In light of the space/rocket companies deciding to go public in the last couple months, one of which was earlier this week, it seems now is a good time to ask, “what the hell happened to NASA?”
This is my review of Arizona Wilderness Desert Dweller Saison:
Perhaps I am a few weeks late on discussing this, but whatever. Several commentators at best hand-waived private funded space ventures as something NASA already did or even made references to terrible Matt Damon movies in an attempt to further begrudge the lower economic classes.
Which I suppose is not a terrible argument. They could have spent the same money on some sort of encampment away from major cities, where the homeless can live free of charge. Then again, the could have spent the same money on a fleet of party yachts and crewed them all with hookers serving punchbowls filled with cocaine. For whatever reason, launching yourself into space is the new dick measuring contest. To which I say, at least they have a sense of humor about it.
Its the handwaving part that irritates me. Even if private ventures have teething issues, NASA had similar problems early on. NASA did indeed manage to do it 60 years ago by spending a decade’s worth of blood and treasure. While admirable, what are they up to lately?
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Potential band name: Supersonic Toothpick?
Contracted with Boeing to build the Starliner capsule, designed to ferry astronauts to the ISS. One test flight failed to dock with the ISS before aborting. The next attempt several months later was scrubbed.
- The Artemis program, an SLS based launch vehicle meant for a moon mission as early as 2024. Between its cost overruns and delays leave the next launch scheduled in November.
- Which leaves them a couple years to develop a new spacesuit.
- Okay, maybe space is hard. Lets start “small” and develop a supersonic jet. They began work on it in 2018, and thus far managed to produce a cool time lapse video of them building something that can’t fly.
It would appear we should be celebrating these people in light of NASA turning into the Post Office.
A Saison brewed with mesquite pods…I recall multiple summers growing up under the shade of my neighbor’s mesquite tree. It dumped these yellow, crunchy pods onto the lawn that kept getting
churned up by the lawnmower blades. Which left my shins looking like they were pelted by the ensuing onslaught of jagged coffee grounds.
Yeah, I was too lazy to rake and bag them up in 110 degree weather. The beer is an interesting take, however. When most people think of mesquite they either think of their seasonal hayfever or smoked meats. This leaves an interesting smoky flavor on the backend of what is a perfectly good sour ale. Arizona Wilderness Desert Dweller Saison: 3.5/5
They could have spent the same money on some sort of encampment away from major cities, where the homeless can live free of charge. – this argument works only if you are he kind of moron who thinks government in underfunded or something. Based on how much the government taxes and spends why should private business focus on this? Many give to charity plenty anyway besides the taxes
Exactly. So buy a yacht instead and crew it entirely with strippers.
Sort of OT
Beer: Then and Now
Townsends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c261Ig8Ryj0
in the backwards past people in Berlin apparently made sour wheat beers. Hopefully in our more enlightened times this is relegated to historical reenactment
Watching to the end it seems it is the fault of wood barrels.
On the topic of space: The latest from the “We didn’t go to the Moon” conspiracy theorists is “How can we go to Mars if we don’t have the technology to go to the Moon?”
The beer looks interesting, though Saison a sour?
goddamnit you had to ruin my last comment
Saisons can be sour, the style is more descriptive then prescriptive. I have a sour saison sitting in the fridge that will probably be cracked at some point this weekend.
How do those people feel about the ISS? As in, do they believe it’s an actual thing or just more fakery?
That never came up in talks with the ones I know. I’ll ask next time one of them brings up the moon landing.
Oh, it is there, an actual thing. It is just a pointless thing.
+1
Where is everybody?
I am alone. I can do what I want.
Metric system is the best.
Belgian beer sucks
Belgian beer does suck. But 50% is still a failing grade.
That’s a pretty broad brush. Like the worn out statements about American beer being weak and watery.
American beer being weak and watery. – not all American beer just ones from the Great Lakes area
You’re down to 33%.
Now your talking Madness Pie, come on up, I’ll show you how Wrong you are,
and Elon is a God King in certain worlds!
I have yet to find a Belgian beer that I’ve liked. I may just be allergic to rock sugar.
Fair enough. I have a friend who hates bananas, and is very sensitive to the esters that provide a similar scent/flavor. He claims pretty much every Belgian (with the exception of some sours and others) tastes like just bananas.
/ignores Pie’s taunting
The banana taste is from the fingernail polish remover they add at the end.
Belgian Ales? Some of the best beer in the World buddy!
The comment I had about the metric system was funnier in my
head than it looked typed out. So I deleted it.
I do everything I can in metrics. Honestly, it takes all of about two
weeks to start thinking in metric once you stop converting it back
to english units. Which is a lot easier if all the data you get is in
metrics.
If I were president, I’d convert the country. Executive order nw 1:
All regulations will be rewritten in metrics. You have six months.
Any department not done by then will get their top bureaucrat
fired. If I can’t fire them, surely there’s an important government
counting butterflies in Alaska that is dangerously under-manned.
Give nw an inch…
is “just the tip” officially an inch in the US? Or is that sort of thing not standardized.
He will take a kilometer?
The indoctrination always starts with something small and seemingly insignificant. That’s the tell.
So, my dream job?
Sure. But you’re not running a government department somewhere
surrounded by the beautiful people telling yourselves how wonderful
and brave you are for doing exactly what everyone you talk to thinks
you should. I suspect that the people who are would rather be where
they are.
Those are some EO’s I can get on board with. nw 2024!
If I can’t fire them, surely there’s an important government
counting butterflies in Alaska that is dangerously under-manned.
But why do you hate Animal?
I figure Alaska is big enough. Besides, “eaten by a polar bear”
I assume will end up being a leading cause of death for these
folks, so it’s not like they’re going to accumulate dangerously.
Nonsense. Ban the importation or sale of anything measured in metric.
Get rid of French Colonization of the market.
10mm sockets and metric pattern FALs hit hardest.
Okay, that was just mean…
American months or metric months? Viva La Revolusion!
beat me to it
Let me see you build a chair, a desk and a chest of drawers in metric. There are good reasons for the imperial system. Metric is great for science and other things on paper but try doing something more practical with it.
We need both systems.
Let me see you build a chair, a desk and a chest of drawers in metric – I do not deprive honest tradesmen of their livelihood I buy those things
I find metric vastly superior for woodworking. Everything
gets measured in millimeters, and it’s trivial to add or divide
distances.
So, I haven’t built a chair, a desk, or a chest of drawers, but I
*have* built a spicerack, several side tables for the dining
room, a cabinet/shelf unit for over the toilet, and a
set of shelves for the office. All using metric.
I’ve tried to work in feet and inches, but ugh. If all you’re doing
is measuring, it’s fine, but once you start doing math, millimeters
is a lot simpler.
I have tape measures and such in metrics as well,
so there isn’t every any conversion process. I imagine
if you didn’t have those, it would be harder.
I will do things in metric if I can’t get the same precision with imperial.
However, I hate that metric has no approximation of “foot”. Inch, sure. Yard, no problem. Mile, close enough. But foot? *crickets*
About 305 mm. A cricket is about 25 mm’s.
mm → cm → ???????? → meter
dm
penis
Belgian beer is great.
Damn Right,
Cheers!
We debunked the metric system years ago here.
Besides, it was invented by rich wyipo and must therefore be CANCELLED!
OT: She seems nice
Evidently Rebecca Lau, chair of the Manhattan Libertarian Party and executive assistant to John Stossel, has said, “My opinion is that the unvaccinated should die”:
Paging David Schultz…
Well, they will. Just like everyone else. But I assume she’d also
like to mess with the timetable.
You really find the true measure of a person’s character when they’re afraid.
Truer words never spoken.
And in front of a keyboard.
There’s the full statement.
Looks like an interesting beer.
For whatever reason, launching yourself into space is the new dick measuring contest.
I’m enjoying Elon’s mocking of Bezos.
Thanks for the review, Señor!
Yeah, Bezos has a track record of suing when he doesn’t get awarded government contracts.
Fuck, yes, Sharpie!!
Excellent commentary, and you’ve made me feel like drinking a beer for the first time in a year.
GO SPACEX! Elon is da man. I just hope the Statists don’t force him into full John Galt mode.
I just hope the Statists don’t force him into full John Galt mode. – too much of a chicom fanboy for that. he will go authoritarian before libertarian.
Fuck off, vampire.
Elon is not a ChiCom fanboy. Elon is more likely to go conquer Mars and make himself emperor there than to kneel to any EarthGov once he’s gotten all he needs from it.
ah denial…
I am sorting books that I brought home from my office in anticipation of my impending resignation.
This particular random grab made me grin. Me in a nutshell.
https://imgur.com/a/IDrqoAO
The nice thing about stealing books about directed energy weapons
from the library is that you don’t get on any lists that way.
That sticker is from the company library at a place I used to work at.
When the company decided to “cut costs” they fired the librarians and were in the process of throwing the books away.
I was alerted by a coworker, we grabbed an electric cart and drove down to that end of the plant, literally dumpster dived and saved the books.
Damned right I “stole” them before they could be incinerated.
“Exploding Wires”
😀
They do have their uses.
Electro thermal chemical guns were my particular favorites. Here’s hoping they come back.
That’s the one that sparked my interest…..
It’s really amazing how predictable (and thus useful) the exploding of wires using high current can be. We know the rate and pressure for copper, aluminum, blends, wire gauges, venting, etc.
Great for controlled ignition, like in the case of ETC guns referenced above.
I see that, amazing,
I see the Dewey decimal tag on one of those. Pilfered from the college library? You naughty girl. 🙂
Library of Congress. My preferred sorting system.
So are you a Chicago Manual or MLA Handbook type of gal?
Chicago Manual of Style is on the book pile as well.
See above for the reason some of my books have library tags.
Saved from the incinerator.
Burning books seems downright evil. I abhor the loss of information.
No love for Strunk and White?
/ducking
My mom was in the hospital and couldn’t sleep, so I read to her very soothingly from Elements of Style. Worked a treat.
“‘Omit needless words.’ ‘Revise “the fact that” from every sentence in which it appears.'”
“Mm, all right, dear.” ?
“Revel in florid verbosity.”
I would have used “prolixity”.
Youse and your sesquipedalian esoterica.
What about sesquipedalian erotica?
Fanny Hill?
(I too thought of Harold Lloyd, though less facetiously. Only $2K?)
Finally – an officer is fired over Afghanistan.
https://nypost.com/2021/08/28/marine-lt-col-stuart-scheller-relieved-of-duty-after-facebook-video-of-him-ripping-military-leaders-goes-viral/
I believe the president has the authority to promote to Colonel
(or Captain for those of you that would rather drown than bleed
out in the mud) without regard to any other requirements.
Eisenhower, MacArthur, one of those guys, IIRC, skipped
Major entirely and went from like Captain to Colonel.
If I were president, I would use that authority. Sparingly
perhaps.
MacArthur skipped LTC during WWI. Eisenhower was a captain and major three times each.
I was a captain for 8 years. I didn’t mind getting promoted but damn, I hated losing all that time in grade.
George Custer went from Captain to Brigadier, then Major General, then back to Lt. Col. after the Civil War. Then to dead instead of White House.
Drugs, Ass
Brett Crozier was lionized and reinstated, wasn’t he?
I’ve been lazy on checking our mail. Well looky here an official LA County mail-in ballot. So secure, no fraud, whatsoever.
I haven’t lived in Cali for over a decade and I’ve been registered in Nevada since.
I’m sure some news outlet somewhere would like to make hay of that, but I’d understand your very real privacy concerns in these terrible times.
Who ya voting for?
Quisling.
Just got a stupid mailer for VA – for if I wanted to request a mail-in ballot – literally printed up by the SEIU with my personal info pre-filled.
Fuck those people.
They’ll probably mail you a ballot with your votes handily pre-filled, too.
I hope you’re voting to recall Newsom.
NASA did a bang up job!
Dooooooooooode. ?
Never change.
How many NASA astronauts can you fit in a VW Beetle?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/328k9m/tasteless_space_shuttle_challenger_jokes/
They forgot to add:
Q: Why did they serve Pepsi on the Challenger?
A: They couldn’t get 7 Up.
Ooooh. I feel guilty for smiling at that one.
OOOOOoo
I have two great Challenger anecdotes. One grim, one hysterical.
1- At a visit to the space center in Houston, a person who works there told us that they have staff who are on standby during every mission. They’re there in case something bad happens to counsel families. There’s a point on re-entry where comms are dead and NASA knows they have to wait. The first notice they got that things are “okay” is a sonic boom. If there is no boom, that means there is no aircraft/shuttle and things are very bad. If/when that happens, the “standby” team – which is stocked with counselors and other grief experts, slips in to be there for what they already know is the bad news.
2 – A buddy of mine who was a Marine Arty Sgt and then officer had Christine McCullough as his high school history teacher. I once heard him explain to a platoon of recruits how she was failing him in history in HS. Here’s the quote:
“My Marine Corps recruiter had to go down to my school and suck a lot of dick to get me a D+ from her so I could join the Corps. What’s the lesson? She fucked with me and then she blew up. Learn from it.”
Holy—-
Fuck.
What have we done with the wonderful Garden of Eden God offered us?
Christa McAuliffe?
Hm and heh, respectively.
I didn’t know until just now that she had an understudy.
I had a couple of drill sergeants that were very animated and creative in their cursing. But my favorite is Gunny Hartman in “Full Metal Jacket” when he yells “Ill PT you until your asses are sucking buttermilk!”
I was watching that with a friend and he said, “what does that even mean?” I said, “Literally nothing. Contextually, he’s pissed off enough that your elbows will soon explode from push-ups. “
?
In context, it was hysterical. I had to leave the hallway to keep from laughing because it was such a non sequitur; just out of left field.
Even a few of the troops snickered. They knew how ridiculous it was. And it was much closer in time to the event, too – I think it was ’89.
Too soon!
Reposting the link for Professional Beach Bum who suffered an accident yesterday in which he lost the thumb and index finger of his dominant hand.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/professional-bb-glibertarian
Thanks
Thanks!
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An ode to Charlie Watts, the politest man in rock music
Good stuff. RIP, nice man.
Two things stand out to me about him: his longtime marriage and getting cleaned up & put on a coat and tie to punch Mick.
I heard that story about Charlie punching Mick. It sounds too good to be true. Is there a reputable source for it?
Keith’s Autobiography, so reputable may be a subjective call here.
Sounds awful but the can is quite eye-catching.
I think that about nearly every latina I see.
#metoo
Hmmm, smoky beer…I think I’ll stick with Peroni.
Peroni – eeewww gross
Also when I was at university in Italy I drank Birra Moretti
You didn’t go to a Romanian Uni?
There was a time I thought Peroni was good.
In other words, I wasn’t always this cultured.
It’s light, crisp, and bitter. What’s not to like?
I used to like you people.
Good with pesto, I found by accident.
No love for rauchbier?
I celebrated New Year’s Eve there once. Their beer pairs well with ham hocks and sauerkraut.
It also makes a great base for a chili, providing some nice smoke notes.
SPACE SMITH DEFLOWER RICHARD BRANSON111!
Beer for my upcoming lighting of the grill.
A Saison brewed with mesquite pods
Better than a beer made with Tide pods.
I thought I closed the em tag….
“It would appear we should be celebrating these people in light of NASA turning into the Post Office.”
Say what you will of the Post Office, it at least provides tangible services and is one of the few existing government agencies in that is actually authorized in the Constitution.
Okay, quick shots.
1 – NASA didn’t do shit. They bought/leased/whatever a big chunk of Hughes Aircraft’s rocketry division. Hughes had already gone to space before NASA did. It’s all bullshit propaganda (again).
T/W Wikipedia
2 – The Covid vaccines are garbage. And I do mean hot fucking garbage. The studies were ass: endpoints changed, unblinding the placebo (i.e. control) group, hiding data, you name it. They own the FDA lock, stock, and barrel.
Check out what a real scientist showed about all-cause mortality for the people who took the vax using the data from each study.
3 – I know nothing about beer, barely drink it, but for some reason, I like Land Shark. I only bought some because I know Buffet’s TM attorney, and that was a nod in his direction. The local brewery (Boulevard) has some decent offerings.
They haven’t done shit in over 50 years besides spend tax payer money. But who cares, their billions are mere pocket change these days.
Well, they do give you some nice side effects for a few days and let you feel superior to those anti-vaxxers who we should totally send to the camps.
Well, there’s a subject I can help you out with as my experience is vast. Land Shark is Corona in a fancier bottle. It’s avg, nice for a hot day on the beach.
Boulevard does have some good beers, they also got some much expanded distribution when they were acquired by Duvel a couple years back. Duvel also owns Ommegang and Firestone Walker (which I really wish would allow them to distribute to fscking Ohio).
Oh, you’ll simply adore this guy:
Chicago Mother: Judge Took Away My Parental Rights For Not Getting COVID Vaccine
Beat you by 1 minute! BOOM!
damn your nim….oh, you know the rest
It’s the sanctimony that really gets to me.
It’s like when someone who is… not very bright condescends to me intellectually.
I always have this internal monologue where all I can think about is whether I should…
…just punch them in the face? Walk away? Choke them out and then piss on them while they’re taking a nap?
This judge deserves the chipper feet first.. AFTER all of the above and more.
See, when somebody condescends to me, I opt for immediate public humiliation. I’ve seen my coworkers cringe when they see it coming.
Don’t like to do it, but I feel I owe it to them.
Ok, I do enjoy it.
Would buy tickets.
#metoo
Can’t though, sadly.
These are the hospital Tiktok videos I want to see.
You people are too kind with the wood chipper thing. It’s way too quick. A “judge” who would do this has clearly made numerous egregious and sadistic rulings. POS’s activities need to be enumerated and ruled upon. There are an increasing number of people who deserve such pain and suffering that they willingly jump into a wood chipper.
Well, how public are IL family-court records right now? And anyone here admitted to the IL bar?
I forget the name; care to look him up?
Cook County Judge James Shapiro?
Er, evidently.
Doesn’t say the nature of the motion or which party’s. Is she an IL mom or AZ mom? Makes rather a difference…
Check out what a real scientist showed about all-cause mortality for the people who took the vax using the data from each study.
I wish he wouldn’t use words like ‘hype’, ‘true scientist’, etc. Let the data speak for themselves – they do, quite well. Using unprofessional terms in a scientific paper detracts from his analysis.
But thanks for the link, it’s interesting reading.
PM – I get you, and I feel the same way, but have you checked to see what’s happened to science lately? And if you worked in and around pharma, you might have hard time holding your tongue, too.
The FDA might as well be a subsidiary of Pfizer.
The FDA might as well be a subsidiary of Pfizer.
It is and has been for some years now.
“It’s a private business!” – Professional Libertarian
Boulevard is good. I wasn’t impressed with their taproom, but that’s probably because they still had some Lil Rona Panic measures in place when I was there.
No face diapers required, but too many people were wearing them.
Shortened menu.
No cash accepted, cards only.
Everyone has to be seated by the host to ensure Leper Length.
Hi folks. So forgive me because my level of news awareness is a week old. I’ve been out of action, hospitalized in a major ordeal.
Anyway, as I understand it as I am just beginning to try and catch up.
We got out of Afghanistan to allow the Taliban to take over and then we invented a new scariest primitive sheep farmer terrorists mob named ISIS-K? So that we can get back into Afghanistan to start the new forever war?
Not that I am surprised or anything.
Have we spent the next 10 trillion yet?
Trillion, bazillion—whatevs.
What was your ordeal? Do you need some help?
I’m already doing one Glibs GoFundMe. We can’t be offing ourselves, dammit!
Snap out of it, y’all!
Hi Hayek. Thanks. Besides being very tired still, I’m OK now. I went back to work on Friday and got jackshit done, besides sleeping.
What happened is that I had this condition called Hyponatremia, and I had a severe case of it so that my electrolyte balance was extremely fucked up. I became extremely confused and disoriented and extremely thirsty, so after a day and a half of that I decided to drive to the hospital, but I couldn’t because I was so disoriented, so I called the ambulance.
I also had this thing called ‘Acute Kidney Injury’, so that I actually went into renal failure. You lose your appetite completely, cannot pee at all, and have this awful taste in your mouth like you are eating metal.
So I got over there and they put me on IV and started working on getting my electrolytes in balance. They also gave me anti-seizure shots because I was at risk because of the severity of this Hyponatremia.
So what turned out to be the cause is that I have been taking this powerful diuretic named furosemide since 2019 because I had heart failure.
So, the good news is that they did an EKG and an Echo test on my heart which measures what they call injection fraction. Turns out both were normal, my heart had dramatically improved. I hadn’t had these tests for about a year. The doctors asked me what I did and I said ‘I didn’t take my meds, except the furosemide, sat around drinking beer all day, and gained 50 lbs’. They looked at me like I’m a lunatic. Which may or may not be true.
Anyway, they immediately took me off the furosemide because I don’t need it and it made me pee out all my electrolytes.
The kidney thing, they did something, I suppose with drugs, because it was completely reversed and my kidney function is 100% with no kidney disease at all.
The kidney thing, that is the most scared I have ever been in my entire life.
The entire thing was like a bad dream because they kept me full of Ativan and Xanax because I was having constant panic attacks.
Anyway, I live to shitpost another day, just really tired.
I’m trying to snap out of it! LOL.
And you couldn’t get those tests because of the covid.
No one ordered the tests. My doctor retired last year amid all this this also, and I didn’t get a new primary care doctor, I just now did it.
Yikes. Good to hear you’re getting better.
Thanks, Sean!
Glad to hear you’re doing better, Hyp.
Thanks, Animal. I think my days of carelessly not taking care of myself are over.
Dood.
I know dude. That was some scary shit. Thank God I’m not any worse off than I am. I thought I was going to die, and then I started imagining a life on dialysis. I’m lucky is all I can say at this point.
Dayum! Sounds like things are hopefully heading back to normal.
So you’re saying that SARS-COVID19 “pandemic” was NOT the scariest medical situation for you in the last 2 years?
You HEART beer!
People are so rude when they suffer from kidney failure
It’s like they have no filter
What did the kidney stone say to the man?
Urine trouble.
When you turn 18 your body stops using your kidneys.
And they start using their adult knees.
You can walk into any bar bathroom in the US to piss, but in there- you’re a peein’.
“So you’re saying that SARS-COVID19 “pandemic” was NOT the scariest medical situation for you in the last 2 years?”
Hardly, I didn’t get covid. And the entire time I was in the hospital, I refused to wear a mask. They didn’t really care, except when I was out roaming the hallways, which they would not allow me to do.
So, in comparison, Covid – not scary at all.
Anyway, I live to shitpost another day, just really tired.
Glad to hear it.
Me too! Thanks!
I’d say have a couple beers, but maybe that isnt the best prescription.
I’m going to do it, regardless, Tres. But only a couple. They didn’t tell me not to drink beer and they know I drink. I think don’t drink a LOT of beer is a given.
That’s really good intel.
My hubby is still taking bumex (similar diuretic) that we suspect he doesn’t need anymore.
We will press this issue with the doc.
Glad you’re back!!!
Good to be back, Hayek, and great to hear your husband is OK! Yeah, watch the diuretic, apparently they can really mess you up.
Sorry Hyperion.
I am happy that you are better but please take care of yourself.
Thanks, DEG. ‘Please take care of yourself’, you cannot imagine the times I’ve heard my wife say that over the past 2 years. I think I’m taking y’all’s advice this time.
Just saw this. Wow, that was rough. Was wondering where you were, good to hear you got through this. Now go forth and resume shitposting!
Thanks. Ghostpatzer. After sleeping half the day, I mustered up enough energy to start cleaning up the disaster that is this house that I left in the midst of all of this.
Shitposting may resume as normal, I hope.
d00d, the electrolytes cannot be messed with. You lost all your salt and potassium gets nasty by itself.
Glad to know you’re doing better!
I also wanted to ask you how your hubby is doing now? You many have talked about it here, but I wasn’t around at the time if you did.
RUOK now???
I thinks so, we hall see. Thanks!
Pretty much.
So, I have been doing some research once the ISIS-K took credit for the suicide bombing.
I quickly found that the US Media propagandists have been lying through omission (BIG SURPRISE) about the state of things in Afghanistan, since el Presidente Biden cheated to rule from the White House basement.
ISIS is literally an armed group that named itself the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. For those that dont know, Levant is the term for the area in the Middle East that covers Syria, Southern Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, and Eastern Med. What are ISIS doing in Afghanistan when Iran is between the Levant and Afghanistan? Trump and the anti-ISIS forces utterly defeated ISIS in the Levant region as a fighting force, so they scattered.
So ISIS and the Taliban dont seem to get along. Al Qaeda and the Taliban didnt get along well either but Osama bin Laden had money to smooth things over (research of events leading to destruction of Bamiyan Budda statues in Afghanistan). This may be why the Taliban have captured the ISIS bomber accomplices. There is some 25 years of evidence that the Taliban really do mainly care about making sure Afghanistan is ruled by Sharia law. Their Theocracy leads to famine and extreme poverty which makes them vulnerable to outside interests that use cash to influence the region. There is evidence that Pakistan is tied to the Taliban and probably uses the Taliban as their puppet rulers in Afghanistan. Remember, Iran borders Afghanistan and tries to send proxies to control that country.
Once the writing was on the wall about the imminent Afghan Army collapse, the Resistance II (Northern Alliance) has begun to form and they are the only Afghan area not controlled by the Taliban. General Massoud led the Northern Alliance to defeat the Taliban with US assistance in 2002. Technically, the Northern Alliance took over Afghanistan so the large number of US troops would not be needed as in Iraq. Massoud joined the Karzi government. Massoud’s son is now said to be in charge of the Resistance II in the Panjshir Valley some 80 miles North of Kabul.
Then we come to Commies in China. China borders Afghanistan too. China borders a small sliver of land that passes right through the Northern Alliance region.
Obviously this is a superficial overview. The history of the region are vast with religious and racial beefs going back Centuries. Even if the neo-cons dont get their way with a re-invasion of Afghanistan, expect US intel to play all the factions of Islam against each other.
As we know from US History, a unified Islamic Caliphate would be a huge problem for American interests. Sharia law just doesnt lend to free market of people and ideas. Muslim nations tend to run their nations into the ground (they do like Stone Age living) and tend to steal from more prosperous nations, if they can get away with it. America already had problems with the Barbary Pirates and the Middle east has been a thorn in our side since we started importing oil from the ME.
I am not for America attacking any nation without casus belli, which we really havent done. Part of me says, let Afghanistan, Iran, China, Pakistan, India, UAE, and Saudi Arabia fight over this area. The problem is that Pakistan, China, and India have nukes. Add in Israel and its nukes and its a mess.
ISIS-K / ISIS-AFG has been there for years – splinter after ISIL/ISIS started. We dropped MOABs on them in 2017 alone.
The name may be new for folks who haven’t been tracking stuff, but it’s not a new group.
That seems to fit what I found too. Afghanistan has been a rally point for Islamic groups from all over since the 1980s but there are some groups that are larger than others.
Also, it appears that some supporters are swearing allegiance to multiple groups at the same time.
Bouncing between groups that offer the best options at the time, if you will.
The Taliban wants control – they want subjects. ISIS just likes killing nearly everyone. Definitely bad blood there (just like SMG (Shia Militia Groups) vs ISIS in Iraq/Syria).
I’m actually more pissed at the slimy ex than the judge. “Oh, what? I can stop her from seeing our kid for something I (apparently) didn’t think was a big deal? Thanks, judge!”
Illinois mom says judge stripped custody of son until she gets COVID-19 vaccine
Nah, the ex is just being a bit of an asshole. The judge is abusing his position and his power.
Petty and vindictive vs. arrogant and power hungry
Hard to choose
Two great tastes that taste great together !
I read that his pleadings didn’t even mention that, but who knows.
Like any story that’s too “on the nose” for any particular hobby horse I’m inclined to wait until the only source isn’t also the victim.
Speaking of beers. Recommend Glibs in the San Diego area check out Half Door Brewing. Went there again this past week with a buddy from twitter (comic guy and army stuff – good reminiscing).
Great beer selection and the crowlers are a good deal too.
Duly noted! I’m still a San Diego glib til late September I reckon.
Seconded, that place is great.
If some Glib went on a shopping spree at the Kindle store, THANK YOU!!!!
Going to a local brewery this afternoon where, apparently, STEVE SMITH is the brewmaster. Check out the second beer on the menu.
COME AND SAMPLE OUR BEER SMITHS’ OFFERINGS.
AND BY “OFFERINGS”, MEAN…
What is “Pubhouse style”? These goofy beer jamooks are full of it.
I thought that meant you people style.
There’s always Cobra Style.
Woof woof, doggy style.
I feel so wonderfully blessed to be part of this Glibs community.
As the donations and messages come in for Professional Beach Bum, I see that some of the donors are people who were past recipients of other fundraisers and even non-monetary help from the Glibertarian community.
It’s heartwarming.
Charity given with willing intent, compassion, and genuine love for one’s fellow man will beat Government Social Safety Programzzz every time. Every time.
I love you guys (drunkenly hugs frat brother).
https://www.gofundme.com/f/professional-bb-glibertarian
It’s generally easy to be nice (and charitable) to Glibs. Sometimes it is because everyone else in the world seem like hypocritical statist tyrant shitheels.
“Seem like”??
oops.
Yeah, they kinda seem that way, don’t they. Sometimes I think it is just their nature and sometimes I think they just don’t know any better.
Thanks for setting this up. I’ve passed it around.
Drunken hugs all around!
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/childrens-responsive-ichef-live/r/720/1x/cbeebies/tubby_hugs_1024_576.jpg
Gah!
*Triggered!*
One tries.
#metoo
Yahhh, can’t even see Laa-laa back there. I do apologise.
Have some #metoo.
Bad sports governing body!
Oh. Well, that’s inconvenient for narrative behind this entire article.
Did he threaten to shove a tennis ball down her throat?
Sascha could always just claim he’s suffering from some unnamed mental illness.
It’s well past time for pro tennis to put many affirming messages on the courts and all over the stands.
Boat porn.
What’s that thing burn, a gallon every thirty seconds?
Sounds about right.
Gun porn.
That thing is purty.
There is a lot of purty stuff out there.
https://www.dakotaarms.com/firearms/model-76/model-76-safari.html
https://www.bighornarmory.com/product/model-89-carbine-18-500-sw/
I could go on all day like that
My G’daughter and husband got their year in and are ready for next month’s moose season. Have a boat/motor to prowl the swamps.
She said it’s customary to give the very first moose they get to the tribal elders but they’ll have two licenses anyway.
Very nice.
I took delivery today of a Lee-Enfield that Parker-Hale rebuilt into a target rifle. It’s beautiful.
Thankfully no porch pirates came by my house. I didn’t know the rifle was supposed to arrive today, but I was expecting a package from Amazon.
UPS left both packages at my door and did not ring the doorbell.
They sat there for about two hours before I realized they were there.
Pic?
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/BV0gAvyRQz-Sw23I3oEl9g.NVY6anhG3VZmWDhXrOa0MA
Picked some peppers.
Two problems – there’s not a peck of them, and they’re not pickled.
/makes obligatory peter joke
But were they pickled, and did you pick a peck of them?
Damn my slow typing hands.
Here are this years Roma Tomatoes.
Um
I think he’s messing with us.
Those critters make a tasty stew.
I can’t blame him, It was my fault for not unrolling the 16 feet of fencing that was laying next to the bed all summer long.
True, you can’t blame him – but you can eat him. May as well get some return on investment.
What are you going to make with them?
Nothing specific.
I’ll put them in store bought salsa, sauces, or add to wraps/entrees.
I hope to get a good haul to freeze and last me through the winter.
Nice
Nice! Here’s today’s haul. https://photos.app.goo.gl/jS2RxiTziYd3eJZEA. I used them all and got one quart jar of hot sauce started.
I gues today’s pepper day.
Did you not get the memo?
No, nobody tells me these things.
Bee-oooty-ful!!
The Earth is pretty nifty with that whole ecosystem thing.
Those are lovely, [Redacted].
Peppers are wonderful. The look beautiful in the garden and in the pot. We used to grow a hundred or so plants every year. The ristras look great hanging in the kitchen and you just break a couple off as needed for cooking.
100+ plants?! Wow. I barely keep up with 6.
Nice
Nice! I am too jealous.
Just had a blood test, sodium was 140, thanks to you I’m smarter than I was yesterday.
Glad I could help. I didn’t even know low sodium was a thing. Good grief, I’m almost a saltaholic.
https://pix11.com/news/coronavirus/should-i-feel-empathy-for-vaccine-refusers-who-get-covid/
These fucking people…
When will they follow all those stories with: “The CDC claims the vaccinated pass Covid just the same as the unvaccinated”.
The head of the CDC (if you can believe her) has said the vaccinated are just as bad transmitters (sometimes) worse than the unvaxed. This thing is just effed up ate every level.
https://newsrescue.com/cdc-director-inadvertently-destroys-argument-for-vaccine-passports-by-surprisingly-saying-vaccines-do-not-prevent-transmission-video/
The truth will out someday.
Usually seems to anyway. Whether in time to avert disaster though…
Information Age seems to help.
/cursum perficio
WPIX;DR
PYX 106? (That would be more for UCS)
“A Saison brewed with mesquite pods”
Beer is made from grain, hops, yeast, and water. Anything else is just a trendy version of Zima.
Piss Off Tulpa!
*Reinheitsgebot bows*
16th century Bavaria says, “Grüß Gott.”
/hides his Belgian fruited sours and wits from Enough About Palin
Hide them over here!
Zima: because zhit happens.
With my Back as screwed up as it is, it takes me 4-6 hours just to walk out the door, and then it still hurts like hell. The Doc said if I can, I should walk and play the game, so I do as much as I can handle. Today I took off my brace and plays 23 holes with a friend, -3 for him, +3 for me, not bad for a cripplied Old Man. The Humidity is horrible right now, I came home and my clothes are soaked,can’t take a shower, I’m already in a Sauna.
Sorry about your back.
Your doc is right. Being mobile will help healing, but don’t overdo it. You don’t want to set yourself back.
Crushed disc, L2/3, I can’t overdo it, back says NO BOB! and I stop,
/no painkillers
Try Kratom powder and get some epidoral injections from a pain management doc. Ive had a few back operations and a double fusion. These two things really help.
I’m surprised doc is letting you throw discs. The trunk and neck rotation required to get power is enough to make my back sore, and I’m merely fat and out of shape… no particular back issues.
As DEG said, don’t overdo it. There are pars to be had even if you’re only throwing 250.
I’m built like Calvin Heimburg and I follow the Mantra,
“slow is smooth, and smooth is far” so it’s not power, it’s speed that counts for me. That and My rollers go 100 feet farther than my drives, HaHa!
Thanks though, I’ll be as careful as I can,
Sorry to hear dude. But at least you still have your mobility. Get better!
This oughta piss you off,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7sMKap9r5Y
Ooh la la Saison.
Middle-aged meerkats poke their heads up.
LOL!
Awesome mental image
I made some low carb biscuits topped with some Italian seasoning.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/i34gWCC-R-qrIO65CaDkmw.Bpx-1mYpQc-XGnpkNtymLr
I probably could have pulled them out a minute sooner.
They smell yummy though.
They look good.
Yummy! a bit of butter just because? Parmesagn?
Awesomeness, dude! I love biscuits, especially with gravy!
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/08/28/joe-biden-appears-to-fall-asleep-while-meeting-with-israeli-pm-n434335
Completely normal.
🙄
Asleep, dead, whatever.
At least he doesn’t say mean things on Twitter. I am so glad Trump is gone #hewastheworst
How can he? he was asleep.
Thanks God we got rid of the orange meanie!
Why Biden is winning and will keep winning!
/The Atlantic
/The Guardian
/TMITE
Good that someone is covering this with such journalistic integrity.
Why , when the full video is out there in HD do people resort to tweeting and others then report on thirty second blurry cell phone recordings of a television broadcast?
I just want to say, I love writing for you all, it is so much fun to put thought to paper and other people enjoy and relate to. I work on my skills, and always have something cooking in my brain, and TPTB have seen fit to give me room to share my stories. Just want to say, Thanks for the Love Peeps,
The gushing love and drunken hugs are flowing today at Glibs.
Pretty soon our cycles are going to synch up.
It’s why I keep coming here. Beneath all the cynicism lurks a group of people I have come to love.
I’m thinking of making a habanero jelly to be used on shrimp or chicken or pork. Anyone ever made one?
Yes. Your idea for shrimp, chicken and pork is first rate. We make ours with muscadine and habenero (sweet and hot). Words cant describe the deliciousness.
Dr. Girlfriend made a jalapeno jelly years ago–it was quite good, but if you’re going to make a large batch, do a test run to make sure it will set up before the full size batch.
My wife bought a jar of something like this. I think it was Jalapeno jelly, but she was raving about it. Whatever it was, I’m sure it paled in comparison to anything home made. Like kraut. The store bought stuff sucks, nothing like the Appalachia stuff I grew up to love.