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  • A Tuesday Midday Post

    We knew it was coming…the day when we all dropped the ball.  That day was so many days recently.

    I made the joke— Pictured:  the week without SP.

    Sorry about that.  I took it upon myself to make sure there was a midday post.  It is in this spirit I propose this as a topic of discussion:  Cole Slaw.  The most hated of slaws, but why?

    Is it the cabbage?

    Is it because its cold…too cold…cold enough you feel it in the fillings in the back of your teeth?

    Did some crackerjack in your youth turn you off because they put some bloody Miracle Whip in is instead of Mayonaise like the Devil himself intended?

    …or were you just hoping I’d link to Danzig?

    Personally the only time I like cole slaw is on a BBQ pork sandwich.  The creamy tanginess and the crisp cabbage is a nice counter to what I often find is a too sweet BBQ sauce.  Unless I’m in NC, then it counters the bitterness of their vinegar sauce just as well.

    So discover your tribe, the slaws vs. the anti-slaws.  I am not responsible for anything that becomes of this discussion.

     

  • Tuesday Morning Links

    Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas!  And what a glorious morning it is for everyone but El Paso residents who have to put up with this spectacle.  Well that and having to be El Paso residents.

     

     

    Move over Beto, I found an even bigger pussy.

     

    A possible budget deal as been reached that includes partial funding for The Wall.

     

     

     

    Two thirds of state wide Virginia elected officials have done what one third of people finds acceptable.

     

    Subway guy, Jared Fogle, living it up in prison.

     

    Michael Moore’s career continues its downward spiral.

     

    Hmmmm….

     

    That’s all I got for today, I’ll leave you with a song that won’t get out of my fucking head and move along with my day.

  • Is it Going to Be Monday ALL DAY?? Afternoon Links

    I b’leve I might get my ass kicked for saying this, but I might have a case of the Mondays. As in, this day can go crawl up its own ass and die already. And this has NOTHING WHATEVER to do with the fact that I stayed up drinking beer and going down the YouTube rabbit hole way later than I should. You watch 10 clips with an average length of 20 minutes and ho-lee fuck! Its late and shit. So here’s your damn links. I’m going to take a nap.

    Is secretly pink flying squirrels a euphemisim for anything? It sounds like something dirty.

    Ms. Dolly Parton celebrated giving away her 100 MILLIONTH book to encourage families to read to their young children. That’s a hell of a great thing.

    This just goes to show that there’s no minimum IQ for parenting.

    Wow. Trump’s approval rating hits 52%. I’m not Mr. Trump’s biggest fan, but given that he’s opposing a group of socialist morons who think Venezuela just needed a more feminine touch, I wouldn’t be surprised if his approval hits 62% by November 2020. Serious question, how in the hell is PROG HARDER!!11! still getting 50% of the votes that get counted?

    Suffer with me!

  • Monday Morning Links

    Geez, I’ve been busy.  This auction is kicking my ass and still 12 days to go before showtime. I doubt anybody will see me here for a few weeks after today, but that’s the way it goes sometimes.

    I don’t even know what’s going on in the sports world really. I know Mickelson tried to play golf at what appeared to be midnight en route to winning (sometime this morning) Pebble Beach. And I know that Liverpool won but Man City steamrolled Chelsea in what should cost their manager his job. The AAC got started and from what I hear, people like what they are seeing. College basketball is a roller coaster this year. And I will have to watch more hockey to know what’s going on, although its apparent the Ducks suck since they just canned their coach.

    When he wasn’t winning awards he was killing elephants.

    Thomas Edison was born on this day. Sow as novelist and screenwriter Sidney Sheldon, actress Eva Gabor, funnyman Leslie Nielsen, Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega, legendary actor Burt Reynolds, JEB!, Sarah Palin, Jennifer Aniston (is 50!), and radio host Alex Jones.

    Its also the day the following happened: Robert Fulton patented the steamboat, Ike was named commander of Allied European forces (to the chagrin of Monty), the Yalta Agreement was signed, the Ayatollah seized power in Iran, Weird Al recorded his first LP, Buster Douglas knocked Mike Tyson out in Tokyo and Nelson Mandela was released from prison.

    OK, now the links!

    May asks for yet more time to negotiate Brexit. Jesus, this is getting ridiculous.  Just walk away and tell the EU that they’re negotiating with a completely sovereign nation now. Its become the only way they’ll let you voluntarily leave their little socialist club and its also the only way the saboteurs in your own government will lose leverage.

    What the shit is Executive Time anyway?  Actually, I don’t really give a shit. In fact, I wish every single elected and appointed government official would spend at least half of their schedule on “executive time”. It might mean they don’t have enough time to lord over my daily life and come up with more ways to steal what I’ve earned.

    This is the face of hate…and progressives embrace it.

    I know this is shocking, but Rep. Ilhan Omar appears to be an anti-Semite. Go read the tweet, btw…its full of Jewish leftists saying how they’re such big fans off hers but are disappointed in this.  Yeah, because this doesn’t mirror everything she’s publicly said about Israel for years.

    I swear, I have never heard a song of hers, but Joy Villa has some balls. I won’t comment on her politics other than to say its nice that at least one person in the industry is standing up against the same of progressive stupidity and hypocrisy.

    14 more to have charges dropped in Chicago because of scumbag cop Ronald Watts.  Good! Now I hope they sue the city for millions and win. (Sorry, taxpayers of Chicago who don’t continue to vote for the idiots that enable this police union. Its probably time to give up and get the hell out of there.)

    Doesn’t anybody give him a hard time about the Dr Evil lazy eye? Nobody at all? Comedy is dead.

    So it looks like the brother of Jeff Bezos’s mistress is the one who leaked his dick pics to the National Enquirer. Um, who shares dirty texts with their brother or sister? If she didn’t, he belongs in jail. If she did…weeeeeeird family dynamic going on there.

    The Houston Chronicle did an exhaustive investigation into sex abuse at the Southern Baptist Church. The results are really bad. I mean really, really, really bad.

    No idea why I picked this today. I know how polarizing he is. Maybe that’s why!

    Anyway, have a great day out there, friends!

  • STEVE SMITH SUNDAY EVENING LINKS

    #STEVESMITHTOO

    IT GOOD WEEKEND IN STEVE SMITH WOODS. GEOLOGIST TEAM STAY NIGHT. STEVE SMITH SHOW HOSPITALITY. BY SHOW HOSPITALITY, MEAN RAPE ENTIRE TEAM. NOW HIM ALL ON TRACK TO MAKE MONTHLY QUOTA. ALSO MEAN STEVE SMITH HAVE TIME GIVE LINKS TO FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE.

    STEVE SMITH SAY RELAX, ENJOY LINKS:

    • MAYBE STEVE SMITH GO VISIT SWITZERLAND. HIM SEE THEY HAVE HOUSES FOR WHILE LONGER.
    • NOW STEVE SMITH KNOW WHAT GLIBERTARIANS DEAL WITH IN SNOW! IT SHAME SMITH FAMILY NO TALK WITH COUSIN YETI FAMILY. COULD GET POINTERS.
    • LOOK LIKE LONDON STILL NOT GOOD PLACE BE.

    HOPE LIKE LINKS. STEVE SMITH GO BRUSH SNOW OFF FRONT OF CAVE. WANT MAKE INVITING TO HIKERS IN WOODS…

    FREE CASCADIA!

  • IFLA: The Horoscope for the Week of Feb 10

    This week’s skies are dominated by Jupiter, which is kind of apropos since it is the Planet of Dominion.  It links two alignments: Jupiter-Venus-Terra and Jupiter-Sol-Mars.  Jupiter-Venus is a particularly felicitous conjunction, and although (with all due respect to 5th Dimension) Jupiter-Mars is not, the inclusion of the big fireball in the sky with them does leaven it significantly.  So we’ve got good luck, happiness, home, security, stability, defense — basically everything that is good about having a home life is here.  Also, with both male (Mars) and female (Venus) aspects being represented here we have good news/good luck/success in parenting.

    Aquarius continues to have excellent luck from hosting the Sun and Mercury.  There is also a warning about flooding for the rest of us.  Aries luck isn’t so good this week — the moon is poking Mars with a pointy stick which frankly isn’t smart.  Speaking of not smart, Capricorn (wisdom) is getting thumped with the idiot stick (Saturn) resulting in romantic troubles (Venus).  Sagittarius continues to be the boss (Jupiter).  I will be paying particular attention to my results at the range this week to see if the archer-aspect of Sagittarius is delivering.

    Now onto the cards, there are quite a few powerful ones this week:

    Aquarius: 9 of Cups, reversed – This is the libertarian sign.  Liberty, loyalty, truth, imperfections, mistakes.

    Pisces:  Page of Swords, reversed – Sickness. The Page of Swords typically represents a sneaky weasely little bastard who is on your side.  Reversed, he’s working against you.

    Aries:  3 of Cups, reversed – An expedition.  Also an achievement or an ending.

    Taurus: Ace of Cups – this was Leo’s card last week, so this week, you get you will experience nourishment and joy.

    Gemini:  Queen of Cups – This represents a good woman.  Alternatively, it indicates unusual insight or vision this week.

    Cancer :  King of Wands – A friendly dark man.  Also a consultant.

    Leo:  Knight of Cups, reversed – Trickery, fraud, artifice.  Someone who is falsely claiming to work for your benefit.

    Virgo: The Hanged Man, reversed – You will be mistaken for a Scorpio.  Selfishness, crowds, and selfish crowds.  The politically pandered-to.

    Libra:  The Hermit – Possibly prudence, but more typically treason and corruption.  Sorry about that.

    Scorpio:  The Chariot – This one always means something interesting is going to happen.  Succor, providence, triumph, trouble, vengeance.

    Sagittarius:  King of Swords – This card represents the positive aspects of hard power.  It’s being better than others, having authority, passing judgment.

    Capricorn:  4 of Wands – Prosperity, repose, “country life.”

     

     

  • Sunday Morning Catch-Up Links

    And irony of ironies, this afternoon I have to fly back to the frozen North for  week, sticking SP with unpacking and sorting duties. I will count myself lucky if I’m still married when I get back. Yesterday, we wandered into various venues in our new community and are in a bit of culture shock. Our last home in Illinois was in a heavily immigrant and second generation Mexican area. In Austin, we lived in a heavily Vietnamese neighborhood. Here, we are in the stereotypical Caucasia that people make fun of. At Lowe’s, no-one was named Jorge or DeAndre or Jose, every goddam worker there was named Cayden or Camryn or some shit like that. The spice section of the grocery store was 15 different brands of salt. The Wonder Dog is pure white, so she fits in just fine.

    Today is February 10th, and the birthday that has me totally stoked is that of Claude-Louis Navier. But also, let us not forget the great Alan Hale, Sr., Jimmy Durante, Chick Webb, and the guy who was basically the house bassist at my favorite venue during my teen years, Rufus Reid.

    On to the news.

     

    Second Amendment under assault, and every right thinking individual thinks this is a good thing. No chance for abuse here, nossir.

     

    In France, protesters continue to protest. When asked what they were protesting, they responded, “I dunno, whaddaya got?”

     

    What the fuck kind of place have we moved to??? Hey, Michelle, let’s see them tiddies!

     

    In Baltimore, murder is just fine, but don’t try trolling.

     

    Actors love to pretend to be science experts. I have to admit that I don’t know many scientists who could act well, so there’s that.

     

    Pot, meet kettle.

     

    DO NOT MAKE ME WAIT!

     

    THE PENIS IS EVIL.

     

    (((Meddling)))?

     

    I’ve never heard of a state forcing businesses to remain open, but we live in weird times. Perhaps some important facts were left out? RC Dean, please comment.

     

    And in Old Guy Music, some intersectionality. Birthday Boy Larry Adler playing a piece dedicated to our own Pie.

  • SEA SMITH OPEN POST

    NO LINKS

    SEA SMITH SEE EMPTY SPOT ON GLIBERTARIANS.COM HE NO LIKE THAT. SO…OPEN POST!

     

    OK, ONE LINK…

    SEA SMITH NO AT FAULT! FOR ANY THESE.

     

    ENJOY COMMENTS.

     

    COME ON IN, WATER FINE!

  • Enter the Twatter!

    Last Friday Twitter Founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey was interviewed by Joe “that’s a complex issue” Rogan.  Should you be of a mind to actually listen to the podcast, the YouTube link is here:  Joe Rogan Experience #1236

    …but be warned.  It is two hours long, Joe is in an exceptionally passive mood, and Jack is pretty much the pompous bullshitter you expect him to be.

    This is my review of Pizza Port Brewery Bacon and Eggs Imperial Coffee Porter.

    To my understanding, Joe has a bit of a marmite effect around here.  Much of the criticism of Rogan’s show is that he rarely challenges his guest, accepts facts from his guests with little question, engages in conspiracy theory, and overall he can be a bit of a meathead.  It is the first item here I wish to focus.  The reason I like his show, aside from constantly having UFC fighters on the show, is Joe does not drive the conversation.  He mostly has a few questions that act as prompts and lets the guest yammer away.

    This allows me to determine if the guest if full of shit in a reasonable amount of time.  For example, prior to the multiple episodes where he interviewed Jordan Peterson, I thought Peterson was just a guy writing self help books and wasn’t particularly interesting.  Boy was I wrong.  Another example is Peter Schiff, where my only exposure was a brief video from TOS where he yells at Occupy Wall Street.  Its cool he did that, but who didn’t want to yell at those idiots?

    Ban me from twatting…. I’m starting my own twatter! With gay frogs! Blackjack, and Green Hookers! AH! The hell with it!

    Back to Dorsey.  Where I want to focus is around the 48 minute mark where Joe asks him about why Alex Jones was banned…if you don’t know what he said by now I’ll let you hit the link here, where his explanation begins.  I’ll wait.

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    My ass he doesn’t know!  “It’s just my platform, I don’t always know what goes on in the day to day…..”  whatever Jack.  “Oh, he didn’t violate the terms of service, there was a succession [incoherent mumbling] [more mumbling]…”  Okay, that makes a lot of sense, Alex does have a history of getting in people’s faces, and saying stupid things.  A history that predates Twitter….  No matter what you think of Jones he has the right to say stupid things, excommunicating only feeds the perception social media companies are silencing dissenting voices.  It certainly doesn’t help they enforce their code of conduct subjectively and only seem to drop the hammer on conservatives.  Keep on bullshitting Jack, we get it.

    The problem people have with Joe here is he didn’t challenge Dorsey at all.  He has acknowledged Twitter’s subjectivity in enforcing its rules in the past and that social media is overwhelmingly left wing.  He is even perfectly capable of challenging his guests when he wants to, such as arguing with Dave Rubin over enforcement of building codes, Steven Crowder over his ambivalence with marijuana use, Candace Owens over her “wrong” opinion on Climate Change, or Gavin McInnes for of all things—being Catholic.  Okay, Gavin was either intentionally being an idiot or a troll.

    Jack is full of shit.  Even if one of Dorsey’s companies sponsors Joe’s show (Cash App), Joe could’ve at least pointed out the inconsistencies.  He even apologized for it earlier this week…sort of.

    For a guy that constantly tells people not to be a bitch, Rogan sure bitched out. As of this writing, the ratio is ?11k to ?73k.

    This beer is rather expensive but at least you get six full pint cans.  It is really heavy on the coffee, which means its probably a good choice for day drinking.  Your wife, boss, and mother-in-law will never know the difference.  Pizza Port Brewery Bacon and Eggs Imperial Coffee Porter: 3.5/5.

  • Saturday Morning FIRST! Links

    All here is chaos, but at least there’s a “here” here. So we got that goin’ for us. Poor SP is stuck at home trying to create small pockets of order while I relax at work all day. And of course, the first thing that’s happened on my new job is that I have to travel right back to where we started for most of next week. The folks I’m working with there are telling me, “Yeah, it’s pretty much an ice rink outside this week. But don’t worry, it will be above zero. Mostly.”

    Great.

    But at least Spud can take the morning off from pinch-hitting for me. And I can get back to Fun Birthdays. And today’s birthday list includes one of my favorites among the Founding Fathers, Thomas Paine, whose work is just as readable, profound, and relevant today as it was in the 18th Century. Common Sense ought to be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the motivations of libertarians. And along that same vein, it’s also the birthday of my absolute favorite US President, one who set an example that all the rest should have emulated- we’d be much better off. There’s a whole list of other notables, but jesus, these two are a tough act to follow.

    Let’s go to the news.

     

    Man, those Duke athletes never get a break. “It’s not just lacrosse any more!”

     

    Maduro doubles down. I’m predicting either lamppost or woodchipper.

     

    Assuming they can fight Maduro off, because he has mad skillz as a soldier. If it weren’t for the starving millions, that ass-clown would be hilarious.

     

    This is the sort of thing that has made Chicago the financial Rock of Gibraltar that is today.

     

    Apparently, the fact that Americans have been giving the government smaller interest-free loans than before is terrible news.

     

    Here is a glimpse into my future.

     

    What if Mike Tyson were gay?

     

    This just seems weirdly familiar. “We want to live, Jews, give us work permit.”

     

    Someone challenges Nikki for the title of “The Worst.”

     

    I know what *I* want for Valentine’s Day. Oh man, what a great idea.

     

    Old Guy Music time, yet again. If you want to skip the extraneous stuff and get to the breath-taking playing, start it at about 1:35, but some of the extraneous stuff is funny as hell. Willy Porter is a god.