Category: Daily Links

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ IS A BIT EARLY THIS WEEK, GIVING THE GIFT OF THE LINK TO HIS CHOSEN ONES, SO THAT THEY MAY BE LIFTED FROM BRUTALITY. WHY? ZARDOZ HAS A RELATIVE COMING TO VISIT…(AND NO SMART REMARKS FROM YOU, MR. LIZARD!)

SO RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE LINK….

• IMPEACHMENT IMMINENT! BUT NOT THE PRESIDENT AMERICAN PROG BRUTALS HAD HOPED FOR.
• ZARDOZ WONDERS IF BRITISH BRUTAL HAS GROWN A SPINE?
• ZARDOZ IS PLEASED…MAKING FOOD MORE EXPENSIVE FOR BRUTALS! EXCEPTING, OF COURSE, ZARDOZ’S DELIVERIES OF GRAIN TO THE VORTEX.
• ZARDOZ SEES THAT (((THEY))) HAVE GOTTEN TO YOUR BRUTAL LEADERS!

GO FORTH AND COMMENT! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

Man, Louisiana Tech throttled SMU last night in the Something Something Bowl.  Some guy actually will come back from Dead Man’s Curve. Talk about a crazy story. Good on the EMTs on this one. ESPN almost dislocates shoulder patting itself on the back. Sorry, but your coverage on wimmins sports is still a failure until you open up comments on your ESPNW articles.

In scores, all of the ranked college teams took care of business as usu….oh no they didn’t! UNC lost at home to Wofford. And not a great Wofford that wasn’t getting respect either. I mean an average lower-level program. Chelsea advanced to the League Cup semifinals while ManUre were bounced by lower-level Bristol City. On the ice a very small slate of games. Calgary took out St Louis. Columbus topped Toronto. And the Philthadelphia Flyers beat the Red Wings.

Well I hope you’re ready for Christmas or have a plan in place to get your shopping done.  Unfortunately you won’t find any gift ideas below. Only…the links!

Does every vote matter? Or do none of the votes matter? Either way, this has to be Russia’s fault.

Rolling Stone has been sold for $100,000,000. Jesus, that’s a bigger tax write-off than Cole Hamels giving his Missouri estate away to a charity for kids.

Merry Christmas to employees of AT&T, Comcast and a bunch of others. Of course, the leftarded idiots would have you believe “corporations” always stockpile “profits” after a tax break like this and use it to fund research into programs to further rip off their customers and employees. But in reality, both tax increases and cuts are passed on to their customers and employees in an effort to seize market share.  Well since they can’t make that argument anymore, they’re shifting to “this costs society more than the bonuses and increased wages those few people are making.”  I guess you just can’t win with those assholes. So here’s a bit of advice for Team Red: stop trying to.

Expect this trend in states with ridiculously high taxes to continue. But don’t worry, there are positives! FTA (emphasis mine):

“Among some positive signs — for example, increased overall diversity, despite losses in some races, ethnicities, and geographic areas — the ability to retain current residents poses near- and long-term economic and social challenges for metropolitan Chicago and Illinois,” Schuh said.

Hear that? Although they’ve had a serious drop-off in population of “some races” who are much more likely to have high-taxpaying people, they’ve increased the diversity!  In other words, Chicago specifically and Illinois in general are losing their tax base and replacing it with people who are more likely to generate fewer tax receipts. Well, not really replacing, just having those people represent a larger percentage of the population.  And that on top of the legacy costs bubble that is all but unsustainable at this point means that the Windy City might see tumbleweeds rolling through her streets in a decade or so.

Tip. Of. The. Iceberg. Or one can only hope so.

San Francisco government talks about how much they love the poor and homeless. But their actions say otherwise.

Don’t worry. I’m almost done posting these kinds of songs.

Have a great Thursday, dear friends. If you’re working the rest of the week, God bless you.  I’ll be headed to South Carolina tonight for my parents 50th Anniversary and Christmas with our entire family (parents, brother and sister and their entire families) for the first time in forever. It should be quite the adventure.

I’m out of work starting in 3..2..1.. just kidding. I have a 4:00 meeting. But after that its gonna be like Khayser Shozhe at work. I’m ghosting harder than that time I figured out I had my hot/crazy coordinates backwards on a woman.

Juries continue to not find Cliven Bundy and others involved in an armed standoff with the Bureau of Land Management guilty. I’m sure its white privilege.

The EU continues to hate the Poles for not being properly servile to their German and French masters.

Hopefully, Playa Manhattan was short on his favorite stock to short.

I know we love to hate Elon Musk here, but there’s just something about that much thrust in one place that makes the Falcon Heavy pretty. STEVE SMITH SAY “YOU KNOW WHO ELSE HAD 5M LBS OF THRUST?”

For music, I offer this throwback about a red rocket.

 

The Pro Bowl selections are out. No real surprises on the list. Early signing day today for college football. Let’s see if the Buckeyes maintain their staggering lead for top recruiting class. College basketball produced nothing but ranked winners last night. The Lane Train kept rolling for FAU in the Something Something Something Boca Raton Bowl. And hockey winners were: Detroit, Toronto, the NY Rangers, the MINNESOOOOODA WIIIIIILD, the Bruins, the Jets, the Crapitals, the Panthers, les Canadiens and Las Vegas.

“What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on here?”  I’ll tell you what’s going on here, Mr Taggert. Its called…the links!

Well yesterday was relatively quiet. Nothing really big happened except for the tax bill vote, which literally killed 30 million people, it is being reported by sources close to the matter.

And not only that, but there’s this as well. These people will probably be in the street if the GOP get through another tax cut. Then where would our nation be, huh?  Fucking lazy ass grifters. Read and see (emphasis mine):

To earn a salary, Mike Vincent, 32, works as a graduate student assistant at the University of Florida, a position that guarantees nine months of work, as he completes his doctoral degree in musicology. His wife, Rebecca Pethes, was unable to secure a similar job this year to supplement her own graduate degree, so the couple has struggled to raise their 1-year-old child, Isobel, on Mr. Vincent’s annual salary — $16,000 for nine months, $18,000 if he can finagle an extra semester of work.

“I don’t know what it means to pay taxes on a normal income,” he said. “I can’t even imagine making that much money right now.”

and

In pursuing a political science degree, Ms. Hernandez, 29, a Mexican-American whose grandmother has a third-grade degree, is defying what statistics say is possible. She recalled one congressional aide who forthrightly told her that “people elect to go to graduate school.”

“It’s an elective degree for some people — like white men, those who come from wealthy backgrounds,” Ms. Hernandez said. “But for people like me, it’s not an elective degree; it’s a struggle, not just for me but for my community. We have to get these degrees because we need to make it more normal for us to be in these fields and be at the table.”

Its assholes all around!  These people should be the poster children for abolishing the tax deduction for grad students. And for abolishing any sort of loan forgiveness for people with an advanced degree in anything other than a STEM field.  Also noticeably absent from the article were those STEM students bitching. Instead we get musicology majors and poli-sci griefer assholes. (H/T to OMWC)

 Stupid host with terrible agent works for an agreed-upon amount for a decade. Then quits for the wrong reason instead of firing her piss-poor representation. Stunning and brave!

If you think for a second that “safety” was the reason these were put in, I’ve got a bridge to sell you. This was just another money-grab by greedy assholes.

 I’m sorry, but there’s no way this chick is getting off.  Thanks, Florida. Never change.

Rememeber Debbie Wasserman-Shitforbrains’s kick-ass IT staff? Looks like they were in the car business as well. And by “car business”, I mean the money-laundering business. And that idiot gave them her laptop passwords and access to basically all of the classified information she had access to.

The EU is saying Brexit will be completed by 2020. Which probably leaves time for something else to delay it forever while the country is flooded with more euros and “refugees” that will manage to secure another vote to stop it. Because elections really don’t have consequences when the losers hold a nation hostage in the aftermath.

 We must do our (Christmas) alma mater!

Hump day for some, the last workday before Christmas for others.  Either way, make it a good one.

Today excuse was something about getting a VD test. It didn’t make much sense to me, but hey, one can always claim that Chlamydia is a character from Roman mythology. Anyway, enough mit deh kvetching, let’s link.

 

Silicon Valley is a hotbed of perversion and toxic rape culture. Even the fictional one. Sigh, the bonfires are only getting fiercer.

 

And in “the pattern repeats itself repeatedly,” another narrative collapses. Just remember who kept pointing out the bits that weren’t making the news. Ahem.

 

OK, one more example of shit I’ll never understand. You take pride in being plus francais que les francais. Your stop signs say “Arret!” You ban the use of “Hi!” as a greeting. Why in the name of Escoffier would you jealously claim that the worst goddamn dish to ever originate in North America should only bear the name of your province?

 

And the delightfully transparent grifter Jill Stein is now sucked into the Neverending Story. Two things stand out to me- first, she’s dumping the documents in public since, hey, they’ll be leaked anyway and may as well not have the leaking be carefully curated. Second, this observation, with which I heartily concur:

Even Mother Jones admits there’s nothing to desperate Russia smear spread by Maddow, Reid & fellow neo-McCarthyists.

 

Speaking of grifters, Harry Reid is vociferously defending the pelf he mulcted for his buddy because it’s necessary for our national security that we be prepared for the imminent Klingon invasion and there’s Really Serious UFO Science out there. He saw it on TV!

In a statement Monday, Reid continued to defend the program. “I’m proud of this program and its ground-breaking studies speak for themselves,” the statement read. “It is silly and counterproductive to politicize the serious scientific questions raised by the work of this program, which was funded on a bipartisan basis.”

Team Blue is the veritable Party of Science.

 

Wonder why Tulpa has been so quiet lately? I think I have found the answer.

 

And Old Guy music, in honor of my dear friends Riven and Mad Scientist (but for different reasons).

Just a few basketball games yesterday. All of the ranked teams won, including Michigan State who appears to be on an absolute tear.  Everton is making all the Big Sam haters eat their words after another easy win.  They’re undefeated since he came onboard, and they’ve earned every point except the one they stole in the Liverpool derby with what can only be described as a simulated penalty late in the match. But whatever. payback for that is coming on Jan 5th.

I’ve been negligent by not giving the hockey scores much recently. And although it was done to placate those sports-averse Glibs out there, I can’t go on like that forever. So here they are: Columbus got mauled by the Bruins. The Devils cursed the Anaheim Mighty Ducks. The Avalanche smothered the Penguins. The Kings royally pounded the Flyers. And the Oilers greased the Sharks.

That’s pretty much it for sports. You Darvish is thinking about going to Chicago. The Cowboys are being coy about how they might use Zeke this week. Oh yeah, and then there’s this sports story. Which deserves about 100 times as much coverage as its getting. Especially this time of year.  Damn, it got dusty in here all of a sudden.

See? I  don’t always give shitty news. Although I usually do once we get past sportsball and step into…the links!

MATT DAMON!!!!!! Seriously, now he’s just trolling people for his buddy Harvey. Nevermind that he’s probably right for the first time in a long time about a hot button issue (::cough::school choice::cough::)

Amtrak train in PNW was going 50 mph over the speed limit when it went off the tracks yesterday, killing several and causing all kinds of damage. So much for people bitching about how its the government’s fault for not blowing tons and tons of money on infrastructure repairs. Now they’ll bitch that safety features preventing the conductor from actually contriolling the speed should have been installed.  Either way, it’ll be the fault of the obstructionist republicans rather than the Dems. Mark my words.

This seems legit. Ah, who am I kidding? They’ll pay double this the next time a cop plants evidence on somebody and walks away with his pension intact when the truth comes out a couple years later.

Another unnamed person involved in a shooting in the Bay Area. But this one is different that yesterday’s. Now I wonder if we’ll ever get the details of what he had been up to.

Doctor says John McCain’s setback is normal for patients with brain cancer.  Well, that’s a relief.  But you know what isn’t normal?  Someone with brain cancer occupying a Senate seat when he’s incapable of performing the duties of his job.  Thanks for denying Arizonans their right to a Senator who is actually able to represent them in the way they should expect, you selfish, arrogant ass.

#metoo enters the tech sector. Wait, does this count as the “tech” sector or is there another word for this scam?

There’s another election coming up in a couple days that might be significant. We need Swissy to update us on the goings-on with a thorough piece.

I’ll go ahead and get this song out of the way this week.

Have a wonderful day, friends!

Listen, don’t get too close. The two year old is sick and has been clinging to me like a tiny, sick little ape. Luckily, this is not a gut-distress sickness. Poor guy. I like our doctor’s nurse’s advice to my wife on the phone. “Don’t worry unless you give him medicine and doesn’t perk up at least a little.” Clear, easy-to-follow and doesn’t depend on trying to get a two-year old to hold still for a thermometer that isn’t that accurate.

Is there anyone who doesn’t have to resign? There’s the ESPN President stepping down over drug addiction — which in retrospect makes total sense. And I’m guessing young kids and/or actual rape given how fast Kozinsci pulled the eject handle. I like how this attack on Teflon Don and the Hair has done more to discourage sexual harassment and punish harassment than anything since the personal audio recorder.

Is something really homeopathic if it contains enough of a dose to injure or kill you? I’d think there’s a fraud complaint waiting to happen.

Germans make strong bid for Central Asian, Welsh sex tourists. Meanwhile, in other sexual news…

And based on that last link, I must torture you, today.

 

The sports world is abuzz about the end of the Steelers-Patriots game.  I’m sorry, but that was a terrible call…or a terrible rule…or whatever caused that obvious touchdown to be overturned.  That’s just a fucking travesty. I don’t know what else to say.

The Carolina Panthers are up for sale after the #metoo movement claims another scalp. Rapper Sean “Puff Daddy” “P-Diddy” just plain “Diddy” Combs said he wants to buy the team. And plans to make some moves that will generate a lot of buzz. And a lot of empty seats. Steph Curry wants ion on the action as well.

Too many things going on today to dwell on sports except to note the Australia have retained the Ashes after absolutely demolishing England in the third test by 41 runs and an innings. For those of you who don’t know much about test cricket, thats the equivalent of the slaughter rule (and then some).  Its a grim day for the English. Which, come to think of it, is most days.

I promised you links. Well, here are…the links!

Obama stopped our intel organizetions from taking on the criminal terrorist organization Hezbollah so he could send Iran billions of dollars and strike a nuclear deal with them, every one of which they’ve ignored in the past.  Way to go, asshole. You managed to fund terrorism for probably a decade or more and give an ostensibly theocratic hellhole the means to create more nuclear material when you didn’t have to do either.

President Trump has not discussed and has no plans whatsoever to fire Robert Mueller. Which means the major news outlets have talked about very little this weekend other than the possibility that he will. Hell, even the always-honorable Eric Holder got in on the act saying he’d organize protests if it happened.  He should make sure not to wander too close to Capitol Hill if those protests materialize. Just in case that contempt of Congress warrant is still out there for him refusing to hand over docs about his secret “guns-to-cartels” operation known as Fast & Furious.

Everyone’s favorite feminist anti-Semite and pussy hat hijab-wearing assclown Linda Sarsour is being caught up in the #metoo movement as well, after allegedly enabling the sexual assault and ongoing harassment of a person actually willing to go on the record and name names.

Allegations of groping and unwanted touching were allegedly brought to Sarsour during her time as executive director of the Arab American Association. In response, Sarsour, a self-proclaimed champion of women, attacked the woman bringing the allegations, often threatening and body-shaming her, these sources alleged. The most serious allegations were dismissed, Asmi Fathelbab, the alleged victim told The Daily Caller, because the accused was a “good Muslim” who was “always at the Mosque.”

“She oversaw an environment unsafe and abusive to women,” said Fethelbab, a former employee at the Arab American Association. “Women who put [Sarsour] on a pedestal for women’s rights and empowerment deserve to know how she really treats us.”

If true, the allegations would cost most people their jobs. We’ll see if the mainstream media, of which the Daily Caller is definitely only a fringe member of at best, covers it with the same level of exasperation they’ve covered accusations against those lower on the SJW pyramid of grievances.

John McCain going to Arizona because he’s incapable of doing his job because of a brain tumor. Of course, he won’t simply retire so someone physically and mentally capable of handling the rigors of being a U.S. Senator can take his place. That would be the right and honorable thing to do crazy!

Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport got the power back on finally. But 400 flights for Monday are cancelled and everything is still a complete shitshow there. The world’s busiest airport had already cancelled 1,100 flights on Sunday. I hope they have their shit together before I fly there late Thursday.

An unnamed person fired some shots and then barricaded himself in the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco over the weekend. He was allowed to surrender peacefully a couple hours later.  Now, see if you can guess why his name is being withheld and why he was probably allowed to surrender peacefully.

The most predictable thing to happen in the last week. (Well, aside from the Patriots managing to have the most important game of the season gifted to them.)

LOL, Jesus Christ. I especially like that he went for the “I’m gonna shame the alleged victim of my husband’s sexual assaults and harassment” Hillary image rather than the “what, like with a cloth?” visage.  Stunning. And. Brave.

Here you go, headbangers.

Hope your week gets off to a good start, friends.

STEVE SMITH GLAD THAT FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE GIVE HIM IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS SONGS. HE RECORD SOME, AND SHOULD SOON HAVE ENOUGH FOR NEW RELEASE!

 

HERE ARE SOME LINKS TO SHOW GRATITUDE. NORMALLY STEVE SMITH RAPE TO SHOW GRATITUDE, BUT HIM TOO BUSY RECORDING SONGS. CATCH YOU NEXT TIME, MAYBE.

1. HERE FOLLOW UP ON FAKE RAPE STORY THAT MAKE STEVE SMITH ANGRY. STEVE SMITH NORMALLY NOT CHEER LAWSUITS – PREFER TO RAPE AT LAW – BUT HOPE THIS ONE WORK.
2. STEVE SMITH SAY….GO ON. DO IT LOOK LIKE THIS?

   

3. IF HIM NO GO, STEVE SMITH VOLUNTEER TO GO RAPE OUT OF OFFICE. ALSO GOOD EXCUSE TO GO VISIT UNCLE MAPINGUARY.

I’ll admit to wasting most of yesterday because it’s now reached the part of the NFL season where the entire weekend is wall to wall. Lions-Bears was a classic stinker, but we drank watched it anyway. KC-San Diego was a blowout, but since SP and I are both fans of Alex Smith, we drank enjoyed the spectacle anyway. Every now and then, we’d read each other funny comments from yesterday’s posts, and I’d find news stories that made her go, “WHAAAAAAAT?” We have a drunken happy marriage.

Net Neutrality was last week’s WORLD GONNA END outrage. If you’re still talking about it, you’re not one of the cool kids. To be cool, you have to be talking about TODAY’S outrage, ZOMG THERE’S FORBIDDEN WORDS AT CDC! Of course, as I pointed out yesterday, this only related to budget documents, but isn’t the outrage much sweeter if you can pretend that SERIOUS SCIENTISTS ARE BEING MUZZLED? “Keep political catch-phrases out of budget docs” isn’t nearly as deliciously disastrous-sounding, so make sure that little fact is either not mentioned or buried deep in the news story.

Speaking of outrage, I nominate this as Drama Queen of the Year. FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE. LITERALLY!!!!

Here’s another shocker: the UN Security Council is about to propose another symbolic toothless resolution about the most important border dispute in the whole world, the one thing with prevents joy, love, and peace from descending on the Islamic world. And a resolution that will get vetoed anyway now that the Obamoids have departed. Can someone remind me what the UN actually does, anyway? And why we send our tax money to them? Well, no matter, here you can see the outrageous massacre of an innocent Arab after he is attacked by filthy Zionists after one of them deliberately runs into his knife. Please, please, please, can we just stay out of this shit?

SP noticed that the pregame, halftime, and postgame TV discussion panels are smaller now and populated by B and C team people. Apparently all the groping stuff has greatly depleted the supply of talking heads. One can only wish this were happening in congress. But hey, we are one step closer. See, sometimes there IS good news.

Amazing, there’s all kinds of bleating when prosecutors do end-arounds for politicos to gather illegally obtained evidence, the same way they do for us Little People.

I was forced to go on a cruise once, which I described as “checking into a crowded hotel with shitty food and expensive drinks and you can’t leave.” I think the ship was called Chicken of the Sea. Our room was infested by bedbugs and I was thoroughly bitten. I was caught trying to lash together some empty drums to improvise a raft to escape TO Cuba. But at least I avoided this.

Shut the fuck up, Frankie.

Old Guy music time. And this is some old guys playing, the original lineup from Jethro Tull from the days when they were still playing interesting music in a British blues sort of vein, reuniting. I played in a couple bands that covered this song- while watching this, my fingers itched and I grabbed my flute to play along, discovering quickly that my muscle memory betrays me when people change the key of a familiar song. Guys, this is supposed to be in G! But still, goddamn, it’s great to see Mick wailing away on that SG.