- Gas, cash or rebates…nobody gets a green lawn for free in
today’s California. The state is locked in a brutal drought that has Gov.
Jerry Brown ordering mandatory cuts in urban water usage and preventing
many from watering their lawns. Brown is the new green in California these days, but there might be a way to return some of that lost green to the lives of locals thanks to cash-for-grass program that has proven so wildly popular that a water wholesaler is considering boosting the budget for turf replacement rebates. Under this unique program, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California pays homeowners and businesses $2 per square foot to replace grass with drought-friendly landscaping. In other words, get rid of your grass and put in mulch, colored rocks or some other substitute for a green lawn. That offer – or more specifically the chance to pad their pockets with some cash in a ruggedly tough economy – has proven to be such a draw that the MWDSC’s board members will meet to discuss adding $350 million to its lawn rebate program. The program's current budget is $100 million, but that amount, which once looked pretty substantial, has begun to shrink in relative since residents and businesses bum-rushed the agency to request the rebates since April, when the program debuted. If the cash doesn’t dry up the way lawns are in the state, this could prove to be the best way for Californians to earn money for their next round of Botox since that oft-overlooked plan to offer the rest of the country a chance to become an honorary member of the Kardashian family for a day for just the low, low cost of their dignity and self-respect………..
many from watering their lawns. Brown is the new green in California these days, but there might be a way to return some of that lost green to the lives of locals thanks to cash-for-grass program that has proven so wildly popular that a water wholesaler is considering boosting the budget for turf replacement rebates. Under this unique program, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California pays homeowners and businesses $2 per square foot to replace grass with drought-friendly landscaping. In other words, get rid of your grass and put in mulch, colored rocks or some other substitute for a green lawn. That offer – or more specifically the chance to pad their pockets with some cash in a ruggedly tough economy – has proven to be such a draw that the MWDSC’s board members will meet to discuss adding $350 million to its lawn rebate program. The program's current budget is $100 million, but that amount, which once looked pretty substantial, has begun to shrink in relative since residents and businesses bum-rushed the agency to request the rebates since April, when the program debuted. If the cash doesn’t dry up the way lawns are in the state, this could prove to be the best way for Californians to earn money for their next round of Botox since that oft-overlooked plan to offer the rest of the country a chance to become an honorary member of the Kardashian family for a day for just the low, low cost of their dignity and self-respect………..
- Athletes around the world should really know by now. Anything
said or done with a smartphone nearby is fodder to come back and bite you in
the ass by means of any number of social media services. You know who still
hasn’t fully grasped this lesson? The three Brazilian gymnasts suspended by
their country’s gymnastics confederation for comments made to a black
teammate that were caught on video. The confederation said the suspension of
Arthur Nory Mariano, Fellipe Arakawa and Henrique Flores would be for 30 days,
or until a final ruling is reached in the case. They’re banned from entering
any national or international competition and lose their rights to any
financial incentives they might have been receiving, all for telling teammate
Angelo Assumpcao, who is black, that a smartphone's screen is white when it
works and black when it doesn't, and that supermarket bags are white and trash
bags are black. The humor is lame, trite and subpar at best, but it was enough
to merit the suspension and for the case to be analyzed by a local gymnastics
sports tribunal. Assumpcao and the three suspended gymnasts are expected to be
questioned by the tribunal and it happened after one of the gymnasts was dumb
enough to send out the video on Snapchat. It later leaked to media outlets, prompting
the confederation to open an investigation last week. These genius gymnasts
thought they could release another video saying they wanted to publicly
apologize to Assumpcao, insist that they were joking and that viewers
misunderstood them and blew the incident out of proportion and it would all be
forgotten. "There are no hard feelings," Assumpcao said in the video,
sitting alongside his teammates. "We are friends." You might be
friends, Angelo, but your friends are morons………
- Shock jocks aren't so different no matter where they carry
out their zany antics. Be they holding down the morning drive time spot in
Chicago, rocking the lunch hour in New York City or claiming they clubbed a young rabbit to death on air with a bicycle pump
in Copenhagen, there just isn't that much to differentiate between these
microphone-rocking maniacs. Oh, you hadn't heard? Meet Kristoffer Eriksen, the
co-host of a morning show for Danish public broadcaster Radio24syv, whose
actions have set off a storm of angry protests after he and his broadcast
partner said they had beaten a live rabbit to death during their show and later
posted a video on Facebook allegedly showing the cooking of a rabbit and an
English-language explanation about the action. That came after zookeeper Jesper
Lauritzen claimed had advised the channel on how to put down the nine-week old
rabbit as painlessly as possible, advice that presumably did not include any
bicycle repair tools or blunt force trauma to the rabbit. Eriksen said the morning
show stunt was aimed at initiating a debate about "the vast hypocrisy
surrounding our relationship with animals,” but what he actually meant was the
he did it to get ratings and attention and in that respect, his act was wildly
successful. A group claiming more than 800 supporters have appealed to
listeners for a boycott of the broadcaster and while that number is laughable
in terms of affecting any real change, it’s enough to make this a global story
for a few days and let a much larger number of people know who Kristoffer
Eriksen is…………
- Speaking of stunts done to draw as much attention as
possible, A$AP
Rocky has sparked controversy with lyrics from his track “Better Things.” The
track is the one making headlines off the rapper’s new album, “At.Long.Last.A$AP,”
which drew some early buzz when it was surprise-released one week early Tuesday.
The album is the successor to A$AP
Rocky’s much-hyped 2013 debut “Long.Live.ASAP” and after just one day on the
market, it’s already poised to get more attention based largely on allegedly
offensive lyrics which allude to an alleged sexual encounter with singer Rita Ora: "I swear that b*tch Rita Ora got a big mouth.
Next time I see her might curse the b*tch out. Kicked the bitch out once cause
she b*tched out. Spit my kids out, j*zzed up all in her mouth and made the b*tch
bounce." Aside from being a bit too reliant on the word “b*tch,”
the lyrics are under fire for being, among other tings, disrespectful and
possibly even misogynistic. Of course, anyone who is upset by these words has
clearly not listened to much rap because there are 1,000 songs more hate-filled
and woman-bashing that have been released the past year alone. A more
intelligent point of view is that A$AP is being immature because you don’t hook
up with someone and then turn around and clown her to the world, but then
again, if you date a foul-mouthed rapper and even consider having kids with
him, you have to assume that he’s going to take parts of your relationship and
turn them into lyrical fodder for his next diss track. Hell, odds are high that
Rocky himself will say or do something infinitely more offensive to either
women or society in general during the course of promoting and touring in
support of the album, so let’s all avoid burning too much of the fuel in our
respective rage reservoirs in anticipation of what’s to come. Oh, and be sure that
Ora will likely respond with some bile of her own, which will likely be
followed by the two of them hookimg up again at some point in the future
because, you know, famous people………
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