- America was trending in the right direction on the issue
of physical violence against women by athletes and even the NFL’s watered-down,
mediocre new personal conduct policy addressing the issue was a quasi-step in
the right direction. So who’s got the total lack of intelligence and propriety
to hijack what should be a good thing and try to jam their own selfish views
into the mix? How about the kooks of People for the Ethical Treatment of
animals, that’s who. Yes, the ass hats who esteem animals higher than actual
human beings is attempting to link a situation that has nothing even remotely
in common with Ray Rice, Greg Hardy or any other football player accused or
convicted of assaulting their lady to those ugly matters. This non-case
involves Nebrasks football player Jack Gangwish, who had an unfortunate
encounter with the animal kingdom recently and documented his simple stupidity
on social media. Gangwish spotted
the raccoon on the side of a road near Lincoln on Dec. 3 and stopped to take a
selfie because, ya, know, social media. Amazingly, the raccoon failed to
understand the awesomeness of its unsolicited photo op and bit Gangwish on the
calf. At that point, the 6-foot-2, 260-pound defensive end returned to his
truck grabbed a wrench and used it to bludgeon the raccoon to death. He then posted
a picture of himself with the raccoon and followed that up with a shot of a
bite mark on his leg. "Guys... I got bit by a raccoon... It just looked so
soft and friendly I couldnt help it!" he wrote. Hours later, he assured
his few followers that he didn’t have rabies and was fine. PETA president
Ingrid Newkirk was not fine in any way and penned a lame-ass letter to Nebraska
athletic director Shawn Eichorst asking the administrator to punish Gangwish. "It's
time for acts of cruelty to animals committed by players to be taken extremely
seriously, and with violence in football culture now under the microscope, this
is the time to address the issue,” Newkirk wrote. Are you serious, moron?
You’re trying to include this with actual incidents of actual human beings
getting assaulted by athletes? Nice try, PETA tools………..
- This is a sure sign of a feeble government realizing it
has no chance of holding down an increasingly angry populace with actual
effective governance. Spain is a place with massive financial issues, a
never-ending string of protests and riots, along with a litany of immigration
issues stemming from the close proximity of its southern border to poor regions
of northern Africa. It is the latter of those issues that led Spain's
lower house of parliament to approve legislation that allows for hefty fines
for protests outside parliament buildings or strategic installations. The bill
also provides for the summary expulsion of migrants entering the country's North
African enclaves illegally, but it is the crackdown on protests in places where
they would actually have the highest visibility and impact that should be noted
after the Public Security Law was approved in a 181-141 vote. The measure was
loudly criticized by opposition parties and judicial and social groups as an
attempt by the conservative government to muzzle protests over its handling of
the severe economic crisis and because the government isn't smart enough to
craft a cunning and believable lie, it has yet to respond to those accusations.
When it does, look for The Man to point out that its new law is really an
update of a 1992 law that includes fines of up to 30,000 euros ($37,000) for
disseminating photographs of police officers that endanger them or police
operations. Don’t expect this to truly stifle protests that have taken place
regularly since the financial crisis hit in 2008……….
- At least iconic Sex Pistols frontman John “Johnny Rotten”
Lydon is honest, even if his honesty is depressing. Lydon told an Oxford audience that unlike
many other bands from the Pistols’ era, the British punk outfit would not be
getting back together because, well, they’re too fat. “Oh no, that's finished.
I mean have you seen us? I mean We've all put on weight but Mr. Jones here
[guitarist Steve Jones] is coming it at 500 pounds and I did the butter advert,”
Lydon wisecracked. He was at the fabled Oxford University's Sheldonian Theater
to promote his autobiography, “Anger Is An Energy,” and after denouncing all
religion as "vile, poisonous and idiotic,” he went on to rip another legendary
British band, The Rolling Stones, for what he deemed an "embarrassing"
performance at Glastonbury last year. Despite shooting down suggestions of a
Sex Pistols reunion, Lydon said he'd give up music “only if I got bored with
it, and as long as there's human being in the world, I'm not going to get bored.”
When the moderator asked him if there was any sort of unofficial age limit on
continuing to get on stage, Lydon replied: “No, only if you're Mick Jagger. Did
anybody see last year's Glastonbury? I mean come on Mick... it's not about age
here, its about the show-off bullsh*t... I wanted the Stones to give us the
juice, the stuff that really put them there in the first place." He mocked
Jagger for wearing ladies tights that showed off too much and embarrassing the
rest of the band and said, “If I turn into that... then you're all welcome.”
Welcome for what, J.? Keep making little to no sense and doing what you do………
- Speaking of
people who are overreactive, oversensitive and need to take themselves far less
seriously, meet the ladies of the Everyday Sexism Project. PETA may be at the top of that list,
but ESP isn't far behind based on its reaction to controversial ads that ran
this summer for Coca-Cola as it makes it first foray into milk with a brand
called Fairlife, which it says contains more protein and calcium than regular
milk. Coke wanted to let the world know it could drink something other than
second-rate soda for breakfast and so it trotted out ads for the
"value-added milk” which featured pin-up girls in provocative poses and
dressed in outfits that were supposed to represent milk. In essence, the images
were like those of swimsuit models in Sports Illustrated wearing only body
paint in place of clothing, except these shots saw a hot blonde wearing a milk
dressed and carried tag lines such as: "Drink what she's wearing." Coke
has already abandoned the ads, which ran in Denver and Minneapolis, but
probably not for the reasons ESP founder Laura Bates would like. Bates ripped the
campaign in an op-ed published last week and sounded both ignorant and stuck in
the 1950s in her arguments. "This is just the latest in a never-ending
stream of examples of women's bodies used as advertising fodder with scant
regard for
relevance or originality," she wrote. Hey L., no one forced the model to
take those photos and she was paid for them with full knowledge of what she was
doing, so your qualms are really with her. Sex is used to sell every product in
every industry - save sewage pumping, which may never truly be sexy - and you
singling out one product and one ad campaign seems to ignore a much larger
reality. Nonetheless, Coke released a statement announcing the demise of the
ads and their replacement with something hopefully even more offensive to
femi-Nazis when the product rolls out nationwide next year. "The 'pin-ups'
advertising may have been eye-catching, but we're taking a totally new
approach," the company said………
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