Hey, kids! Greetings from Moving Hell. The sealed and inventoried boxes are piling up rapidly…if we only had a home to which to move said boxes, it would decrease the stress level quite a bit.
In other news, we do have content on the site next week. We will, of course, have links from all the usual linksters, like Banjos, Brett L, and OMWC. Maybe STEVE SMITH or ZARDOZ or SEA SMITH will pop in, too.
Not Adahn brings the IFLA forecast tomorrow, as well as a fantasy post on Thursday. Nephilium continues his popular Enslaving Yeast series tomorrow afternoon.
Monday, we’ve got a tolerable piece of history writing from Raven Nation, and a cooking post in the evening, probably by yours truly since Web Dom has just finished moving and hasn’t unpacked her kitchen yet. Tuesday, trshmnstr shows you how DIY appliance repair works, and OMWC has another Jewsday. (Not that I think he’s procrastinating on moving chores, but he does seem to be spending more time writing the past couple weeks. Hmmmm.)
Wednesday we hope that SugarFree is back among the living, and I have a poll for you that brings up extremely strong feelings. Thursday, as mentioned, Not Adahn makes a mid-week appearance, and we’ll probably have something in the evening, too, but it’s…unclear… at the time of this writing what it might be.
Animal stops in Friday with Part the Fourth in his fascinating history of the six-gun series. Saturday, mexicansharpshooter is back with a review/not a review, unless he’s accompanying OMWC house hunting and they just give up and start day drinking.
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Now, get your comments, jokes, and snark ready, because it’s time for the Saturday Night Open Post! Have a good one, Glibs!
Do it. Pedal to the floor.
Hit that mothefkin’ THEME MUSIC
Huh. So my scribblings are now popular? I don’t think I can cope with the pressure, so I’ll be taking pictures of the brew day tomorrow for the last (that I have planned) Enslaving Yeast column.
Looking forward to it:)
If it helps take the pressure off, she was just being polite. She told me so, as far as you know.
There’s no pressure, the next one is already in the pipe (five by five). If I want to be nice, I’ll take pictures from my brewday tomorrow, so SP (or whoever) doesn’t have to hunt down pictures.
“Enslaving Yeast” is the best title we have in the lineup. If we want more clicks, people need to start working DESTROYS and OWN’D into their titles.
Don’t Tell me What To Do!
You don’t have to do what you need to do.
Then you may be disappointed in the next write-up. Brewers don’t really enslave yeast, we set up a great environment for them.
But it’s not like they choose to work for you either. You keep them in a vessel until you need them, never letting them go to be free-range yeast. Sad.
Real lambics and real farmhouse ales are the only libertarian beers.
Don’t make me do a write up on coolships, which I’ve never used (but are becoming popular in some breweries).
/hides the Saison I’m making tomorrow from MikeS.
*searches for coolships*
Huh, interesting. And I didn’t realize so many breweries open-fermented.
I’m never disappointed. Apathy is my guiding principle.
I showed the first article to my daughter and she was like why are we enslaving the yeast? Oh it’s a libertarian site.
I already approve of your daughter. But show her the article tomorrow if you want to help the image.
Will do:) lol
PWND YEAST !
I just want to tell you, “good luck.” We’re all counting on you.
American Amon Goth?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46754639
“Prosecutors say the wounded prisoner was being treated by medics from the Seal platoon that Chief Gallagher commanded when he allegedly attacked without any warning using a homemade knife.
He then had others take photos as he posed with the corpse and recited the Navy re-enlistment ceremony oath, prosecutors say.”
If this turns out to be true, he deserves life in prison. Then again, who trusts the goddamn news anymore?
“nine members of Seal Team 7, who said that the chief was known to fire indiscriminately into crowds of Iraqi civilians, and had shot and killed an old man and a girl from his sniper’s outpost”
“prosecutors said the men under Chief Gallagher’s command considered him so deranged and bloodthirsty that they tampered with his sniper rifle to make it less accurate, and would fire warning shots to clear civilians from the area to protect them from him.”
OK. Sure looks bad for him. I’m beginning to change my mind on withdrawal from the ME. At least we have a place where we can send our psychos.
Other than DC.
Or the police departments
If this is true why didn’t the men in command do something? Multiple acts of violence without following the rules of engagement and his team did nothing? This doesn’t track — not saying it didn’t happen but it seems far fetched.
Not to hurt anyone’s feelings, but the military seems to be a machine designed to beat individualism and critical thinking out of people; turbocharge that the with tribalism of unit and uniforming, the sanctification of mission, to say nothing of the inhuman pressures of combat, and it’s totally possible. To me these are the normal residues that should be priced into any decision to deploy. People just aren’t machines, and the large sample sizes mean this will show up sooner or later.
I don’t disagree. I might be willing to extend the benefit of the doubt to those guys. It very much may have been a “Platoon” situation where the chain off command was very slow to react (I’m betting on this as a forgone conclusion) and it took several of them to feel safe to come forward to testify.
Bullshit.
The US military sent/allowes him ro go on 8 tours of suty in a nasty xombat zone and rhen wqnt ro prosecute him dor becoming what rhey taufht him to be ?
FUCK THAT.
This man needs a quite heros welcome home ans then life long medical treatment.
8 tours of duty in that environment and you expect him to be a boy scout?
Really ?
First you turn someone into qn qnimal and then you hang him for being an animal ??
FUCK THAT.
This is pretty damning…
“Chief Gallagher” didn’t have a command. Where the fuck were the officers?
That was my take too. Sounds like a failure of leadership.
So one of our heroes the swamp wants Trump to keep in Syria?
Why did I start cleaning? Now I’m more stressed out by the cleaning left to do than I had been by the clutter.
That’s one of the reasons I hate doing stuff.
Cleaning is more fun on speed.
I’m split on this one. Part of me says don’t even start, but man, once you get going you accomplish so much.
Maybe you could try being less of a slob.
If I were a slob I’d have never bothered cleaning.
I’m not OCD about it, but I am a 5S model: a place for every thing and everything in its place. It takes less time to put something where it belongs the first time than it does to lay it about and then refile it late, so say nothing of the stepping over and around and wondering where it is. So, steady, do it right the first time is an infinitely easier way to live, and, when the chips are down, it’s faster.
If no one moves my stuff about, I’m more likely to find it where I last used it than put away. I have spent more time trying to find something that got put away than something I set down in the area where it was in use.
Moving sucks balls. My condolences.
Ones silver lining: it’s a good way to get rid of stuff you don’t need. Oddly, I’ve gotten rif of more when unpacking. Probably has something to do with the storage setup in the new place being different. We don’t have a basement or an attic, so we don’t have a place to just put stuff other than the garage, which makes it easier to not accumulate as much stuff. I like being a little leaner.
I tried that. I ended up keeping stacks of boxes until I built enough additional shelving to hold it all.
For me, when I realized that after a move I still had shite in boxes, when the next move came along I threw out those boxes.
Haven’t done this for a while but when stuff would accumulate I would go through first pass with the rule that if I haven’t used in in 6 months and don’t know when I might and I can replace it for less than $25 then it was gone.
That is horrifying.
Most of the stuff in the boxes is still usable and good, I just didn’t have shelving. It’s not that I might use it, it’s that I do use it, if not regularly.
We had a major clean out before our cross country move. We were at capacity with 2 PODs and didn’t want to pay for a 3rd. Ended up making over $1k at our garage sale. However, we still, 2 years later, occasionally go hunting for something that we used to own but mustve sold before our move.
#metoo
There are a very few odds and ends I miss years later but overall that strategy works very well for me.
The wife and I are the same way. (albeit, it took us a while) We moved about three years ago and have spent the last 3 years slowly throwing away things we moved here.
I have boxes and boxes of old media — VHS, floppy disks, cassette tapes, etc.
I’m an old school geek, so I love my old media. The only thing I will never get rid of is the original Star Wars trilogy on VHS. It’s never been released on any other media.
You should transfer it to digital. Those tapes won’t last forever, and you’d be able to share it easier.
It’s been translated to digital multiple times (just with the modifications). And the better option is always the laserdisc versions.
Either you misunderstand or I do; I meant digitizing your copy.
What about seasons 1-5 of Babylon 5 on DVD? I know you’ve got them.
Has anyone ever seen Rand Paul and Patrick Duffy at the same time ?
I left my cassette collection behind the last time I moved. I had already replaced almost all of it that was worthy with digital.
I currently have boxes full of paperbacks that are now prime candidates for leaving behind the next time I move. I’ve replaced probably dozens of them with digital – but nowhere near all. Plus a box or two of PC CD-ROMs (mostly games, old copies of Office and other software, etc.) that I haven’t touched in a decade.
Oh and CD collection too.
Oh, I’m not even counting vinyl and cd’s.
Vinyl? Hipster!
*lights torch and grabs pitchfork*
I was buying vinyl long before hipsters existed.
I had maybe 10 items of vinyl in my life. Don’t miss them at all. My other collections were/are probably mid-sized. I look at some of my friends’ and SMDH at their walls of media.
Stuff is overrated, I was a pack rat for many years, the euphoria that comes with being able to just toss that shit that at one time you would have held on to for decades is exponentially better than any pain one might feel from the extremely rare times when you really do regret having giving something up years ago.
I just moved into a 3rd story apartment with no elevator… I tried to throw the useless stuff away first, with uncertain results.
Every comment in this thread has either “I” or “We” in it. You guys….
You know who else wrote something about himself?
The Zodiac Killer?
Which um isn’t me.
Ted?
You think I’m the Zodiac Killer??
Makes perfect sense.
Who else could it be Ted?
You ever see Ted and the Zodiac Killer at the same place and time?
All of Ted’s comments here over the years, not once has he ever denied being the Zodiac Killer.
JB makes a good point. I also never saw Ted S. deny assassinating Kennedy.
Not even once… tsk tsk tsk
I did not assassinate Kennedy – I was too busy starting a small African war.
des Cartes ?
“You Think, therefore I am”
De Tulpa.
Walt Whitman?
I. C. Wiener?
OK. If you touch my collection of books, someone will injury you. (See, no “I” or “We”).
You want me to speak for you?
Battle of New Orleans 1815 – War of 1812 DOCUMENTARY
Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi militia kinling the shit out of British: a very nice day.
Props to 50 Choctaw on our side for some reason.
Obligatory
Original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL7XS_8qgXM
Harrison destroys Tecumseh at Thames 1813
Having viewed a few clips from this movie, they go along and display the propaganda of the native’s peaceful communistic society that was ruined by the white, european invader, as if the native tribes were not constantly at war with one another and as barbaric as anyone else in history. Anyway, I have never really heard or read much about the Tecumseh and other native confederacies aspect of the War of 1812.
This ought to be interesting.
Alexander the Great: An Animated Classic
Come join Alexander the Great on a journey full of epic battles where he learns that the value of forgiveness is more powerful than revenge.
I wanted to be Alexandar the Great when I grew up.
I never saw what was so great about him.
He was a great general.
There were a lot of great generals – many of them also managed to build something that lasted past their 33rd birthday.
33 was pretty old back then.
Not really. A lot of people mistake “Life Expectancy at birth” for an expiration date. A lot of those historical numbers were grossly skewed by the infant mortality rate. If you reached adulthood, you have a decent chance of reaching what we would regard as senior citizen age. Rome had no problem requiring Consuls be in their 40’s.
Well, he did start as king of a minor power, then conquered Babylon, the greatest military empire of its day, as well as Egypt, all of the Levant, Afghanistan, and parts of India, establishing the largest empire in history to that point, all by the time he was 33. But yeah, other than that, he was kind of a slouch.
Sounds like an asshole to me.
Babylon was just a city. He did take over Persia, which ruled both Babylon and Egypt, but he did so by killing the king, claiming the crown and leaving the organization and officials in place (except those that rebelled). Egypt loved him because they hated the persians, and he played to their cultural norms regarding the Pharoh.
But I thought you were a libertarian and such overseas ventures were a bad thing.
Lastly, sometimes the arguments set off by a joke are funnier than the joke ever was.
Im not clicking unless its hentai
Tres as a kid.
What IS is with those people and underwear?
Thats worthy of an article.
I haven’t submitted anything since September. The two I’ve started were: How To Think Like an Idiot and A Conversation Between My Balls and a Feminist. I’ll get around to finishing one of them sooner or later.
Next up. Pompey learns to butcher less and finds he loves it!
It’s not pizza but it’s tasty.
Today’s dinner – Ciabatta rolls, split, layered with red sauce, pepperoni and sliced mozzerella, baked until melty and threatening to drip on the bottom of the oven.
Verbal threat or a menacing gesture?
I’d have to say gesture, since it was reaching for the edge of the pan, and I used a baking sheet without a lip.
Sounds good!
A modern version of the English muffin pizza.
Awesome.
I got my packet of doubanjiang in the mail, and I’m simmering some mapo tofu right now. Just waiting for the rice to finish cooking, then I’ll stir in some fresh green onions, plate it up, and dig in. I tasted a few pieces already; it’s awesome.
Clever girl.
“A man has been charged with attempted kidnap after he chased a woman into a karate studio and was subdued by an instructor”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46769668
Who was then eaten by a velociraptor?
So far, nobody, but I did recently electrify their fence.
That cop who shot the Chihuahua’s specialty.
https://twitter.com/KATVNews/status/1081636899326971905
Chihuahua’s are assholes though.
True, but they usually respond well to a swift kick to the ribcage.
Why do cops have a boner for shooting dogs?
Dogs outright challenge their authority. And dont have a gun.
As much as I hate stereotypes, I would say that small dog people are the worst dog people.
1/ they are reluctant to discipline
2/ they reinforce bad behavior by scooping up the animal and reassuring/reinforcing it (often as the behavior continues)
3/ they often babytalk instead of correcting; 20 point deduct if using pet’s name during verbal correction
Bigger dogs are easier to kick and harder to scoop up . . . I suspect that’s most of it.
My wife and I often observe that, if our 70 pound dog acted the way half the small dogs do, people would call the cops.
Somewhat relevant: people who use the term furbaby unironically should be waterboarded.
Agreed. The flipside of our holiday card was a picture of our dog, but there are limits.
Chihuahuas might be assholes, but if a grown-ass man feels threatened by a 9 lb. dog he has no business being a cop.
You can’t read all people, but dood looks like he’s a highly frustrated something . . . something what I don’t know . . . closeted/posing ? Theories, anyone?
His head remind me of the end of my ex’s vibrator…..
The only time I’ve been bitten by a dog was by a gods damned Shih-Tzu. The fucker jumped up to bite me on the knee. I’ve been threatened by Huskies, Doberman, and Wolfhounds.
Fuck mop-dogs.
I got bit in the ass by a Doberman when I was like 7. Only time a dog bit me. If that happened today cops might have been called dogs might have been shot. But back then it was just ‘don’t sit down for while’.
This really pisses me off. What a colossal piece of shit.
I’d feel bad if I shot a dog that was actually threatening, especially if it was right in front of its owner. That guy doesn’t GAF at all.
Allegedly perfect round booties, since Q late to the party:
https://thesexier.com/perfect-round-booties-pics/
P.S. 12 comes closest to Ms Prolefeed’s booty.
Regardless, feel free to vote in this. Assuming you like pin-ups. I took no picture with the winner last year, but have several with the winner the year before.
I’m not in Louisiana, but ma brain is still stuck in work music mode.
Have some Doug Kershaw and turn it up to 11
Just go ahead and Rub it In.
If you have to do it yourself, that’s just your bad luck
A song I’m surprised hasn’t been banned due to allusions to slavery.
Its a hit in Tripoli right now
And you must be high
I sir, am not high. Just touch me, turn me on.
You need a ride
Played the David Allen Coe version today. I’m tagging out except muttering Charlie Pride and Marty Stewart under my breath.
Fuck you Dallas Cowboys, Now I have to post this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbH60wCO-Yw
At least Beto lost otherwise this would be up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJhye3bKIlI
Warning: Use a headset if at work.
When the United States invaded England
Cool thanks
This guy’s Youtube channel could be more legit than the History channel, just by not being the History channel.
Another great link from Rebel Scum. Very good. I subscribed.
In weird news of the day:
So, maybe this is already old news around here. At least among the sportzballz fans. Or maybe sportzballz fans these days only care about foozballz teams who have made the playoffs in the last 20 years. Anyway, the Raiders new GM is Mike Mayock. No, I didn’t just make that up. My only question is, will Chucky let Mayock tell Mark Davis about the haircut thing, or not? I mean I’m sure the jokes and laughs never get old, but just curious. We know Chuckie won’t actually let Mayock do anything else, so just curious if he can actually tell Davis how he has a billion dollar sports team and all, and he can just walk into a Great Clips and get a haircut for $15 that makes him not look like he should be starring in an episode of dumb and dumber.
So people are saying to me wait… what? Mayock has never been a GM? Yeah, I know, it’s the Raiders.
Heard that last week, old news. He has been very good at mock drafts, better than Mel Kiper anyhow.
I like the guy, don’t get me wrong and I think he’s one of the best TV draft analysts, for what that matters. But he has no GM experience. Not that it matters, Chucky is running the show. The Raiders, are of course, getting mocked mercilessly for yet another unorthodox move. I just head this today, I really am far distant to foozball compared to just a few years ago. The PC stuff has all but ruined it for me.
Except for the crony maneuvering that leads them to Vegas, I actually think they are doing a lot of things right. When anyone is detached from the game and playing it like Madden, this is exactly what you do. Trade for picks, suck so you get high picks and rebuild.
I think the Vegas move is maybe the best thing they are doing. The Oakland Coliseum is the worst in the league by far. It’s below sea level and turns to instant quagmire every time it rains. Did I also mention it’s in Oakland?
I don’t disagree Oakland sucks, but the whole ‘moving because the city won’t pay for a stadium’ thing is getting really fucking disgusting with the NFL.
Yup.
Yes, but in this situation, it’s a little different, the stadium is actually shit.
If they pulled that shit in Europe there’d be riots.
And Mark Davis can’t got to SuperCuts a few times and come up with the cash for a new stadium?
ISTR that Davis is by far the “poorest” owner in the league.
GB doesn’t eve have an owner, so…
True, GB is a special case.
Apparently Dan Rooney isn’t a billionaire either (though that’s a few years old).
Mark Davis drives hundreds of miles to get that haircut.
https://deadspin.com/mark-davis-travels-500-fucking-miles-to-look-like-that-1734022886
Meh, when you’re rich you get to stop giving a shit.
or you try too hard
Hey! His hair is alive and has a mind of it’s own!
Crickey, that is both funny and scary demented. I remember the first time I ever saw Mark Davis. I thought, wow, Al Davis has a retarded son.
The original article from 2014 is well worth reading in full:
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/13735322/are-mark-davis-raiders-leaving-oakland
Mark comes across as a genial and a low-grade lunatic.
‘Mark comes across as genial and a low-grade lunatic’, that is.
2020!!1?!
Missed playing this on New Years eve, meh this is close enough.
Bolton not quite as stupid as Obama
If chemical weapons were to be used, “a lot of options would be on the table … if they don’t heed the lessons of those two strikes the next one will be more telling,” Bolton said.
At least he avoided the inevitable humiliation that drawing red lines brings.
Fire Starting: No Matches, No Lighter – The American Frontier
How is it that so many people look like Chris Elliott
It’s a neatly chiseled, well groomed, drop dead handsome face!
+1 dying every week
What, no bow drill?
It’s not autocracy if he does what we like.
US President Donald Trump has said he could declare a national emergency to build a US-Mexico border wall without the approval of Congress.
I have two kinds of problems: the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent – Eisenhower
If they pass a anything without spending cuts, he’s lost, even if he gets his wall. If they pass an actual budget with cuts that pay for the wall, he is re-elected.
No one even knows what a spending cut looks like these days. And the only ones seriously talking about it, are libertarians. And we don’t decide elections. Sure, Republicans, and even Democrats now (lol), talk about it, but they’re not serious.
I’m putting my money on “bluster.”
What? “Bluster”? From _this_ president ‽
WTF is he talking about? Building the wall takes money and Congress has to appropriate it.
Oh, I’m sure there is some shitty Cold War-era legislation or executive order that allows the President to spend money in vaguely defined “continuance of government” conditions.
As Dean Wormer said, “There is a little-known codicil in the Faber constitution giving the Dean unlimited powers to preserve order in times of emergency.
I don’t doubt you are both right. I’d also bet he can, at best, build a very small part of the wall before running out of money.
I don’t think I’ll visit the upper pennensula of Michigan during my trip. I just didn’t like the thought of two border crossings so close to each other.
That’s too bad. It’s really beautiful. And the copper mining history is everywhere.
Another time perhaps. Maybe when I don’t have to deal with the Canukistani border.
And lots of Yoopers.
The Vikings came over here about 1000 years ago and mined out all the copper in the UP, with the help of alien technology. I learned that on the History Channel.
Pasties are Alien traveling food.
Don’t be silly.
It wasn’t the Vikings, it was the Polish.
To be serious, the Copper Culture of Wisconsin/UP is one of the anomalies of history. A culture that mined and refunded copper into tools, the only ones in the Americas, who then just disappeared and the technology died died with them. It is an interesting area of study that is severely lacking in academic research.
Well, you didn’t expect they could compete with alien technology wielding Vikings, did you?
I’ve read some non-academic ideas that the Copper Culture were Phoneticians, because I guess a native group that was on the verge of the Bronze Age being killed off by their stone age rivals doesn’t fit into the noble savage story line.
Gee a constantly warring set of tribal societies went to war with the outgroup and wiped them out.
To be fair, the archaeological record isn’t clear why this one group on the verge of the bronze age vanished. Which is why it is so interesting, and that only seems to draw crackpots to the speculation. But I’m guessing the done got kilt by folks that did’t take a shine to them. No Phoneticians or aliens needed.
Well it is the simplest explaination, and given how much damage the still stone-age descendants did to even more technologically advanced foes, it’s not hard to see happening.
Yes. But given this is the highest sophistication of metal work in the new world, centuries before the goldwork in Central and South America, and it get’s ignored by the mainstream science on the subject makes it all the more intriguing.
It’s only one border crossing unless you cross back over.
My route continues along the north coast of Superior.
So, continue along the southern coast of Superior. You don’t want to spend too much time in Canada, unless you’re a socialist!
It’s supposed to be a circumnavigation of the great lakes.
What ever, you do you, just hit me up for a beer on the way.
+1 Pictured Rocks
Don’t be controlled by your ‘little head’
A good song named Little Head.
This Seattle/Dallas game is everything the earlier one wasn’t.
Texans got thrashed.
Football ended last weekend /American /Packer fan. You must be one of those Ruzzian spies!
Pats fan. Feels like they stumbled into the 2 seed, somehow. We’ll see. I have nothing to complain about in terms of sports championships.
Incidentally, I’ve always liked the Pack. This was a tough year for you folks.
Well, for good or ill, we may be be connected next year.
They’re sniffing around McDaniels, I assume?
That’s the word, but then again McCarthy was a surprise when he got the job, fuck if I know.
There are still Clemson fans to silence
Football hasn’t been worth a shot in seven years for me. On the bright side, UVA kicked the living shit outta Florida State in basketball today.
The WW2 Towers That Defeated the Soviets
How ’bout some sideboob?
http://archive.vn/xoi2I
2, 8, 13, 16, 27.
Are you one of those guys who will literally explode if you don’t evacuate semen on schedule? (I saw that in a porno)
It’s a real condition!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVLyfVkMAKg
13: attainable amateur
Best of Bundy – Shoe Store Customers
Songs that make me weepy, number 1 in a series – Jimmy Dean’s Big Bad John
Songs that make me weepy, number 2 in a series – Toby Hughes and Chip Dockery – The Ballad Of Cobra Seven
Songs that make me weepy, number 3 in a series – Cat Stevens’ Trouble