Glibertarians.com 2018 Archive

Author: Swiss Servator

  • Tuesday Morning Links – The Sloopy Is Out There

    …and so is sloopy.

     

    Nothing yet from sloopy…but I am on the case! I have it narrowed down to alien abduction or a “Deliverance” style ordeal in central Texas. So while the Glib-Files investigators work on this, I will send another round of links your way.

    [Actor heavy] Birthdays: Washington Irving (1783), Iron Eyes Cody (1904),

    “I am sad I am not around to celebrate my birthday”

    Doris Day (1922), Marlon Brando (1924), Wayne Newton (1942), Tony Orlando (1944), Alec Baldwin (1958), Eddie Murphy (1961), Amanda Bynes (1986)

    Sports: ‘nova beat Michigan in basketball. The dream of an undefeated White Sox season died. I still don’t want to talk about hockey.

    Links:

    • #MeToo means she won’t. Before this calms down, I wonder how many other politcos will have the skeletons in their closets dragged out and shown to the world. Overall, I must say this is a good thing…if this is what it takes to pry some of these careerists out of office.
    • This will not end well. Personally, I would have kept my head down, mouth shut and not made a spectacle of myself…were I trying to get into the US. I wonder if ICE could make a trade – LA area homeless for Hondurans?
    • Hmmm. I wonder when we will get a “ripped from the headlines” episode of some police procedural about this story. Probably not, because the villains are in blue and the DA’s office.
    • “Extremely glib“?! Hey, that is our schtick!! There has been some talk of adopting “extremely glib and not at all aligned with the truth” as an official site motto.
    • Prince Charles…spreading the demise of monarchy, one dominion at a time?

    Oooh, I have to run now….the tip hotline is ringing.  Sloopy, hang in there buddy, we’ll find you! THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE!

  • Monday Morning Links

    I think sloopy got abducted by aliens. I got kind of a garbled request for assistance this morning, followed by “not the rectal probe!”… Or, maybe, he ran into some podunk sheriff’s department just off the Interstate that is searching for CONTRABANDZ. Either way, you are still getting your Links this morning, and liking it!

    We’re going to need a bigger boat

     

    Sports… Baseball panic or false euphoria has started for [INSERT FAVORITE TEAM HERE]. NCAA Basketball concludes tonight – not that I will bother watching two teams I could care less about. NHL playoffs start soon…I don’t want to talk about it.

    Birthdays…let us see here:

    Charlemagne (742), Hans Christian Andersen (1805), Emile Zola (1840), Buddy Ebsen (1908), Alec Guinness (1914), Marvin Gaye (1939), Camille Paglia (1947) and Michael Fassbender (1977)… I think Charlemagne could take ’em all on… Was Buddy Ebsen ever any good with a great axe?

    So, Links then:

    • Oh, this should be fun. By fun, I mean, this is going to suck. Porfirio Diaz may have been a dictatorial dirt bag, but “Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States” still rings true.
    • Upstate NY, Great Plains and Upper Midwest Glibs laugh at Britain. Oh noes!
    • Boring! No “I woke up and found half a Chinese Space Station in my back yard” stories. Feh.
    • Florida Man just tryin’ to keep a pet?

    OK, now get back to work, or day drinking or whatever you need to do today.

  • Burger Wars – The Open Post

    Here at Glibertarians.com, we have had some good preliminary skirmishes over TEH BEST BURGER – Major combatants in the field so far are; In-N-Out, Whataburger, 5 Guys, Culver’s, Fatburger, and a couple of cursory mentions of the Golden Arches, Wendy’s, and the like. I am here to report that at the Glibs HQ, this has broken out into all out civil burger war. Being Swiss at heart, I have remained neutral. But, next thing I knew, french fries were being dragged into the conflict… a couple of snarks about shakes were seen as well.

    As this conflict swells into a new PIZZA WAR sized fight, we can only take advantage of it by having an open post and letting the combat rage! Defend your burger! Denounce your foe’s fries! Establish shake superiority!

    Oh, the innocents caught in the line of fire!

    Only one rule….we are talking chains here. Regional or National. Because if we went down to the local/one location level – everyone would have to bend the knee to Nick’s, in Lemont, Illinois.

  • Monday Morning Links

    Who let this clown in to do the Links?

    Sloopy is out this morning. I think he is exhausted from celebrating the exit of Duke from the NCAA tournament. I may have had a laugh or 30 myself. Bye Bye Dookies. Otherwise, I refuse to even look at the shambles that my brackets ended up becoming….so I beg sports pardon, and will skip on to the links.

    • Chicago’s Mayor becomes a back-door man. Were I better at weaving in music and such I would link something, right? What a mean, small man is Rahm Emmanuel.
    • Looks like the “Manning Method” of getting criminal penalties diminished has reached the UK.
    • And another government takes advantage of the ginned up “fake news” BS. Who would have ever guessed this would happen?
    • This is more what Russia is up to, rather than trying to install the Hat and Hair as puppets in the White House. Besides, the Hat is far too unstable to rely on.

     

  • Monday Afternoon Truce Links

    Only a neutral can do the links today!

     

    As the resident embodiment of Neutrality, I am calling for a truce this afternoon, in World War G. We have already had the ultimate threat issued by SP…

     

    The Site

     

    So we had best smarten up for a bit. The best way to do that is Links. Links of Neutrality. And I am just the one to deliver them!

    • Testing…Testing…1,2,3. Well, not anymore. At least for now.
    • Next time anyone tells you we need to be more like Europe. Have them read this, and then say – “ready to go to prison for saying bad things about Donny from Queens?”
    • Nobody expects the brutal inquisition! But we can all agree this is an awful story.
    • Paging SugarFree, SugarFree to the author courtesy phone. Hat and Hair material abounds.

     

    So, it is either back to the war…or

    Yeah.

  • Swiss Servator’s Sunday Night Catch-Up Links

    I delayed having raclette, to bring you links!

    So, SEA SMITH went AWOL on link duty…Well, I am back from my mini-vacation to bring some ORDER to the Links. We will have links, with actual links in them. And they will work:

    • I take grave personal offense at the choice of store this group of banditti attacked! But the mood was lightened by reading “Detectives from the Flying Squad and police in Westminster continue to investigate.” As a Monty Python fan, all I could think of was Inspector Thompson’s Gazelle of the Programme Planning Police, Light Entertainment Division, Special Flying Squad.
    • Attention, Rick and Morty fans. If you are in the LA area in October…check this out.
    • Florida Woman… Cop. Well, not a cop now.
    • Standing athwart energy exports and progress and shouting “¡No!”

    OK, now all is right with the Glibs.

  • Wednesday Morning Links

    Greetings, Glibs. Today I have ensured proper links. On time. Early, in fact.

    Celebrate the links!

    Sports – the NCAA Basketball Tournament got underway. Are you in the Glibs Bracket Challenge? [Group ID: 52048, Group Password: Podesta] If no, why not? All the cool kids are doing it.

    Music – I will just link a song so you have one. This is an odd, yet compelling piece.

     

    Links:

    • Famous physicist, sometime jerk, Stephen Hawking has left the building. For good.
    • Need an illustration of closing the barn door, after the horse has gone? Here you go. I don’t know if the bribe…er, aid will work. Too late to calm down the electorates of various EU states as well.
    • Insert zombie apocalypse joke here. Or, being the UK, is it a 28 Days Later joke here?
    • Wasn’t United’s old motto “Fly the Friendly Skies”?
    Never Change, NY Post!

  • Tuesday Sketchy Morning Links

    I HAD ONE JOB!  Get the Morning links out… I BLEW IT. So, you get something quite different than yesterday. Non-precise, not on time links. I hope the Swiss don’t come for me in the night…

    • Looks like this particular scandal is going to get more coverage than the first couple of its ilk, perhaps?
    • Tongan Crips? This one kamikazi’d with a…pen. Good Shoot. Totality of Circs…for once. (Note, just being released now – is 2014 clip)
    • I think the answer will be “Ha ha ha, up yours.”

    No music this fine morn, I am too late – post yer own!

  • Monday Morning Links

    Alles in Ordnung!

    Grüezi mitenand. I have appropriated the Links this Morgen. Und you will appreciate them! First, we begin with Sport:

    Yes, yes…we all know Tiger Woods came very close. But it is time for the baskeballings. Join this bracketing of the NCAAs, and demonstrate your precision to your friends, neighbors and fellow Glibs! If you asked for your papers, please – Group ID: 52048, Group Password: Podesta. We haff heard of a rumor of prize(s).

    So. Links. Ja:

    • Ach, so…consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, ja? It must have been The Hair’s turn to speak…
    • Englisher Tabloids. One must love them, ja? Note the 6th bullet point in the hed of this story. How quickly a career can go up in flames. One hopes he has a large bank account in a certain West European nation that shall go unnamed.
    • When politik and press combine in Chicago. Ja, ethically challenged. Also, warum are you buying cow, when milch is free?
    • Socialistische Maduro imitates the old American Mayor Daley…but with a box of rice, instead of a turkey?

     

    Musik. Inspired by the last link – music regarding a box.

     

    Uf wiederluege!

     

  • A Follow Up on The Evil That Regulation Can Do

    A Follow Up on The Evil That Regulation Can Do

    Back in September, I posted about an act of actual evil. Where an anonymous vote of a State body stopped a hospital expansion, including addition of services that did not exist in the area. Despite the efforts of a local reporter and yours truly, we never were able to pin down who torpedoed the approval.

    I wanted to update everyone on the situation. It got better. And the best part of the story is that the scum who opposed this have now come out in the open:

    A representative for state Sen. Dave Syverson, R-Rockford, who also serves as a Mercyhealth board member, spoke against Swedes’ expansion plan on Tuesday. So did other representatives of Mercyhealth, including its CEO Javon Bea.

    So the dirtbag politician with the conflict of interest (he serves on the board of a local competitor health group) that had been opposing this from behind the scenes, has now stepped into the light, to show his true asshat colors. And the CEO of the same competitor came in to throw around some slander and BS in an attempt to avoid competition:

    Bea said he is “against unnecessary duplication” of SwedishAmerican’s 10-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. “They have higher death and disability rates because for 10 beds they cannot employ the entire range of pediatric subspecialties on-site,” he said after testifying before the Review Board.

    Bea said SwedishAmerican will send its sickest babies to Wisconsin, forcing parents and families to travel. SwedishAmerican is a division of UW Health.

    “Families will have to figure out how to take care of babies for months at a time,” Bea said.

    Mercyhealth has 52 NICU beds that are part of its $505 million new hospital campus at Interstate 90 and Riverside Boulevard, which is expected to open in January.

    Born said the claims that SwedishAmerican would operate a substandard Level III NICU are “insulting and absurd.”

    “It’s insulting because of SwedishAmerican and UW Health’s long-term commitment to quality and safety,” Born said. “It’s absurd because a Level III NICU at SwedishAmerican would be held to the same standards of any other Level III NICU in the state.” [emphasis added]

    Allow me translate Mr. Bea’s complaint…

    “Hey, competition?! Dammit. I guess having a State Senator in our pocket wasn’t enough to stop it….so here, let me throw out a defamatory smoke screen and run away.”

    So justice was delayed, but denied, in this matter. I have to give credit to the Rockford Register Star reporter – Georgette Braun – for shining some light on the dirtbags in this story. (This was the reporter I had contacted and found out we had both been stymied in our attempts to find out who had voted which way last year).

    And an extended middle finger to both of you, Dave Syverson and Javon Bea.

    This is a bittersweet result – while this individual injustice has been rectified, the intrusion of the State into this field is still there, ripe for continued abuse by preventing of medical care being expanded.