Sometimes I just bask in the Glorious Light that streams from my fellow Glibs.
Pan Zagloba
We are like an endless shower of gold…
Scruffy Nerfherder
Uhhh
Bobarian LMD
Makes me feel warm.
Heroic Mulatto
I should have told them to pay for the long laugh.
Gadfly
Wow, that guy is hilarious. “King of the Internet”, “President of Kekistan”, and owner of the “Happiest Channel on the Internet”. It is highly appropriate that Glibertarians ordered a video from him.
Yusef drives a Kia
Is this a Big Thing? it was pretty funny, Good Job HM!
I was hesitant to click, since it’s HM posting and all, but the thumbnail looked innocuous so I chanced it. It was a decent video, for once, so now my brain will have to recalculate the risk calculus of clicking HM links.
Bobarian LMD
Probably the point.
Fishermen call it ‘setting the hook’.
Chafed
Yup. I kept my eye bleach ready. Next time we’ll need twice the dose.
Troy
Hey. How the fuck can two federal judges stop Trump from stopping DACA. My understanding of DACA is that is an executive order by Obama ordering, among other things, that the not enforcement if federal law. Assuming, arguendo, that I am correct, how the fuck can these judges tell Trump he can’t enforce the law? How the fuck is that not treason? Fuck these judges.
Pan Zagloba
Who’s gonna stop them? And how?
“Should” (and for that matter, “allowed”) is very different from “can”.
But Enough About Me
I don’t understand the problem. When Canada’s Supreme Court rules that a Province (for example) has to do something that the provincial government doesn’t like, said Province just ignores the Supremes (cf. R. v. Chaoulli regarding Quebec’s shitty job of delivering timely socialized medicine to the residents of Quebec). I’m surprised that Trump doesn’t just say “Fuck you, we all know that the Supreme Court’s gonna overrule you anyways, so Imma gonna do what I just said I was gonna do.”
I wish I had a reply so that I could end it with a question mark?
DenverJ
Oh I just realized that’s from further down thread. I’ve violated the thread- time Continuum!
Number.6
Can we count clerks and interns?
AlexinCT
Look at what kind of judges these are and how often they have their decisions overturned, and you will have your answer..
Troy
9th circuit?
Heroic Mulatto
The Constitution is very clear in defining treason not as the obstruction of the enforcement of laws, but as engaging in war against the U.S. or providing aid and succor to those who do.
Troy
Thanks for the education. Still. Fuck these judges.
Don Escaped Texas
Of course: you’re correct about treason.
Words have meanings, but everyone has a modem, so we’re fucked.
“The Constitution is very clear”
Thanks for being one of the few who knows and cares what was “intended.”
Of course: what the Constitution intended has not mattered in several decades.
Heroic Mulatto
The particular definition in the Constitution was written with intentionality. When I was living in Thailand, I learned that one could not criticize the ruling of a judge for a particular case. You see, judges are appointed by the monarch, so to criticize the judge is to critize the monarch, which is the crime of lèse-majesté.
And I would point out that in this case, it has not mattered in 230 sem-odd years, with the passing of the Alien and Sedition Acts during the Adams administration.
Don Escaped Texas
I only realized when I was about 40 that there was no American exception:
every government is legally interpreting and executing per their constitution;
if you don’t believe me, just ask them.
It’s all bullshit: what the military, police, or mobs decide is all that matters.
I’m thrilled to live in the American South,
but this can all go away in a heartbeat, in one good riot (election).
It started in the links and is a pain in the Ass, I’m sure they are working on it
Scruffy Nerfherder
It’s like when your girlfriend’s birthday control implant expires and she forgot to order a new one.
Scruffy Nerfherder
Damn phone
Private Chipperbot
Insert Logan’s Run reference.
Brett L
Birthday control. Epic.
Tres Cool
So…..spray & pray?
Bobarian LMD
Belly shots?
Scruffy Nerfherder
I learn something useful and something useless on glibertarians every day.
Thanks HM
Dr Mossy Lawn
The bane of 1 year old websites… SSL certs expiring:
* subject: OU=Domain Control Validated; OU=Provided by New Dream Network, LLC; OU=DreamHost Basic SSL; CN=glibertarians.com
* start date: Feb 13 00:00:00 2017 GMT
* expire date: Feb 13 23:59:59 2018 GMT
hayeksplosives
Is that why I am getting this Not Safe and Unsecure crap???
Dr Mossy Lawn
yes… accept/allow the insecure connections for now.. and they are working on it..
Yusef drives a Kia
Thanks!
AlmightyJB
Damn I already shot my computer
hayeksplosives
Today I learned at a 3 hour off site professional “Women’s Networking Event” that the experience of Women of Color is different than the experience of white women, including among other things, capitalization.
I postulate that among Women of Color, one could also find a variety, nay, a diversity of experiences, as presumeably one could also find among white women.
But that is probably just crazy talk.
(Note to self: Never ever again attend an event of 200 women in a room with echo-ey acoustics. It was like the loudest flock of birds you could imagine. With valley girl affectations at the end of each sentence.)
Yusef drives a Kia
Are you in Cali for this event?
hayeksplosives
No.
hayeksplosives
One need not live in the Valley to have the affected accent.
I call it question mark voice, where every sentence ends turning up? Like I am asking a question? Or not confident?
Girl, if you had them, I would kick you in your nuts.
Heroic Mulatto
I find myself having to (metaphorically) beat that verbal tic out of my daughter.
Heroic Mulatto
And don’t get me started on creaky voice/vocal fry.
THE VOCAL FRY! My wife is so titled by the fry it brings her damn near to the point of violence. If we’re somewhere someone’s doing it, she’ll do it back as hard as she can and look over at me to make sure I notice.
As part of the Women’s Leadership Network at my current employer, I sought out a voice coach a few years ago to come educate about vocal fry and question mark voice.
It was great. The feedback was terrific, and the effect was immediate.
We’ve hired 300 young folks since. I think it’s time to get her back in here. Even the young dudes do it now.
Tres Cool
+1 tubular
Number.6
What ev errr.
Yusef drives a Kia
I just figured since you may come this way they had you doing the network thing here,
hayeksplosives
Nah, these guys are so cool that I can’t imagine them forcing me to do something like that.
I have never had a job interview with so many swear words uttered by the interviewers. And then we went out for lunch and they all ordered beers/cocktails, so I got a Long Island Tea, and then we went back to the plant, had a nice tour, and went to a conference room to do a few hours of real work. By lunch time, my main charmer who had recused himself from the interview got to rejoin us so it was all fun and games from there.
Good times, good times.
trshmnstr
One of my law school profs went off on a girl for that. He tore into her for 5 minutes before stopping and saying “your answer was right, but you project zero confidence. You will get eaten alive in practice if you don’t fix your affectation.”
SP
“Uptalking? And uptalking some more? And then even more?
And then …. dropping to a vocal fry.”
God, I hate that.
Don Escaped Texas
Uptalk = soccer voice
Girl is told she can do anything,
told to do whatever she wants,
but she doesn’t know what she wants,
or doesn’t insist on what she wants,
so the parents talk her into soccer
because soccer is safe and organized and
because boys play soccer so equality.
Girl is told she can do anything,
told to believe whatever she wants,
but she doesn’t know why she believes (feels) what she does,
and she’s not a boy who will be praised for bullshitting his way through,
so, when she doesn’t know how to answer when asked something important
she uptalks: I’m not asserting this answer because I don’t know,
but I’m seeking approval for trying
and hope not to be over-assertive.
Please like me for being likable
since I don’t have an answer you will truly respect.
Warty
Were any of them hot?
hayeksplosives
…And no.
AlmightyJB
This rampant racism posing as the enlightened view that is engulfing everything is really pissing me off. We’ve gone back in time 70 years. F’g left.
AlmightyJB
This rampant racism posing as the enlightened view that is engulfing everything is really pissing me off. We’ve gone back in time 70 years. F’g left.
AlmightyJB
ohhh a squirrel.
Yusef drives a Kia
How odd, I just refreshed and didn’t have to click through the warnings, even though it still shows nonsecure,
SP
Your browser remembers you approved it a short time ago.
Yusef drives a Kia
But I have to click twice to refresh, Whhhhaaa!
/First World Problems 🙂
Yusef drives a Kia
Creepy, an update with no comments,
/insert Twilite Zone theme here
blackjack
They told me this wasn’t a safe place…
Sean
*sigh*
So, apparently, my girlfriend will be ruining Valentine’s day. I don’t blame her. I blame those little disease vectors she works with (children). It’s not the flue, but still a nasty cold. She’s so ill, her doctor excused her from work the rest of the week. ? Sad face for the lack of naked time I can expect this week.
Good to know. I’ll file that away with all of the little tidbits that might come in handy in the future. (Not sarc)
At the moment, the story I’m working on takes place in the Florida panhandle.
Number.6
Friend of mine in Flower Mound has a monster mancave basement, but he’s gotta be just about the only person I know down there who has anything bigger than a (euphemism alert) vestigial crawlspace.
Don Escaped Texas
right…on the bluffs up from the Trinity, that works
as do some other hills in Wise County
R C Dean
I only saw storm cellars/shelters growing up in North Texas, and not many of those.
Suthenboy
Artistic license. As I recall from one of the James Bond movies the villain had a huge underground lair in…New Orleans.
Florida Man
I’ve never seen a basement in 37 years in Florida.
Thanks. Is that because of geologic unsuitability, or the risk of flooding?
also, where’s this supervillain supposed to hide his secret lab?
Tres Cool
In a lair, stashed in the many underwater caves and tunnels that perforate coastal florida?
Caput Lupinum
It’s Florida, so a bombed out trailer that looks like a meth lab. Or someplace that requires an airboat to reach. Preferably both.
Tres Cool
Note to self- build 1X-wide on airboat hull, send adrift in swamp, profit
Florida Man
I think it’s because the water table and flooding. Also, I’m not sure if you can build a basement in sand. I know next to nothing on basements. If your story was in south Florida, I know some people had bomb shelters there.
Number.6
You can build a basement in just about anything if you have the money. The bigger issue is whether there’s any point. If the water table comes high enough or surface drainage is bad, it gets very difficult, very quickly to maintain a dry basement
Ah, well, I haven’t written more than the start of a planning scene regarding the raid on the location, so I can redesign it readily enough. (but the city’s location is already established in published material, so I can’t move it)
Florida Man
You could still use a bomb shelter or instead of being underground a hardened panic room.
Number.6
If I wanted to do that, I’d drop 3 shipping containers down there, weld up the doors, cut thru’ between them as doors and have a walkway up into the building. pour concrete around the containers.
Should be good for 30-50 years.
Florida Man
That’s the thing, if it’s a villains lair, it doesn’t have to make sense.
Florida Man
If it’s near Mariana, there is a cave system there.
Number.6
There are a couple of opportunities that present themselves. While a basement qua basement that is the same size as the building would be rare, consider other underground structures which are waterproof. If the building over the required basement is in a commercial/relatively old district you have storm drains, culverts.
The bedrock under a significant proportion of Florida (the Florida Platform) is limestone and is riddled with subsurface structures, some dry, some water-filled and some seasonal. Overlaying this is softer, modern sediments of varying permeability that could be excavated for a basement, but as noted, would be costly to keep dry. I guess if the prior owner of the house was wealthy and had a good reason to do it, there might be a basement there.
To both #6 and FM – What I know about the Geography as stated so far.
Bilgewater and Sandy Shore are twin cities separated by a county line along “lighthouse road” which ends at a spit with a lighthouse on it. Fenris Hill used to be a third, smaller city that shared the county with Bilgewater until it got annexed. It was named for the rise it sat on that got to a lofty 200 feet above sea level. The Building in question, however, is in the Sandy shore area. Sandy Shore is the wealthy, tourist-friendly area, and Bilgewater is the shithole. (both have neighborhoods of varying quality, but the average is as described)
Whether or not there are caves under the area is unknown, but they sit on the coast, as Bilgewater once had a fishing industry (Another story ends in a defunct cannery), and Sandy Shore has tourist beaches.
I may end up using “Found a cave and modified it to suit their purposes”
Number.6
Well, the whole of the Florida peninsula will have the capability of having subsurface cave systems – possibly extensive. Drive out the Deep Ones, selectively seal inlets and outlets, and start excavating to create the shape you want.
It’s hard to defeat the water table though, although obviously, the more shallow the cave system, the drier its going to be.
Florida is a somewhat special case. Limestone has some really specific subsurface characteristics. A lot of the research was done in the Karst region of Slovenia(?) but the general characteristics are shared by deposits in all sorts of places like the Yorkshire Dales and Florida. In Florida’s case, almost all of the geology is subsurface, but in essence, while the rock is pretty porous, tracing subsurface water flow can be very complex. You can put red dye in an underground lake, and it doesn’t appear again for 30 miles, having traversed other underground structures.
/lecture mode off.
Number.6
Oops – so the point is that you can find subsurface structures which are somewhat dry, surrounded by flooded structures that are nearer the surface.
I have read way too much on Karst Topography. (A character in another yarn has the Appellation ‘von Karststadt’) What I didn’t know what that the underground substrate of Florida was essentually a buried karstland.
His front organization is a research company that does legitimate work. It’s easier to attract decent researchers at near-market rates if the commute is reasonable.
Pan Zagloba
God dammit, it’s people like this who ruined Mad Science.
Say what you will, Doctor Omicron may have been a cold-hearted murdering bastard, but at least he had style.
I thought you mammals were not concerned with local stories…
Yusef drives a Kia
How’s the Hot Rock? I got my eye on you, Reptile…..
Tres Cool
1 20 lb CO2 fire-extinguisher, and he’s done anyhow…..
Yusef drives a Kia
They are only here because they believe the Global warming hype, But they taste like Chicken!
Mr Lizard
That’s no way to refer to your mother
Tres Cool
Oh, mama-Tres woulda been more like a 300 lb extinguisher. Picture Gilbert Grape’s mom, made of dry ice.
Number.6
Cool!
Tres Cool
Oh, I doubt its going to require the likes of Holmes, Poirot, or the Hardy Boys to sort THIS out.
Yusef drives a Kia
Racist!
C. Anacreon
I’ll posit that he was beamed aboard an alien spacecraft for a rectal probe, then deposited still wearing his ski garb, helmet and goggles near Sacramento, because it was flat and an easier place to land. And although the whole episode only took a few minutes , because they were travelling close to the speed of light, several days had passed on earth. Sound about right?
Tres Cool
Or he drunkenly hooked up with a slut that lives in Sacramento.
Chafed
I like C’s story better but I’m gonna guess you’re right. Holmes or Poirot would have solved this mystery but no way the Hardy Boys would figure it out,.
Michael
Happy Birthday, movie house! Happy Birthday, Emporium! Happy Birthday, you wonderful old Glibertarians site!
Michael
(slips in slush puddle, konks head on curb)
DenverJ
*Olympic committee awards Michael gold medal*
C. Anacreon
Happy birthday to you, too George, you’ll be spending it in jail!
/Old Man Potter
Derpetologist
I skimmed through a Mormon book from my late grandmother’s collection called Life Everlasting. It’s all about the afterlife. I found some bathos.
Spot the Not: features of Mormon heaven
1. an unchanging spring climate
2. order and government
3. no foul odors or loud noises
4. meetings being held
5. shrubbery
6. people organized in various grades
Florida Man
2.
Yusef drives a Kia
4
Tres Cool
#5, cause Id think shrubbery would be implied
DenverJ
3: being forced to hold in your farts for eternity would be hell
Derpetologist
Winner!
About 30 things are listed. I larfed good when I read the shrubbery one.
2 shrubberies, with one slightly higher so you get a nice 2-level effect and little path between them.
They did it the libertarian way – they paid him to.
Tres Cool
SP be all like:
Dear Comodo-
I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you, but if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you.
SP
You’ve obviously never met our daughter, Webdominatrix. It would be way worse than a Ransom of Red Chief scenario. That chick takes no shit and no prisoners. It would be scorched earth. I want to be just like her when I grow up!
Chafed
!
Hyperion
Where be the thicc?
Juan-Baptiste Emmanuel Seguin
Is Big Man Tyrone not thicc enough for you?!?!?
Also, happy anniversary fellow glibs!
Yusef drives a Kia
Wrong thicc, HM or Q will fix you right up, or ask Jesse if you roll that way………….
Tres Cool
I just went back to the NOLA Bourbon St. cam that KK put up the link to. In addition to free-range bewbs, I really hope to see a murder or two.
I’m still learning Mastering, but at Least I went to school to learn, that sounds Horrible, like sand in the tape or something
Tres Cool
Its around 26 years old…..cant really address that particular recording, but that may be your problem.
Pick the fuzz off the needle, or get a record cleaner!
Michael
(…something, something…seizing the means of production…something…mumble…something…)
Tarran had a glorious snippet about it in PM Lynx.
Michael
Damn, I missed a good part of the PM links. Heading over there now.
Michael
Oh, shit. That is funny as hell.
DenverJ
Researchers “from security firm Sucuri warned that at least 500 websites running the WordPress content management system alone had been hacked to run the Coinhive mining scripts,” we wrote in the October 2017 article.
Doesn’t Glibertarians use WordPress?
SP
It’s also scanned daily for malware because SP is paranoid.
Chafed
Which is one reason we appreciate her.
C. Anacreon
Be careful with malware cleaner!
You saw what happened to that kid on “Black Mirror” after he used malware cleaner.
He ended up having to rob a bank, and after that, fight a pedophile to the death.
CPRM
fight a pedophile to the death.
Was the prize something people than OMWC would get excited about?
C. Anacreon
(Spoiler Alert)
Yes, the internet commanders that made him rob the bank made him fight the pedophile, and the one who lived got to keep the money the kid robbed from the bank. Sucks, huh? The pedophile didn’t have to provide anything to the kitty.
You have to see it for what I’m telling you to make sense. It’s actually a really tense episode, and the acting is quite good, too.
and i am looking for ways to find a copy. the criterion collection edition on ebay is going for ~ $70-100?!?
anyone who knows potential alternative sources i might look into, let me know. I haven’t added shit to my giganto DVD collection in ages because the format is obsolete, but this is exactly the sort of thing that i keep the stuff around for.
Akira
I am a lifelong fan of everything New Orleans,
I snagged a copy of Herbert Asbury’s The French Quarter at a used bookstore. It was a pretty interesting read.
Gilmore
He’s the same dude – if i recall – who wrote the original “gangs of new york”
Akira
Yes, and that was an interesting book as well.
Gilmore
my argument about New Orleans is basically this –
There’s “America” – basically, the colonies, and everything else that happened in the country since the revolution thru ‘mid 19th century’
and then there’s new orleans – which was for all intents and purposes, a separate country since the 17th century.
and that new orleans has always been a separate country, sort of like what texans imagine themselves as – you can’t kill or dilute the shit that makes new orleans their own thing.
its not something that ‘integration’ or the civil war or any sort of development in the rest of america has ever changed.
its always been this weird little bubble world where the shit that happens there follows nothing but its own rules. and that’s why the music that comes out of there is like nothing else on the planet.
Akira
If I had the time and discretionary income to take a vacation, New Orleans would definitely be my destination, chiefly for the food and the Dixieland jazz music (which is what I listen to most frequently).
Gilmore
“what I listen to most frequently”
my main point, if there is one, is that you never can possibly grok the slightest bit of it until you actually go there and do it, and multiple times, over many years
its just not the country you live in. its some place else.
Hey Yusef, I’d like to pick your brain if it’s cool. I may build a Brew Shed this spring and am thinking of having a climate controlled closet for lagering. It would be about 18″ deep 30″ wide and 60″ tall with perhaps two zones (stacked). That could hold temps within a degree or two in a range from the 50’s to just above freezing. Is that something I could build from scratch or would I be better off modifying a chest freezer (which seems the common route for home brewers)?
Yusef drives a Kia
You could buy one cheaper than build one, check out Surplus Commercial Refrigeration shops in your area, get a used one, we do it for Customers all the time. Maybe 1000$,
Very excited. M-Flo has finally reunited the Tripod. Sadly just a single for initial release…but a great sound.
On a similar note, Band-Maid just released their “Domination” album – just not on US itunes yet (and I don’t feel like paying import prices right now)…hopefully soon.
CPRM
That Band-Maid is pleasing both to the ears and the eyes.
I wouldn’t want to hang out with her, but if I met her while I was drunk, I’d go to bed with her if she’d have me.
Chafed
I get it… but I think she is or was possessed.
CPRM
Just makes the sex into a threesome, I’m not here to judge.
Chafed
You are braver than me.
Chafed
I thought they were going to be another Baby Metal. I’m glad to be wrong.
Akira
OT: Just ate some epic beef stew.
It started when I made the broth: I filled my crock pot with large beef bones, onion tops, leafy celery stalks, a few small cloves of garlic, and some whole peppercorns. I’m pretty sure I had food dreams all night because my house smelled like the richest, most delicious broth in the morning. After I cooled it, there was a lovely disk of fat on top about 1/4 inch thick. I used this fat to saute some mirepoix and garlic, which went back into the strained broth in the crock pot. I then browned 1.5 pounds of stew beef and tossed that in as well. This simmered all day while I was at work, and I just mixed up some matzo balls using some of the beef fat. It was quite an amazing hearty stew. The matzo balls were a bit more delicate than I like them (probably because I put too much fat in there) but they were still delicious.
What did you late night Glibs cook for dinner?
CPRM
I had taco bell chalupas for dinner. I had to work in the evening, and only cook when I have other people to eat with.
C. Anacreon
I still don’t know what a chalupa is, but every time I hear the word I remember the old Taco Bell commercial where the cops tell a guy at gunpoint, “Sir, drop the chalupa.” And then that annoying Chihuahua they used to have was there hoping to lap up spilled food, and backed the cops: “yes, drop the chalupa.”
CPRM
It’s an Indian Taco shaped like a hard shell taco, if you know what an Indian Taco is
Comments
218 responses to “Belated Anniversary Post”
First
Holy shit, it IS a Big Man Tyrone video?!?!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
*grins*
Sometimes I just bask in the Glorious Light that streams from my fellow Glibs.
We are like an endless shower of gold…
Uhhh
Makes me feel warm.
I should have told them to pay for the long laugh.
Wow, that guy is hilarious. “King of the Internet”, “President of Kekistan”, and owner of the “Happiest Channel on the Internet”. It is highly appropriate that Glibertarians ordered a video from him.
Is this a Big Thing? it was pretty funny, Good Job HM!
We could have saved money just by using this one. It still works.
It does.
Good idea ordering a video from him.
GREATEST THING EVER!!
I was hesitant to click, since it’s HM posting and all, but the thumbnail looked innocuous so I chanced it. It was a decent video, for once, so now my brain will have to recalculate the risk calculus of clicking HM links.
Probably the point.
Fishermen call it ‘setting the hook’.
Yup. I kept my eye bleach ready. Next time we’ll need twice the dose.
Hey. How the fuck can two federal judges stop Trump from stopping DACA. My understanding of DACA is that is an executive order by Obama ordering, among other things, that the not enforcement if federal law. Assuming, arguendo, that I am correct, how the fuck can these judges tell Trump he can’t enforce the law? How the fuck is that not treason? Fuck these judges.
Who’s gonna stop them? And how?
“Should” (and for that matter, “allowed”) is very different from “can”.
I don’t understand the problem. When Canada’s Supreme Court rules that a Province (for example) has to do something that the provincial government doesn’t like, said Province just ignores the Supremes (cf. R. v. Chaoulli regarding Quebec’s shitty job of delivering timely socialized medicine to the residents of Quebec). I’m surprised that Trump doesn’t just say “Fuck you, we all know that the Supreme Court’s gonna overrule you anyways, so Imma gonna do what I just said I was gonna do.”
Notwithstanding Clause, right?
How many divisions does the 9th Circuit have?
Are we counting leftist militias and hate mobs?
I wish I had a reply so that I could end it with a question mark?
Oh I just realized that’s from further down thread. I’ve violated the thread- time Continuum!
Can we count clerks and interns?
Look at what kind of judges these are and how often they have their decisions overturned, and you will have your answer..
9th circuit?
The Constitution is very clear in defining treason not as the obstruction of the enforcement of laws, but as engaging in war against the U.S. or providing aid and succor to those who do.
Thanks for the education. Still. Fuck these judges.
Of course: you’re correct about treason.
Words have meanings, but everyone has a modem, so we’re fucked.
“The Constitution is very clear”
Thanks for being one of the few who knows and cares what was “intended.”
Of course: what the Constitution intended has not mattered in several decades.
The particular definition in the Constitution was written with intentionality. When I was living in Thailand, I learned that one could not criticize the ruling of a judge for a particular case. You see, judges are appointed by the monarch, so to criticize the judge is to critize the monarch, which is the crime of lèse-majesté.
And I would point out that in this case, it has not mattered in 230 sem-odd years, with the passing of the Alien and Sedition Acts during the Adams administration.
I only realized when I was about 40 that there was no American exception:
every government is legally interpreting and executing per their constitution;
if you don’t believe me, just ask them.
It’s all bullshit: what the military, police, or mobs decide is all that matters.
I’m thrilled to live in the American South,
but this can all go away in a heartbeat, in one good riot (election).
Happy anniversary – your SSL Cert Expired.
UnCivil beat me to it…
It started in the links and is a pain in the Ass, I’m sure they are working on it
It’s like when your girlfriend’s birthday control implant expires and she forgot to order a new one.
Damn phone
Insert Logan’s Run reference.
Birthday control. Epic.
So…..spray & pray?
Belly shots?
I learn something useful and something useless on glibertarians every day.
Thanks HM
The bane of 1 year old websites… SSL certs expiring:
* subject: OU=Domain Control Validated; OU=Provided by New Dream Network, LLC; OU=DreamHost Basic SSL; CN=glibertarians.com
* start date: Feb 13 00:00:00 2017 GMT
* expire date: Feb 13 23:59:59 2018 GMT
Is that why I am getting this Not Safe and Unsecure crap???
yes… accept/allow the insecure connections for now.. and they are working on it..
Thanks!
Damn I already shot my computer
Today I learned at a 3 hour off site professional “Women’s Networking Event” that the experience of Women of Color is different than the experience of white women, including among other things, capitalization.
I postulate that among Women of Color, one could also find a variety, nay, a diversity of experiences, as presumeably one could also find among white women.
But that is probably just crazy talk.
(Note to self: Never ever again attend an event of 200 women in a room with echo-ey acoustics. It was like the loudest flock of birds you could imagine. With valley girl affectations at the end of each sentence.)
Are you in Cali for this event?
No.
One need not live in the Valley to have the affected accent.
I call it question mark voice, where every sentence ends turning up? Like I am asking a question? Or not confident?
Girl, if you had them, I would kick you in your nuts.
I find myself having to (metaphorically) beat that verbal tic out of my daughter.
And don’t get me started on creaky voice/vocal fry.
THE VOCAL FRY! My wife is so titled by the fry it brings her damn near to the point of violence. If we’re somewhere someone’s doing it, she’ll do it back as hard as she can and look over at me to make sure I notice.
*Sorry, that should be “tilted”. I blame the cert.
So, she’s like, a Val ?
As part of the Women’s Leadership Network at my current employer, I sought out a voice coach a few years ago to come educate about vocal fry and question mark voice.
It was great. The feedback was terrific, and the effect was immediate.
We’ve hired 300 young folks since. I think it’s time to get her back in here. Even the young dudes do it now.
+1 tubular
What ev errr.
I just figured since you may come this way they had you doing the network thing here,
Nah, these guys are so cool that I can’t imagine them forcing me to do something like that.
I have never had a job interview with so many swear words uttered by the interviewers. And then we went out for lunch and they all ordered beers/cocktails, so I got a Long Island Tea, and then we went back to the plant, had a nice tour, and went to a conference room to do a few hours of real work. By lunch time, my main charmer who had recused himself from the interview got to rejoin us so it was all fun and games from there.
Good times, good times.
One of my law school profs went off on a girl for that. He tore into her for 5 minutes before stopping and saying “your answer was right, but you project zero confidence. You will get eaten alive in practice if you don’t fix your affectation.”
“Uptalking? And uptalking some more? And then even more?
And then …. dropping to a vocal fry.”
God, I hate that.
Uptalk = soccer voice
Girl is told she can do anything,
told to do whatever she wants,
but she doesn’t know what she wants,
or doesn’t insist on what she wants,
so the parents talk her into soccer
because soccer is safe and organized and
because boys play soccer so equality.
Girl is told she can do anything,
told to believe whatever she wants,
but she doesn’t know why she believes (feels) what she does,
and she’s not a boy who will be praised for bullshitting his way through,
so, when she doesn’t know how to answer when asked something important
she uptalks: I’m not asserting this answer because I don’t know,
but I’m seeking approval for trying
and hope not to be over-assertive.
Please like me for being likable
since I don’t have an answer you will truly respect.
Were any of them hot?
…And no.
This rampant racism posing as the enlightened view that is engulfing everything is really pissing me off. We’ve gone back in time 70 years. F’g left.
This rampant racism posing as the enlightened view that is engulfing everything is really pissing me off. We’ve gone back in time 70 years. F’g left.
ohhh a squirrel.
How odd, I just refreshed and didn’t have to click through the warnings, even though it still shows nonsecure,
Your browser remembers you approved it a short time ago.
But I have to click twice to refresh, Whhhhaaa!
/First World Problems 🙂
Creepy, an update with no comments,
/insert Twilite Zone theme here
They told me this wasn’t a safe place…
*sigh*
So, apparently, my girlfriend will be ruining Valentine’s day. I don’t blame her. I blame those little disease vectors she works with (children). It’s not the flue, but still a nasty cold. She’s so ill, her doctor excused her from work the rest of the week. ? Sad face for the lack of naked time I can expect this week.
Tamiflu sex is the best sex
Pussy.
If this guy can have sex with a girl while she’s dying of a drug overdose, you can have flu sex.
Well, she has some say in the interaction…
On the “pro” side, she did lose her voice. ?
You lucky, lucky bastard.
Why do I even enact the labor?
I shared that link 2 days ago……sheesh.
Grab another can
I got plenty left; I went overboard.
Talk about enacting labor.
Three cheers for the Glibertariat!
HUZZAH! HUZZAH! HUZZAH!
HEAR HIM! HEAR HIM!
We have our own promotional video now? Hell yeah!
Resident Florida Residents – how bizarre are basements in your low-lying state?
Not in “how much oddity is in the basements, but how odd is it to have a basement.
The mean elevation for the entire state is 100′ above sea level, so some people can have basements.
Not FL, but in TX it was unheard of. The ground shifted too much due to the hot and dry summers.
Texas is many different places.
They’re common in west Texas hills (Big Bend, Davis Mountains)
and very possible in north Texas (Fort Worth to Palo Pinto)
but yup: east and coastal (Dallas to Houston): forget about it.
Good to know. I’ll file that away with all of the little tidbits that might come in handy in the future. (Not sarc)
At the moment, the story I’m working on takes place in the Florida panhandle.
Friend of mine in Flower Mound has a monster mancave basement, but he’s gotta be just about the only person I know down there who has anything bigger than a (euphemism alert) vestigial crawlspace.
right…on the bluffs up from the Trinity, that works
as do some other hills in Wise County
I only saw storm cellars/shelters growing up in North Texas, and not many of those.
Artistic license. As I recall from one of the James Bond movies the villain had a huge underground lair in…New Orleans.
I’ve never seen a basement in 37 years in Florida.
Thanks. Is that because of geologic unsuitability, or the risk of flooding?
also, where’s this supervillain supposed to hide his secret lab?
In a lair, stashed in the many underwater caves and tunnels that perforate coastal florida?
It’s Florida, so a bombed out trailer that looks like a meth lab. Or someplace that requires an airboat to reach. Preferably both.
Note to self- build 1X-wide on airboat hull, send adrift in swamp, profit
I think it’s because the water table and flooding. Also, I’m not sure if you can build a basement in sand. I know next to nothing on basements. If your story was in south Florida, I know some people had bomb shelters there.
You can build a basement in just about anything if you have the money. The bigger issue is whether there’s any point. If the water table comes high enough or surface drainage is bad, it gets very difficult, very quickly to maintain a dry basement
Ah, well, I haven’t written more than the start of a planning scene regarding the raid on the location, so I can redesign it readily enough. (but the city’s location is already established in published material, so I can’t move it)
You could still use a bomb shelter or instead of being underground a hardened panic room.
If I wanted to do that, I’d drop 3 shipping containers down there, weld up the doors, cut thru’ between them as doors and have a walkway up into the building. pour concrete around the containers.
Should be good for 30-50 years.
That’s the thing, if it’s a villains lair, it doesn’t have to make sense.
If it’s near Mariana, there is a cave system there.
There are a couple of opportunities that present themselves. While a basement qua basement that is the same size as the building would be rare, consider other underground structures which are waterproof. If the building over the required basement is in a commercial/relatively old district you have storm drains, culverts.
The bedrock under a significant proportion of Florida (the Florida Platform) is limestone and is riddled with subsurface structures, some dry, some water-filled and some seasonal. Overlaying this is softer, modern sediments of varying permeability that could be excavated for a basement, but as noted, would be costly to keep dry. I guess if the prior owner of the house was wealthy and had a good reason to do it, there might be a basement there.
To both #6 and FM – What I know about the Geography as stated so far.
Bilgewater and Sandy Shore are twin cities separated by a county line along “lighthouse road” which ends at a spit with a lighthouse on it. Fenris Hill used to be a third, smaller city that shared the county with Bilgewater until it got annexed. It was named for the rise it sat on that got to a lofty 200 feet above sea level. The Building in question, however, is in the Sandy shore area. Sandy Shore is the wealthy, tourist-friendly area, and Bilgewater is the shithole. (both have neighborhoods of varying quality, but the average is as described)
Whether or not there are caves under the area is unknown, but they sit on the coast, as Bilgewater once had a fishing industry (Another story ends in a defunct cannery), and Sandy Shore has tourist beaches.
I may end up using “Found a cave and modified it to suit their purposes”
Well, the whole of the Florida peninsula will have the capability of having subsurface cave systems – possibly extensive. Drive out the Deep Ones, selectively seal inlets and outlets, and start excavating to create the shape you want.
It’s hard to defeat the water table though, although obviously, the more shallow the cave system, the drier its going to be.
I find that plausible.
https://inhabitat.com/6-awesome-caves-to-call-home/
Florida is a somewhat special case. Limestone has some really specific subsurface characteristics. A lot of the research was done in the Karst region of Slovenia(?) but the general characteristics are shared by deposits in all sorts of places like the Yorkshire Dales and Florida. In Florida’s case, almost all of the geology is subsurface, but in essence, while the rock is pretty porous, tracing subsurface water flow can be very complex. You can put red dye in an underground lake, and it doesn’t appear again for 30 miles, having traversed other underground structures.
/lecture mode off.
Oops – so the point is that you can find subsurface structures which are somewhat dry, surrounded by flooded structures that are nearer the surface.
I have read way too much on Karst Topography. (A character in another yarn has the Appellation ‘von Karststadt’) What I didn’t know what that the underground substrate of Florida was essentually a buried karstland.
OK, so, now you know!
Dont forget the sharks. With fricken laser-beams.
Laser beams, particle beams, sonic lances and regular old bullets are a given with this supervillain – sharks, less so. He’s more into using robots.
“Old ruined Spanish fort deep in a swamp” is a classic for a reason.
If it was good enough for Lee/Ditko, it’s good enough for you!
His front organization is a research company that does legitimate work. It’s easier to attract decent researchers at near-market rates if the commute is reasonable.
God dammit, it’s people like this who ruined Mad Science.
Say what you will, Doctor Omicron may have been a cold-hearted murdering bastard, but at least he had style.
They exist, I’ve seen a few. If you’re going for a big super villain system this might be of use.
http://www.disneyorama.com/2009/06/magic-kingdom-utilidors/
I thought you mammals were not concerned with local stories…
How’s the Hot Rock? I got my eye on you, Reptile…..
1 20 lb CO2 fire-extinguisher, and he’s done anyhow…..
They are only here because they believe the Global warming hype, But they taste like Chicken!
That’s no way to refer to your mother
Oh, mama-Tres woulda been more like a 300 lb extinguisher. Picture Gilbert Grape’s mom, made of dry ice.
Cool!
Oh, I doubt its going to require the likes of Holmes, Poirot, or the Hardy Boys to sort THIS out.
Racist!
I’ll posit that he was beamed aboard an alien spacecraft for a rectal probe, then deposited still wearing his ski garb, helmet and goggles near Sacramento, because it was flat and an easier place to land. And although the whole episode only took a few minutes , because they were travelling close to the speed of light, several days had passed on earth. Sound about right?
Or he drunkenly hooked up with a slut that lives in Sacramento.
I like C’s story better but I’m gonna guess you’re right. Holmes or Poirot would have solved this mystery but no way the Hardy Boys would figure it out,.
Happy Birthday, movie house! Happy Birthday, Emporium! Happy Birthday, you wonderful old Glibertarians site!
(slips in slush puddle, konks head on curb)
*Olympic committee awards Michael gold medal*
Happy birthday to you, too George, you’ll be spending it in jail!
/Old Man Potter
I skimmed through a Mormon book from my late grandmother’s collection called Life Everlasting. It’s all about the afterlife. I found some bathos.
Spot the Not: features of Mormon heaven
1. an unchanging spring climate
2. order and government
3. no foul odors or loud noises
4. meetings being held
5. shrubbery
6. people organized in various grades
2.
4
#5, cause Id think shrubbery would be implied
3: being forced to hold in your farts for eternity would be hell
Winner!
About 30 things are listed. I larfed good when I read the shrubbery one.
2 shrubberies, with one slightly higher so you get a nice 2-level effect and little path between them.
Ni!
Good spread here. Someone’s gonna be a winner.
Everyone’s a winner.
Is the audio off track or is that just horrible lip syncing?
I don’t really understand the Big Man Tyrone bit. But he’s a funny dude. And getting him to give Glibs such a, um…glowing recommendation, is bad ass!
They did it the libertarian way – they paid him to.
SP be all like:
Dear Comodo-
I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you, but if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you.
You’ve obviously never met our daughter, Webdominatrix. It would be way worse than a Ransom of Red Chief scenario. That chick takes no shit and no prisoners. It would be scorched earth. I want to be just like her when I grow up!
!
Where be the thicc?
Is Big Man Tyrone not thicc enough for you?!?!?
Also, happy anniversary fellow glibs!
Wrong thicc, HM or Q will fix you right up, or ask Jesse if you roll that way………….
I just went back to the NOLA Bourbon St. cam that KK put up the link to. In addition to free-range bewbs, I really hope to see a murder or two.
Little Big Man is far superior to Big Man Tyrone.
I’m still learning Mastering, but at Least I went to school to learn, that sounds Horrible, like sand in the tape or something
Its around 26 years old…..cant really address that particular recording, but that may be your problem.
Pick the fuzz off the needle, or get a record cleaner!
(…something, something…seizing the means of production…something…mumble…something…)
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/salon-to-ad-blockers-can-we-use-your-browser-to-mine-cryptocurrency/
Tarran had a glorious snippet about it in PM Lynx.
Damn, I missed a good part of the PM links. Heading over there now.
Oh, shit. That is funny as hell.
Doesn’t Glibertarians use WordPress?
It’s also scanned daily for malware because SP is paranoid.
Which is one reason we appreciate her.
Be careful with malware cleaner!
You saw what happened to that kid on “Black Mirror” after he used malware cleaner.
He ended up having to rob a bank, and after that, fight a pedophile to the death.
Was the prize something people than OMWC would get excited about?
(Spoiler Alert)
Yes, the internet commanders that made him rob the bank made him fight the pedophile, and the one who lived got to keep the money the kid robbed from the bank. Sucks, huh? The pedophile didn’t have to provide anything to the kitty.
You have to see it for what I’m telling you to make sense. It’s actually a really tense episode, and the acting is quite good, too.
Clearly this means we need single payer.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/11/health/aetna-california-investigation/index.html
On your anniversary, you should always remember your blushing bride.
http://i0.wp.com/www.teamjimmyjoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Bad-Wedding-Photos-Drunk-Bride-Smoking.jpg?fit=500%2C534
How about a thicc redhead, instead of a drunk redneck.
/ please?
Here.
https://imgur.com/a/AlE06
Bonus cause she doesn’t have on any panties.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/83/b7/69/83b769ab111639ff0af1f464541b128e.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Z2R1_WeDDBY/UXibebw9aXI/AAAAAAAAS1A/et2QmdMhqlM/s1600/redhead+cleavage+button+down+blouse.jpg
I’ll take this one, Thanks Q, you saved the night!
I luvs SJWs so much that I want a gimmen a present.
Ballz to the Wallz>Ball, very biggest
i am not really a fan of that sort of stuff, but i did like the band michael schenker was in before he became popular in the 80s… uh, called UFO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0-z8dEFo0g
i was told they were probably the closest thing to the real-life “Spinal Tap”
Doctor Doctor +1 Phil Mogg
Schenker was heavily into drugs while in UFO. It may have been less Spinal Tap and more his distorted memory.
They produced Rock Bottom, along with Lights Out. Personally, I could give a fuck if Shencker was shooting Percocet into his dick.
Shoulda changed his name to Chancre then
I am a lifelong fan of everything New Orleans, and so this is interesting to me
https://reverb.com/news/second-line-blues-a-brief-history-of-new-orleans-brass-bands
it should be interesting to everyone, because it is one of the most awesome things about America
I also learned that there was this dude Les Blank who made good docos about NoLa…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTwVGA-axiw
and i am looking for ways to find a copy. the criterion collection edition on ebay is going for ~ $70-100?!?
anyone who knows potential alternative sources i might look into, let me know. I haven’t added shit to my giganto DVD collection in ages because the format is obsolete, but this is exactly the sort of thing that i keep the stuff around for.
I snagged a copy of Herbert Asbury’s The French Quarter at a used bookstore. It was a pretty interesting read.
He’s the same dude – if i recall – who wrote the original “gangs of new york”
Yes, and that was an interesting book as well.
my argument about New Orleans is basically this –
There’s “America” – basically, the colonies, and everything else that happened in the country since the revolution thru ‘mid 19th century’
and then there’s new orleans – which was for all intents and purposes, a separate country since the 17th century.
and that new orleans has always been a separate country, sort of like what texans imagine themselves as – you can’t kill or dilute the shit that makes new orleans their own thing.
its not something that ‘integration’ or the civil war or any sort of development in the rest of america has ever changed.
its always been this weird little bubble world where the shit that happens there follows nothing but its own rules. and that’s why the music that comes out of there is like nothing else on the planet.
If I had the time and discretionary income to take a vacation, New Orleans would definitely be my destination, chiefly for the food and the Dixieland jazz music (which is what I listen to most frequently).
“what I listen to most frequently”
my main point, if there is one, is that you never can possibly grok the slightest bit of it until you actually go there and do it, and multiple times, over many years
its just not the country you live in. its some place else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScFl52yPWyI
apologies for my own enthusiasm. im drunk.
Tonight’s Beer. Not an IPA fan and this isn’t changing my mind, at least I have a few Old Styles left.
Looks tasty!
Hey Yusef, I’d like to pick your brain if it’s cool. I may build a Brew Shed this spring and am thinking of having a climate controlled closet for lagering. It would be about 18″ deep 30″ wide and 60″ tall with perhaps two zones (stacked). That could hold temps within a degree or two in a range from the 50’s to just above freezing. Is that something I could build from scratch or would I be better off modifying a chest freezer (which seems the common route for home brewers)?
You could buy one cheaper than build one, check out Surplus Commercial Refrigeration shops in your area, get a used one, we do it for Customers all the time. Maybe 1000$,
Ah, thanks, that’s a little pricey for my DIY project. Probably why the chest freezers are the go to solution I am finding on the brewer sites.
Has Old Style gotten above 5 bucks for a 12 pack yet?
I guess this was worth the wait. I just wish there was some kind of scam joke written.
Very excited. M-Flo has finally reunited the Tripod. Sadly just a single for initial release…but a great sound.
On a similar note, Band-Maid just released their “Domination” album – just not on US itunes yet (and I don’t feel like paying import prices right now)…hopefully soon.
That Band-Maid is pleasing both to the ears and the eyes.
However, if I’m not going to understand what a hot woman is singing about I’d prefer it is more metal.
Good band. She scares me.
I wouldn’t want to hang out with her, but if I met her while I was drunk, I’d go to bed with her if she’d have me.
I get it… but I think she is or was possessed.
Just makes the sex into a threesome, I’m not here to judge.
You are braver than me.
I thought they were going to be another Baby Metal. I’m glad to be wrong.
OT: Just ate some epic beef stew.
It started when I made the broth: I filled my crock pot with large beef bones, onion tops, leafy celery stalks, a few small cloves of garlic, and some whole peppercorns. I’m pretty sure I had food dreams all night because my house smelled like the richest, most delicious broth in the morning. After I cooled it, there was a lovely disk of fat on top about 1/4 inch thick. I used this fat to saute some mirepoix and garlic, which went back into the strained broth in the crock pot. I then browned 1.5 pounds of stew beef and tossed that in as well. This simmered all day while I was at work, and I just mixed up some matzo balls using some of the beef fat. It was quite an amazing hearty stew. The matzo balls were a bit more delicate than I like them (probably because I put too much fat in there) but they were still delicious.
What did you late night Glibs cook for dinner?
I had taco bell chalupas for dinner. I had to work in the evening, and only cook when I have other people to eat with.
I still don’t know what a chalupa is, but every time I hear the word I remember the old Taco Bell commercial where the cops tell a guy at gunpoint, “Sir, drop the chalupa.” And then that annoying Chihuahua they used to have was there hoping to lap up spilled food, and backed the cops: “yes, drop the chalupa.”
It’s an Indian Taco shaped like a hard shell taco, if you know what an Indian Taco is
Anything like an Indian Burn?
Indian tacos are pretty much a taco salad on top of fry bread, which is a flat unsweetened doughnut, and a chalupa forms the fry bread into a taco shell shape. Except the tomatoes, I don’t believe any of the ingredients are actually indigenous to AmerIndians.
Big sald with some leftover pasta.
Sald=salad
I got it, us late nighters aren’t big on the whole ‘spelling’ thing.
Peanut Butter and Jelly Sammich
I’m having chocolate covered pretzels now, cuz it’s fat Tuesday…and I’m fat
It’s like a sekf fulfilling prophecy.
And I can no longer type. Good night everyone.
We truly are not worthy.