- There is great news from one Timothy Richard Tebow.
Sure, he was released by the New York Jets on Monday, two days after the NFL
draft ended and four days after the team drafted West Virginia quarterback Geno
Smith in the second round. And yes, Tebow
went unclaimed on NFL waivers Tuesday. However, that does not mean that TRT is
done as a football player or even as a quarterback. He has options, even if
none of those options involves him suiting up for an NFL team in any capacity.
On the one hand, he could head north of the border and play for the Montreal
Alouettes – as a backup. “We have quarterbacks under contract,” Montreal
general manager Jim Popp said. “We’re going to camp in a month. We’ve got a
starting quarterback. I’m not out there enticing or trying to convince [Tebow]
to come to Montreal because he’s [not] going to be a starting quarterback. He
would be coming to Montreal to be a backup player ... to learn the game and,
maybe, in the future, he’ll be able to compete for a starting job.” That’s right,
he could compete for a second-string job in a third-tier league. If that
doesn’t sound like a good option, Tebow could always play indoor football in
Nebraska for a whopping $75 a game. The Omaha Beef, know for nothing, called the office of Tebow’s agent Jimmy
Sexton on Tuesday to offer a standard player contract. Beef assistant general manager Andrew
Mather knows the odds on a return call are long, but he’s hoping against hope
that Tebow is interested. As an added bonus, Tebow could learn all about quarterbacking
from someone names, James McNear, who is apparently the starting quarterback
for the Beef. "I think Tim can learn a lot from me," McNear said.
Should both of those options seem unpalatable, there is a third, more glamorous
option on the table….as the national quarterbacks coach for the Legends
Football League, a.k.a. the Lingerie Football League. Mitchell Mortaza,
the league's commissioner, also called Sexton this week and offered Tebow the
chance to step into a made-up position created as a total publicity stunt for a
niche, lecherous league. Your move, TRT……..
- It’s about freaking time. Where there is a demand, there
must eventually be a supply and no one can deny that there is a pressing need
for a website such as www.eccie.net. The site, based in North Texas, provides a sort of
Angie’s List or Better Business Bureau-like rating service….for hookers. The
site, which is tied to several investigations by the Texas Attorney General’s
office, has existed for several years but has not been receiving the attention
is so richly deserves. Ladies of the night can create profiles on the site and
their, um, customers can post reviews about their services. It’s a brilliant
idea for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that Homeland Security
Investigators often scour sites like this for potential human trafficking
cases. “A lot of these internet websites are reflective of pure prostitution,”
said David Marwell, an Immigration Customs Enforcement special agent. The site
also plays an important role in the lives of the degenerates who patronize
prostitutes because let’s face it, they don’t have a lot working in their
favor. If they are so desperate for sex and simultaneously so unequipped to
convince a woman to actually have sex with them, then their life is fairly
miserable. The last thing any of these losers needs in his life is to solicit a
pro who turns out to be terrible at her job. If a dude can go online and find a
quality street walker for a good price and have reviews from fellow degenerates
to rely on, then there is a much lower chance of wasting good money on bad paid
sex. Not surprisingly, state lawmakers in Texas would like to shut such
sites down and the current owner of the site has remained in the dark so
far………..
- Public Enemy once urged the world to fight the power and now, member
Chuck D (real name Carlton Douglas Ridenhour) is waging his
own battle against some of the heaviest hitters in hip-hop. Ridenhour is upset
about the use of the n-word in rap and his primary targets are Jay-Z and Kanye
West, collectively known as Watch the Throne. The duo’s best-known track as a
group is “Ni**as in Paris” and it’s the title of that song that has Chuck D
upset. He tweeted about the issue after Public Enemy’s performance at
L’Original festival in Lyon on Sunday night, a performance that included a white
fan in the crowd using the word. “Standing ovation in Lyon France telling these
folks we are African NOT Ngrs In Paris why I gotta travel PlanetEarth cleaning
sht from USA?" Chuck D asked. He chased that with a second tweet reading, “Blackfolk
are hangin on a cliff in the USA. Calling us NGR & making youth think its
normal & diggin it is like pushing us off it. It pay$ well.” Oddly enough,
he didn’t fault the white fan in the crowd for what he said and instead shifted
the blame to the two men whose song titles and lyrics have made the use of the
offensive term more commonplace than ever in hip-hop. “He didn’t know. It’s a
language cultural thing where they’ve seen black men call themselves that like
happy ass slaves for 20yrs,” Chuck D wrote in a latest tweet. One of his
followers defended Jay-Z and West, but Chuck D was having none of it. "Yes
JayZ is a very very sharp smart dude and gifted. But with great power comes
responsibility, it is necessary to lead forward. When you have mainstream RAP
songs basking in it out of context, Sometimes you gotta call time out and
demand some respect.” Having three hip-hop heavyweights squaring off could lead
to some interesting dialogue on the topic, but the odds of actual change in
this area still seems remote……..
- Microsoft wants to upgrade its Outlook.com
email service. It really should upgrade all of its subpar software offerings,
but starting with Outlook is a practical choice. To that end, Microsoft is
readying a Skype video-calling feature for the service’s 60 million users. The
company is in the midst of a push to integrate Skype across
practically its entire consumer-facing product portfolio and the official
Skype-Outlook announcement was made on Monday. With the new feature, users of
the Outlook.com email service will be able to initiate Skype video calls or
text-based chats directly from Outlook.com's Web-based interface. Microsoft
purchased Skype for $8.5 billion in 2011 and has since taken its sweet time
integrating the communications technology into its software ecosystem. It moved
the process forward with the prominent placement of the Skype app in Windows 8,
the company's latest release of the world’s worst operating system, in October.
What was once known as Microsoft Messenger has morphed into Skype and earlier
this year, Giovanni Mezgec, general manager of Microsoft Lync, announced that
the barriers between Lync and Skype would be dissolving this summer. "By
bringing the assets that we have on the consumer front with Skype and on the enterprise
front with Lync, we can have a unified platform that really brings
communications from the living room to the boardroom in a way that makes sense
and is rationalized and connected rather than having disconnected islands,”
Mezgec said. Douglas Pearce, group program manager of connected services for
Microsoft, explained that the Skype integration will start with a "select
set of people in the U.K. and then the U.S.” Users will be able to access Skype
with their existing Microsoft account and won't have to sign up for a new one. Current
Skype account holders will need only to link their Skype accounts to their
Microsoft account to expose the added functionality. Both Skype and Microsoft
could use the boost that this latest news should bring……..
- Head to the coffee house and smoke a celebratory joint,
residents of the Netherlands, because history has been made in your awesome
nation. For the first time in more than 120 years, Holland has a king. The
change happened when Queen Beatrix abdicated on Tuesday, handing the throne over to her
eldest son, Willem-Alexander. A raucous crowd of some 25,000 well-wishers
cheered outside the Royal Palace in Amsterdam as the abdication and automatic
succession were broadcast live across the small, northern European nation. The
crowds arrived in Dam Square from early on Tuesday to see the new king and his
wife, Queen Maxima, as they stepped out onto the balcony of the Royal Palace in
a scene somewhat similar to the one that occurred in March when a new pope was
chosen in Rome. Queen Beatrix signed the abdication document in front of the
Dutch cabinet and in her purple dress, she looked thoroughly regal while her son
and daughter-in-law took control with happy looks on their faces. "Today,
I make way for a new generation," Beatrix said. He will now take on the
title of Princess as he son, a 46-year-old water management specialist, takes
over. Most royal onlookers expect that Willem-Alexander and his wife, a popular
former investment banker from Argentina, will be more relaxed and less formal
than his mother. The day was bound to be a party in the Netherlands, abdication
or not, as April 30 is known as Queen's Day and is always a day for parties. Many
Dutch started the party early, taking Monday off work celebrating Monday night with
street bands and music. Amsterdam has been draped in orange, the royal color,
for days and bunting hung from many buildings around the canal-ringed downtown
area. The royal family remains popular with a 78 percent approval rating, which
may have something to do with their limited political power and largely
figurehead status…….
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