Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale
a tale of a fateful trip,
that started from this tropic port,
aboard this giant ship.
The mate was a mighty sailin’ man,
the Skipper brave and sure,
ten passengers set sail that day,
for a seven day tour,
a seven day tour.
Nearly a dozen Glibs embarked from Fort Liquourdale for a whirlwind Caribbean cruise, all the way back in mid-October. We had libertarianness aplenty, in that we mostly did our own things and occasionally met up for food, gambling, or drinking. I – being me – only got off the ship once. I had a wonderful time on the poop deck (aka in the aft) and “woo-hooing” at planes in St. Maarten. In other words, the ideal vacation. Perhaps some of our other Glibcruisers will share their thoughts & feelings & photos in the comments. Here’s a gallery of some of mine and Shpip’s pics.










IT’S WHIMSICAL!
Your girlfriend is still too tiny.
Why can I only identify four in the group picture?
OpSec.
From left to right:
Tulpa, Tulpa, Tulpa, Tulpa, Tulpa, Tulpa, Tulpa, Tulpa, and Tulpa.
Did I miss anybody?
Yes. The tenth Tulpa.
Well, three aren’t active commenters on the site.
Neph comes out hot with the fez, while Nick dazzles with Liberace’s smoking jacket.
Nice pics, KK!
The photo doesn’t do the jacket justice.
Or Nick, for that matter.
The jacket pairs really well with the dirty crocs…
Perhaps weirdly, I never think of what the actual human beings in my online communities look like, and then when I put a face to the name it’s like an avatar change.
I chose this avatar because another potato wouldn’t stand out.
I do somewhat resemble a hippo.
I was told that you should never meet your heroes.
I only hero worship people long dead. I am safe.
For now.
Seeing photos does put a human face on y’all. It also makes me think that when in public I may hate people in general but some of those regular people faces in the crowd are actually smart, likable maybe extraordinary people and you never can know who they are just by looking at them.
You just can’t judge a book by its cover. Well, other than JAWS.
Autocorrect changed your title from JUGS to JAWS.
Wait, are you saying that you don’t walk around with a gun to your head?
Seeing real Pat would throw me for a loop.
I hadn’t, but these hearings are making me consider it.
You see me everyday. I let my daughter take that avatar picture a few years ago.
Same here, Pat.
I like the pictures.
Fun.
It was an amazingly good time.
Closest thing to a cruise was crossing the Atlantic three times with 700 of my newest friends. I had a smoking jacket but certainly not like Nick’s. My new friends and I all had the same tailor who was partial to green.
Thanks KK, enjoy the next trip to Iceland
My uncle was in VN as a Seabee.
The family joke with him was that for his entire enlistment in the Navy he never once actually sailed on a single boat. Airplanes only.
Our itinerary:
Precruise:
Sunday, October 20th Anthony’s Runway 84 (dinner with Shpip) old school Italian, very good, very large portions
Day 1
Murano French Restaurant on ship with Annoyed Nomad and his wife, KK, Hayek Splosives, and my girlfriend 8 pm
Day 2 at sea Galley to Table Tour & Lunch 11 am
Day 3 Puerto Plata DR
Day 4 11:00 am Private Hands On Culinary Trails of San Juan Experience
Day 5 Philipsburg, St. Maarten
Watch the airplanes land just above the beach, watch KK in her element, watch Shpip try to conquer that huge lobster
Day 6 At sea 8 pm Tuscan Grille Dinner
Day 7 at sea 11 am Cerviche making class 8pm Murano French Restaurant
Day 8 Ft. Lauderdale
Fist night in Ft Liquordale, our Uber driver brought us to 509 NE XX Street instead of 509 SE XX Street.
509 SE XX Street was where our AirBnB was.
Fist night? I’m not sure I want to know.
Anywhere on XX Street is gonna be lit, though.
But not as lit as XXX Street.
The girlfriend and I did two on board “excursions”, one being a cocktail making class (which I recommend, it was done well) the other being a pizza making class. My only complaint about the pizza making class was all of the information about it said that we couldn’t take our leftovers with us. This was not the case, and they did allow leftovers to be taken, which I learned AFTER working my way through all but one slice of my pizza.
From ded ded thred, re: pulling out of the UN entirely. That’s what the USSR did in 1950, as a result Korea was (and still is) conducted under UN approval and imprimatur. The fuckery done without a veto (or threat of veto) by the US is unlimited. The solution to the UN is to cut it to the bone, skinsuit, and remove any power from it. If 3rd world shitholes want to send their diplomats to give speeches on dead microphones with the lights off and heat turned down, go for it.
Military flights: use the usual air show excuse. They need the flight hours and it’s practice for EPW (enemy prisoner of war) operations.
Holy crap. Tulsi went there.
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1885011482540466607
Bad / fake Intel led to the war in Iraq. Said it right to their faces.
Good! Their lies and bullshit need to be called out.
RFK just called out Senators taking huge amounts of money from big pharma to their faces
https://x.com/theblaze/status/1885023689608962492
And again directly to Sanders’ face – who freaks out with bs about small donors
https://x.com/DerrickEvans4WV/status/1885030794671902987
Don’t believe your lyin’ eyes, listen to what I tell you!!!
Sanders is going to stroke out.
At the DNC, Bernie made a speech about the evil billionaires (no longer millionaires because he is one), and was immediately followed by Pritzker, who bragged about being a “real billionaire”. Bernie’s over.
If you are going to go down, go down swinging.
Sanders is a hypocritical piece of shit. He’s that asshole who would impose a system where everyone is equally poor or struggling while owning two or three dachas.
When I was college, I noticed that most rabid socialists on campus where the upper-class students. It was partially guilt about coming from so much money and their elitist beliefs about the lower classes and workers. But oddly enough while they all rant and raved about the wealthy they themselves took full advantage of their family’s money nor did they ever give it up.
themselves took full advantage of their family’s money nor did they ever give it up.
They want the appearance of virtue without sacrifice, or at least with other people making the sacrifices.
Not surprising, since they have the most free time to dream up their fantasy nonsense and go out activisming.
Damn, Graham isn’t there (not on the committee) to be called out.
Nice. Fucks are not being given. They finally learned playing nice won’t change a single vote. Trump seems to have decided the way to play the game with the agencies is to just go at them hard, and his nominees are doing the same with the Senate.
Here’s hoping the deal to recess the House so Trump can do recess appointments holds if needed. Doing it after one of his nominees is voted down, and appointing them anyway, would be just the fuck-you the Senate needs.
Ermagerd, Trump has too much power!!! No, the Presidency has too much power. Just the way you set it up, you feckin’ tools.
What if they used cruise ships as temporary housing for burned out Californians?
Turn it into a reality show. The reconstruction will pay for itself.
Voted off the ship and tied to an anchor? That just might work!
The Real Housewives of the Queen Mary.
They’ll never get the smell out. >.>
Looks as if a great time was had by all! ***SIGH!!!*** I’ve never been on a cruise, and I don’t see it happening within the foreseeable future, but maybe some day. Of course, it would be better if the route was in/through a latitude a little less hazardous to my skin’s sun sensitivity. Maybe a Mississippi River riverboat cruise or the Great Lakes?
When I last looked, the riverboat cruises were shockingly expensive. Personally, I would rather drive around the Great Lakes than be on a cruise through them, especially since they would probably frown upon walleye/perch fishing from the boat.
Isn’t the next one going to Iceland? That isn’t a conducive environment?
It’s sold out.
But there is a paid-up participant looking for a roomie…
We have returned from the attorney’s office. We found out a thing we didn’t know, which changes the calculus a little bit, but DOCUMENTS will be drafted and THINGS will be made clear. Unfortunately, this means I have to keep my tone businesslike and my face blank. I can do businesslike tone. Blank face, now. That’s a different kettle of fish.
According to my Encyclopedia Brown books, it helps to keep ice cubes in your mouth.
I remember that one, it was a disgusting drink challenge and Bugsy cheated with ice cubes.
Good luck Mo, I never was good at hiding my facial expressions.
I have so many nitpicks with that twerp.
Resting Blank Face?
Dead-ass stare.
A real Glib cruise would not be 50/50 men and women.
Today is your turn in the barrel.
Oh wow. I didn’t know there was a video of DC collision.
(TW – we know the end result.)
https://x.com/PantherMike182/status/1884800051459047741
It was out almost immediately last night. Crazy, isn’t it
The WSJ link you posted this morning has a different angle but shows the collision.
Thanks. I generally don’t watch videos when I’m using data on the go so I missed it.
I think OBE discussed this issue a little while back.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/air-traffic-control-and-the-dei-debate/
Quote is actually from a Washington Times article.
It was one of the most transparent deliberate and calculated attacks on meritocracy at the cost of lives that I am aware of. It was one of those jaw dropping examples where everyone thought ‘that cant be allowed to happen. Someone responsible will stop it, surely’ and then nothing else happened.
It was one of the most irresponsible, evil things that Obama did and that is saying a lot. There should be more than a civil suit, there should be prosecutions. Also, fuck everyone that voted for that evil shitbird. It was always obvious as hell what he is.
Yep. Ongoing lawsuit regarding this.
Not only that, word got out and ‘key words’ were shared to get in regardless of skill.
I was not aware of that particular bit of nastiness. My god what a POS.
Apparently the hexagrammaton was uttered in Kash Patel’s confirmation hearing.
So you people do exist.
No I don’t. I’m just a figment of your imagination.
You can’t fool me – they cease to exist when I close my eyes, just like everything else.
Awesome, KK!
So cool to finally see some pics from the reconnaissance mission for the future Glibertopia.
And, nice to see Shpip looking hip on ship.
Having met quite a number of Glibs in the real world I can say that they are without a doubt some of the best people I know.
Just weird.
Especially Jimbo.
Having met quite a number of Glibs in the real world I can say that they are without a doubt some of the best people I know.
Yes.
Just weird.
It all depends on how you define weird.
Hell, I know I’m weird.
I’m OK with that.
I won’t be around people who aren’t.
So when the mountain kills someone, it will be held legally responsible, right?
No, you dumbshit Maori – you don’t come from the mountain. You got to those islands on boats.
It will probably kill itself when it gets the property tax bill.
This.
“Instead, the submarine under construction will be called the HMS
AchillesWoke.”https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/28/former-british-defense-secretary-grant-shapps-roya/
Was HMS Waterloo taken?
At least it isn’t “Liberty”. No one would fall for that.
On topic?
Braham man owes $47K for flu treatment on Norwegian cruise ship
In a letter, Norwegian told Masterman that its pricing is “closely comparable to other cruise lines and is what we believe to be fair and reasonable….”
When reached via email on Wednesday, a spokesperson for Norwegian said the cruise line is looking into whether the charges are typical for flu treatment.
https://www.fox9.com/news/braham-man-47k-flu-norwegian-cruise-ship
Bonus is that he actually bought the medical insurance from the cruise line.
“It wasn’t even Good chicken soup!”
That’s some expensive bed rest.
I made the mistake of opening social media today. Within 30 seconds I saw a meme on Instagram, posted by a good friend, showing Hitler rounding people up in camps and asking what we were allowing “this POS” to do.
On FB, my wife’s cousin posted a meme about “If you didn’t want teachers to stand in the way of ICE you shouldn’t have trained them to take a bullet for their students.”
These people are broken.
I don’t care if the teachers stand in the way of ICE, and I’ll have zero sympathy when they get an obstruction charge.
The entire premise is wrong. ICE isn’t going into schools. There was one incident in which the Secret Service visited a school as part of an investigation. But never let the facts get in the way of a leftist narrative.
That is ass-backwards. Those idiots would run away screaming from a bullet, we haven’t taught them anything.
I’d expect most teachers to use the students as human shields
Well, not the skinny ones…
I thought teachers were taught a variation on the standard “Run Away, Hide, Fight” protocol. I don’t recall their training to include anything about being a bullet sponge.
Weebles wobble and they do fall down…
How do people stay alive with that level of fat?
They don’t. They die young.
Even if I wanted to bang that I don’t think my dick would reach. Just pick a fat fold I guess?
I had a friend who was that level of obese, he married a woman of similar build. Their joke was that they were proof that circles could meet in more than one point at a time.
Stop turning me on when I’m at work!
Looks like the “rapper” suing Lyft because she couldn’t fit in the car.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/30/tulsi-gabbard-edward-snowden-traitor
Tulsi Gabbard refuses to call Edward Snowden a “traitor”
Oooh!
Dems Pounce!
Gotha!
The more you speak, the more you make me like her.
Getting worked up about that says more about them than her. Fuck those douchebags.
One of the biggest tricks that the Left has ever performed was that they were huge advocates of civil liberties. Shit I believed it for a long time till the Obama Administration. Obama was murder droning with impunity and continuing a lot of Bush’s shit and most of my liberal friends stayed silent or defended his civil liberty violations. And then the final black pill came when I found out about the Biden Administration’s forcing social media to stifle opinions that went against their views. And most of Left friends were cheering that shit on. I came to the conclusion that the Left would rip apart our civil liberties if it helped usher in their utopia.
Let’s not forget they also claimed to be “anti-war” too.
And as we’ve seen from the RFK hearings, they just love themselves some Big Pharma.
The ACLU never even needed to be skinsuited.
Hell, they’d put a bullet in your head.
See: anywhere their ideology is taken to its logical end.
They did the meme!
Ray of sunshine (other than the failed business) and it’s in the NYT.
The total operation has cost about $30,000, according to the bank. Until recently, Local Coho salmon went for $17.99 a pound on the Fresh Direct website, making the approximate market value of the donation more than $700,000.
A Fish Farm Offered 40,000 Pounds of Salmon for Free. There Was a Catch.
When an upstate New York salmon farm went out of business, nonprofits had days to find a way to catch, refrigerate and clean more than 13,000 fish.
https://archive.fo/P6dzJ
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/nyregion/localcoho-salmon-donations-live-fish.html
Im sitting at the airport bar having a drink before I fly to Manistee!
Im going to drive my Sisters moving van in OKC. She is leaving a long damaged marriage for a new life. But it gonna be cold for Bob, yikes!
It’s warming up to 70s by Sunday. You can wear your flippies and shorts.
Yep, it looks good, so I brought some discs, OKC has some great courses.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360539602/9-year-old-christchurch-girl-who-has-broken-three-frisbee-throwing-world-records
If you liked Crossfire Hurricane, you’ll LOVE Artic Frost!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/anti-trump-fbi-agent-responsible-opening-jack-smith-elector-case-against-president-whistleblower
I would like a public tarring and feathering, followed by a ride out of DC on a log.
DCA control tower may have been undermanned: https://x.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1885064348814504313?t=gzxw0zsoRpRuk7fbkH6h0Q&s=19
Don’t you mean underpersynned?