Category: Daily Links

Before we get started, I just want to let y’all know that I’m gonna be seriously disappointed if that story image isn’t one of you.

That soccer game yesterday was pretty sweeeeeet! Liverpool might have scored again as I was typing that, no? Nope, still just won by a touchdown and extra point. Spurs also won, as did Real, Porto (jeez, Monaco sucks this year), and Besiktas.  Man Shitty lost, but the game was meaningless to them. And Sevilla drew. On to the round of 16 draw on Monday as the Europa League finishes their group play today as well. In cricket news, Australia won the second test match and are now up 2-0 vs England in the five game series.

On the hardcourt, Xavier and UNC took care of their business. Second-ranked Kansas fell to Washington at home, and Florida, who is inexplicably ranked #5, shit the bed again in losing at home to powerhouse Loyola-Chicago. Perhaps that rockin’ 5-3 record will cause them to fall all the way to 7 or 8 this week.

There were only four games on the ice last night. The Maple Leafs beat the Flames. The Flyers doubled up the Oilers. The Capitals drilled the Blackhawks (somebody get Swissy on suicide watch!) and the Anaheim Mighty Ducks blanked the Senators.

That’s it for sports news, folks. Now its time for…the links! And I’ll do them quickly, since we are apparently in imminent danger of being blown up at any minute since Trump signed a piece of paper formally recognizing a certain country’s capital.

Matt Lauer might be a creep. But the man’s got the whole retirement thing pretty well figured out.

Looks like the House of Representatives grew a spine. I hope they’ve got some curb space set aside in New York for the bodies that apparently will be stacked like cordwood. At lease that’s what their cuck of a mayor and a few other “prominent” people are saying.

Fire officials in Southern California say the worst is yet to come for the region. I can’t imagine how bad it is out there. Please stay safe, area Glibs.

More and more Dems are piling on Al Franken to resign. Conflicting stories have him denying that he will and others are claiming that he will, in fact, make the move today. Either way, its a funny ending to an unfunny man’s time in the Senate.  Although, I see no integrity in Team Blue’s play here. Its designed to keep his seat safe while at the same time giving them the “moral high ground” to go after Trump and Roy Moore and say they should do the same. I wasn’t born yesterday. I read the talking points. They’re not too hard to find when the same words are posted by 150 different people on Twitter at the same time. Well, good luck with that strategy. And good luck holding the seat in 2018.

When you’re a Chicago cop, you get to act like you’re above the law for the most part. But when you’re on trial for shooting a black teenager and its caught on video, you might want to tell your lawyer that comparing a white Chicago police officer to the three black sharecroppers who were tortured by cops into confessing in the infamous Brown vs Mississippi case might be a bad idea. Seriously, what…the…fuck?

Georgia State Police commander gets fired. Of course, you and I would have been in jail for what he did. And we wouldn’t have been paid by the taxpayers for the last ten months for an extended vacation while the feds crawled all over the case.

I don’t give you guys enough good news. I hope this makes up for it a little bit. The police statement is to the point. Somehow I think it might have been different if it happened in Chicago, LA or San Francisco.

Beautiful girl…

Have a great day. If you’re in SoCal, please stay safe. Same as if you’re in a Korean hospital.

Looking out the window at work, I see some @#$%ing Hate Birds, the Birds That Hate stopping by to crap on our sidewalks and foul the pond out by the main entrance. SCREW YOU HATE BIRDS! And then there is all this work I have (yes, Rufus, I WORK! …sometimes) where I am waiting for other people to get back to me before I can finish the year out. And did I mention the ache in my right shoulder? Let me tell you…

*slaps self across face*

OK, I am fine…really. So, I guess you are here for some links, eh? OK, some of you are here for links. Because, lets face it, most of you are here to snark, and look at Q’s posts in the comments. Wait… or is that just me?  Anyway, here are some links for you:

1. Oh look! Illinois scum petitioning on behalf of an imprisoned member of the political class. Shocking, eh? I am sure this has no bearing on their own conduct… “Instead, they wrote that the nation’s highest court should hear his appeal to ‘distinguish the lawful solicitation and donation of campaign contributions from criminal violations of federal extortion, bribery, and fraud laws.’ ” Man, I hate Illinois Nazis politicians.
2. Citizen – you are too expensive for the State to maintain….report to the nearest disintegration chamber in your sector! This is what the Berniebots want to bring to the US.
3. Cis-hetero White Male Privilege! BELIEVEHER# … of course, it looks like certain colleagues do believe her…and he looks to be toast.
4. Tsar Vladimir I, right?

Enjoy the links…or not. Say, I wonder if I can pop outside, find a rock or two and fling them at those Hate Birds, The Birds That Hate?

I’m back!  What a last few days.  But I got through holding my first auction without a disgruntled seller trying to bash my head in or a disgruntled buyer trying to do the same.  I can’t ask for much more than that. A quick sports update (straight from the scores without any knowledge of how the games went) and then down to business.:

A ten game slate on the ice yesterday…wow! Devils top the Blue Jackets. Rangers take down the Pens. Blues beat Les Canadiens. The Red Wings rolled over the Jets. Lightning strike six times in beating the Islanders. The Weinsteins Predators beat the Stars. The Sabres top the Avalanche. Canucks blank the Hurricanes. The Kings beat the MINNESOOOOOODA WIIIIIIIIIIILLLLDDD. And the Mighty Duck Fucks fall to the Army, er Las Vegas, Golden Knights.

Over in Europe, they played some UCL games yesterday. Roma won. Barca won. Bayern beat PSG 3-1 in a game that only would have matter had the score been 10-1. Chelsea drew with Athletico, which will come to haunt them. ManUre won. And Juventus won.  The remaining games are played today, which means Liverpool! YNWA.

On the hardcourt, Notre Dame fell to Ball State (yikes!). Michigan State keeps rolling. Villanova drilled Gonzaga. UVA fell to WVU. Minnesoda fell to Nebraska. Wichita State was better than SDSU. Duke won. aTm lost to Arizona. And some other games were played.  Oh, and Ohio State came from 20 points down on Monday night to beat Michigan and further humiliate that school up north.

I know you guys are probably ready to get down to business. But I want to say thanks to Swissy for bailing me out these last couple of days.  Monday was unplanned, and I had to bug out at the last minute. I didn’t mean to put him on the spot like that, but he saved my ass.  And yesterday’s links were awesome, as usual.  Thanks, Swissy. Let me see if I can do equally well with…the links!

CFPB: Under New Management. Rejoice, businesses. You have a government that wants to work with you. Lament, left-wing non-profits that make massive political donations to Team Blue. You no longer have a government that will force companies to make donations to you in lieu of fines or restitution so you can funnel them to the political campaigns of the people in government that forced the companies to pay you in the first place.  I can only hope he takes a metaphorical wrecking ball to the whole, stinking, corrupt agency.

I had no idea this was happening until this morning. Stay safe, SoCal Glibs. That looks like a devastating fire.

Now THAT’S ironic! Finally, a government official doing something skeezy that at least has the good taste to be ironic enough that he will live forever in the minds of 4chan.

The Feds have charged Kate Steinle’s killer with a slew of legitimate charges. I was afraid they were going to try and charge him for the murder again, which would have been very bad. But the charges all seem legit.  The DA who failed to present a compelling case blasted Trump and the charges as a travesty of justice.  If only he were wearing a clever t-shirt while doing so.

John Conyers announces his retirement as wave after wave after wave of sexual harassment complaints pour in. He also conveniently endorsed his son to continue the family business. Because that’s what our nation has come to: political dynasties and lifelong jobs to elected office.

Expect more judicial activism as opposed to adherence to the Constitution. I just wish the Trump admin would simply say “we are doing exactly what the Obama admin did, what the Bush admin did and what the Carter admin did and if you don’t like it, win the next election for President.” Because that’s the only defense they really need to make of the travel “ban” that he put in place and has been upheld every time it gets sent to the high court.

I needed to find something mellow. It’s been a long week already. And its just Wednesday.

I’m gonna try to make the best of it. Hope you can do the same.

So you would like some links? You have the NSN for them? OK, how about the LIN? End item code…? You just want “links”. Well, I’ll see what we have on hand here…

These look like they are still in the unopened box, so why don’t you give them a try?

• Friday’s “incident confirmed that such a position is necessary.” Of course it did.
• The Gropeocaust continues.
• Glass ceiling shattered, shitlords! Now, someone needs to scold those patriarchal police for attacking a strong womyn, who is in charge!
• A task for our commentariat – where does this woman place on the Hot/Crazy matrix?

If those don’t work, just fill out a request. You should be able to find the correct numbers in those manuals…

If yesterday was “meh”, today is ….uninspired. The very brief sports note – There apparently was some sort of gang warfare in Ohio…it was disguised as an NFL game between the Bengals and the Stillers (PA spelling). We are still awaiting the final body count. Oh, and every team I like still sucks and is mired in losing.

So, on to the links;

• Remember, only the benevolent hand of government can take care of you! Otherwise we would all be living in some Dickensian work house asking for more gruel.
• OK, there is brash…and there is BRASH. Anyone check the usual bat-sh#t crazy feminist sites for coverage of this?
• Theresa May continues to race Angela Merkel for title of Most Blundering European Leader.
• Wow, thanks AP – I would have never guessed any of this!
• Ah, the sound of silence.

OK, since I don’t do music links – could you, dear commenters, post something musical to wish sloopy good luck for today? How about that, Swiss Servator asking for OT links! Wait, or since I asked for them, it isn’t OT… whatever, just wish him luck.

Hey, guys. Sounds like somebody has a case of the “Mondays”! **finger guns** Me, I have to get on a plane tonight and be out in the world for a couple of days for work. Which sucks. I actually have to groom. Apparently, my work-from-home look is a little too close to “why is there a bum in our lobby?”. Also, let us all wish the Sloopster good luck in his auction tomorrow. May his crowd be full of people who are flush with money and bad at value.

Florida Woman sentenced to five years in prison for tax fraud. Based on some family experience, I can say that this is about the going rate in FL.

FBI gives the ATF list of 4000 people who should not own guns because of mental instability, violent criminal offenses, tells them “good luck and please go get those guns back. Hopefully not one bullet at time, brass separate.”

I take exception to Sen. Grassley’s characterization that money spent on alcohol or in the company of a certain type of woman is “blown”. Also, if I’ve spent $5M on booze and the type of woman who will hang out with me for money, I’m probably going to die pretty horribly of cirrhosis.

This is my favorite take on the Venezuelan crypto-currency: Government-Run Digital Currencies Could Disrupt U.S. Dominance. Just like Venezuela has created millionaires by debasing their paper currency.

You know who else was a finalist for Time’s Person of the Year?

Name the missing item in the links.

Meh. That is the theme for this morning. Just don’t say we have a case of today…

Not sure sloopy or I have anything to say about the sports side of news, other than “meh”, maybe “bah!”…maybe even “feh”. So we are just going to skip that part, OK? So you get links….links of meh.

• Office parties slide, even more, toward “meh“.
• Weird headline aside, this story is the definition of “meh”.
• Prime Minister May offers “meh” leadership. Didn’t the UK have some sort of vote thing some time back that covered this?
• A Chicago alderman is an hypocritical ass about taxes? Meh.

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ SEES MANY BRUTALS PREPARING FOR THE BRUTAL HOLIDAY OF CHRISTMAS. ZARDOZ UNDERSTANDS IT INVOLVES GIFT GIVING. THIS IS GOOD, IF THE GIFT IS OF THE GUN! THE GUN IS GOOD.

ZARDOZ IS IN A GIVING MOOD NOW. THEREFORE, CHOSEN ONES, RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE LINK! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

• ZARDOZ NOTES THAT BRUTAL EXTERMINATOR ALLIANCE IN YEMEN IS CRUMBLING. AND THEY HAVE RECEIVED THE GIFT OF THE GUN. ZARDOZ IS DISPLEASED.
• THIS, HOWEVER, AMUSES ZARDOZ. ZARDOZ WOULD ADVISE HIS CHOSEN ONES TO AVOID INVESTING.
• HOW MANY TIMES MUST ZARDOZ REMIND YOU THAT THE PENIS IS EVIL!
• ZARDOZ WISHES ALL BRUTALS DROVE LIKE THIS.

And Dawn had better get here with that crack pretty shortly, these kids are getting impatient.

Remember yesterday, when the coyote (WaPo) finally had that pesky Roadrunner (Hat ‘n’ Hair) dead to rights and the Trump presidency was really, truly over, then it wasn’t? I posted the “oops” tweet, but here’s the recoil. And hilariously, this isn’t even the first major fuckup from that “reporter.” Why does he even still have a job? Anyway, well, today, they REALLY TRULY have that damn Roadrunner. THIS TIME FOR SURE! I mean, they even went to the trouble of having an analysis from a former Obama official, and you can’t get more definitive and objective than that! Man, at this rate, there’s going to be a national popcorn shortage.

And the soi-disant “tax reform bill” continues to be nailing Jello to the wall. Team Red, you had one job, and what you give us is a dog’s breakfast. Anyway, the story is the usual conflation of “tax rate cuts” with “tax cuts,” as well as “tax rate increase” with “tax increase.” That’s just plain sloppy thinking, and though I expect it from economically illiterate reporters and political hacks, I know that OUR commentariat knows the difference. Right? The bill ends us up with a tax code just as complex, vague, arbitrary, and incomprehensible as the one it replaces, just with some pieces moved around. Well done, Team Red. How about the OMWC plan: Fuck you, cut spending. Tax form to 1/2 a page maximum and taking far, far less money, and only for functions constitutionally delegated to the federal government. And then I woke up from that lovely dream…

Here’s the appropriate aria: another (((one))) bites the dust. If anyone ever gets a hint of the extraordinary amount of vagina plowed by Mike Rowe in his opera days, we’ll lose a real icon. Or maybe not, since he has the… fortitude to tell everyone to fuck off and not play the faux-apology-grovel game.

OK, Old Guy Music, this time from one of the greatest ensembles ever on one stage, all Mingus alumni back for a reunion. I make no secret of my idolization of Roland Kirk, and he sure delivers here, blowing away every other sax player on that stage- and those are some insanely great sax players. I particularly liked his parody of George Adams’s outside playing, which he casually slips into at a pace triple that of Adams’s. It’s a long jam, but every minute packs a punch.

STEVE SMITH FINISH RAPE OF EVERYONE IN RV A LITTLE EARLY. SO HAS TIME TO REFLECT BACK ON PAST FEW YEARS. STEVE SMITH GIVE SOME LINKS TO FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE, AND LET THEM THINK BACK TO PAST YEARS TOO. THEN STEVE SMITH GO FIND CABIN NEAR TRAIL AND HAVE A NIGHT CAP. BY NIGHT CAP MEAN RAPE, IN A CAP. AT NIGHT.

• STEVE SMITH REMEMBER WELL, SAGE ADVICE THAT GOLD GO DOWN TO $600 OZ! ANY DAY NOW, GOLDBUGS!
• STEVE SMITH REMEMBER WHEN FRANCE SAY SOMETHING, WORLD LISTEN! WAIT, NO HE DON’T…STEVE SMITH NOT 130 YEARS OLD! WHY THEY THINK IT WORK NOW?
• STEVE SMITH DO REMEMBER “WHAT IS GOOD FOR GM, GOOD FOR COUNTRY”. NOW, WHO CARES? STEVE SMITH LIKE WHEN TOURISTS DRIVE FIATS TO WOODS. ALWAYS BREAKDOWN AND MAKE IT EASY FOR STEVE SMITH TO GET IN A COUPLE OF EXTRA RAPES.
• STEVE SMITH REFLECT ON POWER OF PROTEST THIS YEAR. WELL, NO HE DON’T. HE MOSTLY LAUGH AT FUTILITY….JUST LIKE FUTILITY IN TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM STEVE SMITH ON HIKING TRAIL! BY GET AWAY, MEAN AVOID RAPE.