Happy New Year, Glibbies! Anything happening in the world? Let’s take a look.
Links!
Okay, I have to admit, this is pretty funny.
Meanwhile, over at Vlad’s place.
Remember when we “accidentally” bombed the Chinese embassy in Iraq Serbia? Good times.
I’m sure the Ayatollah has been paying close attention to last nights shenanigans.
I mean, all he had to do was call Obama.
It would suck for China if they tipped the island over.
Okay, that’s it for me. It’s warm enough to day for a cocktail and stogie on the patio(with the heater). Peace out, Glibbies.
That opening pic. The red tie looks like a demonic middle finger right up his throat.
*THUNDEROUS applause*
Little Marco,
King of Venezuela
whaddup doh’
LOL
+1 lol
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Ha!
Huzzah!
In case anyone missed the reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rhodes_Colossus
It’s a pun because there was also a Colossus of Rhodes.
The Colossus was the shortest-lived of the Seven Wonders. An earthquake took it out a few decades after its construction. I wonder if that knowledge played a part in the creation of that meme.
Sheldon Whitehouse is a tard.
Rhode Island is a small country, it should not has one senator much less two.
No. It is one of our 50 labs of democracy. It might be stoopid now but imagine some day it won’t be.
For Not Adahn and Rat on a Train:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_giant_rat
I’d heard of the woolly mammoth and woolly rhino, but it turns out there were also smaller woolies.
Don’t forget the Wooly Bully.
Watch it now, watch it!
Rick Wilson, principled non-interventionist. Totally not into nation-building….
https://x.com/TheRickWilson/status/2007505197434843551?ref_src=
He’s in charge of the Lincoln Project and a staunch Never Trumper. I think he’s using that quote sarcastically.
a sample of his tin ear satire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TogbPPyQQM
Oh, I know who he is.
Didn’t that bunch get caught in some weird sex scandal or was that a different group of fauxcon interventionist freaks?
I know we bombed the Chinese embassy in Serbia, did we do that in Iraq also?
Was it Serbia? Yep. Belgrade. I prolly should have researched that.
The CCP STILL doesn’t believe it was an accident.
That just makes me chuckle.
CCP is asshoe
The ‘word around MIC’ about Trump using Venezuela as a wedge to block/ repel China is interesting. Got me thinking about the reality behind.. the reality. Meaning, there obv *is* all sorts of realpolitik between nations with big armies and big ideas behind the drapes of what we’re allowed to see on TV… and I’d love to know more about it.
The multi-faceted push to keep oil out of easy Chinese grasp, and all the Chinese ‘Belt and Road’ schemes, and US ones as well — I’m curious what it sounds like and how they’re playing. (And whose winning, where.) I’m well aware I know piss off about it.
Derp certainly does. The belt/road, long-term games are interesting and I wonder how they’re thought out, planned and executed. I’d like to know how they (try to?) hide their failures, and what things look like now.
I’m remarkably ignorant of many things. This is one of ’em.
My, this soup is delicious.
Maduro’s overthrow will drive up the price of oil, at least in the short term, which benefits Russia and forces China to cozy up to Russia and Iran.
cheap oil = world peace
energy = prosperity
I really wish the US would just build more oil refineries and nuclear reactors. That would do more good than overthrowing umpteen authoritarian governments. But then the James Bond wannabes wouldn’t get to have their fun with “regime change” games.
I dunno about the oil prices. The seizure of the oil tankers prior to Maduro’s capture didn’t seem to affect gas prices. And I believe the US already have the refineries to handle the Venezuelan sour crude.
On top of the narco business I’m hearing stuff about election shenanigans (Dominion??) having been run out of Venezuela. Who the hell knows.
I’m reserving judgement on all of this for now. Except it’s clearly Monroe Doctrine II Stay the Hell Out of Our Hemisphere Boogaloo.
This is probably the best take on it any sane person can do.
This might be informative.
https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/the-electorate-isnt-5050-the-real
It might be, except it reads like something a nutter has written.
Something a little less crazy-pants would be welcome.
Linked this Adam Carolla ep a little while back. Sounds kinda reasonable but also kinda conspiratorial at the same time – ymmv.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-elections-are-stolen-with-ralph-pezzullo-and/id306390087?i=1000724944265
And so here I am with my husband on his 60th bday at Jazz Louisiana Kitchen sampling everything on the menu. Delish, delish.
And also, a year ago tomorrow was when the family crisis began.
Hope no more crisises of any sort, Happy Birthday to the lad.
Whats the plural on that?
And so here I am with my husband on his 60th bday at Jazz Louisiana Kitchen sampling everything on the menu. Delish, delish.
Excellent. Happy Birthday to him!
I don’t know what’s better, Cajun or Mexican food, but it’s hard to say no to either. Happy Birthday to your husband.
Damn, delicious carbs in both.
Cajun/Creole is the joint.
Very nice. Enjoy.
Enjoy yourselves.
Happy birthday to hubby!
I spent the last several hours with my son and his family for a belated Christmas gift exchange.
So, I missed all the follow-ups to my comment in the dead thread.
I will merely ask: Did I really need to add the scare quotes on “duly elected”?
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Duelly? Dually?
Either seem to work
Dually is what you call a pickup with four back tires. 😀
Dualla
Would/wood
Since I was one of those people, apparently yes. Admittedly, my snarc meter is unreliable.
Yet another reason to tell Europe to “Fuck off and die!”, even the center is authoritarian.
https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-rise-of-militant-centrism/
The phrase “totalitarisme sans goulag” always always always leads to “gulag oui” and “go stand by that ditch.”
It smells of leftism without the dirty association with, well, leftists.
Also… RINOs.
Another year, another season of the play and tournaments. The squirrel league starts tomorrow, rain or shine and it’s gonna rain..
We played in a driving storm on new years day, the course was flooded so it was, tricky
This is us on new years saying hi to our pussy friend, rain?
Meh
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_20260102_221159.jpg
Someone is smoking OMG I want one.
It has been 7½ years unless you count vapes and I don’t.
Looks like a doobie. Still want one?
Thats a joint, B doesnt smoke
Come to think of it, building cheap housing would help more people faster than just about anything else, even more so than nuclear reactors or oil refineries.
Alas, we are becoming a BANANA republic: Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything.
Right now where we live, they’re trying to cram as much affordable housing as possible and it’s completely built out already.There’s nowhere else to build, and no place for more roads or parking,and it’s only gonna contribute to the already impossible traffic.So fuck that
We used to recognize that “affordable” housing was just old housing and often in not-so-great neighborhoods.
And that you can’t “build” affordable housing. But now we’re electing communist mayors who think otherwise so I guess we have to go thru this stupid exercise yet again. 🙄
I was eating lunch in the parking lot of a Popeyes looking at some new fangled “luxury” apartments in the background of what is still a questionable part of town. I had that exact thought. Luxury to affordable in one generation and all they’ll have to do is paint over the word “luxury”.
That is how it always was until recently. Before we became a largely socialist country.
Not even one generation. Towns here are requiring certain number of units in the new apartment bunkers to be leased to low income as equity.
My kids have both forgotten the ‘starter’ home they were living in at birth. Also, they were surprised wife and I lived in a apartment before a starter house. The first apartment was far from luxury. I keep trying to tell them that’s how it works, but they don’t want to hear it. The youngest at least has some friends going through some shit and sees it can go wrong and is maybe starting to grasp how life works. The oldest is a Luigi & The Zohran fan and thinks life owes her something. That’s not my or mom’s doing but college indoctrination. She is at least listening to me on the 401(k) shit and saving as much as she can. That usually makes a convert eventually.
They do the set asides here to for ‘affordable’ but for some reason, only the connected ever seem to get the cheap housing. Funny how that works.
The morning should be chill until just after Church. But now 2026 is upon us, it’s time to turn Job Search Mode back on.
*flip*
I hope people are more amiable to hiring now. We shall see. Entry-level anything is all I’m looking for, with $18/hr being the floor. I’m making $14 now and it’s annoyingly just above Medicaid and below enough to get my own appt anywhere.
Rock on, gliblens.
Good morning to everyone except drug kingpins.
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I made not cornbread last night.
https://missjones.co/products/keto-paleo-cornbread-muffin-and-bread-mix
Not bad. Texture is good. Needs a bit more flavor over the popcorn extract i added. I will make again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijxk-fgcg7c
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What about drug fifth wheels?
They can’t have any of my not cornbread.
::rushes in:: Good morning…::glances at clock::…everybody!
Good Morning.
The links dropped.
Woke up to another inch of snow this morning.
Seems like you are 2-3 days after MN, hard to believe anyone is behind MN. Even Somalis seem to be leading the change.
You know what I was thinking? It would be stupid easy to build a shipping container-sized armament pod that can be stacked among the regular containers on the side of the vessel to unload a heap of pain on pirates. Load it with something like switchblade drones for sinking pirate boarding craft, and you could defend every direction from a single pod unleashing a swarm of kamikaze drones.
My oriignal idea had more direct-fire goodness, but container ships are not very maneuverable, so I had to redesign for reality.
You’re not referencing this one thats been in the news for a couple weeks?
https://x.com/i/status/2006064357910720921
No. Haven’t seen it.
I’ve had the idea for agres.
https://open.substack.com/pub/cdrsalamander/p/china-develops-worlds-oldest-warship?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
My thought was “anti-piracy defense” not “We’re too lame to build real warships”
More like….sneak into range of a port and launch a whole lot of cruise missiles. Updated version of “Klub-in-a-box” that was advertised a few years back.
That would only encourage unrestricted submarine warfare against anything going in or out of Chinese ports.
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