Yeah, what he said.
New Year’s Eve, and Glibs HQ is deserted. Might have something to do with the fact that STEVE SMITH was here earlier looking for “holiday cheer”. None of us wanted to find out what he meant. Warty was too busy dead-lifting a freight train or such, so I had no protection (Mexican Sharpshooter was at a family gathering, so no covering AR fire either). Spud and OMWC had some complicated wine thing going on (I suspect it was an excuse to get blasted, with a veneer of respectability- lucky SOBs). Sloopy and Banjos had family stuff going on with the herd of offspring. I called SugarFree, since he can talk STEVE off the ledge sometimes, but his cat told me he was not available to travel. If you don’t know SugarFree’s cat, it is a rather remarkable animal. Brett L just gave me the number of gator control, so no help there. How about webdom? Family time with the new kiddo and LoBot. Understandable.
ZARDOZ is getting a system update, and we can’t reboot him until tomorrow. I left RJ alone, as he deserved some time off from the massive Glibflick effort of all year. Not Adahn just told me the future looked…not good and hung up. Animal, UCS and Mojeaux claimed they were at a writer’s conference…but their snickering in the background made me wonder about that. CPRM wasn’t talking to me after the last Bears-Packers game, and Ron just told me to be a little more stoic about my situation (good advice, but come on man, even Epictetus wouldn’t want to get STEVE SMITHED). I even tried some of the contributors…but they all had excuses from disc golf tournaments, too busy pondering another USG shutdown, no US visa, stuck on a bike somewhere remote, too many random thoughts to concentrate, or elbows deep in home remodeling or scientizing the shit out of something …one guy just punned at me. Now I was walking around HQ with a narrowed gaze. I went to a retired general counsel and our highest ranking vet glib – got told by both, and I quote – “you are screwed” and “run”.
I was going to try more contributors, but I heard an ominous growl…so I just hit the “schedule” button and ran.
Happy New Year to all you Glibs – staff, contributors, commentors, readers and lurkers all.
Open post until this evening.
Music – sorry this is a bit of a downer, maybe, but this year was shite.
A [ed023244-3c42-4d29-ab41-95b2bc64d302] New Year to you as well!
404f12e8-7b0f-43d6-9be1-9e53427dcedb to all
And to all a good [Unrecognized Token]
A 725accb5a8e46d19bc3f3a7636d0860a85470fa450be7f0f6a8c7572756765fd New Year to you.
Invalid GUID Length.
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I want you to be secure in the new year.
I get to put this year in the win column. Overall, not bad at all. Ready to turn and burn in 2026
Same here – certainly had worse years.
For me, it was a very unbalanced year. Moderate highs, but very low lows, and more of then than the highs.
I’m up fiscally but not against inflation.
But in tax brackets!!!
We’ve had that occurring over the last several years.
My wife got a new job in 21 that paid significantly more than her previous job. That was great until inflation ate up that difference to where though we aren’t any better off in real terms, though we are in a higher tax bracket.
Awesome stuff. 🙄
In re the bagpiper.
GUID shows up in my line of work so my brain immediately substituted “Globally Unique Identificiation”, and the Mutual of New York building was a landmark in my home town. It was (probably still is) a undecorated tower in a style similar to the World Trade Center, but it was, I think, the tallest building in the city. So before I realized what the caption was saying, I thought I was expected to get a GUID and visit Syracuse to look upon downtown once again.
Get gud at Scots!
It’s shite being Scottish! (language: NSFW)
Look. I’m Irish, I’m not about to sink to the level of our handicapable half-pictish cousins that got lost in the hills north of Saxonland.
I only admit that they’re our cousins to remind them that the Scots are descended from Irish who moved in on Pictland.
At least we had sheep to shag potato botherer!
So, you envied the Welsh?
Happy Hogmanay, everyone!
How rude.
Swissy rued the day he asked Shpip for help.
Thar’s yer problem. Should have rouxed the day and made a bechamel.
Rue, rue, rue yer boot, gently doon the stream…
We’ll have pun, pun, pun until Swissy takes the Reply button away.
HOLIDAY CHEER MEAN RACLETTE AND RAPE, SOMETHING FOR BOTH TO ENJOY!
I feel like I should get this over the weekend in Swiss’s honor.
One shot of kirch for the fondue, one for me…
Have a wonderful, or at least better New Year Swiss!
Church brandy, or cherry? :-p
Does kirch go with Kölsch?
Would a Cologne by any other name smell as musky?
Wrong region.
Kirschwasser is believed to come from the Black Forest. Modern day Baden-Würtemburg. Southern Germany.
Kölsch is from Köln, Cologne auf Englisch. Nordrhein-Westfalen. North Germany.
On the other hand, both are Catholic regions.
On the gripping hand, I guess if you drink enough it doesn’t matter.
Do moties get drunk?
Not Adahn was correct – my week is going nicely, my wife’s not so much. She has a cold, is behind with work, and is grouchy.
This will be a quiet New Year’s eve. Maybe a trip to the local pub for a toast if I’m lucky.
Tonight at my house, all dressed up …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXI6CdTVJ-0
See you there!
First thoughts on The Abandons
I watched the first episode and the first minute or so of the second.
So far, not as good as Sons of Anarchy. Hopefully it improves. The Bad Guys are just too cartoonishly bad. On the positive side, the characters do seem to actually remember what happened in the plot five minutes ago. Relatedly on the good/bad flip sides Patton Oswald is in it but only long enough to be eaten by a bear.
Really, most shows would be improved by featuring Patton Oswald getting eaten by a bear.
It’s my favorite part of the series so far.
Thank god 2025 is over. PLEASE tell me 26 will be better,
Mixed bag, but generally better.
https://www.glibertarians.com/2025/12/ifla-the-almost-done-edition-of-the-horoscope-for-the-week-of-december-28/
I’m happy to see each morning…
I hear you brother.
Continuing my brainstorming from the overnight post, I wanted to see if the relative ranges of the Trash Panda, Striped Skunk, and Virginia Possum might narrow down the possible setting. The whole darn eastern half of the US is mutual native habitat for the three. And that’s just because the’res a big gap for the Possum from the great plains to the Tetons. Since the only place besides Hollowtrees I’ve thought up is a strip mall by a swamp, that doesn’t narrow it down a lot.
You can just say ‘Possum, or Opossum if you’re being formal. Didelphis virginiana is North America’s only native marsupial so it’s not necessary to say “Virginia Opossum” unless you’re a biologist, in Australia, etc.
In the story Skeeter is a Possum.
In research, I retain more detail than required since I can trim it out as needed.
May I offer you my condolences, Tonio?
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251231_04/index.html
It seems wrong to shoot a bear for being in a bathhouse somehow.
“It seems wrong to shoot a bear for being in a bathhouse somehow.”
[golf clap]
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/altadena-homeowner-threatens-to-sue-over-bear-that-wont-leave/
Your meth-head/stoner/drunk trifecta echoes trailer trash to me, so Appalachia/AR/OK and the western Deep South.
Ohio Valley/Appalachia tracks for me. Give one of ’em a Yinzer accent.
The Trailer Trash Trifecta has a native range covering the entire United States. Yes, it is stereotypically that area, but I think it’s more the name Skeeter that would keep us in that general area.
Trailer trash, like possums, skunks, and trash pandas, are ubiquitous. Anywhere they can find a supply of alcohol, preferably ethyl, but methyl in a pinch, you will find them.
I’m afraid I still don’t have a good idea of what a “Yinzer” sounds like in y head.
While I know people live in trailers everywhere, and I have never met any of the Western mobile home dwellers IRL, the media depictions of the California/Southwest variant don’t seem much or anything like the ones that I grew up with.
Have you looked into the Wisconsin strain? It appears to be a hybrid of the Appalachan and Floridian.
Matt Hoover seems like he’d fit right in with the ones I knew.
Not native but the possum was introduced to California in the 20s and I have seen them as far inland as Dayton Washington.
What am I, chopped liver? But it’s hibernation season and Swiss had the courtesy and good sense to not poke the bear.
Thats some phrasing!
Thanks.
BTW, can you or one of our other meat masters get up with this guy?
Think Spud replied in the afternoon or evening post?
Gustave:
Evening post IIRC.
BTW, can you or one of our other meat masters get up with this guy?
Since I once asked the same exact question
But I’m not a meat master. My meat is just masterful.
Ya that post will get one started and there is math involved. However, there are curing calculators on the interwebs. I have two, 2.5lb slabs curing right now. One traditional and another…an experiment.
Yes, Spud replied regarding the calculation by weight for salt, sugar and pink cure. And thank you Jimbo for that link to Spud’s original post, I’ll read it presently.
If OBE would like to chime in on his experience with spices beyond the basic cure (either in the cure, or something like pepper rubbed onto the cured bacon before smoking), I’d love to hear it. I have ~10lb of pork belly in the freezer, so I have some opportunity for experimentation. Maybe do four ~2.5lb slabs, one with just the standard cure, one peppered prior to smoking, and …. what else? Part of the motivation for curing our own bacon is our general effort to cut back on sugars in our food, so probably not honey or maple, etc.
The make-our-own low-sugar food project has resulted in five pounds of smoked kielbasa in the freezer (got some out for pork-n-sauerkraut for New Year’s) and maybe three pounds of Italian sausage.
I can only speak to a hot smoke so not sure how anything would turn out.
If you want the flavor profile inside the bacon, spice with the cure. Ive only done smoked jalepeno (my own dried and ground up) and a pepper one. Though I did accidently make some that was akin to pastrami flavors.
Usually after curing and then drying in fridge Ill add larger spices like cracked pepper and such.
Im by no means an expert.
Does that expression mean that at one point chopped liver was cheap? I should pick up some Braunschweiger and have it grilled on toast for breakfast.
I thought it was because chopped liver was generally regarded as undesirable.
Maybe in (((culture)))? The Frank-descended people seem to like the hell out of it.
I can never find head cheese anymore, is that a thing of the past?
I do the Braunschweiger sammich thing but it ain’t head cheese!
Fourscore:
It’s still available around here. One of our downtown restaurants (closed for a while now) used to have a limited offering of a pig head on the menu for weekend dinners only. I could never convince the girlfriend to give it a try.
In related news, Mabel’s BBQ as of Sunday no longer has pig ears on the menu (pig tails have been off for a while now). 🙁
And then it goes farther when you throw it out the window.
I’ve had brisket from Mabel’s.
symon does a good job
Nice to see you poke your head in, straffinrun.
Local bears are sleeping ’til spring but what do I know?
It is now legally permissible to have bird feeders again here.
We can not legally feed deer/turkeys.
Occasionally, twice a day, I clumsily spill corn when I’m filling the bird feeders.
Dorothy Parker called her canary Onan “because he spills his seed upon the ground”.
“And the rest…”
It’s cause you ursines don’t really hibernate, you just go torpid and a good poke will still arouse you.
Always unwise to poke an armed bear.
Don’t poke the bear.
Birthdays today include the formidable Mrs. Imprudent. Yes, she was daddy’s little tax deduction.
… and your resident Hobbit. 72!
HBD 🙂
🥳 🎂 🎉 !
Happy Birthday to both Mrs. Imprudent and The Bearded Hobbit!
Little Joey will still be looking for daycare in 2026.
https://x.com/i/status/2005801782807785889
I hear MN has some great learing centers.
Which is odd given how covered up the women are.
I’m trying to picture a Somali centerfold.
Lean into stereotypes
Daily Ray of Sunshine
“this year was shite”
I just don’t know what to think about 2025. I had some good, and I had some very bad. The gym is finally doing fairly well, not enough to buy me a new monocle but no longer hemorrhaging cash. Son-in-law made it back from his first deployment in one piece. While he was gone, Youngest Kid came home a few times and we had a lot of fun. We finished out the hockey season in June with a win at our last tournament. That shoulder injury from last year is finally healed, and my strength is coming back.
Then there was Oldest Kid, who moved home, and while things looked promising, it turned out to be a disaster, and she snuck out of the house in October like she was escaping prison. We still haven’t heard from her. And of course there was my accident that same month. I got back on the ice Sunday. I felt great until an hour in, then I got the usual symptoms and had to stop. So while I’m improving, I still have healing to do. And Mrs. TOK is not fond of me driving our only vehicle to Chicago, so the lack of a second car is going to limit my attendance at practice.
While things are mostly shite right now, there is a lot of potential for things to turn around in 2026. That’s what I’ll be drinking to tonight.
Glad to know your head is getting better.
I feel you. 2025 was less ‘meh’ and more ‘ricocheting between awesome and awful like a demented superball’.
On the down side, I had my first major middle-age health scare, the job sucks and likely won’t get any better, and I’m still living in northern VA.
On the upside, I managed some amazing travel with my family, went to a couple of great shooting matches, and perfected the ultimate Old Fashioned.
On the whole, I’m looking forward to 2026.
That is a really good way to put it. I am also optimistic. Youngest Kid is moving to VA which is way closer to us. We’re planning some cool events at the gym. My concussion will eventually heal, despite my impatience. And hopefully I’ll get something out of that lawsuit when it’s all over.
TOK, if they are coming to Norfolk, that is only a half hour from me if you come to visit them.
Oh great. I believe that’s where they’ll be. It’s about a 10 hour drive from here so we can visit more often. I think she’s moving in May when the ship has been relocated (it’s departing in March). You’d be a great addition to the list of Glibs I’ve met. Without exception all have been outstanding individuals.
Without exception all have been outstanding individuals.
You’ll get around to the exceptions eventually.
Yeah, sometime I’ll risk the proximity to Chicago to disabuse him of those notions.
That’s ’cause you haven’t been to Honey Harvest. There are a few exception(al) ones there.
If you end up visiting down that way, give a shout. My parents are in Williamsburg, and I’m down there visiting them pretty frequently.
Good to hear you are doing better.
My year has been up and down. Monday I get do do the meme.
Happy New Year’s Eve Glibs!
2025 was a decent year for me. Got through the licensing exams for my profession and now hold the power of the atom in my hand… Or at least do a lot of paperwork and procedure following at odd hours of the day and holidays.
Going into year 4 in the live free or die state and it’s been good so far. The town I live in is particularly lefty but for the most part the state seems to be doing good things. Much better things than the great white even more north I moved my family from. I just wish housing prices weren’t just as insane here as up there.
Otherwise, I don’t post nearly enough, but lurk daily. So, I’m making my NY resolution to post here more often.
I wish all of you the best in 2026.
Joe
It’s good to know you’re still around. When I don’t see a name in a while I always wonder if they’ve gone and left us.
Sorry, that bunker in Berlin Eva and I were sharing didn’t have Wifi.
How are things now?
Great. You?
Straffinrun! Good to see you here!
Keeping up appearances.
Straff!
Welcome back man! Long time no see.
We’ll leave the cooling towers on for you.
They’re coming out of all the dark corners today. Amazing what happens when STEVE SMITH roam the corridors.
Howdy Neighbor!
Howdy Neighbor-in-a-Texas-sense!
Happy New Year, boyz!
Congrats, Joe. Hopefully 2026 will be a growth year for nuclear!
You as well Joe. Happy New Year.
Good your licensing exams went well.
NH has its problems, but things are going along well. I wouldn’t be surprised if Republicans keep their hold on the state government after the 2026 elections..
’25 was a mixed bag for me as well. Having to put the dog down last week leaves a bad taste for sure.
Are you Korean?
(Sorry about the doggo, but I had to)
Staff-San
Send me your Asian BBWs
Asian BBW = 4’5″ and built like a tank. Also, J cups….
On the other hand, BWC is a jav tag…
Having done the same a couple of months back, I feel ya there. On the upside we adopted a new girl dog so our home retains its balance.
Sorry to hear that. I feel like the last quarter of 2025 was when things went south.
Thanks all. Nope, not Korean, after rereading, I see the ask though, lol. Yeah, he was a good dog and the only other male presence in the house, so it’s me against them again. He had what was supposedly not a very aggressive and a treatable cancer. Turns out they were wrong on the aggressiveness.
Sorry. Same scenario here about a year ago. The signs were subtle at first.
Ooof, sorry to hear. Hemangiosarcoma got our last girl. Still makes me sad, thinking about her.
We had our 13 year old lab put down a few weeks ago. Cancer. Down to two dogs for the first time in a long time, and the house seems a little empty, even if all Lily was doing at the end was holding down a dog bed and hairing up the place.
Hope you all have a great 2026! My wife, who usually sleeps on the floor at the foot of my bed, just asked me meekly, “Can I sleep in the bed tonight?” That is verbatim.
Hapy New Year, and happy wife time!
How did you answer her?
We rock paper scissors for it.
Lesbians would just scissors.
No rocks or paper.
Howdy Straff!
Fuckers held me hostage….time for new tires for Tracker John (MD)
BF Goodrich All Terrain KO2
My new years resolution is to finally tell my wife after 25 years of marriage that “Korean BBQ” in English isn’t actually “Poon Tang”. Wish me luck.
That guy in Full Metal Jacket really loved Korean BBQ.
This year went by fast.
2025. It was a year. Seemed shorter somehow.
“The mayor of San Francisco discreetly approved a bill to create a fund that may eventually grant each of the city’s eligible black residents $5 million in reparations.
Mayor Daniel Lurie quietly signed the incredibly divisive Reparations Bill just two days before Christmas….
The legislation merely establishes the fund but does not allocate any money to it – setting up the framework for any future contributions, whether they be through the city or privately donated.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15423337/San-Francisco-mayor-sneaks-reparations-bill-just-Christmas-black-resident-city-5-MILLION-taxpayer-cash.html
CWAA
One day we will past all this bullshit. Maybe.
Probably not next year though.
lol What a joke.
Sadly, the world will certainly get a lot more stupid and dangerous before we get past this stupidity.
Look at the wild-eyed optimist over here.
This grifting will never stop short of the US stopping.
My New Year wish is all…i know its gonna get stupider
Mornin’ from Dunlap, MO. Gorgeous place in the mountains overlooking Chattanooga. Departing in less than an hour and I’ve got work in ~20 hours. I’m fairly confident we won’t be too busy as the holiday libations still swirl in our customers.
As a belated Thanksgiving, I thank TPTB and the rest of ya for providing a spot of sanity in our worlds. The drive should be pretty and I hope we can make it back to Indy in 8hrs.
Speaking of Indianapolis, dumb reality that Hoosiers took for granted: When the term ‘came out’ in abbreviated fashion, we thought Indianapolis was a hotbed of great music and film. Afterall, they were Indy productions. Huh. Indie =/= Indianapolis.
Fantastic time with The Boys, always punctuated by mini-Ev the 5yo, and our mountain and cave explorations were tremendous fun. Soon time for 2026 to kick in, and its predecessor wasn’t the worst. I’ve now worked at Walmart for 10mo, surpassing my 8 as managing editor at the Peru Tribune. (That rattles and rankles me. Much upset with that, am I.) So this is the longest gig I’ve had Stateside since I returned in ’21.
I hope the New Year can kick off well for me and y’all. Onward ‘n upwards, eh?
They’re doing their best, gosh darn it
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) slammed the Trump administration for pausing child care payments to his state amid increased federal scrutiny of alleged fraud within its social services programs.
“This is Trump’s long game,” Walz wrote Tuesday in a post on the social platform X. “We’ve spent years cracking down on fraudsters. It’s a serious issue — but this has been his plan all along.
“He’s politicizing the issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans,” he added.
What kind of cynical duplicitous bastard politicizes government charity? It’s unheard of.
The framing being….government programs have fraud built in…get over it!
If the fraud is built in, then it seems to me the only valid action is to end the program, and execute those who engaged in or enable the fraud.
Hilarious end to the year:
https://x.com/cixliv/status/2004899966326858157
This is one of the funniest posts ever.
Hilarious end to the year:
https://x.com/cixliv/status/2004899966326858157
LOLOL
This is one of the dumbest tweets ever.
I haven’t even started drinking yet. 🫤
“Isiah Whitlock Jr, actor in The Wire and Veep, dies aged 71”
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/dec/31/isiah-whitlock-jr-dies-71
shiiiiiiiiiiit!
Almost made it.
Joseph Thompson, assistant U.S. attorney for Minnesota, said at a press conference earlier this month it is possible that “half or more” of the $18 billion billed to 14 services under MDHS since 2018 is fraudulent.
Court records reviewed by the Minnesota Star Tribune earlier this month indicate that the alleged fraud is closer to $218 million.
Only $218 million, is that all? Pffft. You wouldn’t even bother to bend down and pick it up if you dropped it on the ground.
Very characteristic of the Prog media – the only source of truth is what the government tells you.
“reviewed by”
Court records would only have the amounts in cases already brought. So they have already brought charges regarding almost a quarter of a billion, without even touching the stuff currently being exposed.
A belated merry Christmas to yall, and here’s to a happy 2026! The last 18 months have been a roller coaster for us. Lots of negative moments, quite a few positive moments, and a whole bunch of life in between. We’re hoping for a positive trend in 2026.
This is my opening appetizer for this evening.
Chicken thighs with teriyaki over rice. Two bite dish probably, though the one pictured was a dinner i made a few months back
that is not a proper new years starter. You need deviled eggs and Salată de boeuf
You have inspired me to make deviled eggs today.
Is that the traditional New Year good luck meal?
Growing up from German heritage we always had to eat sauerkraut with sausage.
As a kid I hated it, but now it’s one of my favorites.
Now my Okinawan wife makes Okinawa Soba.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_soba
So good, she is an amazing cook.
I have eggs, but no relish. Maybe chop up a pickle?
My Sconnie neighbors always had cannibal sandwiches and whiskey on New Years.
What does relish have to do with it? The filling for deviled eggs is hard boiled egg yolk, mayo, mustard, vinegar, salt, paprika, and black pepper (optional)
Oooooh! Deviled eggs with bacon and Grillo’s Pickle de Gallo would be a treat tonight…
The wife has requested a big round of wings for her birthday, so I’ll fire up the Traeger and take some from the freezer to smoke/thaw them and finish them in the air-fryer. Tomorrow she plays to her southern roots and makes black-eyed peas and cornbread. She also makes great deviled eggs – which I now have a hankering for.
“What does relish have to do with it?”
Otherwise it’s just paste. I’ve also had deviled eggs with chopped pimento olives.
It’s not supposed to be chunky.
The only suitable mayonnaise for deviled eggs is either Hellman’s or Duke’s.
Anyone using miracle whip needs to be shot on sight.
I prefer capers rather than relish
What about Best Foods?
“I prefer capers rather than relish”
I have capers.
I prefer capers rather than relish
OBE are you some sort of dyslexic super villain? Don’t you mean you relish your capers?
25 was just a random year… nothing too good happened, nothing to bad. Just kinda meh. Time passes quickly and then runs put… but it is what it is.
Like a blind pig in a haystack
On the eve of America’s 250th birthday, what should be a celebration of enduring freedom feels in many ways like a looming funeral. 2025 saw the shredding of America’s social fabric to the point that Democrats and Republicans now seem to inhabit two mutually exclusive realities. ‘One nation under God’ has quickly become many nations under grievance.
Things would be perfect if we didn’t have to listen to all those right wing grievance peddlers.
This guy sounds unbiased.
Max is a nearsighted Debbie Downer. Given the performance of the USG since 2001 (the year he references) why would 17% of American retain belief in the competence of the gov? It’s not all OMB.
He sounds delusional.
I could stand for a bit less of that in the new year.
Good luck with that, rhy. All indications point towards an even more retarded and absolutely batshit insane over the top left than currently.
I hope 2026 sees less US balkanization, more caring for others, and less desire for government solutions to the problems of the world.
I’m just glad I had an extra $240 left in the budget at the end of the year to help celebrate 2025.
Here is my plans for the evening.
https://youtu.be/ikbPoVbOB_E
You will see more, less, and more respectively and unfortunately.
“A report from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has found that over $5 billion in taxpayer funds have gone to “questionable” recipients in rental assistance programs during the last year of the Biden administration. The report said that the assistance has included 30,000 deceased tenants as well as thousands of potential non-citizens getting the assistance.
HUD’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer found there was $5.8 billion in “questionable” payments of the $50 billion in housing assistance programs in Fiscal Year 2024 that flowed out of the Biden administration, according to the 183-page report.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/biden-admin-paid-out-5-billion-in-housing-funds-to-dead-people-noncitizens-other-questionable-recipients-hud
That’s 90% efficient.
Yet another Trump scandal.
Someone who has access to twitter: Apparently Froot Sushi is slap-fighting with a Politico reporter? Is it entertaining enough I should look it up later?
Not universally, but Froo Su has received positive marks in my book in the last 15 months.
I once worked for a client who insisted that Guids weren’t unique enough.
OK, sure, they’re not guaranteed to be unique. But he wanted us to append a time stamp to them.
Give him UUIDs instead. I mean they’re Universal!
😜
Strangest collision error I’ve seen was at one location where usernames were first four letters of the last name + last four digits of the SSN (and no, that is not the worst PII security I’ve ever seen in a company). Two employees matched on that and caused issues.
“We have no choice – one of you is going to have to change your legal name.”
Tell him he needs to get a IUD, and get over it.
The Baltimore Sun, Maryland, January 1, 1921
https://x.com/yesterdaysprint/status/2006137514206040185
So, journalists were always morons?
Not a rouged rooster?
Sounds like a drag
Mencken?
Sounds like someone complaining about men being sugar daddies to some only fan girl. The more things change I guess.
“House Democrats are reconvening a special committee for a hearing to mark the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and criticize the Trump administration for trying to “white-wash” history.
In a Dear Colleague letter, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Democratic members of the Jan. 6 select committee will hold a “special hearing” on the 5th anniversary of the Capitol building assault to “honor” first responders and “expose the election deniers who hold high-level positions of influence in the executive branch.””
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/democrats-reconvene-jan-6-panel-anniversary-hearing
CWABOA
They’re as creatively bankrupt as the rest of Hollywood.
Can we Somali wash it instead?
“We shouldn’t hold far right wingers responsible for what a small minority of them did, there’s plenty of left wingers who do the same actions every day and you’re not going after them!”
At this point I’d say the main criticism of the January 6 people is that they didn’t actually attack the scum robbing us blind when they had the chance.
It is not going to be pleasant when the Dems get control back and go scorched earth on the country.
To their supporters will be a cleansing fire.
If they win in 28 I think its 50/50 that we end up in open civil war triggered by some blatant revenge prosecution or assassination.
Its one thing to go after policy and procedure…they are openly saying they will arrest all of federal agents in ICE and other agencies (which…conflicts me) but that cannot be a good outcome.
Maybe just rhetoric like the billboards up in FL for military members to refuse orders…who knows.
Too smart for you
Bad-faith critiques against Mamdani are nothing new and have persisted throughout his campaign, which is a sign that maybe his ideas are too smart to be critiqued on their own. Those on the right and left responsible for these critiques should remember the words of Chief Justice Antonin Scalia: “I attack ideas, I don’t attack people.”
Like the plan mentioned, in which the city of New York should expand their borrowing in order to raise money to “invest” in “affordable” housing projects extremely unlikely to generate a net positive return.
Now do the bad-faith critiques of people who disagree with Mamdani’s proposals.
Start with the bad-faith demonization of landlords.
One must carefully, but wisely, fiddle with the knobs until utopia is finally achieved.
I like the new law they just passed where owners are required to offer their land to the public sector before they can be allowed to sell to a private owner.
With just a nudge-nudge here, and a tax-tax there, everywhere a utopia!
Another year in the rear view mirror. Did o.k. even with tariff nonsense screwing up a few business situations. Learning that travel is going to be more looking at maps of where I’ve been, paging through old photo albums, and watching Rick Steves saunter around plazas I once strolled. The Stupid Party needs to hammer away at all the fraud being uncovered so more voters realize exactly what government “free stuff” means. I guess there’s no reforming the windbag in the White House; he’s what “our democracy” belched up this time and the coming 3rd impeachment will be just more window-dressing on the circus that is America’s slow 250 year decline from the ideals of 1776.
“Fuck you, cut fraud!” is the new “Fuck you, cut spending!”
Democracy is, by definition, rule by midwits. Never forget this.
Also never forget how much worse it is to be ruled by experts.
Democracy gets you demagogues
Monarchy gets you inbred entitled morons
Dictatorship gets you violent schemers and frequent civil wars
Republics degenerate into democracies
Technocracy gets you experts who will at best be focused on solving the specific list of problems they find important, regardless of the hell that creates in other areas, and at worst be tyrannical nanny state types
Plutocracy/Aristocracy/Oligarchy/Party Nomenklatura etc. aren’t really different forms of government, they are the constant reality across all forms, just wearing different outfits to suit the style of the era.
Something I only very recently learned…there has only ever been one US president with a pH.D. Any guesses who, without Googling?
Woodrow Wilson.
I can’t say that I was surprised.
I think a bunch of them had doctorates in law.
I listened to the Dangerous history podcast about Wilson.
As a child, he enjoyed writing the rule book for his boy baseball team.
FDR used to be my most hated President, but Wilson overtook him years ago.
Is it weird to hate a President from so long ago?
A JD is not a PhD
I would have guessed Wilson. He is just that much worse than all the rest.
@ Ron: I was already pretty negative about Wilson on the policy front. But listening to the DH podcast, it was clear he was just an insufferable prick as well.
He was the President of Princeton, not only a PhD but an Ivy League administrator! That’s one of the three reasons I get mad when silly people try to claim Obama was the worst President ever, or started all the awfulness that fills our Government. (the other 2 reasons are FDR and LBJ)
Also a JD is the same degree, with the same degree requirements that used to be an LLB (Bachelor of law and laws). In the 70s they renamed it to be a JD because by that point most schools required another undergrad degree to be admitted to law school in tacit recognition that we have dumbed down education to the point where a bachelor’s is the equivalent of a traditional high school diploma, but it was originally an undergrad degree, and it does not demonstrate advanced mastery of any subject.
Reading law was apprenticeship, not really different than clerking or blacksmithing.
Until next time, keep on defraudin’.
Happy New Year Glibs. I’m very thankful for this place.
2025 was the most extreme year in memory at the SSD household. My new business exploded in growth, and I’ve just hired my 10th employee. On track to double or triple next year. It’s been exciting, but also long days (14-16 hours/ 6-7 days/week), and I feel ill every month about being responsible for meeting payroll for so many people now. Might need to reread some Stoic Friday columns.
There’s been a lot of health issues in the household this year. Collectively: multiple surgeries, pancreatic precancer that was caught early, and a paralyzed diaphragm. Had to put one of our dogs down. That’s all been tough.
Looking forward to 2026. The health issues should be resolved, and I’m hoping the business growth and hours will have stabilized a bit out of the current start-up mode craziness. Some change too with an anticipated move to Florida at some point. I’m ready for some palm trees and blue water.
’25 has been a year. I still have cancer, but it’s a mild form that I don’t worry about much, so fuck it. Maybe I’ll have my thyroid removed in ’26, who knows. Lost my final brother this year. He was technically my brother-in-law, I knew him longer than I’ve known my wife, his sister, and he had been my bestest friend for nearly 50 years, so yeah, that sucked mightily. My sister was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer back in April. She has been through chemo and is continuing the fight, but she will likely die next year as it is aggressive and difficult to treat – I am surprised she made it this long to be honest. Lost my favorite Aunt (85) in August, I glommed on to her when my mom passed away and she helped me immensely dealing with that loss. I bought a new (used) car on her account, my GMC Acadia was in the shop most of 2025 – and when she called asking me to come see her 350 miles away I couldn’t at that time, and had to borrow a vehicle just to attend her funeral. So I hated that car and decided to trade it in on a Toyota RAV4 AWD and I’m waiting on some N. Texas snow and ice to test the AWD capabilities.
I don’t expect much from ’26, I’m likely to go to Bangalore, India in April for work, so there’s that to look forward to. I’ve never had an inkling to go to Asia, any part of Asia, but not all trips are to beautiful European resort locations (Lake Lucerne was very nice.) I am counting the days to my retirement, but sadly still using years in the count, 4 years, 9 months, 10 days, give or take. My wife is retired but bored at home, so maybe it isn’t so great, but I have hobbies that could work for me. My grandkids live next door so we enjoy their comings and goings; children growing up, old friends growing older.
Happy New Year, everyone. May you find happiness and health in 2026.
Wow that makes my 2025 look uneventful. Sorry for all your losses but I hope 2026 is a banner year for you.
Yeah, you win Queen for a Day. Here are your prizes: a washing machine and a fur stole.
Everybody has their problems, I don’t want a problem competition because I know others are far worse off than I. I hope you heal up quickly from your injury. Life goes on, until it doesn’t. I am just hoping for the best for everyone.
Sorry about the rough spots. I hope 2026 is better for you.
New year, new browser. I’m trying to switch over to Tor. Please forgive me if I’m pissy for a while as I get used to the slower speeds and the weirdness that goes along with Tor.
Dark web user confirmed
*haughty sniff*
I have yet to set up my VPN.
“In 2025, the right’s leaders and influencers revealed the deep sexual dysfunction driving their movement. The constant drumbeat of weird sexual displays is likely a major reason the MAGA coalition, which was flying high at the beginning of the year, is losing popularity rapidly, especially with younger voters.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/31/the-right-hit-peak-incel-in-2025/
That has to be it.
Wait
What?
Yes, when I think of weird sexual dysfunction, I definitely think of the MAGA coalition before the troon kiddie fucker coalition…
PedophilesMAPs andgroomersdrag queen story hours are mainstream sexual function you bigot!Ah i see now. Salon is lumping in Fuentes guy and framing him as the frontman
Pleasing to both him and them. They can have a mutual loathing society.
Peak Aman-duh will never be achieved.
I don’t know, she will hit menopause at some point…
she will hit menopause
You mean she’ll get even crankier?!?
Note also the implication that of course it’s OK to use this as a criticism of the non-left. Compare this to JD Vance talking about crazy cat ladies.
I don’t agree with cancelling people, but this is a very disingenuous way to frame what was happening.
Not mourning is exactly the same as openly celebrating.
FFS my New Year’s resolution should be to pay no more attention to trash like Salon.
In 2025, the right’s leaders and influencers revealed the deep sexual dysfunction driving their movement.
Heterosexuality is like totally uncool and weird, man.
The bear cave is full of the smell of hammy goodness and onion. I’m cooking down a ham hock (my first time, ever) and veggies for what will become a ham and bean soup for later in the week. I’m being domestic while the boyfriend is at the gym.
There have been some setbacks and sadness this year, but that’s what comes as you and your loved ones age. Overall it has been a good year for us.
Wishing everyone here a happy, safe, and prosperous new year. This place and you people mean a lot to me.
Sounds wonderful. We were supposed to have a NYE dinner with in-laws but they moved it to tomorrow. What am I going to do with these scallops now since no one except me and MIL eat them.
cooking down a ham hock
You’re in for a treat. IMO the bestest are bones from a good ham. A butt (heh).
I have a big-ass hamhock I got last year for just such a dish, but I’m the only person in this house (and my mom’s apartment) who likes ham’n’bean soup. Thus, I haven’t made it yet. *sad trombone*
cooking down a ham hock (my first time, ever) and veggies for what will become a ham and bean soup
My mom used to do bean soup from scratch like that. So good.
I still do that, grandma leared me how.
Your Grndma was from Somali?
She had an early career as a pirate before arriving under fraudulent circumstances to open up a day car center and cooking school.
This is iteration 1.0. Next time I’m going to cook dried beans and the ham hock in a pressure cooker. Then marry that to the sauteed veggies.
That’s how I do it and get excellent results. Of course, using the remnants of this helps:
https://oscarsadksmokehouse.com/products/half-bone-in-ham-6lbs-8lbs
Possibly the best city ham I’ve had. Definitely in the top two.
I wrote an article on my two pot method for bean soup. It’s faster and tastes better than one pot.
there has only ever been one US president with a pH.D. Any guesses who, without Googling?
Woodrow Wilson.
It takes a heap of schooling to get that stupid.
Dont forget the Stroke
I didn’t
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0V4ld-tL9cs
He’d done his worst damage before the stroke.
Far and away. But it’s an interesting comparison with Biden nonetheless.
Wilson had many, many, many flaws, but a lack of intelligence was absolutely not one of them. If anything, his considerable intellect made his other flaws worse.
The big show Down Under.
Trump should declare the eastern seaboard as the international timeline for shits and giggles
Prime meridian runs through Trump Tower.
For all the Glibs with us and no longer with us.
“A brave little girl jumped out of a second-floor window and begged strangers to save her from abuse, investigators say, but she was sent back home and murdered within months.
Rebekah Baptiste, ten, was found unresponsive on a highway in Holbrook, Arizona, on July 27 after allegedly being abused and neglected for years.
Her father, Richard Baptiste, 32, and his girlfriend Anicia Woods, 29, were subsequently arrested and charged with first–degree murder, aggravated assault, child abuse and kidnapping.
Nine months before that, the girl managed to jump out a second-floor window at her apartment and plead for help – only for police to dismiss it and return her to the couple now accused of killing her, AZFamily reported.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15424829/arizona-murder-girl-escape-dad-stepmom-arrested-videos-police.html
Yikes!
That’s effed up.
It is nice to see that those cops who returned Konerak Sinthasomphone to Jeffrey Dahmer managed to find new employment after they were canned from the Milwaukee PD.
If the guy who shot Tamir Rice can keep getting hired (and thankfully fired) from police stations, why not?
Gov’t will save us!
/sarc
And for those of us still above ground.
What about the Troglodytes? Nothing for the underground dwellers?
They need something a little more primal.
Bang your head.
Mr Servant, you might like this. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCwjeiBZlDI"<Hamlet – prince of Denmark rapier and dagger fight
Music FROM the Trogs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSWInYFVksg&list=RDgSWInYFVksg&start_radio=1
Uffda. Just saw a story on the local news and it yanked one of my King Walz chains.
It was some new wrinkle in the fraud stories and they said that Walz didn’t directly respond to their request for a comment. But they did throw out some generic list of reasons why it wasn’t Walz’s fault from some PR flack. One of the bullet points was that Walz needs the legislature to give him more power to combat fraud.
Sigh. Yeah, the guy literally had someone jailed for not obeying his Covid rules needed more power to combat fraud. The $250M Feeding our Future fraud was going on at the same time he was persecuting bar owners for not closing.
Thats cause the bar owner defied the State. Fraud is part of the State so we will need more power and tax monies to handle it
Walz IS the fraud.
If Sgt Maj Walz had lost his weapon he’d have been court-martialed, maybe a little stockade time. Of course it wouldn’t have been his fault but still…
I suspect the national news organizations are burning the midnight oil looking for rednecks fraudulent daycares in “Red States.”
They could look at military spouses and their daycare scams
Were when i was in
He’s not crazy
Renowned investor Michael Burry on Wednesday denied shorting Tesla’s shares after calling the electric vehicle maker “ridiculously overvalued.”
In a social media post on X, the Scion Asset Management founder responded to a user asking if he would bet against Tesla, saying, “I am not short.”
Burry, who earned his reputation by successfully predicting the collapse of the U.S. housing market that led to the 2008 global financial crisis, clarified his position after describing Tesla as “ridiculously overvalued” in a separate post.
“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. “
I don’t know from business but I can’t imagine that ending the huge federal subsidies won’t hurt.
Burry has been calling AI a bubble and overvalued for a while now. I read his piece about the Gamestop short squeeze, it was detailed, and interesting (to me at least) but it appears to be paywalled on Substack now.
*looks at watch*
There’s still plenty of daylight left to deport Somalians.
Better get cracking Bovino.
Remain whimsical
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I’m assuming the “squirrel” part is also whimsy?
(I approve, btw).
I’m assuming the “squirrel” part is also whimsy?
Word association as I thought of a descriptive name instead of the non-descriptive name the file had when I found it in a chatroom.
Bari Weiss calls out Clooney after Clooney laments about CBS and sites like Citizen Free Press bitch its “sucking up” to him.
We live in a weird world.
To me, that was a straight up call to see it in action or shut up. Right leaning sites push just as much stupid bullshit as the left ones.
Relevant…
Happy New Year, Glibbies!
2025 was… pretty good, I must admit, although the pace felt a bit frantic, with trips to Florida, New York City, Puerto Rico, CT, New Hampshire, Western Mass, DC, North Carolina, Vermont, New York, CT again followed by surgery & recovery for my wife, all happening in a rush.
Throw in a 30 lb weight loss due to cutting delicious, delicious carbs and all I can really complain about is having to replace my wardrobe, which is a good problem to have.
I hope 2026 is similarly positive and healthy for you all!
OBE:
Signs are pointing towards a JJ run on Friday….
You interested in a meal afterwards?
Ah let me know. Its all junk email anyway, can msg me at mhsradar @ gmail
The Democrat reaction to their fraud exposed…
State Senator Lisa Wellman has pre-filed legislation to hide information about daycares and their operators from the public
https://x.com/thehoffather/status/2006240702213099815
Oh no!
One of the Somali daycares in Minneapolis at the center of fraud investigations, Nokomis Daycare Center, is now reporting that there was a break-in overnight at the facility and that multiple documents, including child records and checkbooks, are missing.
https://x.com/Rightanglenews/status/2006398365337035050
I’m shocked.
-_-
So now they’re unable to respond to subpoenas and aren’t responsible for cash disappearing out of their accounts?
They did a press conference. As a commenter noted, this would be a perfect SNL skit if they were funny.
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2006431560942366780
Also straight up murdered the MN speaker of the House for trying to stop the fraud.
https://x.com/BanishKneelers/status/2002409270202015821
Well… that’s taking “they hate you and want you dead” more literally than I usually posit.
The fraud is real enough that there isn’t any need to go full tinfoil hat.
The shooter wasn’t really a Walz protege. He is just a nut. The commissioner job he had was pretty much some superfluous role that was rubberstamped by Walz’s administration.
Hortmann’s vote was part of a deal she made with the GOP. She didn’t agree with it, but she cast the vote to get a budget passed.
I also meant to say that shit like this is probably being pushed by the DFL. If they can get the really loony stuff trending it will make skeptics think that all the other allegations are also BS.
If Walz’s fraud ring was going to kill people, they’d have a couple of local Borro gangers kill her in the parking lot and make it look like a carjacking.
Walz himself is about a 20-watt bulb, but the people behind him are smart enough not to leave obvious connections.
Seems like a look in her freezer might be warranted…
← Ope! Back to my normal outfit. That wig was getting scratchy.
So 2025 sucked a big fat donkey cock.
* Mom got sick on 1/4.
* Had to fight with cunty aunts.
* Bro #1 had stage 4 colon cancer.
* XY lost scholarship because he made too much money last year.
* Husband got laid off.
Now, we are still in 2025. It’s my mom’s birthday. She texted me this morning, “I’m sick.” “Hospital sick?” “Don’t know yet.” Dafuq. It’s not finished with me yet and I’m dreading 2026.
There needs to be a ritual to rid oneself of all the bad year juju. Maybe burning a 2025 calendar? 😕
Happy new year, glibs present and absent! Good to see many welcome faces above. 2025 was mixed bag. Missus in the hospital wasn’t in the plans a year ago and glad to say that is mostly behind. Year is ending on a good note, got a bunch of home renovation stuff done. New wood stove will be in by the end of the week. House is already way too toasty with new insulation.
Next year, well don’t know how that will go. I’ll be retirement eligible on paper but way too young to make it permanent. Missus has been urging a change in employment but the benefits are decent and taking a PTO cut to start over somewhere new would be a challenge.
Has the domestic strife resolved then? No need to answer if it’s delicate.
Day by day.
I hope you can work out something mutually agreeable.
https://www.gottman.com/about/the-gottman-method/
RIP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Cheifet
It’s that time of day when y’all start slacking on your “entertain the rat” duties.
I am rapidly approaching the last work hour of the day, week, month, and year.
I am thinking about getting out of this place
🎶👍
My computer is going to restart for software updates a little before 3:00.
I’ll bet I could get away with using that as an excuse to bail.
Okay. Last night, my husband was reading weird shit out loud to me from Facebook or Reddit or whatnot, which is what we do late at night while we’re winding down.
Apparently the topic was nightmares as a side effect of some narcotics. Okay. Narcotics don’t do me like that, and most just don’t work (fentanyl, however, is a wonder drug). So one dude wrote about this one horrific nightmare he had, but this is the part where I told my husband to stop:
“an evil painting that repainted itself”
This was so I could write it down because I know exactly where I’m going to use that.
Husband replied and said, “My writer wife is taking notes.”
No word on a response to that.
I have not personally experienced it due to a thankful shortage of necessiry, but codeine gave my mother weird dreams.
In fact, the term “Pipe Dream” came from the effects of opium on the dreams of smokers.
That’s also supposed to be a downside of taking high doses of melatonin. Also getting high off of nutmeg, which is apparently a thing one can do if desperate.
Other, lower-quality predictions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6GVZaZYJyg
February starts off dark. But June looks fun, unless you’re active-duty military. Moose bites can be pretti nasti…