- Riot
Watch! Riot Watch! It was on a smaller scale, but it was still a display of disdain
over the weekend as brawls broke out during a small demonstration against the
radical leftist Podemos (We Can) party in Madrid six days after local elections
boosted its power base in several of Spain's regions. A small, yet angry mob of
200 protesters gathered in downtown
Colon Square carrying Spanish flags and shouting slogans against Podemos on the
grounds that the vote had given the party sufficient votes to negotiate the balance of
power in the local government. One photographer had his camera broken in the
chaos and several other observers were pelted with verbal abuse and a little
bit of physical intimidation before police stepped in and brought an end to the
uprising. One protestor, attorney Teresa Barrios, said she was protesting
peacefully when "some unpleasant" characters arrived and "began
acting aggressively against members of the press." As always, blame the bad element for turning
things awesome and taking a lame, peaceful assembly and turning it into a riot.
Barrios said the main purpose of the protest was to stop Madrid's government
from being swayed too far to the left, but the real purpose was to shake sh*t
up and make people pay attention and thanks to those who went amateur hooligan
on the event deserve all of the credit for ensuring that it happened. For
everyone else who attended but was totally boring and lame, take notes and do
it better the next time you’re looking to stick it to The Man……….
- Wait….isn’t
this what rugby players are supposed to do? Dylan Hartley will miss England's
three World Cup warm-up games and the tournament opener against Fiji at
Twickenham on September 18 all because he accepted a charge of head-butting
Saracens hooker George in the second-half of Northampton's 29-24 Aviva
Premiership semi-final defeat on Saturday. The combustible Northampton hooker's
guilty plea in a disciplinary hearing yielded a four-week ban that could allow
him to come back for the end of the Cup. "This offense falls within the
low entry point for striking with the head," said HHJ Sean Enright, who
chaired the hearing. “"There was no significant injury to the other party,
the opposition player was not removed from the field of play and the incident
did not affect the game. However there cannot be any place in our game for this
class of behavior, and that is why we have imposed this sanction." But
again, isn't beating the holy hell out of other players - maybe even your own
teammates - in the name of whatever you’re supposed to do to win a rugby match
kind of the whole point of the sport? Apparently not because with this ban,
Hartley has now been suspended for a total of 54 weeks in his career. His hope
is clearly that the disciplinary panel will not ding him further, but he could
still become the first player to miss both a British and Irish Lions tour and a
Rugby World Cup owing to suspension and he’s now received bans for elbowing,
eye-gouging, biting, punching and swearing. If he’s not careful, people are
going to start labeling him a dirty player……..
- Nice
try, but no, would-be lady Army Rangers. All of the female volunteers who tried
their hand at Army Rangers School failed on their second attempt to pass the
first phase of the traditionally all-male infantry course, the Army announced. The
Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade staged its first co-ed course of Army
Ranger School on April 20 at Fort Benning, Georgia with 19 women and 380 men
pre-screened for the combat training course. Somehow, despite knowing how
hellaciously hard the course would be, three of the women still failed to pass
the Ranger Physical Fitness Assessment, a requirement to enter Ranger School.
Of the 16 remaining ladies, eight completed the Ranger Assessment Phase, or RAP
week, which consists of day and night land navigation, obstacle courses, skill
tests and a 12-mile road march with a rifle, fighting load vest and rucksack
weighing approximately 47 pounds. Unfortunately for feminists everywhere, the eight
remaining females weren't able to complete the first phase and advance to the
second phase of the course. The final eight were allowed to repeat the Darby Phase
along with 101 male candidates, but none of the eight passed the Darby Phase on
their second attempt. "This is normal course procedures and is used when
students struggle with one aspect of the course and excel at others," the
army said in a release. The next Ranger School class begins on June 21 and
according to Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno, the Army will likely run a
couple more pilots where females go through Ranger School. This all stems from former
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's January 2013 directive that all services open
combat-arms roles that so far have been reserved for men to women. The women
who failed the Rangers course did so because they led poor graded patrols, a
poor evaluation of their teamwork from their peers or accumulating too many
negative spot reports………
- When
your life is falling apart and you’re on YouTube alleging that the IRS froze your bank account and that your
"civil rights had been violated," leaving you homeless, the best
place to go is a reality TV show where your alleged efforts to get yourself
together. That’s why its so nice that former Creed frontman and hypocritical
arena rock poseur Scott Stapp and his
wife have signed up to appear on the next series of VH1’s celebrity
exploitation series “Couple's Therapy.”
Stapp has been a raging tire fire the past year and recently confirmed that he
is diagnosed bipolar following a number of alarming incidents, but that won't
stop he and his wife Jaclyn from appearing on the sixth season of the VH1
series in which couples with problems in their private lives spend three weeks
in therapy with Dr. Jenn Mann. The attempt to shamelessly turn these troubles
into ratings, er, help these troubled souls fix their lives hasn’t gone well,
but maybe this time will be difference for model Janice Dickinson and fiancé Robert
Gerner, “Mob Wives” star Angela
"Big Ang" Raiola and husband Neil Murphy, “RuPaul's Drag Race” contestant Carmen Carrera and husband Adrian
Torres and “Love & Hip Hop”
stars Joe Budden and Kaylin Garcia. Stapp is currently undergoing intensive
therapy, as well as taking medication, and was last seen asking fans to
crowdfund his third solo album. Stir all of these elements into a pot and drop
it under the spotlights of reality TV and there’s no way this ends well, which
is really the point of reality shows anyhow………
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