Category: Daily Links

Happy Friday for all of you out there pretending to work.

Don’t forget the  First Annual Glibertarians College Basketball Tourney Bracket Challenge (a carryover from the Hit & Run Tourney Pick Em days for those of you that remember) (password: Podesta).  Max entries per person capped at three, so you’ve got options there to have some fun with upset picks. There will be prizes for the winners involving our new logo.  Which reminds me, the deadline for entries is rapidly approaching.  So get off your asses and get them in here. More on this over the weekend and Monday.

• The Daily Mail does Spring Break at Panama City Beach. You can tell some of those girls aren’t native. Yikes. By the way, we Florida Men thank those who will be spending their financial aid to help the local economy. Seriously, kids, just get a credit card. At least then you can get shut of bad decisions in seven years or less.
• In other Florida news, we invite all of you tourists who have finished spending your money to this lovely sinkhole where alligators are piled three deep.
• Burt Reynolds may have made one of the most libertarian movies ever, but ol’ Bandit thinks the State of Florida should give more money to his kind of people. True story, I sat two rows behind Burt at a Willie Nelson concert.
• If you read between the lines here, you’ll find the giraffe version of David Carradine.
• US Army one ups Defense Distributed, 3D prints a grenade launcher.
• And railguns just became closer to being man-portable. Not close, closer.
• Why would the NYT care about medical tourism? RINOCare is going to give them everything for free. Also, do NOT go to sketchy storefronts in Miami for butt implants.

Oh well, at least we still have David Bowie and Lou Reed, right? What, you were expecting an INXS song after the David Carradine joke?

Well, that week went flying by.  Spent the whole damn thing setting up my new business website, developing a mailing list and getting an e-blast put together and then studying for my state licensing exam to be an auctioneer.  And while I’m no fan of state licensing, I’ve got to admit that there’s a hell of a lot more to running an auction than talking real fancy-like. And I’m glad that the course I took pounded them into my head over and over.

Anyway, I’m getting off topic here.  And besides, you guys don’t give a shit about my personal life.

Well, most of you don’t.  Unless, that is, my personal life involves setting up the  First Annual Glibertarians College Basketball Tourney Bracket Challenge (a carryover from the Hit & Run Tourney Pick Em days for those of you that remember) and giving you the password to get in (password: Podesta).  Max entries per person capped at three, so you’ve got options there to have some fun with upset picks.  And I can tell you this: there will be prizes for the winners involving our new logo.  Which reminds me, the deadline for entries is rapidly approaching.  So get off your asses and get them in here. More on this over the weekend and Monday.

[heavy exhale]

OK, now down to the business at hand.

I hope you weren’t hoping for a tax cut any time soon.  Mitch McConnell said they’re not likely to take up the idea until August at least.  You know, when your party runs on tax cuts, you might want to take up tax cuts early on.  Because, you know, that’s what you ran on.

Mollie Hemingway has a little bit of fun at the expense of “the woke”.  In all honesty, she could have written a book on the missteps of the organizers.  She kept it to five items though.

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.  Except this time, “try” means adding seventeen year olds to the voting rolls.  Hey George, if you really gave a shit about 17 year olds, you’s want to lower the drinking age and smoking age to 17 instead of pushing them up, and you’d demand the “restricted” drivers licenses become “full” licenses once these people hit 17.  AND YOU’D BE PUSHING TO LOWER THE AGE OF CONSENT! (Thanks, OMWC. I missed that biggie on the first pass.)  You know, since they’d be adults and all that.  But nope.  You don’t want to treat them like adults.  You just want another voting bloc.

Remember that fight (literally, not figuratively) a few years back between a Chicago cop and a Chicago fireman at the scene where two people had fallen in the river and needed rescuing?  Well, just in case you’d forgotten, the bill for taxpayers has partially come due.  And the tab so far is $1,600,000.  It’s expected to rise.

South Korea finally ousts President Park Geun-hy.

And in sports news unrelated to the Osweiler-Browns(!) and Texans-Romo(?) goings-on, Jay Cutler left quite a legacy in Chicago.  Not the good kind.

That’s it.  Carry on.

Thursday, baby!  The Thiccness is on its way, don’t worry.  Now, let’s see if I can keep you amused for the first part of the day.

• Remember Rand Paul and his Obamacare replacement?  Well, he’s finally out there tearing Paul Ryan’s plan apart and pushing for his to get a legitimate look.  Here’s to hoping he has success, because compared to the turd Ryan proposed, his is the greatest thing since…well, since the government started meddling in the market to begin with.
• On other healthcare/government news, you might be shocked to find out that when the CBO scores something, they tend to do a terrible job at it.  Which still doesn’t explain all of the terrible, debt-inducing boondoggles that have been pushed through that they didn’t score.  But it at least gives debt-busters ammunition the next time they get into an argument with some mouth-breather who says we should pass some stupid-ass stimulus, or control over an entire market segment merely because the CBO claims it will be debt-neutral or will actually be a net winner.
• If you think the WikiLeaks Vault 7 release has been a big flop, don’t worry.  They’ve only released 1% of the documents they acquired. Meanwhile, the mainstream media will continue to try and ignore it but the people will still keep digging into what has been released.
• Hawaii sues President Trump over the new travel ban.  You know, the one that hasn’t even been put in place yet, therefore having no way to effect someone and grant them standing.

  

• Meanwhile on the mainland, illegal immigration has taken a precipitous fall since the immigration laws that have been on the books for quite some time started being marginally more strictly enforced but started receiving considerably more coverage.
• The Boston Celtics absolutely throttled the Golden State Warriors in the fourth quarter on the road.  And Tony Romo will likely get his walking papers from Dallas today, leading to a mad scramble which most people expect Denver or Houston to win.  One thing’s for sure: the Browns won’t go after him.

Here’s the last decent song the Rolling Stones put out. (Don’t say “Hang Fire”. That was a good one too, but this was the final track on that album so it counts as “last”)

Last thing: I’ll be putting together a college basketball tourney pick em for the Glibs and for any of our old friends that haven’t joined us but participated in the years I used to do it over there.  I know I failed to put one together last year, but I’m climbing back in the saddle again this year and will have it up shortly so you guys can get registered.  It’ll be a Yahoo! deal, just to give you a heads-up.

Wednesday, baby! Halfway to the weekend.  And I bet even money the first half of your week has gone better than the people at the CIA.  Unless one of you works for the CIA.  Which I wouldn’t doubt, you sneaky infiltrating bastards… But I digress.

Now let me get back to the job at hand: providing you with a heaping helping of links to warm your belly and set you off on your midweek adventures satisfied. Unless you’re a Cuban hobo(ette). Of course, you can’t access the internet down there anyway.

• President Trump’s deregulation efforts are driving the stock market gains and creating fantastic, great, yuuuuge levels of optimism for people wishing to open or expand a business.
• I’m all for charter schools, but before they distribute a survey about trauma designed for adults, including graphic questions about sexual abuse that sound more like an application to work at SugarFree’s weekend adventure dungeon to nine and ten year olds, they probably ought to give the parents a heads-up.

• Looks like the left have gotten their marching orders on how to report the latest WikiLeaks release of CIA docs that reveal some of the worst invasions of our privacy and other underhand shit I’ve ever heard of.  Surprised?  I’m not.  Its all about principals over principles nowadays. Sad that the vast majority of these people were all supportive of leakers when Bradley Manning was spilling the beans on BOOOOOOOOSH but now that Obama is getting dumped on, its all a big Trump-Putin-Assange conspiracy to take down the Chocolate Jesus.
• If the organizers of the “Day Without A Woman” set out to create difficulties in finding childcare for the people they made agreements with, then they’re being wildly successful.  Of course, a lot of those parents are pretty pissed.
• Here’s a heartwarming story out of Cuba for all of those fans of the Castro regime that fly their private jets there to extol the virtues of that tropical paradise.

And I leave you with this little ditty. Enjoy it as much as I will, children of the 80’s (and anybody else that enjoys great music from people with shitty political beliefs).  Or if that’s not your thing, here’s another song with the same name from a great movie.

Go out there and have a wonderful day.

You guys deserve a solid links today.  Let’s see if I can deliver or if you’ll have to wait until the afternoon to get them.

• College group thinks segregation is a good thing, even when it comes to lifesaving training.  But you probably won’t read about this in the Washington Post.  Because the group is York University’s Black Student Alliance that is only offering CPR to black students.
• What you will read in the Washington Post, however, is that the reason the GOP has their strongest footing ever in government is because of racism.  It even goes so far as to lament that in some places under 20% of whites (gasp) voted for Obama in 2008.  No breakdown or justification was offered for the much higher %age of blacks that voted for Obama in the same election.  Nope, just “research” that proves a lower %age of whites voting Republican in the south is racist.  Enjoy the derp.
• Victor Davis Hanson offers a blistering, and in my opinion extremely accurate, takedown of the media.  Enjoy the opposite of derp.
• President Trump released his revised travel ban and it could face some legal challenges. Expect those “challenges” to take place somewhere out west among a friendly Ninth Circuit.
• Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep set to star in a new Pentagon Papers movie that will be directed by Steven Speilberg.  You may remember Spielberg as the director of such fantastic films as the Indiana Jones trilogy, “1941”, “Schindler’s List”, “Jurassic Park” and especially “Jaws”. Or you can be a dick and say everything he did sucked because he was attached to “Always” and “War Of The Worlds.”  Either way, if you haven’t seen “Jaws”, you should.

Those are the links.  Now its time for me to walk away and get on with the rest of my day.  I see a zoo in my immediate future.  And three kids that all want to go in a different direction.  Wish me luck.