Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an absolutely wonderful day it always is!
Matsuyama becomes first Japanese golfer to win Masters
I’m starting to think the kid is bipolar.
People with power hate relinquishing it.
ADL gunning for Tucker Carlson.
200 police officers sent to disperse crowd protesting shuttered Canadian church.
Birth rates dropped in multiple large states.
Old dog tags found in belly of 445 pound alligator.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
First on my wife’s links!
Second on your wife’s links!
Glibs Swingers Club is officially in session!
*awaits incoming cat butt*
Sloopy seconds is all you get.
*Golf clap*
Third on your wife’s links!
Is this course an invitational?
That’s sweet.
Good morning, everyone.
I should certainly hope so!
What Tucker said was fairly dull, but the ADL has all the credibility of the SPLC these days.
Yeah, I read the article to see if Tucker actually said anything horrible, and surprise, he didn’t. The ADL is a joke now.
It’s about creating narratives. We no longer have news: we have propaganda by the people that want tyrannical government because they stupidly believe that if they help the tyrants they will be the last to be eaten.
Yep. They are always first and never see it coming. Morons.
I think they behave the way they do because they agree with their goals but in the end the effect is the same and it doesn’t matter.
This is why I used to respect the ACLU but have zero respect for them now. They used to understand this.
I’m trying to get past this language of Tucker Carlson, a human being, being a “gateway drug” (dehumanize him) to “dangerous […] theories.”
So Tucker makes people encounter dangerous thoughts.
I presume the theories are dangerous because they’ve been printed on reams of heavy card stock and are being dumped over people’s heads from a 50 story building.
Otherwise, what’s so dangerous about exploring thoughts? Some people call it getting other perspectives, or even this quaint thing we used to call “doing research.”
“So Tucker makes people encounter dangerous thoughts.”
Isn’t this the rationale behind all the censorship efforts these days? I mean, the media now has gone from “We need to censor/deplatform anyone that mentions the Biden family is just another dnc crime syndicate, and the Hunter laptop proves it, because it is Russian disinformation!”, to “Meh, that stuff is true, we did censor it to help ‘fortify’ the 2020 election (which we will also censor anyone claiming it was not all legit), but who cares?”
Banjos!
What a great song to start what promises to be a crazy goddamn week!
So, in addition to the Chauvin trial, we got ourselves another cop shooting.
Why, yes, there was rioting and looting. Thanks for asking!
Let me guess, the victim didn’t do nuthin’.
He didn’t comply and tried to run. That’s a death sentence, I guess.
According to the driver he put on his signal and continued driving to a well lit gas station because he was concerned for his safety. Fat load of good that did. Cops decided he was attempting to evade and acted accordingly.
Oh, wait. That was a different one. This guy had a warrant and they shot him when he tried to get back into the car. That’s what happens.
‘Tucker has got to go. Again, it is a risk not just to the corporation. It is a risk to our society to be promoting these anti-semitic and racist myths that literally were used by people on January 6th to try to not just interfere with the election but to murder lawmakers.’
Denounces Tucker for engaging in conspiracy theories, makes conspiratorial statement claiming facts not in evidence.
For the record, I think Tucker is being a hyperbolic ass. People have been whining about “waves of immigrants” coming here and diluting the voting power of “Real Americans” since the Post Civil War Era.
“But Voting Fraud!”
Again, this is nothing new.
This is cancel culture at its finest. First they go after the few remaining legacy media figures that dare to speak out. Then they go after second- and third-tier people like Andy Ngo. They really want to make control the thoughts and speech of people.
“Resistance is Futile”
Hive Mind, baby!
Last Thursday night Tucker did an excellent segment on gun control. I swear the guy’s researchers/writers are Glibs. It sounded like he lifted most of my comments on gun control for the last few years.
He can be very solid on individual freedom on some things(2nd amendment), horrible about it on others(Devil’s lettuce).
He’s a socon populist. Not my cup of tea but that’s far from a disqualification for being a Talking Head.
Are you saying he gets some things right, but maybe not much more frequently than once in a lifetime?
*burns down the house*
I cant believe nobody took the time to tell David Byrne that 365º isnt hot enough to burn anything.
Unless he was using a scale other than American-heit.
four – hun – dred – fif – ty – one – de – grees
three – hun – dred – six – ty – five – de – grees
it even scans with the original rhythm
White phosphorous burns at 93 F.
White phosphorous burns at 93 F
Pedant on –
It ignites at 86-93 F.
It burns at about 5000F.
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
There is water at the bottom of the ocean!
I always thought that was the stupidest Byrne lyric. Of course there is water at the bottom of the ocean. The ocean is made of water.
And methane clathrates at that depth.
Agreed. he is great on most subjects regarding the BOR but a bit unhinged on others.
My opinion on drugs is a bit complicated to go into now but I think the war on Mary Jane is hysteria driven by money. He is way off on that one.
My view on drugs is very simple: If you don’t own anything else in this world, you own your own body, free to with it as you please as long as it doesn’t cause immediate harm to another’s person or property. Societal Good means fuck all.
You own yourself or your a slave to the State. No compromise.
Children and crazy people are not considered to have full agency. Using some drugs will erode a sane adult’s agency, usually to great cost to everyone around them. This is where the debate begins. Around here meth is a real problem and has wrecked a lot of lives, not just the users. I have seen it many times.
Marijuana is not one of those drugs. I never had any use for the stuff myself but I know nearly every one else uses it and I haven’t seen any real ill effects from it.
Sounds like the argument for alcohol prohibition. And if you are going the utilitarian route, prohibition causes more harm than the drug use.
I once tried to argue with my grandfather that prohibition was a huge mistake and caused more problems than it solved. I was 16 or abouts so I was a lot smarter then. He let me run my mouth for a bit and then said
“You weren’t there. You didn’t see it.” so I shut up.
Later I read a history of drug and alcohol problems in the US and was surprised to learn that the problems we had post-civil war were exponentially worse than what we have now.
“meth is a real problem and has wrecked a lot of lives”
Meth didn’t wreck their lives. They wrecked their own lives. They used meth to do it. Should we band guns too because they’ve “ruined a lot of lives”?
Realized that came off sounding more aggressive than I meant it to…. No edit function for me to fix, but no offense intended.
No need to qualify that. I see your point but it is a bit of an apples and oranges comparison. Guns do not diminish a person’s agency. Some drugs definitely do.
Where your argument has merit is that most people using drugs are self-medicating. They had problems before they start using. They arent trying to get high, they are trying to get relief.
At this point the anti-MJ stance of most on the right has been revealed to be pure reactionary politics. The left is for it, so they’re agin’ it. Not a good look for them.
Which is ironic given that one of the right’s iconic figures (WFB Jr) broke on the War on Drugs before the anyone significant on the left did.
Tucker is a bloviating nincompoop but he’s one of the better ones out there. Everybody has the choice thus far to just stop watching offensive content. Don’t like it? Don’t click.
Trouble is, the Cancelers’ aim is to prevent the people who want to watch the content from doing so, and they’re getting the job done, one heretic at a time.
The cancel warriors don’t believe that ignoring/turning off is enough. This is the process:
1. Delete your social media accounts
2. Get you fired
3. Shut down alternative platforms
4. Freeze/eliminate payment processing for your work
#4 is the most insidious. Make it so that there’s no possible way to make a living being a dissenting voice. It’s not just Paypal and Patreon. Brick and mortars like Chase Bank have shut down the accounts of wrongthinkers.
Early Christmas shopping started, but I am told it is because of injustice!
Nothing says “fighting for justice” like looting a new flat screen TV.
I now have a pair of shoes for each day of the week!
Yeah, another shooting in an inner ring suburb yesterday.
I’m going to assume that since the victim had warrants out for his arrest that he will become a martyr.
I’m definitely not a cop sucker, but I think not trying to run from them is a good first step toward not getting shot by them.
I’ve got my fingers crossed that the warrants were for a serious violent crime. If the cops shot him for unpaid parking tickets, it is really going to suck. Right now it doesn’t look good.
a pretextual stop, something police do all too often to target Black people
Oh, bullshit, I’ve them pull that shit on me, and I’m a middle-aged white guy.
I’ve only been pulled over for things I did. I have been stopped and questioned for walking at night though.
I’ve had a cop pull me over for a brake light not working. When I got home I had my wife step on the brakes for me so I could see which side had the burned-out bulb. Both brake lights were working fine, he flat out lied just to have an excuse to pull me over for some reason.
Stopped and questioned for walking?
I would be getting badge numbers for that shit.
juris:
I got stopped last week while on a bike in a park. Well, to clarify, my choice was to continue riding on the path (where I had right of way) and contest the police SUV with lights driving on the multi use trail, or stop and get out of the way. I got asked two questions, did I hear any gunfire, and did I see a white woman wearing white in the park.
You mean the ghost of Mrs. McReady? Not tonight officer.
Neph: an active crime scene is a reasonable exception – stopped for no reason is something else (and my assumed predicate).
I was stopped twice in Huntington Beach CA walking from a friends house back to my car after midnight. I had to park two streets over. The cops rolled up and asked what I was doing out so late. They followed me back to may car.
The other time was in Maryland walking through a bar parking lot. They were checking that I wasn’t driving home drunk. I lived within walking distance. They let me go.
I don’t know. I have no doubt this is happening but it’s not color so much as economic status. Police often use any bullshit excuse to target people lower on the socio-economic scale because they are easy targets for police… no lawyers, no important friends to worry about… cash cows for the system. Around me, it’s poor country whites. In cities, it’s blacks.
My wife got waved though a police checkpoint when she couldn’t find her car registration because the cop told her “you’re not the type of person we’re interested in”. Meanwhile my white trash neighbor gets pulled over everyday and twice a day on Sundays with a revolving door of fines and then jail time when he can’t pay them.
it’s not color so much as economic status
So very much this.
Injecting race into the argument just obscures the underlying issues.
It can also be part of a $$ collecting operation.
I live near an area that has a lot of semi-fancy restaurants and bars. Every weekend evening the local cops are out in force busting people for DUI’s.
The last ticket I got was for running a red light in that area. The cop was visibly disappointed I wasn’t drunk.
It’s definitely a for-profit operation, and one that is not based on providing anything useful or enjoyable.
A small town around here has a 35mph sign where the town actually begins. My brother was approaching that sign going around 55 (the normal country road speed) and got pulled over. The cop said “the 35mph sign is there, but the 35mph zone actually begins back there” and points some distance back down the road out of town. He went to court to challenge that; not sure what the outcome was.
I encountered two little VT towns with speed cameras located around the bed where a speed limit suddenly dropped. They both got me. Fortunately, I didn’t have a front license plate at the time and never got the tickets in hte mail.
Yes. They troll the waters. Same shite up here. It’s been a year or two but I always roll the window down and greet them with a chirpy “Evening, Officer! What’s up?” while at the same time wanting to jump out and punch them in the nose. They pull you over because they feel like doing so. Fuck that shit.
Yep.
When I do have interactions with the cops, it’s always with a far more benevolent attitude than what I actually feel, and far better than they deserve.
I’m all “Yessir. No sir. I’m going to grab my registration in the console, sir.”
Yep, been there. Also was once stopped for having a headlight out during the day. My lights were on because it had been raining. The rain had stopped, but I forgot to shut the lights back off.
Yup. The only time I’ve been pulled over here was because of “excessive window tint,” which isn’t even a thing.
One time ages ago I bought a used car, registered it, and the DMV sent me new plates for it which I immediately installed; but someone at the DMV forgot to actually put the plates into the system.
I discovered this after I was sitting at a red light with a cop behind me, and the cop got bored and ran my plates, then pulled me over to find out why I had fake plates.
From what I read details on the story (and I admit they keep changing) your holiness, he was pulled over for a traffic stop based on said warrants, decided to pull a Floyd, and try to get the officers to back down so he could run away, then in the process of running away cause the cops were afraid of becoming the next Chauvin. got shot after he ran over some cop that was not fast enough to get out of the way.
The looters got the excuse they had been itching for to go shopping, and now they can have a second chance when the Chauvin trail finishes too. YAY, TWO CHRISTMASES!
Agree that the actual facts on the ground are pretty scarce.
Counterpoint is from the story I quoted above. They pulled him over for some bullshit and then someone panicked and shot him.
Totally agree with you that all the yahoos who have descended on Minneapolis for the Chauvin riots were thrilled to have an excuse for a tuneup riot.
New stock is in. Somebody needs to create an excuse for a night of reparations.
The warranty period on the stuff stolen during last year’s looting is almost over. And only a sucker buys the extended warranty.
Can you loot a warrantee extension?
Mock if must, but my warranties have paid for themselves twice. If we keep the two Fords we have much longer, it will be thrice I’m sure.
Today’s new cars with the computer console make it a requirement to buy the extended warrantee. Those units glitch often, and when they go you are looking at between $3-7K. I bought one for a brand spanking new Ford Edge my ex wanted, based on a gut feeling, and paid the $3.75K for it. My ex thought I was a sucker. When the fucking console died about 3 months after the warrantee expired, they would have charged me $6K to replace it. It being a Ford, more shit went bad and the warrantee ended up paying for itself thrice over.
On expensive new things, like cars, I buy the warrantee just cause the costs on something that depreciates so fast are fucking insane. I don’t buy warrantees on electronics, cause it is cheaper to just buy new for me.
Oh god, fuck that.
I might just stick with early 2000s cars and fix them up instead of buying a new car that is loaded down with all this (mostly) unnecessary electronic shit that costs a fortune to fix.
Here ya go….
The owner of a butcher and taxidermy shop in Ravenel, South Carolina, said his team recently discovered five dog tags and several other items inside the belly of a 12-foot alligator.
Which one of you is that?
“My wife is upset with me because I’m talking about doing a full mount, or I might do a rug mount. I haven’t decided just yet,” he said.
Theory confirmed.
For those who don’t want to read-through the phrase “dog tag” was meant literally, apparently leviathans eat hunting dogs.
Yeah, that play on dog tags was a shameful and moderately subtle bit of click bait.
Not on the part of Banjos, of course. That’s the headline of the original article.
Yeah, at first I thought we were about open up a can of worms involving hunting homeless vets for sport ala that old JCVD movie Hard Target.
I thought maybe it was a plot out of Miami Vice–drug kingpins disposing of drug warriors a la Brick Top as Florida Man.
Pig and Gator farmers are very, very dangerous people. 😉
As well as some African Presidents.
I’m going to give the headline writer a mulligan on that one. Headline space is precious and they need to be short and catchy. And he was literally right. The use of “dog tag” for pet ID precedes the use of them for military ID.
Gators do love them some canine. We have had a few dogs go missing around here. I fenced mine in when one of mine went missing. I am certain it was lost to a gator.
Every time I think of relocating to SC I remind myself of the alligators. Plus, East Coast is done as far as liberty. Virginia has fallen. NC is almost there.
Since we’ve moved here, I’ve joked to the wife that the alligators in Lake Moultrie would make an ideal “arsehole disposal”.
/trying to look on the positive side of things
This was very near my house, I knew everyone involved, and I’m still heartbroken over Erin and her family.
https://apnews.com/article/049e6de834b1c0434470829075872854
Ugh. Thanks for the nut-punch, bro.
I remember that. What a horrible tragedy that was. Is that the one where the grandfather stood on the bank for two days and nights with a rifle until he killed it? Or do I have that mixed up with another similar incident?
My property has a bayou on it and it is chock full of gators. I dont mind people fishing there but if they have children with them I run them off. I always warn them not to stand too close to the water and to pay attention to what is around them.
My stepson and I went down there one night to retrieve some equipment we had left there that day after fishing and there was a pile of gators on the bank, one of which had to be 10 feet or more. A goddamned tyrannosaurus. Often you will hear “Oh, alligators arent aggressive to humans.” yeah, that’s bullshit.
My words of warning: “It is a giant, meat-eating lizard. You are made out of meat.”
As a native Floridian, I wouldn’t say they’re aggressive towards humans, but they will take an opportunity to eat one if given the chance.
One of my fears when I go salmon fishing is that I might catch a 30+ King. I know my dad would be pushing me to have it mounted, but that would lead to a very unhappy wife. Not only would she see the taxidermy bill, but she’d lose out on a lot of salmon steaks.
Personally, I’d be happy eating it because I don’t really get the point in mounts. If I have a pic of me holding it, that is good enough for me.
If I was ever going to get something mounted, an assquatch would be more my style
That is hilarious but my wife would have me mounted if I bought one
So Suthen, maybe she’d like something more practical?
LOL. Nice.
THERE NO SUCH THING ASSSQUATCH! NOT FUNNY.
Hah! Mr. Squirrel fucks around and finds out! Thanks for the links and top ‘o the mornin’, Banjos.
Is that a disqualifying condition, according to the law, for exercising certain human rights codified in our founding documents?
He is a two-bit grifter. It would be fine with me if he crawled back under his rock.
Little fucker should be ridiculed and shamed.
Or just ignored.
I’d be happy to ignore him as long as he leaves me and the many millions like me who he wishes to “control” alone.
Activism doesn’t require effort.
That kid is not bi-polar, he has just never been spanked or told NO!
He’s just an attention whore who’s trying desperately to prolong his 15 minutes.
It pays better than a minimum-wage job.
Careful, I fear you’re close to peeking behind someone’s Curtain #34.
This was seen and sensibly chuckled at.
Mammary Monday sez STAY ON TARGET
https://archive.li/0wrIS
Why is Special K not our President? With great ideas like her Marshall Plan for Moms she is clearly the fiercest Democrat out there.
Nothing scream equality like “we need massive subsidies to continue working”.
I had this argument with someone I know this weekend. If daycare providers can’t offer daycare at a price working mothers can provide, the solution is not to subsidize it, but to let mothers stay home with their own kids. If their career is that important, then they should not have kids.
The person I said that to was not impressed. She is entitled to have it all, and she doesn’t care that I would have to pay for that. I told her I’d also be open to women starting their own private charity to support these women. After their kids were grown, they could put their own money into the charity for the next women. That was “selfish”.
The end of the argument was when she tried playing the “what about single mothers?” card and I said that they shouldn’t be single. And doesn’t “having it all” include having a husband?
When anyone uses the term “mom” in political discourse I get scared.
She is entitled to have it all, and she doesn’t care that I would have to pay for that.
Does she own a gun with which she intends to steal all that she is entitled to?
That’s what taxes and the police are for.
That’s the nut of the argument right there.
And I’m entitled to a career that I truly love and also pays all my bills.
There are reasonable people out there who think that giving women the franchise was liberty’s death knell.
That does seem to be when Congress started spending money on feelz.
Careful saying that, cause some people get real angry when you point out the road to hell started getting paved when feels started being more important than logic & facts…
So you are saying the gals wouldn’t be electing Davy Crockett to Congress?
It’s not just the gals, however these days your holiness…
Many men are so feminized and are all about the feels too, or, simply are such scumbags that they feel looting the fruit of other people’s labor is a fine grift to use to keep you living the life those yuppie parents that have kicked you out of the basement used to finance.
An evolutionary tendency to value security over freedom certainly doesn’t have anything to do with it.
Green New Deal, Marshall Plan for Moms, Punching Fascists…
They really are re-fighting WW2 in their heads, and the vast majority of them were not even alive then, much less adults.
I’m not sure most of them are adults now.
They really are re-fighting WW2 in their heads, and the vast majority of them were not even alive then, much less adults.
And the vast majority of them also don’t realize they’re on the side of the bad guys in that conflict.
She CARES, she really, really CARES!!!
If you think childcare is spendy now just wait until the feds subsidize the beejesus out of it. See: higher education and healthcare…
Our last gov worked really, really hard to force all child care providers to join the union. I’m sure that would have driven down the costs of child care significantly.
And all those women who ran day care out of their house would finally have been free of the yoke of oppression.
“permanent paid leave solutions”
I read that as “getting paid full salary to never work again”.
Correct.
Women already had this for generations. My wife enjoys this now. It’s called a single income family.
Many of the advocates for this new proposition want it because they want to avoid the responsibilities that being a single income family technically require to function. When daddy government gives you the money, you are free to jump from loser dude to loser dude, father their babies, and have other people pay for your bad choices.
have other people pay for your bad choices.
Wellllll, look at Mr. white-privileged-judgmental here!
My wife stayed at home too. There are times I think about how nice it would have been to have had a second income, but then I see that our kids all turned out great.
I also never have any of the gripes my coworkers have about who’s turn it is to pick up dry cleaning, go grocery shopping or other stuff like that.
The left is doing everything they can to crush all private businesses except those working hand in glove with the left. It is pure fascism.
“couples under lockdown would pass the time together in historically predictable ways”
hawt
Would it be mostly peaceful?
Nope. Fryin’ pan upside the the noggin for not doing the dishes when told.
VDH on point about wokeness.
Fun Fact – Trotsky’s great-granddaughter is at the helm of a great deal of US FedGov drug policy. Dr. Nora Volkow is the Mexican psychologist and heir to the founder of the Red Army who now heads the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the organization that has been providing
scientificscientastic rationales for FedGov tyranny since 1935.From her WIkipedia:
Volkow is the first person from the NIH to visit the Dalai Lama at his residence
How is this relevant to anything whatsoever?
Because it pisses off the Chinese…or I suppose I should say the government in Beijing which doesn’t speak for all Chinese people (but bosses around a whole lot of them).
This right here. There’s always a reckoning when you stir the racial pot.
That’s an awful lot of words to say “The Left is, and has always been, racist.”
“It is a Jacobin, Bolshevik, or Maoist moment.”
Damn. On point.
I’ve been thinking lately that the only thing the creature known as the American Leftist is capable of is taking the worst elements of those three political movements and combining them into a toxic brew that is made up of the worst of those three time periods. The inevitable result would be poverty and serfdom.
I still hope for a better tomorrow, I just think it is going to get… interesting.
For GT, UnCiv, or anyone else who might be a fan of the Honolulu Police Department’s best inscrutable detective; here is a smattering of the films (with Warner Oland, Sydney Toler and Roland Winters). Keep watch for favorite players William Demarest, Keye Luke, and the brilliant (but thoroughly underrated) Mantan Moreland.
Keye Luke! There’s a handle I’ve never heard for a dog’s age.
Hey Lolbot! Ever heard of this band before – https://youtu.be/vUw6XtiYWww ? I played it in the dead thread to little fanfare but I think the song is fantastic. I’m old and out of touch so they are probably old news.
This is the very first time I’ve heard them but I like them now. Thanks.
Warner Oland >> Sydney Toller. Though Mantan Moreland didn’t appear in any of his films.
Fecking Windows 10. They just tried to force updates on me mid-comment. It was a doozy, too.
Shoddy workmanship, that’s what it is.
Dumb ass.
Their arms must be massive from waving their virtue signals 24/7.
Some on the left still kiss his ass, but nobody listens to this fraud any more.
Fauci: ‘It’s Still Not OK’ to Eat or Drink Indoors Even if You’re VaccinatFauci: ‘It’s Still Not OK’ to Eat or Drink Indoors Even if You’re Vaccinateded
Rioting and looting is still OK though.
The smoke from the fires keeps the virus away.
Trump is gone, they don’t need him anymore.
Just like Cuomo and Newsome. Or even Hogg.
You could make an argument that the life outcomes of darlings of the Left are much worse than those of child actors.
How about the neo-con never-Trumpers? They got zero reward for their crap. No Democrat or Republican wants anything to do with them. Haven’t heard from any of them other than the guy who is a pedo.
I don’t know, the Lincoln Project managed to rake in millions in consulting fees. But, yeah, they did get thrown under the pedo bus immediately after the election.
I suspect that those sociopaths would have been happy to trade the money for continued power/influence though. Getting kicked out of the club house is what really hurt them.
You can smile though that most of the money that funded the LP (not THAT LP, the other one) was from lefties.
Somebody tell this asshole to shut the fuck up. Is he saying that the vaccine is ineffective, because it provides no protection and it doesn’t change anything? Sure seems like it. And saying nothing will change doesn’t exactly encourage people to get a novel mRNA vaccine when there’s no information regarding long-term effects. What a fucking asshole.
I was told that now that Biden is in office we have a solid consistent messaging campaign and the greatest administration of a vaccine rollout.
This.
You can’t emphasize the importance of getting the vaccine when the message is that you will have to live your life as though you hadn’t gotten the vaccine.
Glibfit update: 198.0 yesterday morning.
Today is 7th anniversary, so thos is my only post of the day.
Colorado trip update later this week.
LIAR!
Glibfit hasn’t been going on 7 years!
I watched a movie last night called “Lucky Day”. Mindless entertaining violence. Also a fabulously attractive French babe.
Is it a two hour romp focusing on Steve Martin’s Three Amigos character? Because if it is I’m game.
So, whether it was a lucky day depends on whether you were on the dispensing or receiving end of the various beatdowns?
I’d be fascinated to see what sort of social life our little pal Hogg has at Harvard. Something tells me the sanctimonious little grifter doesn’t have many friends.
Hold on there Brooksy. I wouldn’t be so quick to pull the trigger on the accusation that he’s a lonely loser.
If the kid has any drive at all he’s parlaying his window of opportunity into massive amounts of tail.
I’d wager that he spends most of his alone time sucking his own dick. He don’t need friends, girly or otherwise.
He’s probably not getting Q’s Archive-quality tail, but probably has the same kind of groupies you find at Bryn Mawr and
Wellesley (the non-lesbian type).
Someone posted screenshots of his Tindr profile. It was as you’d expect.
Beaten by the Queen of Hearts every time?
People like that dont have friends. They use people for their own ends.
I would guess that there are plenty others there like him.
I also think that he’s the victim of a lot of snobbery. The Old Money crowd isn’t going to embrace such an obvious huckster. And the kids from middle America who worked their way in are too well adjusted to hang out with him (they probably like guns).
His clique is going to be the super charged SJW crowd. And like you said Suthen, those assholes are all about climbing the grievance tree. You would be a fool to trust any of them.
Maybe he’ll fuck one and not call her back and get thrown out on Title IX bullshit.
A little while ago someone found his Tinder profile and posted a link here. If I remember correctly, he claimed to be in an ethically non-monogamous relationship.
“I have a girlfriend in Canada, but she says it’s ok if I want to go out with someone else when she’s not around”
He is not on campus. Only seniors are on campus this semester at Harvard.
“‘It will be beautiful alien scars’: Elon Musk’s girlfriend Grimes unveils vast new tattoo etched ‘painfully’ on her ENTIRE back with white ink”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9460685/Elon-Musks-girlfriend-Grimes-shows-beautiful-alien-scars-newly-inked-back.html
Looks like random scribbling to me.
Of Elon’s significant others, I like Talulah Riley best. That Grimes chick is gross.
I guess she addresses some kink Elon has.
https://comicbooksgalaxy.com/talulah-riley-hot-pictures/
I can see why….
But anyone is better than that psycho Amber Heard.
I’d be hard pressed to turn away Amber, but I’d to run for the hills afterwards.
Bark at the moon crazy.
That is the best he could do?
Elon apparently did not get the memo re: crazy.
“I’m sure she’s very nice!” /dangerfield
David Hogg drops pillow venture launched during spat
So that noodle-armed “dude” lost a pillow fight?
How utterly unsurprising.
Speaking of noodle arms, now we know why Murphy hated gyms so much.
And is a fierce supporter of gun control?
Speaking of weird coincidences (Plate of shrimp, anyone?)…
Keye Luke was in an old movie I watched the other night (“Impact”- thumbs up). I recognized his voice, but i couldn’t conjure up a name until I saw lobot’s comment above.
Speaking of weird coincidences ….
This weekend I 1) found a hat full of money just lying on the sidewalk AND 2) was chased by an angry man with a guitar.
I crossed a Glib right of passage this weekend. I got my first handgun, a Smith & Wesson Shield .380 EZ. Okay, y’all can start with the mockery…
Perfectly fine choice. No mockery from me.
This right here.
GF has one. (Not a girl gun joke, I swear.)
Those seem nice. Were you able to get enough .380 to do some training?
We bought 100 rounds, some targets and goggles & ear protection for both of us. Found a really nice place to get stuff.
Now all you need is a sand pit or a local gun club.
The neighbors out back shoot into the woods. They’ve already invited us to join them. But, yeah, a gun club is a good idea. We might join a range until we can figure out something more permanent.
In my experience gun clubs are cool because people are often eager to let you play with their toys. I’ve shot AKs, a 454 Casull (that was a BLAST), .306, and a bunch of other guns that I’d never have had the opportunity to shoot if I hadn’t gone to the range.
We’ll probably be joining a big gun club down in Chugiak, about an hour’s drive away, even though we can technically shoot on the property. But I can’t build a trap or sporting clays range myself, so…
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A trap range would be easy, as long as you can run electricity to the thrower.
Most of the clubs around here do skeet shooting. I don’t own a shotgun so I’ve never tried. I do go sometimes just to watch.
Shooting clays is a ridiculous amount of fun. Not as much fun as practical shooting, but close.
Seconded.
We used to go to this outdoor range where you shot into the side of a big steep hill, and we’d stick clays upright in the dirt and pick them off. Fun as hell when I brought my Rossi .357 lever action.
It’s just more fun to shoot things when they shatter or explode (like the time I found a random orange on the ground at the range, stuck it on top of the target stand and put a .357 through it – have you ever seen a cloud of orange juice vapor blow away in the wind??)
If it’s anything like the 9mm S&W Shield then it’s a great gun. Almost bought one. Every .380 I’ve shot was flippy. Not a hard recoil, just flippy.
My guess? More a function of most .380s being primarily little guns, so they tend to be flippy. I’ve got a little Taurus in .40 that a lot of people don’t care to fire because it is loud and and has a sharp flip.
Hard to stay on target with that gun.
Excellent. A defensive gun has to be reliable, and it has to be easy to shoot. The S&W .380ACP EZ is both of those things.
I don’t love the .380, but that didn’t stop me from buying a couple of them. 🙂
I’m going to stand by my assessment of the Hogg pillow company. He suffers from the hubris that is common with lefties. They think they are morally and intellectually superior. So if a mouth breathing redneck can start a business, it should be a piece of cake for Hogg to do it. But then reality came calling, and he realized starting a business is hard.
I also think this is why they have no problem raising taxes on businesses. The dumb rednecks will just keep making money for them to tax, and if they fail, the smarter people will just take over and make money.
These people couldn’t start an LLC for a side hustle.
“The dumb rednecks will just keep making money for them to tax, ”
Tell Atlas to shrug.
One of the things I really miss about doing IoT projects is the opportunity to talk to people about their businesses. It is very interesting to talk to people in a particular field about what the real challenges for them are.
You realize that you know nothing about how a real business operates when they start talking to you. Things you would have thought are super important, they could care less about.
???
Part of the reason why I hate management consultants. I’m yet to encounter one that wasn’t trying to shoehorn their “system” onto an existing process without regard for the realities of the business.
One of my “trick” questions when talking to Big Data consultants is “Can your platform find the gold nuggets in the data by itself, or would you need to get input from our staff to find the gold nuggets?”
If they claim that their tools and data scientists can find the hidden gems in the data all by themselves, they are peddling bullshit. People that actually know what they are doing in data mining are going to tell you that they do need to meet with your domain experts in order to understand what they should be looking for.
Management consultants who tell you up front that you will need to change all your business processes in order to use their suggested platform are refreshingly honest.
Most of them will swear that their system can be totes modified to fit your processes. Only after you have signed a contract and begun the process of “conversion” do most companies realize that the system can’t be modified and it will just be easier to change all their business processes.
*I’m looking at you Oracle!
I almost went the SAP consultancy route some years ago, wherein you help a business completely overhaul it’s own process to conform to the software. It was a strange concept, but at the time extremely profitable.
There’s also a lot of stuff that’s done in a certain way, because that’s how it’s always been done. There was a group that I worked with that would get faxes, then scan them into a system, and work on them there. Eventually the faxes were shifted to digital documents. They still had someone print them out and then scan them back in, because that’s how they always did it. Pointing out that they just needed to save them from the new digital file to a different location just didn’t make sense to them until they got a new manager.
Back when I worked for myself, I was in an entrepreneur’s class that met weekly. For part of it we visited each business and offered suggestions to them. It was really interesting. There is a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge involved in every business.
Who is John Galt?
“‘Political unrest is bad for business’: Starbucks chair encourages 100 corporate leaders on Zoom call to fight to stop voting laws being changed across the US as heads of PayPal, Pepsi and other major firms agree to speak out”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9460159/Heads-Starbucks-Pepsi-business-leaders-push-against-voter-restriction-laws.html
Corporatism at work.
Voter fraud is good for business. Also, who the hell do the cocksuckers think they are?
Masters of their domains! And terrified of a twitter mob.
Glad to know that when these laws are changed in the normal sessions, they are wrong but changed under “emergency sessions” and nearly right in the middle of election season, it is A-O-K
These are fucking cowards hoping that if they kowtow to the demands of the shakedown artists they will be the last ones fed to the alligators…
They are not so much cowardly as they are complicit.
“Black Minneapolis man, 20, is shot dead by cop after being pulled over for ‘air freshener hanging from mirror’ – just ten miles from where George Floyd was killed: National Guard is deployed as looting and rioting break out”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9460619/Police-fire-tear-gas-protesters-officer-fatally-shoots-man-near-Minneapolis.html
An air freshener hanging from mirror?
Anyway, I don’t remember this shit happening when there were only two black people in Minnesota. So Jimbo, Tundra, Fourscore, need to get to together and pick two black people, and send the rest back to Africa. If bring people from Africa was racist, then sending them back is anti-racist.
Officers pulled over Wright for a traffic violation and determined that he had an outstanding warrant
He wasn’t executed for the air freshener?
The air freshener narrative has been set.
Find one in every car.
The old racist joke:
Q: Why are there no black people in Minnesoda?
A: They are melted down into hockey pucks.
Uffda, I put that joke here because I didn’t really think it was a racist joke.
I don’t want to get a cat butt, though and if you guys think it is really racist and over the line, please delete it.
Dirty fuckin dangles bro…
10 miles away, but vastly different neighborhoods.
Floyd was shot in what was very much a shit inner city neighborhood. Brooklyn Park is an inner city suburb. Granted BP is probably the suburb with the most black citizens of any suburb in the area and does have a rough area or two, but it is nothing like where Floyd was killed.
Shot?
Sorry. Killed.
Got the current kerfuffle mixed up with Floyd.
Why Police Are Nervous About a Traffic Stop
I have a solution to bad traffic stops… don’t pull people over for bullshit reasons.
Who would have thought, increase your interactions with people increases your chances things go bad — especially when you are already thinking they are going to go bad.
The tint laws are damn ridiculous
Muh MANDATE
Democrats’ narrow edge is poised to get even narrower this week when Congress returns from a two-week recess with big ambitions to bolster infrastructure spending, expand the safety net and confirm more of President Joe Biden’s nominees.
Last week, Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida died at 84. This week, Republican Rep.-elect Julia Letlow of Louisiana is expected to be sworn in, cutting Democrats’ edge to 218-212. That means Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., could afford to lose no more than two Democratic votes to pass a bill without Republican support.
The 50-50 split in the Senate is already as slim as it gets, testing Democrats’ resolve to stick together against unified Republican opposition to most of Biden’s agenda, including the sweeping $2 trillion infrastructure package he rolled out March 31.
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“The far ends of each caucus will have a decision to make — swallow and pass big but imperfect bills or take bills down and damage the party across the board,” he said. “Democrats can’t afford the tea party-esque behavior that paralyzed Republicans, because the political health of the party rests on doing the big bold things Democrats promised during the campaign.”
Some Democrats say they must pursue bipartisanship. As Schumer was exploring ways to use a special budget maneuver to bypass Republicans more often than once per fiscal year, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., warned the party not to make a habit of using the tactic, known as reconciliation.
Wait- I thought the Democrats won with the biggest popular majority in the history of DEMOCRACY!
They didn’t overrun Congress like Sherman marching to the sea?
It is only a slim majority because of antiquated, Jim-Crow election laws that don’t reflect their true mandate.
I crossed a Glib right of passage this weekend. I got my first handgun, a Smith & Wesson Shield .380 EZ. Okay, y’all can start with the mockery…
No mockery.
You may find guns to be a lot like mice. You hardly ever have just one.
How many mice do you own?
One for each computer, and an extra in coase one breaks.
That sounds like an optimal solution.
Yeah, I’ve already seen that one coming. I’ve already warned the wife. Funny thing is, she doesn’t seem that far behind me on it.
Because, of course I’m going to want to get a shotgun for hunting. And, she’s going to need one she can keep in her purse. And, my, don’t those 1911s look cool. And, while the shotgun is great for duck, I certainly can’t use that for deer hunting….
I just bought my first Glock last week. Should have done it a long time ago. They’re not hickok45’s favorite for nuthin.
I just recently learned (in this fun Demolition Ranch crossover video) that hickok45 is a giant of a man – 6′ 9″.
In retrospect, it should have been obvious when you see what a 1911 looks like in his hand.
True. My hands aren’t huge and I have to shift my grip to release the mag on the Glock, but I still really like it. It balances well, has nothing on it that can possibly snag on anything, falls down on target, I prefer the trigger over a Shield, holds 15 + 1, the 19 is still easily concealable, price isn’t ridiculous… Nothing to complain about.
Get your 80% lower and jig now before it’s too late! No joke.
Need a revolver too. No collection is complete without a wheel gun.
And a plinker. A cheap .22 rifle from the pawn shop. Ammo is relatively cheap and anyone can shoot it.
Sorry, I’m done now.
“And, while the shotgun is great for duck, I certainly can’t use that for deer hunting….”
Sure you can, although optimally you would want two different barrels.
Yeah, southern Minnesodans can only hunt deer with slugs in a shot gun.
Rifled slug barrel FTW. It took me any number of experiments to find the slug that shot best out of mine, but it would put up 3″ groups at 100 yards. Always drew attention at the range before deer season.
Of course, I kept all the different slugs that didn’t shoot as well, and now I can’t remember which one is the right one. No worries; I don’t see hunting anything with shotgun slugs any time soon. They are excellent for feral hogs and bear, though.
“Because, of course I’m going to want to get a shotgun for hunting. And, she’s going to need one she can keep in her purse.” Your wife must have a huge ass purse.
“huge ass purse.”
Is that like a prison wallet?
/pedant
Considering it’s going to be holding a shotgun, perhaps “ass holster” is the proper term.7
A wise man once said something like “If she asks how many guns you need, ask her how many shoes she needs.”
I can’t use that on my wife. She is not a shoe hoarder. It’s one of my criteria for a having a serious relationship with a woman. In my head there is a calculation that goes on.
Is it a two hour romp focusing on Steve Martin’s Three Amigos character?
I never saw that. Did Steve Martin play a crazy hit man?
Three Amigos is awesome. Get your ass to a TV screen immediately and watch it!
What Pope said..I thought maybe you were making a joke but if you have not seen it, it is a must.
Regarding Breyer, I found it quite coordinated that the day Biden issued his “We will eventually decide on what cases you will hear” EO on the SCOTUS, that the activist ramped up a targeted campaign to get him to retire.
I don’t see him as the issue right now. Never liked him as a Justice, but we need people in each of the branches to tell other branches to fuck off when they step into their lane.
^^^ THIS. Of course that would mean Congress would have to be a bit jealous of it’s own Constitutional prerogatives… for a change.
Sigh.. Something i guess i had missed? whats that about?
Biden’s EO on creating some commission to “include the genesis of the reform debate; the Court’s role in the Constitutional system; the length of service and turnover of justices on the Court; the membership and size of the Court; and the Court’s case selection, rules, and practices.”
Who Is Freer These Days?
Not us.
Good read
It’s been a long night and into the day. Farewell Glibs! We’ll meet again.
“It’s no easy feat, flying a helicopter on Mars. The reduced gravity — about one-third of Earth’s — will help it take off and stay aloft. But the paucity of the Martian atmosphere, just 1 percent of the density of Earth’s, doesn’t give the blades much to chew on as they try to gain purchase for liftoff.”
Looks like a WaPo writer found his thesaurus to help describe how the little Martian helicopter is going to fly. I am no aviation expert, but I don’t think I have ever hear the term “gain purchase for liftoff”.
It costs a lot to fly a helicopter on Mars.
Costs even more to fly a helicopter to Mars
Any time a journalist writes on any subject, it ends up looking like they skimmed Wikipedia five minutes before the deadline and just hammered something out that sounds passable (unless the subject is politics – then they’re just stenographers for the CIA/FBI/NSA, as Glenn Greenwald puts it).
I’m still unsure of what journalists are actually trained to do. They don’t seem to be knowledgeable on any subject whatsoever.
My favorite journalo trait is when they try to come up with a more “accessible” unit of measure. Almost every time it makes even less sense than the original (and is usually wrong to boot).
“The distance to the sun is 93 million miles. That is the equivalent of 40 million bathtubs of rope.”
LOL
“Pacer 51 alpha cleared for purchase runway 32 right. Enter right closed traffic, wind three zero zero at six.”
LOL
Let us use terminology that a small percentage of the population might know or understand (use of purchase is technically correct) but not common at all when speaking to the general public.
generate lift would probably be clear to almost every adult.
“doesn’t give the blades much to chew on as they try to gain purchase for liftoff” that reads like he was writing for his hopefuls on Tinder that are aviation geeks.
At least the writer didn’t suggest that the air’s too thin to efficiently push against the ground to raise the helicopter.
Or like Pope said, tried to make some ‘common’ equivalency. The blades will have to gain purchase for liftoff like a hummingbird would have to flap its wings at eleventy billion times a second in the Martian atmosphere.
And it’s snowing again.
That sucks, its sunny up here
News you cab use
WWE stars Bianca Belair and Sasha Banks made wrestling history as the first Black women to face each other in a WrestleMania title match, according to the sports entertainment company.
Belair defeated Banks, becoming a champion for the first time in her WWE career, according to WWE.
Joe Biden must be so jealous.
It was a good match and Belair is pretty fun.
Grrizzly, if you’re around, YT found une autre flashmob video, from last month at a different train station (this one the Eurostar hub): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq9qFvoMKaY
Thanks. It looks like a thing they do in various places.
Dirty toothless spoon playing hillbilly. Would. Not sure why tho.
Heh. My wife found her a couple years back and showed me. I was always fascinated with people who play the spoons (or anything else that isn’t traditionally an instrument”
A dear friend, when I was questioning her choice of men in college, taught me the concept of Dirty Hottie; there are some folk that despite an adverse reaction to their superficial appearance, just exude an earthy carnality that can be irresistible.
https://twitter.com/Boomieleaks/status/1381332163551977481
Wait, what?
A vitally important decision affecting literally dozens of people across America
Willow Breshears knew she was different for as long as she can remember. Growing up in rural Arkansas, she said she often felt depressed her personal discoveries about herself quashed by social norms and Baptist teachings.
Now 18 and living in Little Rock, the transgender activist recently testified before lawmakers as part of an effort to try to stop the passage of a proposed state law that, among other things, bans doctors from providing gender-affirming care such as including puberty blockers and hormone therapy to youth under 18. She and others protesting the measure were unsuccessful.
The mostly Republican Legislature last week overrode Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s veto to make Arkansas the first state to enact such a law. About 30 states nationwide are mulling similar legislation – a development advocates say endangers the lives of young transgender people, places ideology over science and disrupts the sanctity of the physician-patient relationship by preventing doctors from providing best-practice care.
“The only people who should have that say is that transgender person, their family and their doctors,” Breshears said. “This is not a place for legislators to step into.”
I’m okay with that. One hopes there is some sort of sober judgement involved in the process, but there is a vast universe of other people’s choices I decline to involve myself in.
The only way to stop all this trans nonsense is to completely accept trans people. The stupid right wingers totally fucked up gay kids by accepting them. That is why we have moved on to trans.
On the other hand, if we started accepting trans kids with no reservations, I’m scared of what would be next. Foot binding?
Transitioning a child is abuse.
Why don’t you just cut off their arms and legs while you’re at it? Who’s to say they don’t identify as a snake? And who are you to question their judgement?
See, the Republicans want to abuse children by forcing them to transition into the wrong gender (by going through puberty without blockers)!!!
/actual argument I’ve seen from crazy SJWs
Which raises the question of why so many doctors are buying into this nonsense. Seems to me a lot of them are already placing “ideology over science”.
Oh, Edit Fairy!
Hepl!
TBF, the Edit Fairy should only fix unthreaded downstream comments from Brooksy.
Morning Glibs. Hope you are having a fantastic Morningl
He might be crazy, but dang if Moby’s old stuff isn’t fun to listen too
(You haters can go hate and be sad in a sad hater corner)
I long ago learned to divorce an artist’s work from their stupid politics.
Otherwise I’d mostly have nothing to read, watch or listen to.
This is true, but then you get more of what you reward… etc.
I would be okay with them spewing their effed up politics, if the media didn’t amplify into truth and wisdom.
I was enjoying the link that you posted for Lake Street Drive. I was happily enjoying them on Spotify for a quite awhile.
Then
This tune.
Yep, I’m sure I’d hate their politics – see, also this tune.
I can ignore the more obnoxious songs like that because songs like Good Kisser are so damn good.
Premature Postulation, it happens.
Look, they have to show us how edgy and anti establishment they are . . .you know by supporting Washington Outsiders Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi
“That means that if you’re already taking puberty blockers prescribed by a doctor, the state of Arkansas has just gone into your doctor’s office and told them, ‘You cannot prescribe this or do any blood work to monitor your levels,’” said Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, deputy executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality. “This is truly a phenomenal level of government overreach.”
“Overreach” says the activist who more likely than not thinks every adolescent boy who would rather read a book or bake cookies than go outside and play in the mud is a woman trapped in a man’s body, because
miseryinsanity loves company.Yeah it is a pile of shit that anyone wading in is going to come out smelling like shit. Who would have thought.
? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/news/text-9460159/Heads-Starbucks-Pepsi-business-leaders-push-against-voter-restriction-laws.html
“I’m with @CapehartJ — I too am one vax down, but even when I get the second shot, I am too “scurred” to be out there wildin. No flying and no indoor activities for me. Nope! #TheSundayShow”
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1381255429951479813
CWAA
Well when your prophet Fauci is telling you that the shot doesn’t work one week, and the next week tells you it might work but we don’t have data (after almost 5 months), I can see why they remain assholes.
To be fair, they were assholes before the pandemic started.
The COVID made their assholeness greater!
Local news is talking about how the different shots are not effective against some of the newer variants of the ‘vid, so we need to lock down hardar!
Why would you want to live that way? I’d much rather risk getting sick and dying.
All* I can conclude is that these types enjoy being scared, like clutching one’s boyfriend at a horror movie.
*maybe not all
This.
They enjoy being cossetted and consoled, when they need to be smacked upside the head and told, “Harden the fuck up, ya big Jessie!”
Yeah, “wilding” now means walking around in public and eating in restaurants that can barely keep the doors open due to state mandated occupancy restrictions.
If this is the best of all possible worlds, I say “do better, Leibniz.”
Perhaps we don’t deserve to survive any more.
Nods.
On the other hand, if we started accepting trans kids with no reservations, I’m scared of what would be next. Foot binding?
Wasn’t it Rousseau who wanted children to be allowed to grow up completely feral?
I think that’s where we’re headed. No skills, no intellectual comprehension of the world or how it works.
Childhood was fun, but not understanding Things was frustrating. I can’t imagine being indifferent to wisdom.
But you would be Innocent and Noble! The pure truth of creation!!!
[And so simple to control.]
Why would you want to live that way? I’d much rather risk getting sick and dying.
I think it would be awesome if the germophobes and hypochondriacs all locked themselves away. The problem is they want to lock the rest of us away, too.
Repent of your love for peanut butter! Some people who are not you are deathly allergic to peanuts!
Do you want people to die?!?!?
No, I just want some of them to stop reproducing… and voting.
We are probably only allowed to still have peanuts because of the subsidy thing.
There is a woman traveling throughout the country and she’s very concerned about my vehicle warranty.
Today she’s in PA.
I’ll keep an eye out for her.
We’re all concerned about your vehicle warranty. Alot of us Glibs convened a zoom call about it yesterday. We were planning a warranty intervention or something. But it seems like the PA lady has a plan, so that’s good.
I appreciate the concern.
https://preview.redd.it/uxntqhq226f61.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=7dc6ac71323b874a50d0df2c24ed84a63e29e788
That’s gold!
Teds’ hardest-hit.
Some unpleasant rumors re: Mssrs. Smith and Wesson.
My boss just bought the Shield Plus. The guun comes with two mags, but only one is legal in NY. The gun shop sent all of the 13 rd ones back to S&W to exchange for 10 rounders and S&W said “nope.” So he only got one mag with his gun.
My Blue/gaming gun shop has always been good about swapping mags for me, but I’ve never bought a S&W from them.
Perhaps we don’t deserve to survive any more.
What do you mean “we” White Man?
Question for the Glibs:
Door to Door Salesmen. Do you get them? In the last few weeks i’ve had several swing by the house. The latest was a real sadsack, and gave me the hurt puppy look when i assertively told him (for the third time) i wasn’t interested and that he was interrupting my dinner.
Casing your house. Run ‘em off, politely.
^ this. Or not politely.
No salesman here. The gated access, barbed wire fencing, and German shepherds tend to prevent unwelcome visitors. Although, a FedEx guy once ignored the multiple dog warning signs and jumped two gates to place a package by the backdoor. Fortunately, the dogs were inside. Still have no clue what he was thinking.
Never had one. Used to get Jehovas until I don’t them I smoke crack and worship Satan. They never came back.
told, not don’t
stupid autocorrect
Permit required here.
HOA has signage forbidding it.
Mostly not an issue here.
Last yoot “selling magazine” subscriptions was told to bugger off, lest I call the cops on him. That was a couple years ago already. Where does the time go?
We have an HOA sign too. It’s worthless, as there no supporting law.
Who issues the permits?
The township.
Yep, its in our municipal code here in Nevada:
4.12.100 – Entry upon posted premises unlawful.
It shall be unlawful for any natural person, while canvassing, peddling or soliciting, to enter upon any residential premises…where the owner, resident, occupant or person legally in charge of the premises has posted, at the entry, or any of the points of ingress to the premises, a sign with visible and legible letters at least three-fourths of an inch in height bearing the words “No Trespassers,” “No Canvassers,” “No Peddlers,” “No Solicitors,” or words of similar import.
We get them, then kindly remind them that there is a giant sign that says “No solicitation in this neighborhood” that you drove by. Also, what egould said…
Last one I had this kid knocks and I open the door just enough to see him and said “nope” and he continued his spiel outside the door until he realized I wasn’t going to open back up.
We get the Jehovah’s Witnesses here more then any other door to door salesperson. Once in a while it’s ATT or some window company trying to sell their wares.
We get the typical pest controls when its scorpion season like people that live in tornado alley get roofing companies dropping by.
Scorpions have seasons? Yeesh.
Usually associated with hurricanes.
Nice! Subtle!
Danke.
Though now I have an earworm with some whistling in me head. I follow the Moskva, down to Gorky Park…
Spring and Autumn are its mating periods; along with a mild dry winter and people’s love of palm trees and explosive growth of humans into the desert make for interactions with them more likely.
They don’t bother our household. We have had one *seen* in the 4 years at the place we live. I don’t go looking for them, they stay in their lane and keep other nasties away.
I had an Xfinity guy years ago, but I think that’s been in in terms of people selling stuff.
More often it’s some earnest young person who wants signatures for some political thing. They get confused and hurt when I say I’d have to be a fool to just sign something based on their description of the issue but I’ll be happy to take a look at the issue online and make my own decision.
That, and they young couple who asked about my voting – had I already and for whom? They were nonplussed when I told that was surely none of their business and to get the fuck off of my porch.
I pre-screen anyone who knocks on the door through the window that faces the front porch… If it’s not friends/family/neighbors or delivery of a package, I just don’t answer it. If it’s anything important, they’ll either call me or continue knocking. Salespeople tend to knock once or twice then move on to the next one.
I live in an apartment building so I don’t even look. If I’m not expecting a knock on the door, I ignore it. We get the occasional salesman because some r-tard let them in but it’s rare.
I just don’t answer the door. I have an electric doorbell switch but it isn’t connected to anything.
A former boss had a dummy thermostat in his house. His girlfriend always felt warmer after she turned it up.
Haha, that phony doorbell is a good idea.
I should add that I do this primarily for personal security – home invaders often get you to open the door to case out the place, or distract you at the front door so their accomplice can sneak in through some other point.
We get them this time of year. It seems to be the same group just selling different things. Always involves a young guy on one of those hoverboard things. It’s been roofing, lawn care, and exterminating. We always politely decline. It all seems very sketchy.
“”Minneapolis is the epicentre of the defund movement—In the first three weeks of 2021, Minneapolis saw a 250 percent increase in gunshot wound victims from the same time last year.””
https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1381541615907393541
“Black Lives Matter, So Refund the Police
During the summer of 2020, following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, it was easier to count how many cities didn’t have Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests than to count the ones that did. Metropolitan areas across the United States, and the world, saw massive turnouts protesting police violence against African Americans, and the movement received endorsements from a number of corporations, all pledging to do their part to combat racism. It didn’t take long for BLM activists and supporters to capitalize on this newfound popularity, quickly adopting what former President Obama called a “snappy” but “counterproductive” slogan for their supporters to shout in the streets and on social media: “Defund the Police.”
This new rallying cry became the subject of much debate, and the source of much confusion. Many observers remain unsure what the practical application of defunding the police entails. Although some hope that one day the police will be completely abolished, the majority of those calling to defund the police say they want to reallocate police funding to social programs that would better benefit communities. In recent months, funding redistribution found its way into the legislatures of some of the United States’ largest cities. Despite generally unfavorable feelings toward defunding the police—a new Gallup poll found that only 18 percent of Americans support the initiative—cities such as Minneapolis, Portland, Los Angeles, Seattle, and New York have all collaborated with activists to make cuts to police budgets in an attempt to make communities safer for racial minorities.
Public officials across the country are only now discovering the foreseeable consequences of these decisions. City legislatures are realizing that in their attempt to make life better for marginalized groups, they have only contributed to the disproportionate hardships they already face. As it becomes apparent that moves to defund the police have exacerbated criminality, some local authorities are reversing cuts to police budgets passed last year amid much radical breast-beating but without much thought for who would bear the likely consequences…”
https://quillette.com/2021/04/12/black-lives-matter-so-refund-the-police/
Thinking about my musician husband’s recovery therapy for his mini-strokes and the one “controlled stroke” they had to give him to stabilize the aneurysm.
I’m hoping playing guitar again will be far more interesting and motivating than squeezing a squish ball over and over in his hands.
Question for you awesome Glibs:
Do any of you have experience using guitar as physical therapy? He’s a bass and six string guitarist but too weak to hold one now.
Which smaller item might be better as he recovers: a ukulele or a travel guitar? His left hand is the more afflicted one. His fingers are strong but uncoordinated so far.
I’m open to any suggestions.
No experience with guitar as physical therapy; but here’s my 2¢. I’d put a ukulele in his hands.
Dr. egould is on the case.
*bows*
Years ago, GA issued a classical music CD when you had a baby. You know, ’cause it makes kids smarter or something. I don’t know if they still do something similar.
They should have issued ukuleles instead.
The uke might require more dexterity, simply because the neck is small. Travel guitar might be better.
Ukes seem cheap enough I’ll probably give one a go just in case. Might even play with it myself a bit.
The travel guitar will take more time for reviews before I purchase, especially if I go Martin.
Baritone ukulele. Four strings tuned the same as the top four strings on the guitar (D, G, B, E). Twenty inch scale length.
https://www.cordobaguitars.com/ukuleles/s/eyJwYWdlIjowLCJwZXJfcGFnZSI6MCwib3JkZXJieSI6IiIsIm9yZGVyIjoiIiwibGFiZWwiOltdLCJmYW1pbHkiOltdLCJzdHlsZSI6W10sImNvbnN0cnVjdGlvbiI6W10sImhhcy1lbGVjdHJvbmljcyI6W10sInNpemVzIjpbMTk3XSwic2VyaWVzIjpbXX0=
1/2 size guitar. Twenty-three inch scale length. Very light weight.
https://www.cordobaguitars.com/?s=mini+II&submit=
Thank you for providing some specific links!
I think I’ll bundle all this up to a doc I can use to gather a little research, then reach out to another couple of musician friends and make some decisions.
Plain uke
Baritone uke
Travel guitar (Martin Backpacker?)
1/2 size guitar
Guitar performance stand
Lap or slide (I’ll leave this to the Mr himself)
Classical (wide neck, nylon strings)
Would a horizontal slide guitar work as a stepping stone? The arms don’t have to be strong enough to hold it up but it would still help improve the coordination of the hands and help him make music.
Also, I missed that he had an aneurysm. I’m glad it was found in time, and that he’s recovering!
Thanks! I think I’ll let him pick his own slide guitar when he’s back home, but I will likely buy a uke or travel guitar without his approval because I don’t want him to go all stoic on me and try to go all-or-nothing back to his regular instruments.
Tom T has been going through this since his Christmas stroke. He also had the left side affected. If your hubby is too weak to hold a small electric guitar, I’d suggest a travel guitar. Uke tuning is different except for a baritone uke, which is tuned like the top four strings of a guitar.
I’ll try to nudge Tom T to comment directly. He’s doing great – back to playing a local Open Mic.
Thanks, GT. I’m at handle @ proton.
I suggest a regular guitar with classical (nylon) strings. Easier on the fingers.
I haven’t thought about the metal vs nylon strings—thanks!
No therapy experience. I’ve never played one but a Martin Backpacker is physically light and maybe more importantly has a short scale length (24″) and relatively light strings for an acoustic (.010-.047).
Looks like most of the electric travel guitars are claiming a “full scale” length but are 24.75 in length which is “Gibson” scale length which is relatively lighter with the same strings than a “Fender” scale length. Most look like they come w/ .010-.046 strings which aren’t too heavy in that scale length but you can find strings down to .008-.038 pretty easy if the .010s were a problem.
I’d try to fit whatever his current condition allows that most closely relates to the music he likes to play.
Good advice.
He plays a few select pieces on open-tuned instruments like his dobro but he would eventually want to be focused on regular 6-string and of course his 4 string bass.
Dobro, huh? 🙂
Have you been to the music museum in Carlsbad? Hope it’s reopened.
No, I didn’t know it exists! Thanks; we will look it up.
I knew I came to the right place.
You guys are the best. And you’re not some Internet rando being paid to sell guitars or reviews.
You’re an entirely different set of internet randos!
A guitar performance stand might help. My friend has a bad back and has been able to play a lot more since he got one.
Good find, BP! That is almost a no-brainer purchase for when he’s back home with his harem of guitars.
He has more Fenders than other 6 strings.
His Bass guitars include Rickenbacker, Steinberger headless, something with a thunderbird on it, etc.
His acoustic guitar is a Faith, a very light instrument but still a bit bulky for when he’s confined to a recliner for a while.
Boyoh boy, I wouldn’t wish that on anybody. There’s a lot of well-intentioned but erroneous information here. My physical therapists highly recommended guitaring as physical therapy and I’ve been tickled to comply. First off, baby guitars and ukuleles are nothing but frustration machines. After my stroke, the first thing I tried was a guitar with what was basically a kid-sized neck (short scale, narrow, slim front to back). WRONG! Dude, you had a stroke fer Chrissakes! What makes you think you are going to be able to fit your floppy nearly uncontrollable fingers into an even smaller space than you were doing before?
Physical progress depends on minimization of frustration. If You aren’t enjoying it, you’ll drop off pretty quickly.
When I got home I moved to a regular electric but still didn’t quite learn my lesson. I picked a Fender with a very fast, slim neck. Wrong again. It was easy to play with regard to finger strength, but still pretty crowded for somebody whose left side dexterity was a step or two below klutz level. So, here’s what worked and a couple of recommendations:
When It comes to guitars, I’ve always wanted the slickest, easiest action I can attain on a given instrument. That meant I could easily transition over to yer basic regular acoustic, plunk it on my lap and go to work without too much extra effort. Acoustics generally have wider necks and greater string spacing and ergo a little more room for error when that third finger misses the mark by >< that much.
Alternative instruments: The one recommendation I agree with that was mentioned was a baritone ukulele. It is tuned like the top 4 strings of a guitar, has nylon strings that are more widely spaced than you'd find on a guitar and, properly set up, is a complete doddle to play. You want to move away from that as quickly as practical because your fingers still need to curl up some to play it and they won't be as amenable to stretching out to play a proper 6 string or (especially) a bass. It's familiar and some early success is easier to achieve.
A regular acoustic with low action or, if you have meat hook hands, (I don't) a conventional classical nylon string is your next step. Plenty of room to fumble around, it'll make your fingers stretch out and not be too taxing on your hand muscles, etc. At first, 10-15 minutes was my max. There's nothing wrong with that. We guitarists/bassists hate it but… PLAY SCALES. What ones or what positions hardly matter. It's good for your hands and, if you didn't do it the first time you learned, it'll ultimately make a better player. Scales do wonders for your independent coordination, cleaning up the F#$ked up signal path between your brain and your fingers and overall strength. Make a few minutes of scales part of a healthy breakfast.
A couple of exercise things that will help: First, find a 3-5 pound dumbbell type hand weight. 3 lb is better for openers. Sitting in an armchair, hang the weight off your curled fingers as loosely as you dare, roll the weight into your fist and then lift the weight as far as you can, using only your wrist and forearm to do it. I do about 20 reps this way. Then turn your arm over so the weight is pulling your wrist down "backwards". Do the same thing, rolling the weight into your fist and then lifting it as far as you can. 20 reps this way too. Do it while you're watching TV or something. Nothing to it and, in time, it helps.
Finally, the best damn thing that a physical therapist did for my regaining clumsy guitarist status: Medline Therapy Putty. Cheap as chips, available in a half-dozen strengths and adaptable to all kinds of exercises that a Gripmaster cant even touch. The green stuff (Medium strength) works best for me. You can use it to push your fingers outward, draw them inward, increase your individual finger to thumb strength, not to mention overall grip and hand/forearm strength. I've got a few exercises I've found helpful that I can pass along.
https://www.medline.com/product/Medline-Hand-Therapy-Putty/Exercise-Bands-Balls-Putty/Z05-PF134267?question=&index=P4&indexCount=4
I can't walk worth a damn but I'm not afraid to get up in front of a few folks and belt a couple or three out now. It's good for your soul. Be persistent. Good luck, progress reports requested.
Quest for DEMOCRACY!
More than 100 of the nation’s top corporate leaders met virtually on Saturday to discuss ways for companies to continue responding to the passage of more restrictive voting laws across the country, a signal that the nation’s premier businesses are preparing a far more robust, organized response to the ongoing debate.
With some CEOs chiming in from Augusta National Golf Club, site of the Masters golf tournament, attendees on the high-level Zoom call included leaders from the health care, media and transportation sectors and some of the nation’s leading law and investment firms.
“The gathering was an enthusiastic voluntary statement of defiance against threats of reprisals for exercising their patriotic voices,” said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale University management professor who helped organize the confab.
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In addition to Sonnenfeld, the meeting was organized by Lynn Forester de Rothschild, the founding partner of Inclusive Capitalism LLC, and Leadership Now, a group of Harvard University alums and corporate leaders focused on sustaining democracy.
Among those who spoke on Saturday’s call were Kenneth Chenault, the former CEO of American Express, and Kenneth Frazier, the chief executive of Merck, who helped organize the drive by 72 Black executives and encouraged participants to do more.
The meeting ended with no concrete game plan or timetable, but with a general plan to draft potential responses based on a firm’s size and resources.
Sonnenfeld and other participants on the call said that there was no pressure, encouragement or assistance from members of the Democratic or Republican parties, but that some had suggested reaching out to “elder statespeople” in both parties to assist with next steps. For now, however, the group is expected to keep political leaders out of their discussions.
“Obviously there’s been a big wake up call over the last few weeks. The business community doesn’t want to be caught on their heels about this. So it’s about protecting leadership and not missing out on an opportunity to do so,” said another person familiar with the meeting.
Have they registered as a Political Action Committee?
Haha, what a silly question. If they had met to talk about how to turn “Trumpism” into a coherent and actionable political movement, they’d be hearing from the FEC in short order.
ps- Sonnenfeld is a pompous douchebag.
Lynn Forester de Rothschild should stick to what she’s best at, controlling the weather, and leave democracy alone.
/sarc
“With some CEOs chiming in from Augusta National Golf Club,”
Hypocrites, Inc.
sustaining democracy
That’s a rather Orwellian phrase.
Well after you fortify democracy, then you have to sustain it.
Hail Lobster
Hail Lobster.
This sounds like 5S gone wrong.
Hail Lobster
Hail Lobster
“But, don’t you libertarians *love* the big corporations? How do you explain the inconsistency?”
/sarc
Rothschild
[conspiracy klaxon goes into overdrive]
some CEOs chiming in from Augusta National Golf Club
that is death-level irony there
You can suck up to Biden and Friends all you want – they still don’t like you.
Morans.
You would think all these high-level executives are too busy installing racial quotas to pay attention to Biden’s lies about “more restrictive voting laws” but here we are.
What an obnoxiously stupid fucking display.
Exactly – the big banks jumping in on this band wagon especially makes me laugh. They’re trying to cater to a group that despises them, and would happily not only see their companies destroyed, would happily see them personally destroyed
Please eat me last seems to be the operating principle. But we know that won’t exactly work.
Oy, someone else to whom I owe a Coke. Regular, diet, or Mexican?
Diet. Thanks.
–>?
The only appropriate response to fear of being eaten is to impart that I will cause you pain from your lips to your asshole if you try to consume me.
It’s not eat me lastism, it’s I agree but I can’t see the eventual consequences of my actionsism. The eat me last stuff I can understand if not agree with but I think you’re giving them too much credit.
^^^
They are not known for their foresightedness.
I read that as “eat me lasgana.”
Now I’m frickin’ hungry. dammit.
??
I’ve never had…tiger? spaghetti before…
?
Closest I could get to tabby and lasagna.
(And don’t the Japanese drink Coke? cuz all I could find was this: ?)
I loved Garfield when I was a kid.
“Eat me last!”
And I’m the conspiracy theorist for thinking something fishy is going on between political operatives and big corporations.
That’s not a real conspiracy. Real conspiracies require secret societies. *adjusts tinfoil hat*
That’s why there was a Rothschild involved – cover to the cover.
There used to be a term for that…
Can’t put my finger on it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_statism
All within something-or-other, nothing outside something-or-other…
Imagine over a hundred people on a videoconference.
This was not a meeting, it was a PR event. A bunch of CEOs taking a knee.
exactly
Someone in our IT department forgot to renew the encryption certificates for our VPN servers. So they sent an e-mail out to everyone (most of us have company iphones too) telling us it was OK to ignore the security warnings and click through to the VPN.
I’m not doing it. My reasoning is that it could be a very clever phishing / man in the middle attack (I think the probability of that is extremely low, but hey…I’m not connecting to a VPN that has ITAR protected data on it with an invalid security cert).
That’s a deeply stupid thing for them to say.
It’s also a deeply stupid thing for them to let happen – it’s not like the expiration is some secret.
It also should not take that long to get an updated cert.
In brief, I hate your IT department, as they make the rest of us look bad.
Yeah, it is a terrible idea to condition employees to think it’s ok to click past security warnings.
Just like we have an official IT policy that forbids the use of USB flash drives (penalties “up to and including termination”), but their use is ubiquitous among our senior leadership and they encourage others to use them as well.
Stupid.
Some epoxy would take care of that USB drive issue…
As I type that, I’m thinking that sealing the USB slots with epoxy is probably less useful now that keyboards & mice aren’t ps/2 connections anymore…
The policy grew out of a disaffected employee about 10 years ago who downloaded a shit-ton of stuff to a USB hard disk. He had a relatively senior position (director level) in our maintenance organization. There was no indication AFAIK that he had a nefarious purpose in mind, but there were rumors that he had something on another senior leader and was “fortifying” his position or collecting evidence. They intercepted him at the front door one morning and escorted him to HR and then back out the door.
I’m convinced most corporate policies are simply to allow scapegoating and/or a convenient way to discharge the out-of-favor. There isn’t a single person at most companies who can avoid violating one policy or another. “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.”
95% of policies are just ass-covering by Legal.
I bet they can fix it real quick if you mention reporting it to the appropriate Service cyber defense unit.
White Lives Matter rally ends with large counterprotest, 12 arrests in Huntington Beach
So apparently there were nationwide “White Lives Matter” protests yesterday, and they were pretty much duds and/or outnumbered by counter-protesters, and the Left and the media are having a tough time deciding whether the narrative is “Huge white supremacist rallies omg existential threat muh Nazis are takin over” or “Haha those losers can’t get a decent rally together lol go back to ur basement losers”.
Anyways, this caught my eye:
I don’t care if it’s fake, it’s accurate!
Yep. That’s the problem today – nobody in our society is talking about racism. Politicians, corporations, and celebrities are all silent on the subject of race. It’s just terrible.
+1 truthy
Do any of you have experience using guitar as physical therapy? He’s a bass and six string guitarist but too weak to hold one now.
Could he play one on his lap?
I know nothing about this stuff, but I know a guy who plays part of his shows with the guitar on his lap.
That might be a decent step. Slide gutters are played in the lap but are electric and create an entirely different set of sounds than what he’s used to.
Still, there are lots of injured musicians who have found ways of still rocking it once they try a few approaches and have luthiers make modifications.
Exactly – the big banks jumping in on this band wagon especially makes me laugh. They’re trying to cater to a group that despises them, and would happily not only see their companies destroyed, would happily see them personally destroyed
Why do you think Postal Banking is such a popular idea among the progressives? They desperately want to cut the legs out from under Big Banking.
Shooting outside Paris hospital leaves at least one dead
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20210412-shooting-outside-paris-hospital-leaves-at-least-one-dead
See we in Europe have guns too
A Japanese guy won some golf tournament.
Halleluiah, anti-oriental racism is no more!
You wont be laughing when they buy all US gold courses
You slumbrewed it
That was in the 80’s. It’s the Chinese buying everything now.
They did and over paid and lost a lot of money for their trouble.
Slide gutters are played in the lap but are electric and create an entirely different set of sounds than what he’s used to.
This guy plays an acoustic on his lap. Some slide, some chords and picking.
a’la Jeff Healey.
(that’s a bad-ass clip I’ve not seen before – Healey, Dr. John on piano, Marcus Miller on bass, Omar Hakim on drums)
Blue Life Swimwear Fashion Show SS 2018 Miami Swim Week 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td3vJ-H3b68