Random News and Notes 8 February
Today is the Stupid Bowl. The New England Patriots are taking on the Seattle Seahawks. Both teams had a 14-3 regular season record. The best part, nobody seems to care. This editor spends far more time online than is good for him and has seen little buzz about the game.
Rob is not the only one. Twitter is full of comments just like that one.
For this editor, there are more pressing sports things going on. The NHL season is starting to heat up, the NCAA men’s basketball is getting to that point and most importantly, pitchers and catchers report this coming week. What’s more, there is the World Baseball Classic tourney being held this year starting 5 March.
Sticking with sports for a second, there have been some medals awarded at the Winter Olympics. As of the time of writing, Norway has the lead with 2 Golds and 5 total. Host Italy is in 2nd with 1 gold and 6 total (yeah it’s stupid but that is the way they do it). The US is tied for 7th with one gold – Breezy Johnson (sounds like torn trousers. . . ) won in women’s downhill.
Ok, enough sports.
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected Japanese Prime Minister, and her party won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections in that country. Exit polling shows her Liberal Democratic Party securing a supermajority of up to 326 seats in the February 8, 2026 snap election. The majority threshold is 233 seats.
It seems the Japanese are just as fed up with mass immigration as the US is. They also seem to like her stance vis China.
This editor is convinced that the majority of anti-ICE protesters are retarded and were extremely unpopular as kids. This video proves my point. A group of them decided they needed to attack one of their own with sex toys.
The retards were protesting outside Minneapolis’s Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in something only a retarded theater kid could have named: ‘Operation Dildoblitz’. Yeah, not kidding, that is what they named it. Retards, the whole lot of them.
By the way, local authorities arrested 42 of them on charges varying from obstruction, criminal mischief and destruction of property.
Sarah Rogers, U.S. undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, said in a February 7 interview that British citizens persecuted for peaceful online expression can seek refugee information at U.S. embassies. She cited cases like childminder Lucy Connolly’s 31-month sentence for a post calling for mass deportations after the Southport stabbings, and Father Ted creator Graham Linehan’s airport arrest over gender-critical views.
. . . embassy or consulate to seek information about applying for refugee protection. The United States takes free expression seriously, and this administration considers violations of that fundamental right a priority to address.”
Rogers criticized the U.K.’s Online Safety Act and past arrests as excessive, amid broader U.S. tensions with allies over censorship, including visa restrictions on European officials.
Better some Limey that posts something “offensive” than anyone else I guess.