STEVE SMITH IN REFLECTIVE MOOD – THINK HOLY DAYS RESPONSIBLE. HIM PONDER LIFE AND MEANING OF IT ALL. ALSO, REDEMPTION… AND HIKER AND CAMPER RAPE. STEVE SMITH NOT LET MOOD AFFECT HIM MAKING QUOTA!
REMINDER! CHECK STORE NEAR YOU FOR STEVE SMITH HOLIDAY ALBUMS!
ALL PROFIT GO TO CASCADIA INDEPENDENCE.
NOW YOU GET LINKS TOO:
THIS MAKE STEVE SMITH LAUGH. HIM THINK FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE LAUGH TOO.
MAYBE FRENCH PERSON ANNOUNCE CHAMPAGNE RATION GO UP FROM 330ML TO 250ML! OR SURRENDER.
WHAT ELSE ONE DO WHEN RETIRED? STORY NEED BLACKJACK AND HOOKER, BE COMPLETE.
STEVE SMITH THINK “YELLOW VESTS” COME TO LONDON NEXT.
I cannot believe that we’re entering the last stages of the football season. And the end of the year. Tempus is fugiting at an alarming rate, and we’re already preparing our “Best of 2018” lists. And speaking of lists, today’s birthdays include anarchist and proto-libertarian Peter Kropotkin; physical chemist Fritz Haber; brilliant character actress and all-around decent human Margaret Hamilton; one of my favorite chemists, William “The Colonel” Lipscomb, who seemed to bring magic to every field he touched; and actor John Malkovich, subject of one of my favorite movies.
From all corners of the country, French protesters — the vast majority of them men — came by the thousands in trains, buses and cars. But once together in the capital, the most concrete thing they shared was simply fury. Fury at President Emmanuel Macron. At taxes. At jobs that don’t pay the bills. At politicians they accuse of stuffing their own pockets. At the elite. At banks. At ‘the system.’ At life in general.
Don’t forget fury at McDonalds and Coca Cola! And love for Jerry Lewis!
Belgian police fired tear gas and water cannons at yellow-vested protesters calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Charles Michel after they tried to breach a riot barricade, as the movement that started in France made its mark Saturday in Belgium and the Netherlands. The reasons for the protests are not entirely clear. Neither Belgium nor the Netherlands has proposed a hike in fuel tax — the catalyst for the massive and destructive demonstrations in France in recent weeks. Instead, protesters appeared to hail at least in part from a populist movement that is angry at government policy in general and what it sees as the widening gulf between mainstream politicians and the voters who put them in power. Some in Belgium appeared intent only on confronting police.
“Our children are hard-working people but they have to pay taxes everywhere. You can’t get housing anymore. It is not going well in Dutch society,” [protester] Ieneke said. “The social welfare net we grew up with is gone,” she said.
“The government is not there for the people. It is there to protect its own interests,” she said.
The country’s National Assembly approved a proposal to change the constitution to make the so-called reforms legal in a vote of 183 to 77. This paves the way for land to be taken from farmers without giving any kind of compensation. Economic Freedom Fighters MP Hlengiwe Mkhaliphi argued land grabs must go ahead as she declared: “Your time is up, white people”.
I used to travel to South Africa on the regular, so I’m particularly saddened by how a vibrant country which was overcoming a legacy of actual racism has consciously decided to spin down the toilet. I’m guessing that my last trip there was my last trip there, and it’s time to stock up on Pinotage before that disappears as well.
A dog that survived the catastrophic wildfire in Northern California apparently protected the ruins of his home for almost a month until his owner returned. Madison was there waiting when Andrea Gaylord was allowed back to check on her burned property in Paradise this week.
Gaylord told news station ABC10 she couldn’t ask for a better animal. “Imagine the loyalty of hanging in in the worst of circumstances and being here waiting,” she said. “Their instinctual job is to watch the flocks and we’re part of them,” Gaylord said about her dogs. “It’s a comforting feeling.”
Since we own a dog which is a related breed with similar instincts and origins, we can absolutely imagine her doing the same thing. Good dog, Madison!
Old Guy Music. Of course. And this is a ballad of the original victim of #metoo, written and performed by a brilliantly clever and funny guy.
At my age, hangovers are no laughing matter, and I’m paying for getting bombed. Not that this will slow the snark. Nor the curated list of birthdays, today including one of the funniest humans ever, Sam Kinison; iodine bottle model Ann Coulter; least-talented brother Gregg Allman; highly talented dead guy Jim Morrison; and even more highly talented live guy James Galway.
Scenes of schoolchildren kneeling with their hands behind their heads has triggered outrage as France braces itself for more violent protests this weekend. Footage, which has sparked condemnation by politicians, shows the pupils on the ground as riot police yell orders at them. The students were detained by police in the Paris suburb of Mantes-la-Jolie, in unrest that has spread to dozens of schools during three weeks of anti-government demonstrations. A total of 146 people were arrested outside the town’s Saint-Exupery high school after protesters clashed with police and burned two cars.
I remember having this happen to me at Vietnam protests. Except there was clubbing as well. And we were protesting actually killing and getting killed. Yeah, we definitely need to become more like our sophisticated betters in Europe.
Some people have humorously suggested that Occasional Cortex is the right wing’s Sarah Palin. And as the days pass (and she still hasn’t taken office yet), I’m starting to see the wisdom of that analogy.
“I have noticed that Junior here has a habit of posting nonsense about me whenever the Mueller investigation heats up,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “Please, keep it coming Jr – it’s definitely a “very, very large brain” idea to troll a member of a body that will have subpoena power in a month. Have fun!”
“It’s worth noting that the official House Ethics Manual explicitly prohibits the kind of threat that @Ocasio2018 just issued against @DonaldJTrumpJr for his refusal to support her political agenda,” The Federalist’s Sean Davis wrote on Twitter.
As always, attention gives her power she would not have otherwise. And despite my presence on Twitter (“Not Banned Yet!”), I truly believe that it has done more to lower the intellectual level of the world than any influence since the release of Jaws.
Dr Millis, of Anderson University in Indiana, compared sex in space to having intercourse while “skydiving” but added that it was “not impossible.” He told The Sun Online: “The issues surrounding the act all revolve around the free-fall, micro-gravity, environment experienced by astronauts. Dr Millis, whose work has been funded by NASA, explains that in micro-gravity blood rises to your head, instead of your wedding tackle – making it harder for both men and women to get aroused. This low blood pressure below the waist also causes the tissue in a bloke’s proud todger to shrivel – potentially impacting an astronaut’s confidence when it comes to lift off.
State Rep. Stephanie Kifowit apologized Wednesday to outgoing Republican House Leader Peter Breen for saying she’d like to “make him a broth of legionella and pump it into the water system of his loved ones” so they could “ultimately die.”
Addressing representatives on the House floor Wednesday, Breen acknowledged Kifowit’s apology — but stopped short of accepting it. “If the representative had made her statement to me in the parking lot or left it as a phone message at my office, she would be in custody right now,” he said. “But because she made her statement on the House floor, her remarks were met with applause instead of handcuffs.”
I really can’t add anything to this shitshow other than observing that we can’t get out of this state fast enough.
Two Waukegan aldermanic candidates were tossed off the February 2019 primary ballot Friday for failing to meet state election requirements with their nominating petitions. The objections upheld by the Waukegan Electoral Board Friday morning in separate 3-0 votes targeted Jose A. Guzman in the 2nd Ward and Marvin Reddick in the 1st. Guzman filed candidate petitions last month to run against incumbent Pat Seger, also a Democrat, and Reddick did the same to oppose incumbent Democrat Sylvia Sims Bolton. [Emphasis mine- OMWC]
Antonio Campos filed an objection against Guzman, arguing that Guzman failed to securely bind his petition pages as required by state law. Guzman, who submitted his petition papers in a purple folder, said the papers were clipped together but said the clip had been removed, perhaps by the Clerk’s Office when stamping the petitions to mark when they had been received. The objection filed against Reddick’s petitions by Faye Ladon Luna argued that the pages failed to list what political party he was running for in the header of each page as required by state law.
Got that? Disqualified because the petitions were missing a fucking PAPER CLIP and some pages didn’t have the word “Democrat” at the top. Gee, this couldn’t be entrenched interests at work, could it?
Rapid global warming caused the largest extinction event in the Earth’s history, which wiped out the vast majority of marine and terrestrial animals on the planet, scientists have found. The mass extinction, known as the “great dying”, occurred around 252m years ago and marked the end of the Permian geologic period. The study of sediments and fossilized creatures show the event was the single greatest calamity ever to befall life on Earth, eclipsing even the extinction of the dinosaurs 65m years ago.
“It does terrify me to think we are on a trajectory similar to the Permian because we really don’t want to be on that trajectory,” [Stanford researcher Jonathan] Payne said.
“If we continue in the trajectory we are on with current emission rates, this study highlights the potential that we may see similar rates of extinction in marine species as in the end of the Permian.”
Those goddam trilobites and their gas guzzlers.
I can think of nothing positive that has ever come out of First Lady crusades. Unelected and unaccountable cunts like Nancy Reagan have used their power-by-injection to cause no end of problems for “the little people” that they feel obligated to “protect.” And while Nancy’s drug war crusade continues almost unabated, at least there’s signs that a few of Michelle Obama’s idiocies might start fading away.
School lunches are healthier than they were five years ago. But Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue says schools need more flexibility in serving meals that kids will eat.”If kids are not eating what is being served, they are not benefiting, and food is being wasted,” Perdue said in a statement announcing a rule that is set to be published later this month.”We will continue to listen to schools, and make common-sense changes as needed, to ensure they can meet the needs of their students based on their real-world experience in local communities,” Perdue wrote in a statement.
Of course, there’s bleating from the usual suspects.
“Parents will be disappointed when they learn that the meals served to their kids in school are under attack from President Trump’s de-regulatory agenda,” Margo Wootan of the Center for Science in the Public Interest said in a statement. She points out that schools now will have until the 2024-2025 school year to meet the next phase of sodium reduction that was spelled out in the rules originally developed under the Obama administration.
“Worse yet, the administration jettisoned the third and final sodium reduction targets that originally were set to go into effect school year 2022-2023,” Wootan said. “This will mean that school lunches will fail to be consistent with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, as is required by law.”
CSPI is the equivalent of SPLC. And just as successful at making their founders wealthy. There is always money to be made in destroying liberty for the sake of the children.
A 107-year-old YouTube famous Indian great-grandma died on Sunday, after launching a career as a YouTuber at the age of 105. Karre Mastanamma starred in dozens of viral cooking videos, and racked up 12 million views for cooking a chicken inside a watermelon.
Fuck the news, let’s have some Old Guy Music. SP and I went to a show last week featuring a friend of ours who is a remarkable multi-instrumentalist. During the show he pulled out a tin whistle and performed an Irish traditional music solo that was… astonishing. And while I sadly failed to record that, I at least thought of something similar I’d heard on a transverse flute by Matt Molloy, who is probably the greatest Irishman to ever blow into a hole. It’s also fun seeing birthday boy James Galway staring in amazement and appreciation.
…WITH DEAR PRUDENCE. HAVE AT YOU, MISERABLE BRUTAL!
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. HAVING GIFTED THE CHOSEN ONES WITH BOTH ADVICE, AND LINKS LAST WEEK. ZARDOZ REALIZES HE HAS SET EXPECTATIONS….HIGH. THEREFOR, RECEIVE THE GIFT OF ADVICE AND THE LINK! THE ADVICE BRUTAL IS ONE ZARDOZ HAS BEST MANY TIMES IN DAYS OF OLD…”DEAR PRUDENCE“. PREPARE FOR ANOTHER CLEANSING OF THIS WRETCHED ADVICE BRUTAL.
Q: One of my closest friends in high school recently organized our 10-year reunion. I wasn’t able to attend, but the night of the event, he sent me a text saying, “We all miss you.” That was immediately followed by an extremely crude request for me to describe features of my genitals. I was shocked and upset. A friend says he was probably drunk and I should laugh it off. I’m not ready to, and I don’t think being drunk is an excuse. He had a chance to back off but persisted, even after I texted back “WTF?” He also hasn’t apologized in the days since. I feel that we don’t have a rapport where he could ask me that out of the blue, especially since we’ve drifted apart in the last decade. And I don’t feel that the fact we are both men makes it OK—I feel harassed and demeaned. I can’t let it go. Should I confront him about it or just continue to let our friendship fall by the wayside naturally?
—Old Friend Crossed New Line
A: DOES ZARDOZ HAVE TO CLEANSE A BRUTAL? “CONFRONT”? YOU SHOULD CLEANSE HIM. LET US ILLUSTRATE, ONCE AGAIN:
BAD, AND WORSE.
PENIS BAD, GUN GOOD. HOW SIMPLE DOES ZARDOZ HAVE TO MAKE IT FOR YOU TOO REMEMBER? WAIT…IF YOU CANNOT EVEN REMEMBER THAT SIMPLE STRICTURE, REMAIN WHERE YOU ARE… BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS HAVE BEEN DISPATCHED. THEY CAN GET TWO FOR ONE TONIGHT.
MIGHTY ZARDOZ HAS US GOING TO CLEANSE A SLATE READER!
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
NOW, THE LINKS!
ZARDOZ DOES NOT SEE THE DOWNSIDE OF THE FLYING BRUTALS FAILING TO REPORT. EVEN IF THEY HAD….WOULD THE FEDERAL BRUTALS OF INEPTNESS DONE ANYTHING? ZARDOZ WINS!
“WE TOTALLY MEANT TO DO THIS!” ZARDOZ HOPES FOR A CEAUSESCU STYLE CLEANSING OF THE CASTROS IN THE NEAR FUTURE. ONCE THE CRACKS SHOW…
Pictured: Brett and the Old Man achieve the singularity
Let’s see, Brett called in sick and the “Old Man” is “out” working on the “singularity.” Sugarfree is God knows where, which means….you get more Mexican links!
A bank robbery in Brazil resulted in hostages being taken, the cops calling their bluff, and the hostages getting killed. Which gave the cops a reason to shoot the robbers.
“We are living a horrible tragedy in Cardenales de Lara. We lost our players Luis Valbuena and José Castillo in a traffic accident,” the Venezuelan club tweeted.
This one is good. Apparently a report in JAMA finds immigrants do not spread disease, in fact the researches found:
16 percent of healthcare workers in the U.S. were born somewhere else, including 29 percent of physicians, 16 percent of registered, nurses 20 percent of pharmacists, 24 percent of dentists and 23 percent of nursing, psychiatric and home health aides.
Which is absolutely fantastic, given that they didn’t identify any healthcare workers in the mass of migrants in Tijuana. Also not mentioned in this article is the general ease with which medical professionals are able to immigrate to the US, UK and EU countries. I like the misdirection here. Bravo.
If somebody with more time than I have at the moment wants to tear apart this study, here’s a link!
Finally, an LP candidate declared the winner County Supervisor in the 5th district; Riverside County, CA. The 11th most populated county in the country. I’ll let you all determine if this is it that Libertarian Moment I’ve been hearing so much about, or more like that Jefferson Starship* that I’ve heard so much about.
There, now that I have those out of the way, I think we can get on with the links. So, when you pun or screw up or shitpost, etc… just look up. Got it? Right.
Alrighty, you stock wizards amongst us – what say ye to this? Luckily I haven’t two pins to put into the market right now. SO I will sit back and watch all of you become rich. Then you can donate and buy merch, and keep the Glibs in the style to which we are accustomed. You know, Domino’s Pizza delivered and everything!
UN talks…ineffective?! Well, I never. I remember writing a paper on the Western Sahara in 1984…and saying it was a @#$%ing muddle. Good to see that hasn’t changed. Special guest appearance by the “European Court of Justice”.
Missouri Woman says “Top this, Florida Woman!” Trigger Warning – Gah! Click/read at your own risk.
Drumpf readies to cover up his crimes by…hey, what now?!
First World Problems…. the Blitz, “Keep Calm and Carry On”. A mobile network goes out for a day… “Is London Burning?” But, credit where credit is due …. some good humor in this too.
To take advantage of the new service, Cubans will need to pay the equivalent of $7 for 600 megabytes of data, $10 for 1 gigabyte and $30 for 4 gigabytes, according to the state-run Granma news agency.
The cost of access poses a steep barrier in a country where nearly 60 percent of the population lives on $100 or less per month
Which is all well and good except here phones fit for 5G are being put to market. I bet more than six people will be able to afford them.
Did you know there was a protest at the G20 Summit? Me neither. I thought Trump just showed Xi his ass and told him to bring a ladder so he could kiss it.
I’m off tomorrow, so I’m mailing it in today. Enjoy everyone.
Trump to Macron — I knew you were a loser when I met your mother wife. Kidding, he actually hit Macron about having to roll back gas taxes.
Not at all sure this alternative theory to Dark Matter/Dark Energy will hold up, but at least they have some falsifiable tests for it, making it a more scientific* theory. *for those who believe in the Popperist version of science, anyhow.
PETA asks people to stop using ‘anti-animal language’. I hope they don’t expect us to try to eat the whole elephant at once.
This company claims to have the world’s first sex robot for women*, but I’m sure a woman has strapped a vibrator to a cardboard cutout of a movie star before.
“Oh God, I wish I was dead so I didn’t have to sit here”
Good morning to my Glibs, I’m not ready to get through today, but I am ready to throw together some links for you.
Today we celebrate the Birthdays of Pope Julius II, 8th US President Martin Van Buren, General Custer, Walt Disney, Singer Little Richard, Rapper Dr. Dre, and “Comedienne” Margaret Cho.
Mueller is recommending no prison time for Flynn, everyone sees this as proof of their theory being correct. With those on the right seeing proof he did nothing wrong and those on the left seeing proof that he flipped on the bad orange man and all their dreams of seeing him impeached come true.
If you managed to flee Venezuela by playing baseball, 
late. You’re early, but links are to be had.
