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America Day Afternoon Links

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Happy America Day to the American Glibs, and happy Hump Day for everyone else. I made the dirty water hot dogs. I… I have shame for how good those are. My kids ate two each — which is pretty good for them. I’m holding at one, but these links are being pre-recorded live.

Leave! Leave now Canadians and Michiganders! Florida is drowning! I’m looking at being beach-front!

This would have been better if the gold-mine had actual gold in it.

Yikes! Glad everyone survived with only a single injury.

Hopefully these two psychopaths will suffer long, long lives in prison.

 

 

 

I know Shooter Jennings isn’t for everyone, but I will continue to push him because I like his delightfully  album choices. This, however, is just straight pop-country, which he does better than most, too.

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237 responses to “America Day Afternoon Links”

  1. Tres Cool

    Didnt Gore predict that Florida and all the coasts would be under 50′ like a decade ago?

    1. Hyperion

      Look, you knuckle dragging rust belt deplorable. You want data? You couldn’t understand the data! We’re experts! You don’t even know what socialism means! You’re going to be under water unless you give us all your money now! So what’s it going to be, you want to be saved or what?

      1. Tres Cool

        I always counter any “anthropological-caused” climate argument with, “Ya know, where we’re at in SW Ohio was under a mile-thick sheet of ice until about 100,000 years ago. Who was around to cause all that warming then?”

        1. DEG

          Gaia was protecting herself against the arrival of humans.

        2. Hyperion

          Ohio was still mostly covered in ice until about 12,000 years ago. So most definitely it was SUVs that thawed out the ice and ruined everything.

          1. Tres Cool

            I wasnt certain about the time frame….I was going with 20,000 years, but I erred to a safer number, cause I couldnt remember.
            Plus, its a holiday, and Im not doing research unless it involves pr0n.

          2. Tres Cool

            …that having been said, the AM linx reminded me of Morganna the Kissing Bandit, and a quick search with google images yields some impressive results.

          3. DEG

            Her boobpedia page is good too.

          4. Hyperion

            There’s a boobpedia? Thank Gawd for the intertoobz! Long live the intertoobz!

          5. DEG

            I’ve mentioned boobpedia on here and H&R for a very long time. Q even had a link to boobpedia in his handle for a while.

          6. MikeS

            Jeez, Hyp’. I think you DEG’s feelings. You applogoize now you boobless shitlord!

          7. MikeS

            Jeez, Hyp’. I think you hurt DEG’s feelings. You applogoize now you boobless shitlord!

          8. Hyperion

            Nah, I’m not going to do it, even if you say it twice. Me and DEG are good.

          9. DEG

            Yeah, Hyperion and I are good. It just astounds me with all the references to boobpedia from Q and me that anyone is surprised that site exists.

          10. topnotchtoledo

            We have been coming out of an ice age for about 12,000 years. There is no Great Lakes or Chesapeake Bay without global warming

          11. Hyperion

            Without this wonderful warming, I seriously doubt I’d be setting here in the Chesepeake bay area in this humid subtropical climate. Thank you, deplorable Mammoths, for driving those SUVs.

          12. UnCivilServant

            90’s? In July? Unpossible!

          13. Hyperion

            “90’s? In July? Unpossible!”

            Get woke, UnCivil. Sure in your day, it was called summer. It’s now climate change! Get woke!

          14. CPRM

            Well, it didn’t really ramp up till the white man got to North America, before that the natives lived in a perfect climate, it was always 68 and sunny, everywhere.

          15. Hyperion

            “Well, it didn’t really ramp up till the white man got to North America, before that the natives lived in a perfect climate, it was always 68 and sunny, everywhere.”

            Bah! Stop with your racist, homophobic, misogynistic rhetoric! Everything was perfect harmony, paradise on earth, until whitey appeared! You’re part of the problem, you xenophobic privileged shitlord! Stop making light of the ruination caused by the likes of you!

  2. DEG

    A homeowner got the surprise of a lifetime when he discovered a gold mine in his back garden.

    Better than the other things he could discover in his backyard in Australia.

    1. Old Man With Candy

      The 40-year-old spent two days draining the cavity with local builder Tony Sizer

      This sounds like jesse.in.mb territory.

      1. westernsloper

        I chuckled at….Anthony Doolin couldn’t believe his eyes when he discovered the ancient shafts

  3. DEG

    The state fire marshal’s office is investigating the fire at the AM Pyrotechnics plant at 2101 Highway 215. The company builds fireworks displays for major celebrations around the country. It provides pyrotechnics for big fireworks shows.

    Have the usual suspects claimed this explosion is yet another reason why fireworks should be illegal?

  4. Winston

    https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2018/07/02/individual-dignity-alexandra-ocasio-cortez-and-the-future-of-american-politics/

    The truth is that individualist values of liberty, property rights, freedom and sovereignty worked well in the 20th century as the foundations of competition, free markets, democracy and the nation-state. Yet today, well into the 21st century, globalization in the broadest sense has penetrated and transformed our individual lives in ways that make clear our inter-connectedness.

    Today, we need to add to these bedrock American principles new values that embody and honor this connectivity, including by upholding respect for others, fairness for all, trust in one another and a sense of personal (and mutual) responsibility. Adding these social values to the American political discourse would help prioritize actions that could achieve greater social mobility, public access, economic security, and systemic sustainability.

    These actions, which would seek blended, mixed economy, pluralistic approaches, could lead to better social outcomes from the market economy, greater social cohesion, more inclusive markets, less polarization, and greater effectiveness of policies, politics, and governance. These would restore confidence in markets, faith in institutions, and trust in government.

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      So, Gibberish? oh and tell em I said
      FUCK OFF SLAVER

    2. Stinky Wizzleteats

      What in the wide wide world of sports is this bullshit?

      1. Gustave Lytton

        We need to destroy freedom & liberty because they’re outdated and replace them with the paving stones for the road to hell.

      2. Winston

        Current Year and globalization means we need bigger government and more free shit…

    3. Ted S.

      If you want “economic security” and “systemic sustainability”, you need to cut spending and not bankrupt the state.

    4. Brett L

      The people who claim dignity is a human right always want to sell theirs far more cheaply than I mine. It makes me think they don’t understand “inalienable”.

      1. Winston

        It makes me think they don’t understand “inalienable”.

        According to Hihn it means no rights are absolute and don’t conflict?

    5. Agent Cooper

      Same shit, different decade.

    6. Rhywun

      “Stop disrespecting me and give me all your shit.”

    7. Grumbletarian

      Christ, what an asshole.

    8. Chafed

      What a dumb shit. Socialist wins low turn out primary in deep blue district. Ergo everything must change. Moron.

  5. DEG

    Hopefully these two psychopaths will suffer long, long lives in prison.

    Nah, they’ll get a shank in the shower.

    1. Stinky Wizzleteats

      Good, they deserve it.

  6. Yusef drives a Kia

    I thought Florida drowned every Year about this time, 1000% humidity, T storms, Hurricanes, Alligators and Meth, at least you Have Daytona speedway

  7. DEG

    I almost logged into Gunbroker with my glibertarians credentials… oops.

  8. Winston

    http://libertyissues.com/reason2.htm

    As documented here, I’ve ACHIEVED a lot more than this clown-car of trash-mouth cyber-punks. They’ve achieved nothing, with the potty-mouth of a 12-year-old. Conservatard bullies with the robotic minds of their ilk.

    Was PsychoMike ever sane?

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      That’s Hihn, isn’t it? i can spot his work from here,

      1. Winston

        Yessiree.

        I used to be one of the ones who thought he wasn’t Hihn until he edited his facebook account to delete the Pauls from his favorites. Though why he had them on his favorites if he hated so much I have no idea. Then again it is PsychoMike…

    2. Gustave Lytton

      BULLY!

      *snicker*

    3. Tres Cool

      So much Hihn, distilled on a single page.
      Wow.

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        That Brookings thing up above is pretty out there

  9. Pan Zagloba

    Woah, afternoon links on Freedom Day?! What is this sorcery?

    This would have been better if the gold-mine had actual gold in it.

    To paraphrase Archer, “once the gold is gone, it’s just a MINE, Cyril”.

  10. Hyperion

    TOS has had less than 200 comments today. Looks like the commentariat has not recovered so well.

    1. Floridaman

      How many of those posts are from Tulpa and his socks?

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        Yes

    2. Sean

      Womp womp.

    3. juris imprudent

      What can you expect from three actual humans?

  11. Ted S.

    Why is the missing teen found dead story filed under entertainment?

    1. Tres Cool

      Cause Yahoo! knows their audience?

  12. ElspethFlashman

    OT: I waded into bankruptcy court because of a case I have going on, where the other side declared bankruptcy the _day_before_ we had a motion for summary judgment. This was a new one to me as a way to evade judgment. Any way, so far: It’s enough to make me say “never again” after my first case in BK court. /end of rant.

    1. Ted S.

      That’s not any sort of fraud?

      1. ElspethFlashman

        You’d think it would be, wouldn’t you.

    2. Tres Cool

      I’m certainly not saying it’s “right”, or ethical, but it seems like a pretty smart move on someone’s part.

    3. Old Man With Candy

      You know who ELSE did BK law?

      (the Original STEVE SMITH)

      1. Count Potato

        STEVE SMITH STILL DO BANKRUPTCY LAW AND BY BANKRUPTCY LAW MEAN BANKRUPTCY LAW, SO STILL RAPE.

      2. Ted S.

        Burger King’s general counsel?

      3. ElspethFlashman

        I did not know that.

    4. Chafed

      I had the same thing happen to me 2 years ago. It’s frustrating as hell.

  13. Ted S.

    Goldmine with no actual gold

  14. Winston

    And referring to police numbers he added that there were now fewer than 30,000 officers on the streets for the first time since 2003.

    In fact, the year that the Conservative Party returned to power, 2010, turned out to be the peak for police numbers. Since then, according to the House of Commons Library, the total has fallen each year.

    I thought the cops are all a bunch of racist thugs? Oh well…

    Could it be that the recent rise in knife crime is an unwelcome consequence of the austerity policy launched by the Conservative government as long ago as 2010?

    Also “austerity” is causing crime, homelessnesz and harming people with disabilities.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/austerity-theresa-may-budget-cuts-welfare-nhs-homelessness-a8421641.html

    1. CPRM

      “Oy Guvnah, If Oy caan’t be on tha dole weeth the missus; I maay as wew puh on me jumpers an start going awl stabby-stabby!”

  15. Winston

    I’m not sure when “liberal” came to mean “in favor of powerful and oppressive government, against constitutional rights, in favor of racial segregation and conscription, and worshipful toward the FBI and CIA,” but it was more of the definition of the word “liberal” changing than me changing.

    Old Man with Candy doesn’t know his French Revolution history:

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

    Other policies aimed at supporting the poor included price controls enacted by the Mountain in 1793. This law, called the General Maximum, was supported by a group of agitators within the Mountain known as the Enragés. It fixed prices and wages throughout France.[11] At the same time, bread prices were rising as the commodity became scarce, and in an initiative spearheaded by Collot d’Herbois and Billaud-Varenne, a law was enacted in July 1793 that forbade the hoarding of “daily necessities”.[24] The hoarding of grain became a crime punishable by death.[25]

    Other economic policies enacted by the Mountain included an embargo on the export of French goods. As a result of this embargo, France was essentially unable to trade with foreign markets and the import of goods effectively ended.[26] In theory, this protected French markets from foreign goods and required French people to support French goods. In addition to the embargo against foreign goods, Act 1651, passed by the Mountain in October 1793, further isolated France from the rest of Europe by forbidding any foreign vessels from trading along the French coast.

    Also in favor of war, conscription and execution of enemies.

    1. Winston

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics#History

      In politics, the term “Left” derives from the French Revolution, as the anti-monarchist Montagnard and Jacobin deputies from the Third Estate generally sat to the left of the presiding member’s chair in parliament, a habit which began in the Estates General of 1789.

      In other words these guys were the original Leftists…

    2. Winston

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

      Girondin leader Jacques-Pierre Brissot proposed an ambitious military plan to spread the Revolution internationally, thus the Girondins were the war party in 1792–1793…. They had an ally in the English-born American activist Thomas Paine.

      Huh…

  16. Raven Nation

    Well, crap, wife just called. I’m where I normally live for a couple of weeks, she’s in Colorado staying with her parents just over the ridge line from this: https://www.postindependent.com/news/lake-christine-fire-evacuations-ordered-in-old-town-basalt-as-fire-burns-more-than-300-acres/

    They’re packing up vehicles, getting ready for an evacuation order in case it comes. And I’m 700 miles away, chewing fingernails.

    1. DEG

      Sorry. I hope they get through OK.

    2. Yusef drives a Kia

      Bad times, hope it turns out well,

    3. SP

      Then they should leave now and just keep driving until they get to you.

    4. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Having been through one of those events. I can confidently say that if they’re aware of the fire and are prepared, they’re going to be fine.

      Might lose property, but the fires usually only get people who are sleeping or caught completely unaware.

      In any case, I hope it misses them entirely.

    5. Raven Nation

      Thanks for all the thoughts. Right now the fire is on the other side of the ridge and their house is across a (fairly narrow) river/stream from that ridge. They’ve got the vehicles loaded and, if they get the order, they’re out the door.

  17. Hyperion

    Did someone say play Freebird? I was at one of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s final tour appearances in Cincy shortly before the plane crash killed Ronnie Van Zant and Steve Gaines. What a fucking shame, they were one of the best I’ve seen live in concert.

    Play Freebird

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      ” NO Stairway To Heaven”
      /reads sign

    2. Ted S.

      [plays Freebird]

      1. Tres Cool

        Could you play some Lynyrd Skynyrd PLEASE ?

        1. Hyperion

          You guys are making me want to take a southward driving tour with this playing all the time.

          SHITLORD MUZIC

          1. kinnath

            Another fine tune:

            Can’t You See

          2. Hyperion

            Yes, very nice! I’ll throw this in for a southern driving trip.

            My Maria

            And most definitely this:

            Gator Country

      2. Hyperion

        What even is that abomination? When I was 17, a friend of mine and I spent about 16 hours a day in his mum’s basement perfecting our cover of Freebird. And when we finally decided to unleash it on our neighborhood, outside in his garage, we became instant celebrities. And the girls, OMG, the girls. Some of the fondest memories of my life, I would do it all again. BTW, we were both guitarists, we had a vocalist who looked a lot like and sounded exactly like Ronnie Van Zant, and a drummer who was always drunk and fucked up on drugs and was a real problem for us. I think we changed drummers and never found one who was not crazy, about 20 times in the next year or so.

        1. Tres Cool

          Did ya hear about the drummer that accidentally locked himself in the band’s van?
          It took the bass player 20 minutes to get him out.

          /HEY-Ohhhhh

          1. Raven Nation

            Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv-pFFaJnAY

        2. Ted S.

          It’s a fabulous 80s remake.

          Here, have another

    3. kinnath

      Last time Skynyrd came up, we decided the three-way tie for best song was Simple Man, Curtis Lowe, and Tuesdays Gone.

      Anyone want to argue?

      1. The Hyperbole

        Sure, if you like mellow hold your lighter up and sway music but you want some rock and roll gimme Saturday Night Special want some boogie woogie gimme I want a little.

        1. SP

          Hey, Hyperbole. Is your article ready for review and to be scheduled, or still working on it?

          1. The Hyperbole

            Part- the penultimate is done, although I caught a few typos after sending it in for review, Part -“finally this A**hole’s gonna shut his trap” is still in very early “what the @#$ am I saying” stage.

          2. SP

            Oh, great! I’ll review and get it scheduled! Thanks. I’ve enjoyed this series very much!

      2. Hyperion

        The Needle and the Spoon.

      3. DEG

        No, that is a good selection.

      4. juris imprudent

        I musta missed that; Gimme Three Steps.

        1. Viking1865

          It’s either Gimme Three Steps or Curtis Loew.

          Drive By Truckers covers Gimme Three Steps in the middle of their song Steve McQueen on the live album Alabama Ass Whuppin.

      5. robc

        I think Tuesdays Gone is a distant third.

  18. UnCivilServant

    I celebrated the morning by painting More Dakka.

    I got fed up as there are seven more knights in the household to paint, and that gold trim takes hours because of the rivets that you can’t even see most of the time.

    1. CPRM

      I’m so sick of hearing about DACA! Just quit it! And I notice you messed up the abbreviation, good job idiot.

      1. UnCivilServant

        You Choppa boyz is odd.

    2. Yusef drives a Kia

      I love that stuff UCS, I wonder if I should do an article about my WWII Diorama, any interest in the Big story?

      1. UnCivilServant

        I’m sure there is interest… For some reason I get the feeling there’s something I’m forgetting to do.

        *looks at the 6700 words of the kitbash article*

        1. Yusef drives a Kia

          I thought of that when asking Truth be told, But I’ll be here to read it when you finish,

      2. MikeS

        Yes. Do it

        1. Yusef drives a Kia

          Will do, sorting the pics is going to be tough, I have Hundreds

      3. Pan Zagloba

        Please please do!

    3. westernsloper

      Have you guys ever been invited to dinner by a wealthy guy you don’t know well?

      1. Count Potato

        Yes?

      2. UnCivilServant

        I organize those events.

        No, you have not been invited.

      3. MikeS

        Yes. A visit to the YMCA sauna was also suggested. I politely declined all offers.

        1. Ted S.

          I thought it was fun to stay at the YMCA.

        2. MikeS

          Oh shit. It just hit me…is this my #metoo?

      4. Scruffy Nerfherder

        He wasn’t wealthy, but the intent was understood.

    4. Discount Voltaire

      Nice! I’m work

      1. Discount Voltaire

        …ing on some Primaris Marines myself. I’ll have to post pictures later.

        I’ve been mostly painting, not playing these days.

  19. Yusef drives a Kia

    Can’t have a Samurai Sword in England, But My Naval Cutlass is A-OK,
    http://thetruthaboutknives.com/2013/03/british-knife-laws-hoplophobia-defined-2/

    1. juris imprudent

      Well they weren’t the Samurais of Southampton, they were the Pirates of Penzance.

  20. Q Continuum

    More big American titties on Independence Day.

    http://archive.is/fFleb

    1 and done.

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      Why bother with the rest, #1

    2. UnCivilServant

      Why do people insist on ruining good skin with ink?

    3. DEG

      I’m not sure they’d distract me from fireworks and I’d need to see proof they’re all from America.

      More study is required.

  21. LJW

    Our most fundamental values are under attack’: Democrats issue bleak July Fourth statement

    Bahahahaha…

    1. MikeS

      Fuck. What a bunch of Debbie Downers. Just give it a rest and enjoy being an American for a day, you assholes.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        They hate Americans. They’d rather be EU serfs.

        1. dbleagle

          So much this. They hate the Bill of Rights and how it recognizes that the individual is sovereign. I am heading to the EU in the morning and while I look forward to visiting my son and his family I shudder to step into the society over there. I have a day layover in Iceland and I’m sure it’ll be sad to see the former Norse independence subsumed by collectivization.

  22. MikeS

    I’m sitting in the garage with my dog, drinking Bulleit bourbon with a rhubarb-sttawberry sour made by a local brewery as a back.

    (Just me drinking…she won’t touch the stuff.)

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      is that Sour Good? i love em

      1. kinnath

        I spent some quality time with Creosote Achillies last week at Cascade Brewing Barrel House.

        Between the two nights I was there, I tasted 12 or 13 different brews. The worst was just “really good”.

      2. MikeS

        I’m a big fan of rhubarb, so I think it’s heaven in a glass. YMMV

    2. Hyperion

      I’m finding myself tempted to open this bottle of Eagle Rare. The time that I most often want to taste some good liquor is when I’ve already consumed mass quantities of beer. Damnit, then I will be a little drunk. Then wifey will say ‘Mr Hyperion, now you drunk and too silly’. Goddamnit, which way is heaven?

      Which way is heaven

      1. MikeS

        The hell? This is the 4th of July, not Cinco de Mayo!

        /Sarc That’s a good tune

        1. Hyperion

          Heh, I just opened it, yummy.

        2. Hyperion

          But I thought we all love the Messicans cause weed and ass sex?

          1. MikeS

            Oh, right. My bad.

            That Eagle Rare sounds real good. I’ve never seen any on the shelves here. What’s a bottle cost?

      2. Ted S.

        Heaven is this direction.

    3. DEG

      I’m sitting in front of the computer about to read another book of Aurelius’ “Meditations”. I’m debating on whether or not to have another beer. I’ve already had four, plus some ice cream. Today is a day of indulgence, and my glibfit goal is shot to hell anyway.

  23. gbob

    Too damn hot to even think of going out to see some concerts. Instead, I’m going to continue to sit in the shade, drink many beers, and cook up some steak on the grill…and a veggie burger for the woman. I may curse that she’s a vegetarian, but it sure saves money when it comes to buying prime cuts of meat.

    Stay drunk and safe, my friends!

    1. Old Man With Candy

      Try her on Beyond Burger. It’s eerily meat-like, right down to the blood. SP and I wanted some for today, but every grocery store in range was sold out.

      1. MikeS

        What’s the price relative to cow?

        1. Old Man With Candy

          More expensive. But Bossie gets a reprieve.

          1. MikeS

            If they can ever get the price of stuff like that below meat, they’ll create more vegetarians just due to price.

            I envision a proggy president and Congress giving subsidies to veggie-burger to artificially lower the price to achieve their vegan goals.

        2. SP

          Not more expensive compared to the best ground beef already formed into patties. About comparable.

      2. SP

        What OMWC said. It is the most like meat that I have ever tried; I am sure several people in my extended family would not be able to tell the difference. It was really good. But it’s pricey, making it a special occasion burger. Since you are in Upstate NY, Wegmans sells them. (Of course, to some seriously die-hard ethical vegans the meat-like quality is a bug, not a feature.)

        Since we could not obtain them, I am making America’s Test Kitchen Black Bean Burgers. Which are also really good.

        (Also the strawberry shortcake from their Vegan for Everybody cookbook, which is excellent and also contains the black bean burger recipe.)

  24. Gilmore

    saying ‘that doesn’t sound like Trump’ doesn’t really ever work because…. well, Trump is capable of saying almost anything…

    But somehow i feel this is being spun in some way that isn’t really accurate to reality

    Trump pressed aides on Venezuela invasion, US official says

    BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — As a meeting last August in the Oval Office to discuss sanctions on Venezuela was concluding, President Donald Trump turned to his top aides and asked an unsettling question: With a fast unraveling Venezuela threatening regional security, why can’t the U.S. just simply invade the troubled country?

    The suggestion stunned those present at the meeting, including U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and national security adviser H.R. McMaster, both of whom have since left the administration. This account of the previously undisclosed conversation comes from a senior administration official familiar with what was said.

    I suspect what was more-likely the case, is that the question came up in a

    “what if the country collapses and there’s some sort of humanitarian-crisis on our doorstep? are there scenarios where, like Haiti 1994, we’d have to step in and restore-order?”

    I doubt it was “i have a warboner, let’s invade someone”, but that seems the spin they want to put on it.

    fwiw, those sorts of conversations happen all the time – they’re not “let’s plan an invasion”; they’re “what if” scenario formation, where you look at various possible outcomes, and prepare plans in the eventuality of *any of them*

    and a president asking, “what would happen if we just stepped in and got rid of Maduruo” sounds utterly crazy, right?

    except for the fact that the previous president *actually did this multiple times* during his presidency, and had a UN-ambassador whose very career was based on the concept of “Muscular Humanitarian Interventionism” – which is basically neoconservativism in morally-superior drag; wherever there is some humanitarian crisis, we can justify bombing the people we think are the bad-ones in the crisis.

    The monroe doctrine is certainly one of the yuckier pieces of US foreign policy concepts, but i think its on far better footing that suggesting the US has some fundamental interests in say, Yemen.

    1. Suthenboy

      As soon as I read “ unnamed source familiar with….” I stop reading

    2. Juvenile Bluster

      fwiw, those sorts of conversations happen all the time – they’re not “let’s plan an invasion”; they’re “what if” scenario formation, where you look at various possible outcomes, and prepare plans in the eventuality of *any of them*

      War Plan Red?

      1. Gilmore

        “”The plan further assumed that Britain would probably use its base in Canada as a springboard from which to initiate an invasion of the United States””

        Operation: Maple Marmite

        Yeah, that’s sort of one part of what i mean; but the other is just more-immediate, “What if this situation in place X goes completely tits up?”

        I’m not thinking anything as dramatic as, say, “Panama”; i’m thinking more like, “Haiti” in 94, where the ruling govt is no longer recognized as legit by the US, or the UN, and the only possible prospect is some sort of UN-blue-hat managed ‘failed state’? where the US basically rolls in unopposed, takes control, and then hands the place to the Smurfs. Yay, democracy saved.

        I’m not *recommending* anything like that, for god’s sake, i’m just suggesting the ‘year old conversation being remembered by someone they don’t even claim was present at the time’ probably isn’t the “Whoo hoo lets invade and steal teh latinos oil” the press would like to imagine.

  25. Suthenboy

    Firework factories blow up all the time and usually don’t hear about it
    That is why I decided not to go in that line of work
    I subscribed to a few professional journals senior year and noticed all of the obituarias

    Sea level rise is normal give up the scam already

    Don’t go in old mines – dangerous gases vertical shafts you can’t see falling rock and my favorite the inevitable hornets nest

  26. kinnath

    Have a great 4th my friends.

    1. MikeS

      You too, kinnath!

      1. Hyperion

        Ah, shadup, you EMOs, you making me sick!

    2. DEG

      You too!

  27. LJW

    My beverage of choice right at this moment

    https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/22893/62823/

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      I’ll try it, but Peaches? does it work like a Fruited Belgian?

      1. LJW

        There is a hint of peaches but that is overcome by the taste of wine. It’s an interesting flavor. Normally I don’t drink fruity beers but I like this one. They have a cherry version but that just tastes like cough syrup.

    2. DEG

      I just finished one of these. Earlier today at the local Tilted Kilt I had some Allagash White.

  28. Count Potato

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5918307/Lena-Dunham-strips-completely-NAKED-mirror-selfie-calling-queen.html

    Can I sue the Daily Mail for damages?

    1. Suthenboy

      What’s next? A sex tape?
      Attention whores surely have run out of shenanigans by now

      1. MikeS

        I don’t think STEVE SMITH would even make a sex tape with that thing.

    2. Deplorableme

      No way am I clicking that link!

      1. juris imprudent

        Thankfully he didn’t attempt to hide the Lena Dunham part, so it was clear that despite this being a link, it was never meant to be clicked on.

    3. Juvenile Bluster

      You knew what you were getting into when you clicked that link.

    4. Stinky Wizzleteats

      Woot! I’ll be in my bunk!

      1. Juvenile Bluster

        Admins, I know we’re a free speech community, but surely this is ban-worthy, right?

        1. Scruffy Nerfherder

          He might be hiding under the covers.

          1. SP

            “He?”

            *looks down at chest and raises eyebrow*

          2. Count Potato

            Already? You must be the most popular girl in Third Grade.

    5. Chafed

      Burn it with fire!

  29. Hyperion

    Deporables

    1. Count Potato

      Upside down deplorable?

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Op1Mng4oY

  30. Count Potato

    https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/frog-and-toad-an-amphibious-celebration-of-same-sex-love

    THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS THEY PUT CHEMICALS IN THE DRINKING WATER!

    1. MikeS

      If a frog and a toad do it, wouldn’t that be beastiality?

      1. Count Potato

        “It’s not bestiality, it’s inter-species erotica”

        1. juris imprudent

          The Lena Dunham link is just a little above this.

  31. westernsloper

    I don’t remember which comedian said, “Bob Newhart is such a gentleman he gets out of the shower to take a leak”, but I thought of that today. I sat down in my palatial pool, what the chinamans made, and realized I had to pee so I stood up, walked to the side and pissed on the ground. #ImaGentleman

    1. Raven Nation

      “A gentleman is someone who gets out of the bathtub to take a piss.”

      English cricketer, Fred Trueman

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        Who takes baths?

        1. SP

          What, are you French?

          1. Scruffy Nerfherder

            Sacre bleu! Non!

      2. westernsloper

        What the hell is a cricketer? No such thing, fake news.

    2. MikeS

      #trumpsamerica

  32. dbleagle

    Good choice for Shooter but there are two better videos of that song.

    This one:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRzu1FFLUTI

    I live in Hawaii and goddamn do I miss road trips. Just spending time driving through our country and enjoying the sights to be seen.

    The other version, the original, can’t be found on YT but can be found on overseas sites. Filmed at Slab City (hello Yusef) with beautiful young women and a 4th of July traditional finale.

  33. BakedPenguin

    My commitment to quit drinking has not been as well held as my physician or my liver would prefer. Well, so long as I get back to playing the bass well.

    Anyway, here’s a good song: (with a libertarian component) Rainbow’s Kill the King.

    1. Old Man With Candy

      Dude.

      /looks for frowny face, don’t want to lose you early

  34. BakedPenguin

    Also, here’s a very cute Asian (S Chinese) American ancap: The Pholosopher who I wish liked middle aged guys who look vaguely like Simon Pegg. Her gun vids are fun (for me, at least)

    1. MikeS

      Maybe she’d be into Secret Nazi President. I know I am.

      *wink*

      1. BakedPenguin

        Hmm… I am a random drunken asshole…

    2. dbleagle

      I like her “Don’t Tread on Anyone” t-shirt. I’d like it better if she took it off and gave it to me for a pint of orphan tears and a monocle.

  35. Count Potato

    https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1014296276521836544

    LOL

    1. MikeS

      Interesting reply:

      Insane Clown Posse
      Insane Clown Posse
      @icp
      Replying to @elonmusk
      Yo @elonmusk

      Thank you ninja, but how about showing our wounded pockets how much you like them somehow…

      They’ve been wounded since our battle with the FBI.

      We’re open to anything you come up with my wealthy and powerful friend… ? VJ

  36. Count Potato

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhR5Y2vXcAIcKjO.jpg

    Sounds legit.

    1. Rhywun

      Is that an optical illusion or is she about 7 feet tall?

      1. Count Potato

        She’s standing on her toes. Notice her head is still below the height of the shower head.

        1. Rhywun

          Yeah. Still very leggy. I suppose that is what got her the job.

          1. Count Potato

            HAWT

      2. SP

        Barrel distortion.

  37. dbleagle

    I caught a tuna the other day sailing. Lunch is homemade poki and a real mai tai. Tonight will be the last of my elk steaks, corn on the cob, California Syrah from a friend’s vineyard. Later I’ll wander to the beach for a cigar and port to watch the privately funded fireworks.

    America, fuck yeah! To one and all.

    And to my grandparents who abandoned the old continent to set down roots here- “Thank you, a thousand times thank you.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTSLRbm8L9E

    1. Count Potato

      Sounds nice!

    2. westernsloper

      I caught a tuna the other day sailing. Lunch is homemade poki

      Now you are just trolling. Hell you caught the tuna trolling. DOUBLE TROLLING FOUL!

      1. dbleagle

        Does that mean they offset?

  38. Count Potato

    “Happy Independence Day America – how’s that working out for you?

    Quite a future awaits the unwilling mother and the gay teenager dreaming of marriage in a land of the free that already steals and incarcerates brown-skinned babies”

    https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/4th-of-july-independence-day-trump-supreme-court-roe-vs-wade-a8429136.html

    Haters and losers.

    1. Rhywun

      Yeah, so much hatred isn’t healthy.

    2. dbleagle

      Since it is from a British paper I will give my concise reply.

      Clears throat.

      FUCK YOU! You subject of a queen who can only publish that nonsense with the permission of your sovereign. The United Kingdom once had men (and women) who stood up to Napoleon, the Kaiser and Hitler and who truly believed the the words “and Englishman will never ever be a slave” and that they would fight on the beaches and “never surrender.” Now you are a puttering and spent nation whose government will actively kill children so not to embarrass the NHS, who voluntarily surrendered their firearms and soon will surrender their knives, who lets the evil of rape gangs go unpunished for a decade or more because they are Muslim and who jails a fellow subject because he films a courthouse from a public space.

      I, and my fellow Americans, are citizens of a free republic and never subjects of a sovereign. WE ARE SOVEREIGN and retain the tools recognized in our founding documents to speak as we wish to and about the government and our fellow citizens. We also retain the means to defend our rights, by the force of arms if necessary.

      Do not lecture me on immigration when your own government is so scared of what a blogger, or a politician may say that they ban them from your country. I am the grandchild of immigrants who fled your tired continent and my children have married citizens of your continent who are jumping the hoops to become US citizens. The USA has incorporated millions of people who fled shitholes into the fabric of our society with equal citizenship. Hell, our current first lady is immigrant from your continent.

      So in sum to you- Fuck off Slaver.

      1. DEG

        /rises in applause

      2. Rhywun

        /sheds a tear

      3. Hyperion

        +1 fuck off slaver

      4. Mustang

        USA! USA! USA!

      5. totally_not_an_escaped_ai

        I would like to order 10 subscriptions to your newsletter, please. Bravo.

      6. Floridaman

        /waves American flag

    3. Hyperion

      “On the eve of the Fourth of July, the question to America is this. How’s that independence thing workin’ out for ya? ”

      Working out quite well, you want the shit kicked out of you again?, because there’s plenty more of that left where it came from if you want more.

  39. Count Potato

    “Donald Trump ‘banned’ from Sheffield, says city’s lord mayor”

    https://www.indy100.com/article/trump-sheffield-ban-lord-mayor-magid-mah-8431281

    OK, who put acid in my rum? Because this shit can’t be real.

    1. Rhywun

      I… I’ve got nothing.

    2. Tres Cool

      Someone wanna let Magid Magid know that N. Korea and Venezuela arent muslim countries? Or that the bill recognizing Jerusalem has been on the books since Clinton?

      Or just let him have his fun?

      1. Rhywun

        Yeah, I appreciate a joke pol as much as anyone but this guy seems to be a bit of an embarrassment.

    3. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Classy dude there. I’m the Sheffielders are proud.

    4. Count Potato

      Well, since it sounds like you are seeing the same thing, I’ll continue drinking.

    5. Hyperion

      No, umm, that’s the Onion, right?

      1. Rhywun

        Unless wikipedia is mistaken, it’s real.

  40. Spudalicious

    Really nice hike today. Crystal clear blue skies, 75 degrees and nobody else on the trail. Managed a couple hours of fly fishing as well. First beer down, second one poured, gearing up to grill some burgers.

    1. MikeS

      No fish on the grill? Huh.

      1. Spudalicious

        I haven’t eaten a trout in years. Got burned out on them.

        1. KSuellington

          Nice. Which river did you fish? I caught this and a bunch more last week on the Blackfoot.

          https://imgur.com/gallery/r3Rw8yh

    2. Old Man With Candy

      Black bean burgers, green beans with garlic and olive oil, roasted corn, strawberry shortcake. All washed down with our (SP’s, yours, and mine) favorite sparkling Gamay/Poulsard from the Jura.

      1. Spudalicious

        In Chicago. I win.

        1. Old Man With Candy

          No, we’re out in the rurals. But it’s still Illinois, dammit.

  41. Tres Cool

    I made swine, which paired with corn on the cob and deviled AIGS, was divine. And cold beer.
    https://postimg.cc/image/l7pdvv94f/

    1. Hyperion

      I’m with ya on pork products and beer.

    2. DEG

      Yummy!

  42. Count Potato

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5BL4RNFr58

    Huh, I feel good!

    1. Hyperion

      Living in America is racist!

    2. dbleagle

      Go on James Brown! And since this is our collective birthday.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R5A0pg4oN8

      1. KSuellington

        I’ve long thought that needs to be our national anthem. There would be no discussion on taking a knee during that.

      2. Tres Cool

        Fuck. Yeah.

  43. Q Continuum

    Voxplaining why the Revolution was a mistake, we should mourn the 4th and America sucks.

    https://www.vox.com/2015/7/2/8884885/american-revolution-mistake

    I’m not usually a “love it or leave it” type, but fuck you Vox, just move to Europe.

    1. Rhywun

      I just spotted one random sentence:

      Efficient passage of legislation has huge humanitarian consequences.

      FUCK.

      OFF.

    2. dbleagle

      Amen Q.

  44. CPRM

    There is a 7 o’clock post, in case you didn’t notice.

    1. Rhywun

      If by “7 o’clock”, you mean 8 o’clock.

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