- What the eff, Brazil? More than 30 countries set the first-ever
deadline on Tuesday to end deforestation by 2030, but your disagreeable ass has
to ruin the spirit of cooperation by refusing to join in? World powers from
across the glove, including the United States, Canada and the entire European
Union were willing to ink their national names to a declaration to halve forest
loss by 2020 and eliminate deforestation entirely by 2030, but you samba-loving
ass hats said no thanks? "This is the family photo we have been looking
for decades," said Charles McNeill, a senior environmental policy adviser
for the U.N. Development Program. "The forest issue is where everyone
comes together." Yes, everyone except the nation best known for is
pristine rain forests and biodiversity. Brazil’s lame-ass excuse was that the
pledge was not included in the preparation process. This sad development comes
as many of the same nations prepare to continue formal negotiations later this
year in Peru in the hopes of meeting a late 2015 deadline for a new
international treaty. "Unfortunately, we were not consulted. But I think
that it's impossible to think that you can have a global forest initiative
without Brazil on board. It doesn't make sense," Brazilian Environment Minister
Izabella Teixeira said. True, it doesn’t make sense, Izzy. That’s why everyone
IS PISSED THAT YOU’RE BEING SO DAMN UNCOOPERATIVE. The U.N. claimed the plan
would have an effect equivalent to taking every car in the world off the road.
As part of the pledge, the group vowed to restore more than one million square
miles of forest worldwide by 2030. Norway is in for a beefy $350 million to
protect forests in Peru and another $100 million in Liberia. Despite its
obstinate approach, Teixeira emphasized that Brazil is committed to protecting
the Amazon rainforest, which is considered one of the world's most important
natural defenses against global warming………
- The Horrors are a kick-ass British indie rock band and as
a group that isn't exactly on the beaten path of mainstream music, they should
be exempt from pompous political trying to hijack their tunes for political
gain…right? Try again. Depending on whom you ask and when you check the band’s
official timeline, one of more members of The Horrors have a really big problem
with the
Labour Party's use of their single “I See You” at a conference. The world
learned of this beef when the band posted a series of tweets voicing their
objection to the song being played and berating Labour leader Ed Miliband.
Sadly, like all great tweets expressing opinions that might be better reserved
for the inside of the speaker’s mind and not shared with the world in 140
characters or less, the posts have since been deleted after initially being posted
on the band's official Twitter page by member Tom Cowan. When news of the
song’s use first broke, a pissed-off Cowan wrote "Fuck's sake" and
"Leave it out Ed" before telling the leader, "Keep your outdated
political ideologies away from us.” Cowan tagged his rant by proclaiming that, "Our
color isn't red, it isn't blue, it's black.” During the aforementioned reason
for a nap disguised as a political conference, Miliband laid out some of his
policies for the upcoming general election. “I See You” was merely played as
the audience waited in the conference room alongside such mainstream far as
Pharrell Williams “Happy.” Here’s hoping the dude with the falsetto voice and
funny hats was equally offended………..
- Where have all the prisoners gone…and should the rest of
us be afraid? It’s a question worth asking now that the federal prison population has declined for
the first time in 34 years as a result of the U.S. Justice Department’s effort
to become less dependent on incarceration as the primary approach to reducing
crime. Attorney General Eric Holder announced the uplifting/disturbing news at
a criminal justice conference hosted by New York University’s Brennan Center
for Justice, claiming the total federal prison population had dipped by about
4,800 prisoners from last year, to a total of 215,000. That’s the first such
decline since 1980, according to Justice Department statistics, and it should
have the rest of society asking where those felons are now. Now is the time to
ask and answer because Holder added that new projections from the federal
Bureau of Prisons indicate the trend will continue, with decreases of 2,000
inmates projected for 2015 and 10,000 – the equivalent of six fully filled
federal prisons – the following year. Six prisons full of felons out among us
should horrify one and all, even if Holder and his fellow bureaucratic bozos
want us to believe otherwise. d “Statistics have shown – and all of us have
seen – that high incarceration rates and longer-than-necessary prison terms
have not played a significant role in materially improving public safety,
reducing crime or strengthening communities,” Holder said. "In fact, the
opposite is often true." Oddly enough, the soaring U.S. inmate population
has proven to be the one issue capable of uniting Republicans and Democrats in
calling for reforms to reduce the number of people in prison or jail – an
estimated 1.6 million inmates in 2013. Hope y’all are happy when that convicted
embezzler is behind you in line at Dollar General when you go to buy discounted
Fruity Pebbles……….
- There are intelligent, thoughtful and well-reasoned
college football fans all across the United States and these composed, coherent
individuals make the sport a better place. This story has nothing to do with
those people. No, it has to do with the hateful, malicious kook out there in
cyberspace who felt the need to unleash a torrent of anonymous hate on Clemson center Ryan Norton after his bad snap in a
loss to No. 1 Florida State last weekend. According to Clemson coach Dabo
Swinney, Norton received threatening messages on social media following the
game and in the most obvious reaction ever, Swinney said Tuesday there's no
place for people who send threats to college students for making mistakes in a
game, and that those who do are not "real fans." "Coach [Chad]
Morris told me [about the threats] last night," Swinney said. "That's
disappointing. I think he deleted his account. It's a shame that young people
have to deal with that kind of stuff. Nobody wants to make a bad snap. I think
most of it was people mad and venting, but it was threatening to Ryan is what I
was told. Those aren't fans -- those are people with issues." The last
part of that statement is debatable because calling anyone trolling college
athletes on Twitter for on-field errors may not actually qualify as people. For
the record, Norton snapped the ball high over the head of quarterback Deshaun
Watson with the Tigers a half-yard away from the end zone in the second half of
a 23-17 overtime loss to the Seminoles. On the next play, kicker Ammon Lakip
missed a 40-yard field goal attempt that could have sealed the upset win.
Instead, Norton’s team lost and we all lost another shred of whatever limited
amount of faith we still had in humanity……….
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