ZARDOZ SUNDAY AFTERNOON LINKS

ZARDOZ’S “FIRST RESPONDERS”

 

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. YOU HAVE BEEN LIFTED FROM BRUTALITY – AND HAVE DONE WELL IN YOUR SNARK AND COMMENTING AT THE FILTH OF BRUTALS. THUS, YOU WILL BE GIVEN THE GIFT OF THE LINK EARLY TODAY. THE TABERNACLE HAS INFORMED ZARDOZ THAT SOME OF YOU MAY BE EXPERIENCING THE “ALBERTA CLIPPER” – THUS ZARDOZ WOULD PROVIDE YOU LINKS TO ENTERTAIN AND INFORM YOU WHILST TRAPPED INDOORS. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

  • A NEW GROUP OF BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS IN SYRIA? ZARDOZ IS PLEASED.
  • IS THIS WHAT BRUTALS CALL BACKSCRATCHING OR LOGROLLING OR SOME OTHER TERM? ZARDOZ BELIEVES THAT CLEANSING ALL POLITICAL BRUTALS IN THAT CITY WOULD SOLVE SUCH THINGS.
  • ZARDOZ BELIEVES THIS HEADLINE AND STORY ARE SUFFICIENTLY TABLOID FOR HIS CHOSEN ONES.
  • ZARDOZ IS TORN BY THIS STORY…OF COURSE, THE PENIS IS EVIL…SO THREATENING TO STAB ONE IS GOOD. BUT THE BRUTAL MAKING THE THREAT IS DEFINITELY NOT A CHOSEN ONE.

Comments

318 responses to “ZARDOZ SUNDAY AFTERNOON LINKS”

  1. CPRM

    Dear Zardoz I’m looking at local job postings and I came across “Sugar Free Operator I; 3rd Shift”; would such a position be cleansing enough against brutals?

    1. RBS

      Sugar free candy can be very cleansing.

      1. Gordilocks

        Is SugarFree candy taken orally, or as a suppository?

        1. RBS

          I’m not sure it matters.

          1. Gordilocks

            Fair point.

    2. ZARDOZ

      ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN EMPLOYMENT POSTING ONE. IF YOU ARE REFERRING TO OPERATING AS THE CHOSEN ONE “SUGARFREE” – THAT MIGHT BE QUITE DAMAGING TO ANY NUMBER OF BRUTALS. ZARDOZ IS PLEASED.

  2. mexican sharpshooter

    Investigators plan to review video, according to police sources. It is not yet clear whether Spitzer will be questioned regarding the verbal dispute.

    Its clear to me nothing will become of this.

    1. Sean

      Agreed.

    1. Gordilocks

      Her hairstylist should be cleansed.

    2. Drugs are good, mmkay.

  3. Gentlemen, start your erections!

    http://archive.is/sTXSl

    Number 5 is presenting a pretty good target for said erection.

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      3,5,8,14,

    2. juris imprudent

      #35 – I think my eyes are bleeding

      1. juris imprudent

        Fortunately #47 cured me.

    3. Tres Cool

      #15……BOOBA Fett, amirite?

    4. Yusef drives a Kia

      35,46,47

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      I like electronica, i listen to electronica, I play Electronica, i know who Moby is, But i’ll be Damned if I ever heard anything from him, on the Radio, or online. What’s the name of his biggest Album? hit? anything?
      /Fucking Poser

      1. Are you certain it’s electronica, or one of the 478920584375824308 sub-genres?

        1. Gordilocks

          Revivifying dead threads is so déclassé.

          1. We’re supposed to have class at Glibs?

        2. Gustave Lytton

          lol

      2. You’ve probably heard this one.

        Play is the name of his biggest album.

        1. Although you’ve heard the Gwen Stefani version, most likely.

    2. Rhywun

      Wow. Cuckoo….

    3. wdalasio

      So, Moby’s bragging that he’s a hack for the CIA. Real hardcore stand against faceless imperialism there, big guy.

  4. Tres Cool

    I know Hayeksplosives likely doesn’t have the “aussie” flavor, but any port in a storm, after all:

    https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/weird-news/aussie-flu-can-cured-having-11844197

    1. straffinrun

      To read the full article, please answer this quick question: どのギフトカード / 商品券を自分用に購入しましたか?(複数ある場合は、もっとも最近購入したものを1つ選んでください

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        Pornhub.

        1. straffinrun

          Makes sense. Pornhub sells gift certificates?

          1. Heroic Mulatto
          2. straffinrun

            Oooh, a stocking stuffer.

          3. Gustave Lytton

            Bad news. The redemption code is pixelated in Japan for some reason.

  5. This guy is right about everything except for one thing; the media meltdowns, IMO, don’t hurt Trump, they help him. They’ve helped him thus far, why would they start hurting him now? It’s hard for coverage to get any more negative than it was during the election and he still won.

    https://nypost.com/2018/01/13/trump-may-be-digging-himself-into-a-shithole/

    1. AlexinCT

      Agreed. I was ambivalent at best about Trump back when, but these displays and the insanity have made me thank whatever divinity spared us the Clinton empire daily now and worry about what comes after.

  6. Hollywood lefties are brain dead. In other news, water is wet.

    https://twitter.com/jamieleecurtis/status/952275076346388481

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      But the Comments are Gold!

      1. Tres Cool

        Replying to @jamieleecurtis

        Go back to filming Halloween 73.

    2. straffinrun

      I’d love to see the flow chart describing how she came up with that.

    3. Slammer

      I followed and participated in twitter for about 60 days.
      Deleted my account and app Friday night.
      That place makes shitholes look nice

      1. Tres Cool

        I made an account nearly a decade ago, and other than that 1st day, its been dormant. Dont even recall my login info.
        I dont think I ever once twatted.

        1. Amashi

          My only public tweets are bare links to favorable trade press coverage/industry awards. Marketing claims this has some favorable effect on twitter algorithms that I should in theory care about. I’m a bit skeptical, but easiest to just do it and not have to discuss.

      2. juris imprudent

        If 90% of art is shit, twitter raises that to 99.999%.

    4. Rufus the Monocled

      I wonder if she reads and them and makes her realize how stupid she sounded.

  7. Yusef drives a Kia

    Bruce Lee with Light Sabers! Awesome!
    https://youtu.be/FQC29joihwU

    1. AlexinCT

      WTF?

  8. straffinrun

    Spitzer — who once warned a rival, “I am a f–king steamroller” and promised an ex-hooker “a slow, painful death” — approached Antolini’s table three separate times over the course of the meal, police said.

    We’ve all been there.

    1. Sean

      Sure…but who threatens to stab another guy in the dick? That’s where I draw the line.

    2. Amashi

      He got that completely backward, IMHO.

    1. See Double You

      JFC, UKIP. Take that Nazi shit elsewhere.

      1. Rhywun

        I don’t get it. She’s not UKIP. She’s dating it it. Who cares.

        1. Rhywun

          “into” it

    2. straffinrun

      Fucking UKIP. Hopefully they will disappear. That being said, would.

    3. CPRM

      That is most likely her real views, but I get leery about taking one snippet from a conversation like that.

      1. See Double You

        Unless it was tongue-in-cheek, how could those comments be taken out of context? Her words are actual, no-kidding racism/anti-individualism and, according to the article, she has made similar statements about blacks before.

        Note: not trying to criticize you, just think that snippet is enough to presume she meant what she wrote.

        1. CPRM

          Unless it was tongue-in-cheek

          This is what I was getting at, I know a lot of snippets of conversations between my friends and I would look real bad if you cut them off at the wrong spot.

          1. Or here at Glibs.

    4. Gordilocks

      What Would Richard Spencer Do?

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        Know enough Latin to realize “seed” is a direct semantic calque of “semen”?

        1. Gordilocks

          Res ipsa loquitur

          1. Heroic Mulatto

            Indeed. Indeed.

          2. Amashi

            And more importantly, semen is generally in the eye of the beholder. Unless they’re pretty careful about that sort of thing.

    5. Glamour model? I guess for Britain she counts. To me, she looks like Thom Yorke in a sweater dress.

  9. Sean

    Any of you gun Glibs planning on picking up the new Sig P365?
    It looks interesting. I’m thinking I might want one, but might wait a while to see some range reports.

    1. DOOMco

      they do look good.

    2. AlmightyJB

      Read this review earlier this week. Yeah, I’m definitely interested. Sounds like they’re looking at putting out one with a manual safety. I’ll probably wait for that as I would like a safety on a pocket pistol as long as it was quick off thumb down style.

      http://soldiersystems.net/2018/01/08/introducing-the-sig-sauer-p365/

      1. Gustave Lytton

        Wow. That looks very nice.

    3. EvilSheldon

      It’s interesting, but pocket pistols already tend to run on the thin edge of reliability. I agree, it’s probably wise to let someone else be the early adopter.

  10. Gordilocks

    Steelers are making some serious drives after that horrifying start.

    1. Gordilocks

      Annnnnd …. so much for that.

      1. Slammer

        Their offense wasn’t their problem

      2. straffinrun

        Hold on.

      3. Slammer

        Lot of time left

      4. Gordilocks

        Steelers D leaving a lot to be desired.

      5. Slammer

        Antonio Brown is amazing

      6. Gordilocks

        And that’s all she wrote. Jeebus.

        1. Old Man With Candy

          Not at all- remember the 38-37 comeback against the Ravens?

          1. Slammer

            What the hell was the o/u on this game?

          2. Gordilocks

            2 TDs + in 4 minutes? I dunno.

          3. Old Man With Candy

            That’s what they did against B’more, curse them.

          4. Gordilocks

            The Jags seem a little less suicide inclined than The Ravens.

          5. Old Man With Candy

            Apparently not. This is uncomfortable.

          6. Gordilocks

            Yeah man, this is a nail biter. Wow.

          7. Old Man With Candy

            If he says “Jag-wires” one more time, I swear SP is going to go right through the TV set and strangle Fouts.

          8. Old Man With Candy

            OK, that’s more like it.

          9. Gordilocks

            Make sure you film that for posterity.

          10. Gordilocks

            Threading fail

          11. Old Man With Candy

            I figured that. 😉

  11. Sean

    I baked some lemon blueberry (low carb) muffins today. My house smells delicious.

    1. I braised a bunny rabbit with new potatoes and carrots.

      1. Mythical Libertarian Woman

        Very glad you went there.

  12. Slammer

    I give a gift to Q

      1. Gordilocks

        Nice use of the mirror.

        I mean, at least in a vertical sense.

      2. Yusef drives a Kia

        Wow

      1. Stinky Wizzleteats

        Good God, that was just terrible.

      2. mikey

        Marriott execs now have to attend to the bruises on their foreheads.

    1. nw

      I’d be mighty tempted to change the dropdowns to
      Republic of China
      Republic of China (communist occupied portions)

    2. Rhywun

      LOL. You know some cubicle wag inserted “Tibet” into that list – that doesn’t happen accidentally.

  13. Winston

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany#Legacy

    Margot Honecker, former Minister for Education of East Germany, summed up its legacy as:

    “In this state, each person had a place. All children could attend school free of charge, they received vocational training or studied, and were guaranteed a job after training. Work was more than just a means to earn money. Men and women received equal pay for equal work and performance. Equality for women was not just on paper. Care for children and the elderly was the law. Medical care was free, cultural and leisure activities affordable. Social security was a matter of course. We knew no beggars or homelessness. There was a sense of solidarity. People felt responsible not only for themselves, but worked in various democratic bodies on the basis of common interests.”

    Margot, wife of Erich, has a bio at wiki that says this:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_Honecker

    Margot Honecker was widely known as the “Purple Witch” for her tinted hair and hardline Stalinist views,[1] and was described as “the most hated person” in East Germany next to Stasi chief Erich Mielke by former Bundestag president Wolfgang Thierse.[2] She was responsible for the enactment of the “Uniform Socialist Education System” in 1965 and mandatory military training in schools to prepare pupils for a future war with the west.[3] She was alleged to have been responsible for the regime’s forced adoption of children of jailed dissidents or people who attempted to desert from GDR,[4] and she is considered to have “left a cruel legacy of separated families.”[3] She also established prison-like institutions for children, including a camp at Torgau known as “Margot’s concentration camp.”

    1. See Double You

      Shorter Honecker: everything was rainbows and roses until that dirty capitalism showed up! Ignore the pile of dead bodies atop which I stand!

      1. Slammer

        It worked so well we needed to spy on everyone 24/7 to make sure it stayed a great fucking place

        1. Winston

          Along with an anti-fascist barrier and inner border to keep the capitalist dogs from taking their stuff to West Germany. And at times you need the Soviets to send in the tanks to crush fascist rebellion.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uprising_of_1953_in_East_Germany

        2. See Double You

          Sounds like Google’s secret motto.

      2. Winston

        Come on, they had almost unanimous public support!

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_German_general_election,_1986

        Out of 12,434,444 registered electors, 12,402,013 (99.74%) voted, with 12,392,094 (99.94%) voting for Front candidates

        And it wasn’t a one party state but a five-party coalition just without any opposition parties. Very different.

    2. mikey

      We always think of just the Berlin Wall, but this
      https://imgur.com/a/OLZ9s
      went from the Baltic to the Czech border

      1. Rhywun

        Ah, the Iron Curtain. 80s nostalgia porn.

        1. dbleagle

          The old inter-German border had some true oddities. There were villages (both sides) surrounded on 3 sides by the “other” Germany and only 10m wide access and several isolated portions with no ground access. The desirability of DDR locations depended a great deal on how much western TV and/or radio they could get. Don’t get me started on the “numbers” radio stations on the short wave band.

          1. mikey

            Here’s one where the border split a village – the eastern portion was removed.
            https://imgur.com/a/itV5s
            Truly evil and no one seems to know or care.

        2. Chipping Pioneer

          +1 From Russia with the Love Bone

        3. C. Anacreon

          I heard that behind the Iron Curtain, there was a piece of glass.

    3. Suthenboy

      Stupid Krauts went and elected Merkel, another East German brainwashed hater of the west. Her bringing in all of those muslim invaders is nothing more than her gathering up ready-made useful idiots.

  14. Winston

    The perpetual outrage machine directed at Trump, and all Republicans for that matter, make me wonder what would happen if the LP actually managed to gain power. What do you think would happen if Gary Johnson tried to make good on his vow to eliminate the Department of Education? The left would go completely crazy and many “sensible” conservatives and libertarians would too.

    1. Suthenboy

      ‘Squish’ Johnson never had any intention of winning and if by some miracle he managed to have it forced on him he would not do anything. The accounts I have heard of his governorship were that he did very little and had no interest in doing anything. He sat in his office all day and shot rubber bands.

      1. Gordilocks

        He sat in his office all day and shot rubber bands.

        PERFECT.

        1. ElspethFlashman

          Exactly! And kept his mouth shut, I hope.

      2. SandMan

        He did veto a lot bills, FWIW.

    1. Gilmore

      Indigenous leaders are becoming alarmed that they could be permanently frozen out of the mainstream economy if resource projects don’t go ahead.

      They said in interviews they’ve had enough of activists invading their lands, misleading them about their agendas, recruiting token members to front their causes, sowing mistrust and conflict, and using hard-line tactics against those who don’t agree.

      Essentially: the greens want to keep you poor and marginalized so you make good victims in their victim-mongering puppet show

      Indians learned a while back that the only people looking out for their own best interests are themselves. Welcome to the Casino, pilgrim. They are now realizing that they are losing far more in jobs and land-easement rights by opposing any/all oil + gas developments. Greenies aint show them no green.

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        Native band Chiefs are up here are incorrigibly corrupt.

        But white man keep them down.

        1. Gilmore

          Nothing irritated me more, or exposed the craven shittiness of the media / left (i repeat myself) quite like this contrast

          the fact that @ the same time the Dakota Access Pipeline story was being pumped to death in print….
          …the story of the Navaho tribe which the EPA dumped waste all over was being conveniently buried.

          iow, in the former case you had a story about “Potential” environmental despoilation… by corporations! must pump story and milk outrage!

          in the latter case you had a story about *actual* environmental despoilation… by government!

          which, naturally, we shouldn’t make too much of a deal out of, and make sure people know the issues are “complex”, and nevermind if Obama’s EPA tells them to go pound sand. See, that story simply doesn’t have the right hooks.

          it just shows that no one gives a shit about “the environment” or “the disadvantaged minorities”; they only care when its a vehicle for bashing the usual suspects.

          1. Rufus the Monocled

            Cui bono?

            ALWAYS ASK IT.

            It’s how I figured out Al Gore is full of shit.

    2. straffinrun

      A big reason is that Indigenous people have unique legal rights and by working with them, green groups are better able to block developments than if they relied on environmental grounds alone, he said.

      Unique legal rights. Oxymoron?

      1. Gilmore

        “Feature, not bug”, said the progressive

        Some animals are more equal than others.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    Well, that was quite a play.

      1. Winston

        Our American Cousin?

        1. Yusef drives a Kia

          At least wait til April…

          1. Winston

            The beginning of the long running feud Republican Presidents and Democratic Actors.

          2. Winston

            *between*

        2. Gustave Lytton

          It certainly ended with a bang.

      2. See Double You

        The Holocaust?

        /alt-right goon

      3. Tres Cool

        Our Town ?

    1. Gilmore

      The play’s the thing

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Go for the five point conversion.

    1. straffinrun

      Nice. That or the onside field goal.

  17. Winston

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_China

    China is technically a “multi-party” system but:

    The constitution of China describes it as “The system of the multi-party cooperation and political consultation led by the Communist Party of China will exist and develop for a long time to come” in the preamble


    Article 1 of the Constitution of China defines socialism as “the basic system” of the country, and explicitly forbids “sabotage of the socialist system by any individual or organization.”

    1. Rhywun

      They “technically” have freedom of speech and religion too.

      In other words, their constitution is a pack of lies. Imagine that.

      1. Winston

        A common Commie tactic is to state that certain rights exist but either in the context of a socialist system (so political opponents can be punished) or that rights exist as far as the law allows.

        Also they have “free” elections but ensure that no one can challenge the basic system and that the Party controls the actual selection of candidates.

      2. Winston

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_1_of_the_Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms

        The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.

        Canada has this as well. Thank you Turdeau Sr.

    2. Raven Nation

      Countries which claim to be democracies (in blue):

      https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-752bc710dbd501d6fd5582be3d143434

      1. Suthenboy

        For me ‘Democracy’ has come to be a code word for ‘Dictatorship’.

  18. Winston

    Anyone seen Neighbours?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbours_(1952_film)

    “I was inspired to make Neighbours by a stay of almost a year in the People’s Republic of China. Although I only saw the beginnings of Mao’s revolution, my faith in human nature was reinvigorated by it. Then I came back to Quebec and the Korean War began. (…) I decided to make a really strong film about anti-militarism and against war.” — Norman McLaren [2]

    1. Suthenboy

      “I only saw the beginnings of Mao’s revolution, my faith in human nature was reinvigorated by it.”

      Useful idiots are idiots.

  19. Tres Cool

    Im boudda get my rib-game on.

    https://postimg.org/image/4k40qwcf3/

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      Looks Great! I’m doing Teriyaki Pork in the Crock pot, no pic, it’s in a crock pot still

      1. Tres Cool

        I have a pressure cooker for the primary stage. Shaves a couple hours off the clock.

        1. Yusef drives a Kia

          I was thinking about an Instant Pot, it seems all the rage right now

  20. Winston

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War

    The Chinese Commies have such nationalist bonafides.

    The Nationalists suffered higher casualties because they were the main combatants opposing the Japanese in each of the 22 major battles (involving more than 100,000 troops on both sides) between China and Japan. The Communist forces, by contrast, usually avoided pitched battles with the Japanese and generally limited their combat to guerilla actions (the Hundred Regiments Offensive and the Battle of Pingxingguan are notable exceptions). The Nationalist committed their strongest divisions in early battle against the Japanese (including the 36th, 87th, 88th divisions, the crack divisions of Chiang’s Central Army) to defend Shanghai and continued to deploy most of their forces to fight the Japanese even as the Communists changed their strategy to engage mainly in a political offensive against the Japanese while declaring that the CPC should “save and preserve our strength and wait for favorable timing” by the end of 1941.

    I read somewhere that Mao said that he would not have come to power if the Japanese hadn’t been fighting the Nationalists all the time.

    This

    1. Gilmore

      Do you work in sales?

      1. Gilmore

        nevermind, the joke isn’t worth it.

        1. Winston

          Good cuz I don’t get it. *insert joke about me here*

          Did you get your car insurance from GEICO?

  21. straffinrun

    David Burge‏
    @iowahawkblog
    @iowahawkblog
    Darth Vader was from a Sith hole country

    11:07 – 2018年1月12日

    I created this a day before Iowahawk tweeted that. More proof of another famous glib lurker.

    1. Suthenboy

      I have suspected for a long time he lurks. some others too. In fact I have sent out invites to a number of people that I was confident would fit in nicely around here and I am sure some of them have at least had a look. Cant hurt to ask, right?

    2. Rhywun

      TBH I have heard that joke before yesterday. Not with Trump in mind, of course.

      1. straffinrun

        It was an obvious joke. Still, can’t you just let me believe I’m important?

        1. Rhywun

          NO

        2. Suthenboy

          I find that lots of bits like that just seem to give birth to themselves. It’s time has come like technological inventions. A number of people suddenly notice that all of the ingredients are laid out on the counter and they all throw them together at the same time in different pots.

          Don’t worry, even if you aren’t important we still like you.

          1. Suthenboy

            How many metaphors did I mix there?

            *starts counting on fingers*

          2. R C Dean

            *runs out of fingers, unzips*

          3. straffinrun

            Parallel thinking. I’m pleased to have been on the same parallel as Burge.

    3. Heroic Mulatto

      Ok. But how is letting moisture farmers from Tatooine come here hurting anybody?

      1. Winston

        We need some power converters from Toschi Station.

      2. Winston

        Also Vader wasn’t a moisture farmer.

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          That’s what I’m saying. We can’t judge an entire planet because one became a Sithadi.

          1. Winston

            There’s also Jabba and the Sarlacc.

    1. Mr Lizard

      This is not the Hitler you are looking for?

    2. Suthenboy

      It is worth pointing out again: Trump has been in the public eye for how long? 40 years? 50? No one called him a racist, no one called him a Nazi, no one called him a misogynist until he said he was going to drain the swamp on the campaign trail. Funny that.

      1. Winston

        The Dems and swamp creatures have their favorite terms of abuse and they are going to use them damn it!

      2. Heroic Mulatto

        No one called him a racist

        That’s not true at all. Remember the Central Park jogger rapist thing?

        1. Gilmore

          Well, if he’s the one who raped her, at least it was a white woman.

          1. Heroic Mulatto

            He likes what he likes.

        2. Suthenboy

          Thank you for reminding me, I did not remember that. I never liked the guy much and didn’t pay attention to him until it was clear the guy was headed to the White House. I vaguely remember one of his divorces being pretty nasty and a non-verifiable accusation of rape from the Ex-wife….who stood to get millions out of the divorce. Or maybe she just accused him of beating her, I dont remember.

          *Reads over that case*

          I guess they did but it looks like the same pattern of behavior today. Trump calls for iron fisted law and order to quell soaring crime. Leftists twist it into a racial issue to avoid having to discuss the real issues at hand. I am guessing the rising crime at the time was cutting into his property values. Yeah, Trump is a bull in a china shop but I have yet to see anything about him being an overt racist.

          I could care less what the guy’s sentiments or thoughts are. I care about what he does and his law and order boner makes me very nervous.

          1. Heroic Mulatto

            Yeah, Trump is a bull in a china shop but I have yet to see anything about him being an overt racist.

            In this case, I think his obstinate is less racism and more he just refuses to admit that he was wrong. And you’re absolutely right about his law and order boner. The whole affair served to distract from the fact that the NYPD beat confessions out of 5 innocent men. The whole “Thin Blue Line” bullshit that wrapped itself around Trumpism is the most nauseating and dangerous aspect of it.

          2. Suthenboy

            Correct. Even if his law and order efforts are directed only at the people who really should be prosecuted in each and every instance he is building machinery that inevitably will be used against the wrong people. That machinery should not even exist.

            Yeah, a wall can be used to keep people out but it can also be used to keep people in.

          3. R C Dean

            That’s probably what bothers me the most, HM, it I hadn’t articulated it that way.

  22. Stinky Wizzleteats

    From the thread:

    “A little background here, Trump’s grandfather came here from Germany. All be it a pre-Hitler Germany but still most likely a racially motivated country. So is he racist? Given his comments.. yes.”

    Not racist, sure, but bigoted as hell and posted with no sense of irony.

    1. Suthenboy

      “Of course he is a racist. He is a goddamned White-Ass Kraut Cracker.”

      That is The Root worthy.

      1. Stinky Wizzleteats

        Good summary…

  23. Rufus the Monocled

    The Steelers were ridiculous today. Guilty of looking ahead.

  24. straffinrun

    The Vikes are crushing the Saints. Didn’t take long.

    1. Rufus the Monocled

      A flock of Eagles against a band of Vikings. Who would win on…..DEADLIEST WARRIORS?!

      1. mexican sharpshooter

        *whispers*
        I know, because I was a SEAL sniper.

        //John “Mack” Machowicz

        1. What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

          1. mexican sharpshooter

            How are you threatening me? You died of cancer a year ago.

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Machowicz

          2. Though a Catholic, Machowicz was also a practitioner of Zen Buddhist[6] and an ordained Buddhist priest.[7]

            Um…I don’t think Catholicism works that way.

          3. Heroic Mulatto

            Buddhism can, though.

          4. Gilmore

            When he had the show “Future Weapons” i used to do a great impression of his schtick. No one else got it, but it was hilarious.

            He basically repeated the same “OMG YOU WONT BELIEVE HOW DESTRUCTIVE THIS FUCKING THING IS” hyperbole for every item he came across. Sometimes he was absolutely right*. Sometimes it was just silly.

      2. Rufus the Monocled

        WRONG ANSWER SMART ALECS.

        The should do a The Birds remake and use….EAGLES.

        /Eagle squawk.

    2. mexican sharpshooter

      I was about to,write, “Its still early,” but Brees was intercepted on a deep ball before I hit post.

      1. dbleagle

        Steelers ruined my dreams of a repeat of SB IX. It would have been hard for Pitt ti win in Foxboro next week but I see no way JAX will.

        1. mexican sharpshooter

          Sorry, I didn’t see either team brating NE.

          1. Mr Lizard

            Your Future Reptilian Overlords are predicting a Tom Brady Sad Face next week

          2. mexican sharpshooter

            To be sure, I’d be happy with that result.

          1. whiz

            Q, you need to get a hobby. Oh, wait…

    1. Heroic Mulatto

      Those are truly epic.

  25. Winston

    Speaking of Trump’s granddad it seems the story of the surname being “Drumpf” at one point seems to be false:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Trump#Surname

    The immigration records list his name as Friedr. Trumpf, but sources including the genealogy organization FamilySearch, a genealogist at About.com, and the 2013 book America’s Obsessives concluded that both his father and his aunt’s surnames were Trump.[16][17][18] According to the German Gesellschaft für Computergenealogie, Trump’s earliest known male ancestor was Johann Paul Trump (1727-1792) in Bobenheim am Berg.[5] The story of an itinerant lawyer Hanns Drumpf presented by Gwenda Blair in her book The Trumps (2000) who settled in Kallstadt in 1608 and whose descendants changed their name from Drumpf to Trump during the Thirty Years’ War of the 1600s[19][20][21] could not be substantiated and is not in accordance with the data provided by the German genealogists.[5] Journalist Kate Connolly, visiting Kallstadt, found several variations in spelling of the surname in the village archives (including Drumb, Tromb, Tromp, Trum, Trumpff, Dromb) but her article does not note “Drumpf”.

    Anyway I doubt his family “changed” their name because of the lack of standardized spelling at the time.

    1. He’s white. He immigrated from Germany. Ergo: Racist Nazi.

      1. Winston

        Einstein was a white man who emigrated from Nazi Germany! How evil is that?

        1. And he was one of (((them))). Can’t get more evil than that.

  26. Mr Lizard

    Your Future Reptilian Overlords are most pleased that the Northeastern Tlorida Felines have beaten the Western Pennsylvania Carbon Chrome Molybdenum alloy pushers.

  27. Suthenboy

    A good day. Cleaned up the house this morning, had a vodka and a nap, now reading here. The fire is aglow and there is a pot of cowboy stew simmering on the stove.

    The recipe is….

    How do I find recipes in the topics? It is already published. I dont see ‘recipes’, ‘food’, or ‘cooking’.

    1. mexican sharpshooter

      Took my daughter to her soccer game. After determining yesterday there was nothing wrong with the air blend door actuators on my car, I grudgingly purchased a new blower motor. So I spent the afternoon tearing my Grand Cherokee’s interior apart and replaced the motor.

      Me: the guy at the dealer said their replacement motors are louder.
      Wife: so how loud is it?
      Me: whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom
      Wife: *rolls eyes*

  28. Slammer

    I hate this referee. Index card motherfucker

  29. Fun fact: The parent company of PornHub, Mind Geek, owns ~75% of all online porn content. Even though nobody pays for porn anymore, I don’t even wanna know how much they rake in on ad revenue.

  30. Winston

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclaves_of_West_Berlin_in_East_Germany

    Steinstücken (12.67 hectares (31.3 acres)): inhabited by West Berliners and belonging to the Borough of Zehlendorf. Until 1971, the inhabitants had to pass East German border controls on their way between Steinstücken and the main area of West Berlin. Except for emergency rescuers and repair personnel, no one else was allowed to access the exclave. The road connecting Steinstücken was immured on both sides not allowing Easterners to enter it. In 1961, a permanent US military post was erected in the exclave. All military personnel stationed there had to be flown in by helicopter. In 1971, Steinstücken’s status as exclave ended when it was connected to West Berlin by a strip of territory about 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) in length and 20 metres (66 ft) in width. This territory was acquired by West Berlin during the territorial re-allocations. A paved two-lane road (Bernhard-Beyer-Straße) was constructed in this strip before the territory was handed over from East Germany to West Berlin. This road was bordered by the Berlin Wall on both sides. Bus line 18 (now 118) was extended into Steinstücken in 1972.

  31. Amashi

    I’m not that big on gadgetry when it comes to cooking (though I do love pressure cookers, electric and stovetop,) but I got an immersion circulator a couple of weeks back, and I’m becomain’t pretty fond of it.

    Did eggs with it for the first time this morning… kind of a vaguely rancheros thing, but with the eggs brought to 145 F in their shells. The texture was really interesting- the yolks were runny, and the whites were a consistent sort of gel. Never had eggs with quite that texture before, and I think I approve.

    I have a pork tenderloin in a bath now- seems like a pretty perfect use for the thing.

    1. Heroic Mulatto

      the yolks were runny, and the whites were a consistent sort of gel. Never had eggs with quite that texture before, and I think I approve.

      I’m into some sick shit, but…that’s gross, dude.

      1. Raven Nation

        If you’ve lost HM, you’ve lost the commentariat

      2. Amashi

        I would have thought that too- I’m definitely _not_ a fan of schlunkies in my eggs. But since most methods of cooking eggs cause a temperature gradient you wind up over cooking parts of the white getting other parts cooked enough to be edible.

        Maybe gel was the wrong word- let’s say the consistency of the white in the best part of a perfectly soft-boiled egg, but that way through the entire white. No schlunkies at all.

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          It’s not even the egg white…I can’t stand runny yolks.

          1. Using egg whites as a sexual lubricant supposedly raises the chances of conception.

          2. Amashi

            I’ll bear that in mind. Thanks!

          3. Amashi

            Ah, well in that case you wouldn’t like 145 degree eggs. I am inclined to think the circulator will do hard-boiled pretty perfectly, but I have yet to try that, because I don’t eat a lot of hard-boiled eggs.

    2. Amashi

      The circulator is also making me appreciate certain aspects of British food more than I have in the past. One thing about doing roast-like things with it is that you don’t get the kind of drippings you would in an oven.

      But you know what? Onion gravy is actually pretty good stuff. It’s a bit of work to make, cause the onions take a long time if you do them right.

    3. R C Dean

      Got Mrs. Dean a soul vide gizmo for Christmas.

      It. Is. Awesome. May do an article on it.

  32. wdalasio

    Honestly, I hope Spitzer gets off. And goes on to try this sort of shit with the wrong guy. Because nothing would warm the cockles of my black heart like hearing that Elliot Spitzer got beaten with a baseball bat within an inch of his life.

    The guy is a walking, talking, piece of shit. The guy personifies everything I detest about the political class. This is a guy who cracked down on prostitution while he was hiring prostitutes. This is a guy who tried to push prosecutions by leaking embarrassing but legal information about his targets. This is a guy who threatened to destroy one of the few genuinely decent and respectable people in investment banking for speaking up about his behavior and then denied having made his threat (the guy had it recorded).

    Honestly, if I heard Elliot Spitzer was dying an excruciating death from cancer or AIDS, it would put a smile on my face.

    Fuck him. In the ass. With Negan’s Lucille.

    1. Chafed

      Who is the investor?

      1. wdalasio

        John Whitehead.

    2. Rufus the Monocled

      Sooooo….worth using the woodchipper over?

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        He’s a miserable cunt who deserves the worst life can hand him.

      2. R C Dean

        Feet. First.

  33. Slammer

    “It’s fake..”

    “Oh well…mine’s real”

    https://youtu.be/cfsOgarSc-Q

  34. Winston

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_mayoral_election,_2017

    Libertarian
    Aaron Commey
    2,635
    0.2%

    ….
    A total of 5,343 write-in votes were also certified by the Board of Elections. These included 982 votes for former Mayors Michael Bloomberg…

    Almost three times as many votes than for MIke Bloomberg. It’s Happening!

  35. Chafed

    OT: I’ve recently heard John McWhorter interviewed on EconTalk and The Fifth Column. If you have any interest in language and/or how a principled left of center intellectual views race he is well worth listening too.

    1. Heroic Mulatto

      Every time McWhorter is mentioned, I feel it necessary to state that his criticism of linguistic relativism is simple-minded (at best), and ignores the compelling evidence gleaned through research by such folks as Lera Boroditsky or Özçalışkan, Lucero, and Goldin-Meadow.

      That is all. Carry on.

      1. Trials and Trippelations

        A SFW HM link?
        I blame Trump

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          I’m not drunk (yet), but I’ll add that every day is proving Pinker’s criticisms of connectionism to be moot as well.

      2. Suthenboy

        I am not well read on this subject outside two, maybe three books and those were written for dummies like me. Criticism of linguistic relativism? It seems pretty intuitive and straightforward to me. Does he nit-pick or is he trying to knock the legs out from under it?

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          I’ll try to find the video, but his argument is, “racists once liked linguistic relativism, so its bad.”

          1. Suthenboy

            I should have added that in. That was my suspicion. Straight up ad hominem. Good God why does everyone have to connect everything to race? It gets so tedious and it makes them look like idiots. Simpletons need simple – pegging someone because of noticeable physical attributes is easy.

            I nearly had a falling out years ago with a close family member because she used whatever visceral emotional effect someone’s physical appearance had on her to project her judgement over the whole person. No matter how I explained it she could not understand what I meant and was adamant that ‘beetle browed’, ‘thick-legged’, ‘beady-eyed’ etc were sufficient for her to gauge their moral character and thus whether she liked them or not and how she would treat them.

            It drove me fuckin’ nuts. According to her Barack Obama is a ‘good man’ (because he is handsome) and a local real estate guy who donates a half million dollars per year to St. Judes and Shriners hospitals, who used to be one of my redneck gun shop coffee drinking buddies, is a brutish shitheel ( because he is pretty ugly I admit). Nicest guy in the world, happy family, pillar of the community – he is the brutish shitheel.

            Classic emotion over rational thought, the foundation of leftist thinking.

        2. Heroic Mulatto
          1. Winston

            Does linguistic relativism have honor?

  36. Chafed

    I’m checking out of the Vikings/Saints game to go to the dog park. Minnesoda glibs you appear to be well on your way to victory. I expect you’ll be seeing the Patriots in the Super Bowl.

    1. CPRM

      I’m hoping it’s all just setting up to an epic meltdown like their last two times they thought they were going to the superbowl./packers fan

      1. I hope so too. Anthony Barr knew what he was doing when he didn’t hold up.

    2. straffinrun

      Got a little interesting now.

      1. straffinrun

        More interesting.

  37. Ken Shultz

    I think this might be the Capitals’ year.

  38. commodious spittoon

    I made the grave mistake of letting grout dry on tile. In fairness, I told my brother I wouldn’t return on Sunday, the day after I geouted. He’s should have hit the floor with a mop himself. But now I’m responsible for getting the crap up, and the tile is wood print stuff. Tons of pits and ridges where they crap collected and hardened. Fuck me!

    We tried a few acids and scrubbers before I landed on a lifesaver: a nylon brush attachment for power drills. It eats through the grout and doesn’t touch the print. So with a spray bottle filled with vinegar and a drywaller’s drill (because you can lock the trigger on and leave it running), I spent the weekend cleaning up my fuckup. It’s slow work, but a lot less hellish than going over the tile by hand with steel wool.

    Lesson learned: don’t be a fucking idiot about grout.

    Fin.

    1. The moral of the story is don’t install tile since it requires grout.

      1. commodious spittoon

        The real lesson is just pay the fucking rent and don’t agree to a cockamamie scheme by which you trade labor for rent, at least not with family, and especially when nobody is keeping hours. Fuck me.

    2. commodious spittoon

      Oh, and now I’m sitting in a bar surrounded by cute chicks and smelling like a literal douche.

      1. See Double You

        I heard the females are attracted to man-douche. Or maybe that’s just STEVE SMITH.

      2. Talk to one of them. Fake it till you make it.

        1. straffinrun

          Why would cute chicks surround a bar?

          1. Slammer

            Maybe a shoe sale or something

          2. Suthenboy

            He didn’t say how close they were. You and I both are also surrounded by cute chicks at this very moment.

          3. Slammer

            Raising chickens, eh?

    3. Suthenboy

      “…grave mistake of letting grout dry on tile…”

      *snort, snicker*

      That is an accurate description. Very accurate. I was going to suggest muriatic acid (10 to 40 % hydrochloric acid ) but that can be a bitch to work with. It sure will dissolve cements. It will also oxidize everything else including you. Sounds like you found a better solution.

      1. commodious spittoon

        That was the nuclear option. I’ve used it before getting cement off bricks (as a young teenager, no less… mom was frugal with both material and labor, so she got a bunch of salvage brick and had us kids break the mortar off.)

  39. See Double You

    God damn it. My wife got into it with a couple of her”friends” on Facebook about the Trump-Hawaii-missile derp. Naturally, her Portland friend demanded she apologize for offending them with her “white privilege.” I interjected, stating WP is a bullshit, racist concept employed by the fascist left to shut down legit debate. Naturally, that did not go over well with her “friends.”

    I need a drink.

    1. straffinrun

      “Demands”. People that demand shit when the other person can just say, “Um, No” don’t seem to understand how impotent it makes you look.

    2. Throw a “fuck you” in there for good measure.

    3. Rufus the Monocled

      Tell him to go fuck himself. If someone ever told me that I will not hold back.

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        them

        1. Rufus the Monocled

          Boy am I messing grammar up today.

      2. See Double You

        I was impolite, but I’m afraid to go any farther in a public forum. Really, I should have stayed out of it completely.

        One of the reasons I come here is to vent anonymously. Seeing where the ABA is going, I might not stay employed for publicly sharing my beliefs in any but the most vague and innocuous ways. Seriously.

        1. We live in a police state.

    4. Suthenboy

      You need a drink and your wife needs new friends. I doubt I would have been as tactful as you were.

      “Go blow that marxist horseshit out of your ass somewhere else.”

    5. Amashi

      I suspended my Facebook account a while back. Just wasn’t worth it after a while.

  40. commodious spittoon

    Dan Carlin’s episode on the political and actual fallout of the nuclear bomb, Blitz, was also a lifesaver. I have a lot more respect for both Truman and Kennedy now, at least with respect for their handling of this incomprehensibly novel, world/history-hanging weaponry. And thank God it was we and not the Nazis or Stalin who developed it first.

    1. commodious spittoon

      Changing. This fixing phone…

    2. Winston

      Stalin’s spies where on it very quickly.

      I have a lot more respect for both Truman and Kennedy now

      So the Vietnam War and nationalization of Steel Mills were great ideas?

      1. commodious spittoon

        That’s a hell of a way to split up a sentence.

        1. Winston

          I kid I kid. But saying nice things about Truman and Kennedy is a capital offense in libertarianville?

          1. commodious spittoon

            Carlin makes some good points about the generally dismal trajectory of human history, and the novelty of this potentially world-ending weapon. Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy all fought their generals over their wanton use, and Kennedy probably saved the world by declining air strikes or invasions in Cuba.

      2. commodious spittoon

        [T]he Vietnam War and nationalizing steel mills were great ideas[.]

        Winston, 2018

        1. Winston

          Where’s my Democratic nomination?

          1. commodious spittoon

            Pfft, you’ll need to fellate the surviving Tsarnaev asshole to even get in the ballot.

    3. Raven Nation

      Richard Frank’s “Downfall” has an excellent section making the moral case for dropping the bomb.

      1. commodious spittoon

        Not to be confused with Fall Down, the last weeks of the Clinton campaign.

        1. Rhywun

          Or Falling Down, where a despondent Hillary Clinton stumbles across the shithole neighborhoods of DC looking for the White House, yelling at random Republicans along the way.

  41. Rufus the Monocled

    My dream scenario. The owners of Facebook and Twitter and Google all go bankrupt and lose their livelihoods for fucking with people’s right to free speech and ruining accounts and end up in the street.

    At which point Rufus is walking down the street – Boulevard of Broken Derp (TRADEMARK) – whistling minding his business and notices them panhandling. Rufus – that’s me – then turns and tells them while flipping a (Canadian) quarter at them, ‘Beat it. You’re making this place a SHITHOLE!’

    That’s my dream.

    1. straffinrun

      Check out my post up thread ” I have a dream”.

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        We’re on the same page!

    2. See Double You

      The Canadian quarter was by far the biggest insult.

    3. Zuckerberg walks in on his wife being pounded by a porn star, gets hammered then runs his Lambo into a bridge embankment at 150.

  42. Slammer

    There have been a TON of great catches in these two games

  43. Winston

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberian_general_election,_1927

    The elections were referred to as “the most rigged ever” by Francis Johnson-Morris, a modern head of the country’s National Elections Commission,[2] and also made it into the Guinness Book of Records as the most fraudulent election ever reported in history,[3][4] as despite there being fewer than 15,000 registered voters, King received around 243,000 votes, compared to 9,000 for Faulkner.[2]

    A wee bit excessive don’t you think?

    1. Amashi

      It is only when you have gone too far that you will know you have gone far enough. Also, Liberia is kind of a shithole.

      1. Winston

        Liberia is kind of a shithole.

        So Racist. Though if a Democrat said it then it would be truth.

        1. Amashi

          Well, as we all know Democrats are the worst racists, so QED.

          Dunno though- when the President of a nation is credibly accused of cannibalism, and campaigns on the slogan “he killed my ma, he killed my pa, but I’m still voting for him,” I’m kind of inclined to think it’s a shithole.

          That’s not really a racial judgment- Iit’snot as if I think African-Americans generally want to eat me, or kill my parents. And Albania, Moldova, West Virginia, and Uzbekistan, just to mention a few other shitholes, are pretty white.

          Liberia though…

    2. Suthenboy

      For it to be too far you have to assume that anyone in Liberia at the time understood what those numbers meant.

      There are primitive cultures in the world that dont count over five. Everything else is just ‘one’, a bunch, and more. Their lifestyle simply doesnt require precise arithmetic so they dont have it.

      1. Winston

        Well in Liberia’s case there may have been a lot of illiteracy. Also I’m not sure how well known the extent of the corruption of that election was known at the time? How many people were aware of the 15000 registered voters?

    1. Winston

      If only…

    2. Winston

      It’s cure that he’s trying to bring back liberalism. About 100 years late…

    3. Suthenboy

      That is a lot of words to say “The fight is the same as it has been since the beginning of time: liberty vs slavery”

    4. Winston

      Also from 2017…

  44. Ed Wuncler

    Holy shit, the Vikings were clutch as fuck. What a game.