The Glibertarians Foundation Board met the night of January 25, 2021. The following was approved by the board, unanimously.
$1000 to The Institute for Justice. The premier, fighting down in the trenches against government injustice, organization. They continue to be worthy of the support we can give them.
$500 to The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. They have continued the difficult fight against heavy-handed stifling, and punishment of free expression in the classrooms and dean’s offices across the country. They deserve our help.
$500 to The Second Amendment Foundation. Unlike the more famous band of grifters, this bunch is similar to the IJ – in that they take effective legal action against those that are ever more emboldened to disarm the people of this country. They are new to our giving.
How are we able to do this? simply…you. You donate, buy merch and do so through this site. Why is this site here? Sloopy led a band of misfits to gather with a purpose, and SP’s IT wizardry and never-ending toil has made it possible. We cannot thank SP enough, by the way. All her time fighting the WordPress myriad of faults, archiving our past years, and now the Forums. All that while putting up with OMWC, and the daily blizzard of Wonder Dog hair. Cheers to SP!
Our last words on this – DO NOT donate ANYTHING unless it is purely discretionary. We know this has been a tough last year for many, and you have already been generous in other instances.
First. That is all
Not a first, it doesnt work like that , Tulpa!
And God bless you all for this site.
Indeed.
I am curios, is Glibs set up as an entity? Not as in a charity but such as a professional club?
Or does SP collect the donations/merch profits and then make donations as an individual to the recipients listed in the post?
If it is the latter, I hope that SP (and by extension OMWC, as he is her ward) takes the donations as an itemized deduction.
It seems only fair to me, given the outsized effort she puts in here. And it’s somehow fitting that something as dubious as the federal tax code should benefit a Glib.
We are a Texas small nonprofit LLC.
The board decides what the donations are, keeping only what we need to run the site for the year – nobody gets any $. SP has repeatedly mentioned that we cannot afford her – we believe it – so this is her humoring OMWC and the rest of us.
I think I found out what happened to Pie
Before you click the link, take a guess as to who is the highest paid federal employee.
The laugh bitterly.
Then not the….you’d think I’d have learned my lesson about posting from my phone by now.
I has a sad that I guessed right.
Get out of town.
He can’t be retired soon enough. Either from the govt or from this planet.
It’ll only cost $262.5bil to launch him into the Sun. Just say the word.
Word!
He makes more than Coach N at navy? That surprises me.
Niumatalolo ( is that close?) Makes $2.1MM per year. I am pretty sure he is highest paid federal employee.
The Service Academy coaches are paid out of the Athletic Association, not from the government.
USA Today
I have been smashing some Melvins, recently. Cool avatar.
I had never heard of the ifreedom in education org. I’m going to go read about them.
As for the NRA, I am a lifetime member, so they’ve gotten my money in the past but I know Wayne LaPierre is a tool and the NRA spends a bunch of money trying to raise money. (NRA local chapters do a good job of sponsoring handgun safety courses that some places require for a permit, so that’s a good thing they do.) But i know that other 2nd amendment groups make better use of donor cash.
Good selection of recipients, Glibs board of directors.
I don’t hate the NRA, but I feel like people have to view them in the correct light to understand them. They’re a social club for gun owners. If you want to donate to a gun rights advocacy group, there are a dozen outfits who will make your dollar go further than the NRA.
Well done.
Morning, Glibs.
Morning, UCS. Wie geht’s?
Meh.
Have “Deep clean the kitchen” on my to do list. Kinda drags down the mood. Has to be done periodically, and procrastinating just makes it worse when it gets done.
I’m right there with you on the tedium and toughness of kitchen cleaning.
When I left for work yesterday morning, I found a dead car battery (which at first I thought was just a dead battery in my remote “key.”) We jumped it from Tom T’s car, and I went straight to the dealer for a replacement. Lost a couple hours of catching up on processing returned mail at work, but I took the opportunity to get the oil change that was due, too. The good news was that the battery was under warranty, having been replaced last spring. The baddish news is…why did a less-than-a-year-old battery go bad? The dealer’s repair dept. didn’t seem concerned, but I’m a bit worried there’s a problem with the electrical system. Hope it was just battery infant mortality.
You can milk a lead acid battery for a few more years using a “battery desulfator”.
It uses brief pulses of “high” voltage to help Knick the sulfates off the lead electrode plates inside the battery.
Using a desulfator, I managed to get by on just 3 batteries (the original plus two replacements) in my Ford Expedition over 18 years in the frozen tundra.
Desulfators come in at a variety of price points, but even a lowly Harbor Freight one does the trick just fine.
https://www.harborfreight.com/4-amp-fully-automatic-microprocessor-controlled-battery-chargermaintainer-63350.html?cid=paid_google%7C%7C%7C63350&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=&utm_content=&gclid=Cj0KCQiAmL-ABhDFARIsAKywVafFTmBAtYCOhhLMeEWDzamKC_-AFNm3RwPGosjd3I9IXeQ1vB14IQMaAo-3EALw_wcB
Some even come as a recharger/desulfator sll-in-one.
Thanks for the tip! I may invest in one of those after THIS battery goes out of warranty. Winters aren’t THAT bad in Dayton, but I do have to park outdoors.
Also, I don’t know what kind of car you drive, but some cars (Ford F150 around turn of the 21st century for example) have a known flaw where a little water can ingress through the not-quite-sealed windshield and drip into an electrical unit that then runs the battery down prematurely by leaving certain systems running and quietly draining the battery..
If your battery issues seem worse after a good soaking rain, that could be the problem. The cure is to replace the windshield. The water ingress was imperceptible to me, but the symptoms fit and the fix worked.
I recommend finding an online forum for owners of your car type and see if others experience the same problem, and how they fixed it.
’15 Subaru Impreza. Had no warning of the battery trouble, but will be playing closer attention now.
Good morning.
Good morning, Sean. Hope you have reason to feel less cranky this morning than yesterday.
I appreciate the sentiment.
I shutdown our field work for today based on an icy road forecast.
We currently have no icy roads.
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Thanks SP, for your work and to all the others that make this my home when I’m at home.
Good choices, I’m familiar with all 3 of the recipients and believe in their support. It’s only a shame that we need them but it is what it is.
Thanks, GlibBoard, for the donations on our behalf. I trust financial support is currently sufficient for current site-operating expenses? Please let us know if more is needed.
https://consumer.healthday.com/1-25-hand-sanitizer-based-eye-injuries-rising-in-kids-2650029424.html
Weaponized hand sanitizer. For the children.
LOL @ the pic.
/i’m going to hell
Save me a seat.
https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/coronavirus/school-sisters-of-notre-dame-property-in-wilton-closed-to-visitors-due-to-covid-19-outbreak/2408336/
Stay off their lawn.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XjK13ZO71ds
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Racist AF.
https://www.ibtimes.sg/kellyanne-conway-posts-teen-daughters-nude-picture-fleet-claudia-sends-morse-code-55162
W T F ?
What is this publication? I don’t recognize the site name. (I don’t follow links to unfamiliar sites without some information about them)
International business times.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Business_Times
$5 says the kid got mom’s phone and did it herself. The daughter appears to be an attention whore and perfectly willing to throw mom under the bus.
That kids needs an intervention
That’s not how oedipal complexes are supposed to work.
I <3 IJ!
I have been watching this beekeeping guy on YouTube named Jeff Horchof. He has his bees at St Joseph Abbey in Louisiana. In one video I watched a few months ago, he was giving a tour of the Abbey, and stopped by the woodworking shop.
Then I put 3+3 together: monks, woodworking, Louisiana.
I had been watching beekeeping videos from one of IJs most celebrated clients!
Anyway, Jeff says the IJ folks will still stop by for a visit when they're in LA. He spoke very highly of them.
The coffin makers?
Fourscore and Suthen are the same person?
If Suthen is here his toes are gonna be chilly this morning. He’s way smarter than that
Thank you
I just checked today’s flavor of lockdown in San Diego county now that the 7 week Stay-at-home “order” has been lifted.
Now we are back where we were in early November, with stuff available to do, but only outside. (Even houses of worship were closed including outdoor services—pretty sure there’s something in th Bill of Rights about this…)
This creepy little sentence on the San Diego county website caught my eye:
Snitches get stitches.
Seriously though, a competitor, an angry ex of a restaurant owner, a power-tripping Karen, could all ruin you with an anonymous, unsubstantiated tip.
I know it is overdone.
Orwell wasn’t writing how-to manuals.
The question of why the Democrats insist on impeachment even though Trump is out of office has nagged at me. It distracts from Biden-Harris and is constitutionally dubious.
But a caller in to Steyn (hosting for Rush yesterday) posited that the plan is to argue that Trump’s whole presidency is null snd void, and thus his judicial nominees are illegitimate, his Executive orders are all null and void, and that he should never have his presidential portrait hang alongside the others. Basically they want to erase his presidency from history.
Ridiculous but it will be fun watching the Dems sputter on about it.
“It distracts from Biden-Harris”
Ding ding.
Biden is cramming a bunch of shitty EOs through, the less those make the news, the better for them.
Thanks for the update. I deeply appreciate the wit, sarcasm and info from this site.
Basically they want to erase his presidency from history.
“That’s not how it works,” I said nervously.