Category: Daily Links

Minimal sports updates. The Rangers won. The Crapitals beat the woeful Coyotes in OT, The Maple Leafs beat Army Las Vegas. The Bruins went wild over Minnesoda. J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets! top Dallas. And Detroit tops the Canucks.

A bunch of former players think thy have what it takes to run the USSF. Hey, anybody would be an improvement over Gulati.  The knives are coming out at Arsenal, which means it must be November. West Ham hire retread David Moyes to save them from relegation. If they fail, he will face the last team he couldn’t keep from dropping down. Hell, they might pass each other as Sunderland come up and the Hammers face the drop.

That’s literally all I can muster the strength to comment on in this ever-so-slow time of the year.  Thank God the international break is coming up this week so we can report on games of real consequence.

That’s all for the stick and ball stuff. Now…the links!

The laws in place to keep assholes like the Texas church shooter from getting a gun were in place. But the Air Force shit the bed. There is no other explanation. But the lefties are still climbing on piles of bodies saying we need to close “loopholes” because he could have used them to get guns if, you know, he hadn’t have gotten them due to a government fuckup.  So just so we are on the same page: the government fucked up and this guy’s name was not put on the disqualifying list. The left wants the government to figure out a way for him not to get a gun even though the law was in place but they failed to properly implement it. Seems legit.

Crazy man goes to D.C. to “kill All white POLICE” at the White House.

A Facebook profile that appears to be Arega’s shows him “checked in” at the White House on Monday, and also includes posts with statements such as: “Now i am going to there to white House make sure kill All white POLICE !!,” “I remove the power of darkenes [sic] from USA in the powerful name of Jesus Christ !!,” and “Put Him on Jail Donald J Trump in Maighty Name of JESUS CHRRIST !!”

Well one thing is for sure: he wasn’t traveling there to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

I smell a sitcom!!!!!!! He could room with Harvey and it could be like the Odd Couple. Harvey can be the slob who rapes women and girls while Spacey is the neat-freak who rapes boys. Can I get Casey Affleck over here to direct and we can get the dude from Amazon to produce it.  This is gold, Jerry. Gold!

More about hero first responders. No, seriously. These are hero first responders. God bless them for saving so many lives.

House panel approves tax plan after some changes are made. See how it affects you in the story. The Democrats on the panel say it’ll be a killer for people regardless of any changes proposed or adopted. The GOP members said it will be a boon to the economy for people to keep more of what they earn. And yes, that includes a lot of rich people. The odds are still 50/50 this passes, in my opinion. But we shall see int he coming weeks.

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. But the solution is government, government, government! Heaven forbid you let people do what they want with their own property and let the hobos migrate somewhere else where the wealthy aren’t being soaked for idiotic freebie services while people are still literally shitting in the streets.

We have enough women drivers in the Houston area. And now the state is unleashing THIS on us? There will be carnage.

All this talk about guns lately. Well here is some more.

Good luck out there today. I hope the world treats y’all well.

Man, what a not-so-great Monday. Neither the 2 year old nor the almost 4 year old give a fuck about time zones or clocks. They just get up when they get up. 4:49 am today. Luckily I was asleep at 9:15 because it had already been dark for 3 hours. And screw technology. On the good side, I’ve got a pork roast in the oven that is going to be off the chain for dinner tonight.

In case nuclear fusion wasn’t a significantly unrealistic form of near future energy, meet quark fusion.

Here’s a Florida Man flagrantly violating airport security.

I think this is exactly the sort of scandal that got a British admiral hanged, and from which Voltaire’s “pour encourager les autres” was drawn. Let’s try it.

T. Rex arms get a rehabilitation.

For our Candiaish contingent.

I don’t make the parade for the Astros on Friday because I was working. But I hear 1.6 million people had a good time with zero rioting.  Well done “most diverse city in America”.  You made me proud.  Which is more than I can say about my Buckeyes, who laid a gigantic, stinking egg against Iowa.  Everybody else that was supposed to win did (except Penn State). Seriously, what the fucking fuck?

Soccer in Europe went mostly according to script with the exception of ManU(re) losing at Chelski.  Man City are about to run away with the EPL and we’re not even to Thanksgiving yet.  In my opinion, everybody else is already playing for second place. College basketball started with some exhibition games over the weekend. The real season is just around the corner. The NBA still won’t exist to me until the spring. And in hockey news, Detroit won, the Islanders topped the Avs, The Canadiens blanked the Blackhawks, and the Flames took down the Devils in a shootout.

I know y’all want to talk about real news instead of sports, so let’s jump right into…the links!

I know a lot of you hate twitter, but I’m still gonna start the links with a little levity from there.

Prominent Democrat Party operative goes off her meds. Party circles wagons, sharpens knives.

Man described by acquaintances as a socialist went all WWF Hulk Hogan on Sen Rand Paul over the weekend. The physical assault broke five of the Senator’s ribs and left him pretty scuffed up.  The left rejoiced in the humor of it for a good day or so until…

…a wife- and child-beating piece of shit opened fire on a Texas church, killing 26 and seriously injuring 20 others until a good guy with a gun chased him away and then chased him down. He was dead when the cops got there, and they’re not sure if he killed himself or if his good guy with a gun pursuer wasted him.  I guess we’ll find out that soon enough. But either way, this is just sickening.  I hope that asshole is burning in hell now and for all of eternity.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the efficiency and customer service of the United States Postal Service. Seems to me their position can be summed up as the following: “we’ll get it done when we get it done.”

There’s really no good news coming out of the Hollywood sexual assault and harassment scandal that is enveloping the entire media industry.  I mean, if there was a silver lining, this might be it. But still, the bad so far outweighs the schadenfreude that I can barely elicit a chuckle at that sexist, homophobic child-berating buffoon disappearing from the tweets for a while.

I know personal responsibility is out of fashion and collectivizing guilt in en vogue right now. But this is getting fucking ridiculous. Suicide being blamed on a school? How about “no, that’s a frivolous case and you can fuck off.”

While the baseball fans were enjoying the parade, A bunch of bikers descended on Galveston. Some of them wearing scanty clothes. Some of them should not have been.

There will be horns in the musical selections this week.

Hope you get the week off on the right foot.

STEVE SMITH OFTEN GET ASKED ABOUT FAMILY. FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE ASK IF YETI OR BIGFOOT IS RELATIVE. YETIS MIGHT BE DISTANT COUSINS, BUT FAMILY NO TALK ABOUT THEM….OLD ARGUMENT THAT STEVE SMITH NOT KNOW WHEN STARTED. BIGFOOT…HE NOT REAL, SILLY PEOPLE! STEVE SMITH REAL! AND DON’T GET STEVE SMITH STARTED ON “SASQUATCH”…STEVE SMITH DID LOOK UP FAMILY TREE AND SEE ONE BRANCH OF FAMILY IN SOUTH AMERICA:

BUT STEVE SMITH DO HAVE ONE RELATIVE WHO LIVE NEARBY:

STEVE SMITH LET COUSIN SEA SMITH DO LINKS FOR FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE:

SEA SMITH GLAD TO SEE YOU. HOW YOU TELL? HE RAPE ALL OF YOU! HA HA. BUT SERIOUSLY, SEA SMITH USUALLY RAPE FISHING BOAT CREWS – DEADLIEST CATCH…MORE LIKE RAPIEST CATCH! OR SEA SMITH MAKE DO WITH RAPING SEALS, SEA LIONS OR STRAY CRUISE SHIP PASSENGERS (COME TO LOOK AT THE GLACIERS, STAY FOR THE SEA RAPE!). SO, THAT A BIT ABOUT SEA SMITH.

AND NOW SEA SMITH GLAD TO HELP COUSIN STEVE SMITH OUT. HE SAY YOU LIKE LINKS, SO SEA SMITH GIVE YOU LINKS AND SAY COME ON IN, WATER IS FINE! FINE FOR RAPE.

• WHAT KIND OF PIRATES NO RAPE CAPTIVES?! BAD PIRATES, THAT WHO.
• PIRATES, YOU SAY?
• SEA SMITH THINK THEY NO HIT ROADS.
• SEA SMITH WONDER WHO ELSE STRENGTHEN BONDS WITH JAPAN?

SEA SMITH SEE YOU AROUND!

Those are the headlines, now the rumors behind the news.

Rand Paul gets his clock cleaned, assailant gets bailed out. What we learned: Paul mows his own lawn. This makes him a better human being than about 99 other senators.

Manafort offers a small fortune to be allowed to escape overseas, where he likely has a large fortune stashed. Not that I’m cynical… OK, I am, but as my unicorn SP likes to say, “Just because you’re cynical doesn’t mean you’re wrong.”

One of the Pirates of the Caribbean seems to have yo-ho-hoed more than just a bottle of rum.

I’m second to no-one in my contempt for Trump, but I have similar contempt for his predecessors. Bad enough that Obama won’t do the decent thing and go away, but jesus fucking christ, the ass-grabbing Cop-A-Feel Bush needs to join him. And his clueless son as well.

Thicc alert!!!!!

More Old Guy music, in this case, a wonderful cover of my favorite Magnetic Fields tune, played by one of the most interesting musicians I’ve ever met.

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. RECALL THAT ZARDOZ PREVIOUSLY SPOKE TO HIS CHOSEN ONES OF THEIR “COSTUMES” FOR THE BRUTAL CELEBRATION OF “HALLOWEEN”. ZARDOZ WAS MADE AWARE OF THIS BRUTAL CELEBRANT FAMILY’S “COSTUMES”:

THE BRUTAL FAMILY SHOWS ZARDOZ THE PROPER DEFERENCE, AND THUS HAVE BEEN RAISED FROM BRUTALITY. ALL BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS ARE TO LEAVE THEM ALONE. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

AND FOR HIS CHOSEN ONES HERE….ZARODZ GIVES YOU THE GIFT OF THE LINK. GO FORTH AND COMMENT! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

• ZARDOZ IS UNSURE IF THIS IS RELATED TO GLIBERTARIAN EDIT FAIRY.
• PERHAPS THIS BRUTAL COULD IMPROVE HIS SWORD SKILLS A BIT AND JOIN THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS?
• THIS FAT BRUTAL SHOULD BE ENSLAVED TO GROW GRAIN FOR THE VORTEX.
• WHO IS THAT BRUTAL?

It’s a beautiful crisp fall day out, so instead of getting exercise and fresh air, you should try to maintain your pallor and paunch by staying in and commenting on these gems of news stories.

First up, a claque of civil servants, rent seekers, and true believers issued a “scientific” report confirming that Global Warming is HUGE and totally the fault of humans. Of course, they expected to have it suppressed, and seemed somewhat disappointed that this didn’t happen. It’s tough to prepare for martyrhood and then the vest-bomb turns out to be a dud. Now, how can we know that the report is bullshit?

“This new report simply confirms what we already knew. Human-caused climate change isn’t just a theory, it’s reality,” said Michael E. Mann, a professor of atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University. “Whether we’re talking about unprecedented heat waves, increasingly destructive hurricanes, epic drought and inundation of our coastal cities, the impacts of climate change are no longer subtle. They are upon us. That’s the consensus of our best scientists, as laid bare by this latest report.”

There you go. Michael Mann confirms it. And also demonstrates that he doesn’t know the difference between a hypothesis and a theory. Someone gave him a Ph.D.? I actually read this trainwreck, and it boils (pun!) down to a combination of selective data picking and argumentum ad ignorantiam. Just what we expect from our government.

In sports news, when Draymond Green isn’t busy kicking other players in the nuts, he’s showing off his remarkable ignorance, feigning indignation that the owners of teams are called… owners. Here’s a delightful takedown by Mark Cuban, who every now and then actually says something coherent.

“Draymond can trash-talk on the court, but when he comes into our world, it doesn’t fly. … I guess it’s because he went to Michigan State and didn’t take any business classes, but you own equity. When you own a team, you own equity, shares of stock. That’s called ownership. Tell him if he wants to take classes at Indiana’s business school, I’ll even pay for his classes and we’ll help him learn that stuff.”

Ouch, that’s gonna leave a mark.

Speaking of which, the owner of Papa John’s continues to maintain that the drop in sales is due to NFL player protests, and that he may pull his sponsorship. The idea that his product sucks doesn’t enter into his calculus. But hey, if this means less of that annoying doofus Peyton Manning on TV (he rivals Hillary in his refusal to go away), I’m all for it.

With the House GOP tax “reform” proposal out, the lobbying begins. I have to declare a conflict-of-interest: this proposal will nearly double my federal tax burden. Given who’s lobbying, that part is likely to stay and the parts with actual campaign money behind the opposition will go. Ah, politics. Well, I understand that cardboard boxes make great shelter, so I’m already shopping for one.

And the obligatory Old Guys Music. This was punk long before punk, and truly one of the best American bands that birthed modern rock. They’re not unknown, but should be known much better than they are. Roky was a god.

Man is it afternoon links time already? Damn. Today has just flown by. It must be all those meetings. Nobody told 25 year old me (or even 30 year old me) that as you move up the ladder, you’re still responsible for your weekly output as well as 15-20 hours of meetings a week. I thought those meetings would count towards my output. Oh well. I don’t have to stay late or work over the weekend so let the fun begin!

Damn, bro. Your lawyer should charge you triple for being a dumbass. Shut the fuck up, go your ass to jail, and give your lawyer a chance.

Global Warming — good for the Ozone Hole. And crops, and not freezing to death.

For you TSLA shorts, if the market were rational, you’d make a killing. Don’t lose your ass thinking it will finally go rational. Of course, if the market were rational, the opportunity for such a huge short wouldn’t exist.

It sure is nice to have visitors, part time residents, and renters carry 1/3rd of my tax burden.

Donna Brazile must know there’s a note in her own handwriting saying something like, “Hillary, of course I’ll rig things to get you elected. — Donna”.  But right now, I’m really enjoying one of the least competent politicians in America getting pilloried by her former allies.

A little friday pop groove.

Houston prepares for their World Series parade today. Deshaun Watson will probably come watch with a pair of crutches.  Poor guy.  On a positive note, I don’t think riot police will be necessary. We’re civilized here. I’m not pointing fingers. I’m just making an observation.

The NBA is still playing games. I’ll let you know how that’s all working out when the playoffs get here.  Busy slate on the ice last night. Bruins topped the … who is that, Army?  Oh yeah its Vegas.  I hate that name for them. Its horrible. Oh well, I’m not in marketing for them so my opinion means jack. The Crapitals topped the Islanders. Ottawa beat Detroit. The rangers shorted out the Lightning. The Flyers gave St Louis the Blues. The Blue Jackets are fired up as they drill the Panthers. The Winnipeg Jets handled the Dallas Stars. The Flames extinguished the Penguins. Colorado beat Carolina. The LA Kings defeated the Maple Leafs. And the Minnesota Wild sent those frogs back to Montreal with a loss.

Across the pond, Arsenal drew and Everton, in what is a recurring theme, got their taints handed to them in the Europa League competition. They don’t get some points from their upcoming clashes with Watford and Crystal Palace, they can kiss the baby on this season. Hell, they might start checking out to see how the Championship patch looks on their 2018-2019 uniform (I ain’t calling it a kit, sorry).

That’s all for sports today. These days are going to be lean for a while unless we can come up with something meaningful. But college basketball isn’t too far off. We can make it.  Of course I could always fill it with more of…the links!

Sorry. Not sorry. Canadian government gives $100,000 to a woman whose mother was deliberately tortured by them for an extended period of time under the MKUltra program.  Compare that to the US system giving dumbasses 20 times that for spilling coffee in their own lap and other dumb shit and it makes you wonder how compassionate Trudeau and his government really is.

Somebody over at the DNC and maybe George Soros himself needs to tell Dem operatives to shut the fuck up.  Because all they’re doing by airing their dirty laundry is exposing how they literally colluded with a foreign government’s agents to influence the 2016 election. Which they’ve been maintaining is somehow illegal. I don’t agree with that, but they don’t want a Special Prosecutor (read: Supreme Inquisitor) snooping around in their business lest the real shenanigans with their Pakistani spy IT staff or their pay for play scams enriching their foundation while the State dept doles out access and favors come out.  Somebody is about to get Seth Rich’d here soon. Then all this gum-flapping will come to a halt. Wait and see.

Liberals further humiliate themselves. I’m fine with them wanting to take their business elsewhere after the President of Papa John’s said the NFL protests were hurting business. But to sink so low that you’d be touting Little Caesars?  That’s pretty bad.  I sure hope they don’t find any details about Mike Illitch, RIP, being pro-life or something. I’d hate to see them praising the quality that is CiCis next.

“I guess trying to find a non-racist pizza is our new world, everyone,” model and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen tweeted on Thursday.

In Teigen’s replies, one chain shows up again and again: Little Caesars.

“Little Caesar’s founder Mike Ilitch quietly paid Rosa Parks’ rent,” a Twitter user wrote, with a claim that showed up several times.

While unlike other pizza brands, Little Caesars has not responded to Schnatter’s statements, it’s reaping the benefits of the boycott threats.

Dozens of people have taken to social media to praise Mike Ilitch as an example of what a pizza chain founder should be — in contrast to their criticism of Papa John’s founder Schnatter.

I don’t even know where to begin dissecting that mishmash of retarded-ass shit. But credit where its due: at least they didn’t praise some abomination of deep dish and call it pizza.

I’ll repost the headline exactly, because I don’t know what else to say here:  No bond for man who shot himself in penis while robbing hot dog stand. OK then.

Yeah, if they tried pulling this shit at my son’s school, I’d probably burn it to the ground. Or I’d complain peacefully while removing him. But I would seriously be outraged.

Yeah, this makes fucking sense. Just to be clear, the student darkened her skin with makeup to look like a black character from a movie, which is so racist as to warrant the action.

The black character she was portraying with her Halloween costume was from a movie whose plot revolved around two black FBI agents using makeup so they can pass themselves off as a pair of white women, which is perfectly ok.  Ain’t having double-standards grand?  I eagerly await the lawsuits over this.

And just in case you haven’t noticed, there’s a plague in Madagascar. Like a serious, no-bullshit, deadly plague that’s spreading rather quickly.  Damn. That’s bad.

80s weeks always have to include these guys.

Have a great day. And a better night. And an even better weekend.