- Greenpeace and Peru are locked in a bitter struggle and
from the sound of it, the case is getting snarkier by the day. A Peruvian prosecutor is investigating the suspected involvement
of a Greenpeace activist in the latest of the environmental organization’s lame
publicity stunts, one that allegedly damaged the world-renowned Nazca lines.
The Greenpeace crew allegedly sneaked into the desert area on Dec. 8, sleuthing
their way into the fragile site and damaging the area by creating a message
about environmental issues. The message is visible from the air, and if Peru
has its way, so might be the smoke from the torches the masses will be holding
aloft as they pillory the guilty parties. Authorities have said the site was
damaged by footprints made by the activists, who were trying to time their
stunt with a U.N. conference on climate change held in Peru's capital. These
nut jobs laid out a message promoting clean energy beside one of the site's
most famous figures, a huge hummingbird, and it didn’t take long for their
actions to come to light. Greenpeace Executive Director Kumi Naidoo confirmed
that prosecutor Patricia Begazo is conducting a preliminary investigation into
Argentine activist Mauro Fernandez, who heads up the organization's Andean
Climate and Energy Campaign. Peruvian officials have vowed
to seek charges for "attacking archaeological monuments," a crime
punishable by up to six years in prison and that’s a fitting punishment for
loons who believe that clean energy billboards can be made by defacing
important historical sites. Fernandez and other activists fled Peru after the
stunt and so far, there has been no indication whether he would return to Peru voluntarily
or if the Peruvian government would ask him to do so. The Nazca lines date back
to some 1,500 to 2,000 years ago, a series of markings scratched into the dark
ground to reveal the lighter-colored earth underneath, creating huge figures in
the shapes of real and imagined creatures and stylized plants. Hilariously, Naidoo
said he has suggested to Culture Minister Diana Alvarez-Calderon that
Greenpeace and Peru "work together to protect the Nazca lines." Protect
them from who, Kumi………..
- This next story is going to be very confusing and not
simply because you may be trying to figure out whether you give a damn about
either involved party. The answer, but the way, is no, you do not give a damn.
But read on because there are few things more important to the world than Iggy Azalea accusing Azealia Banks
of having a "piss poor attitude" after Banks gave an interview in
which she claimed white artists are appropriating black culture in America. To
review, it’s Iggy AZELEA throwing verbal haymakers at AZELIA Banks, so try not
to confuse the two. Azelea and Azelia have clashed numerous times in recent months,
most recently when Banks ripped her
Australian rival for not commenting on the protests in New York and
Ferguson following Eric Garner and Michael Brown's deaths. Not content with her
initial verbal salvo, she revisited the subject again in a recent interview in
which she became visibly emotional when talking about her feelings on the
treatment of white artists versus black artists in the United States. "I
feel like, in this country, whenever it comes to our things, like black issues
or black politics or black music or whatever, there's always this undercurrent
of kinda like a 'F*ck you,'" Banks said. "There's always a 'F*ck
y'all n*ggas. Y'all don't really own sh*t. Y'all don't have shit.' That
Macklemore album wasn't better than the Drake record. That Iggy Azalea sh*t
isn't better than any f**king black girl that's rapping today." The
Macklemore criticism is as unoriginal as possible and has been recycled
hundreds of times, while the “black girl” rapping issue simply sounds like
bitterness against an artist who’s selling more albums than you……..
- There is no good place for a giant cuckoo clock. They’re
dumb, they're annoying as hell and no one wants to be around them for more than
.5 seconds. Given those characteristics, the only tolerable place for them is
one where people are passing by quickly and aren’t in the same place more than
once a day. In other words, stick that clock at a train station or airport and
it will be at its least annoying. That theory will be proven by the giant cuckoo clock installed for a residency
at the Portland International Airport this week. The handcrafted clock is more
than 24 feet tall and 9 1/2 feet wide, qualifying it as the tallest
freestanding cuckoo clock in America. The clock will remain at the airport, just
past security between the A, B and C gates, for the next three months. Its spot
in the airport's south atrium, showing off the handiwork of Travel Portland.
The clock features Portland icons such as Mount Hood, salmon, beer, bikers,
Portlandia, Sasquatch, roses and rivers, but those are clearly not its most
irritating features. No, that would be the hand-carved chicken taking over the
traditional role of the cuckoo bird and marking every hour that passes. There
is no good reason to create a monstrosity like this, but the reason given it to
kick off Travel Portland's "Portland Is Happening Now" winter tourism
campaign. The clock, weirdly enough, was first unveiled in Seattle in November
and has since traveled to Vancouver, B.C., before coming back to Portland. "The
clock is part of our larger campaign to attract tourists from our top feeder
markets like Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., during the traditionally slower
winter months," said Jeff Miller, president and CEO of Travel Portland.
"It represents the fact that something interesting is happening in
Portland every hour of every day. Yes, there is something interesting happening
in the hippie-heavy city, but none of it has anything to do with the world’s
most annoying clock……..
- No one is going to mistake any game played by the 2014
Jacksonville Jaguars for a meaningful NFL game. But just because the Jags are
3-12 and won't play a game that matters this calendar year doesn’t mean that
their games can't have meaning for some of their players. Take defensive tackle Sen'Derrick Marks,
for example. Marks made the game-clinching sack of Tennessee Titans quarterback
Charlie Whitehurst, dropping him for a 9-yard loss, in the final seconds in the
Jaguars' 21-13 victory over the Titans. As he jumped up from the turf,
Marks made the money sign with both hands and unlike every other NFLer who
makes the gesture these days, he wasn’t actually mocking Johnny Manziel. No,
Marks was celebrating a sack that helped secure a costly win that will hurt his
team’s draft position, but one that gave him 8.5 for the season and activated a
$600,000 bonus in his contract. "I had to do the Manziel," Marks
said. "I pointed to the press box to [Jaguars GM] Dave [Caldwell] and
threw out the Manziel, so I thought that was pretty fun." Eight sacks for
an interior lineman is rare and Caldwell said recently that he’s cool with
scratching that check because it means that is playing at a Pro Bowl level in
2014. Knowing that he had a big bonus check on the way, Marks took any of his
teammates who wanted to celebrate out for a night on the town. "We're just
going to go out and enjoy the night," he said. "It was pretty
awesome. Just the excitement of all the guys. Everybody's excited about
somebody else accomplishing something for them. It just shows the character of
our team and the guys that we have. Nobody gets that check but me, but
everybody's excited for me." Keep cashing them checks, Sen………
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