Author: sloopyinca

The NFL season gets closer and closer. And college is just two weeks away!!! Until then, we’ve got some baseball.  And according to someone, here is how things should finish up.  Can’t say I agree with all of that, but ok then. Oh, and yesterday’s results were: the Rays stung the Yankees. The Metropolitans annihilated the Phillies, The Cubs blanked the Pirates, The Nationals cooled off the surging Cardinals, the Phillies got some revenge in the nightcap against the Mets, the Rockies beat the Braves, the Rangers topped the Angels (and pulled off a triple play!), the MINNESOOOOODA TWIIIIIINS!!!!! beat the Tigers, the Royals beat Team Canada, and the Diamondbacks took their NL West lead to 2 with a win over the Padres.

And I’d be remiss if I didn’t give a shoutout to Brandt Snedeker, who shot a 59 in his first round at the Wyndham Championship.  And he bogeyed his first hole, too. That’s freaking incredible.

OK, on to the birthday boys and girls.  If there are any birthday Glibs out there, let us know in the comments.  And I’ll let you know that you share the date with: Davy…Davy Crockett “king of the wild frontier”, movie producer Samuel Goldwyn, hottie actress Mae West, Chinese commie Jiang Zemin, pilot Francis Gary Powers, actor Robert “Punchy” DeNiro, Oracle founder Larry Ellison, drummer Sib Hashian, brilliant driver Nelson Piquet, guitarists Eric Johnson and Colin Moulding, singer Belinda Carlisle, murder victim David Koresh, moron Sean Penn, football coach “Chucky”, and all-around douchebag Christian Laettner.

Its also the day Losantville, OH was founded…it would later be called Cincinnati, Charles Darwin left South America for the last time, the first ever air mail took off (in a balloon in 1859), Wagner’s Gotterdammerung debuted, General George Patton entered Messina to complete the conquest of Sicily, Orwell’s “Animal Farm” was first published, 1957 Baseball player Richie Ashburn fouls and hits fan Alice Roth twice in the same game at bat playing for the Philadelphia Phillies, 1st hit breaks her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher (sorry, I had to post the whole thing because it made me laugh), “Life Of Brian” hit theaters, and Bill Clinton admitted under oath that he did in fact have sexual relations with Monica Lewenski.

Still laughing about poor Alice Roth.  Anyway, here are…the links!

 

OK, so if I’m a Tesla shareholder, I’m seriously thinking of running for the hills after this. Dude is nuts…N-V-T-S Nuts!

While nobody was paying attention, it looks like the Trump admin has done a free trade deal with Mexico. Problems remain with Canada, so this isn’t etched in stone yet.

Californians love them some big government. But somehow I think even they are gonna be pissed about this.

Twitter continues to be an enemy of free speech. And to those who clapped like retarded seals when Alex Jones got banned/unpersoned by googlefacebookyoutubeapple, keep clapping until it happens to you, you bunch of dumbasses.

Cops are called to home of mentally ill man. Mentally ill man with pill bottles  for mental illness in hands freaks out.  Cops handcuff man.  Cops taser handcuffed man.Handcuffed man dies. Cops involved (FOUR OF THEM!) all get at least a two month vacation. And nothing else will happen.

They say you can never go home once you leave.  I am pretty sure this former intern for Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) is a believer in that statement today.

Father takes kid to first day at private school.  Child is sent home because of his hair. School receiving death threats from morons. Bonus social signaling point: Talcum X has weighed in too!

“Was that wrong? Was I not supposed to do that?” Pervy Masshole feds 6 months for spying on girls in high school bathroom.  The bastard is lucky my daughter wasn’t a student there, otherwise he’d be serving his sentence with no teeth. Also with no functioning limbs.

Here’s a classic for the birthday girl.

Have a great day and a better weekend friends!

The White Sox are on a tear right now. They’ve reeled off two in a row..which is one more in a row than the Astros have won.  But one is better than none, so I’ll take it.  Other winners were: Seattle, the MINNESOOOOOOOOOODA TWIIIIIIINS!!!!!, the Cubs, the Mariners, the Phillies, the Mets, the Rays, Indians, Braves (and the Marlins pitcher was bush league last night, by the way), Blue Jays, Cardinals, Angels and the Dodgers avoided the sweep.

Any Glibs out there celebrating a birthday today?  Please out yourself in the comments.  Oh, and you share it with: football pioneer Amos Alonzo Stagg, soldier and writer T.E. Lawrence, “Felix The Car” cartoonist Otto Messmer, Israeli leader and Nobel laureate Menachem Begin, “laureate of American lowlife” Charles Bukowski, philanderer Frank Gifford, Catwoman hottie Julie Newmar, moron Carol Mosely-Braun, musician Barry Hay, bluesman Eric Bibb, wife of aforementioned philandered Kathie Lee Gifford, director and SJW James Cameron, guitarist Tim Fariss, nasty skank Madonna, comedic actor Steve Carell, and musician Bob Hardy.

Its also the day Yorktown was founded, the Brits, with help from Tecumseh, captured Fort Detroit, “Siegfried” debuted at Bayreuth, Babe Ruth hit the first ever homer at Comiskey Park, riots in Calcutta between Muslims and Hindus over Pakistani independence left over 4000 dead (1946), the Shah fled Iran for Rome, Ringo replaced Pete Best as drummer for the Beatles, the Ramones played their first gig, Peter Gabriel quit Genesis, John DeLorean was acquitted, Bon Jovi released “Slippery When Wet”, and Julian Assange was granted political asylum by Ecuador.

OK, now on to…the links!

Lying, spying, murdering piece of shit John Brennan had his security clearance revoked by President Trump. Now of they could just get around to trying the son of a bitch for perjury among other things, we’d start scratching the surface of the justice that he so richly deserves.

The Vatican is going with the “head in the sand” approach to the latest sex abuse scandal.  Its a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off.

With closing arguments completed, the jury will begin deliberations in the Paul Manafort bank and tax fraud trial. I hope they didn’t buy into the government’s class war bullshit and see that there were literally no bankers that made a complaint about his loans, and his so-called “fraud” involved several people operating completely in the open.

Cuomo doubles down on his “America was never that great” comments by saying we will never go back to days that really didn’t exist to a great degree and where it did exist was because of his predecessors in the Democrat Party.

Comic book writer and screenplay producer gets six years for kiddie porn. I guess he should have thought twice when he set up the (seriously) email address 8-is-the-new-18@gmx.com.  I hope he makes many friends in prison.  Many, many friends.

Somebody needs to teach this guy that although you have honorable goals, if your methods piss everyone off, you’re not gonna get anywhere.  I can see this eventually ending with a snowplow and a lot of blood.

This is a serious movement that I think all of us can get behind. Or get in front of with a camera.  Either way, its important.

I wouldn’t wish this on anybody. Except maybe people like that pedo mentioned above.  Man, what a viscous way to go.

Pro football is almost here. And I, for one, welcome this important part of the process.

A couple choices today, but I went a little more modern than most of you would probably expect. And no, its not that skank. Hell, I’ll post two songs since I rarely do newer music. And since I really like this band.

Go out there and kick some ass today, friends.

 

The World Champion Houston Astros are in a free fall. That’s all I have to say about their fifth loss in a row and second consecutive terrible outing by Justin Verlander.  Their lead is down to one game after the loss to the Rockies.  Crap. Elsewhere, the Brewers blanked the Cubs, the Orioles beat the Mets, the Yanks beat the Rays, the Red Sox topped the Phillies, hey look the White Sox beat the Tigers(!), The Indians massacred the Reds, the Braves beat the Marlins, the D-backs topped the Rangers, the MINNESOOOOOODA TWIIIIIINS topped the Pirates, the Blue Jays beat Kansas City, the Cards beat the Pats, the As topped theMariners, the Giants beat the Dodgers again and the Angels took out the Padres.

In addition to our very own robc, today’s birthday boys and girls (and whatever else people call ximselvez) include such luminaries as: French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, chef extraordinaire Julia Child, Canadian jazzman Oscar Peterson, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, bassist Bill Pinkney, drummer Peter York, musician Tom Johnston, NFLPA hack Gene Upshaw, writer Stieg Larsson, wife Linda Gates, “actor” and filmmaker Ben Affleck, and selfie-taker Jennifer Lawrence.

Its also the day Ignatius Loyola formed the Jesuits, the Mayflower set said, New Zealand’s All-Blacks played their first international rugby match and defeated Australia 22-3 (1903), the Panama Canal opened (under budget!), “The Wizard Of OZ” premiered, India gained her Independence, the Beatles played Shea Stadium, the Woodstock festival opened, Nixon froze prices and wages, “Apocalypse Now” opened, and Nolan Ryan earned his 324th and final MLB victory.

Now on to…the links!

Its a shitty job, but someone has to do it. This is what its come to in the once-fine city.

Facebook gets honest about their feelings on the media. What I don’t get is this: who the hell gets their news from Facebook?  Are there really people who do that? Seriously?

If you’re gonna commit disability fraud, you might want to keep a lower profiled  than this. My guess is that she’ll get a couple years of probation and have to pay restitution (which she won’t pay).  But damn, talk about hubris.

So, a child’s dead body, plenty of evidence that they’re training terrorists, a definite flight risk unless under constant surveillance, and you still grant them bail?  For context, Paul Manafort is on 24-hour isolation as his tax evasion trial continues.

I’ll just post this without comment so Swissy can narrow his gaze. The rest of you enjoy as well.

Laquan McDonald’s mother ordered to testify or be banned from courtroom during trial for the man who killed her son. I don’t understand why the dumbass serving the subpoena can’t just find an easier way to get it to her. I also wonder if they’ll allow 100 Chicago cops in uniform to pack the courtroom and stare at the jury throughout the trial.

I’m shocked! Shocked to find funny business going on on Tinder. Seriously, “She’s Crafty” should be heeded by both men and women n these trying times.

The defense rested yesterday without calling a single witness, so now the Paul Manafort trial will move to closing arguments today. I’m curious to find out what other exotic clothing and accessories he owns when the prosecution further lays out their politically-motivated case.

Here you go, friends.

Now go out there and make the most of today!

Well, the Braves tomahawk-chopped the Marlins twice. The Mets beat the Yankees. The Tigers topped the White Sox. The Indians scalped the Reds. The surging Cardinals beat the Nationals. The Rangers took down the Diamondbacks. The Royals beat the Blue Jays. The Athletics sank the Mariners. The Angels beat the Padres. And the Giants took down their rival Dodgers. Fortunately the World Champion Houston Astros got a day off.

That’s pretty much it for sports. Except for using sports to point out how much of a nanny state England is. What a bunch of douchebags.

Do we have any birthday boys or girls?  If so, you share this date with none other than: everyone’s favorite huckleberry Doc Holliday, TV inventor John Logie Baird, baseball’s Hall Of Fame manager Earl Weaver, rocker David Crosby, funnyman Steve Martin, romance novelist Danielle Steele, The Far Side creator Gary Larson, driver and target of chicken bones and beer cans Rusty Wallace, basketball star Magic Johnson, actress Halle Berry, strange-voiced Mila Kunis, and alleged virgin Tim Tebow.

Its also the day Kublai Khan wished he had doppler radar because he lost 3500 ships in a typhoon, Henry David Thoreau was jailed for refusing to pay taxes, the last public execution in the United States was held (in 1936), the Japs unconditionally surrendered and WW2 came to a close, “I Got You Babe” went to #1, Pete Rose (who would later voluntarily accept a lifetime ban from MLB) passed Hank Aaron for most all-time at bats, and Winnie Mandela was sued by the South African government.

And with that, we head into…the links!

Russians 11-year old kids hack into mock version of Florida’s election system.  Nice work there.  Maybe instead of blaming outside actors, you’ll secure your own system…and simply use paper ballots and voter ID to ensure both accuracy and integrity of the process, huh?

Papa John’s is circling the wagons and hoping to make it through its current crisis intact. Although with shares off 25% and people having a short memory, maybe now is the time to buy it up.

A scathing, and timely, media takedown of…the media. But its from the NY Post, so I doubt anybody in the bubble will heed any of the warnings. Besides, they’re too busy saving the world from the free exchange of ideas and information. At least according to them they are.

Does the plaintiff even have standing? I say neigh. Others say yes.

I guess this Alderman never heard of multitasking. Or he’s just pandering to his base. Either way, its still a shitshow in that city.

And speaking of pandering politicians…this one might win the award for biggest asshole of the year.  Because, you know, anyone that thanks the people who dropped their tax rate from 38 to 20% is in league with white nationalists, or something.  Either way, this guy is an asshole who doesn’t realize or doesn’t care that there are actual people who work at these places. And they vote.

You know what you do with turds? You flush them.*.

*Except in San Francisco where you step around or over them because they’re on the sidewalk. But be careful not to run your foot through a heroin needle. Because they’re all over as well.

And in what should be a bigger story than it is, the Indian rupee hit an all-time low against the dollar. But global currency meltdowns aren’t as important as whether or not Trump is on a recording in the WH. Because “media priorities” aren’t important news, they’re hot takes that generate clicks.

Anyway, enjoy this bit of greatness from a wonderful band.

Now go out there and have a great day!

The Astros are slumping a bit.  Dropping 4 in a row has the AL West competitive. Thank God Seattle is leaving town. Boston beat Baltimore, who is now effectively 50 games back in their division, a number I don’t think I’ve ever seen.  New York and Cleveland are safe in their respective wild card and division leader positions. So the west is where all the action will be coming down the stretch.  Over on the Senior Circuit, the Braves and Phils are tied for the east lead, the Cubs are 3 up on the Brewers in the central, with St Louis also surging and the D-backs are up a game on LA, with Colorado right there in the mix another half game back.  Not to mention the wild card race is extremely tight.  So that entire side of the ledger is gonna be fun to watch the next five weeks.

Your EPL winners and draws for the week were: drew Southampton and Burnley and Everton and Wolves. Winners were Man United, Spurs, Crystal Palace, Bournemouth, Chelski, Watford, Man City and the Liverpool Reds hammered the Hammers 4-0.

Lastly, Brooks Koepka won his third major, snatching the PGA Championship, where Tiger Woods finally made me say I think h will win another major at some point over the next couple of years by playing four solid rounds and coming in second. He’ll still never be Jack or Bobby (in no particular order, ok?), but its looking like he’s back.

Wild West sharpshooter Annie Oakley was born on this date.  She shares its with such famous and infamous people as arguably-the-best-director-ever Alfred Hitchcock, golf great Ben Hogan, murderous scumbag Fidel Castro, musician Don Ho, money manipulator Janet Yellin, hockey goon Bobby Clarke, loved/hated golf presenter David Feherty, “actor”/”musician” Danny Bonaduce, the greatest darts player ever Phil Taylor, rocker Ian Highland, and singer Dan Fogelberg.

Its also the day on which Cortez ended the Aztec Empire by capturing Cuahtemoc, Voltaire’s “Zaire” premiered, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus opened with eh first complete performance of Wagner’s Ring Cycle (which I would like to see someday at the festival), Ataturk was installed as the first Turkish president, “Bonnie and Clyde” hit theaters, Jim Palmer threw a no-hitter, IE 3.0 was released, and the first episode of South Park aired.

Did you get all that?  I hope so, because I’m already past it and on to…the links!

North and South Korea announce third round of peace talks for next month in Pyongyang, as end of decades-long war is in sight. But don’t expect the media to give credit to anyone besides Kim and Moon.

Just in case you were dumb enough to believe Google wasn’t using tracking services on your android devices even when you turn them off, you can put that delusion to rest.  They track you in a very specific violation of your settings and in gross violation of your confidence, meanwhile they ban Alex Jones for violating the terms of service.  Seems legit.

Political leaders silencing the media is a bad thing, isn’t it?  Then how come this isn’t getting mention anywhere outside the NY Post? Oh, right…because talking about it might not serve the purpose the media wants.

The saying starts “the wheels of justice turn slow”.  Sometimes they turn at 70 mph. But I’d imagine they still ground pretty fine.

Chicago officials apologize after entrapment scheme outed.  Can somebody ask them the difference here and in setting up people by having cops poses as hookers or underage kids online? Because nobody seems to care about those.

Transparency is for the little people. So is justice, apparently.

More protests against migrants across Europe. I guess that’s what you get for joining the EU and ceding your sovereignty to Brussels.

Here you go, 80s rockers.

Have a wonderful start to your week, friends!

Well I hope y’all have had a good week so far.  Its certainly been a long one, full of interesting things.  What wasn’t interesting (to me) was the performance of Justin Verlander last night.  I haven’t seen him have an outing like that in years.  Oh well, can’t win (or no-decision) them all.  So yes, the Mariners beat the Astros last night.  The other winners were: Washington, Cleveland, San Diego, New York (AL), Toronto, Tampa, LA and Pittsburgh.

A logjam at the top of the leaderboard at the PGA Championship, with long-hitter Gary Woodland at -6. Rickie Fowler is positioning himself well for a weekend meltdown and sits one back. Zach Johnson is two back and a host of players including the ever-intense Ian Poulter, Dustin Johnson, Jason Day, and Justin Roseanother stroke back.  Tiger and Bubba, two of the least likable people in the game, are both even, which is the current cut line.

There was also a bunch of preseason NFL going on, but I don’t care to report on it since the games mean less than nothing at this point.

Before I get into the birthdays and historical events for this date, I want to give a special shout-out to my son.  He took his oath yesterday and is now officially in the U.S. Army.  He was floundering after high school and wasn’t really too jazzed up about college, so he did his work, got great scores on his tests and after much consideration (and pressure from the number of people who served in his family and a few family friends to choose the correct branch), he chose the Army.  He ships out to basic on September 6th.  I couldn’t possibly be prouder of him.

Famous birthdays today include: William Howe, whose ass the United States kicked to gain our independence, Mexican revolutionary and second presidente Vicente Guerrero, chocolate man Henri Nestle, oil tycoon Edward Doheny, inventor and zeppelin pilot Hugo Eckner, average to below-average president Herbert Hoover, poker wizard Doyle Brunson, Bush crony Harriet Miers, musician Ian Anderson, actress and weirdo family member Rosanna Arquette, actor Antonio Banderas, musicians Jon Farriss and Dan Donovan, boxer Riddick Bowe, and Palestinian Prime Minister (and terrorist sympathizer or employer) Rami Hamdallah.

It was also the date on which Titus set fire to the second temple in Jerusalem, the Declaration of Independence reached London, Mozart completed “A Little Night Music”, the Louvre opened its doors, Ecuador declared independence from Spain, Missouri became a state, badass Nat Turner led his uprising, the future pope John XXIII became a priest, Japan said they were ready to surrender, “Sunset Boulevard” premiered, so did “Psycho”, the US launched its first lunar orbiter, David Berkowitz was arrested for the “Son Of Sam” killings, Billy Martin’s number was retired, and RBG was sworn in to there Supreme Court.

My favorite bit of that was the DoI reaching London.  I would have loved to see the look on the faces of George and his courtesans as it was read to them.  Priceless.  Anyway, on to…the links!

Wow, that story of the kids “saved” from that compound in New Mexico gets weirder as it looks like they were training for Islamist terrorism.

Sounds like a hell of a party.  I don’t understand why they would have been arrested since they weren’t bothering anyone. But that’s the state of things in America.  Maybe he’ll dump some of those billions into educating the general public on minding their own freaking business, but I would imagine his attorney will tell him that’s not a very sound plan.

The SEC is taking interest in Elon Musk’s tweets. Its still to be determined if he has the juice to take the company private, but if I were a shareholder and someone offered me $75 a share more than its currently trading at (and probably double or triple what its really worth), I’d be jumping at the offer.

The Kansas GOP primary for governor is turning into a fiasco. If only some Democrat poll worker would show up with a few cases of ballots in a car to settle this matter once and for all, we could move on.

Team Blue is worried that Nancy Pelosi could drag them down during the midterms.  Yeah, they should definitely hang on to her, in my opinion.

But they should give equal time to people like Occasional Cortex, who dismissed Ben Shapiro’s offer of $10,000 for a debate as the equivalent of catcalling her. Because, you know, asking a nominee to debate you on the issues is akin to whistling at a chick’s legs.

As Courtney Smith’s mother, former mother-in-law and local police start to throw shade at her in the football saga, the former Ohio State wrestler who had accused Jim Jordan of knowing about sexual abuse walks that story back.  Huh, I guess the latest check from Perkins-Come didn’t clear the bank yet.

Prominent leaders in the black community are stepping up calls for Rahm Emanuel’s resignation in the wake of Chicago becoming a national disgrace.

This is what patchwork drug legalization looks like. And those state and local officials were right there with the feds doing their work.  Because that’s what cops do.  SO if you want drugs to be legal, you’re wasting your time until the federal government unschedules it at a minimum.

Iranian officials say there’s no reason for Rouhani and Trump to sit down. I await the tweetstorm from the White House that’s coming in response to that statement.

If you don’t enjoy this, then you suck.

Now go have a great Friday and a better weekend, friends.

Happy Thursday!  Well the parents made it into town safe and sound. And I’m already down $20 to my dad on the golf course.  But that’s fine.  I’ve got a chance to get it back tomorrow. But we can worry about tomorrow tomorrow. This is today.  But first let’s talk about yesterday. Then we can talk about today.  And speaking of yesterday, you baseball winners were: New York (NL), Texas, Pittsburgh, Arizona, Anaheim, Atlanta, BALTIMORE!!!!!!!!!!, Boston, Cleveland, St Louis, New York (AL), Milwaukee, Kansas City, and Oakland.  The world champion Houston Astros had the day off.

The last golf major of the year starts today, as the best players in the game tee off in St Louis.  My expected contenders:  Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy, Rickie Fowler (until he starts to realize he has a chance and then he will fold up like a lawn chair) and Brooks Koepka.  They’re all high ball hitters, and with a soft course taking some of the roll out, they’re the guys most likely to be hitting shorter irons into the greens.

Let’s see who was born on this date, shall we:  molecular scientist Amedo Avogadro, Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, actor Robert Shaw who did a scene not even OMWC can deny as brilliant, basketball star Bob Cousy, tennis great Rod Laver, rocker Billy Henderson, boxer Ken Norton, another genius actor Sam Elliott, Trivial Pursuit creator Chris Haney, once-attractive Melanie Griffith, early rapper Kurtis Blow, designer Michael Kors, singer and crack aficionado Whitney Houston, expectation-missing Brett Hull, bassist Kyle Kyle, Neon Deion Sanders, prostitute and fan of Hugh Grant Divine Brown, asshole Chris Cuomo and NFL flop JaMarcus Russell.

Its also the date on which Caesar routed Pompey at Pharsalus, the Sistine Chapel was opened, Cromwell divided England into 11 districts, Robert Fulton tested his first steam paddle boat (it sank), Napoleon annexed Westphalia, five years later on this date he set sail for exile on St Helena, Thoreau published Walden, Rudolhp Diesel was granted a pretty important patent, “Betty Boop” made her debut, Jesse Owens (arguably the greatest athlete of all time) won his fourth gold medal of the 1936 Olympic Games, Fat Man arrived in Nagasaki, Singapore became an independent nation, Nixon resigned from office as Gerald Ford assumes the position, and in a day all Canadians will remember as their darkest, Wayne Gretzky was traded from Edmonton to Los Angeles.

Ok, that was better than yesterday.  Now on to…the links!

Rudy Guiliani goes off the rails in an interview. I’m pretty sure he’s right in that he thinks the entire reason for interviewing Trump is to catch him in a perjury trap. Not so sure the rest isn’t all bluster, although its becoming pretty widely known that the FBI was using the unsubstantiated info from a foreign agent (who was paid by a political party to collect info from Russian spies) to obtain warrants to spy on a presidential campaign and that was not disclosed to the secret court they used to obtain them.

I guess Hamas forgot that when you shoot rockets indiscriminately into the country that provides all of your water and electricity, there will possibly be a reckoning.  What a bunch of dumbasses.

YouTube continues their crusade against wrongthink.  But let’s give them credit: at least they aren’t planning on unpersoning* everyone who doesn’t think as they do, which we’ve seen them do recently.  (*And yes, I do mean “unperson”. Because literally memory-holing content that they don’t like but in no way can substantiate how it violates their terms of service is a deliberate attempt to quash those views, no matter how idiotic or unhinged they are.)

Wikileaks is saying Julian Assange has been asked to testify for the Senate Intelligence Committee.  That would be an interesting, and relevant, development.  I wonder if Diane Feinstein’s driver has volunteered to pick him up and take him to the Chinese Embassy in London for the interview.  You know, since she was employing a spy for over 20 years as her driver.

If you’re single and suffer from a form of yellow fever, then you may want to read this. What a sad state of affairs this is.  300 million members on a singles dating site.  That’s more than there were SoCons on Ashley Madison!

Convicted rapist in California who got off a lot easier than he should have has lost his appeal.  He was sentenced to 6 months in jail for the conviction, the judge was recalled and a raft of new rape laws in California were enacted in the wake of the original case.

I’m shocked! Shocked to find out that Chicago police pretty much named every single kid they came in contact with as a gang member from certain neighborhoods over a 10 year period. 30,000 of them, to be exact.  Including almost 400 that were 12 and under.  I’m sure it was a deliberate decision and in no way just their default position in order to fuck with people.  That’s not like them. They’re professionals, goddammit! And if you don’t believe them, they’ll crack your skull until you do…or until you’re dead. What do they care?

What kind of asshole uses a stun gun on an 11-year old girl that’s caught shoplifting? A Cincinnati cop does, apparently. The cop charged her with theft and obstruction of justice, but the mayor has intervened and the charges dropped.  “An investigation is underway”, which means a sweet vacation followed by additional training (while receiving overtime pay) for the idiot who thought this was a good exercise of judgment.

And the Army has suspended the discharge of immigrant recruits. For now, anyway. Because we should let people in our military (all the stories I read were for people being discharged before they even attended basic training) from foreign nations who can’t pass a background check in order to kowtow to political opposition.

Slim pickings today. But I dedicate this song to all the Glibs out there.

Now go out there and have a great day!

The halfway point of the (traditional) work week is here.  Congratulations.  And congratulations to the following teams for winning yesterday:  The Nationals (game 1of a doubleheader), the Braves (game 2 of a doubleheader), Red Sox (who are closing in on 50 games above .500), the MINNESOOOOOOODA TWIIIIIINS, the St Louis Cardinals, the BIG RED MACHINE, the Tampa Bay Rays (while Baltimore closes in on 50 games BELOW .500), the Rangers, the Yankees, Padres, Cubs, Pirates, Phillies, Dodgers, Angels and World Champion Houston Astros. Well done, guys.

I’d also say “well done” to the following people. But being born is hardly an accomplishment. It just happens to you.  But they did something to make them famous, so there is that.  Anyway, the birthday list for today is: “Dr Bob” Smith, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, genius physicist Paul Dirac, genius nuke scientist Ernest Lawrence, moviemaker Dino De Laurentiis, jump blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon, Soul musician Joe Tex, actor Dustin Hoffman, rocker Jay David, hockey player/politician Ken Dryden, sidekick Robin Quivers, guitarist Chris Foreman, tennis GOAT (arguably) Roger Federer, and a few other people.  Jesus, what a lousy list.

Let’s see what happened on this date…

Ponce de Leon founded the first European settlement in Puerto Rico, Henry IV was excommunicated, Brigham Young was named head of the Mormon Church, Smith and Wesson patented the metal bullet cartridge, Corn Flakes were invented, Public Law 62-5 permanently set the number of Reps in the House at 435 and undermined the founders intent of a more representative democracy, Sgt York kills 20 Germans and captures 132 in one of the most badass moves in history, the 1st national march of the Ku Klux Klan (D-US) occurs in Washington with 200,000 people, Harry Truman signed the UN Charter, the Great Train Robbery took place, the Chicago White Sox played a game in shorts, and Pete Rose began a five month prison term for tax evasion.  That was a little better, but still…meh.

OK, enough of that. On to…the links!

Barring some shenanigans with provisional ballots and absentee votes yet to be counted, The GOP will hang on to OH-12 with a slim victory in the special election. The same two people will immediately begin campaigning for the November election that will establish who sits in the seat for the next two years.  The Dom achieved a victory of sorts yesterday when he got the Libertarian candidate, who has the same last name, removed from the ballot because of one signature on his petition being from an ineligible person.

Ha, you can scour the world, but sometimes what you’re looking for is right next door. Literally.

Ohmygod. I was shocked when I saw watt was up with this current event. (I went ahead and got the inevitable out of the way with that headline. You’re welcome.)

Mueller’s star witness for the prosecution in Paul Manafort’s trial has what some would call “credibility issues”. The defense should move to have the case thrown out with prejudice after yesterday’s shit show. Lol, classic.

Is this Arab Spring 2.0? If so, let’s hope the current admin doesn’t ignore the people in Iran risking their lives to be free.  And no, I don’t want us militarily involved, but at least acknowledging their desire for freedom from a shitty regime would be better than the crickets from the WH the last time this happened.

American Airlines has had some problems as of late. And now they’re having to deal with stowaways.

Chicago police are reaping what they’ve sown. Meanwhile, the mayor wants hundreds more of them running around town.  Because, you know, $50 million a year on average in police misconduct settlements with zero convictions in the past decade isn’t enough.

That story about the compound in New Mexico is getting stranger and more disturbing by the day.

And “woman shoots masturbating bicyclist trying to break into her home” is something I’d expect to hear out of Florida. ::shrugs::

Well that’s the links. Except for this bit of awesomeness that none of you will complain about if you’re decent human beings.

Here’s to every one of you having a great day today. I know I will.

Well I’m starting to wonder if all the drama in baseball is gonna happen in the NL.  We have about 50 games left in the regular season, and the closest divisional race in the AL is 4.5 games (AL West Astros up on the surging Athletics). Meanwhile, in the NL, the Cubs are enjoying the largest divisional lead at 1.5 games (over the Brewers) while the NL West is at 0.5 games (D-backs over Dodgers with the Rockies only 2 back) and the East its the Phillies 1 game up on the Braves.  Not only that, the three division leaders are only 1.5 games apart from top to bottom for best record in the NL. And that has some implications as well. I’m not necessarily ready to pick the division winners in the NL, but if forced to make a call, I’s day I think Atlanta, Chicago and Los Angeles will end up pulling through, with Chicago ending up pulling away with the best record in the league.

And with that, yesterday’s winners were: Cleveland,  NY (NL), Miami, NY (AL), Seattle, Chicago (NL) , Colorado, Arizona, Anaheim, and the World Champion Houston Astros.  A full slate of games today. Let’s see if it tightens up those races any more than they already are.

Anybody born on this date?  Well if so, you share it with: Hungarian serial killer Elizabeth Bathory, German spy Mata Hari, guitarist George Van Eps, pitcher Don Larsen, sci-fi author Richard L Tierney, radio personality and #metoo victim Garrison Keillor, deep-stater Robert Mueller, rocker Kerry Chater, musician Jacquie O’Sullivan, lovely actress Charlize Theron, and hockey star Sidney Crosby.

Its also the date on which Francis Drake returned to England after a year of kicking Spanish ass, Macbeth was performed for the first time, George Washington created the Purple Heart, the US created the Department of War and Lighthouse Services (which is probably now 6 different cabinet departments), Walter Johnson got his first, of 416!, wins, Jacquie Kennedy becomes first First Lady to give birth since the Cleveland admin (The baby dies three days later.), US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution, Barry Bonds broke Hank Aaron’s home run record and Operation Desert Shield began.

OK, let’s get into…the links!

When you’re old, sometimes its fun when you’re living after midnight.

LeBron James is a hell of a philanthropist…with the money taken from the taxpayers of Akron. $8m a year is a pretty hefty bill for one school with a couple hundred kids in it.  One wonders if perhaps a private school would be a better fit for someone’s “charity”.  You know, like Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf have been doing for over a decade without any fanfare or public ass-kissing in Las Vegas. LeBron will be contributing around $2M a year when the school is at full capacity.

Apple, Youtube and Facebook delete all content posted by Alex Jones, citing “hate speech”.  Conservatives bristle at the action as do any free speech advocates with a spine.  The ACLU have remained silent, best as I can tell, what with all their energy going into the sanctuary cities defense and their efforts to follow France’s catcalling ban.  You know, because free speech isn’t important anymore.

Mueller’s prosecutors in the Paul Manafort trial continue to piss of the judge in the case and get a 10-minute scolding. Meanwhile Manafort’s “partner”, who was given immunity, admits to breaking the law.

California really knows how to make use of those high taxes.  You literally can’t get an appointment for a drivers license at the San Francisco DMV for the next three months.  Meanwhile, the state’s former teachers and police officers are seeing record high pensions.

Chicago mayoral challengers pile on criticism of Emanuel after the most violent weekend the city has seen in years. Huh, they aren’t blaming Indiana.  That’s actually surprising.  What’s not surprising is that the police aren’t having any fingers pointed at them for their systemic failure to maintain order and to not act like the biggest gang in town that operates above the law in such a way that undermines the trust of there residents.

Man, Wells Fargo continues to be the United Airlines of major banks. What are they gonna do next, find a way to kill the puppies of account holders?

Missouri voters face an important vote today.  I’m curious to see how the recent Supreme Court ruling sways people, if at all.  Either way, this will be touted as a defining moment by whichever side wins.

Don’t blame me. Blame the lack of people banging on November nights several years ago.

Have a great Tuesday, my friends!

Happy Monday, friends!  Hope you had a nice weekend.  I enjoyed mine immensely. Better than the New York Yankees, that’s for sure.  Yikes.  You can put a fork in the AL East. Although they can take solace in the fact that they’re still 26 games above 500.  But those Red Sox are incredible this season.  So excluding that sweep, what else happened in the sports world?  The Dodgers beat the Astros and avoided getting swept as well. The Indians beat the Angels amid talk of Mike Scoscia leaving at the end of the season (his 19th!) in Anaheim, also the Braves, White Sox (surprise!), Nationals, Phillies, Cardinals, Rockies, MINNESOOOOODA TWIIIIINS, Baltim- (ahem) THE BALTIMORE ORIOLES WON A GAME, the Padres, Giants, Athletics and Mariners all came out victorious.

Man City won the Community Shield. Justin Thomas won the WGC-Bridgestone (at Firestone CC) and THE Ohio State University set up and announced the six person team that will wrap up the investigation into the Zach Smith affair that has been reported on in a somewhat unethical manner by Brett McMurphy to say the least within two weeks.  Seriously, who dramatically edits the context of an article out after questioning a particular and then just lets everybody else run with it as if the later-published piece (on your Facebook page) was the original?  And who in their right mind thinks “arrested” and “investigated” are remotely close enough to not merit a HUGE note saying there was an edit in the article replacing one with the other after you’d questioned someone about the veracity of the original piece?  Certainly not a real reporter. But I digress.

Poet Alfred Lord Tennyson was born on this date. So were penicillin inventor Alexander Fleming, comedienne Lucille Ball, actor Robert Mitchum, weirdo Andy Warhol, double-bassist Charlie Haden, “the Admiral” David Robinson, predictable (in my opinion) filmmaker M Night Shyamalan, Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, and the late Jon Benet Ramsey.

Its also the day Simon Bolivar defeated Spain at Junan, a shitload of countries declared war on each other in Europe (WW1), “Don Juan” made its premiere and with it came the Vitaphone sound on disc system, the Enola Gay made its flight over Hiroshima, Ted Williams returned to the Red Sox from fighting in Korea (and will hit .407 for the shortened season), the Beatles release “Help!” album, the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, and George RR Martin released “A Game Of Thrones”.

Pretty decent batch there.  Now on to…the links!

If you live in Chicago, maybe its time to get out. Meanwhile that dips hit David Hogg is protesting at the NRA for more of the policies that make the innocent susceptible to the violence plaguing cities that have such restrictive gun policies like Chicago.  Or are they still blaming Indiana? I can’t keep up.

Donald Trump says meeting his son set up at Trump Tower with Russian woman (who received a spacial visa only a handful of people can sign off on) was to get info on Clinton. Proceeds to explain how opposition research works. Continues to be honey badger and not give a shit.

I would disagree with the entire premise of this headline. I mean, wasn’t it a hellscape before? Just kidding. I really feel for them with it being in the 90s with relatively high humidity making it feel like its 100!  Oh the horror they are going through. I can see why they’re calling it a hellscape.  Of course, we here in Houston call that “June through August”.  “New York Strong” my ass.

Stay classy, African National Congress. Oh, and if you’re a farmer in that country, I highly recommend you gather up your shit and either GTFO or prepare to make a stand. And I do mean an armed, last stand. Because the end is coming and the government is about to steal everything you have.

Another misleading headline out of Berkeley. You know, since its pretty much all one side creating these conflicts.  Protip to anti-fa LARPers: ignore them and you won’t get your asses kicked and then arrested after you throw bottles and rocks at the cops who are probably saving you from being put in a coma by the people you’re attacking for walking down the street. (Same could be said about Portland, but I don’t have the time.)

When they’re not killing each other, Chicago residents find time to become ignorant on where electricity comes from and who is responsible (the federal government) from preventing the building of clean (nuclear) power plants. They’ll not feel the same when their city finally becomes a real-life version of “The Purge” after these morons get their way and they’re completely run on solar and wind and a winter day and night goes completely black on them.

Dude, chill out! On second thought, don’t.  Dude?  Dude?! DUUUDE?!?!?!?!??!

And I’m getting my popcorn, because I simply cannot wait to see how Justin Trudeau deals with this.

Well, there you have it.  I’ll leave this here.

Now go out and have a great day, friends!