Glibertarians.com 2018 Archive

Category: Daily Links

  • Tuesday Morning Links

    Still no hockey. Duke won in college basketball, preparing Americans’ disgust for the upcoming New England Super Bowl victory. And there was a big NBA trade that I couldn’t possibly care less about.  And that’s it. That’s pretty much the entire sports world yesterday. I don’t count the witch hunt of the football and basketball coaches at Michigan State a sports story. But I will mention here that neither of those head coaches or men on their staff have a responsibility to monitor, punish or otherwise do anything to adults whose alleged actions are the purview of the legal system, not Title IX kangaroo courts set up by the schools. Doing so diminishes the right of due process to those people and undermines our entire criminal justice system. Participating in those shams should be actionable.

    That’s it. I went off the rails again.  Sorry.  Let’s see if I can make it up to you in…the links!

    Hardline Hamas leader “dies” after “shooting himself in the head”.  Maybe the dies shouldn’t be in quotation marks. I don’t know because I haven’t seen the body. But the second part most likely does.  I mean, if he got all suicidy, wouldn’t he have gone full Hamas and blown himself up on a bus full of innocent Israeli children or something?

    Black Panther

    After such a long wait, has Hollywood finally made a really kick-ass comic book movie? (Confession: I thought Spider Man Homecoming was very well-done.) Well, its Marvel, so it has a much better chance of being good that if it was a DC film. Meh, I’ll have to see what real people rather than critics say.

    HBCU graduation rates are probably a little lower than they ought to be. Of course, the researchers quoted in the story have a solution: throw more money at them. You know, because the solution to a 5% graduation rate after six years has to be more spending.

    All that bitching from Pelosi and the other scumbag politicians from the Bay Area about how Trump is killing their housing industry by cutting taxes appears to be what L.Q. Clemonds would call “a load of hooey”.

    Chicago government can’t even figure out how to run a ticketing scam. Well, they could until the courts reviewed it and realized it was a gross violation of due process.  Now if only every other city in America would abandon the whole traffic camera thing.

    Pals James Comey and Andrew McCabe

    Republicans vote to #releasethememo. And the whole McCabe resignation gets funnier as known perjurer and Keystone Kop of an investigator James Comey rushes to support him. He did not receive such kind words, allegedly, from Trump however after his wife lost her Clinton-funded run for office. Or when he let the taxpayers foot the bill for Comey’s use of official transport after he was let go. The whole thing is hilarious and one can only expect it to get even funnier tonight.

    Get some visine handy. There’s a lot of dusty air around here. Or is someone cutting onions?  Oh yeah, its neither. Its the last link of the morning links. (TW: you will probably cry if you read this.)

    This is for the people mentioned right above.

    Have a great day, friends.

     

  • Everyone Tell Jesse Happy Birthday Monday Links

    Beloved contributor Jesse, whose most recent post is just below this one, is having a birthday today. Let’s just say 29. 29 is a good internet age. Wish him Happy Birthday in the comments and encourage him to post more often.

    Depending on which coverage you follow, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe — whose wife is closely tied to Terry McAuliffe and Hillary Clinton — is either “removed” or “stepping down” from his position. However you look at it, it appears he’ll be spending his PTO on getting himself across his pension threshold. Infowars and Breitbart are probably orgiastic paroxysms of victorious joy over this.

    In today’s entry of Stuff only White People Care About: Chief Wahoo gets white-washed from Cleveland Indigenous Persons uniforms.

    WaPo remembers when Woodrow Wilson ruined things by giving a SOTU speech in person.

    Let’s see if Florida is still 50th now that Beckham has a communist football club in Miami. “The team will play in a 25,000-seat, privately funded stadium to be built in the city’s Overtown neighborhood”. On the other hand, astronauts will screw anything at 2am.

    I wish we had a classy executive like the French.

     

    Woodrow Wilson thing made me think of this.

     

  • Monday Morning Uh-oh Links

    Happy Monday ever-body! Sloopy has some sort of situation come up and I am pitch hitting. So let’s see: The Pacific group won the NHL All-Star Game and the Hipster Mancunians won the Fanny Adams cup in communist football. And now… the links!

    I was skeptical about a magazine whose acronym can be pronounce “penis” publishing a study on ibuprofen and “compensated hypogonadism”. But this may be legit. Long-term ibuprofen use may be contraindicated for the dudes.

    This is the situation which results in a school and probably a police station burning down. Baker acting a seven year old. What the fuck is wrong with people?

    In other Florida news, there is probably a Florida Man with 4 days worth of meth, a Pub Sub, 40 feet of nylon rope, and 55 gallon barrel on his way to meet the author of this piece. This person has never been to Connecticut or Oklahoma.

    You know, for all the shit we get about being ugly Americans, the other Anglophone countries do a good job of shitting up places.

     

    For music, I think I’ve gone with Holiday in Cambodia recently, so here’s something tangentially related.

  • ZARDOZ SUNDAY EVENING LINKS

    FELLOW COMMENTERS?

     

    ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. THE GIFT OF THE LINK WILL BE YOURS, BECAUSE YOU HAVE CARRIED OUT YOUR DUTY OF SNARKING AT THE BRUTALS, WHO ARE LEGION. ZARDOZ IS CONSIDERING A RECRUITING DRIVE, FOR ADDITIONAL BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS. THERE IS SO MUCH OF THE STUPIDITY OF BRUTALS….ZARDOZ MUST DETERMINE A WAY TO REDUCE IT. OBSERVE, IN THE GIFT OF THE LINK, THE IDIOCY OF THE BRUTALS;

    1. THIS FOOLISH BRUTAL THINKS HE KNOWS OF CLEANSING THE FILTH OF BRUTALS? ZARDOZ KNEW HE SHOULD HAVE TRADEMARKED THAT PHRASE.
    2. IF THE BRUTALS ARE ALL CHEATING, WHY IS THE SCHOOL CALLED “ONE OF AMERICA’S BEST”?
    3. BRITISH BRUTALS HAVE TO GO TO…FRANCE TO GET REPAIRED? BETTER THEY WERE CLEANSED BY THAT WONDERFUL BRUTAL EXTERMINATING ORGANIZATION – THE NHS.
    4. FOOLS. ALL GRAIN SHOULD BE HELD FOR THE VORTEX, NOT PUT ON “UNESCO’S INTANGIBLE HERITAGE LIST”.

    SEE WHAT ZARDOZ MEANS? ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

  • Sunday Morning Only Mildly Hungover Links

    OK, I’m not a big drinker, but I’ll confess to having a few last night. And a few more. But I had an excuse- dinner at an amazingly good Afghan restaurant, where most of the other patrons appeared to be predominantly Afghan and Iranian (the cuisines are similar), and our table was peopled with a fascinating mix. It’s a BYOB place, and we brought indeed. Swiss and two other highly decorated vets of the various Afghan campaigns regaled us with cynical stories of their experiences. RAHeinlein and her husband talked geek science. Webdominatrix and I drank and listened. And coincidentally, yesterday’s news brought us yet more evidence that our 17 year (and still running) war in Afghanistan is a stunning success.

    Every time I deal with tiresome progressives who slobber over the vast superiority of Europe in all ways, I always come back to the concept of free speech. “But they have much freer speech than we do!” Bull-fucking-shit. And I speak with some experience, having had most of my mother’s family (who were shut out of immigrating to the US by changes in the laws meant to exclude “undesirables” such as Jews) slaughtered in Polish extermination camps. The two people who survived Auschwitz and were eventually smuggled into South America would never speak directly of their experiences, but carried a deep hatred of Poles and Poland which spoke volumes over who were the culprits. Come on, arrest me for saying that. (I found this in the news this morning, but looks like Chafed sent the tip last night while I was merrymaking, so I’ll be generous with the h/t; or is it yarmulke tip?)

    They tried assembling his coffin using the pictogram instructions, but there seemed to be two missing Allen bolts.

    From the Department of Let Them Eat Cake, comes this little gem. Remember all those kids who died from Legos? Yeah, me neither. The whole rush for sexy stories to pull in grant money has made certain areas of science (climatology, toxicology, epidemiology, nutrition) into the sort where the presumption has to be that the “research” is bullshit. I may have more to say about this later this week, since I’ve seen some of my work cited frequently (and mischaracterized) in stories of panic about plastics.

    Speaking of eating, the Old Guy music today centers on a theme near and dear to the heart of a Jewish vegetarian. I happened to be sitting in the front row at the recording of this album and the show was as fun as it sounds here.

  • STEVE SMITH SULLEN SATURDAY NIGHT LINKS

    FIND AT BOOKSTORE.

    STEVE SMITH NOT HAPPY…HE NO GET LAWYER TO STOP IMAGE USE. ALL AFRAID OF RAPE. SO STEVE SMITH RAPE LAST 2 LAWYERS…NOT SEE PROBLEM. BUT THIS NOT FUNNY GLIBERTARIANS PEOPLE PROBLEM. IS PROBLEM FOR STEVE SMITH. HE THINK ON IT, WHILE YOU READ LINKS AND SAY FUNNY THINGS.

    • STEVE SMITH CATEGORICALLY DENY BEING PART OF TEAM WHO ASK QUESTIONS OF PRINCE. HIM COOPERATE FREELY. NOT AT THREAT OF STEVE SMITH RAPE. NOPE.
    • YOU KNOW STEVE SMITH DON’T LIKE AMATEURS…SO HOPE THIS PUT MANY IN JAIL OR DISGRACE.
    • SILLY NEWSPAPER THINK, NEXT TIME GOVERNMENT SPEND GOOD. MAYBE STEVE SMITH NEED TO RAPE THEM INTO GOOD SENSE?
    • STEVE SMITH NOT KNOW WHAT TO SAY…SO YOU READ, HE JUST SHAKE HEAD.

    STEVE SMITH GO NOW. IT DISCOUNT NIGHT AT RV PARK, SO STEVE SMITH GO FIND CHEAP DATES. BY FIND CHEAP DATES, MEAN RAPE ENTIRE RV PARK.

     

  • Saturday Morning News Roundup- with links

    This week was not one of our best. SP got in a heap of trouble for wearing her Glibs gear to Show And Tell, and I had to spend a great deal of time with her teacher and principal. “But it’s a family friendly site, suitable for all ages!” Nonetheless, I had to do some fancy dancing to explain away the Hat and Hair theme…

    Anyway, let’s cast our usual cynical eyes on the news. First, from the always-peaceful Middle East, there’s people who actually want war and aren’t satisfied that they’re getting enough. And there’s some weirdly familiar themes.

    Kilis, a town with a population of fewer than 100,000, has swelled to 130,000 with the influx of refugees, and although the Syrians have been widely accepted, there is local resentment, especially over economic resources. Turkey has spent billions on the refugees, noted Mr. Emir, the barber, whose shop was empty. “If the government had given that money to the Turkish population there would not be any poor people left,” he said.

    I know, let’s get involved! What could possibly go wrong?

    “Bang! Bang! Hahaha, just kidding, Joe, you can get up off the floor now.”

    If you feel like you don’t have enough meaningless things to fret about, here’s one for you. Know what I fret about? That Scientific American used to be an excellent and educational publication, and now it’s all about politics, FUD, and fourth-rate bloggers. The enstupidation of America continues apace.

    I swear, this was a sub-plot in The Sum of All Fears.

    As much as we complain about the legacy news media, they still have the capacity to entertain. I’m reminded of the Three Stooges short where their boat sprang a leak and started sinking, so Curly drilled holes in the bottom to let the water out.

    The Dutch have spoken: in a contest to determine the Showpiece of the Netherlands, the finalists included Rembrandt’s Night Watch, Leeuwenhouk’s microscope, and Escher’s Sky and Water. The winner? The Plakkaat Van Verlatinghe, their version of the Declaration of Independence from 1581; in their case, the independence was from the Spanish king. It’s worth a read.

    It wouldn’t be a Saturday morning without Old Guy Music. This one is a special edition in honor of Glib Fit. If you’re old like me, you might have nightmarish memories of phys ed class with this stupid thing blaring at you, a relic of JFK’s version of Michelle Obama do-gooding. For the children, of course. When Robert Preston died, I had a little celebration.

  • ZARDOZ FRIDAY NIGHT LINKS

    RECEIVE THE LECTURE

     

    ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. FRIEND STEVE SMITH IS TAKING NIGHT OFF, THUS ZARDOZ WILL GIVE YOU THE GIFT OF THE LINK. ZARDOZ REMINDS HIS CHOSEN ONES OF A FEW THINGS FIRST;

    1. YOU HAVE BEEN RAISED UP FROM BRUTALITY, TO SNARK AT THE BRUTALS WHO MULTIPLY, AND ARE LEGION,
    2. THE PENIS IS EVIL! THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME BACKSLIDING ON THIS, WITH LINKS TO “FLBP” AND “THICC” AND SUCH. ZARDOZ WARNS THAT OBSERVING SUCH, MAY CAUSE PENIC ERECTION. BETTER THAT YOU BE CAREFUL, AND GO FORTH AND COMMENT.
    3. THE GUN IS GOOD. HERE, ZARDOZ IS PLEASED (ESPECIALLY WITH HIS CHOSEN ONE, VHYRUS) WITH THE KNOWLEDGE AND DEDICATION MANY OF HIS CHOSEN ONES SHOW TO THE GUN!

    NOW, RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE LINK!

    • NOT MUCH OF A “CLASH” IF THERE IS NO USE OF THE GUN. ZARDOZ WONDERS IF THERE WILL BE ACCUSATIONS OF RUSSIAN BOTS OR MEDDLING THERE?
    • ZARDOZ WAS HOPING FOR MORE CLEANSING. APPARENTLY THE ESCAPEES WERE NOT DANGEROUS ENOUGH. NO WORD WAS SENT TO ZARDOZ OR THE TABERNACLE IF ANY OF THEM WERE NOTED COMMENTERS FROM OTHER SITES.
    • ZARDOZ BELIEVES THIS WILL BE DONE IN THE USUAL EU MANNER – CLUMSILY, HEAVY HANDED, AND WITH A REGRETTABLE LACK OF CLEANSING.
    • FOOLISH BRUTAL IS CAUGHT. IF ZARDOZ FINDS OUT THAT ANY OF THE ITEMS HE HAD WERE STOLEN FROM THE VORTEX…HE WILL BE CLEANSED.

    GO FORTH AND COMMENT! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

     

    *Glib Brutal bows and scrapes into room*

    “Oh, mighty ZARDOZ, might we put a link in to show the new Hat n’ Hair merch?”

    *flees in terror*

  • Firearms Friday: SHOT Show MEGAPOST

    I have returned, brave glibs! Certain real life circumstances have kept me away from the site, but know that I am always here, watching, waiting, and ready to talk about guns for hours on end. SHOT Show finished off today. For those that don’t know, SHOT Show is the biggest firearms trade show on earth. It is where all the big (and small) manufacturers gather to show off their newest toys. Unfortunately, my invitation must have gotten lost in the mail so I was not able to attend in person, but I have been scouring the tubes looking for the biggest gun news to share to you, our loyal shitposters. So, without further delay, here are the biggest stories from SHOT 2018:

    • Probably the biggest shakeup of the show was Franklin Armory’s debut of a gun they call ‘The Reformation’. It’s an 11.5″ barreled fully functional AR with a stock and does not require a NFA tax stamp. People were freaking out about this thing for at least a week before the show. It turns out that the secret is a pretty big let down: it has a straight rifled barrel. This means the bullets don’t come out spinning. For those wondering, yes, that gives it terrible accuracy. They claim something like 4 moa at 50 yards before it starts keyholing. They also claim they are working with ammo manufacturers to create finned bullets specifically for this design. If it works, we could (possibly) see a major change in firearms production as companies make special non NFA sbrs with straight rifling. Most likely scenario? This thing becomes the gyrojet of the 21st century. Only time will tell.
    • On a significantly less disappointing note, Ruger has come out swinging with their ‘new’ PC Carbine. It’s a traditional looking rifle chambered in 9mm that can take either SR series magazines or Glock magazines with a simple adapter change, and the adapter is included. The gun is fully reversible for right or left hand operation, and it even breaks down into 2 parts for transport and storage. Those of you that have been around guns for awhile probably remember Ruger making a very similar gun called the police carbine, hence the quotes around new. This is basically an updated version of the same gun. This thing is a real winner, and there is a very good chance I will be picking one up in the near future.
    • IWI dropped a bombshell this year by debuting it’s new TS 12 bullpup 12 gauge shotgun. It has a fixed 15 round magazine consisting of three separate 5 round tubes that can be loaded from either side. Once the selected tube is empty, simply rotate the magazine and snap the next 5 rounds in place. Not a perfect solution but it might be good enough. It’s going to be an expensive AF shotgun, but we will have to see if it’s worth the coin. Between this and the new Tavor 7, I might have to sell some of my concubines.
    • It has finally happened. A company has made a housing for the P320 FCG that turns it into a sbr style pistol. Called the EXO ONE, it is sure to put me even further into debt.
    • Century has decided to jump on board the 9mm gravy train with it’s new Draco NAK9 pistol. It is a blowback 9mm AK style pistol that takes Glock mags. Do want.
    • Not to be outdone, CZ has come out with the Scorpion Micro. Sporting a 4 inch barrel and a collapsible stock brace, this looks like quite a nice little, uh… ‘pistol’ for your truck or other tight space.
    • This is quickly becoming the year of the 9mm and the 12 gauge. Mossberg and Remington have both come out with magazine fed 12 gauge pump guns. The Mossberg ones are slightly more interesting seeing as how the magazine are actually double stack. This allows them to hold considerably more ammo without sticking out freakishly long below the gun. Is the era of the tube fed shotgun coming to an end? Could be…
    • Strike industries has developed an AR magazine that will eject itself on the last round fired. I can see this becoming the go to standard magazine for 3 gun matches. No word on pricing or availability yet. I am anxiously awaiting their arrival.
    • Palmetto State Armory is going into production with an AK pattern 9mm carbine that takes… MP5 magazines? Huh. Well A for originality on that one. They also plan on releasing a 5.56 AK that takes AR mags and a 9mm AK that accepts Glock mags, proving that they haven’t completely lost their minds. Much more interestingly, they also are working on producing their own in house MP5 clones; however, those will not be available anytime soon.
    • However, PSA might be out of luck on their MP5 clones cause PTR just beat them to it.
    • Sig has officially announced you will be able to buy the M17 on the civilian market, ensuring a steady consumer base of up and coming Call Of Duty neckbeards for generations. They also introduced a slim frame subcompact 9mm with a 10 round capacity called the P365.
    • Attention Canada: You can now purchase Glock 19s! The Canadian legal Glock 19 has a slightly longer barrel to comply with your retarded barrel length laws. You’re welcome.
    • And last, but not least, my favorite handgun company Walther has finally release the PPQ Subcompact. Took you guys long enough.

    That is all for now, my loyal readers. As for when I shall return, I cannot say. But know this: When the future is darkest, when the world needs me the most, I shall return. Until then, I will always be watching through my magnified red dot.

  • Friday Morning Links

    This has been a loooong week. I’m exhausted. And now I have to drive to Decauter over the weekend to look at a bunch of equipment. Then I have to get back to work on Monday to get the big auction ready.  Meanwhile, the Ft Worth Stock Show is going on so I’ll have to stay in Dallas tomorrow night. So if any of you are up for a little fun in the Big D tomorrow night, let me know.  The wife and I will be headed in to town (she’s coming with since its an anniversary of sorts).

    Federer will face Cilic in the Aussie final after the Swiss advanced in a walkover when his opponent got “blisters under blisters under blisters” on his left foot. Lots of hockey last night. Feel free to discuss. All Star Game this weekend, likewise for the NBA.

    I’ve got to move on quickly because I’m running behind. So here are…the links!

    Apparently Trump ordered Mueller to be fired and then recanted when he was told his White House counsel was going to quit. Wait, is the right word to use there “apparently” or “allegedly”?  I’m not sure what the style guide says to use when a story’s only sources are according to four people told of the matter. Could someone help me out here? Are there any alumni from Columbia, perhaps? I mean, for all we know, those are the same unnamed people they used to break the “Sessions to be fired imminently” a few months ago and other items the NYT would like us to forget they published in the last year based solely on “unnamed sources with information about …”

    Oh my God! Maybe she’s an Opharpus and has five more arms under there!

    Pardon me if I yawn and say “I really don’t believe you” to the entire story. Sorry, mainstream media. You’ve lost all credibility in the last year. And by the way, Trump has called it fake news. On the record.

    Wait, maybe Oprah is really a Hindu god and actually has more than three arms hiding under that dress. And why do they feel the need to photoshop these women? Doesn’t send a very body-positive message, does it? Those shitlords at Vanity Fair need to get woke.  And I mean WOKE AF as quickly as possible. Either way, I blame the patriarchy.

    In a story about the FBI-Russiagate-Trump-Clinton-Strzok-Page-Etc-Etc Scandal, This one with written memos and people willing to go on record, it appears that the lost text messages have been recovered. Strangely enough, they were recovered when the Inspector General had devices seized from the two people who said the messages had disappeared.  I guess the IG has some magic wand that makes things appear when the holders of devices told their bosses they were gone.

    At some point, we need to start using this as a tool to cull the herd of the stupid. Because you’ve got to be a real dumbshit to do this.

    County commissioner doesn’t attend meetings he’s supposed to attend. Constituent tells him that’s not a good way to do your job. Commissioner shares his true feelings about constituent on Facebook.

    Let’s hope he can stay sober longer than the rest of his family

    Looks like Team Blue are gonna drop the Clintons and go back to another dynasty for their response to the SOTU.  Because, you know, they’re the party of the young, fresh-faced diverse America.  Yet somehow all of their leading voices are old-ass white people or the descendants of a pill-popping junkie president or his drunk driving-to death brother.

    Shit, it worked yesterday, so I’m gonna tie the music in with the last link and pay tribute to Ted Kennedy.

    Hey, have a great end to your week and an even better weekend. I’m gonna go celebrate six wonderful years.

    (Last paragraph edited due to personal backlash)