Category: Daily Links

I’m in a weird situation, going from a work environment which was, let us say, very WASP and Catholic to one where there’s a mezuzzah on the door and I’m greeted every morning with, “Boker tov!” My climate shift is both literal and figurative. So the links might be a little Jewier than usual.

Today’s birthdays are nearly 100% goyish, though: we start with elitist W.E.B. DuBois; director Victor Fleming, whose 1939 might be compared to Einstein’s 1905; organist and composer George Handel; voice of the Enterprise, Majel Barrett; arguably the greatest wide receiver in NFL history, Fred Biletnikoff; and albino shredder Johnny Winter. It is also the anniversary of the day Heisenberg dropped his great notion on Pauli, but I can’t be sure of that. Maybe it’s tomorrow. Or it was yesterday.

On to the news.

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This one starts out bad and gets worse. I think even SugarFree could not have written this as a story.

 

Of course, increasing cost of labor in places like California have nothing to do with this.

 

I shouldn’t laugh my ass off at this, but I’m laughing my ass off at this.

 

This story is particularly sad to me. I don’t know how to break the news to Wonder Dog.

 

“O’Rourke is now on the precipice of running for president with “losing Senate candidate” as the most impressive line on his résumé.” Hilarity ensues.

 

Dogs playing frisbee, nothing new. But this is Florida, so…

 

Lots of deflated balls jokes on the Robert Kraft story, but the important question remains, “Is this good or bad for the Jews?”

 

And this guy really needs to get a few tips from Kraft on picking the right massage parlor.

 

Bad dogs, bad dogs, whatcha gonna do?

 

Y’know, if you didn’t poison customers, you might get another star.

 

There’s the old joke about “chutzpah” meaning “guy kills his parents, then asks the court for mercy because he’s an orphan.” This is the modern version.

 

What I love about this story is how the actual numbers are put up front (increased speed limits on highways have had little to no effect on death rates), then followed by all sorts of “experts” telling us that increased speed limits will vastly increase death rates. And that irony seems to be lost on the person writing the story. What would we do without experts? And dumb reporters?

 

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Old Guy Music continues the theme. What if Leonard Cohen had stayed true to his roots and written his classic Hallelujah in Yiddish? OK, this is very self-indulgent of me, but it really made me feel good to hear this. I suspect I’ll be the only one here with that reaction, but hey, it’s my post so I can do what I like. The Yiddish aside, this is some fine guitar and vocals. And I bet Swiss will understand about half of this.

 

Happy Friday to each and every one of you. Except that one guy. Stick around this weekend when Mexican Sharpshooter rises to my defense, and Paul Krugman gets taken down a notch by an independent business owner. Lots of good things in store. Me, I’m at a conference all day tomorrow. yay.

Robert Kraft gets busted for going to a massage parlor in Florida. Yes, yes. We have made all the jokes about deflating balls. Jesus, the guys richer’n hell and gets the rub’n’tug by your standard old Asian lady? What’s wrong with you man?!

He was supposed to be at a black tie affair, but wore the wrong monkey suit to the wrong address.

It seems weird to me that the Fed uses the stock and bond market as its primary gauge of what to do. On the one had, marketz!!1! on the other hand, if the more accurate valuation is not what the current valuation is, what’s the problem with volatility? Of course, not mentioned in this is that as the government’s debt to GDP ration blows past 1:1, they have an interest in keeping borrowing cheap.

It looks like Mexico isn’t the only place Americans can go for meds. Another place I’m of mixed opinions on. On the one hand, it would be great if the American market wasn’t the primary subsidizer of pharma’s R&D market. On the other hand, I have no idea what part of the total cost for developing and certifying a new drug is jumping through FDA hoops.

We’ll go throw back to my high school days here.

Buenos dias.  Esta mañana yo voy a practicar mi Español.  ¿Por qué?  Porque esta articúlo mio, y porque quiero hacerlo.

Okay, I’m done, now for the links from down south….further south.

Nicolas Maduro closes the border with Brazil.  Not to keep Brazil out of course, rather to keep Venezuelans in.  Not to worry, Brazillian Trump (aka Bolsonaro) only encouraged Venezuelan’s to flee.

Presidential spokesman Gen Otávio Régo Barros said on Tuesday that, in co-ordination with the US, food and medicine would be available in the border town of Pacaraima to be collected by “the government of acting President Juan Guaidó in Venezuelan trucks driven by Venezuelans”.

A prominent Mexican environmentalist found shot in the head.  Unlikely this was a suicide, being he was shot in the head twice.

Mr Flores was a longstanding opponent of the Proyecto Integral Morelos (PIM), a development project that includes two new thermoelectric plants and a 150km natural gas pipeline in the state.

Activists fear that the pipeline will contaminate the local water supply, which would predominantly affect the indigenous communities who live in the area.

The project is due to put to a referendum this weekend – and environmental and human rights groups in the state believe that Mr Flores’ death is linked to this vote.

You have got to be kidding me…

In Utah last year, the Public Employee Health Plan took this idea to a new level with its voluntary Pharmacy Tourism Program. For certain PEHP members who use any of 13 costly prescription medications — including the popular arthritis drug Humira — the insurer will foot the bill to fly the patient and a companion to San Diego, then drive them to a hospital in Tijuana, Mexico, to pick up a 90-day supply of medicine.

A transgender woman from El Salvador was killed shortly after being deported from the US. She(or he whathaveyou) applied for assylum to the US.

A German court convicted two former employees of (in)famous gun maker Heckler & Koch for illegal arms sales to “troubled” Mexican states.

The court said the company delivered 4,219 assault rifles, 2 submachine guns and 1,759 ammunition magazines to Mexico, and they were sold on by the central purchasing body there to Jalisco, Chiapas, Chihuahua and Guerrero states. The exports took place in 2006-2009.

It found that the exports to Mexico in and of themselves were covered by German government permits, but that they were fraudulently obtained through knowingly incorrect information based upon unreliable declarations from Mexican authorities on where the weapons would end up.

Human rights groups say firearms delivered to Mexico often end up in the hands of drug cartels.

Easy enough to facilitate given the Mexican army issues the HK G-3 rifle. Make of that as you will.

Panama!

You know what they call the guy who got the lowest passing score on the bar exam? A lawyer. You know what they call this guy who got the lowest passing score on a Microsoft certification exam? Certified. Thank god. Hopefully, I never have to do tech certs again. I’m getting too old for this shit.

I can’t imagine why this guy is going to prison for 47 years. Couldn’t have anything at all to do with his anger management issues.

Classic Florida (young) Man. I guess it is still too soon for “shoot up the school” jokes.

All these vegans and vegetarians bitching about global warming are aggressing against my Neanderthal DNA.

I dunno about the big boat, but I’m pretty sure any five random guys with fishing boats in Florida could take on “Iran’s elite Republican Guard” navy pictured here.

 

RIP Peter Tork

 

 

SEA SMITH WANT HELP TOO! HE SEE COUSIN STEVE SMITH DO MORNING LINKS, CALL GLIBS, SAY “SEA SMITH TURN!” GLIBERTARIANS.COM LAND HOOMANS NO ARGUE. THEM ALL RUN AWAY FROM SHORE. SO LINKS ALL SEA SMITH’S! MAYBE HAVE LINK PARTY WITH SEA FRIENDS…

 

BUT FIRST, LINKS FOR LAND HOOMANS:

• THEM NO EXTINCT! SEA SMITH HIDE SOME FROM SOUP MAKING CRAZY LAND HOOMANS.
• SEA SMITH WANT SEE CRAZY RUSSIA INTERNET. ONLY BE HACKERS, SCAMS, ADS FOR HOOMAN WIMMENZ?
• WHO SAY “”Without respect of the law, there is neither peaceful coexistence nor democracy, but insecurity, arbitrariness and ultimately, the collapse of the moral and civic principles of society”? … A KING SAY IT! YOU KING, SILLY HOOMAN, WHAT “DEMOCRACY”?
• HERE GOOD WORKOUT FOR ATHLETE.

COME IN, WATER FINE!

The Tiny Terror (my 3 year old, not the one in my pants) wanted to have a 1am party. Took about an hour to get him settled down, then he was up again at 5am. I’m basically less functional than a zombie at this point of the day. Here, have some links.

The US Supreme Court seems to have indicated that civil forfeiture of a value greater than the maximum fine for the crime of which a person has been convicted is unconstitutional. It does not appear to me, not a lawyer, that the decision addresses whether or not a person must be convicted of a crime before such proceedings can be undertaken.

Looks like Andy McCabe might have spoiled the party for the Collusionists. It looks like Mueller may be issuing his report next week. The skeptic in me says that this is because the FBI has decided that they do not want any further attention on their behavior in the 2016-2017 timeframe.

Apparently teh gheyz not only infiltrated The Vatican, they run it like a shadowy cabal of Italian merchant families. Hey guys, take it from this lapsed Catholic: YOU were in charge of making sure children weren’t raped and abused. I don’t give a fuck about your sexuality because THE ENTIRE POINT OF TAKING THE VOW OF CHASTITY IS TO SUBSUME YOUR SEXUAL IDENTITY TO THE SERVICE OF THE CHURCH. It doesn’t matter if priests were raping boys or girls. Whatever good individual priests and nuns do (and I still believe there are a lot of them honoring their vows and doing good deeds in the service of the least among us), the Church itself is entirely rotten at this point.

Looks like Bernie can afford himself a 4th house.

After a rant like that, I guess I’m gonna go to Hell.

 

STEVE SMITH WANT HELP OUT. HIM DO LINKS THIS MORNING. THEM GOOD LINKS! HOPE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE LIKE. STEVE SMITH KNOW ALL FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE WILL READ LINKS AND COMMENT ON LINKS. DID STEVE SMITH TELL THAT THEM GOOD LINKS? THEM GOOD LINKS.

1. WANT FUN? LOOK PAPERS IN FUNNY LANDS.
2. AUSTRALIA DANGEROUS. STEVE SMITH WORRIED HOOMANS WILL NOT BE OK.
3. MAYBE STEVE SMITH START HIM OWN STORY LINE – “THE SWISS SANCTION!” STEVE SMITH NO FORGET LAST SUMMER.
4. STEVE SMITH LAUGH – LOOK LIKE “BETO” BAD NAME WIN ELECTION.

 

IF NO LIKE LINKS…

FREE CASCADIA!

Hey guys, this one is kinda rushed because I have several errands to run this afternoon. Love ya, mean it!

Oh, Florida Man. I think this guy is old enough for a pack of angry moms to take him.

Well, this guy is a moron. The KKK is the violent wing of the Southern Democratic party.

As long as my wife and kids are still on a five day workweek, I can totally be just as productive in four days. Whose law is “work expands to fill the available time”?

Come on, SMOD!

All the talk about Winston’s Mom last night got this song stuck in my head.

 

The SMITHS were not answering the GlibPhone, and ZARDOZ had yesterday morning…so, looks like we are stuck with Swiss Links. Sorry, not as fun as, say… SEA SMITH NAUTICAL LINKS O’ RAPEY FUN…but they should serve, nonetheless.

And here are your links to get the day rolling:

• Don Swissxote Update – Come see the violence inherent in the system! Catalonia Trial.

  

   

• Somalia! Pirates! Lists! I am sure every swingin’ one o’ ye is going to read #10 and say “squandered?!” … well, I did.

  

• ROADZ!  For a good laugh, read this and compare with reality. “We are dedicated to public service and strive for excellence and customer satisfaction.” HAHAHAHAHA!

  

   

• And finally….A question I am sure we are all burning to find out the answer to…

 

Uh, go forth and FREE CASCADIA from the Brutals, or whatever.

Its kind of a blue Monday here. Its been gray and shitty (but warm) all day. My wife is home sick, hacking like a COPD patient taking a smoke break. But hey, it could be worse.

Hey guys, did you know that you can be a Democratic Socialist AND a Capitalist? I suppose in the same way you can be a libertarian in favor of… well, I’ll let you guys fill in the blanks.

I hope Jussie is paying attention, THIS is how you stage politically inspired violence. You know, have the police identify both the assailant, the victim, and the weapon. (I give this about an 85% chance of being true. MAGA dude is a dumbass if true. Why would you follow some dude who just drew a gun on you into the parking lot for more talk?)

AOC as the Left’s Manic Pixie Dream Girl. I fucking love it, because it is 100% true, and they sneer at that trope as simplistic and toxic masculinity defeminizing complex, strong, wimmenz.

NOPD injures five bystanders in shootout with rival gangmember.

Hit the day’s theme music!