I’m going to miss pictures like this.
Yep, after getting toasted last week, Tom has decided to hang up the cleats. Seven Superbowl rings, gazillions in endorsements, a smoking hot Brazilian super model wife worth more than he is. Yeah, poor guy has nothing to look forward to now.
Enough of Brady. How about, some links!
Well, of course this is going to be the first link.
This is the kind of crap you get with feminism. Feminism is terrorism.
I live in Idaho, but this was my excuse for not wearing pants today.
Tennessee Ernie Ford?!?
Piddly little half inch of snow here. I am disappoint.
Just an additional dusting today, but the snow is already about knee deep here. Tomorrow my goal is to try to knock down some of the bigger icicles hanging off the house before the temps get warm enough for them to all fall off.
You weren’t expected to get any snow. We were expected to get 3″, and got maybe one.
Topped out around 8 inches here. Big deal.
Every few years we get a storm that brings 25 inches or more. It’s been a while. I miss those.
Brady (with a little help from Marty) cost the best Chargers team of the era what should’ve been a Super Bowl season.
My throat was so shot after that game I couldn’t speak for two days.
Hate to go off topic so soon, but I just sent in two articles on moving steel. I ended up with too many pictures and went into more step by step detail, so I split the knifemaking article in half. I sent it to the editors for approval.
NWS says we got 4 inches. I dunno, when I bent over to measure it I got 6 inches. Must be the wind.
. . . when I bent over to measure it I got 6 inches . . .
Um, phrasing?
I’m going with that being deliberately tee’d up.
“Could be, could be . . . ” /end Monty Python reference
^^^Ding ding ding. Dong?
Jesus man why don’t you lob a softball right over the plate.
Thanks, don’t mind if I do!
Don’t judge.
Snow depth is always measured from middle of the taint.
For nearly a decade, the Israeli firm had been selling its surveillance software on a subscription basis to law-enforcement and intelligence agencies around the world, promising that it could do what no one else — not a private company, not even a state intelligence service — could do: consistently and reliably crack the encrypted communications of any iPhone or Android smartphone.
I’m skeptical of this claim.
A powerful nor’easter has left more than 100,000 people in the dark on Saturday afternoon as the snowstorm continues to impact the East Coast.
I still have power. The winds were surprisingly calm given the forecast. The snow was still falling when the Sun went down.
I think it is time for another beer.
Two possibilities: they have proven P=NP. Or they have found a vulnerability. And kept either secret for a decade.
Yeah, Im leaning toward skeptical too.
What about n=pn?
What about P=on?
Women without joy or hope or love.
Free Snow Shoveling Class
Try the Wovel.
That thing is kinda cool.
Cheap bastard. Tom Sawyer didn’t ask anyone to bring.his own whitewash.
But at least his mind was not for rent to any god or government.
It’s a Saturday, so some things must be done. Here’s the link for the Zoom/Happy Hour/Article wrangling link which will be started at 20:00 Eastern.
Late night drunken Jackbox was pretty fun, if it was a hot mess to get going.
I’ve got several of the Jackboxes, most are pretty easy to get going, you just need to click on a shared link (or type it in on a phone).
It was 4 drunk people Neph…user errors, etc. But we got Western to actually play.
The article on NSO is way too long, but worth the time to read. Not surprising that our 3-letter agencies want bigger and better ways to spy on
their subjectscitizens. It is wise to assume that every “smart” device is phoning home.Ya it was way too long. I semi skimmed and found myself not surprised.
3 days worth of DDG’s app tracker blocking on Android:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screenshot_20220129-181736_DuckDuckGo.jpg
My Pi-Hole has also caught 620 tracking attempts across my network in a 24 hour period.
It wouldn’t be hard for the 3 letter agencies to figure out what you’re doing without even bothering to crack the packets open.
Live from Ottawa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6a_sWKRQOc
Nice!
More coverage
See their “convoy reports” tag for more.
Levant sounds a bit too much like “every gets a trophy!” in his speech.
He’s ending the livestream now to get warmed up & charge batteries but says he will be back out later. You can watch on replay.
It’s practically a wet-dream of mine that the protest grinds Ottawa to a halt for a week and then that cowardly weasel Trudeau stands up in Parliament and announces his resignation.
Yeah, we’d get Chrystia, but one problem at a time, mang.
I’m seeing bits on twitter of Trudeau and family “fleeing” to the US but I don’t think any of them were really confirmed.
Oh, please let that be true.
But I’m sure it’s not. He’s probably at his Laurentian “cottage” surrounded by security personnel and snipers looking for targets of opportunity in the surrounding bush.
Yeah, that would be unbelievably epic. Especially if he surfaces in, say, Florida.
When is the last time Canada, United States and Mexico all were united?
Right now? It’s one contiguous land mass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_YlKDu_lgM Another live one…
Question is…now they are there what does it do? Stay and basically force that bitch boy in hiding for as long as possible? Logistically, they can’t stay forever and eventually the police are going to be given the order to break it up.
Goldilocks still live posting
https://twitter.com/GhostOfGord/status/1487584036851785728?t=ZI1R7OiDhs7A-Xps0Lol4w&s=19
Vids up now
https://twitter.com/GhostOfGord/status/1487614775932637185?t=yXXVg-8qpV7JPApgZfIcew&s=19
A long way to go and a short time to get there…
Mmmm…. Three Philosophers….
Do they walk into a bar?
Locke looked at the chalk board to see the daily specials, but it was tabula rasa. Nietzsche said that was just his perspective, while Descartes didn’t know for sure.
BOOO
If I could I’d throw shit at you right now. Get off the stage.
Did somebody fart?
No, it’s the lingering smell of the giant shit you took all over this topic with that attempt at a joke.
BOOOOO
I’m not surprised you’re a shit-flinging monkey.
And they then had a drink.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QgCfnBtF7M
Or perhaps played some soccer,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfduUFF_i1A
I haven’t see that in a while.
How long before Brady is divorced? I give it 3 years from the upcoming Superbowl Sunday.
Tom Brady was a seconder. No amount of money or even Super Bowls will change that. He was Belichick’s bottom for 19 years.
Last night’s Rangers game was “Henrik Lundquist Night”. It’s the regional cable sports network, so I get it. I still dislike this kind of “hero worship”. I suppose Brady will get the same treatment, only on a national scale. Blech.
I am extremely skeptical of these claims that they can “break” encryption. If that was true, what is the point of encryption? And why would anyone continue to use it?
I’m sure that NSO Group has a huge database of reused passwords…
Oh sure. So does every cracker group. That’s not breaking encryption – that’s social engineering.
I’m no expert but I think you are right. Unless there is some fundamental flaw in the encryption system, I don’t see how they could break it. If there is a flaw, then I would think any number of intelligence services would have exploited it by now.
He should’ve retired after his SB win last year because I am firmly in the camp that you should go out on top.
*giggles*
See Bro’s comment #13
I agree. Like Lundquist I mentioned above, he stayed a couple years beyond his sell-by date. It was getting to be a real problem for the Rangers because he was sucking up so much salary that couldn’t be spent anywhere else, and he kind of sucked.
I did not follow hockey before about two years ago, so that is the Henrik I know, and I was happy to see him go.
We lucked out and got a great new goalie, thank goodness.
I just hope he figures it out quickly enough for TB to find a decent replacement.
I hope his replacement is a Black woman.
The had a good shot at a return SB appearance until they got killed by injuries late in the season.
Going for two SBs in a row was a good reason to stick around.
Apparently the Brady thing isn’t official yet.
So like Breyer?
Brady for SCOTUS!
And zero pushback.
A bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh. No casualties. TOS is running a story on how Pittsburgh spends $600 million a year on road and bridge maintenance. $500 million of that goes to…benefits and pay for workers.
Good thread on this from a local dude: https://twitter.com/libertyismetal/status/1487251701480443915
I’m sure the engineering team that was in charge of the repairs in 2016 was extra diverse, though, and employed lots of woke math where the process is more important than the answer.
I think the repair issue was reported but no repairs were ever actually conducted.
I’m just going off this:
So, thought they just went with a cheaper option.
I thought that was a different bridge
This one?
I would like to sign up for his newsletter.
But yeah, the fraud and graft are in every city in America. We are a corrupt nation.
This is exactly why that “MUH INFRUHSTRUKCHOOR!!!” bullshit Biden and the mono-party passed pisses me off so much.
*If* any role for government exists, it’s to solve commonwealth problems like transportation and utility infrastructure. Then they use their ill-gotten lucre and pretend to solve that problem, but instead do a bunch of useless, counterproductive woke shit and funnel the excess to their cronies.
Unfortunately, the simultaneous attack on meritocracy will mean that its already poor results will get even worse.
But Pittsburgh has been in the hands of the Democrats for at least five decades, and the current mayor says he knows there are crumbling bridges everywhere in the city, yet he and Biden and the good voters of Pittsburgh want the folks in Nebraska and South Carolina and Vermont to pay for new Pittsburgh bridges. Raise your effing taxes and repair your own bridges!
If TOS’s numbers are right and Fish’s tweet has validity, it seems to be less an issue of funds and more of how they’re being used.
Fuck, so close.
No bridge is as fast as The First Of All Firsters.
Spudz salacious sloots.
https://archive.md/B2a1e
Silicone Saturday.
I’ve been a lifelong Patriots fan, but I wasn’t a Brady fan until after the second SB win. Before then he was Mark Rypien to me. I thought the Patriots screwed up by trading Drew Bledsoe to a division rival.
I was a Steelers fan, and I was upset that the Steelers didn’t give Tommy Maddox his job bac…
Wait, no, that never happened.
It’s OK, Grumbletarian. You seem like you have better judgement in other aspects of your life. Not Firsting or football which trump most things, but other things.
Let’s play Spot the Difference.
Drew Bledsoe: Rd 1, pick 1 in 1993
Ben Roethlisberger: Rd 1, pick 11 in 2004.
Tommy Maddox: Rd 1, pick 25 in 1992
Tom Brady: Rd 6, pick 199 in 2000
One doesn’t rape little boys?
I know of one who raped the Browns. Repeatedly, over and over again. Raped them so many times he was the winningest QB in their own stadium up until last season.
If indeed he does retire, despite not going out with a SB win, his last performance was still amazing and an incredible way to end his career. 44-year-old QB who brought his team back from a 27-3 deficit with only 18 minutes to play. I just had to laugh in awe when he tied up that game, only for the TB defense to let the Rams win it on the last play. The 49ers are lucky that was the result, I think Brady would have picked them apart tomorrow had they beaten the Rams.
Some idiot has a broken furnace, he has to jump the pressure switch to open the gas valve and get heat. If some idiot doesn’t watch the burner temps closely he will burn his house down.
He ordered a new switch that arrives Tuesday, until then, 4 hours on, 4 hours off, of my pipes freeze, Happy fun Times!
Tall Cans!
Or my pipes freeze,
I would tell you to First, as that will generate heat. But you are old and frail. I don’t think your body could handle it.
Idiots!
For Swiss…if you join Zoom, I’ll show you my Slavic squat
I . . . uh . . .
. . . I got nuthin’.
If you join Zoom, I’ll show you my Slavic squat
**SIGH**
Yeah, I can’t seem to get a microphone (ANY microphone) to work with my Win 10 machine. It’s kinda pissing me off, ackshually.
I can’t seem to get a camera to work (also not super dedicated to giving Zoom, who’s data is oftentimes routed through China, an image of my beautiful beard)
Go on…
Real libertarians don’t need microphones. And it stops Straf from masturbating to the sound of my voice.
^
|
FED!
Not even Straf is *that* freaky.
Oh, is THAT why you don’t speak?
It was a great squat
Teens successfully replaced one rear strut on the Explorer. Get the other done tomorrow. Once we borrowed a breaker bar, things went smoothly. Plan is replace the back struts, reinsure it and register it. Take it down for new tires (our b-day gifts to them) and probably get a fluid drain and oil change.
Norm MacDonald is the funniest comic alive!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNF-bFzk8Kg
Turns out the puddle of water from underneath the washing machine was due to leakage at the water connector and not a failed seal. I must have cross threaded it because I did tighten them finger tight and then with pliers when I replaced the water hammers recently.
Next machine will be either a Speed Queen TC5 or Maytag 575. But not today!
Nice music, Spud. I sang that song at a 4H Talent Show, circa 1954. I had to stretch to find my deepest voice. I didn’t win but everyone was nice enough to clap their hands. I was happy with that. I’m the least musically inclined person on the board.
Deep Thoughts by Jackoff Handy: Most people consider sexual endurance a positive trait amongst their partners…but what if they’re really bad at it?
My name is The Bro, and my game is speed.
Bad at the endurance or the action?
Some days are diamonds, some days are stone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loQMgQFx924
Today my bee partner and I dug our brood boxes out of the snow and moved them into my garage, to start prepping for the honey season. As the weather warms I’ll be in the garage scrapping and cleaning. We had left them full of bees back in Sep, today the bees are all dead, MN winters are not kind for the little hard working creatures.
Another funeral home visitation tomorrow, not for the bees but for a friend from the distant past. We weren’t close but neighbor kid that I grew up with. About 5 years younger.
So, something good and something less good.
Give my best to your bee partner and pass along a prayer to your friend from the distant past.
Suspect has fled the city, according to authorities
BWAHAHAHA! We need to push care packages to all those people to sit in the capitol as long as possible so he will never come back.
I hate absolutely everything in this story. The cop killer, the cop hater, and the ridiculously over-politicized reaction from all sides. This stuff is going to tear the country apart. Maybe that needs to happen, but it’s going to get uglier.
I went and done did a Gooogle on this cop and >a href=”https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2022/01/28/nypd-officer-jason-rivera-funeral/”>came across this story that laid it all on pretty thick:
I figured he was the cop who was ambushed responding to a call. So, basically, they’re using him as a martyr to score political points.
If she had avoided the nonsense about him probably having done his job incorrectly, I would have agreed with her.
Fuck the Police!
I am neither reflexively anti-police nor reflexively worshipful of them. They serve a purpose in our legal system.
I have grown out of my reflexive hate of cops.
It helps that I know some decent people who became cops after the military. The rise of BLM and feeling like I’m in any way, shape or form similar to members of the woke mob probably did more, though.
The fuckers still hate me, though.
Coming straight from the underground?
I once was arrested, and as a celebrity the judge made me do community service mentoring disadvantage youth.
I decided to put together a rap on the importance of staying in school to more acutely observe their seconder teachers as an example of what not to be.
The school was not pleased, and the judge attempted to send me to the clink. But after seeing my rap himself, the judge was so moved that he allowed me to stay free. It was, in his words, the greatest rap he had sever had the pleasure of hearing. He proceeded to drop all charges against me.
One day, maybe I will perform a rap for the Glibs. Not that same rap, as I have now forgotten it, but something of a tribute. A tribute to the greatest rap in the world.
Tell the truth, Brocotard, he let you off cause you sucked his dick real good, ain’t that right?
Y’all still awake? I haven’t talked to anyone since 10PM or so, but dirty hippy hipster juice swilling Marxist wannabes.
I’m sleeping. What do you want?
Well, you ain’t doin what you did to that judge to me, you fag!
I have neither the time nor the inclination to deal with tomfoolery. Every second of my time that you waste is precious time that I could be conserving energy for The First That Will Change Everything or contemplating future Firsts that will make the world a better place.
I heard that Twink Boy of the North ran away and hid.
“Moved to an undisclosed location.” Probably hanging out with Prince Andrew.
+1 Insurrectionne
At what point does the IRS take notice?
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/01/29/new-york-post-black-lives-matter-transferred-millions-to-a-canadian-charity-run-by-the-wife-of-its-co-founder/
When they fall out of favor or the right person doesn’t get their beak wet.
Never. The IRS never takes notice.
And I have to wonder how much the co-founder who left is being paid by Warner Bros to produce content. If a single profitable piece of media comes out of that, I’d be stunned.
#MeToo
Morning, Glibs.
Got in an early run to the grocery store since I had a shortage of veggies. Put breakfast on. And wow, it’s only sunday.
Sure is quiet ’round here. Did everyone get put on a train? I hate working on Sundays.
suh’ fam
yo whats goody yo
/TALL SABBATH CANS
Meh. Beer-thirty is still 8 hours away.
One distinct advantage to working overnight is drinking when I get home in the morning. Usually around 0630, and I feel no shame.
That, and picking your bed time.
Oh, my sleep habits are shit. I tend to come home, drink, then eat, then sleep for a few hours. Then I have a window of another couple of hours to get some things done, and then back to bed for another 3-4 hours until work.
Good morning, homey, TARDy, & U! I’m used to waking up around this time during the work week, so…here I am. Plus my Sunday morning choral music show is on the satellite radio. ::raises mug of chai latte in salute::
Morning. I’ve got a cheesy pita in the oven for breakfast.
Still hoping the cheese browns before the pita burns.
Ooh, that sounds really good! Anything else on it besides the cheese? (Not that it NEEDS anything else as long as it has cheese.)
red sauce, pepperoni and salami.
If you had a looser definition of pizza, I guess you could call it that.
Sounds good either way. I will be having leftover Quad-City style pizza for breakfast and lunch.
Well, it was tasty.
Pitaza!
😀
Ive been listening to a lot of ‘Symphony Hall’ on Sirius. Until they had Neil Sedaka hosting the other night, and his topic was American composers.
He mostly played his music. He’s a smarmy, self-important (((pianist))). Rarely stopped talking about himself and his Julliard education.
I went back to rap on LL Cool J’s channel until WHIO had AM coast-to-coast.
Yup – Symphony Hall is where I land on weekend mornings – “Baroque and Beyond” on Saturday mornings, since that’s about as late a period as I care for when it comes to “serious” music. (Learned pretty much all I know about classical music in my HS Humanities class at the old Fairview Magnet School back in the day.) Sunday morning is “Vox Choral” 6 to 11 a.m., then “Millennium of Music” 11 to noon for “early music” – pre-Bach, which is to say Medieval & Renaissance – my favorite “serious” musical periods.
Grandpa Tres spent 30+ years as a high school band/symphony director/conductor, and growing up classical was mostly what Tres Sr. would play, and still does (WDPR and WVXU). By osmosis, I got it.
Fun fact- on Easter Tres Sr. would be drunk and play the entire Messiah on the 10-pack LP stack he had. And had to flip. But you BETTER stand for the Hallelujah Chorus.
But COULD he stand by then? (And wouldn’t that have been more appropriate for Christmas?)
BTW, during the week, when I fire up my little portable satellite radio at work during the week (which I haven’t lately…but I should,) I do listen to “normal” (albeit dated) popular music. Or my MP3s.
*Fires up Spotify. Searches Karen Young*
Well how about that? He’s actually gone… except for albums with other people.
I feel… nothing.
I’m mostly alone, with a minimal crew. I guess I can crank up my bluetooth speaker.
Cranking at work is generally frowned upon.
Fine, I’ll just be cranky at work.
I did it all for the nookie. ??
https://ktla.com/news/washington-state-trooper-dies-after-quitting-job-over-vaccination-requirement/
Implied: death from the vid.
“The Washington State Patrol did not provide a cause of death in its news release.”
So, why is it news?
What REALLY would have been news is if he’d died, THEN quit!
End the discrimination against the Undead!
Because he deserved it.
And the journoscum are gleeful.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/lehigh-valley-business-owner-subpoenaed-by-january-6th-committee/article_163a2020-8155-11ec-8daf-6f809022e202.html
Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays is a good place. Recommended.
https://www.kptv.com/man-willing-to-die-rather-than-get-covid-vaccine-for-transplant/article_84c24d74-be77-53a8-8477-54477fe8b1a0.html
Hardcore.
Evil hospital.
Another one? I guess this is standard now.
I guess some of us need to prepare for never receiving medical treatment again.
https://mobile.twitter.com/kitten_academy/status/1487417297228681216?cxt=HHwWgMCyodaJr6QpAAAA
There’s a good chance that compressing the fur reduces the insulating effect and has made that cat colder.
Implied: death from the vid.
“The Washington State Patrol did not provide a cause of death in its news release.”
So, why is it news?
Maybe he was killed while robbing a 7-11.
Morning Folks,
Slept in today, Sunday and all. It’s still black outside but the days are getting noticeably longer.