South Korea seeks to assure citizens that the US will not strike North Korea preemptively. I can’t decide which Animal House clip will be more correct at this time next year — (A) or (B)
Lol, can’t tell whether Notorious RBG is senile or just fired off a sick burn.
How we can blame Canada for AGW! Any of my professors would have chewed my ass if I submitted that first chart on an assignment.
How crazy was 2016? The Cubs raised the Championship flag for 2016 last night. As someone who cheered the Cardinals during my stint in IL, this hurt to watch.
If you only work on your malware during the traditional workday, Symantec thinks you’re a CIA hacker. But you could be the Walter White of hacking.
I was mostly out of touch with the news yesterday. Wrapped up in my own world of work, taking the family to the zoo for a few hours, power washing the pool deck and making dinner. Looks like I missed a lot too. Let’s recap, shall we? Which means…the morning links.
Good luck against that, Kim.
The most reckless of nations vows to respond to “reckless” American Navy, which is moving a strike group into the area. Unless the Norks have got one of those nukes ready, I can’t see them doing anything more than staging something and reporting it on state TV and then executing a few of their own military leaders by mortar. But this Kim is crazier than the last couple of Kims. So stay tuned.
Democrats hope to cash in on unpopularity of Trump in a series of special elections that will start in Wichita, Kansas. The article goes into a lot of math about “moral victories” even if Team Blue doesn’t win any of the elections, according to pollsters and analysts. And if there’s anything we can count on, its those guys accurately predicting electoral success and adjusting polls to really capture the pulse of the nation.
Happy Monday. Sloopy got his pool painted, I’m getting someone out to handle mine. Because although I have a degree in Chemical Engineering, I don’t care to fuck with it when someone else can handle it cheap. Specialization, its not just for insects!
Wells Fargo will be taking $75M back from former executives who fostered a culture of fraud. Funny, no word about the key bad player seeing any sort of legal consequences.
I think Lord Humungus will be safe from this — I can’t even say it with a straight face– hybrid Ford High Speed Police Interceptor. I’m sorry, but the Ford Fusion will never strike terror into my heart.
Of all the bad ideas I’ve heard about US-Iran relations, backing the Shah’s son for a return to Iran may be the worst.
Whoa, shit, did I set the alarm clock too early? Bears in Sierras confused at all the white stuff on the ground as they emerge from hibernation. I blame AGW.
Well, what a great weekend that was. Did my first charity auction for the Calcutta for our spring Member-Member at our golf club. Got my pool painted and its filling with water as we speak. Got most of my back yard cleaned up, including tearing down and replacing a lot of jacked up fencing, culling some trees that needed to be gone and ripping out some ivy that looked less than desirable. Plus The Masters!
Alas, its time to get back to work. And part of that is supplying you with your daily dose of morning links. So here’s Monday’s version.
The church bombed by ISIS in Egypt.
ISIS does what ISIS is gonna do. Which means they’re going to kill a bunch of innocent people that are minding their own business.
Juan Williams laments that blacks sometimes stray off the plantation. Because there’s nothing worse than a black Republican, right Juan? I mean, how dare they not vote completely in lockstep for the party that they’ve voted in lockstep for for more than five decades while slipping further into poverty as a group, while dropping farther behind educationally as a group and for seeing their families break apart at a much higher rate than other racial demographic groups since those Great Society programs aimed at helping them began in earnest.
John McCain says Trump admin partially to blame for Syrian gas attack. Why? Well, apparently saying who controls a country is up to their own people results in their leader gassing their own people. At least in that thick skull of his.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ UNDERSTANDS IT IS A RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY FOR SOME BRUTALS. THEREFORE, HE WILL SHARE A SHORT VERSE FROM A SPIRITUAL SONG IN THEIR HONOR.
ZARDOZ HATES THE BRUTAL CHILDREN ALL THE BRUTALS OF THE WORLD BLACK AND YELLOW, RED AND WHITE THEY ARE A PLAGUE IN HIS SIGHT ZARDOZ HATES THE BRUTALS OF THE WORLD
WHETHER YOU’RE RICH OR WHETHER YOU’RE POOR IT MATTERS NOT TO HIM HE WANTS TO CLEANSE WHERE YOU’RE GOING ALSO WHERE YOU’VE BEEN
ZARDOZ WILL ALSO SHARE SOME LINKS FOR BRUTALS.
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES…ZARDOZ BELIEVES THERE IS A FERROUS REGULATION ABOUT THIS.
Being Palm Sunday and all, the Links are at Noon, rather than earlier. It had NOTHING to do with the overeating, one too many beers and sleeping so late I had no time for links this morning whilst rushing to make it to church service. Really. Honest. … OK, maybe it did. A bit.
Anyhow, here are some links for you to bat around for a while.
Not sure where this would be on one of those “Coexist” bumper stickers?
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. HOPEFULLY BRUTALS HAVE BEEN DAY DRINKING OR RELAXING (OF COURSE, THIS IS AFTER PLANTING GRAIN FOR ETERNALS). TO AID HIS CHOSEN ONES, ZARDOZ PROVIDES LINKS FOR THE NIGHT.
Grüezi mitenand. Today we will have links about the Confederatio Helvetica. They will be neat, orderly and on time. One could say like a Swiss watch. And, if they did, I would chuckle and down some kirschwasser. Proschtli!
Switzerland is quite tight with its’ citizenship, but chock full of foreigners. I knew 2 of the three places you find most of them without even giving much thought. See if you can guess all three.
At least one canton has its head on straight. Zug, baby, Zug.
I might not care about soccer (football, whatever) but even Swiss amateurs get fightin’ mad about it.
Swiss newspapers/news sources. Most in German, some French or Italian. A few in English. I love the sometimes bitchy and gossipy tone of Inside Paradeplatz (warning – in German) and wish the American business press was more like them. [Examples: A story about the top 3 executives at a small bank, Raiffeisen, has a headline with them crying “bullshit” at the news of huge bonuses for themselves. The article is really snippy, mmmm! Second, and more delicious, the paper gets in many digs at the Swiss financial regulator, FINMA, because the head of the agency has twice left his wife for another woman….at the business he was a top exec of at the time. Can you imagine some US paper ragging the SEC chief over his or her personal life…non-stop? Yeah, me neither.]
And there you have it. Now, here is a picture of cheese.
