Author: sloopyinca

Champions League is back today.  I guess they played football last night but I don’t really care. Tampa Bay is still tearing through the NHL while St Louis put a halt to LA’s hot start.  Montreal scored eight (*!!!) goals, probably doubling their total for the year. And the Blackhawks were off last night. Hey, they still have a team in Phoenix and they won!  And the Maple Leafs continue their fall back to earth and lose again.

The real sports news happens tonight, when the Astros and Dodgers face off in Game Six of the World Series.  I, for one, hope its the final game although I predicted it would go to Seven before the series started.  What’s the over/under on homers tonight?  I’m thinking it will be a much lower-scoring game than the home run derby with fielders that occurred Sunday.  But we’ll only have to wait 12 hours and change to find out.

That’s it for the sports update.  I hope it was abbreviated enough for those of you who suffer from that affliction where you hate to see people engaged in the peak form of physical activity in their chosen profession.  Or you just hate my updates.  Either way, that’s all for sports and now I deliver to you…the links!

Harvey Weinstein causing more misery for Rose McGowan. Oh wait. This little bit of stupidity is her own dumbass mistake. Although she is blaming him for some reason.

A Halloween story not for the faint of heart. And by “faint of heart,” I mean the pussies that walked into that Staples on a crisp October 30th only to be confronted with….the face of evil!

Mercer hedge fund tax dispute heads to IRS Office Of Appeals. The IRS is pissed at the company’s employees using an “abusive” tax shelter to keep $6.8 million of the money they actually earned. The company maintains that the shelters are perfectly legal.  The head of Mercer is a Trump supporter.

I wonder when the word “abusive” became the equivalent of “illegal” when it came to using a program the government was stupid enough to establish. Probably in hopes that nobody but the bureaucrats establishing it and their families were clever enough to discover and use it.

The New Republic (duh, TW: The New Republic!) shits their pants over Trump supporters being such big mean climate deniers. I guess requiring proof before we let the government put in place stifling regulations, impose hefty taxes and redistribute our hard-earned money across the globe so tinpot dictators can line their pockets with it, all while people in those nations are denied the comforts of running water and electricity because the generation of it is fueled by nasty old coal and oil, counts as being a “denier” these days.  Well count me in with that basket of deplorable then, TNR. Because your scam is based on bullshit models the proponents of refuse to even share the methodology or unaltered data points for.  So go fuck yourself.

Denver bans smoking and vaping at outdoor mall. Nice work, especially on the vaping.  All that moisture put into the air could cause all kinds of damage, you stupid nanny-state bastards.

Remember when the USS Cole was attacked more than 17 years ago?  Well the case is still going on and now it looks like its gonna drag out even longer. I guess the words “speedy trial” don’t exist anymore. Just for context, there will be people born after the attack that will be eligible to vote before this trial is concluded.

America: Fuck Yeah! This is why the crazies hate us. And its also why we will win. Enjoy.

I guess I’m veering into the 80s this week. No complaints, oh?

I hope you all have a fun Halloween.  (Enjoy The Great Pumpkin, Jake) I’ll be taking my dinosaur, horse and unicorn out for candy later this evening.  I’ll be the guy dressed up as a giant cock.

Let’s see..Where to begin. Hmmmmmm. I don’t really know.  Oh yeah, I do.  I’ll start in Florida.  Hey, McElwain here’s a tip: if you’re gonna make up a bullshit story about your family and players receiving death threats in order to generate sympathy, at least make sure you have a few buddies go down to the public library and email you a few from dummy mailboxes.  I don’t know how many millions from your buyout that dumbass move cost you, but you deserve to lose every penny of it. Oh well, at least they scored and kept that shutout-free streak intact.

Iowa State stayed perfect against top 5 teams, dispatching TCU at home.  Wisconsin stayed stealthy to the committee by beating lowly Illinois by a pair of touchdowns.  Clemson beat the Rambling Wreck by the same margin. Miami beat lowly North Carolina by five and continues to live dangerously. Notre Dame thumped NC State and continues to impress. Washington beat UCLA. Oklahoma State topped WVU. The Hokies tore Duke to pieces. Northwestern beat Sparty in triple-overtime.  USF ch- ch- ch- choked away their game to Houston. USC beat up on the hapless Sun Devils. UCF stayed undefeated while Penn State couldn’t.

Oh yeah, about that last result: it was Penn State 38 and (sorry, but I can’t resist) THE Ohio State University Buckeyes 39. And that’s with JT Barrett IV going 13-13 in the fourth quarter and throwing for 3 touchdowns as the offensive and defensive lines imposed their will late.  Saquan Barkley wilted like a flower on the biggest stage of the year and his grip on the Heisman got a little slippery.  8 yards on 20 carries after the first three minutes of the game isn’t  pretty. Sure it was a solid three minutes, but the correction on special teams made him a non-factor.  Meanwhile, the doubts (I’ll admit to being among those who had them early) should be put to rest on whether of not JT should be the starter. He ran for more yards than the entire Penn State team. He passed for 328 yards going 33/39. And that’s with two dropped balls for sizable gains.  Anyway, that game was off-the-charts insane. And the effort and poise shown under pressure when going down 18 twice will be remembered for some time.  Now don’t lose your focus against Iowa!

Personally, I don’t know what could have topped that for weekend entertainment. I got drunk and fell asleep during the seventh on Saturday only to wake up confused at 3 am wondering how the Astros collapsed. Then I saw the Giles stat line.  Yikes.  So I tuned in Sunday with a little bit of hope..which was quickly dashed in the first inning. But shame on those of you who turned it off, because they tied it up in the 4th!. Then shame on you if you turned it off after a three run lead was reestablished in the top of the 5th. Which was erased in the bottom half of the inning as Kershaw was chased. Nothing of consequence happened in the sixth. Then the Dodgers got the lead back in the 7th…only to have the Astros put up a four spot and put a dagger in the game’s heart. Shame on those of you who turned it off then too, because the night went insane.  They traded runs in the 8th and then the Dodgers put up 3 in the 9th to tie it and sent Jansen to the mound knowing the Astros closer was a basket case and wouldn’t play. The Astros could do nothing in the bottom of the inning but strand a guy at second. Then the Dodgers had a miscommunication between the runner and third base coach cost them a run in the top of the 10th, which cost them dearly as Jansen lost his stuff with two outs, hitting a batter, walking the next and then giving up a game-winning single to left. Holy shit was that exciting. The Dodgers pitching has been an unexpected chink in their armor and they will have to regroup as the face Verlander in a must-win game 6 tomorrow.

What a fun weekend even though it wasn’t for the faint of heart.  I’ll be recovering for at least a day with nothing on tonight, although I believe I’ll take in a hockey game or watch the OSU-PSU game again. I would imagine I could take the ups and downs a bit better knowing that everything is going to work out fine in the end.

Anyway, I know some of you think I’m an asshole for the way I go on about the Buckeyes.  Sorry about that. Its not meant to cause any distress. Its just how I was raised.  And with that non-apology apology, I bring you…the links!

Speaking of apologies, they keep on coming in. This one from Kevin Spacey apologizing to Anthony Rapp for coming on to him when Rapp was 14.  Well, not necessarily since Spacey said he doesn’t remember making a pass at the youth because he was drunk.  Spacey was also forced to come out of the closet and give up the privacy he so desperately clung to about his sex life. Not that everybody didn’t know he was gay, but he had taken pains to make sure the world knew what he did and who he did it with was none of their business. Its a shame we’re taking those kinds of scalps over what potentially amounts to an unwanted pass at a 14-year old kid whose parents let him go to an adult party and hang out alone past midnight from a drunk dude 32 years ago. And no, I’m not victim blaming. I’m saying Rapp’s parents should have been more responsible and Rapp, as an adult now, should understand that a bisexual dude who runs in pretty loose circles probably assumes the person he’s climbing in bed with after midnight at a party isn’t an unaccompanied minor.

Let’s spin the wheel of indictment. The easy money is on Manafort for some wire transfers and/or failing to disclose ties (everybody knew he had) on the correct piece of government paper.  Kelly and Page are the other potential candidates with Dem bundler Tony Podesta being a wild-card.  Anyway, its just the beginning, apparently. And the witch hunt looks to continue with no end in sight.

Look at these scumbag pieces of shit. Looting the houses and towns ravaged by wildfires? I hope they toss these fuckers away for a long time. A very long time.

I know being a public defender is a thankless, shitty job.  And I also know a lot of them are so overworked they can’t really offer up a solid defense for the cases they’re assigned.  But nobody deserves this. Well, some of the District Attorneys probably do.

Their harrowing journey is over. And no, I don’t mean the 98 days they were lost. I mean the five days and nights they sat on an American naval vessel wondering when they’d run into something.

Trump does what Trump does.  Progressive “icon” takes the bait. Its like these clowns are his personal plaything. They’re little more than wind up toys anymore. Or Chatty Cathys  whose string he pulls from time to time when he’s feeling a little bored.

I don’t know what direction I’m going in this week, but I’ll start with this.

Have a great Monday, friends!

The freaking Member-Guest is this weekend at my club, so I’m gonna have a hard time getting a round in today. And I couldn’t play in a golf outing when Ohio State hosts Penn State with an afternoon start.  So I don’t know what I’ll do with my time other than work. And that ain’t no fun for nobody.  Meh, I guess I can suck it up for another day. (Or I can still go out there around noon and figure out a way to worm my way in between groups out there before they start the shootout.)

No baseball yesterday means no shit-talking today. It also means I have time to dedicate for a nice early-season NHL analysis. In the Wales Conference, Tampa Bay just keeps on lighting it up.  44 goals through 11 games and a 9-1-1 record is a hell of a start.  The Pens are playing well, which is no surprise. But the Maple Leafs are hanging tough with a 7-3-1 record and look to end their misery streak with a nice season. Sure its early days, but they are looking good.  Ottawa, New Jersey, Columbus and the NY Islanders round out the top 7 although Boston and Carolina have a couple extra games to play and the middle of the table is pretty tight.  Over in the Campbell Conference, the LA Kings are leading the con…wait, did I just say the LA Kings are leading the Campbell?  Holy shit, they are.  Well good for them.  I suppose the bandwagon will start to attract a few more people by the day and pretty soon, the internet will be crawling with LA hockey fans. The Blues are right there with them and Vegas, with the generous expansion draft system that was employed this year, are hanging tough at the top and with a couple extra games to play.  Vancouver, Chicago and Dallas needn’t worry. They’re fine. But Arizona. Yikes! They might fold the team midseason if this debacle continues.  I mean, even Les Canadiens du Montreal have won a couple games this year.

Anyway on to football, where Stanford had to come back and pull out a miracle win against Oregon State, who just fired their coach two weeks ago. And there was a blowout in the pro game but I won’t report on out because I can’t find stories on who kneeled and who didn’t that don’t contradict each other. And I wouldn’t want to report on that oh-so-important part of the story without being accurate.

Fine. Ready? Off we go with…the links!

Hypocrisy, thy name is Ellen DeGeneris. But in the daytime star’s defense…that’s quite a pair of balloons.

I guess the shit apple doesn’t fall too far from the shit tree, does it Randy? (Pours out a beer for Mr Lahey)  What a fucking scumbag piece of shit.

We need to just tear down the Confederate monuments to end the national conversation. That’s what we were being told by those dumb enough to take these perma-griefers at their word. Except anybody with an ounce of brains knows they’ll never stop until they’ve destroyed everything that runs counter to their chosen narrative.

OK, I gotta give her credit for making a good joke. But it doesn’t sound like the hunger strike is anything to be taken seriously if the commissary receipts show anything. These guys sure as shit ain’t the IRA.

What an amazing amount of butthurt and deflection. But its what I’d expect from Mother Jones.  (Trigger Warning: duh, Mother Jones)

Houston cops bust 140 johns at a whorehouse. One of them a cop. I give the whorehouse credit for serving a diverse clientele though.  The slideshow shows men from all races and ethnicities willing to pay for a little boom-boom.

This song’s title reminds me of the left’s reaction to finding out their own ranks are filled with sexual harassers and guys jacking off into potted plants while starlets watch. But since its such a good song, I quickly overcome that and just rock out.

Have a great weekend. Go Astros! Go Bucks! Fuck Michigan! That is all.

The ball is juiced and the strike zone tends to get bigger and smaller based on the situation. But none of that was able to keep the hard-hitting Astros from coming back to win Game 2 of the World Series last night.  Hoo-boy! That was a doozy of a game.  Now its back home to Minute Maid Park, where the ball will really fly (unless they replace them with, you know, actual baseballs that don’t surprise batters when they leave the field instead of dropping in for lazy pop flies).

Also, football is back tonight as a diversion. Thank God I can watch something boring after those two action-packed baseball games.  Think about the truth in that statement for a minute and then wonder why the NFL’s attendance and viewership is really dropping like a stone.

Right. Let’s do…the links!

So now we’re supposed to believe these things about Vegas:

1. The shooter acted alone
2. He put up security cameras in a Vegas hotel/casino hallway without anyone noticing
3. Nobody else helped him
4. He shot a security guard several minutes before his rampage in a hail of 200 bullets and the police never came upstairs and nobody in a room on the floor opened their door and called the front desk
5. His house was burgled just after the shooting but nothing important was taken
6. And now we are being told that he took his laptop with him into that hotel room but the hard drive is gone.

OK, sure thing.  That all seems legit. Especially since the dude has absolutely none of the signs of a mass shooter and nothing else in the world makes any sense in this thing.  I’m sorry, but this whole thing feels like someone is trying to feed me a pile of horseshit.

The latest hotbed of racism?  Kellogg’s!!!!  America’s cereal manufacturers have always been racist, so this shouldn’t be news.  Those fucks at General Mills have been making fun of the drunken Irish since forever. And their “Kike Flakes” brand with the gold-dust coated flakes was obviously a bad idea in 1934.

The FBI informant that brought you the real Russian collusion scandal has been cleared to testify before the House and Senate committees on the Uranium One “deal”. That ought to fill a few pairs of pants with shit over at the DNC Headquarters, not to mention the Clinton Global Scam and there FBI.

Don’t worry Rosie. I’m sure you’ve got enough fat and bile stored up inside you to labor through it.

What a shitty way to go.

Where do your delicious gummy bears come from? Sugar…and slaves!

Grrrrrrrrl Power!

Enjoy the day, friends.  Banjos gets home in a few more hours from Balmer. So it looks like I’m gonna make it through her trip without going insane.

Well Game 1 is in the books.  Three mistakes made in the entire game. Unfortunately, two of them were made by Dallas Keuchel.  Verlander on the hill tonight for the good guys. Rich Hill up for the bad guys.  Let’s all pray for another game getting done in 2:30.  That part was awesome.

That’s all for sports. The world is going insane so I want to get right into…the links.

What would you expect a bunch of autistic screechers to do on the anniversary of election day? Why, you’d expect them to autistically screech at the sky, of course.  Not sure if they’re officially endorsing President Trump with this action or if the temper tantrum can be considered an in-kind political donation to his 2020 campaign. But I can assure you that a lot of Americans will be looking at this retarded act of petulance and will be leaning a little bit more toward the right after it.

Maybe I should have put this in the sports news.  But it looks like Harvey Weinstein is a Red Wings fan.  Good for him for finding a team and sticking with them even when times are tough for a year. I’m sure this divers…. (reads article) … oh my! Th-, that’s different.  Oh my!

Homeless Advocate who makes $120,000 a year is now about to be homeless. I’m sure she’ll land on her feet. But after 20 years of working with Bay Area homeless people, she can’t afford to stay any more.  Hey, maybe if you can’t get by on $120,000 a year, the rent is too damn high. Try getting the idiots in city hall to stop all the anti-landlord policies and idiotic housing regulations they have in place so maybe people like you can afford to stay.  Oh, and after 20 years of working there with homeless people at a fat salary, you still have $60,000 in student loans? Methinks there’s something else going on here.

Wow. This is a pretty accurate portrayal of how tax money is pissed away in order to get rid of shitty government workers. I hope that writer has a guardian angel, otherwise he might get mugged. And by mugged, I mean killed.

And lastly, I bring you: COLLUSION!!!!!!!!!!!!  I don’t know what else to call it.  A political campaign hires a foreign intelligence agent to work on their behalf to dig up dirt on their opponent and then use that to further their political ambitions.  But that’s not the best worst of it.

After the election, the FBI agreed to pay Steele to continue gathering intelligence about Trump and Russia, but the bureau pulled out of the arrangement after Steele was publicly identified in news reports.

You got that?  The Obama FBI hired a foreign agent to dig up dirt on the president-elect, who Obama openly campaigned against, in an attempt to discredit him.  This coupled with the fact that Obama’s intel agencies and UN Ambassador Susan Rice have admitted to having unmasked several Trump associates for no reason whatsoever and have admitted to having tapped several phones at Trump tower with no named suspect associated with any specific investigation.  This is some serious Nixonian bullshit here. In a sane world, you’d have people hanging from lampposts around the DC metro area as a warning against this kind of perversion of our electoral systems. But instead I’m sure you’ll see justifications in Op-Eds across the nation.

That’s it for the links. As for the musical selection, Banjos is at a conference in Balmer. So this psychedelia is for her. But I hope the rest of you enjoy it. I know I did.

Have a great day. Game 2 tonight…GO ASTROS!!!

Also known as the World Series Game 1 Links. or even the Global Warming World Series Eco-killer Links.  Or whatever else. Just don’t call it the Yankees Latest World Series. Because it is definitely not that, although I think Aaron Judge did strike out while answering a question about who he thinks will win it all.  I believe he was taken aback when the reporter threw him a couple of curveball questions.  But I’m not here to be mean. I’m sure he’s going to have a hell of a career. And I mean that in all sincerity. Dude just needs to learn to his curveballs away and occasionally take something off that swing and hit for average.

Now, it is gonna be hot today in L.A.  They’re expecting it to dip just below 100 for the start.  Tomorrow will bring little relief. And in a series where a few of the absolute best pitchers in baseball will be taking the hill, it will be interesting to see how they are able to maintain.  Let’s hope for a fun start tonight.

And oh yeah, the Wall Street Journal does some solid, and truthful, sports reporting from time to time. I enjoyed that thoroughly.  I hope you do as well. (It opens for me from the tweet, but if it doesn’t for you, copy it and then open in a private window.)

Right, that’s that with sports.  Time for…the links!

Talk about upsetting your narrative. MSNBC gets more yuk-yuks than Saturday Night Live anymore.

This is how modern men become the Unsullied. Except, you know, they probably can’t fight.  Seriously though, if you’re taking this class, you should just go have your dick and balls cut completely off and chucked in the Potomac River.  Then tie a cinder block to your foot and jump in after it.

Hobos about to be kicked to the curb in Bay Area. But the local denizens have so much compassion, they’re demanding our tax dollars be used for a “solution” to the “problem”.  In the immortal words of the Representative from South Carolina “I got a solution. You’re a dick!”  They can use their own money. Or at least the tax money from Californians.

MATT DAMON!!!!! Way to take a brave stand, ass.

I’m sure you’re just as shocked as I am. But its true. Chicago residents will face property tax hikes in 2020 and 2021 to try and fund municipal pension funds.

Chicago taxpayers face yet another property tax increase for police and fire pensions in 2020 — and another hike the following year in the tax tacked onto water and sewer bills to save the Municipal Employees pension fund, aldermen learned on the first day of City Council budget hearings.

Following five-year “ramp-up” periods, the additional increases will be needed to honor the city’s statutory promise to keep all four city government pension funds on the road to 90 percent funding by 2048.

By the city’s own estimate, police and fire pension costs will rise by $297.3 million, or 36 percent, in 2020. The Municipal and Laborers plan costs will grow by $330.4 million, or 50 percent, in 2022.

Well, enjoy being fiscally raped for the foreseeable future, Chicagoans. Because rates rising that sharply this quickly will never, ever be shored up.  This is what happens when your one-party ruled city lets pubsec unions fund campaigns and then sit across the bargaining table from the people whose campaigns they funded.  You have two viable solutions: bankruptcy with the legacy costs being discharged. The other involves nuclear bombardment from a space platform.  I wish you luck.

LOL How could she ever have thought this was a good idea?

They better not start calling this cultural appropriation or I’m gonna fucking lose it.

Have a safe trip, Banjos.  See you in a couple days. I’ll try not to let the house go completely to shit. The rest of you…pray for me.

Lewis Hamilton won the USGP in Austin (sort of), Texas. He’s close to locking down a World Championship. Bummer that he’s such an unlikeable bastard. A bunch of other shit happened over the weekend in hockey and other stuff. The Longhorns lost in OT when their QB inexplicably tossed the ball to a defensive back rather than throwing it away and kicking a FG. Alabama throttled Tennessee in what should in a sane world be Butch Jones’s last game.  Penn State, as expected by every sane and sober adult in America, annihilated Michigan, exposing Jim Harbaugh as…mediocre? subpar? a bigmouth prick who should spend more time finding a QB and less time finding a Pontiff?  You decide. The battle for the Big Ten East starts this Saturday afternoon in Columbus as the Nittany Lions come visit the Buckeyes in a redemption game.  Miami won, Wisconsin won, Oklahoma (barely) won, Notre Dame pummeled USC and exposed Sam Darnold as pedestrian. A bunch of other games happened on the gridiron that I’m sure you will discuss in the comments section.  Some of it played yesterday, even.

And then we come to the American League Championship Series. I mean, I don’t even know what to say. I was shit-talking like crazy after games 1 and 2, chest all puffed out and sure the series was gonna be a romp like Boston was.  Then the tide turned and by Thursday morning, the Yankees fans on here were strutting around like the cock of the walk. The Astros bats went cold and the Yankees heated up at home in the Bronx.  I’ll admit, I was pretty sure the Astros had blown it.  But then came Friday and a comfortable win.  And then came Saturday, where all hands were expected to be on deck in the bullpen just to hang on against CC Sabathia, one of the most clutch pitchers out there and a man who had gone 10-0 following a Yankees loss this season.  Well, the Astros only needed a pair of pitchers, who were lights out. Hell, Morton and McCullers each only threw 54 pitches in five and four innings respectively. Their breaking stuff was filthy and the defense behind them made plays when needed (especially the laser beam Bregman threw to get Bird out at the plate. Anyway, lots of fun was had by all in Bayou City this weekend. And now we wait until tomorrow night for the World Series to start. Hopefully they’ll beat the Dodgers. And the way our pitching staff lines up, I’d expect to head home with at least one win from the two games in Chavez Ravine. Stay Tuned.

Whew! I got excited just writing that stream-of-consciousness intro to the day’s festivities.  Which can mean only one thing: time for…the links!

People on both sides of the pond are shitting their pants about the insane, right-wing nutball 31-year old elected to run Austria.  The dude is a train wreck! Oh wait. You mean he actually comes across as a sober*, reasonable man who plans to shrink the government footprint, lower taxes and distance his nation from the meddlesome twats in Brussels? Oh no! Whatever will they do to stop the madness?

*Preemptively addressing the “you know who else was a sober Austrian leader” comments.

The Mueller witch hunt takes a left turn. I’m ok with the foreign agent registration process, but I still think witch hunts like these are not a good thing.

The Kate Steinle murder trial is getting ready to start up. And the judge is warning both sides to stick to the facts. I assume his request of the jurors won’t keep Twitter from exploding. I’m grabbing my popcorn.

Hey look! Some good news involving the FBI. Actually, the rest of the article is horrifying if at least the encryption piece makes me smile.  These fuckers want access to anything and everything whenever they feel like it and expect to demand the Trump WH and GOP-led Congress give it to them.  Let’s hope Rand Paul explains to his new friend President Trump how that is a bad thing for liberty. God knows Obama and Bush didn’t listen

The 21st Century’s PT Barnum has found a few more suckers to extract cash from. Of course its between Baltimore and D.C.

Kim Jong Un’s half-brother’s death eight months ago in Malaysia still a mystery.  Yeah, no shit.

Bubble gum pop can be excellent.

Have a great day and a great start to another week…even Yankees fans.

How in the fuck does a bullpen shit the bed like that? How? HOW?!?!  The Yankees knotted the ALCS at 2 games a piece after getting to the Astros bullpen. Hopefully they can right the ship and start hitting like they did against Boston, otherwise that 2-0 lead they had will turn into a nightmarish finish to their season.

Elsewhere, the Dodgers put a stranglehold on their series with the Cubs, taking a 3-0 lead and getting one step away from the World Series trip they’ve been desperate for in L.A. (The Anaheim series doesn’t count, sorry Angels fans).  My guess is that they pull out the brooms tonight at Wrigley and send the defending champs out with a thud.

The NBA started their season last night and somebody from the Celtics got hurt and they lost to the socially-conscious LeBrons.  Meanwhile, the Rockets brought their own pyrotechnics to Oakland and torched the Warriors (by 1 point). The Warriors are in last place in the Western Conference. The Maple Leafs continue to impress in hockey after blanking the Caps. Pens won. Preds won. Hurricanes won and Vegas (Strong!) beat Buffalo.

[We Interrupt this Broadcast — Brett L  here — Sloopy had to deal with a car problem, so I’m providing links!}

And now… the links!

GA Supreme Court — full of Republican appointees — holds that the Georgia Constitution means what it says, and that compelled breathalyzers violate that.

It looks like the found the Mandalay Bay security guard. He was hiding in plain site on Ellen!

Hillary defends NFL kneelers, because anything he opposes, she supports.

White male privilege: Too much exercise will kill you!

At least you still have Lou Reed!

Well the Yankees played Game 3 of the ALCS last night. The Astros were nowhere to be found.  Also, the ball is juiced when a one-handed slap at a knee-high pitch becomes a 400 foot home run. No complaints, as they all play with the same balls. But come on, MLB. Just admit you’re juicing the ball after all of the pitcher dominance so far in the two championship series. We’ll all feel a little less dirty knowing the truth. Game 4 is this afternoon while the NLCS resumes in the Windy City in the nightcap at 8 pm.

Champions League resumes today and there are a handful of incredible matches. Real plays Tottenham. Man Shitty takes on Naples. Liverpool faces Maribor. And Monaco heads to Besiktas.  Some important stuff there in the grand scheme of their groups.  Those of you who are fortunate enough to get it on TV, enjoy.

The Wings fell to the Lightning last night in the only game on the NHL slate.  And that’s it for sports.

Which bring us to…drumroll please…the links!

Kaiser Soze Jesus Campos seems to have just disappeared. The security guard shot during, six minutes before the Las Vegas mass shooting that killed over 500 people was about to meet with several news outlets to tell his story. He was a no-show and told his union rep he was going to a walk-in clinic because he didn’t feel well.  That was a few days ago and now he’s….simply gone.  Meanwhile, the alleged shooter’s home was broken into during the investigation. But the cops assure us there’s nothing missing. And all the footage of the shooter in and around Vegas has not been released but we’re being assured he acted alone.

Yeah, all that adds up and there’s no reason at all to question any of it.  It’s just the perfectly normal mass-shooter narrative you read about a retired multimillionaire private pilot son of a man on the FBI’s Most Wanted list with no known political background, no known history of mental illness, a casual life of relaxation and comped rooms at big time Vegas casinos and a relatively successful gambler. Coupled with the only real witness disappearing completely, nobody reacting to the hail of 200+ bullets being fired down the hotel hallway, nobody noticing security cameras setup outside a room, nobody reacting on the floor whatsoever and the police taking more than an hour to even approach the room after the shooting ended. NOTHING. TO. SEE. HERE.

College cheerleaders take knee in protest. Now they say they’re the target of threats. Hey, dumbasses, that’s what can happen when you protest conventional practices and enshrined systems.

Comments on posts linking to an article about the Saluki cheerleeders’ protest in the SIUC student newspaper, The Daily Egyptian, included death and rape threats, they said.

and

Benjamin Newman, director of the SIU Department Public Safety and chief of police, said in a statement that the department began an investigation of the reported threats as soon as it learned of them.

“Investigators met individually with students reporting the threats and reviewed a number of social media accounts. The investigation found that none of the members of the squad were the subject of direct threats, and no other credible threats have been identified,” Newman said.

Well so much for that narrative.

Florida Governor Skeletor Rick Scott gives unwarranted attention to asshole: guarantees shitshow will ensue.

Oh, for the love of God. Is this how weak and pussified we’ve become as a society, or is it just California?  Hopefully its just California but I doubt it.

In other NOTHING. TO SEE.HERE. MOVE ALONG. news.  Yeah, this is totally legit. And totally surprising. I’m sure it was a coincidence and had to do with the city’s image and basic sanitation. No way is there anything remotely nefarious going on.

Can some of our Windy City Glibs give us a little insight into this one please?!?!?!

::smdh::

Captured battlefield hero dishonorable asshole pleads guilty for deserting his post and putting his brothers in peril. Boy, Obama managed to skate on the criticism associated with that deal. What did it cost us again? 8 Taliban fighters who have returned to the battlefield? All so he could get a photo-op with the guy he hailed but who commanders had been warning him was a traitorous piece of shit? Stay consistent, media watchdogs.

And last but not least, I guess these guys are such fans of slavery, they want to bring it back. Well they can’t fucking have my kids, I can tell you that.

Far out, man. Yeah, this is a lot deeper than normal. I hope you enjoy it (some of you for the first time).

When the world gives you lemons, build a slingshot and chuck them back. Unless you like lemons. Or have sugar. You know what? Do whatever the fuck you want with them. Who am I to tell you what to do anyway.

 

I’ve avoided the NFL like the plague on these (virtual) pages for the last few weeks. But I gotta say that Aaron Rodgers injury is killing my FFL team to death. Oh, and just in case you needed a good, hearty belly laugh this morning… Hey dummy, you can’t voluntarily terminate a contract, badmouth your prior employers and their customers, ask them to bring you back at a salary not commensurate with your skill level relative to the market, and then say they’re conspiring to not hire you when it all blows up in your face. Sorry, chump but it doesn’t work that way.

In real football, we had a crazy weekend of action. And it all started on Friday night as Clemson fell to lowly Syracuse.  And later in the evening, Playa Manhattan’s mighty Cal bears demolished Clemson’s top 10 brethren WSU Cougars. The score of that was 37-3 in case you still don’t have internet, Playa. Well that was just Friday. Saturday brought more top 10 losses as Auburn, who isn’t really very good anyway and is only ranked that high because of hype, went down to the same LSU team that had just lost to Troy a couple weeks ago. And then late in the evening, Washington went into Tempe and lost a nail-biter to Arizona State. TTUN needed overtime to beat Indiana and Penn State looms large for the Wolverines.  I predict these Wolverines will go out more like the Jennifer Grey character than the Lea Thompson character from the movie. Anyway, Alabama rolled, Georgia and TCU looked fine, Wisconsin was adequate, Miama squeaked out a win over Georgia Tech with a circus fourth-down catch and a monsoon that killed the Jackets option game. Oklahoma held on against Texas in the Red River game and Ohio State beat Nebraska so bad they’ll likely fire their coach this week.  The loss wasn’t as bad as last year’s beatdown, but it was the worst home conference loss the corn shuckers have ever endured. And going back to last year’s game through the late fourth quarter, Ohio State scored on 18 consecutive possessions. And 15 of the scores were touchdowns. How the mighty corn shuckers have fallen.

And in other parts of the world, Man City looks unstoppable, ManUre is too cowardly to play offense and draws Liverpool. Chelsea fall to Crystal Palace (who saw that coming?), Real won while Athletico drew with Barcelona. And Bayern cruised again. Plus Roger Federer continued his recent dominance of Rafael Nadal in Shanghai with his fifth straight win over the Spaniard.

And then we come to baseball.  The Dodgers keep putting the thumbscrews to the Cubs by getting to their bullpen. Meanwhile, Joe Maddon’s boys have no answer for the arms of the Angelenos and find themselves in a two game hole heading back to the Windy City.  They better get some hats for bats if they’re gonna get this thing turned around.  And the same can be said for the Yankees, who likewise are down a pair against the mighty ASTROS!!! in the ALCS. They resume play tonight in the Bronx and will send CC Sabathia to the hill to face Charlie Morton in what has to be considered a must-win game for the pinstripes. Here’s hoping they don’t get it.

Aaaaaand that’s a wrap for sports.  Now back to our regularly scheduled program…the links!

European globalism gets a swift kick in the nuts. Sorry Brussels, they got tired of paying and paying and paying and having no more control over their national economic and immigration policy. Expect the dominos to keep falling with the Czech elections looming.

Sorry activist judges, maybe Trump knows how the constitutional separation of powers works after all. Let me go fetch my tear bucket. I’m gonna need it.

Just your typical weekend in a very gun-restricted city. But that’s like local news, man. Plus Indiana sells to anybody (untrue)! Plus bump-stocks! Plus greedy manufacturers! Plus capitalism. Plus TRUMPNAZI!!!!!!! Anything but personal responsibility and a complete breakdown in the family structure. Because those are foreign concepts to the progressive shitheads running the place.

The distances some people will go to… For real, dude. That’s cold.

The naïveté from NPR is hilariously sad. Yeah, its sure a surprise when a repressive socialist regime sweeps to an election victory. If you’ve been living in a box for the last 70 years maybe.

Remember when Trump said we should let the Iraqis and (mostly) the Russians and Syrians take care of ISIS and the warmongers from Hillary Clinton to John McCain’s brain tumor to Lindsey Graham said that was insane and stupid? Well, it seems to have worked out pretty freaking well. And yes, we did lose a couple soldiers over there, one of which was a very close friend and groomsman for my nephew. But the losses would have been much greater if we’d have listened to those dumbs hits and now we’d be on the hook for reconstructing that wasteland. As an aside, I suppose all those refugees can start heading back from Europe pretty soon. I’m sure they’ll all be happy to head home so they can rebuild their towns and cities back to the bustling centers of industry they were such a short time ago.

This is where we live.

Have a great start to the week, friends.