STEVE SMITH SUNDAY EVENING CASCADIA LINKS

 

STEVE SMITH, ESQ.

 

STEVE SMITH PONDER CASCADIA INDEPENDENCE MUCH LATELY.  NOT WANT BE PART OF ANYWHERE ELSE. COULD BE FREE… SO STEVE SMITH GIVE LINKS FOR CASCADIA. HOPE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE LIKE LINKS. IF NOT, SEE STEVE SMITH TO COMPLAIN. HIM HAVE “RESOLUTION” FOR YOU…

  • YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE CAUSE PAIN IN SEATTLE? STEVE SMITH LAUGH AT “Officials say tearing down the viaduct, damaged in a 2001 earthquake, will allow Seattle to reimagine its waterfront with new parks, paths and other amenities.”
  • STEVE SMITH WORRY ABOUT “SEATTLE-IZATION” TOO. HIM HAVE PLAN TO AVOID IT. YES, PLAN INVOLVE RAPE. AUTHOR GET SO CLOSE TO CAUSE, BUT ONLY DESCRIBE SYMPTOM.
  • FLAPPY HEAD PEOPLE START LEARN ECONOMIC IRON LAWS? LOOK LIKE NO – “The NDP government has limited rent increases to 2.5 per cent per year, starting this month. A speculation and vacancy tax was also introduced, aimed at moderating the housing market and creating more homes for renters.”
  • STEVE SMITH LAUGH AT DUDLEY DO-RITES! OF COURSE, IF AMERICA COPS, WOULD HAVE SHOT DOG OR STORE OWNER OR BYSTANDER.
STEVE SMITH LEARNED RAPESQUATCH

FREE CASCADIA!

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261 responses to “STEVE SMITH SUNDAY EVENING CASCADIA LINKS”

  1. Not Adahn

    If anyone can make Cascadia happen, it is STEVE SMITH.

    1. But does Cascadia have sheeting action?

      1. That would be Southern Cascadia, where the rednecks live.

  2. Yusef drives a Kia

    Moving a house in a Kia is tough
    First

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      Or second…..

    2. Tulip

      That is tough. How many trips are you going to make?

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        I’m at 22 right now, I had use of a truck last night for the big stuff, maybe 20 more trips,folding back seats go aot

        1. Tulip

          Wow, I’m sorry. Glad you could get a truck for at least part of it.

          1. Yusef drives a Kia

            I’m exhausted, and have 2 days left

          2. straffinrun

            Just keep imagining how good those tall cans will taste when you’re done.

          3. Drake

            Imagine how tired the Kia is.

          4. DEG

            Hang in there.

            Enjoy some beer when you’re done.

        2. That costs less than two trips* and a U-haul rental?

          *Two trips so you can return the van rather than paying extra for one-way dropoff which, as I understand it, is quite expensive from CA.

          1. Tres Cool

            …cause nobody is bringing them back, amirite ?

          2. Chafed

            Yes you are.

          3. Yusef drives a Kia

            Going into storage right now and its close by, troubleis I need another 10 x 10, I had no idea how much crap my wife drug around…

          4. Tulip

            Oh, that’s better. I was thinking you were going to Arizona and just….wtf. that’s horrible.

    3. Rebel Scum

      I feel ya. In college I moved in and out multiple times using a Honda Civic. Somehow I packed everything I needed/wanted in my dorm with that ’98 coupe in one trip. Needless to say I probably and grossly exceeded the recommended cargo weight limit.

    4. Just change your username to Yusef drives a Yukon.

    5. The Last American Hero

      I thought with the money you saved on car payments you could afford to hire movers.

  3. peachy rex

    And of course, it’s all Amazon’s fault. Thanks for the insight, Seattle Times.

    1. Winston

      Well it is has the same owner as WaPO…

  4. Man, did pick the wrong game to watch and get drunk to and the game to sleep it off through or what?

    1. Rhywun

      That sentence is drunk.

  5. STEVE SMITH WORRY ABOUT “SEATTLE-IZATION” TOO. HIM HAVE PLAN TO AVOID IT.

    Locusts gonna swarm.

  6. Winston

    DUDLEY DO-RITES

    Local Cops aren’t mounties.

    I’m teh disappoint at the lack of that Alberta cop who ran over a deer.

    1. Jokes, how do they work?

      1. Winston

        New Insane Clown Posse song?

        I know pedantry. Not sure how many know the difference between Mounties and local police in Canada? Or the OPP for that matter..

  7. Winston

    An NDP government being statist and creating new taxes and regulations? What a shock.

    “The NDP government has limited rent increases to 2.5 per cent per year, starting this month. A speculation and vacancy tax was also introduced, aimed at moderating the housing market and creating more homes for renters.”

    1. Headline from the future: “High Housing costs blamed on greedy landlords and shortage of available properties”

      1. Rhywun

        Build more affordable housing, duh!

        1. straffinrun

          Same as raising taxes to build more affordable day care centers. That’ll solve the population decline.

      2. Gustave Lytton

        Subheadline: landlords raise rents exactly 2.5% every year, even if inflation is less.

        1. Rhywun

          My rent goes up 5 to 7 percent every year – that’s with so-called “rent regulations” which in practice are actually cleverly designed to ass-fuck people in their prime earning years. I really need to move.

  8. straffinrun

    There are clothing stores and hair salons nearby, she noted, so police aren’t sure where the heads came from.

    Maybe from the clothing sores or hair salons nearby?

  9. Desecrate the sabbath with these hot ladies.

    http://archive.li/0dmmO

    Many fine choices. 4 wins the tits award. 71 jointly wins the booty award. 23 wins the good times award.

    1. Ownbestenemy

      3, 5 and 10 to go please

    2. blackjack

      they are magical, mystical women!

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18OT8gUDwFc

    3. Heroic Mulatto

      Desecrate the sabbath with these hot ladies

      You know that was 2 nights ago.

      1. Just pandering to the majority.

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          Next thing, you’ll be putting ketchup on your hot dogs or serve your guests only a watercress and cucumber sandwich when they visit.

          1. “you’ll be putting ketchup on your hot dogs”

            I’m *not* a monster, sir.

          2. Spudalicious

            What’s the problem with that?

          3. Idk. I put ketchup and horseradish on mine.

          4. *glares balefully*

          5. Heroic Mulatto

            Other than being the pedophilia of food? It’s probably the most goyisch culinary practice outside of cooking with bacon.

          6. CPRM

            Fuck that. I put ketchup on hotdogs, brats and kilbasa.

          7. Rhywun

            Forgetting for the moment how disgusting that is… I would like to know why, of all the delicious German sausages America could have appropriated, we chose to popularize one that tastes like ass.

          8. CPRM

            Ketchup is delicious. And which sausage are you talkin bout?

          9. Mojeaux

            Brats. Kielbasa is Polish.

          10. Rhywun

            OK, you did mention brats, which are familiar here but not venerated the way that disgusting hot dogs are.

            So yeah – any of the various Bratwursts, Weißwurst, Knackwurst, etc.

          11. Rhywun

            To clarify: hot dogs are a type of Vienna sausage that became popularized in Frankfurt and are disgusting. The other varieties I listed are mostly delicious.

          12. CPRM

            I bet your mostly familiar with those skinless abominations than a good hot dog.

  10. Lachowsky

    Its finally here. Woohoo. Delivered this evening.

    My newest toy https://imgur.com/gallery/9RirEQL

    1. Fun! What are you gonna do with it?

      1. straffinrun

        Mass graves?

        1. Lachowsky

          Nah. Trackhoes are much better at digging.

          1. straffinrun

            You make the victims dig the trench and you just plow it in. Are you new to the party, Comrade?

      2. Lachowsky

        I have about 6 acres of coal dumps on my property that I’m going to clean up. After that, the 60 acres right next to me that my father bought and that I cut hay off of is about 40% grown up mess. I’m gonna clear everything on it but the big oaks.

        After that, I dunno. Probably rebuild the easement road on my place. Take it to my dads and do some work for him. Try and hire myself out after I get proficient with it.

        Sell it. Keep it for the apocalypse or a graboid invasion.

        Really the possibilities are endless.

          1. A few people in Granby proposed a yearly celebration of the incident to generate tourism. The idea was rejected,

            Those people are what’s wrong with this country. ‘The idea was rejected’? by whom, I’m gonna hold Marvin Heemeyer Day whether the town likes it or not. June 4th 2019 at The Hyperbole’s place BYOB and hotdish and/or pizza.

          2. Lachowsky

            That man in an American hero and June 4th is my birthday anyway.

            I’m all for a celebration.

      3. He can use it to exact revenge on the corrupt sheriff who railroads Lach’s son on trumped-up drug charges after Lach beats up a pimp who’s abusing a whore.

        1. Sean

          You’re more advanced than Trump on this super advanced chess game…

    2. AlmightyJB

      That will be fun!

    3. Not an Economist

      So what is the 0-60 time.

      1. Lachowsky

        Never. I believe it tops out at about 5.5 or so.

    4. Rhywun

      I was expecting a firearm – that’s not a firearm.

      1. Sean

        Seriously.

        And ?? for serious equipment.

      2. DEG

        Same here.

      3. Lachowsky

        It’s a platform for mounting firearms…

        1. DEG

          I like it. It works.

        2. Chafed

          For the A Team, sure.

    5. egould310

      I want to vacation at your place. Get drunk and drive the cat all afternoon.

    6. Grumbletarian

      Killdozer Beginner’s Kit?

  11. Tulip

    Still snowing and bus service suspended. I WANT A SNOW DAY!

    1. straffinrun

      Today is 成人の日 (coming of age day). Day off for us. Get your Tulip kimono on and join us.

        1. Tres Cool

          so basically an asian quinceañera ?

          1. straffinrun

            Quick google. 15?

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        I have a tulip coloreds T shirt, will that work?

        1. Not Adahn

          coloreds T shirt

          RAAAACIST!!

          1. Spudalicious

            “T-shirts of color” is the proper term.

          2. Yusef drives a Kia

            Autocorrect is incorrect?

    2. Tulip

      SNOW DAY! WOOT!

    1. There’s a reason they’re called rape cages.

      1. Winston

        I wonder when prison rape jokes started to become mainstream? I know the Shawshank Redemption is very clear on this (I know it was a flop at the time but now…) but I think it predates that.

        1. ruodberht

          Airplane was 14 years before Shawshank, and I’m sure you could find other references as easily. Your intuitive idea of the time frame is wayyy off.

          1. Winston

            Well I had a feeling it is a lot older than the 1990s but I didn’t know for sure.

            What was the joke they made? I don’t recall it.

          2. ruodberht

            Turkish prison

          3. Winston

            Oh yeah, how could I forget that! It was however a reference to foreign prisons. When did people start cracking jokes about American prisons? And no I don’t think Shawshank was the first to depict US prisons that way either.

          4. Akira

            The Midnight Express was in the ’70s.

            I actually got curious one time (not like that!) about prison rape in the past and how it was dealt with or acknowledged. I couldn’t find any mentions of it prior to the mid-1900s. Maybe it’s one of those things that was “too horrible” to discuss?

          5. blackjack

            Clyde barrow claimed ( or at least insinuated) that he was prison raped in the early 1930s.

          6. slumbrew

            I’m fairly certain Carl Panzram wrote about raping in prison in the late 20’s.

          7. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

            Carl Panzram

            Holy shit, but there was a lot of male rapin’ going on back then. That guy was a real shit-heel, but I still feel bad for his childhood.

          8. slumbrew

            Jocko Willink was reading from Panzram’s memoir recently.

            That’s some heavy shit.

    2. Tres Cool

      If I was locked up? Prolly would.

      1. blackjack

        That’s a lot better than what most of the other inmates are gonna get.

  12. Winston

    Remember Ken Schultz? One of his arguments was that libertarianism is inherently about rejection of parental authority.

    On one hand I see what he is saying: the ideal is independence and moving out and making your own life once you are willing to do so. However there are some issues like how it assumes that everyone is supposed to hate their family which is a bit too atomistic. This also is a bit too close to the stereotype that libertarians are just angsty teens mad that Mom and Dad want them to go to school and not stay home and get high. Also rebellion against the adults have happened in the past yet haven’t led to the libertarian moment (see the 1920s or 1960s). Then you have the very practical issue that doesn’t this mean that children of libertarians should rebel and become statists?

    1. straffinrun

      Not sure how to respond. As Ken or myself?

    2. I think there’s a difference between rejection of parental authority and evolving into an adult relationship with your parents, which necessarily reduces the amount of parental authority.

      1. straffinrun

        Parental authority is legitimate, for one.

      2. Winston

        I assume you are suggesting that “evolving into an adult relationship with your parents” is not necessarily a “rejection of parental authority”?

    3. Heroic Mulatto

      On this topic, why would you use Ken Schultz as your exemplar, as opposed to the much more well-known and influential Stefan Molyneux?

      1. Winston

        I haven’t read Molyneux for that matter but I have read Schultz and many members of this site have expressed dislike of their parents.

        And is Molyneux even a libertarian these days? I have read things online that he wants people to get cut off from their family and how this has been criticized as too cult-like but I haven’t read his articles where he appears to say these things.

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          I have read things online that he wants people to get cut off from their family and how this has been criticized as too cult-like but I haven’t read his articles where he appears to say these things.

          He tended to pontificate on those views more during his overly long and ponderous podcasts/Youtube videos.

          And is Molyneux even a libertarian these days?

          I wouldn’t classify him as such. He seems to have moved from being a heterodox Objectivist-type to Identitarian, which is sad, as he had interesting things to say formerly. Now his views are bog-standard Youtube crank without even the benefit of being one of those pretty blondes who says nationalist things.

          1. straffinrun

            He’s gone from taking a principled stance against state power to using state power to limit future state power. It would be one thing if he were refusing to punch right because the left is a bigger threat (my personal opinion), but he didn’t need to join the identiarians to fight the far left.

          2. Heroic Mulatto

            How can you argue with this?

            Hi there, I’ve noticed your boyfriend is black. This angers me because I can’t get a girlfriend. Most people say it’s due to my unpleasant personality but I know it’s really because the Jews are conspiring against white people or something.

            This somehow involves white people being in relationships with other races. I have no fucking clue how this is supposed to help them. I mean wouldn’t it make more sense just to wipe out everyone who isn’t Jewish? How does race mixing help them seize control? Wait aren’t they already supposed to be in control? You know what? It doesn’t matter.

            The point is, I’m a virgin and it’s not my fault, it’s yours… or the Jews’… or black people’s? Anyway, I blame women like you for the destruction of our race, yada yada. (I think I was meant to say a thing about coal here, but I forget how it goes)

            I would leave a rape threat, but last time I did that, the girl’s boyfriend punched me. He was from Taiwan as well, which really pissed me off, because Asian men are supposed to be genetically inferior. But Asian women are better than white women? How does that work?

            Anyway, I’m going to go back to watching hentai. I used to watch porn with real people but I was mentally scarred when, during this one video, this black guy walked in, unzips his pants and starts face fucking the girl. I was so fucking traumatized. You find out latter the black guy is the girl’s boyfriend but just makes it even worse. I just wanted to see a hot young white girl get fucked by her dad. I mean, yeah… the video had “threesome” in title, but I was expecting her brother to join in or something, not her Zulu warrior boyfriend. Thank God there are no black people in hentai.

            P.S. If any of my brethren see this post; do any of you guys know about any petitions to lower the age of consent or make child marriage legal? I’m looking to sign as many as I can. One of my little sister’s friends is really cute but I’m afraid to make any advances because she might tell her parents and I don’t want to get in trouble.

          3. straffinrun

            Don’t even wanna know where you found that.

          4. blackjack

            Damn, now we aren’t even safe if just don’t click your links….

          5. Winston

            I wonder how Schultz’s views align with the existence of the extended family…

    4. The Bearded Hobbit

      tl;dr

    5. Rhywun

      One of his arguments was that libertarianism is inherently about rejection of parental authority.

      That might be the stupidest thing I’ve ever read about libertarianism. You could use the same argument about literally anything and it would be just as meaningless.

      1. Akira

        Does that guy think that the relationship between a government and the people is supposed to be akin to that of the relationship between parents and children? That seems pretty far on the statist side.

        1. straffinrun

          Too bad “that guy” isn’t here to discuss this in more detail.

      2. Winston

        Well Schultz does like his broad generalizations. *expects people to bring up times they think I’ve been guilty of the same*

        You could use the same argument about literally anything and it would be just as meaningless.

        True, “Fuck you Mom and Dad” can easily justify being a unemployed layabout or being a commie.

      3. C. Anacreon

        My son is 16, a junior in high school and self-describes as libertarian. Wants to major in Economics in college and loves talking about the benefits of free markets and the absurdity of Marxism. Far as I know he doesn’t hate me.

        My biggest concern is him getting a social justice warrior for his college admission interviewer.

    6. I have a great relationship with my parents.

      Libertarianism flows pretty easily from “don’t hurt people or take their stuff.” It’s a concept that most children understand, but many people forget once they reach adulthood.

    7. DenverJ

      I think that, if you really want to know, perhaps you should go to TOS and ask Ken, instead of putting words in his mouth and then asking other people to also put words in his mouth.
      But that’s just me.

  13. Spudalicious

    “Yeah, Doc? I think you might want to use a bigger needle to draw blood today, it might be a little thick. And my triglycerides might be a bit high you see because this was a Division Playoff weekend. My intake yesterday consisted of Poutine, smoked babyback ribs, beer and whiskey. I promise to be better starting today. Promise.”

    – Me talking to my doctor in the morning.

    1. Not Adahn

      I’m currently on the whiskey course. It’s amazing how being a little bit buzzed can transform bourbon into candy.

    2. Tres Cool

      I see mine end of week, which is why Im giving my liver at least 7 days off

      1. C. Anacreon

        Try taking Liveraid vitamin tablets every day this week. Should give you a nice improvement on liver function tests, which are a pretty standard part of any doctor’s regular physical exam blood testing. Should be easy to find at any major pharmacy.

    3. straffinrun

      Why do people apologize to their doctors for doing unhealthy stuff? Also, why do people spend the week or month before a health check trying to get in shape? I go on a meth bender the week before my health checks so that the doc knows my bottom limit.

      1. Tres Cool

        Oh, mine is fully aware of all my vices. Which is why Im hoping my weight-loss overshadows my total cholesterol, which I predict will be expressed in scientific notation.

        1. If you’ve been doing keto, you may be surprised. When I started doing it, my cholesterol actually went down in spite of eating shitloads of fatty meat.

          1. C. Anacreon

            Yes, there are several good studies out there showing a low carb, high fat diet often reduces serum cholesterol and triglycerides. Remember it’s your body that makes the fat cholesterol in your blood, the fat and cholesterol in your food is broken down in your digestive system.

      2. Spudalicious

        I don’t change my lifestyle before going in. I want to see what the real deal is, so that I know if I need to make minor adjustments before I have no choice but to make major adjustments.

        1. Tres Cool

          Im doing the same, backwards. I know my triglycerides are really high, and thats with a nightly cocktail or 8.

        2. straffinrun

          Exactly.

      3. I do rails off the nurse’s tits while I’m waiting for the doc to come in.

        1. Tres Cool

          /Ill have what he’s having

        2. Is your doctor accepting new patients?

        3. Spudalicious

          I’ll pass on the rails but I’ve had a years long crush on the nurses tits. And the rest of her for that matter.

  14. Rebel Scum

    Young professionals leaving over high cost of housing

    They’ll move to a new area and vote for the same gov’t policies that cause higher housing costs.

    1. “They’ll move to a new area and vote for the same gov’t policies that cause higher housing costs.”

      QFT.

      Self-awareness is not a prog’s strong point.

    2. Rhywun

      There is that; and there is also the fact that lots of well-off young people moving into a concentrated area will raise prices. There’s more going on there than just stoopid voting patterns.

      1. Supply and demand is MYTH!

  15. People need to stop bitching and just quit using Twitter.

    https://www.wweek.com/news/2019/01/11/portland-conservative-talk-radio-host-lars-larson-got-12-hour-twitter-ban-for-tweet-about-recent-police-shooting/

    You know their ideology and that they’re not a neutral platform. Let them degenerate into a pure echo chamber. Who fucking cares.

    1. Winston

      You know their ideology and that they’re not a neutral platform. Let them degenerate into a pure echo chamber. Who fucking cares.

      Libertarians of a decade ago have a sad.

    2. Heroic Mulatto

      Because isn’t not actually about getting a desired result; it’s about bitching, and whining, and owning the libs. “Conservative” is the new “Progressive”.

      You know, something, something hunting monsters and staring into the abyss.

      1. ^^

        Some of us have been saying for years that the right should use the tactics of the left. This is the result.

        I’m reconsidering my opinion on the subject given how pathetic they’ve become.

        1. Winston

          Problem is the left has big business, the MSM, The Deep State, Academia, Teacher’s Unions, etc. on their side to give to use their bitching and whining to some practical effect.

          1. Heroic Mulatto

            And yet, Trump was elected, right-wing nationalist populism is on the rise pretty much everywhere. If the Left truly commands those colossi, it is clear that they have feet of clay.

          2. Winston

            True but I get the feeling that Trumpism has not exactly accomplished much or anything long-term. I get the feeling that in 2020 the US will get far-left Democrats in full power which would mean Trump was just a flash-in-the-pan. Like Coolidge, the Do-Nothing Congress and Reaganism (the rhetorical kind that is).

          3. Heroic Mulatto

            I get the feeling that in 2020 the US will get far-left Democrats in full power which would mean Trump was just a flash-in-the-pan.

            2020 is too pessimistic, but 2024? A certainty.

          4. Winston

            I thought Weed, Mexicans, Ass-Sex and NAFTA would bring us the libertarian moment?

          5. Winston

            So does Donald Trump prove the Great Man Theory was right, sorta? That men are important than ideas? We were going to have the libertarian moment until Trump.

          6. Winston

            Personally I think the “We were going to have a libertarian Moment until Trump” is less proof of the Great Man theory but really that the Libertarian Moment was not in fact happening.

          7. DenverJ

            Well, there’s that little thing about the make up of the SCOTUS for a generation…

          8. Winston

            Well, there’s that little thing about the make up of the SCOTUS for a generation…

            John Roberts says otherwise. Also court-packing.

          9. blackjack

            There’s hardly ever been a 3 term party run. Only twice in a hundred years. The republican was gonna win unless he was a retard. If he was a retard, then he’d only win if the dem was evil incarnate. Here we are.

          10. Heroic Mulatto

            Stupid vs. Evil is one of the classic conflicts in fiction reality.

    3. Here’s the thing: we’ve already seen what happens when a social platform goes full-prog. It’s called Tumblr. You know, the site that’s currently tying itself in knots trying to appease its un-appeasable users. They always eventually eat each other.

    4. ruodberht

      They did make their own platform. That got shut down.

      This criticism is dumb.

      1. I’m not suggesting they make their own platform; I’m suggesting either accept Twitter for what it is or get off it altogether. Its power only goes as far as its appeal. It’s pretty much universally known as a Left-wing platform so leave it alone. Why gripe about DU being a Left-wing message board? Just don’t use it.

        Twitter undermines itself by doing stuff like this, let them punch themselves out.

      2. Not an Economist

        Ever since Trump got elected the left has been more active in blocking people they disagree with from getting their message out. I think because Trump did not get his message out completely through normal channels, the left is trying to funnel all information through channels they control.

        1. Akira

          When I worked at an auto parts factory and a bad part would get to the customer, our managers would freak out and implement a bunch of rules to “guarantee that this would never happen again”.

          The Left is in that mode right now. They view Trump’s victory as something that never should have happened, and their focus is on making sure that someone like him never wins again and that people never hear what he has to say.

          1. Gustave Lytton

            The establishment republicans agree on that.

  16. Rebel Scum

    You’re paying a premium to live here: The cost of living has risen faster in Seattle than in any other American city.

    Dammed Republicans and their total domination/control of metropolitan areas.

    1. blackjack

      Yeah, they screwed up L.A. real bad too.

      1. Heck man, they completely ruined the whole state of California. Is there no limit to their power?!

  17. DEG

    Police officers don’t scare easily.

    Sure.

    1. Heroic Mulatto

      Why is he wearing a mu-mu?

    2. Lachowsky

      It’s the end of the world as we know it.

      And I feel fine.

    3. Winston

      OMG how has the world not collapsed?

      And if the Shutdown proof of the libertarian moment? I’m not sure how many people think that this proves that the government is too big rather than “why can’t they Get Things Done”?

  18. “There’s plenty of money in the world, it’s just in the wrong hands.”

    https://freebeacon.com/uncategorized/de-blasio-is-a-communist/

    A staggering amount of stupid contained in a single sentence there.

    1. Rhywun

      I’m focused on my job.

      LOL. He’s been running for president for most of his life. The good thing for the rest of the country is, he is a True Believer™ and therefore the damage he can cause is limited to the city where he managed to get out a whopping 17% of voters to support him.

    1. LJW

      As sweet mother of marketing. Is there anyway they could squeeze more ads into that webpage?

      1. Rhywun

        Holy shit. I have an ad-blocker which normally works really well and it does nothing on that page.

        1. Tres Cool

          I use uBlock origin, and I didnt get any of the pop-up variety. Just a ton of them embedded like its the Thrifty Nickel paper.

          1. Rhywun

            Me too and I didn’t see any pop-ups when I turned it off. Whatever that site is doing to sneak all those ads through, they need to market that shit. ‘Cause I literally see almost no ads anywhere else.

  19. Winston

    So I saw on the news tonight, In Canada, how the Shutdown is really bad for air traffic controllers so Canadians are donating them food.

    Also they reported on how the Saudis don’t like the Syria withdrawal. I guess we are supposed to listen to the Saudis again?

    1. Urthona

      They are not missing paychecks.

      1. Winston

        If that is true then the media was being dishonest. Wouldn’t be surprised.

        1. Urthona

          Well I guess it’s technically true, but also dishonest. There are some TSA members (nonessential) and some people who are part of the air traffic controllers union no longer getting paychecks.

          All TSA security agents, sky marshalls, and essential tower traffic controllers are working as normal.

  20. CPRM

    Finally home. Time for beer. I’ll check out the damn car tomorrow. GREAT GRAND WONDERFUL!

    1. Old Man With Candy

      Look on the bright side… oh, wait, Never mind.

      Sorry, homie.

      1. CPRM

        The bright side it died this morning when I was going to work at 11am, and not yesterday when I was going to work at 5am.

    2. straffinrun

      Good luck with the car. Have them check the thermostat first.

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        Compression my friend

      2. blackjack

        First, pull the codes.

      3. Tres Cool

        coolant in the oil, or the other way around is a good indicator….so is steam from your exhaust

      4. straffinrun

        Guess the “check the themostat” running joke doesn’t work in this case.

    3. Yusef drives a Kia

      Bummer

    4. CPRM

      I suppose now that I’m home with a keyboard, I can give a bit more details. It seemed to start Friday on my way to work, went through a drive through that took too damn long (15 minutes! ASsholes). The car has had problems with getting a rough idle when it sat still running for too long, so I always tried not to. I could by the time I got up to the window finally I thought I could smell antifreeze, switched my readout to check engine temp was in upper 180s traveled to about 190 and shut the car off.

      Work was just a few blocks away, so after I got my food I drove there and as I parked the oil pressure light flashed (didn’t stay on) before I shut it off. Checked oil and radiator overflow after work, both had decent levels. Drove home, drove to work the next day no issue. I was going to take it in to get checked this week or next.

      Left for work this morning, all was fine. As I went to get on the highway I thought I heard it knocking, turned down the radio and didn’t hear anything. Got on the highway and after I got up to speed I felt it lose some power, I planned to pull off next chance I got. As I put on the signal to get off the highway it started knocking bad, as I slowed down to get off I felt a ‘thunk’ as I turned off the highway the engine died.

      Fun!

      1. blackjack

        Yeah, never mind about the codes. That sounds pretty serious. Need to remove the plugs and see if it still spins. If it does, check for coolant coming out of the holes. Might have blown a head gasket and hydrolocked the motor. It don’t sound good. Good luck.

        1. CPRM

          Didn’t smell or or see coolant when I checked the oil, I’ve had cracked heads and bad gaskets before. But it was late and I had an early morning. Just took a a quick today look because it was cold out there and I was worried about getting to work, making calls for a ride, but I thought I could see some oil near the bottom of the engine and a bit on the ground. I’ll survey the damage tomorrow. Don’t have a good feeling about it.

  21. Yusef drives a Kia

    Bella decided to break a pane of glass to bark at things, now she’s limping with a cut, should be fine, stupid smart dog….

  22. Suthenboy

    noting on the new season of true detective?
    Sesason on finest tv made. season 2 a complete flop. Season 3? I have high ho;esbut low expectations.

    1. C. Anacreon

      Season one really surprised me because it revealed how talented Woody Harrelson is. We all knew the Lincoln spokesperson was good, but together with Woody they made it a tremendous series.

  23. Rebel Scum

    With the cold weather power-outage I experienced today (which, luckily, was only a few hours but the house temp dropped significantly) I am in the market for a means to heat the house in the event of a prolonged cold-weather power outage. Do any glibs have an opinion on this or any other ideas about keeping one’s home warm when the grid is down? (The alternative I was thinking of involves a generator and electric heater because the generator would also be useful in a warm weather outage. But cash flow is an issue and there is a possibility of a significant snowstorm here next week.)

    1. CPRM

      I burn tires in the house when the furnace doesn’t work. Libertopia bitches.

    2. straffinrun

      Those kerosene heaters are really popular here because of the lack of central heating. They really crank out the heat and the gas isn’t very expensive. I can’t see why not use one except for the fire hazard.

      1. When I was a kid (70’s) everyone had one of those, we had more power outages back then, I remember many nights with friends and family huddled around one in the living room, great times.

        1. Mojeaux

          #metoo

      2. The Bearded Hobbit

        I was stationed in the Azores when in the service and Aladdin brand kerosene heaters were widely used. The claim was that the blue flame of the Aladdin brand was safe for indoor use (implying that the yellow-flamed competitors were not). I still kept a window open while using them.

        Something using a bottle of propane might be another alternative.

        1. The Bearded Hobbit

          In fact, it occurs to me that in a pinch you could bring your gas grille inside for heat.

          Not charcoal, though!!!

    3. DenverJ

      Looks like it would heat a couple-three rooms, but your pipes would still be in danger of freezing if it gets too cold.

    4. Lachowsky

      Out door wood burning furnace https://imgur.com/a/mRye3

      This how I heat my house all winter. It’s a wood burning furnace that heats a tank of water. The water is circulated through a radiator that I put in my duct work. I have a thermostat installed that kicks on my central A/C blower when the house temp drops below set point.

      It would not work with no power, but a very very small generator would supply enough juice to run them water pump and the blower fan.

      I love it. It heats my entire house all winter to whatever temp I want no matter how cold it gets outside.

    5. I’ve thought about getting one of these.

      https://www.rocketheater.com

    6. kinnath

      In our house, the natural gas flows in the system even during wide spread electrical outagaes. So we have a generator that runs part of the house including the electronics and fans of the furnace. The power can go out for weeks, but the house is safe.

    1. Rhywun

      women didn’t really start shaving their pits and legs until the 1920s

      Admittedly I’m no expert in this stuff… yet I find this particular claim hard to believe.

      1. Akira

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_removal#History

        Yea, it’s definitely older than that.

        I think it’s an exaggeration of gender differences (like many gender-specific fashion habits). Men recognize less body hair as being feminine, and no body hair is viewed as ultra-feminine.

        1. Rhywun

          Yep. It’s not a mystery.

    2. Rhywun

      PS. That second picture is hilarious.

    3. straffinrun

      It don’t mind that. Close your eyes and imagine it’s a foursome.

  24. Winston

    https://www.patheos.com/blogs/templeofthefuture/2017/02/used-think-like-dave-rubin-woke/

    They miss many of the ways that power contours society, and shapes how people are able to live. The classical liberal dream of a level playing field in which individuals, each judged by their character and not their group membership, make their own way unfettered, is precisely that – a dream. It cannot exist until all the restraints of class, money, race, sexuality, gender, ability etc. are removed – exactly what the “progressives” Rubin disdains are trying to achieve.

    It is simply impossible for the classical liberal vision of society to prevail without the analysis of power and privilege which today’s “progressives” offer. Classical liberal aims depend upon “progressive” means. People cannot be free in the way Mill envisaged if they live in an unjust world in which their sexuality or race determines many of their life outcomes, and ignoring that these constraints exist will not help dismantle them. To make individuals free we must reshape society, flattening the peaks and valleys of power so that people can roam free. That requires vigorous social action. It requires people willing to name injustice and oppression – yes, using words like “racism”, “homophobia”, and “bigotry” – and brave enough to fight it. It means confronting people – people like me! – with their prejudices and with the limitations of their worldview. “Progressives” helped me recognize this.
    In truth, the perspective I now take, which focuses on structural inequalities and how to dismantle them, instead of only on individual virtue and freedoms – is more “liberal” than the thin “classical” view Rubin promotes. The “progressive” view recognizes more of the mechanisms which limit people’s freedoms, and therefore points us toward more strategies to free ourselves. It offers a more comprehensive perspective on the realities of the social world, and overlooks less.

    ….

    Rubin offers a nonthreatening and feeble concept of liberty, packaging it as the ultimate, full-fat version when in fact it is fat free. We need a more muscular understanding of liberty – an idea of liberty which understands the requirement to end oppression by reshaping society – not one which means simply leaving people alone to fend with an unjust world.

    1. wdalasio

      Standard proglodyte “slavery is freedom” bullshit.

      Make no mistake. The author’s visions of “reshaping society”, “flattening the peaks and valleys of power”, and “vigorous social action” means men with guns enforcing his or her preferred social mores. Because heaven knows that involves more freedom than people not liking other people or calling them mean names.

  25. Vacuous Insight

    Spring semester starts tomorrow. Being a commuter, I don’t have many opportunities to meet people outside of class. This year my goal is to go to bars with friends.

    1. Rhywun

      I think my mom was as happy to get me out of the house as I was happy to leave. Like, five minutes later, she and my soon-to-be stepfather found a place in the country to retire to. It didn’t occur to me to until many years later that the reason she did that was to keep me in the good school I was attending.

      1. Vacuous Insight

        My parents are in their mid 40s. They seem to like having me around. They’d be empty nesters if I moved out. Although it is weird to think that at my age my parents were married with 2 kids and a house of their own.

        1. Rhywun

          They’d be empty nesters if I moved out.

          Heh, don’t take it the wrong way if it turns out that’s what they want.

    2. This year my goal is to go to bars with friends.

      Same.

    3. Tulip

      That’s a great New Year’s resolution.

      1. Vacuous Insight

        Thanks! Your resolution posts were part of inspiration.

    4. CPRM

      Very Wisconsinable of you.

  26. straffinrun

    We need another HM around here. I imagine it going like this.

  27. BakedPenguin

    Fuck, dudes, I’m having a problem: which is the better guitar solo: <ahref="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fAQhSRLQnM"<Knopfler or Schenker? They’re both frickin’ incredible, but I could use input.

    1. Knopfler for me, but I can’t fault anyone picking Schenker. K’s is more economical and ‘tight’ for lack of a better term, it only lasts for 30 seconds or so but has as much impact as S’s which takes a couple minutes and has more backing (drums/bass) pushing it along, S may get a little speedier with the picking and runs through a few more riffs but again he has more time and the pacing of the song gives it more perceived power. Trying to think of a heavier DS/MK song that might be a better comparison but nothing off the top of my head, I’ll give a run through my CD’s tomorrow and let you know if I find what I’m thinking of.

      1. BakedPenguin

        Hyp – thx for the write-up – no sarc – good to read

        1. After a quick look, I was wrong DS/MK doesn’t really have many heavy songs in the UFO vein. I was thinking of something like the outro of Telegraph Road or Speedway at Nazareth, still slower/lighter songs than UFO but they get that slow burn into a driving/heavier thing at the end.

          1. BakedPenguin

            ‘kay. You’re gonna have to gimme an intro to that.

          2. BakedPenguin

            Also. Rock Bottom shreds. F’in great song.

          3. Agreed, and I’d say that’s the difference, Knopfler may be a hell of a guitarist but shredding really isn’t in his bag of tricks. They may be both considered Rock but it’s two different styles, not as extreme as comparing Walter Becker to Angus Young but not really apples to apples either.

  28. blackjack

    Knopler ain’t bad, but he’s no Mike Schenker. I vote UFO unreservedly!

    1. BakedPenguin

      Thx, blackjack.Appreciate it.

    2. BakedPenguin

      Note: I used to have all of Shencker’s solo album on vinyl. //////not that I was a massive fan or anything. That being said, Knopfler’s solo (in that song) is incredible, or I wouldn’t have asked the question.

  29. Creosote Achilles

    I have completed a 2-day rope intensive. 16 yours of doing rope bondage and suspensions, learning new techniques w/ the girlfriend. Come home to the wife having made chilli-mac. Life is good.

    (is it stealth bragging if there’s no stealth to it?)

    1. Lachowsky

      I took a week long course a few years ago on confined space rescue. Part of it was ropes and rigging.

      I learned a few thing about making harnesses suitable to extract an incapacitated individual from a dangerous situation and about rigging lift systems.

      It’s a bit of a different field, but I bet some of the knots used are similiar.

      I appreciate your posts as our resident pervert. Keep up the good work.

      1. Creosote Achilles

        Thank you. I know from doing rock climbing that some harnesses we use for rope suspension imitate what a climbing harness does; rope around the wasit, hips and upper thighs. Do you happen to have notes on how to make the ones from your class? I’d be interested in learning them. One of the fun things about rope bondage is that once you know a couple of basic knots and frictions, and some fundamentals of how it all works together you can do some pretty amazing things. I imagine rescue rigging uses much thicker rope. Shibari typically uses 5mm – 6mm jute.

        1. Lachowsky

          I couldn’t tell you about rope sizes, only load capacity. The rope we used was braided nylon that was all rated at 10,000 pounds.

          Probably a little more bulky that what you would use to tie up a sexual partner. Maybe. Because I dont know. Maybe that’s what yall are into because kinks are specific to the individual and as far as I k ow some of yall kinksters wanna be tied up with 10,000 pound rated rope.

          1. Creosote Achilles

            Yeah. That’s climbing rope. It’s typically 4-6x as thick as what we use. There are whole debates about natural fibers versus synthetics. No human activity seems to be free from such things.

    2. Chafed

      Was the class for outdoor skills or BDSM play?

    3. I’m not into rope bondage or threesomes, so brag away.

  30. Lachowsky

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/with-founder-out-on-bail-whats-next-for-3d-gun-printer-defense-distributed/?amp=1

    I’m still convinced that cody Wilson unwitting broke the law and that the state is after him for having the audacity to provide a budding technology that may eventually make their attempts at full on gun control impossible.

    1. CPRM

      It is ‘odd’ how many enemies of the state are sought after for Sexx Laws. Maybe they’re all just perverts, or maybe it’s a ‘by any means necessary’ approach. either way good song.

      1. Rhywun

        Yeah I’m on the fence whether bitch set him up or not.

        1. Chafed

          Has Wilson made that claim? From what I can tell he’s been quiet since his arrest.

          1. Lachowsky

            From what I have read, the only thing that he has said is an announcement from his attorney that he believed the girl to be of age and the sex consensual.

            That’s wise of him. If I were in his situation, i wouldn’t say shit.

          2. Rhywun

            Agreed. Wait and see.

  31. Lachowsky

    Hunt https://imgur.com/gallery/RKu4Frv

    Also, this is what freedom looks like.

    1. CPRM

      If we had wild hogs here I might actually be in to hunting. Nothing wrong with venison, but it ain’t got nothing on pork.

    2. Creosote Achilles

      Ho. Lee. Shit. I would not care to try to kill a hog with a knife. The machine gun from a helicopter thing sounds more my speed.

      1. I bet the pigs feel the same way, Suthen (i think) posted some videos of guys dog/knife hunting, I’m no PETA bleeding heart, and I know that life in nature is nasty brutish and short but it seems needlessly cruel to sick a pack of dogs on a pig to tire it out then stick it and let it bleed out. I’d much prefer a bullet to the head.

        1. Lachowsky

          You may have a point. However. I’m my part of the world hog hunting with dogs is long standing tradition.

          Hogs are hard to stalk. Dogs aid immensely in this. If one wants to kill a pig, the options are limited. A feeder and a stalk works, but it takes a well placed shot to bring down a pig ethically.

          Pigs have a hard skull that is resistant to most hunting rounds. They also have a hell of a constitution. A lung shot pig will survive long enough to run away far enough that you cant find him and die. A heart shot log will die very soon, but making that shot is difficult. A head shot pig will most likely have its skull deflect the bullet, and then will run off and maybe survive and maybe die of an infection a week later.

          All that said.

          If it’s a given that you want to kill a pig, running it to the point of exhaustion and then knifing it is not the most inhumane way.

  32. Rhywun

    Q: Anyone use FIOS?

    Doing some research – it’s available in a 2-block radius of me. It’s not available on my block. WTF?

    1. Gustave Lytton

      Eh, not much to add. Verizon’s FIOS deployment wasn’t a 100% even before it lost favor and petered out. Could be any number of reasons why it didn’t make it to your block: construction cost or blocked access from the building owners would be the usual ones. Is there a preferred provider for your building by any chance?

      1. Rhywun

        preferred provider

        Never heard of such a thing. Time-Warner was the only option for many years around here.

        I only ask because it sounds faster and cheaper than what I have, and I need that. I want to cut the cord but not if I have to stay with the same provider.

        Eh, will ask tomorrow when more folks are aournd. Tks

        1. l0b0t

          We went from Cablevision to Verizon FIOS when we left Brooklyn and really couldn’t be happier with both the service and the support. The internet speed (500/500 for us) and capacity is amazing; we have 3 televisions, 4 tablets, several phones, several laptops, a camera system, a couple desktop PCs (1 of which is a 24/7 media server/downloader), and any number of wifi devices with no performance degradation at all. There is some sort of FedGov subsidy that makes it less expensive (to the customer) if we include an old POTS landline (which has been used, quite literally, 3 times in 8 years; all faxes). It’s pricey but we find it worth it.