the “restricted” drivers licenses become “full” licenses once these people hit 17. AND YOU’D BE PUSHING TO LOWER THE AGE OF CONSENT! (Thanks, OMWC. I missed that biggie on the first pass.) You know, since they’d be adults and all that. But nope. You don’t want to treat them like adults. You just want another voting bloc.
Remember that fight (literally, not figuratively) a few years back between a Chicago cop and a Chicago fireman at the scene where two people had fallen in the river and needed rescuing? Well, just in case you’d forgotten, the bill for taxpayers has partially come due. And the tab so far is $1,600,000. It’s expected to rise.
On other healthcare/government news, you might be shocked to find out that when the CBO scores something, they tend to do a terrible job at it. Which still doesn’t explain all of the terrible, debt-inducing boondoggles that have been pushed through that they didn’t score. But it at least gives debt-busters ammunition the next time they get into an argument with some mouth-breather who says we should pass some stupid-ass stimulus, or control over an entire market segment merely because the CBO claims it will be debt-neutral or will actually be a net winner.
If you think the WikiLeaks Vault 7 release has been a big flop, don’t worry. They’ve only released 1% of the documents they acquired. Meanwhile, the mainstream media will continue to try and ignore it but the people will still keep digging into what has been released.
Meanwhile on the mainland, illegal immigration has taken a precipitous fall since the immigration laws that have been on the books for quite some time started being marginally more strictly enforced but started receiving considerably more coverage.
Last thing: I’ll be putting together a college basketball tourney pick em for the Glibs and for any of our old friends that haven’t joined us but participated in the years I used to do it over there. I know I failed to put one together last year, but I’m climbing back in the saddle again this year and will have it up shortly so you guys can get registered. It’ll be a Yahoo! deal, just to give you a heads-up.
