Glibertarians.com 2019 Archive

Category: Daily Links

  • The Night Shift for September 28, 2019

    After my last post, I’m a little gun-shy:  Most of you ingrates fine, upstanding glibs seemed to be feeling it (I said most), and things just started to peter out early.  The action was a little light that night, admittedly, regardless of my smoothest moves.  Oh, well—it’s that time:

    Aww, yeah…

    Gotta rely on my patented moves, here.

    OK—Gotta thank everyone who talked about lucid dreaming.  Haven’t had a chance to share the insights with the friend in question, but will do so ASAP.

    I recently asked about TPTB being IRL friends.  Without getting into more initials, I am interested in meeting “you people” in meat-space (What?? I’m trying to broaden my horizons or, some such crap).  Of course, I don’t really travel for business purposes, and, just getting up and going isn’t quite as easy as that, so, this is all theoretical at this stage.  Since it seems I’m in a bit of Glibertarian desert here in North Texas, which of you lot ever make it up this way, and are up for meeting?  What about where you live (not an official attempt to doxx you, unless you like this sort of thing)—do you entertain guests of a certain political/philosophical persuasion?  Raise your hand in the comments, if you’re feeling adventurous.

    To Catch a Predator!  What a crap-fest.  While I think I know what the overall attitude here is about this…situation, I am interested in reading your (yes, you) thoughts about it.   From what I can tell, it was the sting in Murphy, TX, which heralded the downfall.  Murphy is very close to where I work, and, former co-workers of mine, from my first agency, worked there just prior to it.  To the best of my knowledge, they had no take on the issue that I ever learned.

    Sum moar LE talk:  Most glibs who have commented on property crime investigation tend to snark that police have better things to do.  From my experience, this is actually very correct.  And, I think the reason why is the realization that stolen property, especially when resulting from a burglary, is usually hit-or-miss in whether it will be recovered.   When it comes to stolen property, the national LE databases have it broken down thusly:

    • Vehicles/boats (conveyances of just about every kind)
    • License Plates
    • Securities—financial instruments of various types
    • Guns
    • Articles

    “Articles” is the catch-all for any property that doesn’t have a specific database for it.  There are some rules that govern what can and can’t go in.  Fun fact:  Pets and livestock can be entered as stolen in the Articles file.  So, as you can imagine, this database is filled with all kinds of things.  Federal rules say that items entered into it are kept for the remainder of the year of entry +1 year.  For instance; if your stolen PlayStation gets entered into the database on January first of 2019, it will auto-purge on December 31, 2020.  That’s all the time allowed.  In my experience, agencies do not re-enter property into this database (I believe it is prohibited).  I can say that, at least in Texas, pawn shops have to provide info lists of all items they take in weekly, to their local police department.  That agency is supposed to check the list against stolen item reports.  This can be very helpful in recovering property.  However, it’s more than likely that, if you rely solely on the agency that took the report, you’re not likely to get the item(s) back.  This is going to be at least one reason why Joe Flatfoot is less than enthused about dealing with a home burglary that is really just a list of stolen property.  Of course, feel free to speculate on the other reasons for that apathy.

    Considering the feedback on ol’ Teddy; the only president from whom I consider shilling.  What??  I gotta give y’all some red meat/green veg every so often.

    You go, Beto!  OK, so maybe the source of the award isn’t all that.  Then again, snark is our life blood around here.

    No snark necessary.  I’m not sure how to do so, but, this guy deserves a lot of support and praise.  Just cleaning up messes can go a long way towards making life so much better.

    So, was it good for you?  Oh…  Well, gimme a week and I’ll be good to go again.  Be excellent to each other, ya rotten bastards.  (Not you.  Or, you…)

  • Saturday night links of, wait, it’s Saturday again? Already?

    Mmmm. Bambi.

    You gotta love Idaho. The patio project is coming along nicely, but work just stopped dead until next Wednesday. It’s opening weekend, and everybody is going hunting.

     

    I bring you Saturday night links, impeachment derp free.

     

    That’s one way to increase work productivity.

     

    I hope they at least got to finish.

     

    Oh please, please, pretty please, let it be so.

     

    Get this man a cheeseburger, STAT!

     

    A new Florida Man.

     

    Don’t mess with an elk whose sole purpose this time of year is to get laid.

     

    In honor of the season, a few words from Uncle Ted.

     

  • SEA SMITH FRIDAY NIGHT LINKS…AND ADVICE!

    SEA SMITH ORDER SOME!

     

    SEA SMITH GLAD HE GET LINKS TONIGHT. HE TIRED FROM ALL TROPICAL STORMS. MAKE MESS, SEA SMITH HAVE CLEAN UP. BY CLEAN UP, MEAN FIND STRANDED SHIPS, RAPE SHIPS. SEA SMITH SAY STAY SAFE ON BIG WATER!

    SEA SMITH GIVE LINKS, THEN ADVICE. THIS MAKE SEA SMITH HAPPY. THEN HE GO READ AND STUDY. WANT LEARN WHERE MORE SHIPS GO.

    HERE LINKS:

    1. SEA SMITH REMEMBER ALL HERE LAUGH AT SILLY SHIP FALL OVER. NOW IT LEAK! REMEMBER, NOT SEA SMITH FAULT!
    2. SEA SMITH WONDER IF SPACE SMITH REAL? AND BIG.
    3. LAND HOOMAN FOOTBALL GAME MAKE SEA SMITH LAUGH!

     

    NOT GOOD ADVICE

    HERE BETTER ADVICE:

    Q. I have a dear friend with whom I enjoy socializing at luncheons and dinners, and we sometimes travel together. She is blessed with a handsome income, and enjoys shopping.

    I spent 20-plus years as a single mother, with a decent income but rarely money to burn. My child is now on his own with a good career. I continue to be frugal, but never “cheap.”

    My friend insists I join her in shopping at high-end stores where I feel extremely uncomfortable. She has the means and desire to buy $5,000 purses (she has several) and $700 shoes, but even though I’ve enjoyed a healthy six-figure income the last several years, I still see no sense in spending that kind of money on a functional item.

    So while she shops to impress, I sit with my $29.99 sale purse and $80 shoes, feeling like the proverbial fish out of water. I feel very embarrassed. If I opt out of any store, she is visibly upset.

    How do I politely tell her I am not interested in what the new “It” spring bag looks like? (I frankly think they’re ugly, and really don’t get why anyone would spend $3,500 on a bag made of coated fabric and not leather.)

    This issue has escalated. Whereas she used to enjoy a bargain as I did, now she only wants to steer us into the stores of the rich and famous. And yes, I do think she’s showing off, but her actions are only making me sour on the friendship.

    A. SEA SMITH DISAPPOINT. WHY YOU NOT HIT OVER HEAD AND TAKE ALL MUNNIES? WAIT, BETTER IDEA! TELL “FRIEND” WANT GO BEACH – VERY FANCY BEACH. SEA SMITH WAIT, GREET FRIEND. BY GREET, MEAN RAPE AND TAKE ALL MUNNIES. THEN HER HAVE SHOP CHEAP STORES. AND SEA SMITH HAVE MUNNIES TO BUY NEW IPHONE!

    SEA SMITH NOT REALLY APPLE TYPE CRYPTID. BUT HE LIKE CAMERA. AND WATERPROOF, HE HEAR!

    Q. I received an invitation to a party that I’m pretty sure I wasn’t expected to attend. We are not close, and I live several states away.

    I did send my regrets, and a congratulatory email. The only reason I hesitate to send a card is because people seem to expect a gift card/cash/check to accompany a card.

    This may sound like a bizarre question, but do people appreciate a card without a monetary gift? I feel like some people would say no. What are your thoughts?

    A. WHYCOME SEA SMITH MUST GIVE SAME ADVICE? MAYBE DO DIFFERENT THIS TIME… YES, HE GET IDEA. TELL PARTY PERSON, YOU COME IN SEA MONSTER COSTUME. SEA SMITH GO PARTY AND ENJOY. BY ENJOY, MEAN RAPE HOST AND GUESTS, AND TAKE ALL MUNNIES.

    ADVICE IS FUN!

    COME ON IN, WATER IS FINE!

  • Friday Afternoon Links – Monkey County, MD edition

    Back when I was a wee-lad in college, answering the call for a fun-filled life in journalism, I did an internship at a local newspaper.  “Sweet!” wee-JW said to himself.  It turned out that the paper didn’t have too much oversight from the owner, and the 20-something dude they hired as the editor-in-chief wanted it to be a tabloid-style scandal rag, to separate it from the crush of the other local newspapers (I’m not sure if there actually were any.)

    Baby Doc Duvalier had recently been deposed as the head criminal in charge of Haiti, so I was assigned to find Haitians who had been tortured by his goon squads.  How hard can that be, you ask.  The rub was that they had to live in Montgomery County, MD, since it was a paper that focused on the county and only on the county.  So, after a not-insignificant amount of hard-bitten legwork and old fashioned gumption, I found my guy.  (Part of this gumption was asking my former French professor (3 whole weeks in the class!) to call the residence of a former Haitian ambassador in Miami for me.   I didn’t speak more than 4 words of French and the woman answering the phone didn’t speak any English and kept hanging up on me.  He graciously made the call for me, but came back with bupkis from the ambassador.)

    Was my guy grimly tortured by Baby Doc’s meat handlers?  No.  Someone in his family?  No.  His dog?  No.  He was a low-level flunky in a failed coup attempt on Papa Doc.  In 1971.  But he lived in Monkey County and was assigned a .45 revolver during the not-coup.

    RUN THAT BABY!!!!  I got the front page and 75 bucks for the story.  And so endeth my illustrious career in journalism (which in hindsight, was a good fucking call).

    In the spirit of my misspent yout’, I’ve revived the format of news of my stupid, stupid county for the links (it ain’t Florida, but we do what we can).  Enjoy!

     

    Slimy old pol to hopeful home buyers:  Drop dead.

    Group of slimy old pols to business owners:  drop even deader.

    Local man beats the rush to the next sure-fire strategy to beat the underwear gnomes at their own game.  State gubmint only too happy to help.

    I got this!

    Gilligan!

    Smooooooth operator.

    Who doesn’t like a little country dick heading into the weekend?

  • Friday Morning Links

    “Was all that money worth it? You bet it was!”

    The Astros lost and are just a game up on the Dodgers. And I just went down a 10 minute rabbit-hole to find out who would get home-field for the World Series if they ended with identical records.  And I couldn’t find it. So send help, one of you people with better research skills than me. Milwaukee nipping at the heels of both the Cardinals and the Nats in addition to the best record chasers will make the weekend at least interesting. Also, if you can’t stand the heat give some of that money back.

    Big weekend in CFB. Oh yeah, and the Iggles beat the Packers last night and engaged in some serious headhunting while doing so.  Jeez, that was a brutal game full of questionable plays.

    Paltrow and unnamed associate/friend

    Cosimo de Medici was born on this day. so were brewer and patriot Samuel Adams, first black senator Hiram Revels, rocker Meat Loaf, writer Irvine Welsh, entitled clown Gwyneth Paltrow, and Canadian person Avril Lavigne.

    That list sucks. Don’t blame me. Let’s see if I can get us past it with…the links!

    I’m glad to see people fighting back against idiotic cancel culture. But this non-apology/apology won’t result in the media calling off the dogs.  It’ll just result in every reporter scouring their social media and deleting everything they said when they were young and stupids they can continue to claim the moral high ground when they try and destroy someone’s lives for page clicks.

    NOT A GOOD IDEA!

    Dude, the X-Force tryouts were years ago. Reminds me of the Faces Of Death scene where the dude parachuted into an alligator farm. Also, who here grew up when I did and was convinced that shit was completely real?  Or should I say who else thought it was?

    People are rushing to condemn the New York Times after they published reports partially identifying the “whistleblower”.  Why aren’t they rushing to ask why in the hell does the CIA have an agent in the White House to begin with? Or maybe doing a little follow-up work on this.

    “This is why civilians shouldn’t own guns”
    -Beto

    And I know some of you guys aren’t fans of twitter. But trust me, you gotta read this to believe it. To sum him up: “The government killed unarmed protesters on this spot. And I vow to make sure the government will be the only people with guns if I’m elected. In the name of safety!” Seriously, fuck that guy.

    Talk about your “man bites dog” story. No, really.

    Prepare for more injured people on the streets of San Francisco. Also, how nice of the city to give “permits” for people to use a fairly simple mode of transportation. I expect the pilot program to result in a massive shakedown of the industry for tax purposes or for cab drivers to run them over while not being used to get rid of the competition.

    Oops! Who would think a cop was the right person to launder their drug money?

    This song rocks from the first note on. No fucking around with an intro, just…BAM!  Enjoy it.

    Now go have a great day and an even better weekend, friends.

     

  • Thursday Afternoon Links

    Hey guys, still busy. Here’s ya links.

    Dark matter continues to be like global warming, every explanatory hypothesis gets disproved, but it “must be there” because our math equation that predicts how mass and energy interact has a slot for it.

    This is what I expected from the 21st century.

    You know the greatest thing about the Trump administration may be the complete emptying of the bag of dirty tricks. Also, I’d like to apologize to anyone from TOS from pre-2014 or so, when I still had some respect for government.

    Hey, guys, maybe stop charging Disney prices for an afternoon at the ballpark and more people will show up.

  • Thursday Morning Links

    Damn, two outs away!

    Man, I stayed up until almost midnight to see if Greinke would get his no-hitter. Damn Mariners players spoiled it in the ninth.  But the Astros still won and put a death grip on home field as the Yankees lost. The Brewers locked up the final NL playoff spot while the Indians hopes are on life support in the AL with just a few games to go.

    ManUre avoided the same ignominious departure Spuds suffered the day before as they dumped mighty Rochdale on penalties.  A handful of PL teams weren’t as lucky, falling to third and fourth-tier squads. There wasn’t much else going on, but hockey season is rapidly approaching. And the NFL gets back in gear tonight.

    Asshole thinking. Or maybe he’s just drunk again.

    St Francis of Assisi was born on this day. So were: dog-torturer Ivan Pavlov, poet T.S. Eliot, Pope Paul VI, fitness guru Jack LaLanne, rocker Bryan Ferry, singer/”actress” Olivia Newton-John, Terminator-killer Linda Hamilton, dipshit Francis O’Rourke, and possible steroid-user Serena Williams.

    OK, not as many lookers today as yesterday. Oh well, on to…the links!

    A majority of the House now backs “some type of impeachment”. So gone are the days when you name a specific high crime or misdemeanor and lay out evidence. We’ve reached the point when the rule of law is dead as it relates to this process, folks.

    Union workers, meet your replacements.

    The GM strike is starting to have a ripple effect on the Michigan economy. I sure hope those guys who make on average more than double what nurses make to push buttons can make it through these tough times. Actually, I don’t. I hope GM relocates all of those operations to plants in right-to-work states and tells them to fuck off.

    Gee, who didn’t see this one coming? So. Stunning. And. Brave.

    Nobody cares anymore!

    Just in case you’d forgotten, everything is a shitshow in the UK government as well.

    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA  ::catches breath:: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. That’s some good stuff there.

    I know college kids can be smelly-ass slobs, but seriously? (Anything else here would give the story away, so that’s all you’re getting.)

    Uh, next time maybe question why they’re serving guacamole with sushi, ok? Ugh, that could not have been a pleasant surprise.

    This is for Tundra! And no, it’s not Joe Jackson. I wouldn’t do that to anybody.

    Well, that’s all. Have a great day, friends!

  • Wednesday Afternoon Links

    Whoa, I just talked for two hours straight and that is not my jam. Here are some quick links because my meeting ran long.

    Apparently $1M is not enough to buy forgiveness for being young and stupid enough to post racist stuff on Twitter.

    Local news, manatee wants to be frens.

    I don’t think that’s how pet-breeding works.

    I lived in a men’s dorm my freshman year of college. I can see how this could happen. My roommate and I had an argument over who left the tupperware out that got moldy in March. He won in May by moving out first.

     

  • Wednesday Morning Links

    Happy birthday to (both of) you

    Commie Ethel Rosenberg was born on this day.  That pinko shares it with baseball player/announcer Phil “Scooter” Rizzuto, TV personality Babawa Wawwes, writer Shel Silverstein, actor Michael Douglas, 80s bombshell Cheryl Tiegs, actor Mark Hamill, equestrian enthusiast Christopher Reeve, another 80s bombshell Heather Locklear, rap legend Will Smith, and wife of a guy from earlier on the list Catherine Zeta-Jones.

    Can we have a double-teammate Cy Young this year please?

    The Nats clinched a playoff berth, the Brewers are on the verge of doing the same thanks to a Cubs collapse for the ages, and the Brew Crew are looking at winning a division now. The Astros inched closer to home field as Cole set a team record for strikeouts in a season as he won his 15th straight start.  And across the pond, Spuds lost to a fourth-tier side to unceremoniously exit the League Cup.

    OK, lots going on out there, so on with…the links!

    The Senate has demanded the entire whistleblower complaint (while the House postures), and the White House plans on complying in short order. And for added measure and transparency, they are including the IG’s assessment of the complaint and background on the whistleblower for context. Oh yeah, and apparently a letter from Senate Dems has surfaced where they tell the Ukrainian government to assist in the Mueller probe or face consequences should they regain power.  Good times.

    “Yeah, its called ‘acting’”.

    Joaquin Phoenix apparently understands the role Hollywood should play in our lives. I like his Charles Barkley-esque take here.  Dude gets it.

    Masshole government pushes people to smoke or get products from black market. You know, the same black market where all the problem items have come from.  Christ, what a bunch of assholes cuntes.

    In the words of Bernie Sanders, nobody needs more than one tomato.  Ah Florida. Never change.

    “Let’s get this moved and put a big-ass rock here.”

    So much for tolerant, caring San Francisco.

    Not sure why they thought this would stop us, but it didn’t,” one of the campers, James Ayres, 36, told the San Francisco Chronicle at the time. “Maybe they’ll put more out here. I don’t know. They’ve got lots of money to do it.”

    I don’t know what the solution is (other than the government not being involved). But I do know that people should feel safe walking out their front door and traversing their city streets. Also, you’re not camping if you live there.

    “Was that wrong? was I not supposed to do that? Cause I gotta tell ya…” Man, that guy’s union needs to step up their game. In Chicago, he’d have been given treatment.  And then a medal for completing treatment.

    Looks like I-10 is about to be reopened just east of Houston. Thank God the bridge is ok. That has been wreaking havoc on freight movement.

    The first 20 seconds of this video is what I feel like reading the comments here. Actually, the entire video is an artistic interpretation of this place.  And yes, that’s a compliment because its a great song.

    Now, go have a fantastic day getting over the hump.

  • Tuesday Afternoon Links

    It’s a links drive-by again today. Here’s today’s poll question: How long does it take for a new employee (junior level) to do productive work? Maybe if I have a meeting tomorrow morning, I can read the responses.

    Iowa man, that’s some horror movie shit you done. I’m sure He Who Walks Behind the Rows was pleased to accept the sacrifice.

    The Russian Navy lost a ship to a.. walrus? We should definitely be spending several hundred billion dollars a year to increase our fleets to deal with threats such as these!

    Well, this will definitely piss off the communists, since they’re all of the Internationalist flavor. Personally, I think nations are, on balance, too large to address most problems in an efficient manner, but damn sure better than the UN/World Government

    Well, they’ve certainly got Trump right where he wants them. I can’t decide whether I’m rooting for President Pence, or Trump skipping impeachment proceedings to campaign more.