Uh oh… you don’t get a direct call from SP when things are going well. It was a bit hard to hear her, with the Cartoon Network on at a high volume in the background, but she told me to come to the command center right away. In person.
That meant BIG trouble. More than Morrissey trouble. More than Electric Ants.
We all filed in the conference room and took our seats.
Last Glibs Meet Up?
It was announced that we had a STEVE SMITH problem. Funny…I thought mexican sharpshooter had his tiny ass dog back, and STEVE SMITH was on the way to rape reindeer or roger Santa or somesuch. It was much worse than that…
We had credible intelligence that STEVE SMITH was really headed to the Netherlands…to the ICC. He was going to turn himself in for RAPECRIMES against Humanity. Worst of all, he was going to roll over on us. We had put him up to it, for site content! None of us wanted to go sit in Slobodan Milošević’s old cell and die waiting for trial in the Hague. So what were we to do?
mex begged off, having just had a scrap with the RAPESQUATCH. Understandable. SugarFree was willing, but he was a bit tied up with an odd situation at work. Something about a valuable member of the team had gone missing, and he was on the trail to find him. I looked over at Warty, but he demurred. He was too busy building a Brazilian Ju-Jitsu robot, to act as a sparing partner. The last guy he sparred screamed like a damned soul when Warty dislocated both his shoulders…and a kneecap…and an ankle. Oddly enough, nobody in the gym wanted to practice with him after that.
OMWC told us no way in Hell he was going to risk CPS kicking the door in while he was gone and end up with a warrant for a “Home Alone” case. SP couldn’t leave, as the site would crumble. Plus she was usually engaged in some sort of mortal combat with WordPress or Comcast or someone like that. BrettL and sloopy had links duty, and small kids. Riven was stuck in an endless meeting loop at work…kind of a beginning of Superman type prison thing. Sounded awful.
“Let us out of this meeting!”
HM volunteered, rather Heroically, I thought. But he had to stay and do some linguistics work for us. We have hopes for a rather profitable return on a Anime-Twerk-Thicc-English interpretation app. So he was told to stay and work on it. Anyway, if that CUMMIEBOT ever returns, we need HM to deal with it. Guess who that left… Me. Obviously ZARDOZ could not go undercover. Besides, he was too sympathetic to STEVE SMITH after the RAPESQUATCH helped him dry out last year. SEA SMITH…yeah, family loyalty.
Fine. OK. Guess I am it. This should take a week or more to do some recon, and lay in wait for THE STEVE SMITH SANCTION.
Did someone say “Sanction”?
I will do my best to send reports. I have to go pack now.
P.S. I want to be back in time for the wailing and gnashing of teeth this will bring.
Don’t worry – I’m sure STEVE SMITH is using the old “fake surrender to infiltrate the impregnable fortress” trick. Then he’ll do what he does best…
After the endings to Farcry5 got spoiled and soured me on the main game (which itself was souring the good game hiding under their crappy storytelling), I decided to ply some of the DLC (I’d bought the season pass, so I had some) Their on-rails sequence tendency spoiled the opening. I was deprived of the opportunity to defeat the NVA who shot down the character’s helicopters by fighter-bombers. Then I was deprived of the opportunity to dhoot down the NVA helo chasing me out of the burning prison camp by the same damn fighter-bombers.
I have decided that the US Chair Force is the main enemy of the Hours of Darkness DLC.
I am also royally pissed that they kept that godawful obnoxious “Immediate influx of ‘friendlies’ to captured outpost” that despawns the enemies and prevents looting. I just used up a chunk of my resources, let me call in the worthless ingrates when I’m ready to turn the place over.
I actually rage quit because of that.
Irony is after I went back and waited through the mini-cutscene, they didn’t actually throw ‘friendlies’ into the area and left the corpses lying around. So instead of the nice clean outpost takedown from the first run, I had to go through three more angry attempts.
Its because Swiss couldn’t guarantee the Dutch opened the windows to let that “old man” smell out.
Dudes are missing out. Slobo is no poser. You could have shredded with him.
The “Dutch” like to “Oven”.
Have a safe trip! We’re all counting on you! (No pressure.)
Godspeed you poor bastard.
*Salutes cross-eyed, falls out of chair*
Ha! Nice work Herr Army Knife. Don’t get raped to death.
Morrissey and Roseanne should get together and make baby Hitler.
Hah! This is all a ruse so Swiss can stock up on stroopwaffels and hopjes, eat patat frites with fritessaus, all charged to the Glib expense account.
And tulip bulbs!
Wait, there’s a Glib expense account?
Can I expense a 3D printer if I 3D print guns for everyone?
Stil jij!
I keep seeing proof that the GOP really does want to lose in November…
Meh, for every crazy racist GOP’er there’s at least two on the other side. Of course, those two get fawning coverage from the MSM…
Another key difference is that the GOP shuns it’s crazy racists while the Dems fully endorse and make them head of the national party.
With the help of the media.
Did you not get the memo? Everyone is a racist.
Almost like no one wants to win
TW: Slate
From the “science” page. Never change, Slate.
There are Republicans that want to win?
Enjoy your trip to The Netherlands! And remember that Amsterdam is more than pot and hookers.
How do you see anything else when there are hookers and pot?
I love the scene in “Eiger Sanction” where Clint leaves David Cassidy’s dad to die in the remote desert. Ah, when movies were movies….
That movie needs to be on a double bill with The Dam Busters.
Also “Where Eagles Dare”.
Then it’s not a double bill.
And there’s a reason why I selected The Dam Busters and The Eiger Sanction.
The Bridge At Remagen
Right up there with Marathon Man in the books that are better than the movie category, I’ve always been surprised no one has made Shibumi into a film.
The opposite is a very tiny set.
Blade Runner
and, uhh, hmmm, I am done.
I haven’t read the short story. I’ve found him to be hit-or-miss words-wise.
It’s like comparing Apples to Oranges. If you straight adapted a book into a movie, most times it would be a 19-hour movie.
Moby Dick (1956 version), Any number of longwinded Stephen King novels, The Dune Movies, The Godfather trilogy, and as much as I hate to say it the Peckinpah film with Steve Mcqueen Ali Macgraw is better than Jim Thompson’s novel.
Nobody better sanction my running mate. I’m counting on him to hold the Senate in line after we win the 2020 election. AND BY HOLD IN LINE MEAN…
Zombie ALMANIAN! for President: He still probably won’t make it worse.
/pours out 40oz ballot box
RIP Almanian
Does the US have an extradition agreement with the Netherlands? Would our prospective Glibertopia / Algeria?
If STEVE SMITH is going to spend the rest of his life in a cage, then I have a proposal tlfor him: let me turn him in to the biological science community, and I’ll negotiate a deal whereby he has access to his fill of zoo patrons. By access, of course, I mean … well, you know.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/06/supreme-court-packing-fdr-justices-appointments
Time for another Democrat court-packing!
Watch out what you wish for. Maybe if GOP gains in Senate and holds the House, they will be the ones asking for, say, four an additional four new justices!
It’s refreshing to see their plans to grab power from the people right out in the open. This is what all Democrats want but are afraid to say.
Doesn’t even consider how wrong they are.
“Previously, the biggest ever colony found in the UK was at the National Trust’s Hidcote Manor Gardens in Gloucestershire, where 35,000 Asian Super Ants were discovered in just one junction box in 2009.”
That had to be a government job. No private utility was going to pay someone to count how many ants there were.
“The ants, which have the scientific name Lasius Neglectus, are native to Uzbekistan, Turkey and some parts of southeastern Europe, but first arrived in the UK in 2009 in imported pot plants.”
So you are saying it was Muslim and Russian drug dealers?
1932 Democratic platform:
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29595
From the good-old “truth era” of politics…
“Morrissey CANCELS his UK and European tour as anti-racism protesters threaten to target concerts over his support for Tommy Robinson”
That would make much more sense if Robinson was actually racist.
I love how Johnny Marr had to chime in with his condemnation of Morrissey. You’re fucking entertainers – when will you learn to STFU about your goddamn politics?
Well, from what I can tell, most of the right-leaning entertainers do keep their mouths shut about politics.
For good reason. The left are too stupid and arrogant to do likewise.
To be fair, if he didn’t do it by his own volition, he’d have had leftist protestors and goodthinkers demanding he do so. Silence means affirmation.
“Pat Condell: Our Crippling Fear Of The Truth”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQkLcAqnS74
Morrissey is far right now? Christ, we’re gonna need a further right.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=HFEHf7J33moC&printsec=frontcover&dq=“jeff+riggenbach”&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiA3NLQv_zbAhUV84MKHUURBXAQ6AEIKjAB#v=onepage&q=”jeff%20riggenbach”&f=false
n old school “left-libertarian” really obessesed with 19th century political French political terminology. Also glosses over the behavior of the Jacobins and thinks that authoritarianism is inherently “right-wing”.
Rothbard claiming Lenin was “relatively libertarian” and not statistst, hierarchical and collectivist. This was approvingly quoted by Riggenbach by the way….
https://mises.org/library/left-and-right-prospects-liberty
Oops no link
I can’t even begin to unpack that gibberish. Either that or none of the words mean I thought they did.
This was back when Rothbard was convinced that he could use the Black Panthers, New Left Radicals and, Mao and the Viet Cong to ferment the Libertarian Revolution…
Good lord.
https://reason.com/archives/1975/07/01/the-death-of-a-state/amp
Well… I agree with part of that – the part against “US imperialism” if you have to call it that. But the idea that the US caused those countries to go commie seems… misplaced.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/reason.com/archives/1979/06/01/the-death-of-a-state/amp
Rothbard: Iranian expert.
I recall at one time the correct word you were looking for was “foment”, but apparently, English has degraded enough that ferment is considered a synonym.
So you’re saying TOS are just hardcore Rothbardians?
I think I get what he’s saying here, there really *are* leftists who claim to be anarchists, and against the state. The problem is, one needs look at actions and results, not just the professed beliefs of people. If Rothbard had done so, he would have immediately seen the horror that always results from such leftists.
Those Antifa dudes paint anarchist symbols all over their dress-up riot gear.
It really is a strange crossover – the anti-corporatist, anti-G8 socialists who called themselves “anarchists” as they burned storefronts in protest have morphed into anti-fascists who burn storefronts and assault random weirdos of the right who also mostly live in their mother’s basement.
Some sort of “aim low” strategy?
I know Steve Smith snitching sounds sad, but be not baleful, Uruguay Usurped and Argentina was arrested. A good day at the world cup
I would agree about Argentina if it was by anyone but France. *spit*
Haven’t followed European soccer enough to have feelings about many of the teams.
“Oppression Obsession”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9_bI789Gog
Good vid, I like that guy.
OK, everyone, stop selling ice.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dg-NPj5XkAEiH9H.jpg:large
“Abolish profit”
Our best and brightest
Yeah, that’s refreshingly upfront. They usually try to pose as some sort of populist uprising and keep the commie shit on the down low or at least put those signs in the background.
“Abolish profit”. I have a feeling these dopes are a lot more into Marxism than immigrants.
Might be both: https://www.npr.org/2017/11/21/565318778/big-money-as-private-immigrant-jails-boom
Take it for what it’s worth (& I think there are some problems), but a lot of leftists see private detention centers as having some responsibility for an upswing in detention.
OK, I don’t have fully-formed opinions on private vs. public prisons so I’m not going to wade into that debate. It seems peripheral to the bigger issue anyway.
Just as they’ve taken the anti-drug-war criminal justice reform debate ( the Balko issue) and twisted it into “racism is the problem” via #BLM, they have also latched on to the same debate as “corporatism”, claiming that private prisons is the “incentive” that is driving mass incarceration and the police state.
It is a very similar argument to the libertarian thoughts on criminal justice reform – that there is an economic interest in furthering the drug war and state power abuses rooted in asset forfeiture, institutional incest between police, courts, prosecutors and prisons, union job protection (police and prison guard) and whoever sells all the cool military equipment to SWAT units.
Except their boogie man is the much smaller “private prison” lobby, which also happens to be the enemy of the unions who’s jerbs they took.
You can have my ice when you pry my lowball glass out of my stone cold drunk hands.
I haven’t used real ice at home in a couple decades. Plastic ice FTW.
Like in your drinks and shit? Ugh. For some reason that sounds horrible.
I tried some of those whiskey stones but they turned out to work like shit.
Besides, I make my kids make ice. So it is easy for me.
It’s just plastic cubes with water in them. Granted, they don’t chill your drink as much as real ice but they don’t water your drinks down either.
You have to get the ones made from granite. The soapstone ones will pollute your drink with the scent of rocks.
I had granite ones. They just never seemed to get my drinks ice cold.
As a fisherman, I am used to buying shit that seems like a slam dunk genius move in the store only to find out that it works like shit in the field. So I’m not upset. I just think that ice is fantastic.
WTF is plastic ice?
Stainless steel cubes with alcohol inside to prevent freezing
Stainless whiskey stones are better to cool your drinks than the plastic ones.
Due to its hydrogen bonds, few things can absorb heat as well as water.
try one of those kiddie cups for making slushies – the walls are filled with gel that freezes down around 28 degrees or so, cold enough to freeze a soda. It makes for an excellently cold straight whiskey without polluting your drink with water.
Not that I would have ever done that.
What’s my incentive to produce ice if I cannot profit from the sale?
My wife is an immigrant. We’ve been married over 25 years and I still remember with burning hatred the whole process of getting her her permanent resident card. I’m definitely no friend of the INS or ICE or whatever it is that they are calling themselves. But for doG’s sake do you really think you can have open borders?
Maybe you could if you would get rid of the welfare state, but I’m pretty sure that these same protesters also think that the entire budget of ICE (and then some) should be given out as more welfare.
These people aren’t that delusional. They simply are using this to grab more power for themselves.
I hear you. My last serious BF was an immigrant – who got visa’ed out. I have complete sympathy for the plight of the ones that “play by the rules”. At the same time, yeah, “open borders” is every bit as delusional as other pie-in-the-sky fantasies like “anarchy”. It ain’t gonna happen. Americans don’t want it, and in the real world, that bit of collectivism exists.
“Mother of 21-month-old Oregon girl who died after being left in hot car threatened suicide, lawyer says
A mother in Roseburg, Oregon, begged prison guards to let her commit suicide after she was arrested and charged with second-degree manslaughter in connection to the death of her 21-month-old daughter, her lawyer said.
Remington Engler died after her mother, Nicole Engler, left her in a hot car for roughly eight hours last week when temperatures reached nearly 80 degrees, the Oregonian reported.
Engler found Remington “blue and unconscious” around 4:30 p.m. in the parking lot outside Evergreen Family Medicine – where she works as a nurse practitioner – on June 21.
The mother frantically ran her daughter inside Evergreen Family Medicine where staff attempted to revive the child. Unsuccessful, the young girl was rushed to Mercy Medical Center where she later died.
Engler was then taken into custody by authorities with the Roseburg Police Department. While in jail, the mother was “pulling out her hair in clumps and pleading to take her own life,” her lawyer, David Terry, told the Oregonian.”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/30/mother-21-month-old-oregon-girl-who-died-after-left-in-hot-car-threatened-suicide-lawyer-says.html
I can’t imagine the pain she must be feeling. It’s a tragedy.
I can’t imagine.
I read the story and it is light on the details of her incarceration. The state has to investigate and process her. So I’m not sure how much time she spent behind bars. Big difference between a few hours and a few days. She is on a $50k bond so that doesn’t seem awful. And the prosecutor is making clucking noises, but my bet is there is no prosecution.
Instead she gets to live with herself and I wouldn’t wish that fate on anyone
You are assuming it was an accident. I’ve never had a great memory, but I never forgot the kid in the backseat.
Agreed.
That’s why I’m ok with the state actually doing what is supposed to be doing here.
In cases like this, I’d prefer the state take a hard ass attitude and potentially prevent 1-2 from happening.
Yeah, I’m not going to form an opinion on this without further info.
You also apparently aren’t a senior P&G scientist who needs to assuage her guilt and push diapers either…
https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/05/03/death-of-p-g-scientist-s-baby-in-hot-car-prompts.html
Sorry, I missed this post and said similar below – my bad.
I think the majority of these cases are where someone’s routine changed that day and they were asked to drop the kid off at day care on that one day and they forgot about the kid and drove to work like normal and forgot.
Sounds crazy, but if the kid is zonked out and you are in your morning zombie commute, I think it is tragically possible for it to be a truly horrible accident.
I’d want more facts before I passed judgement.
Yeah, I mean, I’ve driven off with my kid in her carseat but unbuckled before. It’s a routine I go through several times a day, nearly every day, and that day I just happened to be running late to meet my wife at a family thing, she’d just called to find out where the hell I was, and my kid was not being as helpful as she could at the time. I didn’t notice until a few miles down the road when I looked in the rear view and saw she’d climbed down to get something she dropped, then climbed back in.
So yeah, I mean, I can’t imagine forgetting that my child was in the car while I was at work, but I can accept that it’s possible in certain circumstances.
I think the key is to never be rushing when getting the kid into the car.
Even when you’re late or tired. Especially when you’re late or tired.
Safety first folks.
8 hours? How the hell could you forget a 21 month old child for that long? I mean I’ve had kids and I may have forgotten about one of them for a few minutes, but 8 hours? Something is wrong here.
That was my thought. We’re missing some information here.
Another one from a couple years ago.
https://www.oregonlive.com/hillsboro/index.ssf/2015/03/da_death_of_baby_left_in_car_a.html
Have you ever been heading to a store that is in the general direction of work and missed your exit because you zoned out and kept driving toward work?
That’s how.
The cases I’ve seen are usually where the other parent usually drops the kid off, but this time something changed – and at the same time there was some big pressure at work…. along with a reasonably long commute and a kid that falls asleep quickly.
So on the way to work… drop off the kid. Kid isn’t making noise.. space out and miss the exit. Drive to work in zombie mode…. hit the parking lot worried about big stuff at work and jump out without looking in the back – why would you? Who looks in their back seat upon arrival at work? Presto… tragic accident. Once you are at work there are zero cues to prompt you to remember that you didn’t drop off the kid …. you never drop off the kid, after all. The odds are exceedingly low, but I can certainly see how a perfect storm could let that happen.
Absent further evidence of intent, I think it is pretty awful to paint this sort of thing as criminal.
I’ve had the opposite happen…. where I was the parent who dropped the kid off every morning at preschool and one morning he was sick and staying home, but 10 minutes into my commute I still turned right to go to the preschool instead of left to go to the office. In that case the penalty was having to make a U turn. But it lets me understand that routines can override the knowledge that today we are doing something different.
Jeezus, how awful.
I’m tinkering with either a car seat that sends a signal to a smartphone or an add-on to a car seat that notifies the owner if the car gets to a certain level of heat.
it would use the same tech as airbags (weight) to indicate that there is a child in the seat.
It’s a rough concept.
The biggest barrier is that these incidents are so anomalous that you’d have to prey on moms’ fears to sell the product.
That’s not a marketing winner?
Quite frankly, I’ll bet that is a rather easy thing to do, which is how we ended up with a baby monitor that had a sensor pad under the mattress that was meant to detect the minutes movements of a baby sleeping and breathing. Damned thing went off randomly once at 3 am.
How much do you intend to lobby your local state legislature to mandate that everyone install such technology?
Pro Tip: It is much cheaper if you can find an actual cute victim and slap their name on the bill you are pushing. Call me cynical, but I think the recent Minnesoda bill to mandate CO2 detectors on boats was to push only a certain marine type dector.
I’m waiting for the next law that is based on the kid killed in the fire caused by his dad incorrectly wiring in his CO2 detector.
Monoxide is CO.
Anyway, those are called “dead white girl laws”.
You are right. That is why I became a EE and not a CE or ME. The double E’s only had to take one year of chem. The others had to take two years.
If it was CO poisoning it would be a dead cherry red girl law.
Yup.
CO2 is also a poison – says the EPA
In fairness, if you filled a small cabin with CO2, it would be a pretty unpleasant place to sleep…. for the short while that you slept.
I’m just talking about a product, not a law. I hate laws.
Juxtapose with the P&G “scientist” who left her infant in the car, then launched a national campaign pressuring day-cares to phone parents when there children don’t show up to avoid such incidents.
This is a true unintended consequence from mandating car seats in the back. Nobody forgot baby in the front seat and it is absolutely tragic. It happens, and I reserve judgement until all facts are in.
“Men are the problem. Testosterone is the problem. With few exceptions, women don’t murder, war, and rape the world. 99% of violent crimes are men between the ages of puberty and bad knees. Women should be in charge of everything.”
https://twitter.com/hughhowey/status/1012541601716031488
Clones of Margaret Thatcher.
And he blocks a woman that doesn’t agree with him. Heh.
Sigh. I like his books. I never asked about his brain-dead politics. Fucker.
Who is he?
He’s one of the early self-published thru Kindle authors. He writes a lot of “speculative fiction”. Most famous work is the “Silo” series about a group of people who live in an underground 100-level silo for as-yet unexplained reasons. This spawned a ton of fan-tiction some of which is good too. He has another series called “Sand” that takes place in a sort of post-apocalyptic (?) West.
Thanks.
I love the trope of the “unrevealed enemy”. It is ubiquitous in modern sci-fi and fantasy. It can make for really good first novels, but becomes tiresome very quickly. It is 100 times worse when applied to TV – usually because they paint themselves into a corner and don’t have a real ending in mind.
L.E. Modessit has written the same book and the same series dozens of times – there’s a deeper power from an older culture… and an enemy just beyond reach… The protagonist explores this for a few books, uncovers secret powers and then… we have to go back and do a prequel from an older culture because we’ve gone too far and there’s nothing left to “reveal”. Rinse and repeat.
That’s the thread winner right there. For all of human history, women typically have been attracted to the strongest, most dominant men. Like the song says, she want a thug.
Now there’s someone fully committed to the 24/7 FemDom lifestyle.
“Big Dick Energy Is Over. It’s All About Cavernous Pussy Energy Now.”
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a21987441/bde-cavernous-pussy-energy/
I tried reading it. My eyes glazed over.
I was reminded of an profile I saw on Tinder a while back. A woman put at the end of her profile, “If you are a man that voted for Hillary Clinton, I’m sorry but your vagina is too big for me.”
Seriously. What the fuck was that? It’s like when two teenagers talk and I have no idea what the fuck they’re going on about – only in print.
Some day, remind me to relate the cute story about a woman I met in Florida. She got the nickname ‘mason-jar’ for two reasons. One was that she actually worked for national HQ of the Freemasons….
Yuge.
I want to know who the “middle aged professional people” are at Hearst Publishing who review these stories and go, “this will be the thing that gets us back on the map and ends the steady decline in our brand’s prestige”
i get that there are hordes of millenial/recent college grad hosers who want to blog for money and will gladly churn out thinkpieces like that for pennies a day, but what i don’t get is why the magazines think “capturing the gawker audience” is some brilliant media-strategy
I can’t wait for the day when that bubble burst.
Throwing a hot dog down a hallway is a good thing?
Yeah… serious metaphor fail.
Also, posting the instagram of the hot chick who is bragging about how she’s vacationing in Africa while posing for carefully crafted selfies is not even remotely “unconcerned about what everyone else thinks”.
I just lost some IQ points by reading that… article.
Unexpected/Newfound Anecdotal Bigotry Subset: June Edition
First generation Costa Rican American Jehovah’s Witnesses teenagers are not particularly interested in meeting deadlines. I know, I know. Give it time and every conceivable work related
subset will piss in my Weaties at some point.
Random arts and crafts again – Decorating a toolbox.
Yes, I know it was a sloppy job.
That’s purty – well done. You can carry all those action figures in it 🙂
Well, some of them.
It’s for the knives, clippers and files.
Looks nice.
I made several wooden storage boxes when a teenager (my Dad has a woodworking shop). I never got tired of it. So useful and such a blank canvas.
Don’t talk to the cops. It can never help you.
That’s a great video.
I first saw it years ago in college. It came across my YouTube feed. I figured it should be shared when and wherever possible.
Strange. It was in my YouTube feed also.
I saw it years ago too. It should be shared where ever possible.
I think the part where the cop flat out talks about lying (the bit about the apology note comes to mind) will sadly go over too many people’s heads.
Is there a version that isn’t 45 minutes long…?
Did you download the article?
I was being snarky but yeah I didn’t see that link; I’ll check it out.
There might be, but it is worth a watch in its entirety.
45 minutes well spent and could potentially save thousands down the road if taken to heart.
USE YOUR JUDGEMENT. If you have good judgement.
I finished the bottle of Honeydew Hawk earlier tonight and now I’m drinking some Zeno’s Rye Ale as I wrap up some testing for work.
I showed my gf how to clean her new ar15 today.
She asked couldn’t i just do it for her? I explained she needed to know how to do it for herself.
/sigh
You have a girlfriend who owns an AR. You’re ahead of a lot of us.
It’s custom built from parts she picked, and she’s already planning her next one
Her gun collection is quite impressive for a teacher from NJ.
Pics of the collection?
No collection pics. But, here is her ar (top one).
https://smile.amazon.com/photos/share/MHZ9cdRQkY8CB3Ld76ZYYiVfpM8ClhkjIPLTPaTSTZY
Dude, for real. My wife begrudgingly accepts that I own guns and gives me passive shit about it from time to time. I would be over the moon if she came up to me one day and said, “Hey, would you take me to a range some time?”
Did you make bring it to you for inspection prior to putting it away?
Get her to clean YOUR gun. //euphemism
::covers ears to drown out Sean’s screams as his GF punches his bore::
This is how I learned to clean my AR-15
That’s a euphemism filled video.
Interviewing Animal Rights Activists At The Ban Fur San Francisco Protest
I was eating chicken wings while watching this. It was strangely gratifying.
I threw this up over on Discord, but I guess it fits here too.
Photo taken last month at the Gunslinger PRS gas gun match, in Park Mammoth, KY. Yes, they had an actual life-size steel sasquatch target.
LOL
746 yards. I’m gonna have to check out that range. I’ve been to Mammoth Park twice but didn’t know they had a range there.
So…EvilSheldon….you busy next week? Kan je Nederlands spreken?
I’m drinking this. Basil vodka gimlet. Does not suck.
… vodka gimlet
No such thing. Gimlets are made with gin and Rose’s lime juice and nothing else.
I feel the same way about martinis.
I was wondering how long it would take one of you aspies. 😉
REEEEEEEEEE-
Just kidding. I’m just glad I didn’t get Durst’d for that impudence.
Na udachu!
I don’t do that. I just ban people for life. Without warning.
But, your life is about to get far more real than I could conjure.
Haha, it’s the second time around for me, so no worries. Thanks again for the encouragement, you might be the best site admin of all time – OF ALL TIME!
Might be?
/raised eyebrow
(And, seriously, second time around or not, shit happens. Stay safe. We have too few Glibs to start losing them left and right, so to speak.)
Does anyone make tomato vodka?
Dunno. It’s plain vodka with muddled basil (of which I have way too much growing). A weak simple syrup, lime juice.
The store had about 3,542 kinds of vodka today.
Try the vodka from Rain Organics. The bottle is shaped like a raindrop. Around $20 and it comes from Buffalo Trace Distillery.
Noted!
One of my former coworkers tried it in his garage still. Yeah, it was as bad as you imagine.
Electric Ants is a way better band than Morrissey
“A white woman called police on a black 12-year-old — for mowing grass”
Refuse to link this headline to WaPo. This new narrative the media is trying to push is ridiculous.
You ogre. You beast. I just had to go and look.
“According to Holt-Colden, the same neighbor has called police in the past — in December, the neighbor reported a snowball fight between Holt-Colden’s children. The Post has contacted the Maple Heights Police Department to verify the call about a snowball fight. The neighbor could not be reached for comment.”
So the crack investigative branch of the WaPo was able get neither a statement from the police, nor the complainant?
And then Sloopy’s paper picks it up, and the video makes it seem, to me, like a total set-up.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/A-white-woman-called-police-on-a-black-13040197.php
I hate everyone in that story, and I wish a 50 lb. SMOD would land on Cleveland- just enough to take out Cuyahoga County.
That seems uncalled for. This story could happen anywhere in the US.
Yeah, but it is Cleveland, just sayin…
I’ve been there twice this month. There is a greater than zero chance that I wouldn’t survive Tres’ revenge fantasy. Just being practical here.
Oh, also blaming an entire metro region for one instance of stupidity is not orthodox.
The last time I was there in the downtown, it was actually pretty nice. The winters there, however, fuck that shit to hell.
“Oh, also blaming an entire metro region for one instance of stupidity is not orthodox.”
Unless it’s Baltimore, then it’s entirely correct, even if not orthodox.
Heh, I don’t know anything about Balmer – never been there.
I grew up in Rochester and Buffalo – I do miss a proper winter. I would trade it for NYC’s disgusting summers any day.
I refuse to click that. I’ve had enough of the MSM’s disgusting racism.
You just refuse to believe that everyone has always been racist, but they just refused to act on it until Trump. This is why we need those thought crimes, you can’t trust people until you can control their evil thoughts.
Hard to tell if this is “racism is everywhere” or should be a free range kids story.
Free range racism?
Federal judge strikes again – an entitlement is an entitlement:
A federal judge on Friday struck down the Trump administration’s approval of a Kentucky plan to impose work requirements on many Medicaid recipients, a ruling that could have a chilling effect on other states seeking new rules for the program covering 75 million people.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Axar hadn’t adequately considered whether the proposal would help the state provide medical assistance to residents, which he noted was a central objective of Medicaid. As such, he said, the approval was “arbitrary and capricious.”
The judge vacated the HHS approval and sent the proposal back to the department for further review. Kentucky had hoped to save about $33 million as it reduced the number of beneficiaries by about 90,000 through the new requirements under its new Medicaid program, called Kentucky HEALTH.
“The Secretary never provided a bottom line estimate of how many people would lose Medicaid with Kentucky HEALTH in place,” wrote Judge Boasberg, who was appointed by President Barack Obama. “This oversight is glaring, especially given that the risk of lost coverage was ‘factually substantiated in the record.’ ”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-judge-vacates-hhs-approval-of-kentucky-plan-for-medicaid-1530306206?mod=hp_major_pos7
And needless to say, said decision has no basis in the rule of law.
So does the judicial branch run the executive? They got bored of legislating?
I saw that. And was not surprised.
I thought mexican sharpshooter had his tiny ass dog back,…
Wait, wut? When did this happen?
Keep up, dude!
I read that excellent piece and may have even commented. At the end it is implied that they got the tiny ass dog but there is no confirmation of said getting, hence my suspense as to when and if the tiny ass dog is actually gotten.
If STEVE SMITH was in possession of tiny ass dog, there wasn’t much left.
In other news, I just got back from VA and was able to buy a few cans of beer I have never seen from the local Walmart. Just buying beer at Walmart made me feel almost like I was in a free country again. And then there was our friend with his potato cannon shooting potatoes across the pond. I told him that in Maryland we would probably be arrested for being terrorists in possession of a weapon of mass destruction after the entire police department and probably the national guard and the military all showed up, helicopters everywhere more than likely. Not sure how long before, if ever, we would get out of Guantanamo.
Lime gun and acetylene for the win. You can put those little green citrus grenades through a wooden fence.
*PERKS UP*
/Ordnance Corps Officer
You know, Spud…I might be in a position, very, very soon, to need improvised weaponry… you ever been to the Netherlands?
You provide the dope, hookers and pvc pipe, and I’ll supply the blue glue, acetylene and limes.
MSNBC: A Shotgun is a Backwards Funnel. You Don’t Have to Aim
This is why I have the need to establish a baseline of knowledge before talking about guns with anti-gunners.
“You don’t have to aim.” Isn’t that pretty much the point? I mean you sort of have to aim, unless you’re really close. But of course, when your goal is to turn any means of self defense into a deadly assault weapon only the military should own, well…
The spread you get on a shotgun is over stated in popular media.
You mean like ‘spraying bullets hundreds per second?
I’m shocked.
I never really liked shotguns much. When I was a kid, a couple of my crazy uncles decided to let me shoot one that knocked me on my ass and a wonder it didn’t knock half my teeth out. Ever since then I preferred rifles.
95% of my shooting is with shotguns. It’s amazing how much I still miss what I’m aiming at.
For sure. And dipshit didn’t even consider the use of slugs..
You have to aim with a rifle.
You have to point with shotgun.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
STEVE SMITH must’ve stolen these ladies’ clothes.
http://archive.is/xXNwB
You’re late.
Seriously, how did 28 get in there?
T&A is always better late than never.
re 28…If you look at her page she seems to have a sense of humor as well as a safety vest fetish both of which I am down with even though we could probably both wear the same size bra. I wouldn’t kick her out of my pool.
I like pokies better than hand bras. Not that I’m complaining.
12 offers you one of each.
Is 27 Kennedy?
*swoon
This is what a patriarchy looks like.
That map seems to imply that there are no university grads in Bosnia or Serbia.
Women aren’t “running everything” yet, so yeah.
The Swiss have some ‘splainin’ to do.
Note that the ratio isn’t adjusted by actual ratio of males to females. I bet it would skew even more towards women.
*narrows gaze*
Hey, don’t give me that look! I’m not the ones holding women chained to Emmentaler wheels instead of letting them go to college.
*hides inappropriate erection*
…even after googling, I don’t get the reference.
Given women’s preference for higher status males, is it any wonder that birthrates plummeted?
There may be non-trivial reasons why feminist societies don’t last. Can equality be disgenic?
The new retro movement on the left – pack the courts!
These assholes don’t think past go. I mean, by god if its expedient now, who cares about long term consequences! Ignore that Trump only has a free hand here because you imbeciles broke precedent and changed the rules for lower judges. They live in a delusional little bubble where they can only imagine how expanding the power of government will lead to a magical utopia once they achieve this permanent majority they’ve been crowing about for the better part of 2 decades now.
The only way to save America is to destroy America.
That’s true, but not in the way they’re thinking.
But you have got to remember, even though they have never met you, your family, your friends, or even thought of visiting where you live, they know what you need better than you do.
Of course. I’m brown.
Half brown. The other half is a white supremist.
Fair enough.
Wait. You are?!
Someone should explain to Lemiux we are not a democracy for the very reasons he wants to pack the courts. I think I heard him interviewed on NPR fri morning about this very thing. He is a statist ass hat and a great spokesman for what Obama wanted to do to this nation and partially did. Fuck him. If congress functioned as it should several Nazgul would be impeached and removed. Sotomayer for being dumb as dog shit and RBG for being a senile old bat as well as disregarding the constitution which is the whole point of them being there.
NR already documented how this works, but here’s the FBI using the media to generate probable cause to get a warrant to engage in their witch hunt:
FBI suspects there is a locker somewhere. They leak this to reporters, contact FBI for info requests. FBI then meets and the two exchange notes before a final story is printed. They then use this story to get a warrant. Both sides win!
Since when are the investigating agents giving one-on-one interviews about an ongoing investigation?
Since #Resistance
Durrrrr
LOL
Things that only Republicans are asked to do for $500, Alex.
Bruni is literally the dumbest motherfucker to ever man a pen.
When a Democrat is in charge: “Republicans can join us in reshaping the country along Progressive ideals, or they can sit in the back and watch as it happens anyway.”
When a Republican is in charge: “OMG we need bipartisanship and compromise!”
How much power will a president with such tenuous claim to it get to wield? How profound and durable an impact will such a shallow and fickle person make?
Donald Trump barely won the White House, under circumstances — a tainted opponent, three million fewer votes than she received, James Comey’s moral vanity and Russia’s amoral exertions — that raise serious questions about how many Americans yearned to see him there.
But he’s virtually assured of appointing as many judges to the Supreme Court as each of his three predecessors did and could reshape Americans’ lives even more significantly. It’s the craziest dissonance. The cruelest, too.
1) Tenuous? More like: based on the actual rules for electing the president. And the president has the authority to nominate supreme court justices with the consent of the Senate. Deal with it.
2) Nominal vote count does not matter. The States are sovereign and they elect the chief executive of said States via a system that acknowledges the boundaries of said States.
3) Who happens to be on the Supreme Court only matters because of prior activist judicial activism. Supreme Court Justices are supposed to only concern themselves with how laws relate to the document that created the government. If they decide to read things in to said document, they are not legitimate justices. That we have the opportunity to nominate constitutionalists to the supreme court is a good thing.
They can’t help it, retardation is a hell of a thing. The really bad thing is that it affects so many who come in contact.
I think if you really really hate Trump you should get to vote twice. Three times if you really really really hate him.
It’s only fair.
Because it’s almost America’s B-day
Pro tip: If you sleep the afternoon away with a glorious nap and then decide you want a steak sandwich with blue cheese at 10 pm find your headlamp when you are still sober like after the glorious nap. It will make the steak grilling easier. I had to cook mine by smell because it is dark out there but I saved some battery in my headlamp because I couldn’t find it.
You had me at steak sandwich.
#$%& he had me at blue cheese.
“Police” shoot CHL holder retrieving his firearm after attempting to break up a fight. One witness says officers were yelling not to touch it but he did anyways, other witness says they just shouted out gun and unloaded.
Once again, school security guards should not have general police powers and definitely should not have any authority or police powers off campus property.
Antifa accomplishes their goal. Gets parade permit of their target revoked after they use violence while police stand by.
You’re trying to spike my BP tonight, aren’t you?
Not intentionally. But on the other hand, you won’t have to spend money on pills for low blood pressure!
Well, there is that!
Fuckin’ larpers are gayer than furries.
LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT! Fantasy larping is good retarded fun, of course. Civic larping is fucking cancer.
I’ll give the LARPers this, they got outside and it looks like more fun than the Renaissance fair.
I went to a Ren fair with a girlfriend ages ago… shared a motel room with her and three other women. Nothing happened. Ren fairs suck.
I know there have been protests in Iran before that haven’t lead to anything. There’s something about this that sounds organic and serious. I wonder if it is the start of something bigger.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/several-reported-killed-as-iranian-forces-open-fire-on-protesters/
My impression of Iran is that there is a nontrivial portion of the populace which is quite liberal, but a much larger portion of the populace which is very, very hardline. All the Iranians I’ve met in the US have been the former kind. Why do you think this unrest in particular could be part of something bigger?
I thought it was impossible for us to undo the deal? Hm…