Monday August 30: Daily Links

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NEWS STORIES

 



Hurricane Ida Is Wrecking New Orleans

Hurricane Ida’s made landfall in Louisiana and it’s hammering the state. New Orleans is without power and within an hour of it hitting, the flooding was out of control. This never would have happened if Drew Brees was still in New Orleans.

Watch the video on Twitter.


Listen: Hurricane Ida Winds Are Terrifying

No she’s not on a moving train, this is a woman filming outside her window as Hurricane Ida hit.

This is the closest to a scene from the Wizard of Oz we’re ever going to get on video.


Al Roker Covers Ida Come Hell or High Water, Tells Young Punks to Go Screw

After NBC released footage of Al Roker standing in the winds and the rains, viewers wrote on Twitter that they were not keen on NBC putting a 70 year old man in the path of the storm. Roker snapped back that he volunteered to go out there. “Screw You. Keep up. Young punks. I will drop them like a bag of dirt” he said.

How big is the tv-camera-needing-hole in your soul that you need to be at the center of everything? Not even a hurricane can fill it.



CDC Takes On the Words That Hurt

If you use words like smokers, poor people, differently abled, or homosexuals, the CDC wants to teach you how to be better. Use phrases like “people who smoke” “LGBTQ” and “people with self reported income in the lowest income bracket”

Oh and non vaccinated should be referred to as “people yet to receive their inoculation”

Having cured the world of the Covid disease, the CDC turns to stuff we don’t care about at all.

Read more at NY Post.


Get Some Talk Therapy at CVS

No more bothering the cashier with your troubles, CVS, and a few other big chains are starting to offer mental health services.

Will the therapist still have to wear a smock and stack Listerine in between appointments?

Read more at WSJ


China Restricts Online Gaming For Minors To Three Hours A Week

The Chinese government has issued a restriction on minors where they can now only play online video games for three hours a week. This is great news for all the professional US Fortnite players.

Read more at Disclose.tv.



SPORTS



Mets Invent the Thumbs Down Celebration

Francisco Lindor, Javier Baez and Kevin Pillar know how to handle boo’ing mets fans. They counterattacked by giving thumbs down to the fans every time there was something to celebrate.

Sorry guys, you’ll never be able to shame a mets fan. They live in Queens.

Read more at The Atlantic.


Jake Paul Gets His Fourth Pro Boxing Win, His Brother Is Just Interested In The Ring Girl

Jack Paul beat yet another person who wasn’t a boxer in a professional boxing match on Sunday night. This one went the distance and he won in a split decision. The internet then noticed his brother, Logan Paul, hitting on a ring girl as Jake was giving his post fight interview. If you look closely you can make out Logan saying “This will be great for your Tik Tok numbers”.

Read more at Yahoo Sports and Yardbarker.


A Football Team From A Fake Ohio High School Made It On To ESPN

Bishop Sycamore played IMG Academy on ESPN Friday night but Sycamore is a little suspect. It doesn’t seem to be a real school and their website is just a blog. Apparently a marketing company was able to get them on ESPN for this game. They were blown out and even the guys in the booth were questioning what the hell they were doing there. Philip Rivers should come in to revamp their whole program.

Read more at Barstool Sports.



CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



The Jacksons Are Putting Out an Album...With Michael!

Tito Jackson has revealed that his brother, Michael Jackson, left behind music, and that he and his family is going to make use of it. The Jacksons are planning to release a new studio album that will feature a new track that will incorporate unreleased music from the King of Pop.

Forget Michael, Where are all those unreleased Tito tracks.

Read more at NY Post.


Will Hot Guy Dune End the Dune Curse?

Despite being one of the most read books in modern history, Dune seems to be cursed on the big and small screen. No attempts to translate the story has been successful. Could the 2021 release break the curse?

Nope. Of course not.

Read more at Barrons.


Cancelled NBC Show Revived at Netflix

NBC said no more Manifest, but Netflix rescued the show, for one final season, with 20 episodes.

Do you promise to make it as bad as the last season on NBC?

Read more at deadline.


Kevin Spacey On Set in New Movie

He’s filming a new movie called “Peter Five Eight” … and he was shooting scenes this week in Dunsmuir, CA.

At least the movie isn’t called Ate Five Peter.

Read more at TMZ


Ethan Hawke Says Robin Williams Was Annoying on Set

Hawke says he thought Williams hated him, because when Williams would sit around cracking jokes on set, Hawke never laughed. Ethan admitted he found the comedian to be annoying.

“He had a habit of making a ton of jokes on set,” Hawke said of Williams. “At 18, I found that incredibly irritating. He wouldn’t stop and I wouldn’t laugh at anything he did.”

Finally the fucking truth.

Read more at Too Fab.


At Least Three Anti-Vax Radio Hosts Have Died of Covid

Marc Bernier- Daytona
Phil Valentine- Tennessee
Dick Farrell- Florida

All three led anti-mask or anti vaccination campaigns making fun of the sheep who listened to the CDC. All three passed away this month.

Conservative podcasters everywhere are getting their air checks together. Lot of openings in this market.

Read more at Slate.


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Whoopi Goldberg Hit With $50 Million Lawsuit

A developer is suing Whoopi Goldberg in a fight over who gets to redevelop downtown West Orange NJ. The star of The View is being accused of “opportunistic and nefarious scheme” to acquire the property for below market value so she and her associates can use the land for a sound studio.

Isn’t this what all developers do?

Read more at radaronline.


Do We Have a New Prince of Pop?

Justin Bieber is now Spotify’s most listened to artist of all time with 83.3 million hits. TMZ asks, is he the new heir to Michael Jackson’s throne?

Prince of Pop? Or Prince of Poop?

Read more at TMZ.



TRENDING




VIRAL VIRAL



Sprint Airlines Passenger Arrested for Lighting Up On Plane

This Tik Tok video showing the woman being arrested got 11 million views as of Sunday.

Sprint Airlines really is the Subway in the sky.

Since when can’t you smoke a cigarette on an airplane??? FREEEDOM!!!

Read more at DailyDot.

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Definitely never flying spirit again.

♬ original sound – Alexa Majdalawi


Albino Deer Grazing

Behold! The white stag of Narnia!

Via digg.



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