- Faces are still going to get caved in and the world will
be a better place for it. Yes, the World Combat Games will go ahead next year
despite the withdrawal of several sports in protest over the chief organizer's
one-man crusade against the corrupt scumbags of the International Olympic
Committee. Marius Vizer, head of the umbrella body SportAccord that runs the
multisport event, is the man at the center of this sh*t storm. It all stems
from his speech at the SportAccord convention in Sochi last month, a speech in
which he lit up the IOC and its president, Thomas Bach. He’s not the first to
rip the dishonest, bribe-taking suits of the IOC, but his harsh words led the
international wrestling and taekwondo federations to cut ties with SportAccord,
including participation in next year's games in Lima, Peru. Their decision to
hit the eject button prompted Vizer to issue a statement saying his
organization "would like to confirm the commitment to the World Combat
Games and the unity of the combat sports family." It’s clear he was
feeling a bit threatened after boxing pulled out of the World Combat Games last
week and given that boxing, taekwondo and wrestling were three of the six
Olympic sports scheduled to be on the combat games program, along with fencing,
judo and weightlifting, even a non-math major can break down the number and
figure out that the WCG just lost 50 percent of their agenda. Here’s hoping
that there’s room now for mixed martial arts, street fighting and bar room
brawling on the schedule with these last-minute openings……….
- Kim Jong Un has officially become that dictator, the one
that Hollywood parodies in its Mike Myers-led comedies because his alleged
actions are just so absurd and over the top that they defy all things sane and
logical. The North Korean despot is equal parts megalomaniac, paranoid kook,
rage-filled ruler and fat guy with an attitude, but if the latest allegation
against him is true, it’s the stuff of cinematic comedic legend. Word on the
street is that K.J. Un executed his defense chief for falling asleep
during a meeting and talking back to the dictator. Sources claim that officials
from the National Intelligence Service told a closed-door parliamentary
committee that People's Armed Forces Minister Hyon Yong Chol was killed by
anti-aircraft gunfire with hundreds watching at a shooting range at Pyongyang's
Kang Kon Military Academy, which would prove that K.J. Un doesn’t just off
people who piss him off, he OFFS them. The NIS didn't tell lawmakers how it got
the information and the spy agency has proven off-point in the past, so this
one may not be true. Any story from North Korea is difficult to confirm, but
this one is so awesome that you find yourself hoping it’s legit. Doubters note
that there are questions about Hyon's execution because the minister still
frequently appears in state TV footage and North Korea a typically removes
executed and purged officials from TV documentaries. Hyon has made multiple
appearances in TV documentaries on live fire drills between April 30 and May
11, so either they found a convincing look-alike, the footage isn’t really live
or this dude hasn’t been killed – yet. Still, the idea of anti-aircraft gunfire
being used to mow down a guy whose crime was nodding off in a meeting – been
there – and talking back to his boss is almost too good to be false………
- Speaking of what you can kill and what you can't…..CBS
done done it, y’all. It seemed impossible, but the network has finally worked
up the courage to bust a burning slug into its longest-running, most prolific
spin-off-spawning series. Yes, “CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation” will end this fall after a 15-season run on the Eye. The long-running
crime drama series won't shuffle off the air this spring with other shows set
to end soon, but instead it will bid farewell with a two-hour TV movie on
September 27, CBS announced. Original stars William Petersen and Marg
Helgenberger will return for the two-hour special and interestingly enough,
current leading man Ted Danson will move to spin-off series “CSI: Cyber,” which stars Patricia
Arquette, James Van Der Beek and Peter MacNicol and debuted on CBS in March.
The mere idea of killing off the original “CSI” is jarring, as it debuted on
CBS in 2000 and has gone on to become the seventh longest-running scripted
series in American television history. Along the way, it spawned a full decade
of not one, but two different spin-offs. “CSI: Miami” ran from 2002 to 2012 and “CSI: NY” ran from 2004 to 2013, meaning that from 2004 to 2012,
there were three freaking CSI shows on the air. For those who don’t know, the
original show set the format of crime scene investigators collecting physical
evidence in a bid to solve murders for their local police department, meaning
Las Vegas for the first in the series. According to the network, CBS chose not
to order a 16th season of “CSI “because
the network felt it could not exist in addition to “CSI: Cyber” on its new schedule. The CBS airwaves are going to
feel a little different this fall……..
- Don’t encourage the freaks, Atlanta. Much like feeding one
bird in the park means every damn pigeon within shooting distance of a good
rifle will come a-flockin’ to your feet, if you offer a well-known
Atlanta street performer $20,000 to settle a lawsuit in which he says police
violated his rights to free speech, then every gold-painted tool and
feet-painting ass hat is going to stick their hand out and demand that you put
some cash in their grubby hands too. The freak in question here is 62-year-old
Bob Jamerson, commonly known as "Baton Bob," who claims that police
violated his rights when he was arrested in Atlanta nearly two years ago. He’s known
for dancing on city sidewalks in costume, but his biggest and most profitable
show came in June 2013, when he donned a white wedding dress and staged a
performance he says celebrated the Supreme Court's decision to end the federal
gay marriage ban. Jamerson says officers asked him to leave the area and they
claimed he refused to leave and instead went footloose, kicking the officers.
They arrested him for simple assault but later dismissed the charges. The case
has dragged on since then and now it has reached its unjustly productive
conclusion for a man whose life work is wearing hideously loud clothing and
doing whatever he can to draw attention to himself in the hope that people will
drop a few coins or – big payday, yo – maybe even some paper money in his old
guitar case on the sidewalk. The settlement still needs to be approved by the
full Atlanta City Council and if the council is smart, it will say no and not
give street performers the idea that they can extort it for a handout………
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