Category: Daily Links

 

Back from BGG CON and fantastic TX BBQ. By the time these links Post, I should be at the hospital getting my third and final cortisone shot for my worthless C7 disc crushed nerves. And then tomorrow I get to go from work to see Mom moved over from acute rehab care to longer term rehab/assisted living. I am so busy…waaaa!

Poor me – I have access to the best medicine in the world. 200 years ago, I would have been an angry laudanum addict or such instead. Mom and Dad have access to wonderful help and facilities, instead of sitting in a rocking chair and croaking. STOP FOOKIN’ WHINGIN’ YE GIT!

There, much better. Now that I am focused, on to Links!

• Maybe sudden wealth for some people is…not optimal. I know for a fact, everyone that reads this here site could easily handle that kind of money…right?
• Evidence of our corruption shows how well we are doing at stopping corruption!!! But seriously….how does a faith group go from ‘anywhere two believers gather is my house’ to having a police force, a Financial Information Authority (AIF), and a Secretariat of State? *Sigh*
• Wait….how dare (((they))) ask him to admit error! Shocking! Next up, American Jews might start realizing TEAM BLUE really are not their friends. Well, maybe not today. Or tomorrow. Or the next day.

Have at you, in the comments!

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!

My wife took the kids to her mom’s house today, while I stay home to work. I will join them Wednesday afternoon. Kids are off school because, I guess school teachers didn’t get enough paid vacation? I can’t wait for President Kamala Harris to make sure schools are open every day I have to work. So, this basically means I’ll be buying flights of beers all afternoon and taste-testing each and every beer at the greatest nanobrewery in America. I will miss my kids… sometime around tomorrow evening. My wife I’ll miss tonight.

It’s deer season up north, and you know what that means — time to settle some family scores.

Trump honors hero dog at White House. “Dogs… are dirty. Lots of germs, not clean. But this dog is the best of dogs. Great… dog.” I mean, just look at this.

Maybe the US could just sell popcorn to the Israelis and stay the fuck out of this? I would like for Trump to repeat the same words that launched Glibertarians… “too local”

I’m pretty sure Florida Man could shoot and eat his way out of this problem.

 

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.

 

Never go beer-to-beer with mexican sharpshooter. Especially when you’re thirty years older than him (or in SP’s case, 25 years younger). That my excuse for being a bit abbreviated this morning.

Birthdays can’t wait, though: some Jew thinker; a proto-Californian; the guy who gifted us with Millard Fillmore; the guy who said, “Help yourself!” and spawned a genre; a guy whom I dearly wish was writing about contemporary politics; a guy who was the mayor of one too many people and got what he deserved for inflicting Diane Feinstein on us; and a guy with many, many stories.

Speaking of stories… news.

 

Don’t get excited. This is like those slasher movies where the dude keeps coming back.

 

Tard fight!

 

“We want you meddling, but our way!”

 

Some “writers” should not be allowed near a keyboard.

 

Nothing left to cut.

 

“Fais moi un sandwich!”

 

“kthxbye”

 

How low do you have to go when disrupting a Little League game seems like a good idea?

 

Old Guy Music features a true pioneer of modern jazz piano, with my favorite brushman playing behind him on a breakneck version of Honeysuckle Rose. Oh, and it’s Teddy’s birthday today, too.

Swallowswell farted, Swallowswell farted. It just doesn’t get old.

 

Slim pickin’s today. I’m okay with that.

 

Sigh.

 

I’m sure they will have a lovely Thanksgiving.

 

Um…Uhh…

 

I may have to pick this one up.

 

Hardly an arsenal, but he seems nice.

 

Lovely.

 

We’re already preparing for the four day weekend. Large delivery of alcohol from Total Wine (I love living in 2019 America!), including a few bottles of Feteasca Neagra in honor of the Glibs’ favorite vampire, and the spiritous components of dbleagle’s egg nog. I found some delicata squash, and am about to do some ambitious grocery collection. Mom keeps asking us if she’s eaten yet (she just put away about a football player’s ration), then tells us she’s not hungry. We’ll give her a couple of glasses of vodka (“It’s local Artesian water! Good for you!!!”) to quiet her a bit. Maybe give some to Wonder Dog as well. I should lay off because after I drink, I start tweeting.

Then again, there’s birthdays to celebrate, including the greatest horror actor ever– EVER; a guy who makes you wonder why anyone ever paid any attention to Marcel Marceau;  the fattest pitcher with the shakiest windup; and a horrible cultural appropriator (who taught me everything I know about Mexican cooking).

Oh yes, news.

 

In the ongoing circus, “mistakes were made. But don’t worry, not by anyone powerful or famous.”

 

The downside of automatic bill payment.

 

Let Joe grope Lindsay. Problem solved. Everyone wins.

 

In local news: this is impressive. Thank god he passed all of his drug tests.

 

I have an alibi. The absolute lack of any regard for criminal defendant rights by the people quoted in this article is sadly expected.

 

Basically, we fucked them into extinction.

 

I’m not sure of how to get snarky about this.

 

Grup no more.

 

Old Guy Music continues my trend of highlighting traditional Jewish musi… fuck it, let’s listen to the Jimi Hendrix of country music.

My wife decided to start “organizing” the garage last night and that has continued through until today. I put the word organize in quotes because my wife, bless her, believes the definition of organizing to be “throw away anything that hasn’t been used in the last year”. Now, I put up with that everywhere except for my office and the garage. Even though by conservative estimates we have spent over $1000 replacing the perfectly good things we got rid of. I’m also not saying there wasn’t anything to get rid of in the garage. But, I’ve executed at least 3 rescue sorties involving various tools and stable household chemicals. Tools don’t go bad. Stable chemicals don’t go bad. Why dispose of something perfectly good that there is a high statistical likelihood of purchasing again?

The other revealing discussion was: “This is why I can never find any of your tools.” Uh, yes. Because they are MY tools. Get your own. We have a little tool kit with a wee hammer, pliers, and drivers of various types for tasks inside. But I caved on that one… because my solution was that she should buy me one of those nice rolling toolboxes with a workbench surface. And because of all of her organizing we have a place to put it! This is the kind of compromise you run a marriage on. On to…. the Links!

Breaking: Trump supports Constitutional process! I can’t imagine why. If the timing is juuust right, the Senate can start right after the big Primary Tuesday, and spend March-August calling the witnesses Republicans want to hear from, and then, about May, it will be time for the FBI IG prosecutions. Jesus, I sound like those mooks on NRO.

All your data are belong to us! As an aside, I assume that some agency of the USG will turn out to own that server.

The Taylor Swift mafia is issuing death threats now. I’d take that less seriously, but you know… darling of the neo-Nazis. Also, crazy 24 year old women.

Florida Dog, better driver than whatever is driving anything with Canadian plates. “This is great! This is great! If only I could get to the dog park! And the windows down!”

I’m not saying its aliens, but…

 

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!)