WHEW…SEA SMITH NEED BREAK FROM HOUSE WORK. IT ALWAYS SOMETHING. SEA SMITH JUST GET CARIBBEAN HOME REDONE, AND STORMMESS IT UP. SEA SMITH VERY UNHAPPY. HE GO TAKE IT OUT ON CREW OF SMALL MERCHANT SHIP, BY TAKE IT OUT, MEAN RAPE. BUT HE STILL LIKE PEOPLE HERE, SO HE GIVE LINKS FOR YOU.
THIS SOUND LIKE SILLY SPY STORY. OR BAD MOVIE. SEA SMITH NOT SURE WHAT GOING ON. BUT HE LEAVE IT TO YOU TO FIGURE OUT.
SEA SMITH GLAD HE STAY AWAY FROM YEMEN. NO TRIP TO GULF FOR SEA SMITH THIS YEAR!
I hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend. And I want to say thank you to our veterans. I know today is a tough day for a lot of you, as we honor your comrades and brothers/sisters-in-arms who gave their lives for our freedom. God bless them, their families and those who are and were affected by the loss.
There’s no smooth transition from that to the rest of the links, so I won’t try to get clever and pull it off. But I will go into sports. Looks like I was wrong about Houston and the GSW. Tonight they play game 7 and I thought it would be over in 6. I still think the Warriors will come out and win, but I sure would love to be proven wrong. Meanwhile, LeBron did what LeBron does. He made it to the NBA Finals for the eighth straight year, carrying his team to a game 7 win in Boston when neither team could shoot the ball worth a shit and the Celtics simply locked up in the last 5 minutes. It was a good series. The NHL begins the Stanley Cup finals tonight, as Washington takes on Vegas. I’m personally cheering for a meteor.
So long Danica. We hardly knew ya! -the Winner’s Circle
Congratulations are in order for Daniel Ricciardo, who got a little revenge for 2016 as he won the Monaco Grand Prix. Doing it with that gearbox he had was a hell of a feat, too. Also congratulations to Will Power for winning a crash-filled Indianapolis 500. Also congratulations to Danica Patrick. She ended her “racing” career yesterday, although it ended in a wall. It was a bizarre sight since she was always most known for climbing out of a wrecked stock car as opposed to a wrecked champ car.
If you were born today, you share it with such luminaries as Selim II of the Ottoman Empire, King George I, one of the greatest athletes ever in Jim Thorpe, blues guitarist T-bone Walker, cager Jerry West, “America’s Mayor” and Fox News contributor Rudy Guiliani, rocker John Fogerty, and skinny singer Kylie Minogue. Its also the day a solar eclipse in 585BC ended a war, Pope Leo X signed a treaty with the HRE, the first continental congress convened in 1774, Dodge Brothers and Chrysler merge to create a mega-manufacturer of shitty cars, Dwight Eisenhower unleashed a beast when he signed the first Farm Bill, and Scorcese’s Taxi Driver won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. Oh yeah, and Bill Clinton’s business partners in his Whitewater land deal were convicted of fraud.
That last historical event will make the first story that follows here a bit awkward. Which is my way of saying its time for…the links!
Chelsea Clinton
The daughter of privilege (and quite possibly a serial rapist) says President Trump degrades what it means to be an American. She may be right. We should all life lives of integrity…like having a dad get blowjobs from interns in the White House or a mother who oversaw a gun-running operation that got an ambassador killed and equipped ISIS. But that’s not her fault. Of course, maybe getting her wedding paid for with funds earmarked for Haitian earthquake victims is…but she’s so stupid she was probably unaware of that as well.
Maryland has turned into a flood zone. Wwe feel your pain here in Houston. You guys stay safe there and get to higher ground if the waters are still rising.
The Trump-Kim summit is back on after some posturing. I’m sure there will be people, namely pundits and bureaucrats who have never negotiated anything in their life, who will say this has been poorly handled diplomatically. But they have never trued to broker a deal before where the hard bargain is a necessity.
STEVE SMITH LIKE HOLIDAY WEEKENDS. HIM GET MANY MORE HIKERS AND VACATIONERS/CAMPERS COME TO WOODS. STEVE SMITH GIVE WARM GREETING. BY WARM GREETING, MEAN RAPE.
BUT YOU NOT HERE CATCH UP ON STEVE SMITH GOINGS ON, YOU HERE FOR LINKS. AND SAYING FUNNY THINGS IN COMMENTS. STEVE SMITH LIKE READING FUNNY COMMENTS. SO HERE LINKS SO YOU CAN MAKE FUNNY COMMENTS….OR ELSE STEVE SMITH HAVE FIND OTHER WAY TO AMUSE SELF…
STEVE SMITH SEE REAL SUPERHERO! AND HERE HIM THINK SPIDER-MAN JUST MOVIE AND COMIC. THAT MAKE STEVE SMITH SMILE.
ITALY HAVE TROUBLE MAKE GOVERNMENT. STEVE SMITH WONDER IF EVER HAPPEN BEFORE. MAYBE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE KNOW?
STOP RESISTING! STEVE SMITH SEE JUST ANOTHER DAY ON NEW JERSEY BEACH. GOOD THING HEROES THERE TO SAVE DAY!
FLORIDA MAN NOT HAPPY – GO AWAY STUPID STORM! STEVE SMITH STAND BY FOR WEATHER NEWS.
STEVE SMITH HOPE YOU HAVE GOOD NIGHT, FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE!
Swiss screwed you last night. Maybe because of the 23 beers he had, but that’s no excuse. So it’s time to rely on one of the Original Elders of Zion to bring you news.
Macron runs out of other people’s money. Hilarity ensues. Pire que Hitler!
Here’s a delightful quote from a (Catholic, not St. Louis) cardinal:
It is good to prefer your own kind when shopping, to avoid Jewish stores and Jewish stalls in the marketplace. One should stay away from the harmful moral influence of Jews, keep away from their anti-Christian culture, and especially boycott the Jewish press and demoralizing Jewish publications.
Who do corruption? WE do corruption! Waukegan is the taint of Chicago.
Best practice is not to have someone who could potentially be a suspect run the investigation, Newby added, and as an employee who worked in the district office, Newby said he and DeVonne could be suspects. It would also not be best practice to pick investigators who report to one of the people being investigated, he said, adding that Plascencia “is my supervisor (and) I’m her supervisee.”
The set-up was problematic and leads people to “think you’re not telling the truth,” Newby said. He added that that this doesn’t mean the results of the investigation are wrong, but it can leave room for doubt.
OK, Old Guy Music for the maybe two of you who ever bother risking turning into your grandpa and actually listening to it. Country music gone problematic.
So let’s get this straight- there’s no evidence of asbestos in the product, there’s no evidence connecting the product to this lady’s cancer, but they’re an EEVUL KORPORATION, so let’s mulct $25 million from them, just because. Ahh, the wisdom of California juries. And did I mention how much I hate lawyers?
If I were to carve out an exception to the First Amendment, it would be to ban media outlets and politicians from talking about science. These are some ignorant congressmen. The writers at factcheck.org are equally ignorant and highly mendacious “journalists.” Their sources are a dead giveaway. Want to know the actual truth? Read the analyses of actual scientistshere, here, here, and here. Bottom line: it’s complicated, buried in the noise, and basically we just don’t know. Just like anthropogenic climate change. Perfect for politicians and politicized “journalism.”
Speaking the high quality science being done by our government, here’s another gem, this time to bolster the latest pants-wetting SCARIEST DRUG EVER NEED MOAR LAWS panic. It’s… a reach. But it hits the narrative in an intersectional way, all directed toward more government. Note that there’s nothing quantitative presented, no links to peer review, no actual risk assessment. And of course, the mandatory ties to unrelated but SCARY research.
I always said that I’d be a gynecologist if I could specialize in hot young girls. I had no idea that this specialty actually existed, but apparently my spirit brother managed to carve out that niche.
OK, Old Guy Music, as if you were going to get away without it. A wonderful song, and some delightful playing by a talented kid.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ IS AWARE THAT MANY OF THE CHOSEN ONES WILL BE ENTERING A THREE DAY WEEKEND….FOR THERE IS A HOLIDAY HONORING THE FALLEN U.S. ARMED BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS. WHAT? OH, FALLEN U.S. ARMED FORCES MEMBERS. VERY WELL… STILL, A WORTHY DAY. ZARDOZ WILL GIVE YOU THE GIFT OF THE LINK TO START YOUR WEEKEND OFF RIGHT. ALSO, ZARDOZ WILL MAKE SURE YOU HAVE PLENTY OF BREAD FOR YOUR CHOSEN ONE GRILLING ACTIVITIES.
ZARDOZ COMMANDS HOT DOG BUNS TO BE DELIVERED TO SECTOR 7-18!
ZARDOZ READ THIS WITH GREAT INTEREST. HOWEVER, DON’T EXPECT ZARDOZ TO SHARE THE SECRET OF HIS DRIVE WITH ANY BRUTAL SCIENTICIANS. THEY CAN SCIENCE IT FOR THEMSELVES!
ZARDOZ INQUIRES – “YOU KNOW WHO ELSE WAS FROM AUSTRIA AND TURNED A HARD EYE TOWARD FOREIGNERS?”
AN IMPRESSIVE FIGURE, TO BE SURE. NOW, COLLECTING IT… MIGHT GET A HUNDREDTH OF A PENNY ON THE DOLLAR. ZARDOZ IS AVAILABLE TO HELP “PERSUADE” ANY ASSET HOLDERS TO “COOPERATE”.
THE OLDEST BRUTAL EXTERMINATOR? MAYBE ZARDOZ SHOULD RECONSIDER THE AGE LIMIT ON RECRUITING…
A nurse is suing US Customs who failed to return her seized funds after she refused to sign a “hold harmless agreement” over the seizure in the first place.
Nessie can’t keep hiding. A scientist is hoping to prove her existence with DNA testing. The scientist doesn’t believe in Nessie, but wants to get money, media, and maybe a book deal “take people on an adventure.”
Happy Thirsty Thursday. I believe I’ll probably have started drinking by the time these links post. I have one meeting tomorrow and that’s mid-morning. Also, today I started making a brisket so I can celebrate Memorial Day in Texas style. I might get some pork ribs and sassages. Mmm. Yes. Okay. Enough about how awesome my weekend is going to be. The local figure skating team apparently lost last night. I guess Away Ice Advantage is a real thing this year. And now… the links
The ACLU sues California over gun restraining orders. Apparently, they believe this whole “right to confront your accuser and contest judicial actions” is a real thing. Who knew? [Link missing, now fixed]
And then there’s this… mockery… of science, claiming that NO amount of alcohol, sausage, or bacon is safe. This is demonstrably untrue. For one thing, fewer than 10% of the people in the study got cancer. Are we really to believe that 91% of the world’s population abstain from alcohol, sausage, and bacon? I’d be willing to bet that 91% of Muslims don’t abstain from all three. It is always the dose that makes the poison. The idea that exposure to a single molecule of ethanol, or a single protein denatured by the Maillard process can lead to cancer and death is ludicrous.
So sorry, Swissy and other Glibs who served in Afghanistan, a government oversight committee has labelled the efforts over the last 9 years to stabilize that nation as “a $5B failure”. Much blood and treasure has been expended. Let us wish them great success in their future and part ways.
Someone won $6M in scratchoffs? My days of evaluating people who use scratchoffs on payday as a retirement strategy “innumerate” are coming to a middle.
If they reshot The Big Lebowski today, the cable porno would go more like this.
Today someone made me thing of mercaptan, which led me to be earwormed by this.
The sinkhole in front of the White House got me curious about just WTF causes them, anyway? Turns out it’s no big mystery.
A couple Florida stories caught my eye: a zombie alert, and a nipple controversy. But, alas, not zombie nipple controversy.
GDPR is upon us and goes into effect tomorrow, May 25th. For those of us who have subscribers in the EU they either have to reconfirm their interest in receiving email or we have to delete them today because as of tomorrow even deleting their email counts as processing their data. (Give me a fucking break.)
