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Wife of sloopy, mother to three bright, curious, and highly active young girls. Perpetually exhausted.
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“Trump Signals Potential Military Action Coming Against Cuba”
It’s important to keep busy.
I suspect this is bluster to tell the interferers and the Cuba regime that they mean business.
Bored of Peace
Where the fuck did this Trump come from? He’s making up for his last administration that’s for sure.
Maybe he’s practicing on the overseas Commies and Islamists as prep for an invasion of California, Chicago, New York, and Detroit?
A girl can dream.
“Anyway, here is some of the best (or worst) of what we have seen from No Kings 2026.”
I hate these articles that are just a bunch of X links. The least they ca do is take screenshots.
My journalism degree allows me to find and report on a Twitter thread.
“The Republic of Somaliland, a partially recognized state in the Horn of Africa, reacted in a post on X to the claim that Vance made in a podcast interview with conservative commentator Benny Johnson.
“Deportation? Please you’re just sending the princess back to her kingdom. Extradition? Say the word …” the post read.”
That doesn’t sound official.
“”This is rich coming from someone who literally said they were willing to ‘create stories’ to redirect the media,” the statement said. “This is a ridiculous lie and desperate attempt to distract from the pedophile protection party’s unpopular war of choice, increasing gas prices, and rapidly dropping polling numbers.”
Didn’t the Biden admin have the Epstein files for four years?
They didn’t release them out of respect.
Admittedly, Biden didn’t run on releasing them.
Is releasing them necessary to prosecute these alleged pedophiles?
Exactly the opposite Tater. And you are now positing a failure to prosecute across multiple presidential administrations. When this is all Trump’s fault don’t you know.
Now that right there is funny, I don’t care who you are! 🤣
So they changed their mind? Huh.
On honoring women, or admitting they are dumbasses by saying they don’t know what the definition of women are cause they are not biologists?
That your definition of a woman there RC?
😀
Apparently you aren’t the only one.
“McClinton briefly cut her microphone and huddled with colleagues. Seconds later, she declared the resolution “temporarily over,” drawing an eruption of laughter in the chamber, the outlet reported.”
And no Democratic woman huffed “that’s not funny”???
Idiocracy has moved from parody, to prophecy, to understatement.
It’s like the last hundred or so years never happened.
But wow I thought that was gonna be the Bee.
I thought so too.
Yeah, that caught my eye, too. For decades now, you haven’t been able to go a week without hearing about some mediocrity who “broke barriers” by doing normal people stuff even though she was burdened by ovaries.
Can we have five minutes of silence about bullshit accomplishments by every definable group (and one undefinable apparently)? The endless fine grained “firsts” have gotten worse than the Super Bowl records they start talking about when the score is 47 -3 (the really granular ones Most catches in the 3rd quarter by a left handed tight end from an SEC school). First left handed bi-sexual woman with Hindu and Inuit ancestry born on a Tuesday to fly across the Atlantic first class! Stunning and Brave!
Real accomplishments are hard and rare Jar. These are the participation trophies of recognition.
They kill two birds with one stone. They allow the left to heap awards on their chosen utter nobodies and undermine the idea of achievement at the same time!
$19K is a lot of K.
Considering how much money sloshes around in a campaign, color me not impressed.
Probably cheaper in the street (or a friend with a vet for a brother) than in a “professional’s” office setting, so maybe not.
“Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa”
Seriously?
A colleague of Father Guido Sarducci.
Yup. He was a non-zero-chance candidate the last papal election.
“The heir to a Texas oil fortune has been ordered to pay $1.1 billion in a landmark ruling after he violently beating his 2-year-old stepson nearly to death — leaving the child bedridden in a wheelchair and requiring 24-hour care, according to a court.
Charles Brooks Jr. will have to pay the hefty fee after a jury ruled in favor of ex-wife Madison Ball, whose son suffered a severe brain injury at the hands of the now 34-year-old felon, Buzbee Law Firm, which represents the parents, said Thursday.
Brooks, an unemployed trust-fund baby and the great-grandson of Humble Oil founding investor Percy Turner, is already serving 40 years in a Texas prison for the heinous assault on his stepson, whom he was asked to babysit while his wife was working.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/29/us-news/texas-oil-heir-charles-brooks-jr-ordered-to-pay-historic-1-1b-in-child-abuse-case/
At least he didn’t have an opinion on a school shooting.
Do you put the wheelchair in the bed or the bed in the wheelchair?
You’ve gotta swap back and forth so that both the chair and the bed stay even and regular, it is like rotating a mattress
Maybe it’s a recliner?
With a billion dollar budget you could probably make a Transformer that switches between bed and wheelchair. Cripple Holder, Lord of the Insipidcons.
The five Invalidicons merge to form Flimsy Limb. A giant robot who is not only confined to a wheelchair but also must be fed through a tube.
Thanks gdragon, I know I’m going to hell for laughing at that.
Invalidicons is better, Gdragon is now canon.
Relevant
https://youtu.be/-VGOQ9F88-g
So 1 billion for the lawyers and 0.1 billion for the kid?
“A $167.3 million Kentucky Powerball winner who went from career criminal to multi-millionaire overnight is accused of stealing a comparatively minuscule $12,000 cash during a head-scratching home burglary over the weekend.
James Farthing, 51, was arrested on second-degree burglary and marijuana possession charges Saturday after security footage allegedly captured him breaking into a Lexington residence that evening, according to Lex18.
Farthing allegedly snatched $12,000 in cash from the home and fled the scene in his black Porsche Passenger — before police caught him and spotted a marijuana blunt in plain view and found more bud during a search of his car, the outlet said, citing an arrest citation.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/29/us-news/167m-powerball-winner-outed-as-career-criminal-stole-12k-in-third-arrest-since-hitting-jackpot/
I have many questions.
Old habits die hard.
Yup. A “life of crime” is a real thing.
“Old habits die hard” – is that the one where John McClane infiltrates a convent?
Die Hard: Nun Left Standing
Maybe “It needed stealin'”?
That’s an entire series of PhD dissertations.
Here’s a secret.
The vast majority of criminals aren’t committing crimes for financial gain. They’re committing crimes because they enjoy it, and because they’re too mind-blowingly stupid to recognize the possible consequences.
See also, microplastics researchers.
If your prefrontal-cortex is undeveloped adding a pile of cash to the equation doesn’t do anything except expand the number of bad decisions you can make.
When “keeping it real” backfires.
If this happened because he “don’t like people playin’ on his phone” then I may have to completely change my position.
Turns out they found microplastics in everything because the gloves they wore while testing for it were shedding microplastic particles.
STOP QUESTIONING THE SCIENCE!
comedy gold right there
I wear nitrile gloves when I clean my guns, service my reloading press, work on my truck, et cetera.
Are the microplastics more dangerous than the toxic chemicals and combustion residues? I figure probably not.
There has been no proof of injury from microplastics thusfar.
It’s spring break. It is going to be a rough week.
“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is launching a new program on Monday that will reward tipsters with up to 30% of the fines imposed on criminals who are trying to bleed US taxpayers dry, The Post has learned.
The program includes tips for Medicaid and Medicare rip-offs — and given that fraud in those two programs tops some $70 billion per year according to one estimate, whistleblowers could be in for some big payouts….
The 63-year-old former hedge fund mogul’s idea is to pay informants 10-30% of the proceeds when criminals are slapped with fines of more than $1 million.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/29/business/scott-bessent-launches-crackdown-on-health-care-fraud-after-somali-scam-scandal-in-minnesota/
Maybe that will get fraudsters to turn on each other.
That’s been around since the Civil War. It’s called the False Claims Act.
He was the guy who did the most to run Elon and DOGE out of DC.
They were finding the wrong kind of fraud – the Congressionally approved kind.
Since we already have Obamacare and everyone is mandated to have health insurance, why is Medicaid still a thing?
What could possibly go wrong?
*cough* Millennium Challenge *cough*
“Then in July 2025 President Trump’s tariff war slapped a 40% tax on products from Brazil — the world’s largest coffee producer — causing further increases for importers in the US, who passed much of the costs on to consumers.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/29/us-news/the-price-of-coffee-is-skyrocketing-faster-than-all-other-groceries-and-the-reason-goes-way-beyond-tariffs/
Don’t see the protectionism since the U.S. doesn’t grow coffee.
It’s Trump being nice to the mentally retarded by giving a gift to their Senator Maisie Hirono.
You’re being protected From coffee.
You’re welcome.
Kona coffee?
OK, continental U.S.
I’d feel bad if it weren’t that those who feel it most unironically complain about how expensive life is and that we need to be showered with govbux while sipping $10 lattes from Starbucks and reading about how bad Trump’s tariffs are on their $1500 iPhone.
Cripple fight!
I’m pretty sure no Jew is going to win a single delegate in the current Democratic Socialist Worker’s Party primaries.
primaries?
Fair point, but I am pretty sure the smoke filled room isn’t picking a Jew either.
“Kid Rock gives Gavin Newsom the middle finger with wild Apache helicopter stunt”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/29/us-news/kid-rock-salutes-military-helicopters-at-nashville-estate-blasts-gavin-newsom/
STIJLTH
“The “Cowboy” hitmaker’s not-so-humble knockoff is equipped with its own church, a barber shop and a gas station, per The US Sun.”
https://nypost.com/2025/04/01/entertainment/kid-rocks-mini-white-house-with-a-golden-urinal-revealed-after-20-years/
Having caught up on the weekend Glibs posts, allow me to provide information about Killian’s Irish Red.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brNqe2QSThY
Yes, it was founded in Ireland, but that brewery no longer exists, and the company that licensed the name to Coors is French.
I figured something like that. Once a big company get it the location and quality of the beer changes.
The French also sell an Irish named brandy.
Internet test!
https://taketest.xyz/mfgkt
I am generally knowledgeable, mostly so in international knowledge, least in computational knowledge. Which means this is a terrible test. I do like the format though, it kept me from guessing so I had a lot of only picking 4. I also question exactly what they were asking sometimes.
Secure connection failed….
That is a sketchy URL. Not clicking.
Huh. Usually the firewall here is extremely picky.
I think Israel having a nuke falls under opinion.
Same with Jim Jones being a criminal.
And whether ethernet is a computer cable.
289
the 97th percentile of non-anglo western
Apparently, I need more literary knowledge.
The “ethernet cable” made me hesitate. But since there were supposed to be 5 true answers, I went with the likelihood that the test writer wasn’t that knowledgeable.
I didn’t know there was supposed to be five.
Jim Jones absolutely was a criminal, before and during the People’s Temple era. After, of course, he was nothing.
I didn’t love the computer cables question. Ethernet is both a standard, and commonly regarded as type of cable, but I’m old enough to remember thinwire. A real nerd would have said UTP. Same with SATA, and again with USB.
I did terrible in “aesthetic knowledge”, whatever that is. Great in all the others.
I didn’t do so good there either, whatever that is.
“Tartan” has the same issue as “ethernet cable.”
Interesting.
Computational Knowledge
56 / 0–60 – 97th centile – Site: 84th
International Knowledge
44 / 0–50 – 87th centile – Site: 41st
Cultural Knowledge
75 / 0–80 – 83rd centile – Site: 78th
Aesthetic Knowledge
47 / 0–50 – 95th centile – Site: 92nd
Literary Knowledge
27 / 0–30 – 91st centile – Site: 81st
Technical Knowledge
39 / 0–40 – 97th centile – Site: 86th
This fits with what I would have expected. Highest in technical and computational knowledge, then literary and aesthetic, international and cultural still above average but definitely bringing up the rear.
So, the Lego Rifle was supposed to be finished last night. After all, I’d gone to the trouble to dig out my vice, used the “don’t crush the upper” fixture to torque down the barrel nut and had all the pieces for final assembly.
Well, while I was trying to fit the roll pin in the gas block/tube. I slipped and it pinged across the room to join the detent spring in the void.
😠
Why do you want to shoot Lego?
Revenge for the ones you’ve stepped on in bare feet?
To take Greenland from the Danes?
Obviously line your workspace with magnetized steel.
Make sure you have separate workspaces for guns and electronics first!
That would cost more than replacement parts.
You could just repour the floor in converging sloped planes to collect the springs in a known location!
There is a lot to be said about working inside a high-sided rubber tray when installing small pieces. That would be harder with a rifle, since it is hard to find one big enough. Just hover over it?
I took to leaving a Harbor Freight magnet in the rubber tray when working on those old 3-speed internal gearboxes for Schwinn bikes. Those things are made of tiny kamikaze components that seek the earth. They hit the rubber, then snap over to the magnet.
The barrel and upper together are somewhere around two feet, and I can’t attach the gas tube before torqueing the barrel nut, since it gets in the way of the process.
You and me both, brah. I was rebuilding the bolt in my competition AR last night*, and I slipped while installing the ejector roll pin and launched the ejector and spring into another dimension.
Amazingly, I found both of them just after I unpacked my emergency spare bolt…
* – That is, replacing the extractor, extractor pin, extractor spring/insert, and gas rings. I’ve been shooting a lot of cheap steel-cased 5.56mm ammo lately, and that shit can cause accelerated wear on those parts.
“The new honey-trap targeting conservative men: Patriot Babes, X-rated videos and MAGA’s dream girl
There was just one glaring problem: Jessica Foster wasn’t real. She was a total sham, created entirely by artificial intelligence (AI).
This digital phantom first flickered onto the scene in December 2025, launching with a defiant, two-word bio that signaled exactly the type of demographic she was hunting for: ‘America First.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15677957/new-honey-trap-plot-conservative-men-maga-dream-girl.html
https://archive.is/K1L0r
So a robot that hates Jews?