Growing up, I never gave politics a lick. I knew my mother’s family were Republicans and my Father’s family was an amicable mix. Family gatherings (to my recollection) never involved politics. I was never preached to at school, nor any of the various activities afterwards. So my backdrop was simple, in my mind politics were background noise to be ignored. My family was comfortably nestled in the South Suburbs of Chicago. Chicago… Hmmm. Even as kids we all knew the Dalys were as crooked as the day was long, yet the impact was nothing to us, we just went along with the insults and assumed the machine would go on machining with little effect on those of us outside the city limits.
As I began High School, I slowly started to become aware of the many hypocrisies accompanying C(r)ook County officials and the fact that they kept being re-elected. This, coupled with the “Just Say No” campaign and the PMRC started to shape my distrust in government. You see at this point, I made no distinctions between parties. To me, they were equally vile and manipulative. Thus I was to be a skate punk (but also an All-State soccer player, go figure). I rebelled against the culture of the day and it felt right. Not just right, but powerful. Normies were just that, normal. We were the enlightened anarchists hellbent on doing nothing politically save for mocking and generally disregarding frivolous laws by the hundreds.
I began college at Western Illinois University in 1989. I was happy the Berlin Wall fell. I was happy with a lot of Liberal advances as well. People were more accepting of gays, ethnic groups, and most importantly, drugs as recreational tools. Still my politics were to ignore, but hold in contempt. I was a frat bro, I had beer to drink, girls to chase and weed to smoke with the (not so) occasional trip to be experienced.
After an epic GPA of 0.0, I returned home a full fledged stoner who loved to party frat style and cared nothing for anything other than those ends. Still claimed to be an anarchist even though I knew better. I got a 4.0 in a completely BS version of college called Moraine Valley (HS with ashtrays) (UCLA–University Close to LaGrange Avenue) and was accepted to Southern Illinois University where I found myself amicably left on my own by my parents (best thing that ever happened for me honestly).
It was in Carbondale of all places where I could finally see the BS the hippies were peddling and class became optional again as I just started working as a restaurant manager to survive (OK, beer and weed cost money, bills were set aside until dire straights would occur).
So there was the mental dilemma I found myself in. Being a weed connoisseur, a lot of my friends and acquaintances were lefties, but I wanted nothing to do with their flawed thought processes and I do enjoy hot showers. I was monetarily conservative, but socially liberal. In walks “The Law” by Bastiat to change my life forever.
I voted for Ross Perot as a FU to the establishment and never looked back.
As time passed, I (very slowly and very little) grew up, got married had kids and have remained a small “L” libertarian. At times I’ve been vocal in groups and can usually defend my positions with logical, thought-out arguments based on self-ownership and the NAP. I’ve sold many of my wife’s relatives on libertarian ideals and my brother too. Lately though (past year or so) it’s just gotten exhausting to argue with such brainwashed idiots, many of whom I’ve called friends. I haven’t given up hope, but I’m seriously doubting the future of this once great nation.
Anyway, I still love beer and weed, just in much smaller quantities with larger intervals between. I’m hoping we get through this BS called COVID and the even larger problem called progressivism.
That’s my journey. I’m thrilled to be here amongst the bright lights that is you all. I’m sure this may be the worst introduction/Bio ever, but I’m cursed with the self-awareness enough to know my faults. I hope you enjoyed the read.
Peace!
A most hearty “Fuck off, Tulpa!!” to you!
Yes. Yes! Fuck you too!
Feeeel the anger. Let the hate flow through you.
Also, fuck Tulpa.
*thumbs up*
Ruck off, Tulpa.
Ruck?
Ruh-roh.
You’re Japanese.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0X3CLJVMJU
Good read. Now fuck off tulpa.
We have had two good articles by Tulpae recently. What is up?
Because the rest of y’all are lazy bastards and the Tulpae have had to step in.
I only joined because of the post a couple of weeks ago on cornbread. I had many passionate things to say on the subject but, alas, the moment has passed and now I have nothing but regrets.
You have regrets _and_ cornbread, surely.
/deletes the cocktail series that he had sketched out.
I wasn’t addressing anyone who has written content recently, you know that!
I know nothing. Just talking trash after watching my team lose. Besides, I figure OMWC and SP would cut me if I didn’t continue. 🙂
That was painful. For a bit during the 4th Quarter, I thought the Browns might pull out at win.
The lack of defense hurt a lot. At least for the first time in a long time I can believe the Browns are on an upswing.
Excuse me?
Oh, and fuck off, Tulpa.
“and have remained a small “L” libertarian.”
until adding a “G” to become a Glibertarian
Bones, welcome.
“enjoyed the read.
Peace!”
Welcome! Very nice read.
Congrats on the game. Not looking forward to the away game next week.
I was rooting for a Bills-Browns matchup but oh well.
That gross hit right at the goal line that caused the browns fumble out of the endzone was exactly the kind of error you can’t make in the playoffs. Sad to see Cleveland out, but I think we all have a good chance, I just wish we were playing at home.
I described it as the fumble for the next generation.
For once, I’m interested in the Browns during the offseason.
None of that matters: we all know the Broncos are going to win the Super Bowl this year.
Welcome!
Dammit, Jim, I’m a stoner, not a doctor!
Should have stuck with the drugs, they make a lot more sense than politics.
Oh, and FUCK OFF Tulpa!
BTW, all Tulpae are required to join the Zooms. So let it be written, so let it be done.
Tulpae-n-Effect. All they wanna do is Zoom a Zoom Zoom Zoom 😉
You just want to make me keep renaming people to protect themselves, don’t you?
It’s good thing I’m not Tulpa.
That’s exactly what Tulpa would say.
We are all Tulpa. It is known.
Slutty Sunday proves the journey is more important than the destination.
https://archive.li/NXC32
I’m late but nice job with GlibFit archive you posted.
nice job with GlibFit archive you posted.
Seconded.
Good gallery.
3, 25, 37
Goddamn! Watching a movie about chick skaters. They are really good, but the whole fucking movie is bitching about how there’s not enough girl specific contests and nobody sells girly skate stuff. Fuck ya’ll. Enter the same contest with the other skaters and wear whatever the hell you want. Nobody owes you a special contest and nobody owes you special shoes. Woke bullshit never fails to piss me off. Why can’t they just make a movie that shows how good they are. I wouldn’t even care if it’s girl specific, as long as they aren’t bitching and demanding special treatment.
The problem with figure skating is not enough opportunities for women.
Yeah, go figure.
Woke bullshit never fails to piss me off.
I found out on Friday that I came within a whisker’s breadth of not getting a promotion because my genitals are wrong and my skin is too light.
If it weren’t for my manager 3 levels up taking it personally and throwing his weight around, I would’ve been passed over in favor of promoting a BIPOC chick in some other department, probably HR.
That shit is just wrong.
It took six months extra for me to be hired on at my last job because I was a straight white male.
Thumbs up for your manager 3 levels up, and congrats on the promotion. The racial bean-counting drives me nuts.
I’m sure the bridges built by unqualified diversity hires will refuse to collapse out of respect for the process of dismantling systemic racism.
I found out on Friday that I came within a whisker’s breadth of not getting a promotion because my genitals are wrong and my skin is too light.
Fuck.
Good on the upper level manager.
Kansas City Bomber?
Nope. This. My kid picked it. Lots of really cool skating footage. Plenty of woke bitching, too.
Oh, the way worded it I thought you meant Ice Skaters.
You don’t like Ice Castles?
For the ladies, you get to see Robbie Benson in his tighty-whities….
#MeToo
I roll my eyes the same way every time I see some sort of “girls who code” agitation.
WebDom did Australian Rules skating.
Roller derby?
We are obviously too predictable.
Do you all not have teams near you?
/knows several of the girls from the mosh pits
One of my neighbors used to do roller derby
Roller Derby?
Full tackle.
Like this?
Nothing punk about that.
There used to be a couple real cool skater chicks on Tumblr, Kate or Die and Skatelin. They could drop into a ramp pretty well, seemed BS averse and possible small L libertarian. But last I checked on them the SJW disease had ruined both accounts. Fuckin’ sucks.
Hello, have you met any female humans, of any age?
A pleasure to read and of course fuck off Tulpa.
Your admitted skate punk pedigree makes me think that you should have no problem superficially fitting in here as well 😉
Yes. I’m supposed to go to Pedlow skatepark tomorrow. Got to get some footage of my kid riding the board my brother got him for Christmas. Also, gotta try not to injure myself while not at work, that’s the real challenge.
Too many great skate punk bands and cultural references to make, but if I love one band, for skate punk, it’s the Descendants. And I always had Slime Balls for wheels, it was also my favorite shirt.
No love for Nardcore? I grew up there and knew some of those guys before they were famous-ish.
Anyway, I still love beer and weed, just in much smaller quantities with larger intervals between. I’m hoping we get through this BS called COVID and the even larger problem called progressivism.
I can relate, but I don’t see us surviving progressivism in any way that is good. Thanks for the post Tulpa +1 hearty welcome and fuck off.
Survivng literally or figuratively?
I’m posting this again, because this must be the most peaceful violent insurrection in history:
https://twitter.com/allegedlyzo/status/1350826382943793155
https://twitter.com/allegedlyzo/status/1350833322428145672
It also wouldn’t surprise me water buffalo guy was high af.
Perhaps. But capture them and march them across the state of Pennsylvania for good measure.
Someone in the comments, or what ever they are called on Twatter, thinks Molly.
I don’t have to work tomorrow, so am thinking I’ll do a zoom if there’s interest? let me know, please
I’ll be on, but like I said in the last thread, I need to work on the cartoon at some point tonight.
I want to see more Space Hat 🙂
Tonite? Might join.
The I don’t have to work tomorrow so let’s zoom will start at 8pm Eastern.
Some of us are working tomorrow….
That means you’re racist, like me. (I don’t work until tomorrow night though)
I’m getting up early for the gym even though I’m off tomorrow. I will pass, but thanks for running it.
I watched the RLM ReView on the Twin Peaks reboot and found out Tulpae are a big part of the story. Is David Lynch a glib? If so, I hope he knows I don’t think he’s done anything good since The Elephant Man.
I like the TP reboot. Anyway, tulpae predate glibs.
I didn’t watch the Twin Peaks reboot, just the ReView. And I know that tulpae were on TOS and that it is a term outside our sphere, but I was being glib, damnit.
OK 🙂
Tulpa were the monster in an episode of Supernatural as well.
Overall, I liked the new TP season but some of it was quite self-indulgent.
I think a lot of us can relate; I love beer and weed, too. Thanks for the read, welcome, and fuck off Tulpa.
I haven’t smoked weed in forever.
Heh, that’s my only concern about DC being locked down. Hope I don’t run out before the inauguration.
I’m not allowed. I get tested regularly for my drivers license and work. I might if not for that. Not really sure. Just got switched to years instead of one on the license, so I probably ought to do it now, unless the job pops with a surprise check.
I guess it depends on the employer. I was working as a welder’s assistant and driver for a sanitation company. Me and this Puerto Rican guy who called me “Cheech” were smoking a joint, when we were told to go to the clinic for a piss test. And nothing else happened.
If I stood the risk of a pop quiz, I wouldn’t either. Too much for me to lose in that case, but it isn’t a factor with my current job.
Yep, we have “random” piss checks, too. I have never been tested in more than a decade of working here, but the dreadlocked, rock-climber/engineer seems to get tested at least twice a year.
Still, I can’t risk it.
Yeah, I have to pass it by, as a defense contractor.
Funny since they don’t prohibit alcohol.
The owner of my company is a stoner, so yeah.
Legend has it that Steve Case, when asked why he didn’t drug test his employees, responded that he’d have to fire half his dev team if he did that. That tracks with my experience working with developers.
It’s legal now, but you’ll lose your job. New study says weed smokers are far more likely to end up homeless, also!
Welcome, Bones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlvNBaPjbe4
Fuck off.
I was a wanna be sk8ter-boi. It’s pretty hard to skate on gravel roads, though. {hick} I have the chin scars to prove it.
Nice, Bones!
Sounds similar to my journey:
Part 1: I was a Democrat in High School and just beyond because the D’s were against the war and I didn’t want to get drafted.
Part 2: I used to listen to Ronald Reagan’s radio talk show on the way to college and realized that I was a small-government fan. Voted for him in ’80.
Part 3: Discovered that the talk of limited government was nothing but bullshit from the R’s. Over the years I realized that I’m an an-cap/minarchist and haven’t looked back.
Is there a law you have to play QB for the Cowboys to be a color commentator?
It’s more of an executive order, but I’m told it’s totes the same.
Nice trip down memory lane. Friend of mine from Chicago also called some colleges “High Schools with ashtrays”. Had not heard that expression in a long time, thanks for the laugh.
I remember smoking in hallways at college. Probably banned on campus now we’re so progressive.
Welcome to Iowa State, a/k/a The 13th Grade.
Wait, who is this guy?
Tulpa number 5701.
Definitely a narc
Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised at this point, but whatever man…
He’s on page 37 of the list of registered users
Not Tulpa.
epic GPA of 0.0
Ouch.
I know some folks that went to Southern Illinois. They referred to it as “getting a degree in sex and drugs.”
I always claim my degree to be in bar hopping.
I minored in that.
Suddenly I want to go back to school.
I’m just a really long time lurking guy. Unfortunately I’m not actually Tulpa, I’m way too lazy for that work load, but I’ve been on TOS since the days of J sub D ( RIP ) and am so appreciative of your collective insight, it’s a pleasure to be here.
Greetings Bones.
My favorite band! And the best opening song on the best album ever made!
Excellent
RIP J sub D
RIP Almanian.
Seconded
I am alarmed and confused seeing people seconding and thirding intentionally.
Thirded
…and where’s Pie?…
J sub D has been gone a long time, miss both of them, TIP
RIP, not TIP
We were worrying on Pie on the Zoom on Friday
Someone email him. It’s possible the vampires got him.
And now I have a sad. Not just for J Sub D and Almanian. but for what TOS used to be back in the day.
Did I mention that you guys seem so nice that it kind of creeps me out, like you’re all in a cult or something? Or you’re planning on selling me some Tupperware?
NuSkin.
Ooh, I haven’t heard of that one! Can you tell me more?
Wait, dammit, I fell for it!
We’re from the church of lunar consciousness.
Unfortunately I’m not actually Tulpa
Just what Tulpa would say.
Thanks, Bones.
I take it your wife took the whole damn planet in the divorce.
Welcome Mr Bones, you’ll always be known by the company you keep. Advice is worth what you pay for it. Your passage to Glibertarianism is familiar, in bits and pieces. I think most of us came through some of the same political jungle to get here.
Good article, ‘course now you’re under the gun to continue on. Thanks
Something good that SIU does:
https://www.siue.edu/news/2016/03/NASA-Awards-SIUE-Eleven-Point-Five-Million-to-Expand-Citizen-Science-Education.shtml
Maybe different campus?
SIUE is not in Carbondale, the E is for Edwardsville
Ah
I read that as SEIU and was wondering what are you smoking.
Yeah, I was like: Yay, I get to bitch about my union some more!
I thought they were the for profit education arm of the CIA?
Carbondale
I’ve got a commemorative Coke bottle from SIU’s 1983 Div2 football championship around here somewhere
After decades together, it looks like the wife may be going through menopause soon. I hope it isn’t as hard on me as when she went through puberty.
Nice
Ouch! Mine did it early. We’re still paying the Hvac bills probably. Climate was bipolar for a few years, in my house.
It’s painful, but I can go back to not using condoms again.
A. My strong recommendation is to have it done surgically and get it over with in a couple of hours.
B. She will need a fan to sleep at night.
C. This may be only me but … my hit flashes are immediate and bad with consumption of sugar.
D. She should not go on hormone replacement therapy. Just live through it.
Re A, I forgot to say. My OB advised taking it all out so as not to invite any of the plumbing cancers. No ovaries, uterus, or cervix, no cancers.
Thanks. Honestly, it was just a joke. But, she’ mid 40’s so it is coming.
Yeah, the fan is and has been a constant in my life. We do live in Lousiana so, it does not bother me much of the time. Right now she has an IUD or an IED as we both refer to it, in order to mitigate the worst of it that happens during what we call ‘lady time.’ We shall see where we go from here,
If you do not want more kids, but she isn’t eager to get all the plumbing yanked, she can get a endometrial ablation. They put a little electrified net in the uterus and turn it on, zapping all the endometrial cells permanently.
I had that before my hysterectomy-oophorectomy and would have been sufficient for my purposes, but I had other problems.
Good news is she might not notice the hot flashes apart from the normal weather.
I assume you’ll play this for her:
https://youtu.be/GewWg-T29Js
Isoflavones and other plant based estrogens.
Over the counter food supplements. No script.
ah, fuck
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErvLOW5W8Aos6pr.jpg
LOLOLOLOL
Oregon Considering Bill for Emergency Seizure of Private Property
“Whenever the Governor has declared a state of emergency, the Governor may issue, amend and enforce rules and orders to:
1) Control, restrict and regulate by rationing, freezing, use of quotas, prohibitions on shipments, price fixing, allocation or other means, the use, sale or distribution of food, feed, fuel, clothing and other commodities, materials, goods and services;
2) Prescribe and direct activities in connection with use, conservation, salvage and prevention of waste of materials, services and facilities, including, but not limited to, production, transportation, power and communication facilities training, and supply of labor, utilization of industrial plants, health and medical care, nutrition, housing, rehabilitation, education, welfare, child care, recreation, consumer protection and other essential civil needs; and
3) Take any other action, including through the seizure, use or possession of any real or personal property…”
Ghengis Khan would be proud.
I have 5.56 reasons why I would not participate in that.
And… property seized for temporary use is not eligible for compensation because its temporary!
Wow. We really are entering banana-state territory.
No kidding. They may as well make “Imagine” the state constitution.
Don’t give them any ideas.
It’s all good…he doesn’t mention the quartering of soldiers.
I find myself in the awkward position of rooting for Tom Brady because Drew Breez is such a spineless asshole that it would be an insult to jellyfish to compare his spine to one.
Never
What did he do again?
Little known rule: if a team loses to the Buccaneers in the postseason they are immediately relegated to the ACC and have to work their way back.
He caved to the BLM mob.
Ah. The taking a knee thing. Makes sense.
Yes, he acted like he had principles, then folded like a cheap lawn chair, very disappointing.
What was the issue again? Transgender anchor babies? Cops are allowed to live? I forget.
Said some innocuous shit about having family members that served in the military and that it was disrespectful to dismiss the US flag. Sounded like a standard Independence Day speech. Then the wokescolds got to him and he recanted. Then he proceeded to put the name of a felon on his helmet.
Other than my loathing of Brady, I have no strong opinion on this game.
I dislike that is slightly more attractive and successful and better at football than I am.
Slightly.
Call me shallow – it’s difficult to hate someone that beautiful.
I guzzle Pantene.
Kim Bassinger was the original Breck Golden Gai.
Hot. Also, interesting typo. Isn’t to far from where you stayed.
https://tokyocheapo.com/food-and-drink/quick-guide-golden-gai/
You underestimate me, dear sir – “typo”
Sorry!
Here, this might help you get over it.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/135741376238328116/
Tom Brady is the goat.
I’d kind of like to see Brady Vs Rodgers in the NFC champ game.
You know Rodgers wants to establish his primacy, but old man Brady could deny him, and that would warm my dark little heart.
I’m rooting for deaths and injuries.
Sorry I guess that would be wrong.
Just injuries.
Heh, class of ’89… Yeah, I was a skater, drinker, and too smart for actually doing anything. And so here I am. Funny thing, the soccer players would always roll out in a hot-box car. Welcome to the club.
Always hated pot though.
Some damn good skatin’ comes on at the 4-minute mark here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie6plcFQ330
” and have remained a small “L” libertarian”
until you added a “G” to become Glibertarian.
Welcome, Bones.
“enjoyed the read.
Peace!”
Indeed
“ Being a weed connoisseur, a lot of my friends and acquaintances were lefties, but I wanted nothing to do with their flawed thought processes and I do enjoy hot showers.”
LOL at the last bit
I’m off to work, kids. Dont mess with the thermostat!
In keeping with the theme, Ill just show myself out with this little number.
/stands, faces ZoomCall, moons @ KK
Probably linked already. Fun stuff.
https://mobile.twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1350867448438935555
Exactly where I’m at right now.
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/062/277/250/original/f826e519938c648d.png
“Wait until you see the whites.”
“Of their eyes, sir?”
“No.”
I know it’s a Sanford joke but I love this delivery of the line too
Watch out on the zoom call. The Fed plant will try to get you to incite violence.
I already knocked over a trash can. I expect a raid tomorrow.
You’re already scheduled because of the mattress tag removal.
Yeah, fuck you man! That’s my home!
If you’re in Houston you should be expecting a breaking ball instead 😉
She left. Where were you?
Making money the old fashioned way. *shuts stall door*
FCC is getting in on the action. Watch out Boogaloos with your Baofeng radios! Big Airwave is listening!
https://www.fcc.gov/document/amateur-personal-radio-users-reminded-not-use-radios-crimes
The swiftness with which they’re clamping down on everything is terrifying. Are we really this close to a civil war?
It aeems said sift to us, but they’ve been playing the looong fame.
My journey to libertarianism started when I was 16.
The scene: About a week after Hurricane Andrew. There is no power or phone. There is a mandatory 7pm curfew.
It’s about 10pm. Though the storm didn’t completely destroy my house (because the house faced N/S and not E/W), the wind blew so hard during the storm that water was pouring in through the seams where windows met, essentially flooding the carpet throughout the house. Although we were able to get a tarp over the roof where we lost all of the shingles and had a couple of holes in the wood, enough water got in during the storm to be a problem. We couldn’t move the carpets for a couple of days because it was too heavy. And we’re talking late August in fucking Florida where the humidity levels often match the temperature. Mold had started to form. It was hot as fuck, and we felt like it was safer outside.
A friend and I were sitting down behind a downed tree in the front yard. Cops rolled up with all lights off. We heard them get out of the car. We were freaking out a little bit, but had enough presence of mind to tell my friend, “I live here. Let’s just go inside.” So we stood up, to be greeted by the racking of a shotgun held by a cop who was clearly on edge. Screaming commenced, and I’m sure I peed my pants a little.
It was a fairly long journey for me, but that’s when it started. When a 16 year old kid is threatened by a shotgun wielding cop for the horrible crime of being in my front yard.
Being on the business end of the state should wake people up. Unfortunately, most just think, “I need to be the one pointing the shotgun at peaceful people.”
Hi Bones, nice read, thanks! I also grew up in the Chicago suburbs, though I’ve lived in California for 35 years now. Was Halloween still a big deal in Carbondale when you were there? Went along with several college buddies to Carbondale for Halloween in 1979 and whoa, it made New Orleans at Mardi Gras seem like pikers. I remember the city greased the light poles before Halloween to keep people from climbing them, but damn if every pole on the main drag that night didn’t have people squatting or hanging on top.
I guess I became libertarian in 1980. I was following John Anderson’s independent campaign when the local newsrag ran some opinion piece that I think discussed the Nolan chart. I wound up voting for Ed Clark. First of long line of futile votes for the LP.
Hail fellow Ed Clark voter! He received my first prez vote as well. Forty years later I am 0-10.
Hah- got you beat. I voted for John Hospers so I’m 0-13.
Huh. Finally found what it takes to both be fired and be turned in by fellow officers.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-police-chief-fires-officer-for-racist-remark-after-fellow-officers-report-him/
What blacks aren’t of African decent?
Australian aborigines and some of the other islands between Australia and the far southern tip of India.
I thought about Aborigines but are they actually considered black? Trying to pencil out their stupid race/skin color/whack a mole reasoning makes me want to either bash my head in or take a shower.
How do I get to Gart’s Gurch?
If you have value to trade for value they will find you.
I remember a particular scene from the John Addams series starring Paul Giamatti (which is quite good and I do recommend), John Addams was conversing with someone regarding the goals of the Revolution and he said that he would like for future generations to not be concerned with such low concerns as politics and war and would like for them to be concerned with higher pursuits such as philosophy and art.
I have no idea as to the historical veracity of this exchange but it has always struck a chord with me. In an ideal sense, the Revolution was intended to make the machinations of government so far removed from citizens’ concerns that the decisions of those far away and removed from them would be far less important than the market price of wheat and corn.
Ole Aliens and Sedition Hisself
I do not claim any divine authority from which I draw this wisdom, but I do draw what I find worthwhile from the flawed men that came before.
no objection whatsoever
Adams had a lot of things right
one of themes that runs through American history is the assholes that philosophers turn into when they can’t work their vision; guys (like me) who never change their stripes enjoy pointing at the guys who do
Of course, then the grandons who studied painting, poetry, music, etc get conquered by some hungry men who studied war and politics.
The samurai writes poetry and practices calligraphy, but he does so after he puts in his sword work for the day.
That is precisely the quote to which I refer. In that vein, I have always told my children that whether you care about politics or not, politics will always care about you. I have also told them that my goal was to make the goings-on in Washington far less relevant than who they went to senior prom with.
Unfortunately, even young kids are living their lives in accordance with politics.
What goes on in my kid’s civics class is enlightening in the worst ways.
” Revolution was intended to make the machinations of government so far removed from citizens’ concerns that the decisions of those far away and removed from them”
True, but the Founders also knew that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. As America got richer, the citizens’ other pursuits led to many forgetting this. One hopes it is not too late, that the tipping point has not been reached, that the young will open their eyes to the sordid future the current path portends.
Well, they won’t be richer for much longer. (in a historical timeline, not predicting immanent collapse or ruling it out)
Once upon a time
https://youtu.be/AajPxROvcTA
A place I will never set foot in again unless they set up the reeducation camps there.
Here is another of my random musings, I do not know that I am inclined to answer the call to muster to the call of a citizens’ militia to defend my State/Parish/Town. However, I am far more inclined to do so than I was a few weeks ago. I do not know if this is a reflection on me or a reflection on the state of the nation.
How about to defend your home, family, and/or personal freedom?
I don’t take orders; maybe you can. (reminds me to write that essay about how a chick could possibly think a uniform is sexy when it clearly signals that the wearer is not his own man . . . and may not even be allowed to go into town next weekend . . . whatever)
The thing about alignments is that the nature of the contract is often unclear; one of the weirdnesses of military folk and paperwork is their idea that their control is absolute and unending. You think you’re signing up for this, but then six months later you must risk your life for that or be shot for desertion or disobeying an order or whatever shit they put in your file. No thanks: I’ll die at the house when they come for me with no ambiguity about what I died for.
PS My people already fought and died to get out of this shitty deal of living in the same republic as New York. Didn’t work; since then they let fucking California into the club, and now my whole world is watered down by loons who live 1,000 miles away. I consider myself a rat in the best restaurant in town: fat on easy street, nothing I would have chosen or built, but here I am.
Happy Birthday Mojeaux!
https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/motley-crue-is-officially-40-years-old-today/
Wrong. 1981 was only like 5 years ago.
I thought it was 10 years ago.
20. The 90’s were 10 years ago.
So there is a curfew here in Quebec from 8 PM to 5 AM. One of the oldest kid’s friend kind of squats here (long story short, absent parents, my gf is as close as a maternal figure he ever got) and just got caught going to a friend’s place after curfew.
So of course the cops did the right thing and gave a kid that can’t afford his own place nor even pay his own groceries a 1 550$ ticket.
I’ll readily admit he is far from the brightest tool in the shed and his shit is far from being in order but what do you expect an idiot 20 yo to do with a 1550$ ticket when he barely works part-time? Of course he is going to contest, but how much is it going to cost the taxpayers to hope to get a penny from that? How does this have anything to do with saving grandma?
I sure do hope he’ll vote next time.
Sorry. What they are doing is monstrous.
That’s awful. How do the locals feel about this law/decree/whatever?
Does anyone care how they feel?
There’s something about Commonwealth countries that makes them impose outrageous fines. Four years ago I was fined several hundred (US) dollars for driving less than 10 mph above the speed limit in South Australia. Per ticket. I got two tickets. Because the speed cameras took two pictures of me within 2 minutes. I disputed this and exchanged strongly worded letters with the authorities there. In the meantime, I got two tickets for speeding in France. One ticket was voided–probably because I didn’t speed too excessively. The other ticket was about 40 Euros. I paid the French ticket and have no bad feelings toward France. As for the Australian tickets, I gave them nothing and have been waiting for their tickets to disappear in the system (heard about three years). Fortunately, the covid psychosis made my disengagement from Australia costless.
Hmm. One could slow down.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9157133/Dutch-police-blast-angry-anti-lockdown-protestors-water-cannon-Amsterdam.html
They keep calling it a square. It’s really more of a park. I had something from one of the food vendors there I think. Fresh stroopwaffel maybe?
Wish I had some bottles of oude genever right now. Can’t believe it’s been only three years. Feels like a million.
Well, the Republic is dead. Hopefully, it won’t be apparent until after my death, and the death of my son. Well, hopefully he will procreate soon, so I guess I hope it won’t be apparent until after my grandchild dies… sigh… I’m not allowed to just give up, am I? Even if I’m just exhausted, and too old to risk my job (at a school- thank god there’s no wokeness in that environment), I still have to go defeat these dumbasses who should have been discredited decades ago, at least by the late 80’s?
Fine. *makes lots of noise putting on shoes* Lets get this done.
I always read these comments in Bender’s voice. And it works.
Cool. I should attempt to mimic his style more. I used to be pretty good at it.
How are you tonight?
Threading fail
But not difficult to follow the thread.
Fret not.
The hamster wheel groundhog day restarts again in the morning. Got a few things done but nearly everything I was trying to this weekend. Other than contemplating the end of country, how about you?
I saw a brief.”news” snippet on the channel where football had been playing.
The piece was about women celebrating the first female veep, CommieLa Harris. T struck me that I had be given it a moment’s thought since election week.. after all, iwe are told it makes no difference.
Are we doing the “first female veep” formula forever, or is gender a social construct?
Does the first transwoman veep get celebrated too, or is that already included in Harris’s package deal?
The standard is whatever is politically useful at the moment. Nothing more, nothing less.
1865: clemency and pardons for those who actively rebelled and waged war on the US. took a while but the nation healed.
2021: commie shitbirds foaming at the mouth demanding that anyone who supported a duly, legally elected president be prosecuted, jailed, driven out of employment, put in re-education camps and blacklisted for life. this is their plan for ‘unifying’ the nation. I wonder how this is going to work out
That certainly puts it in perspective.
After watching the local “news” I’d have the impression that armed rebels and would-be assassins are lurking in organized groups around every corner.
Once again, the left are setting up massive strawmen: “capitol police prepare for unrest”, “National Guard deployed ahead of inauguration “ etc. They show footage of their overreaction but not of any actual threats.
Just like claiming to be “anti-violence”, “anti racist “, “anti-fascist” —-by which they imply that anyone who opposes them is pro-violence, pro-racist, etc.
They have no intent to heal anything. We have an important role in their morality play: the villain whose existence alone is enough to force all other groups to unite in opposition to it.
‘Morning All! I lost the signal yesterday, but I got it back, no phone, no interwebs, very dark and scary…
The two happiest people today?
Hunter’s crack dealer and that Asian Winnie the Pooh fella.
Related: https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-winnie-the-pooh-day-january-18/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m2W-d64Z3vI
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$4 on a $10 Powerball ticket.
*sigh*
Looks like you’re stuck with plan b: go to work.
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/techwatch/corinne-weaver/2021/01/14/kill-all-republicans-amazon-sells-204-items-promoting
Violence is fine against you if you’re a bad thinking person.
I think the past year has been evidence enough of that
So, apparently MLK day is a holiday, even though it hasn’t been for the past nine years.
Oh well, leaving work nine hours early is fun.
One of the odd things about being a defense contractor is that we never get the national holidays off beyond July 4, thanksgiving, Christmas, Memorial, and Labir.
All the others: Veterans Day, Columbus Day, president day, MLK day, etc—those are regular work days for us even though our customers are not in.
Mornin’ Glibs! *tugs forelock and kowtows*
Nice hardware, George.
I’m assuming it was the guy in the tricorn. CD can’t decide which story to tell.
Yup.
Should have been wrapped in foil for effect.
So I did about a B- grade of work yesterday. Fuck it. I’m tired and they all can’t be gems.