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  • ‘Twas the Shabbos Before Xmas Morning Links

    I have no idea why I’m awake this early, but as long as I am, let’s take a cynical view of the news.

    Once again, our brave Federal law enforcement heroes have thwarted a terror plot. One which was hatched by an ineffectual loon, and encouraged, enabled, and abetted by… our brave Federal law enforcement heroes.

    Another one of Obama’s wars is nearly at its third birthday. Oh wait, it’s not really a war, we just send “advisers.”  And weapons. And provide logistics. And Special Forces. And… I think I’ve seen this movie before.

    The Left continues to pimp for extending the War On Drugs because this time, it’s the wrong sort of people involved. You know, rural white people. THEY’RE FUCKING UP OUR STATISTICS! Putting them in cages seems only fair.

    There has long been an affinity between the Chinese and Jews- they share a strong cultural affinity for family, education, commerce, entrepreneurship, and tribal loyalty. And the Chinese, taking note of what’s happening in both the US academic world and the active government discouragement of business innovation in traditional areas like Silicon Valley, are reciprocating (((our))) love for moo goo gai pan. Hat Tip to Chafed (and gaslight as well).

    Old Guy music time! This was from a fascinating album- how would Stephen Foster’s classic American songs sound if arranged and played in the modern folk style? The answer is that they’re great songs in the sense of being timeless and adaptable. It was a clever idea, and Nathan Edwards is talented enough to pull it off.

  • ZARDOZ’S FRIDAY EVENING LINKS

    HO HO HO, GO FORTH AND KRINGLE!

     

    ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. AS THE BRUTAL HOLIDAYS ARE HERE, ZARDOZ UNDERSTANDS HIS CHOSEN ONES MAY BE UNDER SOME AMOUNT OF STRESS. ZARDOZ WOULD RECOMMEND GOING FORTH AND KILLING…BUT THE TABERNACLE HAS INFORMED ZARDOZ THAT THIS IS PARTICULARLY FROWNED UPON AT THIS TIME OF THE BRUTAL YEAR.

    THEREFORE, ZARDOZ WILL REQUIRE NOTHING OF HIS CHOSEN ONES THIS DAY, EXCEPT TO ENJOY THE GIFT OF THE LINK. GO FORTH AND COMMENT! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

    • YOU KNOW WHAT ZARDOZ IS HOPING THE FUTURE HOLDS…CIVIL WAR!
    • THERE APPEAR TO BE EVEN MORE PROBLEMS WITH THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS IN CHICAGO. ZARDOZ WOULD EXPRESS SHOCK, WERE ZARDOZ ABLE TO.
    • AND THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS IN UZBEKISTAN ARE FACING DIFFICULTIES. ZARDOZ IS NOT PLEASED.
    • THIS, HOWEVER, PLEASES ZARDOZ. SOMEWHAT. NOT ENOUGH CHAOS FOR ZARDOZ, BUT CLOSE.

    GO FORTH AND COMMENT! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

     

  • Firearms Friday: National Reciprocity

    Recently, congress actually did something. I know, I am as shocked as you are. I was even more floored to learn that what they did was something I was happy about. The house recently passed HR 38, better known as the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act. This bill, if passed, will provide ‘full faith and credit’ protections provided by the constitution to concealed carry permits. What this means is that your state issued concealed carry permit will be valid in all states, just like your driver’s license and marriage license (SLD fucking state licensing). This of course has caused much pant shitting terror in the liberal world, because if enacted, flyover hicks (myself included) would be crawling all over New York, LA, and every other liberal bubble armed to the teeth. It’s one thing to arm criminally negligent illegal aliens or teenage gang members, but that hayseed with a MAGA hat and a Ruger LCR in his pocket is just too much to deal with. Today I want to take a glimpse into the future, a future where concealed carry is the de facto legal standard. Join me while we explore.. TRUMPS AMERICA! (horns blare, title fades to black)

    What would be the result of national reciprocity? Defiant hysterical opposition, initially. Those latte sipping snowflakes aren’t going to just smile nervously and let a bunch of heavily armed Nazis march into their cities (insert France joke here). Expect a lot of illegal arrests, a lot of lawsuits, and probably at least one officer involved shooting where he is as guilty as the DNC’s IT staff but gets off cause ‘muh fear for muh safety!’. Eventually the defendants will be found innocent, the unlawful detainment lawsuits will succeed, and the coasts will be brought kicking and screaming to the reality that we do live in the same country. This is where it gets interesting. You see, once the coastal elite realize no one is coming to save them and this is the reality they now inhabit, they are going to have to make a choice: either stick to their guns (pun intended) and insist their path is righteous, or demand to have the same ability to carry concealed as the unwashed horde now terrorizing their city. Knowing what I know about the average progressive and his moral integrity, they will universally choose the latter. I expect to see mobs with pitchforks and torches (since, you know, they don’t have guns) demanding shall issue concealed carry in all of the restrictive states within a few years. Hawaii may be able to hold out, since they are an island and flying with guns is still a pain in the ass, but the rest will fall like dominos.

    Then the miracle will happen. Those people on the coasts, the ones that swore to god and their country that national reciprocity would lead to blood in the streets, that Armageddon is nigh, will wake up and realize that they are still alive. Some of them might even find a handgun on their nightstand and a second picture ID in their wallet. And that is when the lie will come crashing down. They will realize that gun ownership is not some mark of the devil, and that carrying a gun doesn’t turn you into a Klansman. It is simply the end result of being a responsible member of society. A society that understands that there are those that exist to exploit and intimidate others for their own personal gain, and at the end of the day you are your own first responder.

    Am I being a bit naive in my assessment? Perhaps. Maybe the courts completely disregard the written intent and prior law and declare the bill unconstitutional. Perhaps the police simply ignore the law and the prosecutors look the other way. Maybe the blue states prosecute every defensive shooting so aggressively that carrying concealed is a greater liability than it is worth. But maybe I am right. And if I am, this will be the greatest cultural shift in America in recent history. For the first time in 50 years, guns will become normalized. That is what the progressives truly fear. They have based so much of their rhetoric on othering gun owners, painting them as racists, knuckle draggers, vigilantes, closet murders, that should the curtain be pulled back on this it would be damn near a death blow to their culture war. How can you continue to live the lie of the evil gun owner when your daily existence contradicts that? When your friends and relatives prove you wrong every time you go out to dinner? When random strangers smile and hold open doors for you instead of shooting you dead? You can’t. This is my vision of the future. As a gun owner, and an eternal optimist, I can only hope.

  • Are You a Libertarian?

    Hat tip to F. Stupidity, Jr. for the brilliant idea.

    jesse.in.mb
    Leaning, not doctrinaire. I’ll keep a bug-out bag handy for the next round of purity purges.

    Swiss Servator

    Minarchist. I previously wielded government power over other people’s life, liberty and property. The experience was…enlightening. Now I shun any dominion over my fellow man, and would hope to see government power limited, severely, over everyone’s life liberty or property.

    Brett L
    I have an idea of what is Good for me, I have no way of proving it is Good for anyone else. I believe that every human is equally valuable and there is no “fair” way to determine which individuals or groups “deserve” something from our society (whether that be help or to be on the wrong end of the “Trolley Dilemma”). Being a somewhat social animal, people are eventually going to contend in their quest for their Good. I believe that: strong protections of property are vital, people can’t be property, intentional or negligent taking of life is the worst rights violation, and a small, impartial, rigidly process bound entity for settling rights disputes is probably necessary. I have resigned myself to the fact that taking principled stands on this will forever put me on the side of assholes and bigots — so long as they are doing so in a way that doesn’t harm anyone physically or defraud another person. I don’t know what that makes me.

    Heroic Mulatto

    Recognizing that in current usage the term encompass several different but related schools of thought, I do identify as libertarian. Indeed, much like a Gold Star Lesbian, from the age of 13 when I first developed some semblance of a political conscious, I have never been outside of the libertarian umbrella. My journey has taken me from Objectivist, to card-carrying member of the Libertarian Party, to where I sit now: the Voluntaryist school of anarcho-capitalism.

    SugarFree

    Small-l libertarian, for lack of a better term. The LP is like watching clowns slapping each other with their own dicks, but I do support them out in The Normal World because, once again, there is a lack of a better alternative. I don’t think of myself as an anarcho-whatever because I don’t believe anarchy is truly self-sustaining–some form of government is inevitable because of The Irritating Asshole Problem–so you better constrain it as long as you can, keep it weak and beaten-down. Like Nietzsche, I look for reasons not to be an out-right nihilist but often fail and slip into the blackest sort of cynicism about the nature of man.

    Riven

    I consider myself a libertarian. Turn-ons: property rights, contracts, limited government, free market solutions, incentives. Turn-offs: drug and firearm laws, meddling foreign policies, government contracted infrastructure, taxes, preemptive and violent action.

    Old Man With Candy

    Let’s see… Bill of Rights absolutist, check. Delimited government powers, check. Free market economics, check. No special privileges or restrictions on unions, check. Anti-intervention and antiwar other than defense, check. Freedom of association, check. Freedom of contract, check. No desire for “leaders” and an attitude that elected officials are the hired help, check.

    Yeah, I guess I’m a libertarian.

    Gojira

    Far be it for me to disagree with my esteemed colleague Heroic Mulatto, but I personally don’t consider voluntaryist anarchists (which I am) to fall under the umbrella of libertarianism. I consider anarchism to be aspirational, an overarching philosophy to guide moral decision making, even if it quite possibly can never be perfectly/completely realized.

    That having been said, drawing any attention to or harping on the differences between us all is like the leftists and rightists within the CPUSA duking it out in…1901. The distinctions between all anti-government thought are so slight in comparison with the differences we have with the 97% of humanity that believes passionately in CONTROL that infighting is pointless right now. Anyone who wants less government is a potential ally. We can worry about these other details after the Tsar has been overthrown.

    Sloopyinca

    Yeah, I think I am, in principle.  I’m probably leaning a lot more conservative than most of today’s libertarians because I’m probably a little more religious than most libertarians are. And certainly more than most Libertarians are.  I hate pubsec unions. I hate compelled participation in government programs. I hate the “progressive” tax system. I hate the welfare state. I hate any government spending that’s not related to protecting life and property (both militarily and police-wise), or for operating our criminal and civil court systems and jails. I’m not a big fan of drugs but don’t think it’s “society’s” business to regulate what someone puts in their own body. I don’t think we should have a federal government that regulates markets or negotiates trade policies. I believe in the natural rights of self defense, freedom of expression, free association, private property and due process and think they’ve been all but demolished by the state.

    I’d be open borders if the above were implemented but realize it will continue to create massive problems if not curtailed until then.

    So before I ramble on too long, I’ll just say yes, I’m as libertarian as I can be in the current climate. And if certain things our government does with its money were ended, I’d be even more libertarian.

    Chicken

  • I Am Not Sloopy Morning Links

    Sloopy got his Christmas present from SP, which was some customized golf balls (not your cheap pieces of shit, either- Titleist Pro V1s with a custom imprint). This backfired a bit, because in his anxiety to try them out, he blew off morning link duty. “Eh, some Jew can do it, they don’t do Christmas.” So as famous Jew-Hater Martin Luther once said (or would have said in this situation), “Hier schreibe ich, ich kann nicht anders.”

     

    In Jew News, the UN voted to condemn US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Note that the NYT positions this as “Defying Trump.” #resist!

    “I think this was a significantly self-inflicted wound and really unnecessary, clumsy diplomacy on the part of the United States,” Stewart M. Patrick, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said of the outcome.

    “In this case what you had was the Trump administration basically changing the rules of the game that the international community had accepted,” he said. “More than that, I think it symbolizes the self-defeating notion that for the United States, ‘it’s my way or the highway.’ ’’

    Because “changing the rules of the game” that have had zero positive effects on the petty border dispute that is the singular cause of all of the problems of the toilet known as “The Middle East” and requires the full attention of the 99.9% of the world is just CRAZY SHIT.

     

    In other TDS News, one of the lawsuits against Trump for supposed violation of the emoluments clause was tossed. Here’s a gem from the story:

    The third federal lawsuit was filed in June by nearly 200 Democratic members of Congress. Some legal authorities consider that suit to be a purely political move…

    What would we do without legal authorities?

     

    What’s worse than a pedophile priest? A pedophile priest who fucks up traffic at rush hour. 

     

    My biggest objection to the current wave of executive purges? That someone is purged because of non-PC comments rather than for the much more valid reason of selling shitty pizza and making commercials with Mr. Potato Face Manning.

     

    BIG SCANDAL! People make crude jokes and speak honestly via private e-mail! This MUST CEASE IMMEDIATELY! The old “how many feminists does it take to change a light bulb” joke immediately comes to mind.

     

    And in Department of Futility, sensing an opportunity with the public dissatisfaction with the NFL, Vince McMahon is trying to revivify the failed XFL. I will let the jokes write themselves on this quote:

    The company also sought to trademark “URFL.”

    Because the answer to a league that sufferes from too much expansion and the dilution of talent is to add more teams. Riiiiiight.

     

    You thought you’d get away without Old Guy Music. You were wrong. One of the perversions that SugarFree and I share is a love for the Magnetic Fields, a band led by a deeply weird guy who cranks out brilliant songs as effortlessly as my dog sheds fur. So, here we go.

  • The Nick Gillespie of Posts

    Nick Gillespie is a total loser. Here’s why:

    1) Hangs out with teenagers.
    2) Dead end Editor-in-Chief job in a gas station.
    3) His office is in the bathroom at Al’s.
    4) Lives in a shitty apartment above the Cunningham’s garage.
    5) Dates bimbos like Pinky Tuscadero.
    6) Thumbs up + “AAAAAAAAYYYYY” is totally lame. Who does that?
    7) His middle name is John… only nerds are named John.
    8) Ripped off Al’s by punching the jukebox to play music rather then paying. Dick move.

  • ZARDOZ’S AFTERNOON LINKS

    ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ IS A BIT EARLY THIS WEEK, GIVING THE GIFT OF THE LINK TO HIS CHOSEN ONES, SO THAT THEY MAY BE LIFTED FROM BRUTALITY. WHY? ZARDOZ HAS A RELATIVE COMING TO VISIT…(AND NO SMART REMARKS FROM YOU, MR. LIZARD!)

    COUSIN DEADCOMET

    SO RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE LINK….

    • IMPEACHMENT IMMINENT! BUT NOT THE PRESIDENT AMERICAN PROG BRUTALS HAD HOPED FOR.
    • ZARDOZ WONDERS IF BRITISH BRUTAL HAS GROWN A SPINE?
    • ZARDOZ IS PLEASED…MAKING FOOD MORE EXPENSIVE FOR BRUTALS! EXCEPTING, OF COURSE, ZARDOZ’S DELIVERIES OF GRAIN TO THE VORTEX.
    • ZARDOZ SEES THAT (((THEY))) HAVE GOTTEN TO YOUR BRUTAL LEADERS!

    GO FORTH AND COMMENT! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

  • Catalonia – “Our situation is one of stable instability”

    Don Swissxote checking in on Catalonia… Hmmm. Looks like another vote. When last we left this mess, the former Catalan Regional President, Carles Puigdemont, had fled to Belgium, to avoid the fate of other members of the regional government – imprisonment (which didn’t stop campaigning. *Chicago area politicians perk up*). Note, however, that the international warrant for Puigdemont was withdrawn (should he go back to Spain, I have no doubts the handcuffs would be on him in seconds).

    The scenarios for post-vote Catalonia are numerous. I will glibly lay out what they are:

    1. On the one hand, voters have been scared off from independence – by the use of force by Madrid (cops beating down people voting in the October referendum) or the number of business HQ’s fleeing Barcelona, or having second thoughts about being wholly responsible for themselves (in a national sense) now. So, they end up with MILFy Ines Arrimadas in charge….the independence movement returns to Quebec or Scotland levels of annoying/festering.
    2. On the other hand, independence favoring parties win small – but squabble while trying to form a coalition to govern, and accomplish little to nothing before collapsing and needing new elections (see post-war Italian and Belgian governments). Being the cynical SOB that I am, I think this will end up happening… and the sound of cans being kicked down the road will echo for years.
    3. Or, on the gripping hand, independence parties end up winning bigger – people get a case of the “fuck off, slaver” and one of the three independence parties gets enough of a mandate to lead a coalition….from exile, from jail or in Socialist person. Madrid would again suspend the regional government, send in the coppers and we would reach a decision point… give up under the force employed? Turn into a Basque style guerrilla type conflict? Start Civil War 2.0?
    Costa Brava, Catalonia

    As a libertarian type, I want force avoided. But, it ain’t my country/language/culture/self-determination at stake. I am not ready to go off and join the Reconstituted Abraham Lincoln Brigade as of yet. But this will be worth watching one way or the other.

    P.S. For those that Twitter, follow #catalonia for all sorts of opinion and news.

    UPDATE: Check here for results.

     

  • Thursday Morning Links

    Man, Louisiana Tech throttled SMU last night in the Something Something Bowl.  Some guy actually will come back from Dead Man’s Curve. Talk about a crazy story. Good on the EMTs on this one. ESPN almost dislocates shoulder patting itself on the back. Sorry, but your coverage on wimmins sports is still a failure until you open up comments on your ESPNW articles.

    So long “surrender cobra” Hello “who farted”.

    In scores, all of the ranked college teams took care of business as usu….oh no they didn’t! UNC lost at home to Wofford. And not a great Wofford that wasn’t getting respect either. I mean an average lower-level program. Chelsea advanced to the League Cup semifinals while ManUre were bounced by lower-level Bristol City. On the ice a very small slate of games. Calgary took out St Louis. Columbus topped Toronto. And the Philthadelphia Flyers beat the Red Wings.

    Well I hope you’re ready for Christmas or have a plan in place to get your shopping done.  Unfortunately you won’t find any gift ideas below. Only…the links!

    Time to draw straws.

    Does every vote matter? Or do none of the votes matter? Either way, this has to be Russia’s fault.

    Rolling Stone has been sold for $100,000,000. Jesus, that’s a bigger tax write-off than Cole Hamels giving his Missouri estate away to a charity for kids.

    Merry Christmas to employees of AT&T, Comcast and a bunch of others. Of course, the leftarded idiots would have you believe “corporations” always stockpile “profits” after a tax break like this and use it to fund research into programs to further rip off their customers and employees. But in reality, both tax increases and cuts are passed on to their customers and employees in an effort to seize market share.  Well since they can’t make that argument anymore, they’re shifting to “this costs society more than the bonuses and increased wages those few people are making.”  I guess you just can’t win with those assholes. So here’s a bit of advice for Team Red: stop trying to.

    Expect this trend in states with ridiculously high taxes to continue. But don’t worry, there are positives! FTA (emphasis mine):

    “Among some positive signs — for example, increased overall diversity, despite losses in some races, ethnicities, and geographic areas — the ability to retain current residents poses near- and long-term economic and social challenges for metropolitan Chicago and Illinois,” Schuh said.

    Hear that? Although they’ve had a serious drop-off in population of “some races” who are much more likely to have high-taxpaying people, they’ve increased the diversity!  In other words, Chicago specifically and Illinois in general are losing their tax base and replacing it with people who are more likely to generate fewer tax receipts. Well, not really replacing, just having those people represent a larger percentage of the population.  And that on top of the legacy costs bubble that is all but unsustainable at this point means that the Windy City might see tumbleweeds rolling through her streets in a decade or so.

    More like Uranium One with a bunch of zeroes after it for the Clinton family.

    Tip. Of. The. Iceberg. Or one can only hope so.

    San Francisco government talks about how much they love the poor and homeless. But their actions say otherwise.

    Don’t worry. I’m almost done posting these kinds of songs.

    Have a great Thursday, dear friends. If you’re working the rest of the week, God bless you.  I’ll be headed to South Carolina tonight for my parents 50th Anniversary and Christmas with our entire family (parents, brother and sister and their entire families) for the first time in forever. It should be quite the adventure.

  • Office Manager Mohammed Gets Written Up

    Office Manager Mohammed: Some INFIDEL has complained to HR about my enthusiasm in praise of ALLAH! And that I must speak in a more civil tone, very well. I must cast blame on my Assistant Yusef, his efforts at guiding me through this Hell of a workplace, while helpful, often get me in trouble, especially with the Local Authorities.

    Yusef: I didn’t tell you to yell!

    OMM: Then why do you yell now?

    Yusef: I’m not yelling

    OMM: YES! YOU ARE YELLING!

    Yusef: No…I’m not

    OMM: This is not Abbott and Costello! You work for me, I work for ALLAH! We make profits. Did you not buy your Woman a Kia?

    Yusef: Oh yes! Praise ALLAH for the Kia, and the gas mileage that the Prophet has given me!

    OMM: Very well, in the future you will cease giving me bad advice, at the risk of your INFIDEL HEAD!

    Yusef: May I clean your spittle bucket now?

    ::OMM gambols off to his waiting Mercedes 500 SL::