A VERY SPECIAL STEVE SMITH POST

by | Oct 31, 2021 | Admin | 316 comments

 

STEVE SMITH SAD. HIM WANT HELP PREVIEW WEEK…BUT NOT MUCH POSTS. ANIMAL, YUSUF, PUTRID MEAT HAVE POST SOON. HIM KNOW REGULAR GLIB POST LIKE SUGARFREE (HIM SCARE STEVE SMITH) KEEP GO TOO. BUT WHAT NEED IS MOAR! STEVE SMITH LOOK IN “DRAFTS” AND HIM SEE THINGS. STEVE SMITH SAY PLEASE MAKE MOAR POST FOR FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN HOOMANS SITE!

STEVE SMITH HOPE MANY FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN WRITE THINGS. HIM ALSO WANT SHOW FUNNY THING GLIBERTARIAN NEPHILIUM SHARE ON LINKS POST! IT FUNNY!

 

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STEVE SMITH

STEVE SMITH

STEVE SMITH PROMINENT FOREST LAWYER. AND RAPESQUATCH OF IMPORTANCE. ONE TIME GRAND MUFTI OF CASCADIA. FREE CASCADIA!

316 Comments

  1. trshmnstr the terrible

    *cough* check the pending queue, there are a few articles from me sitting in there *cough*

    • Zwak, sensual panzer

      Yep, got one in there myself.

    • R.J.

      Me as well. I was worried there for a minute I forgot to submit.

  2. Gustave Lytton

    If Steve Smith want moar articles, maybe not rape current post?

    • Chafed

      Posting this at 3 PM Central, he completely raped the current post.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Agreed, but I ain’t got the power,

      • Nephilium

        If it helps, I’m down to about 15 pounds to goal weight, and about 2% body fat to drop. Riding season is basically done, but I’ve been banking credits at the spin studio I go to during winter, and have 14 rides (plus 4 a month) to go through this winter.

        On the down side, two new breweries have (or will be) opened near me that I need to check out.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        heh, this is a new post,

      • Nephilium

        That’s the joke…

      • Chafed

        That’s a winner. I can’t believe I overlooked it.

      • MikeS

        The Shocker foam hands are fucking awesome.

      • Chafed

        ? I can’t believe how late I am to learn about Steel Panther. I have got to get to one of their live shows.

      • MikeS

        They are awesome. I got their first album when it came out (and loved it), but now I’ve kind of lost track of them. I should see what kind of new treasures are awaiting me.

      • Chafed

        They have 4 albums now.

      • PudPaisley

        I’m surprised I haven’t seen you link this one the last two years. It was pretty popular my sophomore year of HS. Too obvious?

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL7oYIvgRfQ

      • Chafed

        It’s a perfect fit. I’m just not a King Diamond fan.

      • PudPaisley

        Yeah, me neither.

        “Don’t quit when you’re tired, quit when you’re done.”

        I’ve had that phrase in my head probably 50 times this year when out working. I’d be plumb tuckered out, think of that phrase, then push on for another 3-5 hours. Thanks for the Glibfit posts.

      • Chafed

        ?

    • Ted S.

      STEVE SMITH WANT MORE POSTS TO RAPE!

  3. DEG

    HIM ALSO WANT SHOW FUNNY THING GLIBERTARIAN NEPHILIUM SHARE ON LINKS POST! IT FUNNY!

    That is funny.

    • Nephilium

      Robot Chicken is good.

      I’ve even gotten the girlfriend onboard with watching it.

  4. Yusef drives a Kia

    “Looks like you just Ate, Brother”
    LMAO
    I’ll be here 2 times this week, not unprecented, but rare for Yusef,
    NEEDS MOARS SUBMISSIONS!

  5. rhywun

    Women’s calf roping on CBS… ?

    I guess they didn’t even want to try to compete against The Tom Brady Show.

    It is more interesting, though.

    • rhywun

      LOL and there’s a woke “equal pay” commercial. JFC they can’t leave anything alone.

      • rhywun

        The leaders are “Lari Dee” and “Jimmi Jo” ? Love it.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        YEEE HAAW!

      • Not Adahn

        Well to be fair, women’s calf roping doesn’t bring in the huge ad buys that the men’s game does.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      Women’s calf roping

      Creosote Achilles is on TV?

  6. hayeksplosives

    Being in a new neighborhood in a new state with who-knows-what level of COVID paranoia, I have no idea if trick-or-treaters will be out and about tonight.

    We have candy just in case. I’ll turn on the patio lights and watch SNF while listening for the door. If nobody comes, I’ll just take the candy to work or to the Moose lodge.

    Maybe next year we will be with it enough to decorate…

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I live in a Senior park, so no trick or treaters, bummer, Halloween is my Favorite holiday, Wendys too,

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      HE, Tomorrow is the Finale, must read, You’ll dig it.

      • hayeksplosives

        ?

    • LCDR_Fish

      Adding a few more pieces of empty land to my growing “list” for future examination. A few in the Pahrump, NV area apparently. I may wind up DMing you in the past – since I’m hoping to check out some in person next year.

    • Rat on a train

      We had a normal crowd down here in LGB territory. We were out with the fire pit in the driveway as were a couple more on our street. Both ratlings had to come back to empty their buckets and are doing the post haul trading.

  7. Hyperion

    I’m going to walk down an pay my rent in a little while and hope I don’t get mugged.

    • UnCivilServant

      “Your money or your life.”

      • Hyperion

        My answer would be ‘Fuck you, go for it’. Seriously. You try that shit here and your ass will be in the Baltimore City prison in 10 minutes. And it’s going to take more than 10 minutes to get any money because I won’t be carrying any cash.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Try that shit here, you’ll get Shot, everybody carries here, you’re wierd if you don’t
        /Currently wierd,

      • Hyperion

        *flagged as best answer to the question*

        The other best answer is be careful that the old man does not embarrass you.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I have a Shirt, disc oriented that says,
        “Never underestimate the Old Man”
        also a car sticker a friend gave me,

      • Hyperion

        I’ve seen it more than once. And the first time I saw it was 30 year ago. Do not underestimate old guys, they have way more experience that you.

      • Hyperion

        Good.fucking.gawd. That’s every beta boy in every blue city here.

      • R.J.

        What was that? And why did that one chubby guy tie a bandana under his nose like a mustache? I have so many questions.

      • Chafed

        If I ever visit Japan, I may not leave my hotel room. All that freaky TV will transfixed me.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Uhhhh….

    • UnCivilServant

      How many shots does that power pack hold?

      • Nephilium

        Infinite?

        The only ammo restrictions in the Star Wars universe that I can remember are from the Dark Forces video games (which are no longer cannon).

      • ignoreLander
  8. The Late P Brooks

    Your bluff, sir; I am calling it

    Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, challenged a United Nations official’s claim that just a small percentage of his wealth could help solve world hunger.

    Musk was responding to comments by David Beasley, director of the UN’s World Food Programme, who repeated a call last week following an earlier tweet this month asking billionaires like Musk to “step up now, on a one-time basis.”

    Beasley specifically called for action from Musk and Amazon.com Inc. co-founder Jeff Bezos, the two men atop the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Just $6 billion could keep 42 million people from dying, Beasley said.

    If the World Food Programme, using transparent and open accounting, “can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it,” Musk wrote in a Twitter post.

    Transparent accounting from UN? That’s funny.

    • TARDis

      Shorter Elon: “You suck at math. Fuck off, grifter.”

      • TARDis

        Also, “Get it from Bloomberg.”

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Elon is in all of my tales, because he never dies, that’s how cool Elon is,

      • hayeksplosives

        Yup.

        The fact that people are meant to take such simplistic proposals seriously, and get paid to do it by the UN, is mind-boggling.

        Sure, we’ll just divvy up the world’s wealth equally and we will all live happily ever after….

      • C. Anacreon

        Legit LOL. Nailed it, TARDis.

    • Hyperion

      Why exactly would I trust anything said by an unelected bureaucrat?

    • rhywun

      The $6 billion amount would be just a small fraction of Musk’s current net worth of $311 billion — and less than the $9.3 billion his wealth increased on Oct. 29 alone, according to the billionaires index.

      Is that the date that Biden proposed thousands of dollars in extra tax credits for purchasing Elon’s products?

      • Hyperion

        My wife was just talking to a friend who believes Biden wanting to pay I million dollars to illegal immigrant families if they can prove the US government illegally separated them from their families is fake news.

        My wife’s friend told her that is fake news from Faux News.

        I asked my wife to pass me the phone. Of course she didn’t do it.

        Fake news my fucking ass.

      • C. Anacreon

        I’m loving the visual you inspired, with you doing a slow burn and finally saying “give me the goddam phone”. Been there.

  9. The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

    Okay, let’s see if I can get something going here. I tried to post this a few hours ago on the website “Small Dead Animals,” but for some reason TPTB over there said “Nuh uh.”

    This is a very long Tablet essay that pissed me off:

    Needle Points

    This part of the introduction left me scratching my head:

    This essay is not about COVID-deniers or anti-vaxxers, who oppose vaccines on ideological grounds. Nor is it about the activists or political figures who feed off and benefit from the corrosive discourse around vaccines. It is instead about the vaccine hesitant — those who are concerned and anxious about COVID but also anxious about these new vaccines. These are the people who are not yet vaccinated for reasons that the majority may not understand — and which are often more anchored in history and experience than the majority would suspect. They are the Tocquevillian minority that the majority is threatening with job loss and other restrictions.

    Why did it leave me “scratching my head”? Because the author appears to be ignoring the many millions of us in the Western world who simply aren’t afraid of COVID itself, based on our rational understanding of the statistical probabilities of (a) getting the disease at all and/or (b) getting a disease which, for us, turns out to be life-threatening or indeed fatal. “Fear is the mind-killer,” as the Bene Gesserit mantra goes, and it’s been my mantra for the last 20 months or so. At the start of all this nonsense, I was having lunch with friends just before the very first lockdown in March 2020 in Edmonton, and at the time I said “I’m not afraid of the virus, but I am afraid of our reactions to it.”

    Nothing I’ve seen since that time has changed my mind; if anything, I’m even more frightened of our often-stupid reactions to the ‘Vid. The little reptilian core in our minds has gone running madly off in all directions, leading us to do things as a species which are borderline insane. And because they’re borderline insane, our governments (which have been the promoters, the cheerleaders for this insanity) have no exit strategy whatsoever from the artificial panic they’ve induced in their populations, so all they’ve got left is to double-down on their inadequate policies, processes and procedures, all in the name of the idiot syllogism “Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.” Meanwhile, countries are starting to teeter on the precipice of widespread social unrest, physical violence and perhaps ultimately food riots and civil wars. Even if we could have saved the few millions around the world who died of COVID (or is that with COVID? — we’ll never know, because of sloppy reporting and panic by our useless, feckless governments), are we willing to risk a tipping point for global civilization that could theoretically send us back hundreds or even thousands of years if things go off the rails?

    As a knock-on effect of inducing such panic, when vaccines were developed, we as a species short-cut all of the built-in, hard-learned lessons of the safety protocols of testing the vaccines (all of which took time which the panicked amongst us said we didn’t have) and went ahead with premature manufacturing and administration of said vaccines. Well over 3 billion people worldwide and counting, and more and more info is leaking out from health authorities worldwide that something suspicious is going on with COVID infections amongst the vaccinated.

    I’m not an anti-vaxxer (I’ve probably had over 100 in my lifetime), I’m not a COVID-denier (what does that even mean?), I’m not opposed on ideological grounds (unless we’re absurdly stretching the meaning of “ideological grounds” to include “my body, my choice, therefore not interested in an experimental treatment with purposely-avoided safety trials”), and I’m actually not afraid of the L’il ‘Rona itself. Compared to mob human violence, COVID’s a piker. You wanna see deaths on a mass scale? Just keep demonizing the unvaxxed.

    We don’t need a COVID vaccine. We need a vaccine against mass panic and irrationality.

    Explain me, and millions like me, to the screeching howler monkeys of fear. You can’t. They’re simply beyond hope. And since they’re in the majority, it may be that human civilization itself is beyond hope.

    Up until even a few months ago, I thought that, maybe, just maybe, rationality might prevail. I don’t think that any longer. COVID was never the enemy, but now, too many of my neighbours have convinced themselves that I am.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I wasn’t and am not afraid of any virus, if it kills me Inshalla, as it were. Is Covid real and deadly? why yes it is ask my Wife, oops, nevermind. the point stands, let us be free to make our own decisions about our bodies and our lives,
      FFS!

      • Hyperion

        After 22 months of having to wear a mask in pretty much every retail place I went into, I just spent an entire weekend of not wearing a mask at all, anywhere, period.

        And guess what? I don’t have Covid and I didn’t die.

        Now THAT is REAL SCIENCE.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I just don’t see the need, same with flu shots, I just don’t get sick very often, and other than Old Guy pain, I’m fine.

      • UnCivilServant

        I had whuan coronavirus, then spent 22 months not wearing a mask.

        And for some reason I’m still in this damn state not someplace less evil.

      • db

        I’ve spent the last 10 months not wearing a mask anywhere except my eye doctor’s office twice. Got the T-detect test earlier this month and no indication I’ve been exposed to SARS-CoV-2.

      • Tundra

        That seems improbable.

      • db

        Which part?

      • Tundra

        Not being exposed. The arrival date keeps moving back.

      • db

        I figured that I had to have been exposed, and T-Detect is supposed to be sensitive to a very long exposure window (2 years plus) but mine was negative.

        Back in 2018 I had a severe illness that had symptoms similar to the ones described for COVID (fever, shortness of breath, muscle aches, etc.) but that was so far outside the COVID window I’m pretty sure there was no relationship. That was the first time I’d had a major cold since 2004 or so. It put me down hard for 3-4 days. Haven’t gotten sick again since.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        Back in 2018 I had a severe illness that had symptoms similar to the ones described for COVID

        Huh, same here.
        Plus, the SU and I were in northern Italy in October 2019 when the ‘Vid supposedly arrived there — I had about a week where I felt like shit, but I was in Italy, baby! so I kept going (and I’m not gonna lie, I’m glad I did).
        My MIL had what turned out to be the ‘Vid in February of 2020 in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, supposedly before the ‘Vid arrived in Canada. (She described it as a “bad cold.”)
        I couldn’t get a test like that to save my life here. No-one wants to contemplate the possibility that the ‘Vid was here much earlier than the official narrative.

    • UnCivilServant

      So why did this other site that I’ve only heard of in passing reject the post?

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        Unknown. No information as to the problem was ever provided. None of the other posts I’ve ever placed on that site has ever been held in review. Ever. And I’ve been posting there since the early Oughts, sometimes with posts that were longer than this one.

        I was baffled. But, it’s a datapoint, and I’ll adjust accordingly, so there’s that.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        By the by, you’d probably like smalldeadanimals.com; they’re small-C conservative and don’t agree with libertarians (sound familiar? 😉 ), although for a Yank such as you, you might find the sometimes-Canadian-centric focus a bit hard to take. But the webmistress (Kate) rocks, and she’s even been featured as a talking head on CBC from time-to-time to try and give counter-point to the normally obsequious posturing of their pundits, especially during elections. Hang out there for awhile and see what you think, if’n you’re of a mind.

    • rhywun

      our governments (which have been the promoters, the cheerleaders for this insanity) have no exit strategy whatsoever from the artificial panic they’ve induced

      I am slowly coming to the conclusion that this is intentional. You know the drill: if this IS what they wanted, would they have done anything any differently?

    • Gustave Lytton

      our governments (which have been the promoters, the cheerleaders for this insanity) have no exit strategy whatsoever

      I don’t think it’s that they have no exit strategy, but the exit strategy has been unrealistic fantasy that it will go away, either by waiting it out (Aus/NZ), masks and lockdowns (Asia, early to mid 2020’s here), or currently vaccines.

    • IRBE

      What is interesting is that the world abandoned 50 yrs of Pandemic planning in a weekend hoping it would pass in a couple of weeks with a lock-down. My suspicion, is TPTB knew this was no-shit bad and could get worse. Lab-leak…

      They used all methods of propaganda to persuade (news, social media, games, ect.). They were surprised it “worked” out so well. At some point, TPTB decided they could regulate this away, layer, by layer…then they were surprised it didn’t work so well. But once you regulate, you don’t want to go back, if you are a regulator. Opportunist will opportune.

      The vax is just another convenient regulator. Some regulations work and make sense and a bunch don’t or are not applicable. IMO, we are at the stage of adding regulation for the sake of regulating and it is less slowly going to kill us all unless they stop or made to stop.

      • Gustave Lytton

        It’s not abandoned, it’s the culmination of pandemic planning for “potential pandemic”. Along with the increasing belief that all problems can be resolved and return to normal without pain.

      • R C Dean

        It was abandoned. I’ve seen the pandemic plans. They did not include vaccines, lockdowns, etc.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Why did it leave me “scratching my head”? Because the author appears to be ignoring the many millions of us in the Western world who simply aren’t afraid of COVID itself,

      You missed it Beam. Very first sentence:

      This essay is not about COVID-deniers or anti-vaxxers, who oppose vaccines on ideological grounds.

      The millions of us who aren’t afraid of Covid are simply dismissed as “deniers” with no further need to engage. Because to actually engage would leave people like the author with no way to back up their fear mongering.

      • MikeS

        I wonder how many people who uncritically accepted all the vaccines their kids get got turned into skeptics because of Pandemic Theater 2020?

      • Tundra

        Me.

        I feel like a fucking dupe.

      • MikeS

        Yeah. I’m sure a bunch in our age bracket. But I’m wondering how it will affect parents of kids currently in line for the 77 (or however many) they have now. And if this “vax-hesitancy” will translate to all vaccines.

    • Zwak, sensual panzer

      It doesn’t have anything to do with any virus, it revolves around “the earth is sick” Malthusianism. It is the same people who have been pushing Climat Change, warming or cooling, the Population Bomb, SSTs are going to rip a hole in the ozone layer, nuclear is going to crack the world in half, and a million other panics. It started with the technocratic class trying to take the reins back from the populists, and as that class is informed by the Malthusians and comprised of them, it was going to move to this.

      The second I heard of “two weeks to slow the curve” I also knew we were on this path.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Also, the fear of the virus and the love for the vax mandate crosses political lines. And that is what is fucking up the response from the vax-mandate crowd. It really boils down to statism vs. individuality.

  10. Yusef drives a Kia

    Yeah I’m a Fanboi, to me, Elon is the Chuck Norris of Billionaires,
    Fuck You!

    • Hyperion

      Elon is the only one of the billionaires that is not a pussy ass cuck. So there is that.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Bova wrote books about Elon, he just didn’t know his name at the time. Elon doesn’t want to escape Earth, he wants to expand humaintie reach, it’s our Manifest Destiny,
        To the Belt Boys!

      • Hyperion

        Elon wants to escape Earth bound governments forcing him to pay taxes.

        I 100% support him in that effort. Starve the beast until it withers and dies.

      • Not Adahn

        Of the billionaires who aren’t media hounds or smart enough to stay out of the press.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    I said “I’m not afraid of the virus, but I am afraid of our reactions to it.”

    “I hate to be the one to tell you this, but you’ve got a mild case of Athlete’s Foot. That leg will have to come off.”

  12. TARDis

    We just had a pre-dinner trick-or-treater. WTF people?

    • Sean

      They started 5:45 here. GF is almost out of candy.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        The year before last, we had no kids.
        Last year, we had no kids.
        This year, for the first time since we were married (comin’ up on 30 years!), the Spousal Unit (SU) didn’t carve a pumpkin, and we didn’t put up especially spooky outside lights.
        With our luck, we’ll probably get ten thousand screaming kids, not to mention toilet paper treatment and egged windows. **HEAVY SIGH**

      • Sean

        …and she is out now.

      • UnCivilServant

        So, start handing out keto candy until the kids egg your house?

      • Sean

        Nah. She’s done for the night.

      • Sean

        I did suggest handing out hot peppers.

      • TARDis

        Good Lord. My wife calls me, “Look at this!”

        It was a fancy electric cart with neon lights pulling a low flat bed trailer full of kids. Candy fuckin’ commandos!

        *SMDH*

      • db

        Kids can’t walk from house to house to get their sugar fix?

      • rhywun

        Maybe too fat.

      • Mojeaux

        No, Stranger Danger.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        Dood, when you’re on patrol, covering as much territory as possible is SOP.

      • rhywun

        I used to make multiple runs, carve out a different set of streets for each one.

        Usually had a garbage bag’s worth by the end of the night.

      • TARDis

        Dad’s just trying to be cool while indulging their squishy entitled offspring I guess.

      • TARDis

        That’s what she said.

      • Ownbestenemy

        We did ours on our roller hockey skates…so at least we still put in the effort while maximizing our candy gathering area

    • rhywun

      I went to fetch milk a couple hours ago and they were already out. In broad daylight. And over half of them were snotty teenagers.

      • Not Adahn

        I had no idea allergies were so bad in NYC.

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s a reaction to the mask mold.

  13. Hyperion

    I have not seen a trick or treater tonight. But the last time I saw one was probably at least 2 years ago, before they started this Stasi level lockdown shit.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    I just spent an entire weekend of not wearing a mask at all, anywhere, period.

    Fweedom!

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      As much as people think MI is lockdown central, reality says No, only at the Medical Centre, and they have you wear the masks they provide only, stupid but ok.As soon as my doctor comes in he takes his mask off, he is not down with the CCP bullshit, this is a good thing.

    • Hyperion

      ‘Fweedom!’

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        The maskers are in the minority now, mostly old folks, which is fine, but a lot of kids, 20-35 or so, masking up, it’s very sad.

  15. creech

    Correlation or causation? No sooner did I pull up STEVE SMITH post than I heard costumed children on the cul-de-sac. As I waited patiently at door with candy, the kids swerved right by and went on to the next house.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    I don’t think it’s that they have no exit strategy, but the exit strategy has been unrealistic fantasy that it will go away, either by waiting it out (Aus/NZ), masks and lockdowns (Asia, early to mid 2020’s here), or currently vaccines.

    C’mon, America. We can BEAT this thing!

    • UnCivilServant

      We were over it long ago.

      Now we have to defeat the villains.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Psssst, it’s not about the virus anymore (if it ever really was).

      • Fourscore

        When you have sunk your whole being into believing, terrified of the unknown, one cannot admit that one has been fooled by the likes of Fauci and his henchmen. Trump jumped in with both feet, fearing that the blame might somehow fall on him. And it did. So the demos had to be more pro-active and now that pot can’t be unstirred.

        Some of my VN friends and relatives that escaped the Communist takeover are the biggest believers. All of my old cronies bought into it and were after us to join hands.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, East Asians in general seem to be the most enthusiastic about compliance. I see it all the time around here.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Reputable sources told us exactly what we wanted to hear, ch 9,302

    Some business leaders and politicians say the price spikes for these fossil fuels are evidence that the world is moving too fast to phase them out of energy systems as we try to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In the U.S., Republicans have tried to link the rising fuel costs to the Biden Administration’s push for climate action. The head of Saudi Arabia’s state oil company, which does not plan to end production for decades, told Sky News last week that the world needs to stop “demonizing” the fossil fuel sector and work with it to prevent “a global economic crisis due to lack of supplies.” China’s latest national climate plan, published Sunday, said that going forward, officials must balance emissions reduction with energy security to “prevent overreaction and ensure safe carbon reduction.”

    But there is no evidence we are phasing out fossil fuels too quickly. In fact, a U.N. report published Tuesday found that, under current plans, the world’s largest economies will be producing more than double the amount of coal, oil and gas in 2030 than would be compatible with the goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to 1.5°C over the preindustrial era.

    Take it straight to the bank.

    • rhywun

      the world’s largest economies will be producing more than double the amount of coal, oil and gas in 2030 than would be compatible with the goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting argle bargle

      Of course they will. China most certainly will. They have zero intention of hobbling their economy (on purpose).

      Even Germany – one of the “greenest” countries in the world – is ramping up coal.

      The one country that seems to be falling for this scam is the United States.

      • Fourscore

        We’re good at falling for scams.

        “I’ll be in your neighbor next week, doing chimney inspections and seal coating driveways”

  18. l0b0t

    Just home with two exhausted kids and 2 big sacks of candy. Now it’s time to sort out the candy they don’t want and add it to the porch’s honor bowl. I got Jell-O shots at one house, a mango White Claw at another, and a Coors Banquet Beer at a third. Happy Halloween y’all.

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      You guys get way better swag at Hallowe’en than I’ve ever seen in Canada.

    • Tundra

      That’s one thing I miss now that the kids are grown and gone. When they were little, all the dads in the neighborhood would load up wagons with beer and head out. I think we had more fun than the kids.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Yep, we had a half pint in the back pocket, while 20 or so kids went nuts, Those were the days.

    • Not Adahn

      Hot chocolate and bourbon.

      #notketo #Idon’tcare #yum

    • rhywun

      mango White Claw

      ?

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Climate advocates say today’s energy price hikes are exposing the volatility of fossil fuel prices, and strengthen the case for a rapid transition to non-polluting and cheaper renewable energies.

    Perpetual motion machines, FTW!

    • rhywun

      cheaper

      Yeah, that’s a gigantic whopper.

    • Akira

      rapid transition to non-polluting and cheaper renewable energies.

      … Such as?

      And you don’t get to count things that are only “cheap” if the government subsidizes them.

    • Fourscore

      Just goes to show you no one is immune, not even redheads

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        “Blondes from Hell.”

      • The Gunslinger

        Amen.

    • Chafed

      Alert SugarFree.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Strawberry gots the vid.

    How will the nation survive?

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      Oh, pleasepleasePLEASE let Joe Biden have it. Puh-LEEEEZE.

    • db

      What, a 51?

      I have shot both a 51 and a 21 (beltfed version) and they are fun.

      • db

        But I would agree with Ian that the 51 is rather…impractical.

    • UnCivilServant

      I don’t actually like the look of the MP5. It’s kinda meh.

      • Not Adahn

        Yes, but you like your eggs hard-fried.

      • UnCivilServant

        Exactly, I have good taste.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I like that Sterling in .45ACP that Gun Jesus was playing around with over the weekend.

  21. LCDR_Fish

    Not sure if there are any other glibs out there who [used to] play Magic: The Gathering but are looking to free up [a little] space and make a few $$$.

    I can vouch for cardkingdom.com – may not give you the absolute best deal, but pretty darn easy to sell your individual cards (my first batch was >$300, just set up another order for about $100 (will mail tomorrow) – may go down a bit as they grade them though. Pretty nifty setup even though maybe occasionally frustrating in terms of which edition they’re looking for. I had a few that weren’t on the list last month, but were back on when I did a search again tonight.

    I don’t think they’re taking “collections” at the moment though – I haven’t emailed them about it since last month – but I did just include a stack of cards that were .20 or so, just to help shrink my stack. May take the remainders over to a local games shop in the future and see if I can drop them off for $10-20…

    Also, they’re not taking sealed items, so I’ve been slowly ebaying a few packs I had lying around.

    I am interested in playing some more online (although my old MTG:Online account was apparently shuttered in my absence – and lost a lot of good cards…) and the Android App edition isn’t getting good reviews. I liked the MTG slim editions that were on Xbox 360 for a few years running – may fire those up for the short term.

    • UnCivilServant

      I played in high school.

      My cards got lost in a house fire. 🙁

    • db

      If you still have sealed packs of interesting editions I might be interested. Just for fun.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Sold my boosters. Have one Mirrodin Tournament Pack left. (and trying to figure out how to stop auto-relisting on ebay ;p)

    • Akira

      Damn shame… I used to have a stack about 2 feet high when I was a kid. No idea what ever happened to them.

  22. Ownbestenemy

    I made too much food

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      No such thing. Suck it up, marine!

      • Ownbestenemy

        8lbs pulled pork, 4 quarters, rack of ribs, mashed taters, tater salad, fried mushrooms and sautéed asparagus.

        House OBE is open for business

      • TARDis

        I’ll take the Fat Bastard Special to go, thanks.

    • TARDis

      First World problems FTW.

      My wife improved her Chicken and Dumplings recipe… again. *BURP*

    • Fourscore

      Got a homeless shelter nearby?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Three teens prepping for candy gathering operation.

      • R C Dean

        Teenagers are too old for trick or treating.

        +1 cane, shaken at clouds

      • db

        That’s always a good option when you have too much food. I ordered too many places for a wake once and we ended up donating about 20 meals to a shelter afterward. They were very appreciative.

      • db

        oh that looks goooood.

  23. Old Man With Candy

    Holy fuck, we have had like an order of magnitude more kids here than we had back in Gilbert, the most Mormon of Mormon communities.

    • Old Man With Candy

      First slutty teen girl of the night just knocked.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Rusty tin can lid, incoming!

      • Old Man With Candy

        Cops cruising our street. I guess my reputation preceded me.

      • Gustave Lytton

        ? “Just thirteen years old, leave her alone
        They say…” ?

      • Ted S.

        Way to assume xer gender, you cisshitlord.

      • TARDis

        We just got snotty teenage girls demanding chocolate. My wife is tossing candy by the handful to get rid of it now. “There’s chocolate in there!” We always buy equal bags of sugary and chocolatey.

      • SDF-7

        So… that’s the equivalent of last call and the cougars being the only things around for you, right?

  24. Ghostpatzer

    What’s a trick or treater? Haven’t seen a one. Now I need to figure out what to do with all these apples and razor blades.

    • Not Adahn

      The fact that I don’t live in a neighborhood probably explains why I’ve never had one either.

  25. Nephilium

    Went through the two boxes of full sized bars in the first hour.

    I was entertained by the chill’ens who were scared by my sitting there in my Sam costume. There were multiple kids that were freaked out by it and wouldn’t come up to get a full sized candy bar because I was sitting there.

    Two people recognized the costume and called me out. The teenager makes sense, the pre-schooler makes me wonder when I should call CPS.

    • R.J.

      I have to tell the kids I’m not wearing a costume. Sad!

  26. hayeksplosives

    I went on the social media app “Next Door” and dropped a pin on our house on the Trick-or-treat map. No idea if parents are using it to plan their kids’ trip, but it’s there.

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      Nextdoor is digital cancer.

      Change my mind.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Why would I when you’re absolutely correct?

      • Nephilium

        It hasn’t killed its host yet.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Next Door is all Karen all the time, good luck

      • hayeksplosives

        Yeah, it’s bad. That is why I have all the notifications and badges turned off for it. I only look at it when I need something, like time and place of a town hall meeting etc.

  27. Hyperion

    I just refused to remove my Fuck Biden comment from our collective USA/Brasil forum. I’m not removing it. I’m probably not going to get any pussy tonight. But it’s just the way it is. Fuck Biden, I’m not removing it.

    • The Hyperbole

      What does “fuck Biden ” have to do with your USA/Brasil forum?

      I’m assuming this some footie ball thing but if it actually is political then disregars this comment.

  28. Yusef drives a Kia

    My club and I get to be the First to play, the Armory, 11 tomorrow, should be exiting play, DGED!

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Im gonna get out there and play the adaptive course tomorrow. I need some open fields to catch my misfires. Hopefully they’ve mowed sometime in the last month.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        dude, it’s trelandia up here, if you don’t have spotters your done.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        The wooded areas aren’t too bad, I can watch which tree it hits or lands behind. The waist high prairie grass eats discs. When there are 2 acres of grass and no landmarks, it gets hard.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      or exciting,, dur….

  29. Tundra

    SKOL!

    • MikeS

      Prost!

  30. hoof_in_mouth

    We plan for 300ish kids and we ran out of candy this year. Huge groups of mostly young ‘uns. It’s really fun.

    • R C Dean

      The little kids are always fun. We’ve lived in t or t unfriendly neighborhoods for 13 -14 years. I kinda miss the kids.

      Not the teenagers, though.

  31. Chafed

    Very quiet night for trick or treating. Only 5 kids in the past hour.

    • Tundra

      Yeah. First time here, but I’m a little shocked how few there were.

      The last few kids really did well!

      • hayeksplosives

        We left out “torches” (flickering flame lightbulbs) switched on and standing on the front porch with the bowl of candy. Anyone who wants it can have it. The rest goes to work with me in the morning (we have a bunch of under 30 y.o. guys.)

    • hayeksplosives

      We didn’t get any.

      We might be too far on the outskirts of town. There were several “trunk or treat” type of gatherings in town so that’s probably where most of the kiddos went.

      Oh well. We dressed up and had fun anyway!

      • Chafed

        It’s the undressing that’s the best part.

      • Chafed

        Tundra gets it.

  32. commodious spittoon

    I keep emailing increasingly unhinged, politically indefensible tirades (some might say tracts, but I draw the line at manifestos) to SP, are those not getting published someday?? I hammer those out one key at a time!

    • rhywun

      Chick?!

      • commodious spittoon

        I hammer those out one key at a time!

      • Gustave Lytton

        Commodious, in the key of D

      • db

        You may be the first person I have ever met who can code JPEG from memory.

    • R C Dean

      Try using the “post” facility. Yes, you can insert your own pics, but TPTB have the last word on those.

      • kinnath

        This is the way. Create the post on the Glib site and submit through the tool.

        I write everything in word on my PC, the copy/pasta into the Glib tool.

    • Chafed

      I think SP is swamped. Either follow RC Dean’s suggestion or try emailing Tonio.

  33. commodious spittoon

    Alec Baldwin is a drama kid through and through.

    This bums me out. I’m usually able to separate the artist from his craft, but in this case, I can’t look at Jack Donaghy the same way. Baldwin comes off as such an insecure drama kid in this clip that I want to give him a swirlie. If he’d clammed up and let the process take its course, I might have put aside the fact that his recklessness killed a woman. But his desperate drama kid energy is so revealing, I can’t take him seriously anymore. I was never a bully, but he’s just that bulliable. I want to noogie this dumb kid of recently divorced parents. You’d think a killer would be a little bit hard, it’s really a shame.

    • The Hyperbole

      Good god that dude is annoying AF (as the kids say), it’s one thng to hate on Alec Baldwin but jesus dude, but the ‘sitting in your car and whinging just on the edge of panic screed’ thing is a bad and over played look.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I had the sound off and I thought the guy in the car was Alec Baldwin at first.

      • MikeS

        Not as annoying as Alec Baldwin’s narcissism and refusal to accept responsibility. Also not as annoying as tonight’s installment of Contrarian Corner.

        You didn’t actually watch more than 30 seconds of it, did you? The guy is annoying, but he makes great points.

      • The Hyperbole

        I just checked and I made it to 3:12. great points or not you can’t be an annoying prick and ecpect people to listen to you for fifteen minutes (trust me I know). Also the freeze frame/cartoonized dramatic slow down thing , WTF, Im supposed to take this seriously?

  34. Grumbletarian

    Someone remind me which quarterback was making his first start ever and which was the savvy veteran again?

    • Chafed

      Cooper Rush earned his money tonight.

  35. db

    Just closed up the copilot floor panel. REALLY hope I don’t need to get in there again, because drilling out about 200 rivets while contorting myself the same way I had to do to install the rivets in the first place would break me, I fear.

      • db

        no, but I’ll check it out

      • db

        C-FMVU

        Oh man, that’s a tail number.

        I’ve seen C-FAKR

      • db

        hmm, maybe it was something else that was like that…that one doesn’t seem to be registered at the moment

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Mmm… Cleco’s.

  36. Gustave Lytton

    This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen:

    https://youtu.be/bPvNV3tBz1s

    Eugene Stoner helps Mikhail Kalashnikov insert the magazine into an AK. Now granted it’s a cheap Chinese knockoff…

    • db

      OMG awesome.

      I wish the Stoner 63 system had had a fair shake.

  37. straffinrun

    bOo!

    • Chafed

      Jesus Christ you startled me!

      • straffinrun

        Let me comfort you. Come hither, my little one and feast.

        https://ibb.co/tspsMBs

      • Ownbestenemy

        Thats some fat ass kids

  38. Ownbestenemy

    Right wing media: why come you cover every covid!!

    Right wing media: Psaki has covid OMERGAWD!!

    • The Hyperbole

      Bullshit, there is no right wing media.

      • Ownbestenemy

        You are always right

    • straffinrun

      I nominate Steve Smith to fill in for her.

      • Ownbestenemy

        In a pinch I’d fill her

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Normally I would too, but she has such an abhorrent personality I’d have to say no.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I’m not sure what I just watched.

    • l0b0t

      So many questions… Why does the bird wear its underpants on the outside and why does the bird have a big bottle of Kewpie mayonnaise strapped to its back?

    • l0b0t

      Why does the Monchichi have an oversized blue tennis ball glued to its bottom?

  39. one true athena

    Our house is in the middle of a block where hardly anyone else participates so we don’t get a lot of kids. It’s kinda sad. I might try some lights next year to make our house more visible, but I don’t know if it’ll help much.

    • straffinrun

      More for the kids that show up, eh?

    • Trigger Hippie

      ‘The nature of the debacle — starting with bad weather in part of the country before spinning out of control — was similar to disruptions at Southwest Airlines in early October. ‘

      Still peddling that lie, I see.

      • rhywun

        Airlines were barred from laying off workers during the pandemic as a condition of billions in federal pandemic relief

        I… wat?

        I didn’t know this. What a fucking scam.

        American’s labor unions have warned for months that the airline was scheduling more flights than its pared-down work force can handle, leaving employees spread too thinly when bad weather snarls air travel.

        Yeah, this doesn’t pass the smell test.

      • Trigger Hippie

        “Pay no attention to the mandate behind the curtain!”

      • rhywun

        “Why haven’t there been any mysterious weather events grounding thousands of flights in the previous eighteen months?”

      • Trigger Hippie

        The Vid is infecting our planes!

      • Trigger Hippie

        Sheesh, that made no sense in reference to your comment.

        *wanders off for more coffee*

  40. Sean

    Happy November.

    ?

    Tomorrow is voter fraud day.

    ?

    • Rat on a train

      I thought that was Wednesday, primarily sometime around 0300.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Vote early, vote often!

    • Ghostpatzer

      NJ has early voting, so I voted last week. I may vote again, just to show that I am a really concerned citizen. Still got two days ..

      • TARDis

        If you can’t beat ’em, cheat ’em.

      • rhywun

        New Jersey really cares about democracy!

    • TARDis

      Mornin’, Sean. Got any happy links?

    • rhywun

      I thought the definition of “fully vaccinated” was still “under review”.

  41. TARDis

    PSA: Cats will kill you the first chance they get.

    • rhywun

      Good kitties!

    • Tulip

      I like the clip with the idiot that decided to straddle the angry cat

      • TARDis

        The wailing was funny. What a dumbass.

      • Tulip

        What? You don’t think it’s a good idea to give an angry cat easier access to your junk?

    • Ghostpatzer

      Cats 3, pigeons 0. Urban heroes, those kitties.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Howdy.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Tired of waking up around 3AM to piss then not getting back to sleep. Damn middle-aged prostate.

        Yourself?

      • TARDis

        Yes, but then you can do like me and get to work all the earlier. ?

      • Trigger Hippie

        Nah, my job site is people’s homes. They might get a little bent out of shape if I showed up to paint at 5AM. I’ll just sit here and bounce off the walls for a little while longer.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Story of my life at this point.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, UCS, TH, TARDy, & Sean!

      It’s the first of the month, so I always know what I have to do: start in on month-end reports before my boss starts pestering me about whether they’re done.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Hiya, GT.

      • Festus

        Mornin’ All! T or T’s were very sparse this year. Funny that. The neighborhood has filled up with young families buying starter homes. We just leave a a couple of pumpkins and a bowl of honor candy out. Barely touched.

      • TARDis

        start in on month-end reports before my boss starts pestering me about whether they’re done
        Good morning, Glibred, you sound just like my wife.

        I really want her to get a new job. Her boss is a conniving C-Word. She is up to no good and my wife is going to get thrown under the bus for it.

      • Gender Traitor

        I’m very lucky – my boss is a good guy. He just gets a bit overeager to get certain financial reports done ASAP.

      • UnCivilServant

        Well, who gets these reports? Do they control his pay?

      • Gender Traitor

        The CEO and the Board of Directors, so…yeah.

        And he controls my pay.

      • Sean

        *waves*

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Beans?

      Not exactly non-inflammatory.

    • Gender Traitor

      I suspect you don’t actually live longer. It just seems longer.

      • Tulip

        Yep.

    • Ghostpatzer

      “According to Elijah Muhammad, the pig, which comes from another planet, is so poisonous that even a Muslim starving to death must not eat it; indeed, merely to inhale its scent is forbidden”

      Well then. More bacon for me. Also, if the Crusaders had known this they could have prevailed without firing a shot. Oh, they didn’t have guns then, right. Carry on.

      I have a production release scheduled today. Pray for me. Pray for my employer.

      • UnCivilServant

        You can fire shots from bows.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Thanks, UCS, how did I miss that?

  42. Festus

    Had a mild freak-out at work yesterday. Went to my lockers and found sundry supplies that I certainly never ordered. Turned out that the girls that lost their contracts decided to dump their stuff on me. I should stand up for myself but pretty women are my kryptonite. Red, if you ever want something from me all you have to do is massage my ego. I’m quite serious. I will hand over my wallet…

    • Trigger Hippie

      Stop carrying cash, dude.

      • Festus

        Oh no. Credit cards and everything!

      • Festus

        One of my favorites! Here’s my wallet for safe-keeping. “Trout, trout, Pretty little trout!”

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      So penile flacidity may be indicative of unrealized cardiovascular issues? That actually sounds legit.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Yup. Also the correlation between sexual activity and prostate health is interesting.

      • Festus

        So “trickle-down” is a right wing myth?

      • Ghostpatzer

        In this case, a left wing myth ITKWIMAITYD.