Friday Afternoon Links

Watching the Astros tonight and ZZ Top tomorrow night. Then leaving on a jet plane for chilly Detroit on Sunday. Man, I’m gonna be knackered by the time I get on that plane. Luckily, I usually fall asleep about the time the plane stops backing out of the gate. Sometimes I make it all the way to wheels up, but usually, I can get a good hour plus nap. Then meeting death march! But first… the links!

It seems like the US is taking credit for bricking a few Iranian phones.

Damn, Florida Woman.

Damn, Florida Man.

Look, babe, the Viagra is just so I don’t get ass cancer.

 

Time to celebrate pay day with that Little Band from Texas

Comments

336 responses to “Friday Afternoon Links”

  1. Chipwooder

    There’s no crime if there ain’t no law

    1. Tonio

      You show me the man; I’ll show you the crime.

      1. Tres Cool

        +1 Lavrentiy Beria

        1. Chipwooder

          I’m more of a Nikolai Yezhov man when it comes to bloodthirsty Soviet executioners.

          1. Scruffy Nerfherder

            Look at this guy, going for quantity over quality.

    2. mexican sharpshooter

      *hands Chipwooder White Claws*

  2. Tres Cool

    Sup?

    1. Tres Cool

      And those of you in the know, Im thrilled to be here today.

      1. Yusef Adama

        Snazzy Dresser you!

    2. Gender Traitor

      ‘Sup, Homey? : )

      1. Tres Cool

        Like the pic ?

        1. Gender Traitor

          Love it! Still at work. Will listen at home & CRANK IT UP!!!

          1. Yusef Adama

            We are loved GT, and We love him too!
            Tall Cans TreS!

          2. Gender Traitor

            Truth!

          3. Gender Traitor

            …and a Tall Bottle for me – draining the last of a bottle of cheap Chardonnay! Cheers!

  3. leon

    I’m exhausted. This week was long.

    1. Mad Scientist

      +1

    2. Tonio

      Incredibly so, but also incredibly productive.

    3. Rufus the Monocled

      Stop whining.

      Lebron had a difficult week.

      1. Count Potato

        Doesn’t he make a gazillion dollars an hour?

        1. Chafed

          I think it’s a bajillion.

          1. Rufus the Monocled

            Chinazillion.

          2. Jarflax

            I think in Pinyin you are supposed to say Zhonguojillian

  4. Francisco d’Anconia

    So…the US commits an act of war over someone else’s oil…

    1. The Last American Hero

      It still makes a sound.

    2. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Cyber (oh how I hate that term) operations seem to enjoy immunity from that particular term of art.

    3. Francisco d’Anconia

      I’m sure there was a declaration of war from Congress.

      You can’t even call this one self defense. You want to impeach Trump? Here’s a legitimate reason. Come on, Nancy, grow a pair!

      1. Drake

        The new standard – assume we are at war with everyone unless Congress gives the President permission to withdraw.

  5. Scruffy Nerfherder

    La Chouffe Blonde in a glass. Kids aren’t home yet. All is quiet and good for at least a few minutes.

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      And it’s over

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        You people.

        Don’t you know it’s been a rough week for the NBA?

        Perspective. Is it too much to ask?

        1. Jarflax

          My perspective is I have soda (seltzer to you heathens from New Amsterdam) and better than half a bottle of Talisker, and I intend to enter tomorrow with less. After laying down a base of malt I will do some proper cookery while drinking and make a shepherd’s pie. My stomach may hate me in the morning, my head may rebel, but tonight I will be joyful.

      2. Gadfly

        Based on the time stamps, that was a solid 25 minutes. Pretty good deal.

        1. Scruffy Nerfherder

          Yeah, three kids and a wife. Not much quiet time to myself.

  6. Hyperion

    She’s cracking up I tell you, cracking up.

    Russian Tools!

    So, this is the one who is going to come in and save you guys? You need a different plan.

    1. Mad Scientist

      She’s just pissed because she’s no longer their tool.

    2. Chipwooder

      Why weren’t you shitlords Ready for Hillary in 2016??? We missed an opportunity for this stable, most qualified candidate instead of dangerous lunatic Cheeto Mussolini.

    3. JaimeRoberto: Gentleman, Scholar, French Tickler

      I love how the media forgo their usual “without evidence” disclaimer when reporting on this.

    4. Stinky Wizzleteats

      She’s just trying to get an early inroad on the paranoid with delusions of persecution Russophobic vote.

    5. Hyperion

      I mean if she’s serious, shouldn’t she be going after the front runners instead of … Jill Stein? I didn’t even remember who she was until this. Has Hillary sobered up long enough to keep up since the 2016 election? And Tulsi, yeah, we know Shillary, you’re jelly, just admit it, look at them titties, Hillary! I bet Billly would love to grab those!

      1. Count Potato

        She also gave Jill Stein a ton of money for a “recount”.

      2. Ayn Random Variation

        It’s a death threat against anyone on the left who someone might actually vote for thinking about running as a 3rd party

    6. Drake

      She needs to give them another reset button.

  7. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Ladies and gentlemen and non-binary furries, I present slashdot.

    https://slashdot.org/poll/3134

    1. Brett L

      Wow, my days of not going back there are definitely coming to a middle.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        It really is a shadow of its former self.

        Where have all the individualistic techies gone?

        1. Tonio

          Here?

        2. robc

          It was over once Taco cashed in.

    2. Rhywun

      I had no idea that site was still up.

        1. Tres Cool

          …puts on wizard’s robe and hat

          1. Yusef Adama

            Techno people we are! in one way or another,

    3. Jarflax

      Where is my “Holy God in Heaven, what hast thou wrought with these untreed monkeys?” choice?

  8. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

    I just saw some tax parasites marching about how they need a 15% raise over three years for the children.

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Marching is hard work man.

      1. Certified Public Asshat

        It has been suggested

        You realize very quickly that strikes are a grind. It was cold. Even half an hour into the picketing, it felt like a grind. This was day one, at the opening press event, with the union president and the cameras. This was peak energy. You can imagine after two hours, six hours, two days, six days, two weeks… it’s a grind. Picket lines were in place at every public school in Chicago. All of them. You could drive around the city for days visiting them, one after another, each its own little front in the war.

        I thought that fucker had been laid off with the rest of Splinter.

        1. Rhywun

          Chicago’s Strike Is For The Children

          LOLOLOL

          1. Certified Public Asshat

            So many words, and none of them support the headline.

          2. Jarflax

            Giiiiifffffffee uuuuuussssss yoooourrrrrr childrennnn, that we may ssssssssup.

    2. Tonio

      Government Schoolteachers?

      1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

        Yes. Protected by pirates.

      2. mexican sharpshooter

        Either that or UAW.

        1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

          Whatever your opinions on the UAW, they never tried to raise my taxes

          1. mexican sharpshooter

            Hey now, you said tax parasite. There’s all kinds of tax parasites.

          2. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

            Fair point. As others have mentioned, the bailouts.

            My mistake

          3. Sensei

            GM bailout says otherwise.

          4. Jarflax

            ^ This, your tax dollars bought the employees of GM and Chrysler jobs, while also paying the Courts to approve a restructuring that flat out violated the bankruptcy code and screwed creditors and equity holders to give the UAW every thing their thieving hearts desired. For now…

          5. Don Escaped Texas

            and suppliers and landlords

          6. mexican sharpshooter

            Don’t forget give them significant ownership of the company itself…

          7. Enough About Palin

            Since they vote for Democrats, I would say they have.

    3. Mad Scientist

      I hope you told them to learn to code.

      1. Jarflax

        They are education majors. Corky is less retarded.

  9. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Mark Hurd is dead. Somewhere, Carly Fiorina is celebrating.

  10. Scruffy Nerfherder
    1. Hyperion

      I have to tell you, as soon as I get out of this apt and get a house again ( wife and I have been working the internet real estate sites constantly for a couple of months now), I’d most definitely, will, opt for a gas powered backup generator over some solar panels.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        Please talk to me first.

        1. Hyperion

          OK. Are you a solar panel salesman?

          1. Scruffy Nerfherder

            I rent and sell generators. I don’t install backup units but I know the manufacturers and the process well.

          2. I. B. McGinty

            I smell an article!

          3. Shirley Knott

            That would absolutely be a good article.

          4. Scruffy Nerfherder

            Ok. I’m working on another pay, but I’ll put this in the queue.

          5. Scruffy Nerfherder

            Post, not pay

          6. Hyperion

            Good stuff, I’m most definitely going to be interested in one in the near future. Thanks.

          7. Hyperion

            “Comparing the heating costs for an apartment in Baltimore to a wind-swept rural house in North Dakota is hardly an apples to apples comparison.”

            Well, MikeS puts it more in perspective, but still, the point I’m trying to make is that propane is very expensive compared to gas.

          8. MikeS

            What’s your thoughts on propane vs. gasoline? Caveat being that I heat with propane and have a 500 gallon tank in the back yard.

          9. Hyperion

            I had a ‘pig’ in my backyard. That’s what we called the 500 gallon propane tanks. It sucks because it is very expensive compared to natural gas, for starters. Wait, gasoline… you going to heat your home with gasoline?

          10. Scruffy Nerfherder

            User the propane. Run times and availability in an emergency are not important than per kW fuel costs.

            Propane engines are also more reliable in between starts because of fuel spoilage issues.

          11. MikeS

            I am 8 miles form the nearest NG line. Propane is easily my cheapest options.

          12. MikeS

            Thanks, Scruffy. Propane seemed like the obvious choice, but more opinions are always good.

            The plus side being I can put it in the basement and tap right off the propane line coming into the house. Don’t have to worry about gas cans and the propane company keeps the tank full-ish all winter

          13. Jarflax

            You are in NDak? Can’t you just drill down in your backyard and have a natural gas well?

          14. MikeS

            Western NoDak has the oil and gas. I’m in the east. 🙁

          15. Hyperion

            Propane is ultra expensive. Also be weary of ultra territorial propane companies at war with each other.

            A little over a decade ago, I bought a house and moved in. The house used propane and there was a tank in my back yard. Nothing was mentioned about it, at all, on my sales contract, and so I just looked up propane companies in the phone book and called one. They came out and filled up my tank.

            A couple of months later, I get a call from an irate lady who’s yelling at me, something about their tank. It was like 8am on Saturday morning and I’m wandering around in my bathrobe drinking coffee.

            I’m like ‘What. Wait, what is wrong with you?’ So she says ‘That’s our fucking tank, we’ll sue you!’. After a few minutes of me telling her to stop fucking yelling at me and make some sense, she puts ‘her husband’ on the phone.

            He was a lot nicer and explains to me, that is their tank and I have to use their propane. I said ‘I don’t know what the fuck you are talking about, how am I supposed to know that?’.

            So he tells me ‘Oh, everyone knows, by the color of the tank. I said ‘I have no fucking idea what you are talking about, I’ll call my propane company and asks them to change it.

            So then he got real nice and was like ‘Oh no, really, you should stick with us! We this, we that, our prices’. I said ‘Dude, any chance of that happening went out the window with that bitch I just spoke with this morning. So come get you tank and shove it up your fucking ass’ *hangs up*

          16. R C Dean

            The hospital has massive diesel backup generators. No idea how much diesel we keep on site, but I think its enough to run a huge hospital for a week.

            We also have our own water wells. And a vegetable garden, not that I think of it. We’re kind of a prepper hospital, in a way. Only, sadly, without the guns.

          17. Jarflax

            Your job is to protect the Hospital! Get guns!

          18. MikeS

            I don’t know what “ultra expensive” is, but around here it’s a damn sight cheaper than either electric or fuel oil.

            Last winter, which was cold even by NoDak standards, we spent around $1300 on propane, IIRC. I have friends whose electric bills go up $500+ in the coldest months.

          19. Hyperion

            “Last winter, which was cold even by NoDak standards, we spent around $1300 on propane”

            Good fucking God, my expense on heating last winter was less than $200.

          20. MikeS

            And you live (in an apartment) where, again?

          21. Hyperion

            “And you live (in an apartment) where, again?”

            Baltimore. Are you saying that BGE is cheap? I’ve lived all over the USA, propane is obscenely fucking expensive in my experience. But good for you, you’ve discovered the cheaper source.

          22. Jarflax

            Must be a tiny apartment to spent 50-60 a month on heat.

          23. MikeS

            Comparing the heating costs for an apartment in Baltimore to a wind-swept rural house in North Dakota is hardly an apples to apples comparison.

          24. Hyperion

            “Must be a tiny apartment to spent 50-60 a month on heat.”

            1200 sq ft. Too tiny for us now which is why we’re going to buy a house now. My total util bill in the winter is about 60-70 bucks, in the summer about twice that because of AC. Do I expect it to be that cheap in a house with more than 2000 sq ft main living space (not counting garage and basement)? No, but doesn’t change the fact that natural gas is way cheaper than propane.

          25. MikeS

            FYI; I paid $1.19/gallon on contract for the winter. No idea if you call that cheap or not, but again, it is far, far cheaper than heating with electric or fuel oil.

          26. MikeS

            You pay for them to dig the natural gas line 8+ miles from the nearest town to my house and I’ll gladly switch.

          27. Hyperion

            I’m sure that you will.

          28. Ayn Random Variation

            Look, it’s Hank Hill!

      2. Jarflax

        I am holding out for my Mr. Fusion! Or Shipstones.

    2. Solar can’t fail.

      At least not until the sun goes nova. Or the earth becomes tidally locked to the sun and we’re on the dark side.

      1. Count Potato

        Or the sun sets.

        1. Jarflax

          Or you have a 3 month period of cloudy skies and limited sun, what do we call that again?

          1. MikeS

            Weeks away.

    3. Chafed

      Tundra’s erection will kill him.

  11. Hyperion

    End of work day! Beer! Cheers all around, shitlords! *loud clanking of giant beer mugs, loud reveling and squeals of beer wenches getting tushy squeeze* In a perfect universe near you…

    1. Jarflax

      The only downside of drinking at home is no cute and salty bar wenches. 🙁 The upsides are no belligerent assholes (ok, I know I know if that was really a consideration I would avoid you loveable scamps) and not having to either drive drunk or figure out how to make uber work while drunk.

      1. Hyperion

        All of that is easy. Only do upscale pubs or bars, never saw any trouble at the ones I visit. Uber, that is all.

  12. KSuellington

    In the debate on who has the best local watering hole, a clear front runner emerges. Hopefully the Health Dept doesn’t put an end to this.

    https://imgur.com/a/SUqbhBD

    1. Hyperion

      Looks healthy to me.

    2. Francisco d’Anconia

      That’s a gift

    3. Chafed

      Mar-A-Lago looks different than I pictured it.

      1. Tres Cool

        That Bill Clinton’s basement!

    4. Jarflax

      And the Progs want to end tipping…
      Bet she makes more than anyone here.

      1. Tres Cool

        She only does that because she couldn’t get into a STEM field because of the patriarchy. Duh.

  13. Juvenile Bluster

    Re: Russian Shills! above, Tulsi’s response is epic. I unironically love her.

    Tulsi Gabbard
    @TulsiGabbard
    Great! Thank you @HillaryClinton
    . You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain. From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a …

    Tulsi Gabbard
    @TulsiGabbard
    … concerted campaign to destroy my reputation. We wondered who was behind it and why. Now we know — it was always you, through your proxies and …

    Tulsi Gabbard
    @TulsiGabbard
    … powerful allies in the corporate media and war machine, afraid of the threat I pose.

    It’s now clear that this primary is between you and me. Don’t cowardly hide behind your proxies. Join the race directly.

    1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

      So this is what it’s like when doves cry

      1. Chipwooder

        Too bold

        1. Can you picture this?

          I think I’d vote for Tulsi just for this.

          1. Hyperion

            Just stop it already, Moj, tsk, tsk, tsk, we do not vote for commies, can we teach you nothing?

          2. Meh, Mr. Mojeaux and I have discussed it. The best I’m going to do is stay home. The worst, hold my nose and vote for Trump, which I STILL cannot see myself doing.

          3. Count Potato

            Trump is blonde, doesn’t drink, and writes made-up stories. You’re practically the same person.

          4. Sean

            ???

          5. You’re practically the same person

            *checks bank account*

            Nope.

          6. pistoffnick

            Dig if you will…

        2. JaimeRoberto: Gentleman, Scholar, French Tickler

          She sounds just like my mother.

      2. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

        I love Tulsi so much. And, unlike Trump who criticizes the media for being mean to Trump, Tulsi identifies why the corporate press is repellant: their endless bloodlust for war

        1. Chipwooder

          I like her quite a bit on a personal level. Most of what she advocates is laughably terrible, although that’s true of almost all politicians.

          1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

            She’s good on speech, religious liberty, and foreign policy.

            Agreed that she sucks on economics and I’m not saying that’s less important. I’m only saying that she’s not really all that terrible

          2. Semi-Spartan Dad

            She’s unadulterated evil. A wannabe Mao, Stalin, Chavez, or any other commie dictator. Just like every other Dem running for the nomination.

          3. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

            If you can’t find common ground with people who meet you half way then you’ll only lose ground.

          4. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

            I’m not a great messenger of this, but considering that the average Republican politician, let alone the average Democratic politician, is a statist on speech, religious liberty, and foreign policy, she’s better than most

          5. Semi-Spartan Dad

            I have no clue what you’re talking about. She’s a feverent, gun-grabbing communist who wants to forcibly redistribute wealth from people who earned it.

            Meeting her halfway means what? Disarming my family, handing over 75% of paychecks, and agreeing to speech police vis-a-vis Britain? In return for not bombing some shithole sandtrap halfway around the world that isn’t close to making the top 10 issues taking away liberties here at home? No thanks, I’ll pass on that deal.

          6. R C Dean

            If you can’t find common ground with people who meet you half way then you’ll only lose ground.

            Or, maybe, not lose any ground.

            We’ve gotten where we are by meeting Leftists like Tulsi halfway. Which is to say, we give them some of what they want, then some more of what they want, then some more of what they want, etc. ad infinitum. You keep saying “I won’t die on this hill”, eventually you run out of hills.

            I’d be curious to see what would constitute meeting Tulsi halfway on domestic policy. I don’t think she’s going to compromise by agreeing not to pursue any of her domestic agenda if we agree to support her foreign policy agenda.

          7. Heroic Mulatto

            In return for not bombing some shithole sandtrap halfway around the world that isn’t close to making the top 10 issues taking away liberties here at home?

            I’m pretty sure the “War on Terror” (TM) is one of the top ten issues responsible for our decent into a dystopian police state.

            But, yes. You can find a candidate who will end the forever wars and not take our guns away. His name is John McAfee, and he once fucked a whale.

          8. Semi-Spartan Dad

            I’m pretty sure the “War on Terror” (TM) is one of the top ten issues responsible for our decent into a dystopian police state.

            Absolutely agree the domestic policies associated with WOT are in the top 10.

            I don’t necessarily see overseas military action as being incompatible with libertarianism. Something along the lines of Falkenberg’s Legion where a military is self funded by taking contracts.

            That doesn’t mean I agree with the reasons we are sticking our dicks in the Middle East hornet’s nest. Or how we are going about it. I’d rather we pull completely out of the region. But my desire for us to do so doesn’t even register a blip against my desire to eliminate gun control, eliminate war on drugs, eliminate ABC agencies, institute term limits, end taxes, remove mandatory licensing, remove mandatory accreditation, end prescriptions, keep speech free, etc.

          9. Bob Boberson

            Imma be the voice of moderation:

            I think Tulsi is a more or less honest person with some bad ideas and a few really good ones. Like Rand Paul (principled constitutionalist) she’s a political anomaly (principled leftist). To Spartan’s point I’d have a really hard time voting for someone who is anti-gun (a bedrock of our natural rights) but to HM’s point the WoT is not a side issue, it’s a pillar of the Welfare/Warfare state and a direct threat to our natural rights.

            So I remain confused and slightly aroused when it comes to Tulsi.

          10. Bob Boberson

            All that said, good for her for standing up to Hilldog and not pulling any punches. Today my hat is off to her.

          11. Bob Boberson

            “But my desire for us to do so doesn’t even register a blip against my desire to eliminate gun control, eliminate war on drugs, eliminate ABC agencies, institute term limits, end taxes, remove mandatory licensing, remove mandatory accreditation, end prescriptions, keep speech free, etc.”

            You really need to read some Will Grigg and I don’t mean that in a patronizing way. It’s all the same ball of wax.

          12. Stinky Wizzleteats

            I respect Tulsi for her antiwar stance and that’s about it. On guns, taxes, healthcare, regulations, and general welfare state nonsense she sucks balls.

          13. Hyperion

            “On guns, taxes, healthcare, regulations, and general welfare state nonsense she sucks balls.”

            Well, she’s a commie, it’s what they do.

          14. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

            I’m sorry, but I just find it hilarious that people who defend Donald Trump (who has passed more gun control than Obama) and most likely considered voting for Gary Johnson who changed his position on basically every single issue when pressed by white liberals are drawing the line on guns all of a sudden.

          15. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

            But, you know, foreign policy and domestic spying doesn’t really effect us (hi, NSA!). But, ensuring that Republicans are the ones passing gun control (remember when Trump and a quarter of Republican senators wanted Red flag laws after the last shooting and only McConnell’s refusal is what prevented it?) is very important.

            Sorry if I don’t find that to be persuasive

          16. Stinky Wizzleteats

            I and most of the people here defend Trump when he does good or is railroaded and give him shit when he does bad and no one here loves the surveillance state so you’re being a bit unfair with your insinuations. I understand why you like Gabbard and that’s fine but her personal platform is a leftists’ wet dream minus a few specifics in the foreign policy arena.

          17. Jarflax

            Hey, TGA I just agreed to vote for her (at least in part because thete is virtually 0 chance of her getting the nomination). I even linked her page on my facebook page with a commitment to vote for her, but drop this line of argument man, I, and every other principled libertarian, regard amendments 1 and 2 as sacrosanct. She is honest, honorable, sexy, and principled. She is also an idiot and wrong on basically every issue except “don’t fight stupid wars”.

          18. bacon-magic

            Still not gonna happen old feller.

          19. Hyperion

            “and he once fucked a whale.”

            And I hear a mule more recently.

          20. MikeS

            I look forward to the article you mentioned laying this argument out.

        2. Certified Public Asshat

          *Hands TGA some paper towels*

          1. Enough About Palin

            That was awesome. Thanks!

          2. LOL Shirley Knott noted I have some very “eclectic” links.

            Here’s another one.

          3. MikeS

            That one is hilarious. And food for thought, as well.

        3. Hyperion

          Let me remind ya’ll before the love starts flowing. She’s a fucking commie. That’s hard reality.

    2. Rufus the Monocled

      Wow. Let that bitch have it Tulsi.

      1. Certified Public Asshat

        How long until Tulsi goes missing

        1. Suicide with a bullet straight through the back of her head, her hands tied behind her back, her body stuffed in the trunk of a car, the car at the bottom of a lake.

          1. Hyperion

            News Flash Alert:

            Here at the scene where rescue just recovered the body of democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, hands tied behind her back, her body stuffed in the trunk of a car, the car at the bottom of a lake, the Police Chief has just made a statement that this is being treated as a suicide.

          2. Comments section:

            “Gabbard couldn’t take the heat so she got out of the kitchen.”

            “No, I mean, it’s totally possible. My Uncle Guido committed suicide that way. Don’t minimize my lived experience.”

            “Who would bother to actually murder her? She wasn’t that important.”

            “She made it all about her and then when nobody cared, she decided life wasn’t worth living.”

    3. Rufus the Monocled

      “The Hoarse Whisperer

      @HoarseWisperer

      Replying to @TulsiGabbard
      You are such a fucking loser.

      New conversation

      John Weaver

      @jwgop
      14m14 minutes ago
      More
      Replying to @TulsiGabbard
      Gosh, Putin isn’t usually so wordy.’

      Imagine being such a loser you support and defend….Hilary.

      1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

        “pUtIn iSn’t sO WOrDy”

        They’re likely a slightly more retarded Bill Kristol

        1. bacon-magic

          His alt account

      2. Juvenile Bluster

        I purposefully didn’t leave a link to save y’all from the putrid replies.

      3. Chipwooder

        John Weaver – the McCain advisor John Weaver? That would figure.

        1. Scruffy Nerfherder

          That’s just sad.

    4. mexican sharpshooter

      I sincerely hope Tulsi doesn’t become the highest profile person to “disappear”.

      1. wdalasio

        On the other hand I would like to find out Gabbard personally caught the would-be assassin and pistol-whipped him into admitting who his sponsor was.

        1. Shirley Knott

          Oh yes, please!

    5. Rhywun

      I expect unhinged lunacy from a politician like Hillary. But this nugget from the “paper of record” – just, wow.

      In April, the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website, took credit for Ms. Gabbard’s qualification for the first two Democratic primary debates.”

      Talk about Hillary’s “powerful allies in the corporate media”.

      1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

        The NYT is now and always has been the mouthpiece of the welfare/warfare state.

        I like to tell people that Walter Duaranty is my favorite NYT reporter and then wait for people to say “I’m not familiar with him”

    6. Hyperion

      “You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption”

      Well, she nailed that part.

    7. Fatty Bolger

      That took some guts. Good for her.

    8. whiz

      OK, I’m 99% sure I will be supporting her in the Iowa caucuses. (The other 1% is staying home.)

    9. Jarflax

      Oh wow, those are real? Ok, TGA wins. She has my vote if she gets the nomination. I am committing to that now. (full disclosure my last online commitment was to give Reason $20 if Obama legalized pot, (I haven’t forgotten Denver J) and I am still waiting…)

    10. wdalasio

      Clinton’s accusations starting this whole dumpster fire off were utterly deranged. She’s calling Gabbard a Russian asset, Jill Stein a Russian asset, and Trump a Russian asset (I’m actually surprised she didn’t throw in Johnson for good measure). I think they decided to stop the interview before she started ranting about the plans to “sap and impurify all of her vital bodily fluids!”.

      1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

        The fact that Johnson wasn’t thrown into the mix should tell you how utterly worthless Johnson and his campaign were. And I’m sure it helped that his VP basically endorsed her during the campaign

    11. R C Dean

      I didn’t go but so deep into the replies, because Twitter, but I thought this was worth a chuckle:

      jw@wizardishungry

      I have information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton.

      Abdulla AlGhatam
      @KingAbdullaAlG

      My condolences to your family

      1. Count Potato

        LOL

    12. Ayn Random Variation

      I love her. I hope she is heavily armed.

    13. MikeS

      Wow. Go, Tulsi.

      Also, watch your 6′.

      1. Spudalicious

        I can’t wait until next week’s H&H.

  14. Enough About Palin

    “Damn, Florida Man.”

    how did these three women manage to get passed the neck-mole farm?

  15. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

    Sweet I’m on the train with some tax parasites wonder what the words are for “Solidarity Forever”. I know the words, but I’m not going to tell those freeloaders

    1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

      “When the union’s inspiration through the workers blood shall run
      There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun
      For what force weaker than the feeble strength of one
      For the union makes us strong

      *solidarity forever, solidarity forever, solidarity forever
      For the union makes us strong*

      1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

        Fucking commies

    2. mexican sharpshooter

      Throw them off the train*

      *Dear NSA: I did not suggest the tax parasites to be thrown from a moving train, and imply harm to be done.

      1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

        Haha. You act like this will spare you from the gulags.

        1. mexican sharpshooter

          Please. I’m already on half a dozen lists.

          Then again, so are you.

          1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

            All so terribly true

      2. Jarflax

        Ok, stopped train on the Beipanjiang Bridge is my best offer.

  16. grrizzly

    Meanwhile, in Russia

    1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

      They’re the scary white people

      1. Gadfly

        That’s what happens when you cross Slavs with Vikings.

    2. Count Potato

      That’s just Tonio on a date.

    3. Tres Cool

      That dude knows sambo.

      /would not cross

    4. Rufus the Monocled

      That daughter.

      1. bacon-magic

        She would kick OMWC’s ass.

        1. Jarflax

          If the van is a rockin’, the Russian kid is taking the candy damn it and no she is NOT doing anything for it except whuppin’ some pervert.

    5. Jarflax

      How does Russia produce dudes like that and women like this? And yet manage to be a sideshow in history?

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        A predisposition to alcoholism and depression?

        1. Jarflax

          Well that, and no middle class, and a history that has never had so much as a decade of actual liberty, and about 15 hordes of Mongols sweeping through at various times over the past 1500 years, and the Teutonic Knights, and the guy who beat the Teutonic Knights and is worshiped for making the Slavs slaves and… oh to hell with it, more vodka.

          1. Stinky Wizzleteats

            And not having natural barriers to the invasion of European Russia and having to subsidize the vast expanses that act as substitutes for those barriers.

        2. Suthenboy

          Those are just symptoms.

          A dude that took vacations there every year with a suitcase full of perfumes, silk stockings and various jewelry told me “Every damned one of them are criminals.”

          They have an ‘all for me, none for you’ attitude. When everyone wants to be on top you end up with crab bucket syndrome.

      2. Don Escaped Texas

        OMG: the wood, the water, the coal, the oil, the iron, the uranium . . . I could . . .

        / wipes spooge off ceiling

        1. Jarflax

          Russia v. Japan.

          Absolute, empirical proof that natural resources are utterly irrelevant to wealth.

          1. Hyperion

            It absolutely is not irrelevant. It’s just possible that you can have a system that is unable to take advantage of it.

          2. Jarflax

            Ore without intelligence and the liberty to use it is dirt.

        2. Suthenboy

          So what is the difference between here and there?

          Two words: ‘Property’, and ‘rights’.

          They are not individualists the way we are.

          You know who else lusted after Russia’s resources?

  17. Count Potato

    “Under Florida law, it’s illegal for anyone who knows they have any of several sexually transmitted diseases to have sex with another person without informing them of their status.”

    It’s the only thing legal in California.

    “When Mowry eventually gave birth to the child, the family thought the father was her boyfriend, until their son told Campbell what happened. A DNA test later confirmed the boy was the father, according to the Tampa Bay Times.”

    I wonder if he’ll have to pay child support?

    1. Tres Cool

      Yes.

      1. Count Potato

        That’s just wrong.

        1. Jarflax

          Child support is based on the supposition that the child is an innocent, and should be supported regardless of the various sins of the parents. In this case that produces a blatant injustice, which is why I keep saying we need fewer rules/laws and more judgment. The Death of Common Sense is a good (not entirely libertarian, and in some cases too fond of the State) book about this.

        2. Tres Cool

          DNA established paternity, so it isnt a question. Now, WHEN he will be obligated to support the child is a diff story. If Mom is incarcerated and he’s bearing expenses for child care, she could get hit with a big arrearage when she gets out of prison.

          1. Sean

            She already has a big arrearage.

          2. Tres Cool

            If the kid likes thicc

    2. Semi-Spartan Dad

      to have sex with another person without informing them of their status

      I guess in Florida they have to clarify sex with another person.

      1. Jarflax

        Goddamn it, tell the damn sheep! It isn’t fair! Someone call PETA.

    3. I guess I’m wondering why vigilante justice is bad again?

      1. Jarflax

        Because it leads to blood feuds. You kill the guy who gave your sister Aids, his brother kills you, your brother kills him, next thing you know you are singing Bluegrass and banging your cousin.

        1. Hyperion

          But you get the best moonshine, I mean why you’re still alive.

        2. MikeS

          …who probably has Aids

        3. Forgot the /s tag.

        4. Hyperion

          “Because it leads to blood feuds.:

          I said, man, I give you for honor, for the family, here take this gun, you gotta go up there on that there hill and kill Devil Anse.

          I says ‘What the fuck! You outa your fucking mind!, I ain’t going up there with some dude by name of Devil Anse!’

          *hands back gun, runs away*

  18. Spudalicious

    Evening, Glibbies! Manhattan by my side and the smell of pork stew is wafting through the house.

    1. Sean

      *raises glass of wine*

      I have no idea what’s for dinner. Gf is picking something up on her way home.

    2. Rhywun

      Manhattan by my side

      Damn, that is a capital idea.

      1. Spudalicious

        I thought so.

    3. Tres Cool

      If that manhattan isnt ‘perfect’ you’re a homo

      (HM? Insert GAY pic, please)

      1. Hyperion

        The capital is Albany.

          1. Hyperion

            “Damn, that is a capital idea.”

      2. Spudalicious

        Nope. No dry vermouth.

    4. Evening Spud,I’m stuck with Miller High Life tonight , the drive thru that sells Strohs was six cars deep, and fuck that noise, so I had to settle for what the carry out had. Pork stew sounds awesome, I’m either ordering a pizza or drinking dinner.

      1. Jarflax

        Eat something! Booze w/o food turns melancholy.

      2. Spudalicious

        Drive through booze. I love this country.

        1. Hyperion

          I still remember that from the Ohio. Drive you pickup through the pole barn and get your cases tossed in the back.

          1. Other states not having drive-thru beer docks is the biggest “what the fuck is wrong with you people?” feeling I get when I’m out of state.

    5. I have orange juice.

      1. Spudalicious

        I’m not sure how you make it through life.

        1. Jarflax

          Oh many a peer of England brews
          Livelier liquor than the Muse,
          And malt does more than Milton can
          To justify God’s ways to man.

      2. Hyperion

        There’s something wrong with all of ya’ll. Just pop a beer, or get your bottle of liquor and pour it in a bottle with cubes, or neat. How hard is that?

        1. Spudalicious

          Cretin.

          1. Hyperion

            Nope, the Cretins is the ones who can’t get booze that doesn’t need sweet tarts and honey buns tossed into it to make it taste good.

          2. Jarflax

            Says the guy drinking Cachaca

          3. Hyperion

            What even in the fuck is wrong with you? You never been to Brazil?

          4. Jarflax

            Women great, jungle great, booze? lame

          5. Spudalicious

            Sick burn, Jarflax.

          6. Hyperion

            Ya’ll is all fucked up.

          7. Jarflax

            True, but I am fucked up on delicious single malt whisky, so it is ok. Although I think I just really pissed off my brother on facebook.

          8. Hyperion

            There’s Cachaca just as good as any single malt Scotch. Just because you can’t get it, doesn’t change that. I have a bottle on my shelf that I am sure will rival any Scotch or Bourbon or anything. Now off to get another Natty Bo out the fridge.

        2. Sean

          #lazydrunk

          ?

          ?

          1. Spudalicious

            Any commoner can open a can, or a bottle. It takes a true shitlord to mix up a cocktail.

          2. Sean

            I get both sides of the issue. I’m still buying that smoking box soon to make my smoked manhattans, but my default setting is #lazydrunk.

  19. Tres Cool

    Top Secret is on and Im 2/3 full of beer.

    I’m quite content

    1. Hyperion

      “Im 2/3 full of beer.”

      Don’t worry, you can get a 2nd wind.

    2. Jarflax

      Enjoy! I’m 2/3 full of good single malt and dinner is in the oven. Life is good, and I love you reprobates!

      1. Spudalicious

        Once I’m done with my cocktail, I’m switching to Duvel to go with the pork stew. And then there will be bourbon.

        1. Jarflax

          Dinner is ready and the bottle is not empty. Time for drinking avatar to appear! Franz Hals ftw

          1. Jarflax

            I wish avatar changes didn’t update prior posts 🙁

      2. Hyperion

        I have a couple top shelf bottles of Cachaca, but drinking Natty Bo, now that all my Coors Banquet is gone.

    3. Gender Traitor

      No more Chardonnay. GT haz a sad. Stuck bottle of rose (visualize the accent aigu, s’il vous plait) from my favorite local winery in the fridge. IT HAS A CORK, BITCHEZZ!!

      1. Jarflax

        glued to the box? or to the mylar bag inside?

        1. Gender Traitor

          Stuck down in the neck of the bottle, dammit! And I’m probably not going to have the motor skills to extract it when it’s ready to be drunk. (I already am ready.)

          1. Jarflax

            You can always just push it through into the bottle, it splashes some and you have to finish the bottle, but it works

          2. Or you can get a reusable bottle stopper. I picked up a pair at Target for something like $3.99.

      2. Get a real wine. :-p

        (Had a Sauvignon Blanc with dinner.)

      3. Oh, and éééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééééé.

        I think it’s Alt+0233 if you’re on Windows.

        1. Rhywun

          ⌥E, E if you’re on Mac.

          1. I’m on Linux, so it’s just the right Alt+e.

    1. Spudalicious

      That’s an awesome troll.

  20. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Looks like the new Brexit deal might be a warmed over version of the Theresa May deal:

    https://youtu.be/IMRvcjxrjzg

    Sad!

    1. Jarflax

      How hard is it to say we are leaving? If you want to trade with us great, if not fuck off.

      1. Pretty hard when “We” is 66 million people and one third wants one thing and another third wants a different thing and the last third can’t be arsed to give a fuck.

        1. Rhywun

          And two thirds of the voter’s representatives in Parliament are determined to ignore the vote that took place.

          1. Jarflax

            They have lampposts; they have rope.

          2. Lackadaisical

            Oi mate ! Your rope is missing its RFI tracker. Also, new thread.

          3. Who voted them in? Serious question as I ain’t following this very closely (because fuck the limeys) , but how many elections have there been since the big Brexit vote? if “The People” really wanted this wouldn’t they have ousted the cocksuckers that are stymieing it?

          4. Not necessarily, considering how much power the party organization has to select candidates in the individual constituencies.

          5. Jarflax

            Who voted them in?

            Do your representatives actually represent you? When was the last time you had a chance to vote for someone you agreed with even a little?

          6. Rhywun

            They probably have machine politics just like we do. Those one third who can’t be arsed, can’t be arsed for a reason.

    2. Rhywun

      My understanding is that May’s deals essentially left the UK in the EU in all but name, and Boris’s doesn’t.

      1. There’s also the question of whether Boris (or at least some around him) were aiming at an agreement with the EU that was designed to fail in the House of Commons, in order to get around the law that said “come up with an agreement or you’re forced to seek another extension”. Supposedly the DUP (the party in coalition with the Conservatives) are opposed to this agreement.

  21. AlmightyJB

    At bar. Getting drunk. Waiting for the Buckeyes game. TGIF.

    1. Spudalicious

      Ahhh, the good life.

    2. Trigger Hippie

      Cheers! I’m heading to the bar soon as well!

    3. Trigger Hippie

      Here, have some lighthearted drinking music to start the night!

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3L2Lz4vRnUY

    4. What kind of heathen holds a college game on Friday?

  22. Sean

    For you Tulsi fans, Tucker just said she’ll be on shortly.

    1. Hyperion

      For all you Tulsi fans, fap and get over it, she’s a fucking commie.

      1. leon

        And Trump is an authoritarian douchebag. At least they are fapping to an attractive politician.

        1. Hyperion

          “And Trump is an authoritarian ”

          OK. I mean I keep hearing this, but can you explain to me how Trump is authoritarian?

    2. Bob Boberson

      If she’s going on Tucker she’s accepted that her campaign is over. It also may mean she realizes that her constituency will never be the looney left.

      1. Sean

        She’s been on multiple times.

        1. Bob Boberson

          Huh. I don’t cable so I have no idea. No wonder she’s getting so much hate from her fellow Dems. Most of them would like to see Tucker publicly drawn and quartered for ungoodthink.

  23. Good heavens.

    I don’t know whether I want to be your designated driver or just a chick at a bar watching the drunken Glibs entertainment while eating peanuts.

    1. Hyperion

      Why is there only peanuts? You’re like the worst designated driver, ever.

      1. Peanuts — Because I’m so badass I can eat them without dying.

        1. Gdragon

          I have read almost every day for the last 6 months or so that nuts are apparently the fattiest thing that Demi Rose eats.

          See Count Potato, I totally read the text too 😉

    2. Rhywun

      It’s getting a little catty tonight, eh?

      1. I’m waiting for the brawl.

        Oh, look —-> Winston’s Mom.

    3. Sean

      You can drive my car if you’re our designated driver.

      1. I’m the only one here without a drink in her hand. My bad. I do. Water.

  24. Hyperion

    So, I’m in a dilemma, I mean we want to have a house by Spring and move in and we want kitties and or puppies. Because we’re too old to have our own offspring and we need a full house, whatever that means, serenity now and all that. So I want two kitties and I want to name them Beowulf and Devil Anse. And I don’t even know why, but I’m sure I want muh kitties to kill stuff. Am I a bad person?

    1. You’re the worst.

      1. Hyperion

        Well, yeah, I mean, of course I am. But I think the worse you’re talking about requires a vagina?

    2. Bob Boberson

      Kitties kill stuff whether you want them to or not. inside every cute little kitty is a homicidal maniac.

      /reminds self to check spare bedrooms for dead chipmunks, rabbits, birds, mice or any other critter she may have dragged in.

      1. inside every cute little kitty is a homicidal maniac.

        You say that like it’s a bad thing.

    3. Rhywun

      Yes. I only name pets with human names. I hate “pet” names.

      My current two are Betty and Maggie.

    4. MikeS

      Nevermind the fucking cats; what are you going to heat with?

    1. Hyperion

      If you don’t share with me before you listen, I’m going to be pissed. Can we get a cat butt here?

    2. Rhywun

      Any early They Might Be Giants works, too. I’ve heard.

      1. Hyperion

        Really, I don’t know what’s wrong with ya’ll, but if we’re going to have an Electric Koolaid Party, we got to get on this.

        She Dropped Acid and She’s Alone

        1. Rhywun

          Jesus. Beck is a hate crime.

        2. Gdragon

          That’s shortened actually, here is the extended cut.

          1. Gdragon

            Ugh I screwed up the replies but it’s easy to figure out.

    3. Gdragon

      This has been my designated acid trip song for over 20 years. And it has a good message too 😉

  25. Hyperion

    This is seriously one of the greatest music videos of all time.

    Flesh for Fantasy