- How could a f*cked-up city with two mayors exist anywhere
but Florida? The town of Miami Lakes is a place with two leaders who may
combine for enough brain cells to run half the city on a good day. On one side
is Mayor
Wayne Slaton, who reiterated this week that he isn’t going anywhere for two
more years because he has a mandate to govern. A mandate from the inept people
he claims voted for him. "The residents of the town of Miami Lakes elected
me as mayor of this great town to serve until 2016," Slaton said. On the
other side of the battle is former Mayor Michael Pizzi, who is feeling mighty
good after being acquitted by a federal jury of seven corruption-related
charges last Thursday. In the aftermath of his victory in court, Pizzi made his
triumphant return to town hall and boldly proclaimed, “I’m back.” State law
mandates that the governor reinstate any elected official who has been cleared
of any charges that were the basis of the suspension with back pay, but if
Pizzi was hoping for help from Gov. Rick Scott, he was left hanging when Scott
said he wouldn't reinstate Pizzi because the town already has a new mayor. It
was Scott who suspended Pizzi after his arrest last summer, after which Slaton
was chosen to fill Pizzi's seat during a special election in October. Slaton’s
official position is that the town charter allowed voters to permanently elect
a new mayor. "Let me be very clear -- there is no temporary position that
was created," Slaton said. Pizzi, emboldened by beating a criminal rap,
still wants his job back. "I don't know under what basis he thinks he's entitled
to serve out my term as mayor," Pizzi proclaimed. When Pizzi met with Town
Manager Alex Rey, he was told his services were not needed. He has yet to
announce his next step, but hopefully a Molotov cocktail is involved……….
- Professional athletes are the best…as long as by “the
best,” you mean that they’re awesome at getting injured in really ridiculous
ways and in performing simple tasks that millions of people perform without
incident on a daily basis. Typically, it’s Major League Baseball players who
tweak muscles and tear ligaments doing things like putting on a hat, carrying
groceries up stairs or throwing out a bag full of trash. However, NFLers can
suffer their own types of bizarre injuries and Kansas City Chiefs All-Pro running back Jamaal Charles is exhibit A.
Charles was among the dozens of Chiefs players moving out of the dorms at
Missouri Western State University, toting personal items from Scanlon hall,
when disaster struck. Charles was carrying a box of his belongings from the
building when a misstep left him in immense pain. "He came down a grassy
slope there and just kind of rolled his foot over on the curb," coach Andy
Reid said. "It was that simple. That was it. He went up to [trainer Rick
Burkholder]. ... He was hurting that night, and the next day he woke up and he
was feeling a little bit better, and he's feeling better today.” Taken out by
the grassy knoll…ouch. Charles was severly injured enough to skip Sunday
night's 28-16 preseason loss to the Carolina Panthers, but Reid insisted his
star player had undergone every possible test and should be fine for the start
of the regular season. Maybe a Pro Bowl running back isn't used to the rigors
of moving day and having to haul heavy boxes in and out of buildings, but a
simple walk down a small hill doesn’t seem like it should be enough to stop
Charles when NFL defenses have such a difficult time doing so. Stay safe and be
sure you keep your eyes open and mind sharp when in the cafeteria this season,
J. You never know when a forgotten banana peel is lurking on the floor in your
path……..
- Iceland is generally a calm, tranquil place. It is not
currently a calm, tranquil place – unless one considers upping the national alert level for the risk of a possible volcanic eruption to
orange — the second-most severe level. That’s where the northern Atlantic
nation stands in the midst of swarms of earthquakes that have taken place since
Saturday in Bardabunga — a subglacial stratovolcano located under Iceland's
largest glacier. In light of these disturbing developments, the government has
closed roads near the volcano due to fears an eruption could lead to massive
flooding. In raising the alert level, scientists laid of two different and
equally disturbing scenarios: one is an explosion outside the Vatnajokull
glacier, leading to minor ash emissions and troubles locally, and the second
possibility is an eruption occurring inside the glacier. Seismologist Martin
Hensch detailed both possible outcomes, adding the happy news that the latter
of the two options could lead to ash being sent high into the atmosphere. Those
with even modest short-term memory might recall that back in 2010, the ash from
a volcanic eruption in Iceland caused major air traffic disruptions that
stranded 10 million travelers around the world. Flights to and from Europe and
Asia were delayed because of the ash and four years later, ain’t nobody got
time for that. Reykjavik definitely doesn’t have time for it, as it is the
primary stop for most people visiting Iceland and its flow of tourists is sure
to slow to a halt if a pesky volcano spews a massive cloud of ash into the sky
and prevents flights from passing through Icelandic airspace……….
- Grimes doesn’t get it. She’s a recording artist and while
she’s not anywhere close to being a rock star, she still needs to embrace it any
time someone tells tall tales of her doing something highly illegal that Ozzy
Obourne or Steven Tyler is famous for doing. For example, Ozzy has notably
snorted anything that could remotely pass for an illegal drug and if you’re
Grimes and someone claims you were seen hoover-ing something that could get you
arrested into your nose, you own that accusation and add it to your modest
lore. So why is the Canadian pop singer beefing with the kind people who
regularly edit
her Wikipedia page to make her look like a junkie? For some reason, Grimes is
pissed at those who hijack comments she made about drug use while making 2012
album “Visions” and make it seem like she’s one step from overdosing on the
floor of some filthy flophouse in the ghetto. Her Wiki page references a 2012
interview in which she says she "blacked out the windows and did tons of
amphetamines and stayed up for three weeks and didn’t eat anything” while
making the record and Grimes is of the wrong opinion that those words need to
be removed. She and her team have tried to get the comments taken down, but
users keep re-adding them to the page. That led to an angry Grimes Tumblr post
denouncing those responsible. "Editing a website that people take
seriously and reference all the time so that it looks like i think amphetamines
are cool is incredibly irresponsible,” she wrote. "I don't want that to be
part of my narrative, and if it has to be I want people to know that I hate
hard drugs. All they’ve ever done is kill my friends and cause me to be unproductive."
Epic fail, G. If you want to sell more copies of your upcoming new album, then
embrace the narrative that you’re an amphetamine junkie and go trash a hotel
room to polish up that image………..
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