- Aaron Berry, Detroit Lions poster boy or the prime
example of what is wrong with NFL players and their conduct away from the
field? Yes. Sadly, Berry is now filling just one of those roles after the Lions
cut him Monday after he was arrested in Pennsylvania for the second time this offseason. He
joined Lions running back Mikel Leshoure and defensive tackle Nick Fairley with
multiple arrests this offseason, but he’s the only one on the waiver wire. Cpl.
Kyle Gautsch of the Harrisburg Police Department said was taken into custody
early Saturday morning on three charges of simple assault. Gautsch says there
"was a weapon allegedly brandished during the incident." The
Harrisburg resident was also arrested in that area June 23 on suspicion of DUI,
failure to stop and render aid from an accident and other counts. He does not
seem to learn from his mistakes, otherwise he would not have been picked up for
a second time. Ironically, Berry was set to enter a diversionary program
following the June arrest, but that plan has to be up in the air now. The Lions
cut him after the second arrest and said explicitly it was for his off-field
conduct and the harm it did to the team. His modest on-field contributions
clearly were not enough to keep him around. Leshoure, of course, was cited
twice for possession of marijuana and tried to eat his ganja to conceal it the
second time. Fairley doubled up with an arrest for possession and one for DUI,
while offensive tackle Johnny Culbreath also had a marijuana-related run-in
with police. Pro Bowl defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh, who was pulled over in
March and ticketed for driving a BMW 91 mph in a 55 mph zone and was also
involved in a crash in Portland in which he lost control of a car and crashed
into a drinking fountain and tree, said last week that his teammates must be
"accountable" to themselves and to each other. "Everybody has to
be accountable for themselves, and obviously we as teammates need to hold each
other to a higher standard," Suh said. Right now, the highest standard in
that locker room is the standard for stupidity in offseason conduct……….
- Woof if you like this idea. Dogs in the workplace could
actually lift office morale. Useful for everything from pooping in the
conference room to chewing up important files, dogs could also improve the
overall atmosphere in the workplace, according to a preliminary investigation published in
March in the International Journal of Workplace Health Management by researchers at
Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Business. The research team found
that workers who bring their dog to the office can cap the amount of stress
experienced during the day, and improve job satisfaction for all. Professor
Randolph Barker (real name) led the study and measured the stress levels of employees
at a retailing and manufacturing business with a 14-year history of allowing
dogs in the workplace. The firm averages Between 20-30 dogs a day amongst its 550 employees and Barker questioned
76 of those workers, some of whom brought their dogs, some who didn’t and other
who don’t even own a canine. The
study found that while everyone started the day with low baseline levels of the stress hormone
cortisol, those who didn't bring their dogs to work reported drastically higher
levels of stress by the end of the working day. Employees with their dogs
experienced lower levels of stress throughout the day and about half of that
group felt that dogs were important to their productivity. Better still, 80
percent of those who did not bring a dog to the office said the pooches had no
negative effect on productivity. Although other factors are clearly involved,
workers in the study all rated the company higher than the industry mean for
job satisfaction and perceived organizational support. Barker cited the dogs’
usefulness in sparking conversations amongst employees, and increasing engagement.
Now if the dogs could only answer the phones…………
- The 11th season of Fox’s vastly overrated adult comedy
“Family Guy” is shaping up to be a star-studded affair. Sofia Vergara, who is big on the commercial
circuit of late and who also stars on the sitcom “Modern Family,” will be is making
a cameo as Peter Griffin's fantasy love interest. The series’ main character
will will be involved in a cutaway gag as a "telenovela lothario" in
an upcoming episode and Vergara will be voicing his "sassy" lover as
well as a woman selling roses in a restaurant. Another character named Quagmire
is "wooing" Peter so that Peter will do him a big favor and Vergara’s
character will be involved. When the show returns from its summer hiatus on
Sept. 30, the new season 30 will also feature voices from Johnny Depp, Ryan
Reynolds, Elizabeth Banks, and Kellan Lutz, among others. Depp will reprise his
"Edward Scissorhands" role and should be solid, while Reynolds will
play a character who doesn't exist in biblical history, but is related to
Jesus. Vergara is doing commercials for everyone who calls her up these days
and also making an appearance on another Fox show, “The Cleveland Show.”
On that show, her
character Tia Sofia tries to talk Cleveland into hosting a quinceanera for
Cleveland Jr.'s 15th birthday. “The Cleveland Show” returns for its fourth
season on October 7 and Vergara’s omnipresence on the small screen will be in
full swing………….
- A promise from the Syrian government is one you can take
to the bank…..as long as the Syrian government hasn’t ordered its military to
bomb the sh*t out of the bank and murder everyone inside first. Still, Bashir
al-Assad’s regime has assured the world that its chemical weapons are secure under
the army’s control and won’t be used against insurgents. Unconventional weapons
would be used only in the event of “external aggression,” Foreign Ministry spokesman
Jihad Makdissi claimed, er, lied, er, uh, said at a press conference shown on
state-run television. With more than 19,000 civilians dead in the 18-plus-month
conflict and Russia and China ass-hattedly holding up any United Nation
attempts to use force to stop the government’s onslaught, chemical weapons are
just about the only way the conflict could get more brutal. Russian despot Vladimir
Putin, speaking in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Putin said an
unconstitutional ouster Assad would plunge the Middle Eastern country into
civil war. While it’s great that Putin can ignore that the civil war has
already started, the fact that Syria has one of largest and most advanced
chemical warfare programs in the Arab world is worrisome. Even as the vow not
to use chemical weapons was made, the government concurrently built its case
for using them by lying about more rebel-initiated conflict Damascus and
Aleppo, where the mighty army supposedly destroyed trucks and confiscated large
amounts of weapons, according to the state- run Sana news agency. Alleging the
involvement of terrorists from other nations to aid its own terrorists that the
rest of the world knows simply as civilians who want a new leader elected by
democratic means, the government seems to be ramping up to a nice mustard gas
attack or something similar. When that happens, no one will be shocked………
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