Halfway through this week and I’m exhausted. The Dodgers-Brewers game didn’t help that matter last night. The Dodgers needed that win and got it. Let’s see if the Astros can duplicate the feat tonight after the bullpen shit the bed yesterday. Also, the NBA started real games yesterday. You can find the scores somewhere online if you look. Nick Bosa will not be returning to the field in Columbus this year and will work on getting ready for the NFL draft. Best of luck, big guy. You’ll be sadly missed.
Nice rack, Miss Hayworth
Today’s famous birthdays include: actress Irene Ryan, Pope John PAUL I, playwright Arthur Miller, comic book writer Jerry Siegel, the lovely Rita Hayworth, trombonist Rico Rodriguez, daredevil Evel Knievel, musician Gary Puckett, drummer Michael Hossack, actor George Wendt, actress Margot Kidder, acting legend Dolph Lundgren, comedian and tireless tweeter of minutiae Norm McDonald, golf legend Ernie Els, rapper and Trump hater Marshall Mathers, baseball player Kenny Powers John Rocker, F1 legend Kimi Räikkönen, and actress Felicity Jones.
Its also the day Mendelssohn’s 1st piano concerto premiered, Luxembourg’s constitution was adopted, Edison filed a patent for the first motion picture, the Bank Of America (Bank of Italy) was founded, the first transatlantic wire service began, Einstein arrived in the US as a refugee, “Mr Smith Goes To Washington” was released, so was “Bullitt”, Jimmy Carter restored Jefferson Davis’s citizenship, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Prize, and the Traveling Wilburys released their first album.
The breakdown of the family unit continues apace. Sadly, this should be the biggest story of the day. But it won’t be by a long shot. Anyway, this is the result of social planning that says the government will take care of you and your kids if you aren’t married. And it also results in the creation of a bunch of boys being raised without fathers and ending up sipping hot chocolate in a bathtub when things don’t go their way.
“The latest campaign finance reports show a yawning gulf between Democrats and Republicans as the seemingly boundless energy on the left translates to a torrent of campaign cash three weeks before the midterm election.” Oh. California. Nothing to see here, move along.
Look, I’m not saying this is a racist story, but it’s a racist story. Yet another article about a black burglary perp.
Today is a really big day for me. I’ll tell ya’ll why tomorrow. But its a big day for me. So my stress level will be high. But hopefully the Astros will bring it down a peg or two. Just like the Brewers did for their fans at the end of that pitching masterpiece last night. They’re up 2-1 now. The pivotal Game 3 is on tap for tonight.
In other sports, the Packers topped the 49ers to cap the week in football. England beat Spain in a wild one in the UEFA Nations League and your NHL winners were: Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Nashville. Hey, a trifecta of Canadian teams winning. Nice job, America Junior.
Still one of the best sports movies ever made.
Lexicographer Noah Webster (sorry, Miriam) was born on this day, so were noted pervert Oscar Wilde, Isreali statesman David Ben-Gurion, Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, actress Angela Lansbury, annoying sportscaster Tim McCarver, rocker C Fred Turner, actress Suzanne Somers, guitarist Bob Wier, director David Zucker, quality actor (but idiot) Tim Robbins, bassist Michael Balzary, and baseball player Bryce Harper.
Its also the day these things happened: Napoleon was defeated in the Battle of Leipzig, “Jane Eyre” was published, John Brown carried out his raid at Harper’s Ferry, BYU was founded, “Pygmalion” premiered, noted racist Margaret Sanger opened her first clinic, TE Lawrence met Faisal Hoessein for the first time, the “Long March” began, “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” was released, CCR broke up, Pope John Pail II was elected, Messi made his Barcelona debut, and the Million Man March was held.
Some heady stuff there. Now on to…the links!
Wait, what’s wrong with stopping here in this civilized, modern nation?
Some of you may get the impression that we at Glibertarians really enjoy beating up on Brett for being insanely unreliable. That couldn’t be further from the truth; we enjoy beating up on Brett for his Brettness. His fickleness and last minute ghosting on links duty is just a convenient excuse for a verbal soap party.
The British government is trying to tackle loneliness with prescription dance and cooking classes. I just spent a week in an independent living facility and I can see the value in that kind of socializing. The proposals are less ridiculous than the mandatory broccoli, but it’s interesting to watch state run healthcare trot down this course.
Speaking of the Brits: Duchess Meghan, Prince Harry are expecting their first child in the spring…*cries*. I’m a little annoyed Megan Duchess of York news keeps getting floated for me just because I tried to find the uncensored version of the pics from that one party Harry attended that one time.
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West met with Yoweri Museveni, whose leadership of Uganda is almost as old as I am. I don’t know why but I find everything about this passage mind-blowing:
The President [Museveni] earlier in the day tweeted, “I welcome American entertainment stars Kanye West and @KimKardashian to Uganda. I held fruitful discussions with the duo on how to promote Uganda’s tourism and the arts.”
This is a man whose presidency is old enough to be a Millenial and he’s @ing Kim Kardashian like it’s just what you do.
You guys may have Autumn with your blaze of orange, red and gold leaves, but a California Fall is ablaze with…you know… actual fire. Also I was just in the greater Rochester area this last week and I’d like to call shenanigans on this whole Autumn thing. It was 83°F, humid and sunny the whole time.
And because everyone likes Shakira covered in crude oil, your music of the day.
Another Heisman-level performance that the media will try and ignore
Well both league championship series are tied up after the Astros had a rough night on the mound. But they’re coming home tomorrow. Hopefully that will help. The NLCS gets back underway tonight in LA. Tons of upsets in college football this weekend, including Georgia falling, Penn State going down, WVU shitting the bed and and Washington losing late. Alabama is a juggernaut and Ohio State is ranked number 2, but better get their defense shored up or the night game in West Lafayette could turn into another Iowa.
Int he NFL, the Chiefs finally lost in an incredible game with the Patriots last night. The other winners were: Philly, Atlanta, the Stillers (in typical “beat the Bengals” fashion), the Chargers, Seattle, Miami, Minnesoooooda, the Jets, the Redskins, Houston, the Rams, the Cowboys, and Baltimore. Its Packers-Niners tonight to round out the week’s slate of games.
Shit, I thought that was Rob Reiner in drag.
Today’s birthdays include Roman poet Virgil, philosophizer Friedrich Nietzche, boxing champ John L Sullivan, writer PG Wodehouse, novelist Mario Puzo, pitcher Jim Palmer, dutchess Sarah Fergusson, Chinese businessman Jack Ma, filmmaker Penny Marshall, singer Richard Carpenter, singer Tito Jackson, and skateboarding legend Stacy Peralta.
Its also the day Napoleon arrived on St Helena, the Edison Electric Light Company was incorporated, Alfred Dreyfus was arrested in France, Mata Hari was executed for being a spy, LaGuardia Airport was opened, “The Great Dictator” was released, “I Love Lucy” made its small screen debut, the (useless) Department of Transportation was created, sow as the Black Panther Party, George Brett was forced out of the World Series with hemorrhoids and Clarence Thomas was confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice.
Good stuff. But now…the links.
Hey Antifa, if you ignore them (and let them exercise their rights peacefully), they’ll not beat your ass again and again and again.
If you’re going to interview someone, try letting them answer the questions before interrupting them. Otherwise you’re likely to end up getting this for an answer. Supporters will say how much he owned her. Detractors will say he’s an asshole. SO basically, it was pretty much just like every other interview the man’s given.
Here’s how you remain credible in today’s media. You completely misrepresent a public figure’s statement in order to generate clicks (and opposition to him). You wait two days, all the while breathlessly reporting on what a racist he is for the statement for two solid days. You send your talking heads onto other media outlets to gin up support. Then you quietly issue a retraction a couple days later on twitter and don’t bother making the correction on your network while simply moving on to other stories. Bravo, NBC. You’ll probably get a Pulitzer for this shitshow.
Normally, I’d start with a little snarky bit related to my title and theme. But I’m getting more and more pissed off at one of our local Team Blue candidates, who has deluged us with mailer after mailer about what an evil human his opponent is. Last weekend, I showed a couple examples where he implied that his opponent was a child molester (or at least a sympathizer). This week’s mailers were all subtly aimed at Brett Kavanaugh, despite an Illinois state representative having zero to do with that process. Yesterday’s arrival, though, completely took me over the edge, enough so that I’m now voting for a Team Red guy for perhaps the first time in my life. Fuck you, Sam Yingling, you managed to turn me from indifferent to actively hating you and your campaign. I have no idea if the Team Red guy has any merit, but at least he’s not spamming me every day with this shit. You are everything that is wrong with politics.
While I’m ranting, I note that it’s also a remarkably shitty day for notable birthdays. When Harry Brecheen (“The Armkiller”) and C. Everett Koop (“Look at my cool uniform, I’m an admiral!”) head the list of luminaries born on this day, one cannot help but think that October 14 is a day that could be removed from the calendar without anyone missing it much.
In the past 24 hours, reports have emerged that a government hit squad, said to have been dispatched directly by bin Salman, first in line to the Saudi throne, seized, interrogated, tortured, then killed and, using a bone saw, dismembered the body of a journalist. Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, was one of the regime’s leading critics.
A central question now is just how far Trump may be prepared to go in defense of the kind of rabid values the Saudis now seem to have embraced. But even more important for American interests, at home and abroad, are the potential consequences.
Remember the press indignation when Trump’s predecessors cozied up to the Saudis? Yeah, me neither.
The Grand Forks Air Force Base recorded a whopping 17.4 inches overnight Wednesday into Thursday with snow drifts piling up to 33 inches high, according to the National Weather Service’s Grand Forks office.
“It’s kind of unbelievable that this happened in October,” Andrew Moore, an NWS-Grand Forks meteorologist, told the Grand Forks Herald.
Yeah, this is just weather and is entirely unrelated to AGW, but hey, if every hot day is blamed on it, every cold day ought to be as well.
The lawsuit, backed by the Trump administration, could eventually reach the Supreme Court, giving the newly cemented five-member conservative majority a chance to bar the use of affirmative action to help minority applicants get into college.
Of course, “minority” in this context doesn’t include yellow people or Jews. Yes, Harvard is a private institution and ought to be free to want to avoid looking too Chinese and to bake in the concept that blacks are inferior and should not be held to the same intellectual standards. My ideal outcome (which will never happen) is that Harvard would be free to continue to practice racial/gender/whatever discrimination, but would lose all public subsidies and tax breaks. But on the bright side, if this suit goes as expected, that sort of racism will be much harder for public institutions to practice.
The superintendent of Ridgewood public schools says local police are investigating “possible sexting incidents” involving school-age students within the district. According to a release sent to parents of children in grades 6-12, the explicit images were not shared on school property but school officials are working with Ridgewood police to find out who was involved.
“I want all parents to be advised that the possession and/or transmission of sexually revealing or explicit images, or any material of that nature, constitutes the very serious crime of possession and transmission of child pornography,” Superintendent Daniel Fishbein said in the letter.
The selfless public servants of the Ridgewood schools and police are, of course, examining the evidence very closely and at length.
“Who did this?! Someone placed googly eyes on our historic #NathanaelGreene statue in #JohnsonSquare,” the official City of Savannah Government account wrote on its Facebook page in a post Thursday.
“It may look funny but harming our historic monuments and public property is no laughing matter…”
Well, yeah, it is, actually.
Old Man Music is inevitable, so you may as well lay back and enjoy it. And all I can say is that this is a brilliant song, written and sung by a brilliant performer.
Apologies for my absence and things going to hell for a couple of days. SP was studying for her Iowa tests (they tell us that she is eligible for her school’s GATE program because she’s a bright child) and I’ve been occupied with a visitor from Europe, who has been alternately fascinated and appalled by our attitudes about government and politics. This isn’t an excuse, just an explanation. NO MORE THIRD RATE LINKS. Mine are second rate, thank you very much. SP set far too high of a standard for formatting, and I won’t pretend otherwise, but at least I’m not fobbing off links that are late or “hey, one link is enough for those people.”
Today is one of those days where there are too many amazing birthdays to list. But let me hit my favorites: the brilliant-but-personally-flawed libertarian philosopher Albert Jay Nock;Ray Brown, the greatest musician to ever play in the lower register; Margaret Thatcher, whose work in monolayer films lives on (I think she might have done one or two other things, but the Langmuir-Blodgett stuff was superb); Marie Osmond, whom my father directed me to teach oral sex; Jerry Rice, without question the greatest wide receiver in the history of football; and one more person to be discussed at the end.
“Governor Wolf, let me tell you what, between now and Nov. 6, you’d better put a catcher’s mask on your face because I’m going to stomp all over your face with golf spikes,” Wolf said in the video.
As American politics descends into complete chaos and has turned into professional wrestling, I am smiling and making the popcorn. Maybe one day, if we’re lucky, more people will get the attitude that these aren’t leaders, they’re the hired help.
“I repeatedly told the White House I wanted to reach an agreement on a package of 9th Circuit nominees, but last night the White House moved forward without consulting me, picking controversial candidates from its initial list and another individual with no judicial experience who had not previously been suggested,” [Dianne Feinstein, D-Leisure Village] said in a statement.
Similar outrage from California’s other senator:
“Instead of working with our office to identify consensus nominees for the 9th Circuit, the White House continues to try to pack the courts with partisan judges who will blindly support the president’s agenda, instead of acting as an independent check on this administration,” [Kamala Harris, D-Under Willie Brown] spokeswoman Lily Adams told The Sacramento Bee.
I like my popcorn with a spray of olive oil and some sea salt.
According to the letter released by [Chuck Grassley, R- Ethanol Pork], the State Department said that Clinton’s clearance was revoked on Aug. 30. Five of Clinton’s aides, who she had asked be designated as researchers, had their security clearances revoked on Sept. 20.
During Clinton’s run for president, lawmakers and investigators looked into her and her staff’s security clearance as part of the investigation into her use of a private email server.
I’m still astonished that she’s not in jail. I would have been if I did shit like that back in the days when I had a clearance. More astonishing, though, is that it took this long for such a de minimus action. It almost makes you think that government is really Team Red and Team Blue play-acting while they laugh their asses off at the dumb tax cattle citizens.
“Hey, guess what?” [Bill Cassidy, R-Corrupt Swampland] immediately replied after removing his earphones and turning to two young children sitting in a hallway inside the Hart Senate Office Building, near the Capitol. “I know your parents are using you as tools. In the future, if somebody makes an allegation against you, and there’s no proof for it, you’ll be OK.”
Delightful statement, but of course untrue as long as we have our current carceral state.
With under four weeks until Election Day, Hillary Clinton’s footprint on the 2018 scene has been remarkably light, with her involvement focused on fundraising behind closed doors rather than being seen by voters. She is slated to headline a pair of fundraisers in New York for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Monday, alongside House Minority Leader [Nancy Pelosi, D-Alcoholics Anonymous]. Additionally, Hillary Clinton is set to headline a fundraiser for [Bob Menendez, D-Dominican Fuck Farms], Monday evening.
Who has the over/under of February for the Death Pool?
Cops charge that Callijas-Gasperin battered his 41-year-old mother after asking her to make him some food around 8 PM Monday. The victim agreed to prepare a meal, but asked her son “to give her a few minutes due to being busy.”
“The defendant stated that he got mad, so he threw the remaining sausages at her.” Callijas-Gasperin contended that he had done nothing wrong, adding that he would not have tossed the sausages if his mother would have “said sorry.”
If you need an excuse for Florida Man AND Winston jokes, here it is.
And for the last birthday, it’s Old Guy Music Time, featuring the pianist who truly created modern jazz piano. Without Art Tatum, there would have been no Oscar Peterson or Horace Silver or McCoy Tyner or Chick Corea or… well, you get the idea.
I can’t believe you guys pretended like you were disappointed there weren’t enough links yesterday. If this is where you get your news, its all rapesquatches and destruction.
Of all the things that I thought would happen to the GOP under Trump, growing a set of balls is the last thing I suspected. My feeling is that there’s a polarity swap happening between the Stupid and the Evil parties.
