Everyone here remembers in fondness the one Glib who has made it big. Gord Magill (aka Gordilocks) has been actively writing, speaking, and protesting for the world of truckers. An ex-pat Canadian now living in my neck of the woods, he rose to prominence during the Canadian truckers’ Freedom Convoy. Since then, he has appeared on every major TV news show, radio, and podcasts, and has been tirelessly writing op-eds and his own (HIGHLY recommended) Substack. And Tweets.
He attributes his big break to his exposure on glibertarians.com, but mayyyybe a strong talent for observation, writing, and story-telling will find its way to be known in this world. End of the Road deals with vaccinations, economics, lifestyles, mortality, morality, sociology… everything, and told from a libertarian perspective. Buy the fucking book, it’s enlightening, it’s infuriating, it’s wonderful.
Heh. “Minority Owned Business.”
Payday is tomorrow. I shall buy it.
I’m assuming you’re reading the kindle version, or did you use your TPTB status to get a preprint copy?
Gordie had a GoFundMe to which I contributed. That got me an advance copy.
I hate that Kindle shit, give me a real book.
[ gives OMWC copy of Jaws ]
I don’t get that, since my eyes have crapped out on me real books are harder to read.
I can wear readers but they make me dizzy sometimes.
My kindle can change the size and has a backlight, not to mention the fact it holds a million books.
Also, I did buy the book, it will be delivered to my kindle March 24th.
If I had known about the GoFundMe, I would have contributed, I’m sure it was mentioned here, I must have been busy with work at that time.
I have been crazy busy. I must have missed that GoFundMe too.
Get with the times Old Man. Books are digital and syrah australian these days and you’ll have to take it.
I wish there was an actual war on truckers. Fuckers.
Even with intermodal transport taking over for long haul trucking, there is a need for the last mile transport, which means trucks.
Intermodal is fine for stuff that dosent rot or can show up whenever.
Obligatory Old Guy Music
On truckers:
I’ve been making some decently long drives a couple/three times a year since before Covid. This most recent one I noticed a significant difference in their behavior: they’re speeding again. For a while they stopped speeding (I’m assuming onboard telemetry ratting them out) which meant when one wanted to pass another it would take ten freaking minutes of two lanes blocked.
Not sure what changed exactly, but it’s welcome.
Growing up, there was a period of time when my dad took a job as a truck driver. I spent a week on a ride along during a school break.
The onboard telemetry most definately ratted out going over 55, regardless of local speed limit. This was the 90s, so I’m not sure what changes have happened since.
What I’ve noticed in recent years is a lower level of paying attention by truck drivers. Nowadays they change lanes blindly a lot more than they used to.
I would bet dollars to doughnuts it’s bc the illegals who can’t speak English are allowed to AND their governors are taken off. I was under the impression that trucking companies were using governors instead of relying solely on telemetry.
Whatever the case, current regulations are not conducive to making a decent living trucking.
I know why the regulations exist, but I also know they throttle commerce and livelihood potential.
I would bet dollars to doughnuts it’s bc the illegals who can’t speak English are allowed to AND their governors are taken off.
Cue old Linda Ronstadt joke.
The regulations on time are total garbage.
You sit for hours/days twiddling your thumbs not making any money and bored out of your skull to be legal.
The speeders are obstructing the roadways here. Using the wrong lanes. Blasting through work zones and other reductions. Obstructing traffic with their snail races. Scales are never open and zero enforcement. “Professional” drivers.
Snail races are due to the trucks being governed. Throw in differential speed limits imposed by some do golfer government moron and it’s a recipe for crashes.
Snail races are due to illiterate wheel holders ignoring the squiggles on those signposts.
Death penalty for minor traffic infractions they’ll figure it out.
Most fleet trucks are governed, usually at 68.
I’m coming back from my WY job and it’s 80-75 mph speed limit all the way to Idaho where the state slows us down to 70
Both governors and differential speed limits cause congestion and conflict leading to more passing and lane changes which cause wrecks.
My old Worktruck is a 97 and worn out. I’m still cruising at 72-83 and passing these governed truck.
I’m also running up against the terrible FMCS/DOT hours of service rules that also make trucking unsafe and play hell on your sleep schedule. To be legal I have to take 34 hours off to drive again.
Why? Am I unsafe to drive after logging 70 hours working in the last 7 days? Nope. It’s just the rule. And it’s a shitty one.
90% of my work time is sitting and maintaining my automatic welding machines but I have to log it. So the log book forced me to work straight through so I could take 34 hours off and be legal again to drive. You could put in a 90 hour work week and commute four hours a day and be legal
I can’t be because I do this for a living.
Rules written by people that have neither put in an honest weeks work in their life and have absolutely never been behind the wheel of a truck.
Trucker music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4edim9-XQK4
I chose the London cast recording to emphasize the irony.
Slim Dusty’s trucker ballads are legendary as well.
Ahem.
https://youtu.be/IOgUaFkpS3Y?si=SWt1NYIanLk_xh2d
Canadians and driving make me think of this song
I do not care what is going on in your life. “Eastbound and Down” does not fail as a pick-me-up.
Oh damn. TOK beat me to it.
Well it’s true. I felt my mood lift just 10 seconds into that song.
How do you people know this obscure music.
Theme song from Smokey and the Bandit – second best film from 1977.
This is NOT obscure in the least bit.
Well it was certainly not playing in Buzau county in the 90s.
“Slapshot” is #1 right?
I would also accept “Annie Hall”.
Exorcist II: The Heretic. Saw it at a drive in theater in Radcliff, KY.
Never saw part II, always heard it was bad.
I remember part III being really good, but that was over 30 years ago, so I’m not sure.
Never saw part II, always heard it was bad.
I was eleven years old at a drive-in theater. I don’t remember a thing about it.
I saw the 2nd Jason Bourne movie at that same theater the last year it was open (Radcliff Drive In).
That movie was the absolute worst thing you could see at a drive in.
Fucking Greengrass filmed that movie all in Shaky Cam and it was nothing but 90 minutes of unwatchable blur out of 120 minutes on the screen.
So my own little conservatarianish book tale.
My client is a “compassionate conservative” (I hate that label) who writes political books. The latest one has TRUMP in the title. Amazon let him upload, no problem. But the OTHER (pretty much only) major distributor won’t allow him to because TRUMP.
Drop the T amd call it Rump
What do you mean it’s not the same kind of trucking ? 😕
No.
Another type of truckin’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iznf49vOgJs
That video is not available
The EU hates rock music.
Thats how we roll.
Yeah! I was wondering when somebody would post Space Truckin’
Sorry Pie, it must be geographically restricted.
Banned because of Brexit.
I suppose the european mind cannot comprehend american trucking. all that distance in trucks that are moat likely inferior to european trucks.
Though the australians take it by measuring distance in beers not miles.
They also have these monstrosities:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train
I admire your pro-Romaniam sentiments.
Freight should be hauled on electric trucks no more than 25 feet long. Think of the job creation.
You are hired at the FMCS!
Negotiating tactic
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), in her capacity as head of the Senate DOGE Caucus, sent a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson and House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) outlining what she says are $93.5 billion in savings that could be incorporated into a filibuster-skirting budget reconciliation bill.
“Republicans should seize every opportunity to advance policies that lower prices, cut taxes, and lift burdensome regulations off the backs of American families while we hold the White House and majorities in both chambers of Congress,” Ernst wrote in the letter, shared first with POLITICO. “This moment will not last forever.”
Her list includes proposals to claw back unspent COVID-era funds; rescind more of former President Joe Biden’s climate initiatives; impose stiffer penalties for states with high rates of inaccurate SNAP food aid payments; implement a new $250 fee for new electric vehicle owners; and create more accountability for government charge cards.
“This is not an exhaustive list, and I stand ready to help you pass another transformational reconciliation bill,” Ernst said.
The DOGE Caucus, created to mirror the work of the now largely defunct Department of Government Efficiency formerly led by tech billionaire Elon Musk, has little tangible power on Capitol Hill. But Ernst’s appeal signals the extent to which jockeying among Republicans has begun as discussions accelerate around a second megabill — even if there’s scant evidence congressional Republicans can pull one off.
And they all had a good laugh.
More taxes, as long as it’s labeled a fee.
For Pie: Prime and I are meeting up shortly for some day-drinking of fine New York beer. Woodburning oven pizza as well. No Romanian wine, alas.
The list is extensive though i would not touch 75% of that
Looks fantastic. Enjoy!
I know conventional wisdom is that table apples make poor cider, but IME this is nonsense. My all-time favorite was one made entirely of Cameo apples fermented bone-dry by Argus in Austin. They may have used champagne yeast?
is there usually a lot of gluten in cider?
Personally, I’d start with the Blackberry Kolsch, followed by the 8 IPA and the Black Hops. And/or a flight with the Salted Caramel Coldspresso and some of the dark and barrel-aged ones.
WTF is a Fluffy IPA?
Though i should not drink on a thursday i had an annoying day and opened a bottle of wine i got at discount. It is awful. Goddamn my expectations were low and still
Do not buy Château Belair-Coubet should you have the opportunity.
Bore Dough.
Shab lee.
after swinging it in the glass a bit it is not as bad as in the beginning.
neah its bad
What’s the equivalent to Stockholm syndrome but for alcohol? Bucharest Syndrome?
Fixed it for her.
Do not buy Château Belair-Coubet should you have the opportunity.
Named after a four door Chevrolet. What would you expect?
Apparently “The Conversation” is now a trusted go-to source for the google nooz algobot
I’m a communication scholar who has studied MAGA rhetoric for a decade. I have observed how Hegseth and other officials in the second Trump administration refuse to abide by what recurring rhetorical situations – urgent public matters that compel speech to audiences capable of being influenced – typically demand of public officials.
The theme of this administration is that no one is going to tell it what to say or how to say it. It will be encumbered neither by norms nor the exigencies that compel speech in a democratic society.
Oh, horror.
If only we had a clean articulate erudite scholar with sharply creased trousers to reassure us of the rightness of our cause.
That’s a lot of words to say you’re a loser with TDS.
Ah, so THIS is the guy they talk to when they quote “a source familiar with Trump’s thinking.”
English majors are why I don’t tip at Starbucks.
Muh norms!
So tedious.
And it has clearly done you a ton of good.
Hegseth engaged in what is known as “kill talk,” a verbal strategy, typically directed at new military recruits, that denies the enemy’s humanity and disguises the terrible costs of violence. His repetition of words like “death,” “killing,” “destruction,” “control,” “warriors” and “dominance” framed violence in heroic terms that are detached from the realities of war.
All the scholars of MAGA rhetoric know there’s no death, killing or destruction in wars.
Q for the people more involved in the Lesbian Community than I am:
What are lesbian cougars called?
Q is not that into lesbians lesbians
Librarians?
I don’t think middle-aged women banging younger dudes are lesbians, NA.
If I were a middle-aged lesbian, I’d totally want to bang sorority girls.
Even not being a middle aged lesbian I’d want to bang sorority girls totally
These days it’s really hard to find common ground. I think we found something we can all agree on. Even sorority girls want to bang sorority girls.
Hegseth flippantly employed villainous colloquialism – “they are toast and they know it,” “we play for keeps,” and “President Trump got the last laugh” – delivered with a combative tone that communicated masculine self-assurance.
Many observers were taken aback by his haughty tone, hypermasculine preoccupation with domination, giddiness about violence and casual attitude toward death.
The fainting couches in the faculty lounge were packed. There was an epidemics of the vapors.
hypermasculine preoccupation with domination – you talk like a fag and your shit’s all retarded
“We’ve been at war with Iran for 47 years”
Hatfield-McCoys are now marrying one another. Maybe it’s time to get over it.
Who invites his accountant to an orgy?
Richard Kahn, Jeffrey Epstein’s former accountant, testified before the House Oversight Committee in a closed-door deposition Wednesday, telling lawmakers that he was “not aware” of Epstein’s crimes and regrets that he may have “unknowingly assisted Epstein in any way.”
“While Epstein was alive, I never observed any sexual abuse or trafficking of women and never received a complaint—either by one of Epstein’s victims or anyone else—of such abuse or trafficking,” Kahn said, according to a copy of his prepared opening statement obtained by NPR.
The Republican-led committee subpoenaed Kahn, who started working as Epstein’s accountant in 2005 and remained a close confidant until his death in 2019.
They had important stuff to worry about.
Ok, let’s back up a bit. Everyone is focused on the sex stuff, but I’ll bet there was a lot of shady financial shit happening as well. Which this guy most definitely would know about.
Pay no attention!
The Sgt Schultz of Epstein Accounting
The guy that works with me picked up this for his side hustle last week. She needs some work and a set of skins but he’s headed for the woods next month. https://ibb.co/F4jmfdVt
$5.09/gallon of diesel!
Back on the road. Hoping to make it to council Idaho today, SLC to Boise are on my route.
Any glibs along I84 in Utah or ID?
Any glibs along I84 in Utah or ID?
86; Greater Pocatello Metropolitan Region.
I’ll bet there was a lot of shady financial shit happening as well. Which this guy most definitely would know about.
Sanctity of the confessional.
He obviously used some sort of weird Jedi mind trick
José Antonio Kast has been inaugurated as Chile’s new president today at a ceremony in the coastal city of Valparaíso. The far-right politician built his career railing against liberal values from the fringes of Chilean politics.
Kast won a resounding victory over his leftist rival in a runoff in December, taking over 58% of the vote with his hardline approach to public security and illegal immigration.
His ascent to the presidency marks an abrupt departure from the progressive agenda of leftist Gabriel Boric, whose four-year term ended today.
It is completely inconceivable to these “political analysts” that the people living under Latin American
socialismcentrist liberalism see it, on the ground, as a failure.https://patch.com/michigan/westbloomfield/active-shooter-oakland-county-synagogue-reports
Oakland MI, not CA. Completely different base rate on suspects.
It is very windy here today.
As part of a decluttering effort, I have boxes of old books to get rid of. Some are fiction that I could try to unload at a used book store, but I also have some number of textbooks. What to do with those? The computer hardware and OS design books are 30+ years out of date. There are 100-200 level basic science (Physics, Chemistry) books, modern understanding of what they cover probably hasn’t changed much, but still, do they have any value? I guarantee no one is still teaching from them, and I’m not likely to ever pick them back up.
Trucker behavior seems to wildly different in different states. Just a couple of weeks ago I went on a 2200 mile round trip to watch the Indy car race in St. Petersburg and visit family. Snail races were non-existent in Georgia where almost everyone seems to stay out of the hammer lane. Illinois however, was the exact opposite. It affected my speed to: 85-100 through Georgia and 65-80 through Illinois. Florida was more like Illinois. Kentucky and Tennessee were more like Georgia. Twice on the trip I had to take emergency evasive actions – both caused by trucks. In one case, The truck in the rightmost lane shifted into the middle lane without signalling, almost hitting the truck in the middle lane. That truck in turn made an emergency move into the left lane while going about 30 mph slower than traffic and right in front of me. The car smelled like brakes for about an hour afterwards.