It was one thing to defend the American Nazi Party’s right to march in Skokie, Ill. in 1977, when the liberal establishment and mainstream media were still intact and American Nazi Party was a marginal fringe group. The group was offensive, but neither its actions nor its ideas posed a threat to the political or social order, which was stable. The situation is different today, with an erratic President Trump in the White House, elites in disarray and white nationalism on the rise. In this situation, and against this foe, it may be worth remembering that our constitutional rights are not unchanging abstract principles,
Russians and crypto-nazis and tensions on the Korean Peninsula and new ICBMs? If we’re going to live the 50’s over again, can we at least get the rocket-cone bras back?
I say, pshaw! I once worked for a guy who had implemented a pretty accurate chemical process simulation software in Excel. Now that was a fucking spreadsheet.
*Given how actual fascism works, I understand that every German company now that was a German company then was a collaborator of lesser or greater extent.
While the sun and moon were doing their dance across (white) America, there was some baseball being played. And while it may have been unsafe or unwise to look directly at the eclipse, because not a single person ever looked directly at the sun until Trump did for a second the other day, I asked at least a dozen people who were directly in the path if they snuck a glance and every single one of them said yes. Oh well, social signalers gotta social signal.
Anyway, the sports ball! The Twins and the White Sox split a double-bill. The Orioles won. The Indians walked off the Red Sox on a little league play. And that’s pretty much it. The Browns improve to 2-0 in preseason games after beating the Giants. OBJ left with an ankle sprain. And across the pond, Everton and Man Shitty played to a 1-1 draw. Oh, and the McGregor-Mayweather hype machine is kicking into high gear in anticipation of the fight of the century lopsided beatdown that’s inevitably coming.
Alright, lets talk some serious business. And the place to do that is…the links!
Trump announces recommitment to Afghan conflict “as long as we see determination and progress” from the Afghan government. No plans were released as to the number of troops, but Trump did say he will demand cooperation from the Afghans and other regional “allies” if we are to continue investing blood and treasure in the 16 year war. Shit. I had hoped he’d just pull the plug, as he alluded to during the campaign. Cue up the anti-war protests getting ready to find their principles again. (Except Cindy Sheehan. That lady has been doing her thing through both the last admins, so kudos to her for being genuine and sincere in her protests.)
This doesn’t look like a cyber crime
The US Navy is concerned about cyber threats in the wake of recent collisions. Hey, I’m no genius, but unless those standing watch are hooked to VR headsets, there ain’t anything “cyber” that would keep them from spotting a freaking supertanker that’s lit up like Christmas.
Its pretty damn sad when newspapers have to write op-eds defending the position that a statue of Christopher Columbus be left up. Pretty damn sad indeed, in an age when people should be able to walk past an inanimate object that never caused them a moment’s distress, that we are being forced to have this conversation. Even worse is that we are being forced to do so because a group of national socialists and a group of international socialists can’t keep from being assholes. Well, for that reason and because our retarded-ass media are covering aforementioned groups off assholes like they represent half of the country.
THE GOVERNMENT MUST DO SOMETHING OR WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE A SLOW, PAINLESS DEATH!!!!! Well, that could be the alternate headline in a sane universe. But its not. The article is full of hand-wringing at how previous environmental building regulations have led to urban sprawl, which is now leading to increased vehicular emissions. And the guys to solve that can be no other than the guys that caused it to begin with. (Yeah, I know. These bootlickers just gotta appeal to authority because who better to manage their lives than unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats.)
A pair of idiots
The sharks are circling. And it won’t just be Debbie Wasserman-Schultz that gets caught up in the feeding frenzy. Every single person involved in their hiring and retention of the Awan brothers, even after it was known they “lost” quite a bit of equipment, is gonna face the music. Most media outlets, namely those who are afraid democracy will die in darkness and a self-proclaimed “paper of record” seem unimpressed with the story. But I have confidence our tweeter-in-chief will make sure it doesn’t get overlooked elsewhere.
(Speaking of Democracy Dying In Darkness, I’m shocked they didn’t have a picture of Trump right under those words as the eclipse reached its local apex. That would have been a Pulitzer-worthy bit of virtue signaling. And they blew it. Although I have a feeling they may get their chance at the next eclipse in 2023.
A Houston man has been charged with trying to plant explosives at the statue of Confederate officer Richard Dowling in Hermann Park, federal officials said Monday.
Andrew Schneck, 25, who was released from probation early last year after being convicted in 2015 of storing explosives, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in federal court, Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez said in a statement Monday.
Schneck was arrested Saturday night after a Houston park ranger spotted him kneeling in bushes in front of the Dowling monument in the park, Martinez said.
When confronted Saturday night in the park, he tried to drink some of the liquid explosives but spit it out, officials said.
The ranger then asked if he planned to harm the statute, and he said he did because he did not “like that guy,” according to a sworn statement submitted in federal court by an FBI agent investigating the case.
One of two teenagers charged with repeatedly stabbing a classmate to impress a fictitious horror character called Slender Man has decided to plead guilty to a lesser charge.
Fifteen-year-old Anissa Weier pleaded guilty Monday to attempted second-degree homicide as a party to a crime, with use of a deadly weapon.
With little process to speak of, tensions over policy swelled. Ideological differences devolved into caustic personality clashes. Perhaps nowhere was the mutual disgust thicker than between Mr. Bannon and Mr. Trump’s daughter and son-in-law.
Mr. Bannon openly complained to White House colleagues that he resented how Ms. Trump would try to undo some of the major policy initiatives that he and Mr. Trump agreed were important to the president’s economic nationalist agenda, like withdrawing from the Paris climate accords. In this sense, he was relieved when Mr. Kelly took over and put in place a structure that kept other aides from freelancing.
“Those days are over when Ivanka can run in and lay her head on the desk and cry,” he told multiple people.
That’s it. That’s all you animals get. Be happy. (Personally, I blame the eclipse.)
UPDATE: Swiss Servator here – I was supposed to fill in on Links duty. I failed. No fondue ration for me for a week.
An interesting weekend, wouldn’t you say? Nah, you guys are too geared up for the eclipse. Well hold your horses, its coming one way or the other. But I’m gonna touch on sports real quick.
Of course, the Astros had a good little run going but lost yesterday. The Dodgers lost. Seriously, they aren’t invincible. Well, we all knew that already. I mean, all we’ve had to do is watch them play in October for the last generation to know that. The Red Sox all but put the Yankees out of the AL East race. The Orioles lost. The BIG RED MACHINE went down. The Twins thumped the D-backs. The Indians lost. The Cubbies beat Team Canada again. The Rockies lost. The Nationals won and the Cards beat the Pirates.
In preseason, the Steeiers beat the Dirty Birds and the Saints beat the Chargers. And across the pond, Chelsea beat Spurs in their Wembley regular season debut, and Huddersfield Town win again. The other usual suspects in European soccer won.
That’s about it. Let’s get into day turning into night and other things in…the links!
Jerry Lewis: RIP
Jerry Lewis has passed away. He was really old and had lived a full life, not only touching so much on the silver screen, but raising loads of money to fight Muscular Dystrophy. Godspeed. The world is a slightly less good place without you.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. YOU HAVE BEEN RAISED UP FROM BRUTALITY TO SNARK THE COMMENTS THAT MULTIPLY, AND ARE LEGION. TO THIS END, ZARDOZ GAVE YOU THE GIFT OF THE LINK. THE LINK IS GOOD!
END STAGE SOCIALISM CONTINUES IN THE BRUTAL LAND OF VENEZUELA.
ZARDOZ BELIEVES YOU WOULD CALL THIS BRUTALA “PLAYER”.
ZARDOZ THINKS BRUTAL NEWSPAPER DOES NOT UNDERSTAND WORD “VANDALIZED”.
THIS IS A CRIME THAT ZARDOZ CAN UNDERSTAND – EVEN IF HE WOULD HAVE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS CLEANSE THE THIEVES.
Before proceeding with links, I have to mark an event that has not occurred to me since I was a teenager- SP and I were at a party last night that got the cops called on us. I think I’m too old for that shit. This was at the house of one of the top session musicians in Chicago and he and a bunch of his friends were taking turns playing in impromptu combinations, nothing rehearsed, just great musicians jamming and playing old favorites. It was absolutely delightful. At 8:30, the cops knocked at the door and ordered the music to stop. “Someone complained.”
“Who?”
“We can’t tell you that.”
“But it’s only 8:30 and we’re really not that loud.”
“Doesn’t matter, someone complained, so you have to stop.”
“What does the law say?”
“Doesn’t matter, you have to stop.”
“But what about our White Privilege?”
“Doesn’t matter, you have to stop.”
“Why?”
“Doesn’t matter, I told you to stop, you need to stop. Don’t make me arrest you.”
“Is this racism?”
“Sir, you’re all white.”
Perhaps the lessons of libertarianism might sink in. Naaaah. Well, anyway, all the musicians unplugged and we resumed an all-acoustic set until the wee hours. So fuck the cops, we still had fun. Sleep, not so much.
OK, personal reminiscences over, let’s move on to links.
I’m guessing that neo-Nazis were behind this. Or Trump was. Or both. Well, at least there’s one person in this world who would make a worse babysitter than I would.
STEVE SMITH RESTING UP FOR BIG WEEK. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ECLIPSE TO SURPRISE PEOPLE OUT WATCHING IT. SO YOU GET LINKS BEFORE STEVE SMITH GO BACK INTO WOODS AND PRACTICE RAPE SOME HIKERS
MAYBE SPAIN AND FRANCE SHOULD HAVE STEVE SMITH HELP. HIM GOOD AT HUNTING PEOPLE!
MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW STORY, MAYBE STEVE SMITH WILL BE FEATURED!
I’ve been away from the Glibs for a few days, and on my return, I see that we’ve discussed news items of Great Import, like statues and who’s getting fired from the White House. It’s a wonderful combination of grim/serious and totally meaningless. So as long as we have “totally meaningless,” we should at least keep it interesting.
“When asked to explain how she was helping him, the defendant had a hard time explaining, but stated she was helping him, ‘release his whatever.’”
Just so I’m not accused of letting my hetero biases for hot MILFs with dirty librarian glasses prejudice my story selections, let me speak in praise of the Teacher of the Year.
And I can’t go without bringing up a local angle. Sigh, I miss my earlier career in elementary school education.
Let’s break the pattern I started, in respect to this site’s Family Friendly certification. All those movies where Hitler gets cloned or his brain gets revivified, no one really took a different path, it was always Hitler, Hitler, Hitler. But the death of this woman makes me think of an interesting alternate screenplay possibility…
STEVE SMITH SEES THAT BIG FUNNY STONE HEAD ALREADY HAD ARTICLE TODAY – SO HE PITCH IN AND HELP WITH LINKS, AND RAPE. STEVE SMITH ALWAYS HELP WITH RAPE.
WHY WELSHWOMAN LEADER OF CHECKERED GROUP SEND OUT STRANGE TWEET? SHE FRIEND OF WOLF BLITZER?
WHEN STEVE SMITH WENT TO SUMMER CAMP, HE CONCENTRATE ON ARTS AND CRAFTS. AND RAPE. THIS ONE NOT LIKE THAT.
STEVE SMITH THINK ACTOR CONFUSE SHOW WITH REAL LIFE.
STEVE SMITH FIND REAL INTERFERENCE IN FOREIGN ELECTION!
Conspiracy theories about why Taylor Swift took down a bunch of social media profiles. I await accusations that this also is a wink and nod to Stormfronters.
AIs areracist. When Skynet takes over, women and minorities may be hardest hit.
