- The Dallas Cowboys were not a good football team in
2011. They didn’t win their division or make the playoffs and once again, owner
Jerry Jones’ $1 billion football palace sat empty when the postseason rolled
around. Worse still, the rival New York Giants won their second Super Bowl in
four years and left the ‘Boys and their egomaniacal owner seeing red. One might
even imagine Jones may be humbled by a division rival winning a second Super
Bowl in a short span, but that person would be very, very wrong. Instead, Jones
stood up at a pep rally last week before the start of training camp and invited
fans to “come to that (Cowboys)
stadium and watch us beat the Giants’ ass.” Never mind that the Giants
beat Dallas twice last season to knock the Cowboys from playoff contention en
route to a title, Jones is full of pride and willing to shoot his mouth off
about it even if he’s obviously delusional. Predictably, the Giants barely
blinked when asked about Jones’ speech to the masses. "Because talk is cheap," defensive end Justin Tuck said.
"Play the game." Jones was playing off Giants coach Tom Coughlin's
infamous motto from years ago, but no one in Giants red and blue was about to
get baited into a war of words. The closest and Giant came to retaliating was owner
John Mara, who pointed to a bandage on his forehead and said, “You should see
what Jerry Jones looks like.” "We'll show up," Mara said. "But
that is actually the first time I've heard that comment. I have been so caught
up in the (Tim) Tebow coverage that I haven't had time for anything else."
Jones later explain that he wants his team focused on the Giants because the
two teams open the season in New York on Sept. 5……….
- Step back and allow France to teach you a lesson about
respect and how to treat the opposite sex, world. No, this isn’t a salute to
France’s famed knack for romance and love, but rather a recognition of the fact
that the country’s Socialist-dominated
parliament has approved legislation that makes sexual harassment a crime, finally
addressing problems many critics say have existed for decades. Under the new
law, there will be three levels of harassment, with the most serious -- in
cases where the harasser has authority over the victim, the victim is younger
than 15 years old, or multiple people carry out the harassment -- punishable by
up to three years in prison. The National Assembly passed the law Tuesday after
the Senate voted earlier in the day on the measure, which covers offenses in
universities, the housing market and job interviews. Additionally, individual acts
of sexual blackmail will be considered sexual harassment, whereas previously
only repeated acts were. In other words, there won't need to be a pattern of
harassment over a period of time to constitute criminal activity. Maybe the
United States can take France’s lead and pass stronger sexual harassment laws,
as in the U.S., sexual harassment is a civil offense usually punishable by
fines. And yes, the same country that foisted Dominique Strauss-Kahn on the
world is the one passing forward-thinking sexual harassment laws………
- Tony Robbins is a magnet for the beaten-down, downtrodden
souls of the world. The energetic motivational speaker/snake oil salesman
charges pathetic people hundreds, even thousands of dollars to come to his seminars
and hear corny, clichéd motivational ploys that will change their lives for all
of a day at most. Oh, and he encourages attendees to his conferences to walk
across burning-hot coals and sends 20 of them to the hospital, too. Robbins’
traveling scam rolled in to the San Jose Convention Center on Sunday for a fourth and
final day of motivational talks as part of his “Unleash the Power Within”
seminar, which included a fire walk as a signature experience. Many of those
injured as they walked down the rows of coals, which stretched down 24 lanes
and were each around eight feet long, reported second- or third-degree burns,
Capt. Reggie Williams of the San Jose Fire Department said. Thousands of
desperate people looking for a magic bean because their life sucks and they
hate it participated in the walk and some even came from abroad for the
seminar. Walking across hot coals is one of the biggest clichés for
motivational speakers, but Robbins told his flock that the walk was a metaphor
for facing your fears and accomplishing your goals. Those who buy into Robbins’
nonsense were so blinded by his B.S. that many suggested that the people who
burned their feet “were out of state,” a term that participants said meant
having the proper mental attitude. Robbins, who ducks cameras and interviews
lest the sham he’s running be hauled out into the light, refused to comment on
the incident. His San Diego-based company issued a statement saying that, “more
than 6,000 attendees participated in the traditional fire walk across hot
coals. We have been safely providing this experience for more than three
decades, and always under the supervision of medical personnel.” Sgt. Jason Dwyer, the San Jose Police
Department’s public information officer, confirmed that the department was not
pursuing charges against Robbins. For the record, the coals reach a temperature
of 2,000 degrees, nearly enough to match the fever idiots have to suffer from
to throw down as much as $2,500 to spend a weekend in some convention center
auditorium hearing Robbins spout stereotypical motivational bullsh*t……….
- The planet is trying to help us out, humans, so why won't we
try to cooperate? A study led by Ashley Ballantyne of the University of Colorado, Boulder,
asked that question in light of the fact that the earth is performing an enormous disposal
service for the human race. Humans churn out massive amounts of carbon waste
and about half of that carbon is taken up by the oceans and land. That keeps
global temperatures from rising more rapidly than they already are, but
scientists have long wondered how long this arrangement can last. Emissions are
soaring and detailed computer analyses of the climate have long predicted that
the uptake would become less efficient sometime in this century. Should the
planet fall further behind in this effort, the level of carbon dioxide in the
air would begin rising faster, trapping more of the sun’s heat. Ballantyne’s
project responded to a previous paper showing regional carbon sinks on land
(such as forests) or in the ocean and found a decline in the sink in the Western
forests of North America as a result of a drought from 2000 to 2004. Ballantyne
and his colleagues performed a statistical analysis of global carbon dioxide
measurements that have been going on for decades and found no convincing
evidence that the global carbon sink was weakening. However, he suggested that
it is only a matter of time before carbon uptake slows. It’s not a question of
whether or not natural sinks will slow their uptake of carbon, but when,” Ballantyne
said. A second, unaffiliated study zoned in on a handful of relatively
concentrated spots in the Southern Ocean that account for a high proportion,
roughly 20 percent, of the entire oceanic carbon uptake. That project found
that while carbon dioxide can easily dissolve out of the air into ocean water,
it tends to stay in a surface layer that does not mix well with the colder,
denser water below and can even escape that surface layer to re-enter the
atmosphere. That is obviously bad news and it comes courtesy of Jean-Baptiste
Sallée of the British Antarctic Survey. He and his team used measurements from
the new Argo network of floating robots to make the most complete analysis yet
of the role of currents. Should the findings of either study hold true, global
warming doubters will have yet another set of solid facts to ignore as they
pretend the world is copasetic……….
- Stephen Colbert is no stranger to tongue-in-cheek
gatherings designed to sarcastically salute more formal events. Just one year
ago, Colbert and fellow Comedy Central fake news host Jon Stewart hosted their “Rally
to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear” on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The
event featured a slew of musical stars and public figures and was aimed at
mocking conserva-Nazi ass hat Glenn Beck’s “Rally to Restore Honor” just a few
weeks prior. The next target for Colbert isn't a political radio talking head,
but rather the Coachella Festival and its newly-announced nautical spinoff. The
popular music festival is held each April in California and this year the event
drew major attention when a hologram of Tupac Shakur “performed” on stage. Now
that Coachella is going nautical, Colbert is following suit. “The Colbert
Report” host announced during his Tuesday episode that he will host a music
festival in New York on Aug. 10 aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum,
docked on the Hudson River. "StePhest Colbchella `012: RocktAugustFest"
is the name of the event and it will include performances from Grizzly Bear, The Flaming Lips, Santigold,
Grandmaster Flash and fun. Colbert held a smaller musical event
in-studio last year, the modest "Rock You Like a Thirst-Icane." He
has big hopes for his new endeavor and pointed out that the event will have at
least one component other festivals lack. "Does Bonnaroo have cruise
missiles?" Colbert said of his battleship venue. "I think not."
Fans not in the Manhattan area can watch performances and interviews with the
acts on Colbert’s show during the week of Aug. 13…………
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