Category: Daily Links

Well, I’m here briefly, then off to Baltimore. Not a happy trip. But at least it will be over quickly. And then I’ll be back, hopefully without any rat stowaways in my luggage.

And we can celebrate birthdays, too! Those would include a guy from the Delta; a dyslexic general; a guy who was the perfect foil in one of my favorite silly comedies; Heroic Mulatto’s hero; the Pride of Los Angeles; a notorious high jumper; and a football player who exemplified “team first”.

On to the news.

 

While I always applaud someone opposing government subsidies, taking a victory lap for converting a 25,000 white collar job opportunity to a 1,500 manual labor job opportunity strikes me as a bit weird.

 

This time it wasn’t me.

 

Every time a cop gets killed while fighting the drug war, an angel gets his wings.

 

Really? Now let’s see, who beat them last week…?

 

Now, it’s tough for me to decide who to hate the most in this story. Oh yeah, two parties that didn’t appear in the story: the union that enabled this, and the government who gave the unions this power and passed all kinds of laws forcing employers to go through these charades to get rid of a ridiculous expense.

 

Too local.

 

Apparently the government is watching me taking a shit.

 

I am shocked, SHOCKED, that cops would lie for revenue and kicks.

 

Old Guy Music today is something to get me in the Christmas mood, which for my people is to hide from the vengeful goyish crowds who want to throw us down a well.

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• OUI, OUI. DEFY…VERY NICE. BUT WHY NO CLEANSING? THIS SITUATION CALLS FOR MADAME GUILLOTINE TO REAPPEAR!
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Well happy Friday, y’all. It’s beer-thirty for me as soon as I finish these links. I’ll be in Dearborn next week, so links may be provided by other, more caring Glibs.

I have so many questions about this shooting. I guess one of the biggest would be why a Naval Air Station would be training a pilot. Oh, and fuck that guy.

Well this seems like a pretty good outcome. Oh, and fuck those guys.

Oh man, the evil plan to make you crave their product fortnightly is moving into your home as KFC creates a fireplace log that smells like chicken as it burns.

I don’t even know what…

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!

Thank goodness I’m a touch-typist after that H&H Extended Universe entry. My eyes refuse to function after that horror. I told SF privately that entry was worth just about anything Trump does in the next 400 days or so, given that the Hat & Hair main story line is so much less… blech. Trying to explain to the wife why I was giggling, weeping, and vomiting at the same time was… interesting.

Wife: I want to read that

Me: Nope. You’ll blame me for it even after you say you won’t. Its not worth it

Wife: I won’t…

Me: See, its just like I said!

Wife: Whatever, I’m not cleaning up that mess

Tennessee aquarium powers Christmas lights with renewable energy.

Vox are innumerate morons. I don’t even know where to start on this. So much garbage in two charts.

Please, please let Trump’s ego be the thing that crashes NATO.

NY Glibs, I have a mission for you. Go forth to Monroe County, interact with the local cops, and just be yourselves.

 

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!

First of all, let me just say, fuck Christmas decorations. Fuck aaaallllll of them. I spent like four hours yesterday and have two or three more today just helping my wife’s decorating. Which, IMO, is a little bit excessive. Like, Christmas tree, okay. Stockings, fine. Put out some Christmas lights so we’re not the Grinch family, cool. But why do we have like a whole different interior decoration theme complete with little nick-nacks that go on every available horizontal surface? I still don’t feel bad about using my one veto for striking the snowman head Christmas tree topper. It looked like we had mounted Frosty’s head on a tree as a warning to all the other snowmen. We’re going back to a more subtle and decorous star.

Speaking of Florida Man in the Christmas Spirit.

This seems a little wasteful.

…and that’s really all I’ve got that won’t tread on SF’s Deathwatch. Sorry, not enough Florida Men posting bail since Thanksgiving, I guess.

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Dem DeathWatch 2020

With Kamala Harris, the fake nails and weave of the Democratic field, out, I just can’t imagine what the other sub-candidates are waiting for.

Mayor Pete is having the Iowa surge they were all hoping for and New Hampshire is pretty much still up for grabs and will probably be decided on name recognition (Biden) or schoolmarmocity (Warren.)

As most of the (ew) white people keep failing one purity test or another, Castro is the far left whackjob still standing. Booker is running out of money (again) and just can’t seem to be Obama as hard as he tries.

Klobucher, Steyer, Patrick are obviously waiting for a VP chance, but, honestly, they bring nothing to a ticket. Patrick won’t solve the problem black voters have with Mayor Pete, Klobucher might be a nice pick for Biden, but that’s it–and who does she bring to a ticket that Biden doesn’t already have? Slightly different white people? Steyer might balance a Mayor Pete ticket, but any old could do that.

Gabbard, Yang, Delaney, and Williamson have no useful VP matches that are also possible. And at this point, the irrational hatred toward Gabbard is probably going to get her primaried from the far left. (And a third-party run might end her political career completely, aside from kicking around the Libertarian Party for a couple of decades.) Yang, I can only assume, is on some sort of Brewster’s Millions mission to blow as much money possible as long as he has nothing to show for it at the end. Delany looks like a penis with ventral teeth. Williamson, well, shit, who knows?

Bloomberg? Bitch, please.

And as always, HER lurks.

Bonus image:

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!