Monday December 7: Daily Links

MONDAY 12.7


NEWS STORIES

 




Staten Island Pub Owner Hits Deputy With His Car

They came to arrest Mac’s Pub owner Daniel Presti but he didn’t want to be arrested, so he got in his jeep, hit the gas and rammed a sheriff’s deputy.

It’s interesting that all the people who were against Black Lives Matter, and sided with the police are on the side of these nuts!

USA! USA! USA!

Read more at nydailynews.com.


California Begins Their Strict 3 Week Stay-At-Home Order

Covid is raging on the West Coast, and hospitals are close to capacity, so California’s Governor Newsome’s Stay at Home Order is now in effect. Schools are closed, so are gyms and hair and nail salons. No theaters or bars are open, restaurants are takeout only, and stores that are allowed to be open must limit capacity to 20%. Nonessential travel is also prohibited.

Okayyyyy but we can still go to brunch, right??

Read more at slate.com.


Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary Wants Government To Start Funding People

Kevin O’Leary wants the government to stop screwing around and start handing out $1,200 checks to the American people instead of choosing what businesses deserve it. He’ll also take 30% of every one of those checks to start businesses for everyone.

Read more at yahoo.com.


Jeffrey Epstein Spotted In New Mexico!?

YouTube Channel ABQ Raw believes they’ve spotted Jeffrey Epstein riding around in a red truck outside his New Mexico ranch. Though it’s doubtful it was him, he wasn’t surrounded with tweens.

Read more at nypost.


How Many People Need To Get Vaccinated To Get Life Back To Normal?

If everyone acts appropriately and the Covid vaccines work like they’re supposed to, between 190 and 230 million Americans need to get the vaccine for us to achieve herd immunity for life to return to normal. And all the anti-vaxxers have to do is stay home and stick to screaming into the void on internet forums.

Read more at qz.com.


Bank Tellers Might Get To Go To The Head Of The Line For Vaccines

The American Bankers Association have applied for bank tellers to be listed as essential workers so that they’ll be among the first people to get the Covid vaccine. This makes sense since everyone is constantly going to the bank way more than they do to grocery stores.

Read more at gizmodo.com.


Group Says They Are Behind the Monoliths

The Most Famous Artist group has announced they’re the ones who’ve been building and placing those monolith’s around the world. They’ll sell you one for the bargain price of $45,000. This will make for a great conversation piece in your backyard, go for it.

Read more at nypost.


Mac's Public House Rakes In $75K on GoFundMe

The Staten Island Autonomous Zone bar, Mac’s Public House, is pulling in cash on GoFundMe and they’re already at $75,000. That money will mostly go to fund Mac’s Public House keggers at the Staten Island dump.

Read more at nypost.com.


Where Do Most Of Our Christmas Trees Come From?

It’s Christmas tree season and four states account for two thirds of the trees sold – Oregon, North Carolina, PA and Michigan. The other third would be weird grifters from above the tree line in Canada.

Read more at thehustle.co.



SPORTS



Five Thirty Eight Ranks This Steelers Team Nearly The Worst 11-0 Team In NFL History

By Five Thirty Eight’s metrics of judging a football team, they rank this year’s Steelers 17th out of the 18 teams which have started 11-0. They’re only above the 1961 Los Angeles Chargers. Nate Silver also thought Hillary was gonna win in 2016 so he doesn’t know shit.


The Seahawks Covid Free Streak Has Ended

The Seahawks have ended their streak of being the last NFL team to not have a positive Covid test, a player on IR has gotten the virus. Because they did so well so far, they’ll be the first team in the NFL to get the vaccine.


Tom Brady Buys a Boat (So That's News)

TMZ’s got pics of Tom Brady’s brand new multi million dollar baby, “Viva a Vida.”

I’m on a boat (I’m on a boat) I’m on a boat (I’m on a boat)
Everybody look at me
‘Cause I’m sailing on a boat (sailing on a boat)
I’m on a boat (I’m on a boat) I’m on a boat
Take a good hard look at the motherfucking boat (boat, yeah)

Read more at tmz.com.


Mayweather to fight YouTuber Logan Paul in Exhibition Match

Any way we can stop Logan Paul from this mistake? Maybe just give him a Netflix special and be done with it.

Read more at espn.




4th Monolith Found On The Isle Of Wight

A fourth monolith was discovered Sunday night on The Isle Of Wight. The Most Famous Artist, the group who claimed responsibility for the previous three, have denied any involvement with the current sighting. When The Star Child arrives on Christmas, we know who to blame.

Read more at nypost.


The New York Giants Sit Atop The NFC East

The New York Giants dominated the Seahawks and Russell Wilson on the road on Sunday to get to first in the NFC East. Nothing can stop them now. They are a team of destiny.

Read more at usatoday.


SNF Parades Out Kornacki And His Giant iPad

Steve Kornacki was brought out on SNF to do his polling gimmick for the NFL. Next he’ll be popping up in kids shows. He will not stop until every demo is nerd crushing.



ENTERTAINMENT



Miley Cyrus Shows Her Tits! (NSFW)

Miley Cyrus has hung around longer than you could expect from any child star.

Today’s wild rock star is a pop star.

https://twitter.com/MileyCyrus/status/1334922470785105920/photo/1


Netflix Says They Have No Intension of Slapping A Fiction Disclaimer on the Crown

Netflix says historically based series The Crown is a dramatization and does not need a disclaimer.

Sorry Helena Bonham Carter, the fans are just going to have to decide for themselves on the episode when The Queen does Megan Thee Stallion’s Body-odd-ody challenge.

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/the-crown-netflix-fiction-disclaimer-no-plans-1234847272/


Tom Segura Injures Leg Attempting To Dunk

Tom Segura sustained injuries to his leg and wrist while attempting to make a dunk. He’s expected to make a full recovery and promised to post a video of the accident. No backboards or rims were harmed in the making of the clip.

Read more at hitc.com.


Kate Hudson’s Daughter Crushes Christmas Outfit

Kate Hudson posted a picture of her 2 year daughter Rani wearing a full on Christmas patterned pajamas and blazer with the caption, ‘Not messing around’. Goldie Hawn officially Hollywood’s most adorable gene pool.

Read more at people.com.


PornHub Releases Christmas Album

PornHub is releasing the Christmas album, XXXmas, featuring racy tracks by some of today’s hottest hip hop acts. One track that didn’t make the cut: All I Want For Christmas Is Some WAP.

Read more at designtaxi.com.


Selma Blair & Sarah Michelle Gellar Recreate Of Cruel Intentions Kiss...Covid Style

Selma Blair & Sarah Michelle Gellar recreated their iconic kiss from Cruel Intentions during last night’s MTV Movie & TV Awards, but were separated by a sheet of glass. Next year, Jim Carrey and Ben Stiller will recreate their infamous prison scene from The Cable Guy.

Read more at people.com.


Bob Dylan Sells His Publishing Catalog To Universal

Bob Dylan has sold his entire publishing catalog to Universal Music Publishing Group for what has been estimated $300 million dollars. Expect to hear ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’ in a promo for The Weather Channel any day now.

Read more at nytimes.


Viggo Mortensen Calls BS On Green Book Criticism

Viggo Mortensen said that the criticism of Green Book was ‘based on a load of bullshit and an ax to grind and little else’. Yeah Vig, Black audiences could really relate to a movie about a Italian guy teaching a Black guy about eating fried chicken.

Read more at vanityfair.com.


Internet Mad At Meek Mills For Telling Kids To Split A $20

Meek Mill gave some kids selling water on the street $20 and told them to split it and now everyone is mad at him for being cheap. If they were selling peanut M&M’s they woulda gotten a nicer tip.



GOING VIRAL



CA Bar Owner Breaks Down After Movie Shoot Shuts Down Her Bar

A California bar owner lost it after showing that the mayor approved an outdoor dining area for a movie shoot after shutting down her outdoor eating area of her bar. Can’t make this shit up.


Buddhist Monk Covers Enter Sandman

I get it. Doing an impression of someone’s accent is wrong, but still…

He started it.



New Doc Shows People Meeting Their Unrelated Doppleganger

A new British documentary shows what happens when people track down and meet their unrelated doppleganger for the first time. Who knew Orphan Black was based on actual events?!?


Differences Being On A Date With A Woman From NY, Chicago and Boston

What’s the difference between being on a date with a woman from New York, Chicago and Boston? Turns out, it’s a big difference. This should be used for dating app commercials.

Via digg.

@shannonfiedler13

212 baby #nyc #newyork #manhattan #dating #comedy #fyp

♬ original sound – Shannon Fiedler

@shannonfiedler13

Bahhhhstahhhn #boston #massachussetts #umass #comedy #dating #fyp #redsox

♬ original sound – Shannon Fiedler

@shannonfiedler13

Da Bears. #chicago #dating #comedy #fyp #lollapalooza

♬ original sound – Shannon Fiedler



STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS



More than Half of FDNY Said They Will Not Get the Vaccine When it Becomes Available

A recent survey of over 2000 New York firefighters revealed that over half of them do not want to get the vaccine once it becomes available.

New York’s Bravest but also New York’s most skeptical. Does smoke kill covid??

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/more-than-half-of-fdny-firefighters-wont-get-vaccinated-union-poll-suggests/2764027/%3famp



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