Author: sloopyinca

Wednesday, baby! Halfway to the weekend.  And I bet even money the first half of your week has gone better than the people at the CIA.  Unless one of you works for the CIA.  Which I wouldn’t doubt, you sneaky infiltrating bastards… But I digress.

Now let me get back to the job at hand: providing you with a heaping helping of links to warm your belly and set you off on your midweek adventures satisfied. Unless you’re a Cuban hobo(ette). Of course, you can’t access the internet down there anyway.

• President Trump’s deregulation efforts are driving the stock market gains and creating fantastic, great, yuuuuge levels of optimism for people wishing to open or expand a business.
• I’m all for charter schools, but before they distribute a survey about trauma designed for adults, including graphic questions about sexual abuse that sound more like an application to work at SugarFree’s weekend adventure dungeon to nine and ten year olds, they probably ought to give the parents a heads-up.

• Looks like the left have gotten their marching orders on how to report the latest WikiLeaks release of CIA docs that reveal some of the worst invasions of our privacy and other underhand shit I’ve ever heard of.  Surprised?  I’m not.  Its all about principals over principles nowadays. Sad that the vast majority of these people were all supportive of leakers when Bradley Manning was spilling the beans on BOOOOOOOOSH but now that Obama is getting dumped on, its all a big Trump-Putin-Assange conspiracy to take down the Chocolate Jesus.
• If the organizers of the “Day Without A Woman” set out to create difficulties in finding childcare for the people they made agreements with, then they’re being wildly successful.  Of course, a lot of those parents are pretty pissed.
• Here’s a heartwarming story out of Cuba for all of those fans of the Castro regime that fly their private jets there to extol the virtues of that tropical paradise.

And I leave you with this little ditty. Enjoy it as much as I will, children of the 80’s (and anybody else that enjoys great music from people with shitty political beliefs).  Or if that’s not your thing, here’s another song with the same name from a great movie.

Go out there and have a wonderful day.

You guys deserve a solid links today.  Let’s see if I can deliver or if you’ll have to wait until the afternoon to get them.

• College group thinks segregation is a good thing, even when it comes to lifesaving training.  But you probably won’t read about this in the Washington Post.  Because the group is York University’s Black Student Alliance that is only offering CPR to black students.
• What you will read in the Washington Post, however, is that the reason the GOP has their strongest footing ever in government is because of racism.  It even goes so far as to lament that in some places under 20% of whites (gasp) voted for Obama in 2008.  No breakdown or justification was offered for the much higher %age of blacks that voted for Obama in the same election.  Nope, just “research” that proves a lower %age of whites voting Republican in the south is racist.  Enjoy the derp.
• Victor Davis Hanson offers a blistering, and in my opinion extremely accurate, takedown of the media.  Enjoy the opposite of derp.
• President Trump released his revised travel ban and it could face some legal challenges. Expect those “challenges” to take place somewhere out west among a friendly Ninth Circuit.
• Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep set to star in a new Pentagon Papers movie that will be directed by Steven Speilberg.  You may remember Spielberg as the director of such fantastic films as the Indiana Jones trilogy, “1941”, “Schindler’s List”, “Jurassic Park” and especially “Jaws”. Or you can be a dick and say everything he did sucked because he was attached to “Always” and “War Of The Worlds.”  Either way, if you haven’t seen “Jaws”, you should.

Those are the links.  Now its time for me to walk away and get on with the rest of my day.  I see a zoo in my immediate future.  And three kids that all want to go in a different direction.  Wish me luck.

Wow.  The weekend flew by.  Thanks to ZARDOZ, the fires kept burning bright here at the Glibs.

Anyway, let’s dive right in.

• Anthony Silva, disgraced former mayor of Stockton, CA just can’t seem to win.
• HuffPo says Emma Watson’s boobs prove we still need feminism. And here I thought they proved that even small-breasted English broads could be attention-whores by flashing their lady bits for all the world to see.

• Won’t somebody protect us (from guys on dirt bikes that were never on the road and never noticed by anybody below)?
• Won’t somebody protect our animals (from mailmen with nothing better to do with their time than to sex them up)?
• Won’t somebody protect our fences (from people that get aroused by those sexy, shimmering chain-link beauties)?
• The wiretapping claims are big trouble for Obama.  No wait, they’re big trouble for Trump.  Hold on, I got it: they’re big trouble for everybody in America.  Because they either speak to the neurotic behavior of the current president or the dirty machine politics of the last one.  Or both.

Well, that’s it. Go out there and make it a wonderful day.

Still here waiting for something else?  Fine.  Good Morning, America…

Hope your week was all you’d dreamed it could be.  And I hope these links are to your satisfaction…

I don’t know what else to give you.  That should be enough to get things rolling.  If not, there’s always this wonderful song.

Early Thursday.  I know the countdown is on for Thicc time.  I’ll try not to bore you too much with these other goings-on.

1. Mexican President Nieto clarified his nation’s position on accepting deportees: They will accept Mexican deportees but not those from other nations.  Seems reasonable.  He also said they’d not pay for any of President Trump’s wall.  Also seems reasonable. He did not comment on whether or not they planned to continue allowing people from other countries use Mexico as a conduit to illegally enter the United States, which sparked the talk of deportees from other nations being sent there in the first place.
2. People across the political spectrum are freaking out at the Trump administration’s plan to cut the EPA by 20 percent. I’m right there with them.  The whole idea seems absurd and arbitrary and I believe it sends the wrong message. I mean, he should be abolishing the entire damn department.
3. Rachel Dolezal continues her act.  So she’s all but homeless but has the time to do a profile for several news outlets and the time to change her name to Nkechi Amare?  She needs to get something clear: you cannot consider yourself a brave person of a different color just because you want to.  That only works for people that want to call themselves the opposite sex by pumping their body full of hormones and choping off their man-bits or lady-bits.
4. News the four or five libertarian women in the world can use.
5. On the “good news” beat, Crocs will be shuttering 160 stores,  Guess you’ll have to go online or Walmart to buy the shoes they used to only give to people on suicide watch.
6. When alternative education goes too far: Iowa GOP lawmaker appears to have gotten his college degree from a Sizzler Steakhouse.

   

   Go out there and enjoy your day. Here, start it with a really under appreciated song. You’re welcome.

Hump Day, here we come.  Lots happened yesterday across the globe.  Let’s talk about some of them.

• Hizzonor Bill DeBlasio plans to add 90 new homeless shelters to address the spiraling problem in New York.  The plans don’t include where to build them or with what money.  Hey, I’m just spitballing here, but maybe if you didn’t have rent controls, regulation of short-term living facilities, incredibly high taxes on everything and a “daddy knows best” solution for everything, the market would handle this.
• Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world and is likely to pass Christianity in numbers by the end of the 21st Century. Most of the difference in rate is birth rate for Muslims vs Christians. A smaller percentage of the change is due to infidels being chucked off buildings and being decapitated.
• A very well-written piece on the uselessness of the NEA. Hopefully the people holding the purse-strings will take notice.
• San Francisco area traffic ranked fourth worst in the world.  The three ahead of it are Los Angeles, Moscow and New York.  Two other American cities, Atlanta and Miami, we’re also in the Top 10.  WINNING!

  

• Taking a look at that list again, I see Los Angeles there at the top and Paris is number nine.  Well, now that Budapest has pulled out of the running for the 2024 Olympics, those two places are all that’s left.  So congratulations citizens of The City of Angels and the City of Lights.  one of you groups will be the lucky winner!

• I wonder how many of the people profiled here have any idea what effect the strict government controls on rents, development. renovations, and every other aspect of their lives has on this. I suspect you’ll see more and more of these companies relocating to cities like Austin and Denver soon in order for their employees to feel the benefits of their efforts and not feel like they’re one step away from being a homeless millionaire.

Well that’s it.  Go out and enjoy your day, friends. I know I will.

And of course, this happened.