Guardian- A postgraduate student of counter-terrorism was falsely accused of being a terrorist after an official at Staffordshire University had spotted him reading a textbook entitled Terrorism Studies in the college library.
Mohammed Umar Farooq, who was enrolled in the terrorism, crime and global security master’s programme, told the Guardian that he was questioned about attitudes to homosexuality, Islamic State (Isis) and al-Qaida. His replies, Farooq said, were largely academic but he stressed his personal opposition to extremist views. However, the conversation in the library was reported by the official to security guards, because it had raised “too many red flags” . “I could not believe it. I was reading an academic textbook and minding my own business. At first I thought I’d just laugh it off as a joke,” said Farooq, who then instructed a lawyer to help him challenge and rebut the claims. The university, based in Stoke-on-Trent, subsequently apologised to Farooq, and admitted that the accusation that he was a potential terrorist had exposed the difficulties in implementing the government’s new anti-radicalisation policy. Groups representing universities and students said the episode represented infringements on academic freedom. Farooq said he had been “looking over his shoulder” ever since, and so unsettled by the incident that he chose not to return to the course – but that he felt he had to make a statement about what had happened. “The implications if I did not challenge this could be serious for me. I could go on a police list, I could be investigated without my knowledge. This could happen to any young Muslim lad. I had to fight back,” Farooq said. Okay, let's get one thing straight. There's a huge difference between an innocent 14 year old Indian kid in a NASA shirt getting arrested for bringing a bomb shaped clock to school, and a 33 year old Muslim man with a beard being questioned for reading a book about terrorism. The first is discrimination, the second is due diligence. Fine, they are both discrimination, but you know what, maybe we need more discrimination in this world. Timeout. Let me clarify. With the amount of racial unrest I don't think we need to start judging MORE people by the color of their skin. However, questioning the intentions of people whose intentions look questionable could actually be beneficial. If someone was quicker to question a nerdy, isolated white kid from South Carolina maybe there's an entire church full of black people that are still alive. If someone was quicker to question a scorned, volatile black man then maybe a couple of white TV reporters in Virginia wouldn't be in an early grave. It's nothing personal Farooq. Sometimes a situation just looks like something it isn't, and it's better to be safe (and prejudice) than sorry (and dead). You can blame those around you for having a watchful eye, or you can blame the assholes, that happened to look like you, who flew airplanes into two huge buildings filled with innocent people. I was never in a frat, but if i was in the college library reading up on the psychology of hazing rituals I wouldn't be crying foul if someone interrogated me on the kid that overdosed in Sigma Pi two nights earlier. Wouldn't you want someone to question a white kid with a completely shaved head and a trench coat that was reading a book about school shootings? Wouldn't you want someone to question a black kid wearing a red bandana reading a book about gang violence? The fact of the matter is that if I see a frumpy, overweight girl in the library reading a book about feminism I am probably going to assume that she hates men. That's just called light discrimination. Shit, I would even call it necessary discrimination. It's not like there weren't any context clues that may have led to the prejudice that Farooq is facing. Honestly, when a grown Muslim man goes back to graduate school just to take classes about terrorism and global security he's pretty much asking for it. There probably aren't too many other Muslims in his Terrorism Major for that very reason. Answering a couple of questions about your beliefs isn't going to kill you, and it just might prove that you're not out to kill everyone else. Fuck what your mother used to say. Sometimes we do have to judge a book by it's cover, especially if the person holding that book is a Muslim and the cover reads "terrorism".
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BSO- As soon as I heard Carson speak, I tried for three weeks to get on the phone with him,” West said, referring to retired neurosurgeon and Republican candidate for president Ben Carson.
When I run for president, I’d prefer not to run against someone. I would be like “I want to work with you.” As soon as I heard [Ben] Carson speak, I tried for three weeks to get on the phone with him. I was like this is the most brilliant guy. And I think all the people running right now have something that each of the others needs. But the idea of this separation and this gladiator battle takes away from the main focus that the world needs help and the world needs all the people in a position of power or influence to come together. I sit in clubs and I’m like, Wow, I’ve got five years before I go and run for office and I’ve got a lot of research to do, I’ve got a lot of growing up to do. My dad has two masters degrees. My mom has a PhD, she used to work at Operation PUSH. Somehow the more and more creative I get, the closer and closer I get to who I was as a child. When I was a child, I was holding my mom’s hand at Operation PUSH. I think it’s time. Rap is great. I bet you when Ben Carson went to bed last night he was sitting there praying for someone of notoriety to jump on board with his campaign. Just sitting there, as a lowly neurologist, wishing upon a star that someone, ANYONE, would come along and provide a shot of adrenaline into his political platform. Well, I think it's time to scratch that "ANYONE" because Kanye West is undoubtedly not who he had in mind. Kanye West might actually be the only person, with (loose) plans to run for president at some point, that is crazier than Ben Carson (you're welcome Trump). Sorry Yeezus, but this nomination wasn't lacking lunacy. It was lacking rational thought. Rational thought that I am pretty sure the guy that wrote 'I Am A God' can't provide. Either Yeezy abides by the "once you go black you never go back" philosophy, or he just respects true crazy when he sees it. Kanye looks to be the most extreme liberal you have ever seen in your life, and you don't get much more radically conservative than Ben Carson, but I think to look at it from that perspective would be a mistake. Yeezy's political affiliation isn't as simple as Republican or Democrat. Parties don't matter. Yeezus allegiance resides with who is the most likely to say some shit that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. He's in love with the cuckoo, if you will. Just say a bunch of shit that will leave people scratching their head and Kanye will jump on your bandwagon faster than he'll snatch the mic away from an accomplished white artist. In a way, it's almost poetic. The guy that thought our former president didn't like black people is siding with the first black presidential candidate that doesn't even know he's black. George Bush is like Malcolm X compared to Ben Carson, but that's not even the point. It's not about race. It's not about politics. It's about shock value, and Kanye's favorite candidate has a ton of it. The guy that thinks that being gay is a choice because criminals indulge in sodomy in prison. The guy that thinks that ObamaCare is the worst thing to happen since slavery. The one. The only. Doctor Ben Carson. Fox Sports- "I don't go to other people's jobs and tell them: 'Hey, you (stink). You're trash,'" Anderson said, referencing the grief he's caught.
"I laugh. I just black it out and laugh," Anderson continued. "I guess that's kind of the ups and downs of being a top-10 pick and who they expect you to be. I just always say: 'Don't bet on sports. You never know what's going to happen.' That's just my personal opinion, but I couldn't care less about fantasy." "You can sit me for 17 weeks. It would not bother me one bit. I don't care," said Anderson. "I saw something on ESPN: 'Is C.J. Anderson a fantasy bust?' I wish I could call ESPN and say: 'Tell them to drop me. ... Every owner can drop me.'" -CJ Anderson You would think, as someone that drafted CJ Anderson extremely early in two different fantasy drafts, that I would be offended by his indifference to my team's point production. Alas, I am not. That's because I realize that there are a lot of extenuating circumstances surrounding a player and his stat line. That's also because I realize that CJ Anderson is paid to play professional football and help his team win, while my 'job' is to sit on the couch drinking beer with my hand on my dick cursing his name every time he gets tackled behind the line of scrimmage. He has no responsibility to me, or the fucking losers that are undoubtedly bombarding his mentions and notifications on an hourly basis. I'm glad he's not going to come to my job and tell me "I stink", but I never had any intention of telling him that he's "trash" through the veil of a Twitter handle. Mostly because that's something that only a pathetic douchebag would do, but also partly because Todd Gurley is getting healthy. Now let's get back to the real question at hand, should CJ Anderson care about fantasy football? This answer may surprise you, but he absolutely should. Not because it will give a bunch of internet nerds a fraudulent sense of fulfillment. Not because he owes a bunch of NFL fans, both casual and loyal, some sort of bragging rights over their friends. He should care because the Denver Broncos go through successful running backs like Tiger Woods goes through 'KY Jelly'. He should care because starting running backs in the NFL that have 56 yards in 2 games are on a leash so short that it might as well be a choker. He should care because that arbitrary point per reception isn't all that awful of an indicator of how involved he is in the offense. He should care because those stats that he doesn't find at all important are pretty critical when it comes time to discuss a new contract. The fact of the matter is that running backs don't have long, successful careers unless they are putting up points in fantasy AND in reality. If you're trash talking your fantasy players online then you probably deserve to board the next Malaysian Airlines flight. However, CJ Anderson might want to be careful what he wishes for, because the day he gets dropped from all fantasy football teams is a day much closer to the day he gets dropped from all professional football teams as well. A Student Wasn't Allowed To Bring His Same Sex Date To Homecoming Because Of "Logistical Reasons"9/24/2015 Memphis Flyer- A Christian Brothers High School (CBHS) senior was told by school administrators that he wouldn't be able to bring his male date to the school's homecoming dance this Saturday.
Now the private all-boys Catholic school has issued a policy on its website stating that "CBHS students may attend the dance by themselves, with other CBHS students, or with a girl from another school. For logistical reasons, boys from other schools may not attend." Lance Sanderson said he discussed bringing a male date from another school to the dance with an administrator last year and was told he could. But that administrator left over the summer. "I was sitting down talking to one of the current administrators over the summer, and at the end of our conversation, I mentioned it, expecting him to say the same thing. And he had a very different response," Sanderson said. "He mentioned a [gay] couple in Texas and said I was a lot like this one person and said that the guy's boyfriend murdered him. It was a little rough." Sanderson said CBHS convened a committee to look into the possibility of allowing same-sex dates, and the committee drafted the current policy that says boys from other schools are not allowed to come to the dance. Sanderson said the policy has been read over the school's intercom daily this week. "The way they worded it is 'for logistical reasons, boys from other schools may not attend.' I asked about it in a meeting [Tuesday] morning, and they said they didn't want guys from our school getting into disagreements with guys from other schools," Sanderson said. Okay, so obviously we can all agree that not being 100% open to same sex couples in 2015 is utterly insane. I mean, if there was going to be an institution that was close minded toward the LGBT community it would be an all-boys Catholic High School in Memphis, Tennessee, but that's neither here nor there. Let's assume there were extenuating circumstances that forced this kid into attending a place that was quite literally the most likely school in the nation to discriminate against homosexuality. To reiterate the disclaimer, regardless of the geographical location and the religious affiliation of the school, it's never right to tell a kid who he can and can't bring to a dance. Now, with all of that out of the way, can we at least give a tip of the cap to this school administrator? There's no good reason to tell a kid that he can't bring a date of his choosing to homecoming. However, "logistical reasons" is just about the best vague non-reason you can possibly conjure up. "Logistical reasons" is basically the equivalent of saying "we don't really have a reason, other than a disdain for your sexuality". It's just sounds way, way more formal than that. The phrase "logistical reasons" can't be interpreted as prejudice. Hell, no one even knows what it means. I'm not even just saying that in jest. The very first definition of 'logistical' is, "Of or relating to logistics". Is that even real life? That explanation wouldn't even be allowed in 'Catch Phrase'. "Logistical reasons" really is just a placeholder terminology for when you don't have a legitimate answer. It's essentially the much more effective version of "just because". How have I been missing out on this for all these years?! Why were you absent from school? Logistical reasons. Why were you late to work? Logistical reasons. Why did you skip your cousin's christening to go get loaded at a college football tailgate? Logistical reasons. Go ahead. Argue against it. You can't. You don't even know what you're arguing against. No one does. That's why this kid has no credible response. Just accept the loss and enjoy your homosexual relationship off school grounds. You just got beat in a war of words by a phrase that means absolutely nothing. Welcome to your... If You Get Spied On In A 'Dollar Tree' Bathroom Then You Have No One To Blame But Yourself9/24/2015 DailyMail- The manager of a Dollar Tree discount store in Los Angeles has been arrested on suspicion of secretly filming female customers as they go to the bathroom.
A female shopper, Alexandria Sabori, 24, uncovered the alleged scheme on a recent visit to the store on Whittier Boulevard in East L.A. After asking to use the bathroom, a male employee asked her to wait while he checked that it was 'nice and clean' for her. Inside the restroom, Sabori noticed a cardboard box near the toilet with a hole in it. 'I was very curious to see what was in the box, why was there a hole in the box?' Sabori said her 'heart dropped' when she found a black iPhone inside the box with the video camera recording. She quickly grabbed the cell and went out to desk, asking to speak to the manager. However the manager turned out to be the male employee that had let her into the bathroom to begin with. Police have confirmed that they arrested a male employee, Carlos Martinez, at the store on September 7. Let me ask you a question? When is the last time you were in a 'Dollar Tree'? When you were 9, maybe 10 years old, and had about $4.50 to your name? The reason you can't remember the last time you went shopping at a dollar store is because dollar stores are for poor people. You know what else is for poor people? Having people watch them go to the bathroom. Don't believe me? Spend a day checking out a homeless person for me one time. You'll see. I don't even know why this lady asked to go to the bathroom at 'Dollar Tree'. In fact, I don't even know how she knew to ask to go to the bathroom at 'Dollar Tree'. I always assumed that the bathroom at 'Dollar Tree' was just a piss bucket behind the counter. You know what requires more pride than going to the bathroom at a 'Dollar Tree'? Pissing down your leg in the middle of the parking lot. Popping a squat behind a dumpster in the middle of the afternoon requires more dignity than venturing into the bathroom at a 'Dollar Tree'. For Christ's sake woman, act like a lady and find a Starbucks or something. When you relieve yourself in a bathroom that has moving boxes stacked to the ceiling the hills always have eyes. Was the fact that this guy had to make sure that the bathroom was "nice and clean" not enough? Has anyone ever said that to you before? Has anyone ever told you they had to check out the bathroom before you used it? That red flag was so goddamn big it would be too expensive to sell in his store. This guy wasn't hiding anything. That was pretty much his way of telling you that he was setting up the camera correctly. You just chose to ignore that blatantly obviously warning sign. If this dude was trying to be secretive he would have done a little better than poking a camera sized hole in a box that was facing the toilet. He just thought that you guys had reached an agreement, and that you accepted the risks of doing your business in his place of business. I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that if you willingly using 'Dollar Tree' bathrooms than you aren't too far from pissing in front of a crowd of people anyway. You want people to show you basic human decency then show yourself basic human decency and piss in a place that can efficiently break a $20. A Mother Was Being Made Fun Of In Line At Tim Horton's So She Bought Her Harasser's Coffee For Them9/24/2015
Source- A few days ago, a mother walked into a Fort Gratiot Tim Horton's. That woman - Dianne Hoffmeyer - was with her 22-month-old, attempting to get donut holes to please the teething child. And, maybe, a coffee for her sleep-deprived self.
At her nearby home today, she told us the tale that has now gone viral. Two middle-aged women, standing in line behind her, unprovoked, lobbed hushed insults her way. "'Oh look at her hair, its nasty looking and the roots are coming through'," she recalled the women saying. "'Oh she's a whale, oh the whale needs to eat'," they continued. For Hoffmeyer the insults stung. She recently lost 177 pounds. The women, complete strangers, were unaware of her previous weight. "I instantly started to cry, because it hurts. I don't know the women. I don't know why they would choose to say something like that." But what she did next is what is surprising. "I told the cashier, I'll pay for their coffee." She then turned around, walked out and went to her car, where she cried. Ahh, the old "kill 'em with kindness" routine. Takes a big person to go that route. A person much bigger than I, as a matter of fact. With that said, I wish this woman didn't buy coffee for these two jackasses. Sure, it's the act of a much better person, but people shitty enough to be audibly belittling a mother standing in line for coffee with her baby girl will never actually realize just how shitty they are. It feels good to pretend that a couple of free coffees will somehow change the behavior of two social pariahs, but the fact of the matter is that it simply won't. All this woman really did was put a couple more bucks in their pocket for the next time they want to come to Tim Horton's and criticize random strangers. Did it shut them up for a minute to two? I suppose it did. I guess if that was the plan all along then we should consider it a success, but there will be no long term effects of this woman's decision to hold back tears and purchase their drinks for them. What she really should have done was pay the barista double to spit in their coffees. People don't change, so you might as well let them continue to be reprehensible human beings. Just make sure they are reprehensible human beings that are sucking down another person's bodily fluids. At least knowing that they have been had can put a smile on your face when you are done crying. If I had any advice for this woman it would be to stop paying it forward to people that aren't worthy of the gesture. After all, that's the best way to end up broke. P.S. Normally I would point out that this gesture is slightly disingenuous once it gets posted on social media. However, since the woman in question was publicly chastised and spent like $20 bucks on coffee, I'll give her a pass for getting the publicity she deserves. This Video Of A Kid Imitating Sex Acts On A Dead Goose Is Going Viral And I Guess People Are Upset?9/24/2015 Metro- The film, taken by anti-hunt campaigners, was shot following the Atherstone Hunt in Ibstock, Leicestershire on Saturday.
Police are investigating the incident, which the Atherstone Hunt have described as ‘appalling’ A spokesperson from the group who filmed the footage told the Mirror: ‘It was completely shocking but the behaviour does not surprise me. A member of the hunt was there but does nothing about it and actually thought it was funny. ‘I thought it was disgraceful behaviour towards the dead animal. I was just gobsmacked and later reported it to the police. We think the video speaks for itself as to the mentality of the Atherstone Hunt.’ In a statement the Atherstone Hunt said they are ‘sickened and disgusted by the appalling behaviour of an individual with a dead bird at a meet of the hunt at Ibstock on Saturday 19th September 2015’. Hey, uhh guys, it's just a fucking bird. Far be it for me to defend these kids, and I am not going to, but it's still just a dead fucking bird. Are the antics of these hooligans funny? No, not really, but they also aren't appalling or disgraceful. In fact, if we are going to throw a couple of adjectives at it I would say this video could appropriately be described as immature and annoying. I don't think there was a point in my life where I was picking up dead animals and simulating sodomy on them, because dead animals are gross, but I probably did a thing or two that could rival it's stupidity. I understand getting offended when someone holds up a lion's head or a bear's paw as a sign of their trophy kill, but birds is where I draw the line. Birds fly, they shit, and they die. That's just what they do. If some little schmuck wants to come through and put some dead, dirty goose wings on his back then I have no problem with it. You know why? Because it's a useless bird, not his grandmother's lifeless corpse. This kid isn't giving puppet shows with dead puppies. He's fucking with an animal that dies from flying into windows half the time. It's not like he is keeping it from a proper burial. If it wasn't being treated as a prop it would just be rotting in a park somewhere. Don't tell me this thing deserves to be treated with respect in death. It wasn't even respected in life. The only takeaway here is that the world is out one creature that can shit on me from above. As far as I am concerned, that's a win. Should these losers be swinging a goose's neck around like it's their cock? Probably not. Should one single person on the planet Earth let it ruin their day? Definitely not. If I were a police officer and I got a call to investigate this matter I would beat my own ass.
I guess the good news here is that this does absolutely nothing to my incredibly low expectations for Sunday. I said it before. There's not a single outcome, outside of Brees being completely, 100% percent healthy that would surprise me. He could play on Sunday. He could not play on Sunday. He could sit out a few weeks. He could sit out the year. If you told me he was out tossing balls to his receivers (assuming of course that they can get open against air) this morning I would believe you. If you told me that he couldn't lift the eggs out of the fridge this morning I would also believe you. That's just the way Sean Payton does things when it comes to disclosing injuries to the media. Everything is always fine, until game day rolls around and those players that were fine are in street clothes. That's why I, myself, tend to stay even keel, because until Sunday, and possibly after, we have no idea what is going on. The sky very well may be falling. The roof very well may be on fire. However, until I hear otherwise....
I will say this, if Drew Brees isn't under center come Sunday afternoon then he is absolutely dealing with a major injury. I don't know the semantics behind it. Sore rotator cuff, bruised rotator cuff, who gives a shit? All I know is that Drew Brees doesn't miss games for minor injuries. Hell, he basically played all last year dealing with health issues, and it wasn't until after the season was over that we finally found out about them. Drew Brees makes no excuses, and he will literally do anything to be the one leading his team to victory or, as is often the case recently, to defeat. That is an admirable characteristic to have, especially considering how important he is to this team's success. However, I just can't help but wonder if Drew Brees playing this Sunday is a mistake. A mistake not only for his future on the field, but his future off the field as well. Drew Brees has given us enough, in sickness and in health, that it might be time to worry not only about his shoulder, but his questionable decision making in regards to his shoulder. Recent history says he will play, and my heart says he should play. However, common sense says he shouldn't play, and my mind says that is the best thing for all parties involved. With the way the season is spiraling it might not make much of a difference anyway. I guess the only thing we can do is sit and wait, because there isn't a chance in hell Sean Payton is disclosing that decision until that ball flies off the tee on Sunday.
NJ.com- Both sides agree that the incident began with a dispute between the alleged victim and Carroo's now-girlfriend, Maria Vega. The alleged victim previously had a dating relationship with Carroo.
Peter Gilbreth, the attorney representing Leonte Carroo in his criminal matter speaks with NJ Advance Media reporter, Brian Amaral, after proceedings at family court in New Brunswick. The first video shows a group of people arguing outside the Hale Center. Leonte Carroo isn't even in that video, Fetky said. The second video was taken about 10 to 15 minutes later, and depicts a major escalation in violence. It shows that Vega was surrounded and attacked by women who, like the alleged victim, worked for Rutgers recruiting, Fetky said. The alleged victim approached the scrum and swung a purse at Vega, who was wearing white pants, Fetky said. Fetky said the second video shows Carroo grabbing Vega and taking her away from the fight to protect her. But the video does not show Carroo assaulting the victim, because he didn't, Fetky said. The victim said that she was attacked, unprovoked, by Carroo's girlfriend and others after a football game. As she was on top of Vega, pinning her to the ground but not hitting her, Carroo came up, grabbed her and slammed her on the pavement, she said. Carroo "never laid a hand on her," said Peter Gilbreth, who is representing Carroo in his criminal matter. You mean to tell me that the alleged victim wasn't just casually walking down the street by herself when this fight took place? You mean to tell me she wasn't just coincidentally waltzing on by the Hale Center alone when she was jumped by Leonte Carroo's mom, his girlfriend, and his girlfriend's family member? You mean to tell me this attack, that happened 45 minutes after a major college football game, wasn't completely unprovoked? You mean to tell me she wasn't completely uninvolved until she was assaulted? Hey, is it too much to ask to get a goddamn police report? So weird how the picture gets painted differently when it's not the "victim" holding the paint brush. I am not saying that these choppy, at best, videos completely exonerate Leonte Carroo. Far from it as a matter of fact. However, they definitely show that that this "victim" wasn't a completely innocent one. I mean, unless you believe that she was "pinning her to the ground but not hitting her". Yeah, THAT sounds super logical. Pretty sure I have never ended up on top of someone without fucking them, or being a willing participant in a fight. Sorry hunny, you may have been wronged after you started the fight, but that doesn't mean you're not completely full of shit. Innocent people don't hit people with purses. Especially when the target in question is a Latina women. As a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure a swung purse is like the international symbol for girl fight. She knew what she was doing, and she, as well as the members of Rutgers recruiting with her, deserve to be charged with everything that their opposition was. I said it once, and I'll say it again. Leonte Carroo was a goddamn idiot for letting himself get involved in this situation. If he did, indeed, cause physical harm to this woman then he deserves everything, and I mean everything, that comes to him. With that said, before we ruin his reputation, his season, and his potential NFL career, I am going to need more than a personal account of a scorned women that used to fuck him. Unless you were born yesterday you know that's the type of person that will say, and do, anything out of spite. The facts will come out eventually, and let's just hope that it's not Leonte Carroo that makes me look bad.
Well, THAT escalated quickly. Hey, I'll be the first one to tell you that being a referee is a thankless job. No, not because I have been one, but because I have verbally abused enough of them to know that it's not something I would want to do, no matter how desperate I was for some excess cash. I think the thing that sucks about this is I started off wanting to take the ref's side. You just know that little shithead deserved to get smacked. You know he probably told that official he was going to fuck his mother, kill his father, take his sister out to a nice steak dinner, and never call her again. There's not a doubt in mind. Alas, that's the rub of calling youth hockey games. Hell, that's the rub of calling any hockey game. You ARE going to get berated, but if you even so much as talk back to a player in an aggressive tone then you make that player the victim. Yeah, this kid is wrong for engaging an official in a physical manner, even if it was in relatively harmless way, but that doesn't give him the right to smack the kid into next Wednesday. Shit, if this is how it worked I wouldn't even have been a hockey player growing up. My sport of choice would have been ref fighting while wearing hockey equipment. That doesn't make this kid right, nor does it make the gaggle of barely pubescent bastards that jumped him right, but it definitely makes them look right in the eyes of the casual observer, and that's really all that matters. I actually feel bad for this guy, because sometimes you just got to teach a kid a lesson, but doing so while wearing stripes and orange arm bands is not the appropriate moment to do it. If anything, he is a victim of poor timing...as well as the victim of a group of kids that have a bunch of brand new hormones coursing through their veins that they have no idea what to do with.
Seriously, look at these little fuckers. It was like flies on shit. I thought I was impressed with that referee's hard right, until I saw the reaction time of these kids. Maybe I'm just too used to watching drunk fights where it takes people 5 minutes to figure out which was is up. All in all? One of the more solid youth hockey fights I have ever witnessed.
Not a good month for referees. Might be time to demand a raise guys...
This football season absolutely sucks. It's like almost like each passing day I wake up glad it's one day closer to over. The Saints are 0-2. Their offense, for the first time in the Sean Payton era, absolutely sucks. The only reason I know that Drew Brees still has a right arm is because I see it when he's giving press conferences on the extent of his injury. Who Dat Nation just has a black cloud that they can't seem to shake. Meanwhile, the Carolina Panthers don't have one real receiving threat on their roster, yet they are still 2-0. They are still on pace to win the division. Their quarterback is still doing freakishly athletic shit to avoid defenders. They are somehow, SOMEHOW, still good. And now, they even have Spanish announcers giving electric voiceovers. I can't even hate, despite the fact that I want to so soooo bad. The touchdown? Awesome. The celebration? Awesome. The call from the Spanish announce table? Awesome. Please Lord, give me something. Just give me one reason to stay tuned to this NFL season. If you wanted to start with a win this Sunday over this very same quarterback that would be fantastic. No pressure.
So, how do I go about booking myself some Spanish dudes to come over and narrate my life? I'm talking while I take a shit. While I make myself some breakfast. While I sit down to make lighthearted jokes on the blog at their expense. There's got to be a ton of talent waiting on the side of the road at a local bus stop. Some Spanish dude has to be dying to unleash a bunch of words I don't understand with a few English key words mixed in. Am I asking for too much? I'll even feed the guy. Fuck a '5 Hour Energy', I just need an unbridled amount of enthusiasm from one of these characters to keep me churning come that 2PM lull. Hell, the way this football season is going I'll need them to keep me churning come the 2 minute warning as well. Yahoo- A sack by Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive end Jacquies Smith in last week's game was the reason Brees' shoulder was not well enough for him to throw on Wednesday. And it was Strief's job to block Smith on the play that led to Brees' injury. He said he apologized to Brees for allowing that sack.
"It's your biggest fear as a lineman, especially with a guy like that, is letting him down," Strief said Wednesday, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune. "I wouldn't be telling anybody anything new or secretive if I told you it was me. I said sorry, and of course he handled it the way you'd expect." It would be so easy to criticize Zach Strief for giving up the sack that led to Drew Brees injury. Almost too easy to blame a guy for making one mistake while playing for a team, and more so an offense, that made about 1,000 of them on that very same afternoon. Well, you know what? I'm not going to do that. Not only because I respect what Zach Strief has done for this organization over the years, but because this team has sucked so goddamn bad that they were bound to get their quarterback sent to the sidelines. If I was going to blame Zach Strief then I would have to blame every other member of the offensive line for their half assed performance as well. I would have to blame the running backs for failing to average more than one yard per carry in the first half, and thus making Drew Brees drop back to pass in a longer down and distance against a great pass rush. I would have to blame the tight ends and the wide receivers for failing to get any separation and forcing Drew to hold on to the ball too long in an effort to find someone downfield. Hell, I would have to blame Drew Brees for holding on to the ball too long in an effort to find someone downfield. I would have to blame Sean Payton for not calling plays to move his quarterback out of the pocket when the Buccaneers defensive line was clearly dominating. I would have to blame everyone, because there hasn't a single, completely innocent party over the course of the first two games. Bottomline? Drew's injury is symbolic of the failures of his entire offense. It's not one guy, it's not guys, it's EVERYONE. When you don't perform as a whole it puts more pressure on your quarterback to make plays, and the offense has simply not performed to this point in the season. Let's hope Drew is back sooner rather than later. Not only for the sake of Zach Strief's conscience, but for the sake of an offense that is in dire need of finding some chemistry before it's too late.
Nooooo! Not Gretzky!!! You see, this is problem with soccer fans. Always trying to explain the beauty of the game. Constantly telling people that don't watch that it's probably because they simply don't understand it. Trying desperately to speak out on the legitimacy of their sport. So much so, in fact, that they can't even be bothered to correctly spell the name of the greatest hockey player whose ever lived when he comes in for a visit. If you're not going to put the most minute amount of effort in to getting his name right then just show him around, shake his hand, and go about your day. The goddamn hypocrisy. They say North Americans don't pay enough attention to European futbol, but the second they do they get disrespected. Yeah sure, Americans and Canadians could probably give soccer more of a chance, but you know what? If fucking Cristiano Ronaldo came to Yankee Stadium I bet he wouldn't be presented with a 'Ronaldinho' jersey. We have more appreciation for legendary athletes than that, even if we didn't watch them play for a majority of their career. Maybe Europe could learn a thing or two about respect from us pesky Americans, because getting The Great One's name wrong is about as dishonorable as it gets.
Oh, and Tottenham, he was just being nice, it doesn't happen all the time. Mostly because he's not over in North London all the time having his name besmirched by people who don't know how to use Google. Metro- A woman will receive $40,000 in compensation (£26,000) after being verbally abused by a police officer when she told him she was HIV positive. Shalandra Jones was pulled over in the city of Dearborn, Michigan in 2012 for a minor violation.
The incident was initially fairly routine, with officer David Lacey discovering her medical marijuana licence had expired. However when Lacey discovered that Ms Jones was HIV positive his tone changed significantly. He complains that he has been touching her earrings, claiming that he ‘doesn’t want to catch anything’. ‘I don’t want to catch that s***, I’ve got a family’, he can be heard saying. Officer Lacey also told Ms Jones: ‘Honestly, if it wasn’t for that, I don’t think I would have wrote anybody for anything. ‘But that kind of really aggravated me. You know what I mean? You got to tell me right away because at that time, I wasn’t wearing any gloves.’ Officer Lacey reportedly still works for the Dearborn Police Department and faced no disciplinary action. Yes, I know HIV positive people are people too, but you know what, police officer or not, it is a person's right not to associate with those people. That's why this woman had two choices, either tell the cop right away or don't tell him at all. Does Shalandra Jones realize what she just did? Now every time this guy coughs he is going to run to the emergency room. He has no choice but to turn into a hypochondriac. He'll probably be OCD too. Hope Shalandra Jones is putting some of that compensation money towards hand soap, because David Lacey is bout to rub a layer of skin off scrubbing his hands 15 times a day. I am not stupid enough to think you can get HIV by touching someone's earrings. I know you can't breathe HIV into your blood stream. I know it's not one of those things that you can ingest by touching your face after grabbing a handrail or some shit. I know there's only one type of 'glove' that can protect you from HIV. However, the phrase "better safe than sorry" exists for a reason, and this is a perfect example of that reason. Remember when Ebola was all the craze? Every person that had Ebola symptoms was basically being stuffed into a quarantined locker just because we didn't know shit about it and didn't want it spreading. Well, I am pretty sure you couldn't get Ebola from touching earrings either, but if this story came out a year and a half ago and you replaced "HIV" with "Ebola" every single person that read this would take the officer's side. I, much like David Lacey, know just as much about HIV as I knew about Ebola, so contagious or not, keep that shit away from me. Even Magic Johnson had to quit basketball when they found out he was HIV positive and I am pretty sure you can't get HIV from boxing somebody out in the post. If NBA championships can't grant you social immunity, no pun intended, then a fucking moving violation certainly can't either. You think you're more important than Magic, Shalandra? Well, do you? I bet the whole first chapter of this book is titled 'Don't Get HIV' and warns people not to touch strangers... An Assistant High School Principal Is Facing Backlash For Appearing In An Explicit Hip Hop Video9/23/2015
NY Post- While her students were on summer break, a Hamptons school administrator was hard at work — as a hired actor in a salacious hip-hop music video full of twerking half-naked women, joints of marijuana and binge drinking.
Esther Adler-O’Keefe, an assistant principal at Southampton HS, shocked her small, conservative community with her appearance in the video of “Best Friend,” a song by rapper J.R. and R&B singer Trey Songz. Adler-O’Keefe says all of six words in the video, which shows the educator and her real-life husband, Brian O’Keefe, leave for the night at what appears to be their mansion. “Enjoy yourself. Just remember, security’s here,” she says before the couple hurries off in a black SUV. “Security” turns out to be two scantily clad female guards standing at the front of the home, wearing barely there uniforms that say “Police.” They then strip — and a raunchy pool party with dozens of semi-naked women ensues. Adler-O’Keefe appears again at the end of the clip, when the couple return home to the trashed house to find a pile of passed out, nearly nude people, along with what appears to be marijuana. Do I have a problem with this high school assistant principal participating in a hip hop video over the summer? Hell no I don't, and you shouldn't either. You know how many women have said no to something that Trey Songz has been affiliated with? Zero. Zero women. Doesn't matter if they were scantily clad black women shaking their ass 100 MPH, or an older white women whose favorite rap song is 'Gettin' Jiggy With It'. No one is safe from the charm of Trey Songz. What's the worst case scenario anyway? Her students see her in a rap video and can relate to her a little better? Principals were the goddamn worst growing up. You never wanted to be put in a situation where you had to exchange words with the principal, even if it was just in passing. Imagine having one that was in a rap video though? That would be the coolest shit ever. I would go out of my way not to upset the principal that was down with same music as me. I understand that the administration has to speak out against this kind of thing, but it's not like she was laying on a raft in the pool smoking a blunt. She just made a little dough on the side for the playing the parent that got taken advantage of by her house sitter. That could happen to anyone. In fact, the most egregious thing this woman did in this video was hire a young African American hip hop artist to watch over her mansion while she was away. What an idiot! “When I agreed to participate, I was completely unaware of the content, lyrics and title of the video and song,” she said in a statement e-mailed to The Southampton Press. “Had I known of such content or lyrics, I certainly would not have participated in any fashion. I find the lyrics and content of the music video vulgar, offensive and demeaning.” Here is where this woman loses me, however. Way to go Esther, now you got no one on your side. You can't accept an acting gig, show up to a mansion filled with barely clothed models and rappers wearing 8 pounds of jewelry, shoot your scene, and then act like you had no idea what was about to happen after you left. What did you think the content of the video was going to be? Did you think they were going to hold book club Esther? Did you think they were going to get a nice game of volleyball going in the pool? Maybe hold a feminism rally or start an anti-drug campaign? Rap about politics, religion, and women's rights? Come on sweetheart, you don't have to keep the TV on BET all day to realize what was about to go down. Now, you're just the principal that potentially sacrificed her job for an extra paycheck AND sacrificed her integrity by lying about her knowledge of the video. No one likes that person. Not the school district, not the students, and certainly not the hip hop community. You may be dumb Esther, but you're not stupid. The only saving grace this woman has is she's not this high school football coach selling drugs out of his ice cream truck... NY Times- When people ask me what I think of the New Jersey Devils, I always say, I think they're pretty darn good. I don't think it matters that they play in a so-so arena near a highway. Or that they don't have big-name stars and get knocked for being in New Jersey. So they can't decide on a good place for a parade -- so what? How many teams are raising another Stanley Cup?
I've been a fan of the Devils since they moved to New Jersey more than 20 years ago. I've seen them grow from a rinky-dink team to three-time Stanley Cup champions. Now people are making a fuss over a parade -- to have it in the arena's parking lot like before, or somewhere else. I say, no parking lot. Just have the parade down Bloomfield Avenue, starting in Newark and passing through the towns where lots of Devils fans live. It's not Broadway, but you'd still get a lot of people who'd appreciate it. Maybe a few more people should appreciate the Devils. The team gets criticized just for being good. A former Rangers coach said they're just a bunch of interchangeable parts. Well, I've always been a Rangers fan, too, and I wish they had more interchangeable parts. Good teams always have them -- guys who play for the team, not for themselves, and the Devils typify teamwork at its best. They remind me of the Yankees teams I played on during the late 1940's through the early 60's. We were a team of interchangeable parts. Casey Stengel, our manager, platooned guys all the time. In 1949, his first year, we had seven different first basemen. We had one player, Gil McDougald, who made the All-Star team at three different positions. Casey was known for being funny, but not with us. He could be pretty demanding. If you play, you better produce. If you don't play, tough. The team always came first. That's how it is with the Devils. All the guys know their roles and don't try to be something they're not. Everyone contributes. It starts with Lou Lamoriello, the general manger. He knows what it takes to build a team and keep it running strong, a lot like the way our old Yankees general manager George Weiss did. They both put a lot into scouting, instruction and the farm system. Weiss got young guys to come up the Yankee way and traded them for older veterans to fit in. The Devils do it the same way. One last thing about that parade: I don't remember being in one when I played for the Yankees. This is what I told the guys in the Devils practice center in West Orange, where I work out. They don't have big egos, so it's no big deal. The Devils are pretty darn good and that's not too bad. -Yogi Berra Oh shit, Yogi Berra was a Devils fan!?! This is on me. I should have known this. I think it's only right I scour the internet for a vintage Yogi Berra jersey, and speak primarily in Yogisms for at least the next year. Sure, I might lose a lot of friends, and even family, but anything to honor one the greatest baseball players who ever lived. Especially one that I also happened to share a common interest with. From here on out I am taking every fork in the road. I am never answering anonymous letters. I am only taking 2 hour naps from 1-4. I am never really saying anything that I say. I pledge to observe everything by watching. I promise to never let myself get hungry enough to need my pizza get cut into 6 slices instead of 4. I refuse to make anymore wrong mistakes. I will only imitate people, but never copy them. All that, just for you Yogi. It sure does get late early out here, and it's time to properly say goodbye to a late, great legend of baseball, and apparently one of my favorite Devils fans of all time. Tough to read that as a Devils fan and not feel a hint of nostalgia. Ahh, the good old days. The days when the Devils just managed to plug in pieces and have it work seamlessly every time. The days of an impenetrable defense and a vastly underrated offense. The days of being hated by the rest of the league for revolutionizing the sport. The days of Ken Daneyko. The days of Scott Stevens. The days of Marty Brodeur. The days of parking lot parades. The Lou Lamoriello glory days. No matter how successful Ray Shero is, we will always hold them close to our heart. Those are days we will never forget as Devils fans. Thanks for the reminder Yogi, and may you rest in peace. Just do me a favor when you get up there and tell John McMullen I said thank you. A Teacher Told A 4 Year Old Boy That Being Left Handed IS "Evil" And "Associated With The Devil"9/23/2015 Global News- A 4-year-old boy was forced by their teacher in Oklahoma to write with their right hand despite being left-handed. The boy’s mother is upset after a letter was sent home that stated that being left-handed is “evil”, “unlucky” and often “associated with the devil.”
Alisha Sands, 30, says her son Zayde had always done everything with his left hand until she noticed him struggling to use his right hand while doing homework last week. “I just asked if there was anything, had his teachers ever said anything about his hands and he raises this one and says, ‘this one is bad’,” Sands said while raising her left hand. Sands sent the teacher a note and got a response back from the Oakes Elementary teacher with an article that stated left-handedness was “sinister” and that “the devil is often portrayed as left-handed.” “It breaks my heart for him because someone actually believes that, like you believe my child is evil because he’s left-handed. It’s crazy,” Sands told KFOR News. Isn't it good to know this even those that are paid to educate our youth are dumb enough to believe everything they read on the internet? Honestly, it's like the best and worst part about living in 2015. It doesn't matter how crazy you are, or how nonsensical your premise, you can always find an article online that will justify your thought process. It makes it pretty difficult to definitively lose an argument. Although, on the other hand, it makes it very possible for a whole lot of idiots to rationalize and perpetuate their lunacy. If we ignore every single thing this woman said, then you might actually be able to make the argument that she's helping this kid. You successfully turn him into a right handed writer at age 4, and you save him at least 17 years of frustration. Ever talked to a left handed person about what it's like to write left handed? If you haven't it's probably because all the left handed people in your school dropped out and fell into a deep dark depression. That's how awful it is. This day and age we are so worried about offending people, but how about the fact that we have been discriminating against left handed people for decades. I know back in my day there weren't any left handed desks at schools. Not to mention the fact that left handed people have a natural inclination to prejudice. Go ahead, try to write something left handed without dragging your pinky through it and smudging the ink. It may not be the work of the devil, but it's definitely a necessary evil. Especially if your batshit crazy teacher doesn't come into your life and teach you that left handed people go straight to hell. Now, going as far as saying that the inconveniences of being left handed are sinister might be an overstatement, but I will say it makes a little sense if God was the one that decided we read and write left to right. If I thought the Lord and Savior was personally responsible for making me left handed then it wouldn't take me more than two essay tests before I was worshiping Satan. That doesn't mean this lady should be allowed to teach. In fact, she needs one of those restraining orders that they give pedophiles to keep them thousands upon thousands of feet away from children. With that said, if this kid became skilled enough to write right handed then she just changed one life for the better, regardless of being fit for a mental institution. Pretty Sure Mark Cuban Forgot How Much Crying He did When DeAndre Jordan Signed With The Clippers9/23/2015 Yeah, you tell him Mark. Fucking Doc Rivers, that big jerk. Just completely making up all those things that you said about DeAndre Jordan after he left to sign the Clippers. What a disingenuous move to put words in your mouth right after DJ pulled his dick out of it and said "see ya never". How could he even know about the time you compared his player's decision, or indecision, to having makeup sex with an ex-girlfriend...
...Or the time you compared Richard Jefferson's change of heart to that of DeAndre Jordan...
...or the time you wrote a full on monologue on CyberDust knowing it would get leaked to the public...
...or the time you refused to accept DeAndre Jordan's apology...
Hey Mark, think it might be fair to say that you're refusal to discuss anything DeAndre Jordan related might just be a little bit of revisionist history? I''m not saying I blame you for being scorned by Jordan's decision, especially since it will undoubtedly have a disastrous effect on the Mavericks this upcoming season. Just don't start this "who, ME?!?" nonsense when literally everything you say gets broadcast to millions upon millions of people. We're not as stupid as we look Mark.
Furthermore, Doc Rivers didn't break the unwritten rules of the NBA moratorium on a whim. He did so with full knowledge that DJ had not only reconsidered his decision to sign with Dallas, but had basically already changed his mind. Any coach, or owner, that wouldn't do everything in their power to get back a player that wanted to be back, and was so imperative to the success of their franchise would be a moron. Can you imagine if Dirk Nowitzki had done something similar? Mark Cuban would be on his private jet in a heartbeat. Ethics? Fuck 'em. Morals? Fuck 'em. If it's not written in stone then it's existence as a rule is merely situational. A business man as shrewd as Mark Cuban should know that. Doc Rivers did stand to lose quite a bit with the departure of DeAndre Jordan. No DJ not only meant no depth in the front court, but it also meant very little cap space to create that depth. With that said, the Mavericks plus DeAndre Jordan is a team that is pretty comparable talent wise to a Clippers team minus DeAndre Jordan. A team with Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, JJ Redick, Paul Pierce, Jamal Crawford, and Lance Stephenson is still a playoff team. In fact that they are probably just as good of a team as one centered around Dirk Nowitzki, Chandler Parsons, and DeAndre Jordan. Not sure how losing a player like DJ, no matter how important he is to team, would signify the end of Doc River's career. That seems like a little bit of an exaggeration to me. The Clippers would still be quite the draw to free agents, and the would only be a year away from having the availability of another max contract. I understand that Mark Cuban still feels slighted, but declaring the end of a relatively young and talented coach's career based on the potential loss of ONE player is just another example of how childish he has been in handling this whole situation. Hey Cubes, you mad bro?
Let's just forget for a second that this is an absolutely insane proposition. Let's just forget that the punishment of losing a year of eligibility does not fit the "crime" of throwing 5 dollars at one of the most steadily growing business models in sports. Let's just forget that there are much bigger problems surrounding the NCAA than daily fucking fantasy games.
With all that out of the way, I think I am starting to respect the NCAA. If you don't stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. Now sure, really the only thing they stand for is profiting off child labor, but at least that's not nothing. There is something to be said for staring scrutiny directly in the face and standing your ground. Literally every single person not profiting off college athletics realizes the flaws associated with college athletics. You think that's going to make them change their stance on kids selling their own autographs, or accepting free meals, or picking a faux lineup to bet money on during Sunday football? Nope, because as dumb as the NCAA, they are equally as headstrong. Haven't we all been in a position where a majority of people thought we were wrong? Did we back down? Most likely. Did we want to back down? Hell no we didn't. We probably regretted later too. The NCAA will never feel that remorse, because they will never change their ways. While their ways aren't commendable, the concept of not changing them, especially given the current landscape of society, actually kind of is. Don't get me wrong. I think college athletes should be able to play Draft Kings. I think they should be to go blow whatever small amount of money they do have at the casino. I think they should be able to buy lottery tickets. Generally I think they should just be allowed to do the things that fucking everyone else in the world is allowed to do. The NCAA, a business that televises their product on the very same channels that advertise these same daily fantasy games, is full of a bunch of hypocrites. However, we can at least give them credit for not being full of a bunch of conformists. Metro- People have tumbled down the steps of the Taj Mahal, fallen off bridges and been electrocuted in an effort to take the perfect selfie.
In fact, there have been more selfie-related deaths this year than have have been deaths from shark attacks. At least 12 people have been killed taking selfies while only eight have died in shark attacks. There is one surprising thing, and one surprising thing only, about this statistic. That's the supposed fact that only 12 people died from taking selfies this year. I would think that number would be well into the hundreds. So while I'm sure there is some fatal flaw in the statistical analysis of selfie related deaths, I'll just use the numbers that were given to me. Anyway, let's break down the completely obvious reasons why this happens to be true.... - Generally speaking, people don't seek out sharks unless they doing some type of research that features a protective cage. That's mostly because getting eaten by a shark doesn't get you likes. If there was such thing as a waterproof Instagram there would be insecure idiots wrapping themselves in chum, slitting their wrists, and venturing out further from the beach. - Your selfie isn't worth a shit if it wasn't taken without an ounce of perceived danger. No one is going to share the selfie you took from the observation deck at the Willis Tower. You want to impress people enough to double click your picture then you better be sitting on the Statue of Liberty's fucking torch doing a goddamn duck face. - There's a lot more danger on land than there is 20 feet from the beach. That doesn't mean you can't get attacked by a shark or stung by a jellyfish, but it means it's highly unlikely. Land is a crazy place. There is a lot going on. A lot of moving parts, and even more dumb people. You take your eyes off the world and the world just might turn around and bite you in the ass. You take your eyes off other idiots they are sure to make you regret it. - People don't go in the ocean thinking that they are partaking in a dangerous activity. They go in the ocean to ride some waves, get some salt water in their mouth, and question why they went in the ocean when they are washing sand out of their hair the next time they take a shower. People that fall off bridges or monuments taking one handed pictures of themselves are fully aware with the risks associated with doing so. They just acknowledge that the superficial self esteem boost they will receive from the additional 'likes' is worth that risk. Yes, it's gotten to the point where taken pictures of ourselves had become more dangerous then venturing into a place shared by hundreds of thousands of living organisms that we can't see. That may seem crazy, but I think the fact that we are more of a hazard to ourselves than some of the deadliest creatures on the planet is actually a testament how to far down the rabbit hole society has fallen in 2015. I guess the only logical step now is 'Selfie Week'. Just might be time to admit that we know more about sharks than we know about the fucking assholes we interact with on a day-to-day basis. |
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