Category: Daily Links

We’re on the sad part of our trip, the journey back from Heaven to Hell. At the moment, we’re stopped halfway, in Purgatory, otherwise known as North Dakota. The mountains behind us, the prairie ahead, and our faithful companion, Manfred The Mighty Wonder Dog, already anticipates being able to shit in her own yard again.

Enough of the personal, now to the important things for y’all to ignore. First, anniversaries and birthdays. On this day in 1963, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in Abington vs. Schempp that public school-run recitation of Christian prayers was unconstitutional. I remember this well: I was in third grade, my first year in public school, only Jew in the class, and resentful that we had to do this shit. My teacher made a point of telling us that anything we heard about this didn’t apply and that she would continue punishing anyone who didn’t enthusiastically participate. Which she did. This was one of the early steps in my development of total scorn and disgust with government indoctrination centers public schools. Today is also the birthday of Harry Browne, for whom I voted twice (in different elections, I wasn’t in Chicago then) and Jello Biafra.

Today’s news that struck my fancy:

 

I do not have much love for Rudy Giuliani, but every once in a while, I have to tip my hat in his direction.

Giuliani also said that he didn’t mean to call the former vice president a “mentally deficient idiot,” as he did in an interview with HuffPost, but then went on to attack Biden’s intelligence.

“I didn’t mean that, I meant that he’s dumb,” Giuliani told Cuomo when asked about his comments.

 

This is why we have such a high regard for the Washington Post, stories like this which really get into the nitty-gritty of an issue.

Such a situation could have long-term, devastating effects on young children, who are likely to develop what is called toxic stress in their brain once separated from caregivers or parents they trusted. It disrupts a child’s brain development and increases the levels of fight-or-flight hormones in their bodies, Kraft said. This kind of emotional trauma could eventually lead to health problems, such as heart disease and substance abuse disorders…

Nearly 4,600 mental-health professionals and 90 organizations have joined a petition urging Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and several elected officials to stop the policy of separating children from their parents.

Huh, it’s really weird that no-one was covering this and circulating petitions three years ago. Huh. I wonder what was different. I guess the WaPo reporters were too busy then to get to this. Yeah, that must be it.

 

Will this be an excuse to step up even more military adventurism in Afghanistan? I mean, our war there is now becoming a national tradition, and we need to make sure that all of our generations to come can feel the same joy that we have had for the past 18 years. We don’t have Bush or Obama any more, can we count on Trump to follow his wise and brave predecessors in maintaining this glorious honor? I worry about this.

 

Never let it be said that we don’t find news that can transform your life.

 

Having grown up watching Brooks and Frank Robinson, Jim Palmer, Dave McNally, Eddie Murray, and Boog Powell, this shit is painful to me, but one of the comments absolutely cracked me up.

This is bullshit, man. Did the Sixers give up when it seemed impossible to set the NBA record for longest losing streak? No, they went out and set that record, and then they broke it the very next year. Did the Browns give up on the dream of an unvictoried season after going 1-15? No, they went out and achieved.

History is history! We may not all be destined for greatness, nor should we demand it. But what more can any man ask than to have his name etched in the annals of recorded humanity? To know when the great cities of today have crumbled, when the valleys have risen to become mountains and the mountains are but dust in the desert, that in some forgotten chamber in some dank corner of the Earth, still there rests a book of human history, and within its pages lies the humble name of the tragic man. “Worst Individual Season (by fWAR) In Baseball History: Chris Davis, 2018, -8.9.”

 

The headline alone of this story should tell you how absolutely worthless the UN is.

 

Old Guy Music! This was a wonderful and appropriate Jack Bruce number, here covered by (((Leslie West))) with Felix Pappalardi on vocals- Pappalardi had originally produced Jack Bruce’s version on Bruce’s superb album Songs For A Tailor, so this kinda brings it full circle. Mountain Climbing seems appropriate, though, for the week we’ve just spent, and yeah, it’s a good cover. I was amused that the comments on the video were all basically “Dad Song,” so they also fit the Father’s Day theme.

 

I am not sure what the SMITHS are up to…but I am sure it is no good. ZARDOZ might be off on a long grain hauling mission…or whatever the ZARDOZIAN equivalent to sitting around and recovering from a long week is. So, you get my links tonight. I’ll try to keep them short and to the point.

• What has happened to Canadian politeness? Good to see noble and gallant PM Zoolander/TWINK IN THE NORTH hurrying to stand up for her. Feh. Oh and TW: Bloomberg, so most of the article is how this is all Trump’s fault.
• More sterling personnel management from a Cook County governmental agency. When the Swiss are finally done with me, I am so leaving this state.
• Hey, when you go bankrupt, you do whatever you can to raise cash.
• Dang…looks like drugs have infiltrated another sport.

OK, there it is for ya. I guess ZARDOZ would tell you to go forth and kill comment. STEVE SMITH would throw a big rock at your head, or tell you to have a nice night, maybe?

So I’ll just let you go and do you.

We met the nicest bunch of guys out here in the rural Rocky Mountains. They put on uniforms, drill, do target practice, learn hand-to-hand combat, run around the hills, chase Jews… it’s fun. No, I didn’t tell them, because they did seem awful nice and I didn’t want to spoil their fun.

Anyway, that’s a fitting way to segue into the news today. Although I should mention that it’s Stan Laurel’s birthday. The Music Box is still one of the funniest bits of film ever made.

 

Some would call this tragedy. Some would call this callousness. Some would call this overblown. I would call it “opportunity.”

 

Well, if your fame is fading and your cause is brainless, may as well get a more appropriate spokeswoman.

 

Speaking of which, I really am losing hope for the new generation.

 

STILL more useful than their purported assignment.

 

Florida Man, you never, ever disappoint. And bless the Second Amendment.

 

NO. JUST…. NO.

 

Old Guy Music! Not much to say here beyond that this is the guy who basically invented modern electric guitar playing. And the fucker cooks.

 

 

STEVE SMITH NO LIKE THIS WEEK. WANT IT END. ACCESS ROAD TO FOREST WASH OUT, SO NO TOUR BUS OR CAMPERS. WAY BEHIND ON RAPE COUNT IN MONTH. NOW MISS TIME OFF GO VISIT COUSIN SEA SMITH ON COAST. ALL MAKE STEVE SMITH SAD. BUT FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE MAKE STEVE SMITH HAPPY, SO HIM GIVE LINKS, SMILE.

• SEE YEMEN STILL CRAPHOLE. FIGHT MUCH THERE. MAYBE CRAZY HOOMAN DENNIS RODMAN GO THERE MAKE PEACE?
• FIND OUT MORE BRAVERY, GOOD THINGS ABOUT SCHOOL SECURITY. STEVE SMITH NEED PAY VISIT TO HIM. BY PAY VISIT, MEAN CATCH UP ON COUNT!
• THIS STORY LIE! HIM DEAD, BUT HIM NO PRINCE. “Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach” MAKE STEVE SMITH LAUGH. ALL PART OF SAUSAGE COUNTRY NOW!
• STEVE SMITH ASK “WHAT IN A NAME?” WOULD BALKAN “CRAZYLAND” BE “NOT CRAZYLAND” IF CALL NEW NAME?

 

STEVE SMITH GO HAVE BEERS WITH CAVE BEAR. HIM KNOW FUNNY JOKES, ALWAYS RAID CAMPGROUND FOR BEER.

So lets see, Iran was gifted a win when their opponent OG’d 4.5 minutes into a 6 minute stoppage. I hope they don’t murder for that in Morocco. Somehow Portugal ended up with a PK 3 minutes in. I assume I looked down for a minute and missed a classic Christiano Ronaldo dive. Spain of course, gets a PK waved off in a blatant handball in the box. Inadvertant or not, his hand was at shoulder level and deflected a ball bound for the goal. Spain is the far better team. If Ronaldo wasn’t so great, this wouldn’t be a game. And there’s the unfuckingbelievable tie goal. Spain got robbed by the greatest player ever

Jesus, Florida Man, you can’t have roller coasters derailing and hurting people. The Mouse’s people will take you out into a swamp and feed you to the gators.

Wait, wait, a Cabinet Secretary had is people put in a call for his daughter to help her get a White House internship? If anything it proves that its so NOT a big deal that Pruitt didn’t feel like he had to talk to The Man or the Chief of Staff about it.

I have a feeling that this sort of thing sticks with a Marine for the rest of his career, even if he fully recovers medically. Still, its not like accidentally shooting a general officer in the chest at point blank range like happened to Petraeus.

WaPo staffers pen open letter to owner, complaining his management aren’t bargaining in good faith. Expect the silence in response to be its own statement. Alternatively, look for Amazon to go big in newswriting AI.

 

If the order of the day is European Soccer, then the song must be from a movie that featured a brutal English footballer as the leader of a hooligan club.

Russia pounded Saudi Arabia’s nuts in the World Cup opener.  Mo Salah (Egyptian king)  will be on the bench against Uruguay today. And “The Battle For Iberia” is this afternoon.  I just thought of that, so if you think its retarded, you know who to point a finger at.  And Kellen Winslow II, one of the biggest assholes in all of professional sports over the last few decades, is in a bit more legal trouble than everyone thought when he was first arrested last week.

On the diamonds, your winners were: San Francisco, Philly, Detroit, Cleveland (who managed to split a series with White Sox), the World Champion Houston Astros, Yankees, Braves, Diamondbacks and Red Sox.

And then…there was the bloodbath at Shinnecock Hills.  There probably hadn’t been that much carnage on Long Island since the white man first set foot on the continent.  It was just brutal.  The average score was more than 6 over par. Just four players in red numbers after the first round, and I would imagine that number won’t get any bigger as we get to the weekend.  I partially blame the conditions, which were tricky to say the least.  But when you crosscut the greens, dry them out as much as possible, and put pins in unapproachable locations, are you really bringing out the best in these players?  I would tend to say they should leave everything else alone but at least make the greens comparable to what tour players face on a regular basis.  You simply cannot put pins on the side of a ridge on a rear-sloping green with the entire back fringe bikini-waxed.  It makes for shitty golf, in my opinion.  Look for DJ to carry on and go into the weekend either in the lead or right there in contention.  God knows what else will happen, other than a bunch of guys in the 80s and fans grumbling (some) over the weekend that a lot of big names are spending Fathers Day weekend at home.

Sorry for the rant. Hey look, composer Edvard Greig was born on this date.  Am an whose work I quite enjoy.  So were commie Yuri Andropov, jazz pianist Erroll Garner, asshole Mario Cuomo, musical genius Waylon Jennings, whore/author Xaviera Hollander, “the lizard” Dusty Baker, another commie Xi Jinping, the brother of a great comedian Jim Belushi, fried chicken and beer aficionado Wade Boggs, “actress” Helen Hunt, “actress” Courtney Cox, actor and musician O’Shea Jackson, Starship Trooper Niel Patrick Harris, three-time world champ and San Francisco Giant Tim “The Freak” Lincecum, and also the aforementioned Egyptian King, Mo Salah is celebrating.

Its also a great day in the history of the individual. Its the day the Magna Carta was signed by King John.  I’ve seen an original of the document in Washington at the National Archives.  It was a really cool experience. George Washington was appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. Charles Goodyear patented the vulcanization of rubber, Henry Flipper (in 1877) became the first black man to graduate from West Point, mustache-genius Wilhelm II became Emperor of Germany, Ford Motor Company built its 10 millionth vehicle, scumbag and cross-dresser J Edgar Hoover assumed leadership of the FBI, “The Dirty Dozen” hit theaters, and Jack Nicklaus, the winner of the most majors of all time and most likely the greatest golfer ever, won the 80th US Open.

I hope you got all that.  Especially the golf stuff.  Now we come to…the links!

I’ve got nothing on the IG report.  Everybody saw it, everybody has an opinion on it. I’d be mailing it in if I used that as a link when I know it’ll be topic of the day anyhow. So consider this my bringing it up, and feel free to go crazy on it in the comments.

Oh no! This is definitely going to break our economy. Whatever will we do? I mean, if this doesn’t end soon, I can only imagine the streets in South Florida and Arizonas will be almost devoid of Cadillacs and Buicks floating across three lanes to get to the 4:30 PM dinner special in the fall.  And teenage boys won’t have a fictitious girlfriend to talk about when they get back from summer vacation.  And … well, that’s pretty much it.

Bipartisan push for shield laws for journalists is back on.  OK, great.  But mentioning an opportunist partisan hack sleeping her way through sources in order to spin bullshit might not be as good a poster child as, say, Edward Snowden and Wikileaks, who do nothing put post the raw data and let people decide for themselves how to take it.  Also, I’ll pose a question: should we grant protected status to the sources who are breaking federal confidentiality laws or should we merely allow the stories to be printed and not punish the journalists?  She’s not being punished. And the defense of the feds here, in my opinion, is that they subpoena’d the records of their target’s lover, not his journalistic outlet. What say you?

If you expected this to have happened somewhere other than Florida, you’re not paying attention. I applaud his desire to enforce his contract. But his methods are suspect.

I see the left is flipping the fuck out that the Trump admin plans on enforcing our naturalization policy and possibly removing violent criminals from the country. Yeah, good luck selling that one.

Only in Chicago.  I mean, the corruption in that city just can’t be topped.  Maybe, just maybe, all the Chicago Glibs need to move out and we need to drop a nuke on that cesspool of government corruption.  Maybe.

And the latest Darwin Award winners are…these dumbasses.

If you’re at work, you may want to not play this song on full volume. For the birthday boy.

Have a great day and a wonderful Fathers Day weekend.  I know I will.

I was bemoaning, today, the passing of basic networking from the skillset of certain software types. At what point did not knowing the difference between a local network IP and your public facing IP become a lost art? It worries me that someone who basically admitted to not being able to configure his own home network beyond (possibly) plugging the router into the modem has a technical job my work may depend on. Which is not to say that I know all about networking. But for me that’s the equivalent of knowing how to pop the hood on your car. For those of you who want to acquire this skill — here is a link. Bookmark it and seem smarter to your IT sysadmin. for bonus credit, if your IP address is in one of these ranges — that is your LOCAL address and you may need to follow the link.

• 

  10.0.0.1 to 10.255.255.254

• 172.16.0.1 to 172.31.255.254
• 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.255.254

Here endeth the lesson.

Sports Update: Russia is now a tie away from advancing after thumping the Saudis 5-0. Hard to image how they don’t go through if they tie Egypt or Uruguay. I’m assuming Saudi Arabia gets to cheat on their OPEC targets for the rest of the year in return.

If I had to recommend just one article from today to a friend about why I’m a libertarian, I would pick this one.

In their battle to destroy adolescent behavior, they would make us all children. “Mo-ooom! He won’t stop looking at me!”

The IG in the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email server probe gave their sternest judgement. “Procedures were not followed, but no political intent”. Amazingly, they found, no contact was recorded between DOJ head Loretta Lynch and FBI head Comey ahead of two important press conference. Why, its almost like she didn’t need to be briefed because the fix was in.

I’m sure this ricin recovered from the apartment of a Tunisian national in Germany was part of his dedication to bring back the Red Army Faction, right?

I’m really looking forward to the NYT and WaPo “rednecks in the mist” article about the new gay mayor of Del Rio, TX. Sorry, bud. You’re never going to convince me that a man can wear heels under a suit unless they’re connected to a pair of boots, but I wish him great success.

 

I guess I’m in a Lucero mood.

Well the World Cup is about to kick off in a few hours.  I can’t wait to see how the USMNT does…in their MLS games that are still going on.  Stupid bastards not qualifying.  That’s what they get for assuming they’d coast through qualifying.  You know who else was wrong about coasting through an opposition?  The Cleveland Indians, apparently.  The Chicago White Sox beat them again, for a two-game winning streak. They’re solidly out of the basement and have their eyes set on a respectable third in their division.  Way to keep grinding, guys.  The Astros won again, as did the Dodgers, Padres, the BIG RED MACHINE, the Marlins, Rockies, Nationals, Mariners, Pirates, Red Sox, Rays, Braves and Brew Crew, who have now created just a little separation in the NL Central after dropping the Cubs two times in a row.

Two other things of note in the sports world: the US Open kicks off today with a bevy of start teeing it up early.  Come on, Jordan, get the flat stick working this week.  Yeah, right. I’m thinking DJ or Dustin Thomas.

And lastly, I’m absolutely stunned that ESPN let this story get published. It goes against their base instinct to only print negative articles on the subject.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, coiner of the term “Uncle Tom” was born on this date. So were butcher/sociopatyh Che Guevara, President Donald Trump, guitarists Rod Argent and Barry Melton, singer and A-Team associate Boy George, tennis player and philanthropist (what she and Aggasi have done with their money is more than commendable) Steffi Graf and rapper MC Ren.

Its also the day the Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes flag, Captain Bligh inexplicably made it to Timor, California declared independence from Mexico, Robert Bunsen invented his Bunsen burner, the first cycle in professional baseball was recorded, Hitler and Mussolini met for the first time in Vienna, Max Baer knocked Primo Carnera out, the first commercial computer, the UNIVAC 1 was put into service at the Census Bureau, Tricky Dick imposed a 60-day price freeze, signaling the absolute end of the free market, the Gong Show made its debut and Argentina capitulated to Great Britain, ending the Falklands War. Oh, and the Obama Admin charges Edward Snowden with Espionage.

That’s better than yesterday, except for the lack of musical talent.  But you can’t win em all.  Anyway, let’s get to…the links!

The Special Counsel’s office looks like its being run by amateurs. Or by deliberate leakers. Or something pretty absurd.

The Horowitz report on the FBI’s handling of the Clinton e-mail crimes and exonerations will be released today. And its expected to not go easy on the FBI. Oh, speaking of the IG, when is that indictment he recommended for Andy McCabe expected to come down?

Yo, Adrian! Get me a lawyer on the phone. Sly Stallone under investigation for rape that was supposed to have occurred in 1990.  No word on how deep the coma she was in for those 27 years to have just woken up to file a complaint this week.

The modern-day P.T. Barnum finds his latest sucker. Surprise! Its the Chicago taxpayers. For extra lulu, its been nicknamed “Tesla-in-a-tunnel”. I guess they’re planning on it driving itself into a wall and incinerating everyone inside.

Progressive, tolerant people want to erase history. And its looks like they’ll get a second chance too do so in San Francisco.

Boston City Council makes sure the people who live there know there is no such thing as private property.  Fucking scumbags.

Aaaaaaand the plague is back in the United States.

It was either this or NWA. I chose to keep our family-friendly label.

Have a great day, y’all.

 

RUSSIA 2018!!!!

Sé que estaba en los enlaces de la mañana, pero….Tenemos la Mundia de Fútbol 2026!

Canadá, México y Estados Unidos organizarán el Mundial de fútbol de 2026.

La candidatura conjunta recibió 134 votos, mientras que Marruecos, el otro postulante, recibió 65.

Esta será la tercera vez que México organiza un Mundial, después de 1970 y 1986. Para Estados Unidos será el segundo, ya que fue sede en 1994, y la primera vez para Canadá.

---

Canada, Mexico and the United States will organize the 2026 World Cup.

The joint bid received 134 votes, while Morocco, the other candidate, received 65.

This will be the third time that Mexico has organized a World Cup, after 1970 and 1986. For the United States, it will be the second, since it hosted in 1994, and the first time for Canada.

 

*shudders* Argentines…

They actually have a history of unethical behavior with regards to adoption. Feel free to look that up at your leisure.   I wonder if they asked to Pope to chime in on this one?

Este miércoles la Cámara de Diputados de Argentina vota la ley de despenalización del aborto.

Hay mucha incertidumbre sobre la decisión final porque en la antesala la votación es muy pareja. La Ley de Interrupción Voluntaria del Embarazo ha sido rechazada seis veces en once años.

El debate comenzará a las 11 a.m. hora local este miércoles y se espera que se extienda hasta la madrugada del jueves.

---

This Wednesday the Chamber of Deputies of Argentina votes the law of decriminalization of abortion.

There is a lot of uncertainty about the final decision because in the anteroom the vote is very even. The Law of Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy has been rejected six times in eleven years.

The debate will begin at 11 a.m. local time this Wednesday and is expected to extend until early Thursday.

 

Corrupt Mexican politicians engage in a spirited, televised debate over who is the most corrupt…or least. I don’t for sure.

A las 20:45 horas, quince minutos antes de que comenzara el debate, en la página de Youtube Caso Anaya se hicieron públicos un audio de casi cuatro horas y un video de 52 minutos sobre los presuntos actos de corrupción que habría cometido Ricardo Anaya en colaboración con el empresario Manuel Barreiro, un caso que ha marcado las campañas en la última semana.

Sin embargo, el tema de estos nuevos videos pasó inadvertido por los aspirantes y los tres moderadores del debate, los periodistas Gabriela Warkentin, Carlos Puig y Leonardo Curzio. Como ha venido repitiendo desde hace días, Anaya aseguró que las acusaciones son una campaña sucia en su contra por parte del gobierno federal.

“Yo he sido blanco de una campaña brutal de ataques, de infamias, porque cuando dije que cuando sea presidente habrá una Fiscalía independiente para investigar a Peña Nieto, para investigar Ayotzinapa, la casa blanca. Por decir esto, me atacan. No les tengo miedo”, dijo el panista.

Anaya insistió en que López Obrador ha pactado con el gobierno de Enrique Peña Nieto para que éste último no sea perseguido.

---

At 20:45 hours, fifteen minutes before the debate began, on the Youtube Anaya Case page, an audio of almost four hours and a 52 minute video about the alleged acts of corruption committed by Ricardo Anaya in collaboration with businessman Manuel Barreiro, a case that has marked the campaigns in the last week.

However, the subject of these new videos went unnoticed by the aspirants and the three moderators of the debate, journalists Gabriela Warkentin, Carlos Puig and Leonardo Curzio. As he has been repeating for days, Anaya said that the accusations are a dirty campaign against him by the federal government.

“I have been the target of a brutal campaign of attacks, of infamies, because when I said that when I became president there would be an independent prosecutor’s office to investigate Peña Nieto, to investigate Ayotzinapa, the white house. For saying this, they attack me. I’m not afraid of them, “said the PAN.

Anaya insisted that López Obrador has agreed with the government of Enrique Peña Nieto so that the latter will not be persecuted.

“I have not agreed with him. I have not seen him in six years, “Lopez Obrador repeated again and again.

In response to the attacks he received from Anaya and Meade, Morena’s candidate said: “They are desperate. What fault do I have that you are tied? They believe that here in the debate they will go back 30 points. Serénense. ”

At times, the central themes of the debate – economic growth, poverty and inequality, education, science, technology, health, sustainable development and climate change – were left aside by the aspirants

 

Let it be known that Nicaragua is still a hole filled with, well…you know.

Las gasolineras y supermercados de Managua se desbordaron de ciudadanos este martes. Compraban e intentaban llegar antes de las seis de la noche a sus hogares, temerosos de los posibles ataques paramilitares en calles. Los empresarios acababan de dar un paso que no se habían atrevido a hacer hasta ahora.

149 muertos después y ante el recrudecimiento de la violencia a manos de grupos paramilitares, los empresarios de Nicaragua decidieron jugar este martes su carta “más extrema” contra el gobierno de Daniel Ortega: la convocatoria a un ‘paro nacional’ para exigir la democratización del país y el cese inmediato de la represión.

La patronal lo anunció la noche de este martes junto a los otros sectores que conforman la Alianza Cívica por la Justicia y la Democracia –que agrega a universitarios, sociedad civil y campesinos–, quienes han sido la contraparte en el diálogo mediado por los obispos, proceso que desde mediados de mayo está paralizado.

“Nosotros, como miembros de la Alianza Cívica por la Justicia y la Democracia, ante las condiciones extremas que vive Nicaragua, en solidaridad con las víctimas y reconociendo el derecho a las legítimas formas de defensa hemos decidido: llamar a un paro nacional de 24 horas a partir de las cero horas del día jueves 14 de junio de este año y terminando a las 11:59 de la noche del mismo día”, informó José Adán Aguerri, presidente del Consejo Superior de la Empresa Privada (Cosep), organización que antes del inicio de la crisis sociopolítica el 18 de abril mantenía una relación “de diálogo y consenso” con la administración sandinista.

---

The gas stations and supermarkets in Managua overflowed with citizens on Tuesday. They bought and tried to reach their homes before six o’clock at night, afraid of possible paramilitary attacks on the streets. The entrepreneurs had just taken a step that they had not dared to do until now.

149 killed later and before the upsurge of violence at the hands of paramilitary groups, the Nicaraguan businessmen decided to play their “most extreme” letter against the Daniel Ortega government on Tuesday: the call for a “national strike” to demand the democratization of the country and the immediate cessation of repression.

The employers announced it on Tuesday night along with the other sectors that make up the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy – which adds to university students, civil society and farmers – who have been the counterpart in the dialogue mediated by the bishops, process that since mid-May is paralyzed.

“We, as members of the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy, faced with the extreme conditions that Nicaragua is experiencing, in solidarity with the victims and recognizing the right to legitimate forms of defense, have decided: to call a 24-hour national strike From zero hours on Thursday, June 14 of this year and ending at 11:59 in the evening of the same day, “said José Adán Aguerri, president of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise (Cosep), an organization At the beginning of the socio-political crisis on April 18, it maintained a relationship “of dialogue and consensus” with the Sandinista administration.

Translation Services available from the Alpha Beta corporation.

Sorry, rest of the world.  The World Cup is headed back to America. Not the trophy, obviously, but the tournament.  We will be sharing it with America Jr and our Mexican brothers and sisters. But this will still be pretty cool for us.  Especially since, unlike the rest of the hosts over the past several cups, we won’t have to build all new stadiums for the thing.

The Red Sox, Yankees, Phillies, Twinks, Marlins, Rays, White Sox…wait, what?  Wow, the White Sox really did win. Oh, sorry. I digress. The Brewers, Reds, Padres, D-backs, Mariners, Dodgers and ASTROOOOOOOS won yesterday.  The Ottowa Senators try to stop a catfight.  Seriously, what a psycho. And that’s about all that happened in the sports world that I can come up with.  Unless you guys want to talk college football recruiting and the best OL in the class spurning Bama, UGA and Clemson to head north to Columbus.  But we can talk about that later.

Charles Algernon Parsons was born today.  He invented the steam turbine. So was Ma Furgeson, 1st woman elected governor of Texas. And she had the job twice!. Actor Basil Rathbone shares the date, along with “Flying Finn” Paavo Nurmi, football legend Red Grange, genius and nutter John Nash, conservative actor Tim Allen, brat packer Ally Sheedy, musician Rivers Cuomo, child actress and designer Ashley Olsen, child actress and cocaine aficionado Mary-Kate Olsen, and busty “actress” Kat Dennings.

Its also the day King Ferdinand of Austria subjected himself to the Ottoman emperor Suleiman, The Marquis de Lafayette landed in the United States to help stomp the limeys, Simon Bolivar was declared dictator for life, Andrew Johnson signed proclamation for confederate reconstruction, Charles Lindbergh had a ticker-tape parade for his transatlantic flight, Hermann Goering established the gestapo, Babe Ruth gave his farewell speech in Yankee Stadium, the last British troops leave the Suez Canal (probably a mistake in retrospect), Vostok 6 took the first woman into space, Mick Taylor joined the Rolling Stones, Let It Be hit #1, “Grease” hit theaters, George Harrison released “This Is Love” and sadly this is the day that stupid asshole drunk limo driver destroyed the body of hockey great Vladimir Konstantinov. (I’d be in the stands the next year as the Red Wings swept the Caps to win the Stanley Cup in front of a sparse crowd at the MCI Center.)

Lotta stuff there.  And now…the links!

While the boss is out there making flamethrowers, Tesla is cutting 9% of their workforce.  How much longer will their shareholders let this clown run their company into the ground?

Ballot initiative to split California into three states earns a spot on the November ballot. I believe it was out very own Jesse who had some contact with the people heading up this campaign.  If I’m right, maybe we can get some inside dope on what’s happening.  If I’m wrong then…ignore me.

Trump will be briefed on the IG’s report on the Clinton email fiasco before it is released to the public.  And on his birthday no less!  The tweets will be, how shall I put this, FUCKING EPIC!!!!!!

Apparently intimidation of witnesses or people with oversight of a federal department is no longer a crime.  This asshole needs to be fired and disbarred at a minimum.  He should probably be charged with something involving witness intimidation or contempt of Congress.  The people, after all, are merely asking him for records so they can perform their defined job of federal oversight of his department.

Chicago taxpayers, I’m sure you’re happy about your skyrocketing property and sales taxes going to shit like this.  Hey, its better than the pension scam the cops and CPS are running.  Marginally.

Damn, talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time.  And a horrible way to go, too.

“Rights” group makes a statement.  I would assume Israel’s response will be: “and how many Divisions does the Human Rights Watch have?”  Seriously, HRW needs to eat a turd on this one.  Gaza is a shithole by design of Hamas and their barbaric death-cult followers.  There, I said it.  Israel has every right in the world to defend her borders from those who very vocally said their goal was to enter Israel and kill as many people as possible.  And anybody stupid enough to commingle with this idiots at the fence and burn tires and all kinds of other stupid shit deserve whatever they got.

So many choices today. But really, its a no-brainer for me.

Have a fantastic day, friends.