Category: Daily Links

 

Links? What are you… uh oh.

Well, here are a couple:

1. Somebody fell, in your neighborhood…in your neighborhood.
2. Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin!

Music… fine. Here.

Right then. Nothing else to see, move along citizens!

Oh, she accidentally slipped and stabbed her husband to death.

Today I’m feeling very visual. Tell me you didn’t look at this picture

 

And imagine her cosplaying this with The Donald

 

 

That’s what I’ve got today!

Here’s a little song for my outro.

 

If you’re a normal person, this short work week is almost over.  If you’re a New York Yankee, its been done for a day and a half.  If you’re a Cleveland Indian, it never really got started. But that’s life in the big leagues, son. And with the baseball playoffs on hiatus for a couple days, the NHL did their best to capitalize on the sports-starved people looking for something to watch.  How’d they do it? By scheduling a mere three games, of course. Nice work, Bettman. Your idiocy still never ceases to amaze me.  Anyway, those winners were: Philly, Washington and Phoenix (who finally won a game!). No other sports of consequence took place.

October 11th is the day the following people came into this world: YMCA founder George Williams, condiment magnate Henry John Heinz, First Lady (for way too long) Eleanor Roosevelt, real estate developer Fred Trump, writer Elmore Leonard, soccer legend (which is an understatement) Sir Bobby Charlton, singer Daryl Hall, guitarist Greg Douglass, drummer Blair Cunningham, actress Joan Cusack, MST3K’s Mike Nelson, Buckeye legend Chris Spielman, actor Luke Perry, comedian Artie Lange, libertarian-is entrepreneur Peter Thiel, actress Michelle Trachtenberg and golfer Michelle Wie.

Its also the day on which an earthquake in Aleppo killed 230,000 people (somebody let Gary Johnson know), Pope Leo X named Henry VIII “defender of the Faith”, roll film for cameras was patented, so was the elevator, the Boers declared war on Great Britain, the Chinese civil war began, Billy Martin was named manager of the Twins, “Saturday Night Live” made its debut, Prince opened for the Rolling Stones (quite the combo), Jimmy Swaggart solicited a prostitute, and Neon Deion Sanders played for the Braves and Falcons on the same day.

Alrighty then. Here are…the links!

Hurricane Michael leaves a wake of destruction in its path. Christ, what an asshole.

Its pretty neat to watch successes. But sometimes its the failures that show man’s greatness. Wow. Whoever designed that deserves a medal.

If you thought the media digging into high-school yearbooks and college accounts of (gasp!) drinking were absurd, well, I’ve got news for you. We’ve almost reached peak idiocy from the media.  Same goes for their commenters.

Women are strong, brave, and capable of doing anything a man can do. Well, they are until they need to be painted as delicate victims easily subjected to abuse in order to make political points.

I called this yesterday: the limousine operator who sent the busted-up vehicle on the road that was involved in a crash that killed 20 people, has been charged with criminally negligent homicide.

Um, yeah. I got no snark for this one. I’m sure there will be enough in the comments.

I’m thinking prosecutors might want to reevaluate the charges on this one.

Prosecutors at the time said it was possible the charge could be upgraded to murder in light of Ryan’s death, but aggravated assault by a public servant would carry the same sentencing range and be easier to prove. As of Wednesday, no higher charges had been added, according to Jack Choate, executive director of the Special Prosecution Unit that handles Texas prison criminal cases.

Wait, what the fuck?!?!?!?!

Oh hell yeah! Enjoy the 80s.

Now get out there and have a day as great as that song is.

 

By the time you read these Links, UberKillDeathMurderStorm Michael will have removed Florida from the Continental United States. Hopefully any of you that lived in that area fled, long ago. Brett is probably out taking stock of his new island home state, so I will cover the links today. I sure hope the pythons didn’t swim over to what is left of CONUS…

• How it happened/will happen/should happen. (As of time of link forging).
• Oh noes! An EU member wants to change how it operates its judiciary. Let the lawfare begin! (TW: Reuters Euro-arsekissing)
• Make it an oil wrestling match. /Patriarchy off.  Or, “The Bottom Story of the Day”.
• Might as well just shot the poor SOB. Or, “Dog cheered by third wave feminists as a canine hero!”

Kind off off kilter links for me, right? I think it was reading that SugarFree piece…I don’t feel…quite normal right now.

 

Columbus Day has me thrown off. I had to check three times to make sure I had the day of the week correct. No mind, its not like I ever have a normal work week or anything. But I could use a day off sometime.  Not a lengthy layoff like the Yankees now have, but just a couple days in a row.  But back to that…they gave game effort but they stuck with CC too long when he had average stuff last night.  Boston will take on the defending world champion Houston Astros starting Saturday and the NLCS kicks off Friday in Milwaukee.  Good luck to whoever you are rooting for (unless its the Dodgers or Red Sox).

Hockey winners last night were: Columbus, Carolina, San Jose, Calgary, Winnipeg and Toronto. Nothing else of note happened in the sports world.

Italian composer Guiseppe Verdi was born on this day.  As were: jazzman Thelonious Monk, eccentric filmmaker Ed Wood, actor Peter Coyote, rocker Alan Cartwright, accordionist James Fearnley, rocker David Lee Roth, singer Kirsty MacColl, politician and terrorist attack survivor Steve Scalise, actress Bai Ling, jeans pitchman Brett Favre, underachieving driver Dale Earnhardt Jr, and acting legend Mario Lopez.

Its also the day on which the cellulose billiard ball was patented, the Chicago fire was finally extinguished, the dinner jacket made its debut in Tuxedo Park, NY, Ho Chi Minh entered Hanoi, “Giant” (a better film than it gets credit for, in my opinion) made its debut, so did “From Russia With Love”, Fiji became an independent nation, Spiro Agnew resigned, Giants Stadium opened, Steve Perry joined Journey, Springsteen’s “Tunnel Of Love” album was released (it was garbage), Joseph Harris went postal, LT’s #56 was retired by the Giants, and the cornerstone for the Holocaust Museum in NY was laid.

That’s it. Now…the links!

Hurricane Michael is about to absolutely hammer the Florida panhandle. Fortunately its moving pretty quickly, but its still going to be devastating.  My thoughts and prayers are with those in its path.  I hope you’ve all gotten out of there In time.

Well, Sears is circling the drain and is preparing to file for bankruptcy protection. I mean, pretty much everybody not living under a rock saw this coming but that doesn’t make it any less sad.  They were a retail titan for damn near a century.

I’m not sure if this is a call for violence or not, but I don’t know how else to take someone who says you “cannot be civil” with your political opponents. Look for things to escalate in the sunup to the midterms and fully expect the left to resort to violence should they fail to capture the House. Well, I suppose I should say more violence.

Nikki Haley is stepping down from her post as ambassador to the United Nations. I think most everybody was caught off-guard with this one.  We’ll see what happens next, but I really want to see John Bolton get the post based solely on the statements he’s made about the UN in the past. (And yes, I know he’s got a lot of assholish views, but he’s dead right about our involvement with the UN.)

Fresno woman shocked to find naked stranger masturbating in her living room. (Sometimes there’s no need to rewrite the headline. This is one of those times.)

Murderer Jason Van Dyke has been moved far away from Chicago as he awaits sentencing. I hope he doesn’t get a single good night’s sleep while there. Or after sentencing. Or once he’s in prison. Or ever.

The finger-pointing has already begun in the aftermath of the deadly limousine accident in New York. The limo operator can expect to be sued out of existence at a minimum, but if the latest claims are true, he’s probably facing a slew of criminal charges as well.

The DC Doxxer will not be granted release before trial. Prosecutors claim a potential flight risk.  Looks like the judge learned something from the Awan family situation after all. The alleged Doxxer was employed by Shelia Jackson-Lee (D), Maggie Hassan (D) and others (D, D, D, D).

I’m sorry, I have to play two songs by two artists today.  I was genuinely torn but didn’t want to disappoint anybody: This one is an obvious choice. You know, seeing as it is perhaps one of the best 80’s rock songs recorded. And here is the second song. Which has a level of brilliance only that band could exhibit.

Now go out there and give em hell today!

People need to get up off my shit today. It’s like everyone around me has turned into squalling infants.

Except you, my lovely internet people.

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The paid D.C. protesters are now ready to REALLY protest because they haven’t gotten their checks – in other words, they weren’t paid! Screamers in Congress, and outside, were far too obvious – less professional than anticipated by those paying (or not paying) the bills!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 9, 2018

The Madness of King Donald. Is he trolling, is he really so paranoid and deluded to think they are all paid (or not paid?)

I am but mad north-north-west.
When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.

But does he? Or do we merely hope that he can?

*****

Let me take a minute to bitch about SparkNotes. Holy shit, SparkNotes sucks. If you put pretty much any Shakespeare quote into Google, SparkNotes comes up first. (Either they are gaming the system or just paying for the ranking–or maybe Google owns SparkNotes, I don’t care enough to figure it out.)

Anyway, SparkNotes is basically CliffNotes. Now, I’ve never really used CliffNotes, so maybe they are this shitty, but part of what SparkNotes does is give a modern “translation” of Shakespearean English (Heaven forfend anyone expand their vocabulary.) So the quote above is translated by SparkNotes as: “I’m only crazy sometimes. At other times, I know what’s what.”

What? What? You reduce His Words to that?!? First off, even on a surface reading, the lightest surface reading, that is not what Hamlet is saying at all. He’s saying he’s not crazy in a way that makes him seem crazy. And that’s before you get into Elizabethan pronunciation and cliches and double puns. To take a phrase so rich, so layered, so packed with meaning and spin it into grossest dross disgusts me.

And one more, I must do one more!

The fair Ophelia!—Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remembered.

Becomes, in the cack-handed laziness of SparkNotes:

Pretty lady, please remember me when you pray.

REALLY? Ophelia is the one true innocent that he has destroyed in his quest for revenge, the person he has most sinned against. This is his recognition and apology, even if it is too late. “Remember me when you pray.” Pft. Vile rot. Go to, I’ll no more on ’t. It hath made me mad.

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Trump ‘likes Taylor Swift 25% less’ after political post

Taylor Swift’s endorsement of two Democrats for the US mid-term elections has sparked a huge response – including from President Donald Trump.

Mr Trump has told reporters he likes “Taylor’s music about 25% less now”.

The singer-songwriter, 28, had previously deliberately steered clear of politics but said events in “the past two years” had changed her mind.

Her latest comments were praised by many but also sparked a fierce backlash from Republican supporters.

Swift broke her silence on politics on Sunday, publicly endorsing two Democrats in Tennessee, her home state, in a post on Instagram, where she has 112m followers.

“In the past I’ve been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now,” she wrote.

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Stormy Daniels Regrets ‘Body Shaming’ Donald Trump, Who Has a ‘Mushroom’ Dick

Stormy Daniels, a woman brave enough to speak publicly about the unspeakable act of having sexual intercourse with Donald Trump, now feels bad that she described the president’s Lil’ Smokey as “the mushroom character” in Mario Kart.

In a segment on 60 Minutes Australia, Daniels expressed regret about how she spoke about Trump’s Vienna sausage. “In a way, it’s body shaming and I feel like If I could go back and write the book [again], I think I would’ve left those details out,” she said.

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Donald Trump forced to be in a room with a 46-year-old woman for an uncomfortably long time

President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has resigned and will leave her post by the end of the year.

Sitting side-by-side in the Oval Office, Trump praised Haley as a “fantastic person” who has “done an incredible job” and said he would gladly welcome her back into his administration down the line.

“She’s done a fantastic job and we’ve done a fantastic job together. We’ve solved a lot of problems and we’re in the process of solving a lot of problems,” Trump said.

“She told me probably six months ago, ‘You know maybe at end of the year — at the end of the two year period — but by the end of the year I want to take a little time off, I want to take a break,’” he added. However, a source familiar with the situation told CNN that Haley notified Trump about her decision last week and did not tell Secretary of State Mike Pompeo or White House national security adviser John Bolton.

Both Bolton and Pompeo were surprised by the announcement, a source familiar told CNN.

Officials inside the White House, who had little indication Haley was resigning on Tuesday, are questioning her timing.

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Natural Light beer now available in convenient 77-packs

Natural Light is to college parties as seedy couches are to college parties. And the beer brand, owned by Anheuser-Busch, totally embraces this with its new 77-pack of cans, available exclusively around the College Park, Maryland area (home to the University Of Maryland).

The limited-edition packaging is a nod to the birth year of Natty Light—1977—and will hit stores in the next few days. A College Park liquor store I spoke to confirmed it would be receiving the 77-pack “today or tomorrow,” and that it would retail for “just around $30.” Our mass-market beer taste test determined that Natty Light tastes “like regular beer that’s been passed through a Brita filter 10,000 times.”

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The Astros are joining the Brew Crew as divisional series winners and will await their opponent.  The Brewers will face the Dodgers, who took care of Atlanta yesterday. Houston, who are the current world champions, will wait to see if the Yankees can bounce back from that manhood-robbing beatdown Boston put on them yesterday.  16-1…Jeez, that’s bad.

I hear basketball has started, but I still need to wait for a month or so to confirm.  On the ice, Anaheim are off to a hot start while the Rangers and Coyotes are close to being eliminated from the playoff race already…as usual for the ‘yotes.

NO UCL this week, as national teams prepare for a round of games. Which seems like its happening every other week lately.  Meh, oh well. Liverpool need a break.

If you were born on this day, you share it with: anti-slavery campaigner and first African-American publisher Mary Ann Shadd Cary, French artilleryman Alfred Dreyfus, ballplayer Joe Pepitone, singer-songwriter-guitarist John Lennon, rocker John Entwhistle, vocalist Jackson Browne,  TV’s Scott Bakula, musician PJ Harvey, LPGA legend Annika Sorenstam, hockey star Henrik Zetterberg, and the lovely Bella Hadid.

Its also the day on which RichardI left Jerusalem in disguise, Woodrow Wilson became the first president to attend a World Series game, Babe Ruth hit his first WS homer, NBC formed, Laura Ingalls completed the first transcontinental flight by a woman, Hoover Dam began sending electricity to L.A., Boston had a race riot, Penthouse Magazine’s Hebrew edition hit newsstands, David Souter was sworn in to the Supreme Court, and the SR-71 made its last flight.

Wow, that’s a  big day for birthdays. Anyway, on to…the links!

Hurricane Michael bears down on the Florida panhandle and Big Bend regions. If you’re in either of those places, its time to get the hell out of there. Seriously.

The tolerant, loving left are showing their true colors. How long are we away from another psychopath trying to kill a bunch of people for merely having the wrong opinion or affiliation?  And how long after it happens will it take the media to blame the victim?  I give it until mid-November.

The limousine driver involved in the crash that killed 20 people shared safety fears hours before the deadly crash. Hindsight being 20/20 and all that, I would never get behind the wheel of a lumbering death machine if I didn’t have confidence in its ability to stop and go as designed.

Don’t worry, it was an accident. Mistakes happen. But people never take advantage of things like this. Move along. Nothing to see here.

Some people would have you believe that public sector unions are there to prevent malicious politically-motivated actions by superiors and to ensure a diverse, diligent group of workers in our cities and states. It also means, apparently, you can be an absolute piece of shit and be really hard to fire. And if you’re surprised this happened in Chicago, you haven’t been here long.

Trump misspeaks about Kavanaugh “ordeal”, although the evidence provided leans in the direction of him being more accurate than his accusers. Either way, these kind of statements drive the progressives insane and I hope he keeps them up.  The American people need to see those idiots on display as they try to erode the concept of due process and innocence until proven guilty as well as utilizing political hit-jobs in order to derail our established and enumerated systems…all in an effort to regain power.  I only hope they never get power of the WH and Senate anytime soon, because they will pack the courts about 5 minutes after that happens.

Nobody left my bachelor party smelling like fish. I don’t think they did anyway. These guys cannot say the same. (Yes, its nice to post a human interest story once in a while. It helps keep us all sane.)

This is a tough day to pick a song. So I’ll pick three, in no particular order of brilliance on the part of the birthday boy: Let’s get this started off strong. And then let’s take it up a notch. And then finish it off smooth. (I may not leave the computer all day once I take R to school. And if I don’t, I might leave those three on loop for the duration. Brilliance. Pure brilliance.

Anyway, on that note, go have a great day, friends.

How’s your week going so far? Mine has been trying to scramble up the mountain of incoming shit before it buries me. But I can’t complain too much. The mighty Texas Longhorns held on to beat those University of Oklahoma… people. Also, the Texans won me $1. Which, I never bet on the Texans, but my boss is from Dallas, so I kind of had to. It was a pleasant surprise.

Bill and Hillary are going on tour. I look forward to bunches of conservatives showing up at every stop with posters that have pictures of Juanita Broderick saying “#IBelieveHer”

Florida Man sets Florida Man on fire over argument at homeless camp. I’m sure it wasn’t his stable personality that landed him in a homeless camp.

In the water is wet department — scientists have discovered that veterans are more likely to experience PTSD than those who did not serve. Its almost like they are more likely to experience traumatic stress than the broader population.

Friends of Justin Bieber think he’s having an identity crisis. By his recent pictures, it seems more likely he’s dead in a swamp and some Florida Man ringer has taken his place.

Oh man, can you imagine the glorious chaos if Cocaine Mitch were to go forward with a Supreme Court nomination in 2020? Not wishing anybody dead, but just saying, if it was Notorious RBG, people might literally die of apoplectic rage.

 

Just watchin’ a bad-ass chick play guitar today.

 

Grüezi mitenand. Your linkings are hereby here for you. Alles klar and in ordnung. Enjoying them you shall be – comments you will be making.

 

Sports were played, birthdays are being observed, historical events have seen another year slide them further out.

• The world continues to provide SugarFree more material. Perhaps a return to Korea for the Hat and Hair?
• This article shames me…I should get my lazy self to write up a Catalonia Update…in the interim, the link will have to do.
• I…I…can’t even come up with a good joke for this one. Something, something Turkish prison? No… oh, you figure this one out. (P.S. I got $5 says she is dead within 6 weeks).
• Ah, the usual “give us all your money and liberty or we are all GOING TO DIE in 10 years!!!” story. I seem to see these…every few years. Funny, we are still all here, right? Wait, or we were all already killed by the Tax Cuts, Net Neutrality going down, Kavanaugh sitting on the bench, etc.?

 

SEA SMITH STOP BY, SAY HI. NOT SEE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN HOOMANS FOR WHILE. SEA SMITH HAVING GOOD TIME SORTING OUT FLOOD DEBRIS AFTER HURRICANES. THINK HE HAVE ENOUGH TO EQUIP NEW DINING ROOM. IF ANY THINGS BELONG GLIBERTARIAN HOOMANS, LET SEA SMITH KNOW. HE GIVE COMPENSATION. BY COMPENSATION, MEAN RAPE.

BUT NOW GET LINKS!

1. SEA SMITH SAY “BE CAREFUL” TO GLIBS IN GULF. NO WANT THEM HURT.
2. KITTEH NO LIKE WET. HE CLAW ANYONE, EVEN HOOMAN WHO TRY HELP. SEA SMITH SHAKE FINNED HEAD.
3. SEA SMITH HAS CONFUSE. HE HEAR SOCIALISM MEDICINE ALL FOR EVERYONE. HOW THIS HAPPEN? MAYBE THEM “WRECKERS”?
4. SEA SMITH LAUGH. MAYBE SEE “TRUMP OF TROPICS”. WAIT FOR VOTE, BUT LOOK LIKELY.

 

COME ON IN, WATER FINE!