STEVE SMITH VERY BUSY.
STEVE SMITH GET READY, IT FALL TIME! HIM GATHER MANY PINE NEEDLE AND LEAFS FOR MAKE CAVE SNUG. HIM STORE SNACKS HIM GET FROM HIKER AND CAMPER. AS CAN SEE ON MAP, STEVE SMITH ALSO LOOK FOR WINTER PLACE, IF CASCADIA GET TOO COLD.
HIM THINK OTHER GOOD THINGS GET READY NOW IT FALL.
- HOOMAN GOVERMINT TELL HOOMANS WHAT WINTER DO.
- HANDY HOOMAN TELL WHAT DO!
- WHYCOME WEBMD NOT SAY “IT CANCER”?
STEVE SMITH ASK FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN HOOMANS, WHAT YOU DO, HIM NOT THINK OF?
FREE CASCADIA!
STEVE SMITH STUFF TURKEY
STEVE SMITH EAT TOFURKEY THIS YEAR. REMINISCE ABOUT TURKEY FRIENDS, BY REMINISCE MEAN…
It may not be the ideal way to prepare for Fall, but after we get home from our MI UP/WI/MN vacation, TT and I are going to sneak a flattering likeness of yourself, MR. SMITH, handcrafted by one of the FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN HOOMANS and featuring two handy cupholders, over to the patio of our wonderful and newly-Sasquatch-mad next door neighbors.
We’ll also stock up on pumpkin spice motor oil and tampons.
👍🏻
If they flurve him, let me know. Otherwise…ignorance is bliss. haha
And it was really great to meet you and TT!
And you must share the pic of the speed hump sign. That’s funny stuff! (or did you already and missed it? I haven’t been here much the last 5-6 days)
Right before the end of our driveway. (TT barely visible at right.)
BY SPEED HUMP, MEAN…
Will definitely keep you posted! I’m confident they’ll adore him!
HANDY HOOMAN TELL WHAT DO!6
27. Move somewhere warmer.
Sure, if you’re a pussy.
I’m definitely a pussy.
STEVE should be happy that I walked today… a lot.
Three miles, in fact. I hit Five Guys, then a Spectrum store, where I got tired of their shit and found a coaxial cable at a nearby Lowes instead.
Then I hit Barnes and Noble on the way to Wegmans.
Wegmans… OMG. We have nothing like this in my old neighborhood. At least ten of my usual, “larger” supermarket could fit inside. I was only there to gawk and pick up a couple immediate necessities. A proper shopping will have to wait.
Such as culture shock absorbers?
LOL
It was a pleasure meeting you and Tom Terrific this weekend.
We were delighted to meet you and your lovely bride, too! And thanks so much for the mead! 😋
Seriously.
Oh, and I looked up some prices on their website of a couple dozen personal staples before I arrived here (upstate NY) this week, just out of curiosity.
Every item was about 1/3 less than what I was used to paying (in NYC).
If you can find an Aldi’s, you’ll save another 1/3 off the Wegman’s price.
There is an Aldi about 1.5 miles away in another direction. (Wegmans is 1 mile away.)
I am completely unfamiliar with the joint – either does not exist in NYC or if it does it’s miles and miles away.
Food desert! Food desert!!!
Chicago knows how to fix that.
Nice.
I hope the move is a good one for you.
Walk more.
So far so good 👍🏻
That was definitely part of the plan. Biking too, once I get settled down.
There’s more variety for a basic bitch like me within 1.5 miles here than there ever was in Brooklyn. There, it’s like you walk a couple miles and it looks exactly the same as where you started except the ethnic mix is probably different but I still can’t find a decent supermarket or hardware store.
Any good paths near you?
There is a short path along the creek that is in my “backyard”.
Lots of longer paths, mostly rails to trails. And mostly up steep hills. There’s a long lakeshore route that I biked a few months ago and only explored about half of it.
And tons of shit farther beyond.
Local Wegmans is good. Definitely top shelf.
I do get more personalized service at the local Fresh Market. Especially at the butcher counter. Go figure.
I assume the meat department manager gets a chub when he sees you walking towards them.
Of has a sploosh…didn’t mean to assume their gender.
lol
I mean, shoot, when I go to Walmart to buy hamburger, I buy a chub or two.
Giggity.
You went looking for coaxial cable? Dude, cut the cord.
Enh. I want to see what the building offers first for my 75 bucks a month. It turns out I need a box. The landlord was completely useless there.
If I “cut the cord” I have to either pay extra on top of that or find some other provider which I have no idea if there is one here yet.
I am trying to follow this. You get free cable as part of your rent?
If you cut the cord, all you need is an internet connection. Then you can get Google TV, Roku, etc. The services don’t care where you are (unlike cable). If you have a decent internet connection then you are all set.
“Cable and internet” is an additional 75 bucks a month, negotiated by landlord with Spectrum. I’m trying to figure out what the “cable” includes. If it meets my needs, great.
If not, I have to make other arrangements which I have no idea what is available here yet and which could be way more than the offered 75 bucks a month.
When did the dealer promise your new pickup would be ready?
Fire wood, lots of fire wood. Gas for the snow blower. Keep the truck gas tank full. Propane tank full (as required).
Texas does not have a winter that I am aware of. It merely gets more comfortable to stand outside and grill.
The mosquitoes go into hibernation.
As long as you are preparing for hibernation, I would suggest aging some cheese wheels and selling them later to fund the freeing of Cascadia. Sasquatch cave aged cheese could go for a pretty penny on eBay.
Cave aged cheese is usually kinda funky.
BY FUNKY MEAN…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GkmE2aYwec
We try to plan routine dentist/doctor visits for other than winter.
I do the same thing.
And all of my grocery shopping. And my pedicures.
(We don’t get winter ’round these parts. But I did buy an SUV today that has special traction control settings for driving in the snow. )
What did you get?
I didn’t get anything…. I had to pay $20 and pick up the garbage……
Sorry.
Reflex.
The wife won this round.
We have 3 teens (well, 2 teens and a teen adjacent 12 year old). So she still wants a 3rd row. I said “minivan is the proper form factor”. And “gas is important”. so I was looking at a used plug in hybrid Pacifica. 25k miles, asking 29k.. but with fees of about 3k… so really 32k. Seemed a good deal. They are way over 50k new as configured. Like 65k last I looked.
But the wife is *cool*. She wants an SUV. An SUV that she can look good in front of her friends with. Like a Lincoln Navigator or Range Rover.
No… I don’t have it like that. Not anymore. Gave it all up to raise the family.
So…. She liked the Buick. But it is still way too much. (plus… buick??)
Base model Chevy Traverse. Only one they make with a bench in the middle so it seats 8. Only comes in Taupe cloth seats. So I added aftermarket black leather seats. Looks fantastic.
She is over the moon. A custom ride that none of her friends can claim to have.
I’m more meh…. but I did get it for several grand below sticker, which is rather unheard of these days.
I’m going to have a lot of biting my tongue though. I can’t help doing the math on the gas – driving back from the dealer, to the daughter’s soccer game and to church last night we did just over 60 miles. Cost me well over $20 in gas. For 1 stinking day.
This is why we drive a Hyundai Ioniq for our daily driver. 50mpg. The not-quite-11 gallon tank gets us through over a week… which is over 500 miles.
OK guys.
I finally had a breakdown.
Look. I know you all got there years ago. Most of you got healthy and never looked back. But I kept hanging around the corpse of my once beautiful love. And today there was finally a straw that landed just at the right moment and broke this camel’s back.
I lost it on the commentariate over at Reason. Not my normal, methodical, overly wordy takedown of the writers. Nope. I went full “flame on” mode.
Why do I mention it?
Because I tagged you guys in the comments. And it would be rude not to give you a heads up.
So here…. go have a good laugh. Or cry. Or maybe just stand quietly and go… “Huh. ‘Bout time”.
https://reason.com/2023/09/20/tim-scott-invokes-ronald-reagan-and-says-uaw-strikers-should-be-fired/?comments=true
$30 * 167k employees is 5.1 million, not $30M.
/ducking
dammit
told you I had a breakdown
$300 point still stands
Pretty sure the answer to your closing questions are “YES!!11”
That wasn’t so bad.
Sorry you miss the scintillating commentary. Shall I go post a fart joke?
I miss the group from The Agitator.
It was a serious group. It had real things to say.
You won’t get that from me very often. I am a primitive, cave dwelling libertarian who knows what he likes, and smashes commies with a big club. A man of few big words.
I still have the mug. Now I want to find Balko so I can throw it at him.
I knew I truly, truly loved this group.
It may be possible that the world since 2015 is simply a science experiment, and the Glibs are the subjects. We are all actually brains in a jar, connected to a matrix that is just a little too bonkers to actually be real.
Cyto, I feel your pain, and the loss of a good discussion group. I used to write for Ordinary Times*, and had been reading and commenting from back when it was The League of Ordinary Men. And I watched that joint firmly place its head up its ass with inflated self importance, until it just became… too much. A lot of good conversations and real connections when down the tube so fast as to break necks.
*yes, notAdan, you guessed it correctly.
Welcome home.
Dude, step away from the HyR.
It helps.
It is worth it to read some of the replies to strawman progressive bullshit. Why? Because all those strawmen eventually turn up in conversations with left wing acquaintances and I’m better prepared for their arguments. Separate the wheat from chaff, and ignore the flame wars, and you’ll sometimes find H&R valuable.
Yeah… you will find me. And fist. That dude is a genius.
And some conservatives.
I still have a few 20 year old Reason magazines around. It’s like your Granny’s Nat Geos, I just can’t part with them.
Thanks Cyto but going back to Reason?
I found buried in a moving box the issue with an overhead snapshot of my residence, only it was off by a mile or so because of Queens’ (where I lived at the time) idiotic addressing confuses the hell out of everyone.
Tossed it.
“but going back to Reason”
I did offer up a list of demands.
The list included begging.
And hiring actual libertarians.
My list may almost as unrealistic as the UAW list.
Wow cyto. I can feel your distress. Reason has become a shadow of its former self. There are still some goods writers but you need to seek out their stuff.
I haven’t gone back to TOS since I had an exchange with Ron Bailey where I told the quisling to his face that he should be fired for his dishonest coverage of the AGW scams.
The painful lesson I learned from my ex wife is that there is no benefit to giving any consideration to liars who hate you. Life is far more pleasant and peaceful when one simply stays away from bad people. And their apologies and promises to turn over a new leaf are all lies.
Sorry cyto. Yes, drop in a bucket. Everyone wants to use it as their personal gimme piggy bank
Also fuck Scott. This is the second time he’s come out with his inner Arbeit Macht Frei. Fucker needs to get a real job, instead of professional tax sucking parasite.
Ukraine Hires Dylan Mulvaney As New Spokesperson
I’m a couple days behind but was just reading something about how the Ukes have a tranny spokesweirdo?
I am so confused.
Wait. Wut?
Wut.
Wait, wasn’t that actually a US citizen of possibly Ukulele extraction?
I caught something about that last week.
Face meet rake.
How to lose the people, 101:
I made my youngest a login to her Broward County Library account on their app yesterday. It is on her library card, which is in her name and knows her birthday (she is in 6th grade and just turned 12)
Across the top banner of their app, they have a row of book covers. A list of suggested titles.
Right in the center, top of the page….
“Gender Queer”.
You know… the book that Kennedy read on the senate floor and freaked everyone out because it was so crude and offensive.
My government, knowing they have a 12 year old girl looking for a book, pushes a treatise on same sex encounters and discovering that your Gender identity isn’t what you thought it was and how to explore your pronouns to discover your true Gender.
What.
The
Fuck!?!
Screw you, people! I am actually on your side on the core issues… but damn! Trying to convince my daughter she should question her gender? At 12?
Screw you with a rusty tent pole.
And now I have used profanity for times number 1 and 2 on the internet. In the same day.
Definitely having a breakdown.
What color comes after black pill?
Octarine
No wonder I can’t see it.
I can’t even with your racist… wait, wut?
That is four quadroons, in Stair Treck.
WTF indeed. It’s a good way to turn off the normies who would otherwise support you.
It’s blatantly pornographic.
I hated the whole “groomer” accusation but… WTF else is it?
“Screw you with a rusty tent pole.”
There might be a chapter on that in the book
This First has been carefully inserted into the Firstline at this precise moment in preparation of The First That Shall Change Everything.
Next time use lube.
Hey, you thought you had no stake in that escaped murderer manhunt in PA? You’ll be “glad” to know that U.S. taxpayers will be footing the bill for the security upgrades that the Dem controlled county government didn’t want to pay for. GOP held a rally today, asking why Dem D.A. didn’t deport the Brazilian illegal immigrant when his ex got a restraining order against him? Left to roam free, he eventually stabbed her to death.
Luckily our attorney General and his allies on capital hill bravely took on the issue of deadly pistol braces during the hearing
See…. putting a brace on a pistol so you can shoulder it makes it uber-deadly. It becomes a short barrel rifle. They are illegal because they are so much more powerful and so much more accurate.
Yes. He said this. And they all congratulated each other on powning the Repub-tards.
Holy crap! The Rubicon is officially crossed.
The UK parliament is demanding that Russel Brand be denied any ability to earn money.
They sent a demand letter to Rumble. It suggests that they were behind the demonitization on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/YEa9pcOAZo8?si=Ydpso9Cf1rLTKKcP
That’s going to be a real test case for Rumble’s commitment to free speech.
Very much so.
I hope it is a test case for the government of Great Britain to pay actual and punative damages on the 9 pr 10 figure scale.
Violating free speech is a no no. Pressuring companies to keep a citizen from earning a living… any living?
That should be a big penalty – concomitant with the size of the threat to the citizenry.
And really…. absent rounding people up and shooting them in a shallow mass grave, is there a bigger threat to the citizenry than trumping up fake charges and then making sure you can never earn a living?
And apparently they can do that with a memo these days.
It isn’t America. That won’t happen. It’s disgusting. But it won’t happen.
I’d also wager anything that the alphabet agencies and Biden administration are involved here. With the scrutiny put on them with the Twitter files, they are probably looking to get their Euro cronies to do their bidding for them. More than one way to suppress speech on private platforms.
That was 100% my assessment as soon as two news agencies came out at the same time having investigated some random comedian by calling everyone they ever hooked up with and taking a year to do it.
Zero chance this was run by a paper and a TV station.
Considering that, all of a sudden, numerous accusations of SEXCRIME come out of the woodwork, which is one of the leftentariats favorite methods of unpersoning someone. Yeah, the whole thing is bullshit.
Julian Assange also says hi….
Yeah…. Tucker covered that with Andrew Tate. They offered up a conspiracy theory version of the progressive steps they take to silence you if you start singing from the wrong songbook.
This is on the list.
also…. how big is the corruption?
Daily Mail – “Tucker Carlson lets Andrew Tate rant about how society wants ‘the woman in charge and the man with no backbone'”
That’s their headling. Some guy interviewing a controversial podcast host “let them rant”.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12293203/Tucker-Carlson-lets-Andrew-Tate-rant-society-wanting-women-charge-man-no-backbone.html
Remember we are the only country with a First Amendment. The UK’s commitment to free speech is pretty shallow. IMO that’s true of all the commonwealth countries.
Certainly true for Australia and Canada.
New Zealand waives hello.
They’ve waived many rights.
My thought too.
We would be the UK without 1A. It’s routinely ignored but it’s still holding on by a thread.
Rumble sent back a nicely worded “fuck you and also fershame fershame fershame!”
https://twitter.com/rumblevideo/status/1704584927834960196?s=61&t=SrjxUHxG8TnVMQVYz0680A
They said it well.
Dayum. Nice.
I need to use rumble more. Most the people I regularly watch are on there anyway.
If they were seconded by man, they can be Firsted by man.
Sean, the peppers did arrive! 👌👻
👍
Good morning all!
Today’s selection don’t have much in common, but both are enjoyable.
First up Chi Coltrane, with Thunder and Lightening.
Then 2 Cellos, Thunderstruck official video.
Mornin’
I love that version of Thunderstruck.
My favorite is Steve N Seagulls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ao-iNPPUc
Such a great riff, it really translates.
Hey Glibs, happy Thursday morning!
🌄🍳☕
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gWBG1j_flrg
Such a good song. 🎶🎶
Happy Scurvy Day!
Good morning, Sean, Beau, and U! Now in charming Munising, MI. And staying at a magnificently lakeshore-situated Holiday Inn Express, so I will finally be smarter today! 🧠
👍🧠👍
Third (top) floor with a balcony facing the lake. Around the bend, and so many trees you can’t see the nearby town. Only minor quibble this morning is fog blocking the sunrise.
I may be the odd man out, but I like fog – provided I’m not driving.
It IS creating a rather neat layered effect, with a subtle wash of pink between the water and the clouds.
Mornin’. You were already smart, what now?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mAHfo49iN1w&pp=ygUXbWFuIHNtYXJ0IHdvbWFuIHNtYXJ0ZXI%3D
Maybe I’ll finally be able to drive stick! 😃🚗
Just in time for holloween!
🧹
::narrows gaze::
Better ‘fro
Mornin’, reprobates! Mornin’, UCS.
Coffee of the day is Black and Tan, a 50/50 blend of very light and very dark roasted Brazilian beans. I’m not a big fan of Brazilian, but this is pretty good.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zTbJBnkRkFo
Morning!
Good morning, ‘patzie & cyto!
Keurig in the room for the first time this trip, but I opted to fetch my first cup from the lobby in the interest of greater quietness.
This is one of the great success’s in ZWAKs marriage. Get up and get out (in the AM).
Good Morning!
Just had a cup O’ Joe with the wife.
(not a euphemism, unfortunately)
Fun song! Hadn’t heard that one before!
Also, obligatory, as I’ll be seeing them on their farewell tour in a couple of weeks! 😁😢
Nice!
I’ll be seeing them on their farewell tour in a couple of weeks!
I am jealous. Enjoy!
Nothing really revelatory here but as usual IM1776 does some solid writing:
https://im1776.com/2023/09/20/russell-brand/
Morning Glibs!
Good morning, Bob Bob!
Hmmm… sounds like something out of The Waltons in a parallel universe.
Mornin’
Good stuff. I need to explore that site.
“But now that Brand has matured into a deeper and more critical thinker, all of his previous behavior is being used against him. These are tactics employed against the defectors from cults, and in its own way is enlightening. Here again we can see that the structure of power which dominates contemporary society, and not even just the elites, isn’t a council of conspiratorial elders, but a mutual blackmail ring, in which everybody has something on everyone else, so that defection is suicide.”
Good insight and 100 percent correct.
For those that have been following the India and Canada dust up I present to you the Aljazeera “she was wearing tight clothes” headline of the AM.
If India killed a Canadian Sikh, Trudeau and other Liberal PMs are at fault
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/9/21/if-india-killed-a-canadian-sikh-citizen-justin-trudeau-is-to-blame