- Don’t back down, Denmark. Russia may be bigger, inherently
evil and willing to invade anyone in its hemisphere for no valid reason, but
you need not fear its ambassador to Denmark saying Moscow could send
nuclear missiles against ships from your country if you joins the NATO alliance's
missile defense system. Ambassador Mikhail Vanin brought the heavy verbal
lumber in an interview that circulated quickly through Danish media and prompted
an angry response from Danish Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard. Lidegaard was
having none of it and showing the same sort of fighting spirit as King
Christian X, who boldly rode through the streets of Copenhagen daily during the
Nazi occupation of the city, without any guards, in defiance of the Third
Reich. Lidegaard said the comments were "inacceptable" and that Vanin
had "crossed the line" by saying that "everyone who joins"
the shield "in the future will be a target for Russian ballistic
missiles." He’s damn right and even if Vlad Putin is a third-rate knockoff
of the Nazis at best, this dictator is trying to run roughshod over his region
of the world and his minions are spouting the same sort of nonsense. At
present, there are no immediate plans for a meeting between Lidegaard and Vanin,
but the real stunner here is that it was all the way back in August when the Danes
agreed to contribute to NATO's shield with at least one frigate with advanced
radar capacity and the Russians are just now getting around to threatening the
tiny Scandinavian country. Russia strongly opposes the missile defense system
and its planned bases in Romania and Poland, mostly because it’s against anyone
willing to stand in the way of its quest for world domination………..
- Many NBA rookies hit what is known as the rookie wall at
some point during their first season in the Association. They play more games
than they have ever played in a season, their body isn't sure how to handle the
strain and they begin to break down. Hitting that wall generally doesn’t
involve hitting another player in the junk as a competitive tactic. Boston Celtics rookie point guard Marcus
Smart is simply an aberration as he proved by earning a flagrant foul 2 and
being ejected from Friday night's 101-89 loss for blasting San Antonio
Spurs forward Matt Bonner with an uppercut to the groin. Bonner, who has
made a career out of being a tough, dependable player willing to do the grunt
work a team needs to be successful, was merely trying to screen Smart out near
the 3-point arc with nine minutes to play in the fourth quarter. Rather than
absorb the contact, Smart decided to deliver some of his own, deliberately
swinging his arm upward to strike a prone Bonner. On account of being struck in
the junk, Bonner immediately confronted Smart and the officials separated them
before reviewing the play and assessing a flagrant 2 to Smart, which comes with
an automatic ejection. It seems Smart used the remainder of the game to
formulate a truly ridiculous story to spin about the assault when he was asked
what happened and he insisted the strike was a "freak accident" and
suggested he was just trying to fight through the screen. "Like every
other play, I was trying to get through a screen," Smart said after the
game. "[Aron Baynes] screened me, [Bonner] tried to clean up the screen
and I tried to fight through.” Nice try, M. Saying you were only trying to “rip
through and rip up” is as believable as the Philadelphia 76ers trying to sell
the world on the idea they they tried to build a competitive team for this
season……….
- Ohio is where it’s at, cheese lovers. In case you weren't
following the social media storm surrounding the just-concluded United States Championship Cheese competition in Madison,
Wisconsin, you definitely need to know who rules the cheese world in these here
United States of America. The king for the next year is Guggisberg Cheese in
Millersburg, Ohio, which beat out 1,892 entries from 28 states. The Buckeye
State cheesemaker won the with a 200-pound Swiss wheel and while the sheer
magnaitude of putting 1/10th of a ton of Swiss cheese together is impressive in
and of itself, the judges at the
contest actually dared to taste the cheese as well. They didn’t attempt
to eat the entire wheel a la Ron Burgundy’s dog Baxter, but they didn’t need to
eat the dairy equivalent of five small children to know that this was the big
cheese. The Swiss wheel scored 98.496 out f a possible 100 points in the final
round of judging, just edging out first runner-up John Pitman of Mill Creek
Cheese in Arena, Wisconsin, who brought the blunt force of his top brick cheese
for a final score of 98.389. Wisconsin’s cheese supremacy pride took a hit with
the loss, but the state did win the most gold meals, with New York second. The
contest also featured technical evaluation of butter and yogurt and Wisconsin,
New York and California earned the most medals in the debut yogurt classes,
each winning two medals. For the lactose-tolerant among us, it was an
impressive feat showing off America’s ability to crank out massive hunks of yet
another unhealthy food product………
- Chris Brown is a free man once again. Technically, the
wildly overrated R&B artist has been free for the past six years, but there
has been that pesky probation thingy hanging over his head during that time. You
know, the one imposed on him after his assault on then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009.
The one that involved the two of them in a car, a battle over a cell phone and
Brown smacking his lady around because, you know, rage. Living the probation
life wasn’t easy for Brown and he had his probation revoked in January when the
he traveled without court approval and hadn't completed his community service.
Somehow, he escaped further judicial wrath and served the final few months of
his six years and one month of probation to the approval of the court, after
which his probation officer reportedly told a Los Angeles judge that his client
had satisfactorily completed his community service. That prompted Brown to take
to Twitter and thank God for his newfound freedom, although if he’d been
istening to the almighty all along, odds are he wouldn’t have ended up on
probation in the first place. “IM OFF PROBATION!!!!!!!!
Thank the Lord!!!!!!,” Brown tweeted shortly after the decision. Great, but
don’t get too used to the idea of being free and clear of the law, C.B. If this
year is any indication, he’ll be back on the police blotter soon. Last month, Los Angeles
police searched Brown's car after receiving an anonymous tip that his passenger
was carrying a gun. The incident came after Brown attended rapper TI's
pre-Grammy party at Hollywood's Sayer nightclub and followed a separate
incident during an appearance at a San Jose nightclub when Brown was forced to
flee the stage after gunshots were fired. Cleaned-up act or not, it’s difficult
to stay out of trouble for long when you’re hanging out in those types of
places with those types of people……….
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