And (((we))) do, you know. According to Stormy Daniels, Trump is circumcised, and I don’t think that’s a coincidence!
I really should note that today is the birthday of both Ho Chi Minh and Pol Pot. I hope they’re celebrating it together. It’s also the birthday of Andre The Giant. I hope that in Heaven, he’s dreaming of large women. And one other notable birthday, which I’ll save until the end. But first, a few carefully curated news stories.
The fiery leftist leading the race for Mexican president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, vowed Friday to hit back at US President Donald Trump if he insults Mexico on Twitter. “If he makes an offensive tweet, I’m going to take responsibility for answering him,” said Lopez Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor who has a double-digit lead in most opinion polls heading into the July 1 election.
That’ll teach him!
This story is sooooo meta. And it strikes me that prosecutions here are violations of the First Amendment, but what the fuck do I know, phrases like “no law” and “shall not be infringed” are things that as a non-legal scholar I cannot possibly be allowed to understand.
“This pay-for-removal scheme attempts to profit off of someone else’s humiliation,” said Attorney General Xavier Becerra.
Said with the innocence of a guy who caused that humiliation. I need to go look for a good deal on a woodchipper.
There are some pieces of pseudo-science that refuse to die. The electromagnetic fields one is a beautiful example, a complete creation of one guy (Brodeur) that captured the imaginations of millions of ignorati. I must admire the creativity in this latest twist, however.
Matt Shardlow, CEO of Buglife said: “We apply limits to all types of pollution to protect the habitability of our environment, but as yet, even in Europe, the safe limits of electromagnetic radiation have not been determined, let alone applied. “There is a credible risk that 5G could impact significantly on wildlife, and that placing transmitters on LED street lamps, which attract nocturnal insects such as moths increases exposure and thereby risk.
“Therefore we call for all 5G pilots to include detailed studies of their influence and impacts on wildlife, and for the results of those studies to be made public.”
Translation: we’re going to keep sowing FUD and making demands until you pay us off. I do like that they’re worried about sources of EMF being placed too close to… sources of EMF.
OK, that last birthday that I hinted at. Yep, old Scoopnose, my fellow hobbyist, Pete Townsend. And here’s a song of his from the early days that should be better known than it is.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. AS IF ZARDOZ ISN’T BUSY ENOUGH HAULING GRAIN EVERYWHERE, NOW HE WILL BE BOMBARDED WITH MORE WHINING ABOUT THE GIFT OF THE GUN. SO IF CURRENT EVENTS HAVE ZARDOZ DOWN A BIT, AT LEAST THE CHOSEN ONES PROVE A RECEPTIVE AUDIENCE! THEREFOR, ZARDOZ WILL CONTINUE TO LIFT YOU FROM BRUTALITY AND GIVE YOU THE GIFT OF THE LINK. GO AND SNARK AT THE BRUTALS, WHO PLAGUE THE EARTH AS OF OLD!
HMMMM. MAYBE ZARDOZ CAN OFFER A BETTER DEAL THAN THE VENEZUELAN ARMY… EXPAND THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS TO SOUTH AMERICAN, ALL IN ONE FELL SWOOP!
SELF-CLEANSING BRUTAL! ZARDOZ BELIEVES THE CHOSEN ONES MAY NOMINATE THE BRUTAL FOR A “DARWIN AWARD”, YES?
ZARDOZ IS SHAKING HIS (STONE) HEAD…IF A BRUTAL WANTS TO PLAGIARIZE A SPEECH, WHY ONE FROM A BUFFOON?
THIS SEEMS…ODDLY CONTRADICTORY. YES, YOU WIN ON YOUR ISSUE, AND NOW WE ARE GOING TO ROUND YOU UP. BRUTALS PUZZLE ZARDOZ.
All right! Glib-fit is back. I love a chance to practice my creative fiction! I hope everyone has a wonderful Friday. I took a nap with a sick kid because you really expect me to work when I’m tired and my pathetic little snot angel says, “Daddy. Way down!”? Yeah. No go.
I know this was probably linked in the earlier articles, but I’m gonna lead with it. The shooting in Santa Fe, down south of Houston sucks. Go find somewhere else to be a murderous asshole. I am glad they took him alive. Its an encouraging trend and I hope it continues so the next generation of fanbois can watch documentaries of Cruz and this guy saying, “I hate prison. I hate it. I wish I’d died.”
Glibernauts and Lady Glibs, are you prepared? GlibFit returns with a lower budget, straight to Netflix sequel starring Ted McGinley! Can you feel the excitement?!?
Week 1’s Real Talk – Trust the Process
Most fitness challenges tell you to commit to some goal. Lose 10 pounds in 10 weeks or something like that. I think that’s a bad idea. Instead, I’m going to challenge to you commit to a process.
Don’t tell me you are going to lose so many pounds, or increase your squat by so many pounds, or nail that hot crazy Korean chick you know you shouldn’t. Tell us what you are going to do.
First thing – pick your goal. Is it weight loss? Or is it fitness? Weight loss is the process of depriving your body of energy so that it converts fat stores into energy. Fitness is the process of picking things up and putting them down, using excess energy in your diet to improve your heart, lungs, and muscles. These are not the same things. And while they aren’t mutually exclusive, most people should pick one as their goal. Not both.
Is your goal weight loss? Cool. What are you going to do to eat less? Keto? Food tracking? Fasting?
Is your goal fitness? Cool. What are you going to pick up? How are you going to move your flabby, disgusting, pale body?
Are you such a fat out of shape fuck that you can do both at the same time productively? Cool. What are you going to do?
In the comments, tell us where you are at and what you are going to do for the next 10 weeks.
If you followed GlibFit 1.0 and the comments, you know that I am such a fat, out of shape fuck that I could do both. Yay. I’ve been doing this for the last six months, and I’ve picked up a thing or two in this time. I’m not an expert, far from it. But I’m a fan of the wall-thrown spaghetti approach to life. So for the rest of GlibFit 2.0 you can expect wholesome programming where I lay out one thing that’s worked **for me.** You can take it or leave it.
So here’s my status and commitment. I’ve gone, so far, from 422 lbs to 336 lbs and from about 50% body fat to about 35% body fat. I’ve discovered tendonitis in my knee and I’ve greatly reduced pain from it with bodyweight exercises. And I’ve totally wrecked my metabolism in the process.
So my goals are to get my metabolism on track while maintaining a much smaller and more reasonable calorie deficit (eating 2800 calories for a 750 deficit instead of 1800 eaten per day), while going to the gym six days a week. Six days I’ll do the PT, four days I do upper-body lifts, and three or four days I will do cardio.
Don’t know what to do to lose weight? Go read this. Don’t know what to do to start improving fitness? Go read this.
Bonus 1 Week Challenge
Log your eating, or log your workout, for one week. Keep track of what you are doing, and then at the end of the week look back at what you did. Are you happy with that?
I know there are a lot of Glibs Caps fans out there. So I won’t dwell on last night’s game too much. But I gotta say, they should call the DC Police on Andrei Vasilevskiy for grand larceny. Jesus, I haven’t seen a performance between the pipes like that since that stupid, twitchy asshole Patrick Roy tore through the playoffs with Les Canadiens that one year (I can’t be arsed to look it up, but I’m sure somebody will refresh my memory). Or maybe Dominic Hasek in his golden years. Suffice to say, if they fail to win this series, the Capitals will look to this game as the reason why.
No basketball, because the NBA needs 4 days between playoff games. What, are the players walking from Boston to Cleveland? COME ON!!!!! Also, The Dodgers won a game to avoid being swept by the Marlins after they were swept in 4 by the Reds. The defending NL Champs are 2 games ahead of having the worst record in the entire National League. Elsewhere, the first place Astros were off yesterday.
IF you have a birthday today, you share it with Tsar Nicholas II, last Tsar of Russia, Crown Prince Ruprecht, filmmaker Frank Capra, Tennis player and clothier to Mods Fred Perry, the last rally great pontiff, Saint John Paul II, “Mr October” Reggie Jackson, Chinese actor Chow Yun Fat, Canadien hero Jari Kurri, rapper Rob Base, sometimes funny woman Tina Fey and my brother.
It was also the day Napoleon was declared Emperor by the French Senate. Christopher Marlowe, author of such plays as Othello and The Merchant Of Venice, is arrested for heresy. Great Britain declares war on France (for the umpteenth time) in 1756, Britain declares war on France in 1803. And Dracula is published in London.
You get all that? Good! Now its time for…the links!
Let’s see how many “libertarian” pundits abandon this position today.
Wow, what the fuck is wrong with people? He gets points for honesty in describing things. The writer of the story loses points for dishonest reporting in trying to tie guns to the killings as more than just a tool the killer used.
Companies anxious to get sued send products to Charlotte, NC. Seriously, who in their right mind, in this litigious age, would just put electric scooters out there for people to rent at their own convenience on busy city streets and sidewalks? They’ll be bankrupt within a year.
People often say to me, “SP, you are the queen of my heart.”
Well, what’s the percentage in that?!
You have no doubt noticed that with the run-up to this weekend’s Royal wedding, my family, although not inbred, has been doing its best to emulate the British Royal Family these past 36 hours:
1. We have purely ceremonial powers
2. We expect to be idolized and feted simply for being born
3. We meddle and make pronouncements about all manner of things
4. Webdominatrix and I rock tiaras
5. We’re a Royal PITA and you can’t get rid of us
However, in yet another gracious act of Queenly benevolence, I will bestow upon my loyal subjects…the links.
You all have orphans to do all your mundane or nasty tasks. But sometimes orphans get sick. And nobody has an inexhaustible supply, even Glibs.
So, air your dirty laundry. What household chore(s) do you loathe doing? And I realize this will be a mostly first-world-problem kind of list. Still.
I’ll start. I absolutely detest unloading the dishwasher. I don’t mind loading it, or even washing dishes or pots and pans by hand. But I will procrastinate on unloading that blasted machine as long as I possibly can.
Oh, and I hate folding laundry and putting it away.
But maybe you’re a glass half full kind of person. What household chore(s) do you love doing?
I love gardening for edibles. No, silly, like vegetables, fruits, and herbs.
Well, SP does morning links yesterday, Web Dominatrix does an article last night, and here I am doing links today. We’re running out of family members here to write this shit.
I’m just back from my second technical conference in two weeks. Fortunately, I didn’t have to fly to it, it was within a day’s drive. Unfortunately, I had an invited paper to present, which meant wearing a suit. This is particularly annoying because in a suit, I look like an elderly and chubby side-show monkey, and really, I became a scientist because it was a profession that would not require me to be in business attire. Even worse, I couldn’t have my emotional support polar bear with me because of the hot weather.
Wilders has lived in safe houses under 24-hour guard since 2004 to protect him from Islamist militants who threaten to kill him. He says Islam is a fascist ideology, and has called for halting immigration from Muslim countries, shutting mosques and banning the Koran.
So he’s (correctly) complaining that the government wants to shut down his freedom of speech, while happily calling for banning of a book and ending religious freedom. I really do hate everyone in this story. He does have great hair, though. You gotta give him that.
This story amazes me. Not because the lawyer was an asshole, but because people acted so shocked and surprised that a New York Jewish lawyer would be an asshole. Inconceivable! What doesn’t surprise me is the functional illiteracy of both the guy who started the outrage cycle and the moron who wrote the article.
“They where on there [sic] lunch time and ordering there [sic] food and just because they where speaking in Spanish to the waiter this asshole jumps in and started to call the waiter and my wife and her best friend all types of names and threatened to call I.C.E on them and the employees,” Suazo wrote. “What a big man talking down to couple of women and a helpless employee. I wish someone tells me I can’t speak in my native language! First of all they wasn’t talking to you!!”
“There is a spirit that is over this city that has to be brought down. A spirit of racism and division,” [Birmingham mayor] Woodfin said in a Facebook post. “We have to change the conversation to what we need it to evolve into. Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that,” the post went on to say.
Didn’t Woodfin get the memo? Only white people can be racist.
Old Guy Music! I wish Milt Buckner got the credit he deserved. He had a unique “locked hands” method of playing, very chord heavy. Here’s his take on a great Neal Hefti standard, and I probably need not point out that Jo Jones may have been a perfect drummer. His timing was… well… remarkable.
The whole experience is just bothersome. I hate being on a plane. I hate that there are other passengers. I especially hate when families with children fly.
No matter where I sit on the plane I’m always stuck next to the family with a toddler who is running up and down the aisles, a screaming baby, and a crackhead teenager who hasn’t showered since he hit puberty.
Emotional support animals were also on my list of things I hate about flying, but that is about to change.
But these guidelines say fuck all about honey badgers.
I want to board a plane with my emotional support honey badger while I am rocking this t-shirt, and I will just sit there quietly as my honey badger savages any and every passenger and emotional support peacock that’s pissing me off.
(I’ve had a frustrating week, can you tell?)
In other news, I am having daydreams of a glib meetup where we are all rocking this shirt. Glibs Take Chicago, and we all flood out of Union Station wearing the honey badger shirt.
¡Buenas tardes Glibs! They Glibertariati decided to pull me from the bullpen this afternoon to deliver you the links.
¡Cuidado México, ya voy!
A 4.9 magnitude earthquake hits Mexico. No word as of yet (1030ET) as to damages to life or property, but I assume rescue crews are chomping at the bit.
Un sismo de magnitud 4,9 sacudió este miércoles a 15 kilómetros al noroeste de Arcelia, México, informó el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS).
El sismo había sido previamente reportado por el Servicio Sismológico Nacional de México, que dio una magnitud inicial de 5,3 y posteriormente de 5,2.
Según USGS el sismo se produjo a una profundidad de 81,2 kilómetros.
En Ciudad de México se activó la alerta sísmica y en Guerrero la Secretaría de Protección Civil “activó los protocolos de prevención en todo el estado, tras él sismo registrado la mañana de este miércoles con epicentro en el municipio de Arcelia, a fin de descartar cualquier riesgo para la población”, informaron en un comunicado.
An earthquake of magnitude 4.9 shook Wednesday 15 kilometers northwest of Arcelia, Mexico, reported the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
The earthquake had previously been reported by the National Seismological Service of Mexico, which gave an initial magnitude of 5.3 and later of 5.2.
According to USGS, the earthquake occurred at a depth of 81.2 kilometers.
In Mexico City the seismic alert was activated and in Guerrero the Secretariat of Civil Protection “activated the prevention protocols throughout the state, after the earthquake registered this Wednesday morning with the epicenter in the municipality of Arcelia, in order to rule out any risk to the population, “they said in a statement.
Este martes se vivió un día repleto de noticias económicas en Argentina. Por un lado, después de varias jornadas de alza, el Banco Central consiguió que el dólar baje y llevar así un poco de calma a los mercados. Por el otro, se dio a conocer la cifra de inflación oficial para abril, que registró un 2,7% de aumento. ¿Está logrando el Gobierno controlar la economía? Jonatan Viale nos da su perspectiva.
This Tuesday there was a day full of economic news in Argentina. On the one hand, after several days of rally, the Central Bank managed to get the dollar down and thus bring a bit of calm to the markets. On the other hand, the official inflation figure was released for April, which registered a 2.7% increase. Is the government managing to control the economy? Jonatan Viale gives us his perspective.
When people tell me that Trump is going to round up Mexicans and put them into camps, I happen to think they are a bit crazy, and let them know that I think they are crazy. It may sound like they have something to point to in this case, but the devil as they say is in the details. This is only for children arriving under 18 AND separated from their parents….okay this might be crazy. There is no decision yet, and the article does admit that. It is mostly a review of 4 bases in TX and AR to determine if the on base facilities meet HHS standards for temporary housing.
La orden presidencial incluye una serie de medidas, entre ellas la de elaborar “una lista detallada de todas las instalaciones existentes, incluidas las instalaciones militares, que podrían usarse, modificarse o reutilizarse para detener a extranjeros por violaciones de la ley de inmigración en las fronteras de Estados Unidos o cerca de ellas”.
Alison Parker, directora gerente del programa para EEUU de Human Right Watch, dijo que “las autoridades de inmigración deben mantener juntas a las familias y no deben mantener a niños durante la noche en celdas de detención”. Consideró además que es “una práctica común en la actualidad” a lo que se le está uniendo la posibilidad de que ahora sean enviados a bases militares.
“El gobierno federal sabe que tiene obligaciones legales para proporcionar viviendas adecuadas para los niños. Es imposible imaginar cómo esas obligaciones legales, mucho menos obligaciones morales de trato humano para los niños se pueden cumplir en una base militar. No hay justificación para esta decisión política dura y absurda”, resaltó Parker en un comunicado escrito
The presidential order includes a series of measures, including the preparation of “a detailed list of all existing facilities, including military installations, that could be used, modified or reused to detain foreigners for violations of the immigration law at the borders. of the United States or near them. “
Alison Parker, managing director of the US Human Rights Watch program, said that “immigration authorities should keep families together and should not keep children overnight in detention cells.” He also considered that it is “a common practice now” to which is joining the possibility that they are now sent to military bases.
“The federal government knows that it has legal obligations to provide adequate housing for children It is impossible to imagine how those legal obligations, much less moral obligations of humane treatment for children can be met on a military basis.” There is no justification for this political decision hard and absurd, “Parker said in a written statement
Alison, two of my kids went to a daycare on base. I assure you, people in the military are fully capable of being humane.
Obrador’s “populism” suggests Mexicans are desperate for somebody to stand up to Trump’s bullying and fight government’s deep-rooted corruption that has plunged the country into economic and political turmoil. But he’s making unrealistic promises, and his Made in Mexico policies could further threaten economic trade between the two nations.
You think that’s good? Think again.
The already volatile financial market would go into a tailspin, almost certainly sending the Mexican currency, the peso, on a downward spiral. That means less money to pay for his policies, hurting the very people he wants to get out of poverty.
A President Obrador would stand up to Trump, yes. But in doing so he could isolate Mexico from much needed economic trade with the United States and the world.
American industries – from oil to automobile manufacturing to farmers to cattle ranchers – should be worried about a President Obrador.
Obrador isn’t bluffing. He truly believes he can make Mexico self-sufficient on corn, beans, beef and a range of other current imports.
That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Mexico should become self-sufficient. But it should not be done so at the expense of the poor, who stand to lose the most if Obrador’s socialist agenda fails.
And if a President Obrador fails, as experts predict, that could mean only one thing: A wave of Mexicans heading north to cross to the United States – with or without Trump’s border wall.
The AZ Republic arguing against socialism? Well I’ll be.
Once again translation services are provided by the Alpha Beta Corporation. I guess they managed to stay out of the news this week…good for them!
