Chaos. There is absolute chaos here at Glibs HQ. People running about screaming. Nobody knows anything. The K-pop interns are endlessly rearranging the conference room furniture. And someone left the door to the squirrel room open. Again.
More good work from the Institute for Justice.
What did cannibals ever do to Eli Roth that he hates them so?
NOT GOOD! And the geographically confused reportage doesn’t help.
Heckler’s Veto or Accountability? (Sorry for NPR link, but, hell, we paid for it.)
Okay, that’s all I got. The comments are all yours.
Damned straight. This “We can do anything to anyone and anything and claim Sovereign Immunity” should be left on the dung heap of the Middle Ages. Accountability at least to a judge / jury — let them decide if you’re justified or if compensation is due, not blanket immunity.
And re: Glib HQ — all I can think is that y’all must have let Mr. Morden in… the plan is for Glibs to emerge stronger, ready to lead the way over the lesser websites when the dust settles!
What do you want?
10000 percent obligatory.
SDF-7:
That quote was in consideration for a response to you as well. 🙂
The Fifth Circuit boot lickers will just reverse it… again.
Drove him crazy like no one else? Or was that only when they were young?
They must just eat at him.
It’s incredible
That’s probably a good thing.
Preach it, Pat
He was listening to Deep Purple, and misunderstood the lyrics to be ‘What’s gnawing at your Back Door’.
Did the coke dealer put y’all on COD?
I can neither confirm nor deny that.
Well switch to Dr. Pepper… y’all will be fine!
Which Dr. Pepper? There’s like six flavours.
The original, of course.
They all received a ‘save the date’ card from Winston’s Mom and Steve Smith…
An irresistible hole meets an immovable object.
I voted for this.
And this is why the LA riots are happening. An ICE raid hit a cartel money laundering operation.
https://x.com/NJBeisner/status/1932471434858897460
I disagree that the jackasses are too stupid to realize “that’s what they’re defending”.
Like the Mexican President… there’s a lot of money sloshing around those cartels… do we honestly think there aren’t NGOs/Politicians on the take on this side of the border?
Interesting. Particularly if this is indeed the tip of the iceberg.
It’s going to get harder and harder for the left to keep up the “innocent landscapers, day laborers, and restaurant employee” narrative the more things like this come out.
Tonio, I am a little encouraged because these protests have just started, and already we’re seeing this sort of thing come out. And it seems people are getting tired of it. Remember last time, people were getting censored on social media.
I didn’t vote for this — they’re going too slow. I voted for mass deportations, dangnabbit.
(Yeah, the reversal is nice — and if most folks self-deport and come back in legally, I’m fine with that — in a perfect world they’d be forceably in the back of the queue for line jumping… but I can live without being terribly vindictive.)
If they get caught, permanent bar to entry. If they self deport and apply, they’re at the back of the line already, where they should be.
“Chaos.”
My conspiracy theory is that Ron is giving us a surprise test to see if we’ve been reading his Stoicism posts. Either that, or there are some sunspots or a full moon or something. My life has been chaos this week too. I just keep telling myself, it won’t last forever. (How did I do Ron?)
The week, the chaos or your life? I guess all true, and equally stoic in their own time scale.
“In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!”
Both. This week things lined up to be extra chaotic.
I wish I had that power.
I had my own Stoic test driving home, an idiot changed lanes right into where I was.
Luckily I was able to stop so they went right in front of me.
Come on! I have had the car a week!
Well, to be fair, Ohio doesn’t exist, so it’s like quibbling over a map of Middle Earth.
/looks around
It’s a silly place anyways.
Good mornings may be rare, but they do exist.
Seems to be begging for the Heckler’s Veto given the trends ever since Charlottesville.
I’m sure the public will give balanced and well researched comments and not screeds on de-colonialism.
The screeds on decolonialism are already there. They started under Obama. Biden put them on turbo. If a nasty thing can be said about America, it has been done so on a plaque at a historic site. All that commie crap needs to go.
“The city previously offered to pay the full amount of the damage to settle the case, but Baker’s team says they refused to settle unless the city also changed its policies to protect all homeowners from similar actions in the future.”
That’s some respect on Baker’s part. She could have easily gone on with her life and accepted the settlement but knew that this injustice should never happen again to anyone.
It is quite impressive that the Daily Mail managed to get nearly every fact about the location of the accident wrong.
Well, it is oHIo, so, does anyone care, really?
Philly cops not taking shit.
There’s been some people gathering around a detention facility, and marches going through Columbus. Nothing I’ve heard of up here, but things are planned for this weekend (thankfully around the Rock and Roll HoF, so they’ll just be bothering tourists).
What worries me after Summer of Love 1.0 is that arrests are one thing — having DAs that actually prosecute the charges is another. And that these professional shit-stirrers are counting on that.
We shall see what we shall see, I suppose.
Me too. Hopefully there will be federal charges, but there are corrupt judges at that level too.
TOK:
Ask and ye shall receive.
But that’s still just talk at this point.
[Edited to fix the link]
As much as I would savor the momentary schadenfreude, I don’t like that idea at all. Police powers should stay as close to the local level as possible. If L.A. cares enough about their sub-minimum-wage housekeepers and gardeners to go beat and kill for them, cut off every cent of federal funding that can be cut off, and leave them to their own depravity.
You Sugarfreed the shit out of that link.
Definitely not taking any shit in that video.
Having to dole out force like that is because during the SoL v1, no consequences were faced for burning cities to the ground and causing general disorder. Now there are.
Honestly, mad respect to the tall guy at the end he had like 4-5 cops hanging off him and another hitting him with a baton and was still fighting back.
Sometimes you just have to respect a combination of strength and courage, even if it’s really dumb.
The fall of Pride is upon us
I wouldn’t pop the champagne corks just yet, but it’s something at least.
Getting rid of USAID did at least do that…
One can only hope.
What we’re experiencing now (in all facets, not just sexual debauchery) is the end result of the 60s counterculture having infiltrated every facet of life over the last 6 decades. Reality is a bitch.
None of this is too surprising given the considerable overlap in the crowds that attend “Pride” events and the crowds that attend Summer of Love II events.
National Propaganda Radio begging their
listenersreaders to ask the gubmint for more tax dollars is sweet.If your product is worthy, people will clamor to buy it.
What if your product is great, but people are too stupid to realize it or make correct choices, hmmmm? Checkmate.
When I visited the Hermitage (Nashville version) a few years ago, it seemed like one third of the information available was a bio of Andrew Jackson and two thirds was OMG DID YOU KNOW HE OWNED SLAVES!!!?!!? It got annoying pretty quickly.
Mount Vernon wasn’t quite as bad, but the guide made a point to show the slave quarters and talk at length about them.
…Presumably without a shred of irony or self-awareness whatsoever.
Did you encounter any slave reenactors?
Fredericksburg moved its auction block to a museum. Now you have to want to see it.
The only Ed Roth that I know about was “Big Daddy” who came up with Rat Fink.
This
“ It’s so important that we learn from our history. To think that that could be erased or changed because visitors might prefer that story not be told — or not be told accurately — is frightening.”
Custer won at the Little bighorn.
In local news….
Man, gettin’ them ‘coons stirred up is a sure-fire way to cause chaos.
Man those Samoans are a surly bunch.
Dammit!
https://www.lex18.com/news/crime/police-murray-man-arrested-after-intentionally-releasing-raccoon-into-business
Apparently it’s not elections? Because I thought democracy was decided by elections and not temper tantrums thrown when things don’t go their way.
https://www.lex18.com/politics/walmart-heiress-takes-full-page-newspaper-ad-supporting-no-kings-protest-movement
I liked the Kings when they had Gretzky.
Democracy is too important to be left to the hoi polloi.
The government should first select the people before the people get to select the politicians.
Democracy is when you manipulate your own party’s primary so an inconvenient challenger loses. Twice. And democracy is when you lose a general election and press the intelligence community into service to obstruct the agenda of the elected president. And when that guy is out of office, you pursue bogus criminal and civil charges, try to bankrupt his family and associates, try to keep him off of state ballots in a future election, threaten lawyers who aid in his defense, etc.
Instead you listen to top men, which is totally different than kings for raisins!
Why am I picturing their backers/organizers as Scar talking to the hyenas…
“No King! No King! La la la la la la!”
“IDIOTS! There will be a King! I WILL BE KING!”
These goobers are the ones slobbering for kings to rule over them.
Ah, more chaos. My oldest has declared she’s moving out next week, and she won’t tell anyone where. On the phone she told my SIL she’s moving “down south with family”. So back to the cult, or with more birth family. I’m sure my SIL isn’t happy about all the work she put into getting my kid health care and setting up her fincances, just to throw it away. But I’m sure we’ll get blamed because we yell too much.
I had an epiphany yesterday. My daughter isn’t going to change because she doesn’t have to. She has no shortage of people who will enable her. She’s always had a bed to sleep in, never missed a meal, and always has a ride whenever she needs it. We all scramble to make sure she gets what she needs, meanwhile she kicks back and watches videos on her phone. The worst she’s had is someone getting mad at her, and that’s easily resolved by finding the next sympathetic person who will take her in. There is some peace in knowing we did what we could, but there’s no fixing someone who doesn’t want help, and always has a way to avoid the consequences to her actions.
Sorry to hear TOK. Family shit is always hard.
I hear that MoJo’s aunt Susie has room for a boarder.
Legit LOL
You can only hope that they’ll figure it out one day.
At least that’s what I tell myself…
That sounds rough.
It is impossible to help someone that doesn’t think they need real help.
I don’t know what to say except that I sense a theme.
I’ve known some oldish people like that, but young…?
Soap– / order–dodgers, that is.
“showers
keeping space clean
laundry”
Some obvious aversion; why? 🤷🏻♀️
There is a reason they call it rock bottom.
I’m not really sad about it. She’s caused nothing but stress. My youngest is visiting, and she won’t even use the upstairs bathroom because it’s so dirty and it smells. She’s just as fed up with her sister as we are. I just hope she finds her way before it’s too late.
I think I told you this before, but we had a similar situation with our daughter.
She loved a liar that cheated on her and if I didn’t accept him, then I didn’t need to see her.
Luckily she wised up and is now married to a good man.
Hope yours does the same, but it might take awhile.
I threw my daughter out of the house on Dec 23rd. Won’t got to school or work. She was about 21 or so. She’s now close to 60, 2 husbands and 3 kids later. Still trying to life figured out but does work. She admits everything was her own fault by rejecting the opportunities of youth.
I still worry about my kids and 3 grand daughters, the younger girls have got things figured out, sort of. They knew help was not going to be there for them.
>rejecting the opportunities of youth
Human condition?
Hope you got my “two fat ladies” joke earlier.
I would say I am sorry, TOK, but I am not sure that is called for here.
It is, however, too bad you can no longer take the kid down to the recruiting station, and have them come back in 4 years a Marine.
I did, T O’G
Been down that road more than once. It’s maddening.
Isn’t it? She’s resisting with all her might against taking showers, keeping her space clean, and doing laundry. And once again she’s getting away with it.
Don’t take it personally, K. Something that thorough probably has nothing to do with you.
“sympathetic person who will take her in.”
Sorry to hear this; very sad. Sad, too, that the last person who will take her in is going to be all us taxpayers, many of whom never voted for the enablers who mistake a feather bed for a safety net.
Sometimes I fear I’m in a similar situation. I feel ya.
I’m just catching up on posts from today.
Here is how I made a boom box.
It’s a great project and you can customize it yourself.
https://www.parts-express.com/Blast-Box-200-Watt-Portable-Bluetooth-Speaker-Kit-300-7162?quantity=1
They also make other versions. I made mine look like a modern version of a boom box. 200W speakers, so it’s heavy. Check out the site for other stuff to customize it.
https://www.parts-express.com/Executive-Portable-Bluetooth-Speaker-Kit-300-7164?quantity=1
Here is the one I made. There are two versions.
Does one still walk down the street with one of these hoisted up on their shoulder, or is that out of vogue?
Jessica Demopologist on “The Five” was decrying the way ICE and Trump were rounding up illegals at day care centers, restaurant kitchens, parking lots, schools, farms, and other places where immigrants are now afraid to congregate. Didn’t come out and call it “gestapo tactics” but you are supposed to get the idea. But then she remarked that Trump was doing this because he was embarrassed that more illegals had been deported under previous Democrat administrations than under him. So my question (which, of course the other Five never asked) is “What tactics did those Democrats use to round up so many illegals for deportation?” Assuming her figures are even true, then it stands to reason the previous administrations used the same tactics but there was no outcry or protests because it was (D)ifferent. Just like Obama’s “cages” were hunky-dory at the time.
When a Dem is in power and polling on the issue inevitably starts going poorly (because people really hate open borders policies), the administration starts counting those turned away at or near the border as “deportations”. That’s the way it worked for Obama, anyway.
She is so delusional and awful I don’t know how the rest of them put up with her.
That guy Harold she alternates with is a paragon of reason in comparison.
Nicer voice.
If peeling paint had a voice…
Don’t usually agree with him, but I’ve liked Harold Ford as an advocate for his positions for years, ever since he was a congressman. I’m surprised he hasn’t gone further than Fox News.
Simple…more so called self deportations and fewer people coming. That’s based on zero research but it stands to reason.
Well, the Dems counted people basically turned away at the border as deportations, so . . . .
show the world what democracy really looks like.
It’s Democrat-ocracy. It’s only legitimate when our team wins.
Just as economic failure is proof it wasn’t real socialism, election failure is proof it wasn’t free and fair.
But the sign says they’re cuddly and affectionate
A man sustained minor injuries after being gored by a bison in Yellowstone National Park Tuesday morning.
It happened around 9:45 a.m. in the Upper Geyser Basin at Old Faithful, according to a news release from park officials.
Officials say the bison charged the man, a 30-year-old from Randolph, New Jersey, after a large group approached it too closely. Though his injuries were minor, the news release says he was treated and taken to a nearby hospital.
They’ll eat an ice cream cone right out of your hand. Honest.
Bye, son!
From what I remember of Jellystone:
Bison: most populous, will give to shoulder when car approaches (obviously no cars at the geyser)
Moose: rarer, don’t fuck with
Bear: never saw one
Driving through Animal Park/World near Ft Worth about 50 years ago a rhino almost backed into my car. I wondered how I’d explain that to my insurance company.
I decide to indulge in a little mindless R&R on my day off and download The Killer. Turns out John Woo remade it in 2024. In America. With an all black cast, natch. It’s all so tiresome.
Bep. Bep. Bep-bep. Bep.
Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo
I have I think a fun submission with some fun pics from Vietnam to post. I just reread it and I need to move a few paragraphs around, and I don’t trust myself to do it.
But it comes soon.
Took 4yo nephew out yesterday, I believe the first time I was trusted to have one-on-one travel +explore time. Today we went to another creek and walk through the woods, then later to a nice swimming pool in Carmel. (There was some fucking *talent* floating with us through the lazy river. Damn.)
This was an amazingly productive Uncle Weekend. Wow. My bro’s version of Mini-Ev is smitten with me. And I with him. *sinks into adorable thoughts*
I find this claim to be… implausible
“We know that the leading cause of death in children is firearm injuries,” says Dr. Maya Haasz, an emergency medicine doctor and researcher at the University of Colorado, who wasn’t involved in the new study. In a policy brief from 2021, she and her colleagues found that a child or teen is killed in the U.S. every 2 hours and 48 minutes.
The new study offers a window into ways to prevent these deaths, says Haasz, and she called that “exciting.”
“This doesn’t mean we should change all our laws at once,” Haasz says, “but perhaps if we could look at these laws and see which ones are effective, then we could start moving towards safety.”
I’m sure they rigorously controlled for alternate variables.
Magic words on paper will save us.
Look, if they had been aborted in the first place, we wouldn’t have this problem.
the leading cause of death in children is firearm injuries
when you include adult teenagers in the children category
Ding ding ding.
And exclude infants.
Pick them cherries. Pick ‘em!
“Teen” = 18 and 19 year old adults.
Or what rat said.
What happens when we break down into smaller age bands, ethnic groups, and socioeconomic strata?
@ UCS:
Don’t do any of that. It’s not important.
Every five seconds in America, a child dies from gun violence. That’s ALL you need to know.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5342514-dnc-vice-chair-election-reevaluated/
Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.
🤣😂
Finger on the pulse.
😂🤣
Hopefully this time they have the requisite number skin colors and trans identifying individuals.
Oh No! Anyway…
All members of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board resigned Wednesday, citing alleged political interference by members of the Trump administration.
The White House defended the administration’s involvement.
“President Trump, not the Fulbright Board, was elected by the American people to ensure all foreign policy initiatives align with our national interests,” White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said in a statement.
Someone didn’t like having oversight of their sandbox.
So… took Mrs GL to the ER for swelling Monday evening. Was an abscess and ended up doing surgery to drain and remove a tooth.
Now currently recovering so I’m eating hospital cafeteria food for the next several days. Not bad, but they’ve given up on traditional foods in the cafeteria itself. Room menu has pot roast, open faced sandwiches both turkey and beef, and multiple forms of potatoes. And no deserts in the cafeteria! It’s all prepackaged candy bars and crap. Where’s the slice of cake or pie? Even the jello she’s eating in room is an individual commercial cup.
ouch.
From what I understand, an abcessed tooth is very painful. And there are a lot of historical skeletons of people for whom it was… not such a great outcome.
Glad to hear it’s been drained and treated.
Yeesh, good to hear it’s being taken care of though.
The one time I was staying with someone at a hospital, I walked down to the cafeteria, saw the most horrific-looking “metal pan of warm brown water with industrially-pressed burger patties floating in it”, and promptly went to some kind of Middle Eastern restaurant nearby and brought back some lamb and rice (which was actually the fucking bomb). But then in the morning, these little kiosk-type eateries in the hospital opened up, and I got a breakfast sandwich that was actually pretty good.
I’ve never eaten food as a patient in the hospital, but every time I’ve visited somebody there, it has looked decent – at least as good as those pre-made sandwiches from the supermarket. Not five-star cuisine, but not as terrible as they say.
“You gonna eat that?” asked the stickered visitor.
Putrid, I remember and endorse your rant about what hospitals call diets. Airlines probably do better.
(wherever PM is)
My hospital actually had some pretty good chow in the cafeteria. Their grilled cheese sandwiches (with ham) were first rate. The pizza was decent. I always took my lunches, so I didn’t eat there much, but when I did it looked, you know, not bad.
I hear hospital food can be cheap if unsurprising grub.