SENATOR MAKES UNFORTUNATE FASHION CHOICE: I hate to be that catty homo criticizing women’s fashion choices, but the poofy wing-like shoulders is not a good look for her (or anyone). Apparently she also riled some Democrat senators by calling them Jello-eating old dudes. Heh.
IDAHO SUPREME COURT YANKS COPS’ CHAIN OVER DRUG DOG SEARCH: The Idaho Supreme Court has vacated a Mountain Home man’s conviction for felony drug possession and delivery after it ruled that a police drug-sniffing dog trespassed and conducted an illegal search by putting its paws on his vehicle, prompting the search that led to his arrest. A rare victory for 4A rights, unfortunately only applies in Idaho.
INDUSTRY PUSHES BACK AGAINST REGULATIONS ON “FOREVER CHEMICALS:” PFAS, aka “forever chemicals” are the latest thing to trigger luddite hysteria. Don’t get OMWC started on this, he gets apoplectic about junk science.
FLORIDA SCHOOL PRINCIPAL SACKED FOR ALLOWING HOMOEROTIC ART IN SCHOOL: Famous sculpture “David” apparently too much for parents of sixth graders. Sculptor Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni could not be reached for comment.
SCUMBAG COPS SUE AFROMAN AFTER RAIDING HIS HOME: Because he dared to use security camera video of the raid in a music video. The Adams County Prosecutor’s Office said the raid failed to turn up probative criminal evidence, according to attorney Anna Castellini. No charges were ever filed. Music video here.
GEE-WHIZ DEPARTMENT: 3D printed rocket launches. Not an Estes toy rocket, but a real one designed to launch satellites into orbit.
GOVERNMENT SHITWEASELRY DEPARTMENT: Cryptocurrency company asks SEC to regulate them, gets threatened instead.
NIGERIAN POLITICIAN CONVICTED IN UK FOR ORGAN HARVESTING SCHEME: Senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife Beatrice and Dr. Obinna Obeta were found guilty of trafficking a 21-year-old street trader to the UK to provide a kidney for the Ekweremadus’ daughter.
MARS SAMPLE-RETURN MISSION COST OVERRUNS THREATEN OTHER MISSIONS: Full story here. TL;DR – Originally, sample retrieval was supposed to be done by a euro-weenie surface robot, then ESA screwed the pooch and NASA decided to design a second generation Mars helicopter to retrieve samples and transport them back to the sample-return rocket. Launch window for this mission is 2028-2029.
A VERY SPECIAL PLEA FOR POST CONTRIBUTIONS: Swiss, the master of article scheduling tells me we are again running out of articles. Juris Imprudent and Penguin, I’m going to release your articles for scheduling tomorrow; they should be published next week or two.
Primero!
Zweiter!
I must apologize for my lack of articles. My life has been exceptionally busy lately, and while I’m still having fun, my hockey season has been a bit anticlimactic this year. We have our official end of season in St. Louis in a few weeks, so I might just write a season recap.
No apologies needed – anyone who contributes gets my admiration and thanks.
I’m both too boring and too lacking in writing talent to contribute anything beyond occasional snark.
Here here! We, the talentless and uninteresting, owe the rest of you a debt of gratitude.
Hey. You lot have read my stuff, and I’m (in general) a boring guy.
We appreciate our commenters, too.
I’m boring. Writing talent? Meh. And yet, this place runs articles I write.
Boring? You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. Take a geezer, reclusive, house bound, technically incoherent who has to look at the keyboard to type and you’ll see boring.
Tonio has a way to make stuff more readable and interesting.
Here I thought I was the only one feeling guilty. Vacation and the death of the Mac slowed me down.
Thanks, everyone.
Good lord, those sleeves make it look like the costume Mommy made for her to be a butterfly in a first grade school program.
…and Tonio – in the words of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, “If you can’t say something good about someone, sit right here by me.” 😉
Lol. Perfect.
Damn, that’s good.
Sinema doesn’t look bad in the yellow get up although the puffy sleeves are unfortunate. Best looking woman in the Senate, kinda like being the tallest dwarf but still.
Lindsey Graham has a sad….
I figured you for a Mazie Hirono kind of guy.
*googles*
And to think I thought you were one of the good ones.
You like ’em dumb, right?
They don’t get any dumber than Mazie.
Katie Britt?
Yes. Katie Britt.
The Jello-Eaters is the name of my new band.
I hear you’re big at Del Boca Vista.
The downside is I hear it takes much longer than you anticipate to set.
You gotta get that chill vibe.
You’re gonna shake it up, Scruff.
Better bone up!
Re David: OK, we’re officially in another moral panic. That’s just retarded.
The Simpsons did it 30 years ago.
My first thought too.
To say nothing of the Victorians.
Always leaps to mind for stories like that.
Sometimes you swear there’s groups that say “Hey, by sticking to obviously wrong problem we’re gaining traction in the culture war… Let’s sabotage that by acting like the worst caricatures!”
I’m with you on that. I’m becoming just as disenchanted with a lot of the right wing’s reactions to the culture madness. Why is everyone intent on becoming the boogieman that the other side thinks they are? They really are two sides of the same coin.
It should be simple enough to oppose all the craziness without giving the other side a bunch of ammunition. But these are not the smartest people.
I remember the 1980’s. The jackboot is on the other foot now, and the conservatives want it back.
The 1980’s. When right winger Tipper Gore banned music and her right wing extremist husband hauled musicians and pornographers before congress?
This is really annoying, but I think it’s still a long way from as bad as the grooming and transing of children being pushed by the left. For all the bellowing and bloviating the socons do, they really don’t wreck lives the way the left does.
Be sure to burn all your Nintendos also. Animal Crossing on the Switch has the Statue of David, unexpurgated.
https://i1.wp.com/thebardicunicorn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/dick_falls.jpg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1
Now listen, some poor woman in Tallahassee thinks that David’s dick is too impressive for her little darling, probably because her husband’s dick is even smaller.
Wait!?!? People think the statue’s dick is sma……I mean, let’s all laugh at the freak.
Plus she knows David’s is always rock hard, unlike her husband who takes her for granite.
Hard not to be impressed with that chiseled physique. She probably is suppressing the urge to take a whack at him.
I guarantee that there’s more going on behind the scenes. The school was only opened in 2020 after a protracted battle with the local school board (Tallahassee is a college town, with the attendant lefty politics). They were founded on the Hillsdale College model, yet the college cut ties with them recently. The ousted principal is the school’s third in three years. Call it growing pains, conflict of visions, or whatever, but I’m not seeing a moral panic over the dude in Florence.
But the papers love them a good “humble public servant driven out by the boobs and rubes” story, so that’s what’s getting told.
Am I the only one who’s blood starts to boil every time they hear the euphemism “public servant?” You have a fucking job that you would quit tomorrow if your check stopped, just like everyone else. Spare me the false altruism, slaver.
I just mentally “:%s/public servant/one who believes the public serves them/g”…
And they are not deferential to their masters as real servants are.
Anyone who leaves office tens of millions richer than when they started is no servant.
It’s not just elected officials and their obvious grifting. It’s paper pushers who only ever bring home a weekly paycheck who also hide behind the term. You’re not making some selfless sacrifice where you’d otherwise be a CEO of a fortune 500. You’re a cog in a machine just like most people in the private sector. The state has a long history of propagandizing it’s positions into sounding noble as a recruitment tool for people who seek social status and thrive off of unearned feelings of moral superiority.
Got good “tips”
Apropos.
Michelangelo gave David boobs too? Well no wonder… they must have expected Venus De Milo so they’re all up in arms now.
Relevant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be31ckmiF9A
Interesting take. Office politics does seem more likely than a freakout over granite wang.
I’m not a homo and I am STILL catty about that dress. Catty straight dude throwing rocks in his glass house.
I didn’t pay much attention to the dress…
It’s been a few years, but when I met her my impression was “She’s actually better looking in person than in photographs.” It does look like she’s put on a few and aged a little, though.
Happens to the best of us. She looks good for 46.
I’m probably outing myself as a lemming but I opened a Coinbase account and bought into crypto right before the crypto bros really got into full swing. Most of the wild profits I made are gone after the crypto retraction but there is a little left and I really don’t want to pull out and end up getting shellaced with taxes (or worse yet audited).
Are there any (less lazy) glibs out there with thoughts on crypto exchanges (specifically Coinbase)? I’ve listened to plenty of podcasts that claim your an idiot for leaving your crypto in exchanges and not in your own crypto wallet.
Yes, my wife prefers Kraken. Overall I am about to all all our bitcoin and put it in a wallet. Why keep it somewhere Biden is trying to shut down. I also bought crypto, made big, lost all the profits. I believe bitcoin will be important in the future once all of Biden’s plans fuck up. We won;t have a dollar, we will have a broken digital currency, and most of us will be exchanging foreign currency or goats for barter. Bitcoin will still work.
most of us will be exchanging foreign currency or goats for barter
Goats all the way. I’m glad I finally got in early on the latest currency craze. Just had two baby doelings born last week.
Getting up to a pretty good livestock herd now. 4 does and 4 heifers (mix of Angus/Jersey/Charolais). A potbelly pig too, but she’s really just a farm mascot. Thinking about American Guinea hogs next.
Tonio, I could write up some homestead articles if there’s any interest. Spring on the farm is a good season.
Currency Inflation!
Also I would be interested in reading your homesteading articles. I will be heading that direction this spring.
Have you closed yet?
Yes. Currently removing 30 years of grime from the kitchen cabinets so I can paint them. Slowly moving previous owner’s crap to the garbage can so I can replace it with my crap.
Nice! How much land?
Good for you, Nick.
I went through that the first time around and it was worth it. Had water logged dynamite in the garage and a plastic bag of sulfuric acid in the basement, among the other throw away stuff.
Mmm… Crap.
@trashy, just under 7 acres, but it abuts hundreds of acres of public land
I look forward to, what the authorities will describe as, your “heavily fortified compound”.
Thanks! I remember you mentioned a good-sized property with acreage but wasn’t sure if you closed yet. Any idea what kind of projects you’d be kicking off with?
Chickens if we can find any. It has a 1/4 acre garden set up already (whenever the 10 feet of snow melts). Eventually I’d like a couple of pigs.
Put up a Gadsden flag, set up a shooting range, and start shooting. A lot. You’ll have all the pigs you want.
be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm
Any interest? There’s always interest! Other Glibs are the most interesting people.
I’d be interested, SSD.
Clarkson’s Farm was really great and illustrated how much works goes into farming.
“she’s really just a farm mascot”
Well, until the Hunger Times, anyway.
Do you own your own isp?
Get off the exchanges! Self custody! I use Exodus.
That Afroman video is magnificent. Claiming he invaded their privacy by filming them breaking into his home? The gaul of those assholes. Take the loss and move on.
You ain’t Seine nothin’ yet….
Frankly speaking, it is the lack of charm.
Move along, Verdun here now
We should really Champaign to get rid of their qualified immunity.
Alsace!
I’d wish you luck in avoiding the baleful Swiss scowl, but that would be in Sancerre.
I don’t get it. Maybe there is some unique twist in Ohio law. It seems to me on duty cops carrying out their public duties have no privacy rights for those actions. I don’t know how they could since the Supreme Court ruled we have a right to take video of on duty cops.
You spend an awful lot of time here to have never heard of the FYTY clause.
It would make sense to me if his lawyer argued that “these officers approached the residence of a celebrity, and its reasonable to expect that they had prior knowledge that the area had surveillance in place; their presence on the property shows that they acknowledge the consent law.”
Unfortunately it’s “gall” as in bladder, not the peoples who the Romans considered barbarians.
mon Dieu!
To be fair, they were French!
Akshually, they were Celts. The Franks were a Germanic people from the area around the lower Rhine.
Yes, that’s right. The people we think of as French were actually German. Sort of.
Did they surrender to themselves?
It was a surrenderception.
The Man vs. Afroman.
What article? I have a couple of very sketchy drafts sitting out there – but nothing approaching ready to release.
Mountain bike race.
I think I have a draft sitting in the queue. I will add photos and do a final edit and set to publish tonight.
Yeah, not mine. But I will consider myself prodded, without any back channel encouragement.
That might be mine.
Otherwise, McConnell could find himself ushering the election-denying Lake into the Senate
I do not see an Establishment guy like McConnell baking Lake.
I suspect he would have with McMuffin. With Lake, he’d just want to grill her.
I proofrad gud.
DB cleanup and data entry all day. Kill me now.
*links image of a naked Madeline Albright*
Happy to help.
“Its like Soros but with tits!”
I’m willing to bet Soros money that Soros has tits at his age.
Gay human is not smart. Sinema looks very lovely. We just wish she had the vertical eyebrows.
Vertical eyebrows?
Also, welcome aboard.
We could welcome them here — but they’re just looking for things to make them go, so they probably won’t be around long.
Woman of the people.
Eh, she’s being funded by NY banks, but at least she’s not voting with the lunatics who want to destroy everything.
“… but the poofy wing-like shoulders is not a good look for her (or anyone).”
Her tits compensate somewhat for the shoulder ornaments.
She looks like she was costumed by the wine-drinking mom of some Wizard of Oz high school castmember.
Prolly still would tho’. Particularly if she left the dress on.
Agreed, it is possible to see too much.
Definitely wood, if she keeps the boots on.
Who am I kidding? Even without the boots.
Glasses, definitely keep the glasses.
That’s not negotiable.
“…saying Foreman’s use of their faces (i.e. personas) in the videos and social media posts resulted in their “emotional distress, embarrassment, ridicule, loss of reputation and humiliation.”
Good.
“The plaintiffs say they’ve been subjected to ridicule by people who saw Foreman’s posts and that the posts have made it “more dangerous” for them to carry out their duties. They also claim they’ve endured death threats “by anonymous members of the public who have seen some of Defendant’s above-described postings.”
Even better.
Now, Adams County is a bit rural at best, despite being close to Cincinnati. It’s Appalachia-Lite.
Other than social media, I doubt these cracker-ass deputies were directly or verbally threatened.
Probably were mocked by other cops.
More dangerous? How?
Ah, and the ever-popular anonymous death threats. Cops never get those.
What a bunch of pussies. And throw in the Streisand Effect, and they are stupid pussies.
Screw NASA and its projects. I listen to a number of science and/or astronomy podcasts. Although I enjoy them, when it comes to funding there’s always this weeping about “oh NASA has to submit its plans to Congress where non-scientists get to decide what’s important.”
Two options: stop sending too many projects to Congress. Find out the budget then say, “hey, these will fit.” Option two: Congress can just give NASA an allocation every year and let them figure it out.
SLD: public funds shouldn’t be used for space exploration or research (although I do allow for planetary protection against, say, asteroids/comets).
Like the church before it, we need to keep science as far away from the state as humanly possible.
In response to Lt Cmd Fish’s request in the overnight post for recommendations on long-form webcomics, someone suggested Stand Still Stay Silent. I’m still in the prologue and I’m thinking “This was written in 2013? This is literally what happened in 2020.”
SSSS was awesome.
If you like long form webcomics, check out https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/
’twas I – originally ended up there via a link here (maybe ES?).
Not to ruin anything but, fortunately, 2020 didn’t quite head in the same direction as SSSS. Fortunately.
It was Lt. Fish who recommended SSSS to me, so, maybe something else is needed.
Ah, I think you’re right and it was Fish who first posted it.
Movie night posts coming:
The Barbarians
Wolf Cop 2
I Sell the Dead
GlibCar:
Death of the Darryl Starbird Museum
Part 2 of Television in 2023. Charts are as bitch in WordPress.
Thanks.
Yeah, I wouldn’t even try doing that in WordPress. I’d use a tool you’re comfortable with then export the chart/table/graph as a .jpg and insert it like a regular illo.
I tried with this latest GlibFlick. I was not pleased. I have about 15 items to discuss in the TV article and the chart format just seemed good. Until it wasn’t.
Really?
“A tool you’re comfortable with….and insert it”.
Thats how Jugsy refers to me.
I did first read that as “insert it like a regular dildo.”
So let’s decompose the Coinbase outrage.
Did they ask for something individually and specific or as part of the industry lobby for some guidance and regulation?
Are they receiving the Wells Notice uniquely or as part of the usual SEC fishing expeditions?
It’s still typical SEC behavior, but it’s essentially business as usual for them. It’s only because it impacts the Crypto Bros that this crossed over into the non financial press. In finance this happens all the time on days that end in “y”.
Kraken also got a notice to stop doing some of their activities. Not just Coinbase. That said, the regulators can suck it. Coinbase and Kraken have asked repeatedly for clarification on rules and gotten nothing, then fines and cease and desist. Mostly because regulators don;t even know what Crypto is.
That is the SEC’s MO. They provide “guidance”. After that they let you know when in their opinion you have gone against after the fact.
What this means is full employment for your inside counsel and full employment for the outside counsel for their advice on the “guidance”.
Naturally both your inside and outside counsel frequently come from regulators like the SEC.
Ah yes, same with lobbyists. But they’re totally working for you against the mean regulatory agency and reducing legislation.
And frequently they are attorneys.
This allow for “privilege”.
Both counsel likely often golf together and attend the best parties.
I’ll stir around and come up with something extra in the next day or so.
A, An, The
Hope that helps the shortage. Just doing my part.
What you have done there was seen.
Wd’d have a bigger supply if we were German, or Finnish, or Hungarian….
If we don’t come up with enough, we’ll be in Dutch.
“The plaintiffs say they’re entitled to all of Foreman’s profits from his use of their personas. That includes, according to the complaint, proceeds from the songs, music videos and live event tickets as well as the promotion of Foreman’s “Afroman” brand, under which he sells beer, marijuana, t-shirts and other merchandise.”
I was going to write a check
Then I got high
Can he deduct the cost of door and gate repairs?
He has had about 625K views of that video. So what’s that, about $200?
“Not an Estes toy rocket”
They banned the good model rocket engines after 911.
In my cups last night, I knocked out a rough draft of the first in a musical deep-dive series. No promises, but if the vodka doesn’t run out, I might knock out a few more and then submit something. OTOH, it might take me two years like my last (only) post.
Michael Malice is on Cumia’s show right now. Anthony actually stunned him speechless talking about leaving NY. The state and city are going to try to tax him for 3 more years after he moves himself and business to SC. He’ll fight it, but they are trying it with everyone fleeing.
He and Malice are very funny together.
Im going to bed. Some of us work all night whilst you “normies” sleep.
“‘It’s simply activist propaganda’: Bishop slams Catholic University of Notre Dame for hosting lecture by an ‘ABORTION doula’ who is a trans man and claims terminations are a form of birth”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11896029/Bishop-slams-Catholic-University-hosting-lecture-ABORTION-doula-trans-man.html
What?
Forget it, Count. It’s Congregation of Holy Cross town.
Madness.
I know. On par with not showing the statue of David to children.
THICC THURSDAY!
https://thechive.com/sexy-girls/things-that-bounce-somehow-makes-everything-okay-15-gifs/
Original link for gifs.
Sinema’s dress. Helllooooooo 1983! I saw a pair of shoulder pads the other day.
In any case, she needs a set of pasties to cover those nubbins.
Those aren’t nubbins! They are the switches to make the yellow butterfly wings flap.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8t-iFr9q1I8
You don’t know – down near the hem there may be the words “tear here” along each of those seams.
Could use better support too.
Yeup. You’d think she could afford to get a bra fitter who knows what she’s doing.
Darts, not nubbins.
NTTIAWW
TNOh no. Those aren’t just darts. No tailor/dressmaker worth his/her salt would make such an egregious mistake.
Enhance… enhance…. enhance
The darts really do end exactly there. But I’d be happy to be wrong.
Hi-res:
https://phantom-marca.unidadeditorial.es/eed6de01271281e397639546bc5ffb6c/resize/1320/f/jpg/assets/multimedia/imagenes/2023/02/08/16758214441669.jpg
You are correct, sir! So now the problem is that some tailor/dressmaker did indeed blunder. Elementary mistake.
Is there any intel on where that dress came from?
I’ve been searching around but, no. “Off the rack” was the guess of some stylist.
What? No, totally straight, why do you ask?
Paging Swissy…
I thought maybe it was made in the rainforest by a tribe of underprivileged pygmies or something. Like it had a meaning.
It’s a Mugatu original.
It’s a Mugatu original.
I love his Derelicte line.
It does seem poorly thought out
Downward facin’ doggies?
Let’s talk about the guy’s tie: It’s just there. It’s not really doing much for him.
Apparently Arizona is the meth lab of fashion too.
Arizona is just happy that Florida exists as a distraction.
“Military Doctors Claim 7-Year-Olds Can Make Decisions About Puberty Blockers
Four military healthcare providers are demanding that the Pentagon train military doctors to immediately begin gender transition treatment for children who present with gender dysphoria by putting them on hormone treatments and puberty blockers.
The doctors published a paper in the March American Journal of Public Health that tried to make the case that children as young as seven “have an inherent ability and right to consent to gender-affirming therapy.”
The authors demanded that the military train providers in their idea of gender-affirming care for minors even though they acknowledge that 53% of military-affiliated physicians in the Department of Defense health system say they would refuse to prescribe hormones to children regardless of any “training.””
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2023/03/23/military-doctors-claim-7-year-olds-can-make-decisions-about-puberty-blockers-n1680764
This is fine.
Didn’t you ask if I got something from you the other day? I didn’t see any forum posts.
That was a response to your Birdman reference
Ahhh! I see.
Give ’em guns, beer, ballots, and weed while you’re at it.
Now that’s a libertarian party slogan for 2024 if I ever heard one.
From the published paper:
In the United States, 1.4% of youths between the ages of 13 and 17 years (or approximately 300 000 adolescents) identify as transgender or gender-diverse (TGD),1 indicating that their gender identity, expression, or perception does not conform to the traditional gender roles and stereotypes associated with their assigned sex.2 The recent increase in adolescents and young adults reporting a TGD identity is thought to be due to increased awareness of the full range of gender identities, social acceptance, and improvements in medical care.
Or, y’know, trans is the new goth.
“transgender or gender-diverse (TGD)”
Those are two different things to lump together.
Crazy people aren’t big on rational distinctions.
Madness.
One step beyond, even.
Let’s ask those providers if seven year olds, since they are capable of consenting to permanent life-changing bodily modifications, should also be tried as adults, allowed to work, and buy booze and guns.
Ideally, those questions would be asked at their courts-martial.
I was going to drive my convertible
Then I got high
https://twitter.com/vidsthatgohard/status/1638747067827855360
Leather interior or not, that car has to just stink
Posted without comment:
https://people.com/human-interest/trans-flight-attendant-featured-united-airlines-ad-died-emotional-message/
Another transitioning success story