- What a wonderful world we live in, where a gossip/tabloid Web site can run a story containing racy, unproven accusations against an NFL player and compel the league to launch an investigation into the matter based simply on that report. The gossip site in question is Deadspin, which claimed Thursday that Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre sent racy messages and photos to a woman who worked for the New York Jets during his one season with the team. "We are reviewing the matter," league spokesman Greg Aiello said Friday when asked about reports that Favre sent lewd voice mails and photos to Jenn Sterger, who did game-day work for the Jets in between her stints as an aspiring, surgically enhanced skank who has had a whole lot of success based on having a nice rack and dressing in skimpy outfits beginning with her time at Florida State. Deadspin reported Thursday that voice mails and photos were sent to Sterger by "someone she was led to believe was Brett Favre" and that the same person also contacted her on noted pedophile haven MySpace. One text message allegedly contained a picture of the sender’s man parts and a voicemail said, "Send me a text. Love to see you tonight." It’s important to note that none of the voice mails and photos have been independently confirmed as coming from Favre, that Sterger did not lodge a public complaint and has thus far remained silent on the issue. Deadspin editor-in-chief A.J. Daulerio refused to reveal the source of the material, although he did admit that Deadspin paid "more than we ever have" for the content and that the source of the photos, texts and voicemails made first contact. "I was certain about the accuracy of her story, the evidence was presented substantiating that," he said. “Then as things began to unfold, it appeared more and more likely that this happened. Plus, there will be more.” Deadspin has had Favre in its crosshairs for a while now, including a report last week that he hit on and chased after two female massage therapists who worked part-time for the Jets, a matter that the league is also investigating. The masseurs, who worked for the team during training camp, were allegedly approached by Favre and one of them supposedly exchanged phone numbers with him, while the second woman told Deadspin that he sent "nasty" text messages and invited both women to his hotel room. Favre was asked about the allegations on Thursday and said: "I'm not getting into that. I've got my hands full with the Jets (whom the Vikings, ironically enough, play Monday night) and am trying to get some timing down with our guys, so that's all I'm going to discuss." Sterger is no longer associated with the Jets and has her own Web site that describes her as an actress, model, writer and television host. If the claims against Favre are true, the league could find him in violation of its personal conduct policy and he could be fined or even suspended. The policy allows the league to punish a wide range of behavior, even that which is not illegal, as evidenced by the four-game suspension of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger for being an all-time douche bag after two women accused him of sexual assault within a one-year span. Oh, and there’s also the kicker that Favre is married and became a grandfather in the spring, so I’m sure his family is loving this whole situation………
- White House National Security Adviser Jim Jones (no, not THAT Jim Jones) is mad, he’s bitter and he’s quitting. Jones is about to become the second high-ranking Obama administration offical to resign this month, following chief of staff Rohm Emmanuel out the door. Jones’ departure is not a surprise, as senior officials say he never fit in with other key members of Obama's inner circle and didn’t have an active role in Obama presidential campaign. Sources close to Jones also claimed that when he accepted the appointment in 2009, he agreed to stay on for only two years. Then there’s the matter of Bob Woodward’s (yes, THAT Bob Woodward) new book "Obama's Wars," which Jones received an advance copy of before it hit stores and started reading it earlier this month. Word on the street is that Jones was so incensed over his portrayal in the book that he didn’t even finish it and instead dropped in right back in the mail to Woodward with the implied message that the book wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. The retired four-star general has not verified that claim and Woodward claimed to have no knowledge of the book being returned while also admitting surprise that Jones was so upset with his treatment in the book. Sources within the White House have backed up the allegations of Jones’ outrage because of how certain actions and decisions were attributed to him in the book. Chief among those allegations are that called some of his colleagues in the White House the "water bugs," the "Politburo," and the "Mafia" who had a personal vendetta against him and were angling to force him out of the administration. That jibes with the rumors that he was consistently at odds with the upper-level members of the White House staff. Others reportedly viewed him as lazy and felt that the main reason he was able to hang on as long as he did was the respectful relationship he maintained with the president, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hank Clinton. But even those ties weren’t enough to protect him when he was quoted lashing out at the "campaign set" in the Woodward book and sharing stories of various slights against him from within the administration. Tales of Jones’ standoffs with Emmanuel and other Obama inner circle members are well-known in Washington and in one case, Emanuel refused to give Jones a copy of the inaugural address before it was delivered. Jones will be replaced by his current deputy, Tom Donilon. Jones is also fighting an uphill battle in trying to convince anyone who will listen that he was misquoted (regrettable comments are ALWAYS misquoted or taken out of context, allegedly), but trying to impugn the credibility of a journalistic icon like Woodward is a near-impossible task. Oh, and there’s also the fact that Woodward and Jones are longtime friends and Jones himself has been a source of inside information for Woodward before. The two men traveled together to Afghanistan last year and while there, Woodward received an exclusive from the battlefield for The Washington Post. To me, Jones sounds a lot like a guy who has said some things in anger that he now regrets and is looking to divert blame onto the most convenient scapegoat he can find. In this case, the scapegoat happens to be Woodward………
- Thanks for proving the very point you are attempting to silence, China. On the very day when Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize, Chinese authorities could not work fast enough to delete his name from all public domains and erase the fact that he even exists. They are livid that someone who dares to oppose their communist ways would be recognized for his dissent and media in China are predictably falling in line with the government, calling the awarding of the prize to Liu “an arrogant display of Western ideology” for a man viewed as “a criminal.” By contrast, Liu’s supporters hope that him winning the award, even if it is virtually unreported and blacked out in China, will draw attention to his human rights record. For Chinese who type “Nobel Peace Prize” or “Liu Xiaobo” into search engines China and hit return, they will get a glaring error page. Not as glaring as Liu serving an 11-year prison term simply for standing up against an oppressive government, but close. Until authorities ramped up their campaign to scrub their nation’s cyberspace of all traces of the Nobel Peace Prize and Liu’s name, "Nobel Prize" was the top-trending topic on the nation’s popular micro-blogging sites. International broadcasters are being pulled from the air any time they talk about Liu or the Nobel Prize and citizens are having the SIM cards in their phones deactivated if they text or Tweet about the topic. Some Chinese sought to commemorate the occasion by enjoying a dinner of salmon, which is a nod to Norway, where the committee that awards the Nobel Prize is based. Ultimately, it’s another great illustration of why China’s government is the biggest bunch of oppressive ass hats around and no one likes them……..
- Did anyone honestly expect anything different from the walking freak show that is Lady Gaga? A woman who dresses like a giant drop of blood, in a meat suit and pretty much every other horrible combination of lace, leather and mesh that has ever been created, sings some of the most ridiculous, synthesized, auto-tuned and crap-tacular songs of this or any other era and basically gets people to listen to her music because she’s such a train wreck can't have normal demands when it comes to the environment backstage at her concerts and in her dressing room, right? Sure enough, L. Gaga has some insane demands that shows she clearly doesn’t realize who she is and that her 15 minutes are going to be up sooner rather than later. The most predictable and clichéd of her demands is for a five-star hotel, which makes her no different than any other un-talented pop hack who thinks he or she is God’s gift to music. But what is odd and thus very Lady Gaga is her demand that her dressing room at every one of her concerts have both honey and an oxygen tank. Whether or not she somehow uses those two items on combination, I don’t know…..and quite frankly, I don’t want to know. Based on her overall act, I wouldn’t be surprised if she used them to create some sort of kook-tacular new outfit with the oxygen tank as a hat and the honey as some sort of all-night facial cleansing mask. Oh, and don’t be late with her dinner either because if you’re even one minute behind schedule when it comes to delivering her eats, L. Gaga can call off the show because you will then be in breach of contract. The meals are also specific, as the menu is based on the day of the week, as follows: Monday – BBQ Night,
Tuesday – Asian Night, Wednesday – Mexican Night, Thursday - American Night (no idea what this entails), Friday – Carving Night (Include Tri Tip & Ham) Saturday – Pasta Bar and Sunday – Turkey Dinner with all the trimmings. Enjoy the rest of your 15 minutes, you kook, because the clock on all of this nonsense is ticking much faster than you realize………
- Ah, the age-old question: Who sweats better, men or women? According to a new Japanese study, women have to work harder than men while exercising in order to start sweating. The commonly held belief has long been that women's "glow" is somehow different from men's "sweat" and scientists at Osaka International University and Kobe University in Japan have backed that up with their research. Simply put, men are more efficient at sweating. Not that I need to tell any of you this because I’m certain this is a magazine you already read avidly, but the study was published in the most recent issue of the journal Experimental Physiology. In it, 37 people - 20 females and 17 males - were broken down into two groups: trained an untrained. Ten of the females and eight of the males were trained, which meant that they had participated in endurance sports for more than six years. The "untrained" people in the study had not done any regular physical activity in the previous three years, which means this would have been an ideal study for the vast majority of Americans. All participants then cycled at 35, 50 and 65 percent of their maximal uptake of oxygen for an hour, with relative humidity of 45 percent. What researchers found was that trained participants had a greater average local sweating rate on their foreheads, chests, backs, forearms and thighs than untrained participants. However, the more jarring disparity was between men and women, as men benefited more from their training experience in their sweat production than women. The untrained women in the study had to work harder or have a higher body temperature in order to achieve a maximal activated sweat gland response, which suggests that increases in the sweat gland's response to physical training tend to be smaller among trained females than trained males. Researchers postulated that this could be because men have higher testosterone levels than women and testosterone may enhance the sweating response. However, the study did not actually measure testosterone levels and so that variable is still unknown. Also, the limited number of participants reduces the impact of the findings as it pertains to mainstream acceptance and incorporation into exercise theory. Conclusions drawn from the study include the idea that women should be extremely cautious in intense heat because of their relative inefficiency in sweating. There are different kinds of sweat - the kind stimulated by the automatic nervous system when your body temperature goes up (through exercise) and the type associated with emotional stress - but men are just better at them………
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