My solace is found in the poetry of Don Marquis- and my thanks to Warty for reminding me.
LEADER no more, be judged of us!
Hailed Chief, and loved, of yore—
Youth, and the faith of youth, cry out: Leader and Chief no more!
We dreamed a Prophet, flushed with faith,
Content to toil in pain
If that his sacrifice might be,
Somehow, his people’s gain.
We saw a vision, and our blood
Beat red and hot and strong: “Lead us (we cried) to war against
Some foul, embattled wrong!”
We dreamed a Warrior whose sword
Was edged for sham and shame;
We dreamed a Statesman far above
The vulgar lust for fame.
We were not cynics, and we dreamed
A Man who made no truce
With lies nor ancient privilege
Nor old, entrenched abuse.
We dreamed … we dreamed … Youth dreamed
a dream!
And even you forgot
Yourself, one moment, and dreamed, too—
Struck, while your mood was hot!
Struck three or four good blows … and then
Turned back to easier things:
The cheap applause, the blatant mob,
The praise of underlings!
Praise … praise … was ever man so filled,
So avid still, of praise?
So hungry for the crowd’s acclaim,
The sycophantic phrase?
O you whom Greatness beckoned to …
O swollen Littleness
Who turned from Immortality
To fawn upon Success!
O blind with love of self, who led
Youth’s vision to defeat,
Bawling and brawling for rewards,
Loud, in the common street!
O you who were so quick to judge—
Leader, and loved, of yore—
Hear now the judgment of our youth: Leader and Chief no more!
And some more news to depress follows.
Fire in a New York skyscraper, and yes, the rabid mobs have found a way to politicize even that, and of course in the stupidest ways. Read the comments and despair of humanity.
KOKH reported that he approached a woman while she swept the floor of the establishment and handed her $10. When she told him that employees were not allowed to take tips, he grabbed her crotch and her backside before telling her he’d like to see her in some red lingerie that was hanging from a stand in the store. He was 82 at the time of the alleged offenses and turned 83 in February, when charges were filed against him in connection with the incident.
This is… astonishing. Just astonishing. I’ve really never seen such unawareness and derp packed into one piece.
The solution for the people of California was to reconfigure the political landscape and shift a supermajority of citizens — and by extension their elected officials — under the Democratic Party’s big tent. The natural continuum of more progressive to more moderate solutions then got worked out within the context of the only remaining functioning party. The California Democrats actually cared about average citizens, embraced the inevitable diversity of 21st-century society, weren’t afraid of real innovation, and were ready to start solving the many challenges of our time, including climate change.
My only other solace today is Old Guy Music, in this case a performer I love but sadly never got to see. Insane trumpet, John the Baptist to Clifford Brown’s Jesus.
STEVE SMITH BIG HOCKEY FAN. STEVE SMITH HEAR ABOUT THIS, AND IS TOO SAD TO POST LINKS….BUT WANT FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE TO HAVE PLACE TO TALK/COMMENT/POST.
I go away for a week and everything goes to shit. The morning links are totally generic, Brett gets too drunk to do afternoon links and punts… The only bright spots were contributions from the Glibertariat, some really fine articles. But the staff links… no. I’m thinking that the Glibs staff really does need adult supervision. Well, dammit, I’m back and I’m not going to wuss on you.
Before diving in, I wanted to mention a fascinating documentary that SP and I watched last night on Netflix, The Man Who Would Be Polka King, the story of Jan Lewan, a polka star who ran a Ponzi scheme (even managing to bribe the Vatican). Much better than Jaws. Three things jumped out at us, which may or may not have been intended. First, as always, the people who got taken were a combination of gullible and greedy. No one ever thought to question why someone offered them 12% (or later, 20%) interest on an investment in a market where 3-5% was the norm. The second thing was the question of why this is even a crime, rather than a civil tort (and as libertarians, our reactions were certainly, “Because government-as-Daddy”). And the third thing was that clearly the people who came across as the most evil and vindictive were the government folks- especially the ADA from Delaware who put a non-violent offender in a maximum security prison, later leading to his throat being slashed. Every time she appeared on screen, my skin crawled.
OK, sorry, this isn’t supposed to be a movie review, but after last week’s debacle, I wanted to plug a film that actually was thought-provoking and had redeeming qualities beyond a hilariously awful rubber fish. And as a hat-tip to Sloopy, I’ll mention that the Orioles, despite looking like it’s going to be a long and sucky season, came into New York and hammered the Evil Empire twice.
” … (H)he chose to take the gun out and put it on the table not knowing if any of us had mental health issues,” said Lori Carter, a schoolteacher from Charlotte, N.C., told the newspaper. “What was to prevent me from leaning across the table to take that gun?”
Go ahead, Lori, give it a try. The consequences would be amusing.
“Bernie beclowns himself” seems to be a consistent theme. Or is he just getting tax tips from Reverend Al? The outrage that resulted is truly the funniest part.
Before getting to Old Guy Music, I wanted to give a quick thanks to the KC area Glibs who joined me for a really nice evening, a welcome relief from my work tedium. That said, Old Guy Music, this time featuring the delightful Albanie Falletta, accompanied by one of my favorite bass players, Ryan Gould, and the superb J.D. Pendley on lead guitar.
SEA SMITH PROUD OF COUSIN STEVE SMITH. HE GET SLOOPY AND CHEESE PERSON BACK. SEA SMITH DO RESCUE BEFORE. PEOPLE NO TALK ABOUT SEA SMITH HELP. HE GET NO CREDIT…ALWAYS “CAUGHT A BIRD” OR “DRIFTED CLOSE ENOUGH TO SHIP TO BE RESCUED”. THAT OK, SEA SMITH NOT WANT TOO MUCH PUBLICITY.
BUT SEA SMITH WANT MUCH LINKS! SO HE GIVE YOU LINKS FOR FUN FRIDAY NIGHT!
SEA SMITH NOTICE SOUTH KOREA PEOPLE KNOW HOW HANDLE POLITICIANS…PUT IN JAIL!
LOOK LIKE YOU MONEY GET TO BE FIRST AID KIT FOR FARM PEOPLE IN TRADE WAR. SEA SMITH GLAD HE PAY NO TAXES. HAMMERHEAD SHARKS TRY IMPOSE TAXES ONCE. SEA SMITH DISSENT. BY DISSENT, MEAN RAPE SHARKS.
SEA SMITH HOPE PIPELINE GO IN SEA. THEN SEA SMITH GET VISIT WITH DRILLING AND PIPELINE CREWS. MAKE NEW FRIENDS!
SEA SMITH WONDER “WHAT WRONG WITH NEW JERSEY PEOPLE“? SEA SMITH NO GO THERE – DID ONCE IN 1980S, AND GOT HIT ON HEAD WITH BARREL OF CHEMICALS GET FLY-DUMPED INTO OCEAN.
SEA SMITH HOPE YOU HAVE FUN FRIDAY NIGHT. SEA SMITH GO SEE WHAT ROWDY FRIENDS (DOLPHINS) UP TO. SUSPECT IT IS RAPE. YOU KNOW DOLPHINS (AND SEA SMITH).
Since we had great content by contributors, today, I decided to not enact your labor for you and make links. But I didn’t want to hear Rainman-style screeching when the afternoon links didn’t run on time, so here you are… talk and link amongst yourselves.
“One can of links, please. Oh, and a box of off topic comments.”
Links. Generic Links. You get them, on special today, because it is Friday…and frankly, the “use by” date is getting close.
Sports
Baseball? Baseball happened – I really don’t want to talk about it (#@$% White Sox bullpen). Golf – Masters underway, Spieth leading. NHL – Yeah, playoffs. Soon…for most of you.
Birthdays
Raphael Sanzio (1483), Anthony Fokker (1890), Lowell Thomas (1892), James Watson (1928), Billy Dee Williams (1937), Merle Haggard (1937), Zamfir (1941 – shout out to Pie), Udo Dirkshneider (1952), Janet Lynn (1953), Keith Hunter Jesperson (1955 – “Canadian-born serial killer”), Oliver Miller (1970),
Links
This guyis lucky he didn’t end up full of bullets, and instead gets a long prison stretch.
If you read why this camel may have escaped, I can believe it. I used to get the stink eye from a camel our local Kuchi representative would bring to our base in NE Afghanistan. One day I gave it a Strawberry Nutri-Grain bar, and I had a friend for life. Thing was like an eager puppy when it saw me walking up.
Test flight. I hope every swingin’ one of these new rockets, spacecraft, hypersonic planes, whatnot… work, and work well. We might at least get some private sector competition in space…if we cannot get enough of it down here on terra firma.
Somehow I missed this story. Bombing…Sam’s Club? I mean, did they run out of the 5 gallon jars of dill pickle slices or something? At least nobody got hurt.
I’m stuck in documentation hell. After I finish the design overview, I can start mapping data fields. Or I can go on hunt to figure out where all my reference hyperlinks should go. Oh, and then I can do a what-if analysis on technical risk for the PM. I already checked, none of my appendages will fit into the shredder, but I think the fan is sturdy enough to hold this noose I fashioned from old network cable… One thing I like to do is give the systems Laundry Files style codenames in my original draft so that it looks like “CORROSION RED MONDAY will feature a bi-directional, multi-entity integration with HOLYSTONE UMBER BORON mediated by AZURE LOGIC APPS”. Just… don’t forget to run find and replace before you circulate it. Trust me.
STEVE SMITH ANGRY, HIM GET FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE BACK!
STEVE SMITH ANGRY! GRRR! HIM NOT LIKE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE GO MISSING. HIM GET THEM BACK!
STEVE SMITH TO RESCUE!
RAHHHHH!!!!!!!! HIM FIND CAPTORS! NOW TEACH LESSON! BY TEACH LESSON, MEAN RAPE.
Help! Earth creature attacking!
What the #%^& was that…thing?!
YOU NO MESS WITH FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE!
STEVE SMITH FIND BOTH MISSING PEOPLE. LOOK OK TO STEVE SMITH, ONCE HIM GET ONE OUT STRAIGHT-JACKET AND ONE OUT EXAM TABLE STRAPS. BUT THEY NO GIVE LINKS YET. STEVE SMITH DO THAT, SO FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE CAN MAKE COMMENTS.
STEVE SMITH THINK, IF ONLY FRIEND ZARDOZ HAD USED PLACEFOR HIM KITTY, MUCH SAD AVOIDED.
THIS KIND OF SCIENCE STORY STEVE SMITH FIND INTRIGUING…
GRRR! STEVE SMITH NO LIKE AMATEURS! NO LIKE ISLAND! NO LIKE “UNDERAGE” PART! MAYBE STEVE SMITH PAY VISIT TO “DAVID MATTHEWS.” SEE HOW HIM LIKE IT.
¡Buenos nachos Gliberinos! You all want links?? You want them with red or green salsa? None? Weirdos.
El Trumpeñero floats the idea of using the military spending to pay for the Wall but also that the Baltic states couldn’t understand the situation, because Trump knows. It is known.
“El presidente también habló sobre la caravana de migrantes de Centroamérica que actualmente se desplazan a través de México y que planean entregarse y solicitar asilo una vez que lleguen a la frontera con Estados Unidos. Él ha exigido un alto a la caravana en una serie de tweets
“Si llega a nuestra frontera, nuestras leyes son tan débiles y patéticas, ustedes (los líderes bálticos) no entenderían esto porque sé que sus leyes son fuertes en la frontera, es como si no tuviéramos frontera”, dijo.
Trump dijo que le dijo a México “muy enérgicamente” que “vas a tener que hacer algo con respecto a estas caravanas”.
Aunque dijo que Estados Unidos está renegociando el acuerdo comercial del TLCAN con México y Canadá, enfatizó que la seguridad fronteriza tendría que ser parte del trato.”
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The president also spoke about the caravan of migrants from Central America who are currently moving through Mexico and who plan to surrender and seek asylum once they reach the border with the United States. He has demanded a halt to the caravan in a series of tweets
“If it reaches our border, our laws are so weak and pathetic, you (the Baltic leaders) would not understand this because I know their laws are strong on the border, it’s like we have no border,” he said.
Trump said he told Mexico “very energetically” that “you’re going to have to do something about these caravans.”
Although he said the United States is renegotiating the NAFTA trade agreement with Mexico and Canada, he emphasized that border security would have to be part of the deal.
“La marca de cerveza Stella Artois, perteneciente a la empresa Anheuser-Busch Inbev, anunció este lunes que un lote de sus botellas que fue distribuido a Estados Unidos y Canadá podrían contener partículas de vidrio en su interior.
A través de un comunicado de prensa, Stella Artois anunció el retiro de esta mercadería. Asimismo, se precisó que se trata de botellas de 330 mililitros en paquetes de 6, 12, 18 y 24 unidades, además de los paquetes “Best of Belgium”.
¿Cuál fue el origen del problema?
La empresa aseguró que el retiro de estas unidades equivale a menos del 1% de las botellas distribuidas anualmente en América del Norte. Atribuyó, además, el origen de las botellas con partículas de vidrio en su interior a otra empresa que fabrica estos envases para Stella Artois.
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The brand of beer Stella Artois, belonging to the company Anheuser-Busch Inbev, announced on Monday that a batch of its bottles that was distributed to the United States and Canada could contain glass particles inside.
Through a press release, Stella Artois announced the withdrawal of this merchandise. Likewise, it was specified that they are bottles of 330 milliliters in packs of 6, 12, 18 and 24 units, in addition to the “Best of Belgium” packages.
What was the origin of the problem?
The company assured that the withdrawal of these units is equivalent to less than 1% of the bottles distributed annually in North America. He also attributed the origin of the bottles with glass particles inside to another company that manufactures these containers for Stella Artois
Jakiw Palij vive a sus 94 años en Nueva York y, al contrario que millones de indocumentados, tiene la seguridad de que -por ahora- no va a ser deportado, pese a tener incluso una orden de expulsión emitida hace unos 15 años. En 2004 una corte federal de la ciudad de los rascacielos le despojó de su ciudadanía por haber mentido en el formulario para naturalizarse.
Palij no reveló nunca durante todo su proceso migratorio que había trabajado como guardia en Treblinka, un campo de concentración en Polonia en el que en 1943 hasta 6,000 judíos murieron en un solo día y fueron enterrados en fosas.
El hombre, que nació en Polonia, llegó con 26 años como un refugiado de guerra a Estados Unidos en 1949, se hizo ciudadano en 1957 y vivió durante más de 50 años trabajando como dibujante hasta que finalmente se retiró.
Su pasado había quedado olvidado hasta que investigadores federales lo denunciaron por ser cómplice de algunos de los episodios más sórdidos del holocausto. Funcionarios del Departamento de Justicia también afirman que Palij también ofreció sus servicios en Trawinki, otro campo en el que se entrenaba a tropas secretas para llevar a cabo el exterminio de judíos polacos.
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Jakiw Palij lives to his 94 years in New York and, unlike millions of undocumented people, he is sure that -for now- he will not be deported, despite having even an expulsion order issued some 15 years ago. In 2004 a federal court in the city of skyscrapers stripped him of his citizenship for having lied on the form to become naturalized.
Palij never revealed during his immigration process that he had worked as a guard in Treblinka, a concentration camp in Poland in which in 1943 up to 6,000 Jews died in a single day and were buried in graves.
The man, who was born in Poland, arrived at the age of 26 as a war refugee to the United States in 1949, became a citizen in 1957 and lived for more than 50 years working as a cartoonist until he finally retired.
His past had been forgotten until federal investigators denounced him for being an accomplice of some of the most sordid episodes of the holocaust. Justice Department officials also claim that Palij also offered his services in Trawinki, another camp in which secret troops were trained to carry out the extermination of Polish Jews.
¡Cállate y dame una cerveza!
Good news everyone! The Colorado River is drying up. Either that or it was grossly misallocated for nearly a century by state and federal regulators.
De esta parte del río dependen hoy una de cada 10 personas en el suroeste del país (Baja California, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah y Colorado) y entre ellos a un tercio de los hispanos que viven en EEUU y se desempeñan en labores de producción agrícola o turismo y servicios a lo largo de la ribera.
La situación actual preocupa a las autoridades: el uso del agua del río, la población que la usa y las temperaturas globales van en aumento creciente y acelerado y como consecuencia de ello no solo se disminuye el caudal del río (por uso y evaporación) sino también hay menos lluvias y nieve para alimentarlo. En resumen: huele a peligro y no hay demasiadas (o suficientes) alternativas en proceso.
“El sistema del río Colorado enfrenta la peor sequía registrada. El nivel del agua del lago Mead, que sirve como el principal reservorio de agua del sur de Nevada (y que proviene del río), ha caído más de 130 pies desde enero de 2000”, explica a Univision Bronson Mack, portavoz de la Autoridad del Agua del Sur de Nevada.
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Of this part of the river today, one out of every 10 people in the southwestern part of the country (Baja California, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado) depend and among them one third of the Hispanics who live in the US and work in agricultural production or tourism and services along the riverbank.
The current situation worries the authorities: the use of river water, the population that uses it, and global temperatures are increasing and accelerating, and as a consequence, the flow of the river is not only reduced (by use and evaporation), but There is also less rain and snow to feed it. In short: it smells like danger and there are not too many (or sufficient) alternatives in the process.
“The Colorado River system faces the worst drought recorded. The water level of Lake Mead, which serves as the main reservoir of water in southern Nevada (and that comes from the river), has fallen more than 130 feet since January 2000, “Bronson Mack, spokesman for the Authority, told Univision. of Southern Nevada Water
Translation services available by the Alpha Beta Corporation, who now sends me ads in Spanish.
So…”sloopy” allegedly “commented” on a post last night. How very convenient that it happened to be a post by Banjos!!!!! I tell you, I am getting close…and this is BIG. Chemtrails, lizard people (sure, Mr. Lizard is out in the open, telling us we will be working in their slave labor hot rock factories and nutria ranches…but it goes deeper than that!!!) the CIA, EM fields… it is all coming together. Sure, it sounds crazy – but that is what THEY want you to think!
SO, I will let you have some information, so I can get back to work on the investigation;
Birthdays; Tris Speaker (1888), Muddy Waters (1913), Anthony Perkins (1932), Craig T. Nelson (1944) Robert Downey Jr. (1965), David Blaine (1973), Heath Ledger (1979) and Jamie Lynn Spears (1991)
Sports; Baseball occurred. I still don’t want to talk about hockey. NBA winding down the regular season. Golf a comin’ up this here weekend.
Links;
Really? You did what, Norwegian non-profit? BTW – why in Hell is the US taxpayer being wrung out to pay a Norwegian group to dole out $ to others?
I sure wish we had more choo-choos like Europe! What could go wrong? *California nods enthusiastically*
Rue Britannia. Protect yourself in your home, get charged. Hard to believe what the UK has become.
Hey?! You know how much day care costs? Alternatively, Most libertarian parents evah?
OK, time for me…who is there? HOW DID YOU GET IN HERE?! HEY – what do you mean “mental health assessment?!” GET YOUR HANDS OFF ME! I ….
