Man, I am just beat. Too many late nights watching beisbol. Since all my preferred football teams suck and nothing interesting will happen in hockey or basketball until after Spring Training starts, I have a couple of months to catch up.
How many people get to say they got kidnapped by Amazonian pirates and wandered out of the jungle just fine? I’m not sure I agree with their life choices, but I’m happy for their children that everyone survived with only bug bites to show.
This article’s headlines says Analytics won the World Series. But upon reading the article, it seems that the analytics identify people underperforming, and having coaches who can develop them is what actually matters.
NYC Attack would have been much worse if the super highly trained NYPD hadn’t shown up in minutes(!) and shot the guy. Who had left his vehicle and had a pellet gun. What the fuck are you talking about? The apologists did this after Vegas, too. No. Just, no. That guy carried out a successful attack, unfortunately. All the cops did was prevent him from escaping. Which, good on them, but they didn’t stop it from getting worse.
The new Fed Chair, about as milquetoast as you could find. At least seems to understand that the Fed has some limits on its ability to affect the economy and dislikes the Volker rule.
Oh look, another State Capitalist currency adding zeroes to its bank notes. This would never happen in True Socialism.
Hindsight being 20/20 makes this stuff pretty easy to talk about now. Looks like dude was a powder keg waiting to blow. No, scratch that. He was a slow-burning timer fuse that knew exactly what he was doing and took meticulous notes and nobody heeded the warning signs and/or tried to stop him.
You’re a fucking psy-cho.
Hey dumbass, everything on the internet IS THERE FOREVER!!!!! I think she’s either got a lonely life ahead of her or a lucrative future in fetish porn. Or both perhaps. Either way, she sure sounds like a real winner. And she wears her hair like shit.
Who wins Liar Of The Day? No wait, Liar Of The Week. nah, not good enough..how about Liar Of The Month? Still not quite right. Ooh, I know: who deserves the Nobel Prize In Lying for 2017? That’s right. This guy beat out TOS’s very own Dunphy, who was unavailable to have accepted the award anyway due to sponsorship obligations between both the promoters of his rock tour and those involved in the World Big Wave Championships. Anyway, what a narcissistic, lying sack of shit.
Poor people only! (And by poor, I mean $104k a year). Ain’t rent-fixing grand?
Holy shit! This has to be the most surprising thing I’ve ever heard!!!!! Don’t these people know there’s a law that says not to do this? The comments are an eclectic blend ranging from “no duh” to “Trumpz Murrica” and several points in between. Enjoy the derp.
In Illinois, apparently the wheels of justice don’t grind at all when it comes to ethics complaints. But don’t worry. The legislative Inspector General will get right on that…just as soon as the vacancy since 2015 is filled.
That’s all for the links today. And now…the sports!
Hey look its soccer scores from the UCL! Monaco actually got a point. Sevilla won, Man City topped Naples, Shakhtar all but put themselves into the knockout stages, Porto won, Spurs stunned Real 3-1, BvB continues to shit the proverbial bed (which contrary to popular belief is not a pastime of all Germans)…and Liverpool beat up Maribor again and sit atop their group.
On the frozen ponds, The Pens beat Edmonton, Jersey beat Vancouver, Toronto got the ship righted by topping the Mighty Ducks, the Sharks blasted the Predators and the Blackhawks completely shut down the Flyers and beat their asses 3-0. That’s a Swissy special report there. He needed that win…and he got it!
Buzzing around the bases like the Enola Gay buzzed around…well, you know.
And my, oh my! I haven’t seen a Jap get bombed like that since August 9, 1945. Poor guy. He was graceful as ever. But whoever thought it was a good idea ::cough::Dave Roberts::cough:: to put a guy on the mound that the Astros are very familiar with from his Rangers days and who they absolutely shelled the last several times they’ve faced him needs to have their head examined…Hannibal Lector-style. Anyway, the entire World Series went exactly as I predicted it. And I mean I predicted the winner of every single game and even called how games 6 and 7 would play out. Wish I’d have made that parlay in Vegas, but I didn’t because I wasn’t there and I’m the kind of guy who believes in jinxing his team. Case in point: when Ohio State went down 14-0 to Penn State this past Saturday, I blamed myself for thinking my red jersey would be ok to wear. So I went upstairs, took it off and changed back into my white one. And the rest is history.
McCullers is good, but I wish this guy was pitching tonight.When your costume is a little too on the nose
Happy Wednesday. Game 7 of the World Series tonight. I know who I’ll be rooting for, but it’s been a hell of a ride, if not great baseball. Although last night’s game was probably the best game of baseball in the whole series. Hopefully, we won’t get a 10+ inning, 6+ HR derby game — although I think the Astros would win that.
I also discovered a down-side to working from home. If I eat any more Reese’s cups, I’m going to experience acute arterial blockage. Fuck it, I’m going for it. For Science!… and now, the Links
Australia, where not only the plants and animals are trying to kill you, but also your AirBnB hosts.
Somehow I never thought of The Diamond Age‘s distributed states as being implemented by mass-murdering shitheads.
This looks like its going to be a fun story out of Florida. Legislators and lobbyists discreetly surveilled, can’t wait for the dirt to drop.
Why I don’t teach my kids to shout “Stranger Danger!”. Because they would totally do this to me in a store.
The first CFP Poll is out. I don’t think anybody should have a real big problem with it, although Alabama shouldn’t have as much room as they do between them and Wisconsin and Miami. The schedules and records are comparable. But there are five weeks to sort it all out.
Barca draw, Munich squeak by, ManUre win with ease, Roma thump Chelski, Juve draw as do (Catalan) Barca and (Spanish) Athletico. More european-style CL football today.
The Dodgers win a tight, yet seemingly comfortable, game. Lots of predictions of a blowout in the final game of the World Series tonight. I won’t be making a prediction at all, though I will note that the entire series has gone exactly as I said it would through 6. So maybe I ain’t so dum after all.
No more sports. Here come…the links!
Media are the last people still searching for a motive from the latest vehicular attack. Could he have been an overworked Uber driver? Could he have had a seizure? Could he have been anything other than what he claimed to be? Doubtful, but give them an A for effort. By the way, for those that care, the NYC marathon will go on as planned this weekend. I can only imagine how tight security will be.
Self-serving assholes serve selves. Big fucking surprise there. They get bonus points for being officials from Chicago. Double bonus points for being cops. And triple score for being legislators. That’s a trifecta of sleaziness right there, apologies to Chicago-land Glibs.
Cholito and Chinito Cheer On Houston. Blancito looks on.
If you don’t know who Mattress Mack is, you’re missing out. Well, he’s in the news again. And no, its not for groping. This dude is everything about what’s good in the world.
Happy Halloween. Don’t forget to send any good pictures to submit@glibertarians.com. We won’t post them, but we will examine them very closely.
Hopefully everyone is ducking out of work early to get on their “slutty tampon” outfits for parties. OMWC is trying to make sure that the rip in his pants is “just right”. I had to make an emergency run to the store, because my wife bought terrible candy. Terrible. I don’t want to wash shit or egg off my house and cars, so I’m going to just mix in some good stuff and hope we don’t get too many visitors. Then I’m hoping that Justin Verlander can get the first W by an Astros starter in this World Series. I bought some Monte Cristo beer. I have no idea if it is any good, but it cost half as much as good beer, so it only has to be half as good as the worst six-pack I ever paid $10 for.
We may also use this later for some role playing.
Jadaveon Clowney, TOTALLY not taking a shot at the owner of his team. Just lazy.
Interesting link between the Protestant Reformation and hops in beer.
That sonofabitch Trump and his meddling FDA are going to destroy the soy industry! It now appears that eating lots of soy doesn’t actually help you live longer, it just feels that way.
Champions League is back today. I guess they played football last night but I don’t really care. Tampa Bay is still tearing through the NHL while St Louis put a halt to LA’s hot start. Montreal scored eight (*!!!) goals, probably doubling their total for the year. And the Blackhawks were off last night. Hey, they still have a team in Phoenix and they won! And the Maple Leafs continue their fall back to earth and lose again.
The real sports news happens tonight, when the Astros and Dodgers face off in Game Six of the World Series. I, for one, hope its the final game although I predicted it would go to Seven before the series started. What’s the over/under on homers tonight? I’m thinking it will be a much lower-scoring game than the home run derby with fielders that occurred Sunday. But we’ll only have to wait 12 hours and change to find out.
That’s it for the sports update. I hope it was abbreviated enough for those of you who suffer from that affliction where you hate to see people engaged in the peak form of physical activity in their chosen profession. Or you just hate my updates. Either way, that’s all for sports and now I deliver to you…the links!
A Halloween story not for the faint of heart. And by “faint of heart,” I mean the pussies that walked into that Staples on a crisp October 30th only to be confronted with….the face of evil!
Mercer hedge fund tax dispute heads to IRS Office Of Appeals. The IRS is pissed at the company’s employees using an “abusive” tax shelter to keep $6.8 million of the money they actually earned. The company maintains that the shelters are perfectly legal. The head of Mercer is a Trump supporter.
I wonder when the word “abusive” became the equivalent of “illegal” when it came to using a program the government was stupid enough to establish. Probably in hopes that nobody but the bureaucrats establishing it and their families were clever enough to discover and use it.
The New Republic (duh, TW: The New Republic!) shits their pants over Trump supporters being such big mean climate deniers. I guess requiring proof before we let the government put in place stifling regulations, impose hefty taxes and redistribute our hard-earned money across the globe so tinpot dictators can line their pockets with it, all while people in those nations are denied the comforts of running water and electricity because the generation of it is fueled by nasty old coal and oil, counts as being a “denier” these days. Well count me in with that basket of deplorable then, TNR. Because your scam is based on bullshit models the proponents of refuse to even share the methodology or unaltered data points for. So go fuck yourself.
Denver bans smoking and vaping at outdoor mall. Nice work, especially on the vaping. All that moisture put into the air could cause all kinds of damage, you stupid nanny-state bastards.
I hope you all have a fun Halloween. (Enjoy The Great Pumpkin, Jake) I’ll be taking my dinosaur, horse and unicorn out for candy later this evening. I’ll be the guy dressed up as a giant cock.
Happy Monday, Glibs. My oldest son must be getting the jerk gene coming in. How else to explain that he got sent home from school for ‘having a fever’, when he doesn’t have one? Oh, and because of stupid daycare rules, that means he gets to stay home again tomorrow, too. Because I got nothing better to do. Fuck it. Send his whole class over here. I’ll invite OMWC as a chaperone and we’ll have a grand old day. Fuck!
On the other hand, at least I didn’t kill someone attempting suicide. Suicider was 12. Happy Monday.
Let’s see..Where to begin. Hmmmmmm. I don’t really know. Oh yeah, I do. I’ll start in Florida. Hey, McElwain here’s a tip: if you’re gonna make up a bullshit story about your family and players receiving death threats in order to generate sympathy, at least make sure you have a few buddies go down to the public library and email you a few from dummy mailboxes. I don’t know how many millions from your buyout that dumbass move cost you, but you deserve to lose every penny of it. Oh well, at least they scored and kept that shutout-free streak intact.
Iowa State stayed perfect against top 5 teams, dispatching TCU at home. Wisconsin stayed stealthy to the committee by beating lowly Illinois by a pair of touchdowns. Clemson beat the Rambling Wreck by the same margin. Miami beat lowly North Carolina by five and continues to live dangerously. Notre Dame thumped NC State and continues to impress. Washington beat UCLA. Oklahoma State topped WVU. The Hokies tore Duke to pieces. Northwestern beat Sparty in triple-overtime. USF ch- ch- ch- choked away their game to Houston. USC beat up on the hapless Sun Devils. UCF stayed undefeated while Penn State couldn’t.
Light em up, JT!
Oh yeah, about that last result: it was Penn State 38 and (sorry, but I can’t resist) THE Ohio State University Buckeyes 39. And that’s with JT Barrett IV going 13-13 in the fourth quarter and throwing for 3 touchdowns as the offensive and defensive lines imposed their will late. Saquan Barkley wilted like a flower on the biggest stage of the year and his grip on the Heisman got a little slippery. 8 yards on 20 carries after the first three minutes of the game isn’t pretty. Sure it was a solid three minutes, but the correction on special teams made him a non-factor. Meanwhile, the doubts (I’ll admit to being among those who had them early) should be put to rest on whether of not JT should be the starter. He ran for more yards than the entire Penn State team. He passed for 328 yards going 33/39. And that’s with two dropped balls for sizable gains. Anyway, that game was off-the-charts insane. And the effort and poise shown under pressure when going down 18 twice will be remembered for some time. Now don’t lose your focus against Iowa!
Personally, I don’t know what could have topped that for weekend entertainment. I got drunk and fell asleep during the seventh on Saturday only to wake up confused at 3 am wondering how the Astros collapsed. Then I saw the Giles stat line. Yikes. So I tuned in Sunday with a little bit of hope..which was quickly dashed in the first inning. But shame on those of you who turned it off, because they tied it up in the 4th!. Then shame on you if you turned it off after a three run lead was reestablished in the top of the 5th. Which was erased in the bottom half of the inning as Kershaw was chased. Nothing of consequence happened in the sixth. Then the Dodgers got the lead back in the 7th…only to have the Astros put up a four spot and put a dagger in the game’s heart. Shame on those of you who turned it off then too, because the night went insane. They traded runs in the 8th and then the Dodgers put up 3 in the 9th to tie it and sent Jansen to the mound knowing the Astros closer was a basket case and wouldn’t play. The Astros could do nothing in the bottom of the inning but strand a guy at second. Then the Dodgers had a miscommunication between the runner and third base coach cost them a run in the top of the 10th, which cost them dearly as Jansen lost his stuff with two outs, hitting a batter, walking the next and then giving up a game-winning single to left. Holy shit was that exciting. The Dodgers pitching has been an unexpected chink in their armor and they will have to regroup as the face Verlander in a must-win game 6 tomorrow.
What a fun weekend even though it wasn’t for the faint of heart. I’ll be recovering for at least a day with nothing on tonight, although I believe I’ll take in a hockey game or watch the OSU-PSU game again. I would imagine I could take the ups and downs a bit better knowing that everything is going to work out fine in the end.
Anyway, I know some of you think I’m an asshole for the way I go on about the Buckeyes. Sorry about that. Its not meant to cause any distress. Its just how I was raised. And with that non-apology apology, I bring you…the links!
Kevin Spacey forced into coming out over drunken pass 32 years ago.
Speaking of apologies, they keep on coming in. This one from Kevin Spacey apologizing to Anthony Rapp for coming on to him when Rapp was 14. Well, not necessarily since Spacey said he doesn’t remember making a pass at the youth because he was drunk. Spacey was also forced to come out of the closet and give up the privacy he so desperately clung to about his sex life. Not that everybody didn’t know he was gay, but he had taken pains to make sure the world knew what he did and who he did it with was none of their business. Its a shame we’re taking those kinds of scalps over what potentially amounts to an unwanted pass at a 14-year old kid whose parents let him go to an adult party and hang out alone past midnight from a drunk dude 32 years ago. And no, I’m not victim blaming. I’m saying Rapp’s parents should have been more responsible and Rapp, as an adult now, should understand that a bisexual dude who runs in pretty loose circles probably assumes the person he’s climbing in bed with after midnight at a party isn’t an unaccompanied minor.
Let’s spin the wheel of indictment. The easy money is on Manafort for some wire transfers and/or failing to disclose ties (everybody knew he had) on the correct piece of government paper. Kelly and Page are the other potential candidates with Dem bundler Tony Podesta being a wild-card. Anyway, its just the beginning, apparently. And the witch hunt looks to continue with no end in sight.
Look at these scumbag pieces of shit. Looting the houses and towns ravaged by wildfires? I hope they toss these fuckers away for a long time. A very long time.
I know being a public defender is a thankless, shitty job. And I also know a lot of them are so overworked they can’t really offer up a solid defense for the cases they’re assigned. But nobody deserves this. Well, some of the District Attorneys probably do.
Their harrowing journey is over. And no, I don’t mean the 98 days they were lost. I mean the five days and nights they sat on an American naval vessel wondering when they’d run into something.
Michael Moore: trolling victim extraordinaire
Trump does what Trump does. Progressive “icon” takes the bait. Its like these clowns are his personal plaything. They’re little more than wind up toys anymore. Or Chatty Cathys whose string he pulls from time to time when he’s feeling a little bored.
STEVE SMITH PUT IN SOME HARD WORK THIS WEEKEND. BY HARD WORK, MEAN RAPE. HAD TO CATCH UP ON QUOTA AFTER HANGING OUT IN HOLLYWOOD WITH PREVIOUSLY RAPED PEOPLE. STEVE SMITH GOT BACK TO BASICS. BY BACK TO BASICS, MEAN GOOD, HONEST HIKER AND CAMPER RAPE. SO NOW STEVE SMITH CAN RELAX AND GIVE FUNNY PEOPLE LINKS TO READ:
WASN’T THIS ALREADY BOOK AND MOVIE? WAIT…THAT SUBMARINE, THIS NOT.
STEVE SMITH LAUGH AT HEADLINE, BUT STORY NOT FUNNY!
STEVE SMITH THINK HE MAYBE STAND FOR PARLIAMENT. SOUND LIKE HE WOULD FIT IN.
THIS STUPID GAME, FOR STUPID PEOPLE. STEVE SMITH PREFER “RAPEOUT” GAME.
STEVE SMITH GO NOW, HEAR TOUR BUS STOPPING TO LET PEOPLE TAKE PICTURES. STEVE SMITH GIVE THEM VACATION MEMORIES TO CHERISH. BY VACATION MEMORIES TO CHERISH, MEAN RAPE.
For some reason, our village has decreed that trick or treating will not be on Halloween, but will be done tonight. Which is great- I love the idea of having a delivery service. So I may be scarce for a while, feasting on variety that only happens once a year. OK, so what’s happening in the world?
Can you imagine being trapped in a jury room with this gasbag? That’s cruel and unusual punishment right there.
Not to get in the way of the fine ranting Swiss has been doing this week, but this strikes me as too cute by half. “We can depose you again, so sure, go for it, run again.”
A couple dozen attention-seeking losers make a big noise. A few hundred attention-seeking losers show up to make even a bigger noise. The news media has a field day, pumping up the importance of these non-important losers. Our national IQ drops ten points.
And for today’s installment of Old People Music, the one-time pairing of the fabulous-but-forgotten vocalist Al Hibbler and the never-forgotten Count Basie, who practically invented the less-is-more style of jazz.
Jadaveon Clowney, TOTALLY not 
