Sunday afternoon open post

by Spudalicious | Feb 23, 2020 | Fun | 81 comments

You know it’s true.

Booze, squirrels, Word Press and Sunday make for a bad combo. We will soon return to regular programming. Until then, we got this.

For The Hyperbole.

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Spudalicious

Survey says I’m a Paleolibertarian bitches. That means I eat “L”ibertarians for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soave tastes a little fruity. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound quite right…

81 Comments

KibbledKristen on February 23, 2020 at 3:16 pm

Fuck yeah
Winston on February 23, 2020 at 3:19 pm

The song from Kirk I will accept is this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH06aNXWb8U
- Spudalicious on February 23, 2020 at 3:22 pm
  
  Te;dS’, is that you?
  - Playa Manhattan on February 23, 2020 at 3:34 pm
    
    Do you hear fapping in the silent movie theater?
  - Winston on February 23, 2020 at 3:36 pm
    
    I still can’t get over Panchromatic film.
Animal on February 23, 2020 at 3:25 pm

Hmm. Maybe?
- Spudalicious on February 23, 2020 at 3:29 pm
  
  Spud approved on the engraving. I don’t know that I’d go to the $1500 asking price.
  - Animal on February 23, 2020 at 3:32 pm
    
    I wouldn’t go that high on this gun. If his reserve is close to that, he’s going to have a hard time selling this.
    
    I’m a little suspicious on the seller having no rating; the down side of these sorts of dealings is that you will inevitably run into people that are up to some sort of shenanigans. I feel pretty good about dealing with people with a few dozen positive ratings, but zero? That’s a warning sign.
  - Spudalicious on February 23, 2020 at 3:35 pm
    
    I agree. I would like a bore view as well for a used shotgun.
  - Fourscore on February 23, 2020 at 4:35 pm
    
    Looks to be a long barrel, full choke, maybe. Could use a little more info. Cosmetics look good though.
- Sean on February 23, 2020 at 3:41 pm
  
  NR rated seller? PayPal for payment?
  ??
Rhywun on February 23, 2020 at 3:29 pm

You can do your own bit for marine animals—and your town’s budget—by throwing your plastic straight into the trash.

John Tierney destroys the purveyors of the “plastic panic” while I shop for reusable bags on Amazon (thanks, New York!).
- Winston on February 23, 2020 at 3:35 pm
  
  Needless? I’m sure there are a lot of cronyism and it allows politicians to control people.
  
  Also Thanks Turdeau!
- Winston on February 23, 2020 at 4:11 pm
  
  Also wasn’t the internet supposed to make us scientific and rational and not call for panicky bans based on questionable facts? Has the internet made this worse?
- Annoyed Nomad on February 23, 2020 at 9:22 pm
  
  Just got around to reading this thread and clicked through to Tierney’s post. Thank you for that! It was very informative. Here’s a line that caught my eye: “environmentalism is essentially the new state religion in progressive strongholds.”
Spudalicious on February 23, 2020 at 3:31 pm

The Grauniads suck.
- Rhywun on February 23, 2020 at 3:33 pm
  
  It’s good comedy.
Playa Manhattan on February 23, 2020 at 3:33 pm

Oh, it launched. The landing was the problem.
- westernsloper on February 23, 2020 at 3:36 pm
  
  Been there.
- Spudalicious on February 23, 2020 at 3:37 pm
  
  Missed the floating barge by thaaat much.
  - Playa Manhattan on February 23, 2020 at 3:37 pm
    
    Chicks dig funerals.
  - Rebel Scum on February 23, 2020 at 3:40 pm
    
    Word.
Rebel Scum on February 23, 2020 at 3:37 pm

Battlehawks are destroying the Guardians. I think it is better if games are closer, but whatever. It happens in every sport/league.

Got ribeyes coming up to temp and preparing the grill while sipping cheap cabernet. Happy Sunday!
- hayeksplosives on February 23, 2020 at 3:39 pm
  
  I’m digging the XFL. They are getting it right.
  - Spudalicious on February 23, 2020 at 3:42 pm
    
    I agree. This is fun.
  - Not Adahn on February 23, 2020 at 3:44 pm
    
    There is a Boston based “sports” radio show that has been all-in on banning NFL football since the TBI thing. However, they are boosting the XFL. I don’t know why.
  - Rebel Scum on February 23, 2020 at 3:59 pm
    
    Needs scantily clad cheerleaders. And I am not a fan of the p.a.t rule. (I would just eliminate the p.a.t with td’s being 7 points, 3 for f.g. and 2 for safety.) But all in all I agree.
hayeksplosives on February 23, 2020 at 3:38 pm

Man, am I glad I requested the mail-in Ballot for March 3rd. I try to be up on politics, both local and beyond, but there are things on this ballot that I’ve never heard of. Choices for “COUNTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE 75TH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT”? For real? I am in US CD 50 of CA here. The hell is the 75th Assembly?

Time to get some learning on.

At least i didn’t have to get drunk to fill in the oval next to Donald J Trump this time.
- juris imprudent on February 23, 2020 at 4:00 pm
  
  Oh, and California has actually done something subtle, clever and fucking evil. The new Prop 13 will repeal the old Prop 13. So to “save” the original Prop 13 you have to vote “no” on the new one.
  
  Although, now that I think about it, the voting population of CA probably no longer remembers the original Prop 13, or the circumstances that led to it. To all the new voters it is just folklore.
  - hayeksplosives on February 23, 2020 at 4:05 pm
    
    That one (Re-use of the Prop 13 name) really has thrown me as I did research.
    
    It is clear that it is meant to obfuscate, and it has worked!!! Pure deception and evil. And we are talking about people with above average IQs who actually want to do the right thing!
    
    Democracy is wasted on the evil and on the ignorant.
- Toxteth O’Grady on February 23, 2020 at 4:05 pm
  
  Ugh, I knowww. It’s like homework. I skip a lot of races out of ignorance.
Winston on February 23, 2020 at 3:39 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Guardians

The Guardians (despite carrying a New York brand) are locally marketing themselves as a New Jersey franchise to differentiate themselves from the other teams in the region.
Winston on February 23, 2020 at 3:41 pm

https://capx.co/the-case-for-free-market-anticapitalism/

In the early part of the 19th century many poets, novelists and playwrights were ardent supporters of classical liberalism, free trade and limited government. They were pleased to sell their works on a mass market rather than rely on a wealthy prince.

But as time went on, many artists became hostile to liberalism, seeing bourgeois society as stultifying and preferring to rely on socialist princes.

Another problem is that the bohemian artist types like to rebel against the status quo. In the 19th century, especially in continental Europe, to be a classical liberal was an act of rebellion. However by the end of the 19th Century this was no longer the case so many became socialists and Communists to rebel against the bourgeois status quo.
J. Frank Parnell on February 23, 2020 at 3:43 pm

OK, looking for some voting recommendations from the crowd.

I’m in California and registered as “no party preference”, which means I can walk in and ask for a presidential primary ballot for any party but Republican.

Here’s the Libertarian candidates this time around:

Max Abramson
Kenneth Armstrong
Dan Behrman
Keenan Dunham
Souraya Faas
Erik Chase Gerhardt
Jacob Hornberger
Jo Jorgensen
Adam Kokesh
Steven Allen Richey
Samuel Joseph Robb
Kimberly Margaret Ruff
Vermin Supreme

Unfortunately, McAfee is missing this time around. The only person on this list that I’ve heard of is Vermin Supreme.

So, first of all, does anyone know anything about any of these candidates, and are any of them good?

Otherwise, my options appear to be:
* Write in McAfee
* Vermin Supreme for the lulz
* Get a Democrat ballot and vote for Tulsi as one last ‘fuck you’ to HIllary

Any recommendations or other ideas?
- Not Adahn on February 23, 2020 at 3:45 pm
  
  Isn’t Adam Kokesh in jail on weapons charges?
  - Fourscore on February 23, 2020 at 4:17 pm
    
    I think so but that shouldn’t be held against him. Marion Berry had no problem with something like a past conviction
- l0b0t on February 23, 2020 at 3:50 pm
  
  Is there really any other choice? https://youtu.be/V3fCclgshvg
  - juris imprudent on February 23, 2020 at 4:02 pm
    
    Well he’s no Gary Johnson.
  - Trigger Hippie on February 23, 2020 at 4:06 pm
    
    *gaks a fat rail, watches video*
    
    Too low energy.
- westernsloper on February 23, 2020 at 4:07 pm
  
  Vote the Animal/STEVE SMITH ticket.
  - Trigger Hippie on February 23, 2020 at 4:15 pm
    
    Zombie Almanian!!!
- Fourscore on February 23, 2020 at 4:15 pm
  
  Hornberger has been around a long time, boss man of the FFF. Running for Prez, Lib Party?
- Toxteth O’Grady on February 23, 2020 at 4:24 pm
  
  I asked the same Q recently. Tom Woods likes Hornberger. Tulsi has a (very) few good points, of course.
  
  Only approved write-in candidates are counted so don’t waste time with others. Sounds undemocratic but I guess I see the logic: to save the poll workers from having to tally votes for Minnie Mouse and Daffy Duck.
  - Rhywun on February 23, 2020 at 4:30 pm
    
    I assume they provide a list of “approved” write-in candidates?
  - Toxteth O’Grady on February 23, 2020 at 4:37 pm
    
    I guess so. Provide in the “searchable on their site” sense, not in the mailed-to-every-voter sense.
- C. Anacreon on February 23, 2020 at 4:36 pm
  
  When first looking at your list I thought I saw the name Rodney Allen Rippy.
  
  Too bad, I might have voted for him.
- The Last American Hero on February 23, 2020 at 5:06 pm
  
  Hornberger. Hands down.
l0b0t on February 23, 2020 at 3:55 pm

I’ve gone to my local to fill up a growler 5 times in the past week. Today was the very first time the bartender bothered to wash it. I tipped 50% and let him know his cow-orkers were slacking.
Spudalicious on February 23, 2020 at 3:55 pm

Sitting on the patio, sipping a Kentucky Mule, smoking a Cuban and listening to the XFL while riffing on the Glibs. Not a bad way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
- westernsloper on February 23, 2020 at 3:59 pm
  
  You can fit a Cuban in your smoker? Impressive.
  - Spudalicious on February 23, 2020 at 4:08 pm
    
    A small cuban. OMWC size.
- westernsloper on February 23, 2020 at 4:01 pm
  
  I finally decided to get off my ass and do what I need to do today but the POS Ford ranger has a dead battery so I can’t get it out of the shop. Charger on it. I can procrastinate even when I decide to not procrastinate.
Trigger Hippie on February 23, 2020 at 3:59 pm

https://www.rcfp.org/nypd-patriot-act-subpoena/

An interesting read about how the NYPD tried yet somehow failed to use the monstrosity that is the Patriot Act to go after the press.

I’m sure the Legal Seagulls around here can parse out the content of the article far better than I, but even little ol’ me can grasp enough from just the little amount cited to get a small shiver up my spine.
- Suthenboy on February 23, 2020 at 4:06 pm
  
  Two possibilities: A) The people who wrote and passed the Patriot Act thought it would only be used on terrorists
  B) The people who wrote and passed the Patriot Act knew and intended for it to be used on Americans and for political persecution.
  
  Hmmmm….which could it be?
  - Spudalicious on February 23, 2020 at 4:13 pm
    
    Sensenbrenner, who was one of the authors is in the “A” category, and has complained often about the bastardization.
  - Suthenboy on February 23, 2020 at 4:15 pm
    
    I am skeptical. Is he 12 years old?
  - Spudalicious on February 23, 2020 at 4:30 pm
    
    A decent guy who thought he was doing right. He’s one of the ones I don’t feel needs to be tossed in the chipper.
- Rhywun on February 23, 2020 at 4:13 pm
  
  the Patriot Act was a grab-bag of expanded law enforcement authorities
  
  That’s all I need to know.
  - Fourscore on February 23, 2020 at 4:27 pm
    
    But, but, but a Repub prez signed it, for freedom and stuff, almost 20 years ago. Pepperidge Farms…
  - Winston on February 23, 2020 at 4:36 pm
    
    One of the good Republicans before Trump, right?
  - Toxteth O’Grady on February 23, 2020 at 4:27 pm
    
    Of whom Joe Biden was a chief architect.
l0b0t on February 23, 2020 at 4:07 pm

Another Mardi Gras accident. A rider has fallen off of a Thoth float and is in stable condition. People are already speaking of a Hard Rock Curse.
- Winston on February 23, 2020 at 4:10 pm
  
  Has it been banned yet?
  - Sean on February 23, 2020 at 4:17 pm
    
    Tandem floats have been.
  - l0b0t on February 23, 2020 at 4:21 pm
    
    All riders are, theoretically, supposed to be wearing belts or harnesses since a tornado tore through a parade in the 1970s, killing a rider and wounding a few others. Yesterday, the Mayor banned double-floats for the rest of the season; those probably won’t be coming back again.
- Suthenboy on February 23, 2020 at 4:17 pm
  
  Same thing every year, they are sensationalizing this.
  Hay rides used to be very popular. Children riding an open trailer pulled by a tractor. Guess how that very often worked out.
  
  They aren’t so popular any more.
  - Fourscore on February 23, 2020 at 4:29 pm
    
    Same thing here, I was wondering if there isn’t a worry about liability. Never see a hay ride anymore.
  - westernsloper on February 23, 2020 at 4:32 pm
    
    There are a few around here. Local produce stand does a hay ride for the kiddos through their corn maze every fall.
  - C. Anacreon on February 23, 2020 at 4:44 pm
    
    I recall going on hay rides in the 1960s as a Cub Scout. I don’t think I’ve seen one since then. From memory they were fun, but I can imagine they’d be a liability nightmare now.
- The Last American Hero on February 23, 2020 at 5:08 pm
  
  Mardi Gras isn’t for 2 more days. Why are people falling off of floats?
Winston on February 23, 2020 at 4:14 pm

I’ve been thinking: has modern communications backfired and made us less free in certain ways? It made us identify with politicians and increased the calls to Do Something anytime anything appears to go wrong. And it has made centralization easier since now the politicians and bureaucrats can contact the rest of the country in real time.
- Mojeaux on February 23, 2020 at 4:20 pm
  
  This does not speak to politicians and causes; however–
  
  I am a little sad at the loss of the mystique surrounding celebrities.
  
  A) I don’t want to know what you think about X.
  B) I don’t what to know that you did A Bad Thing or Several Bad Things.
  C) I want to believe that you are your art and that certain Bad Acts are just part of your schtick or inherent in your art (see: Nikki Sixx) (because of course).
  D) Shut up and sing/draw/write/dance/play/act/direct/paint/etc/etc/etc.
- Winston on February 23, 2020 at 4:25 pm
  
  I’ll elaborate on “identify with politicians” a bit more. In the past it was assumed that the politicians couldn’t directly address whatever issues you were facing. Your local MP, Congressman or city councillor might but not the President. And more likely since the politicians couldn’t help you directly you wanted them to leave you alone.
- Winston on February 23, 2020 at 4:40 pm
  
  Also when libertarians supported the internet and social media it was assumed that people would bitch everytime a politician wanted to Do Something which would in turn cause them to Do Nothing. Glad that worked out!
westernsloper on February 23, 2020 at 4:29 pm

The Grauniads throw quite a few cheap shots. They are the Raiders of the XFL.
- Spudalicious on February 23, 2020 at 4:32 pm
  
  I, for one, would like to thank Rhywun for making “Grauniads” a meme.
  - Rhywun on February 23, 2020 at 4:36 pm
    
    Thank UK satirical magazine Private Eye.
  - westernsloper on February 23, 2020 at 4:51 pm
    
    ??
Toxteth O’Grady on February 23, 2020 at 4:39 pm

C. Spittoon, are you around? I’m worried to hear that you feel as bad as you do. I hope you’ll check back in soon.

https://media.giphy.com/media/aeJSanJnEq71m/giphy.gif
Don Escaped ORD on February 23, 2020 at 5:25 pm

Capricorn: 3 of Cups – The conclusion of any matter in plenty, perfection and merriment, happy issue, victory, fulfillment, solace, healing

It’s a trap!
- westernsloper on February 23, 2020 at 5:42 pm
  
  That is the best Brooksing ever!