Category: Daily Links

Brett is having technical difficulties today.  Apparently has been in talks with a group of Bellarussian chemistry students located out of a small operation in Bolivia.  Let’s just say, they have good stuff.

Now for the links down south!

Brazilian president Brazilian Trump Jair Bolsonaro rejects an offer of $22 Million from the G-7 to fight the fires in the Amazon Rainforest  in private farms and ranches adjacent to the Amazon Rainforest.  His response to Macron was…brutal.

Bolsonaro made those remarks to reporters in Brasilia shortly after the website G1 reported that the president’s chief of staff, Onyx Lorenzoni, had rejected the offer outright.

“Thanks, but perhaps these resources are more relevant to reforesting Europe,” Lorenzoni was quoted saying. Referring to the recent Notre Dame blaze in Paris, he went on to suggest that if Macron cannot “avoid a predictable fire in a church,” he might not have much to teach to Brazil.

The BBC asks:  Why does nobody care about the same Amazon fires in Bolivia?   1.  It’s Bolivia, who care?  2.  Bolivia is currently governed by an “agreeable” technocrat, who  is currently taking it up with the courts there to abolish the term limits and seek a 4th term as president.

Guess what time of year it is?  Yup, that’s right.  Its time for Trump to take a dump all over hurricane plagued Puerto Ricans!  YEAH!

Recent ICE Raids made possible through GPS tracking and surveillance technology.  This troubles immigration advocates.

“It’s troubling to us that people who are released are being tracked for reasons that have nothing to do with whether they’re likely to appear for their court cases or abscond,” said Judy Rabinovitz, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Immigrants’ Rights Project.

The search warrants for the food processing plants in Mississippi said undocumented immigrants previously released from ICE detention facilities on electronic monitoring were found at plants operated by all five of the companies targeted in the operation. ICE targeted seven facilities operated by A&B, Koch Foods, Peco Foods, PH Food and Pearl River Foods.

LOL.  That’s terrible.  Now do it for everyone else being tracked for reasons having nothing to do with appearing in court.

Speaking of famous Mexicans in the news–Alt-right harbinger of hatred Pepe the Frog is back …in Hong Kong.

Last but not least, this has nothing to do with Mexico, but Ilhan Omar is in the news again for marriage related shenanigans.

The physician, 55, and her 38-year-old husband — who has worked for left-wing Democrats such as Omar and her Minnesota predecessor, Keith Ellison — have a 13-year-old son together.

“The parties physically separated on or about April 7, 2019, when Defendant told Plaintiff that he was romantically involved with and in love with another woman, Ilhan Omar,” the court papers say.

Beth Mynett told her husband that she still loved him and was “willing to fight for the marriage” even after his admission, according to the court papers. The pair had been living together for six years before marrying in 2012, the filing said.

This is best timeline….EVER!

Splinter explains, How to Disarm America.

Music inspired by future events in Puerto Rico.

 

So much for Sharapova-Serena being much of a match. In fact, there weren’t many surprises at all, as the seeded players cruised along. The exception was Kerber going out on the ladies side. And Federer dropped a set! Expect more of the same today, although the number of big matches will be small compared to yesterday.

Elsewhere, the Yanks, Dodgers, D-backs, Athletics, Reds, Phillies, Cardinals and Rockies all won on an abbreviated slate of games. A lot of players are coming out in support of Andrew Luck. The Texans may not have enough players to field a team with all the injuries. College and pro football both inch closer. And that’s about it. I don’t know enough about Serie A to comment on the game yesterday. Most of the games in that league are fixed anyway, from what I’ve been led to believe. So I won’t even note Inter Milan winning 4-0.

Yesterday’s slate of birthdays was particularly weak. Let’s see what today has in store for us.  We’ve got serial killer Ed Gein, Warmonger and nanny-stater LBJ, the lovely Tuesday Weld, the equally lovely Barbara Bach, moviegoer Paul Reubens, political strategist and snappy dresser Roger Stone, MTV’s Downtown Julie Brown, rock god Alex Lifeson, and actor Aaron Paul who has a movie or something coming out soon.

Well that list was marginally better than yesterday’s.  But I’ve sure as shit seen better.  Anyway, there’s a big world full of big news. And we hit on the most important of them with…the links!

Hey Silicon Valley, how’s about y’all go fuck yourself? Seriously.  And when you’re done, stick your heads in a woodchipper.

In one of the most egregious cases ruling against personal responsibility, Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay $572M in opioid lawsuit. The state charged them under “public nuisance” laws and, get this, they said they misled doctors while promoting their meds.  Now let’s for a second forget that everybody for decades have known opiates are inherently addictive. How the hell do they say its the company’s fault when all the side effects discovered during the FDA approval process are included in all the company’s literature by law and that its the doctor’s responsibility to know what he’s prescribing.  So either:

1. the doctor’s didn’t read the literature about the drug before they prescribed it
2. the FDA didn’t do a good job of identifying and listing side effects during the trials
3. J&J committed fraud by omitting it from the information send to doctors

Now there’s no way in the world its #3, because they would have charged them with a slew of felonies and fraud instead of what they usually charge people with who don’t cut their grass often enough.  This is a fucked up verdict. I only hope the state SC reverses it. Although I’m not optimistic that the same justice system that stands to receive a huge windfall of cash by leaving the verdict to stand will reverse course.

::inhales:: ::exhales:: ::inhales:: ::exhales::

Ok, I’m calmed back down. Maybe this story about weed will mellow me out. Just kidding, I don’t take the pot. But that’s a pretty good piece that does a better job of recognizing reality than most reporting on…anything.

Of course, this is perhaps the least surprising news in the world. Maybe in the history of the world.

Just in case you stopped thinking New York City’s cops weren’t self-absorbed and self-serving cretins who care more about their “brothers” than justice, this’ll snap you out of that delusion. Not that I’m not happy about the numbers. I’m just not happy that whether they do their job or not is dependent on the city allowing them to operate above the law.

Soon you’ll be able to go into a KFC and say “it tastes like chicken”. Of course you could just order chicken and these damn militant vegans could stop telling us how horrible we are for eating meat while trying to make everything they eat taste like it. Whatever, Popeyes is taking over as KFC dies anyway. Not that either has chicken as good as Bojangles. Sadly I can’t get my Bojangles here.

Well those are the links. I’ve got to play more than one song today because they’re too short. Here’s the second one. And yes, there’s a birthday tie-in for both of them. Figure it out.

That’s all I got. Have a wonderful day, friends!

Least surprising news ever:

At the New York Times, Bedbugs

Dear Colleagues,

During an extermination sweep of the newsroom over the weekend, we discovered evidence of bedbugs in a wellness room (02E4-253) on the second floor, a couch on the third floor and a booth on the fourth floor. These specific areas were then swept by professionals and found to be otherwise clean. In an abundance of caution, the second-floor room has been temporarily closed, the booth has been blocked off and the couch has been removed to be treated and professionally cleaned.

Additionally, evidence of possible bedbug activity was found in a few personal lockers on the third floor. Individuals associated with those lockers have been contacted and treatment is underway.

We continue to monitor the situation and, as a precaution, we intend to sweep all New York Times-occupied floors. We will provide updates as they become available.

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The mysterious family behind In-N-Out has donated more than $15,000 to Trump and the GOP since 2016

A top In-N-Out executive and his wife have donated thousands of dollars to President Donald Trump, even as many brands shy away from associating with the president.

Mark Taylor, In-N-Out’s chief operating officer, and his wife, Traci Taylor – who is the half-sister of In-N-Out’s president and owner, Lynsi Snyder, and who lists In-N-Out as her employer – have donated more than $15,000 to Trump and the national Republican Party since August 2016.

Both Mark and Traci Taylor hit the maximum that an individual can donate to a candidate in donations to Trump in the 2016 election. In fact, both exceeded the limit and had thousands of dollars in donations returned.

Since Trump’s election, the Taylors have continued to donate thousands of dollars to Trump and the Republican National Committee.

1,500 words on this vital story. But that’s OK, I’ve been assured that cancel culture doesn’t exist.

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Libertarian Just Gonna Kick Back And Enjoy Watching Faith In Government Institutions Crumble

MANCHESTER, NH—As tensions between the right and left continue to increase in the midst of Donald Trump’s controversial presidency, local libertarian man Alan Bardo announced Friday he’s just gonna kick back and enjoy watching faith in our government institutions crumble.

Bardo stated he’s been very pleased with Trump’s performance so far, since the public’s reverence for both the office of the presidency and the federal government as a whole has plummeted since he was sworn in.

“I’m gonna pop some popcorn, sit back, and just really savor this whole thing,” he said cheerily as he turned his TV to CNN and his iPhone to a Fox News live stream. “Ha, look at these CNN clowns starting to question whether the president should have so much power. I love it!”

“The right is attacking the FBI and CIA, the left is attacking the president—this truly is the best timeline,” he said, misty-eyed.

We are either making an impact on the zeitgeist, or they are just ripping us off. But let’s not bring it up. I don’t want them to pummel us like they have snopes.com.

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Heroic Mulatto did this to us…

Your new fetish is Dragons Having Sex With Cars.

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The soundtrack of this post:

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Glib’s Fantasy Football Sign-Up Link:

https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/1032574/invitation?key=6002097debc65c9c&soc_trk=lnk&ikey=e6e665ca3bcd0590

Liverpool pounded the shit out of Arsenal.I mean they just humiliated them. Man City also won handily, but as far as the “big six”, not too good a weekend otherwise.

Tottenham and ManUre both went down to bottom-feeders, at home. And Chelski eked out a win. Rory McIlroy won a shitload of money. And by shitload, I mean  he won a cool $15M for winning the Tour Championship.  And he would have won it without the stroke handicap system they used for the final event of the season (which I actually liked).  The US Open starts in a handful of hours, for you tennis fans out there.  I’m picking Joker and Serena to win. Yes, I know that’s not being very brave, but that’s where we are in tennis right now.  And trust me, I only hope I’m half right.

The Yankees beat the Dodgers last night in what some people are hoping is a preview of the World Series. I’m not one of those people.  The Firstros thumped the Angels and now share the best record in the AL with the aforementioned Bronx Bombers. They’re both one game back of the Dodgers for the best record overall. Other winners from yesterday were: Baltimore, Atlanta, Kansas City, Miami, Pittsburgh, Arizona, Chicago (AL), Minnesota, St Louis, Washington, San Francisco, San Diego and Seattle.

And Andrew Luck dropped a shit-bomb in the lap of the Colts over the weekend.  Not quite as big a turd as that Miami-Florida college game was Saturday night though.  I mean…Jesus, that was the worst-played college game I’ve seen in some time. There is no other way to put it.

Is today your birthday? If it is, you’ve got the following to keep company with: first ever British Prime Minister Robert Walpole, missionary and humanitarian Mother Teresa, sax player Branford Marsalis, former child actor Macaulay Culkin, Rockets guard James Harden and …that’s it.  Shit, what a dreadfully short and weak list.

OK, now let’s all settle in for … the links!

This is the funniest story all weekend. Of course the sources are all unnamed. There is no documentation to support the accusation. Nobody in the meetings has stepped forward and said its what happened and several people involved have all denied that the conversations ever took place.  But fuck it, let’s run with it anyway.

Let me see if I have this straight. So they’re gonna do to you what you’ve been doing to the subjects of your pieces for years? How fucking dare they!!! Or is it ok for CNN to threaten to doxx someone if they don’t take down a internet meme? Or for newsmedia to dig through Kyle Kashuv’s social media from when he was 14 because he’s pro-gun?  Fuck you, you morally repugnant “gatekeepers” of the news.  Sorry your anti-semitism and racism is gonna be brought to life.

Pretty sure this is an excessive and wasteful use of resources. But the “victim” is maintaining his story, and if its true this was a heinous crime of lynching. So may as well use everything to make sure this kind of thing never happens again.

Gamers worry about the weirdest shit. That’s all I got for this one.

When keeping it real goes wrong.  Also, don’t forget bring a (second) towel.

How kind of you parasites. Oh, it doest really restore property rights, it just gives people a window of time to do what you tell them to do or go back to being fucked over.  So much for freedom.

If you plan to watch the SpaceX launch tonight, make sure you aren’t watching through your window.

No birthday musicians worth playing, so I’m declaring prima nocte and just picking something I wanted to hear.

That’s all for today, dear friends. Hope the week gets off to a good start for you.

Yesterday afternoon, I was looking out our back door at the golf course and saw a large brown object. I thought, “Wait, what the fuck kind of animal is that? A dog? An oversized record-setting cat? A javelina?” Then it rose up and hopped away- it was the biggest goddam jackrabbit I’ve ever seen, and I lived in Texas. Our next door neighbor was out and remarked, “Yeah, when they get that size, they chase the dogs instead of the dogs chasing them.” I swear, we’re living in Australia, every animal here is freakish and dangerous. Now, what does this have to do with links? Nothing at all.

But still, gotta have birthdays. And today’s include the REAL Klaatu; a decent cartoonist whose reputation outshone his talent; a cross between Trump and FDR; the one and only true James Bond and Zed; the greatest mustache in MLB history; and one of my favorite radio hosts.

News to follow.

 

If Biden gets the nom, go long on popcorn stock.

 

Government really has become a circus. God bless it.

 

Owning the French.

 

Gay marriage means messy gay divorces. Really, is this what y’all had in mind?

 

I knew that there was something about Phoenix I liked. Lots of quotes from a real expert, a UC professor, and obligatory dark and ominous invocation of those that evil Koch brothers.

 

Every time something bad happens to the Irsays, an angel gets his wings.

 

In other football news, well, that didn’t last long.

 

Rapey teachers, rapey, rapey. Teachers.

 

Sooooo carefully focus-grouped. And so dull.

 

Why you can safely ignore ANYTHING that The New Yorker has to say about art. Christ, what an asshole.

 

 

Old Guy Music was going to be something on the rabbit theme, but SP gave me an earworm I can’t shake.

 

 

The new patio has been poured and came out just the way we wanted it, and we didn’t have workers showing up at 0600 this morning.

 

The backlash would end Trumps re-election bid, but it would be so worth it.

 

There are times where we can be a truly fucked up species. I propose staking the perp to the ground in the Mojave desert and just walking away.

 

I guess we didn’t send our best, and brightest.

 

If they hadn’t outlawed DDT, we would be having this discussion.

 

I hope they weren’t listening when I asked Siri to…uh…never mind.

 

Snark away, Glibertariat. I’m feeling mellow tonight.

Another week, and everything seems just like last week. We’ve settled into a morning ritual, and at least things are predictable. Sorta. Wonder Dog is ecstatic because she gets all kinds of extra food from Grandma when we’re not in the room by putting on her Starving Dog act, right out of Oliver Twist. “Mom, please don’t feed the dog.” “But she looked hungry. How can you not feed her?” “Mom, she’s 120 pounds, she gets plenty of food.” “Then why does she look like she’s so hungry?” Sigh.

Oh, birthdays, right. A guy who inadvertently inspired the Chinese fortune cookie industry; my favorite essayist and contender for favorite novelist; a Raccoon who could write; a piece of shit “historian” who ruined millions of minds; another piece of shit who destroyed millions of lives and was even less deserving than Obama of a Nobel; an incredibly overrated writer; and a guy who was arguably the greatest shortstop in MLB history.

News next.

 

I can’t imagine why anyone could possibly think that Trump is a moron.

 

I can’t imagine why anyone could possibly think that Biden is a senile moron.

 

Teaching the stupid to become stupider.

 

What nice folks. No wonder the Left loves them so much.

 

When it ain’t your year, it really ain’t your year.

 

Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

 

It’s the 99% of bad cops and their enablers who make the rest look bad.

 

This is just fucking creepy.

 

Old Guy Music from a band that once was hot, now is largely forgotten, but they had their moments. And now we’re 50 years after. Holy shit, the guitar solo… And a few lines that could not appear in a modern song (“Everywhere is freaks and hairies, dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity? Tax the rich, feed the poor ’til there are no rich no more?”)

SEA SMITH GLAD HE GET DO LINKS. GIVE ALIBI FOR … THINGS. NO CATCH SEA SMITH PET! SEA SMITH RESCUE PET “SMILEY”.

 

NOW PET SAFE, SEA SMITH GIVE LAND HOOMANS LINKS. THEY GOOD LINKS FOR YOU!

1. SEA SMITH CONFUSE. HE THINK TURKEY BOSS AND RUSSIA BOSS BUDDIES. WHAT THIS? MAKE SEA SMITH GLAD HE STAY AWAY FROM SYRIA. THAT WHERE ALEPPO, RIGHT?
2. THIS MAKE SEA SMITH HAPPY! MORE HOOMANS GO WATER. SEA SMITH VISIT ENGLAND. BY VISIT ENGLAND….
3. SEA SMITH SEND WARNING COUSIN STEVE SMITH!
4. LAUGH! NOW RAPEY HOOMAN DEAD, FRENCH HOOMANS GET TOUGH. THEM STILL HAVE ROMAN POLANSKI HOOMAN LIVE THERE?

COME ON IN, WATER IS FINE!

I think my kids pulled my rearview mirror off when climbing around in the car yesterday. And of course, just like in sex, I can’t get the button to pop out. Err, I mean, the little metal mounting button won’t come unattached from the mirror. Reviewing the Intarwebz shows me that Ford expects me to spend $18 on a tool they change every 5 years to solve this problem. Orrr…. I can just hold the whole fucking mirror on the window for the entire 15 minute cure time of this crap I bought so the adhesive isn’t bearing the weight. Hmm, I think I can do that while drinking a beer. Just to be sure, I’ll bring two. Jesus, Ford, when did you become a European car company?

I didn’t even know this goober was running. Apparently, nobody else did either. Except SF.

Florida Man turned into Captain Hook by gator. No word on whether it follows him around or has swallowed a clock.

I’m sure we’ll talk about this horrible gun crisis right?

This is the saddest article I’ve read in a long while. And while I’m fine, I guess, with people finding a surgeon to mutilate them at their request, I just can’t help but wonder how one comes to occupy a place where removing a part of your body that gives you greater autonomy and a broader set of abilities is seen as desirable.

 

SugarFree’s Dem Deathwatch

Hope you’ve all had a wonderful week so far.  Mine has been a treat, as I’ve been able to come back and do these links again.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t take preseason football seriously, so I won’t even bother giving them. But I sure am ready for football to get here. Your winners last night in baseball were:Boston, Chicago (NL), Tampa, NY (NL), Atlanta, St Louis, Chicago (AL), Oakland, Los Angeles (NL) and the Houston Astros hung on after another great pitching outing from their starter and a very shaky 9th from the bullpen. But a win is a win!

Just in case you were wondering about the US Open draw, here are a few interesting tidbits.  Interesting that Sharapova and Serena get to play in Round 1.  I’ll be getting my popcorn for the press conference if Sharapova wins that. Because I can assure you that Serena will go completely off the rails.

Alright, let’s get into some birthdays here.  We’ve got pre-Belgian Charles Martel, headless king Louis XVI, dancer-actor Gene Kelly, TV’s Barbara Eden, The Who’s Keith Moon, 80s heartthrob Rick Springfield, drug connoisseur River Phoenix, basketball’s Kobe Bryant and funny man Jay Mohr.  Congrats to you…and to you as well. You know who you are.

My God, I just noticed I’m getting behind and better hurry up so I can be on time with…the links!

I don’t know about you, but this is good news as far as I’m concerned. I’m sure the media will spin it as a sign of the impending financial apocalypse (that they’ll forget in December of next year and pivot to something else), but it would be nice to see prices keep falling.

Everybody is entitled to live where they want. Even if they think the rest of us shitmunchers “have made enough money at some point”. Double-points for screeching about global warming  and then buying a mansion on Martha’s Vineyard. Pretty house though.

I never got this shit.  Why do people go apeshit when someone has received a donation from a piece of shit?  The correct response, as far as I’m concerned, would be to say “Yeah, he gave us $800k. We’re glad we have it so it can be put to better use than he’d have done with it. What he did was awful and we hope we put the donation to better use.”  But no!!! Can’t do that. You have to go give the money away now to another charity and recalculate your budget. Because somehow the money was dirty when you got it but its not dirty when you send it somewhere else?  Man, social signaling sucks.

San Francisco has announced a new large-scale program to build two new centers for the homeless to shoot up in and use as public toilets.  But don’t worry. They won’t be built for six years, so they’re for the next crop of homeless.

Jimmy Carter is back to doing the thing he did best. Good for him. I wish more former politicians would get into actual charity work. It sets a good example that charity do more than government programs.

The next round of Dem debates may be crowded after all.  I don’t care about Steyer, but I hope Tulsi makes it. Just so she can show she’s anti-war and the progs can go after her as a Russian stooge because she doesn’t want war.  Plus because she’s pretty damn good looking.

Anyway, here’s today’s song.  Be sure to turn the volume to max before you click the link.  Trust me.

Anyway, have a great day. Yeah, you.