Morrissey dares to attack the Queen? And the current government? And was right about the ideology behind the murders of citizens of his beloved hometown? Gasp. Gasp, I say.
I’m not sure where Slate dug up someone more hotheaded and dumber than Mandy Marcotte, but they managed it. Posted just a few hours after the bombing, this is the hottest of hot takes. One wonders if Cauterucci has this already written in case of a bombing and just plugged in some details.
Key line: “…Grande has advanced a renegade, self-reflexive sexuality that’s threatening to the established heteropatriarchal order.”
Really? An attractive girl playing on a jailbait imagery and wearing black latex S&M bunny masks is a threat to “heteropatriarchal order?” Cauterucci is so vapid and desperate, one almost feels bad laughing at her. Almost.
What’s sadder than Cauterucci’s dim bulb take? Ripping off her dim bulb take:
This is from that bubbling cauldron of journalistic integrity, Rolling Stone.
Cauterucci has a solid case for plagiarism, honestly. “They’s stole mah derp!”
These girls and women weren’t just listening to any music, either – this was feminist music. Through her songs and public statements, Ariana Grande has taken a strong stand against sexism and the objectification of women, and she does so kindly, joyfully and without apology.
Once again, this strange idea that schoolgirl-fetish doughnut-licker is some sort of towering feminist figure.
Of course, at least Emily Crockett at Rolling Stone manages to mention that the bomber was a Muslim, unlike Cauterucci.
News, news, news! Comin’ at you at 100 miles an hour. Some of it true and some if it…well, we’re not sure yet but we’re gonna report it anyway. Especially if it serves our political paymasters well. But we don’t fall into that trap here at Glibs. Nosiree. We only report the facts. Or if we’re gonna report on innuendo, we at least make sure you know things are alleged or unconfirmed rumors according to unnamed sources familiar with ways of thinking of certain parties or whatever other bullshit people over at WaPo and the NYT are reporting as fact. Facts. Like the fact that the Celtics are one game closer to being put out of their misery. Facts. Like the Firstros winning again. And facts. Like the Penguins completely dominating a game yet losing to the Senators on the most dubious goalie interference call I’ve seen in my lifetime (with no explanation given by the official and much head-scratching occurring in the announcer’s box). Oh well, Game 7s are what makes playoff hockey so damn great. Tune in Thursday to see who will win the Prince of Wales Conference Championship and face off with the Campbell Conference champion Predators for the biggest trophy in North American sports.
But I digress. Even though you’ve come to expect it, I have steered away from my purpose. So its time to get back on tracks and give you…the links!
Three more arrests were made in the Manchester Suicide Terrorist Attack. I wonder how many of them are named for British monarchs. I’ll go ahead and take the under on that at 0.5. Won’t touch the over at 2.5 for them having a certain prophet’s name somewhere in there. Hell, I bet not even Ladbrokes is giving action on that sucker bet. Bu there was one thing I noticed in the article. Excerpt:
Officials are probing how often Abedi had traveled to Libya, which has seen an eruption of armed Islamist groups since dictator Moammar Gadhafi was overthrown and killed in 2011.
I suppose that’s the nice way of saying “Libya, which has been a cesspit since the United States had Quadaffi assassinated, the government overthrown and let the place descend into a terrorist haven where they could set up their gun-running to Syrian rebels operation under the stellar leadership of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.” But that would be like those facts I alluded to up top. And that’s just not cricket, mate.
Barack Obama: Illegal Spymaster Extraordinaire
Alright, enough is enough. When a President and his administration abuse the authority granted to them so badly that they are getting formally censured by a secret court set up exclusively so they can spy on people without it being made public, then even I will say enough is enough and heads should roll. Its time we all demanded prosecutions and impeachments. Its time we demanded congressional oversight in a public forum to shine the light on these flagrant abuses of authority. Its time we called Donald Trump Barack Obama and the rest of his crooked administration out as the scumbags they are. Seriously, Democracy Dies In Darkness, eh WaPo? So get off your fucking asses and report on legitemate and documented abuses of authority instead of third-hand accounts of what people are allegedly thinking about doing.
Um, maybe that’s not a woman, you shitlord. Ever thought that since Xe hasn’t identified Xerself as male or female, then you shouldn’t attach labels when you put these stories together? I swear, sometimes with all the unwokeness that exists in the world, I just can’t even. (How long before the harpies at Jezebel actually write a story with those exact words when something like this happens?)
Artist Rendition Of What May Have Happened
OK, instant poll time. And be honest, because God is always watching. Yes or No, how many of you expected to read this headline in your lifetime:Clown with Bladed Gloves Murders Man and Escapes on Scooter, Cops Say. The only thing that could make it more awesome is if it happened at a taco stand that used to be an Arby’s “with a bad reputation.” WHICH IS FOR REALS IN THE FUCKING STORY!!!!! Life is a mystery, my friends. A beautiful fucking mystery.
Holy moly, its only Tuesday? Shit. I’m ready for the long weekend to be here.
It looks like bad news for the people who took the IRA in the pool for the Manchester bombing. “British citizen of Libyan descent” is pretty classic self-radicalizing ISIS-lover. It pains me that all the “sleeper agent” conspiracy theorists were entirely right on outcomes while totally wrong on mechanism.
CNN trying to decide which classic Republican stereotype fits Trump better stupid or heartless and evil. No really, the headline is “Calculating or Naive?”
California recently priced univeral health care and it would cost more than the entire current state budget. There has, of course, been much blaming of kulaks, hoarders, wreckers, and… (I hate to offend you good citizens but we must write it) profit-seeking behavior.
Those stupid Polacks, exploiting their natural resources! How dare they log timber that they didn’t get around to logging at all during the 20th Century!
Scientists sure do have a lot of castings and molds of animal genitalia.
Oh noes, its the hipster/rancher mashupocalypse! I grew up where stock tanks were ponds that someone had dug out in a pasture that cows stand around and shit in, so I am not ever getting in a “stock tank” pool, even if it is a giant beer tub.
Every time I see the word “millenials” in a headline I like to go back and insert some old-timey out group name like “negroes” or “Irish” and read the story. Nine times out of 10, its exactly like painfully racist “progressive” apologia from a century ago. Try it here. Also, Tom Coburn, you’re crazy if you think a Constitutional Convention is going to improve anything.
Damn. I’m still gonna give my usual little blurb about sports even though we all know the major topic of conversation today is gonna (literally) be 5,000 miles away.
Still not gonna talk much about the NBA. We all know what’s coming once the formality of the Eastern Finals is done. I’m just sad that Popovich can now dedicate even more of his time to personal attacks on people he’s never met and politics he has a lot less understanding of than he thinks he does. Oh joy! Also, the Nashville Predators reached the Stanley Cup Finals after winning the Campbell Conference last night. So now Anaheim can go back to their paper routes. And of course the Firstros won. They seem to always win.
Alright. Enough diversion. Its time to get down to business. I present you…the links!
I thought it was just a Trumpalo talking point. Which makes these two Democrat election clerks pleading guilty to voter fraud so perplexing. I guess those rednecks in deep-red Harris County, Texas (lololol) framed them. Yeah, that’s the way the media will spin it. Just kidding. They won’t spin it any way. They’ll just ignore it.
So there you are. Oh, a note from the Roller Derby article – you Glibs amaze me – I see something like LT Fish’s article on something I consider a bit exotic… and the comments light up with people involved in the sport directly, or have spouses or such involved. An odd and wonderful lot you all are.
It was a big sports weekend, to say the least. The Nashville Predators moved a game closer to the Stanley Cup finals and now have a 3-2 series lead and could clinch the Campbell Conference tonight at home. Meanwhile, I believe my predicted demise of the Penguins might have been premature after they beat the Senators by a touchdown yesterday and now have the same lead in the Wales Conference. We will know who makes it in the next few days, but after the weekend, I’m gonna reassess my earlier picks and just keep my mouth shut. Meanwhile, in Europe, the limeys and Spanish (as well as the Catalans) finished their domestic leagues. Real Madrid won La Liga for the first time in a while and Liverpool won their match, forcing Arsenhole to the Europa League for the first time in 20+ years. Enjoy Thursday football, Gooners you smarmy dickheads. You certainly deserve it.
I don’t even want to comment about basketball until the predetermined finals matchup materializes, which should take a few more days after the Celtics miraculously won a game last night. (Oh yeah, except to say that Popovich is a smug, douchey asshole. His “manslaughter” comment was among the dumbest things I heard this week.) So stay tuned for that.
Anyway, I know what you all came here for, so let’s get on with…the links!
Rep. Elijah Cummings has selective memory
Top Dem on oversight committee wants every note the White House has on President Trump’s meeting with Russian diplomat. This is the same guy that called the committee’s request for Eric Holder to testify during the Fast and Furious investigation overreach. I guess Executive Privilege only applies to his Team. Or he’s a raving hypocrite who is still living off the goodwill he earned from the 60s. (TW: HuffPo retardation)
Step right up out. And don’t come back. The Greatest Show On Earth performs its last gig. I remember seeing the show several times as a kid and enjoying everything. Even the clowns. But that’s all over now.
The California Democrat Party’s opinion of the rest of us
California Democrats embrace philosophy of “when they go low, we go high”. Well, if by “high”, they mean raising both hands and giving the President Camacho salute. Keep it classy, you clowns. That shit may sell in your bubble, but people in flyover country aren’t big fans of that idiocy.
JC, as a fellow Jew, I know exactly how you’re feeling. But never mind that, let’s shovel some links at these heathens who read their phones during church (I’m looking at YOU, Swiss!). OK, admittedly those ministers do tend to rattle on a bit when they sermonize, so I have some sympathy. Anyway, on to today’s news.
Item Two: The War On Black Hair continues. I think that after yesterday’s story and now this, we have seen the pattern for this week’s “outrage about nothing in particular, but we have to stay in practice.”
Item Three: After figuring out that Premium doesn’t make things run any better than Regular Unleaded, the Air Force is starting to convert to civilian fuel for its jets. The burning question is whether it can still melt steel beams.
Item Four: An AeroMexico jet hit a utility truck at LAX. Apparently they were trying to avoid an Air China jet that was in the wrong lane. And it turns out the AeroMexico pilot had no insurance.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ MOVED BIGGEST DELIVERY YET…”DROPPED” ANOTHER BALE. BRUTAL EMPLOYER “RAY” MIGHT BE GETTING SUSPICIOUS, HOWEVER. SO ZARDOZ HAS TO LINK AND RUN.
When it comes to horrible presidents (and we’ve had quite a run of them), 95% of what the opposition says can be safely ignored. The upside with the current horrible president is that the Progressives do manage to get off a funny line now and then. 5% of the time might be generous, but hey, it’s not zero.
New York boasts the worst drivers in the US, most notoriously this one. I was talking with a Palestinian buddy yesterday and he remarked that he was afraid to look at the news stories because he dreaded finding out that the guy’s name had a “Muhammad” in it somewhere. I reassured him- this time. In any case, the headline of that story reminded me of this Star Trek. I will admit to not being a kind person.
The enstupidation of our youth continues. The school is stupid, the kid is stupid, and I blame the no-doubt-stupid parents for feeding the kid enough victimology nonsense that she can, seemingly without effort, utter a remarkably vapid and self-centered pastiche: “People say they love my hair because it’s so diverse, curly and Afrocentric.” Expect lawyers any moment.
Speaking of lawyers, in a story of the sort where I hate everyone involved, this lawyer manages to be the most hateable. “Mendacious” seems almost inadequate to describe his faux-outrage.
“Sadly the head of human resources permitted Mr. Beckel to try and convince my client into withdrawing his complaint in an effort to sweep this entire matter under the rug. In my years of practice I have never heard of a human resources executive permitting this to happen.”
Horrors, someone wants to try to prevent him from collecting a fat contingency a trivial matter from being the subject of a lawyer payday overblown litigation. Unprecedented! Insert jokes about devil’s three-ways with Wolk and livestock here.
It’s rainy and cold here in rural Illinois. It’s a perfect excuse to fire one up, and relax to these sounds of my youth, a song my band used to cover when we needed 20 minutes to fill in at a show.
Afternoon Links Special Report
Hammer goes looking for a nail, finds one:
What’s sadder than Cauterucci’s dim bulb take? Ripping off her dim bulb take:
