Author: sloopyinca

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In that first special election I was talking about yesterday, the republican won.  Don’t know if it was a moral victory forTeam Blue or not.  I only know that in things like this they use a scoreboard for a reason. The Libertarian got 2%. So at least we won’t get blamed for this one.

So even the WaPo is sure that the Obama admin spied on a close Trump adviser now. The entire article, other than that fact, is full of retardation. Tread lightly.

Big squaw got much wampum. Her look at national stage. Wage culture war on Orange Man.

In the latest version of “too little-too late”.

Sean Spicer must have a pretty large and calloused dick. Because he keeps stepping on it without batting an eye.

Blame this if the links were later than expected this morning.

I was mostly out of touch with the news yesterday.  Wrapped up in my own world of work, taking the family to the zoo for a few hours, power washing the pool deck and making dinner.  Looks like I missed a lot too.  Let’s recap, shall we?  Which means…the morning links.

The most reckless of nations vows to respond to “reckless” American Navy, which is moving a strike group into the area.  Unless the Norks have got one of those nukes ready, I can’t see them doing anything more than staging something and reporting it on state TV and then executing a few of their own military leaders by mortar.  But this Kim is crazier than the last couple of Kims.  So stay tuned.

Democrats hope to cash in on unpopularity of Trump in a series of special elections that will start in Wichita, Kansas.  The article goes into a lot of math about “moral victories” even if Team Blue doesn’t win any of the elections, according to pollsters and analysts.  And if there’s anything we can count on, its those guys accurately predicting electoral success and adjusting polls to really capture the pulse of the nation.

VDH pens another blistering takedown of Susan Rice.  From Benghazi to Bergdahl, he touches all the bases.  And its just brutally delicious.  Enjoy!

Caitlyn Jenner is now dong-less.

Hope they were an agonizing four seconds (give or take…I’m sure one of the more scientifically literate among us can come up with an accurate elapsed time). Defendant in triple murder, rape, kidnapping (etc etc etc) case decides to take justice into his own hands with leap from courthouse balcony.

The three largest nations in CONCACAF launch a joint bid for the 2026 World Cup.  I guess Canada had to figure out a way to qualify that they could actually accomplish. (I keed! But not really.)

A little Deep Purple for y’all.

Well, what a great weekend that was.  Did my first charity auction for the Calcutta for our spring Member-Member at our golf club. Got my pool painted and its filling with water as we speak.  Got most of my back yard cleaned up, including tearing down and replacing a lot of jacked up fencing, culling some trees that needed to be gone and ripping out some ivy that looked less than desirable. Plus The Masters!

Alas, its time to get back to work.  And part of that is supplying you with your daily dose of morning links.  So here’s Monday’s version.

ISIS does what ISIS is gonna do. Which means they’re going to kill a bunch of innocent people that are minding their own business.

Juan Williams laments that blacks sometimes stray off the plantation.  Because there’s nothing worse than a black Republican, right Juan?  I mean, how dare they not vote completely in lockstep for the party that they’ve voted in lockstep for for more than five decades while slipping further into poverty as a group, while dropping farther behind educationally as a group and for seeing their families break apart at a much higher rate than other racial demographic groups since those Great Society programs aimed at helping them began in earnest.

Looks like the battle over sanctuary cities receiving federal grant money is heating up. The hypocrisy on both sides is not surprising.  But I really had no idea there were this many states-rights and local-rights Democrats out there.

John McCain says Trump admin partially to blame for Syrian gas attack.  Why?  Well, apparently saying who controls a country is up to their own people results in their leader gassing their own people.  At least in that thick skull of his.

Boy dominates girls’ sport.  Big surprise.

And finally…in what was quite possibly one of the greatest duels in Masters history, Sergio Garcia finally gets a major victory.  And it was absolutely stunning.  I’m sure I’m not the only one that thought he was dead when he hit it left of the fairway and had to take that unplayable lie on 13.  But he persisted.

Anyway those are my links.  And this is the real me.

It’s that time again!  And the weather is gonna make it more interesting than usual.  Live coverage will be underway before you read this.  Enjoy.

Now on to the other, less important, news of the day.

A sober and dispassionate analysis of what’s going on in Syria is called for. And it looks like we finally have one.

The Chinese Premier Xi Linping is headed to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President Trump.  Or according to the left, Trump is taking yet another vacation and shirking his duties while coincidentally being at the same place as the Chinese leader.  Also, Russia.

What’s the real political scandal involving Russia, Rice and a lot of retardation in the media coverage?  Maybe there are actually two of them.

Berkeley goes further up its own asshole. (No teaser…the story is short enough)

Good thing she had all that help on her way to the top.  And by “help”, I mean a killer work ethic and a really big brain for the job, not a bunch of set asides and quotas.

Oh, sweet Jesus on the cross.  This seems like a load of bullshit.

(White Man)

One more day till The Masters! One more day till The Masters! One more day till The Masters!  But first…the links.

ESPN finally open about their policy of mixing sports and politics.  Thanks, assholes.  Way to take away the one respite I used to have.

The nuclear option on the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch is all but assured as neither side looks to be backing down.

Michael Mann: Major Maniacal Moron. Seriously, this might me the most narcissistic person on the face of the planet not named Donald or Barack.

Many of the bids for the border wall have been submitted and are now being made public.  Some of them are pretty interesting.  Some of them are pretty nutty.

President Trump’s education plan comes a little more into focus. And it does so while he takes a big swipe at Chicago’s failing public school system.

It was a beautiful day.

Why do they schedule the NCAA championship game so late?  People on the east coast, especially those Tar Heel fans with a serious rooting interest, had to stay up till midnight.  I guess their kids can all find out today who won rather than have actually gotten to watch what was a pretty good game.

Anyhoo, we have a winner in the inaugural Glibertarians March Madness Pick Em!!!  Congratulations Crunchy Dolphin, whoever you are.  Send us an email (from the email that matches the one on Yahoo) so we can get you your prize.  Same goes for our Canadian friend Rufus for winning the international division (actually for coming in second) and whoever submitted under “Jeremy” for coming in third.  Kristen wins the ladies division by narrowly coming in fourth overall.  All of you send in emails so we can get you something as well.

And now we can move on to the links of the day…

The United States will stop sending money to the United Nations Population Fund.  Back up, because a wave of progressive tears are about to crash down upon us since they keep saying the federal government must fund abortions and other “family planning” services here.  I’m sure they equally think we should be funding it in the rest of the world too.

Looks like Susan Rice had an interest in unmasking Trump associates well before the FISA warrant in October was issued.  That’s according to White House logs, by the way.  Perhaps the leftist partisans are right, maybe she did have the right under the law to ask for the unmasking.  And maybe she was right to lie to the PBS News Hour about it.  But maybe Rand Paul is also right, and she should sit in front of the intel committees under oath and tell the truth. Because this is starting to look like Chicago politics and an outgoing admin doing everything it can to undermine the new admin in an unprecedented and totally illegal fashion.

A pair of dueling editorials on the Gorsuch nomination:

Here is the first one, which actually deals with his qualifications.

Here is the second, which largely ignores it other than to lament that he won’t give preference to sympathetic clients.  Also, and I know its from The Nation and I should have offered a trigger warning, they include as a reason that “the guy that nominated him is under FBI investigation for colluding with Russia to win the election.”  I’ve heard that being spun as a fact lately in the media when its a blatant distortion of the truth.

Judge refuses Roman Polanski’s bid for no jail if he returns to United States.  I guess that judge won’t be getting a standing ovation from Meryl Streep if she’s ever at a dinner where he is honored.  She reserves those for people that allegedly drug and rape 13 year old children.

Atlanta area college student wins $100,000 prize. Donates entire amount to local private high school.  That’s solid right there.

That’s the last of the links, do you hear me?

Friday! Friday! Friday!  Thank the Lord in heaven.  This has been a challenging week, y’all.  I’m glad we’re reaching the end of it..  Let’s dive in, shall we?

Venezuela takes one step closer to becoming a dictatorship. Lefties across America wish they controlled the courts so they could do the same here…except with Trump. And the legislature. And some of the courts. And state legislatures. And governorships. And …well, you get the point.  I just wonder if it’ll dawn on them that this is the march to death their political-economic dream leads to.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha. I mean, I’d love to see it happen, but the European Union boss threatening to break the U.S. up in retaliation for Trump applauding Brexit simply won’t happen.  Also, I bet there was a military leader somewhere saying “The E.U.? How many divisions have they got?”

Things are looking pretty bad for Devin Nunes. (TW: The Daily Beast pants-soiling.)

Actually, no they’re not, this is just leftists shitting themselves again. (VDH with another solid takedown of partisan hackery.)

Penn State trustee keeping it classy. I still say they should have razed the football stadium to the ground and turned it into a prison for child molestors.  They’re not worthy of participating in organized sports after the shit they pulled.

::raises white flag::

❤️Thanks, Banjos❤️  It’s been five wonderful years since we got married. I bet the next five are even more fantastic.

Hopefully the flooding from yesterday is done and I can get on with my life.  Just as soon as I clean the frogs out of the pool.  Looks like something biblical happened in my back yard.  And I don’t mean that in a good way.  So let me get these links out so I can address the hellscape.

Is the day finally here where men won’t have to pray the words “it’s ok, I’m on the pill. I can’t get pregnant.” are spoken in earnest?  If some Indian university students are right, it might be.

He must have gotten a look at their viewership.  Also, his nose looks like a penis in the accompanying photo.

Who is to blame for the jump in anti-semitic attacks and vandalism in the wake of the Trump election? Well, its probably not the guy whose daughter married a Jewish man, converted to the faith and is raising their child Jewish. Much to the media’s dismay.

Nothing says justice like prior restraint. (thanks, OMWC) I guess we can dispense with the rest of the Constitution in the Ninth Circus now.  They’ve already gone out of their way to destroy the First Amendment.

Speaking of the Ninth Circuit, it won’t be long before they get this ruling in front of them.  The Hawaiian federal judge has extended his blockage of the Trump travel ban on the grounds that it discriminates against Muslims and “hurts Hawaii’s tourism industry”. I guess he doesn’t have access to a map that shows the ban doesn’t impact about 85% of Muslims on the planet.  Or he can’t open up a law book and see that the right has always been the executive’s and that it was done as recently as the last president.

Former Dallas Cowboy and fan of beating up women left it to the fans to vote on whether an indoor football team would sign him. It did not end the way he would have liked.

I wish more of our “leaders” felt this way.