Spudalicious gets a night off, so you get my post instead.
Get your own beer, Mini-STEVE SMITH!
Mex… he did it to me again. He takes my suggestion to review some Märzenbieren, and now we have product overlap. Das ist unter aller Kanone! Maybe I will have Prathiba send him some flowers he is allergic to.
Of course, Swiss beer reviews are precise, and superbly accurate….so I have got that going for me. Which is nice.
Bier first, then links.
Victory. This tastes like…victory.
Charlie don’t drink Oktoberfest!
This looks it, this smells it, and this tastes it. It is malt heaven. Neither overly roasty, nor overly sweet. It drinks clean, finishes crisp and is what a Märzenbier should be. Period.
Go find some and buy it. Jetzt!
Last year’s champion…now 2nd place.
Gee….second place.
Last year Sierra Nevada was the champ. This year…2nd best. No shame in that! It would have tied or taken first, but it doesn’t finish quite as clean as the Great Lakes. Don’t get me wrong, this bier is quite good, and worth getting. It might have a bit wider distribution than Great Lakes, too.
What happened? Bell’s has turned out consistently excellent beverages for many a year. This one is…not that. It’s just, off somehow. Starts ok, then finishes sharply…metallic? I have to wonder if I got a bad six-pack. You know something is wrong when beer survives long in my fridge.
Local Heroes
While Illinois has many problems, good local beer is not one of them. Maybe they are related? Bad times require good beer. Some area Oktoberfests;
Strong effort – about the same as Sierra Nevada.
Best thing they have turned out lately. This is an improving brewery.
They show you can take a failed experiment (last year’s hopped Märzen…wtf?) reverse course and make a really good beer.
Now that you have received beer wisdom, we move on to the Links.
- NEVER FORGET!
- The Krauts may have wussed out…but not ‘MURICA!
- Except that Governor Fatbody shuts down moar!
Love the mini Steve Smith.
Governor Fatbody
Sounds like a carburetor style
Or a Harley design that didn’t work.
Why did Swiss put a B&W pic of himself in his post?
I love Perry Mason.
I love Della Street.
so much this, Della was smokin’
Even more in The Falcon movies.
I just realised, my Avatar Yusef Adama from Caprica had a smoking hot Secratary, and he was a big shot Lawyer, coincidence? No fucking Way,
It happens.
*buffs nails on tweed jacket*
Something seasonal
Nice
rawr! thanks!
Um, BOING!
Also, there were that many made for TV Perry Mason movies? Wow.
Also starring The Greatest American Hero as Perry’s PI, as the fictional son of the TV Perry’s Mason’s PI Paul Drake, as the actor who played him had passed by the time they did the TV movie reboots.
“The actor who played him” was Hedda Hopper’s son William.
IIRC Hedda Hopper once did a cameo on The Beverly Hillbillies.
As a wine snob, I feel othered.
It’s our time now, grape boy!
Bourbon! Bourbon! Bourbon!
This pretty good to me.
I only had 4 shots and it hit me. I should read labels more carefully… 100 Proof.
*pours glass of cheap chardonnay*
Was there a black fly in it?
Nah, it just means you’ve got good taste, unlike the beer snobs.
At least Swiss didn’t ask you to put on a blonde wig.
The Krauts may have wussed out…but not ‘MURICA!
Huh, there is one by me sort of. Not within taxi distance though.
Cousins of mine were going to go to Munich this year for Oktoberfest. When they got word it was cancelled, they decided that they would go anyways because there is lots to do around Munich and things will get back to normal by then.
Heh.
They didn’t go to Germany. They’d like to try again next year. Things will be back to normal by then right?
RIGHT??
The PA list of Oktoberfest celebrations is missing Reading Liederkranz. Remember, the first Oktoberfest was a wedding celebration.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritkzer and the Illinois Department of Public Health announced Tuesday that Region 1 will be placed under new restrictions to stop the increased spread of the COVID-19 virus, effective Saturday, October 3rd.
Pritzker and company can go fuck themselves.
Stormcloud Brewing, Frankfort MI Take the Nightswimmer Stout, ferment with Cocoa nibs and mint, Voila!
Andy’s Stout,https://photos.app.goo.gl/1P4c1RMdDk4M9ER49 but wait, ther’s more, Imperial Star-Off Machine, a 9% that drink like a lager in summer, sneaky and citrus notes,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/7osRNf272J2AcH4o8
Michigan makes great beer!
Nice!
I still haven’t been to mylocal brewery yet, it should be as good as the other around these parts, like disc courses, they are everywhere, Huzzah!
That sounds really good.
New Illinois coronavirus restrictions for Region 1 begin Saturday
Because the virus gets bad on the sabbath.
Just wait until these people find out about rhinovirus.
Talking to California Voters About Trump & Biden
That was more entertaining than I expected.
A lot of them seemed pretty reasonable, even though disconnected.
NH State AG threatens Greek Orthodox Church
New Hampshire officials have warned a Greek Orthodox church to stop sharing a chalice and spoon during religious services to avoid the spread of COVID-19, a practice the faith’s Boston leader has decreed is tradition and should not be changed, “especially under pressure from external factors.”
The potential clash between the state of New Hampshire and church leaders follows an outbreak of COVID-19 in early September at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Portsmouth, state officials said.
“The Greek Orthodox practice of using a single, shared chalice and spoon appears to be a possible source of the COVID-19 outbreak at St. Nicholas,” Associate Attorney General Anne Edwards wrote on Sept. 25 to the church pastor and Metropolitan Methodios of Boston, who oversees the Greek Orthodox churches in New Hampshire and five other states.
Edwards also warned church leaders of “further legal enforcement actions to achieve compliance.”
The Clown Prince says all schools should offer at least some in-person learning
Citing a low rate of COVID-19 cases among students statewide, Gov. Chris Sununu on Thursday urged districts still operating 100% remotely to offer some in-person instruction.
More than 80% of New Hampshire districts have some in-classroom learning, either full-time or part-time, with some work from home.
After roughly a month of school in most districts, only 60 of the state’s 192,000 public-school students have tested positive for COVID-19 — one out of 3,200 students, Sununu said.
“The hope is that some of those schools in a fully remote position right now will look at that data,” Sununu said at his weekly briefing on COVID-19 Thursday.
Later he said, “I think the majority of the schools have shown that there is a model to be successful.”
The Central Planning Committee graciously and magnanimously deigns to propose removing some restrictions on hair salons in the Live Free or Die state
Hair salons and barbershops may soon be allowed to open reception areas and end the practice of making customers wait in their car under reopening rules that a state task force endorsed Thursday.
The proposed rules also would let salons cut the hair of customers seated closer than 6 feet apart if the work stations are separated by plastic barriers. Walk-in business would be permitted for the first time since May, though reservations would still be encouraged.
Yesterday it was “never let a crisis go to waste.”
Today it’s “Create a disaster so you can stoke fear and exploit it.”
What next?
Revolution?
I caught up on some old posts and saw the news that Mojeaux was referencing.
Congratulations! Hopefully the grandkid turns out OK.
Thanks! Maybe the pendulum will swing and the kid will turn out to be libertarian.
Start them off with Ron Paul and Gadsden Flag onesies. Is there a Glib rattle in the swag store?
Outdoor dining until Nov. 15th in Nashua, NH. Bring your jackets.
Expanded outdoor dining will continue along Nashua’s Main Street until Nov. 15, with new Jersey barriers set to be installed in the coming days.
“The narrowing of Main Street has been very successful. We have had a very good response from both the downtown merchants themselves and the users of the outdoor dining,” said Tim Cummings, the city’s economic development director.
In May, Main Street was converted into an outdoor dining destination as the four-lane roadway was narrowed to two lanes — one in each direction. The change allowed for a portion of Main Street to be used by restaurants for outdoor dining.
I mean Fuck! even here, we had indoor seating with no masks at the table, and a packed house at Lunchtime, WTF is wrong with the World?
/and it’s so cool to actually sit and enjoy a meal at a restaurant again, brewery or not
There is indoor dining in NH. In fact, I was at a local brewpub almost all of last night sitting at the bar.
The latest edict from the Clown Prince is that restaurants can have indoor dining at 100% if either a) parties are at least six feet apart or b) parties are separated by barriers at least six feet tall. Parties are limited to six adults, or ten if there are children. You see…. six is magic.
The cheap movable barriers that qualify under the Clown Prince’s rules are about $700 a pop.
Many restaurants are still scared about what happens when the weather gets too cold for outdoor dining. Even with the latest edict, they aren’t sure how they are going to make it.
NYC is going outdoor dining year-round. 25% indoor capacity (I believe? I refuse to dine out under these conditions so not sure) but that could be withdrawn at the drop of a hat because why not.
A few places in NH are ignoring the indoor distancing rules.
More than a few places have had completely full bar areas.
I was at one of those places not too long ago.
It was delightfully normal.
I see they are using the new 2020 definition of a Jersey barrier.
/ Gov Murphy.
Chris Christie hovers over your table…?
Paging Sugar Free. Sugar free to the creepy voting booth.
I think they have been in isolation too long. It might be time for them to get some sunshine and fresh air…or just stop eating the mushrooms.
*tweet unavailable*
Booo!
Must have been deleted.
Governor Cuomo Generously Offers To Admit Trump To New York Nursing Home
Liberals Desperately Pray For Trump’s Healing After Realizing Mike Pence Next In Line For Presidency
For those who are interested, here would be a link for a Zoom/Happy Hour for tonight. I’ll kick it off at 20:00 Eastern.
erm, We”l see after this latest Crowler,…………………………….
Thanks, but
is already Happy Hour.
exactly, it started at1130 this morning
Got the night off, so I’ll probably drop in.
Yay!
Thanks!
I’ll drop in tonight. I’m not sure how long I’ll stick around or how much I’ll participate. I need to get caught up at work.
I left my work computer on for more work later but… that was probably wishful thinking.
The Trumps died?
The group Women for America First is organizing a nationwide candlelit prayer for President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump on Saturday evening as they battle the coronavirus.
The prayer will take place Saturday, October 3, at 8:45 p.m. Eastern.
They’re praying they DO die?
Living in a world of overreactions.
*sets hair on fire, runs in circles*
Living in a world of make believe
USAF is fly testing next gen fighter tech! The race for the 6th gen is heating up.
I tuned in to watch the Preakness. No “Maryland, My Maryland.” The traditional song had been cancelled – too reminiscent of the Civil War and slavery. Those woke enough to outlaw it probably didn’t catch the irony that the original first line is “The despot’s heel is on thy shore.”
I’d say that line and theme might be WHY the woke cancelled singing that song. Don’t want the non-woke thinking about modern day despotism.
I must bitch about the food delivery business model. Why must I tip before I receive my service? Dingus delvers the food with no notification so it gets cold sitting on the doorstep. Asshat.
I get that the preparers can mess up the order, and they often do. That’s not on the driver. I can call the restaurant and complain, or demand a refund and usually get it. But there are places we will not order from anymore because they just can’t get the order right. Looking at you Huey Luey’s and Newk’s.
The driver has his/her/its tip in advance. That’s crap. They need to have a delivery score system of some sort.
They left your delivery on your outside porch, and got your Huey Luey’s dewy?
^dad joke
Styx debated Richard Spencer the other day. A pretty good debate so far from what I’m seeing:
https://youtu.be/J8YlJKbMm7M
Sorry, that’s just way too long for me.
Trump just released a vid from quarantine:
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1312525833505058816
He sounds like he has a tickle in his throat a little bit but otherwise he looks and sounds OK considering.
Looks a little pale. And I am disappointed he didn’t say “Chinavirus” or something similar.
A moron announces she’s a moron:
If you knowingly transmit AIDS or HIV to another person you can be charged criminally, even with murder!
Donald Trump needs to be charged criminally for knowingly having a virus that can be deadly and not practicing social distancing or informing anyone he was around.
Not in CA. And you can’t know you have a cold if you do not have cold symptoms.
Melania is handling it statistically like it is supposed to be handled.
So I can have her if/when you die? //jk
I hate people. And I don’t want to.
Yes but his condition can turn at any time and he’s going to choke to death on his own orange lymph fluid!
Anytime now!
First year trying the yuengling Oktoberfest – seems decent on the whole – not as good as the imports I normally get, but not bad.
It’s a decent Oktoberfest. I’ve had it in past years.
Liengling did a decent job on the Oktoberfest this year.
I received a FEDEX package this morning. It was 30 pounds of peanut butter and Nutella with a handwritten note in perfect calligraphy that said:
“Eat it all. In case you have allergy, there enough to kill you.”
Reason 1,001 English loan words in Japanese are incomprehensible to actual English speakers.
“Ritechua”
Anybody want to guess without looking it up?
Ritual.
Close, but incorrect.
Virtual?
Literature?
Bingo
I remember when there was Literature and then, there was American Literature.
I remember the acronym for Comparative Literature in my college catalog. Always made me giggle.
LOL.
I hated American Literature but as far as English class went, I liked British Literature.
Favorite assigned text from Brit Lit: Tristram Shandy. It drove me crazy as I was reading it, but I had such fond memories of it I went back and bought it years later.
Sounds about right?
Vomiting in the gutter after drinking ten warm Asahi’s in the parking lot of a Rite Aid?
All I know of Japanese culture I learned from Straff.
LIterature?
Ding, ding, ding! Correct.
Not much different from the hoity-toity. “Litr’choor, opra, theatuh.”
I swear I didn’t copy! Just slow to catch up.
#metoo
I actually find them harder in romaji than katakana.
At least the katakana is “foreign”.
Was going to throw a lyrics video on here that illustrates how off the pronunciations are to native English speakers’ ears but all of the Yuming one are now blocked in country.
*shakes fist towards sunset*
I’ve seen enough of their English loanwords to be able to make educated guesses – there is a method to the madness.
If you’re floating around. Know this comment deserves a golf ? clap ?.
You reposted it just to piss off Swissy, didn’t you?
Thanks, a great compliment coming from you, I always love your Saturday beer reviews.
So there is a movie about RBG (On the Basis of Sex) but where is the movie on Sandra Day O’Connor? If we are doing things on the basis of sex (how bigoted and unscientific “sex” is…) then should not the first female scotus justice get her own movie?
Yes, but she’s from AZ, and and a Reagan appointee. They’re not allowed to pay attention to that sort of thing…
…yet.
“We” are making movies now? Someone made a RGB movie, I’m not sure why the lack of a SDO’C movie is a problem here. Go ahead and make one No one is going to stop you.
You really want to see Sandra Day O’Connor go ATM?
Sure, why not?
I don’t even know what it meands for Sandra Day O’Connor to go Any Time Money?
I wanted to see her go anti-tank mine.
Ahem its, Anti-Tank Missle (e.g. Panzerfuast)
Automated Teller Machine.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082382
Does this count? Probably not.
Bbq snoked wings, ribs, mac n’ cheese and grilled brussel sprouts. Everyone is welcome, masks in the bowl wheb you enter. Beer in the fridge outside.
Smoked….been drinking already
Had NY strips done in butter in the skillet and steamed broccoli. I’m spent…
Sounds delicious.
I’ve never grilled Brussel sprouts. How do you do them?
Parboiled for about 5 minutes, let cool to touch and skewer them and then char on the grill. Usually after parboiling I will toss with canola oil and season beatuifully.
Once done, cut in half and dress them as you see fit.
Sometimes make a light vinaigrette to drizzle over
Belgian shish kabob?
Thanks!
I do them in my grill pan after tossing with olive oil and S n P. I like the outer leaves to have a bit of crunch. delish.
“mac n’ cheese”
Thanks for the reminder, I defrosted the cheese, but didn’t make it.
Well, I am happy to report that I went to a music festival in North Louisiana today and besides some great local blues and bluegrass bands, there were very few face diapers and one lady in a plastic visor thing that looked absurd. Between it being a beautiful day, taking in some live music, chilling with Mrs. F and the kiddos, topping it off with people thumbing their nose at the mask Stasi, I reckon that today was one of the best days I have had in a long while.
That’s great! We took a pass on our favorite Labor Day weekend music fest because it was greatly scaled down and had too many restrictions. Last Saturday, though, we got to catch a great local bluegrass (etc.) band at a nearby outdoor amphitheatre, largely mask-free. Band’s got a name you gotta love – The Folkin’ Grassholes.
That is an amazing name, the bluegrass band we watched was called ‘Dead Reckoning’, not nearly as groan/grin worthy, the band had this one particular banjo player who is one of the hardest working musicians in town, he probably does at least two or three gigs every weekend and he is exceptional on both the banjo and guitar. I have seen him multiple times, doing both solo and ensemble work around town. How he is not, at minimum, a studio player in Nashville is beyond me.
https://youtu.be/5jWTRUBRjWU
I got my first paycheck of 2020 so amen to that.
Dayum, bro! Amen indeed!
Things are coming up roses! *remembers the country-wide insanity* Nevermind.
Go you!
Yeah, huge fucking load off. Roses indeed.
Fuckin’ A.
Here’s to a shit ton more, brother.
And I mistakenly assumed I was being paid to the 31st – because it was twice monthly the last time I worked for this company. Apparently it’s changed because my paycheck only reflected 5 days of work, to the 28th – w00t!
28th25th“Pay me! … something something.
Excellent
Good on you young man!
I’ve only been able to squeeze out one paycheck since January – but thongs are looking up recently. I’ve got a couple gigs on the schedule and I project to collaborate with another group of people. This year might just end up not sucking as poorly as it seemed to be from my perspective in May.
… thongs thangs things… whatever…
No problem, thongs are always looking up.
Because we always like to be looking up at thongs!
Things are looking up
Congrats!
Congrats! Drinks are you then. Cheers! ?
Just got paid!
topping it off with people thumbing their nose at the mask Stasi,
Beautiful.
I love going to local places that are ignoring the Lil Rona Panic rules.
Orange & Pomegranate Sanpellegrino and Vodka is delicious. That is all.
“Only a plonker would call time on sozzled bonking”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/only-a-plonker-would-call-time-on-sozzled-bonking-sqlxwk7xl
What fucking language is this?
Australian Stroke Victims Language?
Clearly, he means that the bubble and squeak is done, duh. Do you even British, bro?
And Bob’s your uncle.
I thought that was Canadian.
What’s Cockney Rhyming Slang for “paywall”…?
Ay-nall?
Gay Doll.
“Gone” – as in “Gone AWOL”
NYCFC just showed one those “rock the vote” nonsense commercials during half-time with a quick cut to a “Black Lives Matter Boulevard” street sign… hint, hint!
I don’t get it. Maybe they can spell it out for me.
I can’t drink beer and stay lean.
For those of you that can, what drugs are you taking?
I’d like to know about those drugs too.
I’m not lean but I have no tolerance so (assuming no liquor) 3 or 4 beers and I’m done.
Lucky!
But that doesn’t help me at all! 😉
Git old whut did it for me. Wait a minute, you’re as old as I am.
Probably older.
But we still remember this!
Yeah, you’ve got a couple years on me.
Cheap date here!
*Points at Rhy*
I’m like a good steak, a little fat around the edges. And I like beer but mostly stick to wine because fewer carbs and, of course, I’m classy like that*. That said, this has found a permanent place in my fridge.
*and there is something about a crisp chardonnay and/or a cabernet that will put hair on your chest.
Oh dear, now I find out it’s the chardonnay!
I might look for that. I’m not a big beer drinker but I’m on a project to try something new every week and my favorite so far is Hoegaarden – yummy.
Running shoes
It’s fucked up. I was a serious runner for many years. I’m leaner at 53 than I was at 33.
Beer hates me.
I’m the opposite. Like, half another me now. I was sort of undernourished then.
Age makes a huge difference.
To be honest, I am not as lean as I was just a couple years ago, but I am currently in a lifting & bulking phase which I expect will help me get better at some of the bodyweight work I am doing and planning to get better at. Unfortunately, this always gives me a few extra pounds of fat around the middle while I am packing on a few pounds of muscle around the upper body. When I reach my strength goals I’ll slow down on the food intake and ad a few more runs during the week.
I also tend towards Bourbon and scotch later in the evening to try to keep the carbs down – particularly as it gets later.
Age makes a huge difference.
No shit.
I was much bulkier pre-covid. When I couldn’t hit the gym, I dropped a bunch of weight and pretty much started over. I’m fine with that, but I’ve really noticed that beer fucks up everything.
And yes, the hard stuff is better, but I l have always liked beer best.
Exactly when I was 33 I had just moving into town after living out in the desert for 5 years. So my old routine of running 4 – 6 miles with an M-14 at port arms wasn’t a realistic option anymore. The street layout where I was made running without a break difficult – too many traffic lights in my area.
I found a gym owned/managed by a former Navy SeAL – and discovered the VersaClimber. I was doing 40-minute workouts on that 4 times a week which, combined with my metabolism, got me down to about 7% bodyfat. Probably the leanest I’ve ever been – and I tend towards the lean side.
All in all, I’ve never really been much heavier than about 10-12 lbs over idea for my height/frame. I don’t even own a weight scale – just go by where my belt feels comfortable and adjust running/eating by that.
VersaClimber is cool.
Are you still single digit body fat? How old are you?
Nowhere near single digit body fat but not excessive. And that was almost 30 years ago.
Yeah, me and beer don’t get along anymore. I drank 2 Coors Lights at a family gathering last fall and went to bed with aches and stomach cramps at 9 pm.
“2 Coors Lights”
But what happens when you drink beer?
Was gonna say, it sounds like a story from the 1970s. Coors is still a thing?
I can drink German beer on tap or Japanese beer pretty much all evening but a couple Budweisers or Michelobs will mess up my stomach.
Yeah, I ran too much in my younger years, had an erm, lets call it an accident, and had to replace parts of a knee, kept running, so now I my artificial knee will need replacing and it will mean learning to walk again for a third time….
So my running days are done, and I hike a lot, but the weight keeps going up because of the drinking.
Drinking is how I keep my weight these days. Now I eat 6 ounces of steak and some mashed potatoes, and I’m stuffed. The wife and are both perturbed about the fact we can’t tolerate sushi anymore. It’s too rich. We both gag after two nigiri. As for beer, it’s my favorite, but after three, I’m miserable. I have to start and stop early.
Meth. The answer is meth.
How to Cook Steak
Grass fed ‘berta 1 1/4″ thick striploins. Kosher salt all day. Indirect heat for 10 minutes, then over the charcoals to finish to medium rare. Top with a pat of grass fed butter. Rest for 5 minutes. Big glass of Malbec.
Tannis is the spitting image of my ex and just as mean.
Coronel 1914: Britain’s First Naval Defeat in 100 years
Brushes with modern journalism:
Emailed a reporter about one of their stories that had a list of current fires burning in the state. Was not just missing the third largest one but also called the much smaller fourth largest one as third.
Response from reporter. They hadn’t emailed him the daily status update for that one yet, but now have done so and he’ll update the story. Wtf? Why would you publish a story if you haven’t received all the information? Why would you publish a story with obviously missing and wrong information just because you want to throw something over the wall? Where are the editors? And since when is reporting about passively waiting for information to be spoon fed to you?
Typical. Nice deflection and lack of accountability.
That makes me wonder why this journo’s thoughts are about his purpose and the purpose of the rag he’s writing for. If it isn’t to be the most accurate, timely information for their readership (it seems he is resigned to losing on both counts to the internet at large) then I suppose he has a plan B for where his career is going in the short term.
Do you tell someone that tells you they are punching their monkey that they are doing it wrong?
That sounds painful.
“… someone that tells you they are punching their monkey…”
I guess it depends on context. Was the above conveyed by SMS or were they in the bunk above yours at the time?
I had one of these tonight:
https://muskokabrewery.com/beer/munich-to-my-ears/
It was excellent. Will buy more tomorrow.
Side topic of no import:
I just watched the last 2 episodes of The Boys, Season 2.
The story is more engaging than I gave it credit for 3 or 4 episodes back.
But there is a lot of “hey, we are doing a metaphor for how terrible Trump is” sauce dribbled all over it… and it was used in a way that really isn’t appropriate to the analogy. I mean, portraying the right as a bunch of violent people who send out violent surrogates so that they can have an enemy to fight and save us all from is some really serious projection in the age of BLM and Antifa.
And I found the Scientology stuff to be a little ham-handed… or maybe just .. simplistic? It was like a writer just read up on Scientology and said “Hey, look at this, I’m calling out Scientology!”
The Homelander / Stormfront subplot has brought Homelander back… they had kind of written him into a corner with the weird fetish stuff.
So that’s my two cents… it is getting better and more entertaining as the season goes along.
Morning, Swiss. Never let Antifa make your adverts.
https://twitter.com/Tactical_review/status/1312452772403453958
That’s famous photo from an old Heckler Koch brochure which they actually were passing out at some show before somebody pointed out the mistake.
Once again, fuck WordFence and all of the other WordPress dingleberries that are blocking my ISP’s IP block. Really opening my eyes to how many businesses use WP as the foundation for their sites.
I want off.
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2020218
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/1154/text
This makes me think it’s not just a theory.
Massie – NOT VOTING – WTF?
He usually explains on twitter.
Daughter’s wedding.
https://twitter.com/repthomasmassie/status/1311825550802120705?s=21
Thanks – Glibs is my only social media (other than LInkedIn as an address book), so thanks for pointing me to Massie’s explanation.
He did.
This really must be bizarro world. From my perspective on the other side of the globe, watching it all through the internet it is truly astounding that – with Antifa/BLM rioting in the streets, looting, and burning buildings – our government chooses to condemn what is purportedly the other end of the spectrum which for all the actual evidence seems to be little more than an internet phantom pumped to unreal proportions by a frothing-at-the-mouth media trying to hand wave our attention away from the actual violence in the streets.
Nancy Rommelmann has become one of the bright points at TOS
https://reason.com/2020/10/02/the-conservative-trans-woman-who-went-undercover-with-antifa-in-portland/
Countdown till she goes all in on Kung Flu mask mandates, or why BLM is more Libertarian than most libertarians in…
Yeah, there a serious undercurrent of affection for these assholes in this interview. Begrudging, slightly, but a little bit not quite enough.
I enjoyed her Fifth Column appearance more than I expected I would.
Yeah, she is very likeable. And smarter than Matt and Moynihan.
Moynihan strikes me as smart and is incredibly well read – I disagree with him a lot, but he knows what he’s talking about.
I think everyone is smarter than Matt. Did you know he lived in Prague?
Moynihan reminds me of myself. Smart, with loads of information and opinions at his fingertips. And likes to talk. A lot.
He talks like someone who doesn’t have anyone around to talk to most of the time. (yes, I just gave myself a backhanded complement in traditional self-deprecating style.)
Kmele has the most insight of the regulars, and often talks the least. Moynihan kind of reminds me of Adam Carolla… funny and larger than life but talks over the interesting bits from other people.
The conversation with Rommelmann was a prime example. She had loads of on the scene observations, but he kept having trouble holding back to let her story come through.
Her bit about the spreadsheet of approved journalists is the initial thread of a really important story about how the left is controlling the narrative… a story that I’m afraid nobody is going to run down.
The Carolla / Moynihan comparison is good – not that they’re anything alike otherwise, but both sharp minds who tend to take over the conversation (and who I enjoy listening to).
The “approved journalist” thing is, of course, not worthy of reporting on.
That’s unfair, they’re merely white, and she’s a white woman.
The native carpetbaggers are getting ready for Tundra.
Lol.
I’m ready. I’ll be waving as I’m driving by on my way to the mountains.
Do you remember when “unlawful assembly” was a thing?
Or disturbing the peace?
Whatever happened to just bringing a bus and arresting the whole group.
If that had been a gib meetup, there were probably 10 people who would have been charged with felonies for interfering with an officer, and the one resisting arrest, plus unlawful assembly and they were on the verge of a rioting charge. Probably would have been a rioting charge if they had started arresting folks.
Instead of letting them all run roughshod over the area, simply arresting and charging the worst offenders would have put an end to this a long time ago.
I thought Glib meetups ended up with drunk & disorderlies.
Judging by the earlier discussion, these days they end with folks passed out, drooling on their keyboard with the top of their head being broadcast on Zoom.
I’d do my part but I’m currently working.
Can I ask a question on the Qanon vote….. what the hell?
I guess that’s a little over broad… but …. what the hell?
Why are we pretending that this is actually a thing? This isn’t even Glenn Beck or Alex Jones.
Where does this come from, the left promoting a far-right conspiracy boogie man? It just doesn’t make any sense at all to me. Do we have anyone here who will argue the “QAnon is a dangerous group” side of things?
I hear the Boogalo Bois use QAnon to pick their next targets.
(It’s 4Chat trolling all that way down, IMO)
4Chan, even
That’s what it feels like to me. But NBC has my wife all concerned about the crazy QAnon conspiracy theorists.
One angle that occurs to me: The CIA was heavily involved in creating the Russia-gate scandal and precipitating investigations of people around Trump. This stuff is right up their alley. I wouldn’t put it past the CIA to have developed this as a disinformation campaign to discredit things like people looking into the Lolita Express.
“the Lolita Express”
That’s where it gets weird, for sure – is there some grand pedophilia ring at the highest levels of power? That seems insane. Pedophilia is malum in se and revolting to most people. Those who are into it are truly ill.
Is there a bunch of ephebophilia – i.e., do powerful people like to bang young chicks/dudes? – I’d believe that. That’s malum prohibitum. Is it some formal “ring”? Well, Jeffrey Epstein got rich from that…
Pretty good way to smokescreen the whole thing. Talk about pedophiles in a pizza place basement that doesn’t even have a basement….. and then link it together with stuff about people out to get Trump. Instant shield for people accused of being in an anti-Trump conspiracy or of being a part of a ring of people who have sex with underage girls. Mix it all together and have willing accomplices in the media, and suddenly Bill Clinton can be documented flying on the “lolita express” to Epstein’s private island at least 18 times, and you are crazy for even questioning it.
And at the same time, anyone noting that Flynn was set up by the Obama administration and the judiciary is continuing to pursue an obvious political hit job is a nutcase who is in with the pizza pedophile conspiracy thing.
When I grow up I wanna be “Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter”.
That _is_ a sweet handle.
Right?
Lord Mayor Festus’ Mustache
It has a certain ring.
Back in the old days I went to school with the Reiter sisters. Twins. Rawr.
I just watched a good small sci-fi libertarian sort of antidystopian movie on Netflix. Anon.
Cool premise (with some holes that you just have to go with) about a society where everyone is connected via some sort of brain/eye implant all the time. And the police watch everything.
It ends with a nice line on the “what do you have to hide” trope.
“It isn’t that I have something to hide. Its that I don’t have anything I want you to see.”
That’s a great line. Too bad most people don’t have that as their default position.
“It isn’t that I have something to hide. Its that I don’t have anything I want you to see.”
The reply to that for most people would be “Well, stop doing that!”
Yes. Most people called him secretive and aloof but he was merely a Glibertarian.
Name?
I think it’s Anon.
Ahh, missed that.
It is indeed Anon
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5397194/
Like I said, small movie with a few obvious holes. I won’t offer specifics, because I don’t want to put them in your head if they don’t pop in there all on their own.
My wife was looking at a recipe with Aleppo style peppers in it. She said, no shit, “Aleppo? What’s Aleppo?” I just about died.
That is rich.
She must have thought you had lost your mind.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Obw1eEznec
?
https://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/blow-atm-open-chinese-restaurant-flee-cash-73410010
Apparently this bullshit is still going on.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-shootings-murders-spike
Deblasio needs to go.
that is up to the voters not you
https://mobile.twitter.com/GhostJim4/status/1312546563642789889
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That person should be fired for malignant narcissism if nothing else and there’s plenty else.
The NYT indulged that particular example of mental illness to years ago.
https://youtu.be/NmZsw3ba0bM
Note how he never refers to his wife in the active voice. He’s already erased her as an actual person and is seeking to replace her in his twisted mind.
He needs psychiatric help and to be kept way the fuck away from kids.
I’m calling a lid for today.