I left the gym. I got into my car. I turned it to SiriusXM Octane (37) as I am wont to do, and discovered Metallica let Weezer do a cover of Enter Sandman…
Weezer is an embarrassment to my generation—and I say that as a millennial! We’re a collective embarrassment.
Metallica is dead to me.
A Mexican politician flees the country:
López Obrador has never liked Anaya much. The two sparred angrily in debates for the 2018 election, with López Obrador dubbing Anaya with a nickname that means “little rich kid.”
Ha! He called him a white guy.
Coming to a taco shack near you!
Wait, since when did Reuters have a paywall? Whatever, the headline suggests they have a beef with USMCA. Which probably makes the new Ford mini truck relevant.
I know we all like our guns here, but would it kill you to NOT send them to Mexico? Geez.
Okay we get it BBC: Haiti. Haiti. Cuba. Haiti. Haiti. Haiti. Haiti. Cachaça!
Brazilian Trump asks their health bureaucrats for an end date on masks. The press predictably loses their shit.
The only thing disappointing about Ozzy is watching him deteriorate.
Metallica was over when they fired Mustaine.
Or when they torpedoed a revolution of technology because they didn’t understand the future.
LARS SMASH!
FIRE! BAD!
Gays against the Sheens,
That really did it for me. What clowns.
(see comment #3)
More successful without him.
Thank God, We got Megadeth!
/Fuck you James!
^^^
Those douchebags were just holding him back.
Marty Friedman> Kirk Hammet
Dave> James
The Four Horsemen > Whatever stupid version Megadeth has.
Agreed on the first; Hammet is a bit overrated IMO.
On the second… kind of a tough comparison. Very different players. Mustaine is a better lead/technical player, but it’s really hard to beat Hetfields precision in the rhythm department. Just a monster.
I believe anyone can cover a song without permission.
Difference being this is an official Metallica cover album for the 30th anniversary of the black album.
Je me souviens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb_jLAisPzk
Oh Jesus…haven’t seen that in forever. I miss nightshift in the military.
Reading the article, the guy they interview is a rabid anti-gun-rights guy. So, fuck him.
Once they’re 18 I can’t tell them where to go. So far, mine are happy to stay in the basement. I hear some set off for the big city. I guess some also want to see the world.
And sometimes they drown in tragic boating accidents. ? It’s a cruel world.
Speaking of SKS’s and swimming lessons…
Oh man, TedS’ is gonna be on me like white on rice. SKSs, OK?
First thing I thought of. I really want to get over there one weekend and help you find it, but I’ve been so damn busy.
One would like to hope he interviewed Obama and the rest of the crew that cynically shipped guns to Mexico in hopes they’d wind up being used in crimes against Americans.
Or one would if one were not a surly cynic.
Just make whatever the cartels are doing to get the money for the guns illegal. Problem solved!
Yeah, that’s the problem. Not the drug war or anything.
They always sing the same old some and use the same appeals to emotion.
Spellcheck…is song not a word?
Damn, did again. I had to force it.
My favorite cover of War Pigs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEFSGALk4f8&list=LL&index=1
This one is more my speed.
The Gen X version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caINuHPKkFQ&ab_channel=zecob
Nobody remembers the Faith No More version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4oZXfrf18Y
I do.
As do I, released on Nativity in Black as a live version, with the singer forgetting the lyrics at one part.
Wasn’t he perpetually on acid?
Then release a studio version instead of a live version showcasing fucked up lyrics.
Nice.
I didn’t realize Mike Patton forgot the lyrics. I thought he was mocking Black Sabbath. Either way, fuck him and that cover.
Ooh, that’s tasty.
Counterpoint: They also let Chris Stapleton cover Nothing Else Matters.
Redeemed.
That sounds like it should have been on Justified or No Country for Old Men. Well done.
We just saw him a few weeks ago. He’s fantastic live.
That’s pretty good.
I like Metallica, Weezer, and the cover song. And I don’t hate the Maverick.
Next you’ll tell us about the wonder that is pineapple deep dish.
How dare you, I do draw the line there.
I want to see the bed of that truck filled with third-world guerillas.
Pssh, they understand Toyota reliability.
I sold my rusty but trusty 1998 T-100 with 210k miles to a friend, who gave it to his wife to drive. It soldiered on year after year as her winter driver, only killed by the Michigan road salt. Finally scrapped last year.
❤️? T-100!
Will not sell well to the AK crowd. It’s front wheel drive and wheezy. Also turbos and sand don’t mix well.
it appears there is only space for a single gorilla.
Metallica let Weezer do a cover of Enter Sandman,
Someone is gasping for relevance.
Probably somebody mentioned this already, but whatevs:
Having seized Kabul, the Taliban can tap into government databases and communications data to go after U.S. allies who don’t get out.
I saw a video report saying that they were already using this stuff door to door to track people down, though I don’t know how reliable it was.
In 10 minutes, Biden will sign their death warrant.
but would it kill you to NOT send them to Mexico?
The Taliban has a detachment in Mexico?
Speaking of Haiti, I mentioned that my Nephew was on the short list to go to Afghanistan for the USMC?
He got diverted to Haiti.
Which is probably gonna suck pretty hard, too.
Diverted good. Humanitarian mission is less dangerous.
Marines get sent there once every 10 years,
Ha! It sure seems that way.
Let’s. Go. Toobin!
https://bigthink.com/sex-relationships/health-benefits-of-masturbation
Now I shan’t hear Dick Dale’s “Let’s Go Trippin'” ever the same…
Dick Dale hit on me on Facederp years ago. Maybe he was lookin’ to go Toobin’.
That’s awesome.
It was pretty weird. It was back in the days before FB “pages”, so celebs would just have their own profiles like any Joe Schmo. When I “friended” him, he slid into my DMs. LOL
” he slid into my DMs.”
Phrasing?
“Hey baby, I’m the King of the Surf Guitar!”
No wonder she’s so healthy!
https://guidetoiceland.is/nature-info/the-complete-guide-to-geldingadalur-volcanic-eruption
It’s been cloudy for days in Iceland…haven’t seen her nocturnal emanations since the weekend!
Nailed it: Every American Life Saved After Chick-Fil-A Takes Over Kabul Airport Evacuation
Nah, with Chik Filet lines they would never get everyone out.
“Toyota Tacoma has dominated mid-size pickup share in California, Florida and Texas,” said Dawn McKenzie, Ford truck communications manager. “The all-new Ford Maverick is America’s first standard full-hybrid pickup with city fuel economy that beats a Honda Civic, plenty of towing and hauling for weekend trips or do-it-yourself projects, and it starts at $19,995.”
This sounds too good to be true.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation and the National Rifle Association responded to the lawsuit saying that the Mexican government is responsible for the criminal boom in the country. What are your thoughts on that?
Grillo: The United States does have a great responsibility in the trafficking of arms and the violence in Mexico.
Grillo can go fuck himself.
With bars and restaurants across Brazil closed for long periods since last spring and households not allowed to mix, sales slumped by almost a quarter in 2020.
Who could possibly have predicted this?
Bolsonaro long ranting against their use and frequently refusing to wear one in public despite a legal requirement to do so.
Good.
Alternate take on “Crazy Train”, which I think had been posted on Glibs before.
Tacoma is body on frame. Maverick is unibody. Nothing wrong with that for lighter duty, but it’s an apples and oranges comparison intentionally done by Ford.
Still sounds a bit too good. We’ll see if it gets 40 mpg when the EPA and safety police are done with it.
It’s a mild hybrid FWD. On an EPA cycle it stands a chance. In real world I’d actually expect it to be lower.
Hybrid isn’t available on AWD.
plenty of towing and hauling for weekend trips or do-it-yourself projects
That’s the key and probably very true. Most people are not towing 30′ campers or trailers full of stone. How many trucks are actually pushed to their full capabilities?
For a laugh, compare the original size of the Tacoma to the one made today.
Right? It seems like all of these trucks originally designed to be small, inexpensive, and practical slowly morphed into bro-dozers. I’m glad to see Ford try and at least acknowledge those bygone days with the Maverick; the new Ranger is basically the size of an old F-150.
The anti-consumer 25% ‘chicken tax’ on truck imports has insulated Big 3 from foreign competition for 50+ years
Why make small low margin trucks when our mid and full size trucks will cost the same as imported small ones.
They can’t even make small trucks anymore. The safety regs pretty much make it impossible.
In high school I drove my mom’s 2WD 1984 Nissan truck everywhere, no matter the weather. It eventually became mine when I moved to college. That light RWD truck taught me a lot about winter driving. Thank goodness it was so underpowered.
Same with 1994 Nissan truck that I bought used after college. It was a little workhorse that helped us move, haul junk, do home renovations, etc. We only got rid of it because it sucked for family duty once a baby was in the picture.
The bed on that thing is miniscule, though.
54″ is what I can put in my trunk in my Cobalt.
And then if I put the seats down, I’ve managed 10′ boards.
I used to have a Sport Trac. Same thing, but if I needed to tote something that wouldn’t fit in the bed I had access to a small trailer I could easily tow.
Seems like Ford had another vehicle named Maverick. I’m guessing it too did light duty for a while.
another good one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxJhDlz4jxM
That is awesome.
“500 Miles” and “Every Breath You Take”
Wow, that is the best Metallicka* song since Ride the Lightning.
My college girlfriend’s name for them. And, as a Gen Xer, remember that was 30+ years ago. Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a new Rolling Stones.
Oh, there is one good Metallicka song post Black:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Tl18T38P4&ab_channel=Pamzol
Still not as good as the original though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P51IVqf28Hs&ab_channel=NickCaveandtheBadSeeds
One place I stopped at down in Dayton was playing Beck – Loser in the place. I mentioned it to the young barstaff, and they referred to the song as a “Classic”.
Another ten years and it will be an “Oldie”
I just call it “Crap”.
^^^
Any better?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVay-RfNGv8
Gah. No.
Eh, you’re no fun.
(Sorry; really.)
“Weezer is an embarrassment to my generation”
Pinkerton is great. #changemymind.
Beat me to it. It’s a fantastic album.
Just don’t listen to that guy in any other capacity. You’ll roll your eyes so far back in your head they’ll detach themselves from their optic nerves.
It was near-universally hated when it debuted.
*manical cackle*
“There’s no question there will be and should be a robust analysis of what has happened, but right now there’s no question that our focus has to be on evacuating American citizens, Afghans who worked with us and vulnerable Afghans, including women and children,” Harris said. “That has to be our primary focus and where we are placing our attention on the issue of Afghanistan. And to that end, we have seen a successful drawdown of the embassy. And thankfully, without any American casualties.”
When did those goalposts move?
Apparently, the Cackler wants over half of Afghanistan to move here. Afghanistan’s demographics trend young, so that would be probablly 2/3s of them, call it 20 – 25 million.
Wouldn’t it be easier to make them the 52nd state?
There is an upside to everything…if we did move them we wouldn’t have to spend so much transporting soldiers, equipment and gear half-way around the world.
Reopen NH Chairman Andrew Manuse writes an op-ed
Government bureaucrats and errant leaders around the world have decided to go to war with the people they are supposed to protect, and President Joe Biden in utter madness wants to add on to the medical tyranny train. Following his ill-considered idea to intimidate people at their front doors with the propaganda they had already rejected from their telescreens, he now wants to team up with corporate America to force employees into taking the jab of spiked poison.
Sadly, the disinformation surrounding COVID-19 and the experimental jab that was laughably approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Monday using false or incomplete data has so clouded people’s thoughts that some of you won’t read past the word “poison” and another group won’t read past “false data”—but will be sure to comment on my opinion using the language of hate. Another portion will read on, but disregard every word, even if I were to waste my time backing up everything I write with facts. And there are plenty of facts.
Don’t you know this division is intentional? You’ve heard the phrase, “Divide and conquer,” I’m sure. We’re really in quite a bind, aren’t we?
their telescreens
what was done there was not missed
But sadly will be missed by most of the cud-chewing masses.
He does good work.
I was recently told “Facts don’t matter”
First domino?
Not the first by a mile. Twitter has been banning people in job lots for questioning the vaccine.
Come on. This is the best Ozzy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0wp0cLdqTs&ab_channel=PuddlesPityParty
I forgot him! thanks,
https://youtu.be/ifChhaavW0Q
[akunohana69]
from the sidebar — a modern day Partridge family https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYheheoxYhk&ab_channel=LILIAC
Sweet. They are playing Harrisburg PA in August according to YouTube.
Tesla continues to live up to its quality reputation.
Tearing Down the Tesla Model S Plaid
All this can be yours for $130k. Although it DOES do the 1/4 mile in at around 9.24 seconds at around 154 MPH.
Gotta give them their love of Space Balls…between ludicrous speed and naming this plaid.
Plus Models S, 3, X Y.
The 3 was supposed to be an E, but they couldn’t get the trademark.
I’ll just continue with my 11-year-old Nissan
How does an electric car leak oil?
Well they still have gearing…
I don’t know about that, brushless motors can get pretty torquey,
They are geared. They have pump, filter and squirters in the case.
Bearings? crappy ones?
Probably quality bearings installed improperly and crushed the oil seals.
They employ British engineers?
Although I honestly think BMW has the new crown.
Seems legit.
Iterations Man, gotta blow stuff up to see what works,
Michael Keaton must run their assembly plant.
Gedde Watanabe = underrated comic actor
As noted the other day, sexy girlfriend. 😉
Must be something fierce right now in the WH with the President postponing his Afghanistan update and now late for the 1630ET time…to be a fly on that wall. It is, I am guessing, making all previous administrations look calm.
The Aricept® isn’t working anymore
Hello is there anybody in there. Nod if you can hear me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km8QHSxDc8c
I like this clip from the movie.
I had forgotten Hoskins was in the movie.
That’s what I was looking for. Thanks.
I don’t care about votes on YouTube…but 4.4K dislikes and 480 likes….what a fucking disaster.
Joemala coming.
I like Weezer! I’ve seen them 3 or 4 times, the most recent about 10 days ago.
Nah. I’ll pass.
Virginia’s Democrat gubernatorial candidate is calling on businesses in the commonwealth to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for their workers following the Food and Drug Administration’s full approval of the Pfizer vaccine on Monday.
“Following the full FDA approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine this morning, I’m calling on EVERY Virginia employer to require all eligible employees to be vaccinated,” McAuliffe said in a tweet. “We need every eligible Virginian to get vaccinated to beat this virus. Together, we’ll get it done.”
President of my company sent the vax mandate out last night. If they take a hard line, I’m fired in a couple weeks.
This is going to wreck the economy harder than any lockdowns.
I cannot believe they are poking this bear.
it’s like they want violence and upheaval. In fact, its getting hard to think this isn’t an intentional push to destabilize our society.
I can.
They’re desperate and lazy.
I can.
They think it’s the icky flyover country class not getting the vaccine, and they want to punish that class.
They’re well aware that 70% of black NYC residents aren’t vaccinated.
Their problem is that the vaccines are failing. They’re terrified that if they acknowledge that fact, the lynch mobs are coming for them. They still think that confidence in the public health institutions can be salvaged, so they’re doubling down and praying for salvation.
More than half of NYC cops are not pricked. And they just got the mandate, too.
Something like a third of hospital staff – also under threat.
Who knows how many teachers. Etc. etc.
It’s isn’t just flyover country they hate.
I encourage Terry to stay on this path of self-destruction.
My doctor is requesting I take Moderna or J&J due to health reasons probably will be said a lot.
Unless every state and every company…read that as Federal compulsion of vaccine adherence, and you close off your state’s borders, your mandate does nothing.
Yeah, good luck with that closing off state borders thing. Most states don’t have enough state police (highway patrol, whatevs) to close off the interstates while maintaining other police functions. Sheriffs in rural counties with many small road border crossings will wipe their asses with orders from the governors. Highway speeding will go out of control Crime will soar because people know the state troopers are elsewhere.
“Highway speeding will go out of control”
I can see you haven’t been in PA lately.
He’s also trying to force Youngkin to respond to that. So far Youngkin seems to be running on not being McAuliffe, could work.
I’m eager to see them spar on this issue. I don’t think it’s going to play the way McAuliffe thinks it will.
Glenn Youngkin
@GlennYoungkin
I made the choice to get vaccinated and encourage everyone to join me in doing that, but ultimately it is a personal decision to do so.
^^^This is the winning move.
Hey, just like every other vaccine.
Hating on Weezer (and STP) is nothing more than musical virture signalling. They are perfectly good bands but the ‘cool’ kids aren’t ‘spose to like them. Now if you want a band/artist to hate for good reasons you always have The Beach Boys and Jimmy Buffet.
Get a load of the Dave Matthews simp over here.
LOL
Whatever you say, grandpa. 😉
I’ve never understood your hatred of the Beach Boys. As a band they were good, and Brian Wilson was an excellent songwriter, composer, etc.
without a doubt influenced pop music to this day.
Also, “Smiley Smile,” which was a study for his magnum opus “Smile.” I used to own a copy on vinyl which I believe ended up with my college housemate.
It’s the horrible, horrible music.
Don’t forget the Lawn Guyland answer to Jimmy Buffet, Billy Joel.
Buffet is, to this Florida boy at least, an artist that you love and know all the songs but would be fine not hearing them again. Although, anyone who can give us The Great Filling Station Hold Up can be forgiven a lot of things.
Also, if A Pirate Looks At 40 doesn’t get you a bit weepy, then you have no soul and are likely a landlubber.
My Dad was a Jimmy Buffett fan (before he got hugely popular). He was never into the Parrothead thing but really liked the music. He would have lived his life by and on the sea if he could have, I bet. We actually buried him with a copy of “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes.”
When I visit his grave I usually sing “Biloxi” or “Margaritaville” aloud while thinking of the good times with him.
That’s really nice, db!
+ He Went to Paris
For L: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJX2PEvP_ig
For L’s granny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B2eGXPZZow
Ozzy!
Thanks, Señor! I was just talking to a buddy about Randy Rhodes the other day. It still makes me laugh how Ozzy scared so many people.
Good times.
You know who isn’t having good times?
Strawberry!
She is really terrible at this. Watch the squirming and body language.
Mark my words, there will media stories in a couple of years after she’s left the WH about how hard it was for her and how she persevered.
You need to give odds for anybody to take that bet.
It’s a given she is going to get somebody like Vanity Fair or the like to give her some huge puff piece after she leaves.
She went home, thought long about it….and declared war on the Union?
Remember if you play in a rock band avoid flying in small aircraft.
or athletes.
Poor Strawberry.
I simply cannot comprehend how they managed to pick her, of all people, for the job. Baghdad Bob in Ginger Spice drag would have been a better choice.
“She is really terrible at this. Watch the squirming and body language.”
For this Administration terrible is what is called “A qualification”.
If they want to leave? I should think any U.S. citizen still there isn’t holding out to time the real estate market or something.
We were supposed to be out in May. What the hell is any U.S. citizen not directly attached to the embassy or military still there?
You can’t ask that, might as well say the raped woman shouldn’t have been in that dark alley in that short skirt.
Sanctimonious, tyrannical prick.
But as is the case in all January 6 prosecutions, the government is showing no mercy; Reeder, not charged with anything close to “rioting” or mob activity, nonetheless is branded a criminal by Joe Biden’s Justice Department. “[I]t is important to convey to future rioters and would-be mob participants—especially those who intend to improperly influence the democratic process—that their actions will have consequences,” assistant U.S. attorney Joshua Rothstein wrote in the government’s sentencing memo. “Picketing, demonstrating, or parading at the Capitol as part of the riot on January 6 is not like picketing at the Capitol some other day, without other rioters present.”
Rothstein ticked off a list of notables who have lain in state at the Rotunda, including former presidents and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, then condemned Reeder for daring to enter such a sacred place. “[H]is very presence in the Capitol rotunda that day was a desecration of hallowed ground,” Rothstein wrote.
Hallowed ground on which you will not find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Looks through US Code…hallowed ground…hallowed ground….nope. Charge them or let them go home.
If the Capitol is hallowed ground then so is a brothel.
Once again, AUSA’s are the worst people in the world.
+1 Bhararararara
That’s way more ra ra than preety boy deserves.
“Picketing, demonstrating, or parading at the Capitol as part of the riot on January 6 is not like picketing at the Capitol some other day, without other rioters present.”
Response 1: I guess I need to update my copy of the bill of rights. Mine doesn’t seem to have the “with rioters present” exception.
Response 2: So much for “mostly peaceful”
The only problem is that picketing, demonstrating or parading are by definition not rioting, so they can’t be part of the riot.
Say, have they charged that antifa guy standing next to Ashli Babbit when she was shot.
And I will point out that the search engines are doing a dandy job of burying any results that actually mention the killer’s name.
My left-center colleague/good friend had his libertarian moment when we had lunch earlier. He said “I just want to be left alone. IDGAF what other people do.” I welcomed him to political obscurity, as is the tradition.
Next step: Glibzoom & gunz
You basically asked him to join a virtual orgy but you forgot the booze talks
He’s been on one Zoom, way back in the early days. Y’all (in the general sense – can’t remember if you were there specifically) didn’t haze him enough.
Well we were in our infancy and hadn’t developed our finely honed barbs by then
No step on snek.
He’s also one of my closest friends and has known me for 15+ years, but y’all also failed to pump him for embarrassing info about me.
Try again….we will.
Yoda?
Did anyone at least call him Tulpa?
I keep trying to figure out if this clusterfuck is intentional or some new undiscovered level of incompetence.
https://nationalfile.com/breaking-biden-withdraws-troops-from-kabul-airport-officials-argue-military-should-stay-until-all-us-citizens-rescued/
Are we going to see pics of captured Americans soon? That would be a shit show beyond belief.
I get the impression the Taliban aren’t even hindering our operations. Just sitting back and watching us fuck things up.
Of course we will. There will still be thousands of Americans in Afghanistan when we withdraw from the airport. I suspect the Taliban will declare them as illegal aliens and round them up. I’m sure living in a tent city in Afghanistan will be a delightful tale for them to tell their grandkids.
Or perhaps a Trail of Tears scenario, where they walk out under guard to, say, one of the ‘stans or . . . wait for it . . . Iran.
It seems too stupid to be unintentional.
Oh goodie…he showed up. And immediately talks about at home issues. Fuck those people overseas. What a fucker.
::croaking voice:: “Get your vax, you Trump lovers!”
I had “build back better” on my Drink! list…I am already drunk
Oh now you are asking for contingency plans? WTF?
And….turns his back no questions. Leadership!
Christ, AGAIN? They gotta know this is going to start raising even the staunchest eyebrows
He can’t answer questions – even when they preselect and prescreen, he loses his place in his note cards, or the teleprompter.
Sooner or later even his most ardent media admirers will question all this.
I like your optimism.
Company is pushing their mandatory disclosure of vaccination status by mid next month.
My guess is they want to see how many and who isn’t vaccinated and then decide if they don’t need those people. Don’t need to pay lay-off money if they self volunteer to terminate by not getting a shot.
I fully expect that Mr. Mojeaux and I will be backed into a corner into taking the mark of the beast. Just a matter of when. We can boycott all the events we want but when Walmart starts requiring proof of vaccination to shop there, that’ll be it.
All those years in Baptist school and all those kids (including me): “I would NEVER do that! I will NEVER take the mark of the beast!” Adult me: Yeah, okay. Talk to me when life bites you in the ass.
It’s concerning as hell. “We’re not forcing you to get the vaccine, but you’ll eventually get fired from your job, be denied service, and be put on some list…..but we’re not forcing you to get it though.”
What’s depressing is there are a lot people I know who have no issue with destroying other’s lives simply due to the fact they’ve made a very personal choice.
Exactly.
My friend said it best the other day: People are stupid and vicious.
I gathered that watching true crime TV while I’m doing cross stitch (it’s to help keep me from ruminating on what an asshole I’ve been in my life).
People are evil.
People are also stupid.
And you KNOW it’s not going to stop at the vaccine.
Once they get rid of pesky currency and we all have to use electronic credits, they will be able to restrict your diet, drinks, drugs, make you take stuff to “control your cholesterol” even if it has nasty side effects, etc.
For the public good.
It’s depressing as hell.
It’s the Mark, plain as that.
*checks real estate in Uruguay*
Nope. While my dopey acquaintances honestly believe that they are doing this for health reason, the assholes in charge are doing these draconian lock downs and and mandates to see how far they can go. If the general populace would have pushed back against this shit last Summer and actually cost some asshole bureaucrat or politician their job, we wouldn’t hear a damn thing about COVID.
This is all about control under the guise of public health.
I haven’t heard that about Walmart.
Me neither. I fully expect it to happen, though.
Serious question: How hard would it be for you to not use Walmart?
I would guess that we have been in a Walmart 2 or 3 times since moving to Tucson more than 8 years ago.
Walmart is 30 miles from me, I was a regular in Cali. We haver Meijer right across the street from my house, and it would hurt a bit, for cleaning supplies, TP and such, but I found out there is a large network of Private food distribution ’round here. Lot’s of farming and ranching, we’ll get by.
WM is 5 mins away and has the cheapest prices of everybody on almost everything. My kid works there. We could go to Target. We could go to the four very high-end grocery stores. What happens when those stores have mandates?
It wouldn’t be hard to not shop at Walmart, no. It would be hard not to shop at Walmart, Target, Price Chopper, HyVee, Sprout’s, and Natural Grocers.
Kind of my point, we can live off the land here and maybe get by,
I do miss low prices at WM though, I may make a journey Saturday,
It’s a half-hour from my front door,to a Walmart or a grocery store.
Also, the big chains will be a lot easier for government to pressure than the small stores. This might actually lead to a renaissance of small businesses.
I think so too. It’s much more difficult for me to find another job than to change where we purchase goods.
Only if it’s unofficial pressure. Once they have regulatory muscle, they’ll yank licenseS or impose punitive fines that small establishments can’t effectively contest or just pay to go away.
As far as I know, the Walmart mandate is only for employees right now.
I’ll ask my kid but I don’t think there is any mandate at all.
Looks like it’s just for HQ and traveling managers right now.
I already lost my job over it, I won’t take the Mark, I’ll be fine, God has my back,
My wife and I had already discussed the possibility of it happening to either or both of us. Not going to take it no matter what.
It has kicked us into gear on becoming more mobile. Labor Day weekend with be a major clean up and get ready to sell the house effort.
I’m taking steps toward mobility again, getting Kia tires and tuned, winter’s coming, I need to be able to run if need be,
Asch Conformity Experiment: yes you would go along to get along and yes as Jordan Peterson said you very well could have been a Nazi if you grew up in 1920’s Germany.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyDDyT1lDhA
What do I win walking away from a six figure salary? (Other than a better immune system and longer lifespan)
Yes, I’ve thought about Jordan’s assertions a lot.
Thankfully, my job hasn’t mentioned mandatory vaccinations at all. In local crazy work news, a local sports bar chain just offered up jobs where you pick your shifts. From their e-mail (to their entire e-mail list):
Thank goodness for Substack:
The arrogance of Anthony Fauci, and what it means for the rest of us
Fauci is perfectly willing to ride this clown car right off the cliff.
He really has no choice. These ‘vaccines’ aren’t working and, as was suggested by MANY scientists, rolling them out during an active pandemic can have all kinds of consequences.
The know they are headed for really bad things when the people figure out how badly they have been duped.
I think “if” is probably more appropriate than “when” people figure out they have been duped.
“…people figure out how badly they have been duped.”
Check this guy out.
If he didn’t want me to spread covid, why did he pay for it?
Not mentioned enough. I shall start referring to it as “The Fauci Virus”
Maybe it will catch on.
I have seen more than a few things catch on here and then show up much more widely and end up on national media.
Oh you mean Tom hank’s disease?
“Instead Fauci is pressing Americans to take a third mRNA dose in the hope it will work better and longer than the original two.”
SOP, from the same playbook as the wars on drugs, poverty, “homelessness”, etc. $1trillion not enough? We need to spend more, that will do it. I’d love to play poker with these asshats; they don’t seem to have a problem with throwing good money after bad. Never fold!
If you announce when you’re ending the mask mandate, the virus will make a surprise advance across the entire country a couple of weeks in advance. You have to keep your end game secret with this wily virus.
It is a tricky little beast; killing mostly Trump supporters; or anyone at a motorcycle rally.
and it mostly comes out at night when you aren’t eating… mostly
From the dead Morning Linx: I noticed that there was a lot of discussion about the best name for the Cleveland Indians. There really can be only one true libertarian name for them:
The Chicago Orphans
This is the only acceptable Metallica cover.
I wouldn’t say that.
Nice.
I also liked your link
Mongolian throat singing is pretty effin metal, IMO.
Apocalyptica says hello.
This one is interesting.
*checks avatar* How dare you speak ill of Ozzy!
Charlie Watts Died? Why didn’t anyone tell me?
Seemed like too much work.
/ kicks pebble
Obligatory: Thank goodness we still have Lou Reed
We were at the Lou Reed concert.
Minnesoda Bear uses Male Gaze on local teens
Minnesoda Bear also has excellent taste when picking teens to eat.
Am I going to jail or prison?
First one, then the other.
Bears are notoriously hard to estimte age/size, but I’m guessing that one is probably an adolescent – 2 years old, maybe 3 at the most.
Don’t be silly, Minnesodans are too underspiced for excellent taste.
Ahh, I see you’ve had the “spicy” tacos in Duloot
The dad: “the looks on their faces was priceless”
Davy Crockett approves.
Rat, House Cat, Goose? You might get bit or scratched, but if you can’t beat them in a fight, I wonder what kind of parenting you were subject to.
*averts gaze*
I wouldn’t know about that.
Most of the day, I’m good up to Wolf (excepting King Cobra and Eagle — have you ever tried hitting either of those with a handgun?)
Given time and access to my safe, I could take any one of them.
Well, this is an interesting development. California may be rolling out a vaccine passport app to allow people to conduct business, shop, whatever tyrannical wet dream these assholes have. My organization is discussing if/how they can share its personnel’s vaccine status with the state to get its members into that system. The top recommendation is to allow people to opt out of this info sharing.
I’m sure this will end well.
Opt out? Fuck that. Opt out is consent for authoritarian assholes. Opt in is the only ethical choice.
“‘The ultimate drummer’: Rock greats pay tribute to Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts after his death aged 80 surrounded by his family in hospital – weeks after he pulled out of US tour to recover from emergency surgery”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9922999/Rolling-Stones-drummer-Charlie-Watts-died-age-80.html
RIP
Did Keith Richards get stronger like the Highlander?
Ultimate drummer? I’m more of a Keith Moon fan.
Mick Avery.
I’m no drummer, and haven’t listened to The Who in ages, but I vaguely recall Moon’s drumming as being that “let’s see how many times I can hit the drums during this song” style, which I have never been a fan of. Kinda like how the guitar players who play rilly rilly fast, man, have never been at the top of my list, either.
Nah. He was way more than that.
Listen to this.
People say nice things when someone dies.
I really liked him. Class act and a great drummer.
So the Stones will perform without a drummer from now on?
Neil Peart reaches out from the grave and smites Watts in 10/8 time.
Ugh. The internet lies. the bank said it was 89 degrees out back at 4:15 or so.
Anyway, the heat, humidity and distance conspired so that at 4.3 miles I started looking for places to sit and rest. The park had little breeze and little shade, but not enough of either for me to cool down. The guardrail had ample shade, but the air was dead still. At about 4.5 miles I found this nice bench by the river with ample shade and breeze just across from the abandoned shipyard (made Erie Canal boats back when the canal was a big deal).
So, while I was cooling down, I hear a car stop and just idle. I turn around and there’s this tourist at the fence of the shipyard with her phone out. She’s filming fawns grazing on the lawn. I know she’s a tourist because no one who lives here goes gooey for the whitetailled rats, and she just had to stop and film Bambi.
Anyway, I made 5.3 miles – interrupted by rest breaks.
Good job!
thanks. but I didn’t plant the fawns there.
I just saw two deer in the vacant lot where a school had been, just a couple of blocks from my house – and you know how close to a main thoroughfare we are.
I’ve seen whitetails run across the thruway. They don’t care about cars. It’s one of the many reasons they’re a pest.
Needz moar predators. ::checks supply of 20 gauge shotgun shells::
“A California judge declared a mistrial Tuesday in the embezzlement trial of disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti after he was accused of stealing millions in settlement money from his clients.
US District Judge James V. Selna ruled on technical grounds that federal prosecutors committed a ‘Brady Violation’ in failing to turn over relevant financial evidence to Avenatti.
The disgraced lawyer was already sentenced in July to 2 1/2 years in prison in a $25 million extortion case against Nike in New York.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9923419/Mistrial-Michael-Avenattis-California-embezzlement-trial.html
LOL New Orleans Ain’ts
https://twitter.com/ChrisRossini/status/1430279643374960646
Appropriate
“Cuomo is STRIPPED of his Emmy for pandemic press conferences amid sexual harassment allegations one day after stepping down as New York governor”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9923165/Cuomo-STRIPPED-Emmy-pandemic-press-conferences.html
Notice that he didn’t lose it because of the nursing home scandal and his lying about it for months. He lost it because #metoo is more important than all those old people he committed to die.
“Legal experts and the American Civil Liberties Union have criticized a pair of New York judges for ordering defendants to get vaccinated if they want to make bail or be granted a plea deal.
The ACLU slammed the decisions as ‘troubling’ and one lawyer even called the rulings ‘nonsensical’ and abuse of power that could be seen as grounds for the judges to be censured or suspended. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9922933/Legal-experts-ACLU-slam-New-York-judges-ordering-defendants-COVID-19-shots.html
Stopped clock?
Can I hope for both to lose?
Gab has started an unvaxxed job board. May be something to keep in the back pocket for when the mandates start costing jobs (Yusef, of course, being on the front end of that particular wave).
Thanks!
Ooooo, thanks for that. I may be posting something to there.
Yeah Boy! thanks!
If things get tough, I’ll relocate, don’t want to but so what? Semi prepping for it now, before I go broke.
North and South Dakota should mostly stay safe from this sort of bullshit.
How about a nerdy cover of Heart’s Barracuda.
BLM riots must be over and of course antifa is very much about being masked
https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2021/08/oregon-to-require-masks-at-outdoor-public-settings-starting-friday.html
My ammo arrived today. That was some fast shipping.
Mine is stuck in CT for the third day in a row.
Will a refusal to get a booster shot by a substantial part of the public stop the madness? Another big covid wave in the fall in the highly-vaccinated states? (OR and HI are ignored for now.) Or we’ll have to wait for a mass die-off of the vaccinated?
Things aren’t looking good in Israel. And Australia is losing the script.
What that means, I don’t know, but things appear to be accelerating faster than the spin can keep up.
More COVID vaxx – same author as above:
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/its-a-good-day-for-vietnam-analogies
The NY Post just ran an editorial – by their own staff – that is so sickeningly approving of Deblasio’s totalitarian measures that I’m not even going to quote it or link it. Instead I am going to delete their bookmark from my browser and forget that they ever used to be sensible.
You’re goddamn right that things are moving way faster than anyone can keep up.
Re: Australia.
Sometimes I have a tinfoil moment and think that Australia is the trial balloon for the rest of the world.
That said, the PM did say a couple of days ago that the country needs to learn to “live with the virus”: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-23/covid-prime-minister-vaccination-lockdowns-must-end/100398686
Yep. The powers have serious flop-sweat going now.
Here’s some more Aussie stuff.
Like peak derp, peak madness will never be reached.
I think it’s all going off the rails. Soon.
Like the next two months.
I hope you are right.
#metoo
“You got the first ones, what’s the big deal with a booster?”
Ok, now this is funny as hell!
YES!
That led me to this. Stay cool.
https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1429982009611460608
On a side note, Twitter seems to have unf*cked itself and doesn’t require a login to follow threads.
Adorable pupper is adorable. I want to pet that sweet head after he gets out of the pool.
“pool”.
Uhhhhh…. Tupperware box I should say.
This, the state of the world, makes me sad.
Me too.
Here, have some New Order.
It makes me sad, too, but I’m gonna keep seeking beauty and grace.
I’m going on a photo shoot Saturday and get some High Summer beauty shots, this place is so beautiful right now. And of course some DG, and a brewery, and some lighthouses……..
Keep light in your Heart,
The whole album is amazing.
They don’t call it the “vale of tears” for nothin’.
something worst something timeline.
Or, as the Chinese curse goes: May you live in interesting times.
terrible curse unless you cast it on your deathbed, you’re stuck in the same times.
Well…geographic locations really make a huge difference.
What did I do to deserve this?
Probably nothing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn9E5i7l-Eg&list=RDWn9E5i7l-Eg&start_radio=1
?!*&%?!&#
My campus just reinstated an indoor mask mandate…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWFF7ecArBk
I just returned from a five day jaunt through Virginia and environs. No masking required in any buildings, except for two places: ironically, they were Harpers Ferry where John Brown tried to free enslaved folks; and Monticello, where Jefferson’s words inspired the eventual freeing of enslaved folks.
I was on campus yesterday – first day of class and first day the campus has been open since 3/2020. Red-state, flyover country. I would say about 50% of students were masked. Fear is a powerful drug.
I was just down in Golden. I didn’t see any masks as I was driving through campus and only a couple on the main drag. No one in the barbershop had one on. I was actually kind of surprised.
Very few masks in Leadville last week.
Were you there for the Leadville 100?
Yep. My niece made it through.
Nice. That’s pretty darn impressive. Or crazy. It’s a fine line.
Why not both? It’s pretty amazing to watch. If you are in the area in August, I’d recommend checking portions of it out whether you know anyone in the race or not.
Twin Lakes is an excellent place to watch, but fair warning the traffic and parking there is a mess.
Nearly moved to tears countless times watching runners I don’t know finish, let alone watching my niece come across the line.
At my daughter’s college nearly all of the people are walking around with masks outdoors. Science.
?!
The community college at the end of the street was about 10% masked today. A glimmer of hope in an area where Walmart is 50/50 and most other places are 60% masked or more.
Art classes start tomorrow. Masks mandated.
Yay! And BOO!
Show up unmasked and say you’re so very very for vaccines, but doing performance art. Take photos of leftist heads exploding.
When you start figure drawing, post your sketches of the model wearing a mask and nothing else.
“It’s okay, honey, she was wearing her mask when I had her in my studio.”
Gotta use that with the SU. ?
Weezer is a national treasure. Love my M Sharpshooter but this is your worst take ever bro.
I love those guys, Island in the Sun is a classic, however, parody or not, Hash pipe is a terrible song,
After Weezer did “Africa” Toto returned the favor by doing “Hash Pipe” at their lives shows.
“Buddy Holly” is the go-to for most, and strip away the over-exposure, and it’s a masterful song and video. But check out “El Scorcho” and “Perfect Situation” and “My Name Is Jonas” and “Beverly Hills” and “All the good ones” and seriously, about 200 more great ones, and then make MS apologize for calling Weezer an “embarrassment to my generation”.
Hash Pipe
Undone is excellent.
And I’m old.
I destroyed my Sweater listening that one, “Hey Bob”
You left out their best song.
Hell that’s a great one too. All of Pinkerton is pretty much a classic. I think the overarching theme is, Weezer are worth their weight in gold.
“Hash Pipe” broke me and I never followed them after that.
Two great albums is good enough for me.
Pretty sure I’m posting on a ded thred, but In the Garage is the highlight from their first two albums.
Island in the Sun,
That is what we are
When I watch this, all I can think about is what kind of bait I would need
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dft7XTlPdA4
Bookmarked.
Thanks!
Obligatory: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=csDZgnIGZj8
Yep. Earworm confirmed. ?
You’re so very welcome! ?
Far superior to Yellow Submarine!
Truth.
Now I want to go fishing.
Want to catch bass at-will?
Worth a watch if. you fish for bass.
I forgot to post the freakin’ link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj3UkcC35fg
Thanks!!
Weezer has a few good songs and that was the start of the Metallica suck so it’s fitting they covered it. This is a good one by Weezer.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3RO0UMsBss
https://mobile.twitter.com/Brick_Suit/status/1430213821344350208
Heh
54. 😉
I approve.
My ballot is signed, sealed, and delivered.
I very much doubt it will get counted. The Donks have no intent of ever losing an election in Cali again.
Take the money and run,
I have to give Babs a foot soak 2x a day. Buy stock in paper towels.
Doggie spa!
She doesn’t think so. One foot, chlorohexane. Big blue mess.
Give her a pedi. She’ll revert to spoiled princess.
I’m watching videos on 3D printing, and getting diametrically opposed advice on how to get quality. Both are saying the exact opposite advice from each other.
internet experts are expert
https://rumble.com/vlmd4g-pfizer-seeking-full-indemnification.html
Dr. Robert Malone on Bannon.
You mean their immunity from vaccine damages wasn’t lifted with FDA approval? My shocked faced, it’s here somewhere.
The same place that has paid $billions in fines.
http://www.allgov.com/news/where-is-the-money-going/pfizer-to-pay-largest-criminal-fine-in-history?news=839502
I’m not sure why it matters. Vaccine manufacturers have been protected for 30 years.
They are testing on Americans now. Why not? There are no repercussions.
Holy Shit – the FDA didn’t approve the current Pfizer vax – they approved a vax that hasn’t been produced yet.
Yippee! I’m on Amazon Music!
/ at least until Bezos sees what I wrote about him,
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09B5NTN6Y
Woot!
Do any of you Glibs live in or near Las Vegas? Trying to figure out where to house hunt.
OBE is in Henderson and gets around the area,
“OBE is in Henderson and gets around…”
I bet he does! Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge!
Vegas! That’s a twist I didn’t expect!
I don’t live in Vegas, but based upon what I know about your new job’s location, I would think that you’d want to live in the NW part of town close to 95. Once upon a time (late 1980s), many Vegas-based contractors that worked at the test site made the commute by bus. Is the bus still an option for you, or do you think that you’ll need to drive to the “office”?
Brand new Project Veritas video: DHS insider.
About 17 minutes. I just started watching it.
From the e-mail announcing the video:
Here are some of the highlights from today’s video:
Department of Homeland Security [DHS] Insider: “Once an [illegal immigrant] informs the U.S. government that they have some type of fear, or that their life is in jeopardy, or they’ll be persecuted, or they may be tortured, they are put in what’s called the ‘reasonable fear [category]’…Once [a migrant gang member] makes the declaration of, ‘My life is in danger and I may be harmed if I return home,’ they’re taken off the [Transnational Organized Crime] watchlist. That makes it a giant loophole.”
DHS Insider: “Some of these [migrant gang members] are encountered by Border Patrol and they’re asked right away, ‘Do you fear for your life if you are deported?’ They’ll say no, and then the next day they’ll say yes.”
DHS Insider: “It’s almost like they [migrant gang members] are coached, ‘Hey if you get caught, just go ahead and say this.’”
DHS Insider: It is not true that migrant gang members are in danger if they were to be returned to their country of origin.
DHS Insider: “These are the people that are causing danger in those foreign countries. That’s why they’re on the Transnational Organized Crime [TOC] watchlist. So, they are allowed to stay in the country while they wait for the asylum claims…They will be able to file for what is called the Employment Authorization Card. This essentially is a work permit, and they’re allowed to stay legally under the protections of this [permit].”
DHS Insider: “This to me is a bigger problem than terrorism is right now within the country…Every single one of these Transnational Criminal Organizations are involved in sex trafficking.”
Hmm… sex trafficking rears its head which makes me suspicious, but there are some things near the end that make me think there might be something behind what this insider is talking about.
Note to the Glibs: None of you will care beyond an “online acquaintance” sort of way, but I decided the other day my online presence is detrimental to my health. I already don’t have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or any of the others. I also deleted my LinkedIn a few months ago when it became apparent they were political, not professional.
But even the places I like to read, Taki, Federalist, Examiner, Glibertarians…. Everything make me furious now. Bad for my health. So I’m giving it a break, playing more vidya, reading some of my books I have stacked up (many from suggestions here at Glibs!), finally learning to play guitar….
I’m not saying I won’t be bacl, because I know myself enough to know I will. I just don’t have a time frame. It might feel so good that I may stay away for years. Or it might be weeks. But when I come back it’ll be with a new nick…. You’ll know it’s me and not Tulpa if I use the word “verisimilitude”.
Until then, arrivederci homos!
Well, Bye!
OK hun. I too often think I could use a news diet. Hope you won’t forget the forums. Arrivederla!
I just returned from a similar self-imposed exile. It was good, even thought I missed the place. Have a good time not interneting. Do something useful!
30 holes a day isn’t useful, but it’s a lot of fun,
One of these days I’m gonna set-up a 9 hold disc-golf course in my yard. One of these days…
I’ve got a one-holer in my home office. Big time stress release.
So, is it possible to convince you to go back into exile?
I can be bribed with large quantities of quality brown liquors.
Zep (my bee partner, better known as _ _ _ t) has new rifle/scope. We’re gonna spent a weekend after HH, zeroing in. I’ll have my new glasses
and I’ll be using a you know what. We’ll talk about the dates at HH.
I look forward to this discussion.
Oh, it’s all maddening, isn’t it?! Don’t know whether to keep up or bury my head.
Be well. Come back when you can.
Head down, eyes up Mo,
Do what you need to for your mental health.
Enjoy the books, and we look forward to your return.
Hopefully you’ll be back. The people here keep me supplied with white pills and absolutely help me hold on hope.
Be well.
As a rebuttal to Ignore lander, The Glibs have all been good friends to me over the years, and saved my Ass literally and figuratively, this is one of the few places I can be Bob, and no one complains, Heck some of you even like me!
/GLIBS!!!!
Luke 15:11-32
Nah, I get where he’s coming from. I’ve been less frequent here over the past couple months because it’s hard to be immersed in the BS, even tangentially. The reality of where we are and of what’s coming is taking the fun out of the banter for me.
I wish more folks were over in the forums. I’d love to keep the community but discuss something other than current events.
This is a good explanation of the bait and switch the FDA is trying to pull with the “approval” (cough – extension of the EUA and substitute of another product) that’s being announced today. Now you know just how corrupt these people are.
(Note: Dr. Meryl Nass was one of the experts I relied on 20 years ago in the anthrax vaccine nonsense. She knows the FDA process quite well.)
And that’s your vaccine news update for the day, Glibs! We’re working on amending our complaint to take on the entire charade. I should have more ammo tomorrow, insha’allah!
It must be tiring, doing the Lord’s work.
This always reminds me of you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhNrqc6yvTU
I’m not sure how to take that. I mean, Treat Williams was a handsome guy, so… that’s cool.
But, uhhh… “Hair”? I hope you won’t think less of me when I say I absolutely have not seen that movie. (I have, however, seen that clip before.)
Uh, sorry? ?♀️
Haven’t seen the film myself. Apparently Treat is a family surname.
I gotta watch that movie.
Implausible but melodic.
More Treat Williams, although I think he’s only briefly in the trailer at most.
Get ’em Ozy.