- Here’s hoping you had this moment in your history videotaped, photographed, notarized and witnessed by no less than four dozen individuals who then signed court-approved, certified statements as to what they saw, University of Michigan football program. It sounds extreme, but them are the breaks when you sign a noted liar, deceiver and all-around douche bag to be your new head football coach. The D-bag in question would be none other than Rich-er Fraud-riguez, who nearly left West Virginia University in 2006 to become the head coach at Alabama, reversed field when the move was universally ripped, signed a new deal with WVU while proclaiming his love for the school, then bolted a year later and tried to get out of paying the $4 million buyout in his deal to become Michigan's head coach. Yes, Fraud-riguez has been the coach at UM for eight games now, posting a stellar 2-6 record, but it wasn’t until this past week that he actually signed his new deal, worth at least $2.5 million a year even if he’s not. Nothing like waiting nine months to sign a contract after terms have already been agreed upon, R. Given your performance so far and the fact that your lackluster season forced your new athletic director to publicly give you a vote of confidence to calm the unrest, you should have put your John Hancock on that deal the instant your plane landed in Ann Arbor. A couple of provisions in the deal are laughable at this point, with Fraud-riguez standing to receive
an extra $300,000 for each national championship that he wins or $200,000 for his team getting to the Bowl Championship Series title game. Yeah, teams that fire out of the gate 2-6 and have members of the squad jumping ship less than a month after the new coach takes over to transfer to the program’s most bitter rival don’t tend to get BCS invites as a general rule……
- What the heck is wrong with you, New York City cops? Not that long ago, there were videos circulating on YouTube of you assaulting innocent civilians, even knocking one harmless protestor off his bike near Times Square in a blatant display of abuse of power. However, those incidents seem tame when you contemplate the charges being levied against five NYPD officers by a Brooklyn man accusing them of sodomizing him with a radio antenna. Michael Mineo alleges that he was jumped by five officers inside a Brooklyn subway station and sodomized with the antenna of a police radio, a claim that investigators with the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau are now investigating. They are conducting DNA tests on equipment taken from the lockers of five police officers, with NYPD chief spokesman Paul J. Browne taking up for his guys by saying that several people who were near Mineo when he was arrested “do not support Mineo's story that he had been sodomized.” Instead, police are contending that Mineo was smoking weed when two officers approached him. Mineo allegedly tried to escape into the subway, but when he got downstairs and saw no train approaching, he jumped back over a turnstile, where he was grabbed and surrounded by other officers.
Here is where the alleged sodomy comes in: Mineo, who was wearing baggy pants and had to be wrestled to the ground before screaming he was being Tasered and sodomized. Just a question, but are you sure it was pot he was smoking? Pot doesn’t make people hallucinate and agitated; it mellows them out. You don’t see stoners twitching and seeing things; those tend to be losers peaking on PCP and LSD. This is one story I hope isn’t true, because it’s just a really bad mental image and would give me yet another reason to not be a fan of law enforcement…..
- Things were not going well for intrepid hero Peter Petrelli on last night’s episode of Heroes. Having been robbed of his powers by his back-from-the-dead father Arthur upon storming the offices of Pinehearst Industries last week, Peter is now being held prisoner by his dad, locked in a room and told that he is going to help his father’s quest to save the world and defeat the efforts of Peter’s mom Angela and her company, Primatech, whether he likes it or not. Without his powers, Peter can't fight back, but fortunately for him, his mom has his back. Even though she’s in a coma, Angela can still use her powers to send a mental message to one of her other sons, Sylar, who is being held at the Company’s Level 5 facility. Angela tells Sylar to go rescue Peter, which he does. Sylar raids Pinehearst, saving Peter just as he is about the be the target of a dangerous experiment. The man experimenting on him is Dr. Mohinder Suresh, who has joined up with Pinehearst after an encounter with Peter’s other brother, Nathan, and Nathan’s new friend Tracy Strauss. Last week, Mohinder poisoned Nathan and Tracy when they came to him for help removing their abilities because Mohinder believed they could help his sick, misguided and dangerous quest to find his own cure to remove the abilities of his new love Maya, whom he had imprisoned along with several other victims in weird cocoons on his apartment wall as part of his weird evolution into some sort of bug-man. When Nathan and Tracy get free from their restraints and refuse to help Mohinder in his quest, he frees Maya from her cocoon, takes off and flies away, straight to Pinehearst. There, he asks Arthur to take Maya’s powers (killing people after making their eyes turn black and using some sort of weird telepathy), just like she wants. Arthur agrees to do so and takes Maya’s power just as he took Peter’s. Maya is thrilled to be free, but instead of embracing Mohinder, she rejects him because of the monster he has become. She leaves and says she is off to make amends for all the evil she has done, suggesting that Mohinder do the same. Instead, he decides that rather than have Arthur take his powers that he self-administered with his hack-job formula, he will stay at Pinehearst and work on their formula that accomplishes the same thing he was trying to do on his own. That’s where Peter comes in, as Arthur volunteers him to be the test subject for the newest version of the formula. Sylar arrives just in time, storming the operating room and freeing Peter. But as they try to escape, Mohinder attacks and captures Sylar. With Sylar in custody, Peter has to escape on his own. That becomes harder once Arthur talks to Sylar and tells him the truth about his mother Angela, that when he was born, she saw the future, saw what he would become and tried to kill him just after his birth. Armed with that knowledge, Sylar appears to change sides. He encounters Peter and instead of trying to escape with his brother, Sylar throws Peter out the window. Without his powers, the multiple-story fall should have killed Peter, but he survives, a fact that is curious to Peter and to Arthur, who wonders how he was able to survive the fall. Waiting for Peter at the end of his long fall is Claire Bennet, who has come to Pinehearst with former nemesis Elle. After Elle was fired from the Company early this season, she has been a lost soul and has now also lost control of her power to shoot electrical currents from her body. Seeking the help of Claire’s father H.R.G., Elle arrives at the Bennet home in Costa Verde, California only to be confronted by Claire, or as Elle calls her, “Cheerleader.” After an initial skirmish, both realize that they have been contacted by Pinehearst and might be able to find answers there. Following a tense flight in which Elle’s electrical powers nearly crash the plane, they arrive and head to Pinehearst, where they pull up just in time to see Peter falling. He lands and while Claire rushes over and immediately notices he isn’t healing and using his powers, Elle has other things on her mind. When she hears Peter say Pinehearst took his abilities, she runs inside for help because that’s what she wants too. Claire and Peter escape, but now that he has no power, things are much different. Also, Peter is left to ponder why the fall didn’t kill him and theorizes that Sylar threw him out the window the save him and help him escape, using his telepathic powers to slow Peter’s fall so he didn’t actually die. Death was exactly what Arthur had in mind for Matt Parkman, or so it seemed, after Parkman refused an offer to join Pinehearst. Arthur orders Daphne Millbrook to go and kill Parkman and when Mat’s father and Arthur’s aide Maury objects, Arthur kills Maury and hands Daphne a gun. She is unable to carry out her orders after Matt continues to insist that they are meant to fall in love and will be married in the future, so Arthur sends along Knox, the villain whose power is gaining strength from others’ fear, to finish the job. But using his power to control people’s mind and make them see and believe anything he wants, Matt makes Knox see a scene in which he kills both Matt and Daphne, leading Knox to leave, believing his mission has been accomplished. That leaves Matt and Daphne alone, apparently together. However, a phone call from Arthur to Daphne seems to indicate that the whole thing was a ruse, a ploy to plant her close to Matt and make him believe that she is on his side. The last bit of news this episode was way over in Africa, where Hiro Nakamura and pal Ando are still hanging with “Mr. African Isaac,” future painter/pre-cognitive Usutu. With Hiro refusing to time travel any more to battle the evil forces and impending doom encroaching on the world, Usutu inveigles him to try a different path, eating the same nasty paste made from plant roots that Usutu himself and also Matt Parkman have used to put them into a trance where they can see the future. At episode’s end, Hiro is in the same glassy-eyed trance, having visions of the world to come. And that’s where things end for now, so until next ime…..
- Well this isn’t awkward at all. Once again, Major League Baseball finds itself with a bizarre scheduling situation/ending of a big game thanks to commissioner Bud Selig. The first such occurrence was in 2002, when the All-Star Game ended in a tie for the first (and hopefully last time) ever because good ol’ Bud said it was so after 15 innings. This time, it’s the freaking World Series, with Game 5 of the Fall Classic abandoned in the middle of the sixth inning with the score tied 2-2. The game between the Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays could decide the World Series, as the Phillies lead the best-of-seven 3-1, but the specter of bad weather hung over the game from the start. Rain was forecast, but after talking with the umpires, teams, ground crew and even weathermen, Selig elected to try and play the game. The rains came early on and didn’t let up, leaving the field an increasingly muddy, soggy mess that made for both a sloppy game and a dangerous environement for the players to play in. Normally, baseball games become official after five innings, so with the Phillies leading 2-1 after the fifth, it looked like they might steal a win. However, the decision had been made by Selig and his MLB cronies that the World Series would not end on a shortened game, so when the Rays pushed across the tying run in the top of the sixth inning and the weather became too much to bear in the bottom half of the frame, action was suspended. The intent was to play the game tonight, but we were told earlier that that wouldn’t happen. Furthermore, with shi**y weather on tap for Wednesday, there is no telling when this thing might actually get back on track. Worse still, when it does, it could be for a mere 45 minutes or so if the Phillies win and only three innings need to be played. The game is tentatively set to resume at 8:37 p.m. Wednesday night, but I highly doubt that happens. The suspended game left the Rays in a lodging bind because win or lose Game 5, it was to be the last game of the series in Philadelphia and so they had checked out of their hotel, knowing that regardless of the outcome, they would be on a plane back to Tampa afterward - or so they thought. Now forced to stay in town, they couldn’t get back into their previous hotel and were forced to find a hotel in Wilmington, Del., about 25 miles away. In other words, this has turned into another train wreck under Selig’s watch, and the sad thing is that it’s not the least bit surprising…..
- Who among us hasn’t thought about putting a little something unsanitary and disgusting into the food of our local police chief? Unless you are a totally law-abiding, goodie-two-shoes type, odds are you are not a huge fan of John Q, Law. However, there is a fine line between cursing the stupid local cops among friends, making fun of their portly physiques and referring to them by various derogatory names and actually trying to make them ill. Meet Jaime Perez, the man who trampled all over that subtle, yet important line in the sand when he allegedly wiped himself with a hamburger bun he was serving Police Chief Paul Nelson at Andy's Landing, a Burnet, Texas eatery. Perez also said he put the veggies in his mouth before placing them on the burger, then capped off his disgusting display by spitting and blowing his nose on the burger. Perez, cook at the restaurant, was arrested Monday after Nelson who filed a complaint with the Burnet County's Sheriff's Office. Perez had to brag about his dirty deed, with word getting back to Nelson, who also recalled seeing Perez along with another cook standing behind the counter watching him eat his food that day. Very discreet, fellas, very discreet. I have to say, I don’t feel too good about eating at Andy’s Landing, not after this and no after hearing Perez’ boss defend his act. “Jaime is our best cook,” said Andy's Landing General Manager Tiffany Tappe. “It's the last thing we ever expected.” He’s your best cook? How the hell do you people stay open if that’s the case? It really can't be good for business, especially not when Burnet County investigators walk right into your kitchen and arrested Perez, as they did yesterday. Today, they were back to arrest cook James Ledesma at the restaurant. Both men have been charged with tampering with consumer product, a second degree felony. Ironically, Nelson believes this isn’t the first time his food was contaminated by Perez. A Burnet police officer's dash cam video picked up the voice of a disorderly Perez Oct. 11, on which Perez can ranting about the chief and stated that he spat on the buns and rubbed the buns “on his buns.” Nice establishment you’ve got there, Andy’s Landing. I’ve heard of cooks spitting in food before when customers are being a pain in the ass, but never wiping the food on their own backsides……
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