Can’t talk. I’m in line at Best Buy waiting for it to open. Its just barely cold enough to be annoying. I am fueled entirely by this, and I don’t recommend it.
The election in Uruguay was too close to call, but the left-wing candidate conceded after a count of 35,000 ballots from voters who did not make it to their assigned voting station.
Some of the dozens of demonstrators had bandages on their faces and told angry tales of being hit by face-level fire that they felt was intentional. “In Chile, asking for dignity costs you an eye,” one sign proclaimed.
Well, dumbass. Asking for “dignity” used to cost you a ride in a helicopter…
Well, this is…um…an interesting way to handle it. On the bright side, if he does what the last guy did, they might actually have something worthwhile to impeach him.
Is this the dumbest thing we do here? No, not at all. You see reader, progression of culture is driven by those that exist on the fringe of polite society. Quite frankly this site was built upon pillars known as The Hat and the Hair. There is nothing more fringe than the idea the actions of a semi-mindless automaton named Donald Trump being dictated by the sentient headgear he is wearing at the time. Using sound experimental methodology to recreate sounds in an effort to test the hypothesis this was not the sound of a congressman producing flatulence is not beyond this site. Indeed, to do so with a straight face while reviewing beer, therefore is most certainly something you can only find on Glibertarians.com.
This is my review of Samuel Smith’s Welcome Winter Ale.
This whole thing was prompted last week when MSNBC interviewed Rep. Eric Swalwell regarding the first day of the “impeachment inquiry”, who appeared to flat loudly on live television. Roll Tape…
Naturally, the internet did what it does best and give MSNBC more attention that it could possibly gain on the merits of their own content. In response to the reaction from the internet suggestions were made as to what was the sound. Specifically, MSNBC said it was a mug off-camera being dragged across a desk within range of the microphone. Swalwell himself, also denied the sound was flatulence.
Hypothesis
If the sound in the background of the original interview is a mug being dragged across a desk, then dragging a mug across a desk will produce a sound similar to flatulence.
Methodology
Three tests to drag a Glibertarians Beer Stein (available the WordPress Store) will be performed with a video and audio recoding each test. This is not only in essence, a ceramic mug, it is a particularly large ceramic mug. The first test will be a simply drag across part of the desk immediately in front of the mousepad that has made an appearance on multiple occasions on this site. The second test will account for the possibility the mug was dragged on a corner. Finally, the third test will be much like third test, except more pressure will be placed on the mug that the first test.
Results
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Discussion
In none of these tests, did the sound produced by dragging the mug across a desk sound in any way similar to the sound produced in the background of the MSNBC interview with Rep. Eric Swalwell. While it can be argued or denied the sound was flatulence, the explanation the sound was produced by a mug being dragged across a desk is not supported by the results of this experiment.
Conclusion
Don’t piss on my leg, and tell me it’s raining, MSNBC.
Samuel Smith typically makes good beer. This one is brewed and sold once a year apparently, and I managed to find it at Trader Joe’s for a very reasonable $4. It is a traditional English ale with a twist…they hopped it. What? Don’t run away! It’s not like that.
No, seriously it’s not. It winds up being quite balanced between the usual bready malt, Golden, and Fuggle hops. Get it while its available. Samuel Smiths Welcome Winter Ale 3.7/5
Buenos días Gliberinos! Sloopy is currently sweating off 4 pints of pickle juice from his bender last night outside of Dundee, TX. Have any idea where that is? Me neither but it explains why he has no wifi.
I’m having chilaquiles for breakfast this morning. How about you, half a beer from last night? You know what, lets just discuss the links from south of the border….
The big news is the Spanish government is extraditing a Venezuelan diplomat, and by diplomat I mean guy affiliated with Chavez that also trafficked cocaine.
Hugo Carvajal, an ally of Venezuela’s late Socialist leader Hugo Chavez, is wanted by U.S. authorities on allegations of drug trafficking. He has previously denied accusations that he collaborated with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia to help smuggle cocaine into the United States.
Don Brett is the big winner.
Brazil is still on fire. Note the data cited is “since 2008.” Which this fun infographic from the right wing nut jobs at New York Times might give us a clue as to why they picked “since 2008.”
It was in my best interest recently to be awake, alert, and somewhat sharp. As in knife sharp? Well, if that’s the standard, I needed to be sharper than that. Unfortunately, I was out of coffee.
This is my review of Kiuchi Brewery Hitachio Nest Espresso Stout.
There were a lot of choices but I wound up buying this one from LavAzza since I happen to fancy this blend and it was coincidentally on sale. Plus, I’ve been siting on this beer for a while…
Can I get one that isn’t fair trade?
There is a misconception about espresso somehow being stronger than regular coffee. This is a sort of a myth. Most of this is drawn from espresso having a much more robust coffee flavor than the typical scoop of Yuban on mashed potatoes. In truth, a serving of coffee from the traditional drip system Americans know and love contains 65-120mg of caffeine. A serving of espresso on the other hand is merely 30-50mg. The difference if course, is in how it is served. Drip coffee is spread out over what is normally 8oz or more. At 8-15mg per ounce, that venti adds up to a higher volume overall. Espresso is served in a single ounce, and is 30-50mg. It is similar to a pint of beer vs. a shot of whiskey.
Espresso of course isn’t really a different type of bean, nor is it roasted in a remarkably different way. The difference of course is the machine used to make it. It is surprisingly fun from an engineering perspective, especially if you are into steampunk. It is essentially a boiler, heating water to 1.5Bar, forcing steam through a series of pipes to condense and force water at even higher pressures through a densely packed “cake” of ground coffee. This machine was designed in the 1880’s to brew as it filled the tiny mug in a minute or two. In a sense, Espresso is one of the first versions of instant coffee, because once the machine is primed it will make Espresso on demand.
Hence the name “Espresso”.
How does this beer stack up? Being a product of Japan it is exactly what you expect: well crafted, and good qualify for a more than fair price. The problem of course it is also understated and almost boring. Good, solid coffee stout though, so its a good call for daydrinking. Kiuchi Brewery Hitachio Nest Espresso Stout 3.5/5
I honestly try not to flip out at the news. It more or less has become a part of life and others might argue one should be aware of current events in order to be a good citizen.
So what part of this aggravated me? Was it the part where a US District Judge overruled a lower court’s ruling the Covington Catholic school boy’s lawsuit for libel in the wake of a 16 year old kid having the temerity to smirk at a guy banging a drum and shouting in his face, and to eventually be called racist by social media, the legacy media, and some politicians? No, of course not—it was this part:
The students sued the Massachusetts congresswoman and 11 other public figures who criticized the students, including New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, actress Kathy Griffin, activist Shaun King and U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland.
U.S. District Court Judge William Bertelsman ruled Tuesday that Warren acted within the scope of her employment when she tweeted and is therefore protected by sovereign immunity.
“The Court concludes that the challenged statements by defendants Warren and Haaland — whether one agrees with them or finds them objectionable — are communications intended to convey the politicians’ views on matters of public interest to their constituents,” Bertelsman wrote.
The judge also dismissed Haaland, of New Mexico, from the suit. Haaland had tweeted that Phillips was “harassed and mocked by a group of MAGA hat-wearing teens.”
Attorneys for the students claimed the boys became the target of “a social media lynch mob” that spread misinformation and led to the boys receiving death threats and hate mail.
Sovereign Immunity. What is that you ask? Let me preface that I am not an attorney, nor do I intend to convey the idea that I am one. That said my graduate degree is in Public Administration and I not only wrote a paper on the matter, I did particularly well on the assignment. Should one of the law dogs here wish to weigh in, please do so.
I rule in favor of me. DILLY DILLY
Sovereign Immunity is a legal concept Americans borrowed from the British. The idea is to avoid the circular logic in filing a lawsuit against the Crown. The British Crown set up the courts in part to settle civil disputes between subjects, the rulings which hold the force of law because the court is acting directly on behalf of the British Crown. Quite frankly, the queen and the rest of her family is either (supposedly) drinking beyond her own government’s recommendation, flying in private jets while whining about climate change, or (allegedly) hitting up jailbait with Epstein…they simply do not have that kind of time. A subject therefore can file a lawsuit against an individual, or a company that violated that individual’s rights under common law. What happens if you are wronged by somebody working on behalf of the government? The Crown enabled the official that wronged you, and you are now asking a court who’s power is derived from the discretion of Crown…
You see where I am going with this, you cannot sue the Crown. Even if you could, do you think they will rule honestly?
But this is America, and we fought a war to get away from this, right? We did indeed fight the war but didn’t get away from from it. From the pocket Constitution on my desk, Article III, Section 2 says:
Unfortunately, if you have a problem with a particular person in the US Government acting under the Constitution, you are stuck going through the courts set up under that same Constitution. This concept is further reinforced under the 11th Amendment.
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Unfortunately, there will be no lawsuits affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Counsels, and those in which a State shall be Party. Can you sue a government agency or the state itself for violation of rights? Of course, but the asshole that did it is immune because he was just doing his job.
The problem I have with this is the lawsuit is for libel, which is knowingly spreading false information that disparages the subject in print or other forms of media. Unlike slander, which is spoken, libel has a record of happening making it easier to prove. Even after an unedited version of the video suggested the story the media told about the incident was wrong, they continued telling the same story saying the MAGA hat wearing Covington kids started an altercation and the dude banging the drum was trying to keep the peace, and it was racist to smirk at the guy. Only a racist would wear a MAGA hat.
Well, Lizzy got busy spreading this misinformation on Twitter. Per this clown’s ruling, a senator is immune from spreading what any reasonable person can determine is a lie, because a senator giving her opinion on current events falls under a senator’s daily duties. I for one say this is bullshit, and she should be held personally responsible for spreading this lie. Being a senator and now a candidate for president means the lie will spread faster from the press coverage she will recieve, harming the subjects further than had she done the sensible thing and said nothing at all.
…but her inability to simply not lie is another matter.
So what in the hell kind of beer is this? This is a pineapple sour ale aged in tequila barrels. I thought this was going to suck. Arizona has a rather popular pineapple wheat beer that I go for from time to time that I find a bit sweet, but chuggable on a hot day. This is not like that. I thought it was going to to be too sour for me to enjoy. This is not like that either. Finally, I thought this was going to be a blast of tequila; no, this is not like that at all. It is interesting, rather expensive ($16), but otherwise well done. La Cumbre Piña Quercus 3.5/5.
Brett said he had a few meetings this afternoon. So we decided to send in a bug to listen in on his conversation with his business partner, Murdock…
“Beto abandonó el fin de semana pasado. ¿Cómo cambia esto nuestros planes?” preguntó Don Brett
“No lo sé. Se suponía que Beto cerraría la brecha en Juárez, nos permite continuar con la tubería a través de Tampastan …” dijo Mudock.
“Llama a tu amigo Beto, dile que necesita continuar según lo planeado.”
“El no puede.Él no va a ser el presidente.No va a ser senador.Ya no es un congresista–“
“¡Qué carajo! ¿de qué sirvió para empezar?” preguntó Don Brett.
[begin Spanish guitar]
“Warren es el indio falso.Harris enviaría al ejército detrás de nosotros.Tulsi desaparecerá el próximo mes.Booker es una broma.Bernie va a morir.Beto fue la única oportunidad de cerrar a nuestro competidor en Juárez.”
[Spanish guitar intensifies]
[akward silence between characters to intense Spanish guitar]
[Cuts to Murdock]
[Cuts back to Don Brett]
“Envíale un mensaje a tu amigo Beto.Dile que coma una polla … la tuya.”
Everyone love dogs. Unless they are some sort of cat-loving sociopath. Even the President.
This is my review of Founders Underground Mountain Imperial Brown Ale
A few days ago, this piece was put out by the Washington Post:
The original photo
“AMERICAN HERO!” Trump tweeted, with the photo of the dog he said ran down Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a Syrian tunnel before Baghdadi killed himself.
The distinctive star of the medal was replaced with a paw print.
Trump and the Pentagon initially declined to release the dog’s name, later confirmed as Conan, but the canine has become a social media sensation after Trump tweeted a photo Monday.
Conan also collided with a real-world moment after the conservative site Daily Wire tweeted the image Tuesday with McCloughan removed.
A watermark for the site appears in Trump’s tweet, but it is a cropped version that removes the attribution of the source photo, which is the Associated Press. That would have indicated that it began as a legitimate news photo, raising the question of whether Trump or a staffer knew McCloughan had been edited out.
The writer, Alex Horton has in his tagline he is an Veteran of the war in Iraq. Since the inane notion that we cannot criticize people currently, or at any time ever served in the military is starting to make the rounds again, its either up to Swiss or I to go after this guy. Because heaven forbid somebody that currently or at any time in the past served in the military can possibly be seen in a negative manner under any circumstance…
Sorry Swissy.
Alex, as a Veteran of two tours in Iraq, it is my humble opinion that you are a fucking idiot. Do you honestly think Trump is dumb enough to NOT see there is a picture of a dog in front of him, whom he is giving a medal? Now, I get that you think Trump is a moron, but do you not think it is possible Trump or his staffer might remember that time he gave a medal…TO A DOG? Maybe where you live in idiot-land you might give a random dog a medal for being cute and walking up tall without its tail covering it’s genitals but here in reality we see that its a Photoshop. People may be dumb but we realize the photo is clearly fake, and that Trump retweeted the photo because its funny, and that is one hell of a dog.
Who’s a good boy?
Here’s the kicker, the NYT got a hot take from the MOH recipient that was removed from the photo:
McCloughan saw the photo as an attempt to herald the dog’s actions in combat, he told the New York Times.
“This recognizes the dog is part of that team of brave people,” he said. McCloughan said he worked with military dogs in Vietnam, where they helped scouts detect enemy positions.
McCloughan was 23 in May 1969 when his unit was caught in a fierce firefight in Tam Ky. He was raked by shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade while assessing other soldiers for their injuries, but despite his wounds, McCloughan repeatedly braved enemy fire to carry the injured to safety.
A fellow medic was killed the next day, he later recounted.
This is the world we live in, where I am forced to point out to idiots like Alex Horton they are being idiots and it comes out with me looking like I am defending Trump. Screw you Alex, and all the idiots that took it upon themselves to fact-check an obvious joke, when they could be fact-checking or showing any kind of skepticism towards things that actually matter.
What is not a joke is this beer. Quite frankly, I have yet to come across a Founder’s varietal that is a joke. This is a heavy-bodied brown ale with espresso notes and aged in bourbon barrels. They might go too far with the coffee, but that just makes it better suited for day-drinking. It will not keep you up all night, baiting your neighbors dog. Do not drink this cold, and do not chug it. Founders Underground Mountain Imperial Brown Ale: 4.4/5
As always, I credit my ideas for writing prompts each week with you. Seriously, it’s you people that allow me to do this and not drive myself nuts.
This is my review of Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron.
So in last Sunday’s inspiring Glibfit article, Chafed inspired something in all of us. Some of it was good, but others…
Plus, I never liked what poutine looked like.
What I actually wanted to call it, was “diarrhea over fries”. My problem at that exact moment, was that I was drinking beer at OMWC’s second least favorite airport while simultaneously watching the Cardinals managing to somehow win another game, I forgot how to spell diarrhea. Autocorrect was not helping me at all.
I’ll have my revenge.
I know what you are thinking: “you get held up by diarrhea but Monteczuma comes out easy?” No. Because I spelled that wrong too.
In my defense though, there are several ways to spell that. While not dead, Nahuatl is an unusual language. As for the topic at hand, it is equally as interesting:
1. The spelling of “diarrhea” is an appropriation of the Greek “diarrhoia” meaning “a flowing through.”
2. Middle English diaria, from Medieval Latin, from Late Latin diarrhoea, from Greek diarroia, from diarrein, to flow through : dia-, dia- + rhein, to flow, run; see sreu- in Indo-European roots.]
3. diarrhoea U.S. diarrhea noun the runs, the trots (informal) dystentery, looseness, the skits (informal) Montezuma’s revenge (informal) gippy tummy, holiday tummy, Spanish tummy, the skitters (informal)
4.“oe” / “ae / “e”: Common diphthongs like “oe” / “œ” (e.g. “diarrhoea”, “oestrogen”) and “ae” / “æ” (e.g. “encyclopaedia”, “leukaemia”, “anaesthesia”) in British and Canadian spelling “diarrhea”, “estrogen”, “encyclopedia”, “leukemia”, “anesthesia”). are usually simplified in American usage to “e”
5. 1398, from O.Fr. diarrie, from L. diarrhoea, from Gk. diarrhoia “diarrhea” (coined by Hippocrates), lit. “a flowing through,” from diarrhein “to flow through,” from dia- “through” + rhein “to flow.” Respelled 16c. from diarria on Latin model.
RESPELLED? Why? What happened in the 16th century that would have caused such a word to be respelled?
So now we know.
How am I able to link all this to the beer? Those are Spanish words meaning holy brown stick…
It is typical Dogfish Head. Pricey ($13.99 ….. for 4 bottles), but really good. It is a nice, thick brown ale aged in bourbon barrels. I have to assume is quite the popular style of craft beer in the area I was traveling for business (the south), because it was either that or half a dozen choices for IPA. Don’t drink this one ice cold. Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron: 4.5/5.
In the news over the past few, several articles came out speculating Mexico to be the next to legalize marijuana. While you could theoretically get it there anyways, it wasn’t exactly legal for anybody without large quantities of cash on hand to pay off Mexican cops. So it is in this sense, they beat us at something other than fútbol.
This is my review of Hemptails Citrus Gold
How does this work in Mexico? A brief rundown of how the court functions can be found here. For those of you capable of reading Spanish above the college level (don’t look at me), here is the official webpage for Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación. If you want to dig up the court decision, I’m sure it’s in there somewhere. For everyone else, it takes five repeated decisions from the Mexican Supreme Court to set enough legal precedent to compel their legislative body to act. Do they need the court’s permission first? Of course not. It might be a fun thought experiment in this country if this is how that worked.
Hopefully just as a thought experiment; I am in no way advocating this. Can you imagine the idiotic things they could come up based on the way certain SCOTUS justices find things in the Constitution that aren’t exactly written in there?
Those decisions came in November of last year, so it was only a matter of time before they were going to get around to it.
“This 5th judgement means that, while the cannabis prohibition law nominally remains in place for now (and arrests remain possible), all judges nationally are now bound by the Supreme Court judgement as a defense in the (now much less likely) scenario of prosecutions being brought,” according to Transform, a think tank that was part of the effort to overturn the ban. “The legalisation of cannabis for adult personal use, possession, private cultivation and sharing is therefore currently de facto(in practical effect), rather than de jure (formalised in law/legislation).”
Senator Julio Menchaca Salazar introduced a legalization bill last month that seeks to establish a comprehensive regulatory framework. Under Salazar’s bill, Mexico’s Department of Health would regulate the cultivation, processing, and transportation of cannabis.
In Mexico’s lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, leader Mario Delgado Carillo introduced a bill that would formally set up a legalized market whereby the government would have a state monopoly on cannabis sales. Carillo’s bill envisions a great deal of the revenue from marijuana sales going to social programs.
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Both chambers of the Mexican legislature are controlled by the MORENA Party, which President López founded. MORENA is a left-of-center political party that was founded in 2014.
Monreal says members of the Chamber of Deputies, the other half of Mexico’s legislature, will be invited to provide feedback on the legalization bill.
Good for them. No seriously.
Woof. Is that a promise?
One of the arguments for legalization of cannabis in the United States is rooted in the practical experience we can take from the 18th Amendment, which prohibited alcohol between 1920 to 1933. I know that you are likely capable of reading in English at the 4th grade level, and coming to the basic conclusion from the article linked above, Americans still drank alcohol during that time. It was provided by bootleggers, distributed by rumrunners—basically people willing to be criminals to make a living. People willing to be criminals in one sense to make a living are probably willing to be criminals in another sense, which is basically the plot to Breaking Bad. The problem of course is nearly nobody alive today was around to see it, and schools appear to jump from the civil war, directly to the civil rights era in history class. Given the level of violent crime in Mexico, if nothing else we’ll probably get to see this in action again….or they just switch to growing poppies and continue shooting each other.
It probably will not mean much for those that go to Mexico from time to time. Turns out cannabis is still mostly illegal here and Border Patrol is still actively searching for drugs at border crossings. Unless of course you were already a mule…
They call this a “malt beverage” but I drank this explicitly for purposes of this review. There is little redeeming quality to this beverage and any reasonable person might be comfortable with it being made illegal. Thankfully, nobody around here might be considered reasonable. Hemptails Citrus Gold: 1.5/5
It was a moment of victory for Macri, who had recently taken office, and of hope for farmers, who had been hobbled by the strict export limits imposed by the previous government. Since then, it has only been ups and downs.
Rossi says improved weather gave them some “oxygen” for this year’s harvest. But then Macri surprisingly turned in a worse showing in primary elections than the left-leaning Peronist candidate Alberto Fernández, causing stocks to plunge and the peso to depreciate even further in recession-hit Argentina, which has been struggling with rapidly rising prices and increasing poverty.
The primary results also coincided with a report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that lowered estimates for Argentina’s soy and corn crops based on weather conditions, said Esteban Copati, head of agricultural forecasts at the Buenos Aires grains exchange.
“There was a double whammy,” Copati said. “On the one side, there was this change in the political scenario that changed the intention of growers to plant since they started to become fearful of what the policies of this new government could be. And on the other hand, there was the impact of the drop in international prices.”
Cubans are now allowed to purchase certain goods with foreign currency. What goods you ask?
Cuban officials announced Tuesday night that the prices of some consumer goods would drop for Cubans who create special new hard-currency bank accounts denominated in U.S. and Canadian dollars, Euros, British pounds, Swiss francs, Mexican pesos, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish kroner and Japanese yen.
Cubans will also be able to use the accounts to import goods through state-run companies, officials said on national television, although the precise mechanism for those private-public imports remains unclear.
Products that will be available for foreign currency include 43-inch flat-screen televisions, standing freezers, refrigerators and mini-split air conditioners. The discounts over current prices appear to be marginal — Reports in state media indicated that the government would still charge some 75 percent above the wholesale price. A 43-inch Samsung television, for example, would sell for $549, state media said, about twice the cost of a similar item in the U.S.
Buenas suerte…
They’re taking out free shit away! Burn them!
For some reason, government subsidies for gasoline are common in Latin America. Protests in response to the removal of said subsidies are also common. What isn’t common is the government fleeing the capital in response to the protests.
Buenos días Gliberinos! Sloopy is currently sweating off 4 pints of pickle juice from his bender last night outside of Dundee, TX. Have any idea where that is? Me neither but it explains why he has no wifi.
Espresso of course isn’t really a different type of bean, nor is it roasted in a remarkably different way. 
Brett said he had a few meetings this afternoon. So we decided to send in a bug to listen in on his conversation with his business partner, Murdock…
“Llama a tu amigo Beto, dile que necesita continuar según lo planeado.”
“Envíale un mensaje a tu amigo Beto.
