I have seen the “Posts” tab….nothing!
I have scheduled ever single piece we had in “Pending”. Thankfully, some stalwarts gave me a week and a day before we run out of everything except Mojeaux’s story – come 7:01pm on Tuesday the 29th. I am hoping some people finish something, or it is going be STEVE SMITH TIME at the ol’ Glibs HQ.
But you came here to comment, not get nagged. Here is some perfunctory linkings, then comment space.
- “The fans are on their feet, shouting ‘Kill! Kill!’ This is hockey!”
- How could you tell?
- Whycome I never get to go to events like this?!
- Global Warming has ended snow in Switzerland.
Music is self-serve. Comments belong to you.
I call for a Swiss pope to go with the Swiss Guard.
I would think most of the Swiss Guard would prefer a Swiss Miss. Those who prefer the other can hang around the Vatican, sure.
Hmm <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIvLlKMNCSA" I am not sure that's true. They’ve died to the last man for Popes before.
Died before they could close my tag too
The didn’t all die for Clement VII in 1527, but most of them did. You may be confusing that last stand with the Swiss guard of Louis XVI who did die to the last man defending him from the mob.
I got tagged to write the “Vatican releases Pope’s cause of death” at RedState. I asked if they were sure they wanted their token atheist to write that up. They said, “Sure, why not?”
So I did. I played it straight.
I have a decidedly unserious (as opposed to undecidedly serious. And not necessarily actually funny) post in the works, currently awaiting feedback from my in-house editor. As this will be my first bout with the block editor, I’ll probably skip adding graphics, but I will need to insert a fair number of links. If I run into difficulty, I’ll send up a flare.
I eagerly anticipate. Conquer forth!
OK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnTelUJrDhc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxSsol3Zd7k
I always loved that tune.
STEVE SMITH FAN OF BIG LOG TOO. PARTICULARLY PROMINENT PART OF FOREST LAWYER.
Have a lot of stock footage with your music
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BZoTey0Ckg4
I can’t even.
I did watch the show that gave us that new singer but gadzooks that is awful.
Gadzooks is underused.
I wonder if STEVE SMITH ever says Gadzooks. I know I, for one, would find itfrightening.
Just before STEVE SMITH goes in dry.
FORSOOTH! STEVE SMITH SAY GADZOOKS, WHEN HIM VISIT RENFAIRE. BY VISIT RENFAIRE, MEAN RAPE.
🤪
Re: The Haiti collapse story: I was surprised to see that it was on France24. I’ve been watching a little bit of that every day to practice my French. It’s basically the froggie version of “Voice of America”. It’s decent news as long as the subject isn’t Trump or his associates. The Trump Derangement Syndrome is STRONG over there. It must be a novel variant that evolved within France… It has evolved mechanisms for resisting logic and sense of proportion like nothing I’ve ever seen.
Last week, the TDS so bad, I skipped France24 altogether.
Music
and youtube sends me here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCzVEUlqqA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmR9F12CVIM
Haiti was going to return? Return to what?
Clinton grifting?
Sender?
Okay, for the last time:
– The ABYSS is for staring into.
– The VOID is for screaming into.
Your future compliance is appreciated.
I thought the Void was for us Non to be tossed into because we are not Juffo-Wup.
You void your bladder, and evacuate your bowels.
You point to the void.
I piss on it.
I was NOT staring into an abyss. Our Posts tab was DEVOID of material.
Sir! GlibFlicks submitted 30 minutes ago!
I shall produce at least one emergency post before I commit Hara-Kiri at work with a fountain pen!
Sounds like what happens when John Wick gets depressed, R.J.
I got around to watching Paul over the weekend. The country cover of the cantina music was amusing. Spotting the references was somewhat of a game.
It was a great movie.
Thanks R.J. I just scheduled it.
You won’t have ol’ Klaus to kick around anymore
“Following my recent announcement, and as I enter my 88th year, I have decided to step down from the position of Chair and as a member of the Board of Trustees, with immediate effect,” Schwab said in a statement released by the WEF.
The forum did not say why he was quitting.
The WEF board said in the statement it had accepted Schwab’s resignation at an extraordinary meeting on April 20, with Vice Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe serving as interim chairman while the search for a new chair began.
The German-born Schwab established the WEF in 1971 with the aim of creating a forum for policymakers and top corporate executives to tackle major global issues.
How will we go on?
He will own up to nothing and be happy.
We’ll just be happy he’s gone. Maybe the whole WEF can fall apart if we’re really lucky….
That’s how I see it. Klaus and Soros Sr. have a non-transferable skill set. It will fall to bureaucratic malaise within a few years.
I thought he mentioned quitting a few weeks or months ago?
He announced on the first that he was going to depart at some point, and then he just up and bailed.
“Haiti is dead.”
“How can you tell?”
-appy polly loggies to Dorothy Parker
Please throw good money after bad. After all, my job depends on it.
You know that gangs will take over the whole country, and it will be just like Canada.
An opportunity for Europe to show us how it is done.
We could try not giving them money or invading them. Maybe just trade with them instead? It’s worth a shot.
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During the occupation, Haiti had three new presidents while the United States ruled as a military regime through martial law led by Marines and the Gendarmerie. A corvée system of forced labor was used by the United States for infrastructure projects, resulting in hundreds to thousands of deaths.
…
The installation of a president without the consent of Haitians and the forced labor of the corvée system enforced upon Haitians by American forces led to opposition of the US occupation began immediately after the marines entered Haiti, creating rebel groups of Haitians who felt they were returning to slavery.
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[head desk]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Haiti
I just recently finished season 4 of the Revolutions podcast, it was on the Haitian revolution. As it overlapped with, and was effected by, the French revolution, it was a complete clusterfuck. But it had some promise at some points.
Like the British Civil War and the French Revolution, the worst parts were totally avoidable.
Other than the fact that they’re nearby, why should we care at all? Just let them descend into anarchy and chaos, we have no issues doing that with plenty of African and Asian countries.
Operation Uphold Democracy. Why don’t you like democracy, brah?
Free trade with all, entangling alliances with none.
So, nope, no reason to care, from a government perspective. Trade with them and hope it gets better.
Trade for what? I don’t know the answer to Haiti, and think anyone claiming they do is either a liar or a fool. I am generally opposed to foreign aid in any setting, and think even private charity is destructive if it goes on too long or to too great an extent, but being doctrinaire about that with Haiti means accepting Revelations level famine and pestilence.
I was assuming the actual translation was more along the lines of “park another couple million refugees in the United States”.
But yeah, throwing money at rival gangs seems… not productive.
Shaken by the 2007-2009 global financial crisis, the WEF has also been buffeted by geopolitical tensions since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and more protectionist U.S. trade policies. Some analysts see it as an institution in decline.
You’ve been holding your egghead hootenanny since 1971 with pretty much fuck-all to show for it, except for a lot of fodder for the society gossip pages. I’m not sure “decline” is the word to use.
The peasants won’t accept slavery …
“pretty much fuck-all to show for it”
Hey that’s not fair! If the DailyFail is to be believed, the whores of Europe make a mint during their gay little meetings.
Well, the pimp’s do anyway.
Some money sprinkles on Davos, yes.
Celebrating the release of a new season of Black Mirror with big tits on Mammary Monday.
https://archive.is/Iqs5k
Okay, I chuckled…
It would spare us chutzpah like this at least….
NHL has an issue with teams making runs at players with only 1-2 games left in regular season cause its worth the paltry 1-game suspension.
Just another day at the office
ORLANDO, Fla. – A Delta airplane carrying 200 passengers caught fire Monday at Orlando International Airport, but there were no initial reports of injuries.
Heading home after seeing Mickey, and got the bonus ride.
Obviously Trump’s fault for the FAA cuts.
Journalism
The White House has begun the process of looking for a new leader at the Pentagon to replace Pete Hegseth, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly. This comes as Hegseth is again mired in controversy over sharing military operational details in a group chat.
The defense secretary is under fire after revelations that he shared classified information in a group chat with his wife, brother and lawyer, according to the official.
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt denied that there’s an effort to replace Hegseth, posting on X that President Trump “stands strongly” behind him. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump backed Hegseth and said concerns over the Signal chats are a “waste of time.”
“He’s doing a great job — ask the Houthis how he’s doing,” Trump said.
Hegseth had denied wrongdoing at a White House Easter event earlier Monday.
“This is what the media does, they take anonymous sources from disgruntled former employees, and then they try to slash and burn people, ruin their reputation. It’s not going to work with me,” he said.
None of this would be happening in the Harris administration.
Who you gonna believe, the President, or a shady “unnamed official” who isn’t authorized to speak publicly?
You are right, there wouldn’t be any leakers…
Hey, I’m available. Think I could do any worse than Chatty Kathy Hegseth or Bubble Boy Austin?
At least Austin learned his lesson, assuming NPR didn’t memory hole and photo-shop.
https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2023/02/02/austin.philippines.getty-cc1471f0457aeee5e5ddd513918ac4291e1a9dc5-s1200.jpg
https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.u769HVeBnUCAIKj_yBJWrgHaE_?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain
The VOID is for
screaming intoRomeoThere it is.
The void is for pointer arithmetic when you don’t want to deal with strong typing.
*faints*
Those people are weird.
A brewery in Belgium swapped painted eggs for frothy brews when it celebrated Easter with the “World’s Biggest Beer Hunt.”
YES
Ksuellington from the am links
– “Does anyone here have the MLB app and love, hate or in between it?”
We’ve bought the season package for several years. My wife signs us up because she likes to listen to the Cubs radio with Pat Hughes and Ron Coomer.
My Tigers are blacked out for TV broadcast, but audio is available.
Not sure how much is available on the app without paying. I like to watch the Tigers ‘condensed game ‘ in the morning when they are on the west coast. But that might be available for free.
The app also does something called ‘big inning’ pretty much every day. Kinda like RedZone but they throw 4 games up at a time and shift from game to game as things change.
I suggest downloading the app and see what you can access for free and try it that way first.
I have a habit of dedthreading @Animal: Thanks for these. Always a pleasure.
“Mike hopped from the bus, nodded his thanks to the driver, shouldered his pack and strode off into the trees. This would be his world now, his new home planet, and he would face it on his terms as he had preferred to on the planet he left; rifle in hand, alone, a man in the wilderness.”
I resemble this (minus the rifle). But the Pioneer Spirit isn’t one I have, I reckon. I’ve gone to the global wilderness in search of work and adventure, but I was never starting anything *new.* I certainly don’t have any (real) wilderness skills to help, and I highly doubt I’d adventure out were I in Mike’s spot. Having typed that, I wasn’t born in that time and place. I’d likely be all over it. Hopefully, I’d have learned the basics in that setting. Still, I’ve never started anything new. That’s a Human curve ball in the mix, cuz I don’t *really* think that way.
(Or do I? Hrm.)
@Derp: Before you even showed up, I was already thinking Istanbul is my favorite place I’ve ever been. Such a crazy mixture of everything. Woza kadowza.
“Once a groogle made a doodle of a noodle-eating poodle…” who poodled, so Googled oodles of bugles tooting futile boops to finish my stanza.
Well-played, good sir. That was fun.
“Music is self-serve”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaXCr9KuOoM
Mythelina’s been harassing me to finish MLJ but I feel like crying every time I think about it. Please don’t make me go back to that dark place 😭
ZARDOZ commands you, his Mythical Libertarian Woman. The Gun is good. Save yourself, and shoot every screen on which MLJ manifests. ZARDOZ has spoken.
Share your pain with us…
Listen to Mythelina.
If it isn’t too triggering what is MLJ?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11379456/
How about reviewing the remaining episode of “Heil Honey I’m Home” and comparing it to contemporary television?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mf9jJx0NSjw
I don’t blame you – I loved Lady Jane with Helena Bonham Carter but just can’t rewatch.
I posted the Championship categories in the morning thread. After round 44 (of 46) today, only a few things changed.
Leeds United and Burnley have clinched promotion, still fighting for first.
Stoke City fell from “Safe for now” to “Danger Zone” after getting thwacked 6-0 by Leeds.
Everything else is exactly the same.
One correction: Portsmouth are safe because Hull play Derby next week. Regardless of the result of that game, at least one of them will not be able to catch Portsmouth.
Positions changed at the top of the National League South. The top 6 will be the same after next weekend, but the order may change. Any of them can still win the title.
I just pulled the “mower” (big walk-behind string trimmer- my “lawn” is too rough and bumpy for a regular mower) out of mothballs for a quickie test run. A few pumps, a few pulls, and it fired. It apparently has an automatic choke; I couldn’t find a choke lever, anyway. It has a very good muffler, which is nice. Now I just have to use it instead of letting the weeds get knee high.
I didn’t know a walk-behind string trimmer was a thing. Huh.
I have a Fiskars-brand push reel mower, and it’s great for my small lawn (any bigger and I’d probably want something powered).
Via AP [article in its entirety]
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s purse was stolen at a Washington, D.C. restaurant Sunday night, according to department officials.
The department in an email said Noem had money in her purse to buy gifts for her children and grandchildren and to pay for Easter dinner and other activities.
The department in an email didn’t specify what was stolen, but CNN — which was first to report the story — said the thief took about $3,000 in cash, as well as Noem’s keys, driver’s license, passport, checks, makeup bag, medication and Homeland Security badge. The department said Noem had cash in her purse to pay for gifts, dinner and other activities for her family on Easter.
The Homeland Security Secretary is protected by U.S. Secret Service agents. The Secret Service referred questions about the incident to Homeland Security headquarters.
Our nation’s capitol; makes you proud, don’t it?
I guess she’s very lucky she “didn’t have anything on Hillary.”
FIRST JOCKEY
God I hate the young.
They hate you, too .
I needed you. I just got my vintage heirloom 1958 issue toilet back together and not leaking on the SECOND try. Forgot two nuts. Would have been nice to get it right the FIRST time.
What about that *isn’t* a euphemism?
So who goes through the Pope’s quarters to remove the embarrassing items?
He has Swiss guards, right?
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x14yf71
Rest Assured Disposal Service, of course
I swam 400 yards today, 200 of them front crawl back-to-back. Maybe I should try to be a Navy SEAL like the gal in AM links.
Actually, I’m barred from reenlistment anyway. No big loss. There’s always the French Foreign Legion.
I applied to the Ukrainian International Legion in January of 2023 after I got a new passport. No response.
My favorite grouchy Vietnam vet on Navy SEAL and elite unit hype:
https://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-blog-about-military-matters/117715203-seal-hype-now-even-attacked-by-seals
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Famous for ‘tough’ training not victories
Second, the reputation of the SEALs is based more on the sadistic, masochistic difficulty of their training than on their accomplishments in combat. Indeed their “training” is more test than education. They have a bunch of admittedly difficult but irrelevant tortures that you have to endure and pass.
I likened ranger training of a similar nature to banging your head against a wall for two months so you can spend the rest of your life bragging that you were tough enough to do that. Or stupid enough. It’s pride through masochism.
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Amen.
Interesting read. I was never in the military, but it was always was strange to me that the *Navy* SEALs are used in missions that are nowhere near a body of water. Like if the Air Force started training divers to slap plastic explosives on enemy submarines.
Correct.
Sending SEALs on the Bin Laden kill/capture high value target mission is usually an Army Ranger thing, sometimes Delta Force. I guess if Bin Laden had been underwater Thunderball style, SEALs would have been the best choice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNL3POV6OoI
It would be more Special Forces than Rangers.
Maybe. My brother did a few pick up and drop off missions with SF guys in Afghanistan. He said they were like Jedi knights.
He did a similar training mission for SEALs in Alaska. Arctic warfare etc. The weather got choppy, and he had to do some fancy flying. The SEALs all fist-bumped him when he picked them up a week later.
Well, that was more interesting than the time he had to airlift dog shit in Iraq to a veterinarian because one of the bomb-sniffing dogs was sick. Your tax dollars hard at work.
The true elites in Alaska are the NG scouts. We posted guards during exercises that didn’t have OPFOR because they would sneak in steal supplies, cut wire, and generally mess with us and disappear into the wilderness.
If you do join the French Foreign Legion, please say hi to Snoopy and Pepe Le Pew. I miss those guys.
Oui, monsieur. Le mot de Cambronne sera ma cri de la bataille.
There’s always the French Foreign Legion.
You can defend Quebec from Trump.
South Park made fun of French Canada and there was much rejoicing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFJO8gW83BE
Fun fact: the US national debt reached the unprecedented sum of 1 trillion (about 2 trillion after adjusting for inflation) in 1981.
It was a heady time when men were men, women were women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri, were *really* small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81HUn352hZ4
Don’t confuse them with the peacocks that are the Centauri.