¡Martes por la tarde, enlaces mexicanos!

by | Mar 21, 2023 | Daily Links | 190 comments

Looks like today is going to be another day of climate change! Which actually frees up my evening because that really just means my son’s baseball game was rained out.

So in that event, I am making chili.  I like to do it with a pound of pork and a pound of beef tips.  I’m leaving that statement with no further context.

 

Enalces!

There is ample precedent for the US bombing Mexico.  Just ask Santa Ana and Pancho Villa.

Perhaps Mexicans might drive electric cars, if they weren’t hiding from the US bombings, and whatever the hell this is.

News from Don Brett’s operation showing they’re producing more cocaine than ever.

MAGA Republicans sent it.  I guarantee it.

As Dr. Warty pointed out this morning, a gang beating you senseless in the process of robbing you IS a form of democracy in action.

Was the surprise that he was investigated for graft or that he resigned?

They got him this time.

Here’s the last tune I heard before I got home this morning.  Have a great Tuesday.

About The Author

mexican sharpshooter

mexican sharpshooter

WARNING: Glibertarians.com contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. https://youtu.be/qiAyX9q4GIQ?t=2m22s

190 Comments

  1. Mojeaux

    Just re-watched Tombstone for reasons and it … has not worn well for me. YMMV. I loved it when it came out and now, ugh.

    • Tres Cool

      Im still your huckleberry.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I rewatched it about a month ago myself for the first time in ages. The first part was still good but the end of movie hunt down and take revenge scenes were silly this go around.

      • Mojeaux

        I’m skeert to rewatch Young Guns, but also I have no reason to.

        Leave the past in the past.

      • R.J.

        *Searches Tubi. Makes notes.

    • SDF-7

      I’ve avoided rewatching it due to that concern.

      World record for falling out of love with a movie in our family: Stargate. Wife and I saw it and loved it… went to rewatch it (still in the theater and all)… and realized that with the mystery of just what-the-hell-is-going-on gone, it really didn’t work for us. Probably why I never bothered with the 15 years or whatnot of TV spinoffs.

    • Ownbestenemy

      The line where Sam Elliott tells the townsfolk they can’t carry in town always pisses me off.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        That’s still technically in effect.

      • R C Dean

        Is it really? I’m surprised, since AZ is a Constitutional carry state.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        There’s a lot of actors there pretending to be cowboys, once you leave the tourist areas its probably cool.

        One of them a few years actually forgot to switch his real revolver with the one loaded with blanks and did in fact shoot one of the Clanton’s.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Huh, I watched it again a couple of years ago, and still loved it.

    • Chafed

      Wut? I have seen it numerous times. Still love it.

  2. SDF-7

    So in that event, I am making chili. I like to do it with a pound of pork and a pound of beef tips.

    My wife is pretty adamant about “chili” only having ground beef as the meat. I’ve done other things before (I’m partial to dicing up some steak… I think of it as chili con carne asada), and she was…. less than pleased and let me know it.

    So I’m not going to criticize what or how you do it.

    • R.J.

      I add three different kinds of peppers and… Beans and onions.

      • Lackadaisical

        No garlic?

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        Beans? Then you are not making chili, but spicy bean soup!

      • Lackadaisical

        Whatever you name it, I call it delicious.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        Can we all just admit it, that beans are what poor people eat when they can’t get food.

      • Tres Cool

        Isnt that the punchline to an old joke about a Southern Belle?

        “Why I don’t know what you call it- but I call it precious!”

      • Michael Malaise

        Just like BBQ where I like it all, I like Chili with and without beans.

    • Nephilium

      I’ve got a base recipe that as adjustments for most any meat you want to add. I did find a bacon chili recipe that I made once, it was interesting, but the bacon doesn’t really add much after stewing for a while.

    • Animal

      I use, as a minimum, three kinds of meat (cubed venison or beef if venison is not available, cubed pork, some kind of sausage, preferably chorizo) three kinds of beans (frijoles pintos, frijoles rojos, frijoles negros) and at least five kinds of peppers, variety dependent on who will be partaking.

      For the family, I have to make it blander than I prefer. When it’s just me, as occasionally happens, I make the full-up kind that some who have sampled it call Uncle Animal’s Thermonuclear Bowel-Basher. Besides me, only Loyal Sidekick Rat likes the full-up concoction.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Its all about those peppers and treating them right. Everything else falls into place.

      • Lackadaisical

        Bowel -basher was my nickname in college.

      • SDF-7

        Must have made it hard to get dates (outside of girls who were into anal, I suppose…)

      • Lackadaisical

        Just narrowing the field to qualified candidates.

      • Tres Cool

        Gay men?

      • Michael Malaise

        HOT gay men, thankyouverymuch.

  3. SDF-7

    There is ample precedent for the US bombing Mexico. Just ask Santa Ana and Pancho Villa.

    And it worked out so well in the past!

    And Schlichter covered it well — still not a good idea.

    • R.J.

      Biden never met a stupid idea he didn’t like. Says Mr. Double-Negative. Also, it would add grief to Texas. Which he hates. It will happen.

    • The Other Kevin

      There is a massive fentanyl problem, and in one of the other links, we see cocaine production is the highest ever. But it doesn’t make sense to start bombing Mexico unless the border is first secured. Which of course is never going to happen under Biden.

      • Tundra

        How can you say that?

        Oh, right.

        Who the fuck are these NGOs?

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        Texas, and other states hit hard with the illegal crisis, need to put out arrest warrant’s for the heads of the NGO’s that facilitate this. Blatantly attempting to facilitate the trafficking of minors, to start with. Stop fucking around, and make some peoples heads hurt.

      • rhywun

        And on the other end there are numerous NGO’s taking care of them when they get here.

      • R C Dean

        That’s what baffles me. There are conspiracies and organizations operating overtly and quite publicly to break US immigration law, and nobody does a fucking thing about them.

      • Count Potato

        Why should they? The U.S. government breaks U.S. immigration law.

      • The Hyperbole

        Unjust laws should be broken.

      • R C Dean

        Is our immigration law a mess? You bet.

        Does that mean we should open the borders to all comers? Ima say, no. Since I don’t believe doing so is remotely in the best interests of American citizens. We have imported the equivalent of 4 – 5 Tucsons in the last few years, very few of them equipped to be successful in the US, and as a group a net drain on the fisc and misc. bits of the infrastructure like education and healthcare. I, for one, am not a fan.

  4. Tundra

    Perhaps Mexicans might drive electric cars,…

    Why? When you can still get an old school Beetle?

    • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

      Tundra, who is wise in the ways of the world, understands proper transportation.

    • Michael Malaise

      Herbie Goes Bananas! (sort of)

    • Count Potato

      Our car import laws suck ass.

      • Tundra

        Our car import laws suck ass.

        But yes. There are many I would happily import. Like a stripped down Hilux with a diesel.

      • Count Potato

        Or Mercedes that will run on regular diesel. They’ll also run on low-sulfur diesel, but they won’t shut down on regular diesel, so they’re illegal.

      • Tres Cool

        You dont mean the red-dye diesel that I thought about (*cough*) putting in my Cummins?
        Why, that would be wrong.

      • Tres Cool

        Also, even though ULSD eats up fuel-pumps, and having some #2 fuel oil on hand (with sulfur) is a great solution, puttin it in your truck is wrong, m’kay

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Ha! I got inspected for that recently. They sampled all of my truck fuel tanks.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        . . . stripped down Hilux with a diesel.

        Tundra gets it.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        Land Rover Defenders FTW.

        The Best 4x4xFar.

      • Swiss Servator

        After a year in Afghanistan, I gotta go with the Hilux.

    • R C Dean

      “Mexico makes lots of electric cars, but few Mexicans drive them”

      Nobody said Mexicans were stupid. Wouldn’t be the first time they made some coin selling stuff to gringos they don’t bother with themselves.

  5. The Late P Brooks

    Be AFRAID

    The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has issued a public safety alert warning Americans about the widespread threat of fentanyl mixed with xylazine, an animal tranquilizer commonly referred to as “tranq.”

    “Xylazine is making the deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced, fentanyl, even deadlier,” said DEA Administrator Ann Milgram. “DEA has seized xylazine and fentanyl mixtures in 48 of 50 states.”

    Maybe, just maybe, you could stop making the country into such an awful, insufferable shithole. Then people might not be so desperate to find a mechanism of escape.

  6. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    “a gang beating you senseless in the process of robbing you IS a form of democracy in action”

    That’s Our Democracy. And Justice.

    • SDF-7

      I was just going with “The dream of the IRS” myself….

    • R C Dean

      I remember that. It makes sense to restrict carry there, I suppose, given that there is actual (pretend) gunplay. Hadn’t thought about it before.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    I like to do it with a pound of pork and a pound of beef tips.

    I used to do pork plus beef, but I switched to just using pork country style ribs on the bone. Toss ’em in the crockpot and when they fall apart, I add the rest of the ingredients.

  8. pistoffnick

    I am making chili.

    You left off the most important information!

    Beans or no beans?

    • Nephilium

      There is one correct answer to that, but to take a side is to upset those who are wrong.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        The one correct answer is pineapple.

      • Tundra

        I would rather have deep dish Hawaiian pizza than chili with beans.

      • SDF-7

        Better than deep dish pizza with beans or chili with pineapple.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        This guy gets it!

      • Tres Cool

        Hitler?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Meh frijoles negro or GTFO

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Butter beans and peas, of course.

      *ducks*

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        Dude, we are supposed to call them illegals now.

    • Pope Jimbo

      If there are no beans in the chili, you can’t blame it for all the farts. And if you can’t fart, why even bother going on living?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Besides, if you don’t have beans in the chili, you basically have sloppy joes.

        Minnesoda Chili:
        Ketchup
        Ground beef
        Beans

        Minnesoda Sloppy Joes
        Ketchup
        Ground beef

        So I think you really need to have the beans just so everyone at the potluck knows what they are getting into. Imagine the embarrassment if someone started putting your chili on a bun because they thought it was a sloppy joe.

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        And if you can’t fart, why even bother going on living?

        This guy gets it

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        “M’sieu, ze fart, she is life!”

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Most of my family is in the mo bean category. I however, add kidney beans for myself.

      • R C Dean

        Mo bean, or no bean? They’re kind of opposites.

        When I want to go all purist, I go with Abuela Dean’s New Mex recipe (“First take some chili pods off the ristra. . . . “). But I have had chili with all kinds of ingredients. I still think olives are kinda weird in chili, but what matters is, does it taste good?

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Typo. The family is no beans, which leaves mo beans for me.

      • Swiss Servator

        Kidney beans?!

        *shudder*

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Please, pinto..

  9. DEG

    Brazilian customs agents found the jewelry in the backpack of a government aide traveling with the country’s then-energy minister in October 2021. The minister and aide were returning from a mining conference in Saudi Arabia.

    He failed his bribery skill check.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      You’ve got to do it like Pat Robertson did and have your wife wear them when returning.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      You’re supposed to stuff valuables like that in your kid’s diapers when going through customs, uh, so I hear. But I guess not too many people take their kid on a business trip to Saudi Arabia.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        Tha’ts a dirty trick.

      • Pope Jimbo

        And if customs figures out your dirty trick and seizes your contraband, you will be literally wiped out.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        If you don’t wrap it properly, the money does need to be laundered afterward. Again, so I’ve heard.

      • Michael Malaise

        Sounds like either way, you’ve got a mess on your hands.

    • R C Dean

      Dude, you’re in the government. That’s what diplomatic pouches are for.

      Amateurs.

  10. rhywun

    El Salvador’s murder rate is on a par with that in the United States

    ORLY?

    I guess 13x higher is a kind of “par”. 🙄

    • Lackadaisical

      Yeah, I thought that was a lie, but then for some reason thought: ‘na, they wouldn’t possibly tell such a big lie, I must be mistaken’

      Dunno why I still underestimate them after the past 8 years.

  11. Shpip

    Overall, the the report found Europe and North America are the largest markets for cocaine, followed by South and Central America and the Caribbean.

    While the report said the markets in Africa and Asia were “still limited”, the UN’s Ghada Waly said the potential for the market to expand there was a dangerous reality.

    So expensive recreational pharmaceuticals go where there’s money to buy them. Damn, never would’ve figured out that one by myself.

    Of course, once some enterprising soul teaches the sub-Saharans to bake crack, then we should see the market really open up.

    • Tres Cool

      #4 PROFIT!!!!

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Shpip, I love your bull terrier avatars. Am old enough to remember Spuds McKenzie but have never somehow met one.

      • Tres Cool

        Spuds? You mean Chris Sabo

      • Tres Cool

        Damn it…..Chris Sabo

      • Ted S.

        Keep damning it.

      • Tres Cool

        I fuckin quit. Google him yourselves.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    I can’t help wondering how much American bank regulators contributed to the failure of Credit Suisse.

    • Tres Cool

      I wonder how much American bank regulators contribute to the cocaine market.

      • Tonio

        You mean as individuals or in their official capacity?

      • Tres Cool

        Why not both?

      • R C Dean

        In the spirit of Mexi’s enlaces:

        “Por que no los dos?”

      • R.J.

        Shouldn’t we take all factors into account when we calculate their cocaine footprint?

    • Sensei

      Credit Suisse is mostly to blame.

      Crazy risk seeking deals over years and revolving door management that couldn’t control the bankers or the risks.

      • R C Dean

        Not to mention, a batshit crazy man in charge of global markets.

      • Swiss Servator

        I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.

  13. Mojeaux

    Beef. Beans.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Meh frijoles negro or GTFO

    Si.

    “Chili” without beans is gravy.

    • Tres Cool

      Great. Now I want Skyline. Or Gold Star.

      • Nephilium

        No.

      • Tres Cool

        I concur with NO.
        As a purist, I only fuck with coneys. I dont mix sketti with chili. Or any of their other horrid menu items.
        The salad isnt bad, but I can make that at home.

  15. Drake

    Just got the final results from the tax accountant. Why do I even bother working?

    • Tres Cool

      To do your duty as an American and give your FairShare® to Ukraine and Zelensky.
      Oh, and to bail out banks.

    • Lackadaisical

      So you can pay your taxes?

      • Drake

        Both correct answers unfortunately.

      • Pope Jimbo

        At least now you have something to talk to Elon about next time you are having beers.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Because IRS agents and accountants need to eat too?

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      I found a $80k depreciation mistake on my corporate returns today.

      That would have been a pisser if I had submitted it to the IRS and they caught it.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    For you, P Brooks…

    Thanks, B>p.

    Maybe they’ll boo her off the stage.

    Also- I’m pretty sure it was her sister who went to CC. With any luck, she’ll get booed off the stage by the militant queers.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    That’s some fine proofreading, Brooks.

  18. Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

    Got back from a 10 day road trip a couple hours ago. My legs are like rubber, my back has a new creak in it, and there is a fresh 3K miles on my rig. I saw family and friends I haven’t seen in years, hit five states, and was probably within touching distance of a few Glibs, but was moving to fast to stop.

    I feel rejuvenated.

    • Ted S.

      Don’t touch Winston’s Mom.

    • The Other Kevin

      If you passed through Indiana, I hope you at least waved out the window.

      • Michael Malaise

        They put a gun in his open hand.

    • Tundra

      Welcome back! I’m glad you had a great time!

      Sometimes a good road trip is just the thing.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        It was awesome. Drover over two snowy mountain ranges before plowing, relived the California sunshine, stared at the ocean. In short, did what I needed. I do this every spring, gives the wife some time to herself, and we start missing each other. Very important.

  19. Shpip

    Got a great piece of news this afternoon. My neighbor two doors down (semi-retired from the Ornithology Department at Big College) spent a few months in western South America last year, and discovered that the Peruvian Pygmy Owl is a cooperative hunter. Apparently, one owl will spook or flush the prey into revealing it’s camouflaged position in the tree canopy, while the other pounces on it. They join the Harris’s hawk as the only avian species known to exhibit this behavior. His paper on the subject was accepted to one of the better peer-reviewed journals and will be published in May.

    “I had always suspected this about the little critters,” he told me today, “but then I confirmed it. Peruvian owls are Inca hoots.”

    • Tonio

      Sir, this is a nice establishment.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Fishing with my dad ten years ago, we would watch an osprey catch a fish only to then be harassed by an eagle until it let go of the fish. The eagle would then pounce on the fish and the osprey would have to catch another one.

      I submit to you that that is more highly evolved joint cooperative effort than your pygmy owls. Your cooperative effort is like a primitive hunter/gatherer group. The cooperation we witnessed was more like our modern Democracy and therefore far better.

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        Are you Italian? ‘Cause that is a Guinea Fowl!

      • Pope Jimbo

        Now you are just parroting the line of bullshit that society fed you.

        Once capon a time we were free to gambol about the country. Now you are creating fake laws.

    • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

      Why is Skeletor watching?

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        It’s what he’s into. Stop judging.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Who else would you expect to be judging the quality of bones?

      • slumbrew

        No kink-shaming.

      • R.J.

        TATTOOED RAINBOWS AND LOLLIPOPS! NYAAAH!
        Says Skeletor.

    • Animal

      Looks like we’re in good shape up here.

    • Tres Cool

      “Healthy people do not usually get sick, but among the frail and vulnerable, it kills up to 60 percent.”

      Hmmm…..seems Ive recently heard that about another pathogen.

      It only makes sense that we take 2 weeks to flatten the fungal curve.

    • Chafed

      Does it feed on high state income taxes?

      • rhywun

        lol

    • R C Dean

      Most articles that point out that New York, Illinois and California are the worst in the country at something don’t usually go with “fungal infections”. Unless that’s some kind of code or euphemism.

      • Swiss Servator

        High tax, high regulation, Blue dominated shitholes also have bad health outcomes?

  20. Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

    I like to do it with a pound of pork and a pound of beef tips.

    I’ll bet you do, you saucy little minx!

    • R.J.

      Has to be the same person. Other wise all the brain damaged teachers have weak chins, emaciated bodies and giant round glasses.

  21. Timeloose

    Chilli is supposed to be a dish made with only peppers, meat water and seasonings. I’m not good at following rules, so I add what I have to make a chilli styled stew.

    My favorite is to make a chilli out of leftover BBQ meats and possibly beans. So pork, beef and chicken.

    My only real traditional must have is using real chillies or good chilli powders as the base, not tomato’s.

    • Timeloose

      Meat, water not meat water.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I will now refer to broth as meat water.

      • Michael Malaise

        We are Meat Water and we are here to confuse you!

      • Timeloose

        So a new keto friendly drink.

        “ Meat water, for the very first time””

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Yes!

      • Nephilium

        Does beer count as water or seasonings?

      • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

        It comes across as life.

        So, yes.

    • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

      I will accept the removal of all tomato products from chili, as that seems wise and profitable.

    • slumbrew

      Wow, didn’t think that’d pass.

      “Fuck you, cut spending declare war”.

    • Timeloose

      Fuck that guy. My best friend lost his entire workshop with all of his vehicles and equipment last night. Not arson, but fires can ruin people.

      Arsonists are complete pieces of shit.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Arsonists are complete pieces of shit.

        According to what I read in James Clavell’s novels, arson was to be punished with not only his death but that of all his generations.

    • rhywun

      Is his middle name “Bending”?

    • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

      Of all the weird things I have come across in my life, one of the most odd was having witnessed a fire that Joseph Wambaugh wrote a book about the arsonist, a fireman in California. Didn’t know it for years, and then, only found out when watching some daytime TV when hung over.

      This was the book he wrote about it: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21493.Fire_Lover

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      Sounds like the sheriff was pretty sensible in this case.

      • slumbrew

        Nutt said he didn’t go get Gray because deputies could have died.

        “It wasn’t worth it,” the sheriff said. “Joe Gray has been in prison out there himself, in my opinion, for 14 years.”

        He’s not wrong. 47 acres or no, he still wasn’t free.

    • Zwak tastes the soup, but never counts the beans.

      You never go full Ruby Ridge in an election year, son.

  22. Aloysious

    mm mm m… chili.

    • R C Dean

      Veto bait for Gov. Hobbs. We’ll see if the AZ Repubs grow a brain and a spine and roast her for it – “Gov. Hobbs thinks your sons and daughters should go overseas to shot at and blown up in countries we aren’t even at war with.”

      • mexican sharpshooter

        That’s our plan of attack, however small the megaphone may be.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Were you expecting something different?

      The Democrats are wholly in on federalization of everything and subordination of federal laws to international treaties. There is no way they’ll vote for anything remotely resembling states’ rights.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Nope