Once upon a time at basic training. I was folding underwear with another guy whom our TI noted was adept at folding things. He made an interesting comment:
”Do you think they put something in the water here? Can they put dope the water for trainees to keep them from getting a boner? I haven’t got a boner in three weeks.”
My reply didn’t help.
”You are required to drink 1/2 to 3/4 a canteen each hour not to exceed six canteens per day….”
This is my review of Castle Hot Springs Lithium Lager:
Obviously, they didn’t put anything in the water at basic, it is likely too difficult to create separate water supplies for two separate populations on Lackland AFB. There is plenty of evidence however, they add fluoride to the water or at least once did. It has been the 
source for a lot of entertaining conspiracy theories, like this episode of Squidbillies, and especially this guy.
Even more recently, scientists advocated putting something else water: lithium. (TW: Vice). There is some evidence lithium does have a psychoactive effect for people with depression as a drug. Even low levels of lithium occurring naturally in a water supply are said to have a similar effect. It should be noted how often people selling water from “magical” springs are really just selling water with trace amounts of lithium naturally in the aquifer.
The problem of course is this is explicitly being sold as a way to manipulate brain chemistry. They are already paranoid over fluoride to prevent the population’s teeth from rotting…I can’t wait to hear from the Infowars crowd ever get around to dumping lithium in the water.
Which brings me to the day at Whole Foods I found this beer. Its a supermarket filled with screwball products so I wasn’t surprised at it being there. The water used to make this beer just happens to be from a natural hot spring outside Phoenix, and the resort they built around it happens to claim the magical qualities around the spring as part of a sales pitch. Its a Czech Pilsner, done reasonably well. I am happy to report I am no more or less likely to take my own life after drinking these.
They’d probably have better luck if they gave it a better name like SaNiTy PiLs (H/T: Swiss). Castle Hot Springs Lithium Lager: 3/5.
Just take a lithium pill. Geez
Looks like it needs a Prop 65 warning.
Gay frogs?
Gay AND bipolar.
So Mex is Bi………polar. (also)
Obligatory
Wow. I need to listen to more of them.
They make up a good portion of my playlist for Dunham.
We have a theory (which is ours) that Yellow Springs, Ohio, is a CIA experiment wherein they put LSD in the drinking water, then just sat back to see what happened,
That is adorable!
Hey, Moje! I found an excuse to shill one of your books yesterday. I was plodding through a stack of returned mail at work and found a tax doc addressed to a coworker. (Probably one of those forms for an HSA that I never do anything with.) Contacted her, and she said, “Oh, yeah, when we moved I came across a book I borrowed from you a long time ago. I need to get that back to you.” The book in question was The Ghost in the Little House, so I took the opportunity to recommend Stay. Coworker says she has a Kindle, so if you sell a copy through Amazon soon…
Like Moj can keep track of the hordes that read her
pornbooks.It’s not my fault you only comb through them for the juicy bits.
There she goes again with her smut.
God bless ‘er.
Awww, shucks. *scuffs dirt with toe and blushes*
w00h00!!! Thank you!!!
That book is my lowest rated book (I think; Black Jack may be lower). An alpha reader who’s pretty in tune with my style said I just didn’t love Vanessa the way I love the rest of my heroines. She said my success with female characters is because I love them so much and I don’t love Vanessa that much and it shows.
Hippies who sell things? And don’t force others to conform? And don’t tax businesses to extinction? I think correct word is libertarian.
Au contraire, mon frere.
I think I’ve been to Yellow Springs.
We have friends who live there and visit upon occasion. Also used to play music at (and still frequent) a nearby winery. Choose to keep our heads down and our mouths shut…mostly.
Humans against masked fascist pigs.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/chanting-for-freedom-and-shouting-of-fascism-a-city-s-fringe-erupts-in-anger-20200905-p55sq1.html
It puts the
lotion on it’s skinmask on or it gets thehosefist again!I can’t get past the florid, totally-not-biased prose. Are they saying some Melburnians are finally pushing back?
I mean, the police basically said before hand that they’d tolerate no dissent/protest and threatened arrests. So, the writer discounts the numbers who did show.
Christ. What a disgusting scene. Totalitarianism in action.
Just do what you are told. It is for your own good.
Aussies need another Eureka Rebellion.
Lithium is more of a mood stabilizer used to keep people with bipolar disorder from going into mania or depression rather than having an antidepressant effect itself, though sometimes can help antidepressant meds be more effective. IIRC there was a region found to have surprisingly low incidence of bipolar disorder and the area water was naturally high in lithium, that’s what led to its use as a prescribed agent.
Let me tell you about the wonder of Lithium Ions! Look here, it may seem to you a simple metal tube! But place your tongue here, while holding your finger here, and you will feel the spirit of God move through you!
I laughed.
When I got back from OCS the summer between junior and senior years of college (1990, I believe), the first thing I asked my mom was about the possibility the Marines put saltpeter in our food. My mother almost laughed herself to death over that one. I had never heard of the term before a friend mentioned it in the chow hall and I was too embarrassed to admit I had never heard of it. Mom then proceeded to give me a lecture about how the environment we candidates had been living under might have… dampened… our youthful ardor.
That one was pretty funny as I reflect upon it now.
Thus do these myths persist.
My favorite myth was “you don’t have time to eat”.
I recall my Dad talking about saltpeter during WW2, no idea if it was just a rumor or for real.
You are wise and experienced, OZY. I can assure, in memory, that after about the first month of OCS the saltpeter had been removed. The first month was sleep deprivation and only one thing entered my unconscious state.
Portland Killer Dies in Gunfight With the Feds | Just Hours After Interview With Vice News
A reasonably good piece from Nancy Rommelman at TOS about the lying, psychopathic, provo-prop terrorists in Portland.
Apparently I fucked up the link.
Of course to get it published on TOS, she had to “both sides” it.
To be sure.
I didn’t see that. I think she took the “protestors” and their media lackeys to task.
There’s a lot more to this story. It wasn’t just the one retarded lying murderer involved. There’s a interview with the guy who was streaming and caught it on film. The cars on the street were antifa related and used regularly in the riots. They all seemed to know something big was gonna happen. It’s likely that the killer’s kids were there. It’s a crazy fucked up situation. Clearly premeditated and a bunch of players are not being looked at. It was a team action. Lotta people are going to get away with helping him murder that dude, just because the city loves the rioters so much. Fucking sad. Dive a little deeper and it’s pretty clear that anti-fa is actively hunting it’s opposition. I just hope people continue to videotape these rioters and let the truth out. There certainly was no self defense. A bullet released the bear spray. The next one killed him. The killer ducked into a corner and prepared his gun before crossing the street. Multiple people knew he was going to attack, long before he did. Fucking scary assed shit. BLM is the new KKK. Just as racist and terroristic. We gave them the mask option, so now it’s just that much harder to identify the criminals. Fucking crazy and sad. Perfect storm of bullshit. Shoulda never done the deep dive on this one.
The water used to make this beer just happens to be from a natural hot spring outside Phoenix
But did they even put any beer in it? Color looks like Bud Light.
Its closer to Warsteiner, to be honest.
OT: I wonder what Don thinks this means? (Seriously, Don, no snark).
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-approval-up-pre-coronavirus
I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest this an “uh-oh” for Dems. Here was something else I found shocking, though I remember seeing it previously – I confess I may have been benumbed by the Media’s slavish presentation of the “Gilded Age” under Chocolate Nixon:
Is it really possible that Obama never polled higher than 52% job approval?!?? I mean, accepting that, it makes the Media’s constant references to the glorious, peaceful unity under Dear Leader go from “rose colored glasses” to “Goebbels-like Pants on Fire.” That was a shocker to me, though I think I had seen something like that before.
That 52% was the highest Obama achieved among the unwashed masses, which includes all the white supremacists, if you remove all the white supremacists his true rating was 187%.
Ah. That makes more sense.
I’m glad I have the Glibertariat to set me straight on complex maths.
I’m glad I can show you the #science because IFLS!
Fact check: true
Ozy!
Thanks for nice message!
https://imgur.com/a/Wms0BUK
And once you know that, there will be…
*CSI Miami shades meme*
No more tears.
Internet has been spotty so I didn’t get to reply to your earlier comment on the last thread. Unfortunately we’re on the east side of SoDak. Sioux City area.
I love *ALL* of my subjects!
/waves hand, adjusts laurel wreath on head
That surprises me too. Well done, the media.
Out on I-16 and can’t hold my BlackBerry still to type.
538 still shows Biden 70/30 318/220 pretty steady right through the conventions and all.
Greetings from mask-free but still pinkpurple GA.
I live in California. With the newly minted ballot harvesting and vote by mail, I give Biden 120% chance that he is claimed to be the winner at some point. Don’t know if Trump appointed enough judges to counter that or not, but the dems will declare Biden the winner no matter what.
He also has a disapproval of 48%. Couldn’t see anything in a quick skim of BHO’s disapprovals at the same time.
The highest approval rating Trump has had was in late September 2019, at 53 percent, according to Rasmussen. The highest former President Barack Obama had was 52 percent, in late January 2011.
Fake news. The people who approve of Trump are Republicans. They don’t matter.
Folding underwear with a guy while talking about boners? I uh, well, ok.
I was also good at folding towels, rolling socks, hospital corners, and lining up beds to create a perfectly symmetrical walkway I was never allowed to walk through…unless I was on firewatch.
So did the beer with Lithium cure any of this?
No more than that guy with a trash can at the swap meet. ?
Rand Paul on Judge Jeanine tonight.
Christ, I can’t stand that authoritarian beeotch.
Totally authoritarian. She’d happily put hispters, college professors, journalists and various other undesirables into camps.
It’s one extreme or the other, ain’t it?
*Kif Sigh*
Also on FN Rundown Extra podcast if you prefer.
Am I the only one who finds her sort of manly?
I had 4 and 1/2 beers last night. I’m a little beered out.
*casually whistles past after 18 beers* WHAT?! I don’t have a problem! You have a problem!
Drunk?
Drunk? nah, but I should go to bed, I gotta work tonight.
I had 3 vodkas and 2 beers.
4 beers in 2 nights is why I had to go out and buy more beer. ?
Four and a half? OMG, Kristen, there must be an intervention! Don’t worry, your Glib family will save you from this severe out of control drunkenness!
I’m offended by the 1/2. What a waste.
I had about half a liter. Of course that was of rye…
Today has been less than ideal lol
You okay?
I don’t know why I can’t stop LOLing at this Twitter. It tickles me to no end.
https://twitter.com/GrippingFood
Why would you have Mrs. Butterworth in the bathtub with you?
No, but Aunt Jemima can hop right in.
I am laughing like a chimpanzee-hyena cross at this account. The one with the wrap and the dogs; #icantevenrn
Yeah, the pictures with greedy, slavering hounds in the background are a hit for me.
I think anything except beer in my beer would be offputting. Hops? What’s that? Don’t tell me there’s water in there too. What a gyp. Look, buddy, you either got 100% pure beer or you don’t, and if you don’t I’m taking my money elsewheres, comprende?
Where can you find this 100% pure beer.you speak of?
I have money.
I was at the drug store this morning and they are now filling certain now-empty shelves with colorful boxes that draw the eye to stuff that’s missing. This is how I discovered that in addition to the usual disinfectants and baby wipes, we now apparently have a shortage of bug spray. WTF?
Bug spray kills the rona?
Bugs spread the ‘Vid. It is known.
This looks neat. (Plus I really like Morena Baccarin)
I really like Inara, but I’m all disaster movied out.
Saw a “Giant meteor 2020” lawn sign earlier today.
Saltpeter in the water or food was the working theory in Marine boot camp. I rarely got a boner there. A few weeks later in Infantry School the bikers were constant. One guy in my platoon went to sick call because of an erection that hadn’t gone away for days. The Corpsmen gave him a Playboy and sent him to the head.
Heh spell Check. You eon.
How’s this for coincidence?
Mail-in voting begins today in military heavy North Carolina on the very same day that a hit piece is put out by the Atlantic saying that President Trump insulted our dead soldiers.
FACT CHECK=WRONG, the hit piece came out yesterday.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Pismo_B/status/1302261950479388673
Enthusiasm. NJ is going to be a close race, even with cheating.
I wish.
?
There’s 100,000 dumb progs in NJ for each of those boats. Not a chance it’s close.
*”This is fine” meme*
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday warned Greece to enter talks over disputed eastern Mediterranean territorial claims or face the consequences.
“They’re either going to understand the language of politics and diplomacy, or in the field with painful experiences,” he said at a hospital’s opening ceremony in Istanbul.
Ankara is currently facing off against Greece and Cyprus over oil and gas exploration rights in the eastern Mediterranean. All sides have deployed naval and air forces to assert their competing claims in the region.
“They are going to understand that Turkey has the political, economic and military power to tear up the immoral maps and documents imposed,” Erdogan added, referring to areas marked by Greece and Cyprus as their economic maritime zones.
I would have thought Greece and Turkey’s border was well-understood at this point. Sounds like someone’s getting a little ambitious.
Make Byzantium Greek Again.
#ByzantineLivesMatter ?
Not like Europe is going to do anything about it. May as well act the fool if you are Erdogan.
Appease him. That always works.
I guess they ain’t the “sick man of Europe” anymore. Or he is projecting strength while he is weak. ///ArtofWarthatshit
Either way, I hope we stay out of it.
It’s all relative.
People forget that Greece fought a really bloody war of independence against the Turks in the 1820s. Just because they are both in NATO doesn’t make them buddies.
The one they fought in the 1920s was no picnic either.
RiGhT WiNG AGiTAtORs
Its a Czech Pilsner, done reasonably well.
Good.
Putting lithium in the water will turn the frogs trans.
Ask Amy: Did he think he could get away with it because of his mask?
“Our youngest daughter works at a local outdoor business, helping customers and doing hard, sweaty, manual labor. Almost every day she tells us about the inappropriate behavior of some male customers. They get way too close to her and make extremely flirtatious or suggestive comments to her with their wives standing just a couple of feet away.
It’s so weird; we’ve wondered if these men are so desperate for attention from being cooped up at home.”
Sounds like bullshit.
Just at the farmers market and there was a teenage girl wearing a “virginity rocks” t shirt. I asked my gf what was the deal with that? My theory was it was to keep teenage boys from hitting on her while at work.
No, ma’am, in the history of humankind, there’s never been a situation where a hot young girl has been hit on at work. It’s baffling that such a heinous crime could ever happen. Certainly not until the recent ‘vid crisis have we seen anything like this. Soon, they’ll get a little drunk and start hitting on the ugly ones too. The horror!
Whatever happened to the “slap in the face” remedy?
The Caucasian Navy //jk
Enthusiasm. ??
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure is kind of smart, in a Real Genius way.
“Why would we lie to ourselves?” asked unironically.
Indeed, Ted. Why would we?
Mojo, if someone were to borrow your book on kindle unlimited do you get any sort of take?
Yes, I get paid for page reads. It’s better than relying on sales, so I put all my books on KU.
Good. You got a couple more coppers coming your way soon.
Oh thank you!!!! ?
The Doctor called the police, book it.
69 dudes!
Maybe not as smart as that one throwaway line suggested.
Lawsuit against Gauleiter Wolf’s mask mandate
Gov. Tom Wolf is acting like a “king” and is trampling their rights under the state constitution, two Pennsylvania couples are claiming in a newly filed federal lawsuit, the latest legal challenge to the governor’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
And they claim the governor’s face mask wearing mandate has become a form of political expression that is being illegally imposed on Pennsylvanians.
Who wants chinese ?
Cops: Man Dialed 911, Sought To Sell Egg Rolls
All right… time to take this sideways.
I was watching “background noise” movies today while working around the house.
The classic, Aliens.
So, here’s the question for Glibs… where do you come down on the issue of Vasquez?
Vasquez:
Hot?
Not hot?
Who?
For those in the “Who?” category… watch a movie sometime. Jeez.
Vasquez was the badass space marine chick who introduced herself to the screen by doing chinups in the hypersleep room upon waking up. She is that character that people have been claiming doesn’t exist my whole life: the female badass character. You know, like Sarah Conner in Terminator 2.
An early example of a now-staple.
Back when they weren’t all preachy and in your face about it.
Which is why I mentioned it. Every movie these days has to have someone explaining to me how this is the first woman lead action character, or the first african american superhero, or the first whatever woke thing they want to signal with.
And every time I’m going “what about…?”
They just really don’t care at all.
It would ruin the narrative if they were to acknowledge historical depictions of strong female heroines.
Hot, but not Sarah Connor in T2 hot. I would still take her shooting and make her a steak afterwards.
Probably. I mean, she could fight my battles. And she probably likes to be on top. I’m cool with that. I’d even make her sammiches. What I am getting at is I would like to be dominated*.
*within reason. No weird shit.
The character would definitely peg you.
I just finished watching “Mind Killer” on Amazon. Maybe one of the worst movies ever made. It was awesome. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158785/
You need to try Black Dog with Patrick Swayze.
Thanks for the recommendation. I’ve got “Delirium” queued up next. Some giallo on a Saturday afternoon is always good. And vodka. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093043/
Hot, but in a rip me apart sort of way.
Not programmed for self awareness?
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/09/05/facebook-supreme-court-member-warns-that-regulation-could-stifle-free-speech-online/
This is how the “regulatory capture” sausage gets made. There is lots of posturing, lots of back door dealing, and in the end, something meant to control the excesses of bad actors within an industry become a shield protecting those same companies.
Remember “net neutrality”?
Notice how Netflix immediately forked over 60 million to Obama when he left office. That could not possibly have been related to the fact that “net neutrality” as promulgated by the Obama administration might as well have been the “Protect Netflix from having to pay for the 50% of all network traffic they are generating” act.
Remember the dire warnings and abject panic from “grass roots” activists when Ajit Pai took over and erased that?
Yeah… not much happened.
Except the mobile carriers all did various deals with video streaming providers to provide free content to their customers. Woulda violated Net Neutrality to do that before Trump.
I very much remember
And Netflix has since worked with service providers to install their appliance boxes at the edge bringing their content delivery much closer and cutting down IX traffic.
I see they’re really pushing for intellectual diversity there.
As prophecised in the Old Testament.
“Albany man rescued from Lake George by priests on a floating tiki bar.”
Stupid will probably find a way some other day.
It’s a cry for help. There’s more going on. He wanted to be rescued; or drowned.
The Flathead Valley, Montana Crime Update.
Which glib is this?
7:14 p.m. Someone is passed out in the neighbor’s yard.
From another story….
During their presentation of the case, Pengelly’s attorneys argued that the shooting would not have happened were it not for an overzealous law enforcement response to a two-day-old threat made by Bonnie Pengelly, who had a history of threatening suicide.
Any Zoomers check out early last night? That was before I showed up.
Well I don’t remember leaving, so maybe….
All of them?
Another question:
“An old Crown Vic ran a stop sign for the fourth time today.”
How many Glibs are over 70 and formerly worked a union job?
Fourscore?
I have the decency to only pass out in my yard.
Look at Mr. Yard privilege.
I’m pretty sure I’m old enough now to tell you both to get off your own lawn.
Hipster Juice Weekly
So, I started trying to get into Crusader Kings III.
The game is complicated. As a new player, it seems very complicated, it’s deep. But am I the only one who thinks the name should be changed to Feudal Family Simulator?
I tried to get into Crusader Kings II a few years and quit after a couple hours. Just wasn’t enough action. Very different from other Paradox games like Bannerlord or Battletech.
I’ll probably give it another chance after the reception it gets here.
Threading fail, meant as a reply to Hyp.
It’s not my type of game. But I just keep hearing about how great these grand strategy games from Paradox are, and I got it free (well, for my $4 a month Xbox game pass for PC sub). I’m more of an action RPG guy.
The game is complex and deep, I’ll give it that. It looks to have a pretty steep learning curve. I’m still watching youtube vids to see if I can get a big picture enough to have success in it.
I felt the same way. Until something clicked.
Originally a big heroes of might and magic and civ fan.
Imo the most accessible paradox game is stellaris. you are able to start small and expand carefully. good starting place to get a feel for paradox games.
I was a huge Heroes of Might and Magic fan. And I like Civ 6 as well. But even Civ 6 is extremely simple to play compared to this game.
I own Stellaris, just never got into it.
I think the reason I’m intrigued by CK3 is because it’s so challenging.
The base game felt like that too but it was far from lacking action. Just constant stuff to do.l once you understood the game.
I actually gave up the first time with ck2. My nephew who was constantly raving about his games finally got me to get back into it. It was a slow and brutal process but now i love it.
Last night’s happy hour was fun. Let’s do it again tonight Starts at 8pm Eastern.
https://mobile.twitter.com/zerosum24/status/1302356712242982914
??
Something something white guys can’t dance.
I had a glorious post brunch nap and am now having one of these and an afternoon cup of coffee.
I had a nap today also. Not sure if it gave me a boost, but I’m having some beers now.
I love Drizly. I found a liquor store near here, that is cheaper to order beer or wine from, along with a better selection, even with the delivery fee and tip, than it is for me to drive to my local snooty upscale wine taster douchebag store and buy. WIN! They know me now so they just leave it at the door and don’t even knock, although I get a text message. Technology is good, more government is bad.
Oh, and my local non yupster douchebag store that I used to go to? Commie virus lockdowns put them out of business, forever.