Yep. Generic Links today. Manly Time is pretty sedate right now. We did finally get some snow, but we need a lot more. The summer garden isn’t going to water itself.
Links?
Trump’s DEI hire is out of control.
Now do that 49 more times and close the doors.
Dear lord, what a whiny little bitch.
I am so happy I left that state years ago. What a shit show.
Okay, that’s good for today. Enjoy the rest of your weekend. Peace out, Glibbies.
Shouldn’t the music selection be from Album to match the image?
Have you seen my Links? Do you think I put in that much effort?
Day said he initially hesitated to disclose the suspected gang connection, citing what he described as the “historic injustice of victim blaming” by law enforcement, including within his own agency.
Where did they find that guy?
Same place they find all of these leftist bleeding heart white guilted idiots, wherever that is. In certain parts of the country it looks like you can’t throw a rock without hitting one.
That traded in Ted Wheeler for someone even gayer.
It’s Portland. You don’t get any position in the administration there without being a far left activist of some sort.
“Portland police chief cries while admitting etc”
We don’t need cold-blooded lunatics as police chiefs, think Arpaio, but we definitely don’t need police chiefs and sheriffs that tear up at public appearances either. For god’s sake man, pull yourself together.
He feels your pain.
I don’t hire police chiefs to feel my pain.
Party time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIsnIt1p978
Nice.
A revealing example of the pure pussification the Left requires. It’s hard for me to imagine people proudly ‘going along’ with it all. Men are whipped beyond belief to casually go along with this.
Utterly predictable, sadly. The frog’s been simmering so long.
“It’s not a gang! It’s a club!”
Don’t be fooled. He’ll be plenty cold-blooded when it comes time to shut down the next J6 equivalent.
There should be no police chiefs.
The only police leadership in any given jurisdiction should be the elected sheriff.
No appointees.
No choices made by top men.
100%
In August 2024, the California Energy Commission began to sense that “Big Oil” might lose interest in the risk of pumping out CARBOB supplies in the state, which would lead to shortages and high prices as they abandon their refining facilities.
Maybe the legislature can figure that the L.A. Basin is de-smogged enough, and stop mandating the production of CARBOB in the state.
(Yeah, I couldn’t keep a straight face as I typed that, either.)
THey just need to make it illegal for refineries to close except by government order, yup yup.
They need to take the rugged individualistic companies, and convert them to warm collectivism.
Newsom proposed as much when he said the state could takeover and run a refinery. It turns out it can’t.
As a long investor in Valero (Ticker:VLO) I’ve been watching this intently. I can say the state of California has not disappointed my portfolio. I started buying at $39 a share during the pandemic. It has grown to become my 2nd largest holding and while I finally sold some in November for around $175 a share and a little more when it hit $192 last week. Going to hold on to remaining since now playing on house money for what was a decent dividend, but is now under 3% thanks to strong stock appreciation. I was in Vegas in November and want to thank the suck…er residents in Arizona, Nevada and California for helping a blue collar worker retire with more than he made while working by agreeing to the policies that make $5 gas possible when the rest of the country pays half that.
But in reality, Mr Trump was referring to the expansion of Denmark’s Arctic special forces unit, Sirius Patrol, which uses 100lb dogs on sleds to navigate Greenland’s harsh landscapes.
And they use M1917 rifles.
I am surprised the use an automatic pistol. The extreme weather must not have a significant effect.
Bah, they’re nothing compared to the Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKRx3sXMDRo
Expansion? So they will last six minutes instead of five when Delta team hits them?
For a good reason. A lot of modern automatic rifles won’t run reliably in sub-zero conditions. Also, polar bears are gonna laugh at your gay 5.56mm M4.
We didn’t have reliability problems in Alaska.
It’s Denmark, so they should use either Krags, or a Schmitt Bender.
Canada still used No. 4 mk. 1’s for the Canadian Rangers up in the North Pole.
Canada still used No. 4 mk. 1’s for the Canadian Rangers up in the North Pole.
No. 4 Mk I*.
And Canada phased them out in favor of the Tikka T3 made under license in Canada.
I am glad I left California too. Good friends and lurkers stayed. I miss them but would never go back.
I’ve never loved ther but I have a customer there and have to beg CA to let me legally enter with my worktruck every two years because it’s not CA compliant.
The clean air act is unconstitutional. CAs carve out and CARB are also.
Never move there Threedoor. It’s a nightmare for so many reasons.
@Threedoor: You’re not supposed to *love* your customers. Just take the $20 and move on. Though the non-compliant kink must be big in CA. Mmmm. That was popular with Werner Brandes. Became the It-Term for consent in the bedroom for a spell.
“My name is my passport! Validate me!”
Me any my Steve smith sized thumbs.
I do like the crew and the management of the California plant I service every other year.
Sometimes they make up for their crappy upper management. I appreciate group of guys that is happy to see the outside maintenance show up and is ready for me. The team at Monarch Mountain are good dudes.
I only lived there for 11 months a long time ago and I hated it enough to move back east FFS.
My proggy niece and her boyfriend (now husband) moved there (specifically Orange County) in the summer of 2020. They moved back to Cleveland in under a year.
I lived there for forty years, and miss it, as it is as dead as most of my family.
Similar. I spend a summer in the Bay Area, and that was more than enough for me. I ended up moving to the opposite coast after that experience.
I still have family in SoCal. I will visit but not return. Where they live hasn’t yet reached the no-go status for populace or government.
Make it in L.A.? I hope I never make it to L.A. – Hank Hill. I have been to L.A. and I have been to San Francisco. I’ll be fine if I never make it back to California. I should have never paid that bullshit (but factually accurate) speeding ticket. 97mph in the desert clocked by a fucking airplane because their was no fucking car traffic. Fuck you CA. Also, thank you Oldsmobile for equipping the Aurora with the “Autobahn” package and the CHP for not catching that leg of the trip.
I am watching the Three Stooges where they try to make beer. I thought of you guys.
*nyuk nyuk nyuk*
How much does an ED waiver cost?
Asking for a friend.
An erectile dysfunction waiver? Your dignity, probably…
Yeah, if you’re waving your erectile dysfunction, your dignity is long gone.
There’s not much to wave if you’ve got erectile dysfunction, is there?
He can wave his flag, but there’s no flag pole to hang it on.
Spud gets it
He has the wisdom to adapt to changing needs. Or something.
/spin
+1 so dreamy
Really nice crease to his pants.
Creased pants.
Smooth brain.
The Dems presidential primary could be interesting if, and it’s a big if, one them runs as a center-left Dem. There will be so much video of Newsom saying damaging stuff.
random thought
The authors of Storm of Steel, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Lord of the Rings were all soldiers in WW1, but the fantasy book outsold the other two by a wide margin. Why?
I think Tolkien realized that a book about the realities of trench warfare would be too depressing for most readers, especially children, so he nerfed his experiences, and made it a fun story about wizards, magic rings, etc. The basic message is how he and others went on a long, dangerous journey, and survived through luck, bravery, and friendship.
The highest grossing movies of the past 30 years have all been some kind of fantasy: science fiction, superheroes, and the like. I think that says a lot about human nature.
Nobody was lining up to watch Africa: Blood and Guts.
Tolkien probably had a fair amount of survivor’s guilt. He tried several times to return to the front in spite of health problems.
https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/World_War_I
Or – hear me out – The Lord of the Rings wasn’t about the Great War.
Well, there was a big war in it. The whole series revolved around giant wars.
Even The Hobbit had the Battle of Five Armies, which matches up with the 5 main powers of WW1: UK, France, Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary.
Even The Hobbit had the Battle of Five Armies, which matches up with the 5 main powers of WW1: UK, France, Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary.
That’s nonsensical.
Tolkien was at the Somme, though he missed the heaviest fighting. If you want parallels to The First World in his works, look to the Somme not the wider conflict.
“He tried several times to return to the front in spite of health problems.”
Or, perhaps, a sense of duty.
Equally, with much overlap, he might not have wanted to be viewed as a coward or be seen ‘shirking’ his duty.
Not being seen as a bitch is a powerful drive. Portland’s police chief is such a pathetic example of how far many have fallen, where that’s ‘seen’ to be (or compelled to be?) noble in some way? I’d love to hear Churchill weeping over the radio during the Blitz, wondering through his tears how come “We can’t all just get along?!”
That’d get the boys to man their post!
There was some survivor’s guilt. Out of his very close school friends, only Tolkien and another survived the War. This haunted Tolkien.
We have nothing to fear but microagression itself. Lord Montbatton, hand me a tissue, my peepers are getting watery.
-Woke Winston Churchill
“We shall wimper in the safe spaces, we shall weep in the petting zoos, we shall whine in the supermarket aisles…we shall NEVER compose ourselves.”
LOTR came out long after that war, while the other two were published within the decade of that war.
Also, LOTR wan’t about the war, while the other two were explicitly about it, and from the losing side, at that.
“losing side”
Depends on your perspective…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWHbF5jGJY0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWGSym6NyF0
Quite fair to say that when hostilities ceased, no one had won.
Or as Tolkien so poignantly put it in describing the war between dwarves and orcs in Moria – if this is victory our hands are too small to hold it.
But much of it was written before and during the war. Perfectionism plus workload kept him ever finishing another book.
I’ll put it another way: if Tolkien hadn’t been in WW1, would he have written the same novels? I think not. They’re not strict allegories for the war, but they clearly inspired in part by his wartime experiences.
I’m not the only one saying this:
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It was in between his duties as officer that Tolkien began to lay the narrative foundations of what would become Middle-earth. They were “fairy-stories,” so-called: little vignettes, concerning gnomes and sprites and elf-like creatures, the kinds of stories with which Tolkien had been loosely enamored “since I learned to read.” It wasn’t until he was invalided back to England with trench fever during the Battle of the Somme—where two of Tolkien’s closest friends were killed—that “Tolkien wrote out…the haunting epic of Gondolin, a city of high culture which is destroyed in a hammerblow by a nightmarish army.”
More stories followed shortly after, snippets of a larger world beyond the scope of any fairy-story Tolkien would have encountered in his childhood, but which would eventually become the grand mythos of Middle-earth, itself. That mythos would not be called the The Silmarillion until the book’s publication in 1977, four years after Tolkien’s death, but its disparate pieces were brought to life both in the midst and in the aftermath of the Great War: Morgoth and the fall of Gondolin; Eä and the Undying Lands; Ainulindalë and the War of Wrath.
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https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/articles-posts/5502-war-not-allegory-wwi-tolkien-and-the-lord-of-the-rings.html
You’re moving the goalposts.
If the author had been a different person he’s have written a different novel is a far cry from “book is about X”
My position is that LOTR is a fantasy allegory for WW1, and one of the best pieces of evidence for that is that Tolkien started to write it during the war.
It’s about WW1 because Tolkien would not have written it if he had not been in a war.
I mean, it’s obvious Slaughterhouse 5 is about WW2 even though it was published 24 years after the war ended. And it’s obvious the war is the main reason why the author wrote the book even though it has space aliens and other sci fi elements.
Or – It was a mechanism to escape what what was going on and thus not about it.
It’s about WW1
That’s nonsense.
He had some inspirations from his experience in the war, but to say LoTR is about the war? Nonsense.
Somalis, with a ltitle help, close the cultural gap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuYcqqoQnqg
Not bad, but the real deal is far more nauseating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNrAv6mfzic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0mTVax2-1w
“Dear lord, what a whiny little bitch.”
That could have applied to about half of these links.
“She has also been accused of drinking during the day, keeping a stash of champagne, Bourbon and Kahlua in her office, and committing travel fraud by requesting her staffers concoct official trips to destinations where she can spend time with family or friends.”
Do they know about Ben Franklin?
You realize we did update the rules to make it so that officials can’t do that officially any more, right?
Just because people got away with it in the past is no reason to let people keep getting away with it.
I cant remember what “scholarly commentary” I saw some historian make about the founding father’s and Declaration, or the Constitution or w/e. But he basically said, “These guys all owned distilleries and breweries, and were hammered 24/7. Its a miracle they could even stand to sign the damn document.”
The drinking probably makes her tolerable.
“Do they know about Ben Franklin?”
No.
Sounds like a union boss to me.
Ours anyways. Never saw her leave the bad.
Bar, not bad
Too local OFFS… some local and even state po-po are finally taking out some of the trash at one of the local “supportive housing” crack-houses and the lefty fishwrap is more concerned that “some residents and local activists […] feared the operation could be tied to federal immigration enforcement”.
This one is an earlier version of the same thing that the same company built and manages across the street from my home, and which is the site of daily visits from police, fire trucks (frequent arson), and ambulances (regular overdoses).
It’s so caring of the voters to provide subsidized housing for “some of Ithaca’s poorest and most vulnerable, including youth transitioning out of homelessness” that somehow seem to be increasing in number every year.
“The authors of Storm of Steel, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Lord of the Rings were all soldiers in WW1, but the fantasy book outsold the other two by a wide margin. Why?”
But only 1 still has a bar in Key West noted for him.
Hemingway? He didn’t write any of the above, but he was in and wrote about WW1.
Peripheral
Hemingway Shwemingway
I just saw graffiti that said “Holocaust shmolocaust” – is that a hate crime, does it count as antisemitic? Unrelated and asking for a friend, had I laughed, and I most assuredly didn’t, am I a bad person?
I declare it beer 30.
Have fun. I’m done drinking for the night.
One beer for me.
I’m a 240 pound lightweight.
Ditto, one beer, followed by much bourbon.
Dry January is 30% done. So I got that going for me.
Dry what now?
/sips from highball #3
*stares daggers at rhywun*
In truth it hasn’t been bad and I needed a break after the holidays. Will probably have to cut it slightly short: visiting the wife’s 80-something cousin on the 30th and he’ll be hurt if we don’t help him put a dent in his wine cellar.
Since I managed to acquire Covid + a kick-ass infection in both ears, the Augemntin the doc gave me doesnt play well with beer.
I got a cold as soon as I quit. Booze was clearly keeping it at bay.
Dont be fooled by Big Sober.
I already ignored sober October, I’ll be damned if I capitulate now.
Happy Saturday night, Glibs! Fuck Dry January, and let’s do some Social D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPgAb9EYlrc
It is odd I know almost nothing of them despite being a big fan of Bad Religion from the same location and era.
I think it’s because that is not a genre I sought out but rather picked up various bands here and there from friends?
In all honesty, I’m completely new to Social D. I was aware of their existence but had never put in an effort to listen. A couple months ago MikeS texted me that I should listen this song, and I can’t get it out of my head now. It immediately felt familiar in some weird way. Like I said to MikeS, it sounds like five different songs I know, but I can’t put my finger on which ones.
How? For me, Social D has always just been there. For some reason, I always equate them with the Replacements, even though they sound nothing alike. If I’m in the mood for one, I’m in the mood for the other. There was some stupid movie with Angina Jolie and Edward Burns where she was a reporter and wears a Social Distortion t-shirt and it annoyed me so much, because she’s just not a Social D person. What the fuck, oh yeah, see my comment above about much bourbon.
Here’s one I bet none of you have heard of. Fantastic song writer. Back in the day he had a band, but now he goes it alone. MikeS and I saw him do two shows last spring up in the 51st state. He invited us and a couple of others to have drinks with him at his hotel bar after the show. We drank for a few hours until close, and he picked up the whole tab. A great time was had by all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Vq4TXE6KY
Goddamnit there goes my bet
Which Americans let you down?
The fucking panthers
So, at this point, am I corpse fucking a dead thred, or is it more of a date rape situation?
But I’m a fresh corpse! I MAY retract my consent later, but for now, please continue your fuckfest. I need to loosen up.
So, like most instances of date rape, or “buyers remorse” as it’s known in some circles.
Protestants have dry January, I have Lent, or as I like to call it, gee your breath sure smells like you over did it on the Listerine.
RIP Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/articles/bob-weir-grateful-dead-co-233914880.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Cubs sign Alex Bregman for 5 years. Hrm. Woulda preferred Bellinger, but a solid deal. Not happy we lost young Cassie. He’s gonna be good, methinks. First game against the ChiSox in late Feb, wowza. The day before and after the MLB All-Star Game are the only two days of the calendar year w/o a Big Four sport game in the US. Think about it.
Here we go, glibbersauruses.
The Wire, could it be made today? Not with the original cast. Name a show with more dead lead actors. Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeet – Clay Davis, typical Maryland politician.