Spud is currently knee deep in Reisling. To maintain appearances the Glib Staff assembled a few links together in order to make sure there is something for everyone:
Which way to Berlin?
For those that wish to see a revolution
For those that need mindless entertainment (Sloopy’s body count was 91)
A boys best friend is his First.
A boy’s best first is his friend.
“For the gun nerds”
*does the HK slap*
98.
Lobsters or cat?
64. Killed the lobsters and saved the cat.
Saved the lobsters, then ate ’em.
Couldn’t bring myself to save the cat and then eat it.
**BURP**
I did nothing, consistently until the rich man odfered me money. That was the only time I took action.
As a result my score was 5
98 for me as well.
81. What do I lose?
I’m having a problem with #11 because it doesn’t say how late my Amazon package will be. A day? A month?
Your daily dose of Sanford & son:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xhvB0AzlyaA
Three minutes reading that whiskey article and Steve Hawley is rent seeking shitstain. Fuck him and his astroturf bullshit.
The Dutch seem to have been successful in battling the sea for quite some time. Now they are battling their bureaucrats. Overreaching politicians are a much greater threat than hypothetical rising sea levels.
Maybe they’ll successfully break the country up into several “Nether Regions”
I would like to invade some Dutch girl’s Nether regions!
Wimbledon banned Russian tennis players from playing this year. And yet the female Wimbledon champion of 2022 holds a Russian passport! LOL. Nobody drops their birth citizenship when they start representing another country in return for money and support. She became a Kazakh citizen in 2018.
Didn’t the high muckety-micks of tennis de-certify Wimbledon for that or something?
I think they sent a sternly-worded letter.
Yes, the tennis associations are not giving points for Wimbledon.
I never heard of that chick but when I saw “Kazakhstan” I immediately suspected “Russian” because she is not the only one doing that. Bublik is another one, IIRC.
Japan won’t allow dual citizenship.
https://stylecaster.com/naomi-osaka-nationality/
Osaka dropped her US citizenship. Although born in Japan she is culturally US. I speak more Japanese than she does.
Anyone keeping tabs on the current Hunter Biden perhaps/maybe happening?
Body count: 67
Dinner is bourbon and soda, cheese plate, roast beef.
I think you’re supposed to say “charcuterie.”
Related.
Nice. Drinking the last pour of 15yr Old Fitz. Hard to find good bourbon at retail nowadays. Hell, hard to find middle of the road bourbon at retail these days. Ugh, cannot wait for all the soy boys to switch their liquor craze to something other than bourbon.
I have not seen any EH Taylor small batch since the shutdown. 😕
I hear ya. I like EH Taylor small batch. The single barrel is over-rated and you get a skunker every once in a while. Not worth $20+ more than small batch.
I cannot even find Eagle Rare nowadays! Right before the lock downs, we took my son to CA for 18th bday for Six Flag adventure. Solid choice, IMO. While there, you could find Eagle Rare everywhere!!! I talk to friends there and nobody seen it.
Agreed.
Pulled pork tacos in bib lettuce with jalapenos, red onions, Alabama white barbeque sauce, and no-sugar coleslaw.
I’m thinking about starting a food truck with just THAT on the menu.
I’d eat it.
Back home tonight, which means as is tradition, I’ll open up the Zoom/Happy Hour/Punk show recap at 20:00 Eastern.
Just catching up on your show review. Sounds amazing!
My brother and I saw the Descendents the last time they came through Minneapolis. It was so much fun and, even though we are all older and grayer, it made me happy to be alive.
And now I know.
The tour was hitting Detroit today, and looks to be heading to the Denver area in August (with a changed lineup). The Descendents are going to be here in Cleveland in September, the same day as the Browns season starts, and the Bombpops will be in town. Chatting with people, there were rumblings that the full weekend fest will be back next year.
OMG it is still 104 here. I may not make it. If I do you get RJ on drugs.
I filled up the inflatable pool to manufacture some way to go outside without hating myself. My 1 year old walked out, said “it’s hot” and walked right back inside.
Daughter dragged me out for hours. Just now I have cooled off.
Well, the fight against authoritarianism failed in Canada and France. Good luck, guys – you’re going to need it.
Texel just declared independence – as protest, sure, but the idea is already in their heads.
Texel’s Frisian, so yeah, I’m sure independence is never far from the surface of their musings.
Nice! Good for Texel. Went there with my wife when we were dating, beautiful little place.
I like all the Frisian islands, but Terschelling’s my favourite. Lots of good family memories there.
Nice! I lived in the NL for 2.5 years and met the wife there. Friesland is probably the most beautiful part of the country. We also rented a sailboat with some friends there for three days and went from lake to lake through different canals. I remember driving up there on the highway and at one point there is a canal above the roadway that has boats sailing by. Pretty surreal. I always thought it strange when a Dutchie would worry about climate change. I was like, “you guys already have added about half of your country from the North Sea in the last couple hundred years. Why are you worried? Just build more dykes!”
There’s a family house at the canal entrance to Sneek that belongs to my Spousal Unit’s extended Dutch family, called “Den Topp.”
Here’s a shot of the view across the canal from Den Topp towards the town’s centre:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/HDR_Werkendam.jpg
The Werkendam was a cargo ship that turned into Landustrie’s dock one evening while we stayed at Den Topp; it was over 100 metres long and when it swung around it missed the near side of the canal by probably a metre or so. Amazing navigation by folks who’d been doing this their entire lives.
Cool stuff BEAM. I also have some deep love for the NL. Yes, there are some serious navigators there, saw that kind of thing firsthand on the canals there quite a bit. I rode my bike all over that lovely flat country.
The closest I got was chatting with some of ’em in Berlin during a class trip. They all spoke German and of course none of us (me or the real Germans I was with) spoke any Dutch.
It really is a funny ole language. Almost like a half in the bag Scotsman speaking German. I have all the basics down, but unfortunately because everyone there under 60 speaks English very well it was hard to really get the fluency level as they would always switch to English once the conversation got more involved.
Don’t mess with Texel.
LOL
Both sides have learned.
It would appear that the Dutch farmers have learned that being “nice” has no tactical or strategic advantage, so why bother? In that sense, the Canadian truckers have informed their actions.
I’ll wish Rutte a happy resignation in hopes that he doesn’t get his neck stretched.
Oh, and all the pearl-clutching about “the rule of law”? I’m a great fan of the rule of law, and I think my government should give it a whirl sometime.
the farmers have definitely learned from Canada. This will go differently is my prediction.
“Oh, and all the pearl-clutching about “the rule of law”? I’m a great fan of the rule of law, and I think my government should give it a whirl sometime.”
Well said. I’m stealing this.
It’s all a Russian psyops
https://lansinginstitute.org/2022/07/09/russian-intelligence-to-enhance-information-campaign-in-the-netherlands/
So I take it the American meddling is on Rutte’s side then.
“It is not acceptable to intimidate officials,” he said last week.
It is not acceptable for officials to intimidate the citizens.
For the seasteaders
Yes!……………..Seems they are light on content.
What is seen, cannot be unseen.
Worth it.
Fuck you Tundra, my eyes!!!!!!
Ghaaaaa!
More tall cans to burn the image from your mind!
Ugh.
Not cool.
Worth it? We value worth quite differently my friend…
Funny but way too old for that guy.
I should have known better.
Egad.
I was rickrolled, good work Sir!
In progress, 2 down 13 to go,
Cheers!
“For the Dutch farmers, it is solely about protecting their centuries-old way of life as Western governments impose tough climate targets.
Under the proposed laws, the green transition will force many of them to make massive cuts to their livestock herds.
This, they argue, will put an end to the Netherlands as the globe’s second-largest exporter of agricultural products, only second behind the United States.”
The progressive, environmental Nazis are insane. If the Dutch shut down their farming, some other country will need to produce the food. The same pollution will happen, just at a different location. This makes zero fucking sense!
This is the same retarded mentality where enviro-nuts don’t want the US to extract shale and oil but are 100% fine with it happening elsewhere. Do they really believe that Saudi Arabia gives a shit about the environment? At least if oil exploration is done state side, you can expect it to give an effort to be clean. Fucking idiots!
What you fail to see is that the goal is only 500,000 humans on earth. The goal is shut down all farming and kill us all.
There’s a Mal Reynolds quote that covers this.
We should be decentralizing our food to the extreme right now. Backyard chickens. Garden yards. Locally sourced meat. We need a way to say “fuck you” when the federales start leaning on the Cargills and Monsantos and Tysons of the world.
Chickens will be outlawed, but you can have your backyard bugs.
Well, good thing everything’s bigger in Texas.
*starts collecting fire ants and tarantulas*
I thought it was five hundred million in harmony with nature but yeah, there’s some shady shit going down.
Yes, and we were supposed to think Thanos was an asshole for wanting to eliminate 50% of the human race, yet these types are applauded for wanting to reduce the human race to only 500 million, a 93% reduction.
Yeah, where do they think all of America’s pollution went in the last few decades?
Narrator: It didn’t disappear.
The whole thing is a fucking hoax and I am not willing to entertain their slightest whims any more.
By all means continue research for the long term (fusion or whatnot) but no, taking the world back to the middle ages is not acceptable.
I have been on my hands and knees, pulling staples and tack strips out of the floor. Fucking carpet layers.
But I just popped the top on a frosty cold Coors Light.
Welp. I gotz da ‘vid. This is inconvenient.
Been nice knowin’ ya.
Can I have all your stuff?
I’m on the board at my HOA, and the Board’s President and his wife both have COVID right now, after spending a week at Disneyworld.
Yeah, no shit. 🤪
🎶movin’ on up
Husband gets my stuff.
So, I had a friend who, last year, got sick on Friday, went to the ER, dead by Monday. No preexisting conditions.
However, like wasps, covid should fear me.
And if I do die, it’s my time. Also, I will find out if my theory about JonBenet Ramsey’s killer is true, which of course it is.
my theory about JonBenet Ramsey’s killer
OJ did it?
JonBidet had evidence that would prove Hillary Clinton’s guilt.
The brother did it and the parents were covering for him. That’s my theory.
Been nice knowing you.
Or more likely feel better!
You got it from South Dakota who refuses to mandate masks!
Doh!
Take care.
Why did you get tested? Unless I feel like a pile of shit, I’m not getting tested. Are you okay?
I think I had it around Xmas but yeah I didn’t test. First fever I’d had in a decade so what else could it be.
Is that your first Vid experience? We all just got it a month back. Kids (unvaxxed) were fine in a day or two. Wife and I had about a week of a medium bad cold symptoms. We had to cut short our camping trip in the Eastern Sierras due to it. Hope you power right through it with just rest and lots of fluids.
It feels like a bad cold and/or sinus infection. I don’t have a fever.
Yeah we were camping and the wife toughed it out for a couple nights thinking it was exactly that. The third day she pulled the plug and we drove on home. That’s also how I’d describe it. I never got a fever, just congested and a bit of a cough. Pretty sure we had the original recipe way back in Jan of 2020. That would explain not getting it again for 2.5 years as wife works in a hospital and I’m in tons of peoples’ homes for work. Hope it passes quickly for you l!
I haven’t been sick since forever. I remember a sinus infection years ago, but that’s it.
Only reason I have a headache is from the incessant coughing.
The last time I was sick was just before Christmas in 2019. I can’t imagine covid having reached here that early, but sometimes I wonder.
I thought UCS and Rhywun had it that early… Maybe I am misremembering.
We think my husband had it late February 2020. We went to the ER, they took chest x-rays and said, “We don’t really know what this is, but we’ll call it pneumonia.”
Not I. But some others had theorized they had it early.
I’m actually pretty sure that I had it in northern Italy in October of 2019. Weirdest cold ever.
This isn’t outside the realm of possibility: apparently some researcher got hold of some old blood samples from northern Italy dated September 2019, and found antibodies to the ancestral strain of COVID in ’em. SARS-CoV2 has probably been baking for significantly longer than we’ve been led to believe via popular narrative.
My fever lasted an evening, followed by a week-long head cold with frequent sneezing and then another brief fever. No symptoms below the neck. Maybe I didn’t have the plague – dunno.
I’ve got some body aches.
Get well!
Probably Indiana’s fault.
🤒 😢 How are you feeling? Not too bad, I hope! Are you very symptomatic?
WebMD says it’s really lupus.
Lyme disease.
I thought WebMD’s shtick was that everything was cancer.
Wife has informed me that she will be taking an additional two days of alone time. So, I am once again sitting in a brewery, eating Irish nachos and sucking down suds.
Not unhappy about this.
She’s not really alone.
Not my business.
Welp. I gotz da ‘vid. This is inconvenient.
You got it in South Dakota, didn’t you? Another hapless victim of notorious SCIENCE!-denier Kristi Noem.
I think I got it from my mom and her sisters, who were sick the day I took XY over to her house to say goodbye.
However, in SD, there WAS talk amongst an innkeeper and a tow truck driver about that stupid mask business that they did not participate in.
” Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats”
We’d think we were living in a dadgum anarcho-capitalist paradise if things currently could be as they were when Mencken wrote that.
Surprising?
Over the past two decades, the number of Catholic hospitals in the U.S. has risen dramatically. But it might come as a surprise to many people to learn that Catholic hospitals are not allowed to provide health care that is considered by their religious leaders to be “intrinsically immoral.”
,/em>
I can’t help thinking only retards such as yourself could find that surprising.
That whole article is a garbage dump – too many choice quotes.
“risen dramatically”? Really? Where? Where are there new hospitals being built at all, to say nothing of Catholic ones. Or are they cheating by counting some larger ones acquiring smaller ones in mergers? Because at least here in SoCal I don’t think we’ve had a single new hospital in at least thirty years and anything that didn’t merge into a larger group closed, and given what RC Dean’s said about the hospital biz in general, I doubt it’s any different in other parts of the US.
Yeah; our local Catholic hospital was subsumed into a large non-Catholic group several years back.
Florida, for one. In my area, a faith based group have expanded greatly 2 hospitals that they acquired. They aren’t Catholic, however.
According to Statista, in 1995 there were 585 faith based hospitals in the US. in 2016, there were 726.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/800827/number-of-us-faith-based-hospitals/
Just sent an e-mail to the Old Man with this inquiry, but I’ll submit it here for the hive mind: Original plan to stay with in-laws near Lake Chautauqua when we head to The Big Shindig in western NY didn’t work out. Looking for recommendations for accommodations maybe a little ways west of the festivities for that Saturday night. Any suggestions? (Prefer west of town, as we need to drive back to SW OH Sunday.)
I’ve worked at a handful of hotels in downtown Buffalo – one of which I could even recommend 🙂
Thanks, but I’m hoping to find some place a wee bit closer than that.😉 Somewhere between the party place and Jamestown (south end of Lake Chautauqua,) maybe?
Yeah, I’m not strong on that area. I remember getting lost in Jamestown once. I think the Lucille Ball museum is there if you’re into that sort of thing.
According to the zoom talk last night, getting a hotel in the area is not going to be easy. Apparently, although hardly surprising, SP was so universally loved that there has been a run hotel rooms in the vacinity.
So I understand, thus we don’t mind being a ways out of town. We’ll probably stay near Jamestown Friday night, but if we could find some place a little closer for Saturday night, we wouldn’t have to leave the party as early. (I’m finding some deals listed on Kayak that don’t seem too far away – waiting to see if the OM can suggest what towns to check.)
I am staying in Hornell. It’s not too far.
Found a highly-rated place in Olean (right off the interstate!) and grabbed it for Friday AND Saturday nights! Good to go! 😃🥳
I guess they got Car and Driver, too
Politicians have to run on some kind of platform, and Ben Moss—my incoming state House representative here in North Carolina’s District 52—decided that his animating principle is Being Mad at Electricity. To prove his animosity toward this invisible menace, he’s sponsoring House Bill 1049, which would allocate $50,000 to destroy free public car chargers. It contains some other enlightened ideas, but that’s the main theme: We’ve simply got to do something about these free public chargers, even if it costs us $50,000! Those things cost tens of cents per hour, when they’re being used.
Of course, there’s a caveat here. Moss isn’t saying that free public Level 2 chargers—of which there are three in my town, with plans in the works to convert to paid kiosks—definitely need to get crushed by a monster truck. That rule only comes into play if a town refuses to build free gas and diesel pumps next to the EV chargers. So anyway, warm up El Toro Loco, we’re smashin’ some car zappers!
But what about private businesses? you ask. Don’t worry, Moss hasn’t forgotten that a business might put a charger on its property as an inducement for EV owners to patronize the establishment. And small business is the heart of the local economy. That’s why he’s staying out of the way when it comes to private property. Just kidding! Ben Moss cares about the consumers being harmed by these hypothetical free chargers—namely, any customer who arrived via internal-combustion vehicle, or on foot, or in a sedan chair. Why is someone else gaining some advantage based on a decision they made? That’s not how life works.
I haven’t opened a C&D in years, but it’s good to know they are on board with supercilious bitching about Republican Luddites.
Electric is the FUTURE, man.
Spud can indulge his hyperorality on Silicone Saturday.
https://archive.ph/01vxw
Hyperorality
Holy mackerel I made a few adjustments to my green beans and beef stir fry and what a difference. Main adjustment was marinating the beef in ginger soy sauce for a few hours. That plus not overcooking the beef and the onions = yummy.
And add red pepper flakes
I don’t like those.
I might add some Sriracha to the leftovers.
Hipster.
https://archive.ph/y9Gdr/cc4e089caa6a8dbca07443db10f52b678ece56fe.webp
NSFW.
https://thumbs2.redgifs.com/ThinSlategrayBarbet-mobile.mp4#t=0
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/M00qO/bdb1e3b86a17f9127140dd1a8cf0e0f3f1fe7e6f.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/UjDvF/8c08c12b4a3675e868447a3ced57faeda48eea5c.webp
NSFW.
Good morning, everybody!
Morning, Ted’S
Why am I up?
I dunno.
I’m up ’cause I’m getting paid. Good morning, early peeps.
I’m shocked at how many people are active at this time on a sunday morning.
I was out for less than an hour and someone stole my parking spot. Seriously, I can never move my car or I lose my spot.
I’m surprised at the number of people on the road at 4AM. Lots of Lyft/Uber cars out there. They must be hauling drunks home.
You’re a hustler?
Might as well be.
Oh look, I take a week off and I now have two new guys to get trained that I did not ask for.
Because fuck you, that’s why?
In my case, it’s because I work 6-2:30 and am normally up at 4 on weekdays. I’m not able to sleep in that long on weekends, and posted the above from my tablet in bed.
I also wanted to take some stuff down to the trash at the bottom of the driveway before the driveway alarm turns on at 6AM, so that I wouldn’t wake Dad up.
I made low carb waffles.
That sounds evil.
With fresh blueberries and some maple extract. Not evil, at all.
More fallout, with resignations:
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/07/pa-town-broke-law-in-hiring-process-of-cop-who-killed-tamir-rice-shapiro-says.html
At least some of them are resigning
https://ktla.com/news/california/california-bad-for-singles-no-california-cities-make-the-cut-in-new-survey/
#1 through 10 will surprise you. Seriously, wtf?
Expected with “affordability” in the mix.
110 degrees in Austin yesterday, no one wants to sleep double in a single bed.
Morning Sean, UCS, Tardis, Tulip, Rhywun and Ted’S
*waves*
Mornin’.
Good morning, 4(20)! Are you referring to the Texas Austin, or is there a Minnesoda Austin, too? Wherever you are, I hope it’s rather more temperate than that!
Morning.
Daily Quordle 167
7️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
quordle.com
Daily Quordle 167
5️⃣7️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
quordle.com
Daily Quordle 167
3️⃣4️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
Daily Quordle 167
5️⃣8️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
Daily Quordle 167
8️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣5️⃣
Daily Quordle 167
6️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣
https://youtu.be/FZLILV18ut8
🎶🎶
https://www.khou.com/article/news/nation-world/ford-expands-suv-recall-over-engine-fires/507-0c68981c-4e45-468d-86cb-a6fd2e593555
Spontaneous combustion is so fucking cool.
Q: Did you hear about the gay British guy who died of spontaneous combustion?
A: One day he just went and — poof!
Obligatory:
https://youtu.be/Qxs3gmewuhI
parts are expected early September. Yikes.
Did they say what year?
When my wife’s fuel tank busted and they wouldn’t let us take it. It sat on the dealership’s back lot for two months. December and January, IIRC. They would not give us any updates, just said there was a recall coming. Finally they admitted there would be no resolution until Sept.
Good morning!
At the diner waiting for my BLT Benedict, then morning dog park, then steel match.
A very full morning.
Lettuce with hollandaise?
I dont eat Club Sandwiches.
I quit cold turkey.
Boooo.
Here you go.
Good morning, Sean, Tulip, U, TARDy, rhy, and Ted’S! It’s another lovely morning here at Tranq Base – not at all cloudy, as it was yesterday. And now that I have hotel reservations for The Party, I feel much better! Next order of business: tell the debit card folks and the credit card folks at the credit union what dates I’ll be out of state so they will allow my cards to work in the destination state and the state in between.
You too, NA!
(Note to self: try to figure out why the page isn’t refreshing automatically any more.)
Mornin.
Can’t a person just use cash?
“Sorry, No Cash. Credit cards only”
Using cash at a gas station requires an extra trip inside and take a chance on being a witness/victim to a hold up.
I often try to use cash at small businesses to save them the interchange fees for plastic, but I’m a bit leery about traveling long times and distances with too much green foldy money. 😳
Wait, you have to tell them you’ll be out of state?
I only have to tell them when I’m planning to be out of the country.
We’ve had rather a lot of card fraud, so I think by default our system may limit plastic on-site purchases to your home state (and possibly a neighboring one if you cross a state line with regularity.) I don’t know if they flag specific high-fraud-incidence states the way they have certain countries, but this at least lets them know that out-of-state purchases along your route are probably legit.
Sounds annoying.
You can’t do that online?
I was pleasantly surprised to see that I was able to change my tax withholding online despite the popup that I might have to fill in new forms and give them to the HR person.
(She’s still the one person who wears a mask despite even the temperature check bullshit being dropped as of this past week.)
I might be able to do it online, but I work in the same office as these folks, so I might as well tell them in person – maybe even casually mention it while we’re all the table for lunch in the break room. 🙂🍴
Dropped in the past week? L O L.
Yeah, we had a face-scanning temperature check for 20 months. And when it didn’t recognize us properly, HR bitch made it seem as though it was our fault.
Masking away from one’s desk was dropped in March. Only one person has been masking for the past four months.
Now, my tax withholding I can change online – no problem. #Profession Employer Org #NoHRHarpy
Good Morning from Oklahoma:
Heat getting to me, please send rain.
suh’ fam
yo whats goody yo
Woke up drunk. Saved by the Bell is on the TV, playing in the background…Lisa was the hottest chick on that show…fight me.
Isnt she that Voorhies chick?
Jason’s black sister was a smoke show…
I love that they try to sneak that show in under the E/I bullshit.
Mornin’. Tall Sunday Covfefe!
I worked 2 hours over, sweat like I was sittin’ in church, and Im repleneshing my fluids with Medium Cans! (16 oz)