Author: sloopyinca

I don’t think I can express my displeasure at the CFP committee enough, dropping Ohio State to #2. But I won’t go into it. That’s life being a fan of a team not in the SEC. And who knows, maybe Clemson really aren’t that good and its all their terrible schedule…yeah, right.

In more enjoyable news, the Patriots dynasty may be coming to an end.  If it continues, it’ll most likely involve a road playoff game. And speaking of playoffs, the Steelers are still inexplicably in with a few weeks to go.  So are the Cowboys, who deserve to be taken behind the barn and shot. And the Texans, who are a schizophrenic enigma to say the least.  Should be a wild final 3 weeks. Enjoy it.

Lots of other stuff happening, but we have some time constraints, so I’m moving on. Puritan and poet John Milton was born on this day.  So were frozen food magnate Clarence Birdseye, actor Broderick Crawford, dimpled actor Kirk Douglas, actress Judi Dench, football players Deacon Jones and Dick Butkus, golfer Tom Kite, TNG and DS9’s Michael Dorn, and ‘rassler Kurt Angle.

Not a bad list. Not great, but not bad.  Now on to…the links!

World Anti-doping Administration drops the athletic hammer on Russia. All I can say is: WOW!

“Uh, that’s half the reason we’re doing this. The other half is to erase the rest of the value.”
-climate activists

Protesters are back in force in Hong Kong. And I’m not so sure they should be referring to as “Democrats” but rather “pro-democracy.”  Their ship seems to have passed the Dems’ ship in the night headed in opposite directions.

The FBI is presuming the Pensacola NAS shooting as a terrorist attack. Yeah, no shit.

Bonus NY Post link for a quick laugh. LOL, stop standing on the race course, dumbass.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Never trust a cat. This is basic stuff, people.

Somehow I don’t think that relationship is gonna last. Christ, what an asshole.

Not sure I’ve ever played this since we started doing songs on here. Whichever one of you has the spreadsheet (or database) set up listing songs by artist, title, genre, length, artist height, or whatever other category I’m leaving out, can let me know. The rest of you, enjoy it.

Now go have a great day, friends.

We made it, people. The end of the week is here. And all I can say is “Thank God”. Not that its been a terribly difficult week, but just because the college football conference championship games are here and we’re just two days away from the CFP committee naming the playoff teams and locations of the semifinal games so I can line up my tickets and get my Christmas vacation plans in place. Fortunately, I have family in Phoenix and close enough to Atlanta that I can leave the little ones somewhere and buy much better tickets than I’d otherwise buy if I had to buy six of them (my son has decided not to take leave so his NCO can spend time with his family before being deployed to Kuwait in January, so its just me, Banjos and the older daughter that’ll be going to the semifinal). Fingers crossed for Atlanta.

Speaking of sports, the Cowboys are imploding. And the Bears are still alive. Everton fired their manager, as expected. Arsenal continue to suck. West Point needs to do a little better research for slogans. And a bunch of hockey games got played yesterday with the following teams winning: Chicago, Colorado, the MINNESOOOOOOODA WIIIIILD, NYI, Phoenix, Carolina, NYR, Dallas and Calgary.

No point in doing birthdays today Take a look for yourself and see how weak the roster is. Man, that’s the weakest day I’ve ever come across.

OK, on to…the links!

Four people killed in Miami area after cops decide to reenact a scene from Heat. That was nuts. Twitter is filled with videos of it. Here’s one. And here’s a second one that’s just insane. Seriously, what the fuck were they thinking? They had a chopper following the truck. In rush hour. It wasn’t going anywhere they couldn’t follow it to a lot more safely than, you know, having fifty cops unload on it in rush hour traffic.

Phoenix Man considering giving Florida Man a run for his money. I could understand this in the summertime, but not once the temps drop.  Have some class, dude.

Jeez, no wonder Chicago and Cook County are going broke. But I’m sure residents are fine knowing their property tax hikes are going to a good cause like…paying a cop $110k a year for his third year on the job.

“Just because you’re a judge doesn’t mean you’re not allowed to have fun.” At least that would be my defense if I were her.

That’s some quality police work there, Lou. I mean…Jesus. I wouldn’t want to be a taxpayer in that county, because they’re about to be on the hook for this colossal fuckup.

Uber might want to do a better job screening potential drivers. Otherwise, this is just the kind of fodder municipalities beholden to the taxi cartels will use to block them from operating.

Since we went with songs that rocked from the first note to the last this week, I’m coming with this today. And yes, I realize it ends by fading out, but I don’t care.

That’s it.  Enjoy the day and have a great weekend, friends.

Yesterday sucked. Drive to DFW and back in the same day and do a bunch of moving and lifting in the middle of the trip…ugh. Oh well, at least I got to finish the night off by watching my Buckeyes basketball team absolutely smash North Carolina on the road. In fact, it was Roy boy’s worst home loss ever while at UNC. Elsewhere, Purdue one-upped the Buckeyes by throttling UVA by even more. And with Maryland thumping Notre Dame, the Big Ten bested the ACC for the first time since 2015.

Across the pond, Liverpool obliterated crosstown rival Everton, whose manager is likely to be out of a job sometime today. ManUre took down Spuds, who continue to suck no matter who’s in charge. Chelski and Leicester also won. And in NFL news, the 49ers suspended their radio analyst for saying something you’re not supposed to say. NHL winners were Colorado, Washington, Pittsburgh and Ottawa.

Old school Genoan Pope Julius II was born on this day. So were president Martin Van Buren, General George Custer, aviation pioneer Clyde Cessna, genius filmmaker Fritz Lang, noted anti-Semite Walt Disney, physicist Werner Heisenberg, redneck Senator Strom Thurmond, another great director Otto Preminger, rocker Jim Messina, PGA great (I got to play with once) Lanny Wadkins, wide receiver Art Monk, and snooker legend Ronnie O’Sullivan.

Now we come to…the links!

The House judiciary committee held an impeachment hearing yesterday. It wasn’t exactly what I’d call impartial. In fact, it was downright scary in its partisanship.

George Zimmerman hadn’t been in the news for a while. So I guess this was inevitable.

A sailor went nuts and killed two people before offing himself at Pearl Harbor. That’s got grudge written all over it.  But don’t worry…the NYPD is on it.

A Florida UPS worker stole a rather expensive package rather than deliver it. But the bigger crime is that haircut. WOW!

NASA probe “touches the sun”. That’s actually pretty cool. Now maybe NASA will start to understand how the sun impacts climate more than man can. But that doesn’t sell, so I doubt they’ll even consider it.

Somebody in the comments recently asked where were the French yellow jackets. Well, they’re back in the news today.

I had some success with yesterday’s rock. May as well kick ass two days in a row. Enjoy.

Now go have a great day, friends!

Well the penultimate CFP rankings are out. And Ohio State still sits atop LSU. Bama’s precipitous fall will generate a lot of glee, although probably not in the Finebaum house. That little bald turd is probably on suicide watch. Also, looks like the committee are poised to install the Big XII or Pac12 champ as the 4-seed, should LSU beat Georgia and the Big Ten and ACC play out as expected. And in a shock, an Ohio State football coach won an award for the first time in 40 years. Seriously, it had been 40 years, 2 national championships, an undefeated season where they were kept out of the record books, and 15 conference championships for the school without a coach winning the award. Seems about as legit as one coach leaving Chase Young off the all-Big Ten first team…which also happened.

Ron Rivera was fired by the Panthers. TTUN’s basketball team got rolled by Louisville. The Hoosiers beat FSU. And Dayton keeps doing good things. Duke bounced back to beat Sparty. And across the pond, Man City and Crystal Palace both won with a heavy slate of midweek games continuing today with the Merseyside derby among others on tap.

A huge slate of NHL games were played last night. The winners were Boston, Montreal, THE MINNESOOOOOODA WIIIIIIIILD!!!!!!!, Vegas, Philly, Phoenix, Tampa, Winnipeg, Vancouver and Washington. The Red Wings didn’t lose because they didn’t play.

Some birthdays of note for you to ponder: Sioux chief Crazy Horse, earmuff inventor Chester Greenwood, Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, hockey legend Al Delvecchio, actor Max Baer, Jr, “The Dude” Jeff Bridges, rap mogul and fan of communist Cuba Jay-Z, and the lovely Tyra Banks.

OK, now on to…the links!

Just in case you wanted to stare at a bunch of boobs. See, this is how you’re supposed to treat boobs with cameras around.

And this is not how you’re supposed to treat boobs with cameras around. Also, this story is lacking some description. And video. Come on, FOIA advocates…do your job!

Ah yes, our blind system of justice works! LOL, just kidding. This fucker would be rotting in a cell if he was a normal person.

The winning bidders are in and 10,000 scooters will be let loose in D.C. In completely unrelated news, 10,000 personal injury lawyers just ordered new billboards and park bench signage in the city.

Drug kingpin Pablo Escobar’s brother releases foldable smartphone with ad blitz featuring women in lingerie. No, seriously. That’s it. That’s the story. God Bless America.

Harris taunts Trump after she drops out of the Presidential race. Weird flex, but ok.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I can’t wait to see how the grabbers latch on to this one. Because you know they will.

Here’s a great song to get you pumped up for the day. It just rocks from the first note to the last.  You’re welcome.

Now go out there and kick today’s ass, friends!

I really thought the Seahawks were gonna lose.  The Vikings put up a good fight but it just wasn’t enough.  Only a handful of games on the ice yesterday. Your winners were Buffalo, Vegas, NYI, St Louis and Anaheim. And on the hardcourt, the ACC/Big Ten thingy got into gear as Minnesoooooda took out Clemson (oh, if only this was football) and Miami knocked off Illinois. More on tap tonight including a couple of biggies.

Those notables born on this day include infinity symbol guy John Wallis, General George McClellan, novelist Joseph Conrad, college basketball coaching great Fred Taylor, rocker Ozzy Osbourne, faith healing conman Benny Hinn, actress Julianne Moore, human statue Terry Schiavo, sexy skater Katarina Witt, and ageless actor Brendan Fraser.

OK, on to…the links!

Jimmy Carter doesn’t have much time left. At least that’s my guess. I could be wrong and he could go all RBG and stay alive for years.

The Chicago Machine eats one of its own. I wonder what stupid thing the mayor did to burn this trump card.  That’s what it usually is when an expendable is cast aside with such fanfare.  Everybody knows this dumbshit should have been fired at least a month ago. Lightfoot kept him around just for this.

Prince Andrew might end up in the Tower of London. Or he may commit Arkancide. Either way, shit’s looking worse for him.

And it looks like they only winged him. Which is about the level of accuracy I’d expect. But still…this is why schools need to allow for armed personnel.

Oh man, they didn’t think this one through. Also, I guess they don’t care about far-left extremism. Otherwise they’d be placing an urn about 10x that size in front of the CCP’s offices in Bejing.

Canada susceptibility to cyber attacks goes up 1000%. US’s drops 10%.

OK, enjoy this. I know some of you will and some won’t. But I’m fine with that.

Now go have a greatly, friends!

The Texans took down the Patriots. The Ravens won a colossal game. The Steelers buried the Browns hopes one more time. And a bunch of other NFL games took place. Oh yeah, the Bungles won. But we all know this week was about Saturday.  Sorry, Golden Rodents. Y’all had a hell of a season but just ran out of gas.  No “sorry” for Bama. Fuck them. Want to not lose games like that? Learn to recruit and train better kickers. Not to mention they have no wins against ranked teams all season.  I hope they are ready for the Outback Bowl, but they’ll probably sneak into the Cotton Bowl and get to play a G5 team. Now if we could just get UVA to pull off a crazy upset this weekend. Oh, and one more thing: This clock seems to be functioning perfectly. LOL, man that was one absolutely epic beatdown in the Big House.  I will admit I was nervous as hell, but that’s just in my nature and the scars from the Cooper years that haven’t healed.  But in all honesty, the two programs are getting farther apart in quality every year now.  It’s time TTUN start nudging Harbaugh back to the NFL. Or just pretend the game isn’t important and focus on beating MSU and PSU every year.

Britney Spears, Gianni Versace, Aaron Rogers and Monica Seles were born on this day. Hardly anybody else was. Bummer.

Anyway, on to…the links!

Remind me…who runs Seattle?  Oh that couldn’t be a contributor, could it?  You know, since they pretty much have removed property owners’ rights to develop land as they see fit and fill market gaps.  Nah, it’s got to be greed.

Gun grabbers are about to get a swift kick in the balls. I, for one, expect to be pleased by the decision. Sorry, grabbers. I know the goal in removing the ordinance was so the case would get dropped and you’d just put a new ordinance in its place. You played a game and are about to lose. Nice job.

Maybe instead of pushing Nest on homeowners, Amazon should be installing it in their trucks. On a side note, how hard is it to deliver a damn iPhone 11 case on time, you bastards? I ordered it on Thursday with next day delivery guaranteed and it still isn’t here and I can’t cancel the purchase until it gets delivered. and then I have to take the time to return it now that I got another one somewhere else.

See this?  This is the world’s smallest violin playing just for you. Sorry your little insurance policy seems to have backfired.

I assume this surprises exactly zero people. Looks like they’ll have to run their circus without the biggest attraction. But there are still plenty of clowns involved.

Global warming is about to fuck shit up. Have fun with that. But seriously, stay safe.

I’d imagine more TTUN fans are feeling this way about Harbaugh and the Wolverines today. And I couldn’t be happier.

Go have a great day, friends.

I suppose I could have said Friday and nobody would have really noticed since most of you are looking at the end of the work week. But it’s still Wednesday and I like to keep things simple.  Like Stephen F Austin did last night in beating Duke at Cameron. That. Was. Awe-some! elsewhere on the basketball court, Kansas, Michigan State, Auburn, Colorado and Dayton were big winners.

In hockey, your winners were Boston (who routed the Habs), Chicago, and THE MINNESOOOOOOOOOOODA WIIIIIIIIIIIILD!!!!!!! Man, I love posting that for our frozen fans from Minn-NoDak.  Oh, and across the pond, your UCL results of note were Juventus over Athletico, Real drawing PSG, Man City drawing Shaktar, Spuds winning and Bayern quietly thumping everybody they play. Some good matches on tap today, with Liverpool-Napoli topping the list. Enjoy it, those of you already checked out for the week (like me!).

Thermometer meddler Anders Celsius was born on this day.  So were kung-fu legend Bruce Lee, guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, non-scientist Bill Nye, and actor Curtis Armstrong. There were others as well, but none I felt like mentioning.

Alright, on to…the links!

This has me hopping mad. Seriously? In Florida, of all places.

Sometimes. I can’t improve a headline. Like now.

I can’t imagine how tough life is for these kids. No, seriously. I can’t imagine it at all.

The hero we both want and need. Just an awesome story all the way around.

Tony Robbins sues Buzzfeed. I hope he does the same to them as Hulk Hogan did to Gawker.

Remember, when your dog licks you, he was probably licking his own ass recently. Yikes.

This isn’t one of those “hot teacher bangs students” stories. Not even close.

Enjoy a great song from a generation of great songs. Don’t agree? Fight me.

That QB from Baltimore reminds Booger of Michael Vick in case you didn’t know.  Jesus, dude. We get it. He’s a mobile QB with a hell of an arm. But I’m not sure Booger McFarland didn’t go more than two minutes last night without mentioning that. He almost made me miss Chris Collinsworth’s commentary. In basketball, the Hokies took down Michigan State in Hawaii. The Buckeyes won a game of runs at home. And Kansas, Tennessee, Auburn, VCU and the Dayton Flyers all won.

Your hockey winners were Tampa, NYR, Philly, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Nashville, Dallas, The Mighty Ducks, and San Jose. And UCL games are back today. Hopefully some of you soccer fans are either iff today or working from home so you can enjoy.  Oh, and in related news, CBS has bought the rights for the UCL from 2021-2024, which was a bit fo a surprise. I suppose they’ll have to dust off their programs from the 1994 WC and hire some analysts…like TNT did.

Religious figure Ellen G White was born on this day. She shares it with gunslinger Bat Masterson, hero to those in hot climates Willis Carrier, quitter Bill Wilson, Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schultz, sining legend Tina Turner, and man chasing Genghis Khan’s record Shawn Kemp.

OK, let’s move on to…the links!

Cummins to lay off 2000 workers globally amid business turndown. American sales were steady, but globally there was a drop-off.  Does this mean we will have to depend on Paccar, Volvo and MB to make more heavy truck motors?  Yikes!

Personally, I think this was a smart move. Well, other than having taxpayers foot the bill.  Let these cretins pay for their own security as long as they’re letting their union cops run roughshod over their residents…who are being systematically disarmed.

What kind of fresh hell is this? It’s insane that these are the things fraternities are forcing people to do this.  Why, when I was in college, all they ever did was…oh yeah, the exact same thing. And pledges were free to stop any time they wanted. SO don’t give me this “forced” crapola.

OK, this is getting ridiculous.

“The loss of Koki is no different than the loss of a Police Officer,” said El Mirage Police Chief Paul Marzocca, in the statement. “Today the El Mirage Police Department mourns Koki, we lost a brother last night.”

A candlelight vigil for Koki took place Saturday night.

“I’m devastated,” said one vigil attendee, as she cried.

Listen, I get that people care about pets. But these are working dogs who are a tool. They’re not people. They’re not cops. They’re animals trained (often poorly) as a tool (that often performs poorly). Stop this reverence for cops shit. But especially stop this humanization of police dogs shit.

Florida Man fucks up home intruder. Sorry if I feel no sympathy for the hospitalized.

This is what would have happened to me if I led a rally against my (when I worked for someone else) employers. Oh, I mean “held a rally after I got caught stealing personal information I wasn’t given access to.” Sorry, fuckers. Have a happy holiday season.

A federal judge appointed by Obama basically said executive privilege and attorney-client privilege don’t exist. I have a feeling this ruling won’t last very long.

Here you go. Hope you enjoy it.

Go have a great day.  Just four days and four hours till The Game kicks off.  Bo Bucks!

It’s the Monday before Thanksgiving, and that means my kids are home from school and I am trying to button things up this week for my last auction of the year where I get rid of the stuff I got hung with or bought thinking I could flip it.  There will be a lot of head-scratching and “what were you thinking” as I go through it.  Oh well, it’ll take my mind off The Game for a while. After otherwise manhandling Penn State, the Buckeyes look ready (if they can hold onto the damn ball).  I know who wasn’t ready: Oregon.  They shit the bed in the desert and all but put the Pac12 out of the playoff race unless Utah blows the doors off Colorado and the Ducks themselves.  Of course, nobody in the SEC of note played a decent opponent. They don’t do that during the penultimate week of the season.  And Clemson decided to take a bye week as they wrap up that murderers row of a schedule they faced with South Carolina and then likely a 4-loss foe in the ACCCG. There was a bunch of other shit that happened, especially yesterday in the NFL, but I just now realized I spent too much time on this opening paragraph and am now behind, so I’ve got to move on.

Birthday celebrants today are steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, automotive pioneer Karl Benz, busybody asshole Carrie Nation, Pope John XXIII, “old time hockey” legend Eddie Shore, baseball player and coffee pitchman Joe DiMaggio, Chilean helicopter fan Augusto Pinochet, actors Ben Stein and John Larroquette, Bucky Fucking Dent, unqualified pilot John F Kennedy Jr, possibly the best receiver of all time Cris Carter, and the lovely Christina Applegate.

OK, on to…the links!

The commies got their taints kicked in in the local Hong Kong elections. Let’s see how this effects what’s going on.  Because if we all know one thing its how commies respect elections that don’t go their way.

This woman has more lives than a cat. Or she’s a skin-suited robot. Either way, good to see her back on her feet. I hope she lives another 20 years. But she really does need to retire out of respect for the office she’s incapable of filling anymore.

A popular Alabama sheriff was killed in a parking lot…by the son of a cop.

London becomes a little less free. I don’t know if I even want to visit that shithole anymore. People there are little more than drones at this point.

What a couple of assholes. Learn some science, dickheads.

Hoooooooooooly Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttttttt. That’s gonna shake that business up.

Don’t let your girl take a holiday alone. Bad things can happen.

That’s all I got.  Have a great Monday.

We’ve reached the end of the week finally. I hope y’all are as excited as I am. And probably more excited than Colts fans, who lost a heartbreaker to the Texans.  In college, Georgia Tech topped NC State in a contest between ACC bottom-feeders. Although I realize that term could apply about 75% of that league. And on the ice, the winners were Boston, NYI, Florida, Philly, Columbus, St Louis, Vancouver, the MINNESOOOOOODA WIIIIIIIIILD!!!!!!, Tampa, Dallas, Toronto, San Jose, and LA.  Jesus, why do they seem to always schedule 2 games one night and then 10 or more the next? You know, a more balanced schedule ensures more visibility for all the teams. Ah, whatever. Bettman gonna Bettman.

Charles de Gaulle was born on this day. He shares it with aviator Wiley Post, comic legend Rodney Dangerfield, M16 designer Eugene Stoner, actor Robert Vaughn, tennis legend Billie Jean King,possible hermaphrodite actress Jamie Lee Curtis, actor Mark Ruffalo and the lovely Scarlett Johansson.

Well now, let’s get to…the links!

Let’s see…4 divided by the number of kids on college campuses. Carry the 0, add up the ones that are made-up bullshit. And …whoa! Look there, this shit is basically nonexistent. Oh well, let’s report on it breathlessly.

Say your prayers little one. Don’t forget my son, to include everyone…in your $275M lawsuit! Hey NBC: Exit light. Enter night. (Apologies to everyone for the delivery of this link. I almost feel like I offended myself.)

Looks like the Hunter Biden Griftathon was going on on both sides of the Atlantic. Jesus, this guy is the biggest fuckup since Fredo. Not Fredo Cuomo, but the real Fredo. Well, the fictional character one who was alwa…aw, Jesus, you know who I’m talking about.

But just in case you needed your Fredo Cuomo fill today after I brought him up too.

The Feds are getting their California homeless plan put together. I wonder if it’ll look as fucked up as the state plans have. I wonder if that’s even possible.

Local girl does good! Good for her. She really is incredible.

This is one we can all get behind.

Now go have a super Friday and a better weekend. (Go Bucks! Beat Penn State!)