- Keep it up, jailed Venezuelan
opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez. Lopez is fighting a tyrannical, fascist
regime that refuses to give any oxygen to dissenting voices and has kept him in
jail for his role in the street demonstrations that shook the socialist Latin
American nation this winter and spring. The government seized upon Lopez’s
willingness to speak out against its heinous and corrupt means of governance as
a chance to charge him with inciting violence. The charge incensed the
right-thinking free world and the United Nations has used its total lack of
power and influence to request Lopez’s freedom. The case was supposed to move
forward Tuesday, but Lopez boldly refused to appear in court in an attempt to
pressure the government to respond to the U.N. request. Instead of a scheduled
court sham, er, appearance, Lopez refused to leave the military prison where he
is being held, citing the court's refusal to respond to U.N. demands for his
freedom. The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions totally sounds like a
made-up entity in an Austin Powers movie, but it appears to be a real group and
it has called on Venezuela to immediately release Lopez and other jailed
government opponents. Last week, the U.N.'s top human rights official joined
the chorus against Nicolas Maduro’s regime and its stance on the issue, but the
government has continued to ignore logic, common sense, fairness, justice and
the toothless U.N. by keeping Lopez and his fellow dissenters right where they
are……
- The particulars of the “Breaking Bad” spin-off “Better Call Saul” are coming into focus courtesy
of Bob Odenkirk and Vince Gilligan and despite previous intimations that
the show would be full of laughs, the actor and show creator are suggesting
that it will skew in a different direction. Odenkirk will reprise his role as
Saul Goodman in the new series, which is expected to launch in 2015 and said
the show will be more dramatic than most fans suggest. The expectations of
laughs came largely from the way he played Saul on “Breaking Bad,” but it seems
Saul has different gears to his personality. Gilligan furthered than notion and
said fans should keep an open mind. “It's total drama, man. It's 85 percent
drama, 15 percent comedy," Gilligan said. Believe it or not, Odenkirk is
actually looking forward to this character shift and believes it will be fun to
delve deep into the mind of Saul. "One of the cool things about playing
Saul now is that I get to have those moments [of depth]," Odenkirk said.
"I've certainly gotten a chance to dig deep in Better Call Saul."
Comedy or drama, the show will explore the origins of “Breaking Bad”
protagonist Walter White’s lawyer Saul Goodman and when the new show debuts,
Sail will be going by the name James McGill and doing legal work with fixer
Mike Ehrmantraut. The show will be set in 2002, a full six years before Saul
and Walt fictionally met. The first season will hit the air in February with 10
episodes, to be followed by an already-commissioned second season of 13
episodes……….
- Boom and boom. Riverside, Calif. was a town in need of someone to step up
and shut down a display that was ruining Halloween for so many and thankfully,
the powers that be took care of the problem. For the second time this decade, a
gaudy and oversized homage to a fake holiday has been shut down, leaving its creators and
some neighbors crushed and everyone else not-so-secretly pumping their fists in
joy. Kevin Judd said police officers told him that the show at the home on
Deercreek Drive violated a noise ordinance and given how loud and obnoxious that sh*t was, they were right.
“They sat and watched for a while and then they waited until it was over,” Judd
said. “And then they came over, told us pretty much we were done.” His wife
Amber claimed the display was “just purely to bring happiness and cohesiveness
to the families and friends,” seeming to ignore the fact that wasting
electricity and putting up tacky decorations is the surest way to bring down
anyone who has to look at it. The over-the-top coordination of lights and music
was a collaboration between two families, so blame can be spread equally between
the Judd family and their neighbor across the street, Mark Betty. Betty allowed
the Judds to use his home, which is across from a park, as a space for families
to gather an enjoy the lights. “The crowd was sitting in the grass area. We
weren’t blocking traffic or leaving trash or anything,” Kevin Judd said. Oh,
and this arrangement was a blatant attempt to circumvent the law because two
years ago, the Judds had a similar display and were told to shut it down. Maybe
this time the message will get through………
- Memo to all NBA owners and executives: If you have any
thoughts, remarks or observations that may be considered racist, bigoted or
otherwise may stereotype a specific group of people in any way, go ahead and
run them by someone much smarter than you before putting them in a memo, email,
fax, letter or text message. Men and women smart enough to make the amount of
money it takes to own an NBA should probably know better, but after Golden State Warriors co-owner Peter Guber
wrote to team employees to say that he regrets if anybody was offended by his
unintentional use of "hoodish" in an email, it’s worth pointing out.
Guber joined soon-to-be-former Atlanta Hawks owner Bruce Levenson, who announced
last month that he would sell his controlling interest in the and apologized
for expressing racially offensive views in an email in August 2012. Levenson said
the Hawks struggle with attendance because "the black crowd scared away
the whites and there are simply not enough affluent black fans to build a
significant season ticket base." Guber likewise went full-on idiot when he
listed "hoodish" as one of the languages he planned to learn as he
replied to a team email praising the franchise for having five international
players on this season's roster. He tried to cover up his mistake by saying as
a Jewish man, he intended to type Yiddish. The message came after Warriors vice
president of communications Raymond Ridder forwarded a news release from the
league to team employees letting them know that the league's 30 teams will have
a record 101 international players from 37 countries and territories. Guber
responded to the email: "I'm taking rosetta stone to learn Hungarian
Serbian Australian swahili and hoodish This year. But it's nice." Nice
try, P. Autocorrect snipers a lot of people and maybe it really did happen
here, but if hoodish isn't a real word, then why would your phone or computer
be trying to change whatever you typed to it………..
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