- How proud is the entire state of Tennessee right now? State
Sen. Stacey Campfield has joined the club – you know the club, the one occupied
by loose-tongued ass hats who don’t realize that they should never, ever, ever
use the following in an analogy: rape, Nazis, the Holocaust, Pearl Harbor or
slavery. Campfield stamped his membership card when he made the oh, so
regrettable decision to liken Affordable
Care Act signees to Jewish people being sent to Nazi death camps. "Democrats
bragging about the number of mandatory signups for Obamacare is like Germans
bragging about the number of mandatory signups for 'train rides' for Jews in
the 40s," wrote in a blog post. On the surface, no one should give a
flying damn about the blog post of an outspoken Tennessee state senator. How
bad was his analogy? Bad enough that Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Chris
Devaney felt the need to issue a hastily crafted statement distancing
himself from Campfield. Bad enough that Campfield tried what all IQ-depriver
hatemongers try when they make such a terrible analogy and suffer the brunt of
the resulting outrage: issue a non-apology apology that tries to make it all
better but actually makes it worse. "My
attention was never to diminish what happened to them. I think that is
terrible,” Campfield said. “I was talking about American people losing
freedoms, and if you talk to Jewish people about losing freedoms and then
having government decide who lives and dies through health care - or that
government's going to start paying for abortions, I think they should be the
first to stand up against it.” Wait… that was supposed to make it all better?
How? Spokespeople for various Jewish activist groups ripped the senator for his
words and odds are that while Campfield’s stupidity and ignorance will have
zero effect on the issue about which he feels so powerfully, humanity is still
worse for his being a part of it………
- Not everyone is a big fan of the NFL’s proposed
$765 million settlement of concussion claims by former players. Specifically, a
large group of those affected by the settlement rightly believe it isn't a just
deal and they’re making their voice heard. The case has been hotly contested
all along the way, but this time is by a group of retirees who said they would
get ''nothing at all'' for nagging health problems that limit their function.
Seven of the raging retirees filed a motion to intervene in the court case
pending in Philadelphia, which is targeted toward thousands of claims through a
grid-like formula that reaches $5 million for younger retirees with Alzheimer's
disease. What makes the new claims different is that the plaintiffs are men who
may be able to work, but who claim to suffer from headaches, personality
changes, trouble multi-tasking and other side effects they link to concussions
suffered while playing in the league. ''The settlement provided no monetary
recovery - nothing at all - for class members suffering from many of the
residual effects most commonly linked to recurrent and repetitive mild
traumatic brain injury, while releasing every claim these class members may
have against the NFL,'' lawyer Steven Molo wrote in the court filing.
That someone would challenge the deal was predictable, given that a league
making 11 figures annually got off paying a fraction of that for a one-time
settlement that seven senior U.S. District Judge Anita B. Brody fears is too low to
cover 20,000 retirees for 65 years, as planned. Lawyers for both the NFL and
the lead players' group continue to support the deal and yet, several groups of
players have asked to intervene in the settlement talks to raise various
concerns. This new group includes 2008 Pro Bowl player Sean Morey, now a sprint
football coach at Princeton University. The bulk of the proposed $765 million
fund would compensate former players with one of four neurological conditions:
Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Lou Gehrig's disease or advanced
dementia……….
- Look the hell out, world. America has made itself
orca-FAT with the help of friend spheres of dough and now it is turning its
mostly lethal weapon in this effort on you. That’s right, American restaurant chain Dunkin' Donuts is ramping up its efforts
to burst the seams of Europe’s skinny jeans. How? By doing battle with the
Belgian waffle, the savory Dutch pancake, the strudel and even the Danish. After
scaling back its overseas operations in the 1990s, the chain has been steadily
bulking up its European holdings and has built its doughy empire to 120 outlets
in Germany, Russia, Spain, Bulgaria and most recently, Britain. Dunkin' Donuts'
head of international development Jeremy Vitaro recently revealed plans to o
open stores in Denmark, Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands. "They're
sophisticated, and they're culturally very open (to trying new foods)," Vitaro
said. While Dunkin' Donuts hangs its visor and apron on doughnuts and coffee,
it also offers muffins, bagels and items specific to the location of its
various stores in order to boost profits. In London, its stores serve up a
savory snack called "Bacon Buttie," as well as porridge, at its three
locations in England’s capital city. "Hot cereal, yes," Vitaro says.
"We also do a Croistrami sandwich, that's a pastrami croissant. So we do
localize. We have a curry doughnut in India." Name recognition won't be in
Dunkin' Donuts’ toolbox in most of its new homes and with many Europeans not
even knowing what a doughnut is, the fight will be a bitter one. Dislodging the
Belgian waffle in all of its powdered sugary goodness might be too much for
even an established corporate titan……….
- Stop teasing us, Matt Damon. Either sh*t or get off the
“Bourne” pot because at this point, we need one of the best action heroes of
his generation back in the saddle. Damon has suggested on more than once occasion
that he is open to starring in future films in the Bourne franchise, but so far there has been no actual progress
toward this dream coming to fruition. His sole demand to return to the role of
Jason Bourne has been director Paul Greengrass getting back in the director’s
chair, rather than former franchise screenwriter-turned-director Troy Gilroy,
who helmed the disastrously bad fourth installment of the action series. When
Greengrass exited stage left, Damon went with him and Jeremy Renner stepped in
as agent Aaron Cross, an operative in the mold of Bourne, but without the
charisma, watchability or badassness. Renner anchored “The Bourne Legacy,”
which bumbled its way across multiplex screens everywhere in 2012 with thinly
veiled and forced references to Jason Bourne in order to convince viewers that
there was any link to Damon’s iconic hero. The last time Damon appeared as
Bourne was 2007's “The Bourne
Ultimatum.” Damon recently said that with the right story, he and
Greengrass could reunite on set. "I've always been open to it if Paul
Greengrass is the director," Damon said. "We've just never been able
to come up with a story. So if any of your viewers have a story, please call
Universal and submit it." Given that a fifth film in the franchise has
been confirmed, so figuring out Damon’s future with the series is paramount.
Renner is set to be back in that fifth chapter, which will sadly hit theaters
on Aug. 14, 2015…………
- We did it! We did it! World, we made it happen and we did
it together. As certified by a new report from the Scripps Institution
of Oceanography, there is a record-breaking amount of CO2 in our atmosphere.
According to this uplifting report, this is the highest total in the history of
humanity and because carbon dioxide is the greenhouse gas considered most
responsible for global warming, that means humanity has partnered together to
wreck our ecosystem in amazing ways. Last month the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere
was measured at 400 parts per million. That is an impressive increase over its
300 parts per million levels of six decades ago. Scientists have been recording
CO2 levels since the late 1950s along a graph called the Keeling Curve and
never before have their measurements reached the 401.33 parts per million
average they hit in April. According to researchers at the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), humans have caused carbon dioxide
concentrations to rise 120 parts per million since pre-industrial times, with
over 90 percent of that in the past century alone. James Butler, director of
NOAA's Global Monitoring Division noted that the rate of increase has spiked
substantially in recent years. "The rate of increase has accelerated from
about 0.7 parts per million per year in the late 1950s to 2.1 parts per million
per year during the last decade,” Butler said. Simply put, there is a colossal
concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the problem is growing
exponentially worse with each successive year. If the planet can continue to
work together and not give a damn about the effects of its polluting ways, then
perhaps a reading of 500 parts per million is indeed possible……..
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