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Looking around, there is whole scattershot news landscape out there. That will be reflected in these entirely unthemed links. Remeber, at Glibertarians.com, you get what you pay for!
- Italian Government graciously hands back a tiny modicum of freedom to the peasants. How nice of them.
- So the culprit is British hygiene or British medicine…
- Spudalicious?! Is that you doing that?
- Suprise, suprise, suprise.
Comment at Your Own Risk.
I believe the phrase is “Embrace the power of ‘and’.” It was both.
“The genius of the and, rather than the tyranny of the or.”
As of Monday, some 8.6 million Italians, or 14.5% of the population, have been fully vaccinated, while slightly over 30% have received at least one shot.
If the situation is so dire and the vaccine so great, these numbers should be better.
I am not sure I trust any numbers coming out of the EU.
I am not sure I trust any numbers
coming out of the EU.Probably the smarter way to go.
“May 17 (UPI) — An Idaho man balanced a pool cue on his forehead for 2 hours, 16 minutes, 20 seconds to retake a Guinness World Record.”
There is no way I could do that if I started practicing now and never did anything else.
“Retake.”
I’m liking the fact that there’s a rivalry. I wonder if they’re trying to sabotage each other by playing loud music outside during their attempts or something.
Devoting thousands of hours of your live to hold an obscure and financially invaluable record is no way to live, son. Don’t sweat it.
*life
Note — invaluable =/= not valuable.
Dammit, you’re correct. I’ll piss off now.
Is that you, Gomer?
…maybe.
More like Tres Pyle maybe?
I have to be honest, an Army Doggy like Swiss quoting one of the great Marines is a bit upsetting.
And when it comes to using quotes to address the situation in Afghanistan, the Army has lots of people of their own they could use like Gen. Custer, Dugout Doug MacArthur or McClellan.
Army Doggy like Swiss quoting one of the great Marines is a bit upsetting
Maybe it’s ok because they’re related, perhaps his real name is Doggy Pyle?
Alvin York or Audey Murphy would have just shrugged and shot some Germans.
Comment at Your Own Risk.
Translation: Pun away!
*readies cat and cow butt arsenal*
One more for the arsenal
Not the threat of a cow butt again?
You really milk that one a bit too much.
It is pretty cheesy.
Not for the cream of the crop like we have here.
It’s clear yall just have a beef with Swiss.
All of you…
Lesson learned, I won’t udder another pun today.
There’s rumen there for another.
All of us? I didn’t write any puns.
I’m also reminded of the time I got a cat butt for requesting a hat tip….
It is an are effect weapon. You have to run to cover if you don’t want to get hit.
Yeah, you’d best be hoofing it out of the way.
You ride with horse thieves, you hang with horse thieves.
Frankly, that’s pretty shitty.
Yeah, he forgot the colon.
[checks threading]
Good. He’s not saying my music link is shitty.
Clearly we cannot leave Afghanistan if the locals are going to be so nasty to one another.
Pick a side; give them a bunch of guns; walk away.
Skip to step 3.
Steps one and two will take care of themselves, no matter what we do.
We have. The ANA and ANP didn’t arm themselves…
We haven’t walked away yet have we?
Nope.
I didn’t know All Nippon Airways had an armed enforcement wing.
They offer you the honorable way out.
“I am sorry I did not fasten my seatbelt”
Just say “We’ll buy the entire poppy crop from whoever wins the civil war at hugely inflated prices”.
They’ll get all the necessary killing done. If there aren’t enough firearms, they’ll finish up by hand.
We’ll
undueundo a few thousand years worth of tribalism in a economically worthless aside from opium region of the world for little to no increase in national security for trillions of dollars at a pop yet![EF sees commenter having a bad usage day, helps.]
[EF sees commenter having a bad usage day, helps.]
And this is different from any other day how, exactly?
My commenter is EF Hutton, and he says….
(Crowd silences and gathers round)
We’re never leaving Chicago.
Step One: Sign withdrawal agreement
Step Two: Violate withdrawal agreement
Step Three: Use foreseeable increase in violence as an excuse to not leave
Rinse and repeat as desired.
There is much pissiness on my social media feed. Maskers are all pissed off that masks are coming off, shrieking about people “cheating,” and virtue signalling that they will continue wearing masks. This makes me happy because it’s finally things as they should be — those with health concerns, or hypochondria, being inconvenienced; us normies left to live our lives as we see fit.
All the “masks are not inconvenient, they’re a sign of respect” rhetoric seems to have been forgotten.
I’m waiting for mask levels to reach a point where you can assume anyone wearing a mask has some level of mental illness. Most recent trip to Lowe’s had the unmasked at 25%, up from “only Prolefeed” before the CDC did that aboutface.
I’m no longer shocked to see umasked people on the streets. I’m still the only one without a mask inside the stores.
Outside here in the burbs perhaps 2/3 are unmasked. Get closer to the city center, far more mental illness is on display.
“reach a point whereyou can assume anyone wearing a mask has some level of mental illness”
Point was reached 13 months ago.
If you like your hypochondria, you can keep your hypochondria.
Relatedly, all of my acquaintances and colleagues apparently feel the need to share when they got their vaccines. It’s bizarre. I think the apolitical and right-leaning people are doing it out of fear of the Left.
Yeah, that creeped me out, too. Virtue signalling. To show that they are of the body.
Grab a cup, and fill it with their tears.
They’re not worried about their health, or anyone else’s.
They’re sad to have lost the sledgehammer with which they can feel morally superior while beating you over the head with it.
Folks, we have a winner!
Ring-a-ding-ding-ding!
“Hot tubs are filled with bacteria so it’s likely that could have been the cause,” Briggs said.
If you don’t have the chlorine and other chemical levels right, maybe. The water should be crystal clear with no discernible levels of bacteria if you’re maintaining it properly.
Obviously, she should have put a mask on her leg.
It’s easy to keep at the right level.
Legless girl: would.
Your a Boxing Helena fan?
Surprise Level? Very low.
Not stumped, eh?
None of that!
*narrows gaze*
Shouldn’t they get cow butts too?
No kneed to get upset!
Careful, Swiss will sock it to ya.
He’s hopping mad!
Yall need to stop pussyfooting around.
Just following the snail trail.
She should change her name to Ilene.
And her asian friend Irene.
The eyebrows are creepy af.
They are the eyes of a souless creature, bro.
Not to mention the fivehead.
Essex girl? Check.
“Choker” necklace? Check.
Racy leopard print on phone *and* choker (and probably underwear)? Check, check, (check).
I’m sure she has a heart of gold.
She’s really into leopard print.
Because she can’t run away?
She’d be an “oh, HELL no” for me. Odd looking eyes, painted on eyebrows, and a gag inducing similarity to Hillary Clinton.
You’re going out on a limb.
I think Q is just the guy to sweep her off her foot.
I should feel bad for a heartfelt LOL at that. But I don’t.
He just wants to slipper one.
Careful now, Swiss toed us not to pun!
Mammary Monday means intermammary clefts of joy.
https://archive.is/M0y4f
#17.
#7 is fine looking too.
Re #6: That weird thing going on with her pupils appears to be an artifact of using a ring light which is often used in fashion photography and selfie rigs. It’s an easy way for people to do decent photo/video lighting with no facial shadows, but creates problems when you stare directly into the camera at close range.
“Es Kommt! Das Glock Sturmgewehr.”
Does it take Glock mags?
I don’t know why anybody bothered designing new subgun magazines after the Sterling. That is probably the most reliable, durable subgun magazine ever made.
And anyone who thinks it was a good idea to design a 30+round magazine that is single-feed ought to be taken behind the woodshed.
According to the patents, nope. STANAG.
Nope, single shot, muzzle-loaded.
You know who else wanted a Glock Sturmgewehr?
…
Me.
Glock Strumgewehr?
It’s spelled AUG.
[Imagines zwak strumming his Glock]
From the last thread:
It should be pointed out that the succession of progressively smaller waves is an utterly predictable consequence of lockdowns and masks. The open states ripped the bandaid off. The locked down states are still peeling.
While Krasner is overly sympathetic to criminals, the flip side to his reforms has been an institutional blindness toward victims. As George Parry, a former state and federal prosecutor, told me, “Larry has no time for victims. They get in the way of his social justice narrative. They’re a speed bump on the way to social utopia.”
In a way, I can’t imagine what, if hardline law-and-order types wanted to discredit criminal justice reform, they would do differently. Sensible reform would entail repealing (or not prosecuting) laws for genuinely victimless crimes, eliminating incentives for arbitrary and unnecessary incarceration, and making police accountable for abuses. Letting violent criminal out in the street is only going to discredit reform in the eyes of the public.
It’s sick what’s going on.
Here in NYC they let some punk arrested for a mugging out on no bail. A couple weeks later he and his scum pals went on a slashing spree in the subway. They’re saying it’s a “gang initiation”.
yep. This last several years have been disastrous for the overall policing reform movement. The real “systemic” problems have to do with the power of the state and immunity it confers upon its agents, but the whole argument has been deflected into an argument about racism, while the system itself continues to thrive and abuse.
“or not prosecuting”
That’s dangerous. How many time have we heard “we don’t prosecute for that but we need to leave it on the books just in case we can’t make anything else stick?”
Heinlein was right. We need one branch of the legislature just to repeal laws. I’m tempted to say that all laws should be sunsetted, but we’d just get omnibus reauthorization bills ad infinitum.
Krasner is something that you scrape off your shoe after inadvertently walking through the dog park. And he will handily win the Democrat primary tomorrow, and sail to victory in November.
“‘It starts with her dolls, with the toys she plays with’: Shay Mitchell reveals how she is teaching her one-year-old daughter about racism as she shows off her toned physique for Women’s Health cover shoot”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9588245/Shay-Mitchell-reveals-teaching-one-year-old-daughter-racism.html
OFFS!!
I feel like there’s an opportunity here, to be a Hollywood psychologist. Those kids are going to need decades of therapy.
See below. If it’s Hollywood, they’ll probably end up with a woke therapist.
I think this trend is going to end eventually. And at that point there is going to be a lot of damage to clean up.
Pssst…Your one year old isn’t mentally developed enough to understand what the fuck you’re trying to get at and you’re just using them for publicity, you attention whore.
Your one year oldThat one year old’s Mom isn’t mentally developed enough to understand what the fuck she’s trying to get at.Mass. relaxes its face mask mandate on May 29.
For practical purposes, it means that we’ll be able shop at Costco without a mask, probably even Total Wine. Other places didn’t enforce it on me anyway.
It will be interesting to see what Costco does. They’re wholly employee-owned, I believe. Also one of the most notorious private mask enforcers.
Costco and Walmart announced on Friday that they are abolishing its face mask wearing requirement for fully vaccinated customers in the localities without state or local mask requirements.
Wait, so if the mask protects others, who is the mask protecting? Are they admitting the vaccine doesn’t work?
Unless and until they set up the totalitarian police state needed to enforce the new “guidance”, yes, they are admitting that the whole thing is theater.
“Papers Please” for Costco and Wal-Mart? Huh. Hardly seems worth it.
No papers, apparently.
So, you can just lie. Why even bother then?
It’s their way of straddling the fence. They don’t want to attract the ire of the fascist left, but they don’t want to lose their customers to liberty loving competitors. They decided to be cowards and split the difference.
Maybe they’ll make you show proof of vax in order to renew membership.
My mom went to the Costco on West Broad the other day and said they weren’t enforcing masks.
At my local Wally world, I’ve not heard of a single confrontation between a mask nazi door guard and a customer. It’s more like “Mask”…”Fuck off”…”OK”.
Our Total Wine has had an unhappy mask nazi posted at the entry, even after the mask mandate was lifted. I don’t go there anymore, even though the next closest liquor store is 5 miles further.
^We’ve been taking notes of local collaborators. No one out here in the boonies had signs or cared about masks, but there are some zealous enforcers in the closest city. The kind with custom signs saying things like don’t even think about not wearing a mask in here.
Fuck em. They’ll never see another dime from us. Boycotting the national chains may not do anything but these local places are hanging by a thread.
Speaking of rural collaborators…. evidently our next door neighbors back in VA took it upon themselves to become the mask and lockdown gestapo, intimidating and coercing people to stay off the street and stay in their houses. Not shockingly, these are the neighbors who had signs out for every Democrat primary candidate and who bitched to the cops about another neighbor making them feel unsafe with his AR-15.
As much as I hate my next door neighbors here in TX, I can respect their lack of meddling in my affairs.
If there is a stupider consequence of this mass hysteria than “covid curfews”, I don’t know what it is.
Little kids in masks.
Saw one over the weekend take hers off and put it on top of her head. She couldn’t have been more than 2.
Yep. Child abuse.
“My first annoyance (and I admit it’s only that) was with the land acknowledgments, where she begins every session by proclaiming that we are on land stolen from the local Native population. This can’t take more than a minute each time, so my rational brain tells me it’s nothing. But I can’t help from thinking, it’s just you and me, I know America is stolen land, I told you I know America is stolen land, and anyway we’re in cyberspace, we’re not on land at all, and by the way you’re charging me by the hour. But it’s not really costing me anything so I kept my mouth shut….
But it’s where she takes therapy that has me currently researching new therapists. Over and over again, she asks me to put my trauma in perspective with those of theoretical “Black indigenous” women. I was in the middle of talking about what drove me to finally seek help for trauma caused by my repeated sexual assaults when she asked if I had “a particular orientation” towards my therapy. I told her I didn’t know what she means. She said something like “do you want to discuss your orientation towards expressing this in this setting?” I was confused and again I asked what she meant. She told me that many women, particularly Black and indigenous women, would never have the resources to be able to discuss this with a licensed therapist, and they are more likely to be the victims of sexual assault, and how did I feel about that? I was really taken aback by this and struggled to respond. She rushed to say “this is normal, this is part of the process.” I told her that I understood that I was, in a sense, privileged to have access to her. This seemed to please her and she began talking about her special duty to Black and indigenous patients. Before I knew it the session was over, and of course a few hours later my credit card was charged.”
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/letter-from-a-subscriber-my-new-therapist
This shit is out of hand.
My school’s been acknowledging the original owners of the land since before I started here. What I find fascinating is that before an event organized by the indigenous studies program, there is almost always a Native American prayer. I keep telling the person who specializes in Byzantine history that they need to get an orthodox priest to pray before one of their events and see what happens.
My school’s been acknowledging the original owners of the land
Well, that wouldn’t be the Native Americans, since they didn’t really do the whole “title to real estate” thing.
Most of them were on the land they were on by right of conquest. Same way we got it.
“My school’s been acknowledging the original owners of the land”
Somehow I doubt they bothered to look up the name of the last farmer they eminent domained the property from.
Everyone is on land “stolen” from someone else.
And if you “own” property in a jurisdiction that has property taxes, it’s slowly being stolen from you by everyone else around you, too.
This reminds me of the accounts I’ve heard from leftist college friends who did no-shit Cuban Revolutionary Commie Camp (flew through Mexico, Cuba didn’t stamp their passports). Common elements: you’re privileged, you’re privileged to even be here and get told you’re privileged. Straight-up commie brainwashing.
Reminds me of both Marxist revolutionary group indoctrination in Europe in the 60’s and 70’s, and destructive cult programming in the US in the 70’s and 80’s.
Sounds like she stole his time to work out her own issues. It is definitely time to find a new therapist.
PA Glibs – Tomorrow is the day to vote on constitutional amendments reining in Wolf.
Also note that supposedly, Wolf has given instructions (not sure if he has the power to do so) to county elections officials to NOT interfere with any voters who are not wearing masks.
Honestly it would be LOL time if they tried to ID people to see if they had been vaccinated.
They’re not voting by mail this time?
I saw that. That made me smile.
Back from Lowe’s in Bozeman. they have “Please wear a mask signs” up. I haven’t been there in quite a while, so I can’t say if those are new.
A lot of “masks optional” shoppers. Maybe not half, but close.
The dam is eroding rapidly, methinks.
The prog fascists are gonna lash out soon. They won’t let this go quietly.
The lull before the storm.
Even Cuomo is more-or-less giving up – if you got the prick (wink, wink).
It’s over, folks.
So when is he resigning or being prosecuted?
Agreed – when both Mass & NY are dropping controls, it’s a clear sign they’ve ridden this horse as far as they can go.
The vernacular now I see a lot is “masks are recommended”. Which is fine for me. Recommend away.
$60M to illegal aliens and of course still not enough.
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2021/05/oregon-fund-provides-60-million-in-relief-to-immigrants-says-more-needed.html
Every traitorous state official in this story should be hanged from the nearest lamppost.
The death throes of a doomed society.
Reading just bits and pieces of that article truly makes the blood boil.
Lampposts are infrastructure
/Ralph
I’m pretty sure CA is spending multiples of that on illegal immigrants. It’s infuriating.
Looks down at skid row…yep quite infuriating
The prog fascists are gonna lash out soon. They won’t let this go quietly.
They will bitch loud and long. Bartender was bitching the other night about a waitress who was in mask refusenik mode. The best part is that she wears a train robber bandana as her mask theater costume. I’m about ready to tell her if she honestly believes that thing protects anybody from anything she’s too fucking dumb to be permitted to speak to me.
I say things here to lessen the likelihood I will say them in the wild.
I am going to tell her boss he might want to tell her to STFU if he wants my continued business.
Tipping low might get the point across.
Not clear on whether the waitress is an enthusiastic masker, or is wearing the damn bandana as a minimally compliant thing.
“Hey look, mister – you serve hard drinks in here for men who want to get drunk fast, and we don’t need any characters around to give the joint “atmosphere”. Is that clear, or do I have to slip you my left for a convincer?”
-1 hot buttered rum
Finally, they believed SOMETHING gave their empty, vapid existences some sort of meaning, and they are seeing it slipping away. I predict the pushback is going to get way worse than what we’re seeing now.
It was that Limey gal’s own fault. She wasn’t paying attention and got into what she thought was a “hot tub”, but was really the “hop tub”.
Can’t blame the system for doing exactly what it advertised.
Out of a slew of puns, this is clearly the worst.
I bet she’s happy she rented the more moderately priced whirlpool room. The super expensive one would have cost her an arm and a leg.
Not clear on whether the waitress is an enthusiastic masker, or is wearing the damn bandana as a minimally compliant thing.
Enthusiastic rule follower.
Dumb as a $5000 handbag.
I should say, “enthusiastic rule enforcer”.
Got it. The “mask refusenik” gave me a confuze.
The pool cue on head record is absolutely going to be the one that makes the Bee podcast this week. Also possibly Andrew Heaton’s Friday funnies thing.
Whitmer shows off her incompetence yet again.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/05/17/whitmer-florida-charter-flight/5125951001/
Company is not authorized to fly charter flights.
The real tragedy of this pandemic is that the deplorables have gotten a taste for outing the hypocrisy of their betters.
Who will want to be a politician if you are no longer able to ride private planes for free? Or get great seats at a fancy California restaurant?
She didn’t take the charter for free.
She paid about 10% of the market rate. Totes OK.
Not asked: “Why didn’t you fly commercial?”
A dark money group paid for it though. It was free for her.
I think Whitmer coughed up the $855 after the story started to come out.
Ah.
I haven’t been able to find a date for when her $855 payment was made though.
Backdated checks count on the date written, right?
Bottom of the story references the $855 as a “May expenditure” but has no further details, such as if it’s actually even been paid. Being a journolist is hard.
Wow. She’s never going to successfully grift if she can’t tell a good story.
Courtesy of Tom Woods: Covid Quiz
Can you get them all right?
Bookmarked for distribution.
I got 50%, which I guess is the point. Most of the questions are Intended to show that lockdowns and masking don’t make any difference.
Pretty sure that is why Wood’s made the quiz. I did find it interesting in the masking quiz that they ordered mask mandates as the line was flattening to only have it spike when it was damn well going to spike regardless.
But imagine how bad the spike would have been without masking!
We can only imagine.
Or look at all the places without mask mandates that had identical spikes.
Who wants to play Battleship?
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/-pbMP2rBRb2Hh2W2W33n5A.MQzWxGpc7bfLsY3EYBMRMw
That looks fun!
GT and I need a range trip! I suppose that using incendiary would be considered cheating?
Depends on whether it’s open season on cicadas.
“Fire for effect.”
Battleships aren’t exactly precision weapons…
Sure they are.
We destroyed precisely the village we were aiming at.
As long as the hospital and orphanage are destroyed, it’s all good.
Well I hope I made enough of an ass of myself last Friday night to at least have been at best an entertaining drunken fool, or a bit of a tolerable company. I’m sorry if I annoyed, insulted or offended anyone.
I enjoyed putting faces on the names of the people I’ve been reading for the last oh, 10 years or more. And it also was probably the first time I spent an evening enjoying a few… ok way too many drinks with people since this thing began other than direct family. We’re still in full lockdown here, 5 months and counting, so yeah, thank you very much for the company.
Not at all and it isnt a glibzoom unless someone is a jackass.
I sat in on many glibzooms and I can never figure out which who the jackass is.
All of us but especially that one…you know who it is.
https://youtu.be/PivWY9wn5ps
Something something, if you can’t find the jackass, you’re the jackass.
No way dude. We all make asses of ourselves there. Well most. Some can maintain dignity. See you again next Friday! (I was the one thinking my lame French jokes were getting annoying but most regulars have been annoyed by me for over a year so I didn’t see any reason to lighten it up for you)
I’ll be honest, the ”Not impressed but not mad at me GF” the next morning made me feel secure that I wasn’t too bad, but, just in case.
I had fun, will try to rejoin again, but maybe with a bit less vodka lol.
Just visited some small local businesses. A used bookstore I never knew was there with some really old books…will be back there. And our local butcher. Mask signs up but none worn.
The butcher has all the weird cuts and pieces that I will be back to purchase. Fresh pigs ears, jowls, farm fresh chickens that arent pumped with water.
Morons pass a motorcycle lane splitting bill. I’m sure it will work as well the idiocy of the Idaho stop for bicyclists.
Lane splitting is now legal or illegal?
You need a plow.
Something like This
I remember that one! It was magnificent.
Legal.
I never split lanes. Not ever. ?
This cuttin’ in line
Is an act of war
I saw him coming...
The duality of man:
https://twitter.com/PetiteNicoco/status/1394413263677534208
Yikes:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/chile-assets-dive-after-radicals-win-election-mandate-overhaul-free-market-friendly
Looks like Chile’s done. A shame really.
South American copper mining crisis?
Wow, we really are starting to live out Atlas Shrugged
Some guy wrote about this before…..
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”